{"activity_count":59,"callsign":"AA4H","confidence":0.98,"first_seen":"2025-07-21T00:21:26+00:00","found":true,"id":2864,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-29T06:39:59.615868+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":31,"profile":{"confidence":0.8611,"counts":{"ncs":0,"net":4,"open_qso":27},"data_freshness":"2025-10-22T06:56:02","latest_topic":"weather","most_topic":"local news","open_vs_net_bias_score":-0.938,"personal_summary":"AA4H engaged in the conversation, contributing to discussions on local news and weather.","scores":{"civility":0.9,"focus":0.5,"friendly":0.8,"helpful":0.7,"serious":0.6,"technical":0.4},"source":"legacy_callsign_profiles","summary":"AA4H participated in discussions about local news and weather, showing interest in current events.","topic_coverage":{"local news":"0.5","politics":"0.2","weather":"0.3"},"updated_at":"2025-12-24T07:00:39"},"qrz_status":null,"recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-11T04:55:31+00:00","id":16070,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16069,"text":" Wow, there are a lot of people on here, but they are not signing in. I'll do it one more time. And then we'll go back to the top of the list, so we're prepared. It's a short list so far. This is KC2PKG, and if you'd like to check into the Monday morning edition of the Caledonia Net, come now with your call sign. Kilo 5, India, Romeo, Quebec. KJ 5, I off you. AA 4H, out."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-12T06:40:17+00:00","id":16368,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16367,"text":" Apparently it was time for my repeater to tell me the time. And yeah, so apparently that pilot, it's like really, really close to town. They've got it under control. They don't expect it to progress any further before they get it water bombed to the ground. It's one thing, you know, when one part of the country here in Canada is in trouble, the rest of the country comes running to the rescue. It's good. So what about Donald Trump? I'm just completely weaponizing the police force in D.C., turning it into an absolute police state, rounding up the homeless, and shipping them off somewhere. Probably alligator Alcatraz known Trump. But he says he's gonna do this thing in New York, and Los Angeles, and Chicago. I think he's just absolutely nuts. I didn't think that he was allowed to do that. But he does a lot of things he's not allowed to do, I guess. Has anybody got any more current information on that one? I know it started yesterday. I don't know if Gray's been looking into it or anybody else, but I'm curious. You know, I don't need opinions from anybody that's gonna tell me that, hey, it's not a round up or anything. It's just like a birthday party or a garden party for the White House, and Trump is bringing cupcakes. I don't wanna hear that opinion. I wanna hear the actual story, if anybody knows. If you don't want to, Casey, back to you, Russell. Comment. I said I don't wanna hear about Trump bringing cupcakes. I believe we should call it. Yeah, Trump has every bit right to come down on these states that wanna operate like they're separate countries. We were given the federal laws, and he's operating well within his discipline, his discretion under federal law, which supersedes any state law, law mayor, governor. We've been here before, so they should know better. But if they continue to defy, he can invoke the Insurrection Act, and he will bring the military in. It may not come to that, but if Trump wants, he could burn down all the marijuana fields if he wanted to because federal law. Yeah. What? He didn't invoke the Insurrection Act under January 6th, though, did he? Any information on this whole thing, Gray? There's nothing they can do, really. They've gone and defied federal law wrong enough, and if it's gonna stay a country, the person, the leader in charge has to enforce it. There's no sugarcoating it. There's no cupcakes. It's just, I, when in law, I was looking at 18 USC 2383. If they keep talking the way they're talking about under that law, they could be arrested and tried for treason for inciting riots. So I am not gonna, disagree with it at all. It has to come to that. And you're right, it's tyrannical in effect that, he has to do it, but it's on the people that will get in line. It's on them. They're the ones that will have to face federal charges for not, they're not compliant. Okay, I'm checking with my comment back to you, Russell, AA-4H. Ron, you're in my car. Cupcakes. KJ-5, IOM-2, we check, and a comment. Cupcakes."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T04:00:25+00:00","id":12355,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":12354,"text":" Good morning, AA-4H. Morning, Ron."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-19T05:19:14+00:00","id":19200,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":19199,"text":" Yes, it always seems that it takes just a few miscreants and then rules have to change and everybody gets punished for it. You know, in my career when I was working, somebody would find some way of doing something and it's obvious that you can't do it that way and then they would come up with extra rules to guard against it. That would actually be counterproductive. I never saw a lot of sense in that, you know, like, well you got the people, are they going to do that again? I mean, obviously they wouldn't so why come up with these extra rules? So it's like we're flying and I, let's see, had like two instances where I was flagged, not real serious. It wasn't real serious. It was just that one time I forgot to take something metal out of my pocket and I went through the metal detector and then I go, what's setting it off? Oh yeah, so I pulled out what it was, it was keys or something and I showed it to them and I put it in my bin that just went through the thing. But the procedure was I had to stand there with my arms spread way out and look up while he took the wand that detects metal and go over everything all over me to see if I had anything else metal on me. So I hadn't, in my defense, I hadn't flown in a long time and my shoes were in the bin so I was standing there in my stocking seat. That was pretty annoying. AA-4-H outrun Miramar, Florida. I'll wait till the next go around to tell the other story."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-19T07:26:33+00:00","id":19356,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":19355,"text":" the sheriff removes some and all their stuff. They just, you know, they have, they don't even want to be here. They're sending their money home and they're going to go home after they're done here and live off of the 10 to 1 exchange in Mexico rate and they're going to have thousands of dollars for property. So, you know, we don't need them living off of us like that. If you want it to continue to have governments that love their illegal aliens so much stealing from you to support them because they don't have anything for them, yeah, that's your prerogative. It's not ours. And I say ours because it's quite a bit of us. And after Trump, they're not going to be able to cheat anymore in elections, which they can care of that also. I mean, the Democrats are done. They are gone. They have no money. They don't have the votes. They can't cheat anymore in elections to get elected. So there's, I'm getting a phone call. I got to go. Everybody have a nice day and I'll see you tomorrow. AA-4H show run near my Florida. This is repeater state secretary Ron. You have a good day. Yeah, I mean, there's obviously more to this than meets the eye, more to this than what. And he was a fan of Trump is willing to let themselves see. Uh, Ghislaine Maxwell, after meeting with Trump's DOJ and Trump's personal lawyer, this is unprecedented. First off for the president of the United States to have his DOJ go in and speak to a convicted sex trafficker. There's a reason behind that for starters. Were they warning her to keep her damn mouth shut or what happened to Epstein could happen to her next? I'd say, good possibility. Why then after those meetings within 48 hours was Ghislaine Maxwell moved from a maximum security prison to a minimum security prison in Texas? Hmm. That's interesting. Was that a move for good behavior, for agreeing to keep your mouth closed regarding the Trump and Epstein things? Possibly. The possibility of spending the rest of her life in a maximum security prison surrounded by killers and rapists and the worst of society. Maybe that was too much for her that she made an agreement with Trump's DOJ. That seems to make more sense to me because they typically don't send people involved in things like murder, rape, child sex trafficking. They don't typically give those people a break and say, we'll send you to our country resort prison instead of our max or supermax prison where she was in the first place. So there's something to that. I think that the Trump DOJ has had enough time now to redact and edit and cover up what's in those files that nobody is probably going to see the actual version of them ever again. So I wonder about that. There's definitely a lot of suspiciousness hanging around this whole thing. We're going to Gray next. KC2, PKG. Let's say you, Gray, for final comments this morning. If you think about this whole Ghislaine Maxwell move thing to the minimum security prison, why do you think they did that?