{"activity_count":148,"callsign":"KF8DRJ","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2025-09-21T05:50:02+00:00","found":true,"id":10985,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-28T00:04:48.235965+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":135,"profile":{"confidence":0.9,"counts":{"ncs":1,"net":0,"open_qso":107,"transcript_contexts":60},"data_freshness":"generated","latest_topic":"book banning in schools","most_topic":"social and cultural issues","open_vs_net_bias_score":0.7,"personal_summary":"KF8DRJ is a frequent contributor to nets, known for their detailed and sometimes lengthy responses. They enjoy sharing personal stories and opinions, often delving into topics such as social issues, technology, and personal hobbies.","scores":{"activity":0.9,"civility":0.8,"engagement":0.8,"focus":0.5,"friendly":0.8,"helpful":0.7,"serious":0.6,"technical":0.5},"source":"ai_profile","summary":"KF8DRJ is an active participant in various amateur radio nets, often engaging in discussions and providing personal insights. They have a tendency to share detailed personal anecdotes and opinions on a variety of topics, including social issues, technology, and hobbies.","topic_coverage":{"personal anecdotes":0.3,"radio operations":0.1,"social and cultural issues":0.4,"technology and gadgets":0.2},"updated_at":"2026-06-26T18:03:13.866855"},"qrz_status":null,"recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-21T05:49:54+00:00","id":43458,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":43457,"text":" Okay, well again I appreciate it Mike, I appreciate it Bill. I'm going to go upstairs and grab the preamp and see if I can take this one up a notch because I really have to crawl up on it to see some level. And set it up that way. Hey I appreciate it guys. Have a great Sunday. This is Doug by the way, I'm up in Detroit. KF8DRJ. Just trying to make things a little better today. So thanks again all you guys. 7-3."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-01T06:47:16+00:00","id":51003,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":51002,"text":" Well good morning. I wondered about using that Dr. J thing and I didn't know if anybody would actually get it. I'm an old man and yeah I didn't know if anybody would get it. But yeah maybe I'll try it. See if it takes. Anywho, I guess I'm going to be one of those polite disagreeers. You know, it takes all kinds right? But yeah, I mean first off I just think if anybody can say that they don't think DJT is a jerk, well then I don't think they're really paying attention because he really is. He really is a jerk. The way he comports himself, yeah. I just, yeah, okay. So I mean I guess I said enough about that. But I mean I guess the president is kind of like the CEO of a country the way I look at it. And if you've got a problem, if something is going wrong with your company and you document a problem and you slide it across the desk to the CEO and say what should we do in this situation, I'll be a son of a gun if everything that bonehead doesn't slide back across the desk is something I actually agree with. So I'm one of those people that you know you plug your nose or what is it close your eyes, plug your nose voters. The Washington thing I think is going very well. He has moved in troops or whatever. The mayor accepted them and as such is actually getting some glory in the cleaning up of that area. So I guess I don't fully understand why Portland would feel under attack if they can't handle their own business, which it appears they can't, Chicago either. I would think they would want these people to come in and make law and order. But you know, a lot of this is a mystery to me. I don't understand why it's a bad thing. If you're taking over the city to wreak mayhem, this is a problem. But use Washington as an example, they seem to have been doing really well so far. So anyway, that's just my take and I just think you've got to give it time to see where this stuff goes. But you know, no denying the guy is a bonehead. He's just absolutely is. KF8 DRJ."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-04T07:47:05+00:00","id":53283,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":53282,"text":" KF8 DRJ, KF8 DRJ."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-01T07:12:27+00:00","id":51029,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":51028,"text":" All right, thanks much. Yeah, very good net you got here. I just stumbled into this today and heard you discussing topics that are forbidden in other nets. And my take has always been that if everybody is being polite and respectful, you should be able to talk about anything. So I like that part. Then you are, I guess, the net controller, and I just heard you use a high-tech term of Mike Thingy. And I will be a big fan of any net that uses high-tech terms like Mike Thingy. So yeah, loving it. I will be dropping back in again. Just a final thought on the issue that really kind of piqued my interest before about obviously the bonehead Trump. I think your political perspective on an issue like this National Guard thing is probably going to be formed by who you philosophically stand next to. I will put it that way. You used the phrase that invasion with the National Guard and it kind of impugns this mayor's ability to do their job. And what is funny, my take is that the person that I philosophically stand next to is not the mayor. It is the citizen. And there are metrics that we measure the value of a mayor and what kind of job they are doing, be it crime statistics, whatever. And if those metrics aren't being met, then I could see why the government would want to come in and say, okay, you are not doing the job, so we are going to do it. And then again, if I am standing next to the citizen, I have seen all these videos of Chicagoans, regular law-abiding Chicagoans that actually welcome what is happening. So, yeah, it is funny. It is just a perspective on where you stand. Calling the National Guard thing an invasion is interesting when actually the citizens might say that they are being invaded by the criminals. We need help. So, I mean, yeah, I am going to stand next to the citizen and that will form my opinion. And if someone, you know, chooses to stand next to the politicians or whatever, yeah, you are going to have a different opinion. I totally get it. But I love the dignity on this thing. Everybody has got an opinion. People are sharing. Nobody is insulting the other guy. And I will definitely come back and visit this forum again. Very cool thing you have got going here, Gerald. Anyway, have a great day, everybody. Thanks for letting me pop in. I am going to go do some tours that I don't really feel like doing. KF8DRJ."