Equivalent resistance is the total resistance of a circuit when multiple resistors are connected in series, parallel, or combinations of both. For series circuits, resistances add directly (R_total = R1 + R2 + R3). For parallel circuits, the reciprocal of total resistance equals the sum of reciprocals of individual resistances (1/R_total = 1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3). Complex circuits can be simplified by identifying series and parallel combinations, reducing them step-by-step to find the equivalent resistance. This concept is fundamental for understanding circuit behavior and is essential for new ham radio operators learning electronics.
Install our extension to search inside any video instantly.
Amateur Radio Roundtable July 22, 2026
Added:Best show on the internet. Now [music] turn radio around table and radio show [music] radio to win. Don't forget second and fourth Wednesday.
That's the one you give [music] across the [music] bands and through the night. Signals dancing in the pale moonlight. From CW whispers to the FM sound. The whole ham world gathers [music and singing] around. Sideband voices rolling strong.
Every operator sings [music] along from distant shores. The towns nearby. The antennas reach across the sky. Tune it in. Don't [music] be late. Wednesday night across the states. When the radios come alive again, [music] you can hear it in the static wind.
Amateur [music] radio round table. The greatest show on the internet [music] tonight. Every second and fourth Wednesday. Bringing the ham world into the light with Tom W5 cur [music] leading in the way and B7 m on the airway strong from serial UFM [music] to sideband glory. This is where the radio world belongs.
Raiders glowing [music] in the shack tonight. DX rolling in from left and right. Stories shared [music] from every land. A microphone and a helping hand.
The fans are open, [music] spirits high.
Voices reaching through the sky. [music] A worldwide family loud and clear. Every ham has a home right here. From the towers [music] tall to the portable field. From horse keys to the [music] modern shield. The signal rises hold and true. [music] Worldwide passion breaking through.
Amateur radio round table. The best on [music] show you'll ever find online every second and fourth Wednesday.
[music] Streaming live across space and time. Tom [music] W cow keeps the fire bright. Y7BG rides the radio storm. See the [music] view at side band forever keeping amateur radio strong. So spin the dial and join [music] the ride where the ham radio spirit comes alive on W5.
[music] on tonight.
Amateur radio round [music] table radio [music] table.
Across the bands and through the [music] night, signals dancing in the pale moonlight.
From C4 view [music] whispers to the FM sound, the whole ham world gathers around. [music] Voices rolling strong. Every operator [music] sings along from distant shores to towns nearby. The antennas reach across [music] the sky. Tune it in. Don't be late. Wednesday [music] night across the states. When the radios come [music] alive again, you can hear it in the static wind.
[music] Amateur radio round table. The greatest show [music] on the internet tonight. Every second and fourth Wednesday, bringing the hammer world into the light with Tom W. [music] [music] This is where the radio world.
Hello out there to Carl K5 CSR and John KC7D.
Welcome.
>> Stories [music] shared from every land.
A microphone and a helping [music] hand. The fans are open, high, voices reaching [music] through the sky. A worldwide family loud and clear. Every ham has a home right here. [music] From the towers tall to the portable field.
From MOS keys to the modern shield, the signal [music] rises bold and true. A worldwide passion breaking through.
[music] Amateur radio round table. The best [music] show you'll ever find online.
Every second and four Wednesday.
Streaming live [music] across space and time.
W keep the fire bright [music] 7 BG radio storm CW band [music] forever.
Keep it amateur radio strong. [music] So spin the dial and join the ride where the ham [music] radio spirit comes alive on WF come [music] tonight.
Amateur radio round table.
[music] [music] >> [music] >> And hello out there to W5 GJT. Jean, hello Jean. I don't know if I've seen you here before. Are you new tonight?
Uh, tell us where you are. Jean W5 GJT.
[music] >> [music] >> Well, we'll get the show started in about 20 [music] minutes. So, we're about 20 minutes from show >> time.
[music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hello Randy Randy. [music] Waves roll out past the midnight [music] sky. One good show when the hours fly.
[music] Call the room. Let the signal ride. Long range talk on the [music] other side. If you know, you know you're in the flow.
Amateur [music] radio round table.
Best show on the [music] internet.
Amateur radio. Ground table. Ham radio.
[music] Shortwed.
radio round table. Tune in. Don't forget second [music] Wednesday.
That's the one.
>> Jean, we're so glad to have you tonight.
voice.
>> Hey Jean, if you want to put your name, if you want to put your name with your call, [music] >> you can type uh in in the uh chat room here, you can just type forward slash N I C K Nick space and then you can say W5 GJT if you want to. [music] So you can put it all together. Anytime you want to change your name, just type slashnick [music] n i c k space and type your new name in.
You want to add your name to your call, uh, it's easy to [music] do.
[music] Don't forget second [music] and fourth Wednesday.
That's [music] the one you get.
When the [music] week gets long and signal then I know where to go [music] to tune back in two nights a month and I'm set right free. Round table calling.
[music] Come listen with me. Amateur [music] Radio Ground Table. THE BEST SHOW on the internet.
Amateur [music] radio round table. Ham radio. [music] Short wave. Yeah. Amateur radio round table. [music] Tune in. Don't forget second and fourth [music] Wednesday.
That's the one you get.
[music] [music] [music] Yeah.
>> [music] >> Got a D and a favorite [music] chair.
Flick that switch and I'm already there.
[music] Waves roll out past the midnight sky.
One [music] good show and the hours fly.
[music] Call the room. Let the signal ride. Long range talk on the other side.
If you know, you know [music] you're in the flow.
Amateur radio [music] round table. Best show on the internet.
Amateur [music] radio round table. Ham radio shortwave.
Yeah. Amateur radio round table. Tune in. Don't [music] forget second and fourth Wednesday.
That's the one you get. Hey Wo! [music] From the depths to the farthest land.
Old school voices hand to hand. Stories crackle facts [music] come clean.
>> Best darn program I've ever seen. Spin it up. Let the talk come through. Every night feels fresh and new. If you know, you know [music] you're in the flow.
Amateur radio round table. Best show [music] on the internet. Amateur radio round table. Ham [music] radio. Shark wave. Yeah. Amateur radio round table.
Tune in. [music] Don't forget second and fourth Wednesday.
That's the one you get. [music] >> [music] >> When the week gets long, the week gets long. And the signals then the signals.
I know where to go to tune back in.
Two nights [music] a month. Two nights a month. And I'm set right free. Round table [music] calling.
Come listen with me. [music] Amateur radio round table. Best show on the internet. [music] Amateur radio round table. Ham radio Shark Wave. Yeah.
Amateur [music] radio round table. Tune in. Don't forget second and fourth Wednesday.
That's the one you get.
Woo!
[music] Got a dial in a favorite [music] chair.
Flick that switch and I'm already there.
Waves roll out past the midnight sky.
One good show when the hours fly. Call the room. Let the signal [music] ride.
Long range talk on the other side. If you know, you know you're in the flow.
Amateur radio [music] round table. Best show on the internet. [music] Amateur radio round table.
radio [music] short break round table. Tune in for Wednesday. [music] >> Want to welcome everybody tonight to amp radio round table. Hey, we're going to get started in about 15 minutes. We're a little early.
We come on usually about 30 minutes early to set up everything, make sure things are working. We're streaming tonight on x.com, Twitch TV, YouTube, >> Facebook group, our Facebook group, and also at w5kb.com.
[music] >> KC5 SLT, you've been here before. I don't remember your name.
>> Hello, Ronnie.
Mark K 8 HIW Mark P. He's here.
>> Let's see who else is here.
>> Oh, let's see. KG5 KR W5 GJT Randy KN6B ZG Carl. My old buddy Carl over in Arkansas. KC5 CWR.
I got a good group coming in here tonight. Abuquerque.
Abuquerque. Boy, I'd hate to live there.
I don't think I could spell that. Abk Albu. Albuquerque. A L B U R Q U.
>> I E. No, that's not right. [laughter] Oh wow.
Best show on the internet radio. [music] >> Well, David Darren, New Mexico, you're coming in 30 over S9 here tonight in the chat room. Man, you're you're doing good. Good signal.
>> [clears throat] >> Hey, tonight we're going to have Mark Brown with us, the chairman of the Huntsville, Alabama Hamfest. That's the third largest hamfest in the country, and it's probably one of the very nicest hamfest I go. Man, it's nice.
We'll talk about that tonight.
Hey, we're going to do something tonight. We're going to talk about equivalent resistance. I know there's a lot of new guys that getting your license. You know, they're really not into electronics. They may want to learn how to calculate resistance, series resistors, >> parallel resistors, series parallel.
We're going to show you tonight how to do an equivalent circuit and figure out what the resistance is. We're going to show you that tonight.
>> Oh man. And I got something else.
got a good story to tell you tonight.
>> A lot of lot of >> we're gonna have fun. I can just tell you that.
>> And let's see what else is going on. Oh, Hamachot. Don't forget Hamach is going to give away >> a prize tonight to somebody. Every week we give one away. And um [music] maybe uh >> you know, whoever wins whoever I got to turn turn [music] it down. Uh, whoever wins going to get their choice tonight.
Maybe a handyalkie if they want it, or if [music] they want a G5 RV antenna or a uh, Explorer backpack. You get to make your choice tonight.
>> Our other co-host should be in here in just a few minutes.
>> He better be here in a few minutes. So, we're going to give him a demerit.
>> He's got 12 minutes to show up.
Radio table. Best show on the internet.
Amateur radio [music] round table. Ham radio. Shark wave. Yeah. Radio. [music] Tune in. Don't forget and you get John John knows John knows all about winning nothing. John John won nothing a couple weeks ago.
Hamot got mixed up and threw out a test prize which was nothing and John won it I think.
>> All right.
Hey guys, we're on a famous world famous show station WBCQ on Thursday nights from 5 to 7 p.m. Eastern time, 7490 kHz.
>> You know, I hate wearing earphones, but I'm doing this for Brett because he's when he talks, he hears feedback through my speaker and into my mic. So, [music] I'm wearing these crazy old headphones.
>> I don't know.
Maybe it makes me look prestigious or something. I don't know.
All right. I want you guys to be studying this. I'm going to ask you I'm going to ask you a test question tonight.
Where am I? Where am I going with this?
>> Let's see.
>> Right here, maybe. Let's see. Yeah, there it is.
>> All right, I'm going ask you guys a test question tonight. There it is. Give me the equivalent resistance of that circuit. I'll make it real easy for you with the first one.
>> I think I see Brett in here. Yep.
>> There he is. Oh, man.
>> Yep.
>> All right. Hey, [music] >> I like this song.
>> Here you go.
>> Been playing with you no more.
>> All right. Yeah. I don't know when I made this one. I got four or five here.
This may be one of the new ones. [music] >> What was I going to say? I was going to say something. I forgot it, man. Hey, here's my notes for the show tonight.
Look at that. Let's see. Look at that.
>> Oh, that's my note. That's my notice for the show tonight.
>> That's your scent list.
>> That's right, man.
>> Cool.
>> Well, let me know what you want me to cover. I How much room or time you have for different things?
