{"activity_count":121,"callsign":"KK7ZRY","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2025-07-14T16:34:02+00:00","found":true,"id":2736,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-30T02:12:31.640177+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":85,"profile":{"confidence":0.9,"counts":{"ncs":1,"net":0,"open_qso":66,"transcript_contexts":60},"data_freshness":"generated","latest_topic":"Antenna experiment with aluminum window screen","most_topic":"Personal experiences and technical projects","open_vs_net_bias_score":0.5,"personal_summary":"KK7ZRY frequently shares personal stories, technical insights, and updates about local events, showing a balanced mix of friendly and technical content.","scores":{"activity":0.8,"civility":0.9,"engagement":0.7,"focus":0.7,"friendly":0.8,"helpful":0.7,"serious":0.6,"technical":0.6},"source":"ai_profile","summary":"KK7ZRY is an active participant in various nets and open QSOs, often providing updates and engaging in discussions about personal experiences, technical topics, and community events.","topic_coverage":{"Community events":0.2,"General updates":0.1,"Personal experiences":0.4,"Technical projects":0.3},"updated_at":"2026-06-28T18:25:47.286759"},"qrz_status":null,"recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.5822630329057574,"created_at":"2026-06-30T02:12:28.317587+00:00","id":131855,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":132278,"text":"K-57-10-1 radio check. Is the first FTLX? You are loud and clear. Thank you. I'm not hitting any of the voter scopes. We'll go ahead. Good evening. This is Robert. My call is Kilo Kilo-7-Zulu-Romeo-Yankee, and I am located in the northwest sector. Welcome to the Seattle Auxiliary Communication Service Monday Night Information Net. Is there any emergency or priority traffic for the net tonight?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.9674084130674601,"created_at":"2026-06-29T21:14:36.204917+00:00","id":131558,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":131938,"text":"All right looks like we might have lost K9MTS, well Michael or Mike could you hear my friend? Thank you very much for checking in. All right I would do one final call if there's anybody else who wants to get in one final call anybody else And 5AQM KK7 center wife Jack with an I.O. Thank you and really just a radio check KK7 center like there Mike and Chandler hold please KK7 ZRY great to hear you Robert great to see you at field day You sound fine. You're here I think five of the receivers pretty darn well, so Set our white great here for me my friend and I can say great to hang out with you this couldn't this last weekend And 5AQM Mike holy smokes. How is your field date Chandler, Arizona? What's going on? Hey, that's an ink Jack in the net and"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-13T21:19:22+00:00","id":7101,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":7100,"text":" Cody, sorry Cody, as we have Tiger Mountain and Cody at the same time. I think I said Cody. Yeah thanks for that Cody, good information. So I guess that PL town should be 103.5 which is the same one that the PSRG uses here. So yeah Paul hopefully that helps you there and that sounds like again there might be some maintenance and other things going on right now so I have to bear with that. Alright thanks for coming in with that Cody, appreciate it. Alright we're looking for all stations to give reports here. If you'd like to keep an eye on the ground please come now, call sign and first name. KK7ZRY Robert. I sound like a devil but I got KK7ZRY Robert. More stations please. Alpha Juliet 7 Foxtrot November, Jeff."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-23T09:42:16+00:00","id":9702,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":9701,"text":" And the doubling station, Zulu Romeo Yankee, can you give me the rest of your callsign and name please? That was Kilo Kilo 7 Zulu Romeo Yankee. This is Robert. Robert, got you on the list. Alright, excellent. Zulu Romeo Yankee. Okay, got it. Next check in please. K7, TZ. Good morning, my double partner Jim, and hello to Jane, and we will talk to you here in just a second. And next check in please."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-23T10:00:23+00:00","id":9710,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":9709,"text":" Anyway, this is Miski Alpha 7 Alpha Delta Michael. And near down that dark line, it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. As that famous person said. And I think it's about 65. It's almost 23C. I was just talking to a Canadian, so I have to give him Celsius. And let's see, I've already been out in the back, dropped some ballots off, and got a coffee. I'm going to go get a high appointment at noon today. So not much else going on. It's supposed to be about 80 here today, maybe a little more. Looking forward to the picnic. I was thinking about you the other day. Thinking it's about an 8 hour drive from where you are to get up there. Maybe shorter, I don't know. I think it's about 8 hours. I believe like 3, maybe either by 11, unless you're coming in at 4. It's been a shame. And I'm going to miss Jim and Jane because I heard him say the other day that he wasn't coming this year. I think there's a big family reunion or something if I remember correctly. Anyway, thanks for doing that. You always do a great job. It's a beautiful day. Everybody have a safe day. Remember it's a good day. Have a good day. It was K-alpha-7-alpha-delta. Hey Michael, well traffic permitting, and if I do not make a single stop, I can do it in 6 hours. But generally I can get here in 6 and a half hours and grab a quick burger at a max or something on the way in. It's usually just about 6 and a half hours. We're actually coming up on Thursday and we'll be staying with Shelley down in Sea-Tac. That cuts down on the drive time a little bit. Looking forward to seeing everybody at the picnic of course. Unfortunately there are several people that aren't going to make it this year. That's kind of too bad. John JSM said he was not going to be there. I know Jim and Jane aren't planning on