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AC0F KA4HN NY4NC WR5E

Our hosts for Quartz Fest gathering are going to be Alan, AC0F, and JJ, WR5E. You can go to our website and get their contact information on the contacts page. And we are going to have a gathering again this year, it looks like, or 2026, I should say, at Ham Cation. And I think Steven in C4, NY4NC is going to be taking reservations for that. I believe it's not on the website yet, but I know that's coming up. Then we got a rally coming up in the spring. Going to be in Florence, Indiana, right on the river at the Follow the River RV Resort contact information, contact is the host, they're listed on the website, there's no contact information really there. You can look them up on the roster. This is Repeater Station Kilo Kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. More details will be coming later. And the same thing with the Fall Rally, we've done Halo, and we've done Gazette in October. That's going to be headed up Harold N-5-L, and there's nothing really on the bounty jet, other than the fact that that's where it's going to be. That's all I've got in the way of announcements, so let me run over here and see, I don't see where we picked anybody else up new, I don't see anybody there where we picked up any new. So, our topic for tonight is describe your RV ham radio setup in your RV, it's supposed to say, oh it says your RV ham radio setup, yeah. So, what do you got in the RV, how do you operate? Do you operate UHF only or do you have an HF set up? Do you do parks on the air and set a bunch of stuff up outside and hang wires from trees or shoot antennas up with a gun, an air gun or bow and arrow or what do you do? How do you set up? What kind of setup do you have? I've got two HF antennas of both verticals, one is an Eagle I that goes up 35 feet in air strapped on the back of the ladder telescoping tube that's easy to set up and it does a good job for me on 40 meters in particular. I also have a Tar Heels screwdriver that tunes all the bands all the standard ATF bands I guess I should say. It's currently not functioning but I just got it and I don't have it installed properly I'm sure. I'm not sure what's the problem there. Let me reset one work time. All of that is permanently installed basically in my RV, so I don't have any setup work I have to do. I used to carry, or I still do carry, a dipole and a long wire that I can string up if I need to, but I haven't used either one of them for years now. Most parks don't want you setting that kind of stuff up, but they don't complain about me setting my verticals up. They're already mounted on the motorhome, so nobody really bothers me about them. So that's my setup, And of course I've got all the digital stuff on a blue DV card which I didn't use the radio for, I just connect through the computer for all that stuff. Alright, that's my setup and let's see, we already heard from Margie, let's see if KA7R0N is there. Ron, over to you from KA4HN.