{"activity_count":52,"callsign":"W1IK","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2025-09-18T18:12:06+00:00","found":true,"id":10623,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-28T03:22:54.685881+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":43,"profile":{"confidence":0.7735,"counts":{"ncs":0,"net":3,"open_qso":12},"data_freshness":"2025-12-23T13:21:49","latest_topic":"net operation and straight key night","most_topic":"net operation and straight key night","open_vs_net_bias_score":-0.827,"personal_summary":"W1IK is a friendly and supportive operator who facilitates net operations and promotes straight key night activities.","scores":{"civility":0.9,"focus":0.7,"friendly":0.9,"helpful":0.8,"serious":0.8,"technical":0.6},"source":"legacy_callsign_profiles","summary":"W1IK operates the net and encourages straight key night activities.","topic_coverage":{"net operation":0.5,"straight key night":0.5},"updated_at":"2025-12-23T19:46:23"},"qrz_status":null,"recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-18T18:10:39+00:00","id":41317,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":41316,"text":" Whiskey 1 India kilo. Jim in East Point, Michigan."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-18T18:24:09+00:00","id":41328,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":41327,"text":" Okay Marty, I just had a tone on what that was. I don't see any messages from it. Anyway, your situation is a lot like what mine is today. Since we went full-time RVing, I haven't been involved in any of those groups. However, we do have an active PAM community down there in Florida that travels west. I do belong to the Dave City Club. And of course, Travelers Rest has a good-sized hang club right there in the campground. So there is some emergency stuff, or preparedness stuff that we do there, but not a whole lot. Nothing like the events that we did back years ago. Alright, thanks for being there. I assume that you might be here again for the next time around. Let me get back on the right list over here. Next on my list, which I can't find again. Next on my list is Jim W1IK, up here in Michigan. Well, I used to say up here in Michigan, but we're not up there anymore. We left two days ago. So, hey Jim, W1IK from K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-18T18:39:10+00:00","id":41344,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":41343,"text":" Okay, well we'll have a fairly short list tonight. Rhonda did not show up. She was there before the net, but when we started calling her that she went away. KF4ZS is here, so I will give it to him first. That's Don. And Don can pass it to Phil, W4AKY. And Phil can pass it to W9EAA if he's still around. Nope, I see he said about that she had to go. So Phil you can pass it to Jim, W1IK. And Jim can pass it down to Eric, KR4EID. So that's the list as we have it. Go ahead, who did I say, Don, KF4ZS from K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-18T18:44:39+00:00","id":41347,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":41346,"text":" So, when that happens, I am having to move this stuff multiple times to get at other things that we use throughout the rest of our trip and it is just in the way. So, I mean, not complaining, I will do it if called on, but right now, no news is good news. All right, that is basically all I have got, gang. It is good to hear everybody on. Thank you, Hank, for running it as always and for whoever gave you the topic, good topic, nice change of pace. With that, we will send it to KR4EID. Eric, you are next. This is Whiskey 1 India Kilo, Jim in East Point, Michigan. This is Repeater Station Kilo Kilo 7 November, connect November. KR4EID here, just negotiating some traffic, enjoying the conversation and really that is about it. I am learning new things about ham, listening to you all and very worthwhile, very interesting and do not do much in the way of RVing, but I have done it and I am listening. All good. KR4EID, I am out, I am listening."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-25T18:08:53+00:00","id":46593,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":46592,"text":" We2Rv stroke N3YRZ net control for the RV radio networks Thursday night Echo Link multi mode net. Good evening Michelle and good evening to all aboard from Whiskey One India Kilo Gym in East Point Michigan. My goodness I'm going to say it was probably the fall RV radio network rally trip that we took, my brother Randy and I, last fall 2024. The one that we've got coming up is going to be right on par with that or perhaps maybe even a day or two longer. I suppose I could probably go look it up and find out exactly how many days we were out each year in the past five or so years since I've had this coach and since we've kind of been making it an annual event to do a fall trip some place and they've all been, well we've been getting longer. We started out a couple weeks and then we went three weeks and then we went a month and we've been kind of right on that 30 day mark mostly for the past several trips of the long trips for each year. I know some folks are full timers and they're, I guess you could count their trips in years but not this kid, not yet. Anyway, I'm very much looking forward to in just a little over a week's time starting my fall trip with brother Randy and amongst our highlights will be attending the RV radio network's fall rally in Elmendorf, Texas at Browning Lake and in the San Antonio area. So looking forward to it. Let me wait."