SNARS is the Sierra Nevada Amateur Radio Society, and literally yesterday (as I type this) their President, Tony Marcin W7XM, invited us to speak via Skype at their next meeting. Well, the next meeting was today, and while Tony was really thinking about some future date, this meeting happened to be open, so David and I jumped on it.

Of course we recorded it, and put it on Facebook live, and here it is! 

I present a lot of my history leading up to creating ARVN and then HamRadioNow, and David describes how he got involved in the program. Then I talk a little about the 'new media' landscape, and we take a few questions from the audience.

We've done the 'origin' story before, but hell, Spider-Man has done what... three of them? Maybe I cover something new. In any case, it's 99% talking heads, so the Radio Rating is 'A'.

And thanks for inviting us, SNARS!

Links:

• Introduction to Amateur Radio (1999)
• HRN 199: Standing Up for Standing Waves
• Episode 134: ARDF (Fox Hunting) 
• ARVN.tv 2007 Dayton Hamvention Tour
• Lots more early ARVN video on the KN4AQ YouTube channel
• Episode 79 (Part 1): The Last BIG Field Day
• Episode 79 (Part 2): Last BIG Field Day BONUS Interviews
• HamCasters (Reddit)