{"activity_count":37,"callsign":"W8S","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2025-07-25T21:53:26+00:00","found":true,"id":3095,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-29T10:05:56.748288+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":34,"profile":{"confidence":0.85,"counts":{"ncs":1,"net":0,"open_qso":26,"transcript_contexts":26},"data_freshness":"generated","latest_topic":"Weather and personal activities","most_topic":"Personal anecdotes and operational updates","open_vs_net_bias_score":0.7,"personal_summary":"W8S frequently participates in open QSOs and occasionally takes on the role of net control. Shows interest in a variety of topics and maintains a friendly and engaging presence on the air.","scores":{"activity":0.9,"civility":0.9,"engagement":0.8,"focus":0.7,"friendly":0.85,"helpful":0.8,"serious":0.6,"technical":0.6},"source":"ai_profile","summary":"W8S is active in various QSOs and occasionally acts as a net control station. Engages in discussions ranging from personal anecdotes to technical topics.","topic_coverage":{"Net control duties":0.1,"Operational updates":0.3,"Personal anecdotes":0.4,"Technical discussions":0.2},"updated_at":"2026-06-25T15:08:03.756069"},"qrz_status":null,"recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.9199999999999999,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-25T16:33:10+00:00","id":10181,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":10180,"text":" Yeah, okay there Paul, and we had a bit of a surprise you check it in there, but it's great, the details will get you very, very soon. This is a bit of a rack to net, so we can, it could be a little while there. Okay, Woody, I'll say something for each of you, that's N5XCX over there in that, to Paris and Florida, and we'll, I'll be on the SSIN on the end tomorrow over on the SCARS network as well, so I'll chat with David there at that control. Okay, I'll clean with N5XCX and now we're going to Rudy over there in Canada, hope you're still with us there Rudy, and I do love your, your new suffix. Anyway, here we go, Victor Echo 3, what a great amateur, this is W8S, I'll never forget that, are you still with us there Rudy?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-29T16:27:41+00:00","id":27632,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":27631,"text":" Okay, hearing nobody else, this is the W8S set out. This is going to be the official final call for any further check-ins to the KB1 multi-mode net this evening. This is the W8S set out."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-02T18:09:41+00:00","id":30761,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":30760,"text":" Well thank you for picking me up. I appreciate it. And I just actually learned about this net tonight when I was listening to another net. But my wife and I are kind of very, we're just getting into it. She has what I think is called a SeaStar 500. So we've messed around with that a little bit. And we've got some photos. And it's actually a pretty cool little device. It's got its own GPS system on it. But yeah, we are what would be considered newbies at this. So once we heard that there was an astronomy net, we thought well you know what, we're just going to have to listen and see what this is all about. This is W8S, back to you."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-03T15:33:28+00:00","id":52806,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":52805,"text":" Okay, I've got Victor Echo 3, X-ray, Delta, Bravo, that's Dirk, and Corey, Victor Echo 1, Charlie, Mike, Delta as well. And is there any stations out there on EchoLink that I haven't called that want to check in or any of the digital modes? I'll give you some extra time. This is your W8S, that's Al."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-10T15:20:46+00:00","id":57466,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":57465,"text":" Yeah, of course the other part of that something in fact I was watching the weekly podcast from sky watcher awhile back and The guy was talking about telescope mouse and basically large refractors, you know, these 120 or so millimeter refractors are getting to be pretty popular and He pointed out something about torque And you know, it's not just the payload weight But this is a torque of a long telescope that you know makes it need to be your mouth. So Yeah, I suppose if you has a really big yaggy like that. Well, that would have a lot of torque That was really have a lot. It probably would take pretty beefy rotators to work to make that work. I suppose Yeah, I was I was thinking something a little office is that you know, maybe for my old Celestra, you know, maybe one of those up Those those handheld You know that's used for satellites And I don't know that would be that would be pretty cool to have something like that computerized So I was supposed to standing out there in the backyard, you know Was he enchanted and one has the microphone and the other I don't know something to be said for that to anyway I Somebody else This is repeater station kilo kilo seven, okay, I seven pk L from W8s and I'll pay there Ryan. Yeah, something like an arrow antenna. I you're probably thinking of and that should work perfectly fine On there the court if you stick them up in the air Of course you got the wind loaded as well and I'm happy You know the more elements the the narrow the beam width and all if you can a bit complicated then of course You know don't want it to strip the gears in the wind of the rotators Okay, they're right clear skies to yourself. So you're going to have more than what we are going to have over here That's for sure. You might have one clear sky. So I know Clear skies to yourself and clear sky to me. How's that? Okay. Thanks for popping in a great talking to you and and and we'll talk to you again next week No doubt if you're around and about you are okay. I'll say seven feet to Roy. That's ki 7 pkl and I'm gonna say I'm gonna go back to will a moment. He's been connected now for 23 minutes and 24 seconds to four nine