Everything Ham Radio Podcast

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Everything Ham Radio Podcast! In this episode we are going to recap my experience with Field Day 2016, we are going to talk with a couple local hams during Field Day and with a few hours left of Field Day talk about how it is going so far. My local Field Day station is sponsored by the Johnson County ARES team and is hosted at the Johnson County Emergency Operation Center. We ran a 3F station and ran under the call sign of KY5O. At the time of this recording(about 7am on Sunday morning) we had approximately 150 contacts. We had a GOTA station as well and made several contacts on it as well. For our first interview we talk with Ken Bush, KB5YBI. Ken has been an amateur radio operator for a little over 23 years. He is the Johnson County EC for the ARRL and is one of the major volunteers for the Johnson County, whether is it during a storm or emergency or just helping taking down a tower. In my second interview, we talk with Keith Beucler, KE5AWF. I have kn