Well , hello , good evening everybody and welcome to another Live Free and Ham livestream . Woohoo , woohoo . We are glad to have everybody here . Hopefully , you know , we're enjoying the holidays . Santa was good to you , you know , or maybe Krampus was good to you , you never know , depending on how you celebrate there .
But we are here and we are doing our first annual Sh annual shack roast , which we are super excited about . We have got a big lineup tonight so we're going to be diving in that a little bit . So you know , if you came here for that action , sit back and relax .
We got a couple of formalities to kind of go through , but you know I'm stoked guys , I don't know about you . You ready to rock and roll with that stuff ?
Oh , I'm ready to disrespect some hams and their shacks . I've been waiting all year for this . Uh-oh , he's got that smile .
Well , we've got some guys that are hanging out with us . We've got Tim Grayman Porter there and Jeff , who is currently invisible to us at this moment , but we'll work out those video issues , um , but , uh , you know . So , like I said , this is our first annual shack roast .
We are going to keep doing this every year because we feel like it's a really cool thing to do . It's fun , um , and all of our shacks always evolve .
If you've listened to our podcast , you know we did an episode on that and we got a lot of feedback from a lot of folks and they were super ecstatic to , you know , show their shacks and show their pride and have conversations around it . So we figured , why not ?
Let's take this up a notch and , you know , give away some free stuff for the , for your pain and sorrow . You know it's kind of the way it works . So , before we get into that , let's kind of talk a little bit about some of the other stuff that we like to do with formalities . Here .
We're going to , you know , kind of change up our shows , where you're maybe used to , you know , from our podcast and , you know , youtube channel , but , as always , if you haven't been over to livefreeandhamcom forward slash shop .
That's our shop there , you know , and we've been stocking that full of stuff both for Christmas and going into the new year , coming up with some really good designs . You know , mike N2MAK has kept us on our toes , coming up with some great slogans and and one liners there that were just pouring into some designs . So keep an eye on that and check it out .
But you know , just to kind of highlight a few things , obviously Todd is is wearing our you know , one of our classic Liffre and Hams , as well as mine , but Paul is sporting our new beanie tonight . I mean , I'm impressed with this thing . This says it all . This speaks volumes to us . So we're super excited to have that in the storefront .
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What we really mean is it's our banter back and forth and we just kind of leave those that get the polished episode get to not experience all of the stuff that's left on the cutting room floor . If you want to hear all of the side stuff in the backgrounds and all of our ailments , we should retitle it 80 meters .
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So , yeah , head on over there , check that out and then , as I've teased before and as we continue to kind of promote this a lot more , if you haven't gotten over to gethammedcom and if , paul , while I'm chit-chatting here about it and explaining if you want to pull up that website , if this is the first time you're hearing about it , get Hammed is our website .
It's tied to Liffrey and Ham but it's just kind of like a little pet project we've been doing . What it is is like you know , hey , you're if you're like me , you're driving out in your busy day and whatever you're , you know , scanning the horizon , you're driving down the road , you're , you're .
You notice that truck up ahead of you or that car , that pickup , you know , and they've got antennas on your truck and on their car and you're like , hey , I know , those are ham antennas . And you're like , dude , I so badly want to say , hey , I recognize you . I see your antennas in the parking lot . Um , or you know you might be like me .
You get to a . You know you're out shopping with the wife on the weekend and you're like , you pull into the parking lot and right before you get a chance to wander into the uh store , wherever you're going , you're scanning the parking lot , looking , looking for those hams , and I know I want to show them . You know , hey , I recognize that .
You've got some cool antennas on your car or your truck or your vehicle . And I was thinking , you know , hey , I could put my QSL card there . And I'm like , eh , I haven't even built the QSL card yet , you know . So at this point that was kind of hard .
So I'm now leavingies and on the bottom of every hammy is a small little disc that says you know , you've got hammed and there's a little field in there that you can put your call sign on and gives them the web address and you can just place these on .
You know the windshield on the , you know anywhere on the vehicle that the owner can find it , you know , and kind of just show him or her that . You know , hey , we noticed your vehicle . You know , kind , sir , and you're doing a great job . You know , as Tim , you know sort of . You know he's a big , you know overlander guy . He knows that .
You know that they have the ducks for the Jeeps . Do they have anything for the ?
Broncos so they tried doing something like that in the community and they got slapped down pretty quickly . We care about branding our Broncos , making stickers and doing fun things like that . We told the people to leave the bath toys at home . We don't want to leave them in the bathroom .
Well , the good news is you can't put these in the bathtub . They're too small . They might go down the drain , but in essence they're perfect size . And us from the ham community , I tell you , man , I've plopped a bunch of these on cars and I can't tell you how many times I've seen people get in and get up to their door and see these on the handles .
I'm like what the hell is this ? And then they realize it and you know , as folks starting to get this out in grassroots and start doing it , we've got a couple of guys down in North Carolina that have been dropping these on cars and they've been sending us photos and tagging us on the social . So you know , we we say keep on coming .
You know , this is something really cool to just kind of promote the ham radio community . And you know I don't know no one else has done it . And I and you know I don't know no one else has done it I think it's a cool idea .
So if you think it's a cool idea , you can always head over to livefreeandhamcom , forward , slash shop or get hammed and you can pick up your own set of hammies there . Or if you're more ambitious and you want to do something on your own .
I don't own the market on it , so I'm more than happy to show you what you need to do and too , as well , and just spread the love . That's really kind of what I'm looking for , and go ahead , fire away , man .
I think you know , in this day and age , social media and everything like that create a contest , create a promotion where people who give those if they secretly hide somewhere and videotape when somebody finds that one and then to capture the best reactions I love it , man bring those in here and and do like you're doing with the shack thing , but but make a ,
you know , like a highlight reel of of those buddy , you mentioned that we are working on a grassroots thing already now with that .
so you're , dude , you're on the same wavelength . You and I are connected , man , we are , you know we are . So we , we definitely got some interesting ideas .
We were thinking about even going to I think Todd came up with the idea you taught her , paul where we were going to put a little tracker in a one of the little pigs and just lease it out in five of them , five or six out in the wild , and we're going to track it like we track Santa Claus and see how far that pig makes it claws and see how far that
pig makes it .
Yeah , like geocaching exactly , and it's buttocks somewhere in there .
Yes , we will play around with that idea . So we've got some of these things to brew in to kind of build some excitement . But yeah , we're on the same way like tim , I'm totally with you on that . That's awesome idea .
I think paul mentioned the uh , the geo trackers for uh , for geocaching , things that you can scan and then move them to another cache and then somebody else finds it and scans it and moves it to another one and you can watch its progression throughout the process .
Exactly , that would be totally cool . We'll just have a full website where people can watch where hammy number one has made its way across the United States or halfway around the world or all the love . So , exactly as Jeff says , it's like where's George Totally , or where's Waldo , what are the two ? Cool , all right ?
Well , so , like I said , you can head over to get hamcom check that stuff out , and you know we'd love to have you guys continue to . You know fuel , that fire Sounds like fun . So , as we usually do in our every episode , we've got our you know do good and you know you got mail episodes . So we're going to forego that .
But you know we're going to throw out there just as an option to the audience . And you know we put this to Todd . You know we said do you want to do your something extra ? Because you know he's on the study test . He's been saying no .
So we need to hear it from the chat there If you want to hear you want us to do the something extra episode here before we get into the Shack roast . You know , put a one in the chat there . Let us know that you want to hear him . See , paul's already fueling the fire there .
So yeah , put a one in the chat there , real quick , and once I wrap up here , then we'll see if , whether or not the consensus is , everybody will do the something extra there . So with that let's kind of dive into our usuals . So I always want to ask , and obviously you guys , jeff and Tim , you guys are our guests here tonight .
So we usually like to ask everybody hey , how's your ham radio week ? It doesn't have to be ham radio specific , although that's the cool part about it . So we'll start with you , tim , how's been your ham radio week ? Anything interesting ? Um and uh , you know the floor is all yours , sir uh , not much .
I just put a video out on the atos 120 and good video it's . It's been getting some , uh , some mixed reactions , uh , for and against . It wasn't necessary .
I wasn't trying to compare it to a wire antenna , other than the fact that , uh , when , when you balance the speed and ease of deployment , like it's already there , versus putting out a wire antenna when it's cold outside not not as cold as you guys are , I'm I'm happy with it . Right , and that's that's really what I was looking at .
Was that you know it's it's to keep the the train rolling in the cold months and kind of the inverse of it . Like I mentioned in the video , mike , down in Texas it's like 120 degrees at 7 o'clock at night in the shade . He uses it more in the summertime for kind of the opposite to stay in the car and stay cool . But yeah so that's been doing good .
And uh , oh , my , my wife and I are going away um monday and tuesday over to a little , uh , artsy , fartsy community . What would she ?
oh yeah , there's a , there's a park over there , you can go do a poda ah , she's like my wife , she does the same thing's like how do we coincide parks and and my activities at the same time ?
What she doesn't know is there's about 13 . Oh , he's over there . Somebody will be doing a row . Gotcha , I'm all good so but yeah , no , she's fine , she'll take a couple of books and she'll just let me do my thing . So nice yeah .
So that was awesome . Yeah , I have to say your your ATAS video . I've gotten halfway through it because once again , you not to say it's click baity , but that line you know in your title . I was like man , I have an ATAS 120 . I love my ATAS .
No one , you know you're going to rip it out of my dead cold hands before I kind of give it up , type antenna , and so I'm looking forward to watching the rest of it . But yeah , don't let the cat out of the bag , we'll definitely be interested to see how it ends . Sounds good , cool , all right . Hey , jeff , we don't see you .
You're currently a ghost to us , but are you there ?
Do we have at least your audio ?
He's on YouTube , so anyone everyone's watching YouTube , they can see him . We just can't see him .
I see him in the stream yard . Oh , you do Okay .
All right , I just do not see his facial expression , so anyway , Jeff , Right now Eric yeah . How is your ham radio week , Jeff ? What's been going on ?
Hello , it's been going . Super Tuesday I did the . I dropped a video that I had for about a year now about QRM on a regional repeater . Wednesday I went out did a pod activation to a new park I haven't been to yet . Well , it's not a new park , it's just I haven't been there yet , been to yet .
Well , it's not a new park , it's just , I haven't been there yet . It's across the uh state line in the uh great state of uh , the people's democratic republic of maryland .
Um took out my brand new ft-891 and knocked out 10 and 20 meters , had a blast , made some awesome dx contacts and uh awesome DX contacts and that'll be content for a video two videos probably coming up .
Very cool Now , knowing where you're coming from . You were FX4CR guys . You're now in the 891 world . How's the feeling Are ?
you okay and content with the fact that you've gone from 20 to 100 ?
Oh yeah . I started with a 991 pre-alalpha a 991 pre-alpha , until I let the magic smoke out of it somehow .
Then , uh right away , drove up to the , the local ham radio outlet . It's only about 30 minute drive for me and I picked up a dx10 uh , the manager talked me into that versus a 991a glad he did . Great freaking radio . Um , actually both radios are good .
Um , being , I'm , more experienced ham , I thought it'd be kind of better to go that way and I like the sound much better sound coming out of that radio oh yeah , I just got tired of lugging that big thing around for parks on the air , so I went down to the g90 and the fx4 cr . Um , going back to 100 , 100 watts is nice .
Um , I had a lot of time yet uh , wednesday , as I was off work , didn't have to be anywhere . My only concern was um , nature calling um and being locked into the park , so I had to make sure I was out before uh , that time .
Uh , but I was able to sit there for , like it was like hour , 15 minutes maybe I think it was um , maybe almost two hours and got a whole bunch of contacts . It it's nice in having those pileups again , I wouldn't say that I miss them .
I had smaller pileups when I was on like 5 watts and 20 watts , but being at 100 watts , it is going back to something that I used to do , so it's kind of familiar . Lots of fun , though of familiar .
Lots of fun , though definitely lots of fun yeah , you know it's funny pileups like especially if you haven't done pod in a while or you've like been at the QRP level and you go to something like that .
You know I I've taken my FX4 CR and expected the reverse , where I'd be like all of a sudden you know where's all the pileups and you know it's just a different beast . And so you know , I sympathize and understand and but I love my 891 yeah , yeah , um , it is a lot different .
I was never expecting to have huge pileups . I was kind of glad not to have big pileups . Um , I'd have smaller ones , which is fine . I'd have smaller ones , which is fine . I'd have a few people call me at once with the FX4CR . But if people want to move along and not wait their turn , then I'm more than happy to grab someone else instead .
I mean , I can only talk to one person at a time . I cannot call like five call signs and talk to all of them at once .
Not try hard enough time . I cannot call like five call signs and talk to all of them at once not trying hard and had a better memory , I can say hey , ab1234 .
Uh , this is what picked out five call signs . It's like you're all five , nine at the spark , have a good day . Seven , three . Then you hear 73 , 73 , 73 , sorry , three , I I don't think that's possible , but but never I ever say , have you ?
have you worked , james PZN yeah . I've worked too many times okay , that guy has got a steel trap for a memory , and and he can do that , he'll just rip them . That is a people that trade .
I wish I could get , like I really wish I could keep the call sign . Like I only get like a variation of it , like that would be an ultimate superpower for me to have .
I swear I'm going to have to sit with him while he's doing it , but I swear he'll hear like five call signs and he'll just bang , bang , bang bang right after another . And I think he I don't know if he's hearing the letters or hearing the voice or a little bit of both , but he , he does a phenomenal job with that .
Yeah , he does , I did . He actually came here to Delaware and I did meet up with him and hung out with him and all those guys hung out with a few or a few of them before too down in Maryland , but we didn't have a huge pileup , but they'd call their all their local , their normal people , so it was a lot of fun .
I have problems remembering like at least one , maybe two letters of a call sign that I heard and told them to wait , and then when I come back around to them after that one contact , I forgot the letters . I'm like whoever whoever I said to wait one minute , come now you're not alone .
We all .
We all suffer from crs like whoever else was on there calling me out , come now just come slowly I .
I used to do something . I had that same problem too . So I usually , if I hear park to parks , I'll say say you know a park to park . I heard you one second please . I'll go finish my QSO and then I'll go back right to the park to park . It's easy to remember , because it's easy to remember park to park than it is .
It is .
I'm trying to three letters or two letters out of somebody's call sign .
I definitely think from an activation point .
Or if it's a DX station , you just say DX station and hopefully they come back to you . Hopefully they're not also trying to still make contact when you told them to wait the first time , the first time and the second time and the third time Been there done that .
It's like when you hear someone you say hold on a second , and then right after that you hear them tuning up on you . It drives me nuts .
It someone you say hold on a second and then like , right after that you hear him tuning up on you . It drives me nuts . It's like really , dude , like I know it's you , I just hear the call times over and over again yeah , okay , well , so so we all can't live like you .
Uh , you know , I don't have the capabilities to run so2r , you know , while on a park bench . Yeah , chris has got the van there . If anybody knows Lost Nation Radio , he's the one with the van that probably if he went to Dayton , he was there with his van , and so that van is decked out with a kilowatt in terms of power and a bunch of other radios .
He can run SO2R to the hills all day . The reason the hills all day drones .
The reason we have all those drones flying around is they're attracted to his van , to his van you have a flex , so nothing's stopping you from doing so2r in the park through that of course .
Well , he's already got it with him , it's in the van . I'm talking about you , though you can flex in the back of the truck and I think if I'm going that way , I'm going the wrong way in terms of direction , but it is . It is attractive if I can actually have a trailer I could pull behind me with my two flexes in it .
If I had two flexes , I won right now . But anyway , cool , all right . Well , sweet , sounds like some good stuff there , jeff . Uh , looking forward to the future videos there . So , uh , over to you , paul . How is your ham radio week doing bud ?
hey , you know what ? Uh , my ham radio week has actually been pretty good . Um , I had a . I had a nice rag chew on 40 meters yesterday with a gentleman in connecticut , um , which is kind of cool because , you know , obviously , like 40 meters is one of those few bands that we can use to to communicate within new England . So , yeah , so that was .
That was neat . I got to play frequency frenzy FTA poker for the first time . Wow , that was exciting . How'd you do ? I think I had one top five finish out of the three rounds . So not bad for my first time , cool .
Okay , all right . Well , way to represent Cool , all right . So anything else Does it sound like ? That takes the cake for sure .
No , that was it . You know , that was just the highlights of the ham radio aspects of the week .
Very , cool , All right . Well , we'll throw it over to you , Mr General . Still a general . Go ahead . How's your memory ? Week bud .
It's been going good . I've been studying sections one through six . Through six . I'm at an 86 . I took the test only studying one through six and I got a 50 , so that means I'm getting better .
Um , but uh , yeah , so uh , I did find out that when I did my last park when I was in arkansas a couple weeks ago , I forgot to put the um what wattage I was using on the app , so it saved all my , all my parks or all my contacts without the wattage .
So I have to go through my I don't think that's not a requirement for podo . It doesn't matter , no , no , it doesn't , just for my main log .
It just looks stupid when everything has a different wattage and then it just is blank .
Todd , what log are you ?
using 10-3 FJP . Yeah , for the main one , and then I'm using the what's the one . We're using 10-3 FJP .
Yeah .
I think you can do a bulk update on all of those . You can just go from top to bottom . Yeah , and just hit 100 .
Just select the ones you want . Don't do a select all and then update every contact with the park .
What I said off the bottom , I meant from your first contact don't ask how I know , but whatever , yes yeah , so , and so I was uh because of tonight , I uh I had to take a picture of my shack so I had to clean it up a little bit , and uh , I just had the radio on and then I just flipping through and I got a couple of parks .
Uh , you know , hunting , I haven't done that in a while , so I did a little bit of that . And uh , talking on the repeater , and uh , when I'm driving to and from work and uh , that's about it .
So very cool , sound like . Uh , you still got okay , all right , what all right ? Well , how was your week ? Wonderful , todd , I , you know my ham radio week's doing . Well , I , uh , let me see . I actually a couple of things .
I we had to take the dog , their groomer , so I usually head over to my , you know , silver lake , uh , destination and set up and I ran the atas and I was like my first go-to and this is always the way I play is like I always start on 20 and this time the , the amateur , amateur radio god said no tune , tune to 10 meters .
And so I tuned to 10 meters and literally I think after 25 minutes I had over 35 , 40 contacts . I mean it was crazy how live 10 meters was . And of course I'm in the pile up and I hear this VE6LK , and I'm like okay , ve6lk , and then kind of just go to the front and then all of a sudden the light bulb goes off , ding , oh , it's vince .
And I'm like , oh well , I should have been a lot more cordial instead of just like seven , you know , you're five , nine here in new hampshire , seven , you know , in park , blah , blah , blah , and he's just like he kind of caught the wind , it's all right .
I worked rob in arkansas and I didn't even realize I worked him until he blew right over him he's like oh , I worked you , I'm like you did I feel like I jeff or eric .