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-16T18:37:57+00:00","id":62067,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":62066,"text":" Alpha Delta II, India Hotel, and The Net. Thank you, George. Here is Whiskey One India Kilo, portable five in Elmendorf, Texas, for a few more hours. Well, we're going to pull up stakes tomorrow with the rest of the group and go our separate ways. For us, it'll be a travel day to our next stop in Jim and Randy's Epic Odyssey 2025. We try and do a extended as much as we can manage RV excursion to somewhere. Some where's plural, more like. And we'll be heading tomorrow to Galveston Island State Park. So a lot of due rest on I-10 until we get a little ways out of the side of Houston and then bring the Houston Metroplex by as much as we can and pick up, I think it's 45 that heads down to the Gulf. And from there on to Galveston Island State Park where we will remain for five days. And from then we'll be moving to the New Orleans area and then heading back north. We'll come by way of Kentucky, Ohio, and then back to Michigan. We won't be returning to Michigan until the second week in November. So we are going to experience some cold temperatures. We're going to be getting the full gamut of temperature extremes. Let's hope it's not too wet or otherwise distasteful weather. Right now it doesn't look like we're going to have any hurricane, we hope, for the Gulf for our stay in that area. But things change fast as we all know when we're talking about this time of year, the Gulf and the ocean coasts. Anyway, wish us luck. We had a very nice catered meal tonight of barbecue. Randy and I have been to several other..."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-16T18:16:25+00:00","id":62048,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":62047,"text":" All right, we've got some of our members go to courts every year, so we'll be having a gathering there. That's on January 18 through 24 at Quartzsite, Arizona. Big, big rally. A lot more than just ham radio going on there, but at the time there's a big event going on and the ham radio rally is just part of it. We've got another rally coming up in May. It's going to be right before the ham convention. That's going to be at Follow the River. That's next year, of course. Follow the River RV Resort in Florence, Indiana. It's right on the Ohio River, from what I understand, in Florence, Indiana. And that's going to be on May 9 through May 13. Basic starting information is on the website about it right on our front page. That's all that we have on there so far is what's on the front page. Likewise, we have scheduled our follow rally for next year to be at Gulf Pines in Milton, Florida. And I don't see what the unhitched Milton, it looks like, is the Musqueam community. Unhitched Milton. It's in Milton, Florida and there will be more information coming up on that, but that's going to be October and it doesn't even give a date on the website. But Harold N5IL is who the chairman is if you want to get in touch with him. Look him up on our members page. I guess that's all the announcements I've got. So far I see you all gone. AD2IH and W1IK. So we're kind of late right now. Let me see if I've got anybody over here. I don't see anybody else logged on. Our topic for tonight was suggested by George. And the topic is what's the coldest temperature you have ever camped in? What's the coldest temperature you've ever camped in? And did you have any issues? What kind of issues did you have, if any? So I have camped as low as 17 degrees and I had, well anytime we're down around freezing, you know, down in the below 32, maybe it depends on how much I trust the weather report. If I know it's going to get below 30, I'm going to disconnect water. Let me reset one more time. If I know it's going to get below 30, I'll disconnect. And the one time I'm talking about, I think it was in 2017, we had a different motor home. We had actually a fifth wheel at that time. And I'm pretty sure that's the year it was. But anyway, we were in southern Alabama and it got down to 17 degrees. And we had a little bit of a water drip on a grave valve. The grave valve water would drip a little bit anytime you ran some water through it. I kept the, normally kept the drain open. But with the, with it being freezing, I had to close the valve. And the valve would drip a little bit with water backed up. And that dripped enough that we had icicles hanging out of our bay door. So it was a funny sight to see. We went out and bought a water hose that had electrical rapid wiring wrapped around it. And we used it that one time. It went in the storeroom up in Alabama after that. And we've never used it since. It's still in the storeroom up there. So that's my experience with camping when it's freezing temperatures. So it was George's topic. So let's go to George and see what he can say about it. 82IH from K4HM. Alrighty. Funny thing is I've never really been in brutal cold for extended periods of time. So that's kind of odd. I would say 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Say for three or four days. And the main problem is the hoses will freeze. So I have electric hose for gray water and for fresh water. And I also have onboard fresh water tanks. So I could work around the cold air. But the problem becomes the black water or even gray water drain. You know, the long flexible hose if you're at a campsite. That will freeze. And if they freeze, those hoses are pretty