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A new YouTube Video!!! St. Louis Arch NPOTA Activation

It’s been a while since there were one of these!

Also, Kyle, N0KTK was the ringleader of this activation. He’s got a blog here, also did a video of this activation here:

And he’s got more where that came from.

I also ditched my copy of Vegas because it would crash every bunch of edits, and wouldn’t save right, and it literally made me lose hair. I miss the workflow, but because of it’s price point and popularity, I’m going with Adobe Premiere. I did this using the 7 day trial.

I really love making videos, but doing this one took me exactly 7 hours, 43 minutes, and 10 seconds. From less than 30 minutes of video, and only 4 minutes of a finished product. Editing is hard. But your enjoyment makes it worth it!

Active Ham Radio Podcasts, Livestreams, and YouTube Channels

I feel like ham radio is experiencing a media Renaissance of sorts – there’s been a lot of new, really great podcasts and it appears social media interaction regarding ham radio is way up. However, it’s really interesting to see this big, long, gradual drop in interest over the last 11 years as measured by Google Trends:

Who knows what’s going on here – it’s a moot point between my observations and fact. Anyway, regardless of trends, I listen to a ton of podcasts, a majority of which are ham radio related. Two have been started within the last year and have been really well produced, listenable, and just good compared to other attempts

Back in the day (between 2011 and 2015) I used to watch Ham Nation, Solder Smoke, and AmateurLogic. Now, I choose not to spend the time sitting and watching an hour-long live-stream or recorded show, and at the same time I’ve been really put off by advertisements. They’re much more intrusive and jarring than they used to be. However, this doesn’t phase the primary demographic of retirees who have all the time in the world.

The chat’s were always fun but never really impactful, except for a few isolated occurrences where I found former WØEEE alumnus, young hams who needed advice on getting into the hobby, and meeting a handful of what I would call “famous” hams. I might make a list of those too.

Podcasting is the way to go. I can listen while I drive (which is at least an hour a day), listen while I work, listen while I clean, browse the internet, work out…anytime and anywhere where my full attention and hearing isn’t needed.

Here’s the big list of active media that has been updated within at least the last month as of September 2016:

Podcasts

I use Overcast on iOS to listen to podcasts. It is the best podcasting app ever made, much improved from the iOS stock podcast app. It’s best feature is “smart speed,” which compresses silences, and when combined with a 1.3x speed-up, it makes an hour podcast less than 45 mins long.

On Android, I recommend Pocketcasts. I’ve used it before and it’s pretty good too!

You can find all of these in your podcast app directory by searching the name. Otherwise, I’ve linked to their website or a link where you can go to listen them below:

  1. Phasing Line Podcast (shameless self bump)
  2. Ham Radio Crash Course
  3. Ham Radio 2.0 (Audio versions of his Videos)
  4. ARRL Eclectic Tech
  5. ARRL On the Air
  6. ARRL The Doctor is In (no longer active)
  7. Ham Radio 360 (no longer active)
  8. Ham Radio Workbench
  9. Field Radio Podcast
  10. 100 Watts and a Wire
  11. ICQ Podcast
  12. Everything Ham Radio Podcast
  13. Linux in the Hamshack
  14. Foundations of Amateur Radio
  15. Ted Randall’s  QSO Radio Show
  16. QSO Today
  17. The Two Way Radio Show
  18. Amateur Radio Newsline
  19. The Rain Report
  20. TX Talk

Live Shows

All of the live shows listed also have recorded episode distributed through various means. All audio-only shows can be found in podcast apps (which is how I consume them) and video shows may or may not be in podcast directories but the links should take you to where you can find them.

  1. Linux in the Hamshack – audio only, listed on podcast directories (like above)
  2. W5KUB Live Stream – recorded shows are on YouTube
  3. Ham Talk Live! – Call in show, audio only, listed on podcast directories
  4. Ham Nation – Live Stream on Twit.tv, audio and video versions listed on podcast directories
  5. Ted Randall’s QSO Show

YouTube Channels

Here’s a megalist of practically every Ham Radio YouTuber:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BiqqCvRnzNx-iuH9R5ghyfRFomOWkh59zuZ6OrWy7Is/edit?usp=sharing

Also don’t forget to check out Monday and Thursday Night Ham Radio from the YouTube Bunch, brought to you by N0SSC, KI6NAZ, KM9G, KC5HWB, AA0Z, K6ARK, KK6USY, W6RIP, KM4ACK, ZL1BQD, N1NUG, M0MCX, TheSmokinApe, and more!

Last update: September, 11 2020

Changes.

Over the past month I’ve learned a lot. I made a website (learning about domain name registration, hosting, WordPress, PHP, analytics tracking, blah blah blah), and I rebranded my YouTube with new photos and banners, and I created a new Google+ page to rename the channel to “N0SSC” to the like of W2AEW and K7AGE.

I did all this because I wanted to change my YouTube URL from

http://www.youtube.com/user/sterwing

to

http://www.youtube.com/c/n0ssc

It took 6 days of emailing back and forth between YouTube partner support and I, and basically starting a small business to get it. I don’t know why I put so much work into it, but it feels good. Now instead of wondering who that “sterwing” guy was or that my old URL was something like /SterlingCoffeyN0SSC, all you need is N0SSC.

Feels good man. I may be blowing the significance of this out of proportion but still. Feels good.

Now I should actually go make videos.

Also this is my website, welcome. It’s not finished yet. 🙂

Also, over the past month, I got engaged to no less than the best girlfriend, now fiance. I’m the happiest person in the world right now.