The Ham Radio two point zero audio podcast rip. Thank you for downloading and listening to this podcast. So basically what I do is I take all the audio clips out of my videos and upload them to spreaker, and then from there they're spread out to iTunes and SoundCloud and now Amazon Audible as well. But I want to welcome you and thank you for joining the audio section of
this series on Ham Radio. I hope you enjoy it, and I would appreciate you leaving us a comment or a review on whatever podcast service you're listening from. Thank you. In seventy three, I hope you enjoy it. And I show twelve oh one in Texas, Good afternoon transition over here. So we're doing an inception stream and a stream right now. So Frank Frank is still live at is he? Oh? No? Oh, maybe he just ended it and he went to my stream. Okay, thank you,
Frank, Thank you, Frank. Appreciate that. Yeah, Frank was. I think he's still at the park, though he might have ended his stream. Uh, let's switch over there. I'm gonna talk about that in a minute. Fourteen dot three oh seven. Frank is on fourteen dot three seven twenty meters and he's activating a park. Happy Independence Day to everybody. Special shout out to all the folks in green text in the chat YouTube channel supporters. Appreciate you guys. Uh, y'all support A C three I k W
zero r HP k O four puu KQ four h x Q Michael. Good to see you in there. Let's see I got a zero am Andy w w NA got KR five e K seven t r D. Appreciate you guys being in there. Scott Ham Radio for Nan Techi is if you would like to join the stream today, Buddy um same zoom link as always, you're welcome to join us. So, and uh, I got a couple of people popping in there here in just a second. So I am going to I'm going to read something and then Kyle, you're in the background, I
bring you in a minute. I'm gonna read something, and then we're gonna bring on a couple of people. I think I think Frank will be in here in a minute, So you guys bear with me for a second. So happy fourth of July. All of those in the USA. We certainly welcome all of those outside of the USA in this stream as well, So thank you. For the d X if you're in the chat right now outside of the USA. So I always like to do that, but I usually
read some sort of blog post from from this website. I follow that I'm on their email list, either on the fourth or sometimes on Veterans Day, sometimes on Memorial Day, this kind of thing. But this came across my email pretty early this morning, and it's something I was like, you know what, I'm gonna read that today. So that's just how it is. You're on my stream and you got to listen to me, So sorry about that. This is um a bit historical and about the Constitution. I don't
want to get political. IM not going to talk about really politics or anything current affairs. This is kind of how a little bit of history about a little a very little bit of history about how the country was founded. So our cause is noble. It is the cause of mankind, which is a quote from George Washington. Everybody's going to ask for that link here in a second. So there it is honor, justice, and humanity. Forbid us
tamely to sur render that freedom which we receive from our gallant ancestors. They talk so eloquently in the seventeen hundreds which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us, in other words, our children. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to the wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basically entail hereditary bondage upon them, in other words, bondage of repressive
governments. Which read the Declaration of Independence and everything it says about King George, if you want some reference on that, that was a quote from Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of taking up Arms in seventeen seventy five. We hold this is a quote from the Declaration of Independence itself. We hold these truths to be self evident. That all men are created equal. In the parlance of those times, men means mankind. So men
and women are created equal. That's read the entirety of the Declaration of Independence. I believe that to be true. They are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable human rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. In other words, the government derives its powers from the people. That's the way the declaration of
Independence and the Constitution is written. On July third, the day before the continent of Condrasus affirmed our declaration of independence, as noted in my column. This is the author of this blog post, writing right now Independence Day and our legacy of liberty. John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that the fourth of July ought to be commemorate quote ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance from solemn acts of devotion of God to God Almighty. He continued,
start quote again. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shoes shws. I don't know what that is, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward and forevermore yet, bonfire, fireworks, guns, celebration. That is what today is about, about the celebration of the founding of this country and the declaration of independence of this country. The defensive liberty
requires eternal villigence. Shortly after the Patriots Day battles of Electington Concord, fifteen months earlier John Adams second cousin, Samuel Adams. Hey there's a name. Samuel Adams declared, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and defeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the way the same, totally change the same when their protection, safety, and prosperity
and happiness require it. In other words, they have the right to make changes to govern themselves, and have the right to make changes to those rules they set for themselves on those who would not rise to defend the arm Adams wrote, if we love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility or of servitude than the animating contest of freedom from go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posit posterity. Forget that you were,
that ye were our countrymen. That's important right there. On this day our nation celebrates independence, I invite you to read about the history of Independence day and the foundational unalienable rights of man. These are linked from this article that I just shared in the chat for a complete context of our nation's founding and the progress toward the fulfillmentive liberty enshrined in our Declaration of Constitution. Read
the Patriots Primer on American Liberty. Note that you can purchase it. Purchased this book and whatnot. Reflecting on the American Revolution in eighteen eighteen, this is a good quote here. John Adams observed, but what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? Question mark? The revolution was affected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of people, a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties
and obligations. This radical change in principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American revolutions. So, in other words, the human need for liberty and freedom, the American need for liberty and freedom, and thus it has remained in the hearts, in the minds and hearts of American patriots to this day. I probably end with this right here. As President Ronald Reagan warned, freedom is never more than one generation away from
extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed down for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's student what it once was like in the United States where men were free. To that end, we remain vigilant, strong, prepared, and faithful. So Happy Independence Day and never forget where this country came from. That is that is the thing. So all right, let's um, let's
start having some more fun here and get get these guys on here. Thank you for the super chats, Chrissy, two dollars super chat. Appreciate you being out there, and thank you for the super chat. Steve, Steve uh same same um zoom link as always, if you would like to join us, you are more than welcome. Which one's left and right on this thing? Okay, all right, we're on Jason's dream. I'm gonna you are now you are Now. That's a heck of a background you got there,
Scott. Oh yeah, y'all can't hear me, but the stream can. So yes, you're you're you're live now, guys. Sorry I had zoom muted so you didn't have to listen to me. What's up, y'all? Hey, what's happen? Happy fourth to everybody's that's a great background you got there, Scott, Thank you. Yeah, Kyle's in another world, but you're in the Usa s I try to fit the motif of the event. Jason. Yes, you don't understand. We claim the moon. That's that's stays property. That is true. Yeah, I'm going to agree.
Our flag flew there first, right, that is this is very true. This is ours, This is ours. That's right. We got no video from me, Jason, but let me fix that real quick. Okay, I'm not showing myself on doing another video on my livestream. All the audience can can see it, so but you should be able to see me now. Yeah. Cool? So Wayne, thanks for being out there, buddy, Wayne Dassie. He's uh, he's one of the guys who taught the
extra class that's on the channel from the North Uster Hills Club. That's just a little bit over that way. New channel member or a new Patreon number, I should say, so, thanks for being out there, Wayne, appreciate that, Steve says I would, But I'm on my way home from Poda. I guess Frank podas harder than Steve does, because Frank's on Poda right now and he's on the zoom stream. What am I doing right now?
FTA? Are you doing? Okay? So, when when I first went live, I I did a picture in picture with you, Frank, and I was like, y'all go to fourteen, got three oh seven, and then you ended the stream and I'm like, oh, uh so I was gonna I was gonna try to get people to work here, But how many did you get? What are you seven? I'm bad an out bad. Oh that's really good. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's really good. Well I sat here and I and and and I got you.
But you were like, way, I heard that station. I heard you go back to that station from Bedford. I see I couldn't hear him. Yeah, yeah, I know, yeah, I know who Greg is. Um, I couldn't hear him, but I well, I couldn't hear him on my radio, but I heard him on your stream, and I'm like, no, uh so let me try. And then I heard myself on your stream. But man, I couldn't hear you on the radio at all. So um and with the thirty second delay, I didn't hear you.