it. Bill and Karen aren't going to be there either. That's kind of too bad. It's a bunch of people I really like to see. We'll catch them the next time. That's the way it is. Well 73's and we'll catch you later Michael. Have a great day. Happy hump day Wednesday and we'll catch you later. Robert what's up to KK7? Zulu Romeo Yankee take it away. Thank you and good morning. I don't know about National Vanilla Ice Cream Day. I think today is National Technology Does Not Work Day. But at least RF works. So there you go. That's reliable. I'm working from home today and right now I'm looking at the spinning wheel of death on my VPN connection. So it's a good time to check your net and app while I watch nothing happening on my computer. And the other thing that happened was yesterday morning I got into our relatively new but used Chevy Bolt and pushed the start button. And everything lit up and said propulsion power reduced. Get serviced immediately. And it's kind of like that feeling on Christmas when you get a battery operated toy but folks forgot to buy the batteries. And all of a sudden it doesn't work. And here was this reliable little harsh rod small car. Worked just fine and now I've got it all lit up like a Christmas tree. And on ChevyBolt.org half the people who get this warning, no problem the dealer fixes it. The other half of the people the dealer asks for $5,000 to fix it. So I'm getting myself ready for either a nice repair or an argument. Either way, cars. Who needs them? VPN. Who needs it? RF. It works great. Thank you. Thank you for hosting the net. Appreciate it. Nice to hear you all. And I'll stand by to hear what other folks have to say. Back to the net. Back to the net. KK7ZR1. Hey Robert, sorry to hear about the car. Ouch. Oh man, I hate those things. I know I've got a big service coming up on my truck and it's like it's not going to be a pretty one. Oh well, there's nothing wrong with it but it's when they do all the transaxles and all that fun stuff and oh my goodness it's going to be a spendy one. But that's the way it is. I don't want to do it so let them do it and bite the bullet and pay the bill. So there you go. Well 73s, I hope it works out okay for you. Hopefully it will be a nice pleasant surprise that they'll just take care of it. And I wish you the best. 73s, we'll catch you later. Let's see what Jim and Jane are up to. My doubles partner's got the ball. K17Z, rock and roll. Well good morning there Dave and Sam and everybody out there this morning. You know, Michael's right, we're not going to make it down there. Just too much going on and our 8-net drive is getting longer and longer every year. You know there's a lot of things that happen over the winter here. I know some gangster type kids weld plates to the bottom of our dock ramp and it gets heavier and heavier each year as they keep adding more plates. And I think they're doing the same thing with the hill coming up from the beach. They add more steps to it each winter so when we get up here, and then they mysteriously make everything landscape so it doesn't look like it but it's a lot higher and a lot steeper than it was last year. And the drive keeps getting longer and longer and longer too every year. I don't know why, I hope they can stretch that road out to a big scale you think it'd be fixed but it's not. Anyway, I'm going to let L.W. say I'm going to get off my soapbox anymore. Anyway, I can't say, we had a guy in his department on Monday, June, and one yesterday. We couldn't get him on the same day. And so, uh, we're just going to our quilt group here. I've got a couple of electrical projects to do. I've got to replace all the smoke detectors in the cabin. I've got three of them done so far. We have twelve total. Oh, and they are such a pain because they don't standardize anything. There's another soapbox. They don't standardize anything. Every time you're putting in a different smoke detector, even with the same brand, you have to put in the new piece. That's so frustrating. Anyway, you have to change the wiring because the wiring harnesses don't fit each time. They're all different. And they all do the same thing. Standardize that stuff, folks. Okay, that's it. I'm going to follow up my soapbox and hurt myself if I don't shut up here. Hey, Jim and Jane. Hopefully we'll see you tonight on the Zoom. That'll have to do. I understand now wanting to drive back. I get the eenie jeebies every time I think about driving in Seattle now. I'm not so used to the bad day of traffic is the deer and two fawns. Holy cow. That was yesterday, by the way. It was really cute. There were deer and two fawns down the road. Nobody likes to mess with them. It's like they just wander along. Maybe they'll get out of the way and maybe they won't. That's my traffic jam story for the day. So anyway, I totally understand. We'll catch you soon. Yeah, there was something else I was going to say to you and I forget what it was. And I don't remember. Oh well. Nope, I'm not thinking of it. Anyway, have a great Wednesday. Hopefully we'll see you tonight on the Zoom. And maybe Joan will be joining us. She's coming over to watch the cats for us while we're up in Seattle. She'll be maybe here this evening. I don't know what time she's pulling in. Could be real late too. Don't know. Anyhow, 73 is the calculator. This is Keelan Delta 7, Papa Whiskey Bravo Day in the high desert pirate radio. Listening for more radio check-ins, name and call sign, please. Come ahead."