Transcripts - QSO TODAY AMATEUR RADIO PODCAST

N7HQ

10/1/2024

Episode 518 - Dan Quigley - N7HQ

Transcript Funded by Dan Quigley N7HQ

Eric 4Z1UG
N7HQ, this is Eric. 4Z1UG.

Eric 4Z1UG
Are you there, Dan?

Dan N7HQ
I am, Eric.

Eric 4Z1UG
Let's start at the beginning of your ham radio story. Dan, we're about the same age, so I have a sense of the period of time. But paint the picture for us. Tell us how it started for you.

Dan N7HQ
Well, it actually started when I was three years old. My father and mother moved from their starter home in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Eric 4Z1UG
That was the hometown.

OE1WKL

9/15/2024

Episode 517 – Willi Kraml – OE1WKL

Transcription funded by: Jason Stoltenburg KD9ZHF

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Eric 4Z1UG
QSO Today Episode 517 Willi Kraml OE1WKL

This episode of QSO Today is listener sponsored only. You can keep the QSO Today podcast coming to you every weekend since 2014. Please become a listener sponsor monthly or annually by clicking on the sponsor banner, on the show notes page or at the top of the qsotoday.com webpage. I want to thank the following recurring donations and listeners Wade Bryan KD5PLG, Todd Mitchell N0IP, Joey Smith N4VFA, Mark Farrell VK60PJ, Gordon Betty Jr W2TTT, Bill Pitchman W8LV, and Adrian Lambert M5ADI. There was a donation from a good friend, Deb Webster for $25. She's not a ham, but still a supporter. There were anonymous donations and recurring sponsorships in the last two weeks, and you know who you are.

01:09
Eric 4Z1UG
Thank you for your support. Welcome to the QSO Today Podcast. I'm Eric Guth, amateur callsign four z one Ug, where I demonstrate the diversity and relevance of the amateur radio hobby and its impact on society by interviewing ham radio operators, many of whom played vital roles in shaping our technology through the amateur radio hobby. And while many people might say ham radio, do people still do that? This podcast demonstrates through in depth interviews just how amazing, diverse, and dynamic the amateur radio hobby continues to be. As I said last week in an email to my list, the confluence of events prevented me from publishing a podcast, breaking my almost ten year streak of never missing an episode.

K5TEC

6/30/2024

Episode 507 - Bob Phinney - K5TEC Transcript

Transcript Funded by: Andrew Cornwall KF7CCC

This episode of QSO Today is listener sponsored only. You can keep the QSO Today podcast coming to you every weekend since 2014. Please become a listener sponsor monthly or annually by clicking on the sponsor banner on the show notes page or at the top of the QSO today.com webpage. I want to thank Todd Mitchell Nzero for his generous $50 donation this week. Welcome to the QSO Today podcast. I am Eric Guth, amateur callsign 4Z1UG, where I demonstrate the diversity and relevance of the amateur radio hobby and its impact on society by interviewing ham radio operators, many of whom played vital roles in shaping our technology through the amateur radio hobby. And while many people might say ham radio, do people still do that? This podcast demonstrates through in depth interviews just how amazing, diverse, and dynamic the amateur radio hobby continues to be.

Just a reminder that the response to my amateur radio events calendar has been great. You can get to it from a banner link in the show notes page. This calendar is updated by you and I hope it will be the most comprehensive amateur radio events calendar. Please use it and update it with your ham radio event.

AH6CY

5/21/2024

Episode 500 - Hiroki Kato - AH6CY

Transcription Sponsored by Matthew Kaufman N3AR

Eric 4Z1UG
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QSO Today episode 500 Hiroki Kato AH6CY

This episode of QSO Today is listener sponsored only. You can keep the QSO today podcast coming to you every weekend since 2014. Please become a listener sponsor monthly or annually by clicking on the sponsor banner, on the show notes page, or at the top of the QSO today.com webpage. I want to thank Andrea Contini M6DKU for her $100 annual sponsorship this week, and Joey Smith for his monthly ten dollar listener sponsorship. Your contributions to QSO Today keep it coming, now 500 episodes.

Welcome to the QSO Today podcast. I'm Eric Guth, amateur call sign 4Z1UG, where I demonstrate the diversity and relevance of the amateur radio hobby and its impact on society by interviewing ham radio operators, many of whom played vital roles in shaping our technology through the amateur radio hobby. And while many people might say ham radio, do people still do that? This podcast demonstrates through in depth interviews just how amazing, diverse, and dynamic the amateur radio hobby continues to be.

4Z1AC

5/1/2024

Episode 496 - Irad Deutsch - 4Z1AC

This episode of QSO Today is listener sponsored only. You can keep the QSO Today podcast coming to you every weekend since 2014. Please become a listener sponsor monthly or annually by clicking on the sponsor banner on the show notes page or at the top of the qsotoday.com webpage. I want to thank Joey Smith N4VFA who became a regular monthly sponsor, and Howard Ditmer NZ5U for his generous donation of $105 that renewed his annual sponsorship.

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W6JLK

3/25/2024

Episode 493 - Jonathan Kramer W6JLK

This episode of QSO Today is listener sponsored only. You can keep the QSO Today podcast coming to you every weekend since 2014. Please become a listener sponsor monthly or annually by clicking on the sponsor banner, on the show notes page, or at the top of the qsotoday.com web page. I want to thank John Grusel, KC nine OJV, who became a monthly listener sponsor. We have donors who wish to remain anonymous, and we thank them for their generous support of the QSO Today project. QSO Today is commercial free and has no paid sponsors. If you think that the QSO Today project is important to you, please become a listener sponsor or make a donation today. Welcome to the QSO Today Podcast.

