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We're in Roanoke Rapids Hotel on Iota, Jim."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:29:05+00:00","id":13989,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":13988,"text":" Alright, watch that one. That's too bad. Um, okay, well, I'm just a meatloaf lover in the house, so we're gonna go to Josh. KJ5IRQ Josh. B-loaf. Do you like it? Do you make it? How do you make it? This is KC2PKG. This is Repeater Station Kilo 7, KJ. I would like to know who actually eats meatloaf. Kilo is nasty. I mean, it's filled with crap like meat. And binders. And spices. Oh, wait. Meat. I'm the people. I love meatloaf. I, uh, actually, I don't even care for the meatloaf when it's cooked. I'll eat it, mashed potatoes and all that. Cool, whatever. Man, it's the next day. I'm telling you, that's where it's at. Meatloaf sliced up, served on some bread. Where it's at. Especially if you have a little bit of, you know, gravy and a little bit of mashed cabbage. I do the same thing on Thanksgiving, though. The next day on Thanksgiving, I usually make me a Thanksgiving sandwich. And it's gonna have turkey and cranberry and stuffing. And, yeah, it's just one big nasty sandwich. Man, it's so... Meatloaf. Yes, we do have meatloaf here. And it's different to anyone who makes it. My last cooks are completely different than how I do. I do two versions. One's a gourmet version and one's just an everyday version. The everyday version, I either get really good ground beef or I buy a chuck roaster and make it myself. There's a texture thing involved with meatloaf, I think. I also don't just use generic breadcrumbs on it. My life almost always has some sourdough bread around here somewhere. So we drive that out and we make the breadcrumbs out of that. But what I do in mine, I think a lot of people do, maybe not on this match. At least here, in my neck of the woods. We're moving our meatloaf together. We've got our meat in our binders and spices. Bell peppers and onions. It's already been softened. Sometimes I grill them and then I'll saut\u00e9 them a little bit. Get that char built into it. Lay all those profiles. And, yeah, we'll get that whole sucker mixed together. And then what I do is I'll hollow out the center and put some cheese in there. And I'll cover it up with some more meat, you see. So basically I made a meatloaf pocket for cheese. But it doesn't end with that. No, no sir. I like to go one step further. And I'll throw that sucker on my smoker. If you've never had smoked meatloaf. Now, I'm not saying liquid smoke. I've used that in the past and it works to the pitch. But it's a poor substitution for a good smoked meatloaf. Unfortunately, this day and age, eating smoked really kind of hurts my digestive track. But that's one of those things that I'll have. Gosh, I'll probably don't make meatloaf like that twice a year maybe. It's a lot of work. But, man, I'll tell you what. It is the best meatloaf. And I also kind of like Dell. I don't use ketchup. We make a barbecue sauce and it's a simple barbecue sauce. We make it for chicken, for everything basically. And we use that. So, yeah, there you go. KJ5, IOKU, back to the neck control. I'm not a big fan of smoked things, but that sounds really good. KJ5, IRQ, this is KC2, PTG. All right. We will move on to KN6, UYZ. Do you like meatloaf, John? And do you make meatloaf? Or what is your favorite meatloaf? What about you? Uh, lost your name. Okay. KN6, UYZ. This is KC2, PKG. Uh, good morning again, KN6, UYZ. Yeah, I like meatloaf a lot. Although I've never made it in 77 years. Uh, because I don't really know how. I don't really know much about spices and things like that. Uh, I guess my favorite way of having it would be the way my mother used to make it. However that was. So, I guess I like meatloaf. Uh, but, uh, what, barbecue sauce on the top? Yeah, I'm sure that would be tasty, and I would be happy to eat that. Especially with some mashed potatoes. But, uh, the way I was used to it was with some kind of ketchup, uh, flavoring on the top. So that would be my preferred way to go. So I don't have anything that interesting, I just don't make it. Never have anything that interesting about it. I don't want to have any of that. Uh, I'll tell you what that is. I'm going to get a little bit of a good slice of meatloaf. Uh, I've got a little bit of a good slice of meatloaf. And, uh, I've got the chicken and the chicken. I just don't make it, never have, but if somebody wants to invite me over, I'll be happy to come and eat it for you. KN6UYZ, back to Nat. Beep. KN6UYZ. All right, we gotta take her. If you got extra meat, we'll invite John over. This is KC2PKG. Oh, and you got my mind to whirl. Josh, with the meatloaf sandwiches, they really are good. They really are good. That used to be my first wife's favorite thing in the world was meatloaf sandwiches. And you really have to work on the body of the loaf itself, so it can be sliced very, very thin. And that takes a little extra binding to make it work like that. All right, Chuck, AA4HI. Hey, loaf, do you like it? Do you make it? And if you do, how do you make it? This is KC2PKG. Beep. You know, Cory, I'm not a big fan of meatloaf. It's okay. But it's not my favorite food. Well, I mean, maybe my wife maybe makes it a couple times a year, and never in the summer. You know how it is here. I don't see anything like that in the summer. At least me, I don't. So I don't really go crazy when I hear it's being cooked. I'm like, okay. I don't think it's wonderful, so to speak. But anyway, that's the way it goes. What do y'all like, what was it like? So I'm great, I don't like it. With some ketchup on top, onions, and whatever else is in it. But I don't know, I really am not like cheese. I can't wait to eat it. So I probably went on to the first one who says I really just don't like meatloaf. Anyway, back with you, AA4HI. Beep. Ah, we got one. AA4HI, this is KC2PKG. I was waiting for somebody to say I really don't like meatloaf. So you won the prize, gold star for you. All right, Terry, MM0RKN. Meatloaf, do you make it, do you like it? Is it different in Scotland somehow? We'd love to know all your thoughts about meatloaf. So this is KC2PKG, over to you, MM0RKN. Beep. Beep. We'd use lean scotch beef mince, three rashers of bacon, finely chopped, an onion, finely chopped, carrots, tomato, and some herbs would be put in there as well. Maybe like chives or parsley or something. And you'd have three tablespoons of fresh bread. And it would be put into a baking tin. Just cook, you can slice it into nice slices. It's perfect for sandwiches as well. So yeah, that's how the traditional Scottish meatloaf is there today. MM0RKN, back to net control. Beep. MM0RKN, this is KC2PKG. That sounds good. That sounds like a recipe that would work. You know, there's two basic philosophies I've noticed for meatloaf. You can have meatloaf with gravy and potatoes, or you can have meatloaf with ketchup. And I've never seen the two put together, but the philosophy up here in Maine, where we go, the meatloaf has gravy on it, tons of it, and lots of potatoes. So meat and potato cake. But when I was growing up, it was sliced much finer. It had ketchup on it, there's the eight, it had ketchup. November, Quebec, November. All-star notes, please use. And so just a