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-19T21:44:23+00:00","id":7945,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":7944,"text":" There are several organizations, groups in the Northern Virginia, D.C., Maryland area that invite you to the embassies. There's a club, there's the International Club of D.C. You can get on there, email us for free. And there's Events DC, which is another one that is a competitor. They do embassy events. Some of them are free, some of them are not. Tonight's was not free. The Austrian Embassy has a lot of events and they're almost always free. Concerts by Conservatory students, sometimes there will be people turning in the United States. I've met the Ambassador several times, the Ambassador from Austria. I met the Ambassador from Serbia on Friday night at the Serbian Embassy. Nothing special about getting invited really. You get on the mailing list and you get a ticket. Again, some of them are free, some of them are not. And they check you against the list. Some of the embassies are quite large, as the French Embassy is. And Serbia is a small, kind of cozy embassy. But it's a lot of fun. You see a lot of the same people at these events. And if you like to travel and you're curious about the world, it is quite interesting and I've enjoyed that. Not personal at all, Bill. I like to see people at these events and I like to meet people. K7WFB, this is AF4LL. Well, thank you Bill. That is absolutely fascinating. I had no clue there was a perk like that for living in that area. That is fascinating, makes me really envious. That just plain sounds like fun. Thanks so much. Well, let's see what KK7KHE Adam has to say. What's up? Oh, you're meshtastic Adam, aren't you, I think. Pardon me if I'm wrong. K7WFB, over to you. Good evening, this is KK7KHE Adam in Pocatello, southeastern Idaho. Not meshtastic, all-star node. Here I got a clear node. It's one of the greatest little devices I ever ordered. Pocket to you guys tonight on my 30-plus year vintage DHC1000 Motorola radio. It's one of the best sounding radios I have. It's one of the only ones I have that has complete logistics in it or logics in it. It's not like a radio on a chip like most of my QITs and my MAL things and stuff. So hopefully I sound pretty good to you guys. Didn't do a lot today, just some gardening, hanging out with my pets, waiting for my wife to get off work. Back to net. Have a great evening. KK7KHE. Adam, thank you so much. Pardon for the confusion. Adam up in Shoreline here in western Washington who does a lot with meshtastic. I guess your call just reminded me of his. But yeah, that Motorola, an old equipment I understand, just had really good audio. Yours is a little bit hot I think, but sounds really, you know, we can hear you. That's for sure. Sounds great. Thanks for checking in. Let's talk to Robert. KK7ZRY. Robert. Good evening everybody on the net. Glad to be with you this evening. I have an interesting dilemma. I was working today, I was rebuilding a deck, and I have a shop smith, a 1954 sort of all-in-one tool. I primarily use it as a table saw. Last weekend a friend of mine though, at his own house, had a little nip. He took a tip of a finger off. The kind of thing always scares me. It kind of begs the question, when is it time to say, you know what, I need to own a table saw anymore. So I'm looking at this beloved old piece of equipment and I'm asking myself that question. But anyway, that's a question without a solution. I do have a question though. I've got a radio question. That's a relative newbie. I got my ticket in March I think. I hear people use the word motoscope or motor scope. I do not know if I'm hearing that correctly. I do know what it is. It sounds like some sort of magic device and I am curious to know what it is. So I'll send it back to the net. KK7ZRY. Robert, thank you so much. This is K7WFP in Seattle. Not magic at all. It is the net you're listening to, created and sponsored by Puget Sound for PETA Group, uses a network of let's say hot five or six ears. In other words, the system has one, two, three, four, five, six, six hearing locations spaced around the Puget Sound. So we're sort of Puget Sound, sort of a bowl. So all around the bowl are these five stations in the mountains. And then the system samples the best signal coming in on a very frequent basis, milliseconds I believe, and the system votes for which one is getting the best signal and that's the one that passes on to the repeater. So that's why we call it a voterscope and you can find it for yourself if you go to our main page, psrg.org and let me just take a look. It's pretty easy to find if I remember. Let's see, where do you find it? Well actually if you go on the main page, if you just look over to the right, you'll see the two meter voterscope, also a six meter one. So that's what it is, no big magic. By the way, you've made some contacts before this I assume? This isn't your first contact as a HAN is it? No, I'm a regular visitor to the net. I work full time so I can't check in every day, but I do check in once or twice a week for sure. And do enjoy it, kk7zry. Very good, yeah I just, it's good to have you and as you know you're welcome anytime. I remember that Shopsmith stuff back from the 50s and yeah in the 50s, 50 wasn't the priority and fingertips were vulnerable, still are of course. I had a radio arm saw from the 60s, just as lethal and I came to the position where you are thinking about it a number of years ago and decided it was time. You can always get one of those super new table saws that have the immediate stop feature, you know, where they demonstrate with frankfurters rather than your fingers. They're pretty cool, so why don't you hang in there, I guess they cost a bit though. Anyway, thank you for stopping by Robert, love to have you, come by anytime. Let's talk to an, oh I can't even talk, Brooks, let's talk to you Brooks, come ahead."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-19T21:32:14+00:00","id":7943,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":7942,"text":" QSSPV, you have to pay a little bit, I think it's $399 if I remember right, so not a lot, but a little bit, and it's an iOS app, not sure if it's available for Android or not, but I'm running it on iPhone tonight. Well, very good. Well, good luck with that guy. I run Android, Robot 36 works pretty well. I tried the other night for, the other day actually, for the SSTV, and with the J-Pole, the good J-Pole that I did not do very well, I was surprised, because boy, you can hear the ISS repeater with, I can hear that on a rubber duck, no problem. So I'm a little surprised that I have a, I have a gang action L to lock periodic, but I think I've run out of time, because I think they're going to stop today, if I recall. Alright, well that is the first round of the 9 p.m. PSOG Social Net for July 19. Let's get another round going right away while we have some momentum. Come on ahead with your call sign and name. AF4LL, Bill in Arlington, Virginia, AF4LL. Very good, Bill, we have you down. And I, did I hear someone double under there? I believe that was me, Kilo Kilo 7, Kilo Hotel Echo Adam. Kilo Hotel Echo Adam, we have you numbered 2 on the list, who else? Call sign and name. K7, Brooks and K9, MLR, Megan. Brooks and Megan, I have you down on the list, but also in there was a double, who was that? That was KK7ZRY, Robert. Robert, we have you down, and then we have Brooks and we have Megan, and let's take one more for this round. Come ahead now."