Ask me what about my stream? So oh, okay, yeah I could. I could hear you, but you were so far down in the noise I couldn't tell what you were saying. The only reason I knew it was used because you had you, I had you on the stream, so but that was but that that was okay. Yeah. So I'm Colin c Q right now on FTA twenty ft eight at the party. Yeah yeah, good, y'all go find him. So I got Kyle this so interest you as
I was hunting, as I was watching Frank stream. Just in the last thirty to forty five minutes, I worked five thirteen Colony stations on twenty meters side band nice. I just I just started tuning up and down the band. I heard some I heard a couple of them calling. I just went back to him and most of them I got on the first run the Kilo two um which one was it? Kilo two kilo in New Hampshire. I went back to him several times. He never came back to me, so
I couldn't make contact with him. But got I got Bravo, Echo, Foxtrot, Juliet and Mike. You're almost half the Yeah, yeah, I got two stations this morning. I'm doing that at Poda. Yeah. What I was just before I started going live, I was just bumbling around the bands like you do, and I stumbled across them. I was like, oh, good. Yeah, well, um, let's see where did it go? There? It is right there. So this is the thirteen Colonies event. This is a seven day event for those who don't know. This
is a seven day special event July first to the seventh every year. And there's K two Alpha through K two Mike, and then there's three bonus stations and if you get all thirteen of the of the original thirteen colonies, you can submit for a like a certificate that hangs on your wall, which is pretty cool. So but Kyle, I know last year, Kyle, you did a clean so they call it a clean sweep if you get everything. You did a clean sweep last year on three different modes. If I'm not
mistaken, I did. Yeah, I went all out and just like I'm gonna I'm gonna get a clean sweep on CW, single sideband and digital and like the last day, I think I got the France station on FT eight or something and that was my one station that was I couldn't get and I saw them. No, actually it was on CW. I'm sorry, it
was on CW. So I had him. I had him spotted on the our Hamm alert on the reverse beacon network, and like last day, four hours before the contest was supposed to be are the event was supposed to end, got them. So it must be nice to have a superstation. Well, it's nice to have a superstation when you have power to the superstation. Well yeah, yeah, when you say superstation, it's not just a really
tall antenna, but power is usually assumed. You need power to run radios, to run remote stations, to power the towers to get the signal out. Definitely, very true, very true. As we talked, we talked bad about Steve long enough, he'll finally join. So what's up Man? Oh well, oh no, well you got the poor poor cell signal, but you're in there. Thanks for joining. Man uh forty five says he only has five, but he managed to get TM thirteen col. I don't
think that. Uh. I don't think I've ever worked. I think the only special event or I'm sorry, the only bonus station I've worked and all the years I've done this was, Um, what are they? What are the three special events or three bonus stations? Uh? You made four thirteen colonies? Yeah? Uh WM WM three pen yeah, GB thirteen col and TM thirteen. I don't think I've ever worked in those two overseas ones.
I've done wm M three PEN a few times, but I don't think i've ever worked h the France, the English and the stations now so groups. So I just realized I'm calling KM five tr Well, if if Noel created an account, then upload that stuff. But I'm just going to change my CALLI give the club to give the clubs some credit because you'll get credit for it too. True, it's it's kind of to be, Frank, a pain in the butt to um to do that, because you got it.
I just got an alert saying CAN five trs on twenty fifty eight. It's my bad, my bad. No, No, you're good man, Frank, summit the log. I'll upload it, I'll do it, I'll get it done. I know how to do things. I'm like one of the two. So submitting a podolog has to be one of the easiest tasks to do in amateur radio nowadays. Yes, it's it's easier than setting up your radio for FTA. Can you not, Well, there's only one there, um, the club, the officer of the the trustee of the call sign
has to submit. Is that correct? Okay, that's great. Yeah, ok yeah, okay, So doesn't that seem annoying for large clubs with um the the Wee four Adventures Ueah, because they when you sign up for that that role, you gotta assume that responsibility. That's right, that's right. Yeah. What's his name is? It? Is it Kentucky Fried Chris or whatever his name isn't discord? I think he's something like that. He's the
guy. Hum. Yeah, it's it's like whenever you you sign up to be a secretary or treasurer for a club and you're just like, I don't want to do anything with numbers, and you're just like, wait a minute, that's your job. Yeah, hold on, Carlos Is send me a message. Get him up, says, get him get get him live being jumped to our shooting himself out of a plane, right, he says,
uh, he just he just replied to me. Um, and he says, if you're going along, I'm hoping to do a radio jump in about an hour, so presumably that means around like one pm, uh Texas time, which would be eighteen hundred UTC. So we'll see, we'll yeah, and we'll probably go till then. But I just invited I was like, hey, joined the zoom and announce it. If you like he should, he should stream it live him jumping out of a plane. Actually somebody launching
him out of a plane. How about that? Yeah? I better yet, put him in like a Roman candle tube and shoot him out of a plane. Oh yes, do that with some fireworks, Meerica, So yeah, absolutely do that. Can you imagine Carlos being shot out of a cannible any jackass? And yeah, and he's wearing and he needs to wear like the um the Uncle Sam outfit like Apolo creed Ward in the Rocky movies. Like this for a fundraiser. You have a raffle, have a raffle,
and whoever who are wins gets to kick him out of the plane. That's awesome. That's what we said. Uh, I am committing my full tank radio funds behind the idea. I have all of three dollars. Yeah. Okay, So if Carlos comes on, we have we have a challenge for him for next year fourth of July. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's yeah, that's uh yeah, we got a whole year to plan that. I guess that'd be good, that'd be nice. It was. It was Okay, I just yeah, a lot of a lot of talk in the
chat about thirteen Colonies. Yeah, so I would like I did not get a clean sweep last year. I missed it by like two. I think I would love to get a clean sweep again. I got a clean squeep a couple of years ago. But me being me, and I'd never see. You have to get a clean sweep to get the certificate, I believe. So I think you can do individual QSL cards to all the individual stations and they'll send you a QSL card for that special event station individually. I
believe. I believe that's true if I'm not mistaken. Okay, all right, so, but yeah, to get the actual thirteen Colonies special Event certificate, which is like an eight and a half by eleven sheet of paper, like you know, like when you submit to a log Book of the World for worked All States or whatever other awards you get, they come in that size so you can hang it on your wall in that way. But yeah, you can. You can get individual QSL cards for all the stations,
but to get everything, you have to get the thirteen Colonies. You don't have to get the three bonus stations. But most people try to do that also, So I would just like to get the thirteen the thirteen colonies myself. But I think the I think the bone are the three outside of the United States. I think that their bonus station, so correct. I think that you can get it two or is it two or three because whiskey mic three pen is inside of the United States. Yeah, that's true, that's
true. I don't know. So, hey, truth, I haven't looked in the rules in a while. Let's take it a look, um clean sweep. Oh who cares? Yeah, I've already lost interest, are you? Are you particularly last year and it was just just thirteen and the W three pen so they gave me the ship. Get off of that, right. I thought you just needed that. I thought you just needed the thirteen
and not any of the bonus station. Now Blake in the chat is saying the according in thirteen Colonies website, you do not have to get all thirteen to get a certificate. So yeah, I don't, I don't. I wonder if the certificate differs then, but hey, we're all about participation of participation trophies apparently, so yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the thing. But it's a fun event. It's a it's a really fun event. Um. I wish that I had a better antenna set up so I could I
wish I had my hex beam set up so that I could point. In fact, I was gonna say I was gonna set up the buddy hecks this week, and it was so easy to get these five. I'm on my on my dipole just now. I'm just like, maybe I'll just keep going with this. I don't know, um, but we'll see. Yeah. On the certificate page, it says how to get your certificate, and it
basically, you know, outlines how to how to grab the certificate. But it doesn't say anything about the qualifications for a certificate, doesn't say anything about it. Maybe you just need to participate in the event. Maybe it is a participation thing, but hey, we've all gone light. It's if you show up, you get a participation trophy. You win, right, all right? Yeah, so you know what the most important thing is to take when you're on a long activation. What's that? Water? Much? Oh?
