{"activity_count":611,"callsign":"KK7Z","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2025-07-21T14:34:46+00:00","found":true,"id":35,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-30T15:42:01.600947+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":448,"profile":{"confidence":0.9,"counts":{"ncs":1,"net":0,"open_qso":443,"transcript_contexts":60},"data_freshness":"generated","latest_topic":"Discussing personal experiences and offering help with technical issues","most_topic":"Personal experiences and community support","open_vs_net_bias_score":0.5,"personal_summary":"KK7Z is a versatile operator who frequently participates in both open QSOs and net operations. They are known for their friendly and helpful nature, often sharing personal stories and offering assistance to others.","scores":{"activity":0.8,"civility":0.9,"engagement":0.8,"focus":0.7,"friendly":0.85,"helpful":0.9,"serious":0.6,"technical":0.7},"source":"ai_profile","summary":"KK7Z is active in both open QSOs and net operations, showing a balanced approach to amateur radio activities. They often engage in discussions about personal experiences, technical issues, and community support.","topic_coverage":{"Community support":0.3,"Net operations":0.1,"Personal experiences":0.4,"Technical issues":0.2},"updated_at":"2026-06-30T02:56:03.541172"},"qrz_status":"verified","recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8933103084564209,"created_at":"2026-06-30T15:41:48.688179+00:00","id":132986,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":133543,"text":"Oh, here is the sound skin. Take care. I'm going to disconnect here and get out of here. Everyone take care. 7-3, KK7Z."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.5518586798147722,"created_at":"2026-06-30T15:16:50.544136+00:00","id":132903,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":133437,"text":"Good morning Rosie. KK7Z. Good morning, Joe. Can you tell me your favorite? Can you mention to KK7T or if you could do the net tomorrow? Because I will be out of doubt by 915 the earliest, you know. We have some things going on at a legion which my husband, lovely husband, volunteered me for. So he's out of doubt, I was waiting now, my husband. So I was hoping the kids go before he was leaving but I guess not. If you wouldn't mind passing that on to him, if not I will give him a text as well myself."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.6043747021601751,"created_at":"2026-06-30T14:56:42.463299+00:00","id":132824,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":133345,"text":"Kilo and Oiro, ECK, this is Victor Acafoia, Anglima. Good morning to you, Phil. Good morning to my lovebird, my good morning to my liplains out there, good morning to bud, and everybody, well you don't want to forget anybody. And also KK7's Zulu. We got to give him a scratch and a cookie. Come on, you guys. Put your heads up. I know it's hard, but we will have to keep going here. It's hard for all of us, not hearing our lovebird, the other half. But hey, we are a family. We got to stick together like we were before, and heads up. I know it's hard."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.7606368086167744,"created_at":"2026-06-30T14:31:45.687371+00:00","id":132802,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":133311,"text":"This is November 8th Tango Hotel Juliet. So, November 8th Tango Hotel Juliet are here in Spring Field, Ohio. Kilo Delta 8 Romeo F.O. Romeo KDA R.L.R. in Kintering, Ohio. Neck control please copy, November 0 Hotel Charlie in 0-8-T Clifton Colorado. Kilo Kilo 7 Zulu KK-7Z Neck control this is Kilo Tango 7, JUITA Scereco. Kilo Tango 7, JUITA Scereco."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8724633402684155,"created_at":"2026-06-30T14:25:34.707611+00:00","id":132784,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":133292,"text":"other Joe and Las Vegas KK7Z back to you. Well, we thank you for always being willing to be a backup and you have a wonderful day. KT7.com, how are you? How are your critters and hope your family is doing well? Hey, good morning there, Gail. Good morning to everyone on that. KT7JOE, Joe here in Las Vegas, Nevada. And all is okay for now. The Pupster, of course, just always doing good for the most part. They were very rambunctious last night. We didn't get to bed until late. They just wanted to keep playing because for the past few weeks, it's been in the hundreds or so, so they don't go out much during the day. And so with the cool weather, they've been out there playing and we've been out there playing with them. And well, they didn't want to go to bed last night. They just wanted to keep playing. So..."},{"callsign_confidence":0.9199999999999999,"confidence":0.852784018103893,"created_at":"2026-06-30T02:40:32.128269+00:00","id":131933,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":132365,"text":"All right, Councilman Echko, acknowledging you. Thank you all for checking in tonight. If you would like to receive information about Seattle ACS, please visit us at Seattle ACS dot org. We would like to thank the PSRG for the use of this repeater now and in times of emergency. This concludes the Seattle Auxiliary Communication Service Monday night net. This is Robert, KK7Z ROI, closing the net at 19.24. Good night, everyone. This is a late check-in. Kilo Farke-Drought 7, Victor, November Alpha, will in the south-west sector. Thank you."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8789566953976949,"created_at":"2026-06-29T15:30:24.514790+00:00","id":130712,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":131057,"text":"He's just put in the text box that he thought I said tomorrow, and maybe I did. I don't know. I don't know what I say sometimes. Anyway, I talked to Dale yesterday. Joe KK7Z gave me his number, and I tried to give him a hand with the Wi-Fi situation and stuff, and he said he had a new data card coming on. The one card that he had now is a limited data or less data, so that's why he's only using it for the nets, but it's almost expired, and he's going to, I guess, the guys in his other group or whatever are helping him get the better card. And he actually refused to take any help. I offered to buy him Wi-Fi cards so we can get him on the air and whatever he needed, and he said he was okay. So not sure what to say there. I wanted to do whatever we could. Joyce was willing to help also, and I'm sure that's why I called. And I didn't want her to have to help. Let me go to drop for a second. KT7J, we returned. Anyway, I didn't want her to have to worry about someone else while she's going through what she's doing. I called Dale, and I like"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.7594326653263785,"created_at":"2026-06-29T14:15:30.327617+00:00","id":130513,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":130823,"text":"to get stuff. So anyway, I guess Phil they went pretty good down to our club head, but I didn't get down there yesterday. I went to a car show out at the American Legion and it was really nice. So I'll have to send some pictures to I got one of a truck that Joe KK7Z would like. It's similar like what his old truck was, all his different color. Anyway, I'm gonna turn it back over to your art so you get through the list back to you and thanks a lot for doing that today. Alright, Joe Larry, alrighty, well you know what, don't do too much grass cutting today, especially as hot as it's supposed to get. I think they said we're supposed to get up to about 91 today, so it's gonna, it's already human out there, so there you go. Alright Joe Larry, you have a take care and say hi to Jerry."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-21T07:33:55+00:00","id":9070,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":9069,"text":" pretty shows you have to tell you it really is. Good morning, Dave. Good morning, everyone else on the worldwide friendship bet for a steamy Monday. Man, I can't believe how hot it is. It was so hot that you could set off firecrackers without a match, that's for sure. And for KK7Z, Joe, your girlfriend did show up at the game and I tell you what, she's big, she's so big. I mean, they named the jumbo drawn after her. I mean, boom, boom, shh. I couldn't help it. But that was a good one, Joe, I appreciate that. And to our buddy, Bud, I'm so glad that you're out there socializing and commiserating. It sounds like a really wonderful time. Yeah, we had a good time yesterday as well. After stretch, we went out to an eggs up grill and I asked them if they had any eggs and they did. And I asked them if they had any, but I wanted the trick. I said, prune juice. I needed the temperature. But seriously, the temperatures yesterday were like 104, 105 degrees and that's absolutely unheard of for this part of the world. Our high temperatures, our average high temperatures this time of year, about 88, about 95% humidity. But hey, no matter where I am in the bunker, it's always 74 degrees and sunny. So I'm gonna turn it back over to you, Dave, you're earning a tight ship. I appreciate it very much and I won't hold it. And I just wanna say hello to everybody. Good morning today, wherever you are, anywhere in the world and treat each other well. And you're gonna hear first from Kio Bravo 2, Romeo Quebec Quebec."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-21T09:22:24+00:00","id":9144,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":9143,"text":" 1 uniform kilo Zulu, why did I write down 7? 1. More stations please. Kilo kilo 7 Zulu, Uniforce, Juliet and Tonio. In and out. Thank you for your I.O. Antonio, have a wonderful day. 7-3 and thanks for stopping by. More stations please. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-31T08:26:52+00:00","id":11929,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11928,"text":" and Robert for getting it, kicking it off to a good start here. I was having problems, like I said, with my connection. I wasn't getting away. I wasn't staying connected and I was, to be honest with you, I was just about pretty close to breaking something. When my back, I don't have a great deal of patience for a flaky internet and a lot of other things, you know, so yeah, I don't have a great deal of patience with that kind of stuff. But anyway, Joe, have a good day. Hello to Lori, K7PCM and give her a big hug from us after you get done sweating and cooking there. Have a good day, man. All right, up next, we'll clear with KK7Z and the next person we have up here is up there in Aberdeen, Washington, is Pappy, N7RHV, over to you, from KZ7YFE. This is repeater, just wanted to do a quick recheck and say, you made it, Judy, way to go. Next thing we got to teach is how to play around in the text box there. So you can get all the stuff that's going on during the net when you're not talking over in the text box. So next time I talk to you, maybe I'll call you later and we'll try to walk through it a little bit and have some, sometimes a lot of stuff goes on in that text box and never makes it to the air. So anyway, congrats, Judy, for making it on and I hope we see much more of you on the net now. So, okay, they already cleaned the mic once on the air, so it's still good. So we'll send it back your direction. KZ7YFE, N7RHV, back to net."