{"activity_count":44,"callsign":"KW7DTM","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2026-06-24T01:26:04.774965+00:00","found":true,"id":25004,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-07-14T06:55:43.993917+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":30,"profile":{"confidence":0.9,"counts":{"ncs":1,"net":0,"open_qso":27,"transcript_contexts":27},"data_freshness":"generated","latest_topic":"Testing 50 watts and discussing power consumption and fuse issues","most_topic":"Technical discussions about equipment and power settings","open_vs_net_bias_score":0.8,"personal_summary":"KW7DTM is technically inclined and enjoys experimenting with their setup, sharing insights and updates with the community.","scores":{"activity":0.9,"civility":0.8,"engagement":0.7,"focus":0.8,"friendly":0.7,"helpful":0.7,"serious":0.6,"technical":0.9},"source":"ai_profile","summary":"KW7DTM is an active participant in open QSOs, often discussing technical aspects of their equipment, such as power settings, antenna configurations, and battery systems. They frequently test different power levels and share results with others.","topic_coverage":{"General check-ins and net participation":0.2,"Technical discussions about equipment and power settings":0.8},"updated_at":"2026-07-14T06:29:33.217366"},"qrz_status":"verified","recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.7821210138499737,"created_at":"2026-07-14T06:55:31.203754+00:00","id":161794,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":165265,"text":"from the other guy, and then there's a guy down in Texas that makes some. But the pop-up system, I believe they have a voter down there in California. They also have mixed mode where you can get into their network via like D-Star and talk out the analog through a software called DV Switch, and that is the all-star bridge to the digital modes. You're bumping buck just a little bit. It didn't move a few times for you. Yeah, I think we've emailed before on the GMRS list, and we're practically lying a fight from each other. KW7 DTM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.7237581145018339,"created_at":"2026-07-14T06:52:34.813546+00:00","id":161784,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":165255,"text":"radio. 73 KW7 DTM. That reminds me there is a old folklore it's probably 100% true that there are bad actors out there that will search for call signs that don't have an email address tied to your to your page and then they will pretend that they are you and they will sell things on the internet or on Q or Z and and then they don't ship the stuff because it was all fraudulent and then they try to blame you. So I highly recommend set up a burner email or or use your actual email which is even better because then you'll check it more often but just for that"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8318086984482679,"created_at":"2026-07-14T06:50:20.472368+00:00","id":161776,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":165247,"text":"And I'm not good on making plans way, way in advance, so if I do it at all, it's probably going to be just probably strictly a road trip thing. But it is doable. I planned it out and a fast pace would be five days from the Seattle area here. One stopped somewhere between here and then I guess what's the one of the terminuses, terminuses of the trail. One is called Delta Junction. One in Alaska. The other one is, I can't remember the name, it's in pretty far northern BC, almost on the BC Alberta border. The official beginning point of the highway, KW7 DTM for ID."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.965895801782608,"created_at":"2026-07-14T06:25:40.332488+00:00","id":161760,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":165231,"text":"10 watts, KW7 DTM. If I go silent, it means I blew a fuse on 50 watts."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.9840464187889464,"created_at":"2026-07-14T06:18:16.288063+00:00","id":161755,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":165226,"text":"But the pair lines on the power lead, the fuse will stop blowing. Is that correct? It did for that brief burst, 50 watts. I'm at five watts now, so stand by. I'll switch to 50 again and maybe I'll live dangerously and try to transmit for more than three seconds. Let's see what happens. KW7DTM for ID. And 7WA. I go ahead and quiet blue if you. KW7DTM. I don't know if you know, but at 50 watts we have the potential to usually draw the average of 8 amp, but sometimes we can peak up to 11 or 12. So I would keep that in mind when you are gauging."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":0.9415177442133427,"created_at":"2026-07-14T06:17:09.599372+00:00","id":161752,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":165222,"text":"KW7 DTM Testing 5 Watts. I'm going to increase in a minute."