cheap and they'll start to get pinholes. They start to leak. So I'll go through a hose every day or two. You don't have to replace it. Fortunately they're pretty cheap. But if I use my own tanks, then obviously it's not a problem because I'm inside the camper. And the camper itself is made to be cold. I got a truck camper. And a lot of snow skiers and stuff like that use them for winter use. So if it's standalone on its own, it's fine. But if you're hooked up to those services, like your water, your drain and all that, that gets a little rough. But that's about all I got. And I'll be interested in listening to W1IK. I'm wondering if he's in Texas at the rally. And 82IH, back to you Hank. This is repeater station kilo kilo. Okay George, the hose I was talking about disconnected was the water supply hose. But we do drop the sewer dump hose as well. And I walk the water out of that. Whether I disconnected or not, I walk the water out of it. And I have the valves closed. So theoretically it wouldn't get any more water in it. But I usually disconnect it after I walk the water out of it, hump the water out of it, whatever you want to call it. Sure you know what I'm talking about. But once I got all the water out of it, I just had to lay on the ground until I'm going to use it again. Then I hook it back up. So I forgot to mention that. There are some interesting stories about that too. But it's for another day. Alright Jim, George wants to know where you are. I know you get some cold weather up in Michigan. So you got probably some freezing stories to tell us as well. W1IK from K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-16T18:33:57+00:00","id":62065,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":62064,"text":" Okay, maybe we'll pick some more up as we go through. I got a hint for you guys. I made a plea a couple of times for more topics and George was nice enough to send me some. That's what our topic tonight is, one of them that George suggested. Appreciate that. But another thing, you know, when I first come on, I get on about a lot of the links come up on the, on the multi-mode debt work, right at quarter till. And I try to be on as close as I can after that. I'm usually on by ten till at least. So would you guys get up, get it, get on? Well, I'm trying to get on a little bit earlier. So I got somebody to talk to and maybe we'll start getting more people to come in that way too. So I got to appreciate some company before, before the clock kicks over. I know you got to listen to a long prologue, but that's all right. You need to hear it anyway every once in a while. All right. Well, we have, first up is going to be George, 82IH. George can turn it over to Jim, W1IK. Chuck did not stick around, I see. So Jim, you can turn it over to VK2DY, Robert. And Robert can turn it over to KA7RON. I've said my piece, so go ahead George, pick it up. K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-16T18:38:41+00:00","id":62069,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":62068,"text":" We're barbecued out. Maybe when we get to Galveston and New Orleans we'll concentrate a little more on seafood. Anyway, we take what we can get and we won't belabor this much longer. We'll send it now to our station from down under a very reliable check-in from Robert. Let me make sure I get Robert's call correct. It is Victor Kilo 2 Delta Yankee. Over to you, Rob. 7-3 All from Whiskey 1 India Kilo portable 5 in Elmendorf, Texas."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-16T18:50:54+00:00","id":62077,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":62076,"text":" I'll make it back in if I can remember and am available. 7-3-O, W1IK, Port 5 out."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-21T20:04:31+00:00","id":81905,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":81904,"text":"Whiskey one India kilo."},{"callsign_confidence":0.9199999999999999,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-21T21:55:26+00:00","id":82334,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":82333,"text":"Alright, we got you down, gotta keep track of that, we're going to win you an award for a number of most check-ins, I don't know how all that's working, Michelle's going to put some publishing information about it, supposedly, but she may have already done it, my email is so packed up right now that I could spend two days on email and nothing else and I still wouldn't be caught up, I'm involved in two daggone many things. Alright, well next up was Don, but Don says he's just listening, and yeah he's still connected, but I told him he could jump in any time if he wants to, so we'll just listen to him, and the bottom of the list is W1IK Jim, so far I don't see anybody else coming up behind you, so you're on the stump of W1IK from K4HM. Thanks for watching!"