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-31T08:48:04+00:00","id":11948,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11947,"text":" I heard the crickets and crouching, so I thought I'd chime in. So I heard Joe, KK7Z, talking about charging his batteries. I just wanted to mention something that's seeing the praises of the old alkaline battery. So back in the day, I used to do a lot of cave exploring. Don't do that anymore, but in a cave, so if you look at the discharge profile of a lithium ion, it's at full power until it drops out. It looks like a step function. But the alkaline battery will discharge slower, and in a cave environment, it's nice to know if your batteries are dying, so you can swap them out and not just be in the dark. You can be descending or ascending a rope or trying to squeeze through a tight passage, and bad time for the light to die. So anyway, just singing the praise of the lowly alkaline battery in its limited use. So that's all I have from a fellow out of Front Range, K0OBX. Back to you, Dale."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8700000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T07:23:46+00:00","id":14010,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14009,"text":" Welcome to the Michigan conference number 96170 located in Western Michigan. Sir, may I get a good start for a paycheck, how about that? Alright, if you do drop us connected, I've got one more check in on this round and then we'll go to a new round of chickens. So, speaking of chicken, here's our chicken tender, Dale, K-7 YFE from KK-7 unit. Good morning Joe, I'm in that KK-7Z, net control and I can't forget Lori K-7 BCM got to recognize and acknowledge her even if she's not here to mic. In this case she's 7 YFE. Well, you know I've done a few summer jobs back in 1980, I think it was started in 1980 and went on that bitch 1982. But in 1983 that was my real, first real job, if you really want to call it a job, it was like slave labor. I was one of them like, you know, I was like a, you know, hired on at a place for people with disabilities, you know, in another town, of course. And worked there for about a year or so and finally gave up on that because, you know, I saw no advancement at all for me anyway, so I mean I wasn't trying to look into big millions of dollars or anything. I don't know, it just, my wife and job, they just didn't really care for the way I was getting paid. So, you know, less than, you know, it was like working piece wages or something like that that paid you on how much you produced. So it's production wages of sorts. You know that, that's enough of my rent. But we're looking at a pretty good day here. It's rather cloudy right now and a little overcast, but we may hopefully probably get some sunshine and hopefully not do a lot of the day. So with that, KK7Z, Net Control and friends, this is KZ7YFE sending a mic back to you and a great job on the net. Keep up the good work. Thank you all for being here. Now, let's keep coming back. Hey, sounds good there, Dale. Yeah, I don't even know, I was thinking, I don't even know if they did delivery of newspapers back on the farm. You know, I live way in the rural area, so I don't even know if they did that, but I bet something I never wound up doing. So there you go. Yeah, I know what you mean about deserving more when I was working at one particular casino. I'm like, I should be making more money. And I took a big leap and a big jump and I wound up literally multiplying my income by four times and I couldn't have been happier, which was my last job for 18 years. But now I have no job. So there you go. And with that, we're at the end of the list ready for a new round of check-ins. But the question of the day today for our new logins is what was your first paycheck? What was your first job? Not cutting your neighbor's grass or babysitting your neighbor's kids, you're washing your neighbor's car. What was your first paycheck? Your first W-2? Where did you get it from? And also, do you have any side hustles as well? I always had side hustles. So here's my thing. My very first job, I was a petroleum engineer. That's right, folks. I pumped gas at a gas station. Yeah, it was my first job in the late 70s. Yeah, when they still pumped gas, that was the guy that little bell rang when they ran over that thing and I ran out and filled up your car and checked your oil and washed your windows and all that fun stuff. That was my first real job. And I've always done the side jobs, always. Photography was a big one. I've done real estate, weddings, portraits, all kinds of stuff. But anything to make money, I used to do. So there you go. Now, that's not about me, it's about you. So I'm ready for a new round of check-ins. Anyone, anywhere, please come out. V-O-U-K-Z. Victor, Oscar 1, uniform, kilos. Nick, control, please copy November 0. All right. November 7, Royal Mail Hotel, Victor. November 7, Royal Mail Hotel, Victor. It's a pappy. This is K0-OBX, kilos here, Oscar Bravo X-Ray, fill in Colorado. Romeo, clip back, clip back. Victor, RACO 4, Yankee, YAK 21. This is Victor, RACO 4. Nick, control, please recognize Kilo Tango 7, Juliet Oscar Eko. Kilo Tango 7, Juliet Oscar Eko. Joe in Las Vegas, Nevada. Morning, Joe. Nick, control, if I made it, Kilo Bravo 7."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T08:06:33+00:00","id":14012,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14011,"text":" Give me problems again. They're all yelling at me, so please be here. Yeah. Yeah, my internet is going wonky. Joe, it's cutting in and out here. I'm just waiting for my phone to connect to be a cellular. There we go. Standby one. There we go. At least I know I'm getting through now. Internet is still a little wonky, man, weirdly enough. And when it conks my repeater out, it conks out my node and my phone and all that when it's on Wi-Fi. But it just disappears for a second. It's like packets stop transmitting, and then they just start again. It's not enough to disconnect anything, but it's enough to cut the audio out briefly, weirdly enough. But yeah, everything's going good, man. My first job was call center. It was a call center. We're scam call centers, I think, to be honest with you. We were selling an actual product, and that was the British Business Directory. Apparently, it was like a yellow page just for business in the UK. And that's what we were selling. So we'd be cold calling farmers and businesses and stuff that were in this area and make sure that they knew that their subscription was up for renewal. Even though they probably weren't even in this British Business Directory before, we were going to make sure that they signed up for it. And it was expensive. But there was an actual book, and it did get sent out and stuff like that. So it wasn't a scam. But I mean, this was the late 1990s, early 2000s. It was like around the turn of the millennium. And even back then, I felt like it was a scam of some sort. So I didn't trust it even then. Let me reset. But I was just starting college, just finished high school the year before. So making hundreds of dollars a week was cool by me. I didn't care what I was selling. Try to sell ice to an Eskimo if they were going to pay me for it, you know. But then it was shortly after that, I went back to school, and it was shortly after that that I ended up working for the government and was shipped out to Africa in 2001. So that was when the big checks started rolling in. And I was in Africa, so I wouldn't spend that any money. So when I got back from there, I had a pretty healthy bank account that I blew through very quickly in my early 20s. Bought a motorcycle, of all things, with a vision problem and no motorcycle license. Needless to say, ended up driving that thing on a dirt road only. It was up by a cottage. And ended up selling the thing at a huge, huge loss. 15 years later. So that's my story, Joe. Great to be out here just morning, man. And I was just shocked. I didn't realize that something was interfering with my game controller. I'm here playing some Doom Eternal. And it has gyro in the controller, so you can aim just by moving the controller around. You don't have to move any joystick or anything. You just physically move the controller left to right and up and down. And it moves you around in the game and acts like a mouse just by moving the controller. So it's pretty cool. But when you were taking check-ins, I was calibrating my gyro on the controller. And every time the repeater would transmit, the three gyro positions would move. And the calibration in the controller was perfectly still on the table. But the repeater was interfering with the gyro calibration, which I thought was absolutely crazy. As far as I know, it doesn't even use RF. It uses motion and a gyroscopic sensor in the controller. But for some reason, it interfered. Anyway, man, I'll leave you with it. 73 and all the best from here on the rocks. This is V01 in the UK. November, Quebec, November. All-star, node 6222. Located in Shelton, Washington. Hey, sounds good there, Dale. Well, that's interesting to have a job out of the country, for sure. I know what you mean. One of my early, when I first moved to Vegas, I worked two jobs, though I wasn't making a whole lot of money. I was always working, so I didn't have time to spend my checks. I literally was collecting checks and didn't even have time to cash them. So that was pretty cool there. And yeah, I know. There's one of the drones out there that has one or several that you can get. It's just a hand controller. It's just like a stick you hold. And as you turn it left, turn it right, turn it forward, turn it back, that's how you operate the drone with all the gyros and stuff. It's pretty cool. Don't have that. And I never get a call center. Nick, I did work in a room reservations office. I did do that. But call centers are certainly very popular. So anyway, thanks, Dale. Always good to hear you there. Hope you're having a great day. And let's go to Cliff. Cliff, I didn't hear the footpath. I'm using my footpath every day now. And my toe is still, sometimes it's not looking good. Sometimes it is looking good. I don't know. But my toe now hasn't grown in over three months. So everything I read is going to fall off one of these days. So we'll see. And 08C from KTH7's even in. Well, good morning, everybody. Good morning, Joe. God, last night, I only did 25 miles. And I