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Every Thursday evening at 8pm the Crew of 146.985 W3GMS/R get together on air to host a weekly informal net with varying hosts and topics
Good evening everyone and welcome to the 985
roundtable. My name is Jack. My call sign is
Kilo3 Yankee Victor Quebec. I'm out here in
Coatesville, PA and I will be your host for
tonight's roundtable. We meet every Thursday
at 8 p.m. on the W3 GMS repeater, 146.985 MHz
with a PL tone of 100. And if you don't own
a Yee-Sue, your squelch shown on receive is
94.8. Feel free to take a look at the repeater
website for more information about what we
do and events coming up, all that kind of stuff.
Besides the roundtable, we also do a workbench
on Monday evenings at the same time of 8 p.m.
It focuses on answering all your technical
questions and things that you can't figure out.
It helps to get more heads than one. Newcomers
are welcome and encouraged to check in. If
you can't stay long, feel free to call in during
the short time check ins at the beginning of
the roundtable. We like to keep it informal
here, passing the mic around in order in which
the stations call in. So if you are so inclined,
take note of who checks in before you so you
know you're about to come up, as well as right
after you so you know who to pass it to. But
if you forget, no worries, you can pass it
back to me and I will pass it on to the next
person. So we usually begin with a question
at the roundtable. You can answer that if you
wish or comment about what you've been doing
in ham radio, anything you'd like. And if
you have any questions about the roundtable,
please feel free to contact Phil, KC3CIB, Charlie
India Bravo, or Jim, AF3Z. They both have
QRZ accounts, so hit their emails.
Alright, so don't be too quick to talk. When
you press in your push to talk button, those
people using All-Star EchoLink have a slight
delay, so make sure you click the button, pause
for a second, and then start talking so they
don't miss what you're doing, as well as give
your radio time to pass along the PL tone to
the repeater. And make sure you let up every
two to three minutes during your transmission,
just so the FCC doesn't lock you out with their
timeout timer. So tonight's question for discussion
comes from my fiancee who was asked this at
one of her work events. And it is, if you could
change your name, what would it be and why?
And as a follow-up question, a backup question
since that one's kind of short and you may
or may not want to do that, what are you looking
forward to as the weather gets warmer? So
with that, I will start with short-time digital
check-ins. So All-Star EchoLink short timers,
please call now. This is W3GMS. Jack, I know
I'm going out of turn, but I have an announcement
that I would like to make at the beginning
of the session. And I will check in when it's
my turn a little bit later down the stack.
W3GMS.
Absolutely, take it away Joe, K3YVQ. and thanks
to you, thank you for sitting in the captain's
chair this evening. Always do a stellar job.
I just wanted to make an announcement. It's
pretty good announcement. You folks, I'm sure
know Luke, KC3SCY. Luke got on the GMS repeater
as a newly licensed technician when he was eight
years old. And today, Luke is 13 years old.
So if you hear Luke or he checks into the round
table, Make sure you wish him a happy birthday.
So that's the announcement. Back to you, Jack,
W3GMS. very much Joe and happy birthday Luke.
I will be the second person to say that to you.
And with that, hopefully we hear you soon
and I will go back to calling for short time
digital stations. Please call.
Yeah, good evening. This is KB3ZUV, Kilo Bravo
3 Zulu Uniform Victor, short time mobile via
ECHO-Link. Checking in. Adam and Wes Bradford.
recognize KB3ZUV, Adam, nice to hear you. Are
there any RF short timers and or digital short
timers that got missed? Please call now.
Yeah, take it away KB3ZUV. The question is
if you could change your name, what would it
be and why and what are you looking forward
to as the weather gets warmer? KB3ZUV.
All right, Jack, good evening. Thanks for taking
the chair. K3YVQ, KB3ZUV here. Again, mobile,
driving home. And I guess before I jump into
the questions, I'll also say happy birthday
to Luke, KC3STY, if and when he checks in here.
And Luke, you share a birthday with my younger
brother, who I will be. He's not a ham, so
I don't have a call sign for him, but my younger
brother, Alex. Not so coincidentally, my
daughter, Alexandria, is named partly after
my brother and partly after my great grandmother,
who I guess my brother's named after. My brother
Alex doesn't have any kids of his own, so we're
keeping the names going. And I think that's
a great segue into the question that if you
could change your name, what would you change
it to and why? I think if I could change my
name, I did this has been a, this has been,
this is a really interesting question, Jack.
And it's a thought provoking one. And I kind
of appreciate, appreciate that being asked.
Um, I only have daughters. So there've been
some people who have said, Oh, the family name's
not going to carry on because of your daughters
have any children. They would presumably be
taking the last name of the father. You know,
my daughters took my last name. They didn't
take my wife's last name. She didn't change
her name when she got married to me. And so,
I asked my wife, was like, Hey, you know,
like I'm prepared to let go. You know, the
name, my name's not getting carried on. Do
you want the girl? Maybe the girls can take
your last name or we can hyphenate or we could
do something. My wife's like, no, don't rock
the boat. She's like, that'll make things too
complicated on the birth certificate. They can
take your name. But I'm like, yeah, but we
shouldn't get too attached to it because it'll
probably probably just change again. So actually
at this point, if I were to change my life,
if I were to change my name, I might just like
drop my last name. because I have a middle name
that's the last name. My middle name is Lewis
and it's not L O U I S it's L E W I S. And
I was at the dry cleaners getting some getting
getting getting my blazer cleaned. I'm going
to be out and out of state. My wife's cousin
is getting married in a few weeks. I'll be out
on the West Coast attending that and the dry
cleaning tag came back and it just said Adam
Lewis, Adam Lewis, you're dry cleaning. I'm
like, kind of like the sound of that. I'm like,
you know what? Like, and that's the other thing
is most people with the last name shyble I'm
not related to them anyway because my great
grandfather was adopted. So I'm like, you know,
it's a decent, it's a decent enough last name,
you know, nobody, nobody pronounces it right.