I think I did that with you one time where you , you called me when I was in a park and I didn't realize it was you and I I took it to heart .
Trust me , she doesn't know my call .
No , it's okay you know you hear people online .
We're talking like this through a zoom or a , you know , a stream yard or something like that , but until you hear them over the air on sideband there's a slight difference in it , and you don't always pick up on that yep , yeah , or you know your hunt , your your frequent hunters that hunt you all the time , just by their call or the rhythm , like I I had .
There's one bruce guy that I know all the time and , uh , you know , I don't know if he's a you know youtube watcher , but you know he . I have him in so much of my log . It's crazy . He literally finds me every time I'm out hunting . I could go for months not doing a park activation .
I think I only did that once . I think there are dedicated hunters out there who look for and know that there's going to be specific activators out at certain times and they've got a list of people that they run through , whether that's written down or just a mental note or whatever . Because I'm the same way . I mean I'll go out on like 7 o'clock .
Well , when the late shift started at 8 pm Eastern , I'd start out at 7 and run until about 8.30 . And I would hear the same . They just stacked up , lined up ready to go , and this is what Rob has to say to you .
Todd , that's for Rob .
Tim , you've got to be in the hams of note by this point In polo . Yeah , yeah .
Yeah as a YouTuber , yeah , yeah , alright .
Yeah , I knew I broke through the ceiling when mine started showing up . I was just like , okay , apparently Cool .
Well , yeah , I don't know if Sebastian remembers , but I am the unofficial , official , unofficial ambassador of Polo and Ham 2K . Okay .
Official unofficial official .
Official unofficial official unofficial official unofficial ambassador of Ham 2K Self-appointed .
No , no , no , no , I've got it in an email from Sebastian .
I love that log . That by far is my favorite .
Oh , Paul is great .
It's awesome , and nothing against Hammers .
I did a video a while back when Hammers blew up on me twice in the middle of an activation . I had to switch to paper really quick and nothing against it . But jerk was just busy and life gotten away and and the program was was falling behind and um , so I I did that video and and I drew a little bit of iron too .
But he's , hey , he's back , he's , he's uh he's making good stuff he's hey , he's back . He's , he's uh , he's making good stuff . Yeah , and and and more power to it .
The more , the more the merrier , yeah . Well then , the more loggers that are starting to appear on the the scene tend to to draw those you know , guys that have been living in the place of , like , hey , yeah , I'm the best logger and you know out into the open to start doing more I .
I'm sorry , but the 1990s UI look is gone . I said this the other night . My demographics on my channel when I first started and I complained about this 55 and up . I'm 53 . So my demographics much older than me by by far .
And I'm like we're all the young people because that's really what I want to attract , not not necessarily into ham radio but into electronics , into thinking for yourself and doing stuff and building things and having fun and so much of amateur radio .
And I think in the last six months that has now my , my 50% of my audience is below the age of 50 now and that wow , it's good . Good for you , man you have to share the science there .
I I still struggle with the 50 to 59 .
So I stopped making videos for old people we'll have to .
We'll have to talk shop here , because I'm curious to see what that magic thing is .
It's eight to 12 minutes .
Oh , so it's just short , short , short TikToks , got it Not ?
TikToks , you can still do long form videos , but breaking it up in a way that and and picking topics that are relevant and not worrying about having to explain all of the details behind it , you've got time for follow-up if they want , if you want to , if you want to get so .
My niece , who's 11 or 12 today , told me that youtube I . I showed her , I said I'm on youtube . She didn't believe me , so I showed her . We're having breakfast this morning and I and I said you want to watch it ?
and she's like , no , that's too long , I only watch shorts so if you want to get the young kid , we got to do the little you know three minute videos , if that 30 seconds , and that is a very , very , very fair analysis of of the young kids .
They , they don't care about all the stuff in between , they just get me to where I need to be right now . If it's something that's interesting to them , they'll come back and learn .
They really will , and I think we have done such a bad job educating kids , thinking that you kids , young people , people have to know all this stuff and this is the only way you can learn it , because this is the way that's been taught for 100 years , and we're just now starting to see that kids can learn a lot differently and much more effectively in all
kinds of manners , and YouTube is one of those right or or just this electronic medium that we're using , uh , and it is the classroom of tomorrow and we uh , we all can be hot-headed , for sure I don't know who you are russ woodman russ is the uh one of the hosts of the lennox uh ham radio in the shack podcast .
So , uh , Russ and I go , we , we've been chit chatting hanging out . He was on our episode a couple of uh shows ago , so it's good to see him there in the chat and he's actually one of the participants .
So you know , get into semantics of all the stuff we love to do , because I know people are dying to finally see whether or not todd because we did have a bunch of ones are we , are we officially gonna pull the trigger ?
yeah , go for it .
there was more than 10 , all right , well then , we'll pull the trigger here . So , all right , we'll kick it off . And now for something a little extra with Todd W1STJ . I know I've got to fix the picture . Give me some time . All right , so you've heard it here .
You know the editing crew is a little bit behind here , but this is where we help Todd study for his extra class license , and each episode we pick three questions from the extra class question pool to test his knowledge and hope he gets his upgrade .
As always , you can follow along at hamstudyorg , which is a great resource and helps you prepare your test and is recommended by three out of four volunteer examiners , because the arl is never available for comment at the time of this survey so without any further delay , I hand it over to our ve quiz master . Take it away , paul all right todd .
So , since we have done so well with sub elements one through six , let's try .
Come on sub element number seven because it's a special night .
Well , with sub elements one through six , let's try Come on Sub element number seven , because it's a special night .
So your first question for the evening Live what logical operation is performed by a two input exclusive NOR gate ? Is it A ? Easy , oh well , all right , let me let me read them all . A it produces zero at its output only if all inputs are zero . B it produces a one at its output only if one and only one input is zero .
C it produces a one at its output only if one and only one input is zero . C it produces a one at its output only if all inputs are one or . D it produces a zero at its input if one and only one of its inputs is one . So I heard that B real quick .
And so what do you think it is ?
I don't know it's B . Alright , well , I'm going to say one . I know Nor's . Yeah , I think it's B .
It's got to be C there .
Oh man , it's not C either .
Oh my , this is a trick question . It's not even A . Is it even D ? It's D I got it .
It produces a zero at its output if one and only one of its inputs is one .
So this question is tricky .
At first glance it seems to be asking about NOR gates , and the previous explanation cited that description . However , note the word exclusive . That means an X NOR gate , which is defined as a high output . One results if both the inputs to the gate are the same . If one , but not both are high . A low output of zero results .
That's an AND gate .
You're a huge embarrassing failure .
That's an AND gate .
That definition that they just gave is an AND gate .
They gave a wrong definition for the right answer . Oh man , Well , we'll have to submit that one to uh the all right , yeah , call richard on that one .
He probably changed him just to screw me up . Go ahead , all right , todd . Question number two how frequently must an analog signal be sampled to be accurately reproduced ? A At least half the rate of the highest frequency component of the signal . B At least twice the rate of the highest frequency component of the signal .
C At four times the rate of the highest frequency component of the signal or . D at the same rate as the highest frequency component of the signal .
Get a little music there , so Todd has a pause .
Well , you can't think without the music . True right , but we keep forgetting that .
I'm going to take the test online and Paul is going to be like I'm like , can I have the music please ?
Do V's make a special purpose ? Uh , exceptions , I have no idea .
I haven't seen this question yet in my studying , but I'm going to go with B .
Uh yeah , we're all B . I'm going to be .
B is correct job , finally one . So , uh , the explanation is the fundamental mathematical limitation of digital signal processing , called the nyquist theorem . In order to properly reproduce a sampled signal , it must be sampled at a rate , called the Nyquist rate , at least twice as high in frequency as the highest frequency component of the signal .
Okay , sure , I believe you .
This is where .
I sat and I studied on the toilet .
That's . All that matters is you get 37 correct .
It doesn't matter , you get 137 . What do they call the guy ? The guy that scored the lowest in the medical school class ?
Doctor . All right , todd for the third and final question of the evening . What are the major spectral impurity components of direct digital synthesizers ? Is it A Broadband noise , b , digital conversion noise , c , spurious signals at discrete frequencies , or D Harmonics of the local oscillator ?
I've never seen this .
I haven't seen this one either , but I'm going to go with C .
Yeah , spurious , I love that word .
Spurious .
All right .
All right , yay , c is correct . Oh no , that's the wrong buzzer . What are we ?
talking about . I don't know what's the button over I , I , you did better than me there you go well , but so todd yes , yes , you know what that means .
Todd's favorite shirt , all right and song . Well , dude , you know you can't bat a thousand all the time .
I mean you've been doing fine up to this point that was pretty good for using the way I think and getting two out of two ones that I ever saw before you know , and and having 24 people all staring at you while you're trying to get the right answer yeah , the pressure it's insane .
It would have been bad if I got all three wrong I think that would have been a first I know we might have to cancel this episode , the section , altogether , because we're not helping .
All right , we'll wrap this up on here . So if you're on your journey to studying for your technician , general or extra class license , in that case hamstudyorg is an excellent resource for getting your ticket , and if you've recently received your license or upgrade , let us know . And so I don't know if she's watching , but we've got .
I know a recent licensee was a Kim Cates . Tim's wife finally got her ticket . I can't all signs escaping me at the moment , so forgive me on that one , kim , but she just recently got her ticket .
So we've been super excited in our club to see her get her ticket because she's been hanging out and she was doing some 10 meters tonight , made her first contacts yeah , she's , she's , you know , as you all know , if you know tim , he's been on our episodes for a lot and tim , literally , is the the epitome of doing everything a technician can .
I'm sure kim will do the same thing before she gets her general . All right , well , so let's get into our uh , you know , theme of the night .
So before I do that , I'm going to head it over to Paul , because all you guys , I know , are here waiting for the shack roast , and so we are super excited to do this as our annual shack roast this year , and we're going to do this every year . So , you know , make sure you mark it on your calendar , pay attention .
We're going to be doing this once a year year , usually right around the same time , because we enjoy doing it and it's always a blast , and hopefully we'll see repeats from year over year and your shack might be improving you never know . So , without further ado , let's hand it over to our , you know , shack .
Um , I don't know what do you want for your title there ? My friend , you know you are official , uh , mc of the night in terms of the terms of letting us know what the rules are , and then we'll just kick this thing off and dive right into it .
All right . Well , I'm honored to be the Shackmaster MC of the evening Shack .
So , as you see , behind me we have a live scorecard , and so everybody that it's submitted has their name and their call sign listed , and then we've got our five judges , and there are five categories per contestant , and so the each , each category gets a score of zero through ten , zero being the absolute worst and 10 being phenomenal .
And then , uh , the , the the score sheet will update as we all input our our responses , and it will give a total for each judge and a total for all the judges , and the rules are anything goes , especially on category number five , which is the judge wildcard , and so you can pick whatever you like out of their shack and you can judge solely on that one
wildcard thing that you want to rate , and that is category number five . So it's going to get interesting , can ?
it go either way . Can it be something you hate about the shack and ?
and you throw a zero in there , absolutely yeah , it could go in many different directions .
And so with that , you know , once we kind of total up all of the uh points , we're going to award , um , you know a number of uh winners and you know they'll get to pick uh from anything in . You know the , you know in our store there . So we're opening the gates wide .
So if you , you know rank points wise , and I will go over who's the winners , the top three , and or are we doing this by category ? Paul , is that going to be how we're going to do it ?
so the , the winner of each category yeah , we could do winner of each category Okay .
So you got one of five chances to be able to , you know , get locked in and become you know the , you know the all time you know best in terms of our five categories .
And you know we'll make sure you know we announce you there and you know you'll'll get a free , free pick on anything in our ham , in our ham radio store , like we own ham radio outlet , or something , uh , in in the livefreeandhamcom shop store . So without further ado , shall we ? Let's go . Okay , so we are going to .
I guess that was that's our first one is is is Russ , so I'm going to throw out here . Uh , we'll pull him up here . So this is a Russ's submission . Uh , k five T U X . So give it a little quick background . Russ is , uh , one of the hosts of the uh ham radio . Uh , uh , lennox ham radio .
Uh , man , I'm just screwing this , my tongue is getting tied up . Lennox in the ham shack podcast Uh , we had him on a couple episodes ago . Russ and crew are a great bunch of guys and gals to hang out with . I always love his wife's recipes , but this is his shack and his submission , so I will leave this to you .
Anything you know that blatantly stands out to you guys , you know , in terms of any of the categories that you know , you might want to just shed some light on .
Well , all right . So category number one is neatness , cleanliness and organization . Okay , Just look at that .
Would you look at it ? I'm impressed . All of his Rubik's Cubes are all color-coded on the right side so that's impressive .
That middle one I'm going to call Shane , it's on the middle one . Oh , middle one I'm going to call Shanigan's on the middle one .
Oh yeah , true , it's a little bit off . It looked like it was removed sticker-wise .
Exactly . It's got the OCD in me already twitching Look at the pipe collection .
I like the pipe collection .
I'm going to do a little zooming here .
There we go , would you ?
look at that if I can zoom in . Yeah , there we go . Zoom in over here , oh , yeah , would you look at that , there we go . Yeah , the pipes are very well organized , uh , you know , and clean . I'll give them that they're definitely not like old tobacco in there and you know dust of tobacco . So what's it ? What's it what the penguin in the chat .
What's your , uh , what's your favorite brand of pipe tobacco ?
yeah , yeah , go ahead in the chat for us . I know you saw you in the chat there . Yeah , so you were saying , with what's with the lennox clock there , paul , uh , todd , is that what you're referring to ? Oh now , we just lost todd . There we go , let guys see it up there .
He's got a couple of TARDISes and one of those sweeping angels .
Let me go . Oh , yes , I do see over here in the corner . Let me go back in a little bit more here . Yeah , okay . So we got a bunch of TARDISes , the angels . I'm curious to see what these all are . My guess is previous . It's like a floppy disk holder , they could be , they very much could be .
I think we're going to have to deduct points , though , for having such a small ham clock .
Yeah , true , yeah , that is , you know . And the location of the small ham clock too as well .
That's a big thing for me , I don't even have a ham clock , so to me I can't deduct him for that , but I can deduct him . What is that ? Is that a penguin clock ? That is a penguin clock .
That's a Lennox Tux clock . So that's an official Lennox ham clock . I can't deduct points for that , because he obviously is a Lennox aficionado .
Is that the Lennox symbol ?
Yeah , that's a Tux Penguin for Lennox From all this .
That's cool .
I'm curious why , and I still don't understand which episode is this ? This is the Steve Martin episode , but which one ? I can't quite put my finger on . It like and is it . Maybe that's the jerk .
That's what I was thinking , but it didn't look like it because it looks too new for the two young , not not young enough to be in the jerk yeah , yeah , true there it's still pretty young , even with all the gray hair now , now russ , we all have two ears and two hands , but why do you need two phones ?
one's a regular phone landline and one's a ham shack come on .
Yeah , but both of them are ham shack , like they're both . I mean , they're both ip phones , so he may have an ip phone . I guess I should give that . But but uh , wait a minute . What is this stuff over here ?
I don't know , what's this little jar over here in the corner I don't know if you can see my mouse moving here this little black thing I'm curious to see what that actually is Plains , trains and automobiles .
There you go , russ .
Ah , there we go . Okay , well , I'll give them points for that one . Those aren't pillows , for sure . We all know that line well .
Okay , well , did you guys catch the scented candles ?
No , oh yes , I did see up there by the . Actually , what is that ? Okay , so they're two light flavors . Hopefully they're good flavors . I don't know , Is this a bowling ball next to it ?
If the scented candles aren't like cocaine and hookers or something great like that .
Two-point seduction easily . Okay , we've got some decent HTs here .
I'll have to give them that I only say that because I have a candle that is cocaine and hookers .
There's no other candles out there for men's sense outside of a wet dog and military , alright , okay , let's see about here a little bit for men's sense outside of , uh , you know , a white dog and uh , you know military , all right , okay . So let's see about here a little bit . We've got , uh , let's just check out the radios here .
So we , uh , we've got a , not that , uh , no , that's a 710 , right , that's what I'm looking at , okay , and he's got a . He's a mac guy , okay , so . So there's points there . I'll have to give him that Anything else sticking .
That's 5100 , isn't ?
it . Yeah , that's a 710 . Oh , yeah , yeah , I see what you're talking about . Yep , yep , okay , there's that 7100 there . Yep , yes , yep , okay , and I see he's a bass player , although I don't see a five string bass player , although I don't see a 5-string up there . So I'll have to give him at least a few points knocked off . Although , is that a 5-string ?
I can't tell if that's a real 5 .
He's got at least a 4-string there .
Yeah , I only see 4 nuts there . Okay , so you're not a 5-string bass player ? Okay .
Paul Reed Smith . I don't know if they make bass guitars A .
PSR ? No , I don't know . That looks more like an Ibanez , I think , the double pickups and whatnot .
Yeah , I think you're right .
Russ , if you can elaborate which ones you have , we'd be curious , because that could definitely help in swaying your points there . So , okay , we've got a couple of what the heck are these little things up here . Are these little nodes ? Are these a mesh tastic or what's the deal with that ?
They look uh interesting , although I give them points for grid tracker , that's good .
So far , Russ has a total score of 48 .
Oh , let me . Let me throw in here . I've got to do my ratings here , so definitely a six , and I'll do seven .
So to review the categories . Category 1 is neatness , cleanliness and organization . Category 2 is versatility , be that radios , modes , etc . Category three is displays . How many types of displays do you have ? Styles , amount , content .
What's that little one right below the Rubik's Cubes and the penguin ?
clock . That's the ham clock that little tiny fucker .
Yeah that one . Right there is the ham clock . That's a ham clock .
That's definitely a ham clock . Paul is 100% accurate .
That's a ham clock my friend . Yeah , that should be on the . I'd put that one on the monitor on the left .
Yeah , true , so I'm going to give him big points just in my wild card choice , because I don't know any ham today that still except myself , maybe that still has an official copy of their you know ar , their fcc license framed like I dig mine out of the you know storage box for a while . So kudos for having that officially framed and displayed there .
I don't know many hams that actually do have that . Any of you guys have yours displayed .
Where is it displayed ?
Right in the corner here . Right between Steve Martin and the main center console .
Big points there .
I think that's a big point .
Yeah , exactly , way to drop them .
I gave him an eight on the wild card . Okay , just for the pipe collection oh yeah , not bad I like in did we see any uh qsl cards ?
or no words or anything done , nothing , none , nada , nada , nada . So apparently russ doesn't use his radio .
Got a big fat zero on that category .
Yep , all right . Well , okay , so he got 135 so far . Everyone plug in their numbers and we go with Russ there and his official entry . I take that as a resounding yes , yeah it looks like yeah , Todd just finished . Good to move to Walt . Okay , let me get Walt up here . Walt is UTX Carlos .
All right .
This is Walt's . This is his setup . Nice radio , 3000 and no , that's a that a 3000 or no a 5000 ? Yeah the 5000 . Okay , nice radio . Love all the knobs .