totally different thing. Some people put them in a loaf sheet, and some people put them on a baking sheet, a rimmed baking sheet, and they just leave it open, a mound. That's how my son does it. And either one works, either one works. Okay, Bill, N9OFU. Meatloaf, we're talking meatloaf here. Do you like it? Do you make it? And if so, how? This is KC2PKG. All right, well, no, I don't make it. And my wife doesn't make it. So if I eat it, the only chance I get to eat it is if I find it out in the wild. I use a bow and arrow, shoot it, take it down. You know? No, but there's Chuck's Up, Flying J, and Pilot. They all have meatloaf. And every now and then, I'll grab one of their slices of meatloaf, you know, get it with potatoes and vegetables. And it comes with a red paste on it, either ketchup or something. Similar, maybe I have tomato paste, but I think it's probably more ketchup. I think my mom used to make it when I was a kid, because I seem to recall having it when I was a kid. But other than that, it's just being able to grab it. Sometimes when I'm out on the road and I get a hankering for it, I remember, every now and then I might find a buffet that has some meatloaf as one of the items on there. So I usually grab some of that too. But that's what I know about meatloaf. I don't eat it. It's not something I go out of my way for that I have to have, but I don't mind it. It's a fine meat-like substance that I do enjoy eating from time to time. All right, back to you. Oops, sorry, sorry. Also, the other last question. I remember my mom had gotten a screen door, a wooden screen door from someone who moved and it didn't fit her door. So it was my chore to take that thing and make it fit. So I had to do some trimming here and there, then add some stuff on the bottom to keep the bugs out. I totally forgot about that. So I was proud that I was able to get that put together and up for her and her mobile home there in Casa Grande. Back to you. N90FU, this is KC2, PKG. It's interesting, because I just finished retrimming a screen door to fit in a very, very old porch where everything is warped. So we used a spring and a wire to pull it tightly closed. Come on, because screen doors aren't much fun if they've got big cracks around them. All right, KM4QVC Jeff Meatloaf, we're talking Meatloaf. Do you like it? Do you have it often? Do you not make it? And if you do, then how do you make it? This is KC2, PKG. KC2, PKG, KM4QVC. Josh was talking about she just bakes it to that right, I don't know, it's kinda crispy around the edges a little bit, and then ketchup on top. So I think she puts that on there because she gets it out. Anyway, I love it, I love it. And later that same day, we used that for supper. I'll make the sandwich with a little mayo, white bread, and just a touch more ketchup. So yeah, man, I'm all about it for KM4QVC. All right, another big vote for Meatloaf. This is KC2, PKG, thank you very much, KM4QVC. And we'll try Ralph again, see if he's out there. Hey, YQJ, do you like Meatloaf, Ralph? And do you make it? We'd love to know how you make it. This is KC2, PKG."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T07:14:45+00:00","id":14005,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14004,"text":" And that's really about it. It's gonna make you hard to want to do anything this afternoon, so the chicken coop's probably out till tomorrow. I did start the chicken coop this morning, like I said, I was gonna work on it throughout the night. Uh, no, I started, I've been working on it, but I've worked some more on it. However, I got it, I got all the tools uncovered, uh, you know, I keep a top of them out there, so it's, it's just about the four weeks or so. Um, anyhow, I got everything uncovered, made a couple of cuts, got a couple of studs put in, and it started to rain. And it's been really raining pretty much, also not in ever since. So that's, that's nice. Uh, the rain this time of the year, at any time of the day, uh, is really a blessing. Uh, so, uh, yeah, gotta stay inside hot and humid is not my friend. Uh, great nap today. Great, I thought the questions were on point. Uh, food, I like food, so we can talk about food at any time. Uh, with that, I do hope you all have a great Monday. Uh, and if it's a hard Monday, just remember, it will come to an end, and tomorrow we'll, uh, bring a new day. With that, KJ5-IOQ sends it back to neck control. 70 degrees. How about you, KZ? You graded my last get through. Yeah, um, wait a second, KJ5-IOQ, this is KC2PKG, uh, thanks for joining us this morning, Josh, we hope to hear you more throughout the week. Uh, Del, yes, most of yours got in and just cut out at the very end. Wished it's all 73s and then it went silent. Um, do you want, do you have other things to say? Take your chance right now. Uh, no, that's probably it, man, just wish Josh a happy birthday there toward the end, and, uh, told everyone to stick around for the worldwide friendship net. As long as you got all of that stuff, my transmission pretty much got through. Uh, VL1-UKZ, have a great day. Alright, VL1-UKZ, this is KC2PKG talking to you again tomorrow. Um, Ron, AA4-HO, it's the 73 round, do you have any final thoughts for us? Over to you, Ron, AA4-HO, this is KC2PKG. Yeah, I agree that, uh, what I've repaired or restored, that was, uh, an interesting question, because that's basically, uh, one of the strengths I have and what I like to do. And I, I have some stuff here, I gotta put a little tiny, uh, RC motor in to get that working again. But it doesn't do what, uh, the others to buy a brand new one do. It does, uh, cause I looked, even though I only pay for it with the price of this motor going in. But it's kind of a laser light and it shoots a star burst out of five little stars and then it comes back to the star and then it re- does the cycle. Uh, but none of the other newer ones do that. They'll just, uh, flicker a little. So, uh, maybe it's worth, you know, spending the extra money. I already had it apart and I know, uh, I could have it, uh, working the way it did when it was due. So I'm looking at that, uh, on, uh, uh, like real soon. I might order the parts today. It'll come, it'll be here in a couple of days. And I do like the wealth and I enjoyed sharing all of the, uh, different ways that I make it. Uh, explaining what common sense means. That, you're right, it could be used as an insult grade. So I tried to be a little careful there. Uh, though, uh, people, you know, tend to get, uh, you know, real sensitive. But I think I bled out that, um, in order to have common sense, you know, you really do need to know the material. Uh, that, uh, you're gonna make a decision with if you're gonna, uh, make the right choice or the right decision when you're doing something. And it's not good always to just rely on common sense. And, uh, we had fun with that game too today. So, uh, all around it was a great next up with a lot of different activities. I look forward to seeing everybody tomorrow. Great. You have a nice day. This is Ron AA-4-HO near Muff, Florida back to you, net control. Ron, you have a great day too. This is KC-2-PKG and that was AA-4-HO. And now we're gonna go to Chuck, AA-4-HI. Like share, explanation or lie on common sense. That was good. Um, any final thoughts? 