{"activity_count":497,"callsign":"K9BDC","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2025-07-12T20:14:45+00:00","found":true,"id":2609,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-30T03:03:37.131730+00:00","ncs_profile":{"callsign":"K9BDC","checkins_taken":7650,"net_count":1,"nets":[{"category":"social","id":78,"in_progress":false,"last_detected":"2026-06-20T00:03:05.249508+00:00","name":"WWE 7PSR Social Net","node_number":"683211","topic":"General check-ins and local events"}],"session_count":1193,"topics":[{"count":1,"topic":"General check-ins and local events"}]},"occurrence_count":376,"profile":{"confidence":0.9,"counts":{"ncs":1,"net":0,"open_qso":371,"transcript_contexts":60},"data_freshness":"generated","latest_topic":"Discussing the PSRT remote HF station expansion and volunteer opportunities","most_topic":"Community events and volunteer opportunities","open_vs_net_bias_score":0.8,"personal_summary":"K9BDC is a frequent participant in open QSOs and nets, showing a strong engagement with the community. They are known for their friendly and helpful nature, often providing updates and discussing various topics.","scores":{"activity":0.9,"civility":0.9,"engagement":0.8,"focus":0.8,"friendly":0.9,"helpful":0.9,"serious":0.7,"technical":0.6},"source":"ai_profile","summary":"K9BDC is active in various contexts, including open QSOs and net operations. They often engage in discussions about community events, personal updates, and technical topics related to amateur radio.","topic_coverage":{"Community events and volunteer opportunities":0.6,"Personal updates and greetings":0.3,"Technical discussions":0.1},"updated_at":"2026-06-29T20:30:11.116440"},"qrz_status":null,"recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8573137370071241,"created_at":"2026-06-30T03:03:09.129257+00:00","id":131987,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":132421,"text":"Good meeting you to the gym on the net. If you receive the release, call off at the call. It's really broken there, Jerry, but we got you there, so have a good evening. KE8, PHF. No, KE8, PHF. I'm going to go ahead and blue that one, didn't I? KE8, H.P.F. Thank you, Jim. Well, I've got you, so you can't say you're on call sign, Trent. Sorry about that. KE8, K9, BDC. K9, BDC, you're leaving, Jim. Those are their Brooks, T9, MLR. K9, BDC."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":0.9534898288547993,"created_at":"2026-06-29T21:32:45.851415+00:00","id":131590,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":131975,"text":"K9, BDC, Brooks, are you there? This is Kilo Fox R7, Alpha Zulu Victor."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.9582750909030437,"created_at":"2026-06-29T21:20:59.775811+00:00","id":131578,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":131958,"text":"K9, BDC, Brooks, are you there? This is Kilo Fox-Rise 7, Alpha Zulu Victor."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.7841495736925439,"created_at":"2026-06-29T20:26:22.227336+00:00","id":131450,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":131828,"text":"jack three quarter pound jack you could have a you could have a all kinds of Jack burgers going on there just just think about possibilities but yeah you got to trust to cook Jack K5 NTT ah yeah that's totally true you got to trust them well no please drop dead after any of the burgers have been serving at field day or the picnic yet so I think that's a good sign I've been doing it a long time anyway all right the original flying burger right down about the road right near Matt hey Matt great to you today thank you so much have a great week you had K5 NTT KI 7 R.M.U. let's go say hi to Brooks vice president of the PSRG rig roundup member at field day all around good guy and dad of baby Elizabeth Brooks K9 BDC you"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.857335158877752,"created_at":"2026-06-29T20:22:12.707145+00:00","id":131440,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":131816,"text":"jack three quarter pound jack you could have a you could have a all kinds of Jack burgers going on there it just just think about possibilities but yeah you got to trust to cook Jack K5NTT ah yeah that's totally true you got to trust them well no please drop dead after any the burgers have been serving at field day or the picnic yet so I think that's a good sign I've been doing it a long time anyway all right the original flying burger right down about the road right near Matt hey Matt great period today thank you so much have a great week you had K5NTT KI 7R MU let's go say hi to Brooks vice president of the PSRG rig roundup member at field day all around good guy and dad of baby Elizabeth Brooks K9 BDC you"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8124630769545382,"created_at":"2026-06-29T20:12:26.325813+00:00","id":131414,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":131790,"text":"jack three quarter pound jack you could have a you could have a all kind of Jack burgers going on there just just think about possibilities but yeah you got a trust to cook Jack K5 NTT ah yeah that's totally true you got to trust them well no please drop dead after any the burgers have been serving at field day or the picnic yet so I think that's a good sign I've been doing it a long time anyway all right the original flying burger right down on Bethel