We did it again - 4 minutes of silence at the top of the show before KE4TTS called to warn me.
With nowhere particularly to go, we (David W0DHG, Jim NO1PC and Gary K4AAQ) spent most of the show talking about an article in Field & Stream about the ‘Best Ham Radio’. Yes, Field & Stream.
The Promo video is Gary K4AAQ trying to scare some activity up on the HRN Discord while recruiting a live audience for the Sunday night show. This is for die-hard fans only.
We made up this title when the tropical storm remnants of Hurricane Ian were predicted to pass directly over the East Coast Studio (in the Shadow of Charlotte, at the foot of Mt. Belzoni). The track moved about 100 miles east and flooded Raleigh, instead. But of course, the serious devastation was in Cuba, Florida and coastal South Carolina.
We have our usual gang of hosts, Jim NO1PC, David W0DHG and Gary K4AAQ. And we’re joined by Christine Duez K4KJN, SEC for the West Central Florida Section, and Gordon Mooneyhan W4EGM, Public Information Coordinator for the South Carolina Section. Both were on the edge of the path that Ian took through Florida and South Carolina.
What is the BEST! HAM Band of 2022?
Just because that is a silly, unanswerable question that pokes fun at all the ham (and general media) BEST! lists that provide ample fodder for many, many (many) shows, that doesn’t mean we don’t give it a shot. And by the time we’re done, East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ unilaterally announces a winner!
Along the way, Gary, NorCal Host Jim NO1PC and West Coast Host David W0DHG are joined on the Zoom line by two live viewers: William K4ARX, and Kent N6WT. And the fun is in the journey, not the destination. We talk about a lot of stuff, some of it even useful.
