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Hopefully you and I can catch each other on the air this weekend

glad your still active... I've been a little side tracked with other hobbies as well.. one in particular is RC airplanes.. I've been out of the RC hobby for over 10 years and starting to play with it again.. Always some furry squirrel out there to get out attention.. Good luck on your new adventure... 73 ... k0klb

Man get up and move around you need to work out!

Yup... Being busy sucks... 73!

👍🏻 Forward progress!

Hello from another Iowa ham, You are right about the repeaters , I drive for a living, so I am constantly scanning and never here a peep except for drive time maybe. I might be part of the problem, I rarely throw my call out except on my local machine. Need to make some noise I guess. HF, I love hunting Pota stations in the semi, just as much as I love checking into nets. There will always be some conflicts, but everyone seems to get along and make it work. There are the exceptions, the guys who sit on a frequency hrs before a net to keep it clear. or the station who refuses to QSY for an established net, leaving a bunch of people wondering where the net is. Enough of my babbling, hope to catch on the air K0otp Donnie

I feel you brother. Finances and life are sometimes depressing and debilitating. Putting sad hams on blast doesn't work. It just makes them sad ham harder.

Ain’t got no gas in it

Thanks for the shout out, Ben! Hang in there, and don't let the 🦃's get you down. What I've found is they have a short attention span - I ignore them and they move on. They thrive on attention - I don't give it to them. Keep doing you, and make time to have fun! 73

Sorry you are running into so much drama on the radio.. I’m on the HF bands (20m) most of the day and I’m happy to say I rarely experience much drama.. I hope it gets better for you soon. Thanks for sharing. 73.. k0klb

🤷🏻‍♂️ How'd it happen??

I did better by just going back to pirate radio. That said though this is more of an American problem, I used to echo link to local repeaters in the UK and Australia and it was way better. I guess they don’t inbreed as much there.

Congrats on getting the 13 Colonies! 👍🏻

Gee, I hope it's enough!?! 😁 Have fun!

I've wanted to be one of the "activators" for Delaware, but again time is not working for me. I can't do this from home due to high RFI, so I'd go out to a park and do it. Double duty (SE & POTA). So if I did it this year, it could only be on Saturday or Sunday. But if any kind of garbage happened on the air from people starting to get rude or unhappy of how I'm running the show, I'd definitely shut the whole thing down and pack it up. 73 Ben!!!!

Repeaters being shut down across Australia, they don't want coms they can't track

I didn't know ham was dying?

Mike Tyson said it best: "Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." I agree, when Activating I don't have time to look at the spotting page - and it's not a messaging service anyway. Sad Hams have sad lives.

There's always going to be people out there that's going to act crazy and make comments that are not needed to be made. You have to over look them kind of stupid people. 73 AE4OY WILLIAM PEACOCK EM-81UF Blackshear, Georgia God bless you sir.

nice video 73 W3HDG

👋🏻 Morning Ben! Happy Fourth of July Weekend! Thanks for the reminder about the Thirteen Colonies - AND that I need to switch flags to the Betsy Ross! (Not a requirement, but a nice touch!) Hope you and the family have fun! 73

If you did need help, you could break into any QSO with priority. The worst day to actually have an emergency is when there is nobody operating. Field day might be the best day to have an emergency.

As a SW listener and radio hobbyist, field day is something I greatly look forward to *because the band is so saturated.* The world of radio isn’t just for emergencies!

Does look like fun! 👍🏻

I feel you bro. We all have burnout and mental health times where we need to take care of ourselves.

Nice shirt!!!😝

Dude, you got Wisconsin? I got Iowa this morning doing a pota at 2306.

YEAH RIGHT!!! WHATCHU SMOKIN???

ham radio bro you need to put down the ham sandwich

Or man that is sexy.

Now make it waterproof rugged manpackable solar powered,from hf to uhf all mode and have a 3 day battery at 10W .

You are not a great ham radio operator until you manage to screw with the neighbors radio reception.

Im 75 My aunts in law's father was one. He used it to play chess with ppl all over the world. He had been a telegraph operator form the age of 12 until he retired at 70. He got a self winding watch for his 90th Bday. He did not move enough to keep it wound but he was still playing chess. I learn how to play from him when we got snowed in in 1955 for 2 weeks. I lost to fools check i dont know how many times before I caught on. We played all day every day By the end of the 2 weeks i could go 15 moves without him mating me. By the time he pasted 5 yr later at 97 I could last twice that but he still always won. He never let me win. He said u learn by losing,

I don't have a ham radio but I'm wondering what you guys talk about? I subscribed to your channel because I want to learn more about ham radio 📻.

So what

What?

You know, I wish I had a tower to put an antenna. I’m trying to cut 10 m all day.

Say all you want, but this guy is definitely paid 💪

Ham operators are indispensable

(Ham) hella autism man

Ham radio operators are losers lol. Get a life bruh

Remember!!! you have your double chin to keep you company

i have no idea how i got to this video

Nice! I want a tower

Shoot! Missed the Live.

you sounded great on the qrp net sunday night.. nice job 5w to SC.. k0klb

thanks for the tour and visit with the folks.. looks like a great day.

those look good to me.. if you can’t see the top of Lincoln’s head on a penny, your good to go.. drive safe.

How do I join the Iowa Radio Operators discord? K0RPG

Did forget to mention that we also have a generator mounted on the tongue and a portable repeater