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text as folks. Good evening to all. Appreciate everyone being out there tonight, and we're gonna transition over right here. We got a pretty cool live stream set up for you tonight. We're gonna be talking once again about the Morse Monkey, which is a CW learning tool that is a kit that you build. And we've had Scott on a couple of times before in the past, and he's got a special discount for some people tonight, some people tonight, So we'll get to that here in a minute. Special shout out to
all the folks in green text in the chat. I saw Andy Kelly in there earlier. AA zero Am is in there, Donde Gideo's in there. Thanks for being here tonight, guys. I see Wayne, I see Todd. I see Tom, let's see him Radio Crusader's in the house, Big John's hamshack Ham Radio Wilderness with Frank and in five s k T. Not that Frank, the other Frank Kakey for hx Q. So thanks for being here tonight, guys. Appreciate you guys showing up for the live stream.
So we do have Let me get to the right screen here, so great vine. Amateurd radio dot com is my website, which is if you go to shop dot Ham Radio two dot com, which is where it's linked from a lot of the times. I'll put this link in the chat. This is where you can get the Morse monkey. This is where you can get sticker packs that Frank might talk about here in a minute. There's a Tank
Radio sticker pack. There several sticker packs from from me right there. There are t shirts here and I'm looking for a T shirt designer if anyone has any If anyone has any experience in T shirt design, hit me up in discord. I would like to talk to you. I got a couple of ideas and want to bounce off of you. But but that's where you can get the most monkey that we're going to talk about here in just a little bit, so, uh, I put the link in the chat. Glenn,
thank you for the ten dollars super chat. Appreciate the support out there tonight, and we're gonna bring on Frank and Scott here. Let me make sure I got the right the right screen and let me unmute you guys. What's up? How are you guys tonight? Doing good, good doing,
doing great? Man. I just got off the live stream with Mike and we talked about battery boxes, and I'll kind of just the starter basics what you kind of need and want to look for, boxes, shrolers, charts, controllers, wires, and just just we went all over the place. So it's the perfect starting point if you're thinking about building a battery box, because I'm gonna start. I'm gonna do that, and and of course take radio stickers. Go ahead and head over there. I need to sell somewhere
of those packs. Please please buy some stickers. Yeah right, right right, yeah, uh yep, so uh yeah, I see uh, I see quirky QRP in the house. So I'm just watching to see what he has to say. But you know who's excellent designer T shirts? Who Leah. Well, yeah, yeah, I think she has a job though. So yeah, yeah, I've been, uh, I've been. I've been told that before as well. But yeah, she's she's kind of tied up
elsewhere, I believe. But yeah, so I had I had a couple of I had a couple of new T shirts that I was working on, and then we had to pivot because we lost our printer in Huntsville, Alabama, and I've pivoted back to our printer here locally, so I'm kind of working through that right now. So if you guys have ordered T shirts on the website in the last week, week and a half or something like that,
they might be a little bit delayed. But we've got we've got it working, so we'll we'll we'll have that updated and put back to normal very soon. But that's that's where that is, so frank. But yeah, so part of your stream, Yeah, I watched it. I only watched it for a few minutes. I've been kind of under the weather today. I've got some allergy stuff going on, so I haven't to I haven't really
done much today at all. But uh, we're gonna give Scott the floor here in a minute and then I'm gonna I'm gonna if we if we end early, then I'm gonna end it early. I don't. I think my throat's gonna get to me before too long. My voice is gonna go out. But we'll see, we'll see, we see how how far that goes.
