{"activity_count":991,"callsign":"KB0MAI","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2025-07-14T22:17:24+00:00","found":true,"id":462,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-30T13:11:01.023039+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":741,"profile":{"confidence":0.9,"counts":{"ncs":1,"net":0,"open_qso":738,"transcript_contexts":60},"data_freshness":"generated","latest_topic":"Discussing the potential of reading minds and its implications","most_topic":"Trivia and historical facts","open_vs_net_bias_score":0.9,"personal_summary":"KB0MAI is a frequent contributor to open QSOs, often sharing insights and personal stories. They show a keen interest in various topics and engage in detailed discussions.","scores":{"activity":0.9,"civility":0.9,"engagement":0.8,"focus":0.7,"friendly":0.8,"helpful":0.7,"serious":0.6,"technical":0.5},"source":"ai_profile","summary":"KB0MAI is an active participant in open QSOs, showing a strong preference for these over net operations. They contribute to discussions on a variety of topics, including trivia, personal experiences, and current events.","topic_coverage":{"Current events and news":0.2,"Personal experiences and activities":0.3,"Technical discussions":0.1,"Trivia and historical facts":0.4},"updated_at":"2026-06-29T13:59:06.286014"},"qrz_status":"verified","recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.5852531327141656,"created_at":"2026-06-30T13:10:33.868870+00:00","id":132620,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":133079,"text":"that control. You don't hear me the next time around. I'm probably on the road and trying to get to the doctor. KB zero MAI. When you crazy quick comment. Go ahead there. I know George you must have misheard me. I didn't tell him to install Linux Mint on an M4 Mac. You can't do that. I told him to install Linux Mint on his old Intel 27 inch iMac. Not the new mini. The new mini will run Mac OS and get updates. He has a 27 inch iMac that's 11 years old. That's obviously going to be an Intel iMac and he can install Linux Mint on that and that's what I had told him not to do it on a Mac mini. You're right there. You can't install it on that computer for sure. I heard that"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.8189755647786354,"created_at":"2026-06-29T14:15:17.289540+00:00","id":130507,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130817,"text":"Okay, that was my final thoughts for the day. I'm going to go eat some eggs, toast, and maybe ash brown. Have a good day guys. KB0MAI. KB0MAI. This is KC2, PKG. Yeah, well, you've basically got a free day. You've got a snow day. You can stay home now. That's cool. That's cool. And we will be talking to you again tomorrow, I think. N9OFU. Final thoughts, Bill. It's a 73 round. This is KC2, PKG. All right, well, that sounds like it's time for me to go out and get my laundry ready. Start doing that so I can go to the stores and get the things that I need. And try to do a few things in my truck."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8978466901641625,"created_at":"2026-06-29T14:15:08.856459+00:00","id":130504,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130814,"text":"So I think by giving me heads up it made a big difference for me. I've known Joe for a lot of years even though, and I used to be real active on their net. But you know, life changes and my work structure changes. So I'm not nearly as bad or, you know, as much as what I used to be. So, all right, and there's my phone. Thank you, great. And then why could you? Hello? All right, and then why QJ? This is KC2, BKG. 73 is to you, man. Have a good, good day. All right. George, KB0, MAI. It's up to you 73 round. Final thoughts from you. This is KC2, BKG."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":0.7550287683095251,"created_at":"2026-06-29T13:56:12.812140+00:00","id":130468,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130768,"text":"you KB0MAI. All right, so Pyramid, I'm assuming like the Pyramid of Egypt. You had Kings, Queens, and their servants in there. But you're looking for the name of the inhabitants of the pyramid. The people of the island, I mean, the tomb, that's not going to work. It's a grip, but I don't think that's what you're looking for. So 90% of the people that were buried in that tomb were slaves. I'm going to say slaves. Oh, that's interesting. It's not the answer we're looking for. That's a really interesting answer, though. All right. We're going to go to Bill N9OFU. It's a good question."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.924363648891449,"created_at":"2026-06-29T13:56:03.223924+00:00","id":130464,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130764,"text":"Yes, dialysis means that my smoke's rolling out. Trying to think so hard. Quiet or a flower. And three letters. I can't come up with a gray. Back to you. That's okay. That's okay. I think YQJ, this is KC2, PKG. It wouldn't be any fun if you got him first thing out. We're going to go to George, KB0, MAI. Quiet or a flower in three letters. Over to you, George. I could be wrong about this, but Thomas is the one that gave me the head British. They name their mom a little bit different."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.6653307212723626,"created_at":"2026-06-29T13:55:20.771009+00:00","id":130453,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130752,"text":"that optimism. We'll see what happens going forward. KB0, MAI, optorist or pessimist over the next five years, so did George. This is a tasty tube PKG. Over to you, KB0, MAI. First off, I got to correct myself from the Egypt thing in the pyramids. My information was correct. I wrote a big report. It got me into a different school. It was all about Egypt, and Nile, and the pyramids. It was quite a bit of work for a young kid. At that time, they were claiming that the slaves were buried. That did happen a little bit about 5,000 years ago, but they changed that practice fairly early. They didn't do that as much anymore. Unless it was requested, I'd like to stay with my king because he's my king."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8852314341153639,"created_at":"2026-06-29T13:55:26.160435+00:00","id":130455,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130754,"text":"optimistic or pessimistic about the next five years in the USA in your case. This is KC2, PCHE. What were you? KB0, MAI. Okay, great. Thanks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know how many times it's going back and forth of it's a planet. It's not a planet and it's now, you know, registered as not a planet blah blah blah and it's all because of their understanding of science at the time, you know, that's you know history and everything else, but let me see here. Five years. Well, me personally, I think I am protected other than for inflation and right now I just don't have much to worry about inflation because everything's pretty much paid for so it's like okay, food. That's gonna get more expensive Insurance, that's gotten more expensive that kind of thing, but we're okay, but I'm seeing a lot of people out here and they are struggling quite a bit. You know, it's like"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.8463357632979751,"created_at":"2026-06-29T13:28:49.471078+00:00","id":130387,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130663,"text":"Medicare is going to cover GLP1s, which is the weight loss drug that everybody is on. I mean, of our guests, I don't know how many don't, but a lot of people do. They're all on GLP1s. And that I say, and it makes you live longer, which is, that's pretty weird. But that's what they're saying now. KB0MAI. George, can you think of three things that ought to happen in the U.S. today, this week? Some really, really soon. What would you suggest? Do you get three things? Suggest anything you want. This is KC2, PKG. Over to you, KB0MAI. You know, we should get the clarification of, uh, of, uh, of Montero and, uh, excuse me, on all of them, changed from weight loss drug back to what it was?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.6659441888332367,"created_at":"2026-06-29T13:05:51.349192+00:00","id":130327,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130589,"text":"of those things was the bill designed to combat. This is AC2 PKB overview, KB0, MAI. Sorry, this is the last time I'm gray. I got a phone call from the hospital and it took my echolink down on the look that I had with my phone. It usually doesn't do that. So I swapped over to my my all-star. So I'm here now. Sir, it's actually two bills that are really messing around with this particular thing. We were supposed to get that housing act that up where it was a bipartisan vote to help Americans with housing and at the last moment, Trump lost around a verdict in a court and he is all ticked off because he can't change the voting rights act."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.7369247883558273,"created_at":"2026-06-29T12:43:48.094820+00:00","id":130283,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130543,"text":"follow-up fireworks, they can't believe that somebody would say don't do that. And you hear that a lot. They just say, what? What are you talking about? And George has a comment. KB0, MAI, it's over to you for your comment. