HRN 452: ShowMORE

File this show under ‘David and Gary Phone It In 📞☎’. We should change the title to ‘ShowLESS’

OK, we did a 90 minute ProMORE (that’s a Promo that runs MORE than 30 minutes) on Saturday, and we were kinda out of gas for this one. Then David had a plumbing emergency, and Gary had to get up early to drive to Raleigh (playing with the ICOM 5100 all the way). So we bailed.

Well, we did talk about some stuff, if halfheartedly, for almost an hour. Enough to list some links:

LINKS

• The QRZ.com/GigaParts/RT Systems ‘Jumpstart’ program is extended, sort of

  • https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/the-qrz-jumpstart-program-gave-away-2000-radios-and-were-not-done-yet.836918/

• Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications Surpasses 25,000 Items

  • https://blog.archive.org/2022/11/16/digital-library-of-amateur-radio-communications-surpasses-25000-items/

  • https://archive.org/details/dlarc

  • https://archive.org/details/hamradionow?tab=about

HRN 452 ProMORE

As we’ve recently discovered (thanks to viewer ‘Cornbread’ in the YouTube chat), our ‘promos’ aren’t really ‘promos’ at all. They are ProMOREs. Because they are longer than most other shows… there’s more. Now the proMORE for HRN 451 was over three hours. That’s gonna be hard to duplicate. But despite David W0DHG’s prediction/request/protest at this beginning to this proMORE (and he kinda always tries that), we went over 90 minutes. And instead of tacking it onto the regular 452 episode, we’re giving it its own spot in the feed.

This is for Hardcore HRN fans only.

And we still don’t know what the Sunday show will be about. Apparently we don’t have to.

HRN 451: New Rig... Who Dis?

The ICOM ID-5100 was first released in 2015, 7 years ago. It’s still ICOM’s top-of-the-line dual-band D-STAR mobile rig. East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ just bought one to replace his 14-year-old ICOM IC-2820 (also a dual-band, D-STAR mobile), which was having trouble decoding D-STAR signals.

In this episode, Gary shows how he had to revamp his Q-Mobile’s control panel to fit the oversize control head of the 5100, then goes remote all the way to the garage (below the Studio in the Bonus Room) to demonstrate a few features (and issues) with the New Rig.

And so you may have noticed that this episode is only an hour and 15 minutes long. Are we welching on you guys? Not really! Earlier in the day, David and Gary did a 3-hour ‘PROMORE’ (a ‘promore’, apparently, is a new word invented to describe our extended promos that are often full-length shows themselves). You’ll find the Promore on YouTube and in the audio feed, just in case you need more… PROmore.