As always, I'll be watching the chat for any questions. I'll bring your questions up on air as the topic permits, or I'll just sit on them and we'll have a lightning round at the end, and if Jason feels a little bit on the weather, I'll take over and it becomes take Radio. I love this idea. Yeah, I bet you do, I bet you do. All right, Scott, Well once again, welcome back, thank you for being with us again. Thanks for lending me on. Yeah you bet, you bet. It's I mean, there's a I think you
were on Kyle's channel once talking about CW kits. Yes, yeah, I invited me on as well, and I had the same problem that I had talking to you earlier, where the tones that are being generated by this kit actually we're getting muffled. I found a little setting silly zoom thought it was background noise and was trying to squelch it so good, So I'm disabled that now you can hear the fan of my of my laptop running at the same time. So but we get give us a little demo real quick, Okay,
let me pull up this unit. There we go. The unit, the new unit that I have here, can be powered by either batteries. On this side. We plug in a FTDI serial cable if you want to use this cereal interface on it, or just a regular old USB c plug. And since Frank was talking about portable battery systems, most of them have a little USB adaptor on there. So that makes means this thing can tag along and be powered off one A battery one of those battery kits without without
having to use the double A batteries on it. So let me turn this on, and I'm running right now on the power supply that's coming from the UH from the FTD I cable. Go ahead, when you powered the screen on, I just a real quick side note here you powered the screen on, it said version one dot oh dot one? Is that the latest one? Yes, this is the latest version because it does it does repetitive iambic
we got some people had asked about. So we'll go through that. When you look up, the first thing it goes to is the settings menu. I hope you can see these. I've got my light here. I'm trying to get where you can see the l c D without getting too much glare. It's perfect, man, I can see it just fine. Okay, good. Select anything simply by pushing the knob and you rotate through all the
various settings. So we'll start with the iambics key, where you've got a dual paddle key like I've got here, or a single key straight key. Sorry. You've also got background lights which let me move my light out of the way, and you can see that it turns on and off the background lights that help you be able to read it in bright daylight. Or it's actually a feedback as well, because it'll turn red or green when it's scoring you. It'll do that for a couple of seconds to show you whether or
not you got it right or wrong. The words per minute I updated this. This defaults to ten or you can do eighteen, and I've uped it to six because I started playing with the words per minute setting, like I was discussing earlier on my icon seventy three hundred yeah, I was actually measuring the frequency of the tones, breaking that down into the number of words per
minute. Plus the menu that the icon has has a minimum of six words per minute, So I was able to use those values to actually compute the frequency of which the tones are generated, and also the timing measurement when it's trying to understand what you had keyed in. We've got the side tone, which somebody asked for. It's now always on. It's basically it will when you're keying something, it'll play the it'll play the tone so you can hear
it. This allows you to swap the two keys. Which one is going to be long, which one's going to be short, according to the tip, the ring and the sleeve of the plug that you're plugging into the keyer. Now, this uses a little one eighth key. It doesn't use a three quarter inch, but you can get an adaptor for that. Okay,
Now, the Coke method for scoring got feedback from kJ five cbe. He asked about adjusting the Coke setting because what this does is it will play back something and you get to type it in using this FTDI cable in a terminal on your computer. So when it plays back something, you type in what you think it played, and it'll tell you whether you got it right or wrong. When you get eighty percent or eight out of ten correct, it'll move on to the next higher add additional letters to it. But he was
asking for being able to go higher sets. So this will actually go up to twenty different tests and eighty percent of that, of course would be sixteen of them correct. And then you can also set what kind of percentage you want you wanted to move up when you're at sorry, eighty percent, ninety or one hundred percent. So okay, I'm not I'm not sure not getting framed here properly. I can explain the Coke method briefly if if you want me to go into detail now, or we can do it later. As
I'm going through this, what do you well? We we yeah, we can do that. Let's let's let's back up for just a second and just and I should have said this is my fault. I should have said this up front. I was like, let's explain exactly what this is because some people may have not been here before. So this is a kit to build that you that you build, and Scott's gotta got a kit in a bag real quick that he's going to show you in a minute. And that's it
right there. And this is a kit you build that lets you learn CW by by It's it's interactive. You type it in there and there's like four or five different methods you can use. So you type in CW, it tells you whether it's right or on. You can set the coke method, you can set the words per minute, you can set the can change the tones. I'm not sure, but but there's the it's so this is a training kit for those of you wanting to learn c W and if you enjoy
kit building, it's really good for that as well. So I just I should have said that up front, and I got distracted by something. So yeah, go ahead, Scott, Yeah you want to you wanted to explain the coke method, Please go ahead the coke method. Let me also pull up a terminal here if I can find one really quick umming while you're doing that, just a quick reminder, I'm looking for any questions in the chat, So if you have any questions, go ahead and put them out there
and I'll read them on screen window capture. Okay, that's it, Okay, And then fade to this. Now, let me turn this guy off and back on again, and you get a terminal display. Yes, I'm seeing that. Okay, so let me try to move that over to the side and let me pull up not that, let me well up this again and pull him over. So here we have the kit with a glare and a terminal. Right, if you go into the coke method, what it will do is it will play back tones and I've got the volume turned down.
