what's up guys before I kick off this
storytime of vlog and it's an
interesting story I just wanted to say
this is not clickbait this is something
that somebody contacted me about I think
it's an intriguing story give me a
thumbs up just already because it's
going to be good alright still the story
hey what's up Valley so here's a fun
little story time and really it's just
me retelling an email that I got behind
me here from a guy named Ronnie so
during my first build stuff solder live
video a guy came on named Ronnie from
Sweden and said that my video saved his
life I had no idea what he was talking
about I didn't get it at all and he gave
me a ruffle kind of synopsis of what
happened in the chat but I told him
email me Hoss Nasia gmail.com and he did
and basically what he told me it's a
very short little story but there's a
lot in between the lines and we should
probably talk about it unpack so a year
ago or so he saw my ham radio crash
course video on getting licensed and he
went out and he actually got licensed
about a year ago and then a couple days
weeks he didn't even really go into
detail but he went on a hike in the
forest and he got lost turns out that he
had his bow Fang be you v6r which now
this is a you be fine are anyway a radio
kind of like this kind of like this guy
had this radio on him and while he was
out on his walk again got lost started
calling for help and had calls for help
or SLS were answered by the local radio
Club there's the club behind me sk v LW
in sweden it turns out that he Ronnie
said that he called for help
said SOS and the club actually found his
location they actually did frequency
tracking let me pull up email exactly
they tracked my signal so track my
signal means that they used an antenna
like my
my tape measure yeah ghee over there and
they use that to kind of point in the
area of where Ronnie was broadcasting
and they kept doing that and getting
closer and closer and closer until the
point that they found him they actually
found him I'm going to try and get
Ronnie on skype one day obviously have a
bit of a time difference between US and
Sweden but the whole thing is crazy to
me that it's so cool like hey it it's um
it makes me feel good not because hey
look at what I did I you know I'm so
great it makes me feel good because like
this stuff is really real like I really
believe in radio I really believe in the
value of radio and this is just just one
example of this that ham radio saved a
life and my video about ham radio led
someone to the hobby and has he not had
that you know maybe he would have been
okay maybe and and kind of folk since we
to maybe a party or stock than we are
here in California I don't know but it
means something and that's important and
that's cool Ronnie that's super awesome
that you reached out to me and I thank
you for sharing the story I'd love to
talk to you about it in the future and
actually get a little bit more details
if they like if there if this club
actually went out with antennas and
really did like a fox hunt
d/f direction-finding as we call it
honing in on one when you are keying
down to find out where your signal is
like that's that's pretty slick and
that's them like that's an active Club
not a lot of clubs are like that around
here and so if you found a club that
does that level of work and has the
capability understand guys it's not just
a matter of like we wanted to get
involved in direction-finding so we had
a meeting and we did a couple of things
where we built antennas and then finally
after a couple of months we were ready
to go out and actually do de-essing he
called SOS and they were DVF to him and
found him
that's proactive
stuff like that there's only a couple
like groups and I know down here that
are that are into this kind of stuff and
that's them that's awesome like that
super super cool I'm super excited about
it well I'm not super excited so we had
to go through a harrowing journey but at
the same time I'm glad that radio helped
and wasn't just some nerdy thing that we
do for fun it was actually something
that potentially saved a life so Ronnie
again thank you so much for sharing the
story I would love to talk to you in
Skype so i sent you a request let's
let's do a quick little thing if we can
if you're up to it I'd love just know
some more details such as super cool and
for those of you that haven't watched my
ham radio videos my attic Colin Henry
did crash course videos I'll post the
link boom or boom I don't know which one
is going to show up on you'll see it go
check it out the get licensed video is I
believe possibly what maybe got him
interested or maybe was the bowel thing
video they are some of my most popular
videos and I feel it's because the
hobbies real people get real value out
of joining and getting engaged in the
hobby it's not just me and has any idea
with me it's that ham radio is a really
valuable hobby and a dare I say way of
life and skill there's so many useful
skills involved with ham radio that just
getting involved in talking on a
repeater with in HD or just talking
simplex one-on-one could save a life in
this case it saves life very cool
question of the day have you ever been
involved in a rescue situation or
finding somebody who is lost and 20
coming in a mall it could technically be
a rescue situation yeah sure their
surround with people they're not going
to die but still the rescue so I would
love to hear those stories I'd love to
hear how you did it if it was just
screaming JSON JSON JSON until you found
the person you know that would be that'd
be cool too anyway I would love to hear
you story stories post it below if you
haven't already please give me a thumbs
up give me a thumbs up for the story of
ham radio saving somebody which is super
cool guys I'd love it if you subscribed
and I will talk to you tomorrow getting
ready for a big weekend
my birthday this weekend yeah very
excited about that all right guys
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