>> Well, hey, we're going to try to get everything in tonight. And uh you're going to help me with all the other segments that I I sent you a note to, man. You're going to help me with the uh especially with the equivalent resistance.
Okay.
>> I I do I do equivalent resistance without the math.
>> I just look at the circuit and I tell you what it is.
>> I might I might be off a few tents, but I'll tell you what it is. Okay.
>> Yep.
>> It's been a long time since I studied it, man. Electrical engineering back Oh, gee. 1966 probably. Oh, man. That was last century, man.
>> Mhm. It was. Hey, they may have changed the way they taught it nowadays. I don't know.
>> I think they still use Kirkov's law.
>> Yeah, I was I was going to mention Kirkoff's law tonight, but I'll let you mention it and tell us about it.
Something about whatever goes in comes out, isn't it? You know, >> Well, that's that's basically it. All the go gazentas have to equal the gazotas.
>> Yeah, the gazentas. Yeah, man.
>> We got just a couple minutes. Hey, I want to know something.
>> Yeah.
>> Listen, chat room. Listen up, chat room.
>> I'd like to know, is there anybody new here tonight that saw my Facebook posting?
Facebook group posting about the show.
Anybody new tonight that came because of that?
I'm a member of a whole bunch of groups and uh I uh I [music] I posted in maybe 20 groups and you know what I added up the members out of each of those 20 groups and it added up to 920,000 people. Now I'm sure there's duplicates you know from one group to other but hey 920,000 people. We might get three new people tonight.
Hello, Andrew. Andrew C. Let's see.
Andrew C. Is he there? Yeah.
Andrew C.
>> You can change your name in a chat room just by typing slashnick. N I cnick space and your new name.
here tonight.
[music] >> I think I like this song. [music] [music] >> I got this.
>> Oh, what is that? What is it?
>> It's called an I boot. And I can describe it during the show if you'd like. Okay. It It reboots things that go wrong.
Haha. Oh, okay. All right, man.
>> I could have used that a couple days ago.
>> Yeah, you I heard [music] your song about that.
>> Yeah.
[music] Glory. This is where the radio world belongs. [music] [music] >> I might I might be able to get in the groove tonight. In from left and right, stories shared from every [music] land.
A microphone and a helping hand. The fans are open, spirits high. [music] Voices reaching through the sky. A worldwide family loud and clear. Every ham has a home [music] right here. From the towers tall to the portable field.
From horse [music] keys to the modern shield. The signal risers holding true worldwide passion [music] breaking through radio round table. The best show you'll ever find [music] online.
>> That song that that should stir up some excitement. So, you know, it's got a good beat to it.
>> They can't ever get my call right though.
And on one of them, they're missing a W in your calls, but I just let it go, man. [music] You know, >> you know.
>> Yeah, there were a couple of nonsense words in some of them.
>> Well, you got to listen close. I I They're pretty good, actually. Five. Can I die? Come tonight.
[music] Amateur Radio.
[music] All right, you guys. You tuned in.
Amateur Radio Table. We're uh we're getting in the groove tonight. Hey, welcome W No, no, no. Welcome KZ TRL.
Glad you're with us tonight. Wonder where you are.
Give us your QTH there. We got about four minutes before we're going to start. This is just kind of warm up period. 30 minutes before the show's warm-up period.
Across the bands and through the night, [music] signals dancing in the pale moonlight.
From view whispers to the FM sound [singing] worlds around [music] >> Kansas.
[music] Don't be late. Wednesday night [music] across the states when the radios come alive again. You can hear it in the static wind.
Amateur radio round table. [music] The greatest show on the internet.
[music] >> I don't I don't believe that. Carl, you're not in a state of confusion.
Y [music] on the airwaves [music] glory. This is where >> Well, we're going to get started in about 3 minutes. Looks like everything's working. We're on Twitch TV.
>> We're on YouTube. We're on Facebook group.
And we're on Oh jeee, where's the other one? What's the other one? xx.com.
And you can also find us at >> w5kub.com [music] and clear every towers [music] tall to the portable field. From mors keys to the modern [music] shield, the signal rises bold and true. A worldwide passion breaking through.
Amateur Radio [music] table. The best darn show you'll ever find online every second and fourth Wednesday.
[music] >> All right, we got a couple minutes.
>> Getting close.
>> Got a lot to talk about tonight.
Join the ride where the ham radio comes alive [music] tonight.
[music] Radio table.
Radio table >> Ohio. Oh, >> Mark P.
>> Jim, uh N5 FW, welcome.
>> Welcome, Jim. W8 JB radio.
[music] All right, man. We're getting close. Oh, I got 8:00 on my official MFJ atomic clock, which is usually wrong, but I got I got 8:00. Yeah.
Someday we're going have to figure out why that atomic clock don't keep good time. Okay.
>> All right.
>> It's Heisenberg's clock.
>> Yeah.
Oh, boy. Oh, man. I done got high with the music tonight, man. I feel like I feel like jamming tonight, man. We'll have a good time. Okay.
All right.
Hey, if you're in the chat room, tell me if you're new tonight to our our show and if you saw my announcement on Facebook.
I posted it out to about 900,000 people and I'm counting on getting at least three new viewers tonight.
So, let me know.
All right, we're gonna get the show started. So, everybody stand by. Stand by.
Stand by. Let's see how I can do this.
AMATEUR RADIO TABLE.
THE BEST HAM SHOW ON THE INTERNET.
[music] Join Tom W5 Cub and Brett Y7BG.
[music] Talking antidas, DX and radio fun.
Making friends around the world, one contact at a time. Amateur radio round table, where [music] the ham radio world comes together. [sighs] All right, boy. If that didn't wake you up, I don't know what will. Maybe next time I'll put a little bit more DB on here. I don't know. Okay. All right. Hey guys, welcome to Amateur Radio Table and um I feel kind of funny. I'm wearing these earphones for Brett. You know, he says he he gets feedback when I don't wear the earphones. I'm not hearing myself, but I hear everything else. Okay, welcome to Amateur Radio Table. This is a show about ham radio, shortwave, electronics, and so forth. And we're going to have a good time tonight.
if you would join our Facebook group. Uh we've got a great ham radio Facebook group called W5KUB and uh just search just hit the search bar on Facebook W5 Kub and we'll make you a member. It doesn't cost you anything and uh we've got about 15,000 members. The group is a great group. If you would please hit the subscribe button, it helps us out a whole lot. Hit the like button, hit the hit the notify button, hit all those buttons, but don't hit the unlike button or whatever or you know, just be careful. And uh hey, um we really appreciate you being with us tonight. uh you may be listening on uh world famous shortwave station WBCQ, but if you are listening on that, you're listening on Thursday between 5 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern time on 7490.
Uh we're on just about every audio podcast out there. You can you can pick up our audio podcast anytime. They're all recorded and out there you can listen to anytime. Also, uh, our Facebook, uh, channel, it's just W5KB.
And I think we've got close to 1,000, uh, shows or videos out there. Uh, we've covered a lot of things over the last 11 years, and we've been on weekly for about 11 years now, a little over 11 years. Um, couple things going on tonight at 8:45 p.m. tonight in about 42 minutes. Uh Mark Brown uh in for uh BCD is going to join us from Huntsville, Alabama.
[snorts] And uh we're going to talk about the great Huntsville, Alabama Hamfest that's coming up uh in a few weeks. It is, in my opinion, it's the best hamfest in the world. Uh I'll be there. I I always go and uh uh Dayton's always been good for me. I went to Dayton for 42 consecutive years, but I finally stopped going. It's a long ways up there. And uh but I I won't miss Huntsville. We're going to have a good time talking about that tonight. Hey, we're going to do some uh we're going to have some interactive uh tonight with with our chat room and people are going to try to help me figure out some things. I want to talk about equivalent resistance tonight. For instance, there's there's one of the examples right there. You guys tell me if you can read that. I want you guys to tell me what the equivalent resistance is. I've got a bunch of these lined up here.
We're going to talk about those tonight and how to uh how to calculate and you know, uh equivalent resistance and things like that. Uh man, I got some funny things happen to me this week. Uh uh I pulled my hair out. My blood pressure uh went skyhigh. uh two days of misery. But uh we're going to have fun with that. I'm going to tell you about it in a minute. And uh we even have a song about it. And this I tell you, this song is so good they could play it on the radio stations. I might even get it on XM radio. I don't know. But we're going to talk about that. Uh Handbox's going to give away a prize tonight to some lucky viewer out there. Um uh we thank Gigap Parts for supporting us there. Some some lucky user tonight, Handbox's going to pick their name and they can have their choice of a Handy, a G5 RV antenna or an Explorer backpack.
So, uh man, it's pretty good when you win a prize and you can select what you want. So, we're going to do that tonight. And let's see. I don't know if I forgot anything or not. Let's bring uh let's let's bring Brett in from Wyoming out there. Hey Brett, how you doing tonight, man?
>> Oh, well, finally a little cooler. It was so so hot this last week. We were just sweltering. Even Even indoors, even trying to run fans and trying to run air conditioning, it was incredibly hot. So, just the last couple of days, we've gotten some cool air and some rain. It's been even though I can't get up on the roofs to do antennas as much, it's it's still been a wonderful relief. So, and I've been playing with more electronics.
I've got uh got discovered a unique device this week which is going to help me make my electronics more reliable.
And uh today I watched the FCC meeting and the FCC uh decreed some things which are going to affect amateur radio in various ways and uh so lot to analyze and talk about with that.
>> All right. Well, seems like there's always some something happening somewhere. news and changes [snorts] on the bands. Boy, but we'll uh we'll talk about that in a little while. Um, wow. Let's see how we're going to get started here. Well, why don't we go ahead tell us tell us about that little box you were holding in your hand.
What's it do?
>> Okay. This little box here, I discovered it actually on eBay because people were selling it uh used is called an iBoot.
And I discovered this because I had a problem. every now and then some electronic device would get a power glitch, especially from the lightning, you know, from the uh from from the rainstorms, and would stop working until it was rebooted. And so now you have to physically go to wherever the device is in order to do that. And sometimes that's a real pain in the neck. So, what this little box does, you connect the uh you connect the network cable to it [snorts] and uh it will go ahead and every few uh every few seconds or every few minutes, it will ping the device that uh that's supposed to stay up. And if it doesn't get an answer, if it sends a packet and it doesn't get a packet back certain number of times, it reboots it. It turns the power up and then turns it back on. And so, it gets it going again. And this can save you miles of driving if like me you have equipment in far away places. It uh you don't have any other way to reset. So, uh these these are really cute devices. They take an unusual power cord that I'm going to have to make. So, there's going to be a little bit of craftsmanship involved here. But, uh, once I do that, I'm going to be able to to have my devices reboot automatically or I'm going to be able to go out on the network and reboot them manually because it also has a manual web control panel that you can use to do that. It also has an API so that if you're clever enough with uh with several different languages actually, you can uh you can call that API and you can make it turn things on and off and reset them. So, that's going to be a big help for me. I think I think this is a a good find. And I got a dozen of them.