I'm sorry, we turned that up, and it will repeat it every ten seconds. H come on, don't think about it. Just right. Am I doing this? Right? I hear it? But yeah, I'm not. Yeah, I can't hear it. That's the problem. Oh you can't hear it. I can't hear the tones. Uh, well, you've got it. You've got to routed through zoom, but not to the computer. I bet that's right, because I okay, so I don't I don't
know what it's playing. Let's let's say it's playing Q and Z. So if I enter Q and z, oh, I'm sorry, I get to put the cursor on the terminal Q and Z. Then it tells me I got to incorrect. It was actually playing a six in a w which you guys probably could tell. So I currently have zero out of the past ten and it says I'll move up to the next level when I get eight in a row. Correct, gotcha. The next level is it's going to play
three letters at a time, so let me get out of that. So the Coke method is essentially I'm trying to pull the screen up here, pull that off, pull it back just back in the center. The Coke method basically is play two letters at a time, you try to score yourself and then move up to three letters at a time when your score is high enough, until it gets all the way up to six letters at a time, and the playback speed is controlled by the WPM the words per minute. So
that was the Coke method. And as I said, thanks to a lot of feedback from Dimitri, we could set how many times it will play back that set. Currently it's playing two letters, it would play it back ten times and wait for me to get eight in a row. But I could increase that to eleven, twelve, all the way up to twenty before it is before it's ready to advance me to the next level. And you can also set what percentage you want to get correct before it moves you up to
the next level, from two characters to three characters up. Okay, So, and then we've got whether or not we want iambic keying to be repeating or not, so when you hold down the key, it'll repeat or with it off, when you hold down the key, it'll just play the tone once. And of course when you've got iamb king, you got long on this side, short on that side. At least the way mind wired,
you can save all the settings. If you don't save the settings, then when you power it off and power it back on, it either goes back to the original default, it will restore the last time you save the settings, and we go back and were at the top menu. So that was really quick going through other settings. They're all documented on the website and where
you can download the assembly instructions. We've got practice mode, we've got dictate mode, we've got Echo mode, we've got Coffee mode, and we've got the coke mode. And then we're back to settings again. So I'm not going to be able to see I'm not going to be able to hear what I'm typing, unfortunately, but let me in practice mode. Push the button
and it says push to start and key whatever you want. So if I just hold down that and I guess it played two longs and if I found that, play two shorts, or if I hold on that long enough, it'll play come on, three shorts. It's not doing that. It's playing ease, playing one short. Oh did we Oh that's the problem. Let's go back to Yeah, we won't repeat on there. We go back to practice now and here we go. Just hold that. Oh boom, I
guess you can't see yeah, can you see me pressing the key? Here we go, Well yeah, but now the screen's out of the screen. To get both of them on the screen, right, it's okay, I mean we can hear it. Just fine. So I just hold that two three, No, that was two. That was H. That's five. If you hold them both, it alternates back and forth. Okay. Now, what it's doing is it's trying to interpret what it is that you keyed.
So we have an O, two h's, and a five. It also put an asterisk there because that takes up less face than just putting in WTF, because it couldn't figure out what it is you were trying to say. Okay, I just hold this, you know, for a whole bunch of long tones. Doesn't have any idea what it is, and unfortunately I'm having to guess at what the duration of the tones are. That's a T yep one really fast. One is going to be an eye an E yep and bloom boom and a no, that's a T T. There we go.