73 round Chuck, take it away. Hey, Clay. Enjoy it. And, um, yeah. That's true. I guess, uh, sometimes people use that remark to tear down other people instead of working on themselves, you know. Uh, if we do something all the time, we're good at that thing, aren't we? But, uh, some people really are good at almost everything they do. They can figure things out. And, uh, those are amazing people. Well, you enjoyed the net. Nice to be in here again. And, um, hope you have a great day, everybody else. And, um, enjoy the cold weather while it lasts down here. And it loves humidity. Uh, 73 AA-4-HI. AA-4-HI. We're gonna have a nice, uh, a nicer, cooler, drier, uh, week this week. We've had quite a while. So, I'm looking forward to that as we get started here. Gary, MM-0-RKN. Um, I also like your, your, uh, mom's comment about common sense in the milk in the refrigerator. That was interesting. Uh, it's a 73 round. Do you have any final thoughts for us, Gary? MM-0-RKN. Yeah, Gary, it was my grandmother. In said, what, she's no longer with us? But, um, two of your questions, the Meatworlf one and the Coronavirus M1. Made me think back to those days when I used to have her every day just after school and, uh, they were happy to. But, um, she was just from the hip. I should tell you how it was, you know there was no, you know, coating it in ice or anything like that. She used to tell it as it was, so there we go. And yeah, I really enjoyed the net today as well. They're great, it's been great and blessing everybody's answers too. And I look forward to hearing again next week in exchange, even though politics questions. Anyway, have a good day everyone, 73 and hopefully catch you all again tomorrow. M-M-0-R-K-N, Black Connect Control, oh and happy birthday Josh! ...perceptions of foods and kinds of food and I think that is very central to being human I believe. N-9-O-F-U, Bill, this is 73 rounds, final thoughts from you. This is KC2BKG."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T05:07:27+00:00","id":13976,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":13975,"text":" W0GL, I'm sorry, so it's up to you. Okay, I have a comment about eating rice. I thought this is how it was done, but I looked it up anyways just to make sure. But for eating rice, you put the bowl up to your mouth and you scoop or shovel the rice into your mouth depending on the stickiness. So that's how you eat rice with chopsticks. W0GL, victim out. Alright, W0GL, this is KC2PKG. Now we're going to go on the truck, AA4HI. Chuck, how was your weekend, ma'am? And you have plans for the week? Something going on? When is your son coming home? He should be arriving home pretty soon, shouldn't he? This is KC2PKG, over to you, AA4HI. Craig, he's home. Take him up to the water. He's home. Keep him up in Washington, DC. Anyway, it's something weird in the tour park when a dog comes out and tries to bite a rider, but the motorcycle will scare you all behind. No one wants to get chased by a dog when on a bicycle, especially when you're going down a road like 25 miles an hour. But anyway, he's home. He's glad to be home. He's finally getting not being so tired of jet lag and walking so much. He had a great time. And I'm glad to get to see a lot of the world. And I've been on HF working a lot of parks on the air, photo stations, CW, iPhone. And also, it cooled off great. We've had a few days of cool weather. I don't know whether or not it's going to get back, I think Thursday. But good time to work on the antennas. I get to get that Delta Loop up higher. You know, if I didn't feel like getting out there, the wind is so hot and gray. I mean, it's just a musical. For two months, it's been like that. So with the cooler air, it makes you want to get back outside and do something. Look at that drop. So anyway, I'm throwing the doobie out there and take that coaxial cable out of that 20-meter Delta Loop and bring it back to a cleaner balance outside. So I can get it up higher because I didn't have any more coaxial cable. And I can tell I need it to work anywhere other than 20 and 10. So that's kind of the fun about it. I've been enjoying HF a lot. I hope you've been enjoying your FTX1. I know a lot of people want those things. And there's a lot of hype around like is everything when it comes out. And you got some saying, no, no, no, I like the 705 better. It's lighter. But you can't beat something with two bands and two antenna ports. You know, I say two bands at once and two antenna ports. So I think it's pretty darn cool. And anyway, life goes back to work this month sometime. Because it's back to school month here, anyway, down south. So there's a lot going on here. I'm glad to work at my dad's house. You know, helping him out. All he does is cruise a lot more. You know, that's his thing now. He'll pay his price a couple times a week. You know, he's got sprinklers and hiss. What he likes doing. But everything's going pretty good down here. Coming back with your gray A4 chair. This is redo. A4, A9, this is Casey, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, I am having a lot of fun. It's my next one. I use it every day. It's my second way into the net. And I can tell the hell. Because it's got so many indicators. It runs a waterfall display. It's called a waterfall going up display. It's in 3D. It has an oscilloscope display. And it has a fast pore-ne-er transform. Fast pore-ne-er transform. So I get to see everything about what you're saying. The entire audio spectrum is represented by that. It's cool. It's very cool. I love this screen though. Alright, Terry. MM0, R, A, N. Are you still going for an FTX1? Or are you waiting and biding your time? This is Casey 2, PKG. Terry, I wish you a weekend. Good. MM0, R, A, N. Return as well. Good morning, Gray. Good morning to everybody on the net. I'm going to hear everybody today. Firstly, the FTX1F. Funny you should mention that, Gray. I actually ordered one last night. I've decided to order the Optima. I spent several months watching videos, good and bad reviews. I just like doing it. I think it looks great. I like the versatility. Obviously, I go to the caravan quite frequently, my sister's caravan. I think it would be quite a good go-box radio as well as the C-3. I can see a lot of uses for me personally for using it. I just like the dual-band feature as well. The more videos I've watched, I think the more I talk to my health into it. One of the UK radio deals, a family has got stock direct from Yesu, Japan. It should be shipping. They're getting a load of them in shipping in the next week or so. I'm a little bit hoping that I manage to get one from that batch. If not, I'll just bide my time and wait out till it is available. There we go. That was my big purchase last night. My weekend was quite peaceful to go on a screen. My son and my husband, they were at a truck show on Saturday in Edinburgh. I did some of the stuff. I came home and just enjoyed some of the sunshine we had. Yesterday, I was actually attending coming on the East Nae and the worldwide friendship. I was locked in and I was sitting in my living room on the sofa. I know these off. I fell asleep for about two hours yesterday having an afternoon news there. I got up and I was just sitting there. I was just sitting there. I fell asleep for about two hours yesterday having an afternoon news there. Hang on, I'll take any hit. I must