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E1234: LIVE from the Texoma Hamarama, Ardmore Hamfest 2023

Nov 20, 202329 min
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LIVE! From the Texoma Hamarama, a Hamfest in Ardmore, OK. Wesbite - https://hamarama.org/

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Thank you for choosing to download the Ham Radio two point zero audio podcast rip. This is the audio taken out of a video or a livestream I did recently. You can catch all my videos on YouTube Ham Radio two point zero and catch us live every Sunday night at seven pm Central Standard Time for a different topic each week. Thank you for the support, and thank you for being a member of the community. Not every year, but I did last year, and then I did like five years ago. Yeah, no,

last year, no, no, I think it was. It was about the same last year, I think, but five or six years ago was bigger. So good morning, everybody. Held what's up Hank, Michael Casey? Yeah, lost for the Big City. I was waiting for coffee and him radio guys to finish k I five s p A and for v KF. What's up? Guys? They are done? Don says, they are done. Oh right, We're gonna take a walk around here. How's the audio? Oh? Is that you chuck a b R Industries? Is that

you surprise you guys aren't here? I think you guys came to this show last year, if I recall correctly. Thank you. Audio. Don says, audio is good, good, well, we're gonna take a take a look around year. It was all I could do, chuck not to share my coupon code and y'allse in the coffee ham Rito's live stream, I don't do that. I shared in my live stream. I'm gonna share it. They were just sharing a direct link to y'all's. Uh, y'all's website.

But I wasn't gonna do that. Ab R ten casey case five HWB. Anybody looking at ABR co acts, Yes, Vern is here. He was right next to me. His Renee is right there. There's Renee. Vern was sitting there minute ago. I don't know where he went, but yeah, all right, so let's uh. This is the Texoma hammer Rama. They used to have it on Lake Texoma. Then it moved up here to Ardmore several years ago, maybe a decade ago, something like that, and it's a smaller show, but you know, when it's a ham fest,

who cares. And I don't know exactly how well the internet's gal. I've been I've had four to five bars on four G here since I got here. So but you guys, let me know in the chat if the internet starts to get wonky, okay, great Internet so far. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Okay, good. So this

is something I've something of fun I found a minute ago. These are Lenovo M nine hundred computers, Windows ten, pro an I five sixty five d T two point five gigahertz processor, sixteen gigs a RAM and two hundred and fifty gig in v ME. It's a hard drive, dual display ports eight eleven dot C. He's selling them for one hundred and twenty bucks a pop. Kind of neat. I think they don't have They don't run on twelve volts. That was the first thing asked him. I was like, are

there twelve votes? By chance? He goes now, like nineteen volts. You'd get an adapter, of course, But I thought that was a cool thing. And you never really know who you're gonna find it a ham fest. Oh what's up, Freddy, We're just showing everyone the ropes or showing everyone around the show. So yep. I was gonna mention this on the live stream last night in the Happy hour, and I saw him, like,

dude, I was gonna ask you if you're gonna be here. I forgot Yeah, I thought, you know, it's not all that far. But if i'd have known, I was going to drive through all that rain. Oh well sure, yeah, yeah yeah, a lot of rain, A lot of rain. Thanks man, yeah, thanks. All right, yeah, Freddy's here, Vern's here. Who else is here? Someone else is here? I can't remember who right now. So all right, let's look around here. You say we need the rain. Yeah, yeah,

that's probably true. But it's been raining for a week out here, all right. A bunch of computer stuff. Well, that's kind of cool. Intended Genius flex radio. I wonder what he wants for that? Hmm. That one's uh, it says intenda Genius, but it's not the Flex version. Although I think that Flex version's actually not made by them. I think they put their name on it. So ooh, maestro cover. There you go. Look at that sweet Okay, I'm not have to see what he

wants for that? It is? That is a Maestro? Yes, he said, what is it? It looks like a Version one cause it's got the button on the top. Here mine is a Version two has a button on the side. There you go. I like that cover. I've never seen a cover like that before, so yeah, that's what that is. That's probably a nope. Oh that's his my stroke bag. Okay, I thought there might be radio in there, but there's not. Well, there's an any tone ten and eleven meter radio. Look at that. Here we

go. You never know what that's different? Okay, Ken would t t W forty one hundred some Windham antennas there. Yeah, there's a lot of uh arts and crafts here, honestly too many. There needs to be more electronics on tables and less pieces of cloth our finder. Look at that. So yeah, more needle point or whatever that is. I don't even know. There's some test equipment here smoking ape in the chat. Hm. That's fun. Ninety eight point one megahertz FM broadcast station. Hey, what were

we talking about last night? This is Bob the rotor guy. I mentioned him at the Belton on the Belton livestream. That's very very well done, re manufactured, rebuilt antenor rotors for your tower tower roaders. Mm hmmm, I don't you want some eighty drag tude it That military radio is pretty cool right there? What do you say? It's a it's a gimbal for a Yeah, it's a gimbal for a for the camera. On your smartphone. Mm hmm, these are cool. I got the I got the green one.