},{"callsign_confidence":0.8700000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-22T03:45:44+00:00","id":83516,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":83515,"text":"Okay Gene, I'm glad to have you join us, we're here every Thursday at this time, you've found our website, so check us out and come back again, I'm glad to have anybody drop in on this gift, you don't have to be an RV-er but it sounded like you might be one, if I had a license or anything like that, anybody that's got a technician or hire license, which that's about all you can get today, That might still be a few novices around, but you can't get a new novice like me. Anyway, glad to have you come join us. I hope you come back again next week. Alright, let's come on down on what I was going to say. We've got another call sound popped up, but it's gone away. So we'll drop on down to Jim, W1IK from K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-24T05:09:21+00:00","id":93471,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":93470,"text":"It's done the trip, but I'm glad they have it working now anyway. That's it for me. We're going to send it now to Terry Alpha Echo 7 Mike Romeo here is whiskey 1 India Kilo, Gemini's point, Michigan"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-23T00:15:31+00:00","id":87693,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":87692,"text":"All right, 82 IH here and Let's see the 73 rounds. Well, I'd like to say 73 to all I see we got a lot of guests tonight That's pretty cool and of course w1 ik who I must admit is a quality member hits all the nets and Has been known to help me out here in there too. So it's all appreciated So with that this is 82 IH handing it off to line 5 and for a HO Douglas You're up"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-23T04:00:27+00:00","id":88436,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":88435,"text":"Ok Bobby, I said make your down since I misspoke, I meant to say you wanted to be in and out, so I appreciate you checking in, and I'll still watch for you on the list, and I don't know why I just got an alarm rang in, but I don't see anything new out there, do I see Jim has joined us, W1IK has joined us, so put you on the list Jim, and I'll go ahead and and make the announcements that I always have. First of all, talking about our nets, we have a 40 meter net on six nights a week, 7 p.m. Central Time on 7264, 7.264 megahertz, Sunday through Friday, 7 p.m. Central Time. We have another 40 meter net on Mondays and Wednesdays at later night that comes on at Pacific time 8.15 p.m. so that's still at what 10 and 11 p.m. 10 and 15 and 11.15 p.m. Eastern Central and Eastern times. Still on 72-64 on Monday night and Wednesday nights only. We have an HF set on 20 meters on Tuesdays and Thursdays daytime hours. That comes on at 11.15 AM central time, on 14.283, 14.283, all of those are plus or minus QRM, which we have to get a 15 AC, but sometimes if the band is noisy or QRM, we might have to move further off, so the best, as always, is to check netlogger.org, and they'll see a list of nets there, and it'll show you what frequency we're on. We're always on that longer. Then of course we've got this net on Thursday nights at the same time, same place, and we have a video meeting they're calling it now on Tuesday nights. It's open to everybody. It's on Zoom, and there's a link to that. If you go to our website, you'll see near the top of the page in the center column a list of nets, it's at the bottom of the list of nets. There's a link there you can click to get up to that meeting. What else we got coming up? We've got some rallies coming up, Quartzsite, Arizona coming up with their annual Quartz Fest over there and we have a group that will be over there and you can contact our host and with my timer, let me reset."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-23T12:50:17+00:00","id":90217,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":90216,"text":"Okay guys, it's time for the lightning round, and like I've described to you a couple of times, we'll use that longer, and if you're on there you can just follow on the list and come right on down the list, so we'll see what we can do here. I'm going to give it over to W9EAA. Marty is not going to, Marty's not there. He said he had to be short tamped about it. I will be giving it to KA7RON. Ron, and Ron will give it to 82IH, and 82IH. George will give it to W1IK Jim, and Jim will give it to E7MR, Terry, Terry will give it to KI7IHU, Dave, Dave will give it to KI5 BCE, Tom, and Tom will give it to KJ5HWZ, Mark, Mark will pass it over to VK2DY, and VK2DY can pass it down to Rob, KJ-5-G-R-E. Wagging around is all about trying to fill in information that you forgot to say the first time or answer questions that somebody's asked. It's not to be a long dialogue, just a catch-up kind of a comment, so that's what we're doing. So I'll just turn it over to KA-7-R-O-N, Ron from KA-7-R-O-N. for Peter Station Kilo Kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. All star, node 6222. All right, thank you, Hank. Another great nip. Yeah."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-23T13:20:39+00:00","id":90324,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":90323,"text":"Alrighty, 82i8 here, the only thing I can add about the mobile RV equipment is that I also have, don't tell me, where is it here somewhere, a Yaesu FTM-510D which is like a mobile set and a Yaesu FT-5 which is a handy talkie and I use them more for wires X than anything else but um let's see what else do we have here that's about it and Hank thanks for running this echo link thing I'm glad you're here every Thursday it's a it's a great little setup and now I'm gonna hand it off to our VRN member and friend of mine a w1 ik this is 82 IH is clear"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.7459718897938729,"created_at":"2026-06-26T02:07:32.260643+00:00","id":123617,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":123616,"text":"I guess you feel they set up, got him or else somebody called him or whatever. So I didn't think about where we're on that logarithm. Let me call out the rest of the list here and go straight down the list. I'm going to take it over to Steven and Y4 and C. Steven can pass it to Jim W1iK. W1iK, Jim can pass it to Gerald in 3FVP. And Gerald can pass it to Steven Wd4SRC if he's still there. Otherwise it'll go down to KR7IHU Dave. Dave can pass it down to VK2DY. And it's Robert. Robert can pass it to KD6HOF. So W1iK, I'm sorry, N14 NC. Go ahead and take it from K4HM. Okay, F4HM in the net. Yeah, I guess we can agree to do that."