Much? Yeah? Much? Yeah? Uh okay, all right, so yeah, James, James confirms what you said for Kyle. You don't have to get a clean sweep but yeah, but I wonder if I wonder if there's is there a different certificate for clean sweep? There certainly should be, I agree, I mean, where's the merit in actually trying? And you know correct, it's like, oh I turned on the radio and listen to a bunch of static. I get a certificate, right, right?
Yeah? Correct? Correct? Rewarded. What's up, Mike? What's going on? Many knew Year? Happy four Happy, Happy Freedom Day. I can't believe it. Yeah, Happy Independence Day. We're halfway. We're halfway down with the year already, no doubt. Yeah, don't say this. It's like it's like five to six weeks until Huntsville. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like just over a month until Huntsville. So that's
gonna be fun. That's gonna be fun. But yeah, by the way, Frank, I haven't told you this yet, but since you kind of like, uh, didn't tell me your plans until last minute for Dayton, Uh, I gave away your seat to Huntsville this year, so what Yeah, what do you mean gave away my seat to Huntsville. I gave away your seat to Huntsville in the truck so you can ride home with us. If you want my wife. Oh boy, I can't say anything that. Yeah, no you can't. I know, No, you can't anything.
So now, Frank, how are you gonna get to hunts so well, last time he flew Last time, he rode out there with this in fluent. So if you just do the if you just do, you're fine. Frank. Oh I lost audio. Oh you lost your seat too. Yeah, there we go, there we go. Um yeah, yeah, I will concede my seat to her. Now, last year you, if I remember correctly, Frank, last year you rode out with us and flew home. So if you just do the opposite of that this year, you should
be good. On the way back, she f she's flying home on Saturday. Huh, gotcha. Now it's go back. Do anything. We're not gonna podo. No, this is Huntsville. We will do the trip in one day to get there. We're gonna leave early in the morning, which is what we did last year. We'll leave early in the morning and we'll and it's about a ten hour drive with no with without pulling a trailer. So you know, it's probably eleven twelve hours total with stops, pulling trailer.
Blah blah, blah, definitely, so you always say that, but always right, No you're not. You weren't right last time. But uh, okay, but um, it is I mean it is long, it's it's actually I think it's like ten and a half hours with no stops according to Google Maps, so I usually add one to two hours something like that. But um, but I have the campsite reserved Wednesday night through I don't
remember if I reserved it Sunday. I think I did. I think I reserved it through Sunday night so that we didn't have to check out at ten am Sunday morning. Yeah, we will probably, yeah, we will. Probably we'll go. We'll drive out during one day. We'll be there Wednesday evening night sometime, and then we will probably leave Sunday afternoon something like that and drive about halfway back and stay somewhere Sunday night. Which, yeah,
we don't have to wait this year. This year. I'm sorry. Last year we had to wait because I dropped the trailer off at that place I bought it in Huntsville on Monday morning. We don't have to do that this year. So but yeah, so Mark from Better Safe Radios in the chat, which that's a that's a good lead in because I was about to talk about your stuff anyway, Mark, So let me get over to that screen. So today and today only, you can get between five and twenty dollars
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share. But yeah, just be Yeah, it's today and today only, so if you if you go out there and see something and wait till tomorrow, you're not gonna get it. Just DEPITYI So right there, Okay, just share the link in the chat. So click on that link in the chat, go check it out, and uh see what? And his radios are really cool because they're all they all come prepro well most of them come pre programmed. And if you're a new Ham, very very beneficial information.
Frank, what are you doing? Is there a cat down there? Or something. He's franking. He's say, yeah, they're quitting. No CBD pop tarts, Carlos. What's what's up, buddy? How you doing, Jason? Good to see everybody. Happy Independence Day everyone, totally so. So tell us what you're doing today, Bud. I am on a sixty one minute call. The plane takes off in sixteen one minutes. I'm gonna
spend the afternoon doing parachute mobile jumps. I'm starting on twenty meters, hoping to get some of the oddball bands in as well, but at the very least, I'm starting on twenty fourteen two five nine. Right now looks open everywhere, So that's what I'm sticking with for this jump. So if you are Jonesy for q SOO parachute mobile, I'm in about seventy five minutes, eighty minutes or so. I'll be on the air. Nice, very cool. Okay, you said two five nine fourteen two five nine. I've checked
six different webst drs and I found them free, found it open. I should say, you know the wild Net's gonna gonna Yeah, the wild net will find you over there. That's their that's their their auxiliary frequencies. Yeah, they have like seventeen backup frequencies in case they don't. I am at the drop Stone this weekend. I've been there. I've been here since Friday
afternoon. It's been fantastic. Nice. Frank knows the feeling. I I think that a couple of you will know the feeling of skydiving sooner or later. I hope you do anyhow, because no, no, no, yeah, no cows, no cash. We don't play that. Yeah the d So are you are you planning to jump at Huntsville again this year? Carlos?
That is saying that's the plan, right, So, assuming weather works for us, I plan to make at least a jump or several if if if we can manage it, get some Cuso's parashing mobile at Huntsville as well. Good good, so cool man, Well, good luck to you. Thanks for joining and letting us know about that. Thanks for thanks for the invite. I'll stick her out for a couple of minutes and then I'll have
to get out of here. Second, get my gear ready. Sure, absolutely, Carlos, um let's reach out to me and if I can't tag along again, I will awesome, you know I'm not I'm not sitting like the passenger seat of the plane and just kind of film you guys jumping. Yeah, we can do that, and then uh and then just you know, land like the person would do every time. I don't know. I love being in play. I love plane rides. So yeah, no no problem there. But this guy is not coming back to me. I've been
giving him a signal report for the last two minutes. It happens somebody in the chat said your time was off by like two seconds. You might need to sink your time. I love the random frank comments just out out in the blood will and the in the column that says DT and in the left window. Yeah, that's that's your Like, I just say it means drift time. I have no idea what it actually means. But you want that to be as close as zero as possible. And do you have time synchronization
program? I just run that. Yeah, that's what I do. Run that app in the background. Yeah, I just right click the time and hit sinc time. It works if you're connected to the end. Yeah, dude, this guy go away. I'm sorry, I'm not hearing you. You're a hearing me. M that happens grabbing me mhm, Greg, I've never understood you didn't want to be grabbed. Well, you know it'll be more. Actually i've seen in a while good it's good good points. Yeah, you know, he's saying, Joe Brett, are you able to join
us in the zoom buddy? So let me pull up Joe Brett's channel. Joe Brett was in the chat earlier today, and he is those of you who care about such things, which which you should if you want to support your local YouTubers. Um, let's see, he was about seven or eight hundred watch hours, which you need four thousand watch hours and thousand subscribers to
become monetized on YouTube. Four thousand watch hours in the last three hundred and sixty five days, yes, and he's it like three nine nine so probably actually like like eighty watch hours. Actually they lowered it now, YouTube just lowered the standards for getting monetized. Oh really on regular videos or on shorts. Because the shorts on regular videos I believe it's five hundred now and like two thousand watch hours or something about it a couple of days ago. I
think that's just shorts. I think yeah, because Joe Brett was he showed showed us a screenshot this morning that he was still not monetized. But you know what else would help with that? If Joe Brett actually put out videos. Yeah, I mean I wasn't gonna go there, but yes, yeah, yeah, it always helps to actually make videos when you're on YouTube. Yeah, nine hours, he says, he has nine hours left to go, So leave. I will leave my laptop running on a playlist of Joe
Brett, yeah channel stuff. So yeah, you'll go help out, help out Joe Brett, because he's when he actually posts a video, they're they're they're pretty darn good, I think, so I'll come. He's got excellent audio and their medio with things hear we hear the rain in the background. Oh wait a minute, that's club Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, I mean he he does. I mean you have to give him credit. He does put out some videos more than others. So he's not he's not in every