>> Oh, gee, it doesn't.
>> Yeah. So, they said I'll have them for a lot of pieces of equipment that I want to be able to reboot if something goes wrong.
>> Okay. Well, you know, used to, maybe it doesn't happen as more uh when we would back in the older days, maybe we'd have a router or modem somewhere remote and you know, every now and then it need to be rebooted or we wouldn't have a connection here.
So, will that do that?
>> Um, yeah, this will do that. As long as you're um as long as there's some way for you to reach it, then you can tell it to do that manually. And if there's no way for it to to reach it because it's crashed, um, this will this will also this can be pre-programmed to say, I can't ping it. I better reboot it.
>> And so, yeah, this is this is the answer to that problem without you having to drive anywhere. Now, there are fancier ones. There are ones that you can buy which have eight outlets and look like a gigantic power strip >> that devices and ping all of those.
Those are a lot more expensive than these and uh you you know sometimes they're worth it. If you really have eight devices in one place you might need to reboot that might be a good option as well. That's that's made by a company called Digital Loggers and you can find them online at digital loggers digital hyphenloggers.com.
But uh the the thing about this device which is so nice is that it is much smaller. It's much less expensive and it will reboot one thing reliably.
>> Okay. Well, I might could have used that this week maybe. I don't know. I'm gonna talk about that in a minute.
>> Yeah. And and of course, one of the things I'm doing with it is providing wireless internet to people so that they don't have to fuss with the cable with fiber cable. Well, hopefully yours is working now.
>> Yeah. Hey, there may be new people on here that don't know you, Brett, but you are the first WISP wireless internet s service provider. I think what in the United States, maybe the world, >> maybe in the as far as I know in the world. Uh the uh the Lucent Corporation came out with these radios which were the first ones to be approved by the FCC for this sort of high-speed outdoor networking. It was called Waveand at the time and we put it up there and started selling service and as far as I know we were the first to do that. This was way back in 1991 1992 time frame >> and so you know we nobody had DSL at that time in our town >> but uh at the and a number of businesses needed highspeed internet they didn't have any good way to get it through the phone system. It was ridiculously expensive and so we went ahead and uh became became a wireless ISP and we can't find anyone who did it before us.
So maybe it was just out of necessity, but I think we were the first.
>> Well, congratulations there. And and I'm glad to see the business is still going.
People still need that wireless connectivity.
>> Oh, yeah. And we still use unlicensed spectrum to to uh to bring the connections to people inexpensively. I'm going to talk I'm going to talk about that a little later. The the FCC is now talking about doing some things with wireless spectrum that might cause some problems for people who rely on that kind of service, but I hope they don't.
All right. Well, all right. Well, let's move on. We got a lot of things to talk about tonight, man. Okay. Uh tell you what I I want to start the show off with How do I start? Oh man, maybe my blood pressure won't get too I've been watching my blood pressure. All right, here's the deal. I converted my internet from cable this week to fiber. So, I went from one gig down and 50 megs up. I went to fiber and I'm getting, you know, just under one gig down and one gig up. And that's what the show is running on tonight. You probably don't see any difference, but I would just so happy to get the uh fiber in here. I thought they would never put it in my neighborhood here. But, you know, here's the deal.
People don't realize this, but just about everything in your home is now on the internet. I didn't realize how much I had on internet till I started swapping it over.
I'm talking I'm talking everything. your TVs, your your to your computers, your printers, your your ceiling fans, uh your garage door openers, the uh the the Ring doorbell. Oh, man. I mean, I probably missed some I probably I probably missed some things. Yeah, you know, I probably missed some things. But anyway, so the guy comes, he puts his uh he puts it in. This is Well, should I say who it is? I'll say who it is. Ceasepire. Casepire put it in went went pretty smooth. The installer that put it put random fiber into my office. Uh good job. Uh he did it had whatever I wanted. He did it.
So I started talking to him about, you know, I'd like a little control over the router. You know, like I'd like to change the DHCP range. I might not want to run 192.168.4.1.
I may not want to run that as my gateway. Well, I I asked him about that and he don't even know what I'm talking about. So, I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking, okay, all this guy knows is how to screw it on the wall and get on his phone and if he sees it, thank you.
Goodbye. Okay, so here's where the real trouble started.
>> So, I got all these devices and I'm trying to bring them all up.
[clears throat] Bringing them all up, you know, I had a I had a cable router. Now I got this fancy EO E O router.
I'll try to make this >> Oh, the the mesh network.
>> Yes, a mesh. I I'll try to make this I'll try to make this as short as possible, guys. So So anyway, so I'm starting to bring things up. Some things are coming up, but some things won't come up.
And and man, I'm pulling my hair out.
You see? I'm pulling my hair out.
My blood pressure is going through the roof. This is two days now I'm doing this and let me tell you what's going on here. [snorts] So, so on the wireless piece and and I've got an many of my things are Ethernet. They're one gig Ethernet, you know, throughout the house, but I've got a I got a number of things that are on Wi-Fi. For instance, to I've got two to systems uh for TV that are kind of old, you know, they're not like brand new in the last few years. They may be six or seven or eight years old. I don't know.
I can never get it to get the toos to work. I spent a half a day I spent a half a day on trying to get the toos to work. And I and and and let me tell you chat GPT is really good. It will talk to you. It'll stay calm. It'll tell you things to try. It'll even tell you all the options in a too. It'll tell you everything, how to set things. But here here's what happened. I can never get it to connect and and get anything with the to. Ah, you may be knowing where I'm going with this.
>> So, so, so you know, this is a new Wi-Fi 6, whatever that means, system. I guess it's more it's more modern than my old 1923 to. So, it's having a little trouble connecting. All right. So, again, a half a day on just my to problems. All right. So, I'm thinking, okay, it doesn't like the new Wi-Fi 6 routers. It ain't It ain't It ain't Wi-Fi 6. Uh, the TBO is Wi-Fi 2.4 only.
It didn't five. Okay, something's going on here. I can never get it to really authenticate, right? Sometimes it would and it would connect, but then uh like YouTube would come up for one second and then it would go black. All right. So, I'm thinking, okay. So, hey, here's what I did. I said, I don't like this ERO router. So, I put a Lynxis router on and I said, surely my to will talk to this older router. Same problems. I thought, okay, well, I've just eliminated the ERO router. I still got the problem.
you know, six, seven hours later, and this was a suggestion by by Chat GPT.
Now, [clears throat] uh, I I set it up I set the new router up the very same as the old router with the with the same SSID and the same password, thinking that, okay, things going to work. It wouldn't work. Okay, so here's what happens.
Six hours later, I'm running back and forth upstairs, downstairs, two TVs.
None of them work.
I put in a link modem. It won't work yet. In fact, the links modem, I have about 20 of those in my closet. So, I pull one out and I pull one out. Here's where everything goes wrong. Everything goes wrong. I pull it out and I, you know, I hold the reset button in. You know, I'm going to reset it to default. You know, I want to just put the router on default. The sucker. This is the one I put out of cloth. It would not go to default. So, I go back upstairs. I pull me another two routers out. Bring them down here. I can't get any of them to go into default, you know, back to the the the the manufacturers's uh uh default. And none of them will. So, I'm pulling my hair out. So, one of the last things that GP chat mentioned to me is this. Do this.
Do this on your your Wi-Fi, your SSID in there. Delete it and then bring it back.
So, on to I'll pull up the SSID. I tell it, forget it.
Look at networks. Put it back in.
Bam. It works.
That simple fix. That simple fix fixed six hours of pulling my hair out and it worked on both TVs.
Now I'm thinking, "Okay, all right. I got that done. What am I do garage you what?"
>> We do that for new customers all the time. That and one other thing that can go wrong.
>> What's the other thing?
The other thing is that sometimes those toos and other devices are so old that they won't work with the latest encryption and you have to go to the router and manually turn the older encryption on.
>> It isn't secure, but who cares? You know, some of them have to drive by your house and stick out an ant.
>> I care. I I do care. So any anyway, uh anyway, so so anyway, and I think, okay, well, okay, Ring Ring Ring doorb Oh, man. Ring, I'm going to have the same problem with Ring. It is going to be complicated. It It's going to be bad.
I'm getting nauseated now. I'm about to regurgitate. It's getting bad, man. So, I get the little special screwdriver that's in you, you know, to take the ring off the doorbell cuz I got to take it off and push a button on the back of it. I [snorts] take the ring off, hit the little orange button or whatever they say. I'm on the app and bam, it works. So, stuff started working. Stuff started working. And uh uh but what I've done is I've ordered me a new gaming high-end uh uh router that I'm going to put on there tomorrow. I didn't want to put it on before the show tonight because I figured we wouldn't have a show once everything went >> went bad, you know. So anyway anyway, I'll put that on tomorrow and then I'll have control over things like port forwarding and changing DHCP and you know all those kind. I have total control of it. And uh so anyway, that is my story. That's my story. Two days of misery. Two days of misery. Now, typically I don't do this, but I put together a song about my trouble. And I want I want you guys to hear this. I think this song is good enough quality that I could actually put it on uh XM serious radio. And I, you know, I, you know, I, so I, I'm going to play the song about pulling my hair out, my blood pressure, and how nothing worked in two days of misery. So, uh, here we go. You guys listen real close to the words and see what you think.
[music] >> [music] >> Well, I thought I'd save some money and get that fiber to my door.
They said it [music] all be easy, better than before. The installer smiled and said, "You'll love it. Don't you worry [music] none." But two days later, I was wondering what in the world [music] I'd done.
[music] Easy jobs ain't easy when technology involved.
[music] Every little problem turned into another unsolved.
I was pulling out my [music] hair till there wasn't much to spare. Blood pressure through [music] the ceiling.
Frustration everywhere I'm living in [music] the twilight zone. Nothing in my house feels like home. One minute it's working, [music] the next it's gone.
Somebody tell me what's going on. I got tears in my eyes and I just can't see.
>> [music] >> is happening to poor old me. Two whole days have come and gone.
Welcome [music] to the five twilight zone.
Hey, [music] why won't my ring doorbell tell me [music] who's at my gate? It worked just fine before.
Now it says please wait. The to says [music] authenticate.
Then it says connecting to then [music] YouTube flashes on the screen and disappears from you.
The Generac [music] quit talking.
Mobile link went dark. The hero act just laughed at me [music] and wouldn't even start.
Every time I fixed one thing, another one would die. I started [music] asking everyone, "CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME WHY [screaming] I'm living [music] in the twilight zone?
Nothing in my house feels like home. One minute it's working, [music] the next it's gone. Somebody tell me what's going on. I've got tears in my eyes and I just can't [music] see. Why is this happening to poor old me? Two whole days have come and gone. [music] Welcome to the five twilight zone.
[music] I almost bought a brand new router.
Thought I'd throw the TV [music] out. Then somebody said, "Forget the network." I said, [music] "What are you talking about?" Deleted the Wi-Fi, added it back. I couldn't believe [music] my eyes. 8 hours of pulling out my hair.
Saw by one little surprise.