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, Bill had talked about the things that were one of the oldest countries. Even Steve, if everybody else. I didn't know I had to look it up, to be honest with you. And now it depends on your definition of how you start up the country. Bill, I think it was talking a little bit about, yeah, people who were indigenous there, well before a country got started, blah, you know, that kind of thing. But if you go by the criteria of just when they signed their Constitution and became a country, there is only 20 to 25 countries that are"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.9387779794633389,"created_at":"2026-06-29T12:39:20.945141+00:00","id":130261,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130521,"text":"in 8YQJ. You know when you think about the age of all the countries on the planet, there's some really old countries. China is probably close to civilization, been there for almost 7,000 years. The Jewish people will tell you that they've been around for 9,000 years, which is I'd like to see that timeline. I'd very much like to see that. Alright, thank you Ralph and we're going now to George KB-0 MAI. I am hoping that it's 810. Hope we get some funny games in for you this morning. But what do you think about the 250th anniversary? This is KC-2 B-T-G. Over to you KB-0 MAI."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.9391475891694426,"created_at":"2026-06-29T11:57:16.828116+00:00","id":130155,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130415,"text":"level with the bird feeders on my back porch. And I just sit here and keep my camera on the rail. And when I see something, I push a button. Try to get the birds in flight when they leave, and they go on there. Now I think that's kind of cool. But we'll see how that works. I got to reset real quick. I have a hospital appointment this morning, so I will probably be here to about 8.30, and then I will be no more. So I'm good to late 30. But yeah, back to you, great KB0, M-A-I. AB0, M-A-I, whenever time you can spare is cool with us, man. So thank you, and your backyard looks very trained."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8125971506039301,"created_at":"2026-06-29T11:57:11.721989+00:00","id":130153,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130413,"text":"us until Wednesday. I think Thursday is going to be the worst day. So we'll see what happens with that. And that is like, that's poison to me. I mean, I'll be hiding inside. Guaranteed. I hate it being too hot. All right, let's go to KB0.mai live from his back porch. He is bird watching. What's going on with you, George? I wish you a weekend. This is KC2, the PKG over to you, KB0.mai. Well, no, you know, the weekend was okay. Not having big happening. I did do the field day for a little bit on Saturday and realized that I wasn't really enjoying it that much. So I kind of got off there. I just found it was too crowded. First, first of a QRP. But it's not going to prevent me from getting out here doing potah though, too. My potah was terribly"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.9873091765711534,"created_at":"2026-06-29T11:50:23.641820+00:00","id":130139,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130399,"text":"Couple of more stations. We've got Allen, W0, GL, thanks for taking it out. And you need to come back any time. We've got N8YQ, Jerry Ralph. Nice to hear from you. He's in and in. Does that mean he's in with the in crowd? I don't know. We've got KB0, MAI, George, running up the list. And I think I saw AB1 AI jump in for a second, but I didn't hear him. Did you want to get on the list there? Over to you, Brian. Good morning, Gray. Morning, everybody. No, I'm not going to be able to this morning. I've just got my bicycle shoes on. I'm going to be heading out there. And if I'm in a bad area and you call me back, I won't be able to answer. But I might check back in. Have a good day. Son of a shine in here, by the way. Looks like a great day. Back to you, Gray. All right. Will you jump in whenever you feel like it? That would be fine. Yeah, we've got a lot of sun here."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-14T05:17:07+00:00","id":7364,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":7363,"text":" Hi, you had a great night yesterday. I listen to it more than I usually, usually just one thing in my ear and stuff like that. Your rendition of Diamonds Are Forever was pretty amazing. And I was talking, actually Gavin and I were talking about how relaxed you are. And you're getting better and better and better. It's just great. It's great, man. Over to you. KB0MAI, this is Casey 2PKT. Beep, beep."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-08T04:56:33+00:00","id":15172,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15171,"text":" I'll try one more time. KB0MAI, this is KJ5IRU. It is your turn at the mic."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-09T05:31:22+00:00","id":15393,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15392,"text":" Rick, I think you timed out. Well, I just passed it over. So I don't know where I timed out at. But if you tell me where I timed out at, then I think I might have timed out right when I was passing it over. Yeah, I think you were. I think that's exactly what you were doing. All right, well, that's good. And yes, you did tell us about the spider. And I was going to ask you about that, too. I forgot when I was just seeing how the bike was coming along. But hopefully your wife can find something, a helmet, that will work. You know, I don't know if it's a comfort issue or if it's just she doesn't want her hair messed up or what. But hopefully they can get that worked out for her. Because, like, you're right. I mean, she should have to have a helmet on, you know, from a safety standpoint. All right, let's go down to George now, KB0MAI. Good morning to you, sir. How are you this Saturday morning? Have you got any big weekend plans? And if you do, let us know. Over to you. KB0MAI, good morning. Oh, no real plans. I waited for daylight to come out here. I'm cutting the grass right now, trying to get it all done. There's supposed to be a lot of storms over the next four or five days. And I just don't like the grass too high. It's hard to cut when it gets too high. I have that problem. I left it behind my fence and not cut. And it got up to, you know, quite high. It was like probably about six inches. I have electric a lot more. And it does well, but six inches of really, really dense grass, it took a while. So I don't want to repeat that again. So I'm just trying to get this all done before the rain start. I've been feeling drops already, a little bit here and a little bit there. So if I get that done, or so early in the morning, it would be kind of nice. Reset. And then taking my grand-friend for, he's doing competition swimming. He's five years old. And we're putting him in a class, like my daughter did, that teaches a little more about swimming. And he just does laps back and forth into different types of strokes and stuff like that. He's doing real well. I mean, just about more than a month ago, I was trying to get him to lay on his back. And he's doing really well. He's in the pool. And he just didn't want anything to do with it. And yesterday, I was sent a video of him going clear length, one full lap, doing the backstroke. I was amazed. I mean, he's come so far so quick. But this is kind of a thing where they test out all the kids. And the kids that do the best get to go to the competitions and have fun doing that. We try certain sports with him. We try basketball. And he's going to try football this year, and soccer, baseball. And this one, he seems well-suited for. He seems like he's getting it real quick. Maybe that's his talent. He'll be an Olympic swimmer or something like that when he gets older. I don't know. But it's going to be an easy weekend. He's going. I have no plans for other than that. Maybe a meal or two. That's it. Back to deck control, KB0MAI. KB0MAI, KM1X. Now, I don't know. I'm just talking out my rear here. But as far as sports are concerned, I would think swimming would be one of the less expensive sports. You don't have a lot of equipment that you got to buy. I don't know. Like with hockey, you got all that equipment and you got to pay for ice time. I suppose you got to pay maybe for pool time. I'm not sure. But I would think that, yes, as far as sports are going, swimming is going to be one of the cheaper ones. So I would encourage something like that. I would think that that would be one of the more physical sports, too, as far as developing muscles and strength and everything. I could just never. I love swimming. I love being in the water. But the whole swimming of laps and things and the whole breathing underwater and tilting your head. I don't know how people can do that. I really don't. Especially when they're going as hard as they are. You got to breathe. And I don't know how people can do that. And I don't know how they're able to do it. I could never. I was always sucking in water and choking. It was nasty. But yeah, swimming is, I think, a damn good way to go. All right. We are at the bottom of the list. So why don't we take a call for check-ins? Anyone, anywhere that would like an opportunity to get in on the net. This is your chance. Come forward with your call sign now. This is KN4LDF. This is D. This is Repeater Station MEC-3, November, Quebec, November. All Stars, O-3, FDX, located in Shelton, Washington. And 9LDF, November 9th, Oscar, Fucks, uniform. Bill."