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I'm your host, eric, call sign N1JUR and I'm with Paul.

N1OG the grouch.

Todd W1STJ, the general.

I should update this script.

I still have salty waltz in it.

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So outside of that, do we got anything in the mailbag?

Do we have any win links at all, paul?

I have two win links.

Whoa, oh yes.

Well, I would expect we should see one.

I'm almost banking on one, so I guess with that, then let's roll our mailbag there.

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?

I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story.

Hello everybody, we got some news.

Slow down, boog, let me handle this.

We've got some news, I've got bad news and bad news.

I have reviewed ship's personnel.

Captain, congratulations, you've got mail.

There we go.

You guys see me?

Uh, okay, do guys see me?

Uh, okay, do you see me?

Why?

yes, we're gonna figure this out.

Somehow you gotta tell me I was on before and you're like I said I wasn't there, do you see yourself?

Okay, asshole, I saw myself before and you guys are like well, I guess Todd will come back at some point and I'm sitting right here.

I love these shows Okay.

I'm afraid that if Paul and I get into it, if at the 24-hour poda we haven't been hanging out much, we're going to wrestle.

It might be, rattle it might be.

It's okay, if we have to, we'll have our moderator step in between you guys and figure that out, or it just might be paul and I just trashing everyone for a whole weekend if that's the case, then I'm gonna have to figure out how we can invest in one of those inflatable rock'em sock'em robot.

You guys in there, after a couple have it out there.

All right, well with that, yeah.

What have you got in the Winlink mailbag today?

All right, the first email comes to us from Whiskey8KiloNovemberXray and he sent us an email with the subject line Hello, from Everyday Ham.

He writes.

Finally, remember to fire up the win link and drop you guys a line over at the Live Free and Ham podcast.

Gotta keep the win link.

Network warm 73, rory Whiskey, 8 Kilo, november X-Ray the Everyday Ham podcast sweet yeah, those guys rock over there, always love to hear from them.

And Rory Whiskey 8, kilo November X-Ray the Everyday Ham podcast Sweet yeah, those guys rock over there.

Always love to hear from them and they've been doing good.

If you haven't realized that they were on as guests a while back, you can dive back a couple episodes.

And we had them on and it was great fun to hang out.

There are younger version doppelgangers of us.

I think that's how we relate to them a little bit.

I think that's how we relate to them a little bit.

So pretty cool to see.

You know another similar podcast out there, like us, but just very different.

Yeah, they're the younger Michigan version of us.

Yes, and more put together.

I'd have to say, Like you know, we don't always have our roll-ins good, we don't have our scripts together.

We don't sound professional all the time you know we're just the way we are.

We need.

Don't have our scripts together we don't sound professional all the time.

You know we need, we need to produce, we need a producer.

You heard it yep, step up, paul.

Paul needs a social media manager.

We need a producer for the show.

I should ask my brother to do it.

That's what he used to do for work, like for yeah radio, to edit our stuff.

He's got a whole studio in his house.

Be like what does that do for us well, he can link into us and you can just push through what you guys try to do.

Okay, well, you get on that after you finish all of the other sponsor stuff that we need to do for a 24-hour photo sponsor stuff yeah, remember the giveaway prizes we talked about.

We'll get.

Oh yeah, I just want to give away folks.

Why are we giving?

Why are we giving stuff?

away what we don't have nothing.

We have nothing to give away oh, we have plenty of stuff.

We got matt to give away.

You know we're sorry.

Matt's intent is to give away, not matt.

Yeah, we're giving away matt this year and we got a couple other stuff coming in the mix, so, oh good, so we'll talk about that in a bit, but anyway, so you had one win link.

I know you said you had two, so what's the other one?

all right, yeah, win.

Link number two comes to us from kilo delta, nine yankee, sierra whiskey, uh.

And he writes, uh.

Subject the week of July 28th, which is this week.

And he says, well, it's the last week of July and really humid, with the new job Standing next to 1700 degree furnace to make cast iron sinks look nice is not that easy or cool?

No kidding, is not that easy or cool, no kidding.

Well, the only HF I did this week was sending this wind link on the UHF VHF side of things.

So it's not really HF, but we get you, we get you.

Oh no, I'm sorry I missed.

I missed the period, I just skipped over it.

So the only HF he did was sending the wood link.

So cool, all right, On the UHF VHF side of things, I've been putting my call sign out when I can.

In other news, I was asked by my club to meet with someone who is interested in amateur radio.

They do search and rescue with canines and go to some places where there is no cell service.

They do search and rescue with canines and go to some places where there is no cell service.

They seemed a bit overwhelmed because of all the things.

That is amateur radio.

We had a great discussion and they seemed to understand a little bit better Programmed a radio that they received.

I did this so that they could listen in and also, if they hear me, they can ask questions via another form of communication.

Meanwhile, life goes on and I will be posting that video soon of the photo with the grouch 7-3, chris KD9, ysw, chris Radio and Live.

Hopefully Chris will have the recording that we made the contact, but we won't get into that.

I know it's a sore subject.

No, it's all right, we can, we can, we can, we can talk about that when, when I when I discussed my ham radio week.

Very cool, Well, Chris thank you for staying on track with your you know weekly wind link emails.

We appreciate that.

Those are awesome.

They're always interesting to see.

And, dude, I don't envy you being in front of a freaking blast furnace in this heat making cast iron sinks.

But we applaud you and appreciate you.

For sure, and thanks, rory, yeah, oh yeah, rory too.

Yeah, totally yeah, good to see that too, so sweet, all right, well, hey, if you have, you know, anything you want to share with us, feel free.

You can always send them via link, or you can just, you know, send us a you know a review via email or via our SMS or our voicemail number at 978-233-1142, and we'll be glad to share it at our next episode.

All right, well, with that, let's get into.

It's everyone's favorite segment.

And now a little something extra with Todd W1STJ.

Still a general.

All right.

Well, there we go.

We just rolled right into this, like we know what we're doing, all right?

Well, see, we don't, because I obviously can roll right into the script.

Here we go, guys.

Yep, I'm going to get fired after the end of this.

All right, so we all aspire to do good in ham radio.

Oh, wrong script.

Bye, thank you, oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh, what the heck.

There we go.

My script's all screwed up here.

All right, so, yep, this is where you've heard in the past and maybe this is your first time listening.

We apologize, but this is where we help Todd study for his extra class license.

So each episode, we love to pick the three questions and we might actually hear the same ones over and over every week to week until Todd gets them right, testing his knowledge and hoping he gets his upgrade.

So if you want to follow along, you can always head over to hamstudyorg and it's awesome resource to help you prepare for your test, and it's recommended by three out of four or at this point I think I said four out of four.

100 of all the ve's recommend it.

So, without any further delay, let's hand it over to the quiz master and please, hopefully you do a better job than I am.

Take it away, paul all right, uh.

So uh, today's first randomly generated question.

What is the purpose of connecting inner diodes between a MOSFET gate and its source or drain?

Is it A to protect the gate from static damage.

B to protect the substrate from excessive voltages.

C to provide voltage reference for the correct amount of reverse bias gate voltage.

Or is it D to keep the gate voltage within specifications and prevent the device from overheating?

This is the one we had the other day.

Not the other day, but we've had this in the past.

This isn't the one that I was on the live stream, or whatever.

Well, that wasn't the other day, that was like over a month ago.

But yeah, someone was talking about the MOSFET.

You've definitely had it before.

MOSFET.

Yes, Last week we had a different.

We had that weird dual gate one where there was a MOSFET.

You argued that you were bitching about the arrow.

Yeah, because it was schematic.

Yeah, jesus, I don't know.

I'm going to do A.

Yeah, something about static is always about right.

I'm going to go with A All right, alpha, alpha, alpha.

I want to say that you guys are both wrong, but we're going to go with a all right Alpha, alpha, alpha.

I want to say that you guys are both wrong, but we're going to find out.

Oh you're right.

Okay.

Such a pessimist.

No, I, I, I, I thought, um, what was it?

I thought the answer was C.

So, uh, but all right.

So here you go.

If you remember that static shocks deliver kilovolts, you might hastily choose the tractor to prevent protect the substrate from excessive voltages.

But that's the wrong uh answer, because substrate is sturdy and not at risk.

Instead, you need to protect the gate from static damage.

Mosfets, unlike other CMOS-based devices, contain built-in electrostatic voltage protection in the form of Zener diodes.

A typical lightning strike has been known to blow such devices without protection.

Dumb memory hint.

Zener Z-ZAP static shock.

Protect the gate from static.

Hope that helped with that All right.

Well, hey, you're off to a great start, so here we go.

Question number two what is one advantage of using ASCII code for data communications?

Is it A it uses one character as a shift code to send numeric and special characters.

B it is possible to transmit both uppercase and lowercase text.

C it includes built-in error correction features.

Or D D it contains fewer information bits per character than any other code.

All right for summer.

I don't this.

I I want to say it's B.

It seems like a answer, but I think one of them does that uppercase and lowercase and I think it's that one.

I definitely know it's not that.

I'm going to stick with it.

It's not shift, because that's frequency key shifting.

So it's got to be D.

I'm going with d okay, well, todd said b, thank you holy god, wow, nice, wow, okay.

So all right to uh to give you the explanation uh, ascii or american standard, wow, okay, so alright, to give you the explanation.

Ascii, or American Standard Code For Information Interchange, uses numbers in place of All characters, both uppercase and lowercase.

65 to 90 are A to Z uppercase.

97 to 122 are A to Z lowercase.

Ascii is an 8-bit code providing a potential for 256 possible characters.

As such, it does not require a shift code.

In contrast, odot code is a 5-bit code only allowing 32 possible combinations.

Therefore, that can only support uppercase characters.

Great job, todd.

Thank you.

Wow, I'm impressed, my friend, I'm impressed.

All right.

Two for two.