Nobody spells it right. It's like, yeah, I
could just be Adam Lewis and I would be perfectly
fine with that. So that's, that's a good,
that's a good and interesting question. I mean,
obviously changing one's name is a very difficult
and complicated and costly and kind of annoying
process. So I'm fine being Adam Schiavo all
the rest of my life. But if I could change
it, that's what it would be. And as far as
other summer plans, what am I doing when the
weather gets warmer? Well, travel, obviously.
And I really think the other big thing I'm
really going to be focusing on is, well, you
know, we've got the ham radio. We've got some
HF stuff to do out in the shack already. I'm
back on HF doing some stuff all 40 meters a
couple weeks ago. But the other big thing is
going to be gardening with Rachel. Tomatoes,
sweet corn, raspberries, we'll work on keeping
an on the fruit trees in the backyard, all that
sort of thing. Keeping the deer away, keeping
the rabbits away. So that's the big summer plan
when I can't sneak off to the shack and see
if anyone else is out there on the bands while
they're in such good shape. With that, let's
it back to Jack, KB3ZUV Mobile. uh... seven
three clear
Thank you Adam for sharing and have a great
rest of your night. Is there any other short
time RF and or digital stations wishing to check
in? Last call, please call now.
Right, nothing heard in that healthy pause there,
so let's go over to regular check-ins for All-Star
or EchoLength. This is K3YVQ.
Charlie Romeo Whiskey, CR.
And I got your CR, waged a little extra just
in case Ron was going to be digital as well.
All right, let's move on to RF regular check-ins.
Please call now. The Alpha 3 Victor Echo Echo,
not digital, but RF.
It hanged three ECW.
KD3BGL.
WA3KFKT
Three GMS
Kilo Delta 3 Alpha India Sierra.
N3 CRE
ELU Delta 3 X-ray will be in and out. Have a
good night.
KC3SQI.
Now we'll take a quick pause there to go over
the list so far. So we have W8CRW, we have
WA3VEE, who is not digital. We have NA3CW,
we have KB3BGL, then we're over to WA3KFT.
Over to Joe, W3GMS, then we have KD3AIS, followed
by N3CRE. And you will pass it over to KC3SQI
skipping over Barry who was in and out. Are
there any other people wishing to check in?
Please call now before we go back to the top.
3MFB Whiskey 3 Mike Fox Bravo
Alpha Alpha 3, Lima Hotel, Gobbler's Knob.
Alright, welcome gentlemen, let me go over the
list one more time and then we will head up
to CRW to get things started. So we have W8CRW,
WA3VE, NA3CW, KB3BGL, WA3KFT, W3GMS, KD3AIS,
N3CRE, KC3SQI, W3MFB, and then over to AA3LH,
Leon, who is the current tail gunner. So just
to reiterate our questions in case anyone forgot
or you're just joining us, if you could change
your name, what would it be and why? And what
are you looking forward to most as the weather
gets warm? Over to you CRW, K3YVQ.
Very good Jack, thanks for taking the chair
tonight and leading the team. Let's see,
actually you know people can change their name
if
some people do.
W-A-
Very very good CR, thank you so much. W-H-C-R-W
and the net, W-A-3-V-E-E. First of all, Luke,
I sent you, Carpenter, your dad, a happy birthday
email. If you happen to be listening, so Zizic,
still a lot. In Polish, that means live to be
100. So all very good. And that almost leads
me into the questions in a way. But Jack, great
to hear you. Thanks for running the net tonight.
And all very very good. Folks, don't forget
to Zoom tomorrow night. Those who are on the
field day list, it's at seven o'clock, so Joe's
got the information out there, so please check
your emails. If you're not used to checking
emails, please get used to them, because there'll
be a lot coming. So tomorrow night, seven
o'clock, Zoom meeting. Okay, one correction,
by the way. This is pointed out by a member
of the State Line Radio Club. I mentioned
on the workbench the other night, that there
would be a V session the first Saturday
of June down in Rising Sun. And that's not the
case. The June licensing session run by
the State Line Radio Club is on their field
day. It is not the first weekend of June.
So just wanted to make that correction. And
I appreciate the individual who pointed that
out to me. I sincerely do appreciate that. I
really wouldn't want any bad information to
get out there. Not that I haven't done that
before. Anyway, okay, very good. Jack, great
questions. Never really thought about changing
the name. It is a very interesting proposition.
Yeah, agree with CR. Oh, yeah, CR. Before I
go any further, CR, thank you for the link.
I've already ordered that controller. We're
talking about a temperature controller to try
to control some of the heat in some of these
rigs, like the Olencos, and also to try to
control some of the heat on the hotspot. So
thank you, CR, for that information. Always
valuable stuff I get from CR. So back to the
question, finally. Okay. It is interesting
heritage. My last name of Medikewicz means student
of medicine. And that's, can easily see that
if you just read in a little bit of the last
name. The M-E-D-Y-K is clearly medic or some
can be contrived to be medicine. And the suffix
in Polish means apprentice or one who studies.