I escaped the twilight zone. [music] Finally, everything came back home. The rings awake, the titles alive. Looks like I just might [music] survive. No more tears running down my face now.
YouTube streaming all over the place.
After two [music] days of misery and pain, I think I'm finally sane again.
[music] If your tab won't connect, don't throw it away. Just forget the Wi-Fi and add it again.
[music] All right, guys. That tells the story of my life for two days this week.
So, it brings back tough feelings right now, man. Just listening to that song, it almost put tears back in my eyes again.
But, uh, I Hey, AI can do some amazing things, man. And I think that song is good enough to be on the radio to tell you the truth, man. Any comments in the chat room? Uh, did did you like my song?
Okay. All right.
Well, Brett, I had I had a lot of problems that day, those two days. You ever had days like that?
>> Oh, yeah. I've written songs about them, too. [laughter] >> Oh, man.
>> Yes. You pull your hair out. I I do.
Well, I run an internet provider as you said and so I get the support calls when things don't.
>> All right.
>> Yeah.
>> So, I have real fun. And of course, the most common support call isn't anything complicated or technical. It's, "What's my Wi-Fi password? I forgot."
I tell you what, I hope they're a new user and they only have one or two passwords. When you get so deep into stuff like I'm into, everybody wants different passwords.
I got 50 different passwords out there, you have to remember, man.
>> Yep. And they all have different requirements for the password, too. So, you can't cheat and reuse them.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, we use a program called, I think Dashlane. My wife uses a program called Dash Dashlane. It manages all these passwords, so you can look them up. I don't know how safe that is, but it must be fair. Okay. All right. Let's see.
Yeah, it's a password manager is what it is. Uh, Jim, hey, welcome to everybody that's joined us in the chat room here.
Uh tell us tell us in the chat room if you're new tonight uh to the show if you've never been here before. And also did you see it on Facebook? How did you find out about the show? Uh I did post it to over about 900,000 members of other Facebook groups tonight. So I don't know if you saw it there or not. I figured if I post it to 900,000 maybe we could get three or four new people to join the show. All right. So let's see.
Hey, tonight Hamot is going to give away a prize. And let me mention this so you guys can start getting ready. Uh uh through Gigaparts, we're going to give away tonight a handyalkie or a G5 RV dipole antenna or a um Explorer backpack. So, you get your choice. If if Hambot picks your name and if you're successful in claiming it, uh you can get your choice of one of three different prizes tonight. So, Handbot will be doing that in a minute. Now, here's the thing. You got to be in the wkub.com chat room. I'm sorry, but that's the only place Hamot works. Uh that's the only place he works. And uh did I say you don't mess with Hamot?
All right. All right. That's enough.
Handbot. Uh you don't mess with you know who. I'll put it that way. Uh so uh if you're on X right now, if you're on X in the chat room or if you're in I don't know where you are on Twitch, if you're on Twitch TV watching and you're not in a W5KB chat room, you won't be eligible for the prize. So go over to right now. go over to w5kub.com w5kub.com.
You can actually watch the show there.
On the right side is the chat room. Just enter your call letters or your name and hit enter or join and you will be in the chat room. That's where you know who uh will pick a name from. Now, if you know who picks a name, you got 60 seconds to claim it in the chat room. And if you don't claim it, uh, by the time he says time's up, he's going to pick a new name. All right, so he's going to pick a new name. And I see we got some new people joining here. Uh, KD3CXC, maybe he just heard my announcement. You got to be in a W5 kub.com chat room and you know who will pick a name. If you don't claim it, he will pick another name. And we'll keep going through names until someone >> [snorts] >> uh wins the prize and then they get their choice of one of three prizes.
All right. So, that is that is that. And Mark Brown just joined us. And uh we will do we'll do Hamot. We're going to do Hambot right after we talk with Mark.
Mark Mark Brown, chairman of the Huntsville Handfest. Mark, you are early man. Are you all set up there and and and everything?
>> Are we set up?
>> Yeah, >> we're getting we're getting there.
>> There's there's a lot of there's a lot of wheels in motion, Tom. Uh being the national convention this year, it's uh it's it's it's Well, Mark, just a second. We're having just a little trouble with you there.
Uh, >> do you want to >> No, I I I'm I'm guessing you're on a good internet connection.
>> Um, I have the only internet connection available to me in Malberry, Tennessee.
>> Oh, I kind of remember that.
>> Verizon. It's a Verizon uh uh cube that sits in the dining room. Uh we're able to stream stream uh video with it, but uh it can be spotty at times.
>> Yeah, you're doing fine. You're doing fine.
>> If it if it becomes a problem, uh just switch me to audio only.
>> No, no, you're doing fine now.
>> But yeah, Tom, uh August 22 and 23. Uh I'm looking at the date on the computer here. We're exactly one month away from the world's friendliest hamfest.
It's going to be, like I said, we're hosting the national convention this year, the ARRL national convention. They don't do this every year uh for cost reasons uh because the league brings a large contingent, but uh Orlando and Dayton, they've hosted national conventions. Uh this is the third one in the history of the Huntsville Hamfest that we've hosted a national convention and we're we're proud and excited at the same time to uh to do this.
There's uh there's a lot of things that the league is doing on Friday. uh they've they've posted to uh the ARRL membership and on social media that on Friday after uh Friday all day they're going to be doing three uh forum tracks at the uh at the embassy suites at the connected hotel. Uh these these training tracks are are dayong tracks uh with a break for lunch and that lunch is provided. But training track one is a mini contest university like they do at Dayton. This will be the first out of uh outside of Dayton and they're calling it a mini contest university uh because I guess Dayton owns the rights to contest you. So uh it'll be very similar. It's hosted by or sponsored by DX Engineering. Uh Tim K3LR will be here and he'll be the uh the organizer for that uh that training track. Uh training track two is uh emergency communications and uh I think it was Monday of this week that uh the league posted uh topics and speakers for all of these very all these three tracks. So that's out there on the ARRL website. Uh training track three uh Salty Waltz portable antennas.
uh he's a uh he's a published author of a couple of uh ARRL books on portable antennas and uh that proves to be a a pretty popular topic uh these days and that's uh that again will be an all day forum and I'm not sure uh I've read the uh briefly the the the various topics and speakers so each of each of these is going to be an exciting day unfortunately uh I won't be able to attend and any of them because Friday is our big movein day for the flea market and the commercial area.
>> Um >> yeah, can't you uh can't you just delegate that to one of your helpers?
>> Uh there's always something that comes up, Tom. [laughter] It never it never fails that uh you know something will come up that that demands my presence. But come Friday night, I am going to join the league over at the US Space and Rocket Center. They are hosting a uh what they're calling a national convention dinner and that's going to be at the at the Davidson Center underneath the Saturn 5. Um for those of you who have been to the the Space and Rocket Center, you know about it, but the the Davidson Center was a a a purpose-built building to hold one of three Saturn fives along the ceiling. Uh one of three Saturn fives that did not go to space. Uh it's on permanent loan from the Smithsonian uh at night with flood light. Uh it's just a magical room and I'm I'm so glad that and and happy that the uh uh that the ARRL chose this venue for their uh for their dinner Friday night. Uh I'm taking my wife uh few other uh Hamfest folks are going to be there and uh we're looking forward to a good crowd there.
But um our our show this year is is unbelievable. We've added two extra blocks of flea market tables. We've gone from what is it? We went from 459 flea market tables last year to 455 and we still have a wait list.
>> Whoa. We do get a couple of late cancellations, onesie, twoosies kind of thing. But, uh, basically the flea market is full and you can see in the picture there. Uh, >> I'mma pull that up. I'm trying. I'm trying to get you into the shot here.
Uh, I don't know why it's not working. I don't know why. Oh, well.
>> Unil has a huge flea market. It's going to be even bigger this year.
>> Yes. Well, let me click on it and we'll just show it to you here. And Mark, I'm sorry I I don't have your picture in the bottom here. Man, I had it all set up.
>> You didn't turn the lights out, did you?
>> Nope. Nope. I didn't hear the light.
Okay. All right. Um, let's see. What am I looking for here at the flea market?
Let's look at the flea market >> right here. Maybe m maybe this is what I want to look at. And then I'm going to click.
>> Now, check on that 2026 flea market layout. Now, this this looks like this to me looks a little different. I've been coming up here for many years, and this looks a little different. Maybe maybe not.
>> Uh >> it is it is just a little bit different.
You see that wider aisle there?
>> Yeah.
>> Uh in that that that red arrow to the left. Um that's uh that's a vehicle access >> uh row where we can try to get some big vehicles. Uh we've got some commercial vendors that use the flea market space uh to well for example Max Gain uh Tower Electronics Quicksilver uh to name a few that take up an entire block and uh to to aid in unloading. We can basically get them right up, you know, steps away from their booth >> under this uh truck trucking from the parking lot for uh for Huntsville.
>> Yeah. As you see in the top >> the top left corner are two additional flea market tables and we've squeezed those aisles a little bit.
>> Yeah, >> but excuse me. Don't uh don't worry those aisles were widened for CO and they're they were very wide. Well, Mark, I the thing I think the thing that I see that maybe looks like a change normally uh these big blocks here where you've got dealer uh areas, you you used to have uh all the different dealers broken out.
>> We do. It's on It's on a different page, Tom.
>> Different page, right?
>> Okay, cool.
>> But yeah, the flea market like >> Yeah, go ahead.
>> It's it's going to be even bigger, >> but still plenty of room to move around.
Do you want to go and show that commercial area?
>> Yeah. Let me see if uh if I can let me see if I'm on the right mouse here and if I can make it go back.
Well, well, for some reason Huh.
>> Just go to the homepage again. We'll go.
>> I can't I can't my my uh I think my browser is Let me do a refresh. There we go. That might be it. Maybe it'll let it >> mark. Maybe >> I've got it here. If you'd like.
>> Yeah.
I don't know what's going on here. I for some reason that's the only page I can get now. I can't go back. Uh have you got it, Brett? You want to bring it up?
>> I can bring it up. Let's go ahead and do that.
>> Bring it up. Bring it up. Here we are.
>> Let me >> share screen and share the tab with layout.
>> All I can do is find you. Here we go.
>> There we go. Okay. All right. We'll do this >> from Wyoming. We'll do it from Wyoming.
Yeah. Yeah.
>> Okay. Okay. Let me uh let me describe a couple of key things. First of all, ignore the the little red squares. Uh we wanted to get this out on our website.
Uh but and our final drawing should be out uh this weekend, but layout-wise, it's pretty correct. Uh the shaded gray booths that you see scattered around, uh those are booths with carpet. Uh the red squares are electrical drops. You don't need to worry about that. It's the names of the vendors. And it's difficult to see in this because it's a PDF and not a JPEG. And so I can just show you from an overall point of view. Um, typically we get 50 to 55 commercial vendors um, every year. This year we've got 74.
>> Wow.
Nice.
>> Yeah. And you see that back row?
>> Yes.
>> That used to be a seating area for for clubs and organizations, friends, groups to gather. It's now commercial.
