Hamvention Spotlight: Emergency Preparedness Led PrepHam Paul to Amateur Radios and a Rising Voice in the Field

Paul here. K five VLP from the Prep Hand Paul YouTube channel. Here at the ICON booth, and I just did my giveaway. I reached ten k. Thanks to everybody. So we, drew the winner for the twenty three seventy b blackout ICON mobile radio. First time at Dayton Ham Venture. This is fun and exciting, And here I am at ICON with all these awesome radios. I went back to school, got got degrees in emergency management, and at some point thought, I probably should learn about this ham radio stuff. So I went to a local club and they talked about portable power, how to have portable power, lights, all this stuff, and it was fascinating to me. So that got me interested, and I got into winter field day with the club. We host at k five LRK in in North Texas. We host the Texas State Parks on the air every year. Well, emergency management, I think ever since I was a boy scout, eagle scout, I loved the preparedness aspect of that, emergency preparedness, and I've always been not really a prepper, but someone who likes to be prepared for emergencies. And as I tried to shift my career, I was looking at and that was a newer degree, and I found it fascinating all the areas of the history of emergency management, emergency communications, when it's when ham radios and stuff are being used in emergency management was fascinating as well. ICOM radios are beautiful radios. They've got their it's it's top quality. They they meet all the digital HF, EHF, UHF needs, and support is great. I mean, look what look what you guys, ICOM has done for me. They've allowed me to have a space here to be able to do something for my channel, and I'm not a big channel. So, but ICOM radios, they have it all. It's they've got it all for you. So I don't know where else you go. Even though I have other radios, I now have a seventy three hundred. I have a seven zero five, and I'll probably get an HT soon because I just love the radios. I'm gonna get back to two weeks preparedness, Sunday night streams, eight thirty central, two weeks radio. And then what I'll probably do is is still continue to offer some kinda smaller giveaways off on until I reach another milestone, and then maybe do another large giveaway. I'm not sure yet. But tune in every Sunday night, eight thirty central on YouTube at prep and Paul. And, you know, at some point, if you wanna join the live stream, it's called Ragshoe Crew because we just bring whoever wants to talk about ham radio preparedness in general just to come on live stream and talk. So that's what it's all about. And, hopefully, I can keep growing the channel and offer more information and fun exciting streams to everybody. For the love of Ham Radio.