{"activity_count":418,"callsign":"KJ7WQI","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2025-07-12T20:14:59+00:00","found":true,"id":587,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-30T02:59:44.795686+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":283,"profile":{"confidence":0.9,"counts":{"ncs":1,"net":0,"open_qso":239,"transcript_contexts":60},"data_freshness":"generated","latest_topic":"Travel and family updates, including a recent visit to a grandfather and upcoming travel plans.","most_topic":"Personal life and travel experiences","open_vs_net_bias_score":0.8,"personal_summary":"KJ7WQI frequently shares personal experiences, including travel, family updates, and daily activities, showing a friendly and engaged personality.","scores":{"activity":0.9,"civility":0.9,"engagement":0.8,"focus":0.7,"friendly":0.9,"helpful":0.8,"serious":0.6,"technical":0.5},"source":"ai_profile","summary":"KJ7WQI is an active participant in open QSOs, occasionally sharing personal stories and updates about travel, family, and hobbies. The operator has a strong presence in the community, often engaging in detailed conversations.","topic_coverage":{"family":0.3,"hobbies":0.2,"travel":0.4,"work":0.1},"updated_at":"2026-06-28T20:40:06.015782"},"qrz_status":"verified","recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.6083100400865078,"created_at":"2026-06-30T02:59:34.198226+00:00","id":131967,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":132400,"text":"KJ7RAB. KJ7RAB. KJ7RAB. Can we hear? Thank you. You're welcome there, can we? KJ7RJL. KJ7RJL. Good evening there, Jim. Good evening there, J.R. How are you doing tonight? Good evening, you have a good evening. KJ7WQI. From Costa Rica, this is KJ7WQI. Just to be safe, I'll throw in that little extra thing. I think I might have to do here. T.I. Slash KJ7WQI. Thanks, Jim. Wow, Costa Rica. Man, people are traveling all over the world. Thanks, Matt. KJ7. A.L.M."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-12T10:14:29+00:00","id":6130,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":6129,"text":" Hey, Matt, we've got two on the list, KJ7WQI. Who else is out there? Please come now."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-12T10:14:02+00:00","id":6129,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":6128,"text":" KJ7WQI, mass."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-12T14:25:43+00:00","id":6200,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":6199,"text":" KJ7WQI, mass."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-13T22:03:31+00:00","id":7144,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":7143,"text":" Good stuff there Jeff. I have been to tombstone, Arizona So I know what you're talking about there fund all that stuff about the movie sets and stuff there So yeah, glad these Americans are doing well in the tour de France some good stuff over on the Papa system there Yeah, the Dodgers. Yeah good for them. I don't know what happened to the murders came today So I can't comment on that but anyway, thanks for the check in there. We will catch you down the log here Jeff All right last time this round Matt Tonight kj7 wq I please give us report kilo kilo More"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-20T21:20:25+00:00","id":8913,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":8912,"text":" because we couldn't hear you at all. I'm not sure what happened there, but your signal was barely, barely hitting the Capital Park Master, and we literally heard probably the cumulative total of half a second of, I could hear your voice just barely blipping in like three different times. Other than that, we did not catch any of your report. So let me just right away see if you dumped power or see if there's something you can change in your situation and see if I can get you to do a quick test real quick. KA9EHV, please come back if you can. This is KA9EHV, is this better? You might end a different, you're lighting up the voter scope in bright green. So okay, so I will just say this, can you repeat everything you just said? Because we literally got zero percent. So Anne, please give us a report. Okay, I stand humiliated. This is KA9EHV, what I said is I went to a harp circle today and it was great fun, there were lots of neat people and neat harps there, and people played a lot of interesting repertoire. It wasn't like the last circle where everybody else played beautiful Celtic, very ornamented stuff. And I came in with It's Too Late by Carole King and Cats of the Cradle by Harry Chapin. This time people played everything from Broadway show tunes to some popular stuff and it was really nice. And so I ended up playing Yeasen Joann of Man's Desiring, my Beethoven mashup, and hang on a second. Okay, I'm still in there. My Beethoven mashup is a little bit different. My Beethoven mashup and my When You Walk Through a Storm from Carousel. So it was fun and I got to show off my cute little harp to people and prove that small harps are small but mighty and that was fine. Had to miss church, but apparently according to my husband I didn't miss much, so that's fine also. Anyway, that's about it for now. 73, 33, 88 to all of you. This is, I love you all and thanks, Brian, to you for doing the net. This is KA9H, be back to net. Good stuff and good signal there. So it sounds like maybe you bumped the power or something was going on there. All right, well very glad that you're okay as you're able to come in and give a lovely report there. So it sounds fun with that harp circle, Broadway tunes and pop music, that sounds fantastic. And then you with your Izu and your Beethoven mashup and small but mighty I wrote down. And then I wrote the quote from your husband, didn't miss much. All right, I just chuckled at that. All right, anyway, it sounds like a great day and thank you for sharing. We'll catch you down the log there, Ann. All right, that was the bottom of the list there. I am Brian, KE7KZH. This is the 9 o'clock net on the PSRG repeater in Seattle, Washington. Let's open this up to all stations. I will acknowledge each station one at a time. So if you hear someone else giving their call sign, please, please wait for me to acknowledge them. Otherwise I may double with you. And then that just wastes everyone's time. So all right, that's it. All stations, please come now. Call sign and first name. 7L, your family experience will go double for you, Mike. Robert with... ...Juliet 7, Romeo Alpha Bravo, hey! All right, I think I may have actually had a triple there, but I did get W7LCO, Josh, Willco. I also got KJ7JXM, Robert, and KJ7RAB, Kimmy. Now let me just check, was there a third station, or fourth, if you say, was there another station in that mix that I did not acknowledge? Yeah, probably me, I might have been in that pileup. Wolf. All right, I heard a K, and then I heard Sean, KJ7EXM. Sean Wolf. Who was the other K station that keyed up? KJ7, with Lueckenia, Matt, Liven, RF, All-Star Note 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. Matt is back in RF land. I love it, KJ7WQI. All right, good stuff. All right, so I actually have you right before Sean, because I did hear your key up first there, and I already wrote a K. All right, so let's see who else is out, who would like to get in on this round. Please come now, call sign and first name. Kilo Alpha, Joseph Romeo Alpha, Cody, your IO. All right, KE6RAX, Peter, I've got your IO. Cody, just wanted to double check, Alpha, Golf 7, Lima, Rodeo, did you say IO, or do you have a report tonight? I am IO, KJ7LR. Hey, good stuff. Remember, there's a double, I try to confirm. Every time I don't confirm that, it bites me. All right, good stuff, Cody. We'll catch you down the log, and thanks for stopping by, Peter, KK6RAX. All right, anyone else who'd like to get in on this round, please come now, call sign and first name."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-21T09:31:17+00:00","id":9148,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":9147,"text":" I'm recently here in Covington and I'm just coming up weekend at Covington Days where we had the freeze dried candy booth. It's the last event that we have for a while until Salmon Days in Issaquah which is in October. We did a little bit better at this event than we did in Kent and at the fair so we were happy. It's good to put it to bed for a little while so that's fun. Then we can reclaim other summer activities like going to the picnic. Other than that I've been working the HF radio at 20 meters and that was good yesterday anyway. My wife has got a bunch of low-fry spinners and I've been cooking those. They're not that easy to make but they're a half hour to an hour prep and some delicious dinners. Curry chicken and they have polenta with zucchini and chicken. Yesterday it was beef, with green beans. It's just all real tasty, those dishes that aren't healthy and portioned right. I'm happy with those. Other than that I've got to do some work for a customer today. He'll have some smoke detector installations. He doesn't have any in any of his bedrooms so we've got to get that fixed. I'm going to shoot it back to you. Kilo 7's, I look forward to having him at Covington. Thank you for your report, I appreciate it. I can't even imagine not having smoke detectors in my bedroom. That's great, good job. Good job, go out there and do that. I'm glad that this event was more successful than the last one with your freeze dried candy. That's awesome. I love those meals like Hello Fresh and whatever else, Blue Plate. I forget what the other ones are. I feel like they give me ideas. I feel like throughout my, since they started I've had a few of them. It's like they give me ideas of ways to cook things or things to cook. I get to try things I've never tried before. I really enjoy them, they're a lot of fun. That is a long time to prep a meal but you know you think about driving to a restaurant and ordering. This way you get to stay at home, you get fun food and you get to stay at home. Anyway, that sounds great. It's very adventurous of you and your wife, I love it. Well I'll see you at the picnic Magoo, 7-3 and have a wonderful day. And again I'm glad this event was better than last. All right, last on the shift is Matt at the airport. KJ7WQI, please. Matt, if you have either Echo Link or All Star on your phone use that instead of a radio. Matt, please come ahead with your report. KJ7WQI, KK7IJZ. KK7IJZ."