{"activity_count":60,"callsign":"W6FDU","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2025-07-14T16:11:46+00:00","found":true,"id":2731,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-29T10:28:00.154667+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":42,"profile":{"confidence":0.8445,"counts":{"ncs":0,"net":6,"open_qso":10},"data_freshness":"2025-11-03T13:12:06","latest_topic":"piano playing","most_topic":"piano playing","open_vs_net_bias_score":-0.424,"personal_summary":"Ben is a pianist who enjoys sharing his musical talents and participating in general discussions.","scores":{"civility":0.9,"focus":0.6,"friendly":0.9,"helpful":0.8,"serious":0.7,"technical":0.3},"source":"legacy_callsign_profiles","summary":"Ben frequently discusses his piano playing and enjoys engaging in general conversation.","topic_coverage":{"general conversation":0.5,"piano playing":0.5},"updated_at":"2025-12-23T20:02:32"},"qrz_status":null,"recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-13T21:10:03+00:00","id":7089,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":7088,"text":" I'm in Seattle, and I'll just be in and out. Hey, I got you that time there, Ben, at W6 FDU. Thanks for stopping by. Have a good one there. And who was that doubling with Ben? I7, Keith, and Wallenberg. Or if you look me up on the QRZ, Keith. And I'm I-O. KI7, RYW. I'm in Seattle. I'm in Seattle. I'm in Seattle. I'm in Seattle. I'm in Seattle. I'm in Seattle. I'm in Seattle. I'm in Seattle. I'm in Seattle."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-08T10:11:09+00:00","id":15273,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15272,"text":" Hello, hello, Whiskey Six, Foxtrot, Delta, uniform, are you still out there?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-08T10:10:51+00:00","id":15272,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15271,"text":" Okay, let's take a break right there, that sounds good. Let me back up, pick up Daryl's recheck real quick. Victor Oscar One, uniform Keeloo Zulu, take it away. Thanks Dave, this will be my last one. I usually don't have much comment on these nets, but today, I don't know, just I heard the other station talk about modifying that little car thing that was intended for CD players, one of those little FM transmitters. And I played around with that a little bit years ago as well but couldn't figure out how to amplify it back then. And when I put a tiny little two watt VHF amplifier on it, it splattered, it went way up and down the band so you couldn't use that obviously. But I did use a little two watt amplifier back in the late 90s. Myself and a friend of mine who was also into electronics modified an old cordless phone. Remember those old ones worked on 49 megahertz grand clock? Had a big telescopic antenna. We had a little two watt amplifier and we modified the base station for one of those and put an external antenna on it. And I was up and outside my house, and I live on a hill, it's about 650 feet above the city. So down at the base of that hill, there was a park, like a park playground, swimming pool, that type of thing, where we all used to hang out. And nobody really had cell phones, especially the younger guys back in the 90s. We had beepers. And this phone could get about a five mile range after the modifications. So the base unit was at my house and I could take the cordless unit of it and it was a little Frankenstein, it had like the little amplifier on the back of it and a couple of double A's power in that. But it was only a small little two watt amplifier on the base unit and the handheld. And I could get phone calls from my landline down at the park about five miles away because it was a clear line of sight from the top of the hill where I live to the park at the bottom. And it was mind blowing to my friends back in the day that we could have a phone that was sitting on the picnic table, we could make calls with, it didn't have any minutes or anything like that to worry about. And I could also get incoming calls on the thing. And like I say, my friends back in the day were mind blown over that. But that was my last comment, talking about tinkering and modifications of existing products. But I don't think you can do that today with the 2.4 gig phones and digitally encrypted and spread spectrum and all this kind of stuff. But back in the day, 49 megahertz analog, lots of fun to be had. 73 days from here on UKZ. Oh, Daryl, I love it. That's great. I do remember those days, the little pull out antennas and all that stuff. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah, some of the old phones, yeah, you could definitely do that with. So there you go. Well, thanks, Daryl, for the comment. Much appreciated. And we will catch you later. And I will say once again, have a great rest of your Friday out there and on the rock. So we'll catch you later. All right, let's see what the end is up to, KB7RYY and what you got going on. Come ahead. Hello, it's Dan, KB7RYY, climbing the hill behind my house is all I am want to do. I'm at about a thousand feet now, I think. Anyway, there's Lake Washington, there's Bellevue. Hey, I'm gonna change the topic. I had something else talked about, but cordless phones. Anybody remember the ones that are down at 160 meters, like 1.7 megahertz? They operated on power lines. I, we used to live down in pure West Iberian. My folks lived on the water. I moved up the hill about a mile and a half away along I guess the same AC feature line. I could hear them a mile and a half away. Think about all the other people I could hear as well. Let me let it break. Okay, anyway, simplexed out, I've heard of that thing. You know, somebody changed the frequency from 14655 to 14656. And you know, I'm supposed to read the preamble tomorrow night, I just might go over to that frequency and see what Jeff says. JP7RYY. Hey Dan, thank you for that. Yeah, I do remember those, holy cow. Yeah, that takes me back a while, doesn't it? Yeah, all right. Yeah, give it a shot and see what happens. What the heck? Why not? Thanks for coming by and saying hi. And for those of you who don't know, Dan is also a net controller for the Puget Sound Boaters Net occasionally. And don't forget that meets at 7.47 every morning. And it's a formal roll call, but visitors are welcome at the end of the net. And it's always fun to get local weather forecasts and critter reports and fun stuff from the Puget Sound Boaters Net. So don't forget that's out there. Won't you know Dan would check in on the day that I forget to put that in my announcement. So there you go. Dan, have a wonderful day. Happy Friday and we will catch you later. Whiskey six, Foxtrot Delta uniform. What you got going on? Come ahead."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-08T10:06:47+00:00","id":15271,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15270,"text":" Hey, that gives us a good list of two. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to run this list real quick. And then I'm going to get to news, which I meant to put two earlier. But I'll keep it on the quick side so we can then get more check-ins then. But I do want to do the announcements after these two check-ins. So let's start with Bill over in Kingston, KC5, WFH. What you got going on? Come ahead. Thank you, Dave. Good morning to all out there listening. Only one item to share. We have a little internet radio station here in Kingston. And you can find it on KingstonLocal.org. Check it out. They play mostly local artists and Sprinkle and some other more popular artists in there as well. So just a fun little radio station. Again, KingstonLocal.org. Let's see. Another good day unfolding for us over here. And we appreciate the rain we got here a couple of days ago for sure. Hope you guys got something down there, Dave. Carry on. Have a good one, KC5, WFH. Bill. Hey, Bill. Thanks for that. I'll have to look that one up and check it out. KingstonLocal.org. OK. I will check that out for sure. And thanks for the info there. And yeah, we have a station here that is the single most eclectic radio station I've ever heard. And it's out of Madras. And it's called KJIV. K-J-I-V. They do it. They do internet broadcast as well. And they are lots of fun. You'll get everything. Like, you'll hear they'll play like some country tune, you know, Merle Haggard or something. The very next one will be AC DC. And then there'll be some jazz. And then there'll be some classical. And it just, it's all over the board. And it's so much fun. I just love it. And then they do have a couple of specific shows that they do on specific days that you kind of know what you're going to get. But for the most part, it is very eclectic. And it's just fun. It's all get out. And so you might check that out, KJIV. And I know you can find it online there. So anyway, thanks, Bill. We'll catch you later. 73, happy Friday. Let's see what Matt's up to. KJ7WQI. Take it away, Matt. Hello there, Dave and everybody on the net. Yeah, I'm here on a day off here in Boston. It's real nice out. Pretty warm, but not too hot. And the topic of a little doing your own radio station, I, we used to have a toy around the house when I was a kid. It was one of those things that you plug in to a CD player. And you could broadcast on a specific radio signal so that your radio would pick up the CD player. It didn't have the ability to plug in an aux cable. But we had kind of messed with the wiring a little bit. Because I think it was meant to be in your car. But we had messed with the wiring so you could pick it up through the whole house. So it might have been a small little pirate radio station. But it didn't go far enough to be troublesome. But yeah, that brought back a deep memory from childhood. That must have been like 10, 11, 12 at that point. Anyways, just chilling on a day off, a much needed day off. I've been working for like a week straight. It's nice to kick my feet up for a minute, take a couple deep