be getting to that age where I'm starting to need this afternoon nap. Hi, hi. My apologies. I've maybe not been on quite as regularly as I usually am. We're still in the school holiday period. I've been telling it out and about. I'm not talking as well, but it's been a bit of a juggle from time to time getting round everything. It still goes back to on the 14th of August. Normal service will resume, so that will be that. I was listening to Josh saying that he's on a healthy eating plan. I too have started on healthy eating. My eating was just getting a little bit out of control. I was getting a little too full and eating the bad stuff. I studied last week on my healthy eating and I've lost five pounds in weight. I'm quite pleased with that. It's working. I can do it if I set my mind to it. It taught me that the salmon actually will enjoy salmon as well. We're quite lucky in Scotland. We have lovely fresh water salmon here. We're quite renowned for our salmon actually. People actually come here to salmon fish. They eat salmon and think salmon's from here is lovely. They're a quite big fan of salmon there. Anyway, Mm0rkn, but they need control. Mm0rkn, this is KC2PTG. While you're waiting for your FTX10 rod, take a look at some of the accessories. I got one, which is kind of a taste for it. It's really a framework with handles on it and stuff like that. It makes it much easier to pick it up and move it around. It's just a big brick. I got that on it. It looks cool and it directs the sound a little bit better when it's got that on. It looks like it's in fall without getting hurt, which could happen. I'm happy with that. I'm still waiting for the Bluetooth chip and the GPS to come for mine. Those seem to be in short supply. Although I may have to go back and check and see if I actually did order those or did I just zone out in the middle of that. All right. Well, it's good to hear from you, Carrie. That's great, and you lost weight too. Unbelievable. Good for you. All right. Let's see if anybody else wants to get in on the Monday morning version of the cowabunga net and then we can get going. Come now with your call sign. This is KC2PKG. Join the conversation. We're dying to hear from you. Come now with your call sign. Remember, 9 Oscar Foxtrot, uniform in 9LFU. KM4GBC Kilo Mike 4 Quebec Bravo Charlie, Jeff North Carolina."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T05:20:33+00:00","id":13978,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":13977,"text":" KN4 at OBS, this is D. Is it in Asia? KN4 at OBS. This is repeater station. KN4 at OBS, it is not in Asia. All starts at OBS. KN4 at OBS, it is not in Asia. Uh, KJ5, IRQ, what's your question, Josh? Uh, let's see, let's find that most efficient way to narrow this down, huh? KJ5, IRQ. If it's, uh, going to my countries would take a while. Golden continents would be quicker. Uh, there's only seven of them. And I think we can probably rule out and on it, huh? Or it might be a good one to pay for it, would you? Um, so that's gonna leave six contacts. So we can't really do it by a climate because it almost sort of gets hot and almost sort of gets cold. Yes, contacts are probably, that's probably the easiest way. Um, let's go with, uh, oil in Europe. Is it a place in Europe? No, it is not. It is not in Europe. That was the third question and we go to Ron, AA4HL, what is your question, Ron? Okay, uh, is it related to a country? It is definitely related to a country. To a country. Alright, so it's not in the US, it's not Asia, not Europe. And it is related to a country. Um, we've been around it all. KN6UYZ, what is your question? This is KC2PKG. Alright, well, KN6UYZ, how about South America? It is not in South America. Next one is AA4HI. AA4HI, what is your question? Chuck, what is your question? Is it in Oceania? Oh, New Zealand and Australia, that area. No, it is not in Oceania. I hardly ever hear anybody say that. Oceania, but you're right, it's not there. It is definitely not there. So, uh, Terry, MM0RKN, what is your question? What is your question? MM0RKN, is it a desert-like place? Yes, it definitely qualifies as a desert-like place. Alright, and then we go to Bill, N90FU. Oh, yeah, you got it on key. Alright, excuse me, so it's a desert-y, is it somewhere in the Middle East? Is it in the East? Is it in the East? Is it in the East? Desert-y, is it somewhere in the Middle East? Yes, it is, it is in the Middle East. Alright, we move on down to Jeff Cam for QBC. I don't know if you've played this game before, but we're playing 20 questions, we're trying to narrow down the place I'm looking for. And so far, it's not in the US, it's not in Asia, not Europe, it's related to a country. It's not South America, not Oceania, and it is in a desert-like place, and I'm gonna tell Bill that it is in the Middle East. So what's your question? Is it Saudi Arabia? No, it is not Saudi Arabia, although it is close by. Okay, so it's not Saudi Arabia. And A, Y, Q, J, Ralph, what is your question? This is KC2PKG. Oh, me? Okay, so what's your question?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:04:12+00:00","id":13986,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":13985,"text":" The 01 UKZ, you have a smooth ride and an easy shot. In the meantime, we're going to go to the KN4LBF. J, what have you repaired or restored that you think you did a pretty good job on? It's over to you, D. This is KC2PKG. This is KN4LBF. This is D. It was something very simple, but I am proud of it. When my parents died, they had this Asian 3D face made of porcelain. It's about two feet long and one feet wide. And I'm looking at it. And through the years, it's about 75 years old right now, it looked like it needed a little uplift. So the figure on top hat is a female, and it had a crown on top of her head. And I repainted the crown gold and just her sleeve gold. And the retouch was amazing. It just made an amazing improvement how it looked. And I'm just looking at it right now. And I'm pretty proud of it. Back to you, Gray. This is KN4LBF. KN4LBF. This is KC2PKG. Porcelain. Have you repaired or restored porcelain? That sounds very hard. It really does. And the fact that you painted it and you're proud of it, that's great. That is great news. Josh, PJ5IRQ, what's something that you either repaired or restored that you're particularly proud of the job you did? This is KC2PKG. Open to you, Josh. PJ5IRQ. KC2PKG. This is KJ5 on cue. Something I would have had that I'm particularly proud of, oh, gosh, I remodeled a house before. That was pretty cool. I'd say I remodeled houses around here. And the houses are houses, I should especially clarify that. I've repaired a lot of things. KitchenAid. My wife loves the KitchenAid mixer. And all year after we bought our, I think it was our second one, it went out like the first one. I was getting really frustrated with it. So I did some digging around. And it's the brushings. I don't know why I didn't think about that with the first one. I fell a fool because I threw the first one away for like $20. I got to replace the brushings and kept the first one. I replaced the KitchenAid with some good brushings. And gosh, it's been years. And it's still working just fine. She uses it all the time. That was personally a good fix. KitchenAid mixes, you know the cream and galakop, at least that's