Road right near Matt hate Matt great dude today thank you so much have a great week you had K5 NTT KI 7R MU let's go say hi to Brooks vice president of the PSRG rig roundup member at field day all around good guy and dad of baby Elizabeth Brooks K9 BDC"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.8753007347030299,"created_at":"2026-06-29T20:01:56.438726+00:00","id":131378,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":131753,"text":"for attention for just a moment. K9BDC, Bill KG7FWV is put in for honorary grandfather. Now I know Elizabeth has a couple of grandfathers, but probably not in the honorary position. Brooks, what do you think? Does that sound okay to you? K9BDC. You know, I think there needs to be an honorary radiogram father name tag with Bill written on it. Can I BDC? All right, I think we've got to go ahead. Bill KG7FWV, what about that? KG7FWV returning, that's a go. Good job, Brooks. Anyway, have a good day. See you in about what, four weeks or so. KG7FWV. Indeed, you will. All right, Bill, thank you very much. Great to see you, Anthony."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.8798045510934158,"created_at":"2026-06-29T19:53:41.647647+00:00","id":131350,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":131725,"text":"for attention for just a moment. K9BDC, Bill, KG7FWV, is put in for Honorary Grandfather. Now I know Elizabeth has a couple of grandfathers, but probably not in the Honorary position. Brooks, what do you think? Does that sound okay to you? K9BDC. You know, I think there needs to be an Honorary Radio Grandfather and M-Tag with Bill written on it. Can I BDC? All right, I think we've got to go ahead. Bill, KG7FWV, what about that? KG7FWV, returning. That's a go. Good job, Brooks. Anyway, have a good day. See you in about, what, four weeks or so? KG7FWV. WV. Indeed, you will. All right, Bill, thank you very much. Great to see you and thank you."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.8910875401419142,"created_at":"2026-06-29T19:48:26.326571+00:00","id":131331,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":131705,"text":"Brooks is attention for just a moment. K9BDC, Bill KG7FWV, is put in for honorary grandfather. I know Elizabeth has a couple of grandfathers, but probably not in the honorary position. Brooks, what do you think? Does that sound okay to you? K9BDC. You know, I think there needs to be an honorary radiogram father name tag with Bill written on it. K9BDC. All right, I think we've got to go ahead. Bill KG7FWV, what about that? KG7FWV returning. That's a goal. Good job, Brooks. Anyway, have a good day. See you in about what? Four weeks or so. KG7FWV. Indeed, you will. All right, Bill, thank you very much. Great to see you. And thank you."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.6403038561344147,"created_at":"2026-06-29T17:35:26.987750+00:00","id":131037,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":131390,"text":"Okay, on my list so far I have KI7Z, W7OH, K9MLR, K9BDC. If I did not call your call sign there, I do not have you on my list. So come back. Whiskey 7, Romeo Trotis here, Richard and Perion. Alright, Richard, I got you now. I thought I heard a W in there, but I kind of got clipped with the other call signs coming in at the same time. I got you on the list now. Anybody else out there for a last call? Kilo Bravo 8, Bravo. Mike Yankee, good morning."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":0.7955214775034359,"created_at":"2026-06-29T17:23:20.907904+00:00","id":130998,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":131348,"text":"Okay, on my list so far I have KI7Z, W7OH, K9MLR, K9BDC. If I did not call your callsign there, I do not have you on my list, so come back. This is E7, Romeo Curtis here, Richard and Buryan. All right, Richard, I got you now. I thought I heard a W in there, but it kind of got clipped with the other callsigns coming in at the same time. I got you on the list now. Anybody else out there for last call? Kill a Bravo 8, Bravo. Mike Yankee, good morning."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-12T15:44:57+00:00","id":6322,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":6321,"text":" Good morning, Teresa, Dana, and everyone out there on the night. K9 MLR Megan, mobile here with K9 BDC. And Brooks' mom is in town from Oklahoma for our big special day. So that is super awesome. The Pops were supposed to be mobile with us, but they decided to jump in with the other grandma, instead my mom. So they're with my parents in their car. So that was kind of ironically funny. Not planned, but I think a better thing for them. More backseat. So that was kind of funny this morning. Unplanned things are great. So that's what today is going to be full of. Excited for it. Excited to see some of our lovely people. And we will definitely post pictures. KF7LNX Andrew is coming out to take photos for us. So very excited for that. So 33 to you both, and 33 to all the other YLs, and 73 K9 MLR. Well, you know, 73 to both of you, and congratulations. I think it's going to be a beautiful, amazing day. And yeah, looking forward to seeing photos. Oh, goodness. That is so cool. You guys have a wonderful, wonderful weekend. And yeah, looking forward to seeing pictures. 