Okay, you gotta do it really fast to get the A. There you go. So a couple of quick questions here can you change the tone? Now? The tone is set to that frequency? There is a way if you want to be a bit of a hacker. The oscillator is generated from this resistor of this capacitor, and it's actually very simple to lower the tone by simply adding resistance or adding capacitance. But there's nothing in the menu that controls what the what the tone frequency is. Okay, this is from
Terry. Do you need a key or or do you plug in your paddle directly into the KITM on that one? Yeah, I don't understand that question. You it's it has the uh you need your own key like unplugged the three point five millimeter Jack Scott, you you get you get this is the kit right, provide your own key. I bought this guy, uh in order to develop with wired him up myself and for space considerations. It just uses a little three point five millimeter one eighth inch plug, doesn't use a
big fat quarter inch plug. So okay, Frank, Okay. Then the next one is kind of how difficult do you think this kit build is? Uh? Frank, you've done it? Do you think it is? I think it's it's a medium medium Okay, not, it's not. It's not difficult, it's not easy, it's it's just kind of falls in that sweet spot of it was fun. I got a video of me building the kit
up first version. Yeah, there's one thing that is a challenge, and it's not for the faint of heart, because all of this is throughhole to make it easier with one exception, and that is right here, I can try get really close the USBC plug is and that is really really tight. So that's you need a really fine soldering iron and you need steady hands. But you don't have to put that on there though. You don't have to use the USB plug if you wanted to use one of these, now I've
got I got another one of these floating around over here. Let me just unplug it and uh, well, here he is. This is actually used with a with like a Raspberry pie and a odroid. Uh, it's the same thing. You've got this plug. It's got a USB plug on here. When you plug this USB plug into just say anything in the world wise, you can plug it that way. You can actually just run the Morse Monkey with this. With this FTDI cable and one of any old phone charger
adapter. You don't actually have to have this thing plugged into the PC. Now. You plug it into the PC in order to get the terminal up so that you can use the coke method and other things that have a terminal
in your face instead of just the display. Okay, yeah, if you if you are really faint of heart and you don't want to install that USB plug, you can get by with just the just the six pin, only five of which are used, and they're even labeled there too, black, black, red, brown, so you know which way to plug this cable in. Awesome, good, Okay, down, no other questions. Now continue on. I'll let you keep going. I have some more later,
but keep on going. Okay, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm going to do you do do here there, I'm gonna take these headphones and I'm going to plug them into my mixer that is feeding the tone generator. Now see if you can hear it. I'll pull one ear off. Now I can hear you guys on one ear, and I can hear the tone on the other. So we'll move on to the dictate mode. And this is they want you to key what it is that you read on the display.
So it gives you a five. So we need to key a five and we know and I am ic, we know that's it, and it tells me it's correct. Switch back to the to the view of the to the overhead view. I'm sorry, you're right, that's fine. I assume that's what you were thinking. That's what I was doing. Yeah, there we go. Okay, now it wants me to key a G. Anybody know what a G is? Dash dash dot dot dot dit I think, I think, hey, you got that right? Hey there I go.
I know one letter and then seven mm hmmm. So it's scoring you keeping and that's not right. So we got an incorrect there. When you're done, it tells you, hey, we got three right, and we failed once. Gotcha, so you can use that score yourself. We move on to the echo mode, and here all you do is repeat what you hear and it won't tell you what the letter is. Hm, Nope, I did that wrong, wrong side all right? Nopes, I got one right. It sounds like you're uh your iambic is king a little bit faster.
Yeah, the I am king a bit faster than the playback is. But it tells me. Now in this case, I only got one right and I failed four times. So the next one is the copy method. This one you don't use the key at all. This one you get out your trusty little piece of paper. It will play back a call sign. Now it's a randomly generated two y three call sign, and you're supposed to be able to write that down, figure out what the call sign is. It
will repeat it every ten seconds. Oh, you're done. It's WW six. Now it's WW one. I think whoops, Ah, I should not have done that. I'm sorry. We'll start with a new one because it randomly generates these. Yeah, this little dreamer says that was no, he's six W that's his call sign. He's making joke. When you're when you're
giving up. When you're done, tap the key here, either the key if you're using straight, or the long if you're using iambic, and it will tell you what it was it was generating in this case, KG one W T O. Now these are random. It'll always start with a K or a W, and the third one will always be a number. Other than that, anybody guessing the seconds behind my my listening skills are are where I need to practice the most. This copy would help you, then,
yes, yeah, this, this would help. This would be great. So when when we're done here, we're just tapped the key and it tells us that is what it was actually typing W and it doesn't score you because you're not actually telling it what you thought it was, right and uh. The next one is the Coke method, which we already went through, and that one requires cooked up to the car to the computer with the terminal so you can actually enter what it is you thought it was and it'll score you.