had a hard time going home. I don't know what happened. And then I woke up in the middle of the night with cramps and all that. And I do not know what happened with that. So hope that doesn't happen too much and stuff. So first job was this restaurant, really amazing restaurant, McDonald's. Mwah! So french fry, man. All this stuff. So what was that thing? $1.65 an hour. And what they did is they used to get, if you, oh, what was it in there? Anyway, if you went a certain long and stuff and everything, you'd get all the free food. And that's the only reason I stretched it out. When they changed it, said, we're going to give you $0.20 more since. No more of that, I go. And that was in one more week, they said. And I go, well, in one more week, I quit. I quit, I quit, I quit. So I went through, we're doing construction and doing sledgehammer and stuff like that. I used to really like that. Really, I used to be pretty strong in the days. So that was pretty good there. Let's see, what else I got? Oh, I got to do the bass thing. So I set off, I did guitar before bass. And bass has more positions than everything else. It's just like anything. It's just how you play it. And as far as people put on, yeah, some movies I've seen that way and stuff. But also, but during a year of funk and all that, the bass player was up front without no doubt. Especially if you get slapped and all that. But yeah, one of my favorite movies, he didn't even tell them. He doesn't even have a name because of what you say. Anyway, it's all good stuff. But anyway, wow. You know what I used? I had to use this stuff for pickle juice. And it usually works pretty good, but not last night. All right. Anyway, back to Ned. And I appreciate it. Joe, you be the man in 080. Hey everybody, here, Cliff. You know, a couple of months ago, it seemed like after an hour into my ride, it's lately been those 44, 45 miles. By the hour into my ride, I was getting these severe cramps. I literally would have to get off my bike and try to massage my calf muscles and stuff. And I never figured out why. I never ever had that problem in the past. So I don't know where that came from. I had it for maybe a month. So, and pickle juice, never really tried it. I grew like pickles. And yeah, I remember my first job, bumping gas. I think it might have been two or three dollars an hour. It wouldn't have a lot. But you know, back at the time it was decent. So there you go. Anyway, good to hear that, Cliff. Have a great day. And where are we? Yeah, keep riding it. Let's go to Pappy. So I've got Pappy, Phil, Robert, Rosie, Joe and Mel coming up. So Pappy, N7HV from KK7's unit. Good grief. You want me to take back that one? Oh, well, last year I know I would let you. I did have a gasoline station job and got to check people's oil and stuff like that. And I can't remember what I was going to do. I think I was getting a buck and a quarter an hour, something like that. And the local grocery store walking distance from the house. I think that one paid a buck and a quarter. And that's where I got the first paycheck. I'm not positive. But anyway, you know, it was a fresh, you know. Couldn't hit the button to total the sales if there was an alcohol purchase because I wasn't over, I think, 21 at that time in order to sell somebody the alcohol. So it was interesting. The customer had alcohol. I had to have somebody else come over and push the total button or whatever, something that was 21. But that was kind of cool. Of course, like a lot of us that lived in the city had paper routes. You know, one of them was early morning. Had to get up 0 dark 30 and like, shovel goes down. And I did it as a kid, not now. And run on the bicycle, do the route, get back home, and grab another cat and a half for an hour, get up and go to school. And so anyway, that's really my working early career anyway. So with that, grab that rag and spray it with Microban. Well, I wasn't on the air, so nobody's going to get sprayed today. Here you go, Joe. Here's wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe. Yeah, now the mic's 99.9% germ free for the next 24. Have a good one, he's so nice of you. Back to net. Well, you know, I'm always worried about that 0.01% or 0.1%. And if I go into 25 hours, then I'm in trouble. So there you go. Thanks, Pappy. Yeah, remember in the old days, pumping gas, the machines didn't shut off at $20 or whatever. You had to manually stop it. And I remember it was almost impossible to stop those pumps at the exact pain. And at the end of the day, I remember the boss saying, we've got to watch that and how much money we would lose in a day by going over one, two, three cents on filling gas up. It really added up at the end of the day. So there you go. Anyway, thanks, Pappy. You have a great day there. Let's go to Phil, K0OBX from KK7. You're in. Hey, Joe, this is K0OBX. Thanks for taking my time. K0OBX, thanks for taking my check in. Well, my first W2 was from Holiday Inn. But my first professional W2 was from Schlumberger Offshore Services. I worked down in the Gulf of America. It was the Gulf of Mexico. And I worked on offshore rigs. And as a well-known engineer or a case-toll engineer, I would take a crew boat or fly a chopper out to a rig and perform a well service and then come back. So yeah, that was the old days done. And I worked in the case-toll division of Bellchase in Bellchase, Louisiana, Schlumberger Offshore Services. So anyway, I'm cooking up some gumbo this morning. I started out with the roux. I cook that down till it's dark. That's oil and flour, a.k.a. Cajun napalm. And then I added to that the Cajun Holy Trinity, which is onions, green peppers, and celery. Cooked that down, threw some garlic in at the end so as not to burn it. And yeah, that's doing right now. I'm about to throw in the sausage, some andouille. So that's what's cooking in my shack. Thanks for taking my check in, Joe. K0OBX. Back to Nick. Hey, sounds good there, Phil. And Cajun napalm. I like that. I'm already having a vision of that. So I ate something the other day. I don't know what the heck it was. But boy, if you have heart burners, I don't get to be too bad. But it sure did. And oil rigs, you know, one of my clients worked on the oil rigs. I guess he's passed now. So I guess I can say his name. It was Dennis Gurney. And if you Google him, you'll see there was some fire or something that happened on the oil rig. And he went back to rescue some people. He got terribly burned, like 80%, 90% of his body, and was really messed up. But he was a client for many, many, many years. And unfortunately, there was some bad stuff happening. If you Google that name, you'll see he met a very sad demise, Dennis Gurney. So anyway, thanks, Phil. Have a great day there. And let's go somewhere deep underground in a hidden bunker and check in with Robert, KatiePorch, your tube from KTH7's E-minute. Good morning, Joseph. And good morning to everyone else on the worldwide pressure pit for a very cloudy Monday. But I tell you what, the temperature has taken a dive. We're down in the 70s, where we were around 100. So I'm liking it, like the McDonald's commercial. I'm liking it, or I'm loving it or something. Anyway, had a great weekend. We had my daughter-in-law, my son. And it was her birthday. We went out to eat a couple of really, really good restaurants. But of course, this is a seat from Cappie Wolf, South Carolina. So yeah, I'm not going to brag too much about it. But you all know. You all? You get it? Anyway, wow. We started out the weekend on Friday around noon time. We went to an early matinee for a naked gun with Liam Neeson and what is her name? Pamela Anderson. And I have to tell you, Cappie looked at me halfway through, or not even halfway through, about 15 minutes in. And she goes, this movie stinks. You want to leave? I can never walk out of a movie before. That was the first time. And she goes, I'm going to ask for my money back. I had never. I was so embarrassed. I walked in. She went over to the manager. And the manager was sweet as pie. And she said, sure, honey. I mean, she's done that before. And I've never, ever, ever, ever heard of such a thing. And needless to say, it was really, really cold in that theater. And before she asked for a refund, she went down there and said, you know, it's cold in here. They turned the air conditioner down. So my god. Anyway, let me break for a second. I'll tell you what my first job was. Yeah, I had a newspaper route also. We were poor. I didn't even have a bike. I was deluded by a foot. Wow, can you imagine? You know, kids have a lot of stamina. I was delivering the New York World Telegram and Sun. No longer in publications. Long, long gone. But I was a kid shop, of course. But the real job I had was we were sifting embossing powders. You know, back then, greeting cards had those raised letters. They raised the letters with embossing powder, which was like yeast. And so I would put them in the sifters and say, I'll tell you what, man, I had more, my eyes, my eyes were plugged up, my ears were plugged up, my nose was plugged up. It was a nasty, disgusting job. And all for a dollar and fifteen hour. And I was sixteen years old and seventeen at the time. Yeah, it was a union shop. So I had to pay like five bucks out of my fifty dollar pay for nothing anyway. Wow. It brings back some memories. And not all of them were good. Anyway, I'm gonna turn it back over to you, Joe. I'm not gonna spray any micro-ban. I'm not gonna say if it's cool, if it's dry, if it's warm, if it's... But I tell you what, the temperature has taken a really nice dive. And as I said, it's always 72 and sunny in the bunker. I'll turn it back over to you, KK70. Running a good, net and a tight ship from Kilo Bravo to Romeo Quebec Quebec. Hey, sounds good there, Robert. You know, when I heard that movie, they were remaking it. I'm like, nobody can beat, I can't think of his name now. Nobody can replace him in a movie. And when I heard Liam Neeson was doing it, I'm like, you know what? He's got a shot of actually pulling it off. So yeah, I'm kind of bummed to hear that it didn't. So yeah, I will just wait to check it out when it comes to why it's not even cable anymore. I guess when it comes to streaming is the proper term today. And oh yeah, yeah, paper routes and all that is always good. Oh, I have to jump back. When I said that Google that name, Dennis Gurney, actually put that in, put oil rig hero or cop killer, unfortunately. Yeah, cause I see there's other ones in there too. Anyway, thanks Robert. Have a great day there. Say hi to Kathy for us and let's go to Ms. Rosie, VE4YYL from KK7Z. Good morning Rosie. Oh, KK7Z, this is Victor Acofoia, Angolima. Good morning to you. Good morning to the Leblings out there. And good morning to the Lefords. I hope they're out there and everybody else. And Joe Mayo there right after me coming up. Wow, I'm in between two Leblings. Wow. I've never had that before, but however, but I'm squeezing one more person in here. So I pass over the mic to my lovely husband of before I do that, but having a job, no, I did not. But I know, I remember when I was seven years old and I helped a lady home with groceries and she paid me for that. And then when I was older, about 12 years old, I helped in the kitchen out and I used to get paid for that as well. Doing pizza, doing french fries and stuff like that. And then when I was a little bit older, not 15, I was handling the bar, like, you know, drinks and whatnot. So I got mad. That's when I got paid, that's for sure. And then I had a job. I didn't want to do anything like that no more. I was a packer and you know, you're artificial trees. We used to make those from scratch with the aluminum and put them in boxes. That's what I used to do. Done a small, doing the tree and also packing that in a box. So seven trees, take care. And I got the mic over my lovely eyes. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven. Good morning, I'm E84 DWLSC. Like a few others, I used to deliver newspapers then I wound up delivering flyers. But my first real name job, I worked as a stripper, which doesn't, isn't what it sounds like. I worked in a box factory and when the cardboard came out of the press that cut it to shape, my job was to strip off the excess cardboard. It was a nice shift and actually it was one of the, one of the better paying jobs in that box factory. I had that for one summer and lo and behold, with a buy and a buy, my second job was actually when I joined the military. I did spend some time in the reserves before I went into the regular force. But all, all class that all together is I joined the military and when I got out of the military, I worked as a security guard for a little while and then I went to doing what I do now. So I haven't had a variety of jobs, but I like to stick to them. Not much more to pass on. I got one more. I got this one. The other thing I want to mention is, yeah, I was, I was, I was, I was, yeah, I was looking forward to seeing, being just, missed it on the movie. Oh yes, Naked Gun. Nobody can do Leslie Nelson and boy, it sounds like just disappointing. I'm going to have to wait till I get reports from, from other people. And Rosie's yelling something that she forgot to say, but I'll give it to neck control. And if you want us to get back to neck, to Rosie, that's up to neck control. The 4GWN. Oh, of course we got to get it back to Rosie. Yeah, go ahead Rosie. Yes. One thing I forgot to mention, there was a place that they used to do sponges, you know, for all different types of sponges and we used to cut them down. That was a dangerous place actually. But I didn't hold out until they closed down actually. They had to close down because there was so many people got sick on that. So we used to cut them and we used to put them in bags to sell, ship them off, you know. So back to neck control. Thank you for letting me in again. Well, that's interesting. Yeah, I worked for a lot of closed businesses back in Pittsburgh at the height of the steel mills shutting down in the 1980s. And yeah, so many jobs I had before I know it, they closed. And I was out of a job, then I had to go find another one and I was out of a job. Then finally I moved to Las Vegas. And Glenn was a stripper. How about that? We have our first stripper here. And Glenn was a stripper. Glenn was a stripper. Glenn was a stripper. We have our first stripper here. I like that. Good stuff, always good to hear you guys. And we're gonna have another dynamic duo coming up here soon, because Joe and Joyce, I've got you on the list. It's your time to check in. So I've got Joe, KK7JOE, I've got Mel, KV7PVW, and then Joe and Joyce, and then we'll have a new round of chickens. So let's go to Joe, KK7JOE from KK7's internet. Hey, good morning there, Joe. And good morning to everyone on that KK7JOE, Joe here in Las Vegas, the other other Joe. Not much going on this morning. Been a rough night for me health-wise again. Not really feeling all up to par this morning. But, you know, I have more good days than bad days, so that's always a good thing. Anyway, going back to the jobs. My first actual paying job on the books, aside from a paper route, was I worked at a supermarket. It's ShopWise supermarket. My sister had gotten me the job, and that's when we had to have working papers, because I was underage, and I think I was about 14 or so. And so we had working papers. That should bring you back a little bit. And I just had to laugh when I was working. When you said the petroleum engineer, we used to come up with terms like that for job applications and for interviews, and they would ask us, you know, what was that? And we would just dance around it, but we always just maybe really laughed going back to the petroleum engineer, because we had all sorts of terms for simple jobs. And I always had stuff off the books. But anyway, my first real paying job that paid a lot more than the military was when I did elevators. The military was kind of to keep my butt out of trouble at the time, even though I enjoyed the military and I ended up staying for quite a while. That's not the reason why I went in. I always wanted to go in, but I wanted to go in kind of on my terms, not for the terms that I went under. But anyway. But my first real paying job was when I worked in the elevator industry as an elevator technician. And we used to refurbish elevators in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx. I loved that job. And as a teenager, I was watching, it was my early 20s. I was making then about 80 to 90,000 a year doing elevators. And then when I went into a unionized shop, we made with the overtime, I should say overtime with side jobs. We always had side jobs. So you asked about side jobs. We always had some sort of side job going on no matter what job I had. If I was working in auto mechanics or whatever work, whenever we used to pick other people's cars and I used to go to their houses, they needed a break stud. That was a big job I used to do all the time, breaks, oil changes, replacing batteries. I used to do that for people all the time. And I never really charged anybody anything. They used to just give me what they felt that was worth it."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T08:26:35+00:00","id":14018,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14017,"text":" Well, the very first job I ever had was just before they took the, what do you call it, the, the, the, the, doggone, the jobs, doggone, from the children, you know, by making the lease. Making it illegal for a certain age to not be able to work. I was working for Stafford Bean Yards, doing green beans, pulling them off the vine, and you got paid by, by weight, and so on and so forth. The next job, let's see, the next job was Burley's Arco, we serviced, four service trucks, and I had my permit, and he put me in a truck and said, drive this, and I said, but I gotta have somebody in the car. He said, not today, he says, you're working with me, he says, I'm behind you, he says, if a cop pulls you over, I'll pull that right behind him and let him know what's going on. And then, my first car was a 50, 58 Oldsmobile 88, the first, I guess, the first time I ever learned 130 miles an hour. He's scared to whip right out of my palm. And let's see what this label do, he says. Anyway, he's gonna let me grab my man so I don't time out. I'll back this up with Mike Romeo. I worked the gold slot in the hard work plant, and we were doing a 196 inch panel, still hot from the press, and it had to be unstacked the first time, otherwise the mill had to shut down while we regrouped, and then our stuff would go over and go through the sander. That's when I went into the service, and that's because the oldest of eight children, and the latter, they came home, I didn't figure I was gonna be looking at doing too awful much education in the past high school, so I went in the service to get my VA benefits. And I've had about 75 jobs in my auto body industry as well. And with that, I'm gonna turn it back nasty so we can get almost some other check-ins. Alpha Echo 7 Mike Romeo back to KK7 Z-integral Alpha Echo 7 Mike Romeo. Well. Beep. Alright there Terry, sounds good. And I was gonna say, learning to drive, yeah, and me in 1959, dump truck, it was a big boy too, on the farm. Learned to shift the gears and all that, so by the time I hit the road, on a car, it was easy. So there you go, and I had something else, and yeah, I'm having that brain fart there Terry, but thanks for checking in, thanks for that, and have a great day, glad we got you guys in, check in, hook up to a waiter, so glad we got you in there. So I've got Phil and Ellen rechecked, so let me get Carrie first from Ireland. So I'm M0RKN from KK7 Z- And the question of the day, my first job was actually working as a travel agent, and I did this as a weekend job, and I loved the job, people phoning up to book the holidays, it was very enjoyable to the point that I almost quit university to do the job full time. But I did it in a Saturday and Sunday, and it was a steady wage, steady paycheck that I got each month while I was studying at university. At the time I was studying psychology, and yeah, then I don't know how it happened, but I ended up now working in the local government. Completely went in a different direction, but yeah, you know what it is, get mortgagee, end up with responsibility, get married and all of that as well, and get the bill today, so all of that, Kenny was out and out, and never looked for the work with the We're going through this forum, anyway it's a weather warning, we're getting quite stormy, it started about 10am this morning, and it's going to continue until at least 10pm this evening. So far the power has stayed on, and I'm really hoping it continues to, but anyway I wish everybody a great day there, take care everyone, 73 and all the best from Scotland, bye. Hey, well thank you for carrying in, I remember one of my early jobs, I worked at an airport parking lot and we had a travel agency there, and I remember the travel agency at that time, and then going back to the 1980's, they used to get to travel for free back in those days, because they were selling whatever they were selling, and of course businesses, hotels, airlines, one of them the Port of the Bay, and the other one was the So yeah, that sounds like it would be a fun job, I don't even know if those exist anymore, with today's do it yourself world, a lot of jobs have gone away due to that, so there you go, but thanks Gary, always good to hear you there, and let's go for Phil on a recheck, G0OBX from KK7Z. Thanks Joe for the recheck, I neglected to give a weather report, we're at 72 degrees F, dropped here on the Colorado Front Range under cloudless skies, going up to 94, looks like we're going to be in the 90's for the entire week, cooling off into the weekend. So yeah I heard musical bands pop and come up, so back circa 1983 I saw Neil Young at the Baltimore Civic Center, and I've seen a lot of bands over the years, but what was striking about this performance was, it was a solo."