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-27T21:56:54+00:00","id":11662,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11661,"text":" And thinking of Joan's aluminum stand, which I am pretty sure I have the same exact one underneath my cable here, I am holding my cable away from it because that seems to give me a better signal. So I need a better, more shielded cable here. But I am separated. So hers was directly against the aluminum. Mine is separated by an insulated wood block that I have drilled out. There are some bolts and things sticking out of the bottom of the plate of the J-Pole. So I drilled out spaces for that and then drilled holes through the block of wood. And I have zip-tied through those holes and around the J-Pole. And then on the bottom of the block I drilled another big hole to stick it on top of the stand. So it is somewhat insulated but it is still affected by the stuff around it. But it is doing pretty well. Let me look at it here. I am pecking out Lake Forest in almost Cougar. And we are kind of dancing a little bit on Capitol and Beacon. Doing good on that. I got some good signal here out of the little rad tail 590. And I had a bit of a cue though with some people on another frequency earlier today. That was good. And other than that, just got my hair cut. I didn't have the time to get my hair cut before the picnic so I was looking pretty disheveled. But I look a little nicer now so I wish there was another picnic tomorrow. Anyhow, I probably won't be able to make the August 10th rain or shine. But I will be there in spirit as I fly from Boston to Chicago and back. Anyhow, that's my flight to tomorrow morning and I'll be heading out. So I'll throw it back to you KJ7WQI. Ok, very good stuff. Well I'm curious to see what you look like after that haircut after just seeing you yesterday there. So the good stuff there. Very glad you were able to make it out. And the timing with your work allowed that and stuff. So safe travels back to Boston and if you can't make that next rain or shine, hopefully there will be another future one. I know you still have your family locally in the area here and you have a lot of back and forth there. So safe travels to you and we will catch you down in the lockdown. Have a great week coming up. Alright, I am Brian KJ7KZH. This is Nine O'Clock Nets. We have two more on this round. Next up is going to be Mike. KK6, ULC. How are you doing there tonight? Tonight Mike, please give us a report."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-27T21:39:19+00:00","id":11657,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11656,"text":" right next to you and words getting pinched or something. And finally, what am I hearing? Street songs on the street. Anyway, I'm running out of time already, darn it. But, and I get with the polls, as they just as an open dipole, show you and others the sweep, is showing a one to one match at residence. Well, one of the things I did today is I set up the compact form of the antenna with a smaller pole, little like rabbit ear poles that I've got specially with adapters so they could put these very slender, like kind of large rabbit ears. And using the coils though, and my concept of having the jerpy wires, because the longer the wire section of it, the less you need to use the loading coils, the better. And so I posted it on the PSRC discussion group page to show that it was trying to do at the picnic table before I did easily, I rebuilt the, I took it all apart and rebuilt the ballon hob enclosure and it's working perfectly now. And I get it down to an SWR of 1.6 because it's using the loading coils, the use of the many loading coils that was minimized by the jerpy wires and hanging toward the floor. And 1.6 to one SWR, I don't have to do anything, but of course the KX2's automatic impedance measure goes one click to match it to one to one. But anyway, I had a blast and I've talked too long. KX2, see that blue, all my numbers, all my amps, back to that. Hey, good stuff. Yes, I just pulled up your Facebook post here to see, so very cool, posted some pictures of it for proof. For proof. Good stuff there. Oh, and I have to say, Tamale here perked his big bunny ears up when you said rabbit ears. She was like, what was that? Are you talking about me? So I'm giving him some scritches right now. He jumped up onto the couch right as you were talking here and just petting him. Anyway, very good to see you at Hilarious, Brian Hill's yard. I definitely appreciate the hilarious mountains. So yeah, good stuff there. Glad you were able to figure it out. I'm sure you're not the first person to make that mistake with the aluminum tripod stand there or whatever. But anyway, I'm glad you got it all figured out and that perfect one to one mapping there, SWR. Good stuff there. Good to see you. And of course, Joan runs the net 24 hours from now. So say hi to Joan. So if you do, Joan, we'll catch you down the log here. All right, up next, it's also very good to talk to you. Yesterday, Matt, KJ7WQI, Mr. Walger Quality Index himself. How are you tonight on this Sunday? Please give us a report."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-26T21:50:59+00:00","id":11012,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11011,"text":" I showed up early and I left late. I wanted to go over some of the people I saw there, because Jack was saying it's always interesting to see the names that get brought up afterwards. So I'm going to try. I saw Tim and Jack and Bill and Nickel and Bill and Bill and Rich and Rich and Mike and Mike and Michael. Jamie, Madeline, Brooks, Nate, Sam, Dave, Sean, Joan, Kirk, Paul, Ben, Brian, Rebecca, Robert, Kim, E.J., and Matt and Max from the museum. A lot of folks, there's more, but that's all I can fit in a list this quickly. It was a great meet up, great to see everyone. I saw and talked to Christine for a while there at the end right before I left. Just hanging out and catching up with folks that I haven't seen in a while. Looking forward to being back for another one or a rain or shine if I can manage it before they end for the season. It's a good time overall. Really enjoyed myself. Fun listening to Kirk, the parts of it that I could catch. Thanks for running on that. Thanks for being there everybody. Nice to see everyone and hope to see you all again soon. KJ7, WQI. Well Matt, thank you for that good report of the picnic. I am just so impressed with the list of names you rattled off. Well first of all, how many people did you talk to? That's great. I think you remember them and must have written them down or something. That was very impressive. As someone said earlier, I think it was Dean, it's just really frustrating to have these wonderful conversations. And then you realize all the people you didn't get to talk to that time. But, you know, we'll get to see them again, rain or shine. Actually, that is a wonderful segue because that was the end of round two and they tell me at the end of round two, I'm supposed to do the announcements and there is a rain or shine coming up. Let me just drop for a second and come back with that. This is Komet. My name is Bill, you're listening to the 9TM DSRG social net and it's time for the announcements. They're not too long. Very briefly, as usual, well I should say next Saturday I have Radio Club of Tacoma listed as their open house from ten to two. I know we always put that on the list next week. I don't know if they ever don't do it, but you can probably tell from their webpage. Anyway, probably Saturday, August 2nd, open house ten to two down in Tacoma. And I know that SimplexNet goes come hell or high water basically 8 PM next Saturday on 146.56. Great, great thing to do. Then we do have another rain or shine coming up on Sunday, August 10th on the east side of Green Lake, just north of the paddle boat rentals in the Green Lake Cafe and that concession stand there. And we're going to have the new net hosted by Kameon Robert. And there's some mysterious thing about an ice cream ticket. So if you're partial ice cream or if you just like hanging around with hands, you put that down on your calendar. Sunday, August 10th and it's the new net so it must be starting at noon. Then the Pizza-San Antique Radio Advantage and Electronic Swap Meet at Shoreline Community College, August 17th from nine to two. Always fun. And that brings you right through the summer to Labor Day. So let's turn right back to our conversations and open round three of the 9 PM social net. My name is Bill, K7WFB. You want to talk to us? Now's your chance. Come ahead with your call sign and your name. You move up there with a comment. Well, I think we have missed. Let's get a double there. Let me take the comment first and then I'll come back and get the call sign and the double comment. Come ahead."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:38:04+00:00","id":13433,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":13432,"text":" Thank you, Madam, and WQI, KJ7, WQI, Matt, and Boston. It's true. It's true, Matt and Boston. I cannot even... Okay, here we go. Got it. KJ7, WQI, KJ7, IJZ."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:06:50+00:00","id":13458,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":13457,"text":" There are a lot of mats on this net. There's also a lot of bills, a lot of riches. And a lot of Michael. Anyway, I'm just over here in Boston. I've got a day off in between trips. Tomorrow, I think I just do a turn tomorrow, but it's three legs. Like here in Boston down to Denver up to Newark and back or something like that. So I'm working a little bit tomorrow. Today is a day for laundry and for painting the bathroom a little more. But other than that, I think I'm going to go ahead because I popped in here like maybe five, six minutes ago, not too long ago. I think I need to go into my Google fittings and set up reminders in my Google calendar for the net time so I can pop in and hop on the net. To the love here and y'all over there. It's a very radioactive, what does Jack say, active and engaging and something else. Anyways, as the saying goes, so many friends all in one place with PSRC. I'll throw it back to you. Thanks, Rebecca. Lovely meeting you at the picnic. And I would love to be there for the rain or shine on the 10th. If I can, I will. Hopefully I can get work off and fly over there and be there for the picnic. But we shall see. I'll throw it back to you. Thanks for the net. KJ7WQI. Awesome. Thank you. Have fun on your travels. That's a lot. A lot of flying. But it is, yeah, your job. And yes, thank you so much for your service. Yes, that is a, yeah. That is a thankless job being a flight attendant. Yeah, well, thank you so much, Matt. And it was great to meet you and have a good weekend doing laundry and such. I'm losing my mind. That's okay. But have fun in Boston and Denver and Newark and Boston and all of the places that you go. 73 Matt. All right. Next on the list is Mike and Magnolia. KJ7VEU, KK7IJZ."