Therefore, being an engineer, I missed my
calling. and I'm probably a lot poorer engineer
than I would be being a physician, but there's
probably a lot more people alive because I
choose engineering rather than medicine. So
in any event, I don't think I really want
to change. Another reason is it gives people
who never had phonics in school, which I can't
understand, but anyway, it gives them a nice
challenge to try and figure this out. So it's
always some of the variations I've had on my
name, especially in the military, many of
which cannot be repeated, but still nonetheless,
it's always an interesting challenge. And
because it has such a complicated last name,
It made it a lot easier for me to try to figure
out my students' names when they were from
foreign countries. And most of the time I
was able to do it, again, because of the great
phonics background. Okay, looking forward
to getting out on the bike. I've already been
out a couple times this week. Felt good, slow
getting back into it again. But that would
be great to do some interesting trails. And
of course, I'd like to get up to upstate Pennsylvania
as well, up in the Pine Creek region up there.
And of course, anytime, anywhere, radio is
always a part of those trips. So Chuck, what's
in your wallet? Here we go. What's in your
plans for names and plans? NA3CW, W-A-3-V-E-E.
Take your time. W-H-R-E-V-E-E-N-H-R-E-C-W.
Well, um... I of concluded a long time ago,
there is not a name that other people can't
make fun of somehow. And I could give you
a whole list, as simple as my name is. Excuse
me. I thought Adam had a great idea. Just drop,
do like show business people, news people, the
weathermen, people on the radio, DJs and whatever.
They drop your last name and they go by, hey,
this is Chuck Cameron instead of Chuck White.
You know, you see Adam Joseph or whatever. You
ever notice that radio and TV personalities
often have two quote unquote first names? Well,
that's what they do. They just drop the last
name. So, yeah, maybe that's what I would
do. Excuse me. plans, somewhere along the
line here probably soon. We're going to take
a couple of days and go up and see the Pennsylvania
Grand Canyon and see what's happening up in
that environment, environment. See if they
have anything up there besides trees. If you
have caves and trails and things to look at.
So we may be bugging off for that. My only antenna
goals this This year are Joe's. We want to
get that thing up and soon. Otherwise, seems
like everybody else makes my plants for me,
my sister especially, so I really don't see
a lot of point in making plants. And by the
way, we have a new ham among us, a correction
for the list, it's Kilo Delta 3 Baker George
Lima KD3 BGL. His name's Jeremy, he lives
in Avondale. And sadly, I believe he has an
HOA. But he is a one month ham, and he can
tell you his story, but I welcomed him to 985
earlier and told him about our nets and our
website and our breakfasts and our field day.
And if you buy all that, Jeremy, you're going
to be a busy man. KD3BGL, NA3CW. Thanks,
Chuck. NA3CW, KV3, BGL. Thanks for the warm
welcomes and telling me about the net tonight.
Yeah, excited to join the group and join
the repeater as well and talk to y'all. My
name's Jeremy. I am in Avondale. I am, unfortunately,
in an HOA.
See what we can do. Yeah, if I were to change
my name, if I was a girl, my mother would have
called me Joe Ellen, so I would change my name
to Joe. How about that? What I'm looking forward
to this summer as the weather gets warmer, maybe
not related to warm weather, but I am...
big into sailing so got the boat in the water
last weekend for Memorial Day at the first
sail and would love to get ham radio installed
in the sailboat.
And that's about it for me. Thank you, Chuck,
again for the warm welcome. If I wrote my notes
down correctly...
W A 3 K F T K B 3 B G L.
AC3BTL. This is WA3 King Fox Tango. Okay,
Jeremy, and welcome to the world of ham radio.
that lived locally years ago, he's now down
in Florida, and he had a sailboat. And he
played radio with the sailboat. The ropes that
raise the sails are very convenient for hoisting
a wire antenna.
you guys say, hey, I'm using a vertical antenna.
Yeah. not easy to load a metal mast, but certainly
when you raise the sail you can pull the wire
up and you're good to go in that respect for
a vertical antenna. And that other crazy box
called an antenna tuner, even if it's a short
wire, the antenna tuner will allow you to load
it up on the HF bands and so on. Now on the
other hand, you want to place six meters or
something, a six meter vertical antenna,
or actually make a dipole. You could hoist a
dipole up on a sailboat without too much difficulty.
A vertical dipole, and that would work too.
Two meters is not a problem. They're only
19 inches long. have fun with the boat and
radio propagation. I don't think I want to
change my name. Certainly not my last name.
I have a very long lineage in this country.
in this. And I'm not real happy with my ancestors
because Jan Dykman, the first one that came
to the country, settled on a 350-acre farm
on Manhattan. I wish he never sold the property.
All of us Dykmans would be very happy.
with the rent and the lease money for 350 acres
of Manhattan. His neighbor, not much different,
was 300 acres on Manhattan. I don't know about
that family, but that was the first one. Came
from Holland.
Dad grew up not too far from there in Shrub
Oak, New York, about north of New York
If you're daring enough in the city of New York,
I remember the Brooklyn phone book. Now, just
Brooklyn, there were 20, no, there were 48
Dykmons listed in just the Brooklyn. There
is a Dyckman Street in New York. There is a
Dyckman House. If you go up to about 204th
and Broadway, it is a public park that is open
in, I'll say, spring, summer and early fall.
and it is part of my heritage, I don't think
I want to change my name. Looking forward
to... I see some of my seeds have already
germinated and I start to see the rose. So
that and harvesting rhubarb. And Joe, have
you been harvesting rhubarb yet? W3GMS WA3KFT.
There's some in the refrigerator right now,
ready to be cooked. water, put some sugar
in and enjoy W3GMS. Good evening all and thank
you Jack for sitting in the captain's chair
tonight doing a fantastic job as usual. the
questions. Oh, I wanted to welcome, I believe
his name is Jeremy. Jeremy, I had to step out
of the room for a minute, the radio shack,
and I didn't get your call down, but I'd like
to welcome you to my 146-985 repeater. Keep
operating it. I think you'll agree it's one
of the best of the best. That's what people
tell me. That's not my judgment. That's just
what people tell me. And you won't find a
better group of people on here. I did overhear
a portion of Chuck giving you the official
985 welcome earlier. And I thank you very much,
Chuck, for doing that. Okay.