Up at the top of the uh up at the top of the drawing, we've got the W1 AW Stroke 4 special event station, and that will be a remote in station. Um we've we've never had success with with putting a an HF antenna in the downtown location because the high noise. So, we're going to remote out to a real station. And this station will be open to anybody who wants to sit down and and use the call sign W1AW stroke 4. And this is for the America 250 celebration that uh great >> I'm sure you guys have talked about before.
>> Yeah.
Well, Mark, one of the things that one of the things that I like you you mentioned there that that that center aisle is big for people to drive down, but one of the things always impressed me is people drive down all the aisles.
I mean, is that still available this year?
>> I think so.
>> Yeah. Uh we we've got a we've got a coordination meeting scheduled with uh what we call an all hands meeting with uh with our 20 different committee chairs um two weeks before the event and we're going to talk through a lot of different scenarios um we're going to do our best to get >> that's always been it's always guys this place is the biggest place you've seen.
Uh we've set up in here many years and uh man, you just drive your car or your truck. I'm talking big trucks. Drive in here right up to your booth, you unload, air condition, clean. Oh man, Mark, we talk about we talk about this this hamfest all year. I mean, all year and I just can't get over >> it's coming. Yeah, >> we're only we're only four weeks away, 30 days away. I still think you need to have this hamfest twice a year.
>> Oh god.
>> Yeah.
>> Sorry. Sorry, Tom.
Doing it once is it's hard enough.
>> I I know. I know. I know. I know.
>> But you know, you know what I think I and hopefully we're bringing we're we're getting the word out to a lot of people about about uh Huntsville Hamfest. And here's an example right here. Brett WY7BG lives all the way out in Wyoming. That's a long ways to travel to come to a hamfest. And because of I guess, >> you know, us and you and Brett joining the show, he's starting to come out there now. He he's coming this year.
>> Good.
>> Yeah, I'll be coming this year. And it attracts me because the the flea market is is one of the best I've ever been to at a hamfest. The the forums are really good. And then there were the extracurricular activities, the dinners, the uh the the camp out, the the the POTA event on the on Monteno the day before, which is which is always they they have a cookout and every everybody sets up there for a few days before the hemp fest starts and it's it's just, you know, there's so much to do. It's just so much fun. I definitely recommend it.
>> Well, Mark, I'm you mentioned the uh the YouTubers uh the four days in August. Uh that schedule is changing almost daily. Uh to uh and I can't remember his call sign. Doug uh uh honestly I'm sorry I can't remember his call sign but to T0 is a popular uh YouTube podcaster. Um www.go.temporarilyline.comdia.
That's four days in August.
go.temporarily offline.com and these guys are doing stuff all week long. And like I said, there's their schedule is is being refined almost daily. So, uh, check out what the YouTubers are going are doing on Monosano. And, uh, they also have a Friday dinner, a I'm sorry, a Friday a Friday lunchon up there that you need to register for.
uh they're accepting donations and it donations go uh benefit the uh ARRL Teacher Institute. So that's that's a cool thing. I'm glad the YouTubers have have really embraced that.
>> Um I'm sorry Tom, you were you were going to something.
>> Oh man, there's just so much to say about this Mark. Uh first of all, we're still a YouTuber. We're just not doing you live this year. We'll be doing a lot of recording and a lot of pictures >> and uh the Huntsville Hamfest is going to continue the week after on our show >> and we're going to continue to pump this out to everybody. I'm showing some of the pictures now of the inside. Uh and somebody in the chat room is right. Um I had opened up a new tab and I thought I could hit the back button, but I couldn't. Didn't know what was going on.
Anyway, hey, that's technology. Anyway, here's some of the pictures. this I you know this has got to be guys we talked about the hotel if you stay at the embassy there it's connected by air conditioned walkway you don't even have to go out you can park underneath uh it's great they got a hospitality suite there for you in the evenings >> let me let me stop let me stop you there the hospitality suite uh at the embassy on uh Friday and Saturday night uh this year uh we're in mayor's suite on the 10th floor. Uh, not that small room. So, don't go to the second floor room.
>> Okay, man.
>> Yeah. 10th floor.
>> We're going we're going up town, man.
>> And Mark, >> I always get I always get a room on the second floor. So, I'm only 50 ft away from the hospitality. Now, you moved to the 10th floor, >> but the view from up there is amazing.
And we're going to have a few friends up there. We got to have Jack and Jim and George uh and uh Johnny if you know what I mean.
>> Yeah. Cool, man. Well, look, I've got the site up again here. Is there I Is there anything we need to just zero in on here? Uh you >> know, those are uh those are kind of stock photos. Um you can see well one thing that's changed uh in that picture the uh the chandeliers that uh the em the Bon Braun Center has those have been changed to uh uh daylight LEDs and it just you can see the equipment now in its in better lighting. I can say that.
>> Oh yeah. Oh cool man. Okay. Well, >> I don't think we have a picture on our website, but uh it's it might be somewhere and it's buried.
>> Yeah, >> check out that hourly prize drawing.
>> Let's see.
>> Be there.
>> Hourly prize drawing.
>> Here we go.
I don't know if we put the picture in there or not.
>> Yeah, I don't see it.
We had an idea uh a couple years ago >> about a a ticket barrel >> and the ticket barrel we had was just uh it was old. Tickets were getting stuck in the seams. Uh there were a lot of things just not good about it. We tried we tried >> repairing it, modifying, nothing really worked and we thought we need something new >> and I took an idea to the uh to the board meeting and Dr. Dr. Monty Baitman.
He's our youth. He's he's he he and his wife have done our youth lounge for I think they're going on 14th year.
Dr. Baitman is also a NASA solar physicist. He designs things and works with NA works for NASA.
Um he's also a uh coordinator with the Brown Coats robotics team.
Well, they took the idea of a threeaxis uh gimbal thing that an astronaut trainer would would would sit in and try to, you know, spin them in three three directions.
We have a ticket barrel mounted on a threeaxis gimbal and we we had it last year. There it is. There it is.
Well, you can see it's being turned by hand there.
Well, this year it's motorized.
>> Oh, man.
>> And it's Arduino and it's Arduino controlled and it's it's it runs by a DeWalt cordless tool battery.
>> Yeah.
>> So, it's completely self-contained.
We're We're very excited about this.
>> I That is That thing is amazing. It turns all different directions, man. It just I don't know gimbal. Oh, I don't know what you call it, but >> it's a three axis. It's a three axis uh rotation.
>> There's there's hinges and all the the red is one axis, the white is one axis, and the blue barrel, of course, is the third axis.
>> Yeah.
>> So, it's >> it mixes those tickets.
>> Well, and I'll tell you something. You needed a new ticket drum because I got a quick story. 15 seconds. Years ago, your drum was so full it broke. It fell apart right there during the hamfest. And you guys set up about next to our booth. You guys set up one of these black trash cans with a trash bag in it. And everybody was told to throw their tickets in there. And I was arguing with people. They said, "I'm not throwing my tra my ticket in that trash can." So, I'm glad you got something new here, man. This looks good.
>> Yep. We're We're excited about that. And >> honestly, it's it's we're not in competition with Dayton and Orlando. Uh those those events are, of course, they're three-day events. They're much larger. And uh so, but there is a bit of friendly competition on on little things like a ticket barrel. Orlando has a very nice ticket barrel. Uh Dayton also, but none of them have a three axis shaker.
>> That's That's right. That's right. Now, Mark, I'm looking here. I'm looking here and you got the 7300 both Saturday. Saturday and Sunday.
>> Now, to me, I I was hoping you'd have a different radio cuz I'm going to try to win both of those.
>> Good luck.
>> Yeah. Well, I don't know, man. Anyway, there's the prizes, guys. There's the Saturday and Sunday prize, >> and we've got a whole list of uh of additional door prizes that are that are either delivered to us or promised to us uh during the show.
>> So, there's there's some great hourly prizes, too.
>> Several radios and >> uh all kinds of whatnot.
>> Yeah, >> it's going to be a great show.
>> I'm excited.
>> We Oh, we've added we've added an additional forum room. Um, typically we, you know, we we always have the two forum rooms at the uh at the South Hall and uh we usually take three forum rooms at the embassy. Well, this year we're taking four.
So, we have six forums going on every hour during the show.
>> Wow, that's cool.
And you always got something going for the youth and the the little kids there.
>> The youth lounge schedule. Uh I confirmed with Monty tonight the schedule will be the same as as last year. Uh they have at least 100 code oscillator kits on hand for kids that want to build them. Uh so there's uh youth soldering and um actually one of the Sunday forums is adult soldering.
Um, yeah, I can't remember what the kit is, but Joe Eisenberg, >> K0 NEB, and uh our forums chair and a few other helpers uh they manage the uh the uh adult soldering class gets gets folks uh comfortable with the idea of ordering and building a kit.
>> Well, you know, I'm glad you're doing this for the youth. Some places, some some hamfest, they actually don't have that to offer.
And the thing I thing I noticed about Huntsville is it's like a family type deal. You've got kids there, you've got wives there. I guess if the wives are hams, you got the husbands there. But it's it's more of a family thing that I see at a lot of other places.
>> We we we're proud of that vibe that we have that it's it's a family event. Um, and we hear that from from parents who bring their kids to the youth lounge and say, "Oh my god, you you've sparked an interest in my kid. What do I do next?"
>> Yeah. They had to buy them a radio.
>> Yeah. [laughter] >> And you know the other thing too, um, we go to Orlando and Dayton and they give us a booth and we're giving them a booth here.
>> Yeah. Yeah, >> but uh we go there to promote each other's events and folks who who come up to our show uh to our booth at Orlando and Dayton who have been to Huntsville, they they just they sigh and say, "We like Huntsville because it feels rightsized."
>> Yeah, >> you can you can get around. Um Dayton is huge. that uh that the flea market area is inside of a horse track and it yeah I've walked it once this year. I was looking for something spec uh specific for a project and it was my first time out there.
>> What a huge place. But >> I I couldn't even I couldn't even count the number of booths or tables that uh that the spaces that they have in Orlando and Dayton.
But we're we're happy with our 550 number because they're all indoors and they're all airond conditioned. There could be a pounding raintorm outside and we don't have to worry about that.
>> I Oh man, that's that's what I like.
That's what I like. Stay cool. Stay dry.
>> Have fun.
Well, I I I just can't wait. I I can't wait, man. I want I want to come down there a few days early. I don't know.
Have you ordered your souvenir shirt from Gold Medal Ideas?
>> I I have not. There's three days left.
There's three days left.
>> We'll have to look into that. I I'll uh I'll give Ron a call.
>> Yeah. Ron Ron Ron and Amy. Uh they have a website. Uh Huntsville.gold medals.goldmetal.com.
>> All right.
>> So, all one word. Huntsville.
Medalid.com.
All right. Well, hey, if anybody wants to pull up the website here, it is just hamfest.org.
hamfest.org. You must have guys registered that right in the beginning days because a lot of Hamfest would have loved to have that.
>> Hamfest.org.
>> We had to kill.
>> Yeah. I don't know who we had to kill to get that that domain, but it's pretty cool.
