HamRadioNow

This is the PROMO for Sunday’s live episode 459. Gary’s clever title is (Almost) In the Zoom Where It Happened, ‘It’ is the Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act, the new iteration of legislation to require HOAs to permit Amateur Radio antennas. We reviewed the version of the Act that was introduced in December in our last episode. This time, our guests will be two of the hams who were on the ARRL committee that drafted the new bill.

Tune in to the LIVE stream on Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 7 pm Pacific, 10 pm Eastern, 0300Z (Monday morning). Or watch the replay later.

Our fearless pundits review the verbiage of last years HR9670- Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act with the hopes that it’s going to be introduced this year (2023). This bill looks to be much more favorable to hams that want a small workable antenna… Audio starts at 3:45.

This is just a Promo(re), but it’s here in the feed by itself because the show hasn’t been scheduled yet… and this gets the audio podcast out there, too.

There’s a new Bill in Congress: H.R.9670, the Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act. We’ve been told “Don’t call it the Parity Act 2.0 because branding. But yeah, it kinda is.

If you want all the background, listen to the ProMore. Then do the homework, which is watching an old episode of HamRadioNow: HRN 342: It Ain't Parity Until We Say It's Parity. Taking notes is optional. Yes, this will be on the ‘final’.

Our guest is Karin Thompson KD4DXX, owner and General Manager of RT Systems Inc., the radio programming people. We only spent about 2½ hours talking to Karin, then the post-show with David and Marty. So one, we were making up for no show last week. And two, most of your favorite shows are doing reruns or ‘best ofs’ or ‘Year in Reviews’. Here we are with enough show to keep you entertained all week.

This is one of those titles that we never talked about. It wasn’t designed to describe any of the show content. Gary had been to three Christmas parties in two days, and just wasn’t feeling it, so…

The rest of the show was just a bunch of stuff thrown together at the last minute, but if we didn’t admit that, you’d never know. So this was a meticulously crafted and executed example of ham radio media at its finest. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

LINKS:

ChatGPT. Give’er a spin (if you can get in)

Montana PBS Documentary: HAM

KR7Q’s ‘Behind the Scenes’

N4POD’s HamRadioRejects channel

K1N Navassa DVD

K1N Trailer (yes, Gary’s voice)

A Ham’s Night Before Christmas

GlamHam TikTok

The DXpedition crew that attempted an operation on Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic back in 2018 reached the island, only to be thwarted by bad weather and a failed engine. They limped back to port in South Africa. Bob Allphin K4UEE told their story in this video.

A new team, with hams from Norway and around the globe, planned to try again. They contracted The Braveheart - a ship that had transported many DXpeditions to difficult locations (but wasn’t available to the 2018 crew). Then, the Braveheart was sold, and the DXpedition was cancelled.

And then it wasn’t. They found a new ship… a sailboat ???… to get them there (and back). Hmmm. ‘Sailboat’ and ‘Antarctic’ don’t seem to go together, do they? Well, the MARAMA isn’t your ‘catch the rays while lying on deck’ type of sailboat. It leads expeditions to the frozen south Atlantic all the time.

The re-started 3Y0J crew leaves to Bouvet in January 2023, with operation stretching into February. And we have crew member Adrian Ciuperca KO8SCA on the show tonight to fill us in.

A slightly clickbait title? Could be. But HRN East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ is on a bit of a crusade to answer questions found in ham radio (and GMRS) oriented Facebook groups and Reddit subs. He’s more than a little disappointed by the quality of many of the responses to basic questions. On this show, he and NorCal host Jim NO1PC review a few classics.

Before that, though, the guys review 5 Great Reasons to Get Your Ham Radio License - an article in an RV blog introducing Amateur Radio to the author’s following. ‘Intro to Amateur Radio’ is always an interesting subject.

File this show under ‘David and Gary Phone It In 📞☎’. We should change the title to ‘ShowLESS’

OK, we did a 90 minute ProMORE (that’s a Promo that runs MORE than 30 minutes) on Saturday, and we were kinda out of gas for this one. Then David had a plumbing emergency, and Gary had to get up early to drive to Raleigh (playing with the ICOM 5100 all the way).

Well, we did talk about some stuff, if halfheartedly, for almost an hour. Enough to list some links:

LINKS

The QRZ.com/GigaParts/RT Systems ‘Jumpstart’ program is extended, sort of

https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/the-qrz-jumpstart-program-gave-away-2000-radios-and-were-not-done-yet.836918/

Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications Surpasses 25,000 Items

https://blog.archive.org/2022/11/16/digital-library-of-amateur-radio-communications-surpasses-25000-items/

https://archive.org/details/dlarc

https://archive.org/details/hamradionow?tab=about

As we’ve recently discovered (thanks to viewer ‘Cornbread’ in the YouTube chat), our ‘promos’ aren’t really ‘promos’ at all. They are ProMOREs. Because they are longer than most other shows… there’s more. Now the proMORE for HRN 451 was over three hours. That’s gonna be hard to duplicate. But despite David W0DHG’s prediction/request/protest at this beginning to this proMORE (and he kinda always tries that), we went over 90 minutes. And instead of tacking it onto the regular 452 episode, we’re giving it its own spot in the feed.

This is for Hardcore HRN fans only.

And we still don’t know what the Sunday show will be about. Apparently we don’t have to.

The ICOM ID-5100 was first released in 2015, 7 years ago. It’s still ICOM’s top-of-the-line dual-band D-STAR mobile rig. East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ just bought one to replace his 14-year-old ICOM IC-2820 (also a dual-band, D-STAR mobile), which was having trouble decoding D-STAR signals.

In this episode, Gary shows how he had to revamp his Q-Mobile’s control panel to fit the oversize control head of the 5100, then goes remote all the way to the garage (below the Studio in the Bonus Room) to demonstrate a few features (and issues) with the New Rig.

And so you may have noticed that this episode is only an hour and 15 minutes long. Are we welching on you guys? Not really! Earlier in the day, David and Gary did a 3-hour ‘PROMORE’ (a ‘promore’, apparently, is a new word invented to describe our extended promos that are often full-length shows themselves). You’ll find the Promore on YouTube and in the audio feed, just in case you need more… PROmore.