This is the kind of question that's bullshit because I know it's.

Don't fuck it up now.

Listen, this is the kind of question that's bullshit Because.

I know it's here.

You go with your notepad, write down E7A04.

That's the question.

You can email it to those guys and tell them this is a stupid question.

It's not a stupid question.

It's got the stupid answers.

It's like All right answers, it's like all right.

So for the third and final question of the evening, todd, yeah, how many flip-flops and these, these aren't the kind you wear on your feet how many flip-flops are required to divide a signal frequency by 16.

Is it A 16?

I'm sorry, is it A 6?

Is it B 4?

Is it C 16?

Or is it D 8?

Or is it E I don't know.

You can join.

Oh.

Wrong button.

So the reason I get it when I was studying I was either going between I think I was going between four and eight, and I can't remember I haven't seen this question in a while which I'm going to go with 8 D, it's probably 4, but I'm going to go with 8, flip flop.

I don't know if you're doing 8, I'm going to do 4 B alright.

well, todd said D 8, four B All right.

Well, todd said D eight, and that is not.

And Eric said B four, which is correct.

There we go so if you insert a flip-flop into a circuit, it will divide the input signal by two.

Therefore, to divide a frequency by 16, you simply need four flip-flops in series.

So here's your lovely equation Todd Log, sub 2 times 16 equals 4.

And then you've got a whole bunch of other formulas drawn out.

Like I said, I haven't reviewed these in a while, but I think there's a bunch of questions that are so similar.

The numbers are like, and that's what irritates me and the things understood.

My friend understood, but I think you probably won't see all four of the same series of questions I know, but I'll probably get it.

I'll probably pick the wrong one.

Well, you know you can give up five.

We'll ease your pain.

Eventually Get your extra and you'll ease your pain All right.

So well, if you're on the journey of studying for your technician, general or extra class, like Todd is, then in that case hamstudyorg is an awesome resource because it tracks all the stuff for you and continues to drill home the stuff that you're struggling with and make you a better test taker and helps you get your ticket.

If you recently received maybe your license, or maybe you upgraded, then let us know.

We'd like to recognize you on the next episode for all that hard work and effort you put in.

Paul, do we have any that you've run into at all from any of the previous testing sessions?

You did that, you remember, or no?

Yes, oh, okay.

Is he frozen?

He was your video's a little frozen, but all we heard was yes.

Oh, all right, Well, good, okay, yes, so I actually was part of the Fort Bragg session today.

We had 19 soldiers that took their tests.

Most of them were new technicians.

There was a couple that were taking generals.

They were already techs.

But I will say these Army boys, they need to study better, because we only had five out of the 19 that passed.

Wow.

Okay, my boys, I don't feel so bad anymore.

Dude, you passed your general, you're fine.

It's the extras that you have to worry about.

These were mostly all failed techs.

Technician.

Oh Wow, maybe that says something about our, our military process.

Fucking generation man, wow well, hey did any of them did any of them complain and say they they identified as uh passing and you should just give them what they identify as a text is.

is that a no, not not one of them complained about the text.

questions is passing and they identify as a tech, so they should be passing Is that a no, not not one of them complained about the text questions or the fact that they didn't find it relevant to them in that moment, you know they just took the exam.

They probably guessed, they probably didn't even open up, they probably didn't even know the questions.

Well, no, because the the exam was exam was the end of a class that they had just taken, so kidding me yeah, they just needed to study a little harder, I think understood man, but congrats to the five that passed yeah, good job, you're on your way to get you're on your way to be in general, not even a ham radio, but also in the military might become a general.

You pass a tech class out of what?

Five out of 19.

That's pretty, that's tough.

And sadly it's not really a tough test to somewhat, but yeah.

Okay, it was tough for me.

I didn't, I had to study, hey.

But yeah, okay it was tough for me.

I didn't, I just study.

Hey, my daughter has zero, zero negative actually, any electronics experience I had zero too.

I still don't have any experience.

Get on that all right, well with that, in our usual format, because uh n1og has gotten up, I assume, to refresh his uh libations.

We'll go with you, todd.

How's your ham radio week been well?

I uh, it's actually been pretty good.

I um, I've been messing around with my new radio, the ft m510d, and I really, really like this radio.

It's just got cool features to it and it just makes sense.

I mean, maybe it's because I've had the 400 and the 300, but just playing around with this radio it's like things are just in the right spots and it's just simpler, and so are we saying yeas.

You finally hit a almost a home run out of the park.

Well, it's got some issues, but out of all of them, the three that I've played with, this one's my favorite one to play with um.

Yeah, I mean there is some some things like um, like on one screen on the rms.

I was trying to do it.

I could take it off the radio but I couldn't figure out in the arm.

Maybe it's the, it's not arm.

What is it called?

Rst, ams or no, rts, the, the software program.

So maybe it's not Yaesu.

Oh, you mean RT.

Systems.

Yeah, because there's one page on it where you can like oh.

Yaesu's is ADMS.

No, no, no, I'm talking about the software that I use RT Systems, yeah, rt Systems.

So on RT Systems.

Well, RT Systems is not the same as the Yaesu software.

Right I'm using.

Rt Systems is not the same as the Yaesu software Right.

I'm using RT systems, okay, because initially you were using the Yaesu software.

No, I wasn't, because they don't have it for Mac and I didn't want to pay the $25.

But I said I'm drinking because of you.

Well, I'm glad I can make your evening happy.

So listen.

Anyway, I like the radio.

The thing was it was a little.

The problem I had is it had weather alert on it.

So when I would scan, it would just scan whatever you're doing and then would go to all the weather channels.

So I found a, I'd unclick it, save it and then it would just.

Then we'd go to all the weather channels.

So I found a I'd unclick it, save it and then it would just I'd go back to pages back on.

You had to go to a different page to actually turn it off.

So it was kind of like it's more of a software thing because I could do it on the radio and not so much the um software.

On the software.

It was easier to do it on the radio.

Well, so yeah, so um, but yeah, it's, it's pretty cool and it's um.

I'm really excited I'm getting, I'm putting it in um, hopefully tomorrow.

I did find um that I have auxiliary switches on my jeep that are just empty, so I'm gonna be should make it an easier install than I expected and um.

And then I got on the near or.

I hadn't been on the near one in a couple months because of baseball and stuff.

So that was fun, uh, getting on with those guys.

And I watched the clubhouse yesterday.

Couldn't hear carlos, uh, when he was jumping.

Did you guys, did you try, eric?

I didn't even know he was jumping.

I know I left near early before you guys had Carl, like Carlos, justin came on, oh yeah, yeah, that's right, and I watched on the replay, which got guys get a better hobby instead of, like always, like digging back at me after I jump.

All of a sudden it's like Eric, this, eric this, how, let's make fun of Eric, let's make fun more.

I had to go, that's what happens when you're the first one't leave, then it's the eric show I had to go that's what happens when you're the first one to leave.

Yeah, it's like being the first one at the party to fall asleep.

You get dicks all over your face or or marker it.

Oh no, good to know.

Yeah, no, well I don't know.

Dude that story, though you told us about the naked backseat, backseat driving that's just.

I don't know, man, I don't know where you grew up, but that wasn't a thing in my town.

I grew up in westford.

Please, what do you do?

there's nothing to do late nights and you know you're hanging out the problem is, I think you guys think it's a whole bunch of guys in the car.

No dude, it was girls.

There's more girls than there were guys like.

I was myself as a driver and maybe one other guy that best friends of mine all in the car and there was more girls.

So that always played in our favor.

That's.

That's kind of where that came from.

So it wasn't like we're like, hey, there's five dudes in the car, let's play cohen digga, backseat driving, that's what I was thinking.

I'm like man well, come on.

I think that's what I was thinking.

I'm like man, I don't get it, come on.

I think that's what everyone was thinking.

That's what I realized after replaying it a couple of times.

Dude, they must think.

I think you need to.

I think you need to.

You're going to have to bring it up again the next year and clear your name.

No no, no, because I think everyone thinks that you were with a bunch of dudes getting naked in the back of a car driving around town.

The only thing we're bringing up next year is I'm going to present Izzo one of those pill bucket things that actually have Monday through Sunday on them and basically put his individual pills in them so he doesn't take his daughter's birth control.

That was funny.

That was really funny.

Don't understand that one, but anyway, who was?

Oh, and Carlos was bitching to you because you never made his shirt I did, I started it, but then, he never finished it okay here.

so, to my, to my credit, I started it and then I sent him a copy and he's like dude, you could do a better picture than that?

And all of like the three hours worth of work I tried to stitch it all together.

He sends me another picture like a day later.

So I'm like I'm waiting and waiting for him to send me something.

So he finally sent me something a day later and at that point I lost interest.

So I was like I'm not going to do this any longer.

So he, he sure is he didn't forget he was.

He was like where's.

So keep talking and I'll pull it up here and share the screen here.

Yeah, so, anyway.

So since you were, I couldn't hear him.

Um parachute mobile, even though I tried.

So that was unfortunate, because I figured I'd try to work them.

What do you do?

10 meters, I think yeah.

Was it 10 paul?

Yeah, yeah, I think it was 10.

Yeah, it just wasn't reaching that way.

He didn't hear him either.

What are you doing.

Uh-huh what?

We don't hear anything.

No Well, sort of here and there, uncle.

Elon's messing you up.

Well, he's up.

No, honestly, it's probably the gate settings on the mic.

I was trying to, you know, hold my phone to the microphone.

I got it yeah, so, uh, so, yeah.

So a little bit of ham radio and a little played around with the.

Uh, listen to some hd.

We were talking about the frequencies 14, three, one, three and 7,200.

I find that very interesting.

If, um, if I can't sleep, listen to those guys.

Those guys on there are just insane.

Like they're like what is like it's, they're crazy.

They literally like commit felonies on there.

