The Phasing Line Podcast

On this episode, we talk to the three 2018 Hamvention Special Achievement award winners in Dayton, Ohio in May 2018, at the Dayton Hamvention. We're joined by Doug, K1DG, and Gerry, W1VE, to talk with Herb, KK4DCX, Victor, WP4SD, and Emilio, WP4KEY, about their amazing work to pass thousands of messages out of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria struck the island in Fall, 2017.

About the hosts:

Sterling, N0SSC: A 26-year-old freshly graduated electrical engineer from St. Louis, Missouri who's in the hobby for contesting, youth engagement, and just about everything else. He's a former ARRL youth editor and a big advocate for collegiate amateur radio. http://n0ssc.com

Marty, KC1CWF: The infamous "Chicken With Fries," is a 16-year-old ham from the Boston, MA area, who loves contesting, DXing, building stations and mentoring others. He is very involved in ham radio related media production and web content.

Ham Radio and Neural Networking: https://hackaday.com/2017/12/16/neural-network-learns-sdr-ham-radio/

Alexa Ham Radio Skills: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dalexa-skills&field-keywords=ham+radio

LoRA: https://lora-alliance.org

Andreas Spiess- LoRA Experimenter on YouTube (Guy with a Swiss Accent): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu7_D0o48KbfhpEohoP7YSQ

LoRAHam (LoRA for Ham Radio): https://github.com/travisgoodspeed/loraham

N8RMA 2018 State of The Hobby Survey Results: https://sway.com/caKEAfl0sXg0Rwcz?ref=email

Hamvention May 18-20: http://hamvention.org/

Ham Radio 2.0 Row Info: http://www.arrl.org/news/look-for-ham-radio-2-0-innovation-and-discovery-at-hamvention

Forum List: http://hamvention.org/event-details/forums/

APRS Forum - Friday, 10:45 - 11:45am, Room 1. N0SSC will speak on APRS Apps

Youth Forum - Saturday 9am-12pm, Room 2

Youth Forum Preview on Ham Talk Live with Neil Rapp - https://www.spreaker.com/user/hamtalklive/episode-112-youth-forum-hamvention-previ

Collegiate Dinner: Friday, 6:30pm at Caddy's Taphouse of Beavercreek, RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1651353878280525/

Contest Supersuite Activities at Crowne Plaza: https://www.contestsupersuite.com/contest-related-events/

HAM RADIO - Friedrichshafen: http://www.hamradio-friedrichshafen.de/ham-en/

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About the hosts:

Sterling, N0SSC: 26 year old freshly graduated electrical engineer from St. Louis, Missouri who's in the hobby for contesting, youth engagement, and just about everything else. He's a former ARRL youth editor and a big advocate for collegiate amateur radio. http://n0ssc.com

Marty, KC1CWF: The infamous "Chicken With Fries," is a 15 year old ham from the Boston, MA area, who loves contesting, DXing, building stations and mentoring others. He is very involved in ham radio related media production and web content.

You probably thought this was another one of those spin-up podcasts whose hosts got bored with, didn't you? Well, you're WRONG! Yay.

We debate, we get sad, we get happy, we criticize, we talk. It's ham radio like you've never heard it before!

HamRadioNow N0SSC Blog and Youtube HamRadio360 ends Workbench Podcast Field Radio Podcast and YouTube Channel 100 Watts and a Wire Ham Nation Amateur Logic Ham College Dave Casler (YouTube) The RAIN report Amateur Radio Newsline ARRL Audio News ARRL The Doctor is In Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative N6AA @ Yuma Hamfest NY2BB's Teleconference Recordings Amateur Radio Parity Act Bouvet is Off (3Y0Z) Bouvet is On (3Y0I) Dom 3Z9DX activates North Korea Hello Internet Podcast

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About the hosts: Sterling, N0SSC: 25 year old freshly graduated electrical engineer from St. Louis, Missouri who's in the hobby for contesting, youth engagement, and just about everything else. He's a former ARRL youth editor and a big advocate for collegiate amateur radio. http://n0ssc.com

Marty, KC1CWF: The infamous "Chicken With Fries," is a 15 year old ham from the Boston, MA area, who loves contesting, DXing, building stations and mentoring others. He is very involved in ham radio related media production and web content.