breaths, and relax. Just went and did some grocery shopping and got back to the house. Wondered if the net was still running. Looks like it is. And I wanted to pop in and say hello. So I'll throw it back to you, Dave. Thanks for running that. Hope everybody's doing fine. KJ7WQI. Hey, Matt. Great to hear from you this morning. And yeah, that sounds like fun. So I can dig that. Yeah. Well, 73s, have a wonderful day off for sure. And it sounds like you definitely deserve it. So go for it. Yeah, go do something crazy. Sounds like my kind of day. Anyway, 73s, and we will catch you later. All right. Hey, I need to do the announcements real quick. I'll do a quick version of them, maybe not touch on everything that is out there. But let's get the highlights and the important points in real quick before I move on. So let me let it drop, and I will get started on the news from the high desert. OK. As you know, this net meets every day, 365 days a year, on the PSRJ repeater in Seattle, Washington. That's 9 AM noon and 9 PM. Next one coming up, of course, is Jack's Nooner. OK. There you go. OK. Let's see. Other points of serious importance. Don't forget that the simplex net Saturday night at 8 PM is on 146.56. And the radio club at Tacoma on Saturday from 10 to 2 is having an open house. Go in and meet your friends and get an eyeball with some other hams. And yeah, everybody is welcome. So go check out the radio club of Tacoma. All right. Sunday the 10th, mission critical. Season 7, episode 5 of the noon net Rain or Shine. At the east side of Green Lake down by the Paddle Boat Reynolds, just north of the Paddle Boat Reynolds. And it's an ice cream social, so go get some ice cream. You'll get a little voucher when you get there. And you can go over to the local ice cream shop and get an ice cream cone. So there you go. And yeah, go have fun. Meet up with other members of the PSRJ and have a good time. And hey, sounds like a hook for you. Wish I could be there. But we will be up there on Wednesday, briefly, passing through. So there you go. August 17, Shoreline Community College, vintage electronics swap meet. So go up and check that out. It's always fun. They've always got some really neat, goofy old stuff up there and it's really fun. So go check that out. And the Wooden Boat Fest is coming up September 5 through the 7th. So go check that out in Port Townsend. And today is National Frozen Custard Day. What a burger day. Sleep under the stars night. CBD day. Pickleball day. Ironically, today is bocce ball day for me. We have friends coming over to play bocce tonight. And Ron's game is pickleball. And today is National Pickleball Day. So think of Ron when you're thinking about pickleball. Mochi day. Dollar day. And Happiness Happens day. Sneak a zucchini onto your neighbor's porch day. I love that one. Oh man, I wish I had some. Our local produce gives away these giant zucchinis this time of year because they can't sell them. It would be fun to get one of those and go sneak it onto my neighbor's porch. Anyway, alright, that's the news from the high desert. I'm listening for more radio check-ins. Name and call sign please. It's 10 a.m. Take it away. Who's out there? Come in. B1UKZ with another recheck. No rush. Okay, let me see if I can get a couple of check-ins here, Daryl. I'll get you there with another recheck. Hang on a second. Next station, please. KP7RYY, Dan. Good morning, Dan. I got you on the list. Good to hear from you. And next check-in. Whiskey 6 Foxtrot Delta Uniform, Bim and Seattle. Whiskey 6 Foxtrot Delta Uniform, got you on the list. Next check-in, please."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-28T22:17:20+00:00","id":26916,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":26915,"text":" Yes, Whiskey 6 Foxtrot Delta uniform. I'm located in Seattle. My name is Ben. Bravo, Echo November. And I just lost a meaningless discussion with my computer. Over."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-28T22:32:58+00:00","id":26936,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":26935,"text":" Okay, this is W6 Foxtrot Delta Uniform. I'm having a losing battle with my computer. I think it's smarter than me. It doesn't want to turn on properly. I don't know what to do and I'll worry about it tomorrow. W6 FDU."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-28T22:18:55+00:00","id":26922,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":26921,"text":" Oh, I like that. We have a little bit of preview of what's to come. Thank you, Ben, in Seattle, W6FDU. You're going to be up after this other station that you doubled with whose call sign I started writing first. That station that starts with a kilo. Please come back."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-29T09:22:40+00:00","id":27309,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":27308,"text":" Good morning, this is W6, Foxconn Delta uniform, and my name is Ben, I'm in Seattle, and just enjoying some breakfast while I'm listening to the net. Over."