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-05T09:49:35+00:00","id":14338,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14337,"text":" I thought I heard somebody else in there. Alright, uh, M3, O-M-O, good morning, Elaine. Good morning to you. It's a beautiful hot day here. Um, we're gonna be close to 100 again. And, um, that makes it very, very warm. Although some of the cats don't mind and they're still out on the screen porch. We've got the door cracked open so they can come in when they want to. So, um, they're quite happy. No similar inside though. Um, I had a strange experience last night. Um, yesterday, I received a letter from my bank stating that, um, it was tied to my yearly charge of $20 for my, um, of safety closet box. And I don't even remember getting a safety closet box. So we went to the bank yesterday and sure enough, I did take one out a year ago in July 26th. They had the papers and yes, it was my signature, but I couldn't find my keys. And she said, well, we gave you a red envelope and showed me what it looked like with two keys in it. And I said, well, I don't know what you do. She said, well, go home and look for your keys. Cause if you can't find them, there is a $300 charge to the keys. So we got in the car and I turned to my higher power and I said, okay, please show me where those keys are. So we went back home and actually in the car, I had my eyes closed and in my mind side, I saw the red envelope in my jewelry box. So I came home, went directly to the jewelry box and guess what? That's where it was. I was so grateful and so thankful. And I screamed for my brother, Rob, and I said, come here, I found them. And there they were right where I saw it in my mind's eye. That was just unbelievable. So we're going to go back today and return the keys and see if I have anything in the box. I don't even know. So if anybody has a safety closet box, make sure you know where your keys are. So anyway, back to you. Have a great day. This is November 3, ask Mike Oskar. Alright, thank you Elaine. I used to have a safety closet box a long time ago. My dad always did. That's why I did, I guess. But I couldn't figure out anything worthwhile putting in it. So I finally cancelled that and have a fire safe lock box that I keep papers in. Anyway, that's a lot more accessible, although the same key problem exists. Alright, thank you Elaine. And the KJ7WQI. Good morning, ma'am. Good morning, Bill. It's afternoon over here on the East Coast. Just flew from San Antonio up to Washington, D.C. And we're a little bit delayed heading up to Boston next. We're going to be boarding in the next like 10 minutes or so. We're delayed for haze and smoke in the Boston area. The Canadian wildfires have officially started to drift over towards the East Coast and towards Boston. I'm sure the air quality is going to be a little bit lower. But yeah, I get home relatively early today. One more flight, a little over an hour in flight between here and Boston. And then I'll be home and able to relax. So I'll throw it back to you. Thanks for running in that, Bill. Everybody have a good one. KJ7WQI. Alright, thank you, Matt. And thank you for checking in from the airport. Glad you weren't boarding yet. So smoke drifting in from Canada. I think we have some of that here also, but we're generating our own fires too. Alright, and once you get through all of that, I'll get home. And home is always a great goal, isn't it? I think about that one. I look at the freeway at rush hour. Everybody is headed home. And that's where you go. That's where comfort is. Alright, thank you, ma'am. This is the 9 o'clock net for a Tuesday morning. This is W7VAS for Jenkins, please. Kilo Indigo 7 Romeo Yankee Whiskey David with a recheck. Alright, yeah, David, go ahead. Okay, thank you. I have two things here. I'm looking into the CTCSS on the computer to figure out why it might delay. It's not really a PL tone, but there might be something similar. Also, I'm not sure maybe you or someone can clarify, please. When you transmit and the repeater transmits out, and then you finish and I can hear you unkey, there's another moment of, it sounds like the channel is being used. The channel frequency is active if not carrying a strong signal. So am I supposed to wait until that drops, which can be a few seconds? Or should I, this delay that we're emphasizing now to make this effective, even if I have a setting I need to update, should I key and then delay? And so I've been trying to do a combination of both. That's the one. The other thing for our new friend from Rockaway, New York, I heard you mention the 9 a.m. net and the 9 p.m. net, and now for a few years we've been having a noon o'clock net every day. And that's, I think, we're hundreds and hundreds for a few years now, consecutive. And so just to pass on a little bit further, emphasize what you were saying. It's a strong community of people just checking in, saying hi, coming and going, and updating on useful information here and there. So that's kind of a question, or sharing my exploration points on the radio transmit issue, and then also emphasizing the value of the community. Thank you for running the net today and everyone else who regularly for years and years and years, decades now for the 9 o'clocks and years now for the 12 o'clock noon net. And then we do the weekends, of course, like this coming weekend onsite, kind of get-togethers for the noon net. Alright, that's going to be it, KI7 RYW. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November. Alright, thank you David. And, yeah, well I was talking about the 9 o'clock net history of the 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. But yes, you're right, the noon net that Jack started and I guess still runs, and that's the same concept. I'm always doing something else at noon and I miss that net, but I know it exists. I suppose if I were active with it I would think about it more. Okay, thank you. Oh, and your other question. No, you don't have to wait for it to drop out at all, but what you do need to wait for is the courtesy tone. And the, you know, when I stop transmitting here it'll pause a beep and then you'll hear the beep. Once you hear the courtesy tone, the beep, then the channel is clear for you to step in. Um, yeah, that courtesy beep lets you know that the calendar is reset, basically. Okay, this is the 9 o'clock net. More check-ins, please. Whiskey Quebec 7 Hotel, this is James. Good morning, James. WQ 7H. And next, please. Alpha, Bravo 6. Mike, Bravo. Morning, Jeff. AB 6. Mike, Bravo. Next, please."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-06T21:12:37+00:00","id":14796,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14795,"text":" And I got mad in there KJ7WQI. That makes a healthy list. So let's go back to the top and chat with Amy KB9IQX33. Amy, how was your day? Well, 33 to you Megan. 73 to Brooks. Thank you for doing the net. 70 howdy! And 73 to everybody on the net. I'm doing pretty I'm doing pretty well even if you're a stickler for a very precise grammar. I'm here curbside. Which I realize this summer is something I have not done as much as previous summers. I have not just, you know, been curbside outside here in my shop, my garage, my driveway. Just ending the day and enjoying the net. And it feels nice. It's a nice summery thing to do. So I'm doing well. Let's see, I had a pretty fun day at work. I was not out in the field. I was actually doing data monkey work all the time. Which then I was like, ah! That's one reason I really love my job. Because some days I get to, you know, you know, put on the grubby work clothes, put on the high-vis vest, have my clipboard and hard hat. And you know, I get to drive around the city and I get to drill holes in the street and pound nails in. Which is cool. And nowadays I get to kick back in the air conditioning, wear masks with people, professionals, have meetings with people, do some desk work. The variety that I enjoy. I love you all. And then I was talking to KJ7NUW just before the net on a different repeater. And it was fun because she was at home and I was kind of roving around within a few block radius of the neighborhood. I checked out this part in the high-tension power line. And I was like, oh, I'm going to go home. I'm going to go home. And I checked out this part in the high-tension power line right away where it looks like some neighbors are getting together and building a little park area. And it was really cool. And then I walked over and I saw, like, I was peering into some of the houses that were for sale in the neighborhood. So I kind of felt like, you know, she was at ops, you know, monitoring field agents. And I was out in the field and, you know, maintaining radio communication, maintaining comms. I think this qualifies as comms with a Z. And, you know, reflecting back, making sure that I completed the mission. So I felt very engaging and like now that I'm listening to the net. I hope everybody had a great day. I hope everybody has a wonderful tomorrow. KB9 IQX. Well, Amy, that is super fun. Curbside at your home QTH. Yeah, that's always fun in the summertime. We always forget how fast summer goes and then we don't get around to all the things we had planned to do this summer, which is always such a bummer. But I guess there's always next summer? I don't know. It's almost like you have to plan it out before it even gets here and then it's here and gone and you're like, wait, but I didn't get to everything. I know what you mean there, Amy. It's hard to get to it all. But glad you got to hang out in the air conditioning today. Well, I guess you didn't really need the air conditioning, but it was nice to be out of the rain, I bet. So that's kind of fun. You get to be in the office and out in the field. That makes it kind of exciting and a little more interesting. It's never the same old, same old, which is always my favorite thing. That's so boring. Glad to hear you got to talk to Madeline, KJ7 and UW before the net. Hope she's doing well. Hopefully we'll get to see you at the ice cream social this weekend at Green Lake on Sunday. You take care, Amy. Have a great rest of your work week and hopefully we'll see you soon. All right, it is 907 p.m. I'm K9MLR Megan. Now we're going to go talk to Ann, K89, EHB33. To you, Ann. Good evening. To the rest of the team. Hey, what's going on? It's an interesting night. My husband had a more interesting time than I did. I'm having a harder time dealing with picnics these days. This one with its spotty seating and rather irregular seats. The layout was more exhausting than I really wanted to deal with. We walked back home and then my husband went back. I guess they're developing little emergency clusters around here and looking for ham radio operators. That's interesting. I don't know anything more about it than that. That was interesting last night. Today I worked on some stories and I'm getting ready to practice some harp and listen to a radio show that I sometimes like. Tomorrow I'll work on some more stuff and do more harp. On Friday I'll be back up at the gallery. That's about all that's happening in my life. I'm less than a week away from Worldcon now so I'm making a list of all the stuff I have to do to get ready for the next one. Including assembling a little actual military costume. I've got to work on that tomorrow. Anyway, that's about all the news at IS News. 73, 33, 88, oh the numbers. Thanks, Megan and Brooks for doing the net. Thank you all for listening. I love you all. This is KA90HB back to net."