They literally threaten to kill each other true, but like I'm just trying to like, like you fire up your radio on your smartphone and then just leave it running I went down to the shack and I was fucking around, so I would.

We were just talking about I hadn't been on it said, oh, let's just see what's going on in there.

And then I was like, oh my, it's like the Jerry Springer show of ham radio.

Yeah, I don't disagree with that Anyway.

So, Paul, since you took off on us, how was your week in ham radio?

Do anything fun.

Oh well, look at you like acting like the host of the show.

Someone's got to do it, since you've been drinking to paul, here we go.

So this is carlos's shirt, so you guys all get to see it.

Oh, hope carlos is watching, that's what I was working on and he was like he's not, he probably won't, but he'll have to check out the you know the video there.

That's him.

So he was going to send me a better photo.

So once I finish, you know, making that work, you know this will be what it will be sort of like.

So yeah, so it was sort of that's fantastic I'm gonna have to get that shirt.

Go ahead, paul um, all right, so my ham radio week, let's see.

So I went to Iowa with Carlos and we activated Princeton Wildlife Refuge which is just over the other side of the Mississippi River.

Did you guys have cell service there or no?

Yeah, yeah, actually it wasn't bad.

I didn't see you on the spotting page.

It's kind of weird.

That's because we never called CQ.

Well, there you go, can't work you if you don't spot yourself.

Honestly, we didn't need to um.

So, on the way there, okay, um, I missed.

I missed an exit because we're we're shooting, shooting the shit.

I'm just driving on the highway like I'm not, I'm not paying attention to the phone, I'm.

You know, we're just, we're just talking.

So I missed my exit.

I'm like, all right, that's fine, we'll just keep going and you know, gps will reroute us.

Well, gps rerouted us and, as, as we're trying to connect to uh, state route 30, which is where the previous exit would have gotten me right, we're gonna cross train tracks and there's people like workers at the train tracks.

So I'm like it's a little unusual, right.

So I slow down as I as I approach, and then the bars come down, oh no, and the train comes, and the train is like a fucking mile long, and then, all of a sudden, the train gets like halfway in front of us and stop, and so the the, the guy standing there, you know, like the employee, he comes over to the truck and he goes hey, you might want to just turn around and try and find another way around, because we don't know how long the train's going to be here.

So we shot the shit with this guy for a little bit.

He explained that they were replacing railroad ties, and so this was going to be a project and we were probably going to be sitting there for a while.

Let me tell you, dude, there's not many places to cross the Mississippi river, so I had to drive.

I had to drive like 45 minutes south to get back to you know uh, the highway where I could take 80 across the Mississippi so that I could then go back north on the other side of the bank.

But we finally got there and it was a great activation.

Of course, I left both of my pod rockers here in front of the RV, so I had zero chairs.

Wait a minute.

The grouch wasn't prepared for something Like this is a first.

This is a first.

The grouch was prepared.

I just didn't throw the shit back in the truck.

Oh, I see how that one works.

So there's a we gotta clarify.

There's levels.

So there's the absolute rules that grouch has and follows and abides by, but there's sub articles to that can be the gray areas.

Is that how we're looking at it?

Yeah, a chair is a non-essential item.

Right or direction and GPS Got it Okay.

So I just I use the tailgate as the radio station table um and then we just, we just all hands and knees, and you sat on his back no, no, no, we stood there.

We stood there, uh, and, just you know, pass the mic back and forth.

For whatever reason, my, uh, my military handset wasn't working quite well that day.

But yeah, I don't know, I think.

I think we ended up with 12 or 13 in the log, so it was a successful activation.

We both got to turn a new state green and then, yeah, so that was Saturday, that was, that was Saturday, and then Sunday was an absolutely beautiful day.

So Carlos got a parachute mobile in first thing.

That was Saturday, and then Sunday was an absolute beautiful day.

So, um, carlos got, uh, a parachute mobile in first thing.

Um, so I made another two meter contact with him and then, um, uh, I, I, I got some jumps in the last jumps that I could afford to get while I was here.

Uh, it was, you know, because, um, so the month of July I did, I did canopy course.

One, oh one, one, oh two, um, and so the cost of the course, plus the 10 jump block that I had to buy for the course and the gear rental for two days total cost ended up being like 870 something bucks, and so then I had to fix my truck, obviously, so that was another like 320 bucks that I had planned on spending this month.

So I really just I just didn't have a whole lot of money left to to continue to skydive this month and obviously I'm I'm heading to huntsville, uh, you know, the beginning of the next next month, so, yeah, um.

So I was like, well, I've got enough for for three jumps, and it happened to be 40, 48, 49 and 50.

And so, um, independence Day, when, when we had the big boogie here, they, uh, they brought in a sky van Um.

So the sky van, uh, it's, it's a bigger plane, you can stand up in it in it.

Um, and instead of getting out the side, like you see in and normally in my videos, it's got like a c-130 kind of ramp in the back, and so the plane doesn't really slow down like you, just you go out the back and you're going, you know, full speed, um, but so I didn't get to, I didn't get to jump out of that plane.

Uh, independent, say, weekend.

So I was super glad that that plane was back.

Um, so jump number one for the day was out of the sky van.

Um, that was a ton of fun.

Um, then, um, is that one of the guys that?

is doing his um.

One of his jumps from it has the benches inside it, like Carlos is doing his.

One of his jumps from it has the benches inside it, like in the weird side seatbelt One.

There's a different one I'm thinking of, I remember seeing a plane.

No, that's just a.

That's just a regular Cessna Caravan.

Okay.

But so Jonathan was was a guy that I had met, he was.

He came for ground school and he did the AFF process basically at the same time I did.

He got his license I think the week after I did, and so he was here for, you know, he wanted to jump with me.

I told him I could only afford to jump one day, and so he made it happen that he was here for wanted to jump with me.

I told him I can only afford to jump one day, and so he made it, made it happen that he was here for for Sunday to jump with me.

And yeah, so we went up, jumped two together, just did you know a nice easy two way, you know, just him and I kind of playing around in the sky having fun.

But but jump number 50, I figured it had to be a big one, it had to be something special.

So I waited to the very last load of the day and it's a sunset load and so we went up and Carlos joined me.

We did a high pull together.

I really got to just kind of sit there and and take it all in.

I what I did was I held the, I held the canopy in quarter breaks.

So right, so you get the toggles and you pull the toggles down, that's your breaks.

So I pulled them down, go about my shoulders and I just put my thumbs in under my shoulder straps so that way I had, you know, a little bit of of time to relax and and I just just sat there under the canopy and just took it all in.

Uh, what a beautiful, beautiful thing to see, like you know, the, the cities and and towns and the distance, and all the lights come on and, um, there's, there's a big, uh wind turbine.

Uh, you know, array to the south of us To see all the lights start coming on and flashing on the wind turbines.

Just absolutely amazing experience for jump number 50.

Let's see Other ham radio stuff.

I got a couple videos done.

Only one was ham radio related, but uh, uh.

So I got my wisconsin photo video done, uh, which was with kd9 ysw, chris, chris radio life.

Um, so that'll be, uh, that'll be premiering um thursday night uh, it'll be last thursday night for everybody watching this, but you can still go on my channel and watch it.

So, thursday night It'll be last Thursday night For everybody watching this, but you can still go on my channel and watch it.

There you go.

So that was my ham radio stuff.

So a couple of things.

Your mic splitter stuff.

I've been having problems with mine too, and I don't know whether it's the actual, like the little kind of small preliminary tests I did.

I found that the contacts get crap in them.

So you might want to double check your that little block to see if there's not something trapped up in there or something like that.

Mine was dirty the first time.

The second one it was just because the connector got loose, because I find that these rj45 things just never really like sit in there good enough, and so contact was.

That was when I did with chris.

Uh, down at the cape, and like every time I would talk they'd be like, yeah, you're five, nine.

And then I, you know chris would use the other mic and he'd be like they couldn't hear whatsoever and I don't know what that was doing or why it was just getting jumbled up.

But yeah, I don't know if that splitter has got some weird thing in it that.

But you know, I got to do a little.

You know, tear apart to see how the wiring is, to make a better call as to see whether there's some electrical issue with it.

But yeah, it seemed similar problem all right.

Well, so I was thinking um, so I have, I have a little pigtail that I keep attached to the radio and that way I don't have to take the face off all the time.

Right, right, um, but I what I was thinking was maybe I should take the pigtail off and just put the splitter on and leave the splitter on full time and just leave a dummy plug plugged in, and then I can unplug the dummy plug to plug the mic.

In that way it keeps the connection clean nice, yeah, that actually probably makes sense.

Yeah, I'd be curious to see, because I think it only opens the like the contacts only open when that second mic is in play, when uh, not when the ptt's.

I think it's like that second one automatically just stays connected all the time and that may be a problem.

But I have to, like I said, I'm only guessing because I gotta tear into that stupid thing to find out.

But yeah, let me know how yours goes and, um, you know see if that solves the problem before I cut it open surgically all right.

And what about you, eric?

How was your ham radio week?

well, I got one other thing for you, man.

Um, okay, I, I know your massachusetts, new england accents sliding in there every time you say it, is it high pole p-o-l-e or high pull p-u-l-l p-u-l-l okay, because I like every time you say high pole, I'm like you're saying pull or pull and I'm like what the hell does a pole have to do with jumping out of a plane?

don't insult him for having a massachusetts.

Call it a new england accent, whatever you want, I said his new england accent you said massachusetts did I say mass.

I don't think I said mass you said okay, my apologies.

I said I meant to say he's digging into you, paul, he's like you know, like all right, he's got something against you because he's from Mass and you trash it all the time.

Dude, I left Mass as quickly as I could.

We're on the same boat, my friend, I know.

Yeah, so essentially Put it this way Go no, when I went to you.

Go, paul, take the lead All right.