73, 33, and all the numbers. Thanks for stopping by this morning. I don't know if you've been listening from the beginning, but lots of people chimed in and congratulated you guys. So good stuff. OK, next on the list I've got Jack. GI7RMU. Good morning, Jack."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-19T21:47:53+00:00","id":7946,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":7945,"text":" Can I be seen here in Newcastle? Yes. The Votascope. The Votascope is a great tool. If you're at the homepage of the PSRT.org, off on the right side there is the Votascope. That will show you your relative signal strength on all the different receivers around the area. There's also, if you're on the webpage there, there's a tab that says Repeater. If you go down to Voting System, there is a version of the Votascope that also shows connections. So it will show all of the EchoLink All-Star connections as well as a web of who all is connected. It's kind of cool. It's a really handy tool, especially if you are out and about. You can see how well you're getting into the system and the different receivers. You can test different antennas and different radios and all that fun stuff. I remember when I first got on this repeater system, I was like, what is this thing they keep talking about? Everyone talked about it and I was like, is it Boater? Is it Moat-it? Votascope. That's what it's called. Anyway, had a pretty good day today. I'm going to let Megan talk about the fun stuff that we did today and what we got going on now. I just wanted to pop in and say hello. 731K9 BDC. K9 BDC, K7WFP. Thank you, Brooks. Thanks for stopping by and also for pointing out that second version of the Votascope with a V as in Victory, which gives you the connections. Everyone should know that the connections are fascinating. If anybody out there is looking at it right at the moment, the one with connections, if you click on that little blue text, I don't know what color it is because I clicked on it. I guess it's blue when you start before you click on it. Anyway, it says Bubble Chart right near the top. You hit Bubble Chart and you get, that's loading, taking a minute, a fascinating view of the network that is hooked up to us right now, which just glancing at it quickly has at least, I don't know, a hundred nodes on it, but some of them are collections like Do Drop In is on there. So there are a lot of people who are hooked to us right now. It's kind of fascinating. Let's see where we are now. We're going to go over and talk to Megan, K9. L. R. Megan, how was the day today?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-12T09:55:29+00:00","id":6109,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":6108,"text":" Good morning, Teresa, Dana, and everyone out there on the night. K9 MLR Megan, mobile here with K9 BDC. And Brooks' mom is in town from Oklahoma for our big special day. So that is super awesome. The Pops were supposed to be mobile with us, but they decided to jump in with the other grandma, instead my mom. So they're with my parents in their car. So that was kind of ironically funny. Not planned, but I think a better thing for them. More backseat. So that was kind of funny this morning. Unplanned things are great. So that's what today is going to be full of. Excited for it. Excited to see some of our lovely people. And we will definitely post pictures. KF7LNX Andrew is coming out to take photos for us. So very excited for that. So 33 to you both, and 33 to all the other YLs, and 73 K9 MLR. Well, you know, 73 to both of you, and congratulations. I think it's going to be a beautiful, amazing day. And yeah, looking forward to seeing photos. Oh, goodness. That is so cool. You guys have a wonderful, wonderful weekend. And yeah, looking forward to seeing pictures. 73, 33, and all the numbers. Thanks for stopping by this morning. I don't know if you've been listening from the beginning, but lots of people chimed in and congratulated you guys. So good stuff. OK, next on the list I've got Jack. GI7RMU. Good morning, Jack."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-20T22:03:10+00:00","id":8937,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":8936,"text":" I hope everything is okay with the inclement weather that is coming in there with that monsoon season. It sounds kind of scary, but it sounds like you all at work the rest of the day. So yes, I will acknowledge Delta Zulu 1 Romeo Bravo, your club call there that is monitoring the weather for this situation there. So definitely good luck there. I hope everyone is safe and let us know how it goes there. So we'd like a full report later there. So thanks, Steven. We will catch you down the log. All right, last on this go around, we have half of our Wednesday night crew here for the nine o'clock net. So I'll say waves to Megan and let me know if I should give her a little honorary IO to K9 MLR. But Brooks, how are you tonight? K9 BDC, please give us a report."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-21T09:38:39+00:00","id":9153,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":9152,"text":" And yeah, that's great. You've got a good crew going. And you've got some delicious food. That sounds good. Well, I hope to see you at the picnic. And yeah, Joan's wearing the net tonight. So I guess we'll hear from you tonight once you get home. Maybe. We'll see how things go. But yeah, have a great day, Matt. Thank you so much for taking time to check in. I appreciate it. 7-3. And hello to your crew. Your fellow crewmates. 