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.9614540858815114,"created_at":"2026-07-14T06:15:01.025967+00:00","id":161750,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":165220,"text":"You put the ferrites on the power weeds to use the stop blowing. Is that correct? It did for that brief burst 50 watts. I'm at five watts now, so stand by. I'll switch to 50 again, and maybe I'll live dangerously and try to transmit for more than three seconds. Let's see what happens. KW7DTM for ID. And 7WA. I go ahead before I blow a fuse. KW7DTM. I don't know if you know, but at 50 watts we have the potential to usually draw average of eight amps, but sometimes we can peak up to 11 or 12. So I would keep that in mind when you are gauging."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.78393879884647,"created_at":"2026-07-14T06:12:01.358579+00:00","id":161726,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":165196,"text":"Okay, W7DTM, name here is David. Thanks for the pointers. KW7DTM, yeah, this is KSM, AZV here, Alec. Yeah, no problem, my pleasure. Just sitting here in the desk and might as well throw some thoughts out there. Hopefully you get a figure out there and get your radio fed up because, yeah, like Ryan said, who, who doesn't like being all blue on the motor scope? Yeah, my QK is 7AZV. Thanks, this is 10 watts again. I'm going to break and then try 50. And if I go silent, that'll answer that question and tell me it's time to do some more wiring tomorrow. KW7DTM, testing 50 watts. 50 watts, say I'm still here. Those ferrites must be working. Until it's not working. So you said that you didn't want to go through the firewall, but it's not working."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.9147371763692183,"created_at":"2026-07-14T06:10:09.800092+00:00","id":161722,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":165192,"text":"I was going to pause for Alec. Oh, I doubled there with Brian. I was going to say, did you want to try and speak a little bit longer? Maybe try like a 10 second transmission CFTF use holds. Sure, I'm on time now and I'll jump to 50. And the other station on Pine Lake, I think you might be active on the GMRS group, too. We exchanged some emails a while back. Can we jump up to 50 watts? Can't stand by. OK, here we are 50 watts again. Well, I'll live dangerously and try transmitting for longer than five seconds. It's still going. I wonder if the ferrets did the trick until they don't. I get a KW7 DTM. And that would be correct. W-R-E-L-204."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8745901225400823,"created_at":"2026-07-14T05:46:57.283695+00:00","id":161677,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":165146,"text":"I'm at SSB5 and transmitting with 10 watts from the crossroads area. How do I sound? Back to you and I'll be clear. Right, you're flying, flooring every receiver except Buck, except Buck Mountain. And so you were flooring Capitol Park, Beacon Hill, Cougar, Magnolia and Lake Forest Park. So you could probably reduce your power easily since you only need to get into one of the other. But I've got you in and it sounds like you're finished with your report and I've got you in the log. And you sound great. Good audio, modulation is a bit on the high side but not too far. And I've got KW7, DTM and welcome to our repeater if it's new to you. I think this might be the first time I've walked you. Alright folks, I'm going to continue building a list for this last call round."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.871200424752065,"created_at":"2026-07-14T05:30:58.632133+00:00","id":161634,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":165103,"text":"Comet SSB-5 and Transmitting with 10 watts from the cross road area. How do I sound? Back to you and I'll be clear. Right, you're flying, flooring every receiver except Buck, except Buck Mountain. And so you were flooring Capitol Park, Beacon Hill, Cougar, Magnolia and Lake Forest Park. So you could probably reduce your power easily since you only need to get into one of the other. I've got you in and it sounds like you're finished with your report. And I've got you in the log. And you sound great. Good audio, modulation is a bit on the high side but not too far. And I've got KW7, DTM and welcome to our repeater if it's new to you. I think this might be the first time I've walked you. Alright folks, I'm going to continue building a list for this last call round."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.8819553198913733,"created_at":"2026-07-14T05:30:55.841347+00:00","id":161633,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":165102,"text":"All right, Joseph. Well, thank you very much for checking in. I'm noting your time is 0505 UTC. I don't know what the time it is in the Philippines. About one and a half days ahead of us. So take care, Joseph. Thank you for stopping by. Moving right along, I'm asking for more check-ins for this last round. KW7DTM, David W. Mobile. All right, David. KW7DTM in Bellevue. And your mobile. Do you need to go now or do you want me to just put you in the queue? I'll keep it short. I'll just quickly say what I need to move on. Here's a quick break."