Good filtering although obviously , uh , obviously , uh , you know a a hand that has not been in the hobby for years and years and years , which I respect and I appreciate yep well I want to .
I want to know why his foot pedals I know I was gonna say that , why is it ?
on the wall here , like do you reach with your toes or something ?
well , now , hold on , hold on . And now , if ?
If he's anything like me and he's got a dog that lays at his feet , I have to always pick up my foot switch , otherwise the dog will lay on the foot switch and I won't even realize it , but it'll be transmitting well , sorry , wall , we can't give bonus points for having the same name as yourself , even though it is pretty cool .
We have to be fair enough . Now , alright , yeah , so , okay , I'll give you that .
I'm still , like you know , torn because you know look at that 35mm camera sitting next to the foot switch though yeah , okay , so that's a pretty classic , for sure .
The Green Army Men . Under the monitor and the right of it .
Yes .
On the back shelf .
Those are the classic ones there . For sure , this one is decapitated and it's got a different head on it . I'm curious the story behind that . If , uh , you know Walt is available , please elaborate because I need to know . Um , I'm curious of what the deal with these army men here , these guys in red . They are uh yeah .
Uh kind of out of place .
I don't either Um out of place ?
I don't either . They look like they're from a toy or something .
I wish I could get in closer there , oh yeah like a little wind-up , like things a little winder on the side , that's possible , okay .
A positive he's got a wind-up thing .
He's got paper to the right of his mouse to write down important things no , no , these .
If you look at what's written on the page , he's just got like , like he's trying to figure out what the you know the ratings are meaning what a five nine is , because he's got just five nine five , nine five , nine five , seven so , like , like those numbers are like I , I know , right , those are the important ones . No call signs , but just the numbers .
Okay , although he's pretty ingenious .
I think there's a Zygo G90 on the right above the . I think that's a power supply . That's the back of the G90, .
I believe , yeah , oh yeah , good point .
Where's the faceplate , though ? That's interesting .
well , that's the that's the back of the that's the back of the radio okay , faceplate be facing the wall if , oh , yeah , I do see it .
Yeah , you can barely see the handles there in the background of the , the front of the faceplate and everything . Wow , that , that's a disgrace . I'm kind of sad . Although we'll have to give him points , he did make the power pole conversion on the G90 . So bonus is there . I mean he didn't have that Molex plug . True , yeah , if he could elaborate .
If , walt , you're in there , you could tell us whether that is a G90 or not , or correct , although , yeah , it'd have to be . Isn't that a G90 mic ? Isn't ?
that a G90 mic Yep .
Okay , so it's very possible , or it could be your Zygu brand in general .
That's a Zygu knockoff of an ICOM mic .
Okay , all right , I'm curious .
Yeah , what is that ? I was looking for QSL cards or awards or anything .
I just see a list , a bulleted list of something that says something operating aids . I don't know why he needs aids or if he is struggling , or , but it's not a really great list . I can't tell what's on it .
So I'm curious . I'm going to give big points for uh having a band plan there . Yeah , true , and able to uh to reference .
I don't I mean , you know , it depends on how long he's . If he's a new ham , okay , I'll give him that , but you know , if he's been around for a while , you should definitely know where you're at not really okay , I still keep . I still keep a van plan ready okay , all right , well , I'll have to give him some ingenuity . He's definitely into that .
You know eclectic pipe , desk kind of style , look , because that's sort of like how my shack is . I've got all that rustic pipe and whatnot , so good use of that . And I agree with Carlos the rig expert yeah , oh , yeah , I did see that . Yeah , we don't know which model it is or what it is .
Got a Heil Pro 7 headset there .
Yeah , it's like the A55 Zoom sitting on the very top .
Oh yeah , I see it right there , alright . And then we've got a bunch of stuff over here in the corner which I can't fully get into . We've got it looks like a steam train and a bunch of novels not sure , oh , and he's got a Windows pass-through . So good kudos on that . Good cable management , that's good to see . Does he have grounding though ?
Ah , there we go .
Does he .
I don't see anything . It's very possible .
It has a throttled grounding on it .
Yeah , okay , but do we see ? Yes , but is there anything attached ? I don't see anything attached . Train's in the way , I don't . I see a keyboard tray down here . Coax management looks okay , I don't know . I'll give him kudos for the Yezu mic . That's a good mic , for sure .
That's a good mic there .
Yeah , for sure . And what's he running for software here ? What is that ? Oh , that's HRD , isn't it ? Yep , that looks like HRD , okay .
That is Radio Deluxe .
He knows what he's doing , okay , and he is a Windows 10 user , so we can't totally knock him off for that . So all right . Anything else we missed in here , although I see a log sheet , so he does look like electronic logging , but a backup and still practicing his 5.9 . So I'll have to knock a few points off for that .
Anything else we need to kind of divulge into here before we score what's on the screen . I might have to modify my score hrd .
Oh yeah , no , sorry , no , no bonus points for that the good news is he's more than three killer hertz above the , the , the maritime mobile net , so I'll give him points for that there would be points if he was directly on the maritime mobile you have to do that you have to do that .
On your wildcard choice , you get from 14.300 true , all right .
So let let's plug our score in here . I'm boarding ahead too much here . I think we're on keyboard . All right , let's go through yeah .
So did we see any QSL cards awards .
No , sorry , I'm back at Russ's . Let me go back . I did not see QSL cards with him either , so nothing in that photo , no QSL cards at all .
So he does not make many contacts he just practices his signal reports five , nine , five , nine , five nine for everybody .
You get a five nine , five , nine .
We're picking on me . I give everybody five . If I can hear you , you get a five nine he will be forever dubbed the five nine9 man .
I'm moving on . Versatility will do us . Displays could be more . I don't know man the display still should be bigger . You know , in this day and age , with our age , you know groups and the fact that he's got a pair of glasses on his desk . He should have a bigger display he needs at least another one . Yeah , if that minimum , Alright .
So let's do two , five , and then I'll give him .
I mean , I've got three monitors connected to my computer . I could add two more and it would definitely help .
Yeah , more displays is better we'll get into yours later at date , so let's throw it off to the next one .
So our next entrant is Keith so that was 126 points total for Walt , which puts him in second place .
Okay , okay . So the next victim we'll say is Keith KC1OZK . For those that don't know Keith , he braved the hike with us up to pack and had a blast doing soda and poda , and I have that video over on my channel .
Fun video , by the way .
Oh , dude that was an odd like I am . You know , set it ready to go Once we get better weather , above 30 degrees around here to go to another hike .
So all for it . Yeah , I still got to do my yeah . Yeah , come on , dude , get on the ball . All right . Well , all right . So , keith , I was going to give him a 10 on neatness and organization until I looked under his desk and and it's like , oh , what the fuck is ?
that that's not that bad dude . I bet if we look under your desk it'd be like worse I don't think you took pictures of underneath your desk you'd never even see it .
I know right . There's a tip , keith use a black cable instead of white .
so we're you took pictures of underneath your desk . You'd never even see it , I know right . There's a tip , Keith Use a black cable instead of white .
So where does he sit ?
It looks like I'm sure he pulled it away .
I'm standing right now .
That's true , I would agree with that , but I'm sure he pulled it away just to give us the full breadth and depth of the setup .
I suppose if his chair was there nobody would have seen those cables underneath his desk .
Through that or any of the radios or any of the band plan or anything .
No , I've got to say wild card , that freaking library lamp from the 80s .
I love it .
I love it .
Dude . He is thoroughly the 80s . I love it . I love it , Dude , he is thoroughly Dude . This countertop does not have a speck of dust or anything in the crevices . You can eat off this thing . You can sleep on it too , if you wanted to . Man , I like that desk . That's slick , I like it . The nice cold surface makes it all the better , Okay .
And , as Walt pointed out , he's got a flag hanging .
Yeah , I do see that , although I'll tell you I'm going to give him points for the flag , but what's missing from the picture is which way the flag is positioned . Is it on it properly ?
Oh , the field of blue better be on the left .
I can't tell by the picture . So yeah , there's no way to confirm , but if keith was in the chat we'll have to . I'm sure he hung it right . Oh no , yes , he's there , he . He didn't plan the shot very well , as he says , as I would have thrown some monitors up , but the two in there is not good enough , so you got a 20 , 27 inch iMac .
He's got three . Yeah well , he's got his laptop , yep all right and so I see a 705 there .
Yeah , that's a 705 .
No , that's a 705 . Yeah , okay , that is a 705 . Yeah , on a custom 3d printed standby . Looks of it he's got a little speaker next to it what are those ones in the bottom there ? Uh , probably a two meter .
Yeah , so that's a dual bander yeah , one's a power supply and power supply 30 amp now here's something interesting he's got the metal desk and he looks like he's got a uh uncased raspberry pi or an arduino uh , but , dude , you got to give him credit for that .
He's actually watching a video , so he's actually he's educating himself but , he's working on it .
He is on , he is on us , uh , esd matt . So , yeah , he's on esd matt and he's working on it . He is on .
He is on a ESD mat , so yeah , he's on an ESD mat and he's actually programming it while he's watching the video . So you know kudos there , if I mean you know , or for showing some , you know , actual usage in the shack .
Although who's whose video is he watching ?
I can't quite tell . Never seen him and I can't . The words aren't strong enough to go and zoom in .
He's got enough . I mean , he's got some big screens . He's got enough to uh to do . Basically , yeah , he's got three of them , but only two of them are being used , so this one in the shadows here .
Not sure what that would be for , but you know , maybe it was for his dx10 .
He's got a metal whip antenna on that HT .
Oh , dude , that one . He used that when we were doing the soda , and that thing has range . He could also kill somebody , oh man .
Okay , so the DX10 . So he's got the band framed .
Oh , dude , yeah , there's some points . There , you go and it looks like that's a printer . Stand over here so you can't tell what that is and and there's a third monitor .
I don't know if you picked up on it . There is a monitor on the it's in the dark , right , yeah ?
yeah , I'm thinking that maybe keith you can confirm is that running off your dx10 there ? You know dark mode , dark yeah yeah , apple's new mood , yeah , so he's got a couple of hts here . So what's's that ? It looks like a boffwang . There you go , jeff .
So points for that and looks like what's on the honeydew list , or is that the grocery list ?
Oh true , yeah , I didn't even see that , so let's go over here . Nothing . He's got one line I can't tell what it is . He's definitely got some cooling and heating capabilities . He's got a . It looks like one of those like um , gotta love the mini splits . Yeah , many splits , yeah . Yeah , you're definitely a user of those . I've seen those in your sack , tim .
Yep Got one .
He is a well-organized person . Looks like a lot of post-it notes here .
Is there any awards on the left there in that pile of paper ?
On this over here in the organizer Looks like a luggage tag .
It's like a piece of bills do too .
Yeah , pretty much True that . Now , what is this stuff over by the iPad ? I can't quite put my finger on that . It looks like a tape recorder . Is that a tape recorder ?
No , is it a magazine or a gun ?
Oh true , yeah , I didn't even think of that .
Yeah , that is a gun .
Is it a gun . Yes , and a Kydex holster .
Oh , wow . Oh , that gets you a high-end holster .
Keith , that gets you 10 for me for your bonus .
I can't zoom in here . There's another box over here in the corner . I can't quite make what that is and , keith , if you can elaborate on it please let us know .
Yeah , that just took the wild card score from a 7 to a 10 .
Okay , hold on . Can we identify ?
what it is is that a glock if you care to divulge our p365 is it ? It get any further oh did he okay , that's sig , yeah okay there we go that's a , that's a really , really nice gun I wish it was
affordable .
No red dot now I I'm gonna dock him a few points because this headset cable management crap here he's got all the mics tied to like the upper , like stand , but like he's just kind of willy nilly , tucked all of his headset cables in there and didn't make it look , you know , clean to match the rest of it .
So I'm going to knock up a few points off on that .
You're nitpicking , eric . Sorry , dude . Trust me , look at this if I'm going to give out tens , man , tens are they're not going to come for everybody . Look , there's guns and there's the American flag .
The only . Thing that's missing is beer and some . Oh , and we did notice what frequencies he's sitting on . He's on 28402 . So he's in the technician band , so good for him . And he's on 20 meters up on his 705 , but not on 14-220 or 7-220 . Okay , so anything else All right .
So you see , PrepHound Paul he says this in the chat that he's going to go to every one of our streams and click like and , while I very much appreciate that , stand by for the freaking roast that's coming your way oh dude , we're waiting for the good ones at the very end there .
All right well let's throw some ratings on here , otherwise we could drill this home all day . All right , uh , let me go . Yeah , so we're going to do seven .
No , you're changing the wrong one . Eric oh am .
I yeah , you're on , walt . Oh , yes , all right , go back down .
Come on , eric , get your stuff together , man .
Yeah , dude , sorry , all right . And what happens when you have too many screens ?
Okay , Thank you . So , as it sits right now , keith is in first place with 150 points . When Eric gets his shit together , that score will go up .
Or not . That one's a tough one for me , Okay well , a 7 on cleanliness .
I'm going to go back with that one .
Okay , a 5 on versatility Displays Five , because he could have definitely brought that third one online .
Yeah , you're being generous with that third monitor being offline .
Well , I can assume he's probably got it hooked up to the DX10 . That would be my giving him the benefit of the doubt .
All right , what's your wild card , Eric ?
Oh man , this was a tough one . I just like the fact that it's all natural and metal . I'm going to go eight . There we go .
I do want to point that out . Yeah , I agree , I got the same similar style of kind of flooring in my ham shed .
And you have a shed just exactly the way that your shack came out is unreal . Like kudos to you , sir .
Well done it was my wife . She insisted that I get the hell out of the house and and come over here so she could sleep at night instead of having to literally sit there like this in a live stream , and and have over here so she could sleep at night instead of having to literally sit there like this in a live stream and and have to hear it all .
Well , so it was yourself . You did yourself a good justice . You know , being loud and boisterous and animated drove you right out of the house . Carlos loves your shack .
He's moving in all right in , there's a bathroom here and everything .
Yeah , I know , that's a bonus man that makes live stream you know , middle of the break , especially long live stream runs very easy . All right , let's bring up our next victim . So this would be Tim KC1QDK . Oh boy , all right , we all love Tim .
First , let put that out there , let me , just before we even start this , I had tim write down some paper logs for me during a photo oh , it's tim in the chat . I don't know , but he , he writes in circles and but he knows where everything is . So this doesn't surprise me that his shack is like this , because I'm sure he knows where everything is Okay .
So , to make this easy , we're going to work left to right , so I'm going to start on the left side of the screen . We may need a whole show just for this . This one , jack . Okay , well , so let's start from the ground up . This is already gonna make paul twitch cable management . Do I want to zoom in anymore , paul , or ?
is this good enough for you yeah , but I like tim , come on like you've got a , you've got a surge trip , just hanging there with shit coming out of it .
I got a chair with a chair base without a chair a chair .
You're gonna burn your shack down bro but boy , it would be a glorious fire . All right , let's get . Let's go up to the desktop here now We've got a wonderful DX10 , best radio in town sold the ICOM 7300 right off from underneath it .
Yeah , well , there's some QSL cards and there's some lanyards there . It looks like he's an Ares member .
You guys remember Office Space right and the whole thing with flair at the restaurant .
Yeah , oh yeah .
He's got some flair .
He's got ham radio flair going on .
He did not stick to the minimum amount of flair .
I think he's exceeded the minimum amount of flair .
He's gone way past the minimum amount of flair Is that a Hako soldering iron just right in the middle of everything .
You never know .
I think it is . I noticed that too right when you said that .
That is a perfect place for it , because you don't have to go far left or right of it .
I want to go back first a little bit , so wait a minute . So while he's doing cw with one hand , he's he's soldering with the other now , now dude , here here's ingenuity .
This is hamgenuity at its finest . See what his radios are being held up with zip ties to the bottom of the shelf all around the entire there is no sparing of any zip ties whatsoever . This entire thing about these radios . That is impressive in and of itself . And he's our neck control .
He does , you know , all of our neck controls for our local club , so , and he does it from the comfort of zip ties dude , look at the ht on the stand next to the monitor where , uh , his yesu fucking screen is so okay so this one over here , yeah I'm not ham shaming , but I'm sorry that stand probably costs more than that 100 agreed , yep and .
And the proverbial ham shack hotline tucked over in the corner that nobody ever uses . Oh man , so he is obviously a CW guy . We know that for sure . But my gosh , like you only have one hand and you only need one key , but why do you have two of the same key ?
is that a ? Is that ?
a that's a straight key by the likes of it oh , no , no , what's ?
what's the radio underneath ? Oh uh , 10 tech argonaut , I think okay that's it yeah , yeah he there's any more out in the wild yeah , yeah , tim , is it ?
tim started initially when he got in the hobby , I think , with our club radio , which was a 745 , which was like the first generation 745 you could get for , you know , icom , and he did everything with that damn thing before he actually got to a modern radio .
Okay , but what is our monitor ? I haven't heard of planar for years .
Well , it's probably a good monitor , because you think that the DX 10 doesn't output anything more than 800 by 600 . So why would you waste the larger monitor on it ?
yeah , but it is a widescreen monitor . It looks like yeah early one though , but yeah but okay , so I haven't heard that brand forever yeah either .
Okay , so we got to point out qsl cards . He's got a few here . He's got a few here . He's got a couple up here , he's got a lot of badges . Yeah , his badges . We all pointed that out . We all know his call sign . Now A lot of lanyards for sure 2022 field day poster .
They will be happy .
Yeah , it's our club poster . I did see our club sticker there , so I'll give him bonus points for that . What was it ? It ? Oh , band plan . Here we see a band plan , we're good , so he's got . There is a band plan .
Yeah , this place there he's got service manuals , so we know he consults those often he's got stacks of papers holding his monitor up to the appropriate height that is true , although if I know tim the way , so the way I see his shack and I've been to his house before and I love hanging out with him .
This is his dining room table here so right at the corner is where the laptop sits , and these extra pieces of wood that he's put across here are the extension of his desks . So this little table's freestanding so he's kind of stacked on there . So he's made a uh , impressive round desk out of whatever he's got around dining room table .
Yep , pretty much he has taken over his dining room . Wow , that was our first 22 to field day poster . I forgot about that .
This is why my wife kicked me out of the house .
Okay I want to see what kim shack's gonna look like . Where's she ?
uh , yeah , we'll see what that one happens .
She just started , so give her time um wife so I'll give them this , though at work my my monitor is it doesn't go up high enough . So I actually got like one of those stacks of paper and I sit it on that to get it up higher . So I'll give them kudos for that .
That's good use of of paper yeah , but the picture you submitted doesn't have anything you know , stacks on paper , so I work at my work .
Oh my , I don't have that . You know , I don't have that at my shack . Okay , all right , fine , I'll give you . Okay , he's got his spoon there if you look to the right back up a little bit .