weeker. But all right, he's got a he's got a playlist called past live streams. I'm just gonna let that go. Yeah, just let that go. Yeah, we are all right, gang. I My clock is ticking, so I'm gonna get my stuff ready. I might hop back in before I leave, but in the meantime, if I don't see you guys until later seven three, I hope everybody has a great Independence Day and anybody catch you guys on the air out there. Man, all right, all right, Bud, yeah, thanks, thanks, Carlos ye fourteen two five
nine. We'll be listening. That's right, yep. Make sure that parachute opens. Yeah, yeah. Packing is way more important than being on this stream, right right, yeah, all right. What I don't understand is how you can pack a parachute and it opens perfectly every single time. But whenever I pack, just string into my throw weight and out everywhere, Like I cannot pack that crap to save my life without a huge time. I can tell you how to do that. The weaver, yeah, red bag,
Yeah, I do I do, all right. I mean I do it in a figure eight and I pack it down in there, and yeah, I do it. I do it the way it's supposed to be. Donne my come on, I think Mike's got a video on that. Yeah, uh, it's in one of my view. I don't know if I made a video specifically on it. I probably did. Yeah, well, you made a video about winding coacts. I don't know if that's how young. No. For the for the the arborous throw line, you just kind
of do like the hang loose kind of thing. You wrap a figure eight and you just cram it. And I learned it from Thomas Witherspoon. That's where the credit goes. There's two thoughts on that. The first thought is, is your your figure eight mic that you wrap around and then you stick that in, and then you do another figure eight and stick that in. The second one is you just push it in to the throwbag and let it just form even or you know, naturally into the throwbag. That's how knots
form. Well, yeah, that's it. That's how I learned that off an arborist website. So I don't know. I have never had a tangle with the figure eight in my arborist throw line. I just use it the other day, in fact, to put up at home. Never never, nope, figure eight every time. What's up? Joe Brett also fellows how how how stuff? In Mississippi it's a little warm, probably not as warm as it is in Texas. But actually I think that the I think the
high here is only supposed to be like ninety four today. Yeah, it's not hot today, and so I'm looking at my my thermometer. It's only eighty eight and it's sixty nine percent humidity. Yeah, yeah, what is it? Scott? I was Oh that was Steve? Sorry? Yeah, yeah, what'd you say again? Ninety seven with one hundred percent humidity like one ten in North Carolina? How could it be a hundred percent humidity? It's not. I don't see it raining there. I was gonna say,
if it's one hundred percent humidity, it's raining right now. Pal. Yeah, it's not raining yet, but they're calling for it. Uh boy? Yeah? Too bright? Yeah, and he says too bright. That ain't no Joe Brett. Yeah, you see all you see when I keep the lights off when I'm on st Yeah, that's right. So that's what it looks like in there. Yeah, there's a second moon in that's that screen there. I gotta clean up one side. It just makes the other side
dirtier. So I just have to shift it around playing tetris. M h. Well, it's take a take a side now that you've got some light on. Is that an air condisher in the back? What's going on in that? H let me let me bring you up full screen here. Okay, we'll just pin what's going on? All right, So you got an air condisher and then you got a bunch of yellow pages in the back there, and then then you gotta what's what's the deal with the yellow pages?
That's a stack of tid radios, buddy, that's probably true, it is. Yeah, yeah, all right, FRS and g m r S boxes like thirty dollars worth of radios in there. Yeah that's right. Yeah, there's something on the floor too. I just didn't want to stack them anywhere. You gotta let going on there. Yeah, good for you. Yes, yes, it's always a project, all right, always a project. Good, thanks for joining man. Did you get the house cleaned? Yeah,
yeah, we got to. And then I thought I was gonna come out here to shack them, like all right, they got that done. And then she's like, let's take the dog to the trail and then play in the creek, and I'm like, okay, let's go. I told I told my wife what I had types to you in the in the discord. She thought that was funny. I had to tell her the backstory behind that because she was there at Huntsville last year, but not two years ago. So yeah, it was funny. I don't even think she Shirley likes
the peanut butter whiskey. I don't think she likes to start with oh, well, I'll put us that way. She sure didn't like it two years ago. Yeah. I think the only thing worse than that peanut butter whiskey is that that that mango gelapano whiskey that Frank Scott. Oh yeah, everboter whiskey is good, I got it. It's too good. Yeah, it's gross. It's uh, it was bad news. Two years ago. It was you've destroyed your taste buds by drinking too many IPAs with that hoppy stuff.
I actually, I actually have a pretty pretty well developed as palette, thank you, so do I actually, but everybody's palette is different though, there's no right or wrong. It's too sweet, it's gross. I'm gonna agree with Jason on the uh that that stuff. That that stuff that that one guy gave us last year, Mike, which was like a what was that flavored whiskey we got last year? That was too sweet? That almost
tastes like yeah, yeah it was, I can't remember. I can't remember what that was either, but thank Evan, thank you for the super chat. Buddy. Joe Brett puts out more videos than Mulson. Hey to shape. True, it's a great it's a great, um great statement there, pined that to the top of the chat. What one is one is above zero? Right, Yeah, that's true. It's all good. So Kyler, you do are you doing thirteen colonies this year? Well, I don't
have any damn radios to turn on. Come on, what happened to your radio? What happened to your flax? Well, it's the powers out at the contest station, because oh, that's why you make it out. So the actual, the actual physical ac powers out. Yeah, good old tree fell on the side of the house and that we've got all of our radios hid and took all the power out, and the radios weren't damaged though, well we don't know. I mean the and the towers are still standing,
and the towers still have antennas pointing in the right direction. So once with the power comes back on, we'll check out all the radios and antennas. The towers are still standing. The bad part, we just got word today that somebody was down there and the Neutral pulled out of the house, So that's gonna be a bigger issue. Getting that put back in the power to the transformers one thing, but then the Neutral pulled out of the house.
So I don't know what's going to go on if I can get on the A big there's a huge contest this weekend that we're not sure if we're gonna be get on the air. It's I A r U and that is a big, huge contest. M So SideBander CW what it's all modes? Well, it's single. Uh yeah, it's digital too. Yeah. I thought that they thought that I RU was like did a mode for this weekend and now it's all modes. So I don't know. We're gonna see. We'll see. But I'm gonna go out and do a Poda later today. I'm
gonna drive over to There's It's it's Poda and beer. Today we got a we got a bar called fast Eddies over and all and drink and then Poda. What a great name. Yeah, fast Eddies, Yeah, fast Eddies bon Air. It's got coldest beer and some of the cheapest food they've got, like Hamburge for two ninety nine They've got this thing called big elwood on a stick which is marinated uh beef tenderloin kebabs that are like six ninety nine. Oh it's great, it's awesome. M nice. Not like getting sauced
up and then getting on the air. Oh yeah, it just gave me an idea. Yeah yeah, I mean, you know, once you've done it on YouTube, getting on the air, it doesn't seem quite as you know, uh, detrimental to the future of your right right. I'm actually sorry nobody has started up Bourbon and Ham radios. Well hang on it, because I've posted this on Twitter, Like when when my friend Ryan and I go do podas, were always drinking one percent of the time on Sinco de
Mayo. We went out and we're like, he stopped drinking beer for a while. Um, so we're like, well, it's Sinco to mile, let's drink some margaritas. And I'm like, wait a minute, those are poda ritas. Yea. So here's the secret. You get like a like a tumbling like something like this, some kind of water bottle. Right,
you don't bring a cup because the rangers come by they see that. So we we had like three of these we had like um tequila, triple second, sweet and sour all separate, so we just mixed them there and then you pour it in a water bottle. So it's I mean, it's it's one hundred and five degrees out. Nobody's gonna suspect you of drinking a Poda rita out of a water bottle. So true my pro tip of the day. But they will now stream. But yeah, you're you're at thirteen steps.
