HRN 430: Adventures in Scanning

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Host Gary K4AAQ caught what he describes as the Holy Grail of scanning – a beginning-to-end major (for his little burg) police manhunt, from initial call to final resolution. He says that almost never happens.

You only have to zip in two minutes to get the pre-show. And that’s only because Gary forgot to switch on the audio when he started the streams, with a discussion about repeater directories already in progress.

And it only took an hour and a quarter to begin that segment of the show. David W0DHG (or, as Gary incorrectly typed in David’s title: WDHG) and Jim NO1PC had plenty of other stuff to talk about first.

Yes, once again it’s a totally wasted… we mean thoroughly engaging, entertaining and occasionally useful two hours of banter from your favorite YouTube/Podcast media hams.

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HRN 429: Holiday Chat

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It’s Sunday night of the Memorial Day weekend. David W0DHG, Marty NN1C and Gary K4AAQ have nothing better to do, but no show topic is planned. We were gonna skip the week due to the holiday, but here we were. So we started the streams, pushed record, and away we went. Gary’s Wirecast program crashed in the middle of recording, hence the two parts on YouTube and Facebook. The audio version is edited together as one piece (enjoy the sound effect). (Side note: Gary originally titled the re-start After the Crash, and it started getting way more views than the initial recording. Who knows why, but Gary figured that maybe that title was a bit of clickbait, so he changed them to Part 1 and Part 2. Integrity is a bitch.

We use up the whole ‘countdown’ and more off-screen, so zip down to the 12:33 spot on your timeline

Marty caught COVID at the Hamvention®. He said it was rough for a few days, but he was feeling a lot better as of the show. But still testing positive. We talked about getting ready for Field Day. Gary pitched the HamRadioNow Field Day Playlist on YouTube, especially The Last BIG Field Day documentary that pretty much started things off for ARVN and HamRadioNow. And there are lots of other videos from ARVN, HRN and ‘KN4AQ’ to get you in the mood for Field Day. And as David had to bail for family time on the left coast, Marty and Gary somehow started talking about television production.

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We pick up after the Wirecast crash and carry on

HRN 428: GMRS for H.A.M.S.

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H.A.M.S. isn’t some new set of initials we invented. It’s just that I want you to read ‘hams’ the same way you read GMRS - one letter at a time. There’s no deeper meaning.

Zip in almost the whole 5 minutes of the countdown for about 3 seconds of pre-show as the counter elapses, and we lose control

So, GMRS - General Mobile Radio Service - is a thing. It’s becoming a big thing, or so it seems. And at least around Gary’s area (Charlotte NC), a lot of hams also have GMRS licenses. And with the fee dropped from $70 to $35, likely a lot more will (GMRS users are happy about $35, while many hams are grousing about it).

And it turns out that your hosts already had GMRS licenses. David is WROT234. Jim is WQWB533. Gary is WRPG652. Those call signs just trip off the tongue, don’t they.

Well, we explain a lot about what GMRS is. We even have a few viewers join us on Zoom. That worked, so we’ll be doing more of it. Watch for Zoom links in the YouTube and Facebook announcements, and be a star.

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