Every every good guy's got a spoon in his uh , yeah , true , that okay , and the electrical tape of a real electric tape can't have that there's a lot of screwdrivers in there , solder sucker okay , we see what's in his notes . I can't . He's actually got blank paper . Wow , we caught him at a wrong time . Usually he's got his scribbles . Oh , is that a bandaid ?
Is that a bandaid ? That better not be a bandaid .
I hope not .
Tim , please , no , no band aids . Is he on ? I don't think he is . He's going to watch this after .
You're never going gonna see him again well , he's definitely hunting .
I'll give him credit for the parks on the air I actually know one of the guys on the on the screen do you ?
yeah , so who do we got uh kk4 qmz . And which one whiskey ? One whiskey , gold , yeah whiskey one , brian .
I actually met him and his wife at onceville okay Down there and we ended up Activating the park . After everybody left , we did an activation and then We've worked each other Several times , hunting and activating .
Anything else we missed . So where Does he have ? I know he's got tons of awards . Where are they ?
Yeah , I'm not seeing them . I they must be either behind the camera or they're just not displayed exactly . There's so many awards . He just uses them as a bookie book stack he's got another .
Up in the left corner above the top shelf there's another . Looks like an ht oh , yeah , that is that , uh , that ?
a ? That might be . No , it's a Baofeng isn't it no ?
That's a Baofeng Are you talking about on the screen ?
Yeah , the gray one that might be his .
APRS radio .
Oh , yes , yes , Okay , well , we know he keeps the soldering iron away from the actual radio , so that's good .
Next to the monitor with the frequency on it , what's that radio hanging from the zip ties below the speaker ?
That looks like a little Radio Shack something .
Yeah , it looks like a CB radio maybe . Yeah , it's possible .
I'm going to give him 10 for that . I like that .
I think that looks like a 23-channel CB .
I think the zip ties and that radio in there . I'm going to give him a 10 for the uh , what do you call it ? The wild card ?
okay . Well , I'll have to give him the fact that he is running cw morse the morse decoder on the dx10 paul . So there you go . Yeah , a good minute . He's definitely in the cw portion , so good for him looks like he's typing the minutes for the the meeting . I was gonna say , that's what exactly like he's typing the minutes for the meeting .
I was going to say that's what exactly looks like . He's our secretary for the club .
Most organized man in the club and we give it to him . Yep .
Disorganized man . Anything else we want to , we're ready to score .
I got my scores in .
I gave him an eight on the wild card . We haven't even gone through those yet .
Nope , let's go here . Man , I got to stay on these guys .
I nitpick photos , I go through her Facebook every day and I find out what photos she posts and make her take down ones that I don't , I don't , approve of . Just because , there's something in there . You know , I , I , I do that yeah .
Like OPSEC or what .
Well , like , yeah , OPSEC Right . So like , like a prescription bottle or or background , or kid making a stupid face or something .
Do they make any other faces ?
I know mine don't okay , let's uh , we all go with tim's here , I can take him down .
Oh , I gotta , yeah , I gotta put some points in , okay remove and let me go grab uh ch .
I agree with Jason . 100% Scotch is best and it doesn't come from fucking Maine Dude . Do I have to go get ?
the bottle . Okay , so this one , this one's a special one . This one is who are we going to , jason ? So let me go grab that one . Yeah , jason , this one is who are we going to Jason ?
Yeah , Jason , Alright , has everybody finished scoring Tim ?
Yeah .
Alright , so Tim's got 110 . Which puts him in fourth place currently out of the four that we've gone through . Sorry , Tim .
Kudos for the flair .
Yes , yes , kudos for flair . Ooh , yeah , I'm going to have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there .
Okay , All right . So our next one here . This is KC1VJQ . Jason , this one should be easy .
That's a simple shack , holy crap .
This is the jailhouse shack .
So Jason is a brand new ham and so this is his starter shack . So we have to come at it from that angle , understanding that he literally only got licensed within the last six months . This is his starter shack . Now it does look like he's in prison and I don't know . I mean , I think I might give him bonus points for looking like he's in prison .
Yeah .
Yes , what's that song from ? Oh brother , we're out there .
Oh yeah I know what you're talking about In the jail house .
Yeah , that's a good one Okay .
Can we ? Can we see what that box is next to the radio ?
it's a DVI cable . So he spent the extra money to scour across the internet to try to find a DVI-D cable , which he actually did right , because Yezu complains that you can only run the DVI-D cable or you'll fry the port off the back , which is just ridiculous . But long story short .
Why isn't yezu gotten up this to speed with hdmi ?
oh , do we have enough time to talk about that I ? Don't think we do , we can talk about that while we rose to shacks 741 radios repairs is .
Uh , he's saying cellar dweller .
Yeah , true , I agree with that one Okay .
So now that he says that it looks like poured concrete walls . No , jason borrowed my 706 Mark II G until he figured out what radio he wanted to buy and that Yaesu was what he decided to buy .
Oh , you got a sauce , so this is already padded in his favor .
Yeah , but no , he didn't . He didn't stick with team I calm . I gave him an icon . Fucking radio to you . Well , that's your problem . You gave him an icon .
I'm going to get , I'm going to give him 10 for the just for the yesu and blowing you off .
So yeah , he's category five , jason , you're getting a 10 from me way to go with you , although I gotta ask what's up with the alligator skin textured uh yeah , dude , that's a very odd card table , like I , I don't think you can pick those up , even at yard sales anymore wow , that's impressive and points for that .
Yeah , points for the snake skin . I dig it .
Although the log , I'm a little like confused . I can't quite tell whether he's got a a mock band plan there or he's jotting down gambling numbers for the latest lottery . Like it's weird .
What radio is that ?
That's a seven , 10 .
So he doesn't have a a .
He doesn't have a he doesn't have a dual band radio . No , no , vhf , uhf , it's all hf , which is good for him . Good to see that he's on 40 meters , so he must have been . He's a general right , I assume , or he's just that way out of his band plan no , he just .
He got his general the same day as his tech .
Oh , wow , okay , Good for him . Bonus points there . For me that's a good eight , all right . Yeah , I mean , this is one cable , I'm assuming . I don't know what that's going to . Is that his antenna cable ? And if it is , that looks like RG-58 .
That really looks like RG 58 . That really looks like RG 58 .
Looks like a 10 or eight , does it ? I don't know , I thought RG looks a little thicker , but I mean , the shadow doesn't look pretty thick . I mean , look at it , but it could be just be the way the light hits it . Yeah , yeah , all right , so I refuse . We've got a good power supply .
Decent , you know mfj , although probably warranty is useless at this point , um , but good power supply either way . Good , uh , watt meter is that ? No , that's a , yeah , that's a watt meter . Power supply meter Okay , that's a decent , good start . I think in my mind .
Definitely a good start .
Okay , so cleanliness . He's got nothing there , so that's a good six . No computer logging , no computer logging at all .
Yep , not a lot of versatility yeah , no , it looks like it's paper only at the moment yeah , display is definitely a one .
Uh , award qsl cards . Uh , unless you're counting the dvid boxes and award qsl , then I'd say one .
Oh , he says he's got a band plan written in his notepad .
Oh , is that what that is ? Okay , that's not , I thought it was his track picks . I did too . Exactly right , carlos , the horses .
Carlos , you're a fool if you sell that 706 .
I know you're going to regret that later . You and Mike will be in the same family wishing you could get your g90 and 706 back . Uh , category five . All right , I'm gonna give them at least an , an eight for being , you know , yezu family for sure . All right , I'm plugged in there all right .
so is everybody all scored up ? No , Grayman's not Nope .
Bam , there we go .
Okay , alright , so 140 points for Jason , which puts him in second place behind Keith . Okay , not bad . And bringing up third is Ruff , alright , okay , so our up third is rough .
All right , okay , so our next victim is Chris Grab him real quick here . I didn't match it to the false spreadsheet , so that is the YSW .
Eric , I did the spreadsheet in the exact order as the photos in the Google Doc .
Yeah , but remember our late entry . Lovely Steve K04 threw everything out of whack , so that's fine .
Well , I threw him at the very bottom .
Oh right , but , like , when Google Photos adds stuff , they add it to the top , so it just shifted everything down . So that's a lot of whack . All right , this one .
Man , that's a lot of work , all right , this one man , that's a scary youtuber . I all right . No , no , see , this is . This is where I said right , automatic point deduction for having prep ham paul on the fucking screen wow nevertheless , you know , okay , did paul get a new tattoo recently ?
because I don't know anybody who leaves aquaphor lying around next to their computers unless they're using it in a really , really bad way , which we won't get into because we're friendly have a family friendly show .
He's got like what is that in the back ? He must be sick , but he's got the gorilla oh yeah , he's got the .
What is this like nyquil , nyquil in disguise . That does not look like NyQuil .
I don't know what you .
Is that an IPA or is ?
it an eel . Maybe that's a Z-Quil .
Dude . I love the fact that he's being hamgenuity here , using the Aquaphor bottle as a prop for his G90 .
Yeah , I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue .
Sure Trev- and Paul is going the hard . He's going to the hard stuff there .
The frarights , though , is that Prepper , and Paul , is it no ? No , he's just getting points taken off for watching .
Taken off for watching Prepper and Paul by mistake Watching .
Yeah , he's got a good video .
Yeah , they do give that . That's a decent one . That's the first generation one , so good on that .
You know , I kind of , I kind of like the little food tray , you know , table on the side Versus table .
Yeah , yeah . What in the hell is this thing back here ?
I don't know . It looks like it's got an ethernet port . Wait , guillotine .
What ? What is that thing ? Is it a mini guillotine or something ? Do you stick fingers in there ? Hey , paul , he subscribes to the same window pass-through that you do .
Hey , listen .
Literally just like .
There's nothing wrong with that .
Yeah , there is . I'm sorry you can't just jam . It's like putting your fingers in a door frame and saying it's , it's common , you know , no problem I just do that all the time , okay . So yeah , I'm sure that you know drops the the signal by half , but hey , okay I .
I knew prep m paul was giving thumbs up way too early .
Chris Radio and Life said that that might be a knife sharpener in the back there .
Oh true , yeah , that makes sense . That's an impressive knife sharpener . Wow , okay , we got a pile of something over here that could be manuals or I don't know unopened like bills , mail , that type of stuff .
Yeah , I don't know , unopened bills , mail , that type of stuff Well maybe he's like me and he's got a stack of QSL cards he hasn't responded to yet . Sure , yeah .
I buy that . What the hell is this ?
What is that ? That's a roll of tape behind it . Is that a roll of tape ? Okay yeah , packing tape , Tape . Oh yeah , yeah , Okay now I see it .
Is that a roll of tape ? Okay , yeah , pack and tape . Oh yeah , yeah . Okay , now I see it . Okay , alright .
And then we don't know what Looks like . There's some headphones on the far right .
Maybe I don't know . Yeah , that's sort of like headphones , okay , I don't know what they are .
I'm excited he's got fuses on his radio .
Yeah , well , he does blow a fuse every once in a while , although I have to give him . Is that a ?
digi rig on the table . Digi rig .
I'll have to give him points . He has never removed the original manufacturer's stickers on the laptop since day one . He's kept those forever , oh man .
Okay .
He's day one . He's kept those forever . Oh man , okay , he's uh . Oh , he is . He's busy watching youtube , but he's also playing . It looks like grid tracker , right that's grid tracker .
Okay , yep , that's grid tracker .
Yeah , this is a little fta oh , dude , we are gonna have to give him bonus points . Look what he's got . If for links in terms of you know , the first primary bookmark link , oh , I can't see it . I can't see it because it's mine , damn it . I was wrong , I thought that was bookmark link .
Had live free at ham is his bookmark damn it my browser and my browser sitting at the top of that I'm like , oh my gosh , he's got sharepoint uh , we court something , I can't tell . And then he's got a to z tech , and then he's got vocab . So he's got at least one decent site there , vocab . Okay , although he should update his chrome .
I'm going to deduct points there because I'm in the security field and if your chrome's not updated , you're the one causing the problem oh , wait a minute .
This is chris radio on life's shack yes yes , okay , there we go . That's why he thought it was a knife sharpener .
He was dead on because he knows he's like this is my home .
Hey , hey , now damn it .
Okay , all right well .
He did say that we're on there .
Okay , I don't see him , but you know I will give him credit for it , even though I don't see his photo . I know , right , exactly , okay , the keyboard's in decent shape , I have to say .
It's not filled with crumbs or food particles or cat hair or anything like that , so there's a little bit of cleanliness there it looks like a dell uh , no , that's an hp .
I know that for an hp yeah that's an hp um uh what's that on the right hand side Between the Nitrile bottle and the plastic ? Is that a rice cooker ?
No , we thought that was headphones . A rice cooker Might actually be close too .
Oh , that's Now that you say headphones . I can see where .
Yeah , the band there . I thought it looked like a lid .
With a handle . Good night , carlos . See you Carlos . Yeah , the band there and then , yeah , I thought it looked like a lid with a handle .
Okay , goodnight Carlos see ya , carlos .
Thanks for coming by , sweet it's not even headphones .
I just like to play it loud that's .
That's the same basic structure he's going to the range while he's watching ham radio prep .
The ear pro might be because of ham radio prep . Let's not . Yeah , true , right .
All right . Well , let's give this a rating here , fellas .
Two oh man .
This one's a tough one , man . I'm going to dock you a lot for the display .
The criteria for judging is conveniently located several times on the side as we go down , so it'll forever be in your view .
All right , are we done , we're good with that one .
Yeah , we can pop this one out here . I'll grab the next one . Are we finished entering ?
Chris's final score is 82 , which very puts him in last place .
There's room for improvement , Chris . That's all we have to say .
The night's not over , all right .
Okay , here we go Into the night . This one is a .
Is that shot with a 360 camera ? Surely .
Alright . I might not want to .
So , just like I Hold on , just like I did a couple times ago , right , I'm going to give some context here . So Anthony is getting ready to come off of active duty and go home where he is going to join the National Guard . I would assume that this is some type of base housing situation . Give him the benefit of the doubt in that regard .
We can give him extra points for having a chair in the picture um well and okay .
Now he's got one laptop and then he's got the tough book and another laptop . Like I mean , this is quite a a a gray , here there's a cisco ip phone yeah , okay , so it's got to be hamshack outliner , a home use , um or work .
Yeah , there's only one light lit . Okay , so it's got to be a Hamshack hotline or a home use or work .
Yeah , there's only one light lit , so that's got to be a Hamshack hotline .
What is that ?
That is a Balfang with an abree .
Oh yeah , I was like what the hell is this long thing here ?
Okay , that's an abree .
Is that a 2900 ? That looks like a 2900 . Really two meter . Only . Yezu's like all in one radio there Running what Looks like Lennox yeah , that's Lennox , somewhat Kudos for that . Can't tell what he's running on . It Could be APRS , like you mentioned , paul .
Yeah , looks like a little man pack there next to the power supply .
Yeah , good power supplies . Definitely looks like a 300 . That look like right paul , uh , sorry , it looks like a 300 there with a little , uh yeah , signal stick maybe or something similar . Okay , uh Uh , the cable management . Eh , you fall short there , buddy , sorry . Um , yeah , uh , understood there .
Um , yeah , okay , uh , not sure what's in this combination here it looks like a small little tablet with , uh , maybe a , maybe a Raspberry Pi display kind of deal .
Yeah , true , okay .
I'm a loss there , although he's got it . Looks like it's a keyboard combination too , because he's got like a full keyboard for that little tablet . That's also got the little mouse pad .
Yeah , so maybe whatever's in the Pelican is connected to the Toughbook .
Okay , if he's in the chat , elaborate . Okay , we got the Toughbook , but what the heck is running on the Toughbook there ? Oh well , actually no that's . Is that not JT Alert ? Is that what's the ? I can't remember Not .
JTX , what that ? What's the ? I can't remember .
Not JTX . What's the other JSA Call ? That's it . Yeah , jsa Call . Yeah , because that looks like the JSA Call windows and everything . Okay , what the hell is that ? Is that a Motorola ? That looks like a Motorola , a brick right next to the right of that . I can't get it any farther true , there's no display , though any of the Redivisus not have displays .
I don't know and then we got the snowball . Everybody's got to have a snowball it says RFinder V1 Plus oh okay , that definitely looks like an RFinder now . okay , nice , alright , there's some points there . We're going Android RFinder B1+ . Oh okay , that definitely looks like an RFinder now . Okay , nice , alright , there's some points there for going Android .
And there's a G90 and an FZM1 .
Is that what's in the Pelican case or the Harbor Freight case ?
You said that was a 2980 for DigiPeter .
Oh , okay , nice , Alright Paper Logger , although I can't tell what logging he has . Looks like it's a Windows 11 , 10 machine . Looks like , yeah , windows 10 . Looks like the external , the big external display , is tied to that . By the looks of it .
Cable management . He gets a zero .
Yeah , twice the fact , dude , you only have two hands . You have one , two , three , four , five , six keyboards . Yeah , that's too much for me , just slide that chair back and forth from station to station . Get this man a KVM switch . Come on , that's a lot . Wow , okay , all right .
Well , kudos on the aprs , digipeter and uh jsa , uh jsa call , although we can't tell what he's watching on youtube . Is that youtube ? That's not youtube , is it ? That looks like ? Yeah , there's youtube , I can see the icons and so I have no idea what he's watching .
It's like an outside antenna box .
Oh yeah yeah , okay , I see where you're seeing that . Okay , all right .
Yeah , that looks like one of those boxes on the wall on the outside .
Yeah , Okay , yeah , all paper logging so far , a ton of usb ports everywhere . Okay , although I can't tell . Like what is in the center of that light . Like that's weird . I mean , obviously the photography is drowning , it's just . You know it was out of like a lcd display , is that like what ? The center of the light bulb ? But I don't know .
Okay , it's probably a phone holder that looks like one of the new ones .
Yeah , true , that would make sense .
Okay , it looks like a circle light with something inside of it . Yeah , like the phone holder inside of it , yeah .
Okay . Well , now I know where all my Weiss coffee table fold-up tables went . Okay , Are we ready for ratings here ? I think we're good .
All right , yeah , I'm entering my ratings now . I'm disappointed , though , because there's no awards or QSL cards at all . There's not even a flag and torch card . So , Anthony , if you need one , let me know and I'll send you one .
I know , go on , all right , zero , send you one . I know , come on , alright Zero on that one . That one's a tough one Wild card choice . I'll give him for flexibility . We'll go there . Sorry , there we go .
Alright , I'm in Alright . So Anthony's all scored up with a total of 115 . Which , um Eric , did it on the wrong Anthony's all scored up with a total of 115 .
No , eric , eric is on the wrong person .
Am I on the wrong one again ? Come on , eric , I'm an idiot . I know it's the Elijah Craig speaking . Well , that's because you put a space in between things . Man , there you go .
No , I did put a space . You're just filling the space where you're not supposed to .
Yeah , you did wrong , no no .
Down one more line . Go down one .