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-19T06:14:55+00:00","id":19278,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":19277,"text":" Oh, okay, don't assault anybody with a deli weapon. Anyways, there was a famous episode that was on the Twilight Zone, Nightmare at 20,000 feet. The passenger who looked out over the wing that saw the alien tearing the plane apart was William Shatner, the actor who played the passenger. And in the movie was Dan Aykroyd when they did the prologue to that episode in the Twilight Zone movie. And I remember they had got together and they did a little skit and it was really funny. William Shatner went to ask Dan Aykroyd, how was your flight here so that we could be here? And Dan Aykroyd answered, you know, there was this guy on the wing of the airplane and he scared the hell out of me because he was tearing the plane apart. And William Shatner turned to Dan Aykroyd and he goes, the same thing happened to me. I've been fortunate flying that I've never had anything really bad happen. But I know my second wife, she got on a flight and they got in the air and the pilot announced that they had to turn around because they didn't have enough fuel to make it to their destination. You know, I don't know what to make of that. So they turned around, landed and refueled the airplane as far as she knew. And then they took off and made it to their destination. That isn't, you know, that terrible of a thing. You know, but I thought pilots were supposed to go, you know, down their checklist, you know, got enough fuel, check, you know, what else did maybe they forget to look at on that checklist before they took off. Because it seems to me fuel is pretty important that, you know, you're going to have enough. All right. AA-4-H, I'll run Nirmal Florida back to Russell in the control."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T04:45:12+00:00","id":13967,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":13966,"text":" So the majority of the population lives where you live. And there's about 100,000 people distributed around the island. And you know, maps do not give a province, you know. Maps are just terrible. And you look at a map, you go, hey, it's not really big. Because then when you hear somebody describe it, you know, it's a totally different story. But anyhow, it's interesting. 400,000 there and 100,000 for the rest of the island. It must be a lot of square acres per each individual. But if that was divided up per person, I don't know how big, you know, how much each person would get. But it would be a lot. Because if the island is really big, and make the best of it, Newfoundland is not just Newfoundland. Technically, the name of the province is Newfoundland and Labrador. Right here in Labrador is the landlocked portion of the province that's actually joined to Canada. And it is much, much larger than the island portion that it runs here. And I'm not sure what the population is up there. But it's bare. I think there's more polar bears in Labrador than there is people. Kilo, kilo, 7, November, Quebec, November. All star node 6222. Located at 400,000. Where's that one going to go, man? All bears. I had a dream. I used to ride a motorcycle. I always said I'm here to take a trip from Missouri up to Nova Scotia. And I wanted to do all backwoods. I didn't want to do interstate or anything like that. I mapped it out, and it was going to be roughly 4,000 miles left, 4,000 miles back down. The way I was going. And I thought, OK, I'm going to need roughly 30 to 40 days to do this trip. I never did it. Never did it. Now I don't have a motorcycle anymore, so I guess I never will. Man, I tell you, I'd love to be able to ride an actual motorcycle. I could get away with just around my own community here because the area that I live in is called Shea Heights. It's like an area. It's up on a mountain. It's like high above the rest of the city. It's about 650 feet where I am above the city. So my repeater antenna is about 650 feet above the city. But the top of this mountain is about 1,200 feet. And I was about halfway up it. And it's good because even though I have a vision problem, my vision is not too bad that I can't drive slowly. On a highway, doing 100 kilometers an hour, 70 miles an hour, it's like 110, my reaction time is not quick enough. I can't judge depth or my distance perception is not good. So I can still jump on my quad doing probably 30 miles, 40 miles an hour and be just fine to go into woods by myself and stuff like that. That's why I'm lucky. I'm in a closed off community because we've got a road that's a mile or two long that separates this community from the rest of the city. So you've got to drive up that road. And it's like one way in, one way out kind of thing. So in this closed off neighborhood, I could ride a small motorcycle like a Grom or a Honda Navi or something like that. I used to ride one of these Coleman outfits, 200 CC adult sized mini bike, they call them. And I used to ride one of those around up here and never had a problem. And now I ride the four wheeler. And I've been pulled over twice, never got a ticket or anything like that because it's known that people have been doing that up here for decades. So police don't really give you a hard time. They'll pull you over, they'll ID you. And I don't even have a driver's license because of my vision. And you're supposed to have a driver's license if you're driving a quad on the road. You're also supposed to have the vehicle insured and registered just like a vehicle, just like a car. Not for off road use, but if you drive it on the road, because there's a law up here that says you can drive an ATV on the road for up to one kilometer to get to or from a trailhead. Like you park a vehicle, you unload your quad, you can drive it for a kilometer on the pavement. But you got to meet all those criteria, right? Insured, licensed, and registered. Got to have a driver's license, all that stuff. I don't have none of that stuff. There's no insurance on my bike. I have no driver's license. I don't have a license plate on it because I only use it in this community. And a cop asked me, driver's license? No. Insurance on the bike? No. He said, see you don't have a license plate on here. I said, no. I said, but, I said, if you parked up here, I said you'd see probably in an hour five bikes with the same exact conditions. Like, you know, people just use them to get back and forth to store. Stuff like that up here. And, you know, you'd see a lot of it. And he was like, well, yeah, I know that. He said, I just got an ID just to, you know, just to show that we make contact or whatever. And, you know, nothing bad about it. You're not going to get no tickets or nothing. So I was like, whew, good. I'm not getting no tickets. It's all good. Oh, just hang on a second. I was getting a phone call. George, I'll be right back. How you doing this morning, George? How's everything out of your way? All right. It's been the first day back to work for the week. No rain. It's kind of nice outside. And nice and chilly. 60 degrees, right off that note, chilly. But it's a nice temperature. What? I am almost to my destination. I'll have to get off here. And pay attention to what I'm doing. But I'll chill to the ground, OK? I want to have a good day, all right? Hi there, George. And, yeah, I'm just waking up and just listening to you guys chatting this morning. All righty. We'll let you run. Have yourself a good day. We're having a nice one here. It's, it looks like the sun is coming out. It's good. It's nice and cool. So that's sort of like a relief for us. It's a relief from all that heat. All righty. We'll catch you later. From maybe 1A, I-4 will lead to end monitoring. What are the errors to the NI stay out there? K0, MAI. I'll be clear for a while. Well, it's only 20 minutes, boys, until the net starts. And no signs of falling asleep just yet, anyway. You know, the thing about living out there, you live in a beautiful place. But, man, it really, you know, it's the taxes that you're paying and the import and the food and stuff. That's the, if it wasn't for that and it was like the rest of Canada, that would be perfect. And you mentioned that those trees are old. So you got old trees out there because they haven't, they haven't stripped the forest clean. So it must be a beautiful place out there where you live. You know, it's a really good place. beautiful place out there where you live. That's probably the nicest places in Canada. Hey, and I looked, you're right. I didn't know they actually, you mentioned it this morning, you're 90 minutes ahead of time. I thought it was an hour. I never knew they did it by the 30 minutes added to it too. So I learned something new today. We're so far East, you know, the way the time zones line up around the world, we're so far East that we've got a half an hour time zone. The only other place I know that does that is Trinidad down in, you know, the West Indies, right? Trinidad and Tobago. They're the only other place that I've ever heard that does