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-08T09:06:00+00:00","id":15253,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15252,"text":" Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the Not Wednesday morning edition of the Puget Sound Repeater Group's 9 a.m. net. Hey, this net meets every day at 9 a.m. noon and 9 p.m. on the PSRG Repeater in Seattle, Washington. That's WW7PSR. And we're at 146.96 MHz with a negative offset and a PL tone of 103.5. So hey, all you hams out there, this is a social net. It's an open net for all hams with a valid license and you can talk about anything you want as long as it's user friendly. And yeah, hey, set up your radios, come in and join us. If you're on the internet, we'd love to hear from you too. We are All Star and Echo Link connected. And please don't forget, this is a directed net. So please remember to go through net control to contact other stations. That makes things a little easier. And hey, this is Kilo Delta 7 Papa Whiskey Bravo Dave, the high desert pirate radio down here in Central Oregon coming to you via All Star. And hey, I'm standing in for Rockin' Ron the Wildman NR7-0 this morning. And so he is off and I have the net. So there you go. You have to put up with me one more time this week. So there you go. Alright, let's see. The way this works, we're going to build a list. I'll take names and call signs from oh, half a dozen or so check-ins. Go back to the top of the list that I make and ask for a report from each of those stations. When you give your report, please remember to keep the three minutes or less. That's the time out of the repeater and it lets us get as many check-ins as we can in a timely fashion. And mission critical, when you give your report, please remember to end with your call sign. That tells me you're done with your report and it satisfies our dear friends at the FCC. Alright, let me let it drop for just a second. Okay, let's see. There were some, oh, IOs are certainly welcome if you don't really want to have anything to say and want to check in. But let me know you're listening. Just tell me your IO or in and out and I will understand. So hey, that's the way this game works. I usually start out with short horizon stations. That's mobiles, IOs and low power stations. And we'll get this thing underway. Then we'll have some internet stations. We'll open up to everybody. Of course, none of that is carved in stone. So hey, I'm just looking forward to hearing from you. So with that, hey, let's get started. I've got some announcements this morning. There's some fun stuff on the announcement list, which I call the news from the high desert. And hey, I'll do that after the first round or two depending on how slow things get. And hey, let's get things rocking and rolling here. Hey, it's time. I'm looking for short horizon stations. Come ahead. KL7 DZQ, Kurt, IO. Hey, Kurt, I've got you on the list with an IO this morning. And thanks for coming by, saying hi and have a happy Friday. TGIF. Dave, remember it's Friday. I've got to remember it's Friday. Hey, there you go. Next station, please. Kilo, Kilo 7, Zulu, Romeo, Yankee, Robert. Good morning, Robert. I've got you on the list. And next check-in, please."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-25T09:46:29+00:00","id":9971,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":9970,"text":" Good morning. KK7ZRY. The other roppers, in between roppers and cami, which is weird, but that's okay. Previous check-in update, my Chevy Bolt is still sitting in the driveway undrivable, so I rode my bicycle this morning. Interesting coincidence, I just finished a book called Killed by a Traffic Engineer, written by a traffic engineer. Let me tell you, riding a bike in Seattle, I'm pretty convinced that the Seattle Department of Transportation does not care whether I live or die. This book was about the fact that the traffic engineering bible is based on absolutely no scientific data, just a bunch of anecdotal stuff going back 100 years. So, it was pretty scary, and I sure hope my Chevy Bolt goes into the shop and comes back out as fun as it was before. That's it for this morning. Back to the net. 73, greetings to all...oh, I may or may not be at the picnic because we are a one-car family. KK7ZRY."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-13T12:26:21+00:00","id":16709,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16708,"text":" WV7J, Rich, is that you trying to get in? Rich, WV7J, question mark. WV7J, exclamation point. Alright, underline this, we'll find out where Rich is when we get to him. Stand by, Rich, WV7AD, however he is up first, Michael. Good afternoon. Hello, O to you, Jack, and good afternoon. Whiskey Alpha 7 Alpha Delta Mobile here in Kirkland. Back from the hinterland, Jack, to give you a report. We, first night was at Coldwater Lake on Friday night in a parking lot. We set up a long wire and elk, it was a two meter, and then one of the guys had starling too. So I ended up with a long wire checking the Columbia Basin and I could hear everybody and they could hear me. Of course, that really ate something out. And we kept on having to turn the elk around to get out on that and bouncing off different mountains. But we did okay and we're at 37 miles so it wrapped up pretty quick. Drop for a second. I have kind of a sore throat and a cold, Jack, but I'll talk about