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-09T06:44:50+00:00","id":15397,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15396,"text":" Well, maybe Mr. Sandman paid him a visit. All right, then Kevin, VA3, KKY, the honor falls to you of deciding one question we're gonna ask. You know the routine. Go ahead. Throw out a number 1 to 6. Okay, well, what I can do is throw the Google dice, so something like Google, read the number from 1 to 6. Four. Four? So, question four. All right. The question is, let's see, suppose you were offered the power to read other people's minds. Would you take it? And why? So, in a way, it could be good, it could be bad. I mean, you could be learning a lot of stuff that you don't want to know, whether it's about you and this person or other things. But if you had the power to read people's minds or could have the power, would you take it? So, we'll turn that over to you, Kev. Well, I suppose that I would. It would probably make me even more judgmental on second-guessing people because I kind of already do that anyway. And I rely totally on, you know, inner monologue and internal wit, you know, to decide what I'm gonna do. And I think that's a good thing. I don't even quit, you know, to decide about people already, so it would just probably be more intense. I just honestly really don't really believe in such things because I'm thinking if anyone can read minds, well, then it's very simple to settle. Tell me tomorrow's LOMOMAX numbers. I don't even play. Tell me about a horse that I could cash in on. You know, give me something tangible. Give me something legible. That's the thing with sidekicks is oftentimes they don't have any credibility at all to me unless they're already doing well. It would be the first thing that you would do. And if anyone tells you that they're psychic, just go up to them and punch them right in the face, kick them right in the ribs, step on their feet, and they're lying to you already generically because they should have been out of the way. Nothing should have already told them that that was coming. They couldn't even see that coming. So I'd have to be so, or I think I would be heavily skeptical of a lot of those things. So even like my atheism, I think honestly I've come upon it in terms of a logical awakening, you know, more than anything else. And I don't have any particular ESPs or anything like that. It certainly never comes in handy. It's never saved me. I always learn about things way after the fact, right? Like, oh, my brother was sick, and I wouldn't have never known. So if it was ever something useful, it's never been revealed to me. But yeah, go punch a psychic. And they didn't see it coming. The most simplest thing. The gala experience, I guess. Okay, I'll pass it back to you, Kevin. VA3KKY. VA3KKY KM1X. Well, I'm talking more, less about reading into the future. I'm talking more like just knowing what people are thinking. So that, you know, if you're working with somebody and you can hear what they're thinking as they're thinking it, so that if they're looking at you and saying, oh, man, this guy's a jerk, you get that. I mean, yeah, it would be predicting the future if you knew that, okay, you would read the mind of the president who's planning on, you know, starting nuclear war or something like that. But it wouldn't be the, you know, what are the lottery numbers going to be, since that's supposed to be all random. Darryl has texted me, so he's back. So let's go back to Darryl. V01UKZ. Darryl, the question is, suppose you have the opportunity to have the power to read people's minds. Would you take it? So you'd have like ESP, and you would know who's thinking what when they're thinking it. Is that something that you'd want to have, or do you think it could be detrimental, because you've learned some things you really don't want to know. Over to you, Darryl. Well, first off, I wasn't gone very long, and Kevin was, I think, directly after me, so I must have just missed my turn by that much. I just ran to the bathroom. But it depends, Kevin. If it was something I could shut off, you know, to go to sleep at night or something like that, I'd be down for it, because you wouldn't want just everybody else's thoughts coming into your head constantly. You wouldn't want that. It would become too overpowering. I think so, anyway. I think it would become overpowering. But if you could turn it off, then great. Or if it was sensitive enough so you could tune it to just one person, or if it was sensitive enough that if you were, you know, in your own apartment, it wouldn't, you know, it wouldn't keep flooding into your mind, because I think that would be just catastrophic if you could constantly hear what everyone was thinking. And I'd have some fun with it, too. You know, like, if I heard someone say, I heard someone thinking, oh, that guy's a prick or something like that, I'd be like, oh, so that's how you feel, isn't it? And they'd be like, well, what you say? And I'd be like, man, I just heard what you said. And then they'd be like, oh, did I say that out loud, or did I say it in my mind? And I'd be like, no, you said it out loud, man. Like, what the hell? I think that would be fun. But, yeah, like, you know, if you were in, like, it depends on the range, too, I suppose, you know? Because you don't want, you know, voices coming in from all over the city. You know, you'd need a range to this power, I believe. Like, you know, 50 feet, maybe. You know, you don't need to know what people beyond 50 feet are doing. I think it would just be a waste. And plus, you'd get too much on your channel. You know what I mean? It would be way too overcrowded. There'd be way too many voices coming in all at once. I don't know that you could even, you know, detect what was going on if you had way too many voices on the same channel, everybody trying to talk at once. But, yeah, that's my answer to the question, Kevin. If it was more powerful, or sorry, if it had a limitation, and or if you could turn it off, that'd be my only stipulations. Back over to you, V01UKZ. V01UKZ-KM1X, I could see that. I was thinking at the time that as far as limitations, it would be more like, okay, you think of a person. So, you know, pick a person, Oprah Winfrey, and you would just immediately be able to tune in to whatever Oprah Winfrey was thinking about at that time. You know, you were, so that, you know, it wasn't like everybody, you could just turn it on and off. You know, I mean, let's face it, especially guys, we have this great ability of just turning our brains off, just really not thinking about anything or anyone. I mean, you know, obviously if you're thinking about, you know, putting a boat in the water, well, that, you know, that's not gonna, the boat doesn't have a brain, so it's not like you're gonna be reading the boat's mind. But if you're thinking about a person, well, then all of a sudden you could tap into whatever they were thinking. But, yeah, it's cool. I mean, this is a fun question, I think. It can go down many different avenues, so feel free to go with it where you want. VE1, W-I-N, Peter, you have the opportunity to read people's minds. Would you take it? Over to you. I'm taking it, Kevin. I'm driving and I'm mobile, so have a good day. I'm clear. Very good. Have a good day. Drive safe. KJ5, IRQ, Josh, you're next. Do you think you would like to have the opportunity to read people's minds? Over to you. AM1X, this is KJ5, IRQ. No, I don't hear like my own mind. I don't want to hear nothing, right? Nobody else's. Yeah, that's a scary thought. No, thank you. My wife did the same thing. She heard the question and she goes, oh, no, I would not want that. No, I think we're all hypocritical and we put on a forking in front of everybody over what's really inside of our minds. It can either be a very joyful or very scary place. And so that's a personal thing and I don't need to know that. I did want to ask you a question. I believe last Friday that you mentioned you played D&D and I know you're interested in that and thought maybe you could tell us more about that. Whatever. I mean, it doesn't have to be now or nothing. It can be a different net. I just wanted to mention it before I forgot it once again. All right. With that, I'm sending it back to KJ5, IRQ, to K and 1X. Yeah, Josh, I think you asked me that this last weekend, too. It's something that I had never played growing up. Again, it was, its heyday seemed to come about in the late 70s, early 80s. I knew people that did, but I wasn't one of them. And probably three or four years ago, it was a local game store that was going to have a session for people who've never played before. It was like an introductory session. And I asked this buddy of mine, I said, look, if you were up by any chance to ever have played D&D or had any interest in it, there's this thing going on. I'm thinking about going, but I'd rather not go alone. And the guy's like, oh, my God, I love that plate that I got up. My brother and I, we were playing. We'd get our friends and we'd be up all night. I'd love to get going. I mean, I opened a Pandora's box. And now this guy just can't get enough of it. I mean, we play every five or six weeks. He's the dungeon master. He spent all of his waking time just on this. He's recruited a bunch of other teachers at the school that he works at. Even in the summer, they get together on Tuesdays at a game store and they play. It's kind of interesting, but it depends. I mean, different people get into it at different levels. I'm not into it that much. I just assume keep it to once a month, to be honest with you. But it is an opportunity to get out and meet other people. It can be very complex. And again, my interest level is not at the point where I want to be that complex. It would depend. If you've got a game store nearby, check it out. See if they have anything. It's worth looking into if you've got just a little bit of an interest because you could go to one of these introductory things and say, yeah, this is for me. It isn't for me. You'll know probably after an hour or two. So, yeah, it's worth checking out. All right. AA4, H-O, Ron. We're talking about the power to