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-06T21:27:22+00:00","id":14798,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14797,"text":" on PSRG eating your time. This is VK 3 kilo kilo here from the land of the future, where it is 10 past two in the afternoon. And Megan, I've actually taken a couple of days off work, so I've a couple of days owed to me. So I've driven about one hour and a half east of my QTH to the capital called Melbourne, which is in Australia. Those that know the map of Australia on the southern east coast of Australia, the state of Victoria, and I'm in Melbourne. So if you've got nothing to do, look me up, hi, hi. Anyway, I'm just sitting at the outdoor section of one of the local bars here. I've just had a nice lunch. And yeah, I'm just waiting for my friend to knock off. I'll be staying the night at a friend of mine's QTH tonight here in town. And he's a ham, and we're gonna do a few ham radio projects tonight at his place. So I'll be staying the night. So I'll be spending the night with him and his family. And yeah, I'm looking forward to that. And of course, I did make a nice chocolate ripple cake last night in this morning. So I'm sitting in the car in the fridge keeping nice and cool chocolate ripple cake with cherry ripe on top. So I'll have to send you a pic, but you're looking forward to having that later on tonight. And yeah, so we're enjoying ourselves. Good to get away for a while. It's been pretty cool here. And so we're bringing on spring. That's all I can say. Back to you, Megan. Thanks for hosting. And catch you all. Oh, and of course, how could I have to park without saying radio wave to Miss Trixie and Remy as well. Cheers to you and back to you. Cheers all. VK 3 double K here from the land of the future. Back to you. Well, Shawn, that sounds like a great couple of days off of work. Got out of town, even though you didn't go that far. That's okay. You don't have to go that far. Just getting out of town. And then you had a nice lunch. You're gonna hang out with another ham friend and work on some ham projects at QTH. Yeah, that's always a good time. And then you made some delicious chocolate cake. Yeah, that sounds really yummy. And you sound like you put some time into it. So hopefully it's as good as it is. And in the fridge, in the car. Wow, Shawn, you have the whole set up there. You have a great time with your ham friend there and have a great rest of your time off there, Shawn. We'll talk to you again soon. Okay, it is 9.12 p.m. I'm K9MLR Megan. We had an IO from Cody AG7LR. Thanks for dropping by, Cody. You have a wonderful rest of your evening. And now we're gonna go talk to Bill, K7WSB. How's it going, Bill? Well, good evening, Megan. This is Bill, K7WSB. I am up here in Steveson, British Columbia. My wife and I are going over to Vancouver Island on the Sosson Ferry tomorrow. And we thought this would be a nice jumping off point. For those who've never heard of Steveson, which I never had until recently, it's southwest of Vancouver, just at the mouth of the Fraser River where it dumps out into the Gulf of Georgia. Nice little town, nice little motel, and a nice little meal. So it's a pleasant trip. I wanted to report on something that is exciting to me, being a techno nerd, because when I travel, I just use Echo Link to get back into PSRG. And I've had trouble over the years with dropping out and, you know, if the screen goes dark, it's all just linked to all kinds of problems. So I decided to see what All Star had to offer. And I just had all my travel open All Star mode on my phone. So I just did this thing called Web Transceiver Mode. All Star, oh, I'm sorry, this is DV Switch Mobile. I'm an Android app. DV Switch Mobile, you put it into Web Transceiver Mode, and it runs like a champ. I've had it running now for an hour and a half, sitting on PSRG, not dropping out. And it's full duplex, so I don't have to, it's not too hard to get in. And it works. I recommend it. DV Switch Mobile, Web Transceiver Mode, go do it. Back to you, baby. This is 27 WSP. November, All Star Node 16-2, located in Shelton, Washington. Well, Bill, that sounds like a great trip. You're up in British Columbia, going to Vancouver Island tomorrow. Yeah, that is such a beautiful area. I do know that area because my coworker, my counterpart at work, she and her husband plan to retire up in that area. They have been traveling out and about around lately up there trying to see where they would like to retire. So yeah, such a gorgeous area. I'm a little bit envious there. Bill, you have a lovely time. And yeah, sorry to hear about Echo Link. I know sometimes it works really well for people, and sometimes it doesn't work very well at all. So hopefully you will find the right thing for you, Bill, and it will keep working for you. You sounded great tonight, though. So whatever you were doing was working great. Have a fantastic time, Bill. And we will talk to you again soon. Okay, last but not least on my list here is Matt, KJ7WQI. It sounds like you're maybe in Seattle. Take it away, Matt. Hey, family man. All right. I did take down a note of what Bill said there because it does seem a little more convenient than Echo Link, a little more able to jump in there. It was good to be able to see what you guys were doing. I think it was good to see what you guys were doing. I think it was good to see what you guys were doing. I am here in town. It was quite a journey to get over here. We flew Boston to Chicago, sat around for four hours, and then flew Chicago over here to Seattle. And unfortunately, I'm in a hotel room tonight that does not have very good RF systems. I'm in a hotel room, and I'm going to be sitting in a hotel room where I can get my hands on my phone. And I'm going to be sitting in a hotel room where I can get my hands on my phone. I have very good RF capabilities. I was trying before the net got on, and I cannot hit the PSRD from here. I can hit a few other things, but not enough to be hurt. So I am on Echo Link tonight, unfortunately. And then tomorrow we fly from here to D.C. And then from D.C. back to Boston. But yeah, quite a day. We found out in the air on the way over here that my airline had had an outage with the weight and balance system, which basically grounded every airplane that we had trying to take off. It's kind of wild. It's going to kind of lift up some air travel for the next couple of days because those schedules are packed tightly. So if you are traveling by air for the next couple of days, just be aware there's likely to be a couple of delays. But we're hoping to get out of here tomorrow. I have to show up at the airport. I'm supposed to be on an airplane at 1215 tomorrow, so I'm going to be able to catch just the first couple minutes of the net. But I should be here for the 9 a.m. net in the morning, which will be nice. Other than that, that's all I got. It's been quite a day. I've got a good 17-plus hours here in Seattle to relax and enjoy the nice weather because it is beautiful. Pilot told us on the airplane, he's like, it's probably going to be rainy when we get in. Turns out it was beautiful outside when we got in, so I love that that turned around. Anyways, thank you for running that, Brooks and Megan. Hope everyone's doing well. All the numbers, 73, 33, 88, 22, I don't know. Are there other numbers? I need to come up with that. Anyways, KJ7WY. Well, Matt, I'm glad to hear you got here before the checks and balances system went down because that does not sound like that would be a fun delay after going from Boston to Chicago and Chicago to Seattle. So I'm glad you made it before that delay, and hopefully you'll be late enough tomorrow that it will kind of catch itself before you need to head back out. And at least you're going the short way home this time, Hi Hi, and not the long way, like you normally do through San Francisco. Safe travels back to Boston tomorrow and back to, I think, the humidity. Take care of yourselves, Matt. Get some rest and, yeah, bummer that sometimes when you get near the airport, you just can't get into the PSR repeater, which is always a bad day. What you mean there. Glad to hear you connected with Amy and Madeline while you were in town. It's fun to hear when people pass through. You take care. Safe travels back tomorrow, and we will talk to you again soon. Okay, with that, it is 9.20 p.m. I am K9 MLR Megan. Gonna pass it over to K9 and BDC to run the next list. Stand by, everyone."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-07T09:29:21+00:00","id":14994,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14993,"text":" More jack hands for this nine o'clock hit on this Thursday morning. KJ7WQI, Matt. Wow, Matt. KJ7WQI. Next, please. KJ7WQI, Matt."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-08T09:56:11+00:00","id":15270,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15269,"text":" Hey Dave, I didn't know whether you were just chatting with somebody or I just turned on the radio on mobile down here in downtown Kirkland. And you're taking over for the Oreo guy. I called him that too. That was a long time ago. Anyway, I'm on my way south to Coldwater Lake for the Bigfoot 200, our first station. And tomorrow we move up into the mountains south of Randall. Deep in some gorge, so we'll see how that is. Haven't been there before. Anyway, that's all I've got. I've got about a two and a half, three hour drive ahead I think. Anyway, thanks for doing the net. Everybody have a safe day and it's definitely, boy it's beautiful out here. Have a good day. Whiskey Alpha 7 Alpha Delta. This is Repeater Station K, Mike. Great to hear from you. You drive very safe out there. And have fun with the Bigfoot 200 for sure. And yeah, I don't know how those guys do that, but I'm not there. So anyway, well 73s, we'll look forward to reports from you as they come and go. And have a wonderful day. And happy Friday. There you go. Alright, who else is out there that would like to check in? Name and call sign please. Come ahead. KC5, Waterfront Hotel. Okay Bill, I got you on the list. And Matt, I did not copy your call sign and my apologies for not knowing it off the top of my head. I should. But can you come here and call sign again Matt? No worries. ASK Kilo Juliet 7 Whiskey Quebec India. Matt. Whiskey, that was the Quebec one that got me. Okay Matt, I got you on the list. And next check in please."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-24T22:37:53+00:00","id":9771,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":9770,"text":" And WQI, Matt. Hey, Matt. KJ7, WQI. More stations, please. Alpha Kilo 6, Lima Whiskey, Aragon, Tilly, Steve. Alpha Lima 6, Lima Whiskey, Derek. I'm going to go ahead and draw a line there because I need to kind of scroll all the stuff out on the set piece of paper and that's right folks, I'm writing with a pen and paper. And this is the fourth round. First on this round is KF7OK, KK7I. Good evening, thank you for hosting this. KF7OK is off-grade cabin on the Olympic Peninsula. And back in the day-to-day, we're down that way. We're going to take a quick walk down here at Calpraisia, oh, mid-seventies or so, and I just tried that out so it was kind of cool. And I believe it's in the area. And I have a skywire for KF, basically. And I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of a refer for an HF, basically, instead of halfway. And a J-Pole, it's a roll-up type. This is the upper branch. And the bottom of it is probably about eight feet off the ground, so however tall it is, you know, it's in the teens there. And for battery, what I can't. I'm in the Viking Army, and I have a cycle battery that I'm charging by solar. And I thought, where else is that? I can't get it to a mobile, but I can. Why not do that? And that's what I'm running off of. So, you know, no wires. You know, it's all powered by sun, and that's really heavy. Watch out, but other than that, it's been a great day. And tomorrow I look forward to some woodcutting. I burn a lot of wood at home in the woodstoves. I like it that way. It's kind of a very economic, very economical. So that's my day. KM-7, okay, back to you. Well, guys, it sounds like your off-grid adventures are going to get you jacked. Pressing wood, you know, being out in off-grid. It's going to have huge bars. A friend of mine I used to do as a psych therapist with got hired to help build a camp, a cabin, in the middle of nowhere, Alaska. And for some reason he had no idea that there was no