7-3, Matt. And I look forward to seeing you at the picnic. All right. Let's see. Maybe I'll pause and do a few announcements. So as far as announcements go, you are listening to the PSRG repeater system here in Seattle, Washington. You can find out everything, PSRG at PSRG.org. That's PSRG.org. We have events to consider, which are radio and ham radio and radio adjacent. We have lots of events that are going on. And you can become a member. You can use L.A. to do a lot of things. And as far as your remote HF station goes, we're looking to expand that capability. So if you have any interest in volunteering to help out with the HF, remote HF station, please contact WOOCS. K9 BDC. If you have any interest in helping out with the HF station, please contact WOOCS. If you have any interest in helping out with our, yeah, expanding the remote HF capabilities, yeah, helping out with that. So anyway, as far as events to consider, let's see here."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-22T21:40:50+00:00","id":9537,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":9536,"text":" Continuing with our announcements here, the PSRT season 7 episode 5, brand or shine new net and ice cream social for, it will be on Sunday, August 10th. At the east side of Green Lake, just north of the paddle boat rentals in the Green Lake Cafe concession stand, we'll have Cami, KJ7RAV, and Robert, KJ7JXM hosting. Stop by the net tables, pick up your ice cream ticket, redeem your ticket at the Green Lake Cafe concession stand across from the paddle boats. And then come back and hang out with your ham friends, walk around Green Lake, take a bike ride or ride a boat. Ham's in 3D and ice cream, so bring a folding chair, a hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, the following frequency will be 146.550 simplex, and there's a parking lot nearby there, but you probably want to look for some on-street parking as well. Finally, remote space antenna planning group, the PSRT is seeking volunteers to participate in a committee to plan enhancement to the antenna array, now consisting of one antenna at the remote station location. The committee will recommend to the board options for a second antenna, which can improve performance on certain bands or in more directions. Now all members need to be knowledgeable about antennas, join in and you'll possibly learn something. If you are interested, please contact Brooks, K9BDC at K9BDC at PSRT.org. You can find these announcements at the PSRT.org website. Alright, let's go ahead and get another round of check-ins on tonight's nine o'clock, Nat. Call and name is all I need from you. QO, QO7, come back, Echo Sierra, Justin. Justin, alright, you are on the worst case of it, QES. More stations, please. K27V, you're recessed."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-30T21:29:15+00:00","id":11734,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11733,"text":" Alright, thank you there, Dean. Yeah, with the days getting shorter, yeah, it makes you want to try and utilize the daylight that you have. So, but, you know, always listening there on FT8. That's cool, I didn't know you could kind of pass, you know, kind of keep an eye out for certain call signs. I, you know, I'll get on FT8 occasionally, but I really haven't played with it all that much. And I do have Grid Tracker, but again, it's one of those things that I got set up and kind of sort of used it, and then haven't really played too much with it. But that's pretty cool, I didn't know you could do that. And yeah, maybe one of these days, MM0, RNK will just show up on your screen and you'll, ah! Maybe it'll be as exciting as the 3-fer, or was it a 4-fer, with the 6-meter park, I don't know. I don't know, that was pretty exciting. Anyway, thanks for stopping by, Dean. You have a great rest of your night. Alright, it's 9.21 PM, I'm Brooks, K9BDC. Now we're going to go talk to Louie, W7D-BB."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-30T22:03:32+00:00","id":11761,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11760,"text":" and radio waves from myself, Tracey, Remy, and Megan as well. And man, I sure hope you feel better. I have not had kidney stones myself, but I know some folks that have. And my understanding is that it is quite painful. And I definitely agree with your proactive as opposed to reactive. And yeah, definitely a better way to try to approach problems for sure. So good luck with that there, Ryan. Hopefully you feel better. And yeah, I'll let you know if we decide to do an antenna party. Thanks for stopping by. All right, it's 951 PM. I'm Brooks, K9, BDC. Next up on the list is Bill KC5, WFH. Hey, Brooks, and Russ, and Bill here. First up, Ryan, if you're still out there, I hope you get through this little episode real quick. Get this behind you. Hang in there. I see what else do we have. I, too, have a yearly physical coming up here in the next few days. We're already giving the blood. So anyhow, you're getting checked out. You never know what's around the corner or what's going on inside, right? All right, good day over here today. Let's see, once Paul's bow broke bread with John, WOI. He was in the mix. Ed, let's see, AK7H, and Jerry. And Jerry's also a ham. This call sign slips my recall right now. Anyhow, we've