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.4763393998146057,"created_at":"2026-07-12T08:14:52.982681+00:00","id":157170,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":160308,"text":"4 out of 255 and a little bit on Lake Forest Park 28 and Beacon 22 out of 255. So no problem there at all, no problem. Alright, well you have a great afternoon and enjoy the rest of your weekend where we have some fine, fine weather here in the Northwest. That was KW7 DTM with his new antenna mobile, KW7 DTM, that was David. Alright, hey I want to thank everybody for joining me on the new net today. Your support is greatly appreciated. For more information about the Puget Sound Repeater Group, check out our website PSRG.org and if you're on Facebook, our Facebook discussion group page. Don't forget we've got the 9 o'clock net coming up tonight with Bill, KW7FB. Thanks again everybody, have a great afternoon. This is Jack, KI7RMU."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.9089185333026475,"created_at":"2026-07-12T08:14:50.563104+00:00","id":157169,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":160307,"text":"KW7 DTM, Bellevue Mobile. KW7 DTM, you're going to close this out today. Go ahead, please. What's going on? Well, I just put a new, I think it's a Comet SSB5, no ground plane antenna on my car and isolated it from the mount because I was getting what are they called? Ground Loops. Yeah, ground Loops. So, transmitting with five watts and just testing things out and I'll sign off and just pardon question, how am I sounding? Thank you, KW7 DTM, back to you. All right, David, hey, great to hear you. Nice job on the antenna. Yeah, that's fine. You sound great. Hey, so we have a six receiver voting system here on PSRG. So I just did a screen capture of your transmission coming through. You were hitting our Cougar Mounting Receiver Full Strength 255."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.4806485692660014,"created_at":"2026-07-12T07:45:42.966450+00:00","id":157149,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":160287,"text":"4 out of 255 and a little bit on Lake Forest Park 28 and Beacon 22 out of 255. So no problem there at all, no problem. All right, well you have a great afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your weekend where we have some fine, fine weather here in the Northwest. That was KW7 DTM with his new antenna mobile, KW7 DTM. That's David. All right. Hey, I want to thank everybody for joining me on the new net today. Your support is greatly appreciated. For more information about the Puget Sound Repeated Group, check out our website PSRG.org. And if you're on Facebook, our Facebook discussion group page, don't forget we've got the 9 o'clock net coming up tonight with Bill, KW7FB. Thanks again everybody. Have a great afternoon. This is Jack, KI7RMU."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.5269929255758012,"created_at":"2026-07-12T07:30:27.628266+00:00","id":157143,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":160281,"text":"4 out of 255 and a little bit on Lake Forest Park 28 and Beacon 22 out of 255. So no problem there at all, no problem. Alright, well you have a great afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. What we're having some fine, fine weather here in the Northwest. That was KW7DTM with his new antenna mobile, KW7DTM. That was David. Alright, hey I want to thank everybody for joining me on the new net today. Your support is greatly appreciated. For more information about the Puget Sound Repeated Group, check out our website PSRG.org. And if you're on Facebook, our Facebook discussion group page. Don't forget we've got the 9 o'clock net coming up tonight with Bill, K7WFB. Thanks again everybody, have a great afternoon. This is Jack, KI7RMU."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.5269929255758012,"created_at":"2026-07-12T07:30:27.628266+00:00","id":157143,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":160281,"text":"4 out of 255 and a little bit on Lake Forest Park 28 and Beacon 22 out of 255. So no problem there at all, no problem. Alright, well you have a great afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. What we're having some fine, fine weather here in the Northwest. That was KW7DTM with his new antenna mobile, KW7DTM. That was David. Alright, hey I want to thank everybody for joining me on the new net today. Your support is greatly appreciated. For more information about the Puget Sound Repeated Group, check out our website PSRG.org. And if you're on Facebook, our Facebook discussion group page. Don't forget we've got the 9 o'clock net coming up tonight with Bill, K7WFB. Thanks again everybody, have a great afternoon. This is Jack, KI7RMU."