what I was really concerned. There ain't no point in paying more money than that for something that does the same thing. Let's see. I do have a project coming up. As soon as it starts cooling off into the fall, rather I want to be outside all day every day. We have an old family bench. Joseph E. Ford built this bench. Not that y'all would know him, but he happened to be one of the first people in the Middle of Wales to open the store. And she's got to give you an idea how old this bench is. I have an actual picture of him in this last sitting on it. It is 1888. It's over the rock. It was my grandparents, of course. It got passed down to me. And it's an old, bad shape. I mean, it is a bad shape. But we're going to look into repairing it. I want to keep it as original as possible with as much wood as possible. So I may end up using clear epoxy or something to fill in some voids. But the idea is to bring it back to a shade of a swirly void. I can't tell you how many seeds of the fence people in my family have sat in that bench over the years. I mean, if some of them could tell a story, wouldn't you love to sit and have that word pour out the stories since, at least in my family since the late 1880s? Man, talk about an explosion of lighting ideas. Anyhow, yeah, so that's coming up. That bench, I'm really excited about it. The only thing I don't know is who gets it after me. I've got two boys and a daughter. And it's always stayed with somebody with a last name before it. So I'm sure it will stay with my boys. And I sure it won. And so I'm going to see who ends up at the house in a safe place for it. And that's probably who will get it. Sorry, I had to reset for a second. I was running out of time. Anyhow, that's it. I'll send it back to you, KJ5. I'll help you back to KG2PKG. KJ5 IRQ, this is KG2PKG. A bench, a family bench. That sounds cool. That sounds cool. I'd love to see a picture of that. KI7ODD, I see you in the text box. You want to give it a shot now? Tell us how your weekend was. Maybe tell us about something you restored or repaired that you're particularly proud of. Over to you, KI7ODD. This is KG2PKG. This is better now. This is KI7ODD. KI2KC2PKG. I actually am thinking, let me think. Oh, yeah. I restored stuff before that. My squeaky here is my fan. It just squeaks, squeaks, squeaks. So don't worry about that. I should have read this text thing. Ah, never again. All right, I hope my audio's better. I'm sorry about earlier. It was my rig. I need a new one. I need a new rig. Gosh darn it. All right. What I did yesterday was I was thinking about beading, playing with my, getting my crafting done. I did some sewing last weekend, but this weekend I am going to go on and be at the Idaho State Convention for ham radio this year, which is going to be awesome. I hope I get the 7800 icon. I hope I get it. Just hopefully I can get it this time. I don't, I don't. I can't, I couldn't even sleep last night. Sorry about that interference earlier. All right, have a good day guys and gals. Okay, this is KI 7 ODD, Murray in Spokane, Washington. KI 7 ODD, I'm Murray. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. That, your audio sounded fine. That time it was perfect going through there. So I've got you on the list. We'll be hitting you again. And Steve, N0BF, I've got you on the list too. We're just going to keep working down the way we're doing it. DA 4 HO. Ron, is there something that you repaired that you are particularly proud of? So what do you do? A4 HO, this is KC 2. Yeah, you know, you might remember me talking about, you know, when I redid the bathroom and the shower, I put caulking and you're supposed to put silicone on it, and I put silicone on it. And I put silicone on it. And I put silicone on it. And I put silicone on it. And I put silicone on it. And I put silicone on it. And I'm supposed to put silicone. And then I, you know, when it started leaking underneath, I had to get all of that out and redo it and put silicone in there. But that's really nice. You know, I got granite top on the, you know, the sink, new sink and toilet, completely new shower. And it's really nice. I did the water heater and the copper pipe I had left over, I made myself a UHF antenna that I use with my All Star Network. Whenever I'm on my mobile rig or HT and I'm on All Star, the signal goes through the antenna before you hear me on here if I was to do that. And I got one of those nano-VNA's to make sure, you know, it was resonant at the right frequency. That I needed it at. All kinds of things. The vehicle I drive now is new. The one before that, even though this was an upgrade, it had all of the features because I put in a lot of aftermarket stuff. The GPS I added and a whole mess of things. The side rails to step into it. Of that I do, but I didn't have to do that with this last vehicle I just bought. You know, because it came with it all. But I did install and put the automatic garage door opener in. And that I'm pretty proud of. It works really good. Now I just drive up to the house and I don't even go out the front door anymore when I take the car. You know, it's in and out through the garage. The door opens, pull the car in, door goes down, come in through the garage now. If I think about it, there's a lot of stuff. Except for the stuff, you know, I don't have the tools for it. I have to pay somebody to do it. AA4HO, Ron Nirma, Florida, back to you, Gray and Nick. AA4HO, this is KC2PKG. And it is all the something with the house. You know, I lived in a house in Morristown for 30 years. And I can't tell you how many weekends I spent either under the car or working on the house or cleaning up that yard. It was just endless, endless. I'm so glad to be out of that. Because I don't like any of that stuff. As it turns out, it's kind of fun to create things. It's kind of fun to repair places. But when you're doing it in all your free time, I built a car there. An Aztec 7 from FiberFab, which goes on a Volkswagen chassis. And that would best two years of my life. I'm never going to get back. I went to sleep, because it's fiberglass, I went to sleep crunchy every night. It was just terrible. My wife hated it. Alright, KN6UYZ. What have you repaired or restored that you're particularly proud of? Okay, John, this is KC2PKG. Over to you. KN6UYZ, thanks so much for having me as usual. Yeah, you know, in 1970 I bought a Corvette. And, you know, come around 1974 or 5, the car needed a great job. And so I decided to take care of it myself. And jacked up each tire individually at the house. And decided I'd grab a screwdriver and place it between the calipers and the rotors and pry the brakes apart so I could insert a new pad on all four wheels. Well, that worked great. Good job. Padded myself on the back. I took off in that car and next thing I know, I know, the brakes were pushing all the way to the floor. I had to have that car towed back to the dealership and it cost me $1500 in 1975 to have that brake job done properly. Apparently you're supposed to relieve the pressure in the system, in the brake fluid system because I didn't do that before pulling everything apart and losing the, and I blew the seals and all the pistons. And this is a dual caliper system. And it was very expensive. I don't know what $1500 in today's money might be, but it was a problem. So with