read minds. If you had the opportunity to read people's minds, would you want it? Over to you, Ron. I think I would. Let's see. Orson Welles, he was good at having people think of a number, you know, between one and ten. And he would be able to tell them, you know, what the number was. He would be a high degree of accuracy. He would be right about it or think of an animal. He'd ask a few questions that come with a little effort. And the skills also have to be learned beforehand. I have a little interest in that and I've followed some of them. And there's some things I've picked up on, not a lot, because I never formally tried to learn how to know what somebody's thinking or if what they're saying is deceptive or not. You don't necessarily need a lie detector test. I don't know if that actually falls into the category exactly of what the question is. Yeah, I don't think we'll ever be able to read somebody's thoughts. I don't think that. Yeah, I probably enjoy that. I don't have nothing. Are you going to surprise me at this point? I've seen just about everything. So I could be wrong about that. But I've been desensitized from my past experiences that it wouldn't shock me more. Of course, maybe if there were a serial killer that could be horrible to have to unsee something that you read their mind that they had done. So I certainly would avoid somebody like that. Anyway. Yeah, there's a lot of skills out there in this people who talk about it a lot that I've listened to. All right. So that control. A4HOKM1X. You got to have, I think, a thick skin before you agree to take something like that on because it could easily be something that you regret. So you'd want to give it some thought before you jump right in. But thank you for that. And now we're going to try to see if Jeff is still there. Km4GBC. If you could have the ability to read people's minds, is that something you would want to take on? Would you like to have that ability? Or would you just assume? Keep the mystery. Over to you, Jeff. Hey, Kevin. Km4GBC. Yeah, I think I'd take that. That'd be pretty cool. But I have to admit, Kevin, I already partially have that. I can partially do that now. And if you could turn it on or turn it off, like Ron said, some people are so crazy you wouldn't want to get in their head. Anyway, I have to be able to read people's minds a little bit at my work. Usually they're lying, I can tell you that. Anyway, it's good to hear what went on here this morning. I saw the cartoon that Josh put on Facebook there just now. That's really cool. I like that. That is neat. So anyway, Kevin, back to you. I'm still here for now. Mission accomplished on that first guy. He's going to be with us until Monday morning. He's a keeper. Anyway, back to you, Kevin. Km4GBC. Good morning, everyone. Km4GBC, Km1X. Well, sounds like you've got someone to take care of for the next couple of days. How does that work? When they're in the jail, obviously you've got to feed them and all of that. Do you guys have a cook? How does that all work? Do you do takeout? When the dude gets out, do you send him a bill and they have to pay for the food that they had and stuff like that? How does that work, Jeff? Well, it varies in different sentences, different charges and pretrial. Anyway, it varies in different ways, Kevin. But as far as the Poon goes, they have a company that brings in the food. And that's, you know, it's a big company. It's a big deal. They do probably four or five jails in different counties right here where I'm at. So it's a big outfit. I used to, they used a local guy and he would do all the meals for the jail. He had like a catering company, but he would, you know, just do the basics for the jail. But he got a little too pricey for the county. And the county got this other group that was doing the jail, the two jails in the counties that were beside of us. So they bring them in in paper boxes. And they have these containers, you know, that are nice, but they're disposable. And they have regular food, hamburgers, hot dogs. Sometimes it may just be a sandwich with some side veggies. But they've got a schedule that they have to go by and have to meet. So many, you know, certain rules they've got to follow about the nutrition and so forth. But this fellow was a domestic. So he got a fight with his family in North Carolina. It's automatically a 48-hour hold if you get in a domestic disturbance. It was pretty bad. So anyway, he's staying with us till the 48 hours runs out, which will be 7 a.m. on Monday morning. And I put his coordinate on Monday too, so he'll be going to coordinate 30. So anyway, they've got these different things, different rules they've got to follow. And they have a doctor and a nurse that they can see. There is a charge for that, but it's only like $3 and $5. And if they can't afford it, they get up there to see them anyway. And they're on call. So the nurses are there every day. They give their medication. So they do the intake with the meds when they come in. So they're pretty thorough about it, food allergies and all that kind of stuff. But yeah, while they're in custody, they're the responsibility of the sheriff. So back to you, Kevin Camp, for what you've seen. This is Repeater Station Kilo Avenue. Very good. Yeah, that was interesting. I've always wondered how that worked, whether they had like a kitchen staff or what. Because all I could think of was back in the old, you know, Andy and Mayberry. How did they feed them? And so I'm glad you were able to answer that for me. All right, go ahead, KC2PKG, back to the question at hand, which is dealing with the ability to read people's minds. You've been presented with the opportunity to do that, but is that something you'd want to have? Is that too much power? Could it backfire? Would you take it if you had the chance to read people's minds? Over to you, Gray. K.M.1X, this is KC2PKG. Yeah, with the proviso that you can turn it off. I think that's a really, really good suggestion there. And it was somewhat directable. I've always had trouble working out what people are thinking. Some people can look at another person's body language or watch their faces and stuff like that and really get a good handle on what's going on. Are they accepting what you're saying? Are you believing me? That kind of thing. I can't do that. I don't have that. I look at people's faces and I see a mass of app expressions, little lightning things that go on in their faces and stuff like that. So I'm not really good at reading people. And I wish I was better at it. I really do. So yeah, I would take that. I would definitely take that. With the proviso students, you can turn it off. You can't just let it out with what everybody else is doing. And it's somewhat directable. Like I have to look at the person or something like that and I could do it. I think that would be cool. And if you could turn it off with one bullet, just don't do it. So back to you, K.M.1X. This is KC2PKG. KC2PKG, K.M.1X. Now I think we stumbled upon what could make for a good story, a novel or a movie or something about the person that gets this ability and then all of a sudden they're discovering that there could be some serious drawbacks because they can't shut it off or the limitations aren't what they thought they'd be. And suddenly it presents some problems and some conflict, which you need in a good story. So yeah, I think we're onto something here. And Daryl was right when he touched upon that. Alright, who else is next here? Ask Gray, we go to Rick. K9VFD. What do you think, Rick? You know your life. You know some people that you might want to be able to exercise this power on, this new power if you choose to take it. But is it something that you would want? Would you like to have the ability to read people's minds? Over to you, Rick. Alright, well before I answer that, you said you wanted to ask if I did anything to my bike or whatever. And I'm playing with it. I'm trying to learn all the electronics, the infotainment system, the carplay, all kinds of stuff. But, and then I, we went on a pretty nice ride last Saturday. We wound up going out to Peoria the long way and then we took the long way back and we put on like 200 miles that day. And I decided that I wanted my feet up a little bit. I also wanted the handlebars closer to me so I ordered floorboard risers and then I also ordered handlebar risers. And while I was at it, I ordered a couple LED accent lightings. One both for the front, just some white light trim to finish out the bike and you know, make it look cool. I'm thinking about adding some sequential turn signals but it's a pretty elaborate job. You have to pull the wheels off and the fenders off. There's a lot of work involved in doing it. So I'm holding on by that. That could be a winter project. But as far as the reading people's minds, I'm going to go on a tangent with that. Because my dad, he was in telecommunications for pretty much as long as I can remember. And back in the old days, he was selling business telephone systems. And then by the end of his career, now they're doing Ethernet and fiber networks. And most of the time the contractors that he worked for were in the same union I am. Their local 134 IBEW. So anyhow, one of the things that he would do back, I mean these days I don't know a lot of times they're IP phones and they would do the same thing. But especially in the car dealers. He would get a car dealer and part of the system that they needed was a way for audio surveillance. So basically the systems that he would put in would be able to, you could go to a master station or whatever and actually listen in on that telephone extension. So basically the car dealers would, you know, they're trying to make their deal. They know they're getting close but they're just not quite there. The salesman will go, you know what, why don't you and your wife think about this. And I'm just going to leave for a few minutes and you guys can discuss what's going on here. And that's when the sales manager goes in and listens to the conversation and they can hear what they're willing to do to make the deal. So that's my take on it. And so you can do it. You can read people's minds but you have to use electronics to make that happen. But as far as me having the ability to know what my wife is thinking, oh my God. Especially when I'm being a dick. You know, it's all the week man. I was just no good. You know, I told her, you know, I'm not Rick anymore. Just call me dick. And that was my way of saying sorry. But anyway, I don't know if I want that ability. And you know, maybe with all the, you know, with my project manager acting the way he is, I want to know really why he's doing what he's doing. I think what he's trying to do is speed up production. And it's a way to, you know, it slows it down at first but then it gets things going maybe. I don't know. But anyway, so count me out unless I could turn it on and off and only use it as a, you know, all of a sudden, okay this is on demand. Okay now I want to know what you're thinking. So anyway, back to neck control. K-9 PFD. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo. K-9 PFD, KM1X. Well I would think yeah, yeah, I mean I'm not married but when it comes to spouses, do you really want to know what's going on? I mean there are times where a spouse might be like what is going on? What is he thinking? What is she thinking? But at the same time, you might get scared by it when you find out. So I don't know that I would recommend using it on your spouse for sure. But that's interesting about the car thing. I mean that's eavesdropping if you ask me. Or wire tapping almost. But I suppose if it was legal, it was legal. So it would be interesting to see if that would work if they still do stuff like that today. Let's see, George, KB0, MAI. George we're talking about having the power to read people's minds. And we'll let you interpret that any way you want. But is that a power you think you'd like to have? Over to you George. KB0, MAI. You know that two car dealership thing, I believe that is true. They're going to take any advantage they can. And I can see them doing that. So that's why I want to go into car dealership. I don't say anything to my wife unless we go outside and talk out there. But it's been a while. It's been five years since I've been to a car dealership. I'm very stiff neck when I go to them. You ever watch that movie, Bruce Almighty? He thinks he can do better than God. So God gives him all his powers and he's trying out new things. And all of a sudden he's starting to hear people all over the place in his mind. It gets worse and worse and worse. He's trying to clean out his ears because he thinks he's hearing things. And come to find out, God tells him, well that's prayers. You're God, you have to have the prayers. And he says, well how do you stand it? And God says, well I'm used to it but you only pick it up, the prayers from 40th street to 1st street, New York City or something like that. So you just get a small sample because you've got to start answering these prayers or it's just going to get worse and worse and worse. So I just sent out a typewriter. I guess this is his way of answering the prayers. And he just goes on and on and on. No matter how fast he works he just can't answer all the prayers. So finally he just grants everybody everything. For some reason I keep thinking about that movie when we're talking about this stuff. But I would say myself, no I don't need it. I read people pretty good. Not so much if they're on the air but in person I can read them fairly decently. I prefer that over hearing every thought that goes through their mind. That would drive me nuts. Hey Hal, I got done with all my road work, or yard work. And I've got to take a shower and get ready to get to the pool for my grandson. So eat some breakfast and all that kind of good stuff. So I'm just going to call it quits for the day. Everybody have a wonderful weekend and I guess I'll see you on Monday. JB0MAI. JB0MAI. JB0MAI. KM1X. Well it sounds like you got your work out of the way and it's still bright and early so you've got the rest of the day to play. Congratulations. I'm in the midst of chopping up onions and peppers to go into my spaghetti sauce as we talk about the question. And once I get all the chopping and stuff done then it's just a matter of cooking. And that should be alright. So I'm hoping to have this done by 10.30 or so. And then I can start my playing on the weekend too. Uh, D. KN4. LBF. You've had some time to think about the question, D. And as George said, I mean it does kind of give you some godlike abilities I would think. But is that something you would want if you could? Over to you. This is KN4. LBF. Um, I don't think I would have to, uh, not be soft in order to have it but I would like to have it. And just for, you know, for instance, um, you know, yesterday I had a really good conversation with a friend of mine and she was saying that her best friend, one of her girlfriends died a month ago. And she's been hanging with a crowd in her community since she's been here two years. And she, they all got together in one apartment to go to the funeral. And one of the ladies that she was hanging with said this to another woman, says, oh you see how she is like, you know what I said or whatever. But she heard and she turned around and she said, are you guys talking behind my back? And, um, she told me yesterday she was really devastated because she felt like she wasted two years of her life hanging with people that she thought cared about her. And it was a lie. They just was talking bad things about her. And I would say what's going on through your mind. And not only in reference to friends, family, nephew, nieces, whatever cases, it's just to know who is dishonest and honest with you. Who is selfish? Who is keeping two, three years of your life, 30, 40 years? I mean, I would like to set boundaries. And yes, I would like to have that ability because people are just not honest at all. And, um, I had another instance. I had a friend, let me reset, just give me a second. I had a friend that I thought was a friend of mine. And, um, her husband was my husband's best friend. And then she started hanging out with me. She started inviting me places and stuff to come to find out after four years of being what I thought was my BFF. She just wants to be in the same household to watch her husband. She didn't give two crap about our friendship. I was like, how can that be? How can people use other people like that? So, um, I have to say, yeah, I would like to know what's in your mind and I can have boundaries for I can, um, you know, just, um, make sure that I don't know. I just say yes. Anyway, back to you, Kevin. This is K and 4 LBS. This is D. Kevin 4 LBS KM1X. I think we've all been there, D, where we thought we knew someone and come to find out, you know, we didn't. They weren't the people that we thought they were. Um, that they didn't necessarily, you know, put as much weight on relationship as we did. And so you're right. That is a good thing to be able to have the ability to kind of root out before you invest a great deal of time and energy of your life on a relationship where the other person think about that. Just like when you were dating, you know, just this person like me, I really like this person. Do they like me as much as I like them? And just that whole awkwardness of getting to know someone. If you had the ability to know how the other person felt, think of how much pain that would have saved. So you brought up a very good point, D. Alright, let's go down to Ben, VE3, FBX. You've heard a lot of different viewpoints, Ben. And so we'd love to know what you think now. If you had the ability to read people's minds, is that something that you would want to have? Over to you. VE3, FBX. No, definitely not. Like Dee was saying, yes, people may try to use you or not have the same feelings you do, but that might be a temporary thing. There's a lot of temporary thoughts that enter a mind. I also think there's a lot of dark thoughts and dark minds and I would want to get dragged into seeing all the dark thoughts that people have. Maybe short lasting, maybe a long lasting plan they're working on. I just don't think it would be a fun place to be. Back to you, Kevin. VE3, FBX, KM1X. Well, I like going back to what Dee said. It was a case of an individual that you thought much more of and you thought it was both ways, but it turned out not to be. We all have people in our lives that we kind of more or less put up with. And there may be someone that thinks, oh my gosh, this person is great and we're really good friends when in fact we're just tolerating them more than anything, trying to be polite. So it could get turned on us as well. But that's a good point. Alright, Bill. N9, OFU. What do you think? You had some time to think about this. Is this something that you would want to have the ability to do? Over to you. Alright, well I just read your mind. I knew I was next. So maybe I already have it. I've always thought that would be an interesting trait to have because then you could say more or say less based on what the other person was thinking. So you wouldn't get in trouble or you would know if you were getting somebody upset so you could shut your mouth and stop talking. But I think it would be more trouble than it would be worth. I do like the idea of being able to focus it so you wouldn't hear everything and then be able to turn it on and off. Because sometimes it's better not to know what the other person is thinking. Because like you said, there are times when I look at someone and I think to myself things that I wouldn't say out loud. And there's a reason for that. Because your body has a difference mechanism. And sometimes we make snap judgments that aren't in our best interest. And then after a little while you completely change your mind. So if someone just read your first thoughts, they'd be totally off the mark. So I think the way it is now is probably better. So I would have to go with no, I don't think I'd want to have that ability. Even now I tell myself, I'd want to know if someone was lying to me or not lying to me or something like that. But I think I'm probably better off without it. Alright, and I know if you're back to the cam 1X."