Follow this channel for more activation activating Poda advice. See and I need to cup with the actual recipe for the Podo rita makes some kind of efficient drink. Oh, it was top shelf. It was we were using uh uh shoot what something really nice tequila? And then I forget the brand. Um wasn't Triple sack it was. It was like Grand Marnier. I think we were using for triple sack um and then some really nice uh sour mix. Not just like the bartender's plastic. It was in like a glass freaking
jar of sweet and starment. Dude. They were they were why don't why don't you make a video of that? The Kadi m r D Podo Rita MHAs good. Nay, I will maybe should Maybe I will matter, Mike. I mean, Matt twelve volte cooler gets so much use just because of Poda. Speaking of that, Mike, did you end up with a with a power cable of mine? Negative? Because I'm missing a my AC power cable to my the fridge that looks like yours, and it was underneath your
cables. It was underneath that bag of cookies that was yours inside of my fridge, and now it's gone. I had already asked in the chat if someone else took it. Nobody. I have my UH Walward adapter and I have my uh the other cable that came with it that I have. Somebody took it because I've got I've got one. I've got my man. I mean, it looks like a power cable. Maybe you ate it with the
cookies I have. I have the one I have the I have the one that came with the UH cigarette lighter cable that I put power poles on. So I have and that that's the one that I ran the fridge on all weekend. But inside of the fridge was a AC cable and it now it's gone. It disappeared over the weekend, So it's probably you can probably get
those on Amazon. It's probably not a big deal. But somebody, you store your cable is exactly the way I store mine, because I kept the AC thing in my cooler right and then when I ran out of battery when we when we hooked it up to the UH the eco flow, I was using my UH yeah well, and and my my ice I had two fridges
there. My ice co had cables in it as well, and those are still there, but the one from that bang good fridge is missing, so somebody, somebody took it because it was there when we got there, So it's probably just shir it'll show up. It's probably it's probably next to that jumper cable you accused me of take, and now that thing's going, it's probably sitting in the camper. You should make a list. I didn't use it that weekend, so I don't know how it would have gotten taken out
of the cooler. So someone else had to have taken out of the cooler and mistaken it for something because I didn't use it. I didn't plug my cooler into one hundred and twenty volts all weekend, so I wouldn't have had a need to use it. But I don't think I even went no. I had my I had my hater aids in there, didn't I know? Well, you had your cookie if you had those chocolate chip those chips away cookies in there, and it was sitting right underneath that bag of cookies.
Huh. That's why I thought, well, maybe you grabbed it by mistake when you grabbed the cookies, because that's where it was. So that's why I asked no, because I've I've unpacked everything other than maybe one thing I haven't unpacked. You're watching it, he'll find it and then he'll feel bad. Not really bad, because Mike didn't feel bad about stuff, but uh, bring out a bunch of cats after I After I accused him of taking it, he was like, yeah, yeah, that's it. That's it.
So anyway, moving on riveting, riveting, Yeah, yeah, riveting. That's why man always spares adapters because daptors walk away. Daftors walk away. You buy multiple adapters, right, that's why you get in one of Collus tackle boxes. Yeah. I just gonna say, whenever you put all the stuff back in the tackle box, you never misplace anything, right tackle box kids, right until you open it in half. Your crap is going.
You're just like, well, now I gotta buy more crap until you you forget to latch it and you pick it up and oh, I've done that plenty of times. Was I was somewhere, Yeah, I that top part that that pops over ninety degrees right and secures everything in the back in I have not latched that correctly and pulled that thing up and just everything. It's like a waterfall of just connectors, you know, and you it goes in slow motion, you know. Yeah, yeah, you're like, oh,
yeah, yeah, I know that feeling. I haven't done that on that box yet, but yes, I know what you're talking about. Give it time, you will do you bring that with you everywhere you go, Kyle, Well, not everywhere I go, but most places. Yeah, if I'm going to go out to do poda, but keep in mind, it stays in my truck. Like it's not something that I have. That's my second So I've got a video coming out on Sunday that has all of
the my tools. So I take that toolbag and my accessory bag and that stays in my truck and that's what I use whenever I go out and then I've got a whole other set of tools that I have here in the basement that I work on stuff with, right, So those are those aren't my main tools. Those are just you know, secondaries that I picked up.
But Frank, Frank, mute yourself if you're not going to talk, please, But I mean, yeah, I'm sorry, man, But I'm not like, you know, hiking up a mountain with that thing right now. I mean, I'm not Adam, right right, I don't understand Adam whenever he takes like his little pixie thing that you know, that is that is this big, But then like the next video after that, he'll bring his ninety seven hundred right with four thousand cables and a and a full size yagi
up. Yeah whatever, yeah, whatever, And it's like I don't understand, Like you're supposed to be the creator of small things and now you're hiking up with a seventy three hundred. I don't understand your philosophy here. See, he's a man. He likes to talk about he likes to talk about light lightweight packs. But he's done the he's done the he's done the manly version as well. So sometimes you need more than one milliwatt, right, right, yeah, even if you are eight thousand feet in the year.
But yeah, they probably turned the percentage all the way down to one on. It's a lot of radio for qrp's Like, my battery is only this big, right, you only need to make four contacts up there, so you know that is true? Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, so does well worth hiking up there for an hour and a half to make four contacts and coming back. That sounds like loads of fun. Yeah, but it's it's the journey, you know. It is the journey. That
is true. That is true. It is the journey. So I had mentioned, let's see, I had mentioned on the stream on Sunday, the one that borked on us really badly. I haven't had that problem since then. So about doing a giveaway to my email list once I reach twenty thousand email subscribers. So that list is right here, and I'll share this in the cha and a lot of people, a lot of you joined the email
list after Sunday night's stream, So I shaate you guys doing that. Um, so I'm gonna I'm gonna give you know, We've got like twenty eight twenty nine hundred subs to go. So it's not gonna happen in a week or weekend. But once it gets there, I'm gonna give away something like a HF radio of some sort, sent seven ten something like that. So I got a while togo, but that's okay, So sign up on the
email list. I just shared the link in the chat and uh, today's Today's email that went out about this had one of Joe Brett's videos, So that video that that email might have gotten him over the hump already. I don't know, but we wanted to make sure he got there today. Joe Brett, check real quick? Are you over the hump? I don't know if it's updated, we'll see what step are you in? Yeah, well the last time he had ten tops the question a lot of episodes ago.