it in a little bit. Then we moved to this place called Sisper's, look at that, down there, River. And they didn't set up a long wire, the guys decided this was the two days. And a guy named Corey, turned out he had a starling in a lot of electronics. And I set up my 31 foot Eagle 1 antenna and I could hear everybody but they had a hard time hearing me. I was right next to a mountain, especially on Sunday night and Monday night. There was a guy from Morton and a guy from Mosolite that was counting and they couldn't hear me and had to be relayed in. So that was kind of expected next year. I'll be at 4500 feet, hopefully. No, nothing blocking my signal out, my vertical. But everybody's clear as a bell and I could hear everybody. I was really surprised at that. And the runners came through at mile 148. They were a little more hanger. In fact, a lot of people didn't make it past us. But the fastest runner made it in 200 miles in 45 hours and 7 minutes. A couple other guys were pushing him, one was at 45 hours and 57 minutes and one was at 46. That is pretty damn fast on that rugged terrain, up and over hills, through rivers and everything. Drop for a second. Final note, I got a little scratchy here and then I decided I would try to drive down the mountain. They were trying to load the U-Haul up there kind of late and park in the base. I was walking across in the semi-darkness of the IZMA and I stumbled over a curve. At first I thought I had broken my elbow and I have to use my left arm right now to run the mic. So hopefully that will go away in a few days. I don't know. That's it from here Jack. Thanks for letting me talk. This is probably the longest I have ever talked. Anyway Jack, thanks for on the net. Remember it's a good day to have a good day. Whiskey Alpha 7 Alpha Delta. Alright, well welcome back to the real world boy. No, I'm kidding. There's nothing more real than the Bigfoot 200 out there in the middle of, well not really nowhere, but almost nowhere. You know, with the Starlink satellite dish and everything else, you know, you're really not too far away. Well that sounds like great results. 45 hours and 7 minutes for the top finisher. Holy cow, 45 minutes. I wonder if they're still sleeping in after that. Hey, are there any cash prizes? I don't really know what the winners or the top placeholders get from running that race. Michael, what do you guys do? Hi Jack, there are no cash prizes. I think your reward is surviving. They do get a medallion to hang around their neck and take home. Besides it, it's a, you know, they get, they're, as you can call it, the station has food, has a medic, and you know, these guys wile way through the water if their shoes on. Well that's, you're asking, is you run along a walk or whatever, you're going to be a blister and they have blisters. So guys are cutting those out and taping them up. But I think it's the reward is, hey, I survived and I did it. And let's see, Jack, there are guys that do them all. Now there's the, uh, TAO 200, the MOAB 240, and now there's in the middle of winter down there, Arizona 300. So some people try to do all four in a year. I don't know. Anyway, thanks for asking. Back to you sir. Whiskey Alpha 7 Alpha Delta. Alright, well it's a real testament to everybody's mental that they survived this thing at all, whether or not they're running or volunteering off to the side like you guys are, making sure everybody's okay. Wow, nicely done. Thank you so much for volunteering. That is some event. Boy, I tell you, you have a lot of memories there now. A lot more. You take care Michael. Have a great afternoon. Let's go see what Robert's up to. KK7 ZRY. Hello Jack, hello everybody. Thanks as always for hosting the night. Good news first, I am transmitting on my tweaked four element two meter tape measure yagi and reception is clear as a bell, so I hope that my transmission is too. I'm pretty excited about that. The bad news, yeah the bad news. Spent this weekend with a bunch of in-laws, long story there, not worth telling, but the short story is that we came back and my wife has COVID. You remember COVID? It was a thing once. Turns out it's still a thing. Seems like it's a mild case. We're isolating. I'm working from home. No need to spread it further than I need to. I wonder if you can transmit COVID using a tape measure yagi. There's a question for you. Anyway, that's all I got. Back to the net. Thank you Jack. KK7 ZRY. Alright Robert, well that is unfortunate. I'm sorry to hear that. So you're isolating and has she started to take anything? Is she doing a treatment of some sort? Or is she just isolating as well? Jack, we're dealing with a tough it out kind of personality, so she's not doing anything that she should be doing. But that's another long story. KK7 ZRY. Alright, well hang in there and help her when you can and when you can. I appreciate that. Hey Robert, having the work from home option is a great thing, isn't it? Alright, you take care and keep up with us and let us know. Through the week how everybody's doing, okay? Nice to meet you Robert. Alright, let's go out to Bonnie Lake and oh yeah Robert, by the way, nice job on that antenna. You were full scale on the Capra Park Master, Cougar Mountain and Magnolia. With a bit of business on Beacon Buck and Leek Forest around 40, so nice job. Alright, let's go pick it up with Grossie, W7DNG, Bonnie Lake. Hey Grossie. Howdy, howdy, hi. Where'd that come from? I think that was that Tim Allen? Anyhow, things are going good out here on the funny farm. Quite a few rabbits in the neighborhood, surprise. Daddy rabbit must have been having a good time the last show. I've seen some small ones about the size of a small softball and I've seen them as big as a typical cat in the house. Otherwise they're doing good and healthy. I haven't seen any birds taking any of them away yet, but I can tell there's always a few hawks laying in the neighborhood. Haven't seen the bald eagles for quite a while, but they come, we'll swap them through every now and then. I've got a problem with these. I can't remember the name of them. They're a tall weed, they're yellow. Yeah, tall