that. Apparently there's a few more around the world, but most of them are like GMT minus, you know, one hour or five hours or whatever, you know, the East Coast of the United States is GMT minus five. Then in Canada, you got Atlantic time, which is GMT minus four. And then you got Newfoundland time, which is GMT minus three and a half. So we're just that much further East that they needed to have a different time zone, I suppose. And I think it goes back to pre-confederation times because Canada was only, you know, completed by Newfoundland in 1949. We weren't a Canadian province before that. We were our own entity. We had Newfoundland currency. Our military was the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. It was, you know, we were completely separate from Canada. As a matter of fact, in World War II, there was like no Canadian military bases in Newfoundland. They were all American military bases. And that led to a lot of Americans, you know, marrying Newfoundland women or vice versa. And a lot of Americans settled in Newfoundland too. So there's like some American heritage here as well as Canadian. So it's an interesting spot. But yeah, you're exactly right. I mean, we've got some of the most beautiful ponds and like just untouched forest that you can, you know, actually still go and visit. It's kind of incredible. I mean, where I live, I can jump on my quad, which is parked in the driveway. And within 10 minutes, I could be sat next to a pond with fish jumping everywhere. Just nice beautiful grass all around the place and just park my bike right next to the pond, sit on a bench, man, and watch the ducks and stuff. It's absolutely gorgeous around here. This is repeater station. November, Quebec, November. Even Fisher, Quebec is nice. All the ponds in Washington. The only way that you're going to catch a fish in Quebec is if you pay $1,000 and they drop you, you know, in a pontoon plane. The plane will fly you into a place where you can go fish and that still has fish. Wow. That's a, because you know, I love fishing and there's no fish here. I tried fishing in all the places and there's no fish because everybody else did the same thing. So there's no fish left. Yeah, it sounds perfect out there. It's like paradise out there. You know, it's a really nice area. I saw a YouTube video on St. John and look at the airplanes that missed the airport. They flew up into the mountains. They crashed there. The planes are still there. You know, they don't take the planes away. They're, they look beautiful out there. You know, it's a perfect place. Especially when you got the, well, you got the quad. That's that there, the quad and all those trails. Boy, I used to do that back in Connecticut. That's a semi-second. I used to take the dirt bike on the power lines, which was the only place, you know, that I could take it. But yeah, it's a perfect place there. My friend wants to get a quad. And I was thinking about getting one. The problem is we don't have any place to store them during winter time. So that's why we're not going to get one. You got it made out there. To be honest with you, what I does with mine, I just leaves it in the driveway and I put a heavy duty tarp over it, go to Costco, get one of the really thick tarps and tied a little eye hooks down to the frame of the bike. And number one, man, I've been parking my bike like that now for three years and never had an issue. I can go out and I can pull that thing over first click and it'll start up immediately. No issue whatsoever. It's, it's good, man. You know, some people put some in garages and sheds and stuff like that, you know, especially buy a brand new one. I mean, mine is 25 years old and it's still in great shape. It's a 2000 and it's still in great shape, especially for the age. But when I got it, I had a bunch of work done to it. All the electrical was replaced, all of the bearings and the, you know, suspension bushings and all that stuff was replaced. I had the carburetor rebuilt. Oh man, whole bunch of stuff done to it. You know, all the running gear, all regular maintenance that needs to be done. I had done to it. So it still runs absolutely fantastic. And it's a, it's manual transmission. So you got the, you know, the ability to change gears whenever you want, you know, so if you're being, uh, you know, someone's getting a little too close to you on the trail, you can just drop the gear down and hit the throttle and boom, just like a motorcycle kind of thing, right? Yeah, exactly. I still like a motorcycle over a quad though, cause I was trying to tell my friend if you get a quad, you have a chance that you could get that stuck. You're going to have to have a winch on it. You know, uh, you get a motorcycle stuck too in the mud. I had that happen to me. I had to leave my bike and my friends come help me. I couldn't get it off myself, but you gotta be careful with that stuff. But yeah, it sounds like you got it all set. At least you got all the bearings and everything in tip top shape. Yeah, I'd like to do that again. I used to do it, like I said, when I was a kid and now that I'm retired and, uh, you know, I got all the time, I'd like to at least try to motorcycles again. I'm not going to drive it fast like I did when I was a kid, but you know, uh, I used to have a CR 250 with a two cycle and that thing was like a rocket machine, but today I'd be happy on a, maybe a 250 with a four cycle engine, you know, something slow, you know, like a wish bike, not, not, not, not nothing, not, uh, you know, uh, you know, nothing really powerful, just something I can put around on a 250 man. That's a big boyfriend. You know, that's the same frame as on a 450 pretty much. It's just a difference in the motor. I don't like a bike that I can't flat foot. Uh, when I learned, I, I can't say even really learned because they've been on one, half a dozen times. And I mean, I was okay with the clutch and, you know, shifting gears and stuff. I, you know, I only stalled it the first time and the second time I was good to go to get it in the first and then second and third. And, you know, I didn't take it over or a little bit or anything like that, but I like, if it was for me, I'm, I'm five 10, five 11, and I would want the one 25 just for me, just for putting around, because like you say, my vision is bad. A one 25 that'll still get you up to 80 kilometers an hour with no trouble at all. And that's what my quad can do. It can do 80 or 85 kilometers an hour. I had it going that fast on pavement. And, uh, my buddy was behind me. We were out trail riding and, uh, he was behind me when we came off the trails and we hit the pavement. It's kind of like a highway, you know, like a two lane highway. And, uh, so I got on the pavement and I just, you know, gradually got it up to fifth gear and I had the thing pinned. And you know, what it's like riding a quad, I mean, you're just riding on the knobs on your tires. Your contact point is small, right? So, and I've got like knobby off-road tires on this thing. So this bike was floating doing 80, 85 kilometers an hour on this highway. And, uh, when my buddy caught up to me, I was speedometer on my bike. When he caught up to me, he said he was doing 90 just to catch up to me. And he said, when he got behind me, it was about 80 to 85 kilometers an hour that I was doing. And, uh, mistake, right? Cause if you've got a turn quick or something jumps out in front of you, you ain't got a prayer stopping or turning that thing at those kinds of speeds. Yeah, I guess with the knobbies and stuff that would have been vibrating a lot too. Yeah. That's uh, you know, I had a, you know, another bike that, uh, I had before, you know, I had the 250, I had a, uh, um, a 100 Honda 100. It was a four cycle engine and it was for a child, but you know, I remember I was 16 years old when I had that cause I, uh, I put it back in my car in the truck and took it with me once. But yeah, it's, uh, but even, you know, uh, a little Honda 100 that's meant for a little kid, you know, I got on that thing and I, I had that bike for like two years. I mean, I drove it all over the place. It just wouldn't die. It was a Honda. The motor always started. I just had to adjust the points in it. That's all I ever did. I hit the points with clothes. If you let us sit too long, you'd have to put 20 thousands or something with a pillar gauge. We keep the thing timed. But yeah, I had a lot of fun and that was only a Honda 100. The seventies, the eighties and the one hundreds are a pretty small frame size. Then you get into the 125 and the one 50 it's roughly the same frame size as bigger than the 70 and the 100. But, uh, it's like a medium size in between the two 30 and the two 50. And that's just like frame size just for booting around for me would be just perfect because I can like just flat foot on both sides of the bike to keep it balanced. But I found it to Yamaha 230, the TTR 230 or the Honda CBR 250 or not CBR, sorry. The, uh, what is that? CRF, CRF 150 or 250. Sorry. It was just too big. Uh, I couldn't flat foot it. So the bike was like lean in one way or another. And I didn't figure that that would be a good fit on a trail. Like, cause if you got to, you know, you can get messed up on a