>> Yeah. Hamfest.org. Everybody uh go there. They got so much information. And I can scroll through this probably for an hour and still miss something.
Anything you want to know, anything you want to know about the Huntsville Hamfest right here. Just just do it. And hey, there are other things to do there in Huntsville, too. You got this, you got the great uh rocket and space center. NASA's there. Uh you know, there's a lot of things to do and see.
Bring the family. And uh let's see, what else is there to do there? uh >> uh the signals museum opened >> and uh what a what a place. Uh the >> I can't count the number of radios. They they probably have a a published number, >> but everything from Spark Gap.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Up through All American Fives. Well, before that, uh they've got the uh uh TRF radios, these long radios on a board or in a box, and you had to tune each stage sequentially to to get a station.
And many of these early valve radios would only work up to about a megahertz because above that >> the tubes had no gain.
>> So, they basically operated on the bottom end of AM AM broadcast. today's AM broadcast um they have a working switchboard signals museum of information explosion and basically it captures the idea of wireless communications wired to communications and how we've transitioned from early Morse code over telegraph lines to high-speed video via satellite and everything in between and most Everything in the museum works.
It's been restored.
>> Yeah. Well, I might try to get a cool place. Yeah. Yeah. And hey, another place of interest for you, you may want to go to Giga Parts. Giga Parts is got a big store down there.
>> We're very fortunate to have a ham radio store in town.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh there's so many pl I don't Tom does.
I don't think Memphis has a store.
>> Not anymore. They used they used to, but >> neither does Nashville.
>> But here in Huntsville, we have There's Signals Museum.
>> Yep.
>> Brett's got a Brett's got a photo up.
>> Let me Let me see if I can do Brett here. There we go. Look at that, guys.
>> Those aren't just boxes. There's tubes in all those boxes.
>> Yeah.
>> Gramophones.
Uhuh. [clears throat] >> Now, they just opened it up a few years ago, I think.
Yes, >> it's it's fairly new.
>> Look at all this stuff.
>> We have a workshack in there, too.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean, can you imagine operating all those knobs to receive an AM broadcast?
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> That is a a W.
What are the the the early the Well, of course, those are wax cylinders, but that other thing that Brett showed, it played early phongraphs. Uh, were they acetate? I can't remember the construction, but I've actually heard that thing work.
>> Yeah.
>> Some cool stuff.
>> Yeah, it is.
>> Definitely worth a day's visit.
>> Yeah. and several we have a we have a sweet deal with uh with this uh museum.
Uh there's at least three radio clubs that meet there either weekly or monthly. And you talk about a great venue to host a a radio club meeting.
There's radios everywhere you look.
>> Well, Tom, I'm going to see you in about a month, but tonight >> I've got I've got a vendor list. I've got uh production needs that uh we're trying to get this stuff out and ready for our web master and we're all volunteers. So, I'm working into the evening into the night to to to make sure my stuff is ready for the next guy.
>> How many how many people basically have volunteered or your staff to put this show on?
>> There are seven board members and there are 21 total committee chairs. That's everything from traffic to talking, uh, hospitality, food service, um, you name it.
>> And then volunteers >> in in total, uh, just over 120 volunteers.
>> Wow. Yep. Well, you guys do you guys do a great job. Thank you for coming tonight. We really appreciate it.
>> Tom, I appreciate the invite. And Brett, uh, is this your first visit to Huntsville or have you been here before?
I have been to Huntsville twice before.
>> Yeah. He he he he comes every every year now.
>> Awesome.
>> All right. Look forward to seeing you there.
>> Thank you, Mark.
>> I look forward to seeing everybody there. It's going to be a great weekend.
>> We I just saw in the chat room uh KD3 CXE, where are you? He said, "Thanks for the information. I'm a new ham and hope to get to the hamfest soon." So, uh, three up maybe in the northeast maybe. I don't know.
>> We put a we put a, uh, a push pin map, a R McN on cardboard.
>> Uh, we put a push pin map at our info booth a couple years ago >> and we we had folks from well, Germany, England, the Bahamas, >> and every state in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii.
>> Wow. But we missed worked all states. We didn't have Vermont and Oregon.
>> Yeah. Well, uh, this guy here is in Scranton. Scranton, Pennsylvania. So, come on down. Uh, KD3CXCE.
>> It's an easy drive.
>> Yeah, it is.
Thank you, Mark.
>> Wyoming.
>> Hey, thank you guys.
>> Yeah, man. Thank you. I'm gonna I'm gonna turn back to this other computer here and fire it up, do some more work.
And >> all right, man. Thanks.
>> Do every day.
>> We'll see you soon. And we'll be talking this up. Uh let's see, next show. We've gone to every two weeks now instead of weekly, but we'll be talking it up.
We'll be talking it up in two weeks. And then we'll see you soon after that.
>> I'll see you probably Thursday afternoon at the embassy.
>> Well, I'll be there Friday. Maybe that I'll just cut I'll just cut one day of my hotel off and just drive down Friday morning early.
>> Good night. 73. Save me three and we will see you later.
>> Thanks, Tom. See you. See you, Brett.
>> Yes.
>> All right. Well, that was exciting, man.
I Gee.
>> Yes.
>> I tell you guys, you've heard me say it before.
>> This is This is the best hamfest in the world. It really is.
Yeah, >> Brett will tell you that he goes all the way from Wyoming. You You rode a bicycle last year, didn't you? From up here. How many days it take you to get there?
>> Yeah. Well, it took me a day of driving out of the Nashville airport, which was the the best ticket I could get.
>> Yeah.
>> But it was it was worth doing. And as I said, I went up on the mountain. They have wonderful views up there. They have camping areas. A lot of hams were camping out. There were cab, you know, there were cabins up there.
>> And by the way, the cookout um on the mountain on on Friday morning, they've now gotten it's become so popular that they now want you to sign up and pledge to bring something as uh so something to share.
>> Maybe. Yeah, you need bring some hot dog buns, man.
>> Yeah.
So, >> if you want to do that, look it up.
It'll be uh it'll it'll be the YouTubers cookout and that's going to be uh again on on Friday morning at at Huntsville.
>> Yeah. Okay. Hey. All right. Very good.
Let's do this. We're going to Man, we got to give a prize away. We're going to give away Handbot's going to give a prize away and uh we're going to see who uh who going to win that thing. So, let me just say again real quick. If you want to be eligible for the prize, you've got to be in the chat room at w5kub.com.
The chat room's on the right side of the screen. Enter your name, enter your call, hit the join, you'll be in there.
If you're on X or TW uh Twitch, you're not going to be eligible. So, you got a few minutes. We'll uh we'll be uh bringing Hamot here in right after this little short message here.
Stick around any ham radio you a conversation and icon is bound to come up. The reason is pretty straightforward. Solid state receivers, clear audio and a layout that feels natural the second that you start operating. These radios are made for real only air time. Whether the bands are calm, crowded, or somewhat in between, the new IC7300 Mark II builds upon everything operators loved about the original IC7300, elevating it to a sharper, cleaner, and more capable HF experience. Its improved RMDR, lower phase noise, enhanced cooling, and expanded IO options make it a next level performer for serious operators who want crystal clear reception, rocksolid transmit quality, and a modern convenience. Built for satellite, EM, and weak signal enthusiasts, the IC9700 continues an all mode operation on VHF, UHF, and 1.2 2 gigs with SDR precision. Its real-time dualband scope, full duplex capability, and high power output make it the ultimate transceiver for operators pushing the limits above 50 megahertz.
More information about Icon's amateur radios. Please visit iconamea.com/amateur.
All right, guys. So, we're about ready to bring you know who in. We're going to be bringing Hamot.
Oh, boy.
All right. All right. All right. All right. Don't mess with Hamot. See, used to I would time and I would say the time's up and people would say, "I was in. I was in before you called time up, Tom." and an easy Tom would always give the prize to that person even though I think he really didn't win it. Now Hamot's not like this. So we built Hamot. Hamot's going to count a time down. And when Hamot says time's up, I don't care if you hit if you enter after that or not, you ain't getting the prize. Maybe I shouldn't use the word ain't. Anyway, anyway, you're not going to get the prize. So the watch the chat room, not the audio on the uh webcast. the webcast uh is a little delayed. It's like 20 seconds delay. So the the official time is going to be on the chat room. It's almost real time. So here's what you do.
If if Hamot calls your name, just hit a period or say I'm here or say yes or say hallelujah, whatever. And Hamot will see you and Hamot will know you're in the room. You know, that's all you got to do. just just type something, hit something so Hamot will know you're there and uh you'll win a prize. So, let's see if we can't get Hamot to uh go here. And Hamot, do you want to give away a prize?
All right. He said he wants to give out a prize. So, um, let's just see what it's going to do here. Okay.
Uh, he said it's time for the prize and we're going to see what happens here. Here we go.
Here we go. Now, you guys know what to do.
All right. He's looking for somebody.
You looking?
What? What? Did we get a winner?
Clifton.
He's here. Clifton. Okay, we we had a winner there. Looks like Clifton Clifton won the prize. If I'm If I'm seeing it right, let me look.
>> Yep.
>> Sure enough.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Very good. We got a winner there now. Hey, Clifton, are you okay in QRZ? Tell me if you're okay. Is your address correct? Uh, and your email. I need to make sure I have your email. Uh, I will send a note to Gigaparts and [snorts] we appreciate Gigaparts very much. We will send a note to them and I'll copy you uh stating that you are the winner tonight and you will be able to uh tell them which prize you want, whether you want the HT, you want the G5 RV antenna, or if you want the Explorer backpack. So, uh, I'll give them a week or two, you know, to get that to you.
[snorts] Guys, there is a promo code. If you deal with Giga Parts, just remember if you use the promo code W5 Kub, they're going to give you two times the points on all your purchases. So, uh, uh, check them out and, uh, you know, give them some business there. They're they're good to support the show. All right, so we are back here now. boy.
[sighs] Okay, Clifton. Clifton won it.
So, let make a note here.
Okay.
All right. Congratulations, Clifton. All right.
All right. So, hey guys, I wanted to get the chat room kind of involved in a couple things tonight. Typically you guys are awfully you don't really get involved in things but I want to talk tonight about equivalent res calculating equivalent resistance and this is one of the things they kind of teach you in a very early early days if you go to electrical engineering or or maybe electronics uh course or you just maybe get a book and you teach yourself it's equivalent resistance and That's where you have circuits that basically have uh uh parallel resistors, series resistors, maybe even parallel series resistors.
You have a lot of different paths, a lot of different parts.
And uh we're going to show you how you do equivalent resistance tonight. And and Brett's going to help me with this.
Uh I can still do it, >> although I studied it maybe over 60 years ago. Gee, seemed like a long time ago. Oh well. Anyway, anyway, I usually don't use the formulas, but we're going to go over the formula real quick. I usually don't use them. I just kind of look at the circuit and I can tell you basically uh uh what series or what parallel resistance is just by uh looking at the values. But we're going to we're going to play with that tonight. So, [snorts] uh let me pull up one of the first uh one of the first things here. Let's see if I can find it. Uh yeah, let's try this right here. Uh I don't know if you guys can see that or not, but let's talk about this is a real simple one. And I want people in the chat room to help to participate, you know, I want you to participate and um you know, help us out here. All right.