Yeah, it hadn't updated yet to still showing nine one. Okay, Yeah, it might not update till tomorrow. So what Scott was talking about earlier, They did lower for everything but ad revenue. But it hasn't rolled out to everybody. They said like two weeks ago. By next week, which would have been last week, it should be available to just about everybody, but in the US YouTube is not really known for keeping up with the true
don't you hit that? It's like four thousand watch hours and then they announced whenever you've got three thousand, nine hund ninety five, Hey, we're gonna lower this to two thousand, right, But it wasn't you So if it's if it's not AD revenue, what are they what is that target? Now? What is that? Super chats, channel memberships, okay, super things stuff like that, Okay, everything everything but AD revenue, everything but the addu They still want you to grind for the hours for AD revenue, I
guess. So yeah, yeah, because they want to keep all that at a right, they're putting ads on your videos anyway, so they yeah, they want to, they want to. I love it whenever, So you know, I like Thomas, but you know, whenever he says, well I don't put ads on my video, I'm just like, yeah, yeah you do. Well maybe you don't, but they sorry to tell you this, but YouTube does. Yeah, that's why Adam and Charlie used to say
that. And when they change that, I'm like, you guys need to turn on monetization and and keep your fair share or just donate it somewhere to sum him radio, Cause so would you imagine what kind of garbage would be on YouTube if they just let everybody get monetized, allowed to putting any work
into it. That's true. You know, we all paid our dues by doing this, by making countless videos and going through the process of attracting people to come and subscribe to us. There's I'm not complaining about the about the stipulations behind it, but but it is frustrating when they change stuff, you know. But yes, no, I uh no, that's that. Yeah, it's it's it's a good thing that you can't just create a channel today and put a cat video on it and just start making money, start making
thirty cents a month or whatever it is. And people don't understand that Google is notorious for changing stuff and not telling that anybody, or if they do, they're very either cryptic about it or they say in the next coming weeks and then four months later, yeah it applies to you. So welcome to the world of search engine optimizations. Yeah, so we do it that every
day. Google is like whenever our club had we're a non for profit and we got Google, Google apps, Google whatever, education, non for profit for free. So everyone got an email address, and there's a whole admin section back behind there, and they would change crap all the time, and I would go in and be like, what is this new setting that I have to now set because Google changed it and didn't tell anybody, you know, Shame on you, Google. Yeah, I'll tell you what. I'll
tell you. Dale has an excellent idea here, Come on, everyone has a seventy three hundred give away seventy eight fifty one. I would be happy to Dale, go ahead and go buy one, go to Hroo, purchase one, and to have it shipped to me, and I'd be more than glad to give one of those away. Thank you for the offer, Dale, I'm getting another part. What a generous soul to want to donate a seventy eight fifty one for me. He's real sweet at him. Isn't that
great? I don't want to send me another Flex two while you're in it? Right right? I think Last has one for sale? Is he still selling his? What is it just sixty? Yeah? I'm not I'm not buying that piece of joke now that thinks like twenty years old? Yeah, sixty seven, you're sixty seven hundreds? That old yeah, but it's still it's still a contest grade radio. Not buying I'm not buying a sixty three hundred that has no hash one uh, no filters and uh uh what all
the other stuff? A D did one? Only one? Yeah? What do they call it? I always want to call it an MCU, but that's a Marvel Stematic universe, so I don't know what. Yeah, um, spectral capture unit. Yeah yeah, spectral capture unit yeah seuu yeah yep, only one. Yeah. I need an upgrade. I need to. I was talking to uh Matt at at him Bention and let's talk to say.
I think I want to go ahead and bite the bullet and get a sixty sixty six hundred And he's like, well, you can trade in your sixty four hundred and I'm like, yeah, might end up doing that. We'll see. I'm gonna I'm gonna buy a sixty six hundred at Huntsville, are you yeah, four to replace your sixty seven or what? Nope? To uh so I'll have a sixty seven and a sixty six hundred. I want to do satellites out of the contest station, and the sixty seven hundred
only has one transverter port. The sixty six has two. So and it's in my master plan to hopefully get everybody on the Flex radio for contesting, because right now we're just whenever we're down at the locations or at the contest station, we're running Kenwood nine nineties, which the harshness after contesting for twelve sixteen hours. It's just it's night and day difference between the hash harshness of
that Kenwood versus the Flex. So the TS nin nineties like their flagship though, I would think that that had pretty good filtering in Yeah, but the thing that radio is twenty years old, man. Yeah. Plus, it's true that the issue with contesters and we do multiops down there is I don't like the only time I get on that radio is whenever I contest. I don't know what any of the other buttons do. I don't know, like
sometimes I don't even know how to change bands, you know. So if we have one set of radios that a lot of people have, and then also it's kind of set and forget in the Flex world, it makes it a lot easier, that's true. Gesturing you can do profiles also right right if you Yeah, you can set it the way you like and then name name a profile to your call sign, and then when you sit down at the radio, bring up your profile and you're ready to go yep, that
is true. You know what's unfortunate. I guess there's only one booth that you really buy a Flex from. So we're not gonna be able to We're not gonna be able to film you going from booth to booth with bleeping with him. Well, you know what, you know what we could do?
No at Joe Brett. What we could do is I could go over to different booths and ask them if they have a Flex radio or two to sell Reaction right, and then they say no, we don't sell Flex radios, and I was like, God, go over the next You know what you do is you go tell Gigaparts you want to buy one, because they sell all the amplifiers now or the amp, the tutor genius, the attendagy, they sell everything but the radio right, and say okay, I want to
sixty six hundred, And then you have Steve and Steve would probably play along with you. Then you have Steve in there He's like, uh, we don't have that, and you're like, rest that you can hand them Jason or Mike's code for five percent off, right, that's right, Yeah, I want this. Yeah right, that's that's odd that Gigga parts. I'd never thought about that, Jason Gigga parts are Joe Brett. They sell all but the radio, Like, why don't they sell the radio. I don't
know why they don't sell the radio. I'm not sure why they did that. But Flex has made which you already know this, Kyle Flex has made their tuners and antenna switches and amplifiers um almost one compatible with other brands of radio. So Kim would, Yazu Elcraft will, we'll match up with with the Flex um peripherals very nicely. Probably probably not as probably not as succinctly
as a Flex radio does. But you can. You can totally get to when there's a freaking dirt douver on top of my monitor here, just sitting there, just crawling across. Uh, So yeah, you can get to. You can get a power genius or a tuner genius or whatever to sync up with pretty much any radio. Yeah. I think any decent amplifier made today probably has that ability, right, I think that's yeah, Yeah, I know that the kPa five hundred that I have works very well behind behind
a nice seventy three hundred. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know jack crap about amplifiers, but I think anything made recently has got some type of um, you know, input that takes the frequency or it has a frequency counter in it and it instantly tunes or and you know, granted if you've got a resonant antenna, but it it puts out power well. And the the kPa five hundred doesn't do bands switching like that, but well,
you can get it, but you can. You can do manual bands if if you do manual band switching, all it is is an RCA cable between the radio and the alum. Yeah that's what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you can. You can do it. You can set it up a little bit more intricately than that and do band switching, but you don't have to do that. Just pay attention to your bands. So but it's good, it's good, it's good. Ample. I really like that kPa five I'm gonna do a I'm gonna take it out and do a
photo video with it soon, So that's gonna be fun. Yeah anything, fuh, sorry, flex. Anything Flex makes us great. Anything Elacraft makes is great. Also, Yes, yeah, Ellocraft stuff is really good. So all right, Um, I don't know what Carlos's current situation is. Yeah, Kyle, I really enjoyed that activation from the park over and at
the arch of the day. Oh thanks, Yeah, it was. Um. You know what's funny is after I released that video, I had like four people emo me and say hey, I set up like they did the exact same thing that I did. They took all their crap out and they like hid underneath the tree or like put themselves like you know, down on this hill where nobody could see them. And they're like, yeah, I totally get it, Like I understand now why you did what you did.