Yep, cool tactical LinkedIn fed dipole. Really good. Uh poly stealth wire on there, Yes, yes they are. They look good. Now this guy had a on this table here. He had a what looked like a brand new It was used, but it would look very new. A link O dr went thirty five te that I bought from him, And that's gonna be the radio I put in my truck for my mobile eye Gate.

I'd be wanting to build cause repeater builder makes that interface for the back of those monoband a Linko radios that interfaces directly into a Raspberry Pie and you can do what you want to on it. So that's gonna be the that's gonna be the mobile eye Gate soon than one. Now I've got I've got one of those radios at home, but it's two twenty so I was wanting one for two meters so I can do one forty four three nine. Obviously. This is Jim, the Futer guy that I was talking about it Belton and

a couple of the ham Fest where I had him. Don says he's got the full forty version of the linko. That's what he used it for All Star. Yeah, I don't have a full forty one. I've got two or three, got three different two twenty ones. I love the two twenty band, of course, but that's the first two meter when I got so im looking forward to building that out cam threads, Hey pick up. I got this Arden set up here. If this guy's doing a forum, I

think next hour. He's got this ardent set up right here, trying to get Arden more active in the Oklahoma area. Frequent seven pot kind of neat. And there's some hardline for you, a hundred feet of seven eight hardline right there. Shoesh excuse me? What a bunch of used stuff here. It's pretty much all that. The only new vendor here is EMTC, and he's on that. He's on that back table right there. EMPTC is so

cover twenty nine with bluetooth in it. Yeah I should no, no, yeah, I was wondering if he was going to be here at that He was at the show last year. Yeah, no, I know, I know. I texted him a while ago and he and I were going to meet up, but we didn't. We couldn't mess our schedules together. So okay, all right, does he does he still live in that same house? Okay, he's still okay getting Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, it looked like he was on the road a lot though, on his bike.

Ask you about it? Yeah right, yeah, yeah, good good, Yeah I missed talking to him though. Yeah, I know what I know. This is Lee's table. He's always got some really cool stuff, don't I don't want to contract and contract those well, let me think about it. It's Lenny, you know, negotiation. Here go, Jason. Everybody needs a brand new in the box in seventeen? Is that actually brand new? Wow? As clean as a pan? Look at that? Wow? Huh? Obtain how much you want for that? Lee? Six fifty?

Okay, how much for me? Seven fifty six point fifty one? A brand new dm D sevent g A yeah, that's right. Yeah, the box looks like he's a little bit beat up. But shelf, shelf, weere that that face does look cherry though. Let's see, these are some Android tablets he got forty bucks. They're running Android seven though, so a little bit a little bit outdated. This is a cool military radio right here, he said, Guys are taking these old face plates off and putting

new LCD touch screens on him with a VFO knob. That's kind of neat. He's got quite a bit of Motorola radios right there too. Seventy five fifties, sixty five fifties, seventy five eighties. Oh here you go, two meters amplifier one to twenty wats in, two hundred wats out and then the building and met Billy gets the ground to the bad building and the ground. This guy's got a nine ninety one. That's not the A model. See Keith Kidd right here this one, Mike, is that the one you're

talking about. There's a couple of them around here. You have any questions from interesting three to thirteen mega hurts ten watts in ninety one, hundred wats out. I got an old YESU amp. Then we'll do that. Uhh, Tokyo high power two meter all mode amp two to ten wats in thirty five to eighty out. Interesting kind of reminds me of my basement all that. Oh yeah, they got this thing also, And I go back to what Garrett, you're asking me to go back to it? What's it?

That's what happened out the Kinwood two meter Kinwood. Oh, this guy the t M twenty five fifty a meter fifty one and the AMP two meters amplifier. Jay's u f L twelve hundred B. I have one of those. Yes, but that is that's pretty much it. I thought this was a neat looking rig. What do you talk about ken Yeah? Uh JF commercial a mic. What's Lee's call sign? The Kenwood mob like the kin would? Oh, the his call sign is eighty five I G Alpha Brother five

India Golf. Than he's in Dallas. We talk on simplex sometimes there's a pretty good simplex channel two meters simplex channel throughout DFW that gets used. So but that's kind of it. Not a really big show. This show used to be bigger years ago. I mean, it's never a bad idea to go to a hamfest. I just got up this morning and drove up here about an hour and a half, reigning the whole way, and uh oh, here we go. Look at this. I see two at two meters.