I just wanted to explain what a high pull was, in case somebody didn't know.

So it's the opposite of a hop and pop, right?

So a hop and pop is you're between 3,500 and 5,000 feet in altitude and you jump out and within five seconds you're deploying your, your parachute, right, so you get no free fall time.

A high pull is the same exact thing, but you're doing it at full altitude and so you, you jump out and then you, you, you want to, you want to get stable to the relative when five seconds and and deploy.

So that's, that's all that is.

That's just the.

That's what the difference is there.

Yeah, it's just your accent was getting in the way.

That's all Just trying to help the rest of the audience.

You know, we're just all a loving bunch here, we're all good, anyway, all right, well, I'll answer your question.

Actually, did I have one more?

Yeah, whatever, I started to write down, I guess I ignored it.

Man, what the heck did I do this way?

Again, this freaking week has been insane and all over the map.

I mean.

So we typically for those that are our regular listeners and not Patreon listeners we usually record what like Sunday nights.

So I'm always like geared up.

My weekends are usually pretty quiet Friday, saturday, with no ham radio per se, unless I decided to go to the barn or something like that.

And then Sunday is when I start to ramp up, like you know, sunday mornings, live stream, I have a little bit of a break and then I'm thinking like, okay, we got to start doing stuff for you know this recording.

And while we didn't have it, this recording, because I ended up having some, was it my family function or something like that?

I can't remember what it set us off, or no, right, paul, you had to know that was the week before you had to jump, didn't you?

Or you were doing some activity right.

And then todd jumped in and said he wanted to go fishing oh yeah, well, I was doing my sunset jump that's right, yeah, yeah, right.

So, so, yeah, we, you finally stepped in and I appreciate you stepping in saying fuck you guys, I want to go do this jump because I was you know, you were always like dude.

I just want to make sure we're confident like I, I by time he said he was gonna be.

He said he was gonna be really really late, late I know which was perfectly fine.

You know, I was like okay so I was like quiet night yeah yeah, okay, listen, sometimes things come up.

What did I say?

I had to go fishing.

That was my fishing or something I had to go back at the.

I forget what it was.

I really got, I got to get on that.

I got to get on that Shit.

I seriously can't remember crap anymore.

We're noticing that every time, even like last week with the episode.

What did I talk about?

Who's that call an effing idiot?

I don't know, I can't, I don't remember.

So long story short, yeah, I was, so, uh, live stream went well, um, and you know, sunday was really quiet so I ended up falling asleep on the couch, but which is probably, you know, because I think, after my third cup of coffee sunday morning, we, we talked about, um, some uh, you know, nefarious things that happened in podo, which I thought was pretty good.

We, uh, shannon and um shane and a few others, all uh threw in some interesting stories.

We, we scrubbed them off a little bit so we didn't, uh, you know, basically to protect the innocent, but, uh, it was real fun to, you know, share some of the stories.

When I shared, uh, you know, our, um, our, our um, we'll say starry past with, uh, mr fd8, uh, you remember that yeah, you were pretty, uh, because I was listening.

Yeah, you joined, I just gonna say you, you joined in.

I was totally blown away, he, he came on.

I was like wow, he either didn't fall asleep the night before or he got enough rest.

I didn't get enough rest, but I, I, I was home and I was like all right, I'm going to get on this and cool yeah.

And so, outside of that, I've been doing a bunch of videos trying to get things arranged.

I got a live stream tomorrow, um, which, by the time this airs will be, uh, you know when Thursday of last week.

So, fingers crossed, I hopefully remember how to, you know, adjust SWR.

And you know, get this antenna.

You know this biscuit antenna.

I'm doing N0APX's antenna.

He sent me the 40 meter antenna and then it was the build piece and long story short is I built it, but the instructions that he had the link provided was for the 20 meter antenna and so I built it as a 20 meter and fed instead of 40 meter and fed.

So I had all these extra parts and I was like, well, what the heck do I do with this extra Toro rate and what do I do with these extra screws?

And you know, long story short, yeah.

So I'm going to be interesting, to say the least.

so, yeah, that sounds like fun it's going to be.

I mean, if anything, it's just going to be a comedy of errors for sure.

That's like.

The biggest thing that I'm worried about is like I'm not going from a script.

I'm not, like you know, editing it on the cutting room floor to make it actually look like it's going to flow well.

So it's going to look like a Keystone Cops you know episode, I'm sure.

So well, we'll see, people will get a laugh out of it for sure.

So, yeah, outside of that was my ham radio week Not really you know hammy at all, but still filled with something related to it.

So, all good, all right.

Well, with that, we, yeah, don't have anything prepared this week.

So, you know, we're just going to let it fly.

You know, ted, who's in the chat there?

Good to see you, ted.

I don't know if you fell asleep already, but good to see you know, in the chat.

And thanks, thanks for hanging out with us.

And so, yeah, if you've got something you want to get off your chest or you want to, you know, learn something about us.

We're going to kind of just reflow here.

We talked originally early.

Yep, ted's still there, good to see you know.

We're going to talk a little about 24-hour poda, because I think we need to talk about some of that stuff, what we want to think about doing and what's coming up, because we've I've been getting questions, uh, but I know, uh you know there are others uh that are wondering what's going on.

Um yeah, so Paul's got at the bottom of the window here our sign up for the 24 hour photo.

Thank you for all those that have already picked up and signed up uh, put their orders in, so we're moving ahead on that and it's really good.

So I we got a hard, fast deadline.

So check out the uh link down below if you're considering coming, even for the day.

I just need to know that you're coming and whether or not you want to participate in the uh catering aspect of it, because that's a number.

I've got to be able to get back to the barbecue place to be able to make sure we get enough food for everybody, um and uh.

We get enough food for everybody, um and uh lunch on saturday, so I guess, kind of diving into it, yeah, let's talk a little bit about that.

I mean, obviously you guys talked heavily on near about it and you know, of course you're like what's eric want to do and, of course, eric's not there to answer any of those questions.

So what did eric finally decide?

You know, when you guys uh, you know worked through the details of our, you know, poda POTUS station.

Well, the census is they want to have more than one station.

Okay, my view is I just my thought when we did this whole thing is we were just going to have one station and then just keep it going.

You know, having two, three stations and then having it turn off or not.

It's called 24 hour podo, so it's like the one station is going to be running for 24 hours straight.

I don't think we can.

It's not like field, my, my and again, we can change it.

I don't care.

My vision of it was it wasn't going to be like a field day, it was like we were going to run a station for 24 hours straight, calling cq or or hunting or doing whatever.

Looking for adding extra stations great, but I doubt we're gonna have all those stations running 24 hours.

So then it turns into more of like this uh, field day kind of thing.

So that's why?

that's my thought of how, why we should only have one station, but I don't care so, uh, I I've been trying to think on the live streaming side of things, right, so that's where that's critical to me.

Um, I, my thought was that we would have one station outside that would be the 24 hour station, but then we would also allow people to come in and use the station inside, because this is going to be the the hub of the live stream, and so it's very easy to just have this camera connected to the live stream, totally forgot about that, right okay and so then we've got the outside feed, we've got the inside feed, and then I don't know when are we?

where's the main?

Where's the main radio going to be for the like, the 24 hour pod?

Is it going to be inside or is it going to be?

close enough.

It's going to be close enough to the RV that we can run Ethernet and whatever camera cables we need to connect up to, so it's not going to be in the RV, correct?

Well, no, okay, that's the only one, because I'm going to bring my.

You know the thing.

Watson pissed all over when I first put it up.

Remember that that's what I'm going to bring.

I washed it, I know I don't care.

So I sort of envisioned but I like kind of where you were going, paul, because it made a little bit more sense.

So I envisioned kind of near your camper, whether it was the tent that you used for Nearfest.

That would be the, the radio tent, meaning we would throw two radios in there.

And really the only way to say two radios would be that if, um, we got to kind of cater to three areas sideband, cw and digital.

And so I was thinking Todd would bring his DX 10 and that would just run CW and digital.

Your radio, if you had the 7,300, would be the or a radio, whatever that is.

That would be the sideband station and we could have two people both on there at the same time doing those two different modes through.

Uh.

I was going to grab the clubs triplexer and tie it into the uh buddy, hex, and then matt said he wanted to bring like a couple other antennas.

I okay with that and I'm totally fine.

Him like putting up one or two for just like those like specific area wire kind of things, but put them on a switch box and like that's just an option someone can have at the main station, whatever it is, and that would have one camera on it and that camera would cover both of those two radios, kind of like we put an l table or whatever, a folding table and some chairs and stuff like that, and that would be just the radio tent, the there would be another tent that um would be a little farther out or whatever.

That would be the hangout tent, like we did for near, and put to one or two cameras in there, and I've got enough HDMI cables to strangle a horse.

With that we can feed back into the trailer to give you the video feed that you need or whatever we need to to get that there, and then that would just be the hangout giveaway tent.

People want to be on the live stream can all hang out in the room and we can just, you know, add more stuff, because for me, if I'm watching, I'm not going to really want to watch somebody 24 hours, just kind of doing digital or making sideband contacts all the way straight through, because that's like just watching another photo for somebody else.

You get bored after 10 minutes, but exactly right, yeah, like just watching another photo for somebody else.

You get bored after 10 minutes but it's like watching a day drive, exactly right.

Yeah, but I'd love to be able to have the main, like us, to be able to control from your, you know, obs station.

You know, being able to do a cutout to that tent where we hang out and everyone gets to hear the banter, and then in the bottom right-hand corner there's a small little picture in a picture of the operating station.

So you see someone making contacts or whatever, and you know, back and forth, we can, you know, easily switch that through obs.

So that's kind of what I was thinking in my sense.

But you know, I, like I said I'm open to I I sort of like the you know, but I I don't want to have people in your camper all night doing operation, you know, at your radio because you're going to want to sleep eventually or something.