While we have people that are still here, I
wanted, before I answered your questions, Jack,
I wanted to say that I just mailed out this
spreadsheet for field day. And you can put
your times and the bands and the equipment and
all that. Martha worked. Unfortunately, my
Google search engine is not working. It comes
up and we have the subject line and you start
typing in what you want to search. You hit the
keys but nothing appears. So I've tried it
on DuckDuckGo, which I think rides on the back
of Google and it doesn't work. So our Google
Drive does not work either. So if anybody has
any ideas why when I bring up Google and I
start typing in the subject bar, Typing does
not appear. So, sounds one of those nasty,
nasty things. Above my pay grade with applications
with computers. name change? Nope, don't
care to. I've researched the name. It's a very,
very old name. Going back very far in Europe,
we have a family Bible that's been passed down
from generation to generation. and this is
all before they had the DNA testing. And we
have a pretty good historical path all the
way back to the 1700s at least. So it's pretty
good. So, no, no desire to change my last
name or first name or middle name. And I am
the third. My son, I tried to get to the fourth,
but I didn't pull a long enough straw for that
one. So he became a Matthew and not- and Harold
Feldfurt. Okay, let's see, summer projects.
Well, as you all know, heat and humidity do
not agree with me. So, I'm gonna try to capitalize
and get as many projects done outside projects
in the spring. And of course, we love the fall
weather, it's just great. But the hot, humid
days of the summer, I will be in here with the
air conditioner set at 68 degrees and working
on inside projects. But as... mentioned, very
enthused about getting my new used tower up.
That's been an ongoing project for months now
because it had a lot of issues. that's coming
along nicely. And I guess my second big outside
project is, and John KN3I came down about a
week, two weeks ago and helped me, is organize
my parts building. I have an antique radio
parts building. It's 24 foot by 20 foot. beautiful
building that the Amish built for me and
I need time to organize like items and bins
that already exist and things like that. And
in one eight hour day, John and I really got
a lot done. So I just have to keep that up.
So that's the two things, I think the major.
on my priority list. Titan human, I'll be inside
as mentioned. Okay, let's see. WD-3AIS, you're
next in line. W3GMS, good evening.
W3GMS. Good evening, Joe. This is Tim, KD3AIS
in Malvern. With regard to, well, first of
all, happy birthday to Luke, who was one of
the first people I heard on this repeater when
I first tuned in. Your maturity exceeds your
years. And welcome to Jeremy the New Ham. And
notwithstanding that you're in an HOA, if you
can hear me now, I'm speaking to you on a flexible
J-Pole in my attic. Although I am near Immaculata,
which I understand is a good location height-wise
and to the repeater. Having said that, I knew
exactly what name I would change my name to
when I heard this question. So if my name was
not Tim, I would change it to Johnny Musacha
with the emphasis on Musacha. And I get that
name from when I was in high school, I used
to listen to the early Jerky Boy tapes. At the
time they were on cassette tapes that I would
play. We would play on the tape deck of our,
my friend's car and my car. It later became
a movie, but the callers were making prank
calls and I think they chose the names on purpose
to be funny. Years later when my daughter was
born and she was about three years old, I decided
to call her Musacha and she thought that was
funny so she called me Musacha and then we
called each other Musacha. So it has a good
place in my memory, in my family and with my
daughter. So I would change my name to Johnny
Musacha. As far as the summertime, I'm currently
harvesting strawberries in the garden. I don't
have any rhubarb planted and I will be working
outside taking down an old garden that has
passed its useful life. With that, I will
pass it over to... Charles, N3CRE, this is KD3AIS.
N3CRE Charlie here. Alright, yep. Well, I have
no desire to change my name. Knowing all the
problems my friend has, girlfriend has, trying
to get ID with maiden names, married names
and so on was a big problem. Matching everything
up. I'd be a little bit scared changing names
around with all this ID and not having things.
And I'm very aware of that because I basically
have a first name, a middle name that I can
use. And if it doesn't match up sometimes,
you don't go anywhere. Anyway, for summer, hey,
let's hope, I wanna enjoy it before it's over.
Sometimes you do things, next thing you know
it's Labor Day and it's over. Joe, I'm glad
you're getting asparagus. My groundhogs get
all my asparagus. All my asparagus, all 50
rows, all 50 feet of it, I've got maybe three
or four stalks. The groundhogs, deer, or something
win all the time. So that's all I have. And
alternative, I think I got the call correct,
KC3SQY.
Okay, thank you very much. This is Make a wish
for a very happy birthday. Have a good day
and... We'll see you possibly field day time.
I don't want to change my name. I'd never figure
it out if I did, I got enough problems with
the one I got. As for gardens, I gave up on
them a long time ago. I go out in the morning,
I have four or five cottontail rabbits, four
or five deer, three or four crows. Nope.
Tried one year and all I got was... So, genius
course and hot. That was all that the animals
around here didn't want. So zucchini scores
just because it could grow faster than they
could trim it back. And the hot peppers because
they don't like...
Uh, what am I doing this summer? Well... Get
my hand fixed. And then... going to have to
do some more fishing than I did last year. That
was very little of the fishing, so we'll be
doing a lot more of that. And I will be working
with Joe and sending him some pictures and
some descriptions of some metal that came from
my 10 by 20 tent that is going to be scrapped
by me. So if you're looking around for larger
pieces of metal, one to two inches diameter,
probably going to be a good amount of it come
onto the market shortly. So with that, I will
try... Turn it over to W3MFB. This is KC3SQI.