We're doing , anthony , right ? Okay , you just added a space . What the hell you butthead ? Put this auto-editing on the fly .
There we go , we're in finally , alright there we go , okay , so for a total score of 133 , which puts him , oh , just a hair behind Russ at 134 .
Okay , alright , let's pull this one off here . Alright , let's go ALK here . Let's pull this one off here . Alright , let's go ALK here . Let's see if the next slide Yep , okay , bringing it up . Okay , oof , this one's a lot , hey , oh .
Wait , is this the only ?
picture . Look what's there . No , there's , I think , two here .
Let me go see what's there . Nope that's my shack .
That's my shack .
Yeah , this is the only picture we got under the mfj . Uh , tuna , yeah he , he's uh yeah all right getting him some bonus points right there although what the heck is this stick of gum here ?
that's weird , that's a um like a SDR . Oh yeah , yeah , like a dongle , ah cool , good catch Jeff .
Nice . You know one thing , paul I haven't seen too many guys with . I don't think we've seen one of your radios , but we see a ton of Yesus .
Yeah , no , no , icoms . Yet I'm impressed . I mean , there's not even one . I mean , 710 has been pretty popular . Huh , everyone's buying that . It is dude . I love the bookends . Nice way to use the mini .
Think thanners as bookends .
There you go . You can't have enough of them how does he get to ?
how does he get to that ? What is that ? The 200 radio ? How does he get to that ?
I've got oh , the 300 in the back no , that's .
I think that's 200 is that a two ?
no , I think that's a 200 . Is that a 2 ?
No , I thought that was like a 3 .
That looks like a 3 . Yeah , it looks like a 300 .
Okay , and what is that ?
a mini PC off to the side , there , sideways , oh he's got two of them , left and right , and an iPad on the right there . So if we drill in here , that's an iPad over here .
You know you can buy a mouse now that has , like you can have three different just by switching it on , you don't need two of them .
Oh yeah , I did see . Oh , there , there you go . There's that one right there , yep , okay . Well , first and foremost , let's talk about this . What the hell is this Dude ? That is the most comfortable chair that ever existed . Like it there and the like you know , dude , we had these in the 70s and 80s come on like what's a little like my grandparents .
My grandparents had a wing arm chair like that and it was so comfortable . So 100 like that's a bonus point .
And this is a piece of furniture that every grandfather built in his shop , because my grandfather had one and my wife's grandfather built the same exact hutch . It's like a kit they all had to build as a rite of passage .
So yeah , man this is like going in time .
So we're in the 21st century here and then we go right into , like the 70s , right over on the left all right , I brought up your 7100 buddy we , we gave you kudos for that . We did mention that . Okay , all right , what is this piece here ? This is that like a microphone volume ? Yeah , that's a headphone volume switch . Okay , like oh is uh .
No , this is just for , like the external looks like his external headphones that he has the game the the gamers headphones over here on the left . I think that's tied into that okay yeah , I think it is all right I'm still like dumbfounded . What is this plastic like ? Is this a cable that he hasn't installed , or something ?
oh yeah , I see the mini bin on the back okay yeah , I do .
I do like the way he's got the basically everything like fits in within the screen pretty much it's a balancing act , it's like stuff it all in .
How much shit can you pile in a five pound bag ?
he can hide it from his , his wife , and just like put a box over it or just . Oh honey , I don't have any radio , so I don't know what you're talking about his mouse is prominently displayed in the middle , which I don't understand .
Like what ? What's the deal with that ? It belongs down here by the keyboard .
Come on , I think that cW box in the middle , oh is that a key ?
Oh okay , somebody should scan that QR code , see if we can make something out of it . Okay , so we got a StarTech dongle . So you must have a laptop somewhere , and then a bunch of other extra cables . That's a Yeezy mic for the . Yeah , okay , yeah , I mean , we don't know what frequency he's actually using , so his radio's off .
So I'm going to have to duck points there .
Yeah , radio's off , power supply's off , everything's off .
The good news is this is not a 710 field radio because we have the external speaker , so I'm happy to see that . So good points on that side for me . Yeah , outside of that pretty compact , I guess , is the word I'd use , I don't know , okay , anything else we need to .
Although we've got a uh what a remote here for something , I don't see the tv or anything else like that tied to it , so we'll have to assume what was that underneath ?
yeah , that has to be a cheap tv this is a volume control for his gaming headset no , underneath the mouse up on the oh god , there's multiple , oh , like in the plastic thing uh , yeah , the gray and uh whatever plastic right right ? Yeah , so I think jeff said that was a key right uh , yeah , it's a box for a pootie keek .
No , no , no uh , not the mouse in the middle of the other mouse oh , oh , yes , I didn't even see that , what the hell .
So he has two mice . They're like kind of mating . Yeah , like , what . Like they're like is this ?
uh , you know a thing okay , what's what's that you can ?
get oh , it looks like a mouse that has up to three things .
Is that the pie it's mouse fucking . It's pie four .
Okay .
How do mice reproduce ? You put them on your desk .
Exactly . You face them each other and then you walk away . It's like rabbits .
Alright , score them up Alright .
Putting it in the right category here .
Yeah , yeah . Eric you see where it says Eric's ratings . You just go straight across .
Next time you have to highlight it yellow for him . So you know you're a huge embarrassing failure .
Yeah , Just just Eric will be highlighted yellow next time .
Shut it .
All right , everybody else can figure it out .
Bite me .
If I don't need silence , I'm going to start punching dicks .
Let's go back to this Displays . I can't give you more than a three for that one no biting , I'm going to bite if I want to . No QSL cards , no awards , nothing Big fat zero .
I'm going to have to give you a two for that one . I don't print out my awards , I'm just going to say that I don't either , but I have QSL cards all over my wall .
I bought one of those stupid frames that you give your grandparents all the time that rotates the pictures and put all my QSL cards in there , and then I file the real paper ones in a box , so all good well , so I take my eQSLs and I make those my screensavers .
Those aren't real QSL cards .
They're not .
They don't count .
Nah .
Okay , so do we want to skip over my shack ?
We don't have to , we don't have to score it , but we should just trash it .
Okay , so I'll run the quick video here , because the video does it better justice . You did a video , of course . You did Okay video here , because the video does it better justice .
Oh , hell , yeah , here's the video Eric gets zeros across the board .
Yeah , of course you would . Where the heck is the play on the video ?
How many headphones do you need ?
Two thank you . Let's bring up the right one there , because that video's not playing here . Let's just go here . Sorry , here , I'll get this shit together someday , okay ? So this is the main jack here , so let me bring this up and then I'll bring up the other picture after all . Right ?
So , uh , we could just glance over this very quickly , but yeah , um , let me start with the other side , so I even have another shot of this one . I don't , okay , that's rob , so this is my . You can't see the rest of my rack here , because I did a shit-ass job picking photos here . But , um , this is my rack . So power distribution .
I wish I could play the video . I should just see if I can fire it up . Nice , because it will do it
let me do the video .
What do you got on that drug scale ?
Let me throw the video file on here .
You got some tapes on that .
I do .
Sorry , are those DAT tapes ?
Yeah .
No , okay , all right , so let me bring this video in here . You guys seen that video ?
All right , yeah , look at the Meshtastics , look at the HTs . So there's that video . Alright , yeah , look at the Meshtastics , look at the HTs .
So there's that frame ham that I was telling you about that runs my QSL cards and it just rotates through all of them and my awards , and no , those tapes are actually home videos of the family stuff that I just happened to leave out , that I had to get converted for the wife .
Is that one pie or ?
two , one pie . No , dude , that's uh a ? Um clear node and that's a ? Uh morcerino . So thank god I can't zoom in here um , okay , all right , so clear . Node morcerino all right , yep and so this little obnoxious thing pointing down is a camera for my bench shots my daughter's um , what is it ? What's the radio that uh arl gave out ?
Uh , the qr qrz1 radio , that's . That's her radio down there . She just plopped down there . And then I've got a microphone from my bench , my , my FT 3 , a FT 65 , and then all my Meshtastic stuff .
And then my daughter made me that sign that basically says the CW codes and Morse code next to it , and there's my certificate yes , that's my original one for FCC issued . And then we get into the shack . I'm sure they one for FCC issued , um , and then we get into the shack .
So sure they're all FCC issued .
Yeah , you're right , I'm correct .
All right . So so we got ham shack hotline . Uh we , what is ? What is that ? Is that an editing wheel ?
next to your stream deck . That's , that's a flat . Anybody who knows a flex knows that's a flex wheel . Ah fuck the flex .
Now why do you need two coffee cups ?
Because you can . Well , this is the ARL cup that you know got issued when you bought the Renewed and you paid the extra money for they're really you know whatever . So that's just been sitting over the corner Someone taking a phone call .
That was the cheesy cartoon coffee mug .
Yeah , exactly the one that I stuffed up my head .
Hello Alright .
Deduction of points for having that .
Thank you , I appreciate it . I did the least I could do . So . Stream deck full curve monitor .
Curve monitor because you're a douche .
Yeah , thanks , appreciate it , mr Four Monitors .
The remote that was sitting there .
That one ? Yeah , so that is for the TV , which you'll see in a second .
Which is above my head .
That does have Roku .
It's a 50-inch 4K TV . We'll get to that in a second . Notice the mat . It's not black , it's actually a full global map . Points for that . Come on , guys , a nice gamers keyboard .
I have one on my desk currently . Yeah .
I'll give you points for that .
No zeros for that . All my bookshelf speakers are behind it .
Then we've got do you have two of those osmo fucking cameras you ? Got one that you take with you and then one that you have at your home you never have enough cameras .
You know that doesn't everybody have two osmo ?
I don't have one .
I can't afford that shit I gave you GoPros bite it . So this is all my old charging station , which you'll see in in future video . I revamped all that , so that's just kind of left over .
Paul , paul , real quick . Well , when you were in the military , what did you do when you couldn't afford something ?
Oh Jesus well , oh jesus well . I worked extra hard and I saved my pennies wow , he just got schooled .
All right okay , so moving on uh , there's , he knows what I'm talking about bonus . I know , I know what he says we haven't seen this yet .
Do we know what this stuff is grounding ? Yeah , amazing , isn't it ? So it's a important thing to a shack , correct ?
grounding is a myth .
Deduction of points , wrote a whole damn book on it . For what reason , I don't know . There we go . So , yeah , tim knows , tim knows , okay , uh . And then this is the rack itself , uh , which I didn't zoom into , damn it . Um , yeah , you don't get to see the rack , but the rack is . So there we go . That's the full rack .
So behind that main panel is my Flex 6400 , my two power supplies . This is my PC in the middle , where it's basically a streaming PC . Then I got a blanking plate and then I've got a web switch for rebooting , remote rebooting and stuff like that .
What are ? Your I've got a web switch for rebooting remote rebooting and stuff like that .
What do you use for power supplies ?
Those are by the way , stemilex the 40 . Okay , so do you have the rack-mountable ones , the ones that go in there as a plate ?
Yeah , so I didn't have the extra budget because you don't see in this picture , but behind the rack I've got it all cable managed and it basically is all modular so I could literally plug in .
Each of these power supplies have their own power pole strip , so they have all of their devices that I can plug into that I need to cable to , and then you know everything else is their . You know devices that I can plug into that I need to cable to and then you know everything else is , you know , just basically modular .
so usb , hdmi , all other stuff is , you know , easily pluggable I think they're the only ones that make a 19 inch rack mounted power supply . Yeah , that would be stupid , yeah without buying linear cheap ?
no , they are not .
They're about 50% more than just off-your-shelf power supply .
Okay , all right . Well , we're going to skip over me fast because we don't have to keep drilling . So I'm not going to rate myself , because it doesn't make sense , and nor should Paul . Okay , we're skipping right over me . Good , excellent , I love that , Eric .
I gave you all zeros .
Excellent , we're going to go to Paul next , since he's next . No , sorry , paul's next on the list here .
No .
Rob . Oh yeah , there we go , all right , so bring it up , rob .
And one nug , who doesn't smoke weed ?
Did we get an entry for Mike's Subaru ?
No , we did not . I'm surprised he didn't . We shouldn't get on him for that . This is rob n1 nug , as you can tell , prominently displayed here , the only one I've seen so far that's actually had a customized you know call sign .
Uh , black okay , look at the , look at the hot sauce .
Where ? Oh , yes To the right there .
yeah , he's definitely getting cold .
That's some good hot sauce , alright .
I'm impressed with this layout . He's got everything well organized . He's got a mix of old and new , for sure he's got everything well organized . Um , he's got a mix of old and good , old and new , for sure he's got a really good elecraft in there . Is that a kx1 or no ? That's a two , but no , what is that ?
not good . Uh , not good cable management , well okay yeah , if you're looking at all , that like he's got wires like I've seen worse .
It looks like him and Jason are in the same room . Yeah , although like what ?
what's this deal , rob ? Can you tell me why you have coax jutting out of your desk and you know in every which way ? Are these your like modular plug in when you need kind of cables ?
Now I know Rob does a lot of like repairs and stuff , so are we looking at ? Part of this is like his repair area . It could be .
Okay , Well you know , he's skilled man . I mean he's pretty versatile . So I mean from a category of you know , category two being versatile . He's got CB here , he's got a mix of yep , uniden scanner there , yep . And he's got the Bears repeater in Connecticut . I'm very familiar with that one .
And then he's got a DX yeah , DX10 there Wow , he's got hey yeah , dx10 there .
Wow , he's got . Hey , here we go .
We finally see an icon here we go , paul , finally well it's about freaking time .
Yeah , but what's ?
the next that's a power supply .
No , that's a what's the radio to the left ?
oh , come on , you can't see that one , that's a dx10 .
Oh , all right alright , which is on , which means ?
he's using it , not using the icon . There we go .
Alright , what is this little thing over here ?
Ooh , bonus points . Picture on the screen is the kank .
Oh yeah , nice . Ah , I didn't even see that . Okay , that's a good shot . Okay , I think in good shot .
Okay , I think in the middle could be temperature slash , humidity slash , something .
Oh yeah , hey Rob , if you know what that is that is a 1970s desk multi-display weather station .
Oh okay , I kind of dig the like kind of crude but functional . Everything is neat and squared yeah , there's nothing .
that's like every ounce of the desk has got pretty much a place for stuff like he evens like down to his like bottle cap , not sure why .
And there's a calculator , calculator . It looks like an Altoids 10 .
That could be a QRP radio , for all we know , although his speaker choices . I don't quite understand . He's got two hidden behind monitors which serve absolutely no purpose because , like , why do you want to have speakers ? Are you going to put them behind something ?
no stereo is there ?
yeah , is there three mice and two keyboard , one , two nope , two and two .
Where are you cool ?
I don't see a third one I'm this thing up here next to the speakers . Is that one of those crochet wheels ? Oh , like this up here . Yeah , like you know , is that one of those crochet wheels ?
Oh , like this up here .
Yeah , like you know how , we used to have a crochet wheel where you would crochet .
Yeah , good question Is it a sundial ? It could be a sundial too .
I'm thinking it's a crochet wheel .
Hey , rob , you're in the chat . What is it ? Do tell . Oh , hey , isn't that the CB that he did the video on with Walt ? I think so . The president , cb , oh , president , yeah .
Yeah .
That's a good one there , okay , and we figured out what this app is that he's doing . Oh , he's doing schematics . That's a board layout isn't it that is . Wow , that is Wow , that is Points for being an innovator and a designer Nice .
Dude Rob is way fucking smarter than I am , and I applaud him for that .
He has to be . He has two glass cases here , so guaranteed , although I don't know what the heck the , the , you know the clothespins for , but okay , well , decent , decent , although wait a minute . What is this thing here in the chair ? Is that a heater , like a space heater in a chair down here at the bottom ? You can , can't see it .
So you got the space heater sitting in the chair . Well , maybe it gets cold in there . Do you have to sit on it Like , come on really .
You guys are neglecting the Drake equipment over on the right hand side .
I was actually . I was trying to ignore that , but no , I'll think of them . Kudos , that that's like totally good stuff to you know . Make sure that's working and repair . Now , rob , I have to ask the question Is all that stuff actually working ?
There's some . Uh , there's no Kenwood in there .
Okay , yeah , I see that I think he's definitely below chair . It looks like it's in the chair . Yeah , I see the drake and alenko power supplies , although I have that same alenko , oh yeah , we all do , I had one of those myself , yeah .
So yeah , decent , yeah good kind of one stuff here too , the at200 he's representing all the major brands he's got got everything .
The Signal Link .
Gotta love that Signal Link man .
Yep and the VersaTuner Yep . I mean it's holding his monitor up . But you know what my VersaTuner is holding my monitor up .
Is that one of their manual tuners ? That is a manual tuner .
That is a VersaTuner too , Yep I was proud . Now , what is this stuff over here ? Are these all SDRs ? Yeah , it looks like there's SDR UNOS , yeah , unos , yep okay , we obviously can tell Rob's a digital guy because his microphone's tucked way over in the corner . All right , okay , not bad , shock rob , not bad , very , very .
Uh , you know , used for sure , I'll give him that . You know there's no , uh , there's dust and stuff and marks , but you can tell , although , what , what's this ? That's just the cable .
There's a nice antenna switch up there on the wall too , and , and , and it is grounded oh yes , nice kudos , points for that , okay ?
oh yeah , I see the grounding strap , there we go , yeah , wow , okay . Well , dude , he's got points for that ? Okay , all right , we're ready to rate .
All right , total them up , boys and then we move to the Grouch's Shack .
Yeah , what a mess , which is a fucking masterpiece .
It's an example of not how to have a shack .
Alright , we're going to have to do this . Versatility , definitely a 9 . 6 . No awards in QSL cardssl cards .
Rob , I'm pretty sad that's gonna be a big bad easter egg for that one although gray man gave him a nine on that category , that's right , because he's all digital , so I I know all of his awards are on the I gotta be digital he's there , right , dude's there , right Dude ?
I can't believe . Everybody did 10 across the board for wild card choice . I have to do a 10 just because I gave him 10 for the hot sauce Just alone . I'm going to follow the crowd .
The hot sauce made it . That was the 10 .
For all we know , he could be sitting on a stack of awards in that chair . He's just , he's just very , uh , you know , modest all right , so that puts .
That puts rob one point in the lead . Wow , okay , one point . Yeah , so keith's got 175 and rob's got 176 . Okay .
So this next entrant . I don't log .
Okay , well , you and Izzo can get the same book . How is ?
that All right . So this is a couple of slides here , folks , and the chaos only gets worse . So we'll start with the bigger picture here and then I'll go to the extra ones .
So that's the primary shack photo , right ? So yeah , you can see . There's the three main computer monitors . You can see the Alpha 374 amplifier with the MFJ 998 full legal limit auto tuner in there with the MFJ Versa tuner on top .
Well , the Grouch St x and adds an extra five , uh five watts there , easily , easily , five db with the pig . Yeah dude you literally . You hiding holes in the wall .