But well, yeah, and that's why I said that the station in here wouldn't be the 24-hour station, but it's.

It's an alternative, that's just.

It's easy to put in the mix, because the the radio's here, computers here, right, so cameras here what radios are?

what radios are we having?

Well, we're having dx10 is one.

Yeah, I don't have my dx10 anymore.

I sold it, so we'll have to come up with another radio well, that's why I said why don't we just use my dx10 and have that in the thing?

That's the range sideband radio and then if people want to come and do digital or um, cw that radio up with all of that beforehand.

So, no, we don't have to spend time wasting swapping the key and going to cw or whatever well, right, but what radio are we going to use for sideband?

So if we take, if yours is the primary radio, I would make that sideband only because that radio is really good at sideband, right, I would then if actually tim is coming for the weekend.

So I'm sure he would bring his dx10 and put that next to yours and he could be cw and digital and then we solved that problem and then paul's a third radio.

If you know people want to do other stuff outside and and what?

Or inside, that's not.

You know, part of per se, the operating of the 24-hour photo, if that makes sense okay, so this is tim's antenna, really really far away well, well, I mean, we can do the we'll do.

But you got, you have a band set.

Uh, band pass filters right, paul full set I, I do.

Yeah, I have filters, so so your filters and my filters can both filter both of our radios and then we can put it in the triplexer and then that won't kill us for sideband and cw, as long as we're not, obviously, on 20 meters doing sideband and cw, as long as we're opposite, those filters should be able to keep us from getting into trouble, um and whatever else.

But yeah, my thought is I don't think we're gonna have like two people doing 24 hour you know operation for the whole entire thing.

Like I don't don't know about you, but like if you measure our field days, we had one or two people total that were doing full bore all the time and then there was a bunch of people just kind of jerking off or doing whatever and you know hanging out, we'll be doing good.

Have one station, it has somebody 24 hours on.

True.

And yeah.

I think, the side.

I think true, and yeah, I think the sideband.

I think you'd have the sideband station man 24 hours and then if people want to do fta or whatever or cw, they can come and go as they please, but we should be constantly running that one station, yeah, I mean.

So, whatever the mode is, I think by having them all in that same one tent that's closest to paul's rv, then we can have a dedicated camera to that station.

That's the 24-hour station, because you know whether like see, I would like like.

So if I was doing sideband for four hours and then tim wanted to get in and do cw for a couple hours, I would step away, go hang out and then tim could do cw and at least we have somebody on the station, you know, doing something for aren't we going to keep someone doing the sideband 24 hours?

we don't have to as long as we're doing it under our call sign.

That's what I thought we were going to do.

Well, so here's the the challenge we don't know what the propagation is going to look like.

So if you get to a certain point that we have, everybody wants to do sideband.

Then I said, go do it.

If we want to do both, we could probably get away doing it because we have all the the right tools to make it all work.

Um, and we could have two operators in the same tent with one camera on both of those operators and you know, we get more action on our live stream, you know I mean, it doesn't.

It doesn't matter if the the 24-hour station changes modes 100 times, it's just that the 24-hour station is 24 hours, 24 hours, right.

Yeah, but I just remember when what's her name at field day switched everything over to the DX10 to DCW.

It screwed everything up.

No right.

So that's why we have the two radios.

Yeah, so, tim, we've got the 7300 that too.

The only thing I don't want to do is throw cw on yours.

But you know, because you know you tailored the way you want.

But you know, tim's already got it all set up for us, so he just brings it.

It's now set up for digital modes.

It's set up for cw already filtering.

Yeah, yeah, that just sits there and looks pretty all right, so all right.

So.

So basically, in that tent, or whatever you want to call it, that shelter, that's the station 24 hours.

If tim it's not connected to the radio, it's connected to the station.

So if someone's doing sideband and tim wants to come in and do cw, we're not going to run sideband we don don't have to.

We can do it if we want to.

Somebody can be on 15 meters to a sideband and Tim can be on 10 meters doing CW, both making calls for W1 LFH.

Okay, as long as, as long as we don't have a time where nobody's doing nothing, that that's.

The only thing is like Paul said, said just, you know, 24 hours straight we do whatever mode so when we can't, when we can't stay awake, fda or or we're totally shit fate and we have no idea how, even how to spell our own names.

You know, yeah, that station I'll be calling cq on 7200 24 hour poda you mother effers make contacts, my friend.

That's all you gotta do, yeah alright.

Now the other thing I was gonna ask and I'm sure when you cause you know how field day you can get credit for like your log or whatever, by your call sign.

Does it work the same way with what we're doing?

So, like, if I do 100 contacts at greenfield, I can get credit under w1stj towards, like, if I was going to say towards a kilo or whatever yeah, as long as it's not in the extra portion of the band where you can't operate oh, I can, because you'll be there and so, but you can't claim credit for those contacts individually oh, yeah, right, but I can do it yeah yeah, yeah, so we'll, we'll.

I'll set up n3fjp on uh two laptops and they'll share the same database and then that way everything is logged and then, and then.

What do you do?

You just send me a copy of the adf file.

I can, but basically I won't have to worry about it because when I upload the log file it'll have the operator field in it and you'll get the credit that way from podo oh yeah, that's right yep, so simple.

No problem there I forgot yeah, yeah.

The only person that won't be able to get credit is ted, but he's getting his ticket, hopefully that weekend.

Bob yeah, sorry, I meant yeah, thank you, bob, correct.

Yeah, not Bob, not Ted.

Ted is graciously volunteered as he's on chat.

That's why I was thinking to he's like what, I'm an extra he's been demoted, ted, you gotta take tests all over, my friend, it's our hazing orientation.

Are you going to have a roving camera to show away from the station?

chat yeah, so the other portion to this mix is that we'll actually have a separate todd.

You're going to probably bring your octagon tent or whatever you had for field day that'll be the hangout tent that will have another clam in.

Yeah, the clam the inside out, clam right, um well well, wait a minute then.

What are we using for the, for the station?

we're going to use the one paul has already, that he had in your fest the screened in easy oh, that smaller one, yeah, because that I think the clam one's a little bit bigger, right.

Yeah, maybe yeah.

Yeah, and that one will just have a camera in it that live streams everybody hanging out and stuff like that.

And and you know, if we want to put a third camera out there, we can do one of the whole area, if we, you know.

But we'll, we'll think about those views.

And the perks to being there Friday is that we can work out the bugs and get it all working.

I could bring my.

I should bring my plane, you know practice into my kayak, go fishing, do everything that weekend.

So, paul, you and I got to do all the work while Todd's busy playing.

Well, so I I forget who it was.

I was talking with somebody the other day and they were mentioning the 24-hour quota and it might have actually it might have been Bob, but so Pepperell isn't all that far away.

No, what do you get?

If I could maybe convince the S&DA at the Pepperell Skydive Center to let me go up with an HT, I could do a high pull there and try and make contact with you guys at the campground high pull, high pull.

Thank you, yeah, dude Speaker.

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Eh yeah, it'd be up high though you might get it.

I don't know what does Carlos get when he's like on two meters, like how far does he get?

He gets anywhere from a couple hundred miles to close to 1,000.

Okay, so I'm just trying to think, I'm just trying to think Maybe it's not a thousand, but anyways it's several hundred miles so I'm just wondering what like is pac-man adnok in the way between greenfield and peperl, or here?

I don't know, skydiving, and then give me another point here.

Um, so we can do it one or two ways.

We could probably do that because we'll be there friday night setting up doing everything we need to do.

I gotta run out probably saturday mid-afternoon to like get stuff for lunch for us, for, like, pizzas.

But we could, if you could do an early saturday jump, people on the way up could swing by and we could do it from there and then everybody could head up anyway, because they're going to be heading up that direction, if that's something you know you wanted to coordinate.

But then we've got to be dependent on whether or not they don't.

Uh, you know we don't have bad cloud cover or something yeah, yeah, well, exactly right.

I mean obviously it's weather dependent, but uh, you know, I mean if, if saturday, saturday, had really nice weather, like I just think, that would be a cool thing no, yeah, dude, that would be cool if we could fit it in I think.

I think, too, we should also ask the club if we can run the net that night.

Paul, you run great nets.

Have me run the net.

Yeah, yeah, I think it'd be great, come on.

The near-fest one was awesome Okay.

I'll put the Ed Fong up, yeah.

I don't know, dude, the place is in a big hole, so I don't know if we're going to get much out for VHF UHF.

Because I'm most positive I've been able to hit the repeater.

Over from that, ed Fong will get it.

Okay.

So then this is your task.

My friend, take Mr Ed Fong with you when you go to check out the site and take pictures for us.

Or, if I don't go with you, take your Ed F with you and see if you can hit it from there.

If you can hit the repeater, then yeah, we'll do it we'll cross ban.

Repeat from Ralph's house or if, if we could put, if we could like duct tape, the Ed Fong to like a painter's pole, and then like strap, that to like the side of the RV or something.

I've got my 10 meter DX commander in the truck, so the 10 mast is probably tall enough.

You could throw the head phong on top of that yeah, whatever we'll play around with it on friday and, yeah, that'll be your job, todd figure it out to you know whether or not we can actually have reliable uh, you know access to, uh, the repeater there.

Uh, where the heck measure distance.

So I'm gonna do here from here, measure distance come on, are you looking at a, a topographical map?

um, no, I'm just measuring the distance between here and it's not the distance, it's going to be the mountain.

Oh, I know, but once I do that, then I can actually divide, change the map location here.

Let's go, come on but it may not.

I mean, you'll be higher than the mountain, so maybe if you're up above it, you probably be able to it's 22 miles from skydive peperol to roughly greenfield state park.

Based off of that's, easy yeah, the challenge is let me go to map layers here you need to jump at 7 o'clock so you can run the net terrain.