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-08T09:27:12+00:00","id":15262,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15261,"text":" Okay, Kilo Kilo 7, Whiskey Quebec Alpha, I've got you. And, hang on a minute, I'll get right back to you. I've got KI7, um, hang on, RMU, I've got you on the list, Jack. Hey, good to hear from you. And next check-in please. Kilo Kilo Alpha X-Ray Peter, Santa Cruz I-O. KI6, Romeo Alpha X-Ray with an I-O, from Santa Cruz, California there. I've got you on the list, and I've got your I-O, so there you go. I-O-I-O. Hey, happy Friday, we'll catch you later, have a great day. Alright, I'm going to go ahead and run this real quick, so I don't keep anybody waiting too long. So let's back up and see what George is up to, KB0, Mike, Alpha, India, take it away. Well thank you sir, I appreciate it. I hope everybody on the net is doing just fine up there in Seattle and everywhere else that you're checking in from. I'm down here in Kansas City, Missouri. We, you know, it's been pretty decent here lately. Last week it was absolutely gorgeous, but then this week the heat wave came back in, so we're back up to 90, 95 degree weather for this whole week. So, a lot of humidity and everything else, so I'm not really looking forward to it. But at least I'm home at the house and enjoying the day off, and that's cool. I went out and had breakfast with a friend this morning, and got back to the house and I had a flat tire. It was real low. I didn't notice it when I left this morning, so luckily I had an electric pump and filled it up and got up the tire discount and they got it all took and care of for me. But that's the first flat tire I've had in like 20 years, so I consider myself quite lucky. Doing well though. Just doing well and everything's fine over here in Kansas City. That's about it. Back to you KB0MAI. Back to net control. Hey, great to hear from you. Kansas City, here I come. Yeah, hey. Great to hear from you this morning and thanks for the report. Sorry about the flat tire though. Yeah, I hate flat tires. Oh man. But yeah, what a pain. But you know, if you got a pump and you got placed nearby and then you're in good shape, I always carry one of those emergency patch kits and a pump with me whenever I go anywhere. And the only trouble is that little pump on my pickup tires. It takes like 30 minutes to get it even up to like 20 PSI. But hey, it does the trick and if you have to plug it, you can plug it and do that tire patch thing. So there you go. And it works pretty well. So 73s. Have a wonderful day. Thanks for coming by and saying hi and we will catch you later. Let's see what Rich is up to. Hey, K3 Oscar Echo. Take it away. Good morning, good morning. And I'm sorry I stumbled into the internet. I just got back in the house with Polo and I heard you calling so I jumped in. Anyway, yeah, I always am ready for any kind of tire problem. That's for sure. You gotta be ready just in case. And anyway, thanks for the Echo. So I get two Echos this week. Cool. I love it. So anyway, some of you are probably wondering why I didn't do any antenna last night. I didn't even check into the net last night but I have a really good excuse. I went down to the Museum of Flight last night because it's their one free day a month. So I went down there, I got there right at 5 o'clock and got in and got inside and sure enough our friend Dan was in there. So Dan and I just kind of made the rounds of the place and he gave me a whole tour. So I was there for almost four hours and I got back home here. I was just too tired to do anything. But anyway, thanks for picking up the net for Ron. Back to you, K3oB. Hey Rich, glad you had a wonderful time at the Museum of Flight. Man, I love that place. It's just so much fun. And yeah, what can I say? No, you did not break in on the internet round. I opened it up to everybody. And just taking internet as they come. So trying to leave a little extra time here or there to get them in. Especially Echo Link Connects. So there you go. Well Rich, have a wonderful day and glad you had a good time and we will catch you later. Happy Friday. I'm still trying to remember it's Friday. Kilo Kilo 7, Whiskey Quebec Alpha. What you got going on today? Come ahead please."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-25T06:54:00+00:00","id":9839,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":9838,"text":" He's been muted. Yeah, I'm not sure what was going on there. Um, okay. Well, let me just go to next. KB0MAI, George. If you're still with us, Mike's yours."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-25T07:04:53+00:00","id":9851,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":9850,"text":" KB0MAI George, you still with us?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-10T04:40:52+00:00","id":15721,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15720,"text":" Would you look at that, it hit 4.30 in the morning, Sunday, August 10th. We're out here on the Cowabunga net. And we meet seven days a week, Monday through Saturday with a regular net controller, and Sunday with a rotating net controller. And because my truck is still broke down, I didn't get the truck in until yesterday morning, they ordered the part but it didn't come in. Now it won't come in until Monday. I figured, what the heck? I should take a turn at net controller and give some of the other net controllers a break in case they wanna sleep in or have the day off. So I am in 9-0-F-U, in Jacksonville, out of Phoenix, Arizona, taking over net control this morning. And so far, I just go ahead and made a list of people that I've heard out here. I've got BHVKKY Kevin, good morning Kevin, KB0MAI George, good morning George, VL1UKZ Darryl, KJ5IRQ Josh, and VE1WIN Peter, good morning to all three of you. So if you're out here, you'd like to get on the... I think so. Is this how we usually do it? Because I get out here on Sunday morning, usually someone's calling and getting things going. I'll refer to Kevin and George inside, they're out here. Usually, is this how we usually do it on Sunday morning? This is repeater station kilo kilo seven, November Quebec November, all star node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. What say you? Well, I guess we got the A of it, right? Okay, take the list. I know courtesy of question usually gets thrown around, but you're pretty good at doing that anyway. So I'm sure in the process today, questions will be asked. I'm at least able, I mean, today, like yesterday, there are days I can actually stay. I really, honestly really can't now in the weekdays. They're just too hectic for the most part. I'm either just too tired or I have to work. Like at least Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I have to definitely work. So I pretty much, those are hard, really hard to do. And then honestly, I kind of just really go out of my way to try to make Tuesday, Thursday for us, but those are harder and harder for me to do. It's almost like weekends are the best. I haven't forgotten the 19th. So if I say I can make that, I can, you know, like I can meet the goals, but yeah, for the most part, some of it is getting tougher and tougher and tougher. But I do like coming here and the weekends right now seem to be a sure shot, that's for sure. All right, well, I should be here and you know there's others here. You said like five. I didn't count. Everyone I guess waits for the net. It seems like they're right. You can't find nobody that I've known before, but everybody's on right now, your debt. So I'll be back to you, Bill. I'll be here. I hope so. I got to get my coffee. You guys talk it up so I can do that. I know that's not a tall order. So back to you, Bill. From Kevin. All right, thank you, Kevin. Yep, misunderstood the question. The question was do we have usually a rotating net control operator out here? And it's usually a, we'll see who is available, who has time to be able to pick it up on a Sunday. Sometimes we'll have three or four people that are ready for the challenge and sometimes we don't. And then we just kind of go around and have a rag too. That's how I usually work on Sunday from when I've been able to get out here. But next on the list we got George, KV0MAI, who is on his Echo Link node. And at first it was a little quiet. When you first came in, the first transmission, I heard you, it was really quiet, but I got better over time. And then once you turned up your mic gain, it came in just like you're running out of time. It came in just like you were on Echo Link. So good morning, George. How are you doing today? Yeah, good morning, Bill. I am doing just fine. Yeah, it's actually quite gorgeous out here on the back porch. So yeah, I know I get that problem. I go over to the digital bands and I have to turn down my gain because it's just way too hot for most people. And then when I switch back over to All Star or Echo Link, I gotta bring my gain back up because it's the opposite. I don't know why you think it'd be about the same, either way, but of course I'm using two different nodes too. So that probably makes a difference. So I got my All Star node and I have an open spot that I use for the other stuff. So anyhow, yeah, you're more than welcome to it since you're off and I was all set up. I had my Coke and my coffee and my two little computers and a list of questions and a whole bunch of box of Kleenex because my sinuses are going nuts today. So I think I'll just sit back and relax and let you do your thing. So only thing is, you talked about letting a neck controller get to sleep in. If you were to text me, like, oh, I don't know, like two o'clock in the morning, I would have slept till three which wouldn't really make any difference now, would it? But that's just my smart ass answer to getting to sleep in on the day I'm supposed to take it. And one more thing, let it drop for a second."