trail or going up the hill. I want to flat foot that bike. I don't want to be having to lean it to one side and down, sit on one foot and stuff, especially where I'm not an experienced rider on two wheels. Now don't get me wrong on a quad. Oh buddy. I'm usually the guy leading the pack when it comes to the cross because it's stable, right? It's really stable. And so when a group of us get together, like a couple of my buddies and my dad and my brother, we're all riding our own machines and I'm usually leading the pack, especially when we're on pavement. My dad's actually seen me a couple of times. You mean you got to slow down or you're going to kill yourself because the way my tires are on the back, they're like a tractor tire pattern. Like, you know, like the rows of like, you know, knob, it's like a tractor tire pattern. And on the front, it's just knobbies, right? It's just got knobs every, you know, all over the tire. So when I'm doing on that, especially on pavement, it's not vibrating very much because I barely touched the pavement. I mean, it's floating above the pavement for the time that they're for the duration that each knob is touching the pavement. It's almost like feels like the bike is floating when you're doing, you know, above eight on a bike like that. It's dangerous as all hell. But, you know, it's really fun to get a trade off rate. It's how fun versus how dangerous. And sometimes I push it a little more than I should. But that's why I don't have a dirt bike because I figure they're a lot less stable, you know, and it's easier to loop them much easier. Like if you hit a bump and your wrist flicks back on that twist throttle, you could get flicked off into the woods very easily. With a quad, you got a thumb throttle. And I like that because I can be holding on to the bars really sturdy and I don't have to worry about the whiskey throttle, you know, if I flick my wrist back, you know, from hitting the bump or something like that. And I know that's something that seasoned riders, you get, seasoned riders, you know, you get used to that. But I'm not a seasoned rider on two wheels. I mean, I've really only started riding a four year, like three or four years ago. I mean, I've ridden them dozens of times over the years, but having my own is only three or four years ago. And before that I was riding one of those 200cc Coleman outfits with the CVT transmission, the belt drive on it. And those are limited, right? Like with the engine that's in them, they're governed. So you can only do 35 kilometers an hour, that's it. That's all those engines can do. Until you strip the engine down and you put a billeted steel flywheel on it and a billeted steel side cover and, you know, a high powered clutch and a bunch of other stuff, then you can get them up to like, you know, 80 or 90 kilometers an hour. But I didn't do it like that to that two wheel bike. And it would have been good to do it because that bike had balloon tires on it like a quad, right? One in the front, one in the back. It wasn't those like skinny dirt bike tires. This thing had like eight inch wide tires on it. So going faster on it would have been a good thing. I probably would have just stuck with that bike if it was faster. But I like the quad. I gotta say, I mean, I got a stereo on there with two 100 watt cone speakers from like a motorcycle setup mounted on the bars. So I got, you know, nice loud music on there and a communication thing in the helmet and stuff like that. So it's, it's safer, I think, with my vision restrictions and my, you know, wish to have speed. And I mean, I've rolled a couple of them over the years, you know, roll the bike or something like that. Luckily, I never got hurt, but you could very easily get hurt, right? And that's what I kind of worry about. So I don't really go by myself riding anymore like I used to in the beginning. Because my brother in law's brother had a bad accident a couple of years, last year or the year before, where one of the back wheels came off his quad while he was riding, he was drifting around a little bit and he pulled out the axle and the whole worksheet came right off with the wheel. The axle literally separated from the, from the CV joint in the middle, like your rear differential. It came right out from the differential and the wheel was left on the side of the road with the axle sticking up off it. And that bike flipped and they went off, off the side of the mountain and he broke his wrists and his arm and broke himself up pretty bad. He cracked his helmet like an egg. So I mean, if he never had to be wearing a helmet, he probably would have been dead. But my point is, is someone with perfect vision that's been riding quads for like 30 years can get into an accident like that with my merely three or four years experience, you know, solid experience, I could do worse to myself. So I stopped riding by myself pretty much all together after that. Yeah, you got to be careful on those things, especially quads. I mean, even on a motorcycle, I think they're both just as dangerous, but somehow I, I, I, I don't know, I just feel safer myself. I feel safer on a motorcycle because of, you know, I guess a quad, if you went up a big hill, you know, I can get up on a bike and I, I lost bikes, motorcycles, you know, I went over, you know, dumped them going up the hill, but motorcycles isn't bad because you can just jump off of a quad and the thing hits you and lands on you got to be really careful. Another thing I know you could do with tires. I think I told you this before a year or two ago, you know, if you could get some 632 screws and you drill a hole through your knobby and you put these little 632 screws in nut, nut, nut them and weld them in place with a little spot welder here, we have a little weld machine. You take it out on the ice and you can really have fun. You know, when it was really ice, like a pond is frozen over with a perfect nice, nice ice and you could really, that'll dig in and you can really have a lot of fun. I seen that done in Connecticut. It's something to do if you have an old pair of knobbies you want to hold on to and use them for that. Man, I follow a YouTube channel called Seaboys TV and the boys do all that kind of crazy stuff. They've even started out dirt bike tires and all kinds of stuff, man, with screws and that you just screw them in with a screw and a washer on it and weld the washer to the screw just like what you're saying and man, oh man, you can do some damage on some ice with a pair of those outfitted. That's for sure. Anyway, what time we got here? We got four minutes till net, man. I'm going to stand by that short gray is there in the background looking to get ready. George is pretty surprised to hear me on an hour before net, but like you say, I didn't go to bed last night, so I'm still awake for the next little while. Anyway, the old one UKZ with AB1AR. It's almost nine o'clock where you are right now. It's almost nine o'clock. Yeah, it's getting late in the day where you are there. All right, I better shut up now. The net is going to be starting. AB1AI, Affordable to Me, too. I didn't even say anything because Darryl doesn't get on in the morning, so I figured, you know, that I'm smart. AA4H. You could have run, but you could have jumped in on the conversation. Yeah, I could have, but I didn't. I just wanted to let you know why I didn't because I wanted you to get your, uh, in whatever you could without me interfering. I had these a few times this morning and didn't really hear anybody and then I heard George ID, so I jumped in and started having a chat back and forth with George and then brought in Hobden there and we've just been having a chat ever since then. But, um, yeah. Anyway, I'm going to stand by here. I'm looking forward to Greg getting started. I'm not in a situation this morning where I've got to worry about waking up for the net because if I had to go to sleep at like 6.30 in the morning when my friend went home, then I wouldn't be up right now, let me tell you, or 7.30 in the morning, 7 o'clock in the morning, whatever it was. I can't remember exactly, but, um, yeah. Either way, I'm going to stand by for that. I'll be going to UKZ. Yeah, I heard you this morning. I heard George twice this morning, but I was working on an email with a friend that's in the hospital, so that's why I didn't get back to you. I'd be standing by for the net."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-20T02:36:51+00:00","id":19901,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":19900,"text":" or any rain bands from this storm. Alright, AA-4-H out on Miramar, Florida. I'll be listening."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-05T04:58:26+00:00","id":14219,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14218,"text":" I have a... I have a comment. Go ahead with your comment. Yeah, Josh, I take a very harsh view on that because, you know, with Marxism and communism, I lived through and was almost drafted into the Vietnam War, so I lived off through that. We were there to keep those kind of politics away from our soil and fight it elsewhere so that we wouldn't ever have to here in this country on our own soil. And a lot of people paid the ultimate price for that and for the most part it worked for many, many years. It chipped in a way, you know, and it's only recently that they found a way to bring it to our front doors. And I think that with every available method, measure we can take, it should be removed and looked upon as something that's going to negatively impact us. And one more thing about it before I turn it back to Russell, if I can remember it, I just did... We wanted to hold anybody with this belief in very low regard. AA-4-H are back to Russell. I'm done with my comment."