I don't think I would have time to run the net let me just do a little screen share here so you can see what we're looking at here yeah, throw it on there.

Okay, pretty good you can go full screen okay, yeah, you see that mountain right there.

Temple mountain is right in the way you got a couple of them here.

I mean, there's yeah, but I was talking.

I was talking about the temple mountain.

Yeah, that's a big mountain to the left.

That's going to be a bear.

Yep, so there's this range in here and you know if, depending on where you are, like I don't know, are we on this other side.

I can't see where it's telling me here, so it should be here, not there uh oh yeah, that might work, that might work just split the uprights there, my friend.

Yeah, let me see yeah, thread the needle there, we should get it.

Yeah, that might do it terrain we're on terrain and where's greenfield?

That's the center of greenfield.

Where's oh?

yeah, go right to the, go right to otter lake, yeah yeah, okay, yeah, silly button drag.

Okay, let's back up here.

Okay, so, let's go back to terrain.

So yeah, oh yeah, maybe that should work.

I don't know, dude, you got a thousand foot range here.

What are you going to do?

Ricochet off of these other two, so you split this little gap here.

No, dude, you're talking about me starting Cuso's at like 11,000 feet, true, I forgot about that.

Yep, sorry.

Flatlanders were thinkingers, were thinking on the ground.

And so, yeah, by the time I get to 5,000, then I'll be all done and I got plenty of time to figure out my landing.

That's possible.

I'll let you guys figure that one out.

So yeah, people aren't showing up.

I gotta get Pepper to okay it, right, yeah.

So sounds like you can handle that and then, todd, you can figure out the antenna.

Yeah, go back on that map and let's see where the repeater's at.

Oh, our repeater.

Yeah, what's Paul?

just go to pulpit uh, penardville, goffstown, bedford, new boston puppet rock okay should see pulpit yeah, pulpit rockhead just go there, that's.

Pulpit Road.

Oh yeah, that's why our repeaters.

Well, look at all those mountains, it's like right in the middle.

Yeah, it's sucky, it's too many.

Well, it's fucking New Hampshire.

We got mountains, man.

He's 800 feet ASL but he's literally like on the backside of you know, two very large mountains to our South, which is so funny because it's like you can hit them, the damn repeater, from all the way down in Burlington, but you can't get it, you know, when you're in like a town.

So yeah, I don't know that there's a lot of mountains in between there.

Yep, there is, but you know you might be in Greenfield to this.

I'm always positive this those mountain range in here because it's a thousand plus fifteen hundred feet.

You're not getting over that with the repeater, especially getting into here, because, like he's probably somewhere down in here, like here's Uconunic, so he's probably somewhere down in this area.

I'd have to figure out exactly where, but I don't think he's clear shot to well, only one way to find out, todd do a test, bring a painter's pole and the Ed Fong and see if you can hit the repeater.

Yep all right, you heard it here, task item.

So, yeah, I think, um, overall, uh, we'll do the two separate things, one of the concerns and what, and I'll just put it out here for everybody.

So if you're coming for the day and you want to operate, that's fine.

You don't have to operate with a camera on you.

I had a couple of folks ask me if I operated, do I have to be on the live stream?

No, you can turn the camera around.

As long as we get your audio, that's okay.

I mean, that's at least gets people engaged, or you can put it out to the, you know, the general area or whatever, but you don't have to be on camera.

If you're camera shy or don't like to be recorded, just don't shut it off.

Well, I mean, you won't be able to shut it off, just don't unplug it.

That way, at least the next person can come around.

And yeah, how are you keeping all these cameras battery powered.

Well, paul's got 200 amp hours in his trailer and the only thing we have to do is run hdmi cables to his trailer so he can plug into, you know, one or two cameras, and that's not a big deal to get the power off of his computer.

They'll be powered.

They won't have their little cameras and obviously solar panels, like I'm going to have the solar panels out.

Yeah, if worse comes to worse, we're sacrificing your Jeep.

You got enough battery power to last us all weekend.

Yeah, I just drive on gas up there yeah, outside of that, you know, that's kind of my thought is.

And then, you know, I'll bring one more tent for the food portion so we can kind of zip it up and, you know, keep some of the bugs out of it not the wildlife, of course, but um, yeah, and then, todd, you'll have your solo stove so we can, you know, do campfires and hang out and drink beer.

So bring your favorite beverage.

If you're coming and you're going to spend the evening hours, or even if you're coming for the day, feel free to bring your own beverage Drink responsibly.

Obviously, I'm not going to be policing folks, but you know, outside of that, you know we're going to have fun, hang out.

You know we may live stream from another channel, if you know we so feel led to.

You know, whatever I, you know, ultimately that's.

You know that that's kind of here nor there.

We'll figure that out, we'll definitely.

I I'm assuming somewhere along the line we might even live stream friday night just to hang out.

But if we don't, you know we'll, yeah, we'll all do something fun.

So, yeah, and we can I'll, I'll, I'll try and.

Uh, I'll try and source one of the propane hoses to go from like quick connect to you know, like your blackstone oh cool, oh yeah, cool, sweet.

Yeah, we'll use that for like breakfast, I mean.

So the menus, if you haven't read the website Tuesday, saturday for us, friday night, we're gonna.

You know, if you're coming to hang out and you're coming friday night, uh, reach out to us.

I already got a list of folks that are coming.

We're gonna do food, so you know we might do steaks and you know beers or whatever.

We'll figure out that menu, but that's just beers and steaks steak and beer whiskey and beer whiskey and steak is, I think, is what we call I'll make my, uh, I'll make some tips, stuff, okay, yeah we'll put together kind of a potluck stuff for everybody.

There's going to be the evening hours and you know, I know bob coughs coming in uh, you know, earlier in the week and mike as well.

So you know we'll make runs to wherever we need to go to grab other stuff.

So you know, don't worry about that.

Um, but you know, if you got questions, reach out to me and I think there's a coordinate I think there's a nice little breakfast place right in town well, we don't even have to do.

I mean, so we're gonna get up that morning and I'm figuring we're gonna have to run out anyway.

So yeah, we can all probably go out and get breakfast and then do all of the stuff we need to do.

And if paul's gonna be jumping, you know we'll have to coordinate whatever we have to do for him getting that ready.

So we'll have all of our hts and we'll uh put a, an apb, out to the rest of the world so they know he's jumping with a, and then people will start rolling in, probably around 10, 30, 11, 12, whatever um setting up, and then we'll have our stationery ready to go and we'll just, we'll kick it off ourselves to start it off, I guess, and then we'll hopefully, as you come in, we'll have stuff going on.

You can participate, hang out, you know there's lake stuff, hiking, whatever to keep you busy.

If you're, you know, so inclined, then part of the menu stuff that people are paying into is we'll order a shit ton of pizzas for lunch with a bunch of different stuff to go with it, and then Saturday night, you'd have it like a Uber eats.

The dude show up you know how much that would run cost-wise.

So I'm going to run out and get pizzas, right, and then, yeah, it would be insane.

And then I'll probably go out a little bit later in the afternoon to go pick up the barbecue um, because it will save us some money and not having them delivered to greenfield and then that'll be barbecue that night with a whole bunch of fixings and stuff, and and then, uh, yeah, it was hanging out doing the thing and and then get up saturday morning it'll be just like a light breakfast kind of stuff.

So if you like your own breakfast things, bring whatever, and you know definitely coffee for sure.

And then get up saturday morning it'll be just like a light breakfast kind of stuff.

So if you like your own breakfast things, bring whatever, and you know be definitely coffee for sure.

And then that's what I'm saying.

I think there's.

I think right downtown is a little, we can just go get breakfast, like uh yeah yeah yeah, I want to get a couple little things.

I, I, I don't like to pay money to go out to eat, so I, I would much rather right.

We get a couple, you know two, three dozen eggs, a couple pounds of bacon, you know some hash browns, yeah we could just throw that shit on the blackstone.

If you want to cook it, I will make sure I pick it up, I guess.

I will cook it, I'll cook breakfast.

Alright, you guys are on the hook?

Then, yeah, I'll get hook.

Then I'll get all the eggs and the bacon and hash browns and we'll have that For Sunday morning and we should be good.

And then, yeah, hopefully we'll.

You know, if all the numbers are right, we should exceed A thousand contacts.

You know, and god Forbid, that the bands are shit, but you know, hopefully they'll be good.

It'll be a whiskey one LFH's first kilo before any of us get an individual kilo.

No, I got my own kilo.

I don't know about the rest of you guys, I got my own kilo.

I'm going to go, I'm going to try to work a kilo myself.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

That's all I keep hearing.

Todd is I keep gonna work a kilo.

We've got a kilo.

You're so damn close to a kilo, it's like you know all right, I got a kilo russell abbott then before.

Before the 24-hour photo yeah, you do.

If you're gonna lock that one in.

You're pretty close to that one too, right yeah, I'm uh like 350 away oh, so yeah, yeah, get back here and start cranking that shit up.

So, yeah, if you got any questions or heck, you want to come, uh, for the day, like I said, you know, please use the link that paul put down below um, and we'll make sure we get you locked in and there's still time so I don't have to get the last final numbers into the caterer and stuff like that until august 8th.

So if you think you're still on the fence and you want to still come, there's still slots open.

Um, you know, you can come for the weekend, you can come for the day.

What kind of food are we getting?

Barbecue from a place called my gosh.

I forgot the name of the place.

It's a your mom I knew it was coming.

There's a barbecue place, a barbecue truck, over in Derry that Me and my wife checked out a long time ago, a couple months ago, and it was really good barbecue.

It's going to be like ribs.

Yeah, it'll be ribs, chicken, brisket, macaroni and cheese cold slaw.

Is it up in your grill?

No, not that one.

I know the owner of up in your grill.

No, no, not that one okay, because I know the owner of up in your grill I do too.

