how's it going everybody we're beach
bound we're here with uh chip and janet
from hro as well as gordon west doing a
little bit of thanksgiving portable here
in bulsa chica state beach i'll show you
what we got set up and maybe we'll make
a couple contacts
chip is doing the armstrong rotation
there
for his uh yagi
let's see how he's got it does he have
it sorted
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it follows the wind load
hey joe it's josh kilo india 6 november
alpha zulu how are you
hi josh ki 6 n a z k 0 n e b long time
no here hi hi
indeed indeed nice to make contact with
you so quickly i literally turned the
car off and ran over to make this call
well thank you very much joe i
appreciate that um i'm going to unload
my car there so i'm going to hop off for
a second kilo india 6 november 7 3 thank
you
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now i don't know if everybody can see it
in the background let me see if i can
see you may not be able to see it but up
in the background you can actually see
all the san gabriel mountain range which
is kind of cool about southern
california is we can we can see the
major
soda spots from the beach out here which
is pretty cool in fact if you swing over
to the right just over the top of that
building is santiago peak
so
pretty sweet
it's always nice to come out on a clear
day like this uh let's see w6 lfb are
you still there wb6 noah
still here still here
all right tell us where you're located
and um
josh is getting everything recorded go
ahead
very good yes i'm in the little college
town of denton denton texas
uh worked at university of north texas
and texas women's university just north
of dallas the big deal
well very good well we're right here by
the blue pacific about uh 50 yards from
the ocean you can maybe hear it in the
background the wind is blowing like a
mama but we are determined to stay on
the air over
sounds good well i have to tell you uh
that wind isn't giving you any kind of
interference on your audio i don't hear
it in the audio so you're good there and
just as an aside we're running a special
event here uh 100 years of operation by
w.r.r dallas the first licensed
broadcast station in texas and the
second in the country after kdka over
well i remember that
no i don't remember that i do remember
kdka
many years after it was on the air well
congratulations what was the call sign
of your am broadcast station on the
100th
anniversary over yeah
[Applause]
okay whiskey romeo romeo that's a good
one okay thanks so much for the call all
right qrs ed on the blue pacific uh
right here at the beach for turkey day
with uh
whiskey bravo six november monster elsa
please copy whiskey delta eight november
victor november you're five nine
columbus ohio
columbus ohio wd-8 in the end yes i see
you on chip's log and we've got you as
well how's the weather in columbus
silver
uh thank you very much and uh you know i
watch uh nation also and uh
i understand you have a lot of wind on
the beach and thank you very much for
being on the air on 15 meters thank you
very much
and i'll let you go in 73.
roger roger what is your weather how's
the weather snow and ice or what have
you got
the weather here is deep overcast
light fog in the light rain that is
very
very uh almost almost dark here
no sunshine whatsoever today but
about 46 degrees 46 degrees over
roger that well stay warm uh it's a
blustery day out here in southern cal
we've got winds coming in from the
desert so it's not real cold and we've
got you in the log book back here in two
logs all right from the blue pacific
right on the beach for our annual roast
the turkey in the sand wb6n
we've got josh with ham radio crash
course here as well and michael and
we've got everybody la times is here los
angeles times i hope you're a subscriber
and um susie and janet
cq15 cq 15 wb6 november oscar album
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cq
from portable on the beach in southern
california i mean on the sand
oh i'm sorry i i had some qrm the echo
station again
november
uh
huntington beach california on the sand
it's chip out here c-h-i-p yeah happy
thanksgiving go ahead
happy
great well you're thundering in out here
we're um heating up the hot oil to uh to
drown a turkey
and uh
it's going to be happening in a few
minutes but right now we are working dx
on 15 meters uh n5xc it's great to hear
you and i hope you uh hope you have a
great thanksgiving there carl
okay
what was your name again a chip like a
potato chip
okay that's good perhaps your
thanksgiving enjoy your turkey and uh
uh behave not gonna do it thanks so much
qrz k7j
bring the beam around