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-29T09:22:20+00:00","id":27308,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":27307,"text":" This is KK7 Foxequilo Bravo on mobile, bicycle, Seattle. Have a good morning. KK7 FKB. Bicycle mobile, that's like you and Bert getting out there. I love the bicycle, I've got bicycle mobile. In fact, here, we're going to do story time in the middle of the net. That is how I met Teresa the Saturday morning Coast, KG7 AII. I was literally biking around my neighborhood in my, in Kirkland, North Kirkland, with an HT on my bike and ran into another person biking around with an HT on her bike. And I was like, are you a ham operator? She goes, why yes I am. And that's how I met KG7 AII. I was just biking around and noticed a radio on the bicycle. So anyway, biking radios, love it. Thanks, Tree. Have a beautiful day. Ben is up next. Hello and good morning, W6 FDU."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-17T12:16:56+00:00","id":40477,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":40476,"text":" Alright, well for $36,000 covered by insurance you sound like a million bucks today. So that is a pretty good return. Alright, you have a good one there. Grossie, thank you for dropping by on the new net. Let's go talk to Ben. Ben, it's been a while. I hear you on some other nets. It's nice to have you on the new net today, sir. W6FDU. How are you?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-17T12:02:29+00:00","id":40464,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":40463,"text":" All right, Robert, I've got your I.O. Thank you so much. Have a great midweek Wednesday. KK70Y with an I.O. The W6 station, come back please. What's the rest of your call sign? W6, Foxtrot, Delta uniform. My name is Ben."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-23T12:47:31+00:00","id":45323,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":45322,"text":" Oops, there was two of you there, but I only heard W6FDU Ben in Seattle. You're on the list, but who was the other fellow trying at the same time? Please try again. It's WQ7H. This is James. I'd like to be an IO, please, and thank you for doing the net."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-30T21:26:27+00:00","id":50779,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":50778,"text":" Alright, let's go ahead to W6F-DU. Ben, please come ahead."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-01T09:59:35+00:00","id":51199,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":51198,"text":" Okay, I think I copied W6 Foxtrot Delta uniform, was that correct?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-01T10:11:12+00:00","id":51211,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":51210,"text":" Okay, well so far I know where Oregon is and that's about it. Glad you're having a good day. W6 Foxtrot Delta uniform. Roger that. Well, I will tell you this probably is about the best way to describe it. I am 20 miles from the absolute geographic center of the state. So there you go. Which is just a little bit east of us. So there you go. Yeah, there's a little town here called Post and that is the geographic center. Well, it's not even a town. It's a community. And it's, yeah, that is the absolute geographic center of the state of Oregon. And they actually have a sign there and the whole thing that that's where you are. So, anyway. So yeah, just look dead center in the middle of the state and that's where I am. So there you go. Hey, have a great day. Thanks for coming by and saying hi. It's great to hear from you. And we will catch you again. Alright. Let's see who else is out there. This is Kilo Delta 7, Papa Whiskey Bravo Dave, the High Desert Pirate Radio. And I'm listening for more radio check-ins, comments, complaints, or anything for the good of the net. Please come ahead. Yeah, go ahead Bill. What you got? What's coming out?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-23T12:51:11+00:00","id":45329,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":45328,"text":" Next up is W6FDU. Ben, how are you?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-23T12:45:48+00:00","id":45316,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":45315,"text":" Whiskey 6 Foxtrot Delta uniform. My name is Ben. I'm in Seattle. Please try to."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-01T10:09:21+00:00","id":51208,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":51207,"text":" Roger that, copied Whiskey 6 Foxtrot Delta uniform. I did actually have it right, I just couldn't read my own writing. So there you go. Well hey, um, yeah, life is good right now, you know? It's okay. So, um, yeah we got kind of a gray overcast, rainy, showery kind of day down here. So might end up with a thunderstorm by this evening, we'll see, don't know. So hey, Ben, if you got it and don't have anything else or, you know, if you do, come on back and would you please clear out with your call sign when you're done."