old... ... ...jacked it. Dropping wood and building... ...jacked it. Oh, that was so funny. Thank you for inviting me up that moment. That was so hilarious to me. If only you people... Yeah, it's so funny. I love that. I love that it's all working out. The solar, the everything, all the battery, the radio, you sound great. And, yeah, I have a computer to have a wonderful off-grid summer just getting jacked. All right. Next on the list is a recheck from the crew. Hey, Drew, please come have a two-week recheck. I just wanted to... ... I wanted to clarify, my bass guitar doesn't make any noise about any kind of amplifier. But the amplifier is just a little battery-powered thing that is about the size of an index card. It's about an inch and a half thick, and that's all it is. It's just enough to give me sound that I can hear amongst the other guitars. Hopefully that will be all right. I mentioned this to other people, and they didn't seem to have a problem with it. But I just wanted to throw that down to you. That sounds amazing, Drew. I love it. You know, of course I'm picturing, like, like that amp just turning on. Rock, but, yeah. You can just get ready to rock quietly. And just... It's so beautiful. Bring it. I love it. Amazing. Do it. I can't wait. Thanks for your recheck, my girl. All right. Next we have... The pitch. All right. Next we have... Phillip Sane. And I did not write down your call sign, but you know who you are. Ethan, please come ahead with your report. Ethan, uh, it's Aldrich. Nice to meet you, too. Here is Michael Brandt. We just had our last break, and, uh, thank goodness, uh, we are already getting up to the press. I broke four nonstop pieces of grain, and, uh, my day felt was too sweet because of too many wounds. But we are still all on the subject because of, uh, the loss of the work of motion. And, uh, I hope that you and your family are safe. That's a lot of rain. Monsoon season. Uh, yeah, hopefully everyone there is prepared for monsoon season. What can happen? And thank you so much for your report. I look forward to hearing more of your reports. And how you're doing during this monsoon season. And I'm glad that you got a break from that rain. Even though there's wasted water, I'm glad that you at least got a break from that rain. Have a great season. Have a wonderful... Yeah, have a wonderful weekend. Alright, next on the list is Matt from Boston. He might be in Seattle. I don't know. K-2-7, W-2-1, K-2-7, I-J-7. I'm calling you there, Becca. I am back in Boston. I just got back a little over an hour ago. And I've already lifted for a flake in six hours. It was a long day today. I'm tired. I'm just relaxing. Re-packing my bags real quick. Gonna take a short nap here in a little while. Then I'll get up and head on over to the airport and hop on the flight. I'll just keep on the flight. If I can get something other than a little... I'm just looking pretty close. There's not a lot of empty seats on the flight this summer. Anyhow, I'll be headed back in the next couple of days. One way or another, I'm getting to Seattle. If I have to buy a seat on Alaska, I'll buy a seat on Alaska. It's fine. I hope to see everybody there. I hope to get some sleep here on the flight over if I can. I'll be back in a little while. I'll be back in a little while. I hope to get some sleep here on the flight over if I can. Thanks for running the net. Hope everybody's doing well. I look forward to seeing everybody. KJ Sperling, WQI."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-09T22:19:43+00:00","id":15685,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15684,"text":" Well, we'll keep it at this nice small round and I may do a check-in at the end. So we're going to go over to Matt, KJ7WQI for a recheck. Well, hey there, Dean. I wanted to pop in here quickly and consider how can you give me a signal report real quick. K-67, go ahead and try. Oh, there's a little noise, but you're perfectly readable, much better than you were before. Over to you. Perfect. Before I was in the parking lot of the North Cape Park in Ryerson, I had to pick up Anna. We had our ties moved and now we're back at the house. These are ties moved by my mountain for a full day on fire and I have a flooding which is a really good tie for your son. I have a built in the area, but as tight as I am, right there across from the base where you can see it, and I can see it from the front yard over there and the front hill is really good. It's very, very crazy. I got to go for three minutes, but if you use this place, what will I hear up there? I wanted to pop back in and actually hopefully be heard now that I'm back at the CH. I will throw it back to you, lovely area, and we'll get up and run around that fair and recheck. Hopefully we'll be able to get back to KJ7WQI. Alright, thanks a lot Matt. Well, the good news and the bad news. The good news is, I'm really glad you checked in. The bad news is you mentioned Thai food and I am now hungry. So, anyway, hopefully see you tomorrow at the Ice Cream Social. So next we have from Florida, Elaine, M3OMO. How are you tonight? Hello Dean, this is M3OMO, aka Oink Blue Oink. I'm doing very well, thank you. It was about 102 today. We had a very strong thunderstorm this afternoon. One of the neighborhoods not too far from us, the electricity went out. Ours blinked on and off, but that was it. Which brings me to my next subject. I had decided, my brother and I, my brother who lives with me, Rob, and I had decided that we would get a Generex generator. Charlie called me and told me he's had one for about five years and it's absolutely wonderful. And then when my brother went to his church's rehearsal for the band for tomorrow morning, he found out that the lead guitarist also has a Generex generator. And I do think that it's important, in Florida in particular, during this hurricane season, that we have something that will keep us cool and keep the lights on and keep the freezer and refrigerator cold. And protect the animals as well as ourselves. So anyway, on Monday I'm going to call and ask about that and ask the propane guy that I get propane from what it would entail to get an extra tank so the Generex can run off of that. I do not have natural gas like some people do, but we can certainly run it off of propane. So that's my next investment and I think it will be a very, very good one. So everyone have a great day tomorrow. Enjoy all the ice cream. I wish I could be there. But it's a little far from Florida to, I believe, Washington. We're a three hour difference here too. It's almost 1 a.m. So 73's everybody. Have a great night, a good day. Have extra ice cream for me. Take care everyone. November 3. Oscar Mike Oscar. Well thanks Elaine. I'm going to maybe bribe Meghan into giving me your ticket so I can have some extra ice cream. Anyway, I appreciate all the talk about generators. It's always great to have extra power. Well especially if you live in a place where you've got hurricanes and other forms of natural disasters. Of course, out here we've got volcanoes and earthquakes and occasional wind storms. But when you look at the price of backup power, it's becoming pretty negligible. Also keeping the refrigerator going. Madeline, KJ7NUW was talking recently about how she would put her refrigerator on her power backup. And how efficient the refrigerator is and how little power it uses. So it's a really good thing to have. Anyway, I appreciate you checking in. I'm also looking forward over the next several weeks hearing some football reports from you. I don't know if the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have played yet. But Charlie is coming up and maybe he has some. I know he always talks about his Eagles. So actually over to you Charlie. How are you tonight? Thanks for watching!"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-09T12:51:52+00:00","id":15510,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15509,"text":" All righty, after all lockdown, go back to the top two. The first Rich of this round, WB7J. Rich, how are you and your cat adventures going? Hey Rebecca, good afternoon and good afternoon to the net. And good job K3OE for jumping in there. Let's see, the cat adventure isn't so great. We had a cat meltdown in Prince George, BC. My plan had been to take this sort of prolonged road trip with the cat. And my cat, Pella, she does a great job of traveling. We've been back and forth to Mexico a few times. Now, what she hadn't done a great job of is acclimating to a new place overnight. To go to a new place in the past that's taken her three or four days to settle down. My hope is that she would adapt to a changing nightly environment. And my hopes were dashed. So I skedaddled back, I mean as far as Prince George, BC, I skedaddled back to Seattle. Puyallup really. Let her hang out in an environment she's familiar with. And then I went off to the beach at the Pacific Coast. Pacific Beach is the name of the city just north of Aberdeen, Oakley, and Meria. And I've been camped out here and it's been a cool little experiment. I've got my little lithium iron phosphate battery set up with a solar panel, a little cooler and a bridge, a big tent with a cot and a chair and a little table. I mean it's, I'm trying to emulate the RV experience without the RV expense. And it's been a fun week. I've got a couple more nights here. Then I'll head back to Puyallup, pack for Mexico and head back. That's my report, Rebecca. Thanks for doing the net. 73 is to all WBs. Well, Rich, I am sorry that you ended up with the one cat in the entire world. That was not able to adapt. Just joking. Cats. Gotta love them. Well, I hope that you and Bella are, uh, yeah, get back in the routine of things and go head back to Mexico to find Miguel Allende. Have a wonderful time on the coast. That does sound lovely. Just camping on the coast. The beautiful Pacific Northwest. Yeah. The Olympic coast. Sounds lovely. Have fun camping. I'm looking forward to y'all's net tonight. You sound great, by the way. BTW. And yeah. Thanks, Rich. 73 and 88. It's always good to hear from you. Next on the list is one of the many Riches. It's Rich and Polo. K3OE. Who's going to just spout, just spew the joys and wonders of owning just the most wonderful dog. And also being a tinkerer. K3OE, KK7IJZ. Well, hi, Rebecca. And the other Rich, of course. Oh, my goodness, yes. You know yourself with Andy. You know, even if you're having a rotten day, you've got a dog. Puts their snout in your lap or on your arm. Everything is better. So that's the way it is now. You trying to check here? There we go. I guess that was a check in from Polo. Anyway, doing great here. I made some salad for lunch, which is always good. We need our green stuff, that's for sure. So I did that and got Polo out for a really nice walk this morning. It's so pleasant. You just got to get outside and enjoy it. Back to you, K3OE. This is repeater station Kilo, Kilo 7. Hello, Polo. Hey, Polo. Give Polo so many kisses for me. I love you, Polo. Hello. Oh, Rich, have a wonderful salad and a wonderful weekend in West Seattle. It's a beautiful day out here. And I hope that the two of you make it to the ice cream social. I'm sure that you will. And, yeah, I feel like you and Volko would get along. Not that you wouldn't. I mean, Rich, you're the best. All of the Riches are the best. But, yeah. Volko, W7LCO, meet