been getting together a few years now. And I have a few laughs midweek, get together. Let's see, before I forget it. Oh, I got one more thing. Some of you are probably familiar with the Salish 100. And tonight, I think that group of boaters has probably spent the night over in Port Ludlow. And then I think tomorrow, they're going to wrap up in Port Townsend. So let's wish them well. The weather's good. And I saw this group in Keeson at the marina. And they started out from Olympia. And they make 10 to 15 miles a day. So having fun, fun group of folks. Some of the boats are registered in Idaho, California. Little boats, little tiny boats. So 10 feet long, some of them. Some propel with the sail and some with the outboard motors. So anyhow, these folks are having fun for sure. Brooks, before I let you go, I. Beep, beep, beep."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-30T22:17:45+00:00","id":11773,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11772,"text":" Hey there, Bill. Great to hear from you checking in tonight. Good luck on your upcoming physical there. Yeah, it's always good to get into the doctor and get everything taken care of for sure. Nice to hear you were able to get out and have some lunch with KG7WI, John, and I sound like a few others. Sounds like a good time for sure. And I was googling those Salish 100 boats, and I was expecting to see much larger boats. And then I saw what looked like small ones. And then you started talking about it. Oh, that's what he's talking about here. Yeah, those seem littler than I was expecting for out in the salt water there. But anyway, good stuff. And yes, I did get your relay on that. And I think we've got that information relayed over to Ryan as well, who's came to RNA, which that's his property out there. And I think we're going to be having a meeting about the chest station here probably sometime in the next couple weeks. I know we've got there was an announcement looking for some more folks that want to be part of the group for looking at what the next improvements will be for the station. So more of that to come in the future. So thank you for that, Bill. All right, with that, it is 954 PM, 955 PM on Brooks K9 BDC. And we're going to see if there's anyone else out there that wants to check into the 9 o'clock neck. Call sign a name."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-30T23:01:56+00:00","id":11825,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11824,"text":" I'll say your signal sounds fantastic. You were pretty much maxing out all six receivers, and your audio was very clear. I did not hear anything else on your audio, be it alternator whine or picket fencing or anything else. So it sounded great. It sounds like you had whatever coax issue that you had previously. The new antenna does not seem to have that issue. Well, I mean, we're on two meters now, but regardless, that's good to hear. Yeah, and Jeff runs a great antenna up there, down on the Papa system for sure. One time I went down to visit my sister in L.A. and was able to hit a repeater down there that's actually part of the Papa system and check into his net. Of course, he's not in L.A. He's in the San Francisco area, but it was kind of cool to check in on their local system there. But yeah, just a good guy, and glad he was able to get you some help. All right, thank you, Andrew, for stopping by. Have a great rest of your evening. Okay, hit 923 p.m. I'm Brooks, K9BDC. Any more check-ins for 9 o'clock now?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:13:06+00:00","id":13101,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":13100,"text":" This is Rebecca, KK7IJZ, and you are listening to the PSRG 9pm net. PSRG, the Pidgets Summer PETA group is located in Seattle, Washington. And, uh, yeah. You can find out everything PSRG at PSRG.org. There's a ton of information on our website. We do educational meetings every other month, and the educational meetings are recorded. So we have a whole backlog of these really just wonderful educational meetings. And just anything ham radio that you can possibly think of. And they're really interesting to go back and look at them. They're under the education tab on our website. You can also go on the website and become a member. And as a member you can have the capability of using our remote HF station, which is really cool. And we are looking to revamp our remote HF station as well. And if you have any interest in helping update the remote HF station, no matter what your experience level is, it doesn't matter. It'll be a learning experience for all of us. But get in touch with Brooks, our Vice President. K9BDC Brooks about the remote HF station. But yeah, and also on our website there's a column of events to consider. We do have a lot of reoccurring events. As long as, as well as, yeah, just one-off events."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-12T09:52:10+00:00","id":6107,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":6106,"text":" Well, let's go ahead and hear from Brooks and Meghan, Kilo, Niner, Bravo, Delta, Charlie. Congratulations and good morning."