My god , you have so many freaking qsl cards oh , that's not even all of them , those are just the best ones .
They're starting to creep over onto the other side wall . Is this the honey-do list ? Is it like , honey ? This is what you should do and you're just ignoring it .
No , actually that piece of paper that you see rolled there , that is the Witterfield Day Rules , and the writing on it says send a win .
Link to W4O okay do you have pictures of yourself on your desk ? What is that ?
no , that's uh . So that's my daughter when she was young , and then , and then next to her is my son . Um , it's a picture of when he was at the range . It's kind of hard to see because the mic boom is in the way there .
Okay , and then we got the Icom family huddling over here in the corner .
Yeah , you got the 706 Mark II G next to the Icom 7300 . What the hell is this ? This red thing that is a Bose Color 2 Bluetooth speaker .
With a cover on it , or is it just red ?
No , it's , it's , it's a color . So yeah , it comes in a color . See , Tim's got the black one .
Got it . Okay , yeah , I see it Got it .
Yeah , it's an awesome . It's an awesome little Bluetooth speaker .
So here are all his QSL cards for all those folks that are waiting for one . He's got a nice big , fat stack here . He'll get to it someday .
Yep , and if you can't see , they're the VFW mallet . Yeah , I was going to say the gavel Yep , and so that commemorates my years as post commander . I see your checkbook there , that's the booster club checkbook , because , uh , I do the running , running sports booster club which , which will have the routing number and account number in the chat later .
Um , all right , well , hey , I I gotta give you at least five points easily for the hammy there can we flip that Amazon gift card over and get the number ? Off . Can we just get the ?
security code there that was a $50 gift card .
Is that a QSL card that has been unresponded to ?
we're at down here in the corner by the phone yes , the QSL card stack in front of the phone is ones I have yet to respond to and your phone is giving me OCD .
Like I can't handle those three buttons that are not lit on the phone . Like what the hell ? Out of all the buttons , you can't have those three ? What are those ? My extension or Todd's ?
no , those three are the only empty ones you can put them down towards the bottom , where it would have been more balanced right there in the middle but if you , if you look line three , as is also blank , uh , because line line three is nothing , yeah I'll give you on that one .
Now is this the pre-new PC or is this the Nope ?
that's the new PC . That's the Ghost Spectre edition of Windows . Roger , that Okay .
And you know he is a little versatile here . We see he's got a little hot spot there in the corner . Yeah .
We see he's got a little hotspot there in the corner . Yeah , so what you can't see is behind the light that is on top of the center monitor . Directly behind that is the new Pi Star , and so the new Pi Star is strictly Fusion , and the other one that you can see is strictly dmr got it all right .
Let's go to your next slides here . This is behind him , which you never see . Yeah , so this is the workbench . Oh man , you massacred this hat . What'd you do to our hat , bad dude ?
it's salty , it's salty .
Yeah , no kidding , wow , all right , what ?
are you doing on ?
tuesday this week oh , you guys see scott and steve , and you have your day dedicated to yourself no no no , so what that is your life is one day a week
every every year we do a fishing tournament , and so each person uh gets a tally .
All right , so there's scott myself uh , steve , which is my father-in-law , kim , my wife , and caden , my son , uh , so we all , we all contribute to the uh the tally of uh largemouth and smallmouth only that are caught throughout the year , and then we keep track of who gets the biggest small mouth , who gets the biggest large mouth .
The list was not updated when I took the picture , but I had the biggest large mouth . My wife had the biggest small mouth .
This says it all , Mr Grouch . This says it all . Go away .
Let's go to the picture .
What's up with all the gold bonds ?
there buddy . All the what A little chafed , okay , gold bond .
Oh , yes , you got a little . You know pants a little too tight .
So the gold bond no , those all need to go into my first aid kits . I'll need to go into my first aid kits because I realized after the last soda that sometimes I tend to over layer and that causes chafing and it would help to have a little bit of gold bond powder in my first aid kit yeah , okay there's some mish-tastic devices there .
There's a lot of shit on the bench .
How old were you in that picture ?
I was 18 in that picture .
I was going to say that looks like 18 .
Yep , yeah , that's the Marine Corps boot picture . There you go .
The certificate above it is congratulations and thank you for being a post commander and being outstanding in my vfw service I'm curious is that this is actually still under , you know , uh , certified , uh , you know the smoke , the good old , uh fire extinguisher that does not look like it's actually still usable 100 .
It is charged and it is .
It is usable I love the fact that he's got all this shit on this desk and his shelves are totally empty . It's like there's the cleanest shelves in the world , and tissues to boot . Like you know , you gotta have tissues listen , I'm , I'm .
I'm in in the midst of cleaning and organizing the shack and I haven't gotten to the workbench yet .
That's what we all say , all right . Okay , we got one more image here . This is his side of his left desk over here on the left side , and so this is his rack , which actually is pretty organized . I have to say this must have been part of your cleaning process , right ?
yeah , yeah , yeah , see the . The yellow tape measures . That's my 20 antenna challenge and uh above that , uh , I've got um my testing equipment . You can see the short com in the uh in the case there and then the case above that is my antenna building case . So it's all coax connectors and all of that stuff . Then we've got a Balfang spare parts box .
We've got the POTA Balfang hanging there . We've got QSL cards and Booster Club documents that need to be tended to People . Your QSL cards are coming , paul promises . The shelf below where you see I've got a Bearcat CB and a scanner . The rest of that to the left of this scanner , that's all Dungeons and Dragons stuff .
I am a Dungeon Master and so those are all Dungeons and Dragons stuff . So I am a dungeon master and so those are all my dungeon master stuff . And then you've got Kermit's books . You know that we have Radio Rick saves the day Awesome stuff .
All right , let's go to this other side here before we roll into the next .
Yes , so the victim . Yes , so the other side there .
Eyeball's twitching already .
Yep , you got the network switch .
See that HP switch and I am twitching .
So Eric gave me that and that thing is a lifesaver . So I've got everything in the shack connected to that and then that is directly connected to the modem .
That's a .
ProCurve 24 port .
Yeah .
And on top of it is a little Lenovo mini PC with six external hard drives connected to it , and that acts as my network storage . There , you go Now , that's my network storage right there Above the PlayStation 5 .
Alright , that is Paul's shack . There we're all rating Paul with a bunch of zeros .
Yeah , give me zeros .
You in the chat can decide otherwise . Let's roll to our next one , which is Buddy here . I think this is the next one . Yep , okay , so this is Buddy's shack . I think he only has one photo . Yep , one photo here . All right , this is Buddy's oh boy .
Okay , we got some plywood , we got a Miller Lite .
Yeah , we always have to have a Miller Lite , Apparently with a big giant thermos Probably filled with Miller .
Lite .
He's got his license . His license is fixed to the PC . The official copy .
The official copy .
The 3D fridge .
Okay , yeah , I see that .
Gotta have the beer fridge with the flow master , yeah .
Flow master . I mean six hour , he's got everything all star .
I mean , yeah , Okay I say that the beer fridge with the bumper stickers on it is weighs as much as as any other ham radio flare .
Yeah , 100% yeah .
This is our first person that doesn't have the band plan prominently displayed . It's kind of thrown over in the corner hidden behind the screen , but it's there , uh , okay , uh , we've got , oh uh , an arfid wallet here with some blue painter's tape affixed to it . Apparently needs some repair . That's a Ridge wallet . Yep , that is there we go .
Another icon , my friend $7,300 for the win . Yep , okay , oh boy , interesting . He's got a soundbar . It looks like a 43-inch TV , maybe Tied to his monitor . It looks like the other PC . Okay , not bad there . Compressed air , so he does maintain his equipment . That's good , although all this shit over here on the rack is unidentifiable .
Well , it looks like there's an extension cord just in case .
Well , that could be the Podaflex , the poda cable too , from messy and polony , that's possible . Yellow , yeah , he's got some . Um , what is that ? Is that like rodent killer , heavy ? Well , yeah , it looks like treatment , for no , this is . This is grass seed , lime stuff where you treat your lawn . That's what's hidden behind there . It's got lime in the name .
Well , that's a way to mix your hobbies together . All right , wow , okay . Well , points for being on the POTO website . Decent construction of the bench , not bad . Although , what the hell is that thing back here ? I am not sure it's like a I don't know Some weird machine . It's obviously a good location . He's 90 degrees , mostly sunny , can't be a bit that .
And then , yeah , I don't know , it's not much else here . He's got a nice heel mic stand . Is that a heel mic or no ? Is that something else , or Heil I ?
keep saying Heil .
Yeah , neither can I , although the gold looks familiar .
I was going to say you mean Heil .
Heil , yes , hey , heil , yep , Okay , that's out of that , not bad . I mean , cable management is lacking a lot . Although , what is this thing down here ? Is that like an external keyboard or something ? Maybe ?
an external hard drive ?
yeah , it's definitely buttons and everything , so it's possible .
I think it's one of those little handheld keyboards . Oh yeah , it's a little portable ones , okay .
Well , not bad .
Outside of the LED backlit keyboard .
Lime . I'll have to deduct points for the lime there . All right , let's see what we got here . Well , definitely not . Neatness , cleanliness , versatility uh , displays , awards , gift card zero . And I don't know my wild card that bench is uh , uh okay . And I don't know my wild card that bench is okay . Where does that put him ?
Okay , so that's 111 points total for Buddy , which , let's see , it puts him above last place . So that's good and it puts him just above Tim . Tim's at 110 . He's at 111 . Okay .
All right , let's go to our next victim here , tj . Right , yeah , tj , does TJ have ? No ? Tj has two photos here . I think , yeah , two photos , yep , let's go back .
So let's do the first one , which is his actual bench , which , um , if anybody can identify that , that looks like either a harbor freight bench or , uh , sears oh , that's harbor freight that harbor freight looks like sears too yeah , no , that's .
That's a general .
That's what I was thinking of .
I like the way he's got the notebook Holding the Band plan Hanging over the .
That's pretty cool and a 7300 .
Yeah .
Okay , I'm going to have to give him points for the fact that he's preparing for his windows to crash by having a helmet close by .
He's also in the jail cell . Yeah , okay , you guys , yeah .
So he's got safety glasses . Man , he's very prepared . Helmet safety glasses Not bad .
It's a pretty cool glasses .
Wow , my gosh , do those speakers actually even put out any sound ? Holy crap , those things are smaller than a regular pc speaker . Nevertheless , he's got speakers on his monitor , so you know , a little overkill . What's what's to the right of ? That little speaker uh well , the power looks like a power supply .
No , it's the right of the little white speaker .
Oh , that looks like above the helmet . Looks like a PC , maybe like a nook .
GMK something .
Yeah , TR might be like a no-name nook . All right , what does he ? Got written on the piece of paper Lab grit 150 . Dedicated if green . Yeah , I'm not sure that has to do anything with . I think that's his ATM pin code .
Middle icons on the desktop , but they're not .
They're not correctly ordered my gosh really random ones too . Okay , he's got , that would drive me nuts yeah , really that would drive you nuts looking at your shack yes , gosh out of all your icons . You're worried about those ? Uh , all right , so he's got dire wolf . So he's doing a little bit of APRS and iGating Sherp , yep . Sherp's in there .
Okay , discord .
Can't tell what .
WSHEX .
Got an APRS app . Okay , decent JSA call Okay nice Open Office maybe . Yeah , that's Open Office .
Who the hell used Microsoft Edge ?
People that use Windows . Alright . Is that a VX7 ? No , that's a 3 .
Is that an old Kenwood ?
No , that's a Yaesu .
No , that's a Yaesu .
Looks like the V6 . Maybe it could be I can't make out the label , but it looks like a 6 or a 3 .
Yeah , the waterproof one .
Two Yaesus and an icon there .
Yeah , okay , so this is the 857 or 817? .
No I don't know what that is , 857's got a amber display .
It's user definable .
Oh , is it Okay ? I apologize .
It's definitely Yezu , because it's got the 1990s button on the side .
I don't think that's the 817 .
Is that the 818 ? No , it's the same thing , but that the 818 ? No 818 would say the same thing but 857
maybe I think it is ?
I'm not sure .
Skidgets is 818 , but it's not his shack . He's guessing just as well as we are .
I'm just going to say it's an 800 series .
It's got a digi rig , so it's definitelyi rig it's not an 897 or an 857 . Yeah , cable management's lack of desire there A little bit . There's a 7300 here , so , yeah , not being used , which is a good way to have a 7300 . Wow , I think he missed that one . He did totally all right well , so , uh , let's go there's .
I think there was two here what's the radio next to the 7300 ?
so yeah , so the 7300 is what we were trying to figure out was either an 857 , an 818 , 817 but is that a yesu right there ?
yeah , that , yeah , that's definitely a Yaesu . I don't know which one that's actually on , and in use .
Yeah , exactly , it's not like the icon . Okay , so let's go over to the second photo here which we're going to point out the obvious Paul , go ahead . The cat in the chair , no , oh , really the cat in the chair .
No really , yes , okay , look at .
Look at the icon 7300 powered on that one , and he doesn't have the 857 any longer there , so okay , so he's . He's on 20 meters .
He sure does have a lot of battery boxes down there underneath his desk yeah , is that what they are , tim ?
uh , can we read ? That's what that is ? It definitely looks like , uh , you know , some form of ammunition whatever , whatever it says , those cans belong in my house so I ? I don't know about you , but , dude , this cat can span a pretty far distance .
If it can go from a chair down to a box and still have some like that's a big cat , alright , what else do we got ? So he's got QRZ open by the looks of it . Got donkeys , nice . Got the twisty ties . There's good stuff there . I'll give him points for that .
You know , I would say I mean it's gotta be like halfway a decent cable management , because I haven't seen any loose cables in either of those photos .
Yeah , not true , you weren't really looking hard enough .
There we go .
What's all that , Paul Loose cables .
They're all here .
I think you might be drinking a little too much .
Hey , listen Is nothing wrong with another glass of scotch uh , I agree with that one for sure .
Okay , all right . Well , we've seen the cable management . Are we ready to rate ? All right , this is for tj here . Uh , neatness , cleanliness , I have to go this way . Versatility , yeah , not bad , not Not 6x . One display I'm going to give you a 1 . Can't handle that one . No QSL cards , awards 3 .
And I'm just going to give you an extra 7 points wild card because you're running a 817 , 818 , and you have a Yaesu HT .
Dude , that helmet alone gets 10 points .
I'm curious to see why he has so much Velcro on the top of it . That's impressive .
Why not ?
That's for attaching things .
Some pretty big things with that much Velcro on his helmet . Alright , so TJ's got a total score .
Some pretty pretty big things with that much Velcro on his helmet , all right . So TJ has got a total score of 128 , which puts him somewhere in the middle running . He's tied with Walt .
Okay , all right , we're going to Marvin here , marvin , okay . So let's back up . Marvin threw in his repeater too , which , from the judge's perspective , do we need to rate this ? It is nice he has it on site . Well , it's bonus .
Is it in his house ?
It is in one of his houses , because this is a repeater down in . I can't remember Wisconsin or something like that . Wisconsin , yeah , so , or wisconsin or something like that .
Wisconsin , yeah , so dr2 . So let's go back to a shack .
So this is a smart shack , clean looking shack , this is marvin the ham radio guy . For those that uh don't know him , uh , you can check out his channel at the ham radio guy . Um , look at .
He's got the dx10 and the flex he's a version 1.0 of pa .
That's all he does is digital .
Yeah , but hold on though , All right . So look at his Hamshack hotline phone .
He's only got the Hamshack hotline on it and he's got a voicemail that he hasn't fucking acknowledged . He has an answer . It's probably you or Tim , for that matter . Tim leaving voicemails that nobody ever answers , okay , I was going to be asking about auto insurance .
Sadly you don't get those on ham radio .
It's more asking about your own radio . Okay , so he's a Mac guy . Good , we haven't seen one of these in a while . A nice 300-watt dummy load . Good antenna . You're calling me . Are you going to have this conference later ? Okay , I love this , marvin . He gets a flex . And what happens to the DX10 ?
It doesn't even get a chance to be displayed , it gets covered up and thrown in the corner .
It's like like screw you all right , just gets covered up like the red-headed stepchild that it is wow , yeah , you go ahead , get it in there .
Okay . So , yeah , I'm impressed , okay . So what's this award over here for arl ? Not sure what he got it for . He's a diamond club member . Okay , so he's drinking the juice .
I'll have to give him that he said he was a Mac user .
I'm not seeing a Mac in here anymore , oh , there it is the mini , but it's not being displayed . He has monitors , windows . Does he have a keyboard monitor switch ? I don't see his other Mac . Weird , he doesn't have a monitor for it . Ah , we'll have to call him out on that one . Okay , so he's got an SDR over here .
Oh no , this is probably Mac running Windows .
Oh yeah , true . Well , no , because he has an HP over here in the corner . That's an HP , so it's definitely running Windows there .
It's only got one display .
Dude , look at that battery box Behind his call sign .
Yeah , okay , so his channel sponsored Dakota Lithium , so I wouldn't be surprised that we would see Dakota Lithium in his shack , like it's part of his agreement . He's got a hotspot there . I wonder what that's running . I've never seen that hotspot before . It's got of his agreement . He's got a hotspot there . I wonder what that's running .
I've never seen that hotspot before . He's got an interesting hat .
I'm going to give him some points , because he's got the . Is that the flex that he got from his company or whatever to use ? So that's why it's got the display on it and he's got the and the flex wheel . Like what does he need that for ? He's got all this stuff on the flex .
He's got the flex . He also has the PGXL and he has the amplifier . I think less , but that's not in the picture Right , so he's got the whole kit and the coodle . Does he have any awards up there or is it just that ? No , just the arl diamond member that's his diamond member well , if you throw enough money at arl , they'll throw your certificate .
So that's basically what they did yeah , that that .
Just that just says that he's got a lot of money and and given his involvement in the ARRL , I would be surprised they didn't just give him that .
I give him a 5 . 5 for awards Wait a minute .
He's on 14274 . 247 . Okay , what the ?
heck , weird .
Yeah , but whatever he entered is is invalid if you read what it says okay , whatever , whatever he entered as the call sign is invalid now I don't know if I should give him points deductions , because he has a flex with a display on it with the m version , but he also has it running on the monitor up here .
That's what I was saying . Do you need to have both ? Like , does he need to have the knob with the knobs on the radio ? I know right , it's like overkill .
It's like . He's like haha , I got it all . It's point seduction , because he can't literally go a foot and a half away to turn the knob above his keyboard , which his fingers are probably already placed on . So yeah , no , I'm deducted points for that one .
I like the hat , though the hat's good . That is nice .
That's a nice American flag , Tim , but no guns , but American flag .
I want to know where I got that hat . I want to get one like that . I want to get one like that .
Probably Etsy .
Yeah , and if that guy would do flex fit hats , I would 100% buy one of those hats in a heartbeat . But he doesn't do flex fit . They're all snapback . That's what old people wear Exactly and I'm not fucking old At 43 , I am not fucking old . I want a flex fit . He's running . I am not fucking old .