the exception of not being proud about my brake job, yeah, that's one of my better jobs. Back in that K and 6 UYZ. K and 6 UYZ. Boy, that brought back memories. This is KC2, PKG. I used to always do my own brakes and all of that stuff. And what it leads to is you're driving down the highway two states away from your house and you're thinking to yourself, did I put that spring back in? In the left rear tire? Did I put that spring in? Those were my thoughts after working on my car almost every single time. I was like, I don't remember. And of course, the first brake takes three hours. And the second one takes two hours. Third one, you know, takes about an hour and a half and the fourth one is over so fast you can't remember if you put the spring in or not. It just gets better and better as you go around. Alright, AA-4HI. Chuck, what have you restored or repaired that you are particularly proud of? It's over to you Chuck, AA-4HI. This is KC2, PKG. This is repeater station key low. We had some heads up and some chairs and last night I had to figure that out. And it took a long time. A lot of winter to get on the fingers. It's just about all done. And I want to do it again now. I can understand why people charge so much to do it. You know, time and of course it's just too easy to work. But, um, you have to wear your guns, you know. It just takes a while to do things. Yeah, it is. Anything you're rushing through sometimes it's just not going to be the way you expected it. So, um, anyway, same with the old antennas I like to try out, to build. I mean, you just have to think about it, give it a shot. If not, repurpose it. But, uh, the chairs I think are the best thing where you're wrong. So, what I've done in handling them, they took a long time. They done, throughout the summer just working on them. You know, when she was out. So, uh, anyway, that would be it. Back on to you, AA4-HI. AA4-HI, this is KC2-PKG, Wicker work. That's weaving, weaving with Wicker. That is a big job, especially if you've never done it before. Because you have to figure out what the pattern is. And then kind of trace it back. And a lot of those things, as I remember, the Wicker is fastened with a wooden peg. You know, it goes in, you put the Wicker in the hole and then you pound it in a little piece of wood to hold it there. Yours may work differently, but the ones that I worked on, that's what you had to do. And you had to get that peg out first. Um, it's not specialized, but it is trying. It's very trying, I think. MM0RKN, Gary, when you repaired or restored, you think you did a pretty good job on. It's KC2-PKG over to MM0RKN. MM0RKN returning. Well, Gary, very frequently, I have to repair and restore Lego figures that have broken various Lego models. Cabs, trucks, DAF, radar, all sorts. So quite good at fixing those when they've been knocked over or accidentally dropped. So frequently, do not a bad job of getting them back together. But on another note, I really enjoy restoring Kenny Oak furniture. One thing that I did was an ottoman, many years ago, not enough. But it was one of these ottomans that would store, you know, bed sheets and that could be at the end of the bed. And it was very old, and it seemed better days, but I actually managed to sand it all down, repainted it all, then put a nice kind of fabric, soft cushion on top, and managed to turn that into a sort of storage box come window seat. So that was one of my things that I was quite pleased about in the past. But recently, not so much time really to do a lot of repairing and restoring. I was going to put it in front of my son's PC. He said that I had to play one of his games, and I couldn't get it fixed, so I basically had to do a complete refresh of his laptop. I think he's overloaded it with too many DLCs. So we're going to go back to the start again. So yeah, I'm repairing that. Hopefully I'll do a good job. MM0RK in. Back to you there, Gray in the net. MM0RK in. This is KC2PKG. That's what I used to do for a living. Put people's workstations back together. After they just put something dumb on it, or they had a problem of some kind or another, reallocating memory, and all of that stuff. I'm glad I don't do that anymore. I really am. Alright. Bill, N9OFU, what have you repaired or restored? Do you think you did a pretty good job on it? Over to you, Bill. N9OFU. This is KC2PKG. Alright, I've been trying to think, trying to think, trying to think. And most of the things I'm coming up with is just, you know, things I've put together, you know, like furniture, you know. I love Ikea. Some of that's been pretty intricate when you get into some of these. I'm trying to think. Like the, well the cabinets, I don't know if the cabinets, but the drawers and stuff. Getting all that lined up properly and put together when it's got, you know, two or three different sections, an open section. I'm trying to remember, I know I've done my repairs or in battle. It always seems like something needs to be fixed, put together, or repaired at the house. But nothing really stands out that I really floated over. It's just, you know, it needs to be fixed to fix it. And that's all I can think of at this time. Sorry, I'm just not coming up with anything. Alright, N9OSU. Not to worry about it. KC2, PKG. Bringing that Ikea stuff together, I found one of the neatest tricks was to take the Allen wrench that they give you and saw it off, saw the curved part off, the bend in it off, and then put it in a drill or a driver. And then things go much faster. I'm turning that little Allen wrench. Alright, KM4QBC. You do a lot of repair and restoration, Jeff. Council, what's one project, or two if you want, that you're particularly proud of, that you really think you did a great job? It's over to you. KM4QBC. This is KC2, PKG. KC2, PKG, KM4QBC. Well, great. One thing that came to mind, my wife and I both worked on this, like Josh was talking. My grandpa's old house was a really neat place for me to hang out. I had a CB radio in there. That's before I got into ham radio. Anyway, long story short, the old house was just a plank-mored house, you know, back in the mountains. And a big tree fell right through the middle of it, so we salvaged what we could out of it. And I got all the windows and doors. And my wife and I, I still got a bunch of windows that are the way of the house when I first got them, but we sanded these window panes down into the old six panes. They got six panes in them, and you know, the glazing and all that. So we redid those and repainted them, and we put pictures of our family in there and hung them on the wall. So we're really proud of those, and it's really a special thing. Plus our Volkswagens. My son and I are working on an old bug now, so pretty proud of that one. That's you, Gray. That's a couple. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November-November. I thought you were led with the Volkswagens. Is that the one you're working on now? Is it the black bug? Back to you just for a second here. KN4QBC. The black one was actually done by somebody else, but you know, a Volkswagen's clear there's always something in there to work on. So, excuse me, we have done a little work on the motor, done a little work on the interior. Used to touch it up to make it a little better than it was, you know. So the next thing I'm going to do is just a little more work on the motor. I'm thinking I'm going to put a new carburetor on there and probably a new Kilo. So, just to make it a little sharper, because I'm going to start driving it to work this time of year, when hopefully it starts to cool down. And next month or so, after August anyway, I'll be driving it to work in the day and in the night. Can't drive that thing in the summertime, it's just so hot. You can drive it in the evening some, but it's just so hot here in the summer. It's hard to drive in that time of year, but it's fun at certain times, but when it gets up at about night and you're in that thing, you're like being in a sauna, I guess. You can't wear the work clothes down the road and be all sweaty and going into work there. Anyway, back to you, KN4QBC. KN4QBC, Volkswagen repair guy. It's good. I think Volkswagens are really cool. And I could kick myself for when I finally ended up in a car that I didn't have a Volkswagen van. I mean, they're the coolest. They really are. And I think back on that time I was thinking, oh man, I went out of the hotel room. Wherever I went, you know, I didn't need to sleep inside, I could sleep in a car. Which is a fun thing when you're a kid to do. Maybe not so much now. Any of YQJ, Ralph, are you out there? We're asking people what is a project that they've worked on where they restored or repaired something and they're particularly proud of it. Ralph, hey, YQJ, over to you."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-06T04:47:55+00:00","id":14437,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14436,"text":" Conception Bay is really not too far from the city, and that one's on fire, and it's putting a whole lot of smoke around town here as well. If you want to look it up, it's new for land, Conception Bay North Wildfire. You'll find it, I'm sure. It's a pretty big one. Luckily, we've got a lot of forest, and I can't say luckily, because it's going to burn a lot of that forest. But they've already evacuated massive amounts of people because it's close to residential areas and stuff like that. So I hope that anybody in those areas gets out unaffected. You never know. All right, we're going to Chuck next, AA-4HI. You're up next. Morning. I've never been good with you this morning. Hey, good morning, Darryl, and everyone else. Morning rain here this morning, Darryl. Started last night."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-20T17:20:36+00:00","id":8671,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":8670,"text":" Hey Jim, it's Alpha, Alpha 4 Hotel, India, AA 4H, I chuck over in Roner Rapids, North Carolina."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-06T05:25:31+00:00","id":14482,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14481,"text":" getting involved in the politics crap. Kind of just aware she's down. Both parties you know I believe are corrupt and it's all about money. You can't get elected without money and all. It's here to raise the most money and it's just disgusting, so. Oh, me. But I'll be in here for a little while longer, I think, before I get out. So I'll just send a text back at you, Greg, and hope things aren't too smoky up there in your area. Kevin said it's not too bad. Where is that? I don't know. Your part. I'm back on AA4-J. AA4-HI, this is KC2 PTT. Over the last week or so. But today it doesn't, I mean it's not misty at all. We can usually tell the brown haze that comes in. We can really tell about that. All right, have you guys noticed that most of the robots that are being constructed now don't have faces? There are a few and far between that do try to mimic the human face and all that stuff, but most of them barely have a head. One of the more likely ones has just sort of a hoop or to give you an idea of having a head and stuff like that. I wonder if that is, I'm sure that's a conscious decision. Trying to make them look non-threatening. So do robots need faces? I don't know. Hey, we want to ask Jan, CS6 ZYM. Over to you Jan, you can tell me."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-19T07:34:27+00:00","id":19365,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":19364,"text":" Alright, so you heard it from George. When he starts to get a little senile and nothing makes sense, someone have a good, solid sandwich to throw at him. Thanks, George. I know exactly what you mean, man. And uh, I say the same thing. Get a sandwich ready for me too. A-A-4-H-I, Chuck. Over to you for final comments, man."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T04:57:16+00:00","id":13975,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":13974,"text":" Alright, we've got three more stations. We've got KN6UYZ crew. Rancho Cucamonga. AA4HI. Chuck joins us here. And we've got Gary. M-N-0-R-K-N. Very excited about that list. Okay. KN6UYZ. Um, how was your weekend? Have you got plans for the week? Something going on? This is KC2-PTG. Over to you. KN6UYZ. Uh, good morning everybody. KN6UYZ. Uh, good to hear everyone out there. Just got out of, just rolled out of bed. Barely. What time is it? Quarter to, uh, quarter to five here in California. Well, uh, Eat With Fingers. Uh, that sort of hit a bell. Well, uh, I went to a restaurant called Dama Creve in Los Angeles quite a few years ago. And they didn't provide silverware. No silverware at all. We ordered a dish called Lemon Chicken and it comes out as a whole chicken. In fact, we ordered two of them. And there were four people. And one person was designated the person to tear the chicken apart in pieces with their hands. And it was sort of a hot chicken to boot so it was sort of a problem. And rice and olives and, uh, so the one person tore things apart into sort of bite-sized pieces. Sort of boning it at the same time. And, uh, everybody jumped in at the table. We were sitting on pillows with a small, low table in front of us. And, uh, that's how we ate dinner. It was, uh, different. Seeing internet pictures of people eating with their hands is a little gross. Uh, so yeah, not my, not my thing. And then somebody mentioned salmon. Was that Josh? Salmon, yeah. Love salmon. Salmon and rice. Salmon and rice bowls, that kind of thing. Uh, great. But, you know, the last time I bought salmon it was almost tasteless. And I don't know, that was the grocery store. I don't know how to really, I don't know how you get good salmon to ensure that you're getting the right thing. Because they paint salmon, right? They paint them painted orange. They make it look like it's, uh, the color is right. I don't know. There's two or three different grades of salmon in the grocery store and I have no idea which one to get. So that's sort of a problem for me. Maybe somebody knows the right way to do it. That's all I have for this round. KN6UYZ, back to that. The only way to get salmon is come to Newfoundland and catch your own. You're allowed two per year with a $20 salmon fishing license. North Atlantic salmon. Yum, yum. Get you some. Alright, KN6UYZ. This is KC2PKG. Yes, salmon. When we were traveling in Alaska, um, I remember pulling into, uh, Fred Meyers. And, uh, going over to the fish counter and the salmon was so red you could see it across the store. It was just amazing. Um, we, Peter had a comment and I walked right by him. So I've got to go talk to Peter now. Peter, what's your comment? This is KC2PKG."