Eric 4Z1UG
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I'm Eric Guth, amateur call sign 4Z1UG, where I demonstrate the diversity and relevance of the amateur radio hobby and its impact on society by interviewing ham radio operators, many of whom played vital roles in shaping our technology through the amateur radio hobby. And while many people might say ham radio, do people still do that? This podcast demonstrates through in depth interviews just how amazing, diverse, and dynamic the amateur radio hobby continues to be.

VA2BBW

1/16/2024

Episode 479 - Ante Laurijssen - VA2BBW

Transcription sponsored by: Don Rhodes, KB2YSI

Eric 4Z1UG (00:00:00):
QSO today, episode 479 Ante Laurijssen, VA2BBW. This episode of QSO today is listener sponsored. Only you can keep the QSO today podcast coming to you every weekend since 2014. Please become a listener sponsor monthly or annually by clicking on the sponsor banner on the show notes page or at the top of the www.qsotoday.com webpage.

I want to thank Lee Barrett, K7NM, Harold Hall, WB5KZO, and Richard Goodnick NZ2I, who all became listener sponsors this week. Your sponsorships keep QSO today on the air.

Welcome to the QSO today podcast. I'm Eric Guth amateur call sign 4Z1UG, where I demonstrate the diversity and relevance of the amateur radio hobby and its impact on society by interviewing ham radio operators, many of whom played vital roles in shaping our technology through the amateur radio hobby. And while many people might say ham radio, do people still do that? This podcast demonstrates through in-depth interviews just how amazing, diverse and dynamic the amateur radio hobby continues to be.

Ante Laurijssen, VA2BBW, enjoys the simple art of chasing DX and making contacts on CW QRP and low power modes from Gatineau in southwest Quebec, Canada. Ante is a radio amateurs of Canada Awards manager and he enjoys giving back to the hobby. VA2BBW is my QSO today.

KD2GUT

12/19/2023

Episode 480 - Caryn Eve Murray - KD2GUT

Transcription Funded by: Martin Blustine, K1FQL

Eric 4Z1UG (00:00:00):
Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, while inspired at a young age to ham radio. It wasn't until after a successful career as a professional writer and journalist that she rediscovered amateur radio in 2014. Her ham radio history was pretty thoroughly covered in a recent Ham Radio Workbench Podcast , a few weeks ago, our conversation explored her professional history leading to her reporting for Amateur Radio Newsline and her love for CW. KD2GUT is my QSO Today.
KD2GUT. This is Eric 4Z1UG. Are you there, Caryn?

Caryn KD2GUT (00:01:42):
I am. This is KD2GUT. Hi Eric.

Eric 4Z1UG (00:01:47):
Hi Caryn. Thanks for joining me on the QSO Today podcast. Let's start at the beginning. Where did you grow up?

WA4JQS

12/4/2023

Episode 365 - Tony DePrato - WA4JQS

Transcript Funded by: John Lockhart W0DC

Like many of us, it was an early love of radio and a junior high school mentor that got Tony DePrato, WA4JQS, on the air in the early 1960s. An 80-meter DX contact from his native Kentucky to Australia, ignited a passion for DX that resulted in Tony leading two DX expeditions to the most sought after DX entities in the world. WA4JQS tells his ham radio story in this QSO Today.
WA4JQS, this is Eric, 4Z1UG. Are you there, Tony?

Tony WA4JQS:
Yes, I am. How are you doing today?

Eric 4Z1UG:
I'm great, Tony. Thanks for joining me on the QSO Today Podcast. Can we start at the beginning of your ham radio story, when and how did it start for you?

Tony WA4JQS:
Well, I was about 12 years old, and I got a stomach bug, and I was at home for about five or six days, I missed a little... Right out of a week at school. So I started reading and staying up late at night. And I had an old Admiral AM Radio. I started turning around at night and I would hear stations, the border blasters out of Mexico, XERB and Wolfman Jack and those people, and KOMA and Oklahoma City. And it just fascinated me that I could hear stations that far away.
I went back to school and I was taking industrial arts, and the teacher there in the class, I didn't know was a ham, till one day he brought a Knight kit R100 and a Globe Scout into the classroom, set it up, and hooked an outside antenna up and started turning around on the receiver. And I was just amazed. I was hearing people all over the world, and I just thought that was so fantastic that he could sit there with a microphone in front of him, and talk to someone 10,000 miles away with another microphone sitting at their home. And that was how I got interested. I just fell in love with it, it was love at first sight. And he let us play with the radio during our lunch hour.

W6OBB

8/13/2023

Episode 421 – Art Bell – W6OBB (SK)

Transcription Commissioned by Mike Tindor AA8IA

Eric 4Z1UG:
QSO Today, episode 421, Art Bell, W6OBB revisited.
This episode of QSO Today is sponsored by Icom America, makers of the finest amateur radios and accessories for your ham radio station and by Nuts & Volts Magazine.

Welcome to the QSO Today podcast. I'm Eric Guth, amateur call sign 4Z1UG where I demonstrate that diversity and relevance of the amateur radio hobby and its impact on society by interviewing ham radio operators, many of whom played vital roles in shaping our technology through the amateur radio hobby.
And while many people might say ham radio, do people still do that? This podcast demonstrates through in-depth interviews just how amazing, diverse and dynamic the amateur radio hobby continues to be.

Growing up in Southern California, I was a big fan of Los Angeles AM radio, 93KHJ top 40 KBC talk radio and late night radio with Brian Williams on entrepreneurism and Coast to Coast with Art Bell. Art Bell, W6OBB, now a silent key was my guest on episode 85 in March of 2016, and the interview that follows is a remastered version. Art was a very active ham from his QTH in Pahrump, Nevada, and his 160 meter Rhombic antennas were legendary.