So, um there's a circuit right there.
But we got four resistors in there. Kind of a squirly looking design.
Uh, not too complicated. I'd say we're going to start off pretty easy. Now, the reason that's oscillating is because a certain frequency is doing that to it. I think it's my EOS on the table is what's doing that. Let's see. Let's see. Speed it up. Speed the frequency up. Okay. All right. So, here we go. Someone said 30 ohms. That's a Mark says 30 ohm. Mark, you're cheating. Uh, let's look at that.
Well, we got a we got a 2 ohm, a 2 ohm, a 2 ohm, and a 300 ohm there. Well, you know what?
Everybody is anybody disagree with that?
Did uh Did Mark get that right?
>> I think Mark's got it.
>> 30 I don't know. John may be closer because of the tolerance on that. It He may be closer.
Look at here. John John says 30.67 ohms.
That could be right. Although it may be 29.725, but >> what's the force stripe on that resistor?
>> Can't see. Uh I don't even >> Maybe I don't I don't even see I don't even see Well, wait. On that top one there is. It's gold. There's a gold stripe on that top. Yeah, there's a gold stripe. It looks like Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
>> And it's going to be pretty accurate.
>> It is. It is. Well, anybody else got any ideas what the equivalent resistance across A and B is right here? Boy, I had my thing here where I could draw it and everything, but if you'll notice if you'll notice, man, all three of these basically are shorted out. Look at that.
Look at look at look at look at that right there, man. They're just that's just a wire. That's just a wire going from A over to through through this resistor to to terminal B. So, I think the answer is right on 30 30 ohms on that. Mark P got it. John, we're going to give you credit, John. I think you you may be right, too. Okay. All right. Let's get a little bit tougher here. Let's see. Oh, this is this one right here. This one made me think. This one actually made me think, man. But it's actually it's pretty simple.
It's pretty simple if you really look at it. Anybody got any ideas what the what the impedance is or what the resistance is across A and B? Look at that. We got a couple 9 ohm. Well, we got three 9 ohm resistors there.
>> Now, the tricky the tricky part. Look at this.
>> Look at this. The tricky part is Oh, man. The tricky part is you got that that that that resistor on the right.
It it connects to that resistor at the bottom going back to B. So, I mean, you know, this is a kind of tricky. We got anybody anybody? Come on.
>> We need We need need somebody in the chat room tell us what they think. This one here is kind of a brain teaser to tell you the truth. 4.5 ohms. Who did that? Mark P. Mark P, you're cheating again. Mark P is running this through uh through AI. I know. Well, he Mark, Anybody else? Does everybody else agree with Mark P? 4.5 ohms.
Do you agree? Okay. Okay. All right. All right. Well, that's true. And look at this. If you look at this resistor right here, if you look at this one end is well gee.
Well, look at the I mean, yeah. Look, look at this. If you go from A to the resistor through the resistor down here, but it goes back to A. It goes back to A. Look at that.
So, that kind of gives you a hint right there that basically what we've got here is a parallel circuit. We got a and basically we've got we've got this we've got this.
That's kind of what we got right there.
And in in looking at equivalent resistance, what they teach you is since these are parallel here, right here, we can draw this circuit like this.
We can draw it like that. So, we combine these two into one. And the answer to that is 4.5 ohms. So, yep. All right.
You guys are pretty good. Let's see if we can find another one here for you.
Oh, look at this one. Now, this one right here, this this this is a head scratcher, man. This this one is a head scratcher. [snorts] Yeah. I don't know what's going on. I don't know what's going on between that left resistor and that bottom one, tell you the truth. But there must be some kind of something going on there. All right. Who in the chat room Who in the chat room is going to tell us what the equivalent resistance is for this circuit here between A and B? 8 ohms.
8 ohms. Mark P says eight. Does anybody disagree with that?
Well, look at there. You got that right there at the junction of of those two.
You got that 2K and it circles around to another 1K. And does everybody agree that that's 8 ohms?
Ah, >> Ronnie says 5.5.
Uh, Ronnie says 5.5. I think that's a little off. Unless the tolerance is way off on those resistors to tell you the truth.
Okay. About eight. Eight. Okay. DJ2 says 8 ohms.
Well, let's look at this. These resistors right here, these right here basically do nothing. I mean, look at that. I mean, this is not connected to anything.
I mean, yeah, you could pick up, you know, you could put a voltage in here, but where's it going to go? Is it going to go in a circle? I don't know. That's like plugging extension cord back in itself after you pull a plug out of the wall. You know how the voltage stays in extension cord and just goes in a circle? Well, this does not do that. So, yeah. equivalent equivalent circuit here, you know, A and B, you know, I mean, you got the 3K and a and a and a and a 5k and the equivalent equivalent would be a single resistor, which would be uh 8 8k. So, yeah, we got it there, guys. Okay. All right. Very good. Let's do another one real quick.
Let's do another one.
Oh, little bit different format. I don't if you can see this or not. This is Oh, this ought to be really easy right here.
You know, we got a 10 ohm. We got four more or five ohms in there. So, uh Okay, chat room. Come on, chat room. Give me some new people. This is a easy one.
What's the uh equivalent resistance there?
What is it? Five ohms. He says five.
Who's that? Mark P again. Mark P showing off tonight. I ain't gonna say that's right. I'm not gonna say it's wrong till we get another answer. Do we have another answer here? Mark P thinks it's he thinks it's 5 ohms. Do we have another answer?
Well, I don't think we got anybody participating here, hardly. Okay. Well, let's just look at the circuit here.
Yeah, here's the X and Y.
And we've got a we've got a 10 ohm. There's a 10 ohm.
And then let's just uh let's take this part right here. First of all, if you look at this, basically that does nothing. I mean, look at that. I mean, there's nothing connected here. I mean, it's so that's nothing. So, we go X, we come down here.
We don't go through the resistor to go around because we got a circuit across here. So, we're going to come down through here. We're going to go down to the next uh set.
Look at there.
We got there's a five and there's another five in series. So basically this this part right here is going to look like like this 10 ohms. It's going to be 10 ohms again right there. Now, now, hey, hey, you know, X and Y, an equivalent circuit, equivalent circuit is just these combined into one. And we know when the equal values are parallel, we're going to get half that. So, 5 ohms. 5 ohms. All right. Now, there is a formula that we can use to do these uh calculations. I mean, you know, of course, series series circuits uh are just you add them together, you know, R1 + R2 plus R3 equal R total. All right, so that's how you do the series. Now, if you want to do the parallel, parallel is a little bit different. Uh parallel, I think if I remember right, we're going to get parallel.
parallel is going to be like um one over resistor one plus one over resistor 2 plus one over resistor 3 etc. And that's going to equal uh one over uh the total >> what >> one over the total uh one over the total resistance total. Yeah. So it's a little bit more math in it. A little bit what what was that? I was going to say, yeah, take that to the minus one power and you got it.
>> Yeah. Boy, I I always had trouble with the minuses, the different powers. I I Me and my slide rule didn't work out good with all this minus stuff. And how many zeros is that? And oh, gee. Okay.
Well, okay. So, we got 5 ohms. DJ2, congratulations, DJ2 and Mark. Five ohms. That is correct on that. You guys are doing real good on the uh on this so far. Hey, look at this one. Boy, now this is okay. This is for the This is for the new guys. Going to make it real simple for you. Going to make it real simple. But look, we're mixing different value resistors. Now, look at this. A 12 ohm, 14, 16, a 19. I don't see many 19 ohm resistors.
Maybe they're out there. Is that a 19?
Yeah. and 100 ohm. Okay. What's What's the value here? What's our equivalent resistance?
Well, okay. Anybody? Let's see. No, no answers yet. Come on, guys. We need an answer.
Come on. Come on. Come on. 112 ohms. Who did that? Who said that? Mark P said that again. I'm g have to block Mark P.
Well, Mark P, I think is right. Anybody else?
Anybody else think it's 112?
Okay.
Well, if you look right here, man, we've got a wire across those three. So, there is actually no resistance there between them. So, if you draw an equivalent circuit, here's what we got. We've got we've got the 12 ohm and we've got the what's that A and B? We got the 100 ohm.
So equivalent circuit to that would be the same as this one resistor which is 112 ohms. Okay. All right.
There's a short skirt in here. Yeah. Short circuit. Is that circuit?
>> It's a short circuit.
>> I I couldn't even read it, man. I didn't know what you were saying. Yeah, a short skiir there. All right. All right. All right. Let's do another one real quick while we got time here, man. We we we've got time. We got time. Okay. Oh, man. We getting complicated now. We got parallel series parallel. All right, guys. Look at this. We got a We got a 16 and a six and a 16 and a six and a eight and a nine. What are we going to get here?
Anybody? Come on. Come on. Mark P.
Getting a little bit harder, aren't they? Come on, Mark. What's What's it going to be there?
I don't even know what it is. I'm going have to draw equivalent circuit here.
Uh, let's see.
Well, let's see.
I guess there's several ways to do this.
I think there's several ways. I could draw an equivalent circuit like this. I could I could do this. I could go what's that? A single What's that? 22 ohm there.
And I could go another 22 there. And I could go a 17 ohm here.
And then use that formula I showed you a minute ago. And >> Carl says it's 6.25. Let me let me think about this a minute. Let's see. Can I can Can I do this? Can I Can I do this?
Can I make an equivalent circuit like this? Let's see. Can I do this? Combine those two 22 ohms and just make that an 11 ohm.
And then add this uh what was that? 7.
That was a 17. And add a 17 there.
That's a That would be 11 because they're they're equal. 22 and 22 would be 11 ohms. And then 17 down here. And then what did I say that was? 22. Yeah, that' be 11. And then do take your formula.
Take your formula uh which was uh R1 * R2 over uh R1 + R2. Will that work? Will that work? Anybody will it? Let's see. Let's do this. Let's just try it and see.
>> Well, it >> Well, I don't have to it. Does it come out right? That' be 11 * 17. Let's see.
11 * 17 equals that's 187 that's uh 187 divided by and in the bottom we we have 17 187 / 17 equals that's I got 11 that ain't that can't be right no that's not right that's not right let's do the let's do the let's do this I know these are equivalent here this one is equivalent so uh oh wait these are parallel I did I used the wrong for no that's >> well the way I used I used wrong was I took the left side and the right I I broke it up into two parts >> into into two parts here >> and there yeah >> that Left side has 16 and 16 and eight and 16 and 16 in parallel with each other just those two is going to be another eight.
>> Eight.
>> And so an eight and an eight parallel with each other is going to be four. So that left side is four.
>> Right. The right side.
>> Yeah.
>> Right.
>> Now the right side is trickier.
>> Yeah.
>> The right side you got a six and a six.
Now that's going to be three.
>> Yep. And a three and a nine.
>> That's right. Now to get that you've got to use your formula.
>> So take uh so you take 1/3 and 1 nth and you add them together.