I'm just like, I don't know why the Rangers and the arts grounds, the Gateway Archs grounds are so particular and and butt hettish about amateur radio operators. But yeah, it's just like the place just gives off the vibe of we don't want you. Yeah, still require that those crazy I don't know. I don't know. I didn't even like it's easier to ask for forgiveness
than ask for from Russian. I just didn't want to. I just I just didn't want to go through that process of me calling down there and then saying, oh, yeah, you gotta have a permit, and you gotta do it on this day, and you gotta have a million dollars of insurance. I'm just like, you know what if they catch me and they give me a seventy five dollars ticket, so what insurance would would they really ticket you? Though? I don't know, just making that up. Usually they
just tell you, oh no, you gotta leave. Yeah. Yeah. Then I just pack up my stuff and go and she's like, oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know. You know, I thought this was a free country on the fourth end, lie yeah, gateway to the west man, come on, yeah, I mean come on yeah right, I mean went through the arch to get to the other side. Come on, that's
right. I uh yeah, I have. I have. Every time that a ray a part a state park ranger has come up to us or to me while doing PODA, they're always they're always like about nine times out of ten they're like, hey, what are you doing? And I tell him and they're like, oh okay, yeah, cool, have fun. Every now and then they'll be like, well, but I've never really had a problem with the state part, other than the the guy that Ray Roberts had
told us we couldn't drink. He's like, kid, you're not really supposed to have that out But he was cool about it. He's just like, yeah, just you're not to have that out here. Just kind of hide that. And we're like, okay, that's cool. But the National park guys, those are the guys who they don't they don't get it, they don't understand. They're like, no, no, you can't be here, right, it's a national park. I have an annual pass. Yeah,
no, no, you can't do that. I could totally understand, Like if I tried to take some alligator clips and load the arch up on one hundred and sixty meters, I would understand that. Sure, yeah, but I was far away, you know. But I mean whenever we did it in two thousand and sixteen, back to my channel and you take a look at my two thousand and sixteen video through on National Parks in the air, we were right in front of the arch, like right in front of it,
right, and we had our signs out. I mean I could understand that, but going off like you know, north of the grounds or south of the grounds and setting up and not being on the way and YadA, YadA. Just leave me alone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, you're not bothering anybody, right, not in anybody's way. Jason, how about the estate trooper that said you couldn't have elector aio? Oh yeah, that yeah, that was weird. That Yeah, that's the only
time I've ever heard that. That was that Fairfield Lake State Park that they were closing down. Um, so we went out there. This this is uh Fairfield, Texas, which is about about halfway between Oh it's a little bit closer to mic thing it is me but you know, not too far from being halfway between here in Galveston. But um, there's a straight shot south down Interstate forty five. So they announced they were closing the state park, which I think it's still open, isn't it. They changed something.
It's open during the day. Yeah, but I think that I think the state is getting that whole Uh oh, what the hell is it? I think? Oh yeah, yeah, that's like that's that's going on, which I didn't think was going to happen, but so they might they might be saved. Okay, so yeah, So so they announced they were closing it and because I think the person or group or company that owned it didn't want to renew the lease or whatever something like. I don't remember the exact story,
but for some reason it was changing hands. They were going to shut down the state parks. So we're like, hey, let's go activate this before you can't anymore. Be a cool, cool thing to have in your log. So we went down there and my buddy Maurice came five RF. He went down there and he camped for like a week and a half. If you go out there, and look, I think he's still top activator on that park. But so we go out there and we're hanging out on
a Saturday afternoon. Frank's there and Mike, did you come down that day? No, I was down right, And so we're sitting there with and I got Electro on a leash and she's tied to the table, the picnic table we're at, and the park ranger comes by and he's like, you can't have a dog out near the water because there's a swimming area about one hundred and fifty feet that way, probably two hundred and fifty feet that way. He's like, you can't have a dog near the and there's there is
a sign. He's like, well, there's a sign, and there was this and I didn't see the sign, but I'm like, well, there's no sign. But he was right. There was a sign, but it was kind of like off to the side, and I didn't see it when I was pulling it. There was no sign right there where we were, But as you're driving in, there was a sign. So I'm like, well, okay, that's that's awfully strange because I've had this dog at one
hundred different parks throughout the state of Texas. Well, not not throughout the state of Texas, but like twenty or thirty parks in the state of Texas, and and he's like, well, they're all that way, and I'm like, no, no, they are not all that way. No. I'm like, no, they I can promise you. Oh no, I worked for all But I'm like, dude, I'm telling you you want to do this here, fine, you got to sign up. Fine, okay, I'm not arguing with you about that, but tell don't tell me they're
all that way in the state of Texas. That is untrue because I've had this dog in thirty parks in the state of Texas. So no, so I put the dog in the truck. No big deal. And then over the next hour and an hour, hour and a half as we continue to operate, and it was a nice cool day outside, that cracked the window. It wasn't hot. People freaking, oh you put your dog in the truck. It was not. It was like fifty five fifty degrees outside. We were wearing jackets and she was fine. But uh, and I check
on it every now and then too. But yeah, over the course the next hour and a half was we were out there, at least a half dozen people showed up and brought their dogs out of their car and took them down to the water, not where even I was. And that's that trooper was never to be seen again. He never came back, not when I was there. And I'm like, yeah, this is a really enforced rule here. He got here, pal, this was a state trooper in a
in a state park. Yep. Wow, yep. Just shows that Karen's and Kevin's all were uniforms sometimes right, Yeah, it wasn't the state park police. It was an actual state trooper. I believe it was a state Well, no, it was a Texas State park trooper. Anger. It was a ranger. Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, No, no, no, it wouldn't. It wouldn't. It wouldn't a dot guy. No, it was a um it was a park ranger. Yeah, but you know the park the park rangers, they worked all the parks, you
know, they're not usually tied to one park. Sometimes they'll go to other parks and work, right. Yeah, I just I heard state trooper. I was thinking, oh, you know a highway state you know. No, no, no, no, he was a he was a park ranger. He so he he should have known what he was talking talking about. But later Steve, thanks for joining bud. Ye see you guys there were good well man and yeah, but yeah he was he was completely wrong about
yeah, but dogs not being allowed in other parks. So and also one other thing about that, that PODA activation is there's been thirty or forty people that have activated the arch And I tell him my my video a story where I came down and caught somebody that they were the rules of PODA state that your antenna and your radio and you have to be in the park like you just can't throw a line over a sign and say, oh, it's in the park now, and I'm gonna, you know, set on the thing.
And I caught somebody I don't know who it was, and at the time, I didn't feel like, you know, being a Karen and so I came down and they were setting on the side of the road with their co acts across the sidewalk and their antenna in the national park. And I'm like, hmm, that's not legal, but you know, people are gonna do what people are gonna do. So yeah, I did that one time
at Galveston because they will. It's it's ambiguous and and and I looked at it later and I'm like, oh, no, this was totally legal. But it's like you can park the Super Secret, which is not that big of a secret that that that Mike and I activate out sometimes. It is on the very edge of the park on the beach, and they had that section of the park closed down for a couple years while they were renovating. But you can't close the beach because the beach is imminent domain. The beach
is public domain. So we I would park on the sign that said Galveston Island State Park is behind here, and I would park there and put my antenna out over the over the edge and I would activate. And I didn't know that at the time. I was like, wait a minute, that's not legal because you're intenta, you're radiating from there. That that only makes sense. But if you go look at Google Maps, that whole area is actually part of the park. They just put the defense that you can't drive
on or that you can't drive past. They put it inside the park. Yeah, so you're inside the park the whole time anyway, So it didn't really matter. But I was just like, I thought that that rule was strange that your radio had to be inside the park. I'm like, I thought, you if your antenna was inside the and we're talking about six feet here, yeah, talk about you know your intenna's inside the park, that should count. So I always thought that was a weird rule. But whatever.