Yeah, I, his daughter and my daughter went to high school, so, um, yeah, very good friends with the um.

I didn't forget her last name.

It begins with a d, but anyway, yeah, I know what you're talking about.

Yeah, I had him cater my son's baseball college when, I came up he brought up baseball before me, I know.

Note that.

On this date July 30th 2025.

Ah, you stupid OBS.

Anyway, todd's baseball story time.

There's nothing else with that.

So, yeah, so back to uh, just kind of stuff.

So yeah, just get a hold of us, fill in those forms and we'll make sure we get you on there.

Um, if you are a vendor and you happen to be listening, which I don't know, if we have a lot of, I know matt is uh, oh, I forgot two things.

So we're gonna be giving a lot of cool stuff away.

I'm still working on that list, still talking to folks.

Uh, there'll be giveaways and tenant giveaways There'll be, you know, t-shirts and the whole crap ton of stuff.

Um, throughout the whole entire 24 hours.

So if you want to get on that, you can be part of the live stream and we'll do giveaways from there.

Um and uh, which um and uh, which reminds me you're gonna work on that giveaway tool, because you, you know you'll be doing it via obs and whatever else, so you'll figure that piece out too as well.

Um, you're in your, your ballpark, and then the last piece is we're also doing a um, a give back thing, because we feel this is really cool.

We're all hanging out, so we are going to do a fundraiser for that 24 hours that we're running.

We're going to do a live fundraiser and I think paul's going to set a goal, or I don't know how kofi works, or kofi works.

Um, we can either do a goal or we can shoot a target yeah, we can do a goal okay and ultimately what?

all the money that we make from that is going a hundred percent to TI.

So we will cut it.

You know, basically a full check to a good game there and presented to him.

And you know, get that going because we, you know, we all believe in TI.

We've been, our club has been directly benefited from it.

You know, we have a teacher in our club who we sent to TI and he has come back totally freaking on fire, loving it, um, so looking, uh, to continue to support that.

So, yeah, we're gonna do a fundraiser.

So I'd love to be able to.

I don't know if we'll reach the levels of hrcc, but you know, hey, if we could hit a thousand bucks let's set the goal at five yeah, let's do five, and if we exceed that, that'd be awesome.

Five thousand, no five.

Yeah, okay, five.

You're going to go big, go big or go home.

No, 500 bucks Go big Go big or go home, Dude.

I set the goal at 1,000 for my beard.

Do you think I'm going to hit 1,000?

Maybe not, but if you don't dream big.

If you don't dream big, right, you got to have big ambitions.

So yeah, no, let's set it at 5,000, 5,000 for the teachers Institute.

Okay, all right, you heard it here, folks.

So we're going to try to raise 5,000 and you know, I would love it to see if we go way beyond that.

But yeah, we'll have that in the live stream.

So you know, pass the word around.

We are going to do a lot more once you know that in a live stream.

So you know, pass the word around.

We are going to do a lot more once you know we finally roll into the mid, uh, part of august of, uh, you know, marketing.

So those links will get out.

All of this stuff will start to come.

We'll put together a giveaway list of stuff so people know what kind is out there.

And you know we might throw in some zingers here and there and you know, heck, we may even have some surprise visitors who are willing to, you know, throw in some big stuff too as well.

And you know we're all working out those details, so we need it, if you're yeah, we also ray novak, you're invited yeah, listen, and, and those of you that are listening, let's, um, let's, start getting on iso's case to take the day off for the weekend and get his ass up here.

So he's got an excuse he needs to be, he needs to be here if he gets knocked up and becomes pregnant, that's you know, he'll be able to leave so, iso, if you're listening, watching, just take the day off.

It's not going to kill your retirement.

For one weekend to hang out with those guys from up north and see what we're really like, I think you'd have a good time yep, he would.

He knows he would.

That's his problem.

He's just afraid that he's going to come here and have such a great time that he's never going to want to leave, which, you know, we'll figure that out later when we cross that road.

But, uh, yeah, all good there.

So, yeah, that that's kind of the nutshell of what's going on.

I know people have been asking about 24-hour poda and all of that, uh, but, um, yeah, well, more details will definitely be coming out.

But that's you know what we're thinking, always interested in hearing your input.

So, heck, you want to.

You know, let us know what we think we should do.

We did talk a little bit about kind of the antenna setups.

I've got a big buddy hex that will be set up and we'll probably put a triplex around there with a bunch of bandpass filters.

So I know Matt from reliance antenna will be up there that weekend, so he's gonna bring some of his antennas and I think he's got a bunch of bandpass filters.

So I know matt from reliance antenna will be up there that weekend, so he's going to bring some of his antennas, um, and I think he's got a couple of cool things in the works.

So, uh, you know we actually might have, uh, vhf, uhf.

Well, we definitely have vhf and uhf there in terms of just regular fm.

So, you know we will make contacts that way, uh, to add to that list.

So, yeah, all all good, everybody wants to contribute.

You know we're shooting for the, you know the over the moon, uh, this weekend to see if we can, uh, you know, do some really cool stuff yeah, and it would be really cool if you know somebody like ray k exactly.

You know ray well, you know.

And you want to put a bugger to say, no, not you like our listeners.

There are somebody out there that might be good friends with ray.

You know I don you want to put a bug in his ear to say, no, not you like our listeners.

There are somebody out there that might be good friends with Ray.

You know I don't know Ray well.

I know he was.

He got somewhere.

The guys over at what everyday ham.

They got an interview with him.

So you know he's obviously open for stuff if he wants to come by, you know maybe he's in the area his RV, tell him to pull it in.

We'll, you know, we'll give them a space.

You can come hang out with us.

Hey is, uh, I'll reach out.

I'll reach out to julie from photo power, because I I hear she's gonna be the end with ray, yeah, I would say even julie and von, like if you guys aren't doing anything that freaking weekend road trip come on road trip up this way.

You need to turn the new england states green.

This is your opportunity yeah, hey, um, yeah, that this is going to be yeah, the more the merrier.

I think it's going to be fun and, you know, hopefully this is works out as well as I hope it does and that it becomes like an annual thing.

I'd like to do it every year.

It'd be fun, but it could be a complete disaster.

The bands suck.

Everybody's like this sucks.

I don't think it'll be that bad.

If anything, it'll be.

You two will be like.

It'll be like two in the morning.

You guys will be so shit-faced and I'm going to be the only one up.

I have to stay up all night for keeping the thing going.

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So it's my prediction.

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If we do this yearly right.

Then that gives me a reason to come back to New Hampshire every year.

We're not good enough.

We'll never see Paul again.

If we don't do this.

Speaker 0 5th we're rearranging field day next year, so we're not doing it at the barn and you better have your ass up here, cause I gonna need somebody who knows how to operate all right, I guess, uh, yeah, I'll have to take a few weeks, a couple weeks off and I'll come up.

I'll come back up and yeah inconvenience.

You know yourself for a little bit, for a while, to come hang out with your buddies you don't want your accent to change I know right.

I don't want to hear any Southern draw bullshit.

Nothing, none of that at all.

How do my pole and you know y'all gonna, you're going to watch me jump You're done for Yep.

Yeah, you're done for Paul.

You're done.

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Wow, wow.

Oh man.

So oh cool.

Well, I don't know what anything else you guys want to chit chat about.

I mean, you know it's kind of sky's the limit, but I figured 24 hour.

poter is probably something on everybody's minds and I mean I'm I'm really psyched for me personally because I miss field day because of baseball and this is going to be like my opportunity to be hanging out with people and please don't blow your radio before that.

I'm going to test it.

Leave it in the box, do not touch it.

Leave it alone the day of we'll test it.

We'll test it on friday.

That way we know everything's plugged in the right way and you're not putting power through it and blowing the finals.

Yeah, all right.

So all good there, but yeah, I, I, I funny radio story is like I put my dx10 up on all the the boards and everything else like that, and then uh gave it to gary during field day and he didn't want it to buy it for me and I took it back and I'm like maybe I don't want to sell it.

And then guess where it's at in my equipment closet on the shelf for a long time.

And then we have a new ham in the club.

I don't know if you met Gary, right?

No, probably not.

I know Paul has it, but I know I don't know if you did or not.

Paul, todd, no, todd, no.

But uh, yeah, he was like, oh, he's been asking me questions and like he's a typical on fire ham wants to get on the air soon.

And I'm like he's like, oh, I noticed you happen to put on your on the, you know, g-ser, uh, you know for sale list that you were selling your radio.

I'm like man, I don't know if I want to sell my radio.

And he's like, oh, I'll pay you the 12.

You know 12, 50 for it, because you know I'm seeing the dx10s going for less than that now on a lot of the you know the spots.

And he's like I'll pay cash for it.

I'm like, all right, well then, you know I'll drive it up to you.

So I drove up to his house, dropped it off and, you know, say goodbye to it and then we talked antennas for 45 minutes to two hours straight, you know.

So he finally got on the air with it.

It's out in a new home and you know it's all good.

And, uh, you know I look at it as my dad has one.

So you know not that I'll inherit it later, but I will inherit it later.

You know my brother's not going to get his hands on that.

So you know I still have a dx10 your poor dad.

You're already like planning his demise see, I knew that when he's dead, when he's six feet under, I'll be grabbing that dx10 bag.

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Let me inform you, I'm actually the trustee on the.

You know the, the, the will and the house and everything, so I get to decide what gets divvied up.

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He is the only icon tried and true, so I don't think you'll ever see a DX10.

It is.

But I'll sell it for a fucking skydiving.

There'll be that stipulation in that he has to hold on to it forever.

It's like cars for kids.

Just everyone.

Just donate shit to Paul.

He'll sell it for skydiving.

Oh dude, I feel bad that.

Um was it.

Tim from our club somehow got roped into one of those estate sales from a ham and he has like five barns full of stuff and he's still going through it.