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.9240074830262789,"created_at":"2026-07-12T07:30:24.422610+00:00","id":157142,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":160280,"text":"KW7 DTM, Bellevue Mobile. KW7 DTM, you're going to close this out today. Go ahead, please. What's going on? So I'd like to put a new, I think it's the Comet SSB5, no ground plane antenna on my car, and isolated it from the mount because I was getting, what are they called? Ground Loops. Yeah, ground Loops. So I'm transmitting with five watts and just testing things out and I'll sign off and just pardon question, Elma's outing. Thank you, KW7 DTM, back to you. All right, David, hey, great to hear you. Nice job on the antenna. Yeah, that's fine. You sound great. Hey, so we have a six receiver voting system here on PSRG. So I just did a screen capture of your transmission coming through. You were hitting our Cougar Mounting Receiver Full Strike 255."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.9072817576428255,"created_at":"2026-07-11T20:11:22.582815+00:00","id":156926,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":160008,"text":"KW7 DTM Bellevue Mobile. KW7 DTM, you're going to close this out today. Go ahead please. What's going on? Well, I just put a new, I think it's a Comet SSB5, no ground plane antenna on my car and isolated it from the mount because I was getting what are they called? Ground Loops. Yeah, ground Loops. So, transmitting with five watts and just testing things out and I'll sign off and just pardon question, how am I sounding? Thank you, KW7 DTM, back to you. All right, David, hey great to hear you. Nice job on the antenna. Yeah, that's fine. You sound great. Hey, so we have a six receiver voting system here on PSRG. So I just did a screen capture of your transmission coming through. You were hitting our Cougar Mounting Receiver Full Strength 255."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":0.9295308366417885,"created_at":"2026-07-04T15:11:37.203030+00:00","id":141370,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":142931,"text":"KW7, DTM West Seattle, no boats in and out. Okay, what was it called?"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.7435529220562715,"created_at":"2026-07-02T07:34:12.029506+00:00","id":136165,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":137101,"text":"Oh nice, I've got a couple of nine amp hour bio-annos. I've got a 12 amp hour bio-annos. Those are just by themselves. I've also got a 40 amp hour bio-anno in a battery box and a 12-volt bio-anno in another battery box. They're great batteries. I've had nothing but great luck with them. All right, well good to hear you there, David. We're 45 minutes roughly out from the 9 o'clock net tonight with Brooks. So, hey come on back, if you get a chance. KW7DTM, KI7RMU, have a great evening. 7-3. Thank you, 7-3, KW7DTM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":0.835620641708374,"created_at":"2026-07-02T07:32:44.905648+00:00","id":136159,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":137092,"text":"KW7 DTM testing 50 watts"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8190576268566979,"created_at":"2026-06-30T06:22:05.650554+00:00","id":132264,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":132708,"text":"And I wish you and your family well, regardless of how these things line up. So, what do you say? Back to you, K7W DTM from Victor Yiggy, one mic, you can go off the arrow. Thanks. Yeah, so if I do pull it off, I'll help on one of the repeaters there. And I got your call fly now. I had her on for it. Victor Yiggy, one mic, golf, Sierra. V-Y-1 MGS. Yeah, so I'll be clear on your final KW7 DTM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.883153247145506,"created_at":"2026-06-30T06:21:57.154677+00:00","id":132260,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":132704,"text":"5 watts testing, KW7 DTM. Your full-scale on Cougar 255 on the integer, you know, the motor scope, you even know about the motor scope, you look at it, send the link to it on the PSRG.org home page. But yeah, if you get into one, just one receiver, you know, full-scale, you are full-dead gliding, so you're getting in with perfect clarity on 5 watts, and you're getting specifically, I think, into Cougar. And then also for Brian, KG7 IVP, Brian, you've had a good audio quality in your last transmission, but you were only getting in at about half scale on the main receiver, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, um, Capitol Park receiver."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.9335746508599683,"created_at":"2026-06-30T06:20:50.715641+00:00","id":132259,"node_number":"66296","recording_id":132703,"text":"Thanks. Okay. Yeah, I'm dropping down to five watts. So I will sign off to you. I'm gonna go inside and have a little more work to do on this thing. Oh, maybe I'll do it tomorrow. The whole thing with the automotive relay was in the three position switches. I can put it in one position to just draw from the battery no matter what the ignition is doing. Like if I'm gonna park and talk for a long time. I don't want to run my car's battery down. The other position on the switch is to give the ignition priority. The automotive relay will enable the battery if there's you know accessory power at the cigarette plug. That's the idea there. So maybe I'll visit the net again and go through it all sometime when I've got everything put together. Thanks again. KW7 DTM 73. KX2 CW off and out."}]}