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-01T06:45:03+00:00","id":51002,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":51001,"text":" Alright, I've got Doug, I've got Mel. Good morning gentlemen. KF8DRJ. Dr. J. I like it. KF8DRJ. Doug, you're up first man. Good morning to you. Not 100% sure if we've spoken before or not, but welcome to the group and good morning. The mic is all yours."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-01T07:09:35+00:00","id":51028,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":51027,"text":" Alright, thank you very much George. Always great hearing from you man. And we got two more on the list here and that's going to be it for today. This net flew. It really does. Man, I tell you, like two and a half hours just go by like poof, nothing. And I can't see how nets that only run for an hour do it. And they get, you know, everybody in that wants to get in. It's amazing to me. Imagine if we only had an hour to run this net. Ah, we'd barely get anything said. It would turn into a weather net. KF8DRJ. Dr. J, Doug. You're up man. Final comments. And thanks for joining us this morning by the way. We're out here every morning Monday through Saturday, tentatively on Sundays. Same time 730 AM Eastern, 630 AM Central. So anytime you're around and about, by all means man, you're more than welcome to join us. Mike is over to you for final comments."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-25T06:43:28+00:00","id":68171,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":68170,"text":" KF8DRJ"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-11-08T05:50:46+00:00","id":76595,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":76594,"text":" KF8 DRJ"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-11-10T05:18:54+00:00","id":78155,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":78154,"text":" Correct? The record was previously set by the 34 day shutdown during Trump's first term. This time the president had not involved himself in negotiations to end the standoff. Instead the White House is betting that key constituents will turn on the Democrats the longer the shutdown continues. Well, that's not working out for him. Alright, we move on to KF8 DRJ. Let me drop it for a second."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-11-10T05:52:54+00:00","id":78191,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":78190,"text":" Well, thank you, Gray. Being a new member here, I'll do first, I guess, full disclosure. If anything is said that keeps me from being accepted by this group, well, you know, stuff happens. I am a 65-year-old retired gay libertarian. So, as libertarian, that means really everybody hates me. Because like Josh said earlier, yeah, the separation is real. And if you're in the middle, you're in trouble. So, yeah, but that's my story. I've always been libertarian, a little bit more liberal on the social issues, lean a little bit more conservative on the fiscal stuff. Been that way my whole life. But yes, we finally devolved into a culture where I am really pretty much accepted by no one. Oh, and I'm also gay. So, anyway, there you have it. To answer your question, I say, I believe no. And the only reason is I do think we have about a five-day attention span in life. And we look at what's happening today and, oh my gosh, this must stop, we must protest. On any of this kind of stuff that's come down the pike over the years, I have much more of a, eh, let's see what happens. You know, no one really, you don't know for sure what the outcome of some of this stuff is going to be. And I'm not talking a year or two, five years down the road, I'm talking 20. So, I mean, you know, have I heard there's been some good results from the tariffs? Yeah. I've also heard there's been some terrible results. So, at some point, you've got to have to balance out the facts over the long haul and see if it works. You know, that's the deal. So, for me, and I always have to answer anything I say with I believe, because our political beliefs are probably influenced most by the media we consume. Some of it's right, some of it isn't. So, I always have to start every sentence I say with this kind of stuff with I believe, because I could be wrong. But to answer your question today, I believe we are not in a state of emergency. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. KF8DRJ, back to you, KC2PKT."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-21T04:08:21+00:00","id":79251,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":79250,"text":" Well, thank you, Jeanette. Yeah, I think he took off just so he could stay home and have a good cooked meal. That's what I think. But yeah, Jeanette's husband is a pilot. And they were out fishing. And Jeanette pushed them. Just kidding. And they ended up, well, he turned around, took a step. And there was no boat there. And he ended up falling into the lake and hitting his back on the boat as he went down. Luckily, he didn't hit his head. But they did have someone else there. And he got back in the boat. But he did some physical damage to his back there. Nothing too serious, but serious enough that it sounds like he ended up missing some work. And he did it on his days off, of course. And that's how you're supposed to do it. You're supposed to get her on your days off so you don't miss work. So we just hope that he makes a speedy recovery and he gets back here. All right, we're going to go to Doug, KF8DRJ. See, I've got it right this side. If you're still there, Doug, it's your turn. Black Friday, tell us your stories."