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-21T08:07:38+00:00","id":20889,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":20888,"text":" Nah, it's usually with Russell, man, it's usually just, he's just looking for an excuse to pass it off. That happens a lot, and it started actually, I started getting the signs during the beginning of the net, when he started mentioning that his cat was messing around with his computer, and that if the cat continued to mess with the computer, he might not be able to do the net, so he was just looking for an out this morning there, so I wouldn't worry too much about that one. I'm pretty sure that that's just what it is, it was an easy out. AA4HI, Chuck, final comments from you this morning."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-21T07:35:50+00:00","id":20856,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":20855,"text":" And those people are all in control of their own equipment, as opposed to be. And as long as everybody maintains their own stuff, well what goes out over the air in your own area is basically up to you. So I would definitely encourage it. The more things, the more people you get on the air, the more people it will probably bring to the table. And yes, we will be going around for one more round. I'd say, we already heard from Ralph on this round. Let's go to Chuck, AA4HI. It's all you man."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-24T17:06:35+00:00","id":23702,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":23701,"text":" This is Alpha Alpha 4 Hotel India, KG5J, Kela, Gal 5, Bravo Juliet, Paul, and San Antonio. Hello, this is Alpha Alpha 4 Hotel India, KG5J, Kela, Gal 5, Bravo Juliet, Paul, and San Antonio. Welcome to Alpha Alpha 4 Hotel India, KG5J, Kela, Gal 5, Bravo Juliet, Paul, and San Antonio."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-27T05:40:30+00:00","id":25633,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":25632,"text":" Alright, AA-4-H, I was wondering where you were Ron. What's going on in your life man? How's your day domain and what do you have planned? This is KC2PKT over to you. AA-4-H, how are you?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-27T06:24:11+00:00","id":25666,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":25665,"text":" Alright, cool stuff. And, uh, yeah, there's nothing in the mail, uh, today. Uh, possibly tomorrow. Because, uh, that's good, too. Uh, because there's potential service interruptions still up here with, uh, the mail service. And, uh, one item made it to town, which, uh, it flew from the other side of the country. Uh, in D.C. It was in D.C. yesterday. And, uh, St. John's today. So, um, they definitely threw that on a plane. Uh, across Canada, anyway. Uh, well, let's see. Next up, we're going to Chuck. A-A-4-H-I. Chuck, you're up. Beep."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-21T06:29:57+00:00","id":20803,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":20802,"text":" Okay, that last station. AECB maybe. The stations I did get are AA-4HI, WB-5UDI. That last station, go again."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-31T17:06:51+00:00","id":29156,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":29155,"text":" This is South Island 4H, Ocalailia, AA4HI, Chuck over here at Roanoke Rep."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-04T07:46:34+00:00","id":31949,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":31948,"text":" And then I go to AA-4-H-I for your pilot comment and you get back to me."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-08T05:14:14+00:00","id":34941,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":34940,"text":" KJ5 IRQ, this is KC2PKG saying that's the beauty of foreshadowing. All right. Chuck, AA4HI, I'm so glad you're on today. That's a good thing for me. It really is. So how was your weekend? What are your plans? Has everybody gone back to school yet? What's going on with you? This is KC2PKG."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-08T05:39:40+00:00","id":34957,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":34956,"text":" Okay, and we'll get up to the next question and the next name. It's AA4HI. Chuck, at a White House news conference this week, Trump was asked about plans to send federal troops to another US city and replied, we're going in. What city was he referring to? Was it Austin, Texas, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, or Portland, Oregon?"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-08T06:20:07+00:00","id":35005,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":35004,"text":" KJ5IRQ, this is Casey 2PKT. We had an unfinished project to do with my wife. I bought her a bidet seat, which is just about the coolest thing you can have in the bathroom. It is just wonderful. It took three years to get a plumber over here to hook it up because of the ... It is complex because our toilets are in the wall. The tank is in the wall. Most of those kits come with regular toilets. It will take you 10 minutes to put it on. If it is buried behind the wall, somebody has to cut a hole in the wall. Plumbers are going to turn something that is not supposed to do this into something that does do that. It took forever. I had given up on it several times. This year it came back and she is really happy with it. We went out down in New York and I missed it too. It is really a cool thing to have. Who is next up? Oh, Chuck. AA4HI. Chuck, we are talking about projects that we started but never quite got through. We are having trouble getting back to them. What do you got for us? AA4HI. This is Casey 2PKT."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-07T17:08:09+00:00","id":34654,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":34653,"text":" This is Alpha Alpha 4 Hotel India AA4HI Chuck in Runnag Rapids, NC."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-08T07:52:32+00:00","id":35065,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":35064,"text":" PJ5, IRQ, Gavin Newsom. That's an interesting saying, it really is. All right, well you have a great day. 73, it's always good to hear you. AA4HI Chuck, final thoughts from you Chuck, what do you got to say? This is KC2, PKG."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-08T08:01:21+00:00","id":35069,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":35068,"text":" AA4HI, about two years ago, I was on the net then, I ran a wire out the window of my office over across into the trees and stuff like that, and I'm still untangling that wire. Winds came along over the winter and that was it. I had to re-string the whole thing twice. Winds are just, you can't leave it alone. You have to reel it back in. Anything you put up in the trees around here, when they're swinging back towards 15 degrees, turns into a giant mess. But I will do it. I'll use a vertical of some kind. That's my favorite antenna for your verticals. Thanks for joining us today, Chuck. The Voice of Reason, Jeff, KM4QBC, I don't think I didn't hear you when you said you might be able to get back to that interview. I'm salivating over it. I'm excited. Everybody wants to know what a magistrate does. So final thoughts from you, Jeff. KMC. At KM4QBC. This is KC2PKG. Thank you."}]}