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:47:12+00:00","id":13938,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":13937,"text":" I'm at Kilo, Julie's doesn't, we all still did November over here in Port Archer. I, at the moment, I am watching my grass grow. I know it's dark, but I can still kind of see it. But I've been battling this problem where, so we have pretty low water pressure over here in my area. I had this city out and they made it and they said, oh yeah, your water's kind of low. Your water pressure's kind of low. They checked seven neighbors, they checked over the fire hydrant and we have the water district building right next door. They checked in all those places and they said, yep, it's not your problem, poor and low. And by the time you look up where your reservoir is and it's a water tower over the city at the other end of the neighborhood and it's only at about 600 feet. And my house here, our ground level, had about 500, well, about 540 feet, roughly. So we've got enough head of water to put much pressure. So I've been battling that, trying to water my lawn. But I just, I did some research on some sprinklers that do pretty, that are supposed to do pretty well on low pressure and I'm using those and they improved things for me, but I just replaced, I just had a hunch, had a piece of hose going from the spigot out for sprinkler and I just changed that out. And wow, I'm probably getting another purge with about half as much distance out of my sprinklers. I just went back there like these super adjustable sprinklers for speed, good with all kinds of situations, including low pressure. And wow, that made such a huge difference. Anyway, just amazed. And one little piece of hose that is an older one, I've been driving around for a while. So I guess, if you're chasing down, change out your hose. I'm pretty happy about it. I know you're getting old when you're excited about changing out a piece of hose, which is making you better able to watch your grass grow. Anyway, that's all I got. This is Keelah Julia Southern, in Gulf Delta, November in Port Orchard. Thank you for your report. Yeah, it sounds like you're one of those people that's used for the other. Yeah, it sounds like you're one of those people that's easily amused. I'm one of those people as well. I have trouble keeping myself occupied and happy. And it's kind of a good thing because that means there's always something to keep you occupied and happy because you've got things you're thinking about, things you're doing, and it sounds like you're doing them. You know that the analogy between water pipes and wires is very apt, the smaller the pipe, the smaller the hose, more resistance there is to flow. Even if you're not flowing very much water, it still reduces the pressure. So yeah, larger hose definitely will help out there. I'm curious though, did they measure the water pressure at your house, typically measured? Like you got a typically people have a faucet that's right there where the water comes in and that's where you would measure. Probably usually where they measure for the maximum pressure. Did they tell you what the pressure was? Yeah, I actually bought my own water gauge so I could measure it. And we both measured it at 37 PSI. And typical for residential water pressure is about nearly 60 PSI. 40 is considered the lowest acceptable, but with the warning that if you've got multiple things running, you may not have as much pressure as you expect. So 40 is really considered minimum. I'm at 37 and usually 50 to 60 is considered your typical ideal pressure. Your typical ideal water pressure. Thank you for that. Two more questions. So, Inspector Guy also had a water pressure gauge and I take it that your two gauges agree, that's good. And the question is, what other people in the Northwest who kind of get this, I don't know what you call it, kind of accept the fact that sometimes it gets a little dry around here, they don't even have the problems. I said there was gonna be a drought this year, although I didn't hear any official proclamation. But a lot of people just kind of let their grass, they don't water it and it just kind of dries out in summer and then as soon as rain comes around, September or whatever, then it gets revived. So I take it you want to show that like screen grass, how much grass do you have in your yard and like the yard size and do you do all of your yard or is there just part of it that you keep preying? Well, so that's the other part of the story. My yard, a lot of people refer to my size property as a postage stamp, it is very small. We bought the house with the property I'm living here brand new a couple years ago and we found out since then that the sliver here is really, really, really bad. It's basically sand with a little bit of like silky clay to hold it all together. You go down a few inches and it basically feels like concrete and it turns out what the builder did here to save money is they just left all that there still and then land caked it a little bit and then just rolled sod out on top of it. So there's no top soil. So I have been doing a bunch of stuff just to the, I don't know what is, 300 square foot yard in the front yard. That's all I'm playing with, that's all I'm watering right now. And it's basically, this is my experiment. I'm trying to figure out how to make this work. So I have brought in, I've top dressed it with a bunch of top soil and now I'm trying to fill in a lot of holes. I'm probably, well, I need to go down and get a bunch of peat moss. And I want to get some peat moss, I want to put down some seed