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-21T04:27:06+00:00","id":79307,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":79306,"text":" All right. Well, hey, I'm glad that worked out with your neighbor. I'm glad you followed up on that too, actually. I like neighbor stories. Here's a little tidbit for me. I like bad neighbor stories and I like bad HR stories. I don't know why, but if you get me on a thread where people are talking about HRAs and things that they've done to combat HRAs, I stay on it all day. People who read into the bylaws and actually get into it so they can do stuff that pisses their HOA off, but there's nothing bad about it. I like those types of stories. So there you go. A little tidbit about me. I like those types of things. Just like bad neighbors. Good friends make good neighbors. I'm a firm believer in that. All right, Gray, we're going to say 73 to you, man. I hope you have a great Friday. Doug, KF8DRJ, we're going to pass it over to you."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-21T04:46:48+00:00","id":79367,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":79366,"text":" I think that was KF8DRJ."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-21T05:59:38+00:00","id":79591,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":79590,"text":" Well, that's got to be KF8DRJ. And I'm looking at your notes that you put on Discord, and I can totally understand why you said KI on your notepad with that way cool crab pen. But yes, and I should have said my name, sorry. It's Doug up near Detroit, KF8DRJ. And I have no news. I mean for a holiday week, you know yesterday was great with the meal. I had a lot of pumpkin pie. Making sure my acid blockers in my stomach were well in place because you know when you get to a certain age. And yeah, unlike Josh, I'm not doing any of that today. I'm not going out there to the craziness. I do most of my stuff online like I guess a lot of people do. The fun part is though, you get done with it. You get your list done, everything done. You don't have any pressures. Then you go walk a mall and you look at the crazy people. You look at the lights. You look at the decorations. You get all in the mood, but you don't have to get anything. That's the best. I do it that way every year. Quick note to Gray if you are listening, KG2PKG. You said something about sending me an email. And I have a new email thing that I just started using the last couple of days from Thunderbird. So I just wanted to shoot you some quick traffic to ask if you sent me something. I didn't get it. So I don't know. Maybe you didn't, so maybe everything is fine. But I can also tell by this list you are going to toss to George after me. That's really cool that you did that. I like it. Anyway, that's my day. I hope everybody has a great one Black Friday whether you are staying in, going out, beating the crowds, whatever it is you do, have a good one. This is Doug, KF8DRJ back to Bill N90FU."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-21T07:21:46+00:00","id":79843,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":79842,"text":" I don't know where I dropped. Anyway, I think it was on the drunk portion. I already bored you with my Thanksgiving. I've got to watch my clock here. That was my bad. I'm sorry. Yeah, just that I wanted to yield to Josh, summarizing my last 30 seconds here, because if the lawmakers encourage someone to disobey a direct order, or no, no, disobey what they feel is unconstitutional, what is the rule on the battlefield if the superior says go storm that hill and the soldiers turn around and say, nah, we don't want to. What happens to them? So, yeah, I just thought we're connecting the dots there. I don't think Trump's not saying kill six lawmakers, for God's sakes. But the lawmakers can say whatever they want to say, but it would be incumbent on the military personnel to either obey or disobey their commands and then take whatever comes from that. So, I don't know. I don't know where I lost you, but yeah, I got to watch the clock. I'm not good at this. Anyway, I yield mostly to Josh because I want to hear what that opinion is on the local battlefield nowadays. KF8DRJ."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-21T21:00:14+00:00","id":82119,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":82118,"text":"Yeah, you may have no idea but you got it. You got it. They're known as the Benin bronzes Nigerians had pleaded with Western museums to return the bronzes for decades Their calls will actually fell on deaf ears until attitudes on returning colonial loot started to change In recent months over a hundred of the sculptures have gone back to Nigeria and hundreds more are scheduled to arrive in 2026 from museums in Sweden Britain and Germany nice job Thomas. There we go All right, I don't have a question for KF8 DRJ, I ran out of questions, I got too many people on the list today, but that's okay, because we can all start the crosswords with you. Let me see, where are the crosswords, boom, okay. But first, let's do a call for check-ins, otherwise Darryl will yell at me, and I hate that. like to get on the Monday morning edition of the Carol Bundernet Monday, December 15. Please come out with your call sign. This is KC2PKG."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-11-08T05:49:20+00:00","id":76590,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":76589,"text":" KF8 DRJ, Doug, KF8 DRJ. Yeah, actually I was just taking a long time because I was finding you on the screen and I was just going to say, over to you Doug. But thanks for passing your name just the same. I appreciate that. So Doug, microphone to you, you're on the list."