And that goes full circle to all the functionality that's in there. Cool. Good. I really like the copy. I think that will help out a lot of people. And I gave that suggestion to Scott. I think after talking to Mike, He's like, the hardest the hardest part about CW
sometimes is just copying the call signs. I'm like, well, that can be an easy mode here, yeah, because that was one of the first things you suggested was add that in there, and I thought, okay, let's let's give people a tool that they can practice taking down call signs as fast as possible and they're always going to be two by three call signs, so and always to with the KRW SID I give you a bit of a hint, and you didn't keep my menu name. It will say please copy
Kyle. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't use the Kyle, Please copy Kyle. That's good. Cool, Okay, Well, let's let's talk about the fact that we have a sale going on. There's so there's two versions, Yes, there's there's the original version and the new twenty twenty four version. And to my knowledge, Scott, the only difference is the USB plug or is there something else? No, it's pretty much the USB plug. Okay, what will Yeah, it's pretty it's the USB plug. Let me
open up okay this kit okays? The name the actually turn the screen back on to overhead. There you go and we'll open up this kit. This board just the original board functionally laid out the same size and everything. The only difference is that this connector does not connect to the serial connection on here. Okay, well, I'm sorry it does. I got this backwards. This does connect to the serial connection on here, but this connector does not
power the board. And also the difference is the USBC plug here, because what I've added right here is a little three point three volt regulator and bypassed capacitors so that you can power it from either one of these plugs. The older version of the board doesn't have that. But let me pull let me put this back in his bag. Here. I put together these little kits which I was hoping people would have an interest in, and nobody did. So what I want to do. This little kit is actually an add on
which you can use to replace the uh my right screen. Here you can use to replace the battery pack. So let me pull this thing up, and I'm throwing in these little kits because what you do. You can see the picture on the left, the battery pack has been removed and that kit has been mounted where the battery goes, and it's got in this case a USB Mini, not a USB C and it's also got the same five pin plug. So functionally, by adding this kit to the existing earlier version of
the board, it becomes functionally almost the same as the new board. Gotcha, Okay, the only difference being that in the new board you put this back in the center. In the new board you can power with batteries or with the adapter. If you put the adapter on the old board, you can't power with batteries anymore. And actually this switch now powers from batteries when it's up, powers from the exterior connectors when it's down. Okay, okay, good, that's awesome. Okay, well, we had one person order
already, so that before that goes to before that goes too far. So we're cleaning out, or Scott's cleaning out, I should say. The kits the last of the old version, so he's dropped the price on these. They're right here. This is the old version. So when you hit the drop down menu, which you guys can't see that in the screen, but if you click right here on original model you just got to trust me, you get a drop down menu. One says the original model one says twenty
twenty four model. You can see it when I change. So the twenty twenty four model is ninety nine dollars plus shipping. The original model was ninety five dollars plus shipping. We've got it lowered to seventy dollars. Now. I think you said you had eight left. Yes, there's eight left, and I'm just ready to move them out because I've got boards and parts for the new model. Gotcha okay, and got like forty five for fifty of the new model in so plenty of those. Yeah, so we're we're gonna
blow out the old models. And some one person has ordered an old model so far, so there's probably about seven left now. So if you guys are interested in this at all and you don't care about the USB C plug, I'm gonna give you direct link to it. There you go, Thomas, you're asking for the website again, Please shop dot Hamradio two dot com will take you there, And that link I just put in the chat will take you directly to the more Smonkey CW training kit And there we go.