and some peat moss on top of this. But the problem is I'm going to Disneyland for a week. I'll be basically out of town for almost a week and a half in the beginning of September. So I don't have enough time to get it, put grass down, have it all seeded and along well before we're going to leave. So I'm going to have to do it when we get back, even though it's going to be a little on the late in the season side, but hopefully it'll go. But once I've got good grass established, I am happy to let it go brown in the winter, or in the summer. That's no problem. I'm just trying to figure out with this little spot in the front, how to get grass established. And then I'm going to use what I learned here to do grass on the side of the house. And then I got to do a bunch of work in the back. I need to put in some play structures for the kiddos and stuff, and then get that to actually grow. Because right now in the back, it's terrible. It's like a desert wasteland with a few weeds growing in it. You can't really find any grass growing back there anymore. There's a kilo julius 7 in Gulf Delta November. This is repeater station kilo kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. All kinds of little julius 7-2. We've got quite a project there. Look at it in Shelton, Washington. Understand what your soil conditions are, and taking it one step at a time. Sounds like quite a challenge that you are up to there. So congratulations on that. And have a good trip down to California and Disneyland. So it sounds like fun for September. Thank you for your report. Hey, this is Tim K7ZEI. It is 946. You're listening to the 9 PM net for August 3, 2025. And I'm standing in for Brian TAE 7K ZH. This evening. Next, we have got Brooke. Brooke, come with your report. Good evening, Tim and everyone on the net. Welcome to BDC Brooks here in Newcastle. Good evening. Thanks for filling in tonight for Brian. That's awesome. Let's see. Had a hell lot going on this weekend. So I took Thursday and Friday off of work. And we went over to Leavenworth. Megan's mom rented an Airbnb. And so it was me and Megan and the dog, Strixie Remy. And then it was Megan's mom and her brother and her brother's girlfriend and their dog. And so we had a good fun time over there. Came back today, this morning. We got to check out at 11. So made our way back here home. Got all settled in. And just kind of had a little bit of a lazy rest of the day Sunday. We've been out of town, so it was just kind of nice to be back at home for the last part of the weekend here. So let's see. Last night, went for a nice walk along the river. The dogs got to go swimming and everything. So that was a lot of fun. We stayed up late playing cards. And then got a good night's rest so that it's kind of nice to finish off the weekend like that. So please mark Megan down as an IO, K9 MLR. She's over in the other room sending radio waves. And once again, Tim, thanks for covering the net. And I was going to say, 7-3, everyone. K9, BDC."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T10:20:42+00:00","id":14058,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14057,"text":" W.O.I. In and out to Sportin Jack, looking forward to Sunday. 73's. Alright Michael, stand by. I've got you KG7 W.O.I. John Paulsville with an I-O for today. John, nice to hear you. I heard the rumor that you were going to make it over to the Rain or Shine at Green Lake Sunday for the new Net Ice Cream Social. I cannot wait to see you in person again. Man, that is going to be, you're going to wear out your arm, your nose, handshakes and flaps on the back and high fives. Man, oh man, it's going to be fun to see you. Alright, so how, real quick though, John, can I ask you about the radio? How is the radio doing? If you brought it over, we might be able to have somebody take a look at it. I was thinking about KG7 ODB, possibly. Would you like to do that if you haven't looked at it yet? No, I'm going to try to figure it out here soon, Jack. Thank you very much for the offer. KG7 W.O.I. Alright, yeah, John, not a problem. If you would like to take some online help, I mean phone help, I'm sure we can have somebody give you a call so we can take that offline and talk about that later. Alright, you have a good day and thanks for dropping by there, John. Go back to Michael, WA780. Michael, good morning. Hey, good morning to you, Jack. WISK-7A, Michael here. Kirkland, I'm on that link. I just, I didn't get up till almost 9.30. So, I just called Larry to apologize to him that I missed a net because he likes to look at me and then he said you were still on. So, I think he's turned off his radio, though. Anyway, not much going on here. It's a cloudy day again. It was cloudy most of yesterday, too. I know Seafair likes to have sunshine, but... I got a few little projects around the house and then I just realized I got to start packing to leave for Bigfoot Friday morning and I'm going to miss your ice cream net. Oh, boy, and I love ice cream. I'll be up roughing in the woods, you know. No facilities where we're going, so... You know, water, toilet, and everything. So, it's... And lots of, you know, radio gear. People talk about their go-back radio gear. I figure radio gear is only about 20 to 25% of what I have to take up there to survive. So, oh, well. It's fun. I last, hopefully, then we come home exhausted. So, anyway. So, we'll