HRN 437: David Does a Rest Stop

Pre-show audio kicks in at 2:53. No, Gary didn’t screw up - that’s when we wanted it.

HRN West Coast Host David Goldenberg W0DHG spend last weekend as the Comm guy for one of the Stages of the Angeles Crest 100 mile Endurance Run. We get the slide show.

Before that, though, East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ analyzes our theme music, which sounds suspiciously like someone sending CQ (badly) on a piano. Then it’s “YouTube Takedown Testing” with snippets from a variety of media that also sound as though they were based on Morse Code. Including… and one you hear it you’ll never unhear it… the Mission Impossible theme.

We are joined by our Midwest Correspondent Kyle Kreig AA0Z to round out the team.

LINKS

• We have a Discord, thanks to Jeff N4POD

  • https://discord.gg/FDP3JnyDun

  • Not sure exactly what we’ll do with it, but maybe that’s up to you!

• There’s the stuff that will take us down from Facebook and YouTube:

  • Old BBC News Themes

  • NPR themes

  • NPR music composer BJ Leiderman riffing on the themes

  • UK Vintage Radio forum

  • The Dit Dit Song - Tommy Steele

  • Slim Gaillard - Communication

  • Pearls Before Swine - (Oh Dear) Miss Morse (NSFW if the boss can copy cw)

  • Episode 178: Radio Games - HamRadioNow

  • Ham Radio Live!

    • Gary will Guest on Sept. 3, 12 noon Pacific

  • https://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-hiring-for-high-frequency-direction-finding-center

  • New ARRL Lab/HQ station

    • https://youtu.be/68BJxGHg74Y

PROMO for HRN 437

Part ONE: All Left Channel

Sometimes a quick promo becomes a show.

Who am I kidding. Most of the time, what was intended to be a quick promo becomes a show.

Part TWO: back in stereo. This is really for true fans. But we have fun.

We’re not saying it’s a good show. Just a long show. It’s just Kyle AA0Z and Gary K4AAQ. And the YouTube and Facebook versions come in two parts because Windows Update. No, we didn’t get an ‘update’ in the middle of the show. An update scrambled the Windows audio settings, and of course Gary didn’t notice. Finally a viewer commented. Fixing it required a total restart.

The audio file is ‘fixed’. The video is what it is.

HRN 436: Finally... a Real Show

So we move to 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific… do one show… then do a bunch of ‘No Show/Not a Show’ shows off schedule for one reason or another. Tonight we finally get back on schedule, and David and Jim aren’t available. Jim is still galivanting around the US, and David is sleeping after a big public service event kept him up all weekend.

So filling in, we roped in Jason Johnston KC5HWB from Ham Radio 2.0, and our ‘Midwest Correspondent’ Kyle Kreig AA0Z, on his phone from Spokane, WA where he was attending a DX conference. I’ll call it a ‘general conversation’. We got started extra early because Jason had limited time, and he ended up staying for almost 90 minutes anyway!

After Jason and Kyle excused themselves, I played some video showing my extensive ham operating on our recent trip to Canada for our Rocky Mountaineer adventure. I’m kidding - I barely got on the air at all. But I did some.

This is the PROMO PROMO PROMO, which, as usual, is its own show.

If you want to see video of the vacation in general, I’m posting what I call ‘raw video’ (really slightly edited) of each day’s activity on my ‘vacation video’ YouTube channel: https://YouTube.com/GaryPearce. You’ll find a Rocky Mountaineer playlist, along with playlists of other, similar ‘barely edited’ videos from other trips.