I want a flex fit . Okay , so he's running the new Shackmaster . That's impressive . That's a new piece of equipment .
Was that an RSP-1 ?
Yeah , the Raspberry Pi which is over here .
How come he ?
needed to use mine .
That's a .
Uno .
Yeah , no , that's an RSP1 . Yeah , Tim's right .
So he has this Flex radio , right ? Why did he need to use mine ?
Because he didn't have it when he was using yours .
Oh , is that the one ? Is this in Wisconsin , this shack ?
No , this is at home in Mass . Oh , okay , he has a 6800 in wisconsin in iraq . Well , it hasn't been delivered yet . Yeah , he's working on it , I got it . So , yeah , filling in the blanks man .
He's drinking the juice what the heck like an arl matt uses in wisconsin uh , yeah , so if we go , he lives up shed . They live up north and then down in florida up north cold , cold , his wife okay , so so we'll back up the trail a little bit .
His wife's job took them to massachusetts , so he was living in wisconsin and they moved to massachusetts because of his wife's job and so he now has all of his radio gear and some of his radio gear in Mass and in Wisconsin . This repeater that we're looking at is in Wisconsin .
Massachusetts is the fucking worst .
And look at , he basically built a house , which is really just a shack , right . It's more of a shack than it is a house .
That's all it is .
I think that's a good looking shack though .
It's very organized .
Anyone notice the dummy load underneath the flex radio ?
I did . Yes , I pointed that out . The 300 watt one I love that one , I have one myself .
What's that wire next to it ?
The coax wire that's just sitting there , yeah it's connected to anything nope , no , it's probably looks like a vhf uhf radio , because he doesn't have one . Might have been there okay point seducted , only hf . Okay , ready to rate . All right , uh , great job on neatness great job on neatness . Great job on neatness versatility displays wow , got a 2 on that .
One awards . He's only getting a 2 because he only does ARRL and then my wild card .
I'm going to do a 6 dude , look at I just did what . And then my wild card I'm going to do a six .
Dude , look it I just did what you did and I fucking graded the wrong thing .
I told you , man , I was grading Ryan . I didn't realize Already .
Yeah , oh man . Nice , all right , let me have another glass of scotch I didn't realize .
Yeah , oh man , nice , alright , let me have another glass of scotch yeah , you should .
It'll clear things up yeah , let me have another glass .
Hey , todd , did you rate ?
oh no , my whole computer is just . Can you guys still hear me ? yeah , alright , hold on . I don't know , can you guys still hear ? me . Yeah , yeah , everything all right , hold on . I don't know where you guys went we're right here .
We haven't gone anywhere , yeah there , you are all right , you're back , but I lost the uh and whoever threw that comment on the freaking board there .
Yes , edge is garbage . I don't know why you threw it up there , but yes , edge is garbage .
I refuse to use it for work . Yep , they make us use it for . Chrome now .
I use it when I don't have any other option . What , oh yeah .
It used to be nice when it was a separate program and you could . You know , if it didn't work in Chrome , it would work in Edge . Blah , work an edge , blah , blah , blah .
But now that it's chromium based it , that really doesn't help either nope , all right , so marvin gets a total score of 146 , which is not good enough to take the lead . Nope , and so he's got the lead . Still , rob is riding in the middle there , uh so rob's got the lead . Still , rob , he's riding in the middle there .
Rob's got 176 , which , yeah , just barely takes the lead over Keith . Keith is at 175 .
Four to go people Four to go . This is Ryan . This one will be really easy . He's being a smartass . He sent us his iOS Flex app because he's currently what over in Europe for work . That's from his phone , so you can decide .
Ryan's in the former Constantinople . If you know the song , it's funny .
Yes , it is , there we go . That was a full video for the song . It's funny yes , it is there we go .
All right video for the song now I apologize , ryan , because I know your shack looks a thousand times better than this shit fucking submission that you put in yeah , but you get , you get ones across the board .
Bro , I'm sorry , at least you know I don't even know if I can give him one . I mean , it's a screenshot of an iOS app .
Hey , don't be hating , jeff , don't be hating . I can run my radio from my phone while I'm on the toilet . That's all that matters .
Oh , the visuals .
You don't need visuals . The point is that I don't want visuals I can do photo hunting from the visuals . Oh the visuals . You don't need visuals . The point is that I can do photo hunting from the head . Yeah , you're 5'9" , 5'9" 5'9" .
Have you seen my wiener , my wiener .
All right , let's go into Todd's here , since a good segue that is hamming yeah , no kidding , especially if you don't have enough fiber . All right , okay . So this is todd shack , anywhere to start . He's cleaned this one up . He's got his official Liffrey and Ham hat off to the side here .
Yeah , go ahead Explain what we're looking at here , todd , yeah what do you ?
got there A label maker . Label maker , qso cards . Little speaker on the right .
Oh , you got a stack of QSL cards . I haven't gotten one of those .
Those are . You can make a contact with them that's my uh , that's my phone . Uh , charger magnetic has some . Uh , that's where I keep all the the chargers , like these little cords here that I charge my phone , ipad , that kind of stuff is all connected to the back of that . I got the whiskey glasses . Speaker .
Speaker , my radio , yeah , I recognize the flex wheel now .
Oh yeah , I should after this point . Okay , so this is a quirky QRP .
No , no , no , no no . This is Michael's mat .
Yeah , that's a poda mat .
Oh , this is Club Gear Online . Club Gear Online . Okay , so double points for that , okay .
Yeah , it's got all the bands , all the information .
Just in case you forget the stuff that you have on the wall over here .
Well , I had that first , and then I got this .
But now that you can see , that . Ftm 400 belongs in your vehicle and not on your desk . No , I got the 300 . You got the 300 in the vehicle . No , I got the 300 . You got the 300 in the vehicle .
No , you should put the 300 on the desk , but the 400 in your vehicle . No way , that's right .
Only if you're half blind .
I'm a mafia man .
It's a dying breed .
I do need more computers or screen space , so I need a big , long curve monitor and I need another .
Oh , you're not going to give them shit for a curved monitor .
You know , I try to make it look curved . I put them together and I kind of tilt them so it kind of looks like a curved monitor .
Listen , I follow that same concept . My center monitor is straight and my two on the side are slightly angled , so it almost looks curved right .
I'm with you now most hams have screwdrivers or pencils . Why do you have doubles of scissors ?
well , I share this , uh , this desk with my wife . She's on the other side , so it's like a T , so it went from the lamp back . Yeah , that's the half True .
That Shitty cable management over here , what the hell .
Those are all the things that everything plugged in like the fan . I got there , but this , this isn't that bad a cable management .
No , his cables are Velcro . They're rolled up .
Yeah , they're in these little clips .
Yeah they're in these little clips , and that lamp is like circa 2000, . So that's perfect .
Perfect for his wife's .
Yeah , I'm pretty sure my wife had the same lamps before I got rid of them .
Is that one of those big button calculators ? Oh , like for the old elderly .
It's not that big , it goes with his big button cell phone .
Is this a fly swatter or is this a magnifying glass Todd ?
Wait , where's your ham ?
alert .
Help . I've fallen and I can't get up . I can't get up .
Here's my magnifying glass because I'm blind . And then I've got that paper . Under there is the . I don't use it anymore , but when I was doing the nets for the first time it was my copy of the net script when I had to set it Now .
I see N1QC on the A band . What's on the B band ?
Greylock , greylock , oh Greylock .
Greylock , come on , why that's a good Greylock . What do you ?
have against Greylock .
Dude , you should have W1 ASS on B band .
Yeah , I have that in my car . They're on all the time , though it's like I need some quiet . But Greylock's cool because you can get guys in New York and stuff .
Greylock's cool because it's quiet .
I'm going to give you bonus points for having Feng Shui with both your ham . You know ham glasses on either side , but why , like dude , you just look at their fill space .
He's a two-fisted guy . Don't be knocking .
And then I got my ornament with my call sign on it Right . Yes , I mean it's . Oh , and then on the right . I got my scanner antenna sitting on top of my DX Commander , the official Pi 10 , yep . And it's sitting on the DX Commander .
On the DX Commander box that you haven't opened up to the Classic you bought , okay , got it , so you and Jason will assemble those on your next live stream , whenever that happens . Yeah , okay , all right , so now we have to go underneath the desk .
Oh look at that .
Is that an ?
amplifier . No , no , that's my power supply .
Well , no , it's a linear power supply .
God who uses linear power supplies anymore .
God does Todd . You're so gay .
Hey , Ryan bought this .
He flew that on a plane for him , David .
He flew that thing back on a Gulfstream for me . He found it . He's like dude , he goes , I found this power supply . I'm going to go get it for you . I think it's really good All right .
Well , dude , it stayed well organized . I mean , you got all of your Wi-Fi stuff in here and you know your cable modem and your flex is running . I don't see any other major cable mismanagement except for the stuff back here . But that's acceptable . Short cables , Nice job , Nice job , Nice job Okay .
All right , I give you a five out of 500 .
Wow , Do you feel bad every week because you brutally beat him up with something on extra that you have to feel like because you brutally beat him up with the ? You know something on extra that you have to feel like you have to give him 500 . Okay , Well , we're going to skip right over that comment and move on to our last late entry who ?
has this ? Who is this ? Is there a second ?
This is Steve KO for AFL . At the last minute , because Paul posted something on Twitter , steve felt he wanted to jump in here and he is our last one for the evening . This is his shack , actually , or should I say Shane shack . I can't tell which one would it be what ?
Is it Shane's because he uses it remotely , or is it Steve's because he sits in front of it ?
Shane owns the oven because Shane turns the oven on and off , correct , right , yeah right . The rest of it is all steve yeah , man dude , holy crap dude look at that mixer 1990s .
They all left this behind . Why is this still here ? Like I don't , nobody uses the rollerball come on , really carpal tunnel syndrome Steve .
The only people that use the rollerballs are older people with hand problems Hand , eye coordination , issues With arthritis , joint issues .
Yeah , exactly , they've got carpal tunnel .
My father uses one . I never could get used to them .
Okay , so he's got one mouse , but what the freak is this thing here for another mouse ?
he's got two pc monitors , but I don't see two pcs , so we can only assume you know , for like 20 bucks on amazon you can get a logitech mouse that has three . You can connect it to three different transmitters . I use it for my , I have it for my iPad and my PC and I still have an extra one blank . You only need one .
I agree with that .
Here's the thing . Look at that ham shack , that ham clock . He gets points deducted because he didn't SSH in and changed the resolution so that it actually went full screen .
The full screen . Yeah , dude , that's amateur hour yeah dude , it takes like 30 seconds .
You SSH into your Pi and you change the resolution and bam , it goes full screen .
Okay , so we have to throw a little caveat in , because Steve did post this in the Discord .
I think was that if you happen to notice this upper monitor here and I'm giving major discounted points this is his work monitor and he forgot to edit it out , so he basically just kind of smudged the screen to show that , like you know , we can't see any of his work related stuff . You know , like I don't like the fact that you're crossing church and state .
Come on , like on , work stays out of the shack and shack stays in the shack .
That's the way I look at it . Who's that guy ? Is that Jimmy Buffett from the 70s ?
Oh , here on the screen , ham .
Nation last minute Ham Radio .
Minus 500 points for the hippie .
Minus 500 points for the hippie . Minus 500 points for fucking HRCC .
I know right , they're cutting into our show , just kidding .
Eric , what's that thing in the middle ?
That's the step IR . So that's his rotator . Actually , not the rotator , that's just the step IR for tuning the band at different frequencies's just a step by r for tuning the band .
uh , different frequencies which you know , on his roof uh , yep , yeah , yeah and the rotators right here .
Yeah , he's got a nice little setup . That's why shane complains all the time when he has to turn on his you know oven for 20 meters . Um , okay , I've got a concern here . What the frick is this balloon crap over here in the corner ?
What is that ? Those are like Velcro straps , I think .
For what Like cable management , because he's not doing it .
Wow , behind everything .
Well , he might be in between recording videos with the DJI Osmo gimbal thing you just want to get on Ham Radio Clubhouse again .
Stop buttering them up . I love the fact that he's got a stream deck and it's sitting over the corner doing absolutely nothing . That's the impressive use of it . And a GoPro case with no GoPro in it Good deal . Okay , what's this deal here ? What's this little thing ? Is that a stapler ?
Electronic stapler .
I was't know what the hell is that . Is that a microphone ? A speaker ? What A camera ? My gosh , steve Dude . I've never seen that thing . It looks like a Wally . What Dude ? I don't know that . I assume is a speaker here . But okay , and then what is the crap on here ? So this looks like a pie , right ? Is that what I'm looking at ?
I think I see a pie there , but it looks like I see a red um or power pole . It looks like on there oh , yeah , yeah , I see .
Okay , yeah is that , but I don't know what that white thing is in front of it .
If it looks like on there , oh , yeah , yeah , yeah , I see . Okay , it looks like a parable , but I don't know what that white thing is in front of it If it's like a screw post .
Yeah , it looks like a mounting something , and then he's got this empty case here .
Yeah , it looks like a juice box case .
Yeah , hey , do you see some QSL cards here ? Although I can't make them out , he does have some QSL memorabilia .
Where do you see them .
Sitting on top of the ICOM 7300 .
Oh , not well displayed .
Oh , and he's got 50 bucks lying around . Anybody want it ? Is this to sweeten the deal , steve ? Just so we'd notice it ? So you're going to slip us a $50 ? So you get a better score ?
A $50 each .
Yeah , exactly .
Come on , pay up . Sounds like he's sponsoring the prizes tonight .
To the right of the large ICOM radio . There , to the left of that , there's a metal outlet .
Oh , like up here the power pole . Thing .
No left . No , oh , left of the radio . Okay .
Oh yes , the outlet's over here on the side . Okay .
Yeah , below that . Below that , okay , below that next to the radio on the desk .
Yeah .
Yeah .
That's below that , next to the radio on the desk .
Yeah yeah , that's the metal outlet , oh boy well , steve , we figured out why your wife's oven kicks on , because you don't have any grounding whatsoever . It's not your radios .
And there's a power pole right there .
Yeah , up here , I saw that Okay .
No doubt Not being used at all .
Oh , there's another one over here . Right in front of there .
Yeah , there's a power pole . Yeah , you can see the power pole from the left there .
Oh gosh .
Yeah , so you got power poles up here Power poles .
oh gosh , yeah , so you got power poles up here power poles over there shack isn't ? Uh , no , no , those are knobs , aren't they ? Sorry , that's a knob system . I don't know what that is , that's weird , I don't .
It's like the six or eight knobs here or the monitor .
Yeah , is it okay ? You got a remote or no ? That's a ? That's a keyboard . By the looks of it , right could be wow or that is a little handheld keyboard for uh , and what's that ?
is that thing in the middle going up ? Is that like his monitor stand ? Yeah , this is a pipe like a monitor oh , you can throw them out off the sides . That's kind of collect . Probably need to use one of those . All the sides , that's kind of cool .
I probably need to use one of those . Now , those things are actually pretty great .
I used them before in a work environment . Those stands like for the monitor . Yeah , we had two sets of four monitors . It was called an array , where we had a different thing on every monitor to monitor a casino .
You know I'm going to have to give him discounted points just because there's no HRC memorabilia whatsoever anywhere in any of this photo whatsoever , Like you think he would , he's got to have .
Nevertheless , I would expect that if he was going to take a photo and try to earn extra points , he would have used a live-free and ham hat somewhere in the corner that we sent him months ago .
We're giving props for at least having matching monitors there , at least on the two boxes .
True , yes , I'll give you that . Okay , so the bottoms are matching . The top left one's a Dell Can't tell what that one is , although that might be the same one . So you might have three matching monitors . Okay , so three out of four ain't bad , Wow Well , I don't know man .
Yeah , it's pretty compact . You know , for all that he's got there , he's got it in a pretty compact space . Yep . He's got a lot of equipment there . I got it in a pretty compact space . Yep , he's got a lot of equipment there . I think it's well organized bago connectors or what .
Oh , he's outside of the technician portion of the 10 meter band , I was gonna yep .
Shame on him , man . That's not helpful , isn't it 400 or or no ? It's 450 .
You're right , it's 450 . Oh , it's 500 ? Okay , why does he have 500 ?
Yeah , where's your band planned at buddy ? Yeah , none . No QSL cards , nothing , dude , I don't know . Did you happen to notice he's got a 9700 ? Yeah , why does he have two ?
What do you mean ? Two ? He's got two HF radios .
No , no , the 9700 is VHF .
Oh is that the VHF1R .
Yeah , so he's pretty versatile . Oh that's good . He's pretty versatile . I wonder what he's got for antennas . He doesn't have a dual band in there . Well , that's the HF side , but I wonder what he's using for VHF UHF .
Hey , he's got Bamboo Studio opened up .
Oh , yes , he does . Yeah , wow , bamboo Studio . Where is that ?
Yeah , he's got the Bamboo Labs up . Yeah , so he's 3D printing something .
We haven't even picked on what that website is .
That is Facebook . What is he looking at ?
oh , he's got the Morse Tutor . He's looking at Morse Tutor . In the background he's trying to print a Facebook to Morse .
Tutor , major down points for being on Facebook yeah , true that's for old people .
Points for being on .
Facebook . Yeah true , I don't use this Facebook anymore . That's for old people .
He's good . What else he's got ? I'm ?
adjusting his score down for Facebook .
He's running GridTracker .
We need to be on Snapchat .
What's the other one ? Uh , the chinese one . Oh dude , come on , we all have to give him discounted points . What is he running here ? See what he's running edge knocked head off . He's got uh discord . I don't know what this one is .
This must be this app here , or not ? Streamyard .
Restream .
I think it's the Stream Deck logo . Yep Close .
Yeah , it could be Okay . I don't know what this green one is . I think the green one is the .
Bamboo Labs . The Bamboo Labs , okay , nice .
What else he's got Daboo .
Labs Bamboo .
Labs yeah .
Okay , nice , what else he's got ?
DaVinci Resolve on there he's got VNC , yeah yeah , microsoft products , dji , obs he's got . Audacity , he's got .
Jumbo Wind Link's in there .
Yeah , he's running VNC . I wonder if that's for Shane . I don't see the remote apps like any of the remote apps he uses oh , he's got .
He's got RC4 on there yeah , rc4 yeah , I see it on his desktop , rc4 talk about old people stuff .
He's running Slack still alright well anything else we ? Need iTunes . Did he just let that app out ? Alright , well , I'm impressed so far . I mean not bad cable management organization I don't know we have . Oh , how the heck did Mike and Douglas get on there ? Did you just add those ?
yeah , I did so . They just last minute posted their Shaq pictures in the .
Discord Dude come on . No , no , no , Listen .
You just got to show the pictures from the Discord , that's all .
Alright , let's rate Steve , and then we'll do the last two . There we're gracious enough . We're only on an hour three here . We're going to go into a marathon if we can go to the rate we're at .