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-08T02:54:16+00:00","id":15131,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15130,"text":" But you know, the last 22, 23 years, I'm also living on my investments. And through the grace of God, things have been going okay. But I try to teach my own kids because I don't really talk to anyone else about it. But I try to teach them the ins and outs. My wife does try to teach as well. And it's not as hard as you think it is, you know? But nevertheless, I don't think it's as difficult as people think it really is, you know? Back to you, Ron. This is repeater station kilo kilo seven, November Quebec November, all star node 6222. Located in Shelton- Yeah, according to the ECC rules and regulations, I'm allowed to handle up to four portfolios before I need the series 65 license. And the reason that it's set up that way is because say I wanted to pursue that. Now, if I had a brother-in-law, my wife, a son, you know, I could handle, you know, portfolios like that, people close to me to see if that was what I wanted to pursue. So if I wanted to handle, make that a profession, I would need the series 65 investment representatives license. Or the exact name of it right now, I had it in my head. But I have the book here for that. And I didn't decide that because I only just handled my own portfolio. If somebody came along, you know, that was close to me, if I got remarried again, you know, I could handle Rose and I would still be within the, you know, the same person that I was. And I would still be within the rules and regulations. One of the hedge fund managers I follow every day, he's also a Fox News contributor, he just had to upgrade his license because he reached a certain plateau, a hundred million dollars in managed assets, which is quite a bit. So he had to go and make peace with the SEC on that so that he could continue. Of course, he had grown past that plateau. So I'll tell you where, the reason why I brought out what my limitations are and I wanna put emphasis on, you know, what I'm not limited in doing. So at least it can carry the weight that I wanted to for people to take advantage of. AA 4-H, I'll run near my Florida. Anybody else out there, go ahead and say something. Otherwise, back to Dan."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-09T05:24:59+00:00","id":15391,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15390,"text":" Yeah, very good. Morning, Kevin. Morning, Terrell. Morning, Kevin. Morning, Josh. Everybody else is checked in. Yeah, not too much going on here now. We're just, you know, relaxing. Ah. Gotta go buy mom her birthday gift. Her birthday's tomorrow. She turns seven. She's bored of the world. Little buyer thing today, because I don't usually like to shop on Sundays. So I'll get it done today, and then it's all over with. So yeah. I don't have too many plans today, Kevin. Just that, maybe, and just to get the cans and bottles back to the bottle recycling place. Yeah, this probably needs 10 cents a can instead of five. So that's not too bad. So I've got three big bags in the garage, and shit I gotta take back. We'll do that today, and hopefully get them out of here. And then, yeah, we'll figure out what happens. We'll just play it by ear for the rest of the day to see what happens. So back to you, Kevin. I'll be here. E1WINKM1X. Yeah, the, uh, I mean, I don't drink a lot of soda or anything that comes in. I mean, I guess I drink bottled water, and that's a nickel a bottle. I don't even bother recycling. I figure that nickel is a tax that you pay on disposal. You know, they're like, OK, you can pay an extra five cents and dispose of it any way you want, or you can pay five cents and we'll give you your five cents back, you know, when you recycle. And I just don't want to, it would take so long for me to accumulate enough to return that I just pitch them when I get them. I mean, at work, if we have recycled bins and stuff, I'll toss them in there. But if I'm at home the rare times that I'm drinking soda or something in a bottle, I just toss it. I know that it's going to get picked out when they, you know, when they go through the trash anyway, so it'll end up getting recycled. So I'm not too worried about feeling that my bottle's going to end up in a landfill. All right, let's see, who's next? Josh, KJ5, IRQ, good morning to you, sir. How are you? Welcome to the Cowabunga Net. Sounds like that hot weather that you guys have had, you're going to share it with us. And I can't tell you how grateful I am. Can you hear the dripping sarcasm in that statement? Good morning, Josh. What are you up to today? Mikey's yours. KM1X, this is KJ5 IRQ. And a happy Sunday morning to you and to everybody participating and listening to the net today. I'm parked outside my son's work waiting for him to get out of work today. And that's a beautiful morning. That's a good old video of it. Oh, I'm going to work a little bit on the chicken coop when I get back until it gets too hot. And I don't mind sharing the heat, Kevin. I don't mind at all. Today's only going to be 104. You know, I've actually been grabbing about the heat this year, and I grab about it more and more every summer. I don't think it's really getting that much harder for us, to be honest. I mean, it's probably just as hot as it's ever been. But man, I'm sure I'm taking it harder. You know, I do not like the heat. As the great Dr. Seuss would say about green eggs and ham, I say the same about humidity and heat. I'm fixing to post a video I made on AI just messing around this morning on the drop-in Facebook and Discord pages. It's kind of cute and fun. They're all approved. And so, yeah, just messing around. You know, I am really enjoying just playing. I mean, I'm not trying to make magic personally off of it or playing work that isn't bad. I mean, for the sake of this space, AI makes the job a whole lot easier if you wanted to create something. Now that I've been doing it for a while, I wouldn't say I am a creator. I think I am more of a pump door. You know, with AI, you've got to pump it, and you've got to pump it just right. And the words mean everything. And the placement and grammar, I mean, it's almost like you have to be a linguistic expert to be a great prompter. So I don't know if anybody's interested in that, but that's kind of what I'm thinking about today. Like I said, playing us a little video stuff while I'm waiting on the kid to get out of work. The kid, he's not even a kid anymore. He's I think 21 now. Yeah, he ain't got a vehicle. That's a source of contention between us. That's because he'd rather spend his money coming to Florida or California rather than see what I'm getting in the car. So I had to put a front down for that the other day. So he's not super happy with Pop right now, but he'll be all right. Man, I can't even guess. It's going to be a great Saturday. I can feel it, OK? And my dogs are in the truck, and if you can't hear them yelling, every yelling, growling, every time somebody walks by, I say, they just want to say hello in the most unfriendliest germs possible. All right, I've burned up two minutes and 40 seconds. Welcome back to UKM1X, Kevin. I'm glad you're hosting this Saturday morning. Over to you. KJ5 IRQKM1X. It's funny you bring up AI because I am currently enrolled in an online course through Vanderbilt University on building my own EPT. It's pretty interesting how you can, I mean, what I'm going to end up building, I don't know for sure, but it seems pretty interesting. I think, I mean, I'm learning how to build one. I've got to determine what I would want to build it for. I mean, whether I want to incorporate it in work. You could easily, easily build one, for instance, for ham radio, for people that are looking to take, I mean, they have already these apps, but they're trying to take their license. I mean, you could have one for blind people, where it will read the questions from the question pool. And you could, rather than have to type in your answer, you could voice your answer and it would respond. And it always starts out with, you know, what teaching us is, how supportive do you want it to be? I mean, you could tell it to be over the top so that whenever you ask it something, it's just going to come back with this, oh my goodness, I am so glad you asked that question or something like that. Or, you know, it could be more professional. So it's pretty interesting. I've got to decide what I want to do with this skill when I'm done with it. But I figure, that's the way. I don't know, if I got to work for another 10 years, I could see a lot of jobs being eliminated from AI. So I got to try to stay ahead of the