eight one four So where you can hold that connection that will kj5 TWN to w8s that L"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-10T16:29:10+00:00","id":57521,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":57520,"text":" From G.W.8S, well yeah that would be fantastic, that would be really good, obviously you don't have the additional interest payments as well. I don't know if they actually charge you a bit extra if they paid it all off early, I don't know. I know some companies do over here in the UK, but I'm not sure what it's like over there in the US there Howard. If you pay off a loan early then of course they're going to get less interest. So they charge you an additional sum if you pay it off early. And I wonder if that's how it works over in the US. It probably is the same, but not sure. And yeah I wish you all the best in getting full time employment there Howard, sooner rather than later. And you can get back to 100% normal and buy some more new shiny radios and all good stuff like that."},{"callsign_confidence":0.97,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-23T01:42:18+00:00","id":87983,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":87982,"text":"Okay from two w8s setup. I got I think I got this wrong I know I put KK on that logger kilo zero echo Charlie Kilo. That's Gail. I got kilo India five I think it was kilo Sierra Romeo The Ki 5 Ks. Can you just confirm your call, please?"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-23T01:53:56+00:00","id":88023,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":88022,"text":"OK, this is the W8S set out and that control recognises KC8F, QV, MAGA, Bovine, Aurora in Ohio, and Captain Bob, beautiful Bravo, Foxtrot, Mike. Anybody else like to be added to the list? If so, please come out."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-24T18:56:13+00:00","id":96170,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":96169,"text":"The direct o3 x-ray Delta Bravo v3 x DB from 2w8 s that L. Are you still with us there Doug? I know you went offline at 2324 on that on that well that you might have Gone to have something to eat. I'm not sure v3 x DB w8 s that L"},{"callsign_confidence":0.9199999999999999,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-24T20:20:27+00:00","id":96440,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":96439,"text":"Okay, and I've also got the Rudy the e3ou a all right. I'm going to go to the top of the list We're going to start off with Mac over there in Aurora, Ohio. That's Kiel Charlie 8 foxtrot Quebec Victor. How are we doing Mac? How did your Thanksgiving day go yesterday? I wonder kc8 fqv w8s setup"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-24T23:08:50+00:00","id":96996,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":96995,"text":"Okay, kd9zgcgw8s10. Yep, Graham is listening and I've made a note of that as well. So Graham, if you haven't got it, I've got it to you. So it's just Joel's callsign at email.com. So, yep, Graham will be sending you an email there as well. So all about it, so what hours are available, etc. So, back to you there Joel and Mike N6RDF, I'll add you to the list my friend. KG9ZGC to W8S setup."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-25T00:46:22+00:00","id":97322,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":97321,"text":"M5LGM from TWAS said oh, yep, that's great. That is, you know, about 1,400 contacts. And I'm glad to hear that you're playing around with CW as well. A lot of people don't bother these days. Maybe if you're free and on the air on CW there, you can drop me an email. And if I'm about, we can have a CW contact there. What do you think of that one? M5LGM to W8S and M0."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":0.6628793213102553,"created_at":"2026-06-19T22:32:03.966101+00:00","id":113506,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":113507,"text":"Fox dot 7.74, 75 something like that. I'd have to call up and have a computer screen and have a look and see what the high was. But we're going to get lovely warm temperatures. We probably might hit mid to high 80s. Sorry. But yeah, a bit high 80s. I'm hoping for warmer over the weekend in the first part of next week. But the bed office over here in the UK, they have been known to get it wrong. More times than they get it right. So hope all is well with you. Kiloromio 4, Juliet, India, Quebec from Gulf Whiskey 8, Sierra, Zemfima. Actually, exactly 74 degrees here today. Very beautiful day. Clear. Doing real good. Back to you. OK, our four day IQ."},{"callsign_confidence":0.9199999999999999,"confidence":0.8663272064967225,"created_at":"2026-06-18T11:21:49.803193+00:00","id":110752,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":110751,"text":"I think you're referring to me, W8S-CJ, Steve, Rochester Hills, A. Kim Mar Rogers, Morin, and I, everybody here in the morning, who answered for me, and yes, got the ride to them, that I can think of, probably another one I'm not thinking of. Hope everybody has a safe and blessed day ahead since it's W8S-CJ. Thanks for joining us this morning, Steve. Have a good, safe trip there, good day. Dwayne, West Columbia, South Carolina, KG4, GKY, good morning Dwayne. Good morning, everybody on the brew this morning. Yes, I've ridden in a convertible car, as well as a convertible, I guess you couldn't say convertible, it was a PT-19 airplane, so it's an open cockpit, so both ways, yes, back to net control. Thank you."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":0.7831083892711571,"created_at":"2026-06-17T11:08:04.051443+00:00","id":109280,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":109279,"text":"All right, that's a pretty good list. The mobiles we have done before PPX, Ezra KJ5MLS, Micah A4XM, RKB1KPM, Craig K4MMX, Jeremy KJ5NHH, Michael K5MPH was in and out. Thanks for stopping by. Nick W8NGT, Warren KF2WV, and Robert KFA EQF was in and out. I think we got everybody, but if you tried to check in and you're mobile, come with your call sign twice. KQ4, YYN, KQ4