Rich, K3OE. Rich, K3OE, meet Volko, W7LCO. Y'all pick out each other's QRZ and become friends. Do it! 73 and 88 Rich and, yes, so many kisses to Polo. Hi, Polo. Thank you for taking care of Rich. All right. This is Rebecca, KK7IJZ. Next on the list is Dean from Middle Lake. Yuck! KG70DB, KK7IJZ. 88 Dean. Good afternoon, Rebecca. I almost said good morning. It's a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. So it's really funny, after the Lake Washington net, I was wondering, has anybody ever done the Lake Washington 11 o'clock net and then done the new net on PSRG? And I kind of thought I'd heard it, it had happened before, but now I've got the definitive answer. It would be interesting if the net had gone all the way up past noon, what would happen. Or if it went right to noon and then it's like, give me five seconds and let me change my frequency. Well, it's good hearing you again today. It's kind of a nice thing. Yeah, not really doing a whole lot. I was doing a little bit of research online. There was a question that was brought up near the end of the morning net about how much wattage you should use in your car if you have a mobile rig in your car. And it's always been my understanding that the car itself acts as a Faraday cage. So it doesn't mean you have to be not conscious of high power, especially around 50 watts. I've been curious about this question because recently I was doing a, a couple months ago, I was doing a Parks on the Air over at Lake Sammamish. And I had my mag mount antenna on the roof of my car. And so normally when I'm doing FT8 on, you know, especially mobile, I rarely ever go above about 20 or 25 watts because FT8, you're going at a very high duty cycle. You're just on completely during the 15 second transmissions you make. And at one point I was trying to reach a faraway station. And so I turned my power up to, I think it was 70 watts with my mag mount on the roof. And all of a sudden my computer screen goes blank and other little things like the mouse pad wouldn't work properly while I was transmitting. So anyway, it kind of makes me wonder, so I'm going to do a little more research on this. And yeah, I know it was Christian, KK7AIX asked the question earlier, and I know that's not any kind of definitive answer, but anyway, it's, y'all is learning something new. So anyway, this is KT7ODD, back to Nat. Well, Dean, I do have some news for you. This is my second time back to backing Nets. The 11 am and the noon net. Second time. Second time's a charm, right? And it's really not that bad, you know, whatever. I talk a lot in general and nanny for a five year old, so I am talking all day long regardless. So here I am, doing Nets. But yeah, interesting report. It's always good to hear from you, Dean. I, uh, my cat Avi is in my lap now. He is tired of me hosting Nets. He wants me to lay down forever and be by his side for eternity and for us to just be together forever in solitude. Just snuggling. And he's decided that's going to start right now. But, uh, yeah. Well, thank you so much for your report, Dean. 88 and all the numbers and have a wonderful, wonderful weekend. Next on the list is Jeff in Onion City. Alpha Bravo 6 Mike Bravo. Please come ahead with your report. Good afternoon, Rebecca. This is AB 6MB on San Francisco Bay. We're sunny out and 76 degrees. So, it's supposed to be 82 today. Meanwhile, I just went a little bit ago. I had a really good night's sleep, which I needed, and got my coffee at the ready and I'm not afraid to drink it. I'm just getting going here. Interesting about taking a cat traveling. I'm not surprised. They're very territorial and very much like their space in a certain way. So, that's interesting. Sorry that happened. Uh, see here, uh, yeah, Saturday is my favorite day for amateur radio. I've got this. Then I've got the, you know, the, uh, the board meeting. And then I've got a 3 o'clock net that's really good. Then 5 p.m. is the, uh, ham radio crash course. And then, uh, 8 o'clock is the, uh, Papa System, uh, anything but radio net. And then 9 o'clock is the, uh, PSRG net. So, yeah, the whole day is filled up with great nets. So, I really enjoy it. It's my favorite day. My, uh, my grandson wanted to come over today to visit and I said, well, can you do it tomorrow? Because, uh, my whole day is kind of filled up. And he goes, yeah, I can do that. So, he's a pretty cool kid. So, uh, anyway, that's it for today. Oh, yeah, the squirrels, uh, filled up the peanuts and the nuts and got them ready. They haven't, I mean, I just got up here a little bit ago and I haven't seen them yet. But I guarantee you they'll be around. They got to do a quality check on the peanuts and nuts to make sure they're tasty. So, Sara, turn it back to you. AB6MB. Oh, that's sweet. Your grandson wants to come visit you. How amazing is that? Aww. Well, that's fun to have. Thank you so much for the squirrel report. I hope that the quality check goes well and that all of the nuts have been approved and consumed or hidden in a very secret, top secret location. Um, yeah, have a fun amateur radio day. Just, yeah, that's great. All of these things. Oh, yeah, I forget that the Ham Radio Crash Course does their live situation every Saturday evening as well. Um, yeah, well, have a fun day, Jeff, and we'll hear from you again later on tonight on Bill and Rich's Net at 9 p.m. Ah, 7388 Jeff. All right, this is Rebecca, KK7IJZ, and you are listening to the PFRG Noon Net on this B-8 radio station. It's a beautiful, beautiful Saturday. I'm going to go ahead and pause for announcements. Okay, for all events to consider, please check out psrg.org. That's psrg.org. There's an events to consider column on the side there. Lots of events to consider, volunteer opportunities, and yeah, swap meets so much, so many things. And on psrg, you can become a member, and it's free, you have access to the remote HF station. If you are interested in helping update and expand the remote HF station, or looking for volunteers for that, please get in touch with our Vice President Brooks, K9BDC. If you have any interest in, um, yeah, helping out with updating and, yeah, just a week, just help out with our remote HF station. It is, yeah, it'll be cool. And just get in touch with Brooks, K9BDC. Also today, on August 9th at 1.30 p.m. Pacific time, is our club board meeting. The Zoom link is already posted on our website, psrg.org. Just click the Zoom link to attend. You must be a board member to, um, vote, but, um, yeah, just kind of see how the sausage is made. There is so much that happens behind the scenes. At psrg, there's just a lot of hard work and love goes into maintaining the club in all different sorts of ways. So, yeah, just even if you have it on in the background, just listen to a board meeting, more of an understanding of how the club works. And then tomorrow is our ice cream social at Green Lake. So, Jack, KI7RMU and Boston Overbill usually get there at the crack of dawn, helping set everything up. And they just kind of go on all day. The new net is hosted there by Cami and Robert, KJ7JXM and KJ7RAB. There's always donuts and coffee, and it's an ice cream social, so there will be ice cream. At Green Lake, there's lots of things to do. You can walk around, hang out, dog watch, and, yeah, and meet a bunch of fun ham radio folks in 3D. It's always a good time. And, yeah, just putting faces to names, face to call signs. It's a lot of, it's so much fun. So, then tomorrow's rain or shine. The new net will be hosted there, so get there, you know, any time around the new net. Early, late, they usually last a long, long time. So, Green Lake. But everything, ham radio is posted at, everything PSRG is posted at PSRG.org or at, on our Facebook discussion group page, the PSRG website. And don't forget about the SimplexNet tonight as well. So, the SimplexNet, the frequency is 146.6, and it's at 8 p.m. in the Seattle Seattle area. So, board meeting, 1.30 today. Simplex, tonight, 8 p.m. Board meeting, I mean, board meeting, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 1.30 today. Simplex, tonight, 8 p.m. Board meeting, I mean, board meeting, oh. Ice cream social, meet everybody, tomorrow, Green Lake. Alright, this is KK7IJZ. Let's continue on with the net. I'll sign the name, RS, and internet. Kilo Juliet 7, Romeo Alfibrado, Kami. Hey Kami, 33, got you on the list. More stations, please. KJ7WQI, Matt. Clear. Hey Matt, got you on the list. More stations, please. KK7IJZ, Kami."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-11T09:09:24+00:00","id":16145,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16144,"text":" Alright, wait a minute. I saw K7PDZ Jim light up the node list. Jim, are you trying to get on the list? Well, of course I'll try to get on the list. Good try, you made it. Stand by there, Jim. Let's go back to Magoo out there in Covington, KK7Z, P-J. Good morning, Jack. Things are good this morning. I got an Amazon delivery early for some memory for my laptop and I'm going from 16 gig to 32 because it was starting to run a little slow. I think I might even put a new hard drive in later today. Yesterday we had a lot of fun. I had a perplexing problem. We've got a fairly small living room but my wife bought this huge sectional a couple years back. It was a down filled couch, very comfortable, but it took up the entire living room space. So we decided to cut out about half of it and of course it was the half that was furthest away so we had to go through the other half in order to get it out of here. I decided to cut it up with a reciprocating saw and sawed that sucker up into 8 pieces and it was a piece of cake. So that was a happy accomplishment. We put everything in the trailer downstairs and then I'm going to bring it to the dump probably later today or tomorrow. That was pretty cool. Let me pause. And then it's finally happened. The saga of the 3D printing. We got our new printer on Friday after trying another new one and sending it back. It's operating flawlessly. We've got a lot of accessories for it already and we're 3D printing accessories for it so we're going to really be in good shape. It's going to take me about a couple hundred hours to get all the backlog of stuff that we want to print. Just simple stuff like a winder to wind the filament from one spool to another all 3D printed with gears and it's really cool. So anyway I'm flying high as the 3D printing hobby right now. Back to you Jack. It's Magoo Kilo Kilo 7 Zulu Papa Juliet. Wow you are having too much fun with that printer and I know you said at the end of the day you can load with I think some accessory parts or accessories probably. You can load up to 16 filament. Is that right? I think you said 16 filament. I get three more units right now. I just have one unit of four but this printer does support three additional spool holders so that you can merge them all together. But I've learned that doing 3D printing with multiple colors also burns through a lot of filament because at every filament change it has to purge out the old color to make sure it's not in there anymore. Usually you lose about an inch and a half or so of filament and you're doing that in every layer or sometimes three or four times during a layer and you can lose just as much filament as you do putting it on the actual build. So that's an interesting tidbit. Single color you don't lose much filament at all. Alright well I'd like to see that bamboo printer of yours in action. Maybe get you a short video and post that up on the Facebook discussion group page. And something that is you know I guess well I guess interesting to the group maybe a ham piece of some sort you might have found on GitHub or Thingiverse. Alright well anyway have a good week. Great to hear you're starting us off today on the Monday morning net. Thank you, McGoo. Let's go talk to KJ7WQI. Matt, how are you sir?"