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-06T07:18:45+00:00","id":14606,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14605,"text":" all figured out so you're an awesome person. Next up, speaking of awesome, let's go to KK7Z, the other Joe, the other other Joe, I'm the other other Joe. There's quite a few of us on here, but let's go to KK7Z, good morning Joe. What do you got going on this morning? Did you go for a bike ride today? I don't know how the smoke is outside, I haven't been outside yet. My wife is home this morning, so she's taking care of the dogs and everything while I'm doing the net for Robert. So I haven't even been outside yet, but I'm sure you'll give us the report. Over to you Joe. Hey, everybody else on the net. The other Joe on the thing is KK7Z. You know, I slept like really crappy last night and I only got a few hours."},{"callsign_confidence":0.9199999999999999,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-10T07:18:41+00:00","id":15764,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15763,"text":" Yep, I'm not saying no. And yes, Peter, that was my bad. Because after Josh, you were up. I thought I'd put a line for your name, because you had signed out and I forgot to rewrite it. So I remember. So we're going to have you shut us down. VE1WA. Over to you, Peter. 70's right around. So you have a, like, a bill now. That's right. Don't worry about it. It's all good. Accidents happen. Yeah, nothing like what's going on here. It's going to be a beautiful day. Guys are going to take my bill for a birthday tonight. They're going to support their birthday dinner for Mom. So there you go, Bill. Other than that, how much else? I'll turn it back to you, Bill, so we can get over to the worldwide friendship. So everybody have a great day and a great week coming up. So, oh yeah, one thing for dear that I've been watching. I'm going to go in and watch a baseball game. Here's a baseball game going on between your brother and Nova Scotia right now and the game from St. John's. So I'm going to go watch that. So with that, back to you, Bill. Have a great day and a great week. Well, Peter, pay sure to wish your mom a happy birthday from all of us here at the Junior Up In Met. And that does draw the Junior Up In to conclusion. Be aware that when we join the worldwide friendship net, it is in process. Wait for their net control operator to call for new check-ins before throwing out your call sign. It makes everything smoother, and it makes them happy, and it makes us happy. But please do stick around and join the worldwide friendship net. I'm sure they'd love to hear from you. Hi, this is N9OFU calling the call up on the net to a close. And I'm going to let Daryl reconnect us to the worldwide friendship net on the Michigan conference. And we'll catch you out here tomorrow morning, bright and early. See you then. Welcome to the Michigan conference number 96170, located in Western Michigan. Hey, Daryl, it's short time, so I'll move you to the top of the list. And Mel, PB7PVW made that route. Hello there with a gale, our short timer, P0ECK. Good morning. Well, good morning, everybody. Just stopping in to say hello. We are in Houston. I'm at a conference. But just wanted to send greetings and hope everybody has a wonderful day. Talk to you all later. K0ECK, back to you. All right there, gale. I hope you get everything out of the conference there. And enjoy your time in Houston. Thanks for taking time out of your day while you're traveling to be with us here on the net. All right, I'll go to the top of the list there with Joe, KK7Z. Good morning there, Joe. Hey, good morning, Adriana. Everybody on the net here on Las Vegas. And I just got back from 45 miles on the bike. It was nice, a little warm. 88 degrees when I left the house. But yeah, it was nice. Nice morning. I learned a little heat. Little bit of wind, not too much. And hi, Darrell. Good morning, Darrell. He just sent me a text. So if you could put Darrell on the list there, V01UKZ. We appreciate that. What else did I get to report? Nothing really. I don't know what I'm going to do today. I'm feeling kind of worn out. I didn't have the fastest ride in the world. Neither was my one a few days ago. You know, I had a couple of weeks there where I was like doing record times by myself. I'm like, what the heck is going on? Every ride I'm going out there, I'm going faster and faster and faster. I don't know, a little struggle today. But hey, you know what? It's not how far you go or how long you ride. It's as long as you ride or do whatever you're doing. So there you go. Anyway, I'm just here in the background. And I'll send it back to you. So Joe, I'll ask you to use KK7Z next minute. All right, there, Joe. Thanks for letting me know about Darryl V01. You can see I've added you to the list here. And yeah, sounds like you had a great bicycle ride, a little bit warm there. But good job on getting out there and doing that. So do you have a good rest of your Sunday there, Joe? And great hearing from you this morning. All right, next on my list, I've got Glenn K6 TKR. Good morning, Glenn. Good morning, Joe. Good morning, Gina. Everybody else on the net. And Gina, it's always nice to be on your debt here on a Sunday morning. I had a great day out at the hangar. Had a full day out there. Couple of things. The hangars are really huge. It housed a C-130 aircraft. And so the kind of the shady side of the hangar was nice and cool. The sunny side of the hangar was blazing hot and humid. And unfortunately, that's where our Jenny Assembly shop is. And yeah, it was just a kind of a sweaty, hot, hot day. So I pulled in some large fans so that the students just wouldn't melt away while they were working. And that helped quite a bit. But they got a lot done. And we had about 20 new students that came in that are replacing those that graduated. So they were getting all familiar with the process and getting to know their teams and work with them. They fit right in. It was just absolutely perfect. So anyway, today is going to be a bit more relaxing. We're going to head off to church here in a couple hours. And then usually on Sunday, we'll find a place to grab a quick lunch together as a family and make a nice day of it. So with that, Glenn and Irvine, K6TKR back in there. This is repeater station kilo kilo. I'm sure those students appreciated having to leave those fans in there. It's so good at summertime a bit roasting in those giant hangers. So at least they've got a space to work on their projects and undercover there. But yeah, the heat can be a problem. We were at the county fair yesterday. And they had the huge mobile fans in all the animal barns. And some of them had misters and moistures, things built into them. So they're a little cooler than a regular fan. But yeah, summertime and then having to work in the heat inside of a closed building. So I'm sure again, your students appreciated that. And you got a new round of excited kids there to help out on the project. So good job there, Glenn. Enjoy your Sunday. And thanks for taking time to be with us today. All right, next on the list I've got Rosie and Glenn, VE4YYL and VE4GWN. Good morning. Kilo, Dada, 7G, Z, this is Victor, Akafoya, and Lima. Good morning, Gina. And good morning to the lovebirds. And but out there and oh, but that's for sure. If you could have won one on that one, that would have been a nice party. That's for sure. Wow. $30,000. Yeah. I would love that too. Hey, we could have gotten to get together. That's for sure. So we would have had a big party. Oh, wow. Yeah. However, it didn't happen. So oh, well, maybe one day. You never know. And hello to everyone else on the frequency. So not too much that. And I will pass the mic over to my lovely husband. Bye."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-10T08:00:53+00:00","id":15774,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15773,"text":" about hot dogs. If you come to Johnson City and get on 99E and go into Lancaster, I don't know if they're still open, but we used to have a little hot dog stand right there in Lancaster where you turn to go from Lancaster to Monroe. There was a place called the Junkyard Dog. I've got to tell you, the best dog out in the biggest, all big hot dogs I've ever seen. A friend of mine used to call them round stakes. I called him the Junkyard Dog and I paid him $10.50 for a footlong with almost a quart of chili on it. It was cheese on top. Anyway, that thought just drove off the left thing. Back to that, I guess I'm done. I'll take a seven micrometer back to back control. That's a great regular day. 87MR. Alright there, Mr. K. Hopefully that place is still starting up really good hot dogs for folks of the native who's there. Thank you for the reach. I helped chase in the way of those crickets. Alright, next I've got Jim, W-8-8-H-U-B. Good morning. Good morning, Gina. Katie's serving G-E-C-W-A-8-H-U-B. I'm just back from church. We had our after church service, our whole gathering with coffee and good yeast. Anyway, so I got home and I stripped off my long pants and shirt and everything and got into shorts and t-shirts. I'm comfortable again. Anyway, that's pretty much it. Glad I could make it in before you... I thought I might. It's somewhere before the end of the hour I get in. So thank you very much and I'm pleased to get in and talk to you. Everything's fine here. I just took the red ribbon off my... I guess it was red, yeah. Off my driveway. It got seal coated yesterday. And now I can use my garage again. So that's pretty much it from here. 73, 87G-E-C-W-A-8-H-U-B. Alright there, Jim. Well, glad that your driveway's been maintained and you're back to being able to get up there to the garage. Glad to have you in. I made it in after church there. Always good to hear you, Jim. And do have a good rest of your Sunday there and your comfy shorts and t-shirts. Always good. Alright, next I've got Hunter, KK7NQN from KD7GECMS. Good morning. Well, good morning. This is Hunter, KK7NQN. I'm ready to launch a pretty ambitious project here. I started almost exactly a month ago now on what I call the KK7NQN project. Just because, well, it's easy to call it. And that's basically a logger that runs on my all-star node here and transcribes audio and logs the call plans as seen. If anyone's curious to see that, that's at KK7NQN.net, or you can look it up on my QRC page. Anyways, I finally got that working to where it's usable. And now I want to dive