We play this game every year from Missouri Cuso party where people claim to be on county lines, and I wish that they would just remove the county line rule and just make it fun and just be in the spirit of the contest. But if you take a look at bing maps, open street maps, Google Maps, and the topo map for or the the county line map on the county website. They all have four different locations of where the county lines are located. Oh wow, that's gotta be Yeah, so you know,
yeah, they put in the rules. Oh, you have to go to the you know, you have to go to the courthouse and you got to check out the map and then some you know, Mabel has to bring it to you on parchment paper and then you got to figure out like you know, I'm just like, guys, we gotta quit this. Yeah. Wow, that is just and I'm looking at Google Maps right now. That is just inside the park? It is? Is this just in fact, that road from three thousand and five where we take, Yeah, that road
is technically inside the park. And so so when you turn on that road, you're technically because I I've seen people when you turn on that road and you're driving towards the beach. I've seen there's a little pull off section over there to the right, and I've seen guy, I've seen our v guys parked there before, and I drove by one time there was a guy in a big coach motor coach and he had an intenta up I'm like, oh, he's got an intenta up, So I'll go down there in the park
and I sit up and he comes walking down like twenty minutes later. He's like, hey, are you doing podos? Like yeah, He's like, yeah, I'm up there. He goes, I don't know if I'm in the park or not, and I'm like, yeah, you are. You're You're on that side of the road, so you're good. But yeah, I mean some guys, because you can't get that motor coach down there on the sand. You know, you got you got that row of pylons down
there where we do the poda on the beach there. So if you're park you put your antenna on the inside of the pylons where the actual beach is whatever is that still considered you're in, Yeah, park is inside. You don't we don't have to go through those pylons. But okay, right, so you can't. Yeah, so Kyle's got it pulled up here. This is a good Uh that's exactly where I'm not sure how you knew where we
were, Kyle, but that's exactly it. Um. But yeah, you see that that that thirteen mile road right there, that's inside the green areas the park and so that road that we drive down, and then there's beach right here. You can't see on Google Maps or on that that image right there, but that whole uh yeah yeah, that whole area right there.
There's also a set of pylons this just to the left or that circle Kyle just drew where you can't you you can't drive pat because certain parts of the beach you can drive in park on certain you can't, So they put those pylons there so that you can't. Yeah, you can see it right, yeah, yeah, but you're inside the park that whole time, so you don't even have to cross the pylons. You can sit in your view.
And I've done this once I figured this out. I went down there and I activated from the truck on I see seven thousand for a for a video I made. I gave you crap for that too, because I'm like, you're not in the park, Yeah I know. Yeah. I was like actually yeah, yeah, yeah, because I didn't know where the lines were, so yeah, but yeah, I did a vehicle activation from there one
time and made some contacts. But it well, and as we learned before, you're gonna stet up a d X command or you want to be towards the top of those pylons, Yeah, be more towards the grass, don't your parts? Yeah? Yes, yes, when the tide's coming in, you constantly have to move the antenna. Yes, you do. That's good, good deal, Mike. You want to talk about that activation you're gonna do with the Biowinno Oh that yeah. So I'm actually I'm actually working on
my DX commander antenna right now. I'm filming the video for a for a mod that I'm doing to it. But um, yeah, so I don't know when it's gonna happen. We've we've we've been planning it for a year at least, but side Boom and I have been wanting to do this thousand and want pot to activation. He's got an amplifier, uh, and we're gonna use the DX Commander because the DX Commander will handle that much power.
Uh. So Kevin I told ket I was telling Kevin from Bioweno about this at Dayton, and I'm like, you know, what would would you be interested in, like sponsoring the video and supplying the batteries. So he hooked me up with a couple three hundred amp batteries, uh three three hundred AM power batteries and a couple of hundred AMP power batteries to see what they'll do. So we're gonna do a battery power Allison Watt Poda activation EIC. Well,
so he says, the amp draws like eighty amps max. So even so we have six hundred amp hours of capacity, really eight hundred, but I've I've already got the all the wires and everything, so I put the batteries in in parallel. Um, so six hundred amp hours should last us with a thousand wat amp quite a quite a long time. Now. Eighty amps seems a little low if you think, well, maybe not, because I think on an FT eight, my seventy three hundred draws about maybe sixteen
if we're if we're doing maybe maybe twenty max for one hundred amps. When you're when you're keyed down twenty to twenty two thousand watts and only push only drawing eighty amps seems low, That's what he said. So I don't know, Yeah, I don't. I don't. I don't have any amplifiers, so I don't. I don't really know anything about him. But you're gonna do sideband, I assume. So yeah, it's not gonna be one hundred percent duty cycle anyway, which can I could lasts longer, So yeah,
yeah, that'll be fun, y'all. Yeah, y'all, let me know if if if I have time for you'll drive down to mea ch'all down there where. Yeah, for sure you're gonna go to Huntsville or do you know where you're gonna go yet? Well? He so he lives in Louisiana. Yeah, he lives. I think he's probably about four hour drive for me. So actually Ryan kfat Iv is probably gonna come along too because he's kind of between us. So we're probably gonna do something, um kind of probably
around the Baytown area, kind of halfway between both of us. It'll it'll probably be like on the Texas Louisiana border, um towards the ocean, um. But I'm not sure. But we're also playing we want to do a five park row down there, so we we We've got we've got a lot of activities we want to do, but it's just a matter of coordinating everybody's time to yeah to do it, so hopefully sooner than later, because I'm I'm wanting to do this totally. Yeah, absolutely, okay, cool,
keep us posted on the date. Yeah, when I know something, I'll let you know for sure. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah. So I'm looking at UM the kPa fifteen hundred and it says that the supply voltage and current is if you're running uh to twenty it only draws twenty amps. Yeah, we're running twelve twelve volts. Yeah, but even if you yeah, I mean I think eighty is is high? Okay, I mean,
hey, that'd be great. I think eighty is high. Yeah, because I mean even if it'd be interesting test to see, like you know, keep in mind, you know, older houses at even one hundred and twenty volts, Like my house had sixty amp service and I upgraded it to one hundred amp service, you know, yeah, twenty five years ago. So somehow is don't even have one hundred amps coming into them. So right, m I don't know. I don't have an app, Like Mike said,
I don't have an AMPH. Why am I the authority on amps? We need to change the subject. Happy Internet, don't don't they have a para genius there at the site? No? No, I mean we have we have alpha's at manual Alpha's at I think they're Um, I forgot the model number, but yeah, they still have the plate and the load and you got to tune them and whatnot and uh but yeah, it'd be nice to get the Everything else is automated except the amplifiers. So yeah, okay,
all right, well there you go. All right guys. Well, hey, happy fourth everyone, Thanks for hanging out with us today. I think I'm gonna go inside and get some lunch and uh, I need I would like to smoke a cigar to day, although it's kind of hot outside, but I don't think I care. Hey, Jason, if you if you want, um, I'm about to pack up here and run to the Michaels. Are they open today? Sure? Why not see if they see if they got that cigar picture of track and see if they're open today? All
right, text me yeah, text me Frank that's cool. Yeah, I might run up there with you, so but yeah yeah, so happy forth everyone, Thanks for hanging with us today. UM, I would like to do a PODA tomorrow, so we'll see if so. If I do it, it'll be in the morning because I'm gonna go get my old trailer from the dear least tomorrow and take it and get it washed at the truck stop and then bring it back here and do a little bit of updates and a
lot of clean up to it and sell it. So anybody's interested in an RV trailer, let me know. Um more to come on that later. I'll be making a video of it for the other channel as well. So but yeah, but I go right by ob Grasslands to get to the hunting lease, and I want to try to stop there, stop there on the way and do a PODA activation tomorrow. So we'll see. We'll see what
the weather is doing. So all right, seventy three guys, thanks everybody for hanging with us, and uh yeah, everyone go out there and have some fun this afternoon and we will see you on. Um. I don't have a live stream tomorrow since we did it today, but I have a video why I'm uploading tomorrow, so um well we'll talk chat then, so we'll wave goodbye bye, happy for later, guys, Happy four get out there and for