curve. So that's what I'm going to do. Ron, 884 HO, how are you today? I don't know about you, but I had an excellent day in the market yesterday. I will probably never have a better day than I had yesterday. And I expect there'll be some sell-off come Monday, but I'm thrilled with what happened yesterday. But I hope you're doing well. Is tonight a karaoke night, or is it a steak dinner night, or what's it going to be? Fill us in on your plans. Over to you, Ron. Yeah, good morning, Kevin. Good morning, Jeff. Everybody participating in the teleprompter net on the drop-in? I started scaling in as of Thursday. And I almost got three, but I'm going to wait till Monday. And you know how many I sometimes accumulate? It's getting to be the kind of market you can hold on to stuff a little longer and wait a little longer to sell. So I'll have to adapt to that. But I don't think I sell too soon, because most of the ones that I own that I sold, I can buy back now at a lower price, except for one. Let's see. I am looking at the ticket that I have that I had to pre-purchase for the rib dinner tonight that I'll be attending. I have it at the lodge that's closer to me. And I prefer the one closer to me, because I've got to drive between 8 and 10 miles for the other one. And if I can get two events in a week apart in one, and two in the other, that gives me enough to at least out once a week. I'm learning and playing with stepper motors right now. I got this laser projector a long time ago. It's about three years old. And it projects to the ceiling. And it's real nice. I enjoyed it. But the stars stopped bursting. And the background nebula stopped wisping. So I didn't know that at the time, it utilized stepper motors, which is the same motors like you would use if in an air conditioner, open and close looper doors, or in a camera, say, if you wanted to zoom in and zoom out. But they come in a whole host of different flavors. There's five and 12 volt ones with different diameters. The first two numbers designate the diameter. So the first one I bought was too small. And it was long voltage too, because I needed 12 volts. And then I went and bought another one. And then it was too big. I needed a 24 in diameter. And I got one that was 28 millimeters in diameter instead. But I really like this device. And I can't get a replacement device. I quite like it. The second one, I did buy another one while I was waiting for the part. And that one I wasn't happy with, because if it stays on for a little while, some of the stars disappear, because it overheats. I can't have that. So I bought a more expensive one. So when I fix this one, I'll have three of them. So I'll end up giving away one. But the one I got now is awesome. It covers a lot more of the ceiling, starburst. The door is going crazier. Hey, hey, hey. Some noise outside. All these patterns I'm looking at right now. And I'll add a wish, more windiness to the net right in the background. And beautiful different patterns that appear and disappear. And wheels and stars and everything. So I'm satisfied with that. I think definitely I'll keep the one I fixed. I got the right one this morning this time. And it's going to be your Sunday. And I'll be able to slap that in and keep that one, give away the one, the first one up, or keep the second one that's running right now. All right, guys, that's enough for me on this go around. I did look up the Beatles' White Album, number nine song. That's number one going into it. AA4-H-O on here. I'll throw it back to Kevin. Hey, hey, four-H-O-K-M1-X. We got a double that time. We got you and the dog. And yeah, the White Album, I mean, there are plenty of people that will argue that the White Album is the Beatles' greatest album. And I think that was the beginning of the end for the Beatles. That was when they were really, you know, in deep with the drugs. And I didn't care for it. I really didn't. And Revolution number nine is one of their worst songs. It's not even a song. It's just noise. So yeah, not a fan. And we'll leave it at that. Maybe I'm opening a can of worms here, but no, not a fan. KM4-QBC Jeff, good morning to you. How are you today? How's little dog? You guys making breakfast? What is it, sausage gravy? And biscuits? And how are the temperatures there? They're starting to curve back up. I know that Chuck was saying they were very nice the last few days. And what are your plans for the weekend? Well, what do you, my friend? KM4-QBC. Hopefully you can hear me okay. Kevin, I am using a different phone this morning to get on Echo Link. So I'm on call for work, so I have my other phone ready for that. So I am going to try to stay on the net, Kevin. But if you call me and I'm not there, just go ahead and take me on. And I'll text you if I'm able to come back, but we have one in jail right now. He got into it with his daughter last night, I think is what they said. But anyway, I've got to handle that. And then I've already fed little dog. She's good to go. She's already been outside and used the bathroom. I'm heating up the oven now for some, I think I will have some biscuits. Good idea, Kevin. Thanks for mentioning that. I think I'll have the biscuits. I think I'll go with the bacon and eggs this morning. So that's where I'm at. That's what I'm doing. And duty calls. So hopefully I'll be around, but if I'm not around the next time, just go ahead and take me off, Kevin, and I'll come back when I get all this done. And I'll text you if I'm able to reach on or I'll call back and text Washington or something. But everything's good, brother. It's 65 degrees. It's supposed to get up to 79. So temperatures are inching back up. It's just been so hot and muggy here, it's crazy. Welcome to the tropical rainforest, western North Carolina. The great Smokies and the Appalachian Mountain range. It's been hot this year, brother, I can tell you that. And we've had some pouring down rainstorms, too. Anyway, thanks for taking my call, Kevin, and I'll try to be around. We'll see how it goes. K.M. Port QVC. Good morning, everyone. K.M. 4 QVC, K.M. 1X. Well, we'll keep our fingers crossed that you're able to stay with us. You say 65. I've got 62 here, so we're not that far apart. And, yeah, we're supposed to get around 80 here today. And then tomorrow it's going to get even hotter. And then Monday and Tuesday we're in the 90s and the But it is August, and we got spoiled because the last 10 days, as I said, were perfect. Highs in the mid-70s, upper 70s, and just gorgeous. But we know that months from now we will have it all behind us, and then we creep back down towards winter. All right, now let's go to gray. GC2, PKG, and then we'll go to the blue. Now let's go to gray, GC2, PKG. Gray, I know you love the snow, but you've got to admit you've got to love this last week to 10 days worth of weather. It's been perfect. And how are things in your neck of the woods? What have you been up to? What's the cat count up to these days? Over to you. What's the cat count up to? AM1X, this is KC2, PKG. East was Chinese, Maine. What's the good news? Lizzie came back 4-3 this morning, climbed up in the window and started yelling at me. So that's a good thing. That's for a two-day walkabout. So that was a short one. And she is crashed. She got a lot to eat. She's got a lot of food. She got a lot to eat and then put her little head down and that was the end of her. I'm going to spend the day getting ready for dinner party tonight. We're having people from the food pantry over. Something my wife's wanted to do for quite a while. And it'll be a pretty good sized dinner. But I have a lot of picking up and cleaning up and straightening out and other stuff to do. And you know, I don't know how far they're going to walk around, how much exploring they're going to do. Because that means other rooms have to be put together and straightened out and all that stuff. So I'm hoping they all just stay in our kitchen, living room, dining room area. And I don't have to worry about it. I will have to make sure there's enough toilet paper in the nearby bathroom. But I've got that to do today. So it's going to be pretty busy. And as for the last 10 days being perfect weather, it's been nicer. It's definitely been nicer, but it's still hot. I'm still sweating bullets just from doing the least amount of stuff. But I'm not happy about that. I really cannot wait for the summer to be over. I really can't. And let's get more and more like that every year. And I still don't even have a boat in the water, which flabbergasts me. I cannot believe I'm having a fun time. Although guests are starting to come. Let me drop this for a second. Or guests are on their way. Tuesday, a really good friend of ours and his wife are coming, and they'll be down in the boathouse. And it might be Sunday tomorrow that there's some ranchers coming to Camp 2. And I think Camp 2 is completely ready, certainly for them. Because they don't have any animals or anything. There's some pet guards and things like that that we are going to finish up. My son will definitely need that, because he always brings his cats out in the woods with the cats. So that's what's going on here today, just sort of gearing up to clean up and straighten up and then be entertaining. So back to you. K.M.1X, this is KC2PKG. KC2PKG, K.M.1X. Wow, you guys are very, very busy between hosting the dinner party and then hosting the folks in the camps. You've got your hands full. And glad to hear the cats back. I think it's funny that you think the cats are having a good snooze now, like, you know, man, no big deal. But I hope the party goes well tonight. You'll have to keep us posted. Look forward to the proverbial post-mortem on Monday. And it sounds like Wes is feeling well, too. Better if she's finally able to host something like this. So that's good. Let's go to work now. K.M.1X, PFD. Good morning to you, sir. How are you today? I'm guessing that you're still making progress on your recovery. And what are your plans for the weekend? Over to you."