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-02T21:25:51+00:00","id":52049,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":52048,"text":" Benjamin, I love it, I love it when people have their, use their full name, Benjamin. W6FDU, I feel like I just got that wrong, but that's okay. We'll come back to you. I'm going to go ahead, I'll do some more calls. I'll call for the name RF in internet."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-16T21:24:43+00:00","id":62101,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":62100,"text":" Whiskey 6 Foxtrot Delta Uniform and my name is Ben, I'm in Seattle."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-11-03T13:11:47+00:00","id":74773,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":74772,"text":" Alright, well yeah, I would imagine that that would be a challenge doing it on one piece of fabric and that is indeed what I have seen. One piece of fabric, two completely different pictures, embroidered. Wow, unbelievable. Alright, well good luck, Helen. Nice to hear you there, Graham. And thank you, puppy Odin. Let's go see what Benjamin has for us, W6FDU."},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-11-03T13:11:21+00:00","id":74772,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":74771,"text":" Well, thank you Jack and definitely Helen's going to go and check that out. She has done embroidery before since she knows how to do it but hasn't seen that kind of double-sided adventure at all. I think it looks like fabric. Oh, maybe double-sided fabric and that could, yes, if you've got two layers of fabric. So basically just doing two and sticking them back to back. I don't know. Hey listen, she'll check it out. But anyway, thanks so much for taking us on the net and of course, Poppy was trying to get in the middle, especially as Helen was speaking as well. So anyway, he's now calmed down. He's lying next to me as if he's a baby. Oh no, he's awake. I was going to say as if he's an obedient dog but now he's on the off. There we go. Never a dull moment. Back to you. Thank you Jack. GM zero, you be clear."},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-16T21:24:30+00:00","id":62100,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":62099,"text":" Kilo 4, Hotel Delta, K4HD, Kevin."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-02T21:59:57+00:00","id":52071,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":52070,"text":" It's so good. It's so good. Nico Case has just this beautiful, beautiful, just like powerful piercing voice. I just, oh, so good. So good. Her newest album is so good. It is so good. So good. Nico Case. But anyway, thank you for the report, Joan. I'm glad that you're enjoying Nico Case's new album. And Benjamin was an operator earlier. He was talking about taking time out of his day to go downstairs to the lobby of the assisted living place that he lives. Go down to the lobby and play the piano. He's been playing the piano since he was three years old. And so he went down, he goes downstairs to play the piano. I just thought that was so beautiful. And he said that people really enjoyed it. It's awesome. Yeah, I love it. I love it. I love it. And W6FDU plays the piano, classical, jazz, and music that he composes himself. I love it. Love it, love it, love it. But yeah, hopefully he'll check in again. He said he checked in last night. So hopefully he'll check in again tomorrow or some other time. It was a lovely report. You would have loved it. Whew! Water, water. Excuse me, y'all."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-02T21:35:23+00:00","id":52052,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":52051,"text":" Well Fred, I understand. When you said you had a bad day, I got worried for a second. And I'm glad that it had to do with the sports. And not that you had... I was like, oh no! Medina, Ohio. Yeah, I looked at... I always put things on my map and I was like, oh yeah, Medina, Ohio. So I have my little Google map that I have everyone... Yeah, so, well good. Well, you know, the sports world does go on, doesn't it? Well thank you so much for checking in, Fred. And, yeah, I guess just... Maybe get you some... Like heat lamps. Get you some little chicken lights. Get you some of those red chicken lights and kind of clip them. Clip them to somewhere. I don't know. And you can just heat up your little toes. You can make yourself a little incubator like a little chick. With some little chicken lights. I don't know. Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day. I don't know why. I was like, why don't people use chicken lights as heaters? Anyway, that's my own personal tangent. Everyone, I'm real tired saying some really weird stuff. Doesn't matter. Fred, the sports world goes on. 7-3 and stay warm. All right. Next on the list is Benjamin. W6FDU. That might not be your call sign, but your name is Benjamin. Please come ahead with your report."}]}