be coming, leaving Friday morning and coming back Tuesday morning. So, anyway. Hey, Jack, thanks for running the net. You do a great job all the time. Everybody have a safe day. Whiskey Alpha 7 Alpha Delta. All right, Michael. Well, we'll miss you, that's for sure. But, you know, we'll have some pictures up on the internet, of course. On the Facebook discussion group page. I can send you some off to the side of the side road if you like. That's not a problem. But real quick, how many runners are going to be in the Bigfoot 200 this year? Have you heard yet? And, you know, you might, you know, for nighttime activities, you might take one of those little battery-operated karaoke machines over you, Michael. Oh, Jack, laughing here, but you don't want to hear me sing. So, that's just the way it goes. Oh, and I'll tell you a little story where he's not listening. He can sing in Japanese because he knows Japanese. He surprised all the people when he worked over there for four years. So, anyway. Um, I don't know which other question it was. Uh, anyway. Well, I'm just texting you. Um, let's see. Um, I can't remember your second or your first question, so come back and tell me. Oh, I was just asking if you know how many runners are in the Bigfoot 200 this year. No, I don't, Jack. I can go online and figure out if they max out, though, every year and leave it out. Those people pay faster here was like $1,500 a year. Um, or maybe it was more. Probably more this year with inflation. But, uh, it's amazing. You know, there are all sorts of these self-supported. And the first groups that come through, you've got bakers and people there with food and everything. And, you know, the strikers near the end are, you know, they're socially self-supported. They don't have anybody to pick them up. And people have to haul them places. And, um, anyway, it's. But it's maxed out every year. And there's a waiting list. In fact, all of them. You know, they have actually four races now. They have, um, the Tahoe 200, the Moab, the B-8. And, um, the Ford, I think. If I remember correctly, the Arizona 300. Um, probably in the middle of winter because it's warm down in Arizona. So, um. Anyway, and it's amazing. People like to do all four in a year. I don't know, Jack. Maybe I was 22 still. But we'll be up there with our microphones and our antennas. Probably a long wire. And a vertical, my vertical eagle one on the back of my pickup truck. And, uh, I'm gonna use my elk. And I'm gonna put my J-bolt on and probably another, um, um, 2 meter rig. So, um. Uh, so we'll have radios galore and pop-up tents and all kinds of stuff. So, anyway, Jack. Thanks for asking. Have a great day. Thanks again for doing these great nets. We'll see you in the next one. Alright, Michael. Michael, good luck to you and everybody volunteering for that amazing event, Bigfoot 200. Alright, well, hey, thanks for checking in today. Good to hear you. And somebody is really trying to get a hold of you. It's probably Larry going, Hey, I think Jack's idea about the karaoke machine is a good one. So, think about that. Or he's probably gonna chastise you for revealing the fact that he can sing in Japanese. Anyway, Larry, I hope you're doing well too. Nice to hear you there, Michael. Alright, let's see if there's anybody else for the 9 o'clock net. 10, 12 a.m. Call, sign a name if so, come ahead. K9BC, Brooks, mobile. Let's get Brooks in here. Right now, K9BC, he of the trips to Leavenworth with the family and friends and stuff. How are you, Brooks? Go ahead. Good morning, Jack and everyone on the net. K9BC, Brooks here, mobile 405 South, just about to get on 167 South here. On this overcast Monday, you know what though? It's okay, because it's nice to have a little bit cooler temperatures for a little bit. As long as those take around too long. But Leavenworth was great. It was really warm. We had a good time over there, nice and relaxing. Able to get out and take the dogs for a swim in the river. Got a nice late evening walk and saw some really cool views out there. And the moon was out during the day, Megan got a picture of that. With the moon out and the big mountain in the background and the lake in the foreground, I don't know, it looked really cool. But anyway, back to work today. Got a busy week ahead of us. A lot of stuff going on this week and this weekend of course with the rain or shine coming. Let's see, I'm going to a Seahawks preseason game this week on Thursday, so that should be a lot of fun. And trying to get the office all ready to be painted and have the popcorn ceiling removed. Just got a lot going on. With that, I'll say thanks for doing the Natsack 7-3, everyone. K9, BDC. Alright, yeah, I totally forgot about the Seahawks preseason game. Who are they playing? These are playing the Raiders, which should be pretty cool because you know who's coaching the Raiders now. Oh, and you know who's their quarterback now. Alright, spoiler alert, Pete Carroll and Geno Smith. K9, BDC. Oh, can you say grudge match? Let's go see if Brooks can say grudge match. Grudge match? Lunch? K9, BDC. Of course you can say it. Hey, thank you so much Brooks. You enjoy that game. I tell you, we do have a lot of things going on this week. The rain or shine Natsack. This is repeater station kilo kilo 7 November Quebec November. All star node 6222. Located in Shelton, Washington."}]}