head first into another project that I'm calling the LSN, which is Logging Service Node. That hopefully will allow net controls or other HAMs to connect to it, either across the web or across all-star or whatever other way I add. And allow them to get their transcripts back without having to do code or run their own server or anything like that. The whole idea behind this is to be of service to the HAM community. Even though I've ran into the issue, some people find it kind of controversial whether they want it to be actually transcribed into text. Which, by the way, if you do, feel free to contact me. I love talking to people about how they see this project because this was just a thing that came up in my mind about a month ago. And I just decided to start throwing code down to see what I could do. And yeah, it's been a fun little project, but getting ready to move into stage two, I guess. Anyways, KK7NQN, back to net control. Alright there, Hunter. It sounds like you got some great skills with all that programming to figure that stuff out. It sounds like a wonderful project. And I'm sure there's plenty of folks that would love to use that and find value in what you're working on there. Congratulations on finding a niche in HAM Radio that you're falling in love with there and having some great exploration. Thanks for joining my net here this Sunday on the Worldwide Friendship Net and have a good rest of your day. And next on the list we've got Joe who helped chasing away those crickets. KK7Z from KD7G. See you in the net. There's a guy right there, Joe. Yeah, boy, that's exactly what I was doing there, Gina. Yesterday was really quiet. You're busier today, but yesterday was really, really quiet. I don't know where everybody was. But you know what's funny is I can multitask really good, you know? And like when the Tour de France was on, I would have that playing in the background and listening to it. And I always have a radio playing music in the background, which I do now, and then listening to the net. And I can hear all three and decipher all three in separate parts of my brain or something. It's all good. But, you know, All Stars full duplex, so you can hear two people at the same time. And I was hearing Jim call in. Of course, I recognized his voice and Hunter came in too on top of him. So I heard both coming in at the same time. But for some reason, I just can't. You can only like focus on one. It's weird. I can never get this thinking about it. I got the KK7, so I'm glad we got him in there. So that was cool. And I was going to give you all an update. You know, I preordered that Blue Eddy power bank, power pack, you know, portable battery. It does AC power. It's got four AC plugs on it. And USB-C and USB-A and serial lighter plug and all that stuff. It's 1800 watts. I put it on ahead of the pre-sales, like $399 for it. And I think regular price like $800. But I've had a chance to use it a little bit now. I'm going to tell you what. I've plugged my coffee maker into it. Microwave oven, toaster oven. I've tried pretty much everything and it's effortlessly, effortlessly, does it effortlessly. I've got my drone battery plugged into it right now, which doesn't, you know, it doesn't pull a lot of power, like 70 watts or something. It says I have like 80 hours of power left on it. So I pretty much have unlimited power with the drone and cameras on and out and about. So yeah, really impressed with that. The second one I got, the first one I got is a much, much smaller one. I think it's 600 watts, 6800 watts, something like that. But yeah, if you're ever out camping, I'm sure, I know with the camping you did, you probably had something like that, Gina. If not that, I'm probably a gas generator. But yeah, nice stuff. I don't have to worry about putting gas or everything. I got some solar panels for it. And there you go. So anyway, there's a few crickets for you. Show them what it's like. It's a PK-7Z. Thank you. All right, there we go. I'm glad that that battery's working out. It sounds like putting it through a very good test there. Those microwaves can be tricky on the running off of battery power. So I'm glad that that is working well for you and giving you all the mobile power that you need. And yeah, we have a gas generator in our travel trailer, but we also have two 6-volt golf cart batteries that we've got running parallel there. Series, I can't remember. And that, yeah, lasts quite a bit for running stuff when we're boondocking off the power grid. So always good to have other options, especially as those that use like a CPAP or something and travel or find themselves out of power. Something like that to have would be really good. So thanks for taking time to recheck in there and share that and again, chase away those crickets. So we've got a little bit over five minutes left here in an hour. So let's see if we can get a few more folks in and close it down for our Sunday. So if you've been waiting to check in, this is it. I'll say our last call because it's getting really quiet there. So last round here for the Worldwide Friendship Net. Please come with your call signs. Victor Victor Martin Tulsa. The one W.A.N. Victor Echo One Whiskey in November. Kilo Romeo for Delta Victor Tango Kilo Romeo for Delta Victor Tango Sebastian in North Carolina. VA6GRZ for recheck."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-12T07:29:37+00:00","id":16392,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16391,"text":" Alright, umm... We have a slight problem. So, before we continue, can you tell Glenn your story? Because I think it needs to be re-told. It's a fabulous story. And I don't want to ruin it. I could tell it, but I don't want to ruin it. So, will you tell Glenn your story and for anyone that didn't hear it? And then I'm going to give the nets to Terry. Okay, I'll try and make it quick here because I'm still working out. But, I'll make it, yeah, long story short, I got up this morning when it was dark. Went out to my backyard and the pool, I saw they were shimmering in it from the full moonlight. And found it was a baby bunny that was in the pool. And, hardly, barely alive. And I pulled him out and actually did little chest compressions on him. Tried to move him around and over the course of an hour I kept trying to move him around. He was shaking and I read bunnies have a bunny temperature of 101 to 104. And my pool is 85 so I put a space heater on him to try and warm him up. After about an hour, he actually was breathing hard and he started probably an hour, 15 hour and a half later, he actually crawled out of the little towel I had him in and started moving around. And he's on my back patio now. So, there you go, Joey the bunny saber. KK7Z back to you Missy."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-14T07:50:20+00:00","id":16873,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16872,"text":" And you keep coming back there, bud. And so we look forward to hearing from you again. And I'm really glad to hear from you on the other nets as well and other places. So, you know, it's all good. I mean, you don't have to worry because, you know, you're always welcome here. All right. So let me get this log in here real quick. Come by, folks. We'll be right with you. Okay, first of all, let me move on. We'll clear with the 1WI head and we'll pick up first we'll swing them back, beat them out to Katerina, Ohio. And we're going to pick up our net manager and one of our net or Saturday net controllers, Art, at 18-HGA. Good morning there, Dale. And this is Reforged Station Air Low Show. Everybody else on the world wide, this is the only one. Thanks for holding on to it. Art, here is sunny Springfield, Ohio. I got 77 degrees Fahrenheit and they were saying we may see a little bit of rain later on this afternoon before a cold front comes through, so there you go. Bob and Ann, we ain't doing much this morning. Just kind of sist around enjoying life, so there you go. So that was a 73 to everybody. You all had yourselves a great day. Stay warm, stay dry, stay cool. No matter where you're at in the world. And please remember always, wipe the mic before you give it back to that control. So that's it, Dale. Wiping the mic down, buddy. And it's coming your way from November 8, King of the Duke, U.S. All right, Art, thank you for coming in and being with us today. All right, now we'll swing a little saying goodbye to Art. And thank you again, Art, for what you do. And be sure, folks, to visit with Rob, Art, Joel, and Dave. They alternate every Saturday on the world wide friendship net. Of course, Art's been taking other shifts, and maybe so has Joel and Dave. But they generally are on Saturday, so stop and hang out with them. All right, we're clear with NAJHJ. And again, thank you, Art, for being here and what you do for Amazoo Radio. I'm hoping one of these days you and active eating person and going to have a cup of coffee, you know, I have to get you out here to Oregon and take you to Abby's for free coffee. I mean root beer. All right, you have a good day, Art. Up next, we have our friend, Daryl, up way up there on the rock. V01UKZ, he's already sleeping, sir. And the mic is yours, my friend. We're glad you're here. I think I want you, Dale, come on in, Art. I wanted to show there. And Robert and everybody else that's on board, this is V01UKZ. Don't worry about that, man. I don't mind waiting in line, waiting my turn. If I was pressed, I'd say short time, you know how it works. But pressed today in the process of calling various garages. And I think I've got the best price worked out on getting the quad fixed at one of them. They can't do it for like a week and a half. There's going to be another week probably by the time I get it all done. And they get everything ordered in that they need to get and whatnot. It's not a small job, essentially. Working for my uncle in the evening times to make up the difference in the cash that I didn't have to get it done up. So I appreciate everybody's thoughts, concerns, hope, everything. Just people are awesome. Generally, you know, sometimes you get people that are not. They just want to, you know, put their trouble. But for the most part, man, this is a great hobby with great people and people that understand. You know, sometimes people go through it. And, you know, we're all friends out here. That's what it is at the end of the day. We're all friends out here. I really love this hobby personally and really enjoy it. But, yeah, so that's what I've been up to this morning just calling around trying to get quotes on this particular job. And it's definitely going to cost quite a bit to get this done. But it needs to be done. The bike's not even rideable right now. So it has to be done. There's no question about it. But I was even thinking of another option, you know, possibly trade my bike and the