This... well, the second half of it, is TAPR President Steve Bible N7HPR's welcome to the hams assembled in St. Petersburg FL for the 2016 DCC. The first half is Gary talking about the video production. So nothing critical here - just an orientation to give you an idea of what the DCC is like if you attend in person.
Gary welcomes David Goldenberg W0DHG to the HamRadioNow hosting crew. David will be a regular co-host for the Emcomm Extra episodes, planned for about once a month (keep in mind that this is a HamRadioNow plan, and what could possibly go wrong? Anyway, we want to do regular Emcomm shows). And Ham Media gadfly Marty Sullaway KC1CWF just happened to be hanging around Gary's Facebook feed and got dragged in for the ride... not as the 'youth' representative, just as a pretty smart ham. Gary admits that he tried to get some ARRL/ARES leaders from the Southeast coast sections, but all were busy preparing for an actual hurricane.
We don't do unboxings and reviews, but this time we did both. Gary wanted to learn more about the 'cheap Chinese radios' everybody loves, so he picked up a BaoFeng UV-5x3 tri-band HT (144-220-440), which he unboxed, programmed and compared to the Kenwood TH-F6A tri-band HT. The Kenwood beat the BaoFeng by a mile in everything but price. For about $80, he found the BaoFeng 'good enough'.