The SQIW3MFP, it's a thing to, hey Wayne, it's
good to grab the right microphone, I was grabbing
the wrong microphone. Got three of them sitting
here.
Hey everybody, hope everybody's doing well.
great to hear, Jack. Thanks for driving the
bus, as they say.
think I got lost there with the gardening thing.
didn't...
changing the name. here you go. Here's a little
tidbit on me, right? So some of you know I'm
adopted. Okay, I was adopted when I was three
months old. So I don't recall anything, you
know.
in life, 18 or 19? 18 I started the process,
19, early 19 I...
information from her and then I got information.
and his name first and last. My mother, her
name was...
And she told me she was going to name me David.
So even though everybody knows me as Mike
or Michael on QRZ, my other name would have
been David if I stayed with her, I guess.
But she thought she would have about, she
already had three kids grown and she thought
it would be better for me to have a better
life than what would have happened otherwise.
So I'm glad she did. So Mighty Fine Bembridge
is the name. to it, but that's a little tidbit
for everybody. stick to the name, I wouldn't
want to change it for anything in the world.
3MFB and then the Wayne, you said gardening
and I heard asparagus and I'm sorry. But Wayne,
it sounds like you got a great problem on your
hands. You have rabbits, deer and crows. Now
who wants to eat a crow? If you have to, you
will, but it sounds like you could be a carnivore
for a little while, become a bow hunter. Cause
you know, we live in the county and they don't
like firing guns off. So become a bow hunter
and be an carnivore. and then you'll have that
problem solved, then you can go and become a
vegetarian. Sounds like that's what's going
on. We're not really gardening too much this
year. We're doing a little bit in pots, planters,
and things on the... time plans, plan it by
year really. So that's all I can really say
on that. Thank you very much. think I'm going
to be, this is one and done for me and I'll
pass it over to Leon, AA3LH in the group, W3MSB.
You want to check in? ahead. KC3HQZ just saying
hi to everybody. I'm listening, but I'm doing
stuff in the kitchen. So I want to let you know
I'm in here. KC3HQZ. Well, that would have
to jacked out on the bus, got the tire changed.
It's back to me AA308. Yeah, MFB. BMA MFS.
Mighty fine suit after a while when the weather
gets real hot. When it was cold, we called
you Mr. Coffee. We'll call you Mr. Soda. How's
that? But mighty fine beverages. All right.
That way, that way, no matter what, what we
need to drink, you'll have, but that's quite
all right with me. All right. As I would like
to say, well, we checked the lights out in
the bus. We didn't crawl under and check the
brakes this time because they didn't get that
many miles on this past week. But the lights
look good, the engine oil is full, have three
quarters of a tank of fuel jack, you're good
to go. The brake lights work, things are fine.
Having said that, would I change my name? My
name is Leon Lima Echo Oscar November. In
this part of the world, everybody's heard of
it. I think everybody has, or a lot of people
have. But I run truck over the road, and I
run it places in the US. that never heard
of it. They tried to call me Leo, know, Lima
Echo Oscar, or Lima Echo Echo, and I didn't
say VEE, it was LEE. To say that, Years ago,
turn of the 19th not that that was the turn
of the 20th century, they called the engineers,
train engineers, they called them Pete. Because
they didn't know their names. They were at different
stations, all different places. So they were
called, hey, Pete. And an engineer would know
to turn around and make sure they were talking
to him or not, but talking to somebody else
named Pete. And I thought that would, something
I got would have been nice. But I, the people
I just couldn't say Leon, call, hey, hey driver,
hey truck driver, hey Liz, hey that, that worked
also. Well, I changed my name, you know, I
it for all these years. I don't want to change
it. What am I doing this summer? Well, I want
to drop some antennas and take a look at them
and see well for storm damage is done. also
like grilling outside. We have a charcoal grill
and we just love grilling outside. Number one,
that's a priority. Also, we go west. It looks
like maybe the second week in July, it will
be west for a week and we'll probably leave
the first week of July and go out. and Pokeron
going out through and Pokeron coming back. And
then I like to go up to New York sometime this
summer and check out up around the Buffalo area.
About that way, somewhere out that way, that's
where my wife's uncle lived. We used to go out
there and visit them and just like go back
there and just for old time's sake, have old
time memories of that. All right, this is
AA308. I gotta get the repeater a break.
Alright, I guess we're back again. So, go ahead
and do things like that. But yeah, grilling
is a top priority for being outside when the
weather is nice. I love to grill. Just like
MFP does, Mighty Fine Beverage says he likes
to grill. So we like our food and ham radio,
goes along quite well. And we want to say hello
to Jeremy. Welcome to HF. All right, well,
guess a technician, you gotta get your general
license hamsticks. You can put hamsticks in
your vehicle and you can do quite all right
with hamsticks. Well, I guess that's all I
really have to say. I'm gonna give it back to
net control. Mr. Jack, go ahead. Hey, hey,
308.
This is K3YVQ, Jack here again. Thank you for
your comments as well as everybody else. And
Jeremy, welcome to the 985 group here. And
as far as your sailboat project and getting
a radio on there, you might want to check into
the Monday night workbench and pose that as
a question, because I know we've had questions
about hooking up to radios on boats in the
past. So I'm sure there's a few people that
could give you a good answer there. Before
I go back up to the top of the list, let me
answer the questions myself here quickly. If
I could change my name. So my great grandparents
were Ukrainian immigrants and they built a
church in Charles Street in Coatesville, the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church there. And their
names are on the stained glass windows with
the American spelling of our last name. There
was a lot more letters when they moved here
and they got to the island and we're told it
was too long so they had to shorten it. But
for those of you that don't know, my real name
is actually Jacob. So if I were to change my
name, I would just make it good old Jack.