So let me tell you that when you show the pictures of Douglas V's shack what a shit show that is .
Holy fuck Douglas uh , no , actually no award card big fat zero , uh , steve . Uh , no , actually no Award QSL cards Big fat zero , steve . I'm going to deduct points , just alone .
Can you do negative ? Can we do negative ? I don't know .
I just did a negative Dude , you can do negative .
You can do negative .
Okay , good , I'm in . I gave him negative four . It's a little late in the game , but hey , I'm going to give him some points for that walking around money . Let me go grab Discord here .
Alright , we're going to go into . Sure your shack , all right . Uh , it looks like everybody's done , so steve gets a total score of 124 with his negative nine points . Yeah sorry , steve , that's not . That's not gonna cut it . You know what I mean . It's just not gonna cut here's my disc .
This is this is discord , so this is douglas's uh back here , so let's see if I can open this in browser . I'm going to holy fucking . What the fuck douglas ?
like you make my shack look fucking amazing exactly your shit makes your shack look like the kaj mahal . Holy crap , dude okay it makes ?
it makes tim's shack look amazing . And I'm not talking Tim Gray man , I'm talking QDK Tim , all right . Let me do this here , Eric open that shit up in the browser .
Yeah , I'm trying to . The problem is it's opening it up in the same browser that I've got StreamYard running , so give me a second here . All right , give me one second .
If you weren't using Edge , you could just pull that tab out .
I'm not using Edge , thank you . Drink another one for me , tim . Drink another one for me . Here we go , let's go .
Is that like insulation for the wall without the sheetrock ?
Yeah , Okay , this is like sheetrock . Yeah , okay , yeah .
Back here , Okay , where is the shack ? Is the shack on the left side ?
That is the inside batting of the insulation that is exposed . Oh yeah , there we go . So there is no plywood , there is no sheet , go , there is no plywood , there is no sheetrock , there is no covering . You see the inside batting , the inside of the batting of the insulation , he's got a weed whacker . He's got freaking rolls of wire hanging on the wall .
It looks like there's a gas mask there . I'll give bonus points for the gas mask if that's what that is . We don't want to start left or right ?
oh no , oh , I started the desk here .
Wow , man , I gotta have to really zoom into the slash ham shack yeah , so so it looks like . It looks like there's an m80 gas mask in a bag on on the on the desk there in front of the monitor .
Okay .
I don't know if it is or not .
What's that thing in front of the screen there .
Is that a fruit cup , Dude ? That's been there forever .
What's that little screen thing ? This little thing ? It's part of the laptop .
It's like a mini laptop , like Jefferson , yeah .
Oh , the screen's going forward . Oh , all right .
Yeah , yeah , yeah .
I thought it was like a rectangular box . That's what I was trying to figure out .
I was looking at it . I was like what the heck is that ?
Hey Douglas have another drink because you're typing as good as I do . It's a laptop .
Lato Okay , drink , because you're typing as good as I , uh as I do , it's a , it's a laptop . Later , okay , what the heck is on the cup . So now we know where the extra office furniture went from my office when , uh , they uh decided to close the facility . My gosh , I haven't seen that desk in a long time all right um . Is that an echo ?
That must be an echo . A little white puck .
No , they got white .
For Gen 1s we're white and black .
Yeah .
Douglas good on you for being sober . Hey , is that ?
That looks like a clock there . My friend , that's a great use of it .
Good placement , no , no you know what that is ? That is Valentine's Day chocolates that . Look at that . That is 100% the heart-shaped box of chocolates that is wrapped in plastic .
The things you couldn't give to your wife when you should have Trimmer wire , that's what it is .
There you go .
Assuming this is going to be a little different here , can't really zoom it out .
That coffee cup has had coffee in it for the last six months .
It's not coffee anymore . Man , it's not coffee , wow . I'm not seeing this a beer fridge nope yeah no , no beer fridge two batteries hooked up to nothing just sitting there . Oh , a whole spool of wire ammo cans probably no there's a black , a black .
Yeah , that's . It's got 100 amp hour battery up on the little shelf under the desk .
Okay , yeah , I see that .
The black with the beige top Some cardboard boxes with . They're crushed .
Yep . Who knows what's in those .
Definitely a charger or something he says . Those batteries are hooked up to everything .
Yeah , those definitely . He says those batteries are hooked up to everything .
Yeah , I see what I see a negative or a positive terminal , not with anything on it oh man , where is his radios ? Well , that is a mystery at this point I mean , is it really a shack ? there's no ham radio oh they're in the corner .
Wait a minute , Todd . He does like you he radios from his iPad .
Well then , where's the flex ? Hey guys , I have to say the .
Stanley is level . The Stanley is perfectly level . What the hell ? Out of all things in your shack , you just put a level up so it stays level . That's impressive . Your HTs are not on their chargers . That's good use of them . Okay , let's see if we can zoom in here a little bit more .
Try to get one of those radios that he has , the left one looks like a CD .
They're really dusty .
They're really dusty yeah .
Look at that laptop Wow .
That laptop hasn't been touched in years . No , no , what . What is that ? Is that an air purifier ?
I hope not , no , that's a heater I love the use of signage and look at this .
Whatever this is , it's like half off the yeah , it's like hanging off the edge . It's like hanging off the edge , it's going to fall .
The iPad is well displayed . My friend , my iPad . You couldn't put it more dead center than anything else . I got an 891 there . Okay , I'll give him points for that . I don't know what the other two radios are .
Is that a tuner that's hanging off the shelf ?
Is that an 891 or is that an FTD-100 ? That looks like close to a . No , that's an 891 . Okay , yeah , I see the knobs , the tuner off to the right here .
Yeah , is that a tuner ? It's literally like half hanging off the shelf .
What is that , Doug ? I can't make heads or tails out of it . It looks like a tuner . I can't make heads or tails out of it . It looks like a tuner . He doesn't even know .
I'm giving him a 10 for the award .
I love the no cover excellent electrical work here , my friend no cover on the outlet . Baby proofed to the hills there , my friend baby proofed .
I'm giving him a 10 . You're getting a 10 for at least submitting what you call way past the deadline .
Ingenuity , okay . Well , what is this thing hanging up here on the ceiling ?
that looks like his cable router , cable modem . Is that what that is , doug ? What is this thing hanging up here on the ceiling ?
Is that like a bug that looks like his cable router , cable modem ? Is that what that is , doug ?
That's what it looks like .
Okay , I'll give you that . So what's the Kenwood ? That's definitely a Kenwood dual band . Do we know what model that is ? Did he say what that one was ? Oh yeah , G-707 .
We need to send him some air in a can .
Oh , dude , this looks like a fire hazard waiting to happen right here . I don't know about you , dude , but that's all powerful .
You know what it is . He just needs an N1OG sticker and all of that mess is better .
It'll all be better . It'll all be better .
It'll all be better .
For the first moment that . I know the picture might be skewed , but it looks like stan clee , not stanley . All right , what else we got , okay ? So , uh , yeah , we don't know what's under the sheet , nor do I want to ask um , looks like we've got I don't know where .
Where , I mean , is he ? Is that like in a shed , maybe ?
well , we should . There's a couple other photos here . I'm not doing him justice by uh just launching one . Let me uh grab the other one here . Uh , that's another same shot here , same shot , so we'll just go with the one we were running . They're all the same .
Yeah , it's just three of the same , five of the same , six of the same Jesus Christ . So it's all the same .
Is that like a shed , a basement ? It looks like it could be a shed . Yeah , it's like a wood floor yeah .
Yeah , he said it's a shed Is that the Explorer backpack over here like the wood floor . Yeah , he said it's a shed .
Yeah , that's why he's got the . Is that the Explorer backpack over here in the corner ?
Yeah , Eric , you gotta switch . There's another picture that shows like a different desk . It looks like it's a different desk . Oh , maybe it's a different desk . Maybe it's further and to the left .
They don't really . Yeah , dude , it's like an eighth of an inch . I'm not seeing much . Do you guys want to see more ? I'm looking at Discord . Oh , I see the third one . Okay , I got it Do you see it ?
Do you see it ?
Yeah , that it Yep , okay .
Yes there you go , that looks better .
All right , really that looks better .
Well , I have an idea what I'm looking at . Well , we know what the bowls are later .
Those late nights . Yeah , that's just further panned over . Um , yeah , that's a piss bowl , yep or the dog's watering bowl , depending on how you look at it um , looks like he's got like , uh , some kind of hiking bag , man pack kind of thing on the desk , oh yeah okay , we could .
We could honestly this . This has this shack . This space has a lot of potential , just needs a lot of work .
Free death . It comes with everything included .
I love the fact that he has more chargers Than he has HTs . That's impressive .
He might have his HTs in his bags . Come on , give the guy a break .
That's a sodaoda Pota bag .
Is there an empty cereal bowl there ?
Cereal bowl with the can of Raid , just in case it comes to the end of the world . He's got ground coffee from Kirkland Galore in the back there , so there's no need . Rope , yeah , rope .
I don't forget the spring .
The HT is fully charged . The HT , it has three chargers . Of course it's going to be fully charged , that's no problem . We're finding a home . Okay , so is this your wife's Christmas decorations over here to the left ? Because that's what those kind of look like see I was right . He's got his ht .
He's got his hts in his bag roger that okay .
Is that revel or rifle coffee reveling okay ? That's good , all right . Oh yeah , okay , so all right . Well , we'll give them points . There I see the HT mic , there the external mic . I see a water canteen . I haven't seen one of those since Boy Scouts .
Oh my God he said , that's his poda soda bag .
What the fuck Is that ?
a piece of ham .
Is that a piece of ham and a spoon ? How long has that been there , dude ? Is that a piece of ham in a spoon ? How long has that been there , dude ? Is that a fax machine behind it ?
That's a printer , that's a ham fax line , that's a piece of ham .
hotline Zoom in on that .
He's got dinner sitting on the fax machine Leave him alone Right next to the can of Raid , oh dude .
There's a knocked over cup underneath that monitor .
Oh my gosh . Oh , yes , yes , yes , the knocked over cup Hopefully there was nothing in it .
He's got the portable potty over here in the corner underneath the desk so you can't go far . Oh my gosh , this is awesome , Dude . It looks like his keyboard is embedded in the bottom of the desk . Look how deep that is into the table . It's not even above the table .
That's like a flexible keyboard .
Super ultra thin , yes , it is .
It is .
Oh my gosh .
I worked with a programmer and he used to bang on his keyboard . So someone bought one of those . This is like a joke , it's like here , use this . It took away his keyboard . Oh my gosh , bang on the keyboard .
What the heck ? Go on , all right , let's go down here . It literally oh my gosh , look how much dirt is on that thing .
Wow , that's why he can't type Exactly .
Dude , this is impressive , impressive .
That's all I have to say it had chicken nuggies in it .
My advice is use a draw . Try a draw , that might help . A draw would definitely help . I'm sure there's nothing in any of the cabinets or the draws themselves . Do you want to try that ? Alright , well , I don't know how we're going to rate that one . Have we gotten the last ?
containers here .
Yeah , we haven't gotten a confirm . Is that your wife's stuff or yours ?
Oh , he's in the .
Sonoran desert oh , boy , but oh well , that explained it , but douglas are . Are you attending the sonoran desert institute ? Because that's where you can go for your uh , your career in gunsmithing yeah , you might want to take that hobby up instead of ham radio all you got to do is watch .
Watch any gun tubers channel and you will see a sonoran desert institute commercial . All right dude .
So so you know how , paul , uh , todd , you're , you're a big fan of the buddy pole pro and that little um , what's this ? The stick called the little little electrical fence post stick that you have . He's got the original version here . That is like the big metal one that you see out in the farms . My god , look at that thing .
That's what I use to keep my goats in .
Yeah , he also uses it to hang his elevator radio .
There's an antenna . It looks like an antenna . It's like a PVC T-joint pipe oh yes , yeah , I see that now that behind the we whacker can never have enough
here's your answer , that's the wife , the wife , all right . Well then , I'm gonna have to deduct points because the wife , all wife , alright . Are we ready to rate ?
Yeah , do it up , do it up .
Versatility . Well , in case of fire Displays , I only saw one .
There's two . It's just crooked Half open . Still gave me one . Alright , let's award .
QSL open . Still gave him one . Let's award QSL cards . They don't exist .
Oh , mine is a hundred A hundred .
And then the wild card choice . That'll even it out . And then the wild card choice .
That'll even it out , oh shit . Well , that gives a grand total of 62 points for Douglas , all right . Last but not least , mike . Look at Mike . Mike gets super bonus points Okay .
Mike , mike gets super bonus points . Okay , I don't know about bonus points , he'll definitely get the category five option , the max points , with me here . Let me copy this here , and this is the last one for the evening yeah , and this is Mike's . This is it , yeah .
There we go , look at that , look at that , look at that . That is the best shack of the night .
I don't know . I'm going to take points off of the Budweiser . Yeah me too , I was going to say the same thing .
I'm pretty sad with that , you know , Mike is he in the passenger seat or the driver's seat ?
Because that's the other question too . It's like are you driving drunk ? Literally drinking and driving , minus five points . This is the radio audity , but he's missing a D . Is that red or is it just scraped off ?
What kind of radio is that ?
What frequency is he on ? 444 , 850 ? Is he even at a frequency ? Yeah , it is Okay . Oh , he's on the call channel . I'll give him extra five points for that . On whose call channel ? The 652 .
Is that a radio ?
It's on the national call frequency . But , man that Budweiser is just taking up front and center and that's just really starting to piss me off .
Yeah .
And it's half full too , so he actually has been drinking it , which is sad . Mike , I expected more of you .
Yeah , I should be drinking PBR .
At least , or St Paulie girl , come on .
Paul , I'm expecting more out of you too , buddy .
That's a real man's beer right there . Oh my gosh .
As a part owner in a brewery , I expected a little bit more than Budweiser . Yeah even though it's local dust .
I was going to say I wish I was a part owner of a brewery .
All you guys can I was going to say I wish I was a part owner of a brewery .
All you guys can , so why don't you have your own ham line yet ? Come on , you can beat Jason to the punch .
So it's a military themed brewery . It's all military stuff .
Alright , tim , send me the info , because I want in on that .
Yeah . I'll give him 10 points for the wild card for the orange radio .
You know , I'm going to have to give him minus 50 just for versatility . There's no versatility there . What are you ?
talking about he can go anywhere he wants .
But he's got the beer in the way he's going to go grab the beer every time before he goes for the radio . I don't know that he could be taking the picture with the other hand . Why do you pick up Bud during Christmas ? Do you feel bad for them , or something ?
It's the horses .
Yeah well , the horses aren't around any longer . They used to be in Merrimack a lot . Now they're gone . Award QSL cards I don't remember seeing a single one , sad , not even his own , like you know . Calling card .
I mean , that is a Subaru though .
That's about the gayest mobile in the world , isn't it you ?
said it . You said it , not me .
I was just driving . I was like you know what ? I was driving back from my nephew's hockey game today and I'm like what the hell is this car ? Every Subaru car drove worse than a minivan driver . I was like you've got to be kidding me . What is with these Subaru people ?
They're always .
They don't call it a Lesburu for no reason .
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay .
I sleep all night and I work all day . Lesbian will be the Lesberu .
That's a full 10 for Mike , just because Bill doesn't make you positive , mike , but that's okay , give him 100 points . He's got 462 . Give him 100 , Paul , really Give him 500 points . You're a kiss-ass , oh man . Well , we're going to have to strike Mike's entry 100% from that , we're going to take the outliers out .
Don't give him Mike or outliers .
What do you mean ? Mike's the clear winner with 462 points In the .
Lesborough .
Clear winner for sure , oh man .
All right that , right there he's representing .
Oh man , doug posted more photos . Really , doug , do we need to go deeper ? Throw them up , throw them up , let's see .
Oh , come on , dude , he even posted it to his YouTube , he might get points deducted .
Did he do a video on his YouTube channel ? No , oh my gosh , I don't even want to go . Okay , I'll post his YouTube channel in the chat there , but you guys can go look yourself Good videos there , doug . But can go look yourself Good videos there , Doug , but it continues on with his shack .
I'm going to omit those videos for right now , since we've already rated him . I don't want to skew the numbers , okay , alright .
You want to know who the winner is ? Yeah , so who's the straight out winner ? Okay , so , other than Lesbrew , the actual winner is Rob and one .
Nice job Rob .
With 176 points . Second place is Keith K-C-1-OZK with 175 points .
Okay .
And then , and then . Let's see , it looks like third place is going to be Jason KC1 , VJQ with 140 points .
Oh , no , no , no , no , no . Marvin got 146 . What Marvin got ?
146 . Oh yes , all right , marvin , yeah , 146 . I missed it ? Ah , because it's Marvin .
I'm with you there , Marvin .
You came in third . Marvin got third . Okay , Last two categories . Are you going to do top three or top five ?
All right , so Marvin , then Jason , then yep , and then let's see oh oh , all right , so 134 russ . It's nice round it out all right , guys .
Those are our top five winners for this year's first annual uh ham radio shack roast from livery and ham . This was a blast , guys . I mean , this was a telethon , almost at this point , I mean , and it's only gonna get worse next year now that this has kind of started . So you know , I'm sure everyone's going to come back with a vengeance .
Everyone's going to come back and they're going to have their QR cell cards or awards . They're going to be stuck everywhere .
They're going to know you know what the criteria is now .
Well , we might have to change it up , dude , I just realized that we've been going strong for three and a half hours on this .
Yeah , this has been a long time . Dude just realized that explains the good stuff . Man , it's been a blast . I've been super excited , you know , to hang out with all you guys . Tim jeff thanks for hanging out with us this long and having fun with us . We appreciate everybody who's been in the chat . We , you know , had 20 , 24 people , you know consistently .
I know we were up against the three hours for three hours with the .
HRCC , which would probably cut into his live chat , his after after chat .
Now at this point , but it was a blast , you know . So just kind of quickly , guys , just let's go around the horn real fast . So , Tim , any last things ? How can people find you ?
Oh , Gray man Pota on all the socials , graymanpotacom .
And yeah , that's great , I'm not on the .
Hancek hotline .
We have them , but nor are we , unless Paul calls me . But all right , cool . Well , jeff , how can people find more about you ?
K3 Jersey . Just search for me everywhere , even on YouTube , it'll come up . It's K3 Jersey on the air . But K3 Jersey you search , they'll find it on most socials .
The man with the best , awesomest , 8-bit graphics that he is taking that corner of the market . Oh , good stuff , awesome , all right . Well , as always , if you want to connect with any of the live , free and ham guys , you can head over to our discord server and join us . Uh , join in on that conversation . We'll keep posting your shack stuff .
We're going to do this every year because we all love doing it and I'm sure it's just going to kind of explode from there . We're going to have to adjust the rules there and the categories a bit .
Thanks again , mike , for participating last minute , even though I put out the APB like several weeks ago to say submit your shack , but we won't discredit you there .
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