That's that's how that works. Go ahead and bring up unseasoned Ham's question. Let's just clarify about the USB ports. Okay, let's see. Okay, there you go. Perfect, Okay, go ahead and read it for me. Okay, So I want to get back to the uh yeah, I want to get back to this right here. Okay. So just to clarify the USB connectors, many on the adapter board, USB C on the new revision are strictly for power and do not pass day to question mark. You
still need the ftd I cable for a serial link question mark. Yes, okay. One of the things I remember, Jason, you had asked me about using a USB micro, which most cobbues use these days. I was looking for a plug that would be USB micro. The only thing I could find was surface mount, and I knew that that would that would be a killer for most of the people wanting to do these projects. Yeah, I think you're better off with USB C. So instead I had to go with
the USB Mini. The Mini a lot less common on the board. You're still available, you can still find them, or the USB C, which I was able to find something that is through hole, although as you saw, the holes are really tight. Really yeah yeah, okay. Unfortunately, the only thing that USBC does is power. I'm not able to come up with a method for decoding the USB signal and turning it into a U are cereal signal. Gotcha, Okay, I wish I could. That would make
life easier. Probably, it's probably possible. It's just you know, there are but there are some chips that do that. Unfortunately. Guess what they are? Surface mount Oh yeah, okay, So you're trying to avoid the surface mounting. Understood, all costs I avoiding. I've had to do it myself. I've done several things on surface mount and as a friend of mine once told me, make sure you're fresh and your eyes are clear, and you've had no coffee. Yeah, true, true, Yeah, okay,
So I had the other question. Here's from a Dell. What is the serial looking cable connected to? It's just a USB cable that is plugged into my PC. He showed that earlier. Yeah, and I've got it here again. Let me pull it out again. I'm just whoops, my headphones are falling off. I'll just pull this off right here. Yeah, put it on me if you can. Sure. So we have the same little six pen adapter, only five are used. The other end is just a
USB host. This is a standard FTDI cable. The website tells you exactly which one to buy. In this case, it's a three point three vault adapter. But the output of this, because any USB uses five vaults, so I've got a five vault regulator on there. And it just shows up on your on your PC as a Calm one, calm five, whatever your PC decides to assign it. And as you pull up any terminal putty is a very common uh you are terminal to use and you just set it for
nineteen to two bad and eight one? Okayo? And several questions about words permitted. You can't up the speed to words permit it? Right? What is the the settings there? Again? We've got default is ten. Let me set this to eighteen and go back. What am I doing? You guys can't even see this. What just just run three of the different settings you have there for it? Well he showed that a minute ago, but
let's show it again again. Eighteen, six and ten. I use ten because I'm kind of a rookie of this and sometimes I can keep up with it. Six is really slow. Eighteen is one of the fastest ones. So if I set it to eighteen and I go back and I pull up practice mode and you can hear, Oh, there we go. You can hear how fast eighteen words permitted is a couple of them? Go back to six words permitted it. Oh that's that's hard. Yeah, let's yeah,
don't learn that way. Yeah. Yeah. The Coke method is supposed to be something like eighteen words a minute, but the gaps that are in between each character are longer to give you time to think about it, right? And can you up? So the eight seenes the highest? Is there a way to up it to like twenty or thirty two or another number? Those right now are are fixed computations that are in the firmware. Okay, that's what I was just kind of digging too. And is there freey printed cases?
Yes, Chris stevens w W three s w M because he just got his extra class license. Oh yeah, he's proud of his new call sign. He's got three D printable cases. He can he's actually I think he's will let people down load. Yeah he's in the chat. And yeah, he's in the chat. Chris. I said he's still working on the one
for the new model. I was trying to ask him to drop the link to just to the other ones and your what was it thing, a verse page or whatever for those three D printed repositories are so once it's updated, we can go ahead and look for it there. Okay, W three SWM Is that what you said? W three sw I remember someone had come up with a case for it, but I couldn't remember who it was, so
and let me step away. I think I've got his case around here, okay, somewhere, so well, once Scott's doing that, maybe this is a good question for you, Jason. How does this compare to the Moreserno. So it's I'm only used the more Sereno like twice, maybe three times. The good thing about the more Sereno is that you can connect it to the Internet and you can join like almost like a chat room, and you can practice with someone across the internet across an SSH tunnel, I think.