cash that I came up with for another bike. But then I was thinking to myself, I could end up with someone else's problem, right? Like I've got now, I know what's new on there and what needs to be fixed and what doesn't and all the rest. You pick up a new one or a new used one from someone else, they could be just putting their problems off on you. So I don't really want to do that. I'd sort of just get fixed to what I've got and what I know I've got rather than taking in anybody else's question marks that could potentially need work themselves. So I won't be doing that. So I'm just going to hold out for the next few weeks until that one shop can get it done and we'll get it done and we'll all be good. Right now it's not safe to be riding quads. Let me reset. Now up here it's not safe to be riding quads, which anyway, because we've got a fire ban going and just outside the city there's a massive wildfire burn that's led to mandatory evacuations over the last couple of days of people just on the outskirts of town. So we're still watching those massive wildfires. If you want to look it up on YouTube, just check it out. News of land, East Coast wildfires, and you'll see what I'm talking about. These things are massive. Hundreds if not thousands of hectares of land are just pumping flames. So we're dealing with that here on the Rock. There's like four giant wildfires on the island right now. One of them is very close to the capital, close to the city here where I live. And the others are, one of them is just across the bay and the others I think are in central Newfoundland. So no threat to us here on the East Coast, but the ones that are a threat, they're being a big threat. So if you want more information just look up Newfoundland wildfires 125 and you'll see what I'm talking about. Thank you over to you Dale, the geometry man, all the best. And everybody have an awesome day. This is E01, you can't see anything. All right, Daryl, thank you for coming on in and being with us today. And I want to thank you for what you're doing with the Dew Drop-In. You're running a great, you're running an awesome concert, or conference there, almost said concert. Hey, where's my ticket? No, wait, wait, wait, where's my spot on the stage? I'll throw them for you if you're singing. No. Anyway, Daryl, have a good rest of your day my friend. Oh yeah, I sent you a text message one time, I don't know if you got it or not, but see if you did or not. Anyway, I'm going to move on here, but if you want to recheck at the end of that if you're still around, and let me know if you got it or not if you can. That'll be on the last call when I'll be taking rechecks. So that's when I really plan to do that. So with that, we're clear with the B012KZ and we're going to swing down here to Las Vegas, and we're going to say hello to our friend Joe, one of our Saturday Net controllers. KK7Z, KZ7YFE and the World Wide Friendship Net. The mic is yours, man. I had to find the transmit button there. Hey, Martindale, everybody on the Net, doing Las Vegas. Yeah, but not for real, I didn't sleep much last night. But feeling okay, feeling pretty good. Yeah, I just got home, didn't sleep. Didn't ride today because I rode yesterday. And we'll have just the days this Saturday and I'll have the following Saturday. Not too much to report here. It's kind of nice. It's been hot. We've been having 110s and all that. So it's been pretty hot. Supposed to cool down a little bit come Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Maybe right around 100 for a high. So we'll see. And let's see what I'll say. Quick good morning to Missy, Art, Daryl, Larry, Peter, Robert, Pappy and Bill. How about that? And you know, I don't have anything else to report there, Dale. I got no plans for today. You know, when you get retired, the days do go by so fast because you don't have anything to, any anticipation to the next day. So it's Thursday, next you know, it's next Wednesday. So there you go. Anyway, I'm here in the background. It's Joe in Las Vegas, K-70. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November. I'm rubbing them all on that one. I know what you mean. Well, I'm not really, I can't say I'm officially retirement age but pretty doggone close. And it's even like, it's like that for folks that are disabled and unemployed. You know, it seems like the days go by fast or they can go by slow or in between, you know. Oh, yesterday was a pretty big day for me. I'll tell you what, folks. Joe, I got to say, I did probably get out of the sun a little too much but I made sure to have one of those, to get one of those day passes for the public transit and did some, took a couple of rides downtown and took care of some stuff down there and took a bus ride and took the bus ride back home and been back here at the house ever since. Got here safe and sound and in one piece and standing on my feet. It tends to end up in the middle of the street flat on my seat, as I always say. Joe, thank you for coming in. We'll catch you one of these Saturdays, I think. And yeah, I just got to get that mixed up. You know, that's why I just, when I got it on my calendar, I just called the other three as the net controllers because I know you guys are doing a great job passing it around there every week and keeping the net going for Saturday. And thank you, Joe, for what you do and hey, you keep up. I've been hearing some good stuff about some of those videos you got. Hey, keep up the good work there, too, because I know that's something I really love to do. All right, we're clear with KK7Z. Now we're going to swing back out here to Kanderang and we're going to say hello to Larry, our alternate Thursday net controller, who will be in the helm next Thursday, which will be on the 21st. Joe, KV8RE, R, KZ7Y, and V in the worldwide friendship net. Morning, Larry. Glad you're here. Well, good morning, Dale and everybody on the net. Well, like I said, we got sun shining out there right now. It's 76.8 degrees and 90 percent humidity. It went down one degree or one percent in humidity. But 90 percent anyway. That's the way it goes around here. And yesterday I did uncover what my concrete that I'd mixed and I have a couple places that are messed up that I think I can blend it in when I do the rest of the concrete work. But I've got to get my forms out first. I've got to figure out how to get those out of the concrete right now. I've got some ideas how to do that. But anyway, then I can progress on whenever the weather decides to cooperate. I don't like all that two or three inches of rain on new concrete. That's not good. And yesterday I picked a whole basket of tomatoes. I've got tomatoes running out my ears here right now. I called a bunch of people and said they'd take some. So I'm hoping to get rid of a bunch of them and give them away because I can't eat that many at one time. So anyway, not a whole lot else going on. I'm just sitting here reading the paper and listening to the net. And watching all the problems on the weather channel and just everywhere. Friends and hurricanes and oh my golly, it's just unbelievable. So anyway, I'm going to turn it back over to you so you can get through the rest of the list. Everville, have a great day. And back to you Dale. You're doing a fine job right now. Thanks Larry. However, like I said, the preamble came off on a rough start. But I want to thank you, in case you haven't FMW'd for helping me out with that one there. Folks, be sure to stop in and visit with Larry next Thursday. You'll be in the helm and ready to have a cup of coffee with you and get you on the log there and chat with you there. Larry, you're doing a fine job with the net as well. Keep up the good work there. Our weather out here has been something else. We've had fairly low humidity but some high temperatures. Today is all cloudy and overcast. I'm hoping it will be a little cooler. Larry, have a good rest of your day sir. Keep on keeping on there. We're clear with K-8 RER and now we're going to swing out here to an undisclosed location. Say hello to our Ultimate Wind Unit Controller, Mr. Robert Pule. Robert to Romeo, Quebec, Quebec. This is KC-7 YFE and the World Wide Fair ship hatch. The mic is yours. And there's an old cannon, hopefully Kathy's well too. Well thank you for that Dale. Yes, she's getting better over time. And better than me and better than I deserve, that's for sure. And yeah, I must concur with Larry. There's been a lot of weather out there. I remember back yesterday I was telling Kathy that I'm going to go outside and shed and drop some plans for an ark. The only problem is I can't figure out how to get all those animals in there. I really explore myself. I'm the only one that laughs at me. Especially when I look in the mirror. Anyway, on the good side of things, really good side of things, I figured out how to get my licensing to do this. Oh man, it was such a pain in the neck. I learned a very valuable lesson in that. You have to sit there and even though the CORE's website is very clunky and very difficult to work with, I'll have to sit there and have a little patience. And the night before, I tell you what, I was on it for an hour and a half. I was about to slam my computer against the wall. But yep, I sat down last night and I took it step by step. And lo and behold, they took my $35, didn't even send me a thank you note or an email. So I hope I'm renewed, but I don't know. Anyway, you're doing a great job. A yeoman's job, Mr. Chicken Tender. You have a wonderful day and hello to everyone on the friendship net. All my friends, family and loved ones. You take care out there from kilo, bravo to rego. Clip that clip back. Alright, well thank you Robert. We look forward to chatting with you next Wednesday right here on the World Wide Friendship Net. And well, you're having a reasonably good day there and everything seems to be going well there for you. And Kathy's doing well on the end. We'll have to hear that and give her a big hug from us. And it did in about 30 years, a little scratch on the ears and a dog couldn't eat from all of us. You don't want to forget him. He just might bite you in the ankles. Alright, have a good day. Thanks for coming in and we're glad we could correspond back and forth by Jack's door call. We were here a while back when they were down and out, or what they call it, down, not feeling well and all that. Going through procedures and stuff. We're glad you're with us here today. Alright, well, of course, KB2RQQ. And we're just going out here to Aberdeen, Washington. The home of the late Kurt Cobain. And we're going to say hello to our friend Pappy. And K7RHD, KC7YFE of the World Wide Friendship Net. Hey, Robert, come here. Pappy, we're glad you're here. Well, that makes two of us. I'm glad I'm here too. I wouldn't have should have known because Robert stepped on me a little