>> Yep.
>> And you get 4 9ths.
>> Yep.
>> And take the reciprocal.
>> Yep.
>> And that's 9/4s which is uh which is 22 and a quarter.
>> Yeah.
So that's when you add those together you get 6.25.
>> That's correct. That's correct. Now I know I know when you parallel a three and a nine your your resistance is always going to be less than the least. That's one thing to remember. If you uh if you parallel two any two resistors right like this you parallel two resistors. Let's say this one is a a 10 and that one is say 20. Well, just right off I know. I mean, if I was a 10, it'd be it'd be half of that 10 and 10. You you'd have five. But I know and and the answer to this is going to be less than 10. It's not going to be it's going to be less than 10.
It's going to be less than the least.
Anyway, okay. So, we got 6.25. Let's see what we got. Oh, Mark P said 8 ohms. Uh oh, Mark, I think you might be wrong.
Carl KC K5 CWR. I don't know how you got that so good, Carl, but I think that's the right answer. 6.25. Now, let me show you guys something. Let's see. We got a couple more here. Let's see if I got any more crazy ones here. All right, we're we're doing good. Oh, man. Look at this.
Look at this. Woo, man. Well, I'm gonna start drawing it out here. I'm going to go I can I can make that the same. I can make that the same. So, I've got let's let's let's look for R. Let's let's do R. We're not going to do I tonight. So, one three and three. I know that's going to be 1.5. And then over here I've got over here I've got three at three. I know it's going to be 1.5.
And then here I've got one, two, three parallelled 3 ohms. What's that going to be? Uh >> be one ohm.
>> 1 ohm. That's 1 ohm. So the equivalent circuit is going to be a 1 ohm here.
And so the total total uh resistance is going to be one and a half one and a half. That's three 4 ohms.
4 ohms is going to be that. Oh, I should have given people in the in the chat room a chance. Let me cover the answer up. What do you guys think it's going to be? Give me a Give me an idea what you think that's going to be right there.
The equivalent resistance.
Come on. Come on. Come on.
All right. I don't think anybody wants to tackle that one.
>> 10 amps.
Yeah. Don't want to tackle that one.
Hey, here's a cool one here. This is a cool one here. Let's look at this one.
4 ohms. Did Mark jump on this one that quick? It's 4 ohms. Let's see. Well, let's draw equivalent resistor here.
Uh, well, you know, hey, we can take these two right here. A four and eight is 12. So, we could actually do this. We could put a 12 ohm here. And then this six here, this 6 ohm.
And then we've got a four on the end here.
And we've got a eight.
We got a eight on this side.
How do I do this?
We got a eight on there. All right. What do we got here? What's it going to be?
We got some answers to pick from. Well, first of all, I know that 12 and six parallel. Without doing a formula, I know it's going to be less than six. All right. So, it's going to be less than six. So, we had eight and a four. 8 and a four is 12. And less than six, I'm going to say five. Four or five. I'm gonna say five.
I'll say four. All right. What have I got answers here? Let's see. I got a seven. It can't be that. Can't be that.
Can't be a 30. I'll bet it's B 16 right there. Now, so I kind of looked at this without doing formulas, but if you really want to be accurate, you already use a formula to get the exact resistance right here. Anyway, I think the answer is 16 ohms for that.
Everybody agree?
>> What? Yep.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Has to be. And that's a good way of eliminating things without having to do the math.
>> Yeah. Mark said Mark, I think Mark missed that one.
>> Oh, boy. Mark, we're going to send you back to school on on it. You You You're a little sloppy just on a couple of these tricky ones. All right, guys. Very tricky. Very tricky this one, guys. I Maybe we shouldn't even do that one.
It's so simp.
>> Yeah, maybe maybe that's so simple we shouldn't even do it. We got a 15 and 15 in series. We know that's 30. We know that's 30. And then down here we got a 15. This don't count. They're shorted out. 15 and 15 is another 30.
So, and we know well they're equal values. So, it's going to be half that.
So, the total resistance or equivalent resistance that's going to be 15. So, okay. All right. Oh, gee, I had another one. This makes you think a little bit more real quick. Yeah. Real quick. What did Mark say? Number one. Let me look at this. Mark number one.
Boy. Mark must have got up and bumped his head on the something in the basement down here. He's missed the last three. All [snorts] right.
Boy, let's look at this one. A little tricky. Let's try to simplify the diagram a little bit. Well, I can tell you right now.
>> I can tell you about that circuit. You know what it is?
>> I can What? What is it? A skirt.
>> Wasted resistors.
>> A wasted >> a waste of good resistors.
>> Yeah, exactly.
>> Only three of the matter.
>> One, two, three. One, two, three. Yeah.
Yeah. There's only three. Well, look, these this this one shorted out. This one shorted out. This one shorted out.
And hey, guess what? Look, look, look, look at this follow through here into there. And look, come out of it. It goes right back to the same place. So that one shorted out right there. So we got we got three resistors. Three series resistor. Did anybody get the Oh, I didn't let anybody do it. So at 6, six, and six, you know, 66 and six, you got one, two, three, six, six, and six. An equivalent circuit would be uh 18. 18. No, no. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
>> No, >> no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I I It's not No, no, no. I My eyes messed up. My eyes messed up. We got We got this circuit.
We got this six. We got this six. And we've got this six here.
We got that six. All right. Did I get that right, uh, Brett? Yeah, I got it right. Okay. So, six and six. We know that that's that that's going to be 12 ohms up there. Now, 12 and six. Uh oh.
And I can tell you right now without my formula, the answer is going to be less than six.
I wonder what it is. If I had to guess, I'd guess A. Maybe. I don't know. Mark P, I think he said A. I think that's right. Do you agree, Mark? Uh, I don't want to take my calculator and do all the tough math. Okay.
All right. Hey, one more thing real quick. Let's do this. I want to I want to show you something. I want to show you something.
I want to show you how smart AI is. So, what I'm going to do is uh what what we're going to do, if I can figure out laptop 2. Why is that not working? Why is that not working? Oh, because it's laptop one. Okay. All right. So, what I'm going to do here, I'm gonna go to chat GPT.
I'm going to go to chat GPT and I'm going to have GP tell me the equivalent resistance. Let me find one here that that uh Okay.
Okay.
So, here's what we're going to do. I'm going to go to here and add a picture.
I'm going to add a picture here of let's see what which ones do we want to see if it can calculate.
Well, let's do this. Is this one? Yeah, let's do this one right here.
So, I'm just going to show him the picture. And he did did I select it open? Okay. Uh I'm going to say what is the equivalent resistance of this circuit.
Okay.
I didn't tell him any numbers. That's just a picture. That's just a picture of resistors with a picture of the the the number on it. Let's see what he says.
Yep. I hit the wrong button. Hit the wrong button. Let's see if that'll work.
All right, there it is.
What?
Y'all saw the Y'all saw the picture.
And is that the right answer? He said it's 6 ohms. Is that what it was while ago? Did it change? I think that's it.
Let me see.
No. No.
Something's wrong. Did I give him the right picture? Let's do that again.
Let's do that again. I think he got the wrong answer.
All right. Okay. I'm gonna take that P.
I hit I hit the wrong enter button a minute ago. Okay. I got the right picture.
All right. Now, I'm not giving him any numbers any. I'm just giving him a picture. Let's say calculate the equivalent resistance. Here we go.
Ah, he got it right that time. I think I screwed it up a minute ago.
Carl says four. Carl, you're close. All right. So, he said 4.5. He says there are four sides.
Uh, I'll put the picture I'll put the picture back up for you guys and u tell you what he said.
All right. So, there's the picture and here's what chat GPT said. He says the equivalent resistance between A and B is 4.5. Now, I didn't even ask him what the resistance was between A and B, but he just knows I want the resistance between A and B. Actually, it says that in the picture. The four sides of the square are plain wires except for the 9 ohm resistor on the right side.
Notice uh there's also a solid wire path from the top right to the bottom right corner. Top right wire from a left wire, bottom left, bottom wire, bottom right.
That path is zero. So the 9 ohm resistor on the right is shorted. It has zero volts across it. So the current flow so no current flows through it. This leaves only the two di diagonal resistors. A to B is nine. B to the bottom right is nine. But the bottom right corner is electrically the same node is A because the surrounding wire.
So both 9 ohm resistors connect between A and B. They're in parallel. And he gives you the formula.
So there it is. He just looked at that picture and could tell us exactly what what the resistance was, man. Okay.
Well, I hope we had fun tonight. I don't know. Did we?
All right.
Hey, if you're new to the show, tell if you just joined late, tell us in the chat room if you're new to the show and how you found us. Probably uh probably through uh Facebook groups. And uh I think we're going to go ahead. We've run a little bit over tonight. It's going to cause a little problems in editing it.
Uh so we'll get to the FCC update next time. Uh Brett and uh >> y >> we'll say good night to everybody.
Thanks everybody for joining us tonight.
We really appreciate you being with us and uh I think we had a good turnout tonight.
Uh let's see.
Okay. Well, 73 there body.
See you later.
And we'll hit it. We'll end it with this.
Maybe we won't end it with that. Why did that not work? Why did THAT NOT WORK?
>> HAM [screaming] RADIO ROUND TABLE.
THE BEST HAM SHOW ON THE INTERNET. Join Tom W5 [music] Cub and Brett Y7BG.
Talking antennas, [music] DX radio fun.
Making friends around the world one contact [music] at a time. Amateur radio round table where the ham radio world comes together.
Related Videos
23:38
Physics
Why the Arctic Warms Faster: new science—Interview w/Dr. Malte Stuecker—Radio Ecoshock 2019-01-31
StopFossilFuels
269 views•2019-02-16
1:13
Physics
What's in a watt?
AlliantEnergyVideo
13K views•2019-01-24
4:21
Physics
The Newest Form of Water Is Hot and Black, Wait What?
Seeker
266K views•2019-06-03
14:54
Physics
Demystifying Electromagnetic Braking: How It Slows Things Down
iitutorcom
6K views•2019-03-23
10:26
Physics
How to Make a Free Energy Water Wheel - Science Project Without Electricity
LXDESIGN
2019K views•2025-07-19
23:13
Physics
Physics behind a Tuned Mass System
StructuralMadness
21K views•2019-01-11
4:11
Physics
Bubbles: A rainy day science experiment
WDIONews
2K views•2025-03-16
2:56
Physics
Earth's Magnetic Field Suddenly SHIFTS - What's REALLY Going On?
ForumIASOfficial
729 views•2025-08-26
Trending
13:38
Law
WOW! Judge TURNS THE TABLES on Trump in His OWN $10B LAWSUIT!!!
MeidasTouch
197K views•2026-07-23
13:25
Business
Playstation NO DISC/NO BUY Fight Is Over...
DavidJaffeGames
4K views•2026-07-23
22:40
Business
Steam and Xbox Just Dropped The Hammer On PlayStation
OhNoItsAlexx
9K views•2026-07-23
16:52
Anthropology
Americans Confused in Australia for 17 Minutes Straight
IWrocker
17K views•2026-07-23