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-11T09:04:29+00:00","id":16144,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16143,"text":" Good morning, it's 9 o'clock in time for the 9 o'clock net for Monday, August 11, 2025. I'm Jack KI7RMU, I'll be your host for this morning. This is a direct social net that happens on the WW7 PSR 2 meter repeater, which is located on Capitol Hill and operated by the Puget Sound Repeater Group. The repeater operates at a frequency of 146.96 with a negative offset and a PL tone of 103.5. All licensed fans and new licensees just getting started are welcome to join. If you have third party traffic, we'd like to hear from them too. We encourage you to press that button to tell us a little bit about yourself, your radio projects, or just about anything else. Please let me report to three minutes so we can get as many stations in as possible. This is also when the repeater times out. When you're finished with your report, please end with your call sign. That'll keep the FCC happy. I'll be compiling lists of stations I'd like to check in and I'll ask for your report. If you'd like to check in only, just let me know. You'll be in and out, also known as an I.O. Again, this is Jack KI7RMU, let's get the Monday morning net started now. Come ahead with your call sign and name please. Hello Papa Juliette, Magoo in Covington, Washington. Alright Magoo, I've got you. Who's next? Hello Jack, this is Kilo Charlie 2, she's our title officer. Charlie was a I.O. See you at lunch time. I don't think I'll be hosting the new net. I'm doing 9 o'clock today, but we'll see I guess. Anyway Charlie, thank you so much for your I.O. Have a great day, hope you're doing well my friend. Who's next for the 9 o'clock net? Come ahead. Hey, good morning Matt, or good afternoon possibly. Alright, well stand by, we'll get you in as well. That's Matt there, KJ7WQI. Who's next please? This is John, Kilo, and Juliet, Echo, Bravo on sunny, Commando Island with us. In and out, good morning. Alright John, it's going to be a real, almost a record center here in Seattle today, temperature wise. Hope you stay cool my friend, thank you for your I.O. off Commando Island there. That was John K9J, be more stations please for the 9 o'clock net."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-11T09:19:38+00:00","id":16146,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16145,"text":" but you can hear me real quick. Yeah, you're sounding fantastic on RF, still in town. Okay, yeah, go ahead please. Alright, I was moving the antenna around the driveway here. Anyway, I took a bunch of photos yesterday and I failed to bring with me a SD card reader, so I will have to go through those on my flight back to Boston and then upload them at a later date when I can find my SD card reader somewhere in the house. I know it's over there, I just gotta hunt it down through all of the stuff over there. They will be coming eventually. I got some good shots of people hanging out. Rich standing over there with his fish net antenna. Dean showing up with the donuts. Got some good stuff. So, other than that, just a nice quiet morning here. Anna's still asleep actually. She's a sleeper in the morning. She likes sleeping. Other than that, just slowly getting ready, starting to pack my bags. Gonna be looking at flights either for tonight or tomorrow morning. So, that's all I got. Thanks for running the net, Jack. Lovely to see you and everyone else at the Rain or Shine yesterday. And I will throw it back to you, KJ7WQI. All right, man, have a good trip back and say good morning to Anna whenever she wakes up or maybe it'll be a good afternoon from me. That was so great to see the two of you. I can tell you were moving around pretty darn good for that camera and man, it looked like you got some great shots. Can not wait to see them. And of course, Dean with the parade oven presentation of the donuts. That is one shot I did not get. I really meant to get it on video. But anyway, all right, you take care of that and I hope you find that card reader. Yeah, that's not like finding your TV or something. Card readers, where is that stupid thing? Come on, come on. Good luck. All right, Matt, well, we'll see you. Yeah, John in there from Kamehameha Island. Sunny day up there. Let's go to Jim, K7PDZ. I'll bet the lake is like glass and you've already been out skiing. What do you think of that? Is that correct there, Jim? K7PDZ. Well, good morning, Jack. You are correct and incorrect. The lake is flat. No, that's the usual conundrum of no driver. The tail that I was skiing with, Sarah had to go back to work and she's to the point now, she's an administrator and their contract starts basically the first of August. So she's gotta be at her desk all week long. Wait till she gets back on Saturday, I guess. I don't know, I gotta start calling one of my friends because right now we got this stretch of really nice weather here. It was hot yesterday. Man, it's gonna be even hotter today over here. I know you guys have hot weather over there too. So we hit 89 yesterday here at the lake and it was in the 90s and it's supposed to be triple digits in a lot of places, like especially the Tri-Cities, so like Lee down there, WGN, might be having some really hot, hot weather down there. So it got so bad here yesterday, we had to come inside, we couldn't sit out anymore. Had to come into the air conditioning cabin. So yeah, we had to rough it over here. Okay, that's why we got Jack and his head to get on there and give you some action this morning so people can get up and get some coffee in them and start checking in. Anyway, back to you Jack. Oh yeah, I looked at all the pictures on Facebook and from the thing yesterday and it looks like you guys had a lot of fun there, a lot of people and almost as many as at the picnic. So anyway, that was cool and I enjoyed looking at the pictures. Seven T's everybody. This is Jim and Jane at their lake, A7 PTZ. All right, Jim, hey, by chance, did you happen to get a chance to see Madeline's posting of the two hour, nine o'clock net she did from Lake's Edge there? Oh yes, when I jumped into it, you were just, I said hi Jack, because you were in the picture. I know there's a little delay there, but not too much. So you might've been out of range by the time I said hi Jack. But yes, I definitely was watching that. K7, PTZ. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, I got back into the picture right away and waved at you there. Hey, real quick, one more question. Now Sarah, of course, she's back at work so no boat driver today. However, if you had a self-driving module for the boat, so you had autonomous driving of the boat there, do you think you would trust that while you're skiing behind it? They did have some of those, somebody made one of those, or not made, but they were manufacturing something like that that was a remote control module that your rope went, you held onto the rope, but you were controlling the speed and everything of this blobby thing out in front of you, this kind of like a small jet ski. But I don't think they ever made it because they just didn't have enough power. So maybe that's a thing of the past, but anyway, I could maybe find a Tesla and try to get some of the Tesla controls onto the boat. How does that sound? Then we could figure out how the boat knows where the shore is and everything. It doesn't crash into it. Oh, Jack, that opens up somebody horrible thoughts, K7PZ. Yeah, the first one that came to my mind is you hook it all up and then, yeah, we'll say, well, it's nice knowing you, Jim. Oh, geez, oh, that's a terrible thought. Anyway, maybe just skip that crazy idea, but I'm sure somebody else will choose to do it. All right, anyway, Jim, you have a great day. To edit Jane in that, go find your driver. Let's see who else is available for the 9 a.m. Net 914, I'm Jack KI7R, mute, transmitted from Seattle here. If you'd like to join us, all I need is your name and call. K30E, good morning. K7FWB. Men High Ridge K30E, who's next? KM7, AJM, skipper. Howdy, skipper, I've got you, who's next, please? KG7WB. Good morning, Bill, I've got you, anybody else? KG7WY, John. Oh, man, you really lit up the crowd yesterday. That was awesome, John, I'll tell everybody all about that when we get to you, stand by, please. More stations."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-12T21:55:06+00:00","id":16529,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16528,"text":" bugs and carpets everywhere and all of the cords have been protected, wrapped up, put out of the way, so you can't get into them. And many fun bunny snacks have been bought. So, we're having a great time with El Presidente. Ah, he's the cutest. He's so sweet and I love that he loves to be petted. If you're kind of walking through his space, now it's his space, right? He'll headbutt you to get your attention so he can be pet. And also my cat Dewey, they love each other, so Dewey comes in and cleans him too. And Dewey will lay down with him and just hang out. Dewey is still the only pet that we'd want to hang out with El Presidente. Andy tries to play with him, but he's not having it. And my cat Avi hates everyone and everything, so they'll probably never gonna meet. Which Avi is totally fine with. But, yeah, well thanks for asking. Excuse me. About El Presidente, he is a wonderful addition to our animal filled family. AK-79JZ. Alright, thanks for sharing and that's wonderful to hear that Dewey is grooming El Presidente there. And, yeah, we had a couple of rabbits. We had some cats and they would groom, the cats would groom the rabbits as well. And that was kind of fun there. One thing we did have to do, we did try to protect cords as much as possible, but I also eventually, this was back in the days when we had landlines, and I had to run telephone cords from where the jack was to the other side of the house. Well, let's just say I eventually bought a spice kit because it was more effective than just replacing the two wires. I did try to protect them, but they would get them. Alright, 73, you have a great night and 88 there. Have a good night. Alright, let's go next to Alan, AE-70G. Alan, how are you tonight? Well, good evening. This is Alan, AE-70G. I'm doing great. We're out at Dashpoint State Park, Site 46, 203. It's been pretty warm, but very nice. Good to hear the next night. We went out to the bookstore today and my wife's yarn shop, which she really loves. She bought a bunch of yarns and yarns. Talking about rabbits and everything, I'm reading Watership Down and about Map-83. It's a really great book and it's all about rabbits. Other than that, it's been a really nice weekend and week. Back to your AE-70G. Alright, yeah, that was definitely a book about rabbits and a pretty heavy one. Just to give you a signal report, your initial check-in to get on the