Other than that, looking forward to field day
once the weather's warm. The heat doesn't really
bother me much, actually quite enjoy it. And
I'm very much finally enjoying waking up when
the sun is already up. That 5.50 alarm goes
off in the morning and it makes a huge difference
when it's already bright outside for me wanting
to get out of bed. So all that being said,
before I go back up to CR, is there anyone
else wishing to check in late here? Call
now, please. AC-30, OK.
So Bill, and welcome to the party, KC3OOK. If
you want to answer our questions quick before
I throw it up to CR, it is if you were to change
your name, what would it be and why, and what
are you looking forward to now that the weather's
finally getting warm? Go ahead, Bill.
Jack, KC-30K, still here.
Welcome to Jeremy.
I would change my name.
to give it, give us a bad name. So I would
never change my name.
related to warm weather.
be a week of forecasting.
roof to the hamster.
up doing all this work on the ceiling.
get that sheet replaced.
Thank Casey.
Thank very much Bill and we'll start round
two here if anyone has any additional comments
go ahead CRW8CRWK3YVQ over to you.
very good jack uh... my comment is about joe
and the field day activity spreadsheet uh...
i'm looking at it on my computer right now
joe you're going to have to do some more explaining
because i'm not sure how to Looking at it,
it has multiple choices. So I chose the edit
in browser. I edited it, closed it, hit reply
to all, and I don't believe it went out. So
if you can check your email, did it go out or
not?
If you want to hop the line here real quick
and respond to CR and then I'll pass it over
to Ron, go ahead.
We may wind up repeating that question later
on, so I'll pass it over to you, Ron. WA3VEEK3YVQ.
K3YVQ in the group, WA3VE, thanks very much
to UNCR. Very good. I haven't looked at the
spreadsheet yet, but that'll probably be in
the morning. Because I'm over, going back
and forth between the lab and the shack here,
looking at a radio over there on my bench
right now. It doesn't quite work the way I'd
like it to be working, but the manual over
here and I've got the radio over there. So
anyway, not much further to add. And I, I,
I'm in the same philosophy as Bill. We have
quite a lineage in Europe, predominantly
in Poland, of course, but there's also some
possibility of there being some Lithuanian
and stuff like that as well, and perhaps even
some Russians. So I still need to research
that, but I was also taught very early on to
have a lot of respect for the name and the
family name and so on. And so I really do
not want to change. What is funny though
that I forgot to mention, and it just occurred
to me, is that you guys know that I like
to teach. Well, my paternal grandmother's
maiden name, her first name was Rosalia, and
completely in Poland, came over here, became
American citizens, her maiden name, you guys
know, like I said, you know, I like to teach,
her name was Edukiewicz, as in education.
So maybe I didn't quite totally miss the boat
on choosing a career along the lines of at
least one of the names in my past. And so with
that, I'm going to pass it over to Chuck. I'm
going to be listening out here, but I'll be
working on the bench and I'll be on All Star
over there. NA3CW in the group, WA3VE.
Thank you, IW83VE and A3CW. I was just thinking,
Jeremy, we got larger and larger than this
group. We have a bunch of people have been
dealing with HOAs for a very long time. there's,
at least you have a single family house. My
research is correct. But we've had... that
were in townhouses, HOA townhouses, and still
were able to do a lot of HF work and quite
successfully. So it can be done. Within certain
realms of realism, it can be done. So fear
not. And a sailboat absolutely can be done.
So that's good for the workbench. As far
as names go, my daughter has done a lot of
searching. We have the whites, seems like
basically all the whites arrived in eastern
North Carolina. My father came from central
North Carolina. And she can't trace them
back further than that. But on my mother's
side, they go back through Johnson's. go...
back all the way to the earliest 1600s days
of Massachusetts and a lot of them in New Jersey.
So my ties with Bob N2HM in New Jersey are
not that far afield. And by the way, N2HM is
a great sailor and I go down to his place when
I can and we jump in as a 17 foot day sailor
and we sail up and down. Little Lake Harbor
Bay at Long Beach Island. And do absolutely
nothing else. It's kind of the way that we
get away from it all and not have to do anything
useful as we get on the boat and sail up and
down Little Lake Harbor Bay. So there's that
on that.
Yeah, I've been working on a little project
just for us to make something. I bought a,
several years ago, I bought this little analog
stereo amplifier board, little bitty thing
like 15 watts per channel. It runs on 24 volt
DC and I didn't have any 24 volt linear power
supplies and I thought, yeah, I'll make one.
Except I had everything except the transformer.
Well, the other day, I got a 24 volt transformer
from John, KN3I. It turned out it was a power
supply, but it was AC only, just a transformer.
So I got it to think, got the transformer out
of it. And I had a bridge rectifier, had filter
caps, had a 338 regulator, so that multi-amp
regulator, three terminal. And I built this
thing up into a little 24 volt power supply,
and it worked. And I put the amplifier in a
box and it sounds like crud. It's got a lot
of low-end crossover distortion. is a pot in
each channel. I don't know if that's for gain
or if it is for biasing, but I'll be looking
into that sort of thing. But, oh well, that's
a little bit of a disappointment. My little
power supply works just fine. It's an amp and
a half transformer, 24 volts DC, regulated.
So there you go. little things you can make.
the box was a surplus of a surplus test fixture
from a former company and it's been sitting
on the shelf. So I got all the parts out of
that. I can heal up all the extra holes with
epoxy and paint it. yeah, it was kind of fun
just taking the things that I had laying around
and put it together into something useful.
So enough of that and enough on names. And
I guess that covers it, but yeah, Jeremy, by
all means check into the workbench on Monday
night and ask all the questions you want. KD3BGL,
and 73, everybody, I will listen out. This
is NA-3CW.