weeds are tall and yellow. Anyhow, they've kind of taken over my front yard and I've got one of these weed puller things coming. Stick under, step on the button that's supposed to pop out. I'm going to try that and see what happens. It's the only green thing in my front yard, the rest of it's brown. I wonder if I just light a match and just burn it off. Nah, I'd better not do that. I'd probably catch the whole neighborhood on fire. I've got my schedule set up for September 8th. I'm going into the shock machine or sonic machine or whatever the heck they call them. I was talking to the doc and he says, while we're doing that, I see a couple little itty bitty ones laying there and we might as well nip them in the bud while we've got you laid up. I says, that sounds good to me, so we shall see how that goes. I've got a ride set up, short break. I've got a ride set up where my daughter is going to take me on down to the hospital. Her mother-in-law is going to watch over one young one. She'll take the baby with her and go do something with them and stuff and have some fun in the afternoon. Not in the hospital, but just away. Come pick me up about 4.30. Doc says it's not going to be that big a deal. It's going to feel like somebody hit me in the back with a 2x4. I've had that done a couple times in my younger days, but really looking forward to that. Otherwise, it's better than the alternative. I've had the other way done three times and it is an over run. I'm hoping this is the cat's meow when it comes to doing any kidney stones. If it works out good, I'm going to say, okay, you know every ten years I get these stupid things. So let's plan on every nine years we'll just go in and blast them all. Because I know it. I'm going to still get them. Hey Al, everybody have a good day, better than my. Stay hydrated. We're still going to have some hot ones. Be safe out there folks. W7, DNG. Alright, it was until almost the end of your report that I determined what in my mind you were going to go through procedure wise. And I figured the end sounds to me like kidney stones. Yikes, that is one of the most painful I have been told. Yes indeed, and many of you have done that. And if I tell you Michael, I told me a story one time, W7, A, D, that just, I just fell over. He described me in the pain. Oh man, no thank you. Anyway, you guys, if you do do anything gross, you let us know. What's up? Glad you got a ride there in Pakistan. Good. Alright, well let's go figure what's going on up on the rock with Darrell. First though, 12.13 PM, I'm Jack K, Hi7R, you're listening to the new net here on the PSRG repeater here in Seattle, Washington. V01, UKZ, let us have it there Darrell. Well, good morning to you Jack, and it's, well, it's afternoon for you now, that's right, this is the second net of the day. I checked in on the 9 AM that day earlier. It's 12.13 down your way and it is 4.43, just turned at 4.44 PM here on the rock. Jack G is burning my friend, absolutely burning up this way. We've got a fire just about 7 miles from here as the crow flies and it is burning massive amounts of territory. There was a mandatory evacuation put in place last night for the next town over from here and they've got something like 10,000 people evacuated and over 100, almost 100,000 that are on emergency evacuation standby. It's one of the worst wildfires that we've had in Newfoundland in recent memory and that's going on right now in addition to three other wildfires here on the island as well. So a great portion of Newfoundland right now is currently on fire, unfortunately, and that's been going on for the last couple of days. I didn't know anything because I don't watch the news and a couple nights ago I woke up after a nap and I smelled smoke so I just took for granted it was the neighbors are outside, they've got a little fire going in the backyard or something. And only as I found out that there's massive wildfires burning so close to the city here. St. John's is the capital of the province and for wildfires to be this close is pretty much unprecedented up this way. Let me reset one real quick. So essentially they've got six water bombers currently working on this fire close to the city here and upwards of 200 firefighters battling the thing. And they had it knocked down a little bit yesterday and then overnight last night. My phone went absolutely ballistic about 11pm with emergency evacuation orders, like I said, for the next town over. So today I haven't heard any updates but apparently it's still burning pretty bad and like I said a lot of people are still on, you know, emergency notice evacuation orders. So it's not good man. I gotta start watching the news around here because I literally didn't even know that this was happening until I got those evacuation alerts and just an absolutely crazy situation going on up here. We're hoping we don't lose power because the main highway leading into this part of the island is where the main transmission lines are and you know only about a quarter of a mile away from the fires. So we're really hoping it doesn't cross that highway because it could leave the entire city here in complete blackness for god only knows how long. Until that fire is put out and the transmission lines and poles and all that would have to be rebuilt. It's just going to lead to a very terrible situation if that fire switches direction. Other than that man, the air winds good. We're still safe here in the city for now but the smell of smoke is just absolutely unbearable. The sun is staying inside with the windows closed. Back over to you Jack. From here on the rock this is V01 UKZ and if anybody wants to look that up just search East Coast Newfoundland Fires or something like that. You'll find lots of video footage and whatnot on the internet there. With that Jack, back over to you in seven seconds. This is V01 UKZ."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-20T21:04:29+00:00","id":20521,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":20520,"text":" Okay, W9TRX with an I-O. Thanks for stopping by. Alright, and then the other station that was doubling ended in ZRY Robert. Can you come back for your full call, please? Kilo Kilo 7. Zulu Romeo Yankee. Robert. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November 10, November. Robert are you in or are you out? Located in Shelton, Washington. I'm in."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-08T09:10:33+00:00","id":15255,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15254,"text":" Well, Robert, I tell you this, you're a list of one. So you're going to get it, get it, get the go, leave this banner off, combating session off. So hey, Robert, what you got going on, KK7 Zulu, Romeo, Yankee, take it away. Hey, Madam, well, that's no pressure. Golly. Good morning, everybody on the net. It is a gorgeous Friday, and it is a Friday, which I'm very glad. I've got an educational question, kind of, sort of. If you were on the 9 o'clock net last night, you might have tuned in and heard a sort of a distressing situation, which net control was managing very well. But I'm wondering what the protocol is for someone who's crashing or someone who is apparently in distress. What can we as hams do either to control the situation or maybe to help that person? Don't really know what the protocol is. KK7 said ROI. Well, there are a lot of ways to handle it. The mission critical is this. The reason we are ham radio operators is to support any kind of an emergency. And that is absolutely priority. And you know, when we've had windstorms and things, no matter what the net is doing, any kind of emergency communication absolutely takes priority. That is mission critical. After that, we can call 911. We can get help there. We can notify authorities. We can do all kinds of things. And other than that, I got a call one time when we were in Wenatchee of a car wreck up on Swach Pass or Blewett Pass and was able to relay to the Sheriff's Department that they had an issue up there and got help up there. And yeah, until that is done, it's like that absolutely takes priority. So hopefully that will answer your question. And that's the way I've dealt with it. So yeah. Other than that, yeah, that's mission critical. We do periodically have some interference on this repeater. And you just ignore it. So we can walk right over the top of it, boost up to high power, and ignore any harmful RFI. So there you go. All right. Hopefully that answers your question. I'm sure others that will come on will also jump in with their opinions as well. And so hey, thanks for coming by and saying hi. Have a wonderful day. And we will catch you later. It's Friday. TGIF to everybody. Hey, there you go. This is Kilo Delta 7 Papa Whiskey Bravo Day in the high desert pirate radius, heading in for NR 7-0, rocking around the wild man. And I am listening for more short horizon or internet stations. Please come ahead. Kilo Kilo 7 Victor Papa Juliet Curtis Danilo. Hey, I got you. Hey, how you doing? I'll be back for a report from you here in just a second. Next check in, please. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Note 6222 located in 7 Washington. Hey, my doubles partner Jim. I got you on the list. And say hello to Jane there before I come back to you. And next check in, please."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-21T12:45:29+00:00","id":21104,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":21103,"text":" Hello Jack, hello everybody. I forgot what came in yesterday's mail yesterday, which is actually worth reporting. My official ACS ID badge came in the mail. So I'm officially on the roster. I passed the criminal background check, as you can imagine that wasn't too hard for me. Kind of funny though, I think that everybody on every ID card you're ever on, you look like a criminal. My ID card just looks like it's my wanted poster. I mean, like they say, I've got a face for radio, but this looks like I've done something dastardly. Anyway, I'm excited. There's a lot of learning ahead of me, but it's a great volunteer opportunity, and I'm pretty psyched to jump on it. Other than that, today is anti-climax day. The project that I've been working on for the past four years, which is a housing project in Raymond, Washington targeting veterans. I worked on it for four years, and yesterday it went out to bid for contractors to bid on building this project. So today I'm just sitting outside the office in the shade. I hear my desk calling me, but it was a long poll. And I'm just sitting back here and listening to the net, enjoying healing, hearing you all. And that's my report. Back to the net, KK7, Z, R, Y."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-22T09:45:56+00:00","id":21625,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":21624,"text":" Hello everybody. This is a weird Friday. Very short check in. I came into work this morning. I was a little bit late, not too late, but I was the first one here. That was odd. Now it's a quarter of ten and I'm still the only one here. So I was worried that maybe there had been the zombie apocalypse. This is very unusual for me to be sitting in this big wide open office alone. So I checked in with the net just to make sure there are some human beings out there. And there are. And they're all lovely and wonderful. And I appreciate this opportunity to know that I am not the only human being left on the planet. KK7 said R.Y."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-22T09:44:46+00:00","id":21622,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":21621,"text":" Ha ha, see you listen to the news for a long time and you think you know everything and your dad flew aerobatically. I never even knew that in all my life let alone the fact that the Satabria is aerobatic backwards. I know about the Satabria, I've seen those planes and you know searched for them on the internet and what not and all that kind of stuff. Fascinating, Joan, way to go. Very cool. Alright, I'm Ron NR70, this is the 9 o'clock man. Open to anyone from anywhere if you would like to join in, I need your name and call. This is repeater station KK7ZRY, Robert. KSR node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. Hello there Robert, you're on the list, anyone else? Name and call. KF7TNO, Carol."