bit. I think he still had his house shoes on or something because it didn't hurt too bad. But anyway, I got back from all the different appointments. They've got to get all the doctors in to talk to each other to make sure everything's closer. Got a procedure coming up that's got to be taken care of in the near future. But all the doctors got to talk to each other to make sure everything's closer. So, I got a good note from them anyway. So that's a good thing. And then this weekend I think it is, yeah. They're supposed to have a little car show over walking distance from the house. So I may have to walk a little with the camera and take some pictures. Some of the cars feel a little, I think it starts about 10 in the morning and then you know with two or three or something. Yeah, I don't know. I guess hand out the awards that you'll acquire. I think it's set in a little senior newspaper that's distributed in the area. So, we'll go. Something to do anyway. They're just sitting around the house twiddling our thumbs and we're trying to figure out other things. Seeing if what I can do on the HF fans, I try to get into the noontime yet. You know, when I remember. And I've been getting into it even though it's just a G5 and RV, YA, antennae, it seems to work. I'll have a heck of a time hearing them sometimes. And it takes a little bit but we eventually make it. So, other than that I haven't got a heck of a lot. So I'm going to reach over into the little thingy and the jigger container and grab one of them boys. You know Dale, you don't have the micro-band ones that you turn the on to so we don't get everybody with the overspray. So we're just going to hold the mic down here real quick. There. Now the mic's 99.9% turn free for the next 24. Have a good one and seven RSV back to net. All right. Well, Kathy, they're going to be able to stay. And always, yeah, we always love it when we have our friends and people that we have, our common people here with us. And even the ones that are new and all that. So, with that, you have a good day, Ben. Kathy, and keep on coming back. All right, we're going to clear with N7 RSV. Now we're going to go way back up here to Alberton, or Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. And we're going to say hello to our friend Bill. He is a GRZ as well as his new band, the Bill Collectors. Hi, hi. Over to you, Bill. Hi, I'm Casey. I'm a new boy on KZ. Yeah, lots of bands are going on between me and Robert and Nick. No, Nick. Happy. Happy Yookum up there up here. Alma. Hey, no, that's not the name of the band. No, they had a second audition last night and I have to contact Anna and find out if they have any more. And who they decided to go with. I'll do that. That's a good name for a band. I like that. The Bill Collectors. Well, the thing is we need another guy named Bill in the band, but that was just great to have him. It's weather right now here in Edmonton. It's a 10-cell CS high of 80. And that's 60 and 65. It makes a sunny cloud. And, oh yeah, he's in Aberdeen. That's right. Aberdeen, Washington. Never been to Aberdeen. Oh yeah, that's the, that one, yeah, that one. Well, I didn't know that. Anyway, what else? Oh, talking about call signs and getting our license. We don't have to worry about that, but yeah, I was explaining there in the text box. Oh, if anybody is talking today to Alpha Bravo 7 Delta Whiskey, I don't know that his Facebook account got hacked again. I got a message on Messenger from him. And I know it's not him because they didn't put a picture on his profile. Whereas I usually have his picture on a profile. So, anyway, he's got to change his password and let everybody know that somebody's impersonating him. Nasty people. Okay. Anyway, thanks to you for everything you do. There we go. And let's keep this net going, folks. 73L, K27L, and PCA6G are off."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-14T07:16:51+00:00","id":16872,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16871,"text":" Don't ever let it be said that I didn't leave time for anybody to give their opinion. But let's go ahead and connect up to the worldwide friendship net. Just let me go. C-O-N-N star Michigan. G-A-N star. Okay, here we go. We're switching to Michigan. Stick around for their net. Five minutes in progress. Enjoy. Seven-three. Welcome to the Michigan conference number 96170 located in western Michigan. The U-S-T. 10 a.m. in Springdale, Ohio. 7 a.m. in Glendale, Arizona. And $1600 UTC. Good morning fellow amateurs and welcome to the worldwide friendship net for August 14, 2025. My name is Misty Michael. I'm located in Murray, Utah. And I am just reading the preamp for Dale. So we'll skip about the next show because I'm not doing that. I would like to thank Michael Wilbus from the M-W for the use of the Great Lakes surf lecture 9617 and the Michigan conference 96170 surfer. As well as Darrell Warford, C-O-N-U-K-E for linking up the D drop in notes. We would also like to thank all the note owners for the use of their notes to bring this net to you every day. This net is open to all amateur radio operators anywhere. We encourage everyone listening to check in. This is a direct net and all calls will go through net control. Please remember that all transmissions going over format may be muted to allow for others who have checked in to have their time. And with that I'm going to turn the net back to Dale. KC7Y-IV from KC7FMW. KC7FMW, KC7Y-IV, I appreciate you picking up that scrap for me there. That, yeah, right now I'm, my current computer isn't doing too good so I got to, I'm going to have to break out the, I had to go and get one to replace it. But once I do that and get that scrap up and running here we'll, we'll be on the ball then. Alright, well thank you Missy. Okay, well this is KC7Y-IV and the World Wide Friendship net. And we're going to go ahead and, we'll go ahead and open it up for anyone anywhere. Please come now, slowly, phonetically. Victor Oscar 1, uniform, Kilo Zulu, Victor Oscar 1, Kilo Zulu, Victor Oscar 1, Kilo Zulu, Run Down Juliet. Our here is Springfield, Ohio. I think I doubled with our V01UKZ, Victor Oscar 1, uniform, Kilo Zulu, good morning Dale. Kilo, Kilo 7 Zulu, KK7Z. Kilo Delta 8, Romeo Echo Romeo, KV8 RER, bearing and carrying on. VE1WON, I'll be short time Dale. Kilo Bravo 2, Romeo clip back clip back. Kilo Bravo 2, Romeo clip back clip back. Morning. N7RV, N7RV, it's a pappy. Net control, this is Victor Alpha 6, KVZ, Victor Alpha 6, KVZ. I'm coming at the credit right there folks, KZ7YFZ net control. Alright, here we got on the list, we got N8KXJ, V01UKZ, KK7Z, KV8 RER, VE1WON, it was short time, KV2RQQ, N2, N7HVR, and VA6GRZ. Okay, we're gonna stop there, we're gonna bring Peter and VE1WON since you were short of time, the mic is yours. Kilo, good morning Dale, have a great day, I'm gonna be clearing QRT 7 3, bye."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-17T07:43:26+00:00","id":17801,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":17800,"text":" Kilo Kilo 7 Zulu KK 7 Z wait until one last phase."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-19T07:44:46+00:00","id":19373,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":19372,"text":" Hey Gale, he totally dropped off the list so he's probably going to reconnect there but he's gone. KK7Z."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8700000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-05T07:28:19+00:00","id":14279,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":14278,"text":" So I had to key off there to finish this up. So anyway, that's before I timed it out. Anyway, service to you everybody. Have yourselves a good day. And the mic's clean. Don't worry, I didn't call for a sneeze into it. So it's coming back to you, Jim. K-0, ACK, V8-6 GRZ. Okay, thank you very much. Well, maybe somebody can answer your question. I don't know, huh? All right, KK7V. How are you doing? And thank you for always being a wonderful backup. K-0, ACK. Hey, my name's Jim. I'm a pilot for the US Air Force. I'm a pilot for the US Air Force. Hey, good morning there, Gil. Everybody in that, Gil in Las Vegas. And I think there is a bill. I'm pretty sure that there is a marker out there. Yeah, you're kind of standing in the middle there. So there you go. I've never been there. Place I do want to go to. And Larry, yeah, I don't know. Let's put that, you never know. That is what it is. But no biking today, yesterday, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not all this week. We've got some heavy smoke coming in from California. Wildfires. So not something you want to be out there breathing at a high cardio value. So I'm going to be off the bike maybe for a few days. Actually, I might take it in for a tune up. So yeah, we'll see how that goes. And last, what I got, hey, I'm doing a lazy day today. I'm going to meet my one friend for breakfast. He retired last week from the casino business after 40 years, like me. So there you go. And last up, Lake Mead. One of my places to do videos and stuff was out at Lake Mead and finding all the wrecked boats. And I really enjoyed that. That was a lot of fun. And I was gearing up to get out there and do a follow up because the water went back up for a little while. Now it's down again at a critical level. So a lot of these boats are coming back out of the water. Unfortunately, the Park Service thinks they're an eyesore, even though they're actually a huge tourist attraction. They're cleaning them up. The infamous monolith boat that I did a video on, the boat that was standing straight up in the air, half in the mud, it went back underwater last year. It came out about 3 quarters of the way this year, maybe as much as half. And it was several feet into the mud, the engines and all that. And some people went out there to check it out and these sonar, there's just a big hole under there. So the Park Service pulled that one out. That's a real bummer. So by the time I'm ready to get out there, there may be nothing left to explore as far as the wrecks go. Yeah, such a bummer. That was such a cool thing to do. So anyway, I guess they just thought it was an eyesore. Yeah, I'm here in the background. Good to hear that Gail is showing us. Oh, and Missy is online now. She just linked up, so you may want to put her on the list there. KK7Z, that concludes."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-23T08:32:47+00:00","id":22348,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":22347,"text":" Yep, yep, actually right after I, uh, you texted me I did mention that on the net so you must have missed it. But, uh, glad we got you in here. You're sounding a little bit better. You still sound like you got something there. So anyway, uh, feel better and, uh, take care Missy. Good to hear you. And that's it for me. Uh, breakfast time. KK7Z, 7-3L. 7-3L."}]}