Tim like Tim, not Tim barns full of stuff and he's still going through it.

Tim like tim, not tim, not tim.

The other tim and our, our crew, uh, kc1w.

I can't remember his call sign, but he uh yeah him and ralph went to go empty out, uh, this old widow's guy's place, and I mean he showed me pictures and he had 35 pictures on his phone and that was only of two buildings and like ham equipment, of ham equipment, like, and I mean old stuff, new stuff sounds like he's like a ham hoarder?

oh yeah, he totally.

I mean there was, like you know, um twins and I'm trying to think of some other stuff a lot of old hammerlin equipment, receivers and the transceiver separate.

I mean this stuff is crazy.

Who's is it part?

Is it donated to the club?

No, no, he's doing this for the widow, so he's basically I'm like dude, you're going to go to understand you're an idiot.

You're going to be doing this for the next year and a half.

He needs to go to near fest and just freaking put the shit out there.

So if Paul comes in your fest, you know because I know he's got a couple of TS2000s.

You know two or three of them.

I'm looking to get rid of shit, so I was thinking maybe he could come to my house and take all my extra shit and go sell it for me you already have an in you know, tortoise said he'd do it for you yeah, but I feel bad because like did.

I get a lot of shit he'll sell it.

He's been through that before.

Yeah, no problem, he's all ready to go.

I've been talking to him a couple of times.

He's like, yeah, when's Paul coming back?

I'm like I don't know.

He'll be back soon, I'm sure, and he's got a laundry list of stuff for you.

He's like I know, I know I'll have to go over there.

Well, and not only that, but I also have two trailers I gotta get rid of two trailer.

Trailers like enclosed, yeah, or no, I need it, I need a trailer.

There you go, one's, uh, one's a 6x12 and the other is, I think, 8x16 or 8x14 I need one for my, uh, my ranger.

There you go which one would fit the Ranger.

Seriously, I'll buy one of those.

Are they in good shape?

Well, so the smaller of the two is going to be an axle, so I mean, it'd be great for a yard trailer.

Yeah, I don't need that, but if you're towing it down the road like it just eats up tires, that's all.

What about the other one?

The other one's freaking Dude.

I bought it last year to haul my ATVs.

It's mint, I just never registered it.

I'll buy it.

I was going to buy one.

I keep procrastinating to do it, but I really need one, so yeah.

Well, I bought it for $900.

So I'll sell it to you for $750.

All right, deal, all right, cool, yeah.

So when you come up, we'll just do it.

Yeah, it's nice.

I I put a.

Uh, put a little toolbox in the front so that I could, uh, I could, store my, my folding ramp behind the toolbox.

Um, does it have a does?

it have a ramp like a thing in the back to drive up the stuff.

Yeah, it sure does and it'll fit sure does.

All right, done deal.

If you need the money ahead of time, I'm for jumping.

I'll give it to you ahead of time.

No, no, whenever you need, I'll be home, I'll be home, and I'll be home in three weeks I know, but if you need money to jump or you're in a jam, I'll just venmo.

Do you have venmo apple pay?

He doesn't have Apple.

Yeah, I'll just Venmo it to you.

I don't do Apple.

You'll never have Apple pay.

You'll only get my money if it's Apple cash.

Dude, listen to this.

So I'm like.

I gotta get rid of my ATV too, and I fucking hate it because the ATV that I bought is exactly the ATV that I wanted.

Yeah, so it's.

The ATV that I bought is exactly the ATV that I wanted.

Yeah, so it's an 07 Yamaha Grizzly 7700 with power steering and everything.

Dude, it is fucking got the full back seat with the storage and everything.

Yeah, and it sucks.

But like, what am I going to do?

I'm going to throw it in the fucking bed of my truck and I'm gonna haul it around the country with me are you allowed to like have a trailer on a camper, on a truck?

like a double you'd be surprised dude there's a trailer hanging off the back of the camper right.

Just tell them, it's your toy hauler.

Like it's this is, it came with it.

It's your toy hauler.

Like it's this, it came with it, it's a toy hauler oh man, well at that point you might as well just get a diesel pusher and then put a trailer off the back of that and tow in your truck.

Yeah, and have your truck tow the trailer no, yeah, might as well get a kenworth yeah, pretty much.

Yeah, dude.

Yeah, that would be too much.

You know what you gotta you know what you gotta do is you just gotta.

You gotta figure out like all and just freaking, have like a huge, call it like a minor estate sale, fire and just put it all in one place and just be like come and get it, people will buy.

People come like when I did uh, we did a.

I did a one time a garage sale which is shit, like junk, right, like not even like nice stuff, like you're getting away, you're getting trying to get rid of your good stuff.

This was just shit.

And before the thing even started, the dude's like all of it, I'm like done and everyone showed up.

They're like where is it, my god?

some guy came and bought it all like he was one of those like, uh, I don't know, he's probably like a, one of those, uh, junk collector guys that resell stuff.

Well, good, todd, so when I get home you get in touch with that guy, right?

Because?

So my back now listen, right?

So my man room, right, I've got a low seat with reclining gliders.

I mean, it was my father's day gift but I can't fucking take it in the RV with me.

I got a big entertainment center.

I got a 48-inch TV.

I got two giant tool chests one's a 56-inch, one's a 48 Once a 56 inch, once a 48 inch.

Uh, you know, I got all kinds of stuff that, like, I just can't take with me.

So what you got to do is you got to get pictures of it and what you want for, and I'll post the shit on marketplace and then I'll just sell it right from your house.

If your wife doesn't care, I mean I'd be like doesn't care.

I mean I'd be like meet me here and then I'll just sell it and then I'd just send you the cash trust me, if he can't do it, his wife can do it.

I can't tell you how many times she's sold some weird shit.

Yeah, diane's really good at getting shit fucking sold on marketplace, like really good.

I mean, look at, I sold Zach's electric no, his gas motorcycle that had.

It blew the, the engine was done, it had no compression and some dude paid what the rings are toast he paid $150 for it.

I was like shit, yeah, cause that's a steal, cause all you gotta do is fucking throw new rings in it, and you're good, dude, I paid.

We see how.

Todd tries to reassemble electric bikes.

Yeah, imagine trying to do a cylinder head.

Yeah, dude.

I paid 600 bucks for it and I got 150 bucks for it.

He he wrote it for a year.

It was good for all of us.

Trust me yeah, I do, trust me, I have to say the same things, like stupid headlights and stuff like that.

I just yeah, paul, if you need me I mean I seriously you take the pictures and what it is and show me where it is and I'll work on selling it.

I'll just, I'll just yeah, Cause, like I mean, so I got my, my alpha.

Uh, what is it?

Uh, three 74 amplifier.

It's an old school tube amp, but it fucking works.

Amazing, it runs on 220.

I can't run 220 in the in the rv right.

I dare you to see how fast the uh you know out one contact you know, I got.

I got my old uh full limit manual heath kit tuner I.

I got a whole bunch of 10 tech radios I I yeah, I have a whole bunch of radio shit, but then I've got a whole bunch of not radio shit I I just got a lot of stuff that I gotta get rid of like the radio shit and stuff like that.

I like I said I can always throw that in my trailer you know enclosed trailer and then when near fest rolls around, whether you're still up here or you know, um tortoise goes, I'll just basically drop it off to him and he can sell it for you and give you the cash for whatever he makes off of it.

That man can sell sand to an Arab, but or you can trade it for you know ice to an Eskimo oh man, no.

Well, you know, and who knows, maybe we'll have an auction.

We can do an auction of one of our live things.

Fundraiser for the grouch on our live stream and we'll auction off stuff.

Yeah, with the stipulation you pick up, we're not shipping.

We're not shipping shit that amplifier.

If you drive, if you have to drive over 50 miles, we'll do a podo with you as a bonus you heard it here I mean, come on, most people that probably listen to us live in new england, right, why wouldn't they?

They saw something that was cool they wanted, why wouldn't they drive up here to get it?

right, oh, dude, makes sense.

You know some people just an idea, they makes sense, they'll go outside the box.

Hey, going once, going twice, sold to n1j you are.

Oh god, come on, it would be fun what will he do next?

Well, it's definitely getting late.

I haven't had dinner and I gotta get up at 5 30, so uh yeah, well, enjoy your uh antenna build there.

I you know I missed.

I was gonna go long story short.

I have uh usually on wednesday nights.

Every other wednesday I do.

Jason's got a um like a a networking group together that we all get together and talk YouTube stuff, how to make our channels better.

I'm way late for that.

Forget about going to that now.

Oh well, good of you for getting invited to that.

He threw it out.

There you were on the list Did.

I'm not on the list.

I am not cool enough.

I'm definitely not on the list.

No, so he threw it out to his mail list, like you know, the one that he's on the IO Groups, one You're on that I know you are.

Yeah, you are, because I made sure that I put you and Todd on both of those lists.

So unless he's knocked you off again, I'll go back and look at those lists.

He's very like who's this?

Todd guy?

I never know this guy.

I would say that's correct with Todd, but he knows who the grouch is.

I'm not on the list.

Okay, all right, well, anyway.

Yeah, I've missed two of them already, so it's like the third one's struck out.

So I don't know.

Usually, like I said, it's in Wednesdays because a certain kid's table couldn't do it earlier, so it's like at nine 30 at night, eastern standard time.

I'm like, oh great, that's fun.

Like I want to be there for an hour and a half two hours going to midnight instead of earlier.

But whatever, I'm not complaining, you won't hear me give it, but anyway, all right.

Well, let's wrap this stuff up here, guys.

So, yeah, that's 24 hours, hopefully.

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So I am looking so much to actually meeting new people and getting names to faces and call signs and all that stuff.

So it's going to be a blast.

Can't wait to meet Mike, I feel like I've known him forever.

I've never met him in person.

Close.

But we were a week off at the same park.

But yeah, it's going to be cool.

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