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-11-10T05:05:01+00:00","id":78137,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":78136,"text":" KF8DRJ, this is KC2PKG out of East Machias and we are glad that you came back. That's good. Let me know about labeling wires because that's always been good. I mean I did that for work for a long time and I have never found a fantastic system for doing that but I'm always trying. I'm always trying. Right now I'm using plastic clips and they come with a little piece of paper inside and I like the purpose or the number or the wire on it and then you can just clip it on the wire. I like that but I've tried everything else. The electricians used to work for me. They had wire markers, little rolls of tape with numbers on them and that's what they like to do. I never found that to be that useful, at least not in the home setting. If you're in a data center and you've got a big book or a program and you want to know what D7FOL does, you can look it up in your book. I'd rather have, this is the TV in the living room. That's what I'd like to do. That's what I meant but I'm always looking for new solutions for marking wires and cleaning them up. I'm very envious. You can see them online. Look up the term wire porn and you'll see and this is what we used to do when we built a data center. We would end up making all those wires line up and be perfect. Then the users would take over and it'd be a big mess in about a week. But when we left them, they were gorgeous. All right. I'll tell you something. There was also a discord group. Daryl can invite you to that. If you get invited to that, you can take a look at something I just put up there. It's really an article about Helsinki, Finland. Let me drop it for a sec."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-11-10T06:14:44+00:00","id":78212,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":78211,"text":" I think he said 65, otherwise I would have taken exception to him. Right now we go to Doug, KF8DRJ. Gen Z Doug, what do you think? This is KC2PKG over to you, KF8DRJ."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-11-10T05:19:56+00:00","id":78157,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":78156,"text":" KF8DRJ, here's your question. On last Tuesday, a cargo plane for what shipping service crashed killing at least 12 people? Was it a DHL plane, an EMS plane, a FedEx plane, a UPS plane, or a USPS plane? Over to you, KF8DRJ."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-11-10T04:57:53+00:00","id":78130,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":78129,"text":" KF8 DRJ"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-11-10T04:59:48+00:00","id":78134,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":78133,"text":" This is KC2, you're making me jealous man, PKG. All right, next we go to KF8DRJ. What's going on with you man? And I wish you a weekend. Over to you, KF8DRJ. KF8DRJ."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-11-10T06:37:44+00:00","id":78237,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":78236,"text":" Wow, look at that. I'm going to make it quick because my wife and I are watching on her Facebook. She comes from a little bitty village, well mainly from a little bitty village up in upstate New York. Esperance, if you want to look it up. It's not too terribly far from Schenectady. Anyhow, there's a fire, a huge fire on a house and it spread to another house. She hadn't been up there in 20 years and I lived up there for a better part of a year right after I got out of the military. So I know, we know where this is at and one of her best friends growing up lived in one of the houses. So we're watching on Facebook so I'm going to keep this rather short, it's less than a minute. I did want to say welcome, by the way I meant to do this earlier, welcome to KF8DRJ. I heard you talking earlier, I welcome you. I am a self-proclaimed libertarian who leans and lies and sometimes leans left depending on what the situation is. So I'm excited to have you join and I'm from Texas. So there you go. With that I do bid everybody 73's. I hope you have a great Monday and we'll talk again tomorrow with Russell. This is KJ5IRQ sending it to KC2PKG. Great net by the way."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-21T06:16:43+00:00","id":79642,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":79641,"text":" KF8 DRJ"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-21T06:19:08+00:00","id":79650,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":79649,"text":" Well, thanks much. I had to wait for my node ID there. So yeah, first off, Josh, thanks for that clarification about peace time versus war time. That makes sense. Never really thought about that. You know, you tell the private to wash your car and, no, I don't want to do that. Yeah, that's a little different. So it's very interesting. Congratulations also on your grand parenting of eggs. I guess now you are qualified to answer that all-time question, which came first. So anxious to hear your answer about that. Another, just a curious side comment about ChatGPT. I'll go quick because you guys probably want to get moving. I heard George and when George was talking about it and what it said, and I asked it this and I asked it that. And I thought, that's, you know. So Darryl talked about ChatGPT and I've never used it. So I mean, I'm a virgin when it comes to that. But I could load my notes SD card up to ChatGPT and have it look at it. And I think, oh my gosh, that's really cool. And would actually like to talk with you more about that Darryl, kind of objective stuff. But if you sit down in front of ChatGPT and ask it subjective things, oh my gosh, how about ask ChatGPT what is the world's true religion? Good Lord! After that thing is done with you, you'll probably go out back and hang yourself from a tree. So yeah, I don't know. I don't know where we're going with this. The objective stuff, analyzing my card, I think that's great. But asking it anything subjective, politics, religion, I don't know. I would just, I don't think I could ever do that. But anyway, that's just me. So I'll talk out 7320. Everyone have a great day. I love this net. I was a part of another neighborhood before this one and really didn't like it. Very restrictive, very cruel, very whatever. So I really like the way you guys run things here. So have a great day. 73KF8DRJ."}]}