NA3CWKB3BGL. Thanks everybody for the warm
welcomes. Very nice. I will definitely be
checking into the workbench. I have a bunch
of ideas, but don't know what to do. I do
have a question for Chuck. Maybe answer at
some point, but is it an O-Day day sailor that
you were sailing over Long Beach Island, which
is the 17-foot thingy that I grew up?
Yeah, I don't have much to add to the questions.
I wanted to say happy birthday to Luke if he's
listening. And I wanted to thank Jack for running
the net. And once again, thanks everybody for
the warm welcomes advice. And I'll be sure to
check out the workbench. And if I'm committing
any faux pas, please just let me know. Obviously
I'm pretty new. That is it for me. I'll pass
it off to WA3KFP. This is KD3BGL73.
This is WA-3KFT. Jeremy, your call is King
Delta-3.
Correct. Kilo Delta 3 Bravo.
We keep scribbling notes here and making corrections.
This is WA-3KFT. All righty. Now, as far
as the name change...
was fortunate enough early on that someone decided
to do a family tree, for want of a better word,
and trace the Deichmann lineage from the first
one landing in this country, J-A-M-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-J-A-N-
landed in... all the way down through.
generations. the book has...
each chapter gets longer because now it's the
sons and daughters of the generation before
and all of their family and so on and so forth.
The family, as I said, was centered around
New York City and that general area. And
my grandfather on dad's side and great grandfather
on dad's side were both blacksmiths. And when
they put this book together, my aunt had a
photograph of her father and grandfather and
they included it in the book. So I have a photo
of my great, my grandfather and my great-grandfather.
Not too many photos of the many past generations.
And the book really didn't have many photos
in it. It was just basically a family tree
documentary. And if you know a name, it
will tell you what page to look them up on.
each chapter is another generation. and I
was lucky enough to get one of those books.
My brothers and sisters don't have one. I'm
the oldest of five, and I don't know of anyone
else in my generation that has a copy of that
book. So it's kind of interesting to pour through
it and see the lineage of the family and
some of the names that were there. My father
was one of seven children, and the youngest
of One of them died before they reached the
age of one, another one at the age of 12, so
there were five remaining, three boys and two
girls.
five of them went to college. Dad was the youngest
of the bunch. He was the last one out. And
the way they did it was everybody kind of put
money in the pot to help pay the tuition of
each member in the family that was going to
college. So when dad finally got in there,
he's getting money from his brothers and sisters
to... finish up his work.
And mechanical engineer is what he was. he worked
in a light bulb factory, incandescent light
bulbs. He didn't live long enough to see the
LEDs come out. But it was a three story factory,
and they did everything. except manufacture
the glass and the threads on the bottom.
It was an assembly plant.
and they put all the pieces together. For
the entire family, all of us at one point
in time or another worked for the General Electric
Company. My mother worked for GE in Pittsfield,
Massachusetts in payroll. Dad was a foreman.
I worked for General Electric as a field engineer.
My brother and sister who were twins worked
at the light bulb factory with Dad. My brother
Roy, one of the twins, worked for 43 years
manufacturing light bulbs. His job was to
keep the machines going and to keep them from
breaking the glass and so forth. And Ted,
summer job, the only one that didn't was my
youngest sister, Faith. She's the only one
that never worked for General Electric. So
you could say we were a GE family. And with
that, we thank you guys for the net tonight.
Over to you Joe. W3GMS. This is WA3KFT. 7th
rail.
SW1RC to check in. 146.985 round table. W3GMS.
The spreadsheet should have been very intuitive
and easy. Put your name and... You have choices.
Do you want to operate? Do you want to help?
Do you want to do CW? Do you want to do single
sideband? Do you want to do digital? Do you
want to do satellite? And if you look up and
see Martha's and Mayan, which are in, we were
the first two to fill out the spreadsheet,
you see Zlo-X's.
an example, Martha is going to be a helper.
I'm going to be an operator. to do CW and
maybe some sideband. Then the next thing over
is time at field base.
be there at 2 p.m. and Sunday which is when
field day is over I will be leaving at 2 p.m.
so that's the deal. The further column over
on the right and this was based on our last
field day zoom call we talked about a station
manager for each station 80 meters 40 meters
20 meters. station manager is responsible for
the equipment of that station. if you want
to fulfill a position as station manager, you
write your call in there or something, and
what equipment you're going to bring. And that's
it. And then what you do is you save it after
you've filled it out, and then you attach it
to an email by replying to all. There's no
blind carbon copies on the field date distribution
list because everybody can see everybody who's
going to be attending. So you just do reply
all and attach your modified updated version
of the spreadsheet and away you go. So I hope
that was clear. Don't forget tomorrow night
at seven o'clock if you're part of the field
day crew, we're gonna have our Zoom call at
7 p.m. And if you look a couple days ago,
I sent out all the meeting minutes from last
Friday's Zoom call on field day. And we will
be continuing that, working down the meeting
minutes, checking on action items and things
like that. And George is our field day chairman.
George is very busy right now. So trying to
give him a little bit of a help with some of
the administrative stuff. My Google is broke.
I can't do any web searching whatsoever. Can't
even get on QRZ on any of the computers to
the network here. So Chuck, we may need a...
I'm trying to get on Q or Z, I can't even get
on Q or Z. My email's fine and everything.
And a lot of the other stuff is fine, various
websites like AM Phone and AWA website is fine,
but I can't do any searching because it just
won't search. can't type anything in. Won't
allow me. Hit the key but nothing appears and
that problem just happened earlier this evening.