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-13T14:50:30+00:00","id":16735,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16734,"text":" AA-4H, AA-4H. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November. All-star Note 6222. Located in Shelton, Washington."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-24T05:29:34+00:00","id":23228,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":23227,"text":" Hey Steve, this is AA-4H. The Auto Train, simply you go to the train station, they load it onto the train, you travel via Amtrak, and when they get to a location you want to get off, you get off, they unload your vehicle, and then you drive. So it would cut it down a lot. If you wanted to do that, you could move them at different times. A friend of ours has done that."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-17T05:35:08+00:00","id":17711,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":17710,"text":" Thank you, Kevin. You know, I forgot to pass it to the, I get into what I'm talking about so much and then I forget that I'm not supposed to give it back to net control because of the unique way you handle it. Well, it's not that unique because Russell does it the same way, you know, he likes it a certain way, not exactly like that. So maybe that's a bad example. Anyways, let's see, when I'm done, I got to pass it to Dee. Let's see if I remember because what I got to say, you know, there's all kinds of critters around here. Some are beneficial and some, you know, are very undesirable and occasionally they'll try to get inside. Now, I've had a snake before. I got this what they call a solarium. It's off to the side of the bathroom on sliding glass doors and then it's not really large, it's about the size of a closet but, you know, the sun comes in and, you know, it has a screen on the top so basically it should keep everything out. And then you have, in order to get out onto the patio, you got to open the door. And I got a doggy door so that, like if I leave the sliding glass door open, the dogs can go out on the patio through the bathroom. Anyways, I looked up what kind of snake it was and it was, you know, one of those beneficial kinds. So, you know, I definitely got my grabber and took it outside. I didn't want it, you know, making my solarium its home because, you know, snakes bite anyway. You know, I wouldn't be reaching around one of my plants and get bit even if it wasn't poisonous. Because they, you know, they may have had things but they got teeth. And they do strike if they're provoked, you know, as timid of a right it might be. Let's see, there was some others that got in here. Now, we have an invasive species here, they're called iguana. And these things get really big. I had to reset there. They look like, you know, miniature dinosaurs. Some of them grow to be enormous. And enormous, I mean, like the size of the German shepherd. But I don't think that was an iguana that I saw in that canal. I think that was another species that somebody released in there. And that's how these critters get out into the environment is, you know, they're held as pets. And then, you know, we got all these snakes in the Everglades. I haven't seen any boas or some of these other species. I'm not thinking the name of it right. I can't think of the name of it right now. Besides boa, they kind of get their prey by strangling it within their body before they swallow it whole, which is kind of disgusting. Just think about that. And they're not good. Now, the iguanas might be good because they eat undesirable things. But there's so many of them. And I had one of them on the patio. And I had to get him. A good thing I got my grabbers because otherwise, you know, I don't have any way of getting them out of the house. The little lizards, you know, I kind of ignore them because they're, they eat, you know, smaller bugs and roaches and stuff. So they're pretty good. But they're native, you know, they're not like the big iguanas that grow up 100 times the size of, you know, the biggest lizard you could find. So that's my story about what's around here. There's some possums. I got some pictures of possums, nasty looking. You know, they were out on the fence. There was a couple of them and I got a couple of pictures of them. They look like real ferocious looking but they're kind of timid. And if you don't happen to catch them at night, if you happen to walk out, you know, when you turn on the light and see them, you catch them after they tried to cross the street and didn't make it to the other side. Ron, AA4H show in Miramar, Florida. Over to G, I remember. Over to G."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-18T05:18:23+00:00","id":18467,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":18466,"text":" I don't know who he put in there. I only know about, you know, the controversy that seemed to have, again, over, you know, whatever Trump does, it can't be good, you know. Who he actually nominated for the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, it hasn't come to my preview yet, so I'm not even going to try to guess, because you gave me like five choices, so what are the chances I'm going to hit it, right? And it would only be a guess. I'd rather just listen to you and find out from you, because you're going to tell me now. Back to you, Gray. Ron, AA-4H, help me on my phone."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-27T06:02:55+00:00","id":25652,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":25651,"text":" Yeah, not so sunny, but you know you got all of this humidity and it hangs up there causing cloud cover and somehow the heat still makes it through. So you know it's forecast to be 90 and it's going to be like that so our summer will go all the way through September and it's not even September yet. So I'm sitting back enjoying the air conditioner I got this season and I'm really happy with it. It's got the new coolant in it that's butane based and I don't notice much difference. So I think it's a good alternative to Freon and one good thing is if they start making these units for central air with that coolant, if it's coolant based with that, you don't need a license anymore. The only reason they had the license was because you have to know the proper procedure for recycling and it gets pretty involved and actually they get the certification. The test is pretty complicated because you have to know how to set the valves just right so you don't lose any Freon into the atmosphere. So it doesn't really matter if this gets out and if it works as good as my unit that I got here now with this, I'm all for it. I remember the last air conditioner that I saw that a friend of mine put in on his own. I could see the wisdom in doing it because it's really not that difficult but for so many years anybody that was capable, their hands were tied unless they had that certification because you can't buy the coolant. They were getting around with some of these other units that comes with the coolant already in and then after you put it in, you turn the valve and then it charges itself. That was a good alternative but I think the suit is better. AA-4-H, you're on Miramar, Florida, back to Darryl in neck control."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-20T05:17:03+00:00","id":20051,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":20050,"text":" I wasn't going. I hear and this isn't like, you know, high school stuff. This is when I was continuing education, you know, above that. And I'd hear, you know, people taking the class like, you know, why do we have to learn all of this or I don't agree with that. Never heard people tell them, look, you know, you got to pass the class. Just, you know, take the test, pass the class. You know, you just need to know it for them. And back then, I might have said the same thing to them or them. I've heard this, you know, so many times. But I know better now and if that ever happens again, if that's the way that you feel, if I heard somebody say that and they said it to me, I would tell them that, you know, well this isn't for you, you need to drop out and find something that's more agreeable for you. Because if you don't think that that's important or, you know, you're going to just pass the class even though you don't agree with this, this isn't for you, go find something else. And I got that from the paper chase, believe it or not. And I believe that wholeheartedly that you got to agree with what you're studying and not think that, well, you know, I really don't need to know that, pass just to complete the course. And then completely forget it after, you know, I'm done with it. All right, let's see here, was there anything else? No. I don't know if anybody was up really early this morning. There was somebody new in there and I talked with them for a little while. That's a hurricane passed here. It's already passed its closest point to me and I didn't even see a rain band. It's just a real overcast. AA-4-H out, Ronton, you're my Florida Vax, Brian, head control."