But however it connects it's across the internet, maybe even across a LOCALARIA network. I'm not sure this one does not do that. So that's important to you, then the more Sereno is a good choice. If not, then I think that this one's a little bit cheaper than the more Serena. I don't remember exactly. We built a more Sereno on Kyle's channel like two years ago. I still have mine over there. I haven't touched it in a while. But great kit, great kit, nothing wrong with it. But
I actually like the Worse Monkey better because it's it's one bias. Let's put it out there. Yeah. But on the other hand, it's all well, after you get a built, you don't need anything else other than the keyre so you can go ahead and work on when you're on the road and play with it, pull it out on the plane if you want to. And it's a nice all self contained kit, and especially with the newer features there added to the to the Morse Monkey. Man, it's it's it's amazing.
I I'm embarrassed to tell Chris that I misplaced it. I put it away someplace because I didn't want to lose it. And welcome to my life. I know, it's really cool. He did a really good job with it. The thing is, because I'm always doing development, I always have that exposed if for sometimes tweaking some things, so the result is that I don't use the case as much. Yeah. I did a quick Google search
for it and I'm not finding it. So if someone wants to send me a link to where that I think he said it was printibles in UH in the chat there, But someone wants to send me a link to it, I'll put it on the website so that people can just click on it from the website and go from there. But I can't. I can't find it with just a quick shirt search. I don't want to go into a Google deep diver. If you have it, yeah, if you have it and
send it to me and I'll put it on the website. But yes, I mean to answer the question, yes there was a print There is a three D printable case for this for the original version. So I'm dropping to the chat and I'm sending it to you separately, Jared Jason, and then you can dig to his main page. Yeah, okay boom. So Frank was talking about how biased he is about UH course monkey. I appreciate that
also. I don't know about uh the other one. But in this case, I've gotten feedback from two or three people, and I've used that to improve the version of the firmware in there and do updates. And if you get that same ftd I cable, you can actually reflash the device with updated firmware. Ooh nice. So yeah, that's how I was able to add the coke method. That's how I was able to add various settings on that.
That's how I was able to add the IAMBIC repeating mode. So I'm I'm always open to good suggestions on that, and when I have time, I try to make those improvements. And what I was doing in these couple of cases is I was sending them advanced copies of the firmware so that they could test it and give me feedback on it as well. Good. So an ongoing project. That's always good to hear. Mm hmm. I like it. I like it. That's all the questions I have about the Morse
monkey. Okay, yeah, unless you want to answer about, uh what what's your favorite whiskey? I'm I'm adding the I'm adding the link to the printbals dot com website to the to the website right now for the original Oh cool, for the original? Uh certain link right there? New window there? Okay, all right, save that? Okay, got that added real quick, real time. Okay, good, So that I think that I think it covered most of it. If if no one else has any questions,
then that's where it's at. It looks like there's still about six of the original models left, and when we sell those out, those will be gone. And then there of course there's plenty of the new model with the USB C adapter on it as well, but it's seventy dollars for the original model and about ninety nine dollars for the new USBC model. Yeah, it takes me about thirty minutes to assemble one. It took Frank how long?