02:50 Where the Timestamps Begin 03:52 HamRadioNow Teaches Us Not To Stress over Editing 06:25 Gary Moving on from HamRadioNow, Enter David W0DHG 07:21 HamRadio360 also concludes... 08:12 PLP's friendly critique of other podcasts 16:30 Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative 18:14 Continued Beatings of the Dead ARRL Drama Horse 22:48 ARRL CEO's Retirement (heated debate!) 28:42 Don't leave the ARRL just because the board sucks at the moment... 31:35 Break 32:35 Sterling Talks about Homebrewing...Beer. 33:21 Bouvet Recap 41:35 Marty's Israel Trip

On this episode, Marty briefly sits down to chat about where he has been and the future of the show!

►HamRadioNow Website: HamRadioNow.tv

►Ray Novak's blog on digital voice modes: http://blog.icomamerica.com/2017/10/30/is-your-digital-repeater-ham-friendly/

►CQWW: cqww.com

DONATE: Check out http://phasinglinepodcast.com/donate Tweet at us: https://twitter.com/phasingline Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhasingLinePodcast/ About the hosts: Sterling, N0SSC: 25 year old freshly graduated electrical engineer from St. Louis, Missouri who's in the hobby for contesting, youth engagement, and just about everything else. He's a former ARRL youth editor and a big advocate for collegiate amateur radio. http://n0ssc.com Marty, KC1CWF: The "Chicken With Fries," is a 15 year old ham from the Boston, MA area, who loves contesting, DXing, building stations and mentoring others. He is very involved in ham radio related media production and web content.

The 2017 Hurricane season devastated much of the Carribbean and Puerto Rico, and on this episode we call upon you to help those affected. You can help the hams of Dominica by supporting them at https://www.gofundme.com/hurricane-maria-dominica-ham-radio

More notes:

• FAA Tower Light Rules
• More ways to help hurricane victims
• Etymology of Ham Radio (BECAUSE ITS ham NOT HAM!)
• TAPR
• Jeri Ellsworth (AI6TK) and Amy Herndon (KM6FZE - sorry for saying it wrong!) on HamRadioNow with Gary Pierce KN4AQ (with me flailing in the background! (such fame)
• FaradayRF
• DXDisplay and DWatcher
• N0SSC working K5D with Long Hair
• Bouvet DXpedition

A sick Sterling and a sleepy Marty talk about the latest happenings – Huntsville Hamfest to the Eclipse QSO party, and have a heated debate on the Big Three…or four…or five?

• Marty's Young Ham of the Year Awarding (on W5KUB's Huntsville Live Stream)
• TAPR
• TAPR Digital Communications Conference in St. Louis
• HamSCI Eclipse QSO Party
• Sterling's YouTube Video of 2017 Solar Eclipse
• W0ECC QRZ Page
• SmarterEveryDay YouTube Channel (ran by WS4RKT!)
• SmarterEveryDay Eclipse Video
• Casey Neistat YouTube Channel

Marty and Sterling are on a roll with new episodes! On this one, YOTA is going on in the UK, 4O3A's fire tragedy, W0EEE update, Marty's visit to Worchester Polytechnical Institute Wireless Association (W1YK), how Marty's handling being the YHOTY, Huntsville hamfest info, N0SSC does a YouTube, we discuss Icom, we speculate FT8 killed both PSK Reporter and the radio star, and don't miss the solar eclipse...QSO party! A lot to talk about in 30 minutes, jeez.