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-04T06:27:53+00:00","id":31876,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":31875,"text":" Yeah, thank you Russell. This is Ron. 848 show near Florida. And there was something that came up where, you know, I said that I liked, you know, the sport of scuba diving. And someone said, well, you know, that's not a real sport. I wondered a little bit about it, you know, because it was always taught to me that it was a sport. It was an adventure recreational sport. And I don't know where you would draw the line, you know, I mean, we don't have, in scuba diving they don't have competitions per se or teams or, you know, you can get awards for, you know, how many dives, you know, through certain organizations if you, you know, show it, can prove it in your log book or how long you've been a member of an organization as an instructor you can get awards and stuff. So I'm going to stay fast on the fact that I think it's a real sport. And for someone who thinks it is, you know, I'll just let them to think whatever they want. I don't think that person who said that may have ever done it before. But I can see why they want to make that distinction, you know, that it isn't real as a sport, you know, it isn't really a sport, though it is often termed as a sport, an adventure recreational sport. So that's what I had for the scuba ramp since, you know, we're talking about sports that we like or sports we've played before or teams we've followed or if you get glued to the television for a whole season to watch a team. But you know, I couldn't, I'd rather be playing sports, participating in sports rather than watch other people play, which I think someone else already brought that out. They feel the same way. AA 4-H will run Milmore, Florida back to Russell in net control."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-04T06:47:39+00:00","id":31900,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":31899,"text":" I was getting some coffee. I think some of the requirements for scuba diving in the Navy, a Navy diver, I'm pretty sure I could meet a lot of them. I did make a statement a while ago that I thought I could meet all of them and then I remembered about one of them. And you have to, an Olympic size pool, underwater, hold your breath and go from one side to the other and then push off and then come back all underwater on one breath. I don't think I would even apply for it until I knew I could do that. I never accomplished that. I never tried. It would be something I would practice a whole lot to be sure that I was going to do that. I was told that a lot of the people, while meeting that requirement, just before they touch the other end, they pass out and then they have two people there to pick them up to touch the other side so they meet the requirement. That's just a Navy diver. That's not like a Green Beret. You have to at least be a Navy diver, I think, to apply for them. But I never checked. I just thought about it because I had a lot of interaction with a Navy diver that I knew that he wasn't in the military at the time I met him. That was after that. It was while he had just left being a commercial diver. So yeah, that wouldn't be a sport. Here's something that might be interesting as a sport is chess. I played it in high school a lot and I was on the chess team. And that team was pretty good. They won a state championship one year. Like some people do crossword puzzles. I see like right now in my YouTube feed, only one move wins for white. And I was going over that. They usually put them next to crossword puzzles. And instead of a crossword puzzle, I'll do that. Now these chess challenges mate in one move. What's white's next move to win? I don't know why they started showing up, but I started looking at them. And I'm looking at one right now. And I always found that fun to figure it out. And then if I don't, I can get the solution. I didn't ever get good enough to get a chess rating, because you can get a rating and participate in tournaments. So I thought that's an interesting sport. I've always liked it, never to play a lot. But I still do the puzzles when one presents itself. And they're usually fun. Gives me 15, 20 minutes sometimes of entertainment. AA 4-H, out around Miramol, Florida, back to Russell and Nick control."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-05T02:47:35+00:00","id":32594,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":32593,"text":" Yeah, I'll get through it pretty quick because I watched it two times. So I'll be back on here if there's anything else going on, I'll jump in and try to contribute. AA-4-H, over on here, Murph, Florida. Thanks, Ron. I don't know how you can do that. I can't do podcasts at 2x. I watch and listen to everything at one time, so it takes me a while. I'll be around. VE3, AFVX."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-08T09:24:13+00:00","id":35139,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":35138,"text":" AA-4H, AA-4H."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-09T05:02:31+00:00","id":35571,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":35570,"text":" My first wife and I, what it would be like if we'd have fun. And it kind of sounded like fun. So what we ended up trying, there used to be a diner that was a train car. It was made out of a train car. So we went to the diner and had dinner. And we felt kind of cramped. So there wasn't talk after that. So I never ended up doing that. That was kind of like before the internet, when you could make reservations and stuff online. So it's something I was thinking about doing again. The stations here, the Amtrak stations aren't too far. And on the same tracks runs the Tri-Rail, which you can go from here to West Palm Beach. That's all it runs. It doesn't run like Amtrak, where you can go anywhere in the US. And this Brightline, I'm not sure where all those stops go. I think they have plans to make that go all the way, or if it doesn't already, to Orlando. But it's kind of far from Disney world. I think there's a bus that you have to take when you get off the station. I was wondering, Peter, maybe your company is looking for you to come back because they need people. Maybe they're hiring. I don't think I remember you mentioning what company it is. Maybe you might want to throw that out there in case they're hiring. If they are, I'd like to know what kind of industry it is. Back to net control, AA-4-H over on Nearmore, Florida. Go ahead, Russell. This is repeater station kilo-q07, November, Quebec, November. All-star note, page 222, located in Shelton, Washington. Hey, everybody else, I'm getting on my telephone, mister. I ran out, called KB9NFK. And the question of day is, do you ride on train, called KB9NFK?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-22T06:55:53+00:00","id":66400,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":66399,"text":" Well, right, yeah, I'm coming in on Darrell's All Star. So I don't know if I was at Wartley, but yeah, I heard Darrell Wartley that time. That was the first time. But I just got in here when I called in. I was in earlier listening, but I'm not sure. But if I'm Wartley, I guess I'm coming in on his. But anyway, other than that, it's beautiful. It's nice here. During the day, it's nice. God, it's great. This is the best time of year to be down here, because in the summer, you don't want to be anywhere near here. So anyway, it's supposed to be a colder winter, great. You ought to enjoy it. Probably your lake will freeze over, and we're supposed to get a little bit more snow. But hey, we'll have to wait and see. So anyway, it's beautiful outside right now. So I'm going to get some stuff done. I want to head out and go for a walk. And anyway, y'all have a good day, and I'll catch up with you later. AA 4-H out."},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-22T06:54:36+00:00","id":66399,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":66398,"text":" Okay, looks like we lost Rosie. We'll go right to Chuck, AA4HI. Final thoughts, Chuck? Thanks for joining the net today, by the way. This is KC2PKG over 2AA4HI."},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-30T04:30:39+00:00","id":27859,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":27858,"text":" Nothing is worse than Putin. He's a snake in the grass. And I agree with George, he's never going to be eliminated. All we can do is minimize all the consequences from Russia that we'll ever get but we'll never completely eliminate it. Good morning, AA4H. That's all I wanted to contribute. For now."}]}