So there you go on that. Let's see, who's it
go to? Tim and Malvern, yeah, you sound really
good. You're probably pretty close to where
Harvey lives. And Harvey is busy guy, but he
used to check in and be a lot more active on
the repeater. But he is a host for the workbench,
I know. I don't think he's a host for the round
table. But anyway, good area, good propagation.
985 has a very big footprint anyway. So it doesn't
take a lot if you're in a decent location to
get it back in the repeater. Oh, the last business
I have is turning over all the emails and stuff
to the YLnet that will happen some evening on
985. I have all my information. Just been really
busy the last few days and haven't sent that
out. So everybody that's on the YL985net. We'll
get that and so forth and so on. And Jeremy,
Leon came to me a couple weeks ago or probably
about a month ago now and said, hey, would you
mind having a YL net on your repeater? I said,
that's fine. YL stands for young lady. And that's
what it means. And we have a number of ladies
here on 985 that are amateur radio operators.
So they wanted their net. to have the ladies
night here on 985. So that's what that's all
about. Okay, Tim and Malvern, KD3AIS, 73
on this one, take care. And again, Jack, thank
you very much for hosting the roundtable tonight.
KD3, kilowatt delta three, Alpha India Sierra,
this is W3GMS, take care.
Whiskey Charlie Romeo Whiskey, set up with
no ladder needed because of his thoughtfulness
and it has a mechanical fuse made of fishing
line that he showed me how to do. So he's a
great gentleman, very kind with his time and
very helpful to me as a much newer ham. The
only thing I'll say about summer is I'm happy
to have now for a few years. automatic watering
and plastic mulch for my tomatoes because it
tremendously adds to the productivity and tremendously
decreases time needed to maintain healthy tomato
plant. So I will end there and I will turn
it over to Charlie N3 CRE. This is KD3 AIS.
N3 CRE, Charlie here. Yeah, very interesting.
Listened to all the lineages. Unfortunately,
like some of you had mentioned, I was also adopted.
But even though it's more than back, my original
father was dropped at a doorstep in Philadelphia,
or at a church in Philadelphia. And then he
was, I guess, he was dropped there, a family
in Delaware County picked him up and adopted
him. So am I. Unfortunately, mother and got
divorced and I really don't know a whole lot
about my real father. I often want to check
it out someday, again, the scheme game would
only go back so far because he was left on the
doorstep of the church and then he was adopted
by a family in Delaware County. Very nice listening
to everything. I guess I never heard of planting
mulch for tomato plants. Maybe it'd be a lot
better than what I do, but anyway, nice listening
to everything and N3CRE out. got it, wait a
KC3CQY.
Okay.
M3CRE, this is KC3SQI. Yeah, I'm just getting
ready to do things here and get started for
summer, if I can ever get healthy from the
dogs.
I'm afraid I'm going have to put in a, or have
a fence put in for the dogs. came to us. They
had never been outside of a fence in yard, never
been walked, never been unleashed. So their
manners on the leash are not the best in the
world. So, may have to just bite the bullet
and say, okay, we'll get you a, get you a, lawn
here or a fence here and hopefully that will
give you enough time to chase the squirrels
and rabbits and the deer and everything else
that's out here in the backyard. Not have to
go running all over the neighborhood trying
to catch up. 10. going to turn it over to W3MFB.
This is KC3SQI.
W3MFB, I'm still here. I know I said one
and done, but we're back. Yeah, I just want
to say thanks, Jack, hosting. Good to hear your
voice out there. I you're a busy fella.
Say Luke. That's awesome, glad to have you.
Welcome to 985 to the Hamley family, as Joe
likes to call it. Great group of people here,
guys and gals.
that, I will say seven three to all.
W3MFB. Over to Leon, AA3LH, W3MFB.
Well, I got the right microphone here. My goodness
gracious. up the wrong radio. That worked.
Okay. W3MFB. Thank you so much. This is AA308.
Yeah. Yeah, I never heard of plastic mulch,
nonetheless, I don't, I don't know at all.
And, uh, I, I do enjoy summertime. I don't
like winter time. I don't like going out and
grilling in the snow. I just don't do that.
I worked with a guy. So he shovels a deck off
and he has a propane grill and he's out there
shoveling it off. He says, I don't mind if
it's cold. I go out. Well, I want to grill.
I grill. Well, I dedication to grilling than
I have. The grills of smokers that I have
and the grill that I have, just kind of just
sit there and just do nothing over those cold
days.
I don't have a whole lot more to say. I talk
about having antennas that I want to look at
and I want to go to New York and we plan on
going west to Colorado again. When we go west,
try. Most everybody here knows we try and talk
home.
We don't try usually we do it and I not too
sure about this year doing that but we will
try. You know you never know propagation this
morning on 80 meters was dead. Terrible day
but we will try that. All right it goes over
to Mr KC3. Oh okay. It's okay. He's Bill
that's over the hill from me so. Okay, so go
ahead, KC30K, this is AA308.
K8308.
here in.
person one time that came over here.
to you, think I'm...
name changes, could argue in a sense, Jack,
you've changed your name, at least your call
sign, that's a change in name, K3YVQ, KC300K.
Thank very much, Bill. And absolutely, I remember
the night that I first used it. I think we
were on the triple R net and I called out
and you said, did you change your call sign?
Wasn't there a C in there? So yes, I guess
that will count. All right, everyone, well,
it is just about time to head off to bed. Thank
you all for checking in tonight and providing
us some lovely entertainment and conversation.
And we will catch up shortly. either at field
day or at the breakfast. Jeremy, again, welcome
if you're still around and looking forward
to hearing more from you as well as everyone
else. And with that, I will turn this repeater
back to regular amateur radio use and flip
the big switch. Good night, everyone. K3YVQ,
now clear.