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":0.9428498220319549,"created_at":"2026-06-26T02:05:40.951412+00:00","id":123611,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":123610,"text":"And Y4, MC, and the RV radio networks. Thursday night echo link, multi-mode net. Thank you, Stephen, for your input. And this is Whiskey One India, Kilo, Jim, and East Point, Michigan. Yeah, I've been RVing for 40 years. And have found a number of truisms about dealing with your tanks, whether they be gray or black. They have to be dealt with differently, of course, because they deal with different effluent. But with regard to black tank, I find that it's the least of my worries. Surprisingly, I very unlikely I'm going to fill the black tank."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.5238319222743695,"created_at":"2026-06-26T01:20:18.043646+00:00","id":123521,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":123520,"text":"I've got on the list here real quick. I've got chaos 6 HOB mock, game of 4 NC Stephen, W1 IK Jim, N3 FDP Jerry, WD4 SRC Stephen and chaos 7 HU and that's Dave and I don't see anybody else connected yet. Let me check one more place here. Don't see anybody else. So that's a bit as I have it. We do normally have a topic. Let me take a quick break here and I'll get to that. We try to have a topic every week and our topic this week is book, care and seeking. How do you take care of your black tank? We'll get to that in a minute. So"},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-24T18:10:54+00:00","id":96025,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":96024,"text":"Day 4, HM, net control for the RV Radio Network's Thursday night multi-mode net. Good evening, Hank, and good evening to all aboard from Whiskey 1 India Kilo, Jimy in the East Point, Michigan, where it is 49 degrees, 49 degrees and raining, And just about all of our accumulated ice and snow has melted. We're going to be dropping down tonight to below freezing again. By midnight, it will be probably in the area of about 25 degrees. So we're on a roller coaster as far as temperatures are concerned over the next, well, week anyway. going to be in and out of freezing and thawing, but it looks like we\ufffdre not going to have any real significant precipitation. So it\ufffds going to be a brown Christmas. That\ufffds pretty well established now. Anyway, not a big deal for me. I don\ufffdt play in the snow, so it doesn\ufffdt really matter. Anyway, memorable gift given or received. Well, I don't know that I've ever given anything all that remarkable, but I certainly have received my share of wonderful gifts over the course of my life. A couple that stick out in my memory, of course, when I was a child would be the walkie-talkies, you know, the 11-meter walkie-talkies that were given in those days in the 60s and 70s to kids to play around with. I was fascinated by that. Also, musical instruments. I lobbied for a good time for a guitar. I wanted a guitar at age about nine, I guess."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-24T23:49:08+00:00","id":97132,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":97131,"text":"Okay, I guess Ron had cut out also. Usually what he does, he'll say so in the chat box down there, but he didn't. This week we picked up Jim, that's W6JMP, and we picked up Jim, W1IK. Gotta get him in on this. Let's head on down to Marty, W9EAA from K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-25T04:38:45+00:00","id":98062,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":98061,"text":"Yes, he's not around, so I'm going to go on and get it to see if he's there and William can pass it on to George. George can pass it to Doug. I just messed my screens up, they're so small I can't read them. Even for A.H.O. Doug, Doug can pass it to K.A.7.R.O.N, wasn't fair, so let's go ahead and Doug can pass it to W.9.E.A.A, not sure if he's going to be there or not either. From there we'll go on down to W.6.J.M.P., Jim, and then down to Jim, W.1.I.K., and Jim can pass it back to Dave, K.I.7.I.H.U. It's kind of going to be a mess, but I'll keep my eye on it. So over to W4PLT from K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-25T04:38:21+00:00","id":98061,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":98060,"text":"An inch and a half of rain, dude, in the Bay Area. Wow, that is an impressive volume of rain there. Very interesting. I guess it does tend to probably wash off a little bit of that tasty salt from those peanuts. But thanks for stopping by, Jeff. And stay dry. And inside for the time being, I guess, till there's better conditions down there. At least it's not too cold, huh? Good business. With that, it's 9.28 PM. My name's Matt. I am a Ki-7UEF operating as a substitute tonight on the Thursday 9 o'clock med from Central Oregon, the high desert on All Star. And I'm going to build one more round here. I would like to build this round in a systematic and calm approach, please slowly and phonetically come ahead with your call sign and name."}]}