list was actually pretty strong. It was a little harder to hear you when you were giving your report, a little noisier there, but I was still able to copy. Thanks so much for your report there and glad to have you here. Alright, I'm going to go next to Jeff, AB-6MB. Jeff, please come ahead. Thank you very much. Thank you for coming. Yeah, here in San Francisco Bay area. We're in the little 70s today. It's sunny and a pretty nice day out. I just had some croissants that I sliced and put peanut butter in them for dinner here. Boy, that feels pretty good. Get these little mini croissants from the grocery store, slice them and then put peanut butter in them and sure hit the spot. We had squirrels be bopping around the patio most of the day there eating and running and chasing and just generally having a great old time. There's two or three of them at a time and it's fun to watch them. They're just interesting animals. They are definitely squirrel-y. You really understand them after you watch them for a while. Yeah, so I think I just watched some history here. I was on the D-Star net on the Papa System here a little while ago. That's a really good net. You know, D-Star has been really popular for years and it's a good mode. But on another thing, they're having a big camp out. The Papa System is on an island called Santa Cruz Island off the coast of Los Angeles. They're all going out there. They've helped out the last few years by running comms. When they're out on the island, the only way they can get communications with the mainland is via amateur radio or cell phones. They just don't make it. So we make sure there's me and another gal, one guy's wife. In fact, we've got another one too, another woman. We'll be keeping an eye on that in case something happens out there and they get a hold of us and we can make phone calls for them. It's nice to have that. If somebody's out there waiting, I'll just be for you. It helps them make the trip that much better. They have these little foxes, I guess kid foxes. They're really tiny and they're cute as a button. They're experts at getting food from people because they're so cute you would accidentally knock some food off your table and go, Oh darn, I guess the fox will have it and they can run over and grab it right away. It's pretty cute. That's pretty much the day here. We helped them out out there and have comms because one year they had a big rainstorm that was hitting them. It was actually a hurricane, a leftover hurricane. We had to get them off that island. With our contacts, we got them off and everything was good. So anyway, now with that I'll turn it back to the net. AB-6MB. Alright, well that sounds pretty cool that you and some others are helping out with trying to maintain communications with those folks. Definitely important for people to have that option. I'm glad to hear the squirrels are alright. You mentioned something about mini croissants there. I think I have seen those at the store. Thanks for sharing that, Jeff. You have a great rest of your night. Alright, this is Paul K7PJP, your 9 o'clock net here. I'm going to go next to Elaine N3OMO. Elaine, please come ahead. Thank you very much, Paul. This is N3OMO. We started out about 8 o'clock with some thunderstorms and the rain has stopped. Now it's very, very bright lightning. I can see it through the three small windows we have in the front door. There for a while I thought it was just cloud to cloud, but I don't know. It's extremely sharp. Although I don't hear any thunder, I think it's basically at this point a lightning show. But as I said, it's very, very bright. Our dog, Josh, is so funny when it's thunder and she hates it. He barks at the thunder and if Rob has to take him out, he'll look up at the sky and bark at the thunder. It's so funny, like wanting it to go away. And the same thing with silence, like in the ambulance or fire truck. He hates that. He'll bark at that to get them to go away. And even when we watch Emergency on the television and the silencers on TV, he eats to go bark to get them to go away. He is so funny. He's a real good dog. And everybody else, all the rest of the animals are doing well. And everything is cool. Rob had a good second day of driving school bus. The only problem is there's a lot of traffic where he has to go about 12 miles away. And they get backed up and sometimes they're like 5 or 10 minutes late a little bit later to get into the school. A lot of it is that the parents are dropping kids off and some of the kids are dead. You know, the kids are going to take the bus and they clog everything up and it's kind of hard for the buses to get through. But anyway, the kids are being good this year. Last year he had a really bad kid, elementary kid. He would trash the bus. He'd throw paper and gum wrappers and everything all over the inside of the bus. And Rob asked him to pick it up one day before they would leave. And one kid turned and said, No, that's what we had janitors for. My golly, if we ever said that as a kid, I don't think we'd be alive today to say that we said it. Things are different today. But anyway, the kids this year are very good. So let's go. I'm happy for them. So that's the way about it. From here, everybody have a good night and a good day tomorrow. And we'll catch up with you again soon. November 3, Oscar Mike Oscar. All right, Elaine. Well, yeah, that's interesting here. You know, passenger cars kind of causing all that congestion. It is amazing how much room automobiles take up. When people talk about places being crowded, it's amazing how often it's really about how how many cars are in a specific place. There's these amazing pictures you can see online where you can just see how much space single cars take up compared to compared to people on buses. But now it's interesting that people are also wanting to drive their kids to school. I remember taking the bus. I can't imagine my parents enjoying the times they would have to drive me. But and yeah, that's interesting to hear your dog barking at the thunder to sounds like he's looking out for you. So 73 and 82. Have a good night. All right. Let's go next to Matt KJ seven WQI. Matt, please come ahead. Oh, hey there, Paul. I thought I'd let the CW do its thing. Anyways, it's hard to think. I'm eating some some bulgaric noodles and they're way spicier than I thought they would be. So my mouth is on fire and I am dripping sweat. But that just means that they are good. I'm going to go get some more of these. I got these today on my quest to find a SD card reader so I can get the photos from the rain or shine that off my SD card. My laptop only has a mini SD card reader. I want to double check you can hear me. KJ seven WQI. Give me a report there, Paul. Oh, yeah, I can hear you. Yeah. All right. All right. I'm on the switch. Usually it shows me a timer to see how long I've been talking and it wasn't showing up. So I'm not sure what what setting I changed on that. But I just wanted to double check. I was actually getting in. Anyways, I I have an SD card somewhere in this house and I tore this house apart today trying to find it. I needed to reorganize anyway. But I pulled open every drawer, opened every backpack, opened every bag, opened every drawer. I cannot find it. So I figured, hey, you know, CVS Walgreens, someplace like that's going to have one. But there's a marshal's nearby. So I ran down the marshal's to see if they would have one. They didn't went to the CVS next door, assuming they would have one. They were sold out. One across the street to the Walgreens. They were also sold out and then just ping ponged my way back up, hitting every store that I thought might possibly have an SD card reader, family dollar. I was going to cell phone stores. I was looking everywhere, trying to find an SD card reader. Could not find one in East Boston for anything. So I came home. I got noodles on the way. But gave up and just ordered one online. And it'll be here in a couple of days. Then I can post those photos from the Rainershine. So got some good photos of people hanging out and talking and chatting. It was a good time. I'm back over here in Boston. I've got to reorganize the house now and get back to priming the bathroom. But that's what's going on over here. Hope everybody's doing well. And I'm going to finish these noodles and probably have some weird dreams because of it. So I'll throw it back to you, Paul. KJ7WQI. All right, Matt. Yeah, that is really frustrating that you can't find an SD card reader anywhere. You would think that was typical drugstore tech for a very long time. And yeah, it would be interesting. My laptop's got one. But if I didn't have one in there, everything else would have this USB-C. So it would have to go for the USB-C adapter or the SD card or I guess USB-A to USB-C, what have you. I was just noticing today. It's interesting. USB-C has been in existence for about ten years now. And it seems like it's still not everywhere. But enjoy those bulwark noodles. I know especially the 2X spicy, those are particularly intense. But even the regular ones are surprisingly spicy. Thanks again for your report, Zone 3. All right, let's go next to Mike, KJ7WQI with a recheck."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-13T12:28:07+00:00","id":16710,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16709,"text":" in my mind you playing Tetris with your suitcase trying to figure out what goes, what does not go. But let's take a look at the tech business for just a bit. What will you be taking? I know you have done some improvements with your note and so forth. So what will you then travel to Mexico with and then on to France? Are you trying to get that just down to a perfect package for tech? Well, Jack, what I had set up was I had my all-star note sitting in my daughter's house here in Puyallup. And I made that capable of remote access using a dynamic DNS service that basically keeps track of the IP address assigned to her house. So the bottom line is I could access my all-star note from anywhere. The problem is that I'm basically multiplying my Wi-Fi reliability risk by two because I'm trying to get from some hotel or end user back to another end user and then back to the all-star. So there's two end user points that I'm trying to connect when I do that. And what I've found is it often doesn't last. It's often not a reliable connection. Echolink is more reliable. So I am taking my all-star note with me down to Mexico, hoping to set up something as stable as I had previously. I'll be in a different apartment, different Wi-Fi environment. I've got to figure that part out. But that's the story. I've got to be 7J. All right. Well, Bessie, you have a great flight down to Mexico and then a subsequent flight to Mexico. We've read there that sounds like a great time. Boy, I tell you, it is hard to keep track of you sometimes. All right. Well, and of course, if you do need help on the Saturday evening net, do let me know. It'd be great to have you and Bill back in the hot seats if you get a chance. Take care, Rich, and travel safe for me, okay? Let's see who else is out there for the new net. 1224 p.m. I'm Jack, KI7RBU, for the new net on a Wednesday afternoon here in Seattle. If you'd like to join us, call, sign, and name. KJ7WQI, Matt. Whiskey, Quebec 7, hotel. This is James. Hi, Matt. Hi, James. I've got you. Who's next?"}]}