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-22T12:03:06+00:00","id":21674,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":21673,"text":" Kilo Kilo 7 Zulu Romeo Yankee. Robert?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-15T21:40:40+00:00","id":16939,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":16938,"text":" Kilo Kilo 7 Zulu Romeo Yankee Robert with an I O"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-28T12:14:13+00:00","id":26589,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":26588,"text":" Oh Robert, hey so hold on a second, I've got something on the mic and key for sure, but so when these people would call up and congratulate you on winning the tennis championship, so would you just say that, well that's interesting because I've never picked up a tennis racket, but thank you so much, it was a difficult set of games, but yeah, thanks again, you know, and oh anyway, I don't know, that just cracks me up. Great, so I have an update for you on the mic and key, their tech net, Wednesday night tech net, so they had a power outage at their repeater site, and so they went into mad dash scrambling and they called their friends over at the Bears repeater down there, and the Bears repeater which is right at the Boeing Field and Museum of Flight complex out in the back there by the B-52, they said yes indeed, go ahead and use our repeater tonight for the tech net, so yeah, I just don't think they had a chance to get that posted up on their Facebook page or their webpage, but yeah, that's what happened and they did continue on. Back to you Robert, KK7ZRY. Yeah I just, you know, polished my gold tennis trophy and said, aw shucks, it was nothing, no big deal, it was just pretty funny, but yeah, I'll wait for next week, hopefully they'll get their own repeater back up or at least tell me where I can find them so I can ask my questions. I'm beating my head against this tape measure yagi which just doesn't, it's just not performing very well and I'd like to tweak it and get it to work, maybe I'll learn something, but right now I'm not learning anything except how to bash my head against a wall. KK7ZRY."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-28T12:05:28+00:00","id":26580,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":26579,"text":" Alright, stand by and let's get the first Robert and then we'll go out to Arlington. But Z R Y, I think that is the suffix. Robert are you in today? Come back with your call sign. Kilo, Kilo 7 Zulu, Romeo, Yankee, I'm in."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-21T12:02:25+00:00","id":21043,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":21042,"text":" KK7ZRY Robert with an I.O."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-21T12:43:23+00:00","id":21103,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":21102,"text":" Alright, well I know Husky Deli is the place to go when you're up on California. Well, it's a lot of places to go obviously, but that is a really fun place, very lively. Lots of kids in line for ice cream, candy, and lots of European treats, all kinds of great stuff there. Big sandwiches and just a heck of a staff are so nice. Alright, they were quite popular during the West Seattle parade apparently, as you would imagine. Alright Rich, have a great afternoon. Thanks for coming by. Say hello to Polo, John Drop by with an I.O. from Camino Island. Let's go check in with Robert and his recheck, KK7ZRY."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-10T09:31:21+00:00","id":36618,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":36617,"text":" Kilo Kilo 7 Zulu Romeo Yankee with an I.O. this morning please, Dave."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-12T12:29:19+00:00","id":37969,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":37968,"text":" Uh, got Bert in there. Bert won the fight. Who was doubling with Bert? Kilo Kilo 7 Zulu Romeo Yankee, Robert."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-11T12:45:57+00:00","id":37538,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":37537,"text":" KC1 VQS, call the name. Alright, KC1 VQS, I've got Paul. Robert, give me your call sign, please. Kilo Kilo 7, Zulu Romeo Yankee."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-13T06:51:01+00:00","id":38160,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":38159,"text":" Oh, that's an easy one. My favorite donut is a glazed maple bar with a strip of bacon on it. Bacon maple bar. By the way, my workplace, Costco, everybody knows I work at Costco. My general manager now, for the last couple months he's been great at it. He supports Fresh Fruit Friday and he puts lots of variety of fresh fruit in the break rooms. So we can just enjoy that all day. So I like Fresh Fruit Friday. That's great I was going there. My favorite is raspberries. I go in and get the raspberries. Alright, we'll do that a little later. I start work at 12.15. So anyway, thanks Bert. Robert's up next. Hello and good morning. KK7ZRV or was it ZRY? I might have wrote it wrong. Go ahead. There's a Yankee at the end of that. Yeah, hey. Hello everybody. Greetings from the Zombie Apocalypse. That's my new name for my office here on Capitol Hill when no one else shows up and I'm the only one working. And I have this little moment that maybe I'm the only one alive on Capitol Hill. But no, there are folks out there. I'm looking out the window. There are folks out there. So no zombies. We're good. Donuts. Anything. Anything at all except when you get pink or sprinkles. I don't go there. But otherwise just give me a donut and I'll eat it. That's easy enough. Got lots of projects at home. We had a plumbing leak which turned into a sheet rock project, a cabinet replacement, a plastic laminate replacement, some carpentry, etc. etc. etc. So this little plumbing leak has stretched out over several weeks. And here I am in the office with no one around and I'm thinking, I've got a lot of interesting projects at home. So we'll see how long I last here. That's it from the Zombie Apocalypse KK7 ZRY. Back to Nat."}]}