►YOTA official website: ttps://www.ham-yota.com/

►RSGB YouTube including a daily YOTA vlog: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRSGB

►4O3A fire cancel's YOTA's Youth Contesting Program: https://www.ham-yota.com/ycp-contest-at-4o3a-cancelled/

►Worchester Poly Institute Wireless Association W1YK: https://qrz.com/db/W1YK

►ARRL Collegiate Amateur Radio Initative: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ARRLCARI/

►Huntsville Hamfest, Aug 18-19, 2017: http://www.hamfest.org/

►W5KUB LiveStream: http://w5kub.com/

►Amateur Radio Newsline: https://www.arnewsline.org/

►Shout out to Linux in the Hamshack: http://lhspodcast.info/

►Find Marty featured on Ham Nation and the QSO Radio Show very soon

►N0SSC's youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/n0ssc (and the ATR2100 vs MXL990 mic check)

►PSKReporter: https://pskreporter.info/pskmap.html

►Solar Eclipse QSO Party: http://www.hamsci.org/seqp-rules

►Sam KC2LRC talks about SEQP on HamTalkLive: https://www.spreaker.com/user/hamtalklive/episode-74-solar-eclipse-qso-party

DONATE: Check out http://phasinglinepodcast.com/donate Tweet at us: https://twitter.com/phasingline Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhasingLinePodcast/ About the hosts:Sterling, N0SSC: 25 year old freshly graduated electrical engineer from St. Louis, Missouri who's in the hobby for contesting, youth engagement, and just about everything else. He's a former ARRL youth editor and a big advocate for collegiate amateur radio. http://n0ssc.comMarty, KC1CWF: The infamous "Chicken With Fries," is a 15 year old ham from the Boston, MA area, who loves contesting, DXing, building stations and mentoring others. He is very involved in ham radio related media production and web content.

On this episode, Marty and Sterling sit down, and catch up. They talk about where the've been, YHOTY, FT8, WSPR, the Eclipse, and lots more! We hope you enjoy this new episode of the Phasing Line!

Please share the show with your friends and fellow hams, so we can get the word out!

Enjoy.

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Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhasingLinePodcast/ About the hosts: Sterling, N0SSC: 25 year old freshly graduated electrical engineer from St. Louis, Missouri who's in the hobby for contesting, youth engagement, and just about everything else. He's a former ARRL youth editor and a big advocate for collegiate amateur radio. http://n0ssc.com

Marty, KC1CWF: The infamous "Chicken With Fries," is a 15 year old ham from the Boston, MA area, who loves contesting, DXing, building stations and mentoring others. He is very involved in ham radio related media production and web content. In contesting, he has operated from big stations like K1TTT, HH2AA, K1LZ and W7RN. His wins include the 2016 CQ WW SSB Rookie world plaque, and many regional W1 and EMA wins in smaller contests.

Download Here This episode was recorded from the Phasing Line's booth at the Dayton Hamvention. The Phasing Line partnered with HamRadioNow to split the cost of the booths. We sat down with the queen of National Parks On The Air, Emily KB3VVE to chat all things NPOTA. This is a Phasing Line show, but Marty brought Gary, KN4AQ of HamRadioNow along for the ride. So, how was your POTA? Take a listen to Emily's story! NPOTA: NPOTA.ARRL.org W3ATB's adventure with Emily: http://w3atb.com/kb3vve-and-kc3fvn-at-the-appalachian-trail/ World Wide Flora and Fauna: wwff.co DONATE Check out http://phasinglinepodcast.com/donate Tweet at us: https://twitter.com/phasingline Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhasingLinePodcast/ HamRadioNow: HamRadioNow.tv About the host: Marty, KC1CWF: The infamous "Chicken With Fries," is a 15 year old ham from the Boston, MA area, who loves contesting, DXing, building stations and mentoring others. He is very involved in ham radio related media production and web content.

Download Here On this episode, Marty sits down with Val, NV9L to talk about DXing, Contesting, Bouvet 2018, Big Antennas, HOAs and lots more. We can all learn something from NV9L! Enjoy. Ham Nation: TWIT.TV/HN Bouvet 2018: www.bouvetdx.org/ DONATE Check out http://phasinglinepodcast.com/donate Tweet at us: https://twitter.com/phasingline Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhasingLinePodcast/ About the hosts: Sterling, N0SSC: 25 year old freshly graduated electrical engineer from St. Louis, Missouri who's in the hobby for contesting, youth engagement, and just about everything else. He's a former ARRL youth editor and a big advocate for collegiate amateur radio. http://n0ssc.com Marty, KC1CWF: The infamous "Chicken With Fries," is a 15 year old ham from the Boston, MA area, who loves contesting, DXing, building stations and mentoring others. He is very involved in ham radio related media production and web content.