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right here
he hasn't done anything cool
oh
okay
we've got 705 here connected to the
buddy stick pro
connected whoa look at 20 meters that's
crazy
let's find a hole
all right we're at 1400
hertz
and let's blast off a cq
okay so
we're
we're ft8 portable on the beach
uh four cq calls no contacts yet
i may have to find a clear frequency
but no noise
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there's not one spot
it's so packed
i'm gonna go here and start calling
yeah i'm going to use i'm going to use
all of my five watts here to really
punch through
i may have to i may have to engage my
battery
yeah in fact i'll start getting ready to
do that
now yeah now right now i've got to get a
cable
oh and somebody's calling jeez
no somebody's uh already there
it looks like
yeah
okay now the contacts are coming in i
had my time screwed up so i had to run
dimension four off my phone
uh looks like let's see if we got that
contact logged
w7
wy7bg
you are in the log buddy thank you for
the contact
and there we go 7-3 so let's keep her
going
and then you can walk away that's the
beauty of ft8 right that's
that's right
so you're you're at the beach
they're gonna be doing the uh the turkey
right now you know you gotta get ready
for
you got to be playing radio but still be
able to keep up with what's going on
right ham and turkey ham and turkey
they go together perfectly absolutely
that's right
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chips running morse code on 15 meters
with his solar panel which i'm blocking
killing the efficiency
that's my kid tent over there
and gordo's on the mag loop
with the uh ts2000
okay again that's a ts2000 right yeah
yeah
we were going to use the um
little yeezu
but
who would know that the microphone from
another yaesu even though it's the same
jack would not work no
really yeah
well he's working he's got it you can
how uh how big is that battery uh that's
40 amp hours oh my gosh that'll run you
all weekend are you gonna be out here
that long uh no i won't be on all night
long on that battery but i should be on
well after dark all right
only weighs 12 pounds
oh that's really good
just set her down i have wing nuts for
cool factory josh oh yeah yeah for sure
now do you change the you just change
the driven element pretty much
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well you know
i hope that's gonna happen damn you
i'm not sure how much it was coming no
that's that's a mighty good idea
actually i think i was gonna pull this
off yeah that's what i thought you were
gonna do but
yeah i think
no no but you know at the end of the day
you could do exactly what you suggested
because 15 isn't going to talk to it too
badly
i wanted to demonstrate this i'm about
to pack up so i've got my peak design
bag which had everything in it i got the
eye bolt on the versamount
and i'm using a carabiner hook to
tension the tripod down the wind died
down completely but
this was still nice to have this little
eye bolt
good uh good piece of kit
and steve we're located in huntington
beach seal beach area right on the water
and here's josh
say hi steve
he's in north carolina hi steven north
carolina this is josh ki6 naz how are
you
i'm doing well thank you it's nice to
see you guys are having fun
yeah the weather's perfect out here the
windy it was a little windy but it's
calmed down significantly so it's great
[Applause]
roger that yeah we've spent some time
out in california uh
love it out there just can't afford to
live there though
oh yeah copy that that's a
universal problem i think i'm going to
hand you back to gordo thank you for uh
the talk there uh ki 6 naz good job
great job buddy great job great job all
the way to the east coast do you know
that all right
the other side of the country
here we go
you guys are professionals
this is beautiful
normally we have everything set up yeah
huge thank yous to gordo and suzie and
chip and janet for allowing me to come
out and raid their beautiful event with
my kids we had a lot of fun couldn't
stay for more than a couple of hours but
we play a little radio even my sons got
on the radio thanks to gordo there
thanks again for that gordo and boy
what a what a great tradition getting
out there with your friends cooking a
turkey on the beach and playing radio uh
man that's put that down as homework go
out there and try to create your own ham
radio tradition that your family enjoys
wouldn't that be cool anyway thanks so
much for watching this guys i really do
appreciate it i hope you enjoyed your
thanksgiving and if you have not give me
that thumbs up and subscribe i'll talk
to you later 73.