As far as I know, they don't have ton boards in them, but yeah, they generally don't. But you can add him. I think, ye kind of neat. I used to have one of these a long time ago. But that that's pretty pretty much it. They could sell a lot more tables. You want to be on camera? Hello, everybody, we're on the wrong hand of the camera. That's right, Yeah, yeah, everybody should be here. T Man, right, that's T Man in the chat side. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, you too.

So Hey, how's it going? Oh hey, yeah you too, man? Michael Michael Burke MLB. Yes, yes, I know him. Yeah, okay, yes, okay, okay, yeah, oh okay, okay, good okay, yeah, yeah, I know the other day on Simplex, Yes, yes, yeah, yes, somebody was just asking about Lee and I'm like, he's on Simplex all the time, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, yeah, that's right, right

right. Well, see, and I go to my hunting lease in Forestburgh and there's two or three guys up there around the Springtown Decatur area and they're on it. And then the guys way out and like he's Plano Richardson. They're on it and I'm like, you guys can't hear each other. So everybody's using frequency at the same time, which is cool. Yeah, but it's it's a fun. It's fun to be on for sure. It's good to meet you. Yeah, you too. What's up, David? I

saw you earlier, buddy, How are you? You can see you try not to? Yeah, I was dark back there, all right. So anyway, that's it pretty much. Several tables here are kind of empty, and you know, the rain probably had a factor in it. It's been raining, cats and dogs all day. Woke up at about five this morning it was raining, let the dogs out they were soaking wet coming back in, and then drove all the way up here an hour and a half.

Should have taken me about an hour and thirty five minutes according to Google. Took me about an hour and fifty minutes. Fifty five minutes. But I did stop for breakfast, drove through McDonald's for breakfast sandwich, but it took longer, but just because there was puddles of water on parts of the highway, people driving slow. I drove slow, and part of it kind of hard to see. It was dark out, but I always get to get out to a Hamfest, regardless of how big or small it is, So

thanks thanks for following along with me. I think I'm probably gonna walk back up see see how the rain is outside, walk back out to the truck and head back home because I got some I'm gonna be putting together mystery boxes today because I was gonna do that this week and I just ran out of time. So BUCkies for breakfast not Pickton. Yeah, there is a I didn't go buy a BUCkies on the way here. There's one. No, wait a minute, I did not go buy a BUCkies in the way here.

There's a BUCkies on thirty five vee coming up out of Denton, but I didn't go that way I went. I went on thirty five W coming up through Fort Worth area, So I didn't actually pass the BUCkies. But that's okay, hey, but that's okay. Uh. I have the O two at How much was that one on the table? I didn't see a price on that. Speakers of Presentations, Yes, there's two forum rooms.

In fact, I can show you you know what. Let me walk out here and i'll show you the schedule because there's two form rooms and they have two forms going at pretty much all day. So here's the schedule right here. So they had an oxcom form this morning at nine, the three different forms at ten win Link, CODA, and AWL and they have ve testing

here in this room. M seventeen project. That's kind of cool. I don't know who eighty five m E is, but i'd be interested to hear that Arden infed halfway Antenna's okay, DXA meeting Oklahoma DX Association and then ares right there there we go. So that is that is everything. So once again, thanks guys, appreciate you being here. And I think I'm gonna head back home because it's an hour and a half and I'm gonna stop, probably get something to eat on the way, and then hey and then uh

we will see t on tomorrow night's live stream. What I wonder where the a w L Forum is. It was down here last time. Noopop, noppop. I don't think it's down here. Oh well, okay, alright, what time is it? Like eleven? Yeah almost eleven? Yeah, you know, Freddie and I were talking. We I was gonna announce this on the live stream last night, and I completely forgot. And he doesn't. He lives closer than I am. He forgot too. Oh well that's

it. Yeah, probably probably getting ready to but yeah, yeah, we're on right now. What's going on? It was It was fine, small, but it's fine, it's fine. Did you stuff for your tower at home? Right? Yeah? Good tower about a new and controllers, so good, good, good good. Yeap. She wants to win the seven o five some some new yazy radio she wanted she got from MTC, so oh okay in a month. Second, yeah, she just got the seven ten, didn't you else? Oh gosh? Yeah, all right man,

it's good to see a Verne. Hey. Good hey yeah one of your new followers. Oh yeah, okay, good meet you. Good to catch on the road. Yes, that was fun. Yeah yeah that was fun. Yeah, thanks a lot. Appreciate it, appreciate it. Yeah. It looks like the rain's kind of lit up. So all right, I'm gonna end it. Guys, Thanks for watching, and catch us tomorrow night on the live stream Sunday night, seven pm Normal time,

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