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-10T05:17:48+00:00","id":15733,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15732,"text":" We're coming out and joining the call up on it this morning. We got you on the list. And any time you need to check out, you can just go ahead and let us know. And we will take you off so we don't call you again. But appreciate it. And now we're over to upstate, upstate, upstate New York. So upstate, he's almost in Canada if he wanted to get his feet wet. That's WDA2A. Pat, how you doing this morning, Pat? Well, good morning, Bill and everybody on the net. I just made some changes to the computer here in the house. So I'm making sure my EchoLink thing is working good. But not a whole lot going on. Just going to kind of chill out today. Have to run out to Iowa again on Monday. So they've been pretty much running every week. And it's a production issue between the two plants. So that's why they keep me running. And I've only got three, four days at home, or four days at home to try and work on the low-net toil again. But that's kind of got on the back burner. I've been working on a project for Deborah. And I've got like one more day on that project that I can focus on getting the beam up in the air, working on the antennas on the shack there. And I can't remember his name, but the last guy to check in working on his station, good deal. It's always fun. So I'm just going to get one of them done. I've got things to do today, Bill. But I just wanted to check in and let your people here know what I sound like so you can let me know how this thing's working. I do have kind of a little frog in my throat. So take that in consideration. So have a great day. W-2-A. Yeah, you sound great. You asked for the sound of your frog in your throat. I was going to say something about that, that you sounded a little bit under weather, but a little over talked. And other than that, the transmission was clear. There was no static, not a lot of background noise. So everything's good there. Hope you have a safe and pleasant trip out to Iowa. I think he said Iowa. And we'll catch you around, for sure. And with that, and for anybody's, well, to make it legal, this is N9 OFU Bill out of Phoenix or Tolson, Arizona. But now we're going to go over to W-A-6 ABC, slowly becoming a regular again on the Kowabunga net, which is highly, greatly appreciated. You still doing photography, Mike? I do see a picture that you post every now and then up on Facebook. But I don't see as many as I used to. So I hope you're still into that. We got Pat at KB0MAI, who has been filling in as our provider of pictures. But how are the cats doing? That's what everybody wants to know. How are all those cats doing? Over to you, Mike."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-10T05:40:44+00:00","id":15736,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15735,"text":" All right, we got AV-1AI. Brian, good morning to you, Brian. Thanks for listening there in the background. A lot of people listen in the background. And it's always a pleasure to know you're out there. Glad that we're able to fill in some empty space for you. And happy when you get the opportunity to check in, even if it's not today. We so appreciate you out there. All right, so with that, we will go back to the top of the list. We got Kevin, VA3KKY. You'll have to let me know if I'm being a little bit quiet, because I've got my microphone right next to my mouth. I'm trying to be quiet so I don't wake up my wife or me. But it sounds like I'm doing OK with that. And having the microphone headset that I have sounds like or is a great opportunity to be quiet but still be heard. So Kevin, VA3KKY. You still with us out there? Go ahead. And I know you're dealing with your dad now. Are you guys moving towards putting him in an assisted living place and you getting your own place? Are you guys sticking it out at the house you were living in? Honestly, I think everyone's sitting on their hands for that. I don't think anyone's rushing for that. And I'm glad I'm not rushing either. Honestly, I hope I kick off first before I have to deal with most of it, which probably won't happen. The more I say that, the more I'm convinced I'll be like hundreds of years old. I'll watch everyone else go. That's the whole point of getting old is you watch your friends die. And it's like too late to make new friends. It's how it really goes. It really is. My dad, one of the indications is he's lost a lot of his checker buddies. He's lost a lot of his dice buddies. He used to always call, see if there's any extra legs around tonight for dice. Because we need three or four legs for dice. So that's pretty much gone. That's pretty much shot out of the water. So you lose everybody you know. As far as now earlier, I thought I heard you ask if you know something about talking to your parents about stuff. I don't know if you went right now to them about the birds and bees and nature and stuff. I never talked to them about any such thing. Never at all. In fact, I just kept all my personal stuff out of my mom's way. She was a gossip ho. So there's no way. And even when dad was in good condition, I don't know. He was too much of a joker for me to really want to bring any serious things to the table with him. I mean, he could be serious when our mom made him. So that was kind of a deal there. He didn't exactly have tough structure or tough holes in the first place. So that was at least good. But yeah, nowadays, I have no idea. I mean, we're getting closer and closer to pretty much launching off reality. But I don't really know. I guess if I was to keep up with him and have bridge friends or dice friends or whatever, I'd probably have to start making them. Because see, I have such a cut-off point from people at any school I went to that I just broke away from them. So I wouldn't know if they're dead or alive. Like a lot of people say that they join various different social media things like Facebook and that, and they find their school friends. I'm often not really recognized a lot of them. They were static when I got away from the Ontario School of the Blind. I hated them all. I maybe not have hated every student. Let's not totally exaggerate. I think I hated staff. And I based it on user base. It was easy for me to say, screw all of this. So if there's a chance, I might have forgotten. Just like now, there's been various neighborhood schools I went to. And I definitely lost track of a lot of them. I'd almost have to start making new those kind of events. And it just doesn't really work the same way when you're older, right? It's kind of like my dad's in that position where he's almost 100. He ain't hanging around 26-year-olds. You know what I mean? It just doesn't happen. And so I'm almost 50. I ain't hanging around 20-year-olds. You think about it, right? When we was kids, we'd wait until those mugs left the room, right? Like, serious business didn't start until they left the room. It's like, get your ass out of here, old man. We want to get high and be stupid. You're in the way. You're a little bit too mature for those things, right? I almost think of LL when he'd say, my old Jew teacher's not supposed to rap. He said that to Dis Iced Tea. But anyway, it's like he was on this whole F elders kind of thing. But that's how kids are, right? So it's like I'm getting with no 26-year-olds. I don't even know any place to go where that even happens. So you can't make new friends unless you're on the ham radio. And then you can lie because they can't see you. I don't know. All right. OK, I'll let someone else talk. I don't know what to talk about, but I always talk about a lot. I don't say much, but I talk a lot. So OK, back to you, Bill. This is the 8th week, KKY in Toronto. This is repeater station kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. All sorry, no news. Kevin, the question that I had asked earlier was if you had to have that talk with your parents about moving out of their house. And if you had to move out of their house, you could have gone into some kind of an assisted living or something where they would have people being able to take care of them. But that's all right because it's just a question in case anybody wanted something to think about or talk about. And if you've got something else more interesting to talk about, then that's what we want to hear because the thing that people are most interested in. And if you're passionate about something, then it's never boring. So with that, we have a late-minute edition. We have Steve, N0BF, who's in Buffalo, New York. I thought he had