How long? How long filming it? It was like an hour, but you know he had all the different shots and getting down close to the board and getting those awesome b roll angles that it was about an hour. I'm not fast on kit building, but I can. I can build a kit. In fact, I enjoy building kits, but but I take my I'm with them. I'm not trying to set any records. You're also not fast and antenna building. I don't know. I built several antennas, just not
the one that you're talking about. Hey, I need to take my tower down and adjust my forty meters because I'm getting bad SWR. It's a bit long. I had a tornado or not a tornado, wind ripped through and break off some of those elements. There were those mfjs, so I had them set up as like a dipole, and they got broken off in the wind. I brought the antenna down, screwed on the new ones or crew on the new connectors, put the antenna back up there, put the thing
up, and I noticed that my swrs really sucked. Now, well, you also skipped a point where you got it had a close lightning strike. Yes, yes, I did have a lightning strike too. Really wow. Fortunately, I every time one of those thunderstorms comes ripping through here, the first thing I do is I disconnect the kind of from my icon seventy three hundred good good idea. And but you had a in line of lightning arrestlers too that looks like they did their jobs. Oh, they did do their
jobs. And I've got two grounding rods there too. So del Fergus is asking if you sell pre assembled kids, He says, his eyes are getting bad. I have not sold any pre assembled kits. I think he's the second person who has ever asked for one. I suppose I could assemble one and sell it to him if he wants. We'd have to arrange some kind of an extra fee for the time to assemble it. But I could do that. I suppose he could contact you and you could put them in touch
with me and we could sure read something. Yeah, yeah, Dell reach out to me via email or discord, I'll put you in contact with Scott. We don't we don't want to share email addresses on a live stream. But yeah, totally these guys totally know me. Frank making kids what smells like chicken? Right, Well, if you haven't done that at least once, you haven't built enough kids yet. Som hmm. I mean that's my opinion. Anyway, I'm not sure where that comes from. Burning your skin
on the soldering art. Yeah, let's pick this up now. Al yeah, right, very true. Well cool, Well, thank you Scott for your time tonight. I appreciate the updates. It looks like it's really fun that you're taking suggestions and ideas from the community and implementing some of them.
You probably can't do all of them, and that's fine, but at least there's it's open to updates in that regard, which is which is very ham centric in my opinion, that you're you're able to do that sort of update to it, and and now that people can do their own firm or updates, you know, they they've got an existing kit, so they you make a change and they can update it themselves. Because I remember on the on the very first kids that was you had to send a chip back or something
like that. I think there's about fifteen of them that didn't have the ability to update the new firmware. Yeah I did. I did do some trade outs with a few people. I didn't hear from everybody, And I was tracking the serial numbers from those first fifteen kids. So maybe they were just happy with it, or maybe they just never got around to assembling them. Yeah maybe, Okay, well either way, I mean it is sometimes that
happens. Sometimes you got multiple kids sitting on your shelf you haven't assembled yet. So yeah, I know that feeling too. Yeah, so good deal. All right, Well we're gonna call it quits there. Like, my throat's getting a little bit, just a little bit dry, a little bit sore. It's probably just allergy stuff, but it's it's all good. So before you go go ahead, fin en off. Yea, now it's not me. Several people in the question chat are asking how is the subscribers going.
Yeah, I saw Dawn ask that, so it seems like we're getting there. The problem is that when I get a couple three four dozen people sign up, I usually lose ten to twenty. So people sign up and unsubscribe from the email list constant. It's a constant game of sign up and unsubscribe. So if everyone would quit unsubscribing, we would have passed twenty thousand by now. So I'm making a push to get my email list to twenty
thousand subscribers and then I'm going to do a giveaway. So if you're not interested in giveaway, then unsubscribe, because it's keeping everyone else from the giveaways. Starting from everyone else took. Yeah, I think we're around like nineteen four, nineteen five something like that right now. Last time I look, but I haven't looked in a few days. So yeah, the reason I am getting new sign ups, but I'm also getting new dropouts, so that's
why it hadn't quite crossed twenty. But that's it. So that's it, man, okay, man, all right, we'll let you go. Thanks for having me you bet Scott, thank you once again. The links to that we talked about in the are all in the live chat. When I end the stream, I will put them in the description of the video. You guys can go check that out just by amateur radio dot com and it's it's right there on the front. But but I will put it in the
description anyway, so that you guys can go check that out. So thanks Scott, and uh, we'll catch up again in a few months, for six months something like that, or maybe if you have a new revision before then, and we'll do this all over again, because these were always very well received. Well, I haven't got any new revisions in the pipeline, but people are asking me, what else could you come up with? Yeah, yeah, I don't have any other ideas right now besides the Morse code
trainer. So okay, well that's fine. It's working well for you. So thank you, thank you much for your time. All right, thanks, all right, see you guys. All right,