gone out to Buffalo and he had gone back to Colorado because I knew he was in Ohio the other day. But apparently he's back in Buffalo. So he's still on, well, he's always on vacation. But he is not at home in Colorado. So Steve, N0BF, how are you doing and how is the trip? This is N0BF on the cell phone, iPhone 16, in Buffalo, New York. OK, well, it's a little confusing. And every time I explain the trip, it gets more confusing. Anyway, long story short, we came out each on the train and today we're going to head back on the train to Colorado. So that's the long and short of it. We've been zipping around in a car between here and Cleveland, Ohio. And there's another station between us and that's Pennsylvania, Erie, Pennsylvania. Had lunch there yesterday. So anyway, we ended up close with the Nye Air Falls, which is in the Canada area. We are all around. So anyway, we've been having fun out here and we bought a house. And so I'm going to be, my wife's not going to be moving to the Cleveland, Ohio area. You've probably been out here in a truck, I bet you. I don't know if you come out this far east or not. Anyway, I'm not sure that's, anyway, who knows? I feel, I know you get around a lot. Anyway, the questions about your parents, all that, I, that's a big one. I'll answer that later. But for now, I just wanted to say hi and bye. My wife, we're getting out for a walk and we'll come back. And then if you're still here, I'll check back in. But anyway, so that's the story. The train goes from here to Chicago tomorrow. And then tomorrow, the following day, we get to Colorado and Grand Central Station. So then I'll be heading to the town of Loveland where I live. All the facts about this, guys, anywhere in the world you can check in. This is N0PS. And I appreciate it very much, Bill. And I will listen for a bit until you go on a walk. It's N0PS. All right. Thank you, Steven. Yeah, I've been in that area a lot. My wife is from Binghamton, New York, which is at the junction of law 86 and 81. So that's where she grew up. And we lived back there. I started driving a truck when I was living back there. So a lot of time spent in that area. My terminal for the trucking company I worked for was in, well, it's in Syracuse now. Used to be in another town that is escaping my memory. But yep, know the area. So you enjoy your walk. And if you come back, just let me know. I'm trying to keep an eye on the chat box as well. And we'll get you back in there, Steve. But for now, I'll take you off the list. And we're going to go to George, KV0MAI. Hopefully he's still there. It's been a while since we've been around. But George, if you're still there, it's over to you. Oh, yeah. My turn. OK, gotcha. Gotcha. Oh, I have your KV0PSF sitting out on the back porch with me. And we were looking at what's going on out here. I got a bird feeder and a bird bath out here. And it's starting to get active again finally. We went on vacation for two weeks. Asked the kids to fill up the bird bath every other day and give them bird seed. They didn't. And that chased all the birds away. And then when I got back, I got back into the routine of everything. And it took about three weeks, I guess, before we started seeing birds again. Today, we've got lots of squirrels down there trying to eat the seed off the grass that the birds stung down. And we had four or five birds there and a couple of squirrels. They cut it ice. I like watching them when I'm out here. I'd like to do one more thing. I'd like to get out one of them hummingbird feeders and put it on the porch. And so I'd have to take care of the hummingbirds too. But it's just nice to have. My goal is eventually get enough birds that want to come around that I can do a little bit of bird photography. But we'll have to wait and see. And there goes my dog. Reset. We've got a quick, funny story for you. Now, as you guys know, I have a chihuahua. And my daughter has a chihuahua. And they wind up living here more than anything else. So we usually have two chihuahuas. My son went on a trip. And he brought over his American Eskimo to my daughter. And somehow, it got him over to our house. Somehow, we have an American Eskimo. But this dog is extremely strange. It trusts everybody and anybody except me. And it will not go near me. It'll come up and let me, you know, I can hand him a treat or something like that. But cannot let her, she won't let me pet her or anything else. So last night, my wife decided to go with my grandson and daughter to a swimming pool. And I was left alone with this dog. Now, my goodness, this dog is like a dog. Now, my goodness, this dog is like two years old. And not once does he trust me. But when they left, about 20 minutes later, I got out of my chair to go get something. And she walked up to me. And I bent over. And I was expecting her to run like usual. And instead, she allowed me to pet her. A couple of times, she did that while they were gone. And she looked at me like, you're the only one left. So I guess I have to trust you. But she had that eye of, oh, I'm just waiting for you to do something bad to me, which I've never done a damn thing bad to her at all. I mean, there's nothing to give her treats and try to play ball with her, this, that, and the other. But so I don't know what her problem is. But I had a breakthrough last night until my wife got home. And now she won't trust me again at all. She shies away from me completely. Anyways, back to neck control, KB0MAI."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-10T06:59:53+00:00","id":15760,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15759,"text":" and we'll catch you when we catch you. And we got you covered, or we got you on the 19th to cover for Russell there when he goes to the dentist. So if we don't catch you before then, we'll catch you then for sure. So with that, we will pass it along to George. Thank you, George, for giving me the opportunity to come in here and practice my neck-to-toiler skills and what skills they are. Appreciate it. And we'll catch you for the 73 round KB0MAI in Nynoipu. Go ahead. Yeah, no problem. You know, you should try to do it more often. It's the first time I've ever heard you as a neck-to-toiler and you did a fine job. So there you go. And I know it's kind of hard when you're driving a truck and do neck control. But you know, what the hell? Let's throw caution into the wind and safety out the door. I hope. Anyhow, I hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. I don't know who's going to have it next Sunday, but it won't be me. So anyhow, you all have a wonderful weekend, or a wonderful weekend, what's luck of it. And I'll probably catch you out on the road tomorrow. KB0MAI, back to neck control. Senators. All right, bigger George. You have a good day. And keep the tire on the ground and the bugs off your glass. All right, V01UKZ N9OFU. Over to you. I'll take you, Bill. And hope everybody has an awesome Sunday. Man, the weekend just flew. Been watching a little bit of coverage of the Canada games over the weekend. And speaking of which, dad is gone again. My uncle owns a transit company, buses, taxis, coaches, that type of thing. And so a lot of their buses have been chartered for the Canada games. Bringing athletes back and forth to events, bringing people to and from the audience members, to and from the various venues and stuff. And he's been quite busy. He was working for 12 hours yesterday. Getting home at 10 o'clock last night. And now he's off at it again today. So I had a fair thing to be doing most of the weekend. All the games are going on. So we're for Newfoundland to host Canada games. I can't remember if we did before. And if we did, when it was. But we're hosting it this year. And they built a few new facilities in the city as a result. One of them is this, let me reset. One of them is this downhill mountain bike park. With all kinds of jumps and ramps and step ups and stuff like that down through the woods in an area town called Pippi Park. It made a cool mountain bike track or area over there. And then they're going to keep and leave it open to the public after the games is over. So that's cool. That's something we never had here before. Not something I would try because it's just crazy. I mean, I don't want to take a 20 foot jump or 50 foot jump on a mountain bike. I just don't trust the mountain bike. Well, my heavy ass on top of it making a jump like that. But these guys that are into it, man, they do it. And they're extreme. I've got a couple of downhill mountain bike games, Otter's Republic is one. I mean, some of the jumps are just absolute insanity. If you don't land them just so, you're going to buckle the wheels on your bike and buckle your spokes. And oh, man. But for those that can do it. Anyway, Bill, thanks for doing the next one, man. Really enjoyed it. Look forward to when you get to be able to do it. Bill's done it a few times, George. Doesn't get a whole lot of opportunity to do it. But when he does, it's always a good time. So any time you're able, Bill. Other than that, everybody have a great day. Stick around for the worldwide friendship net, which will be coming up next. We'll be a few minutes into it. But that's usually how it goes. 73, everybody. Have a great day. Catch you out here tomorrow with Gray. KC2PKG at the home. This is V01, UPC. Thank you, Bill. Yep. And you can go to Do Drop In Facebook page. And you can go to Discord, Do Drop In, and get those questions. You should also be able to get on to the dodropin.info website and get those questions in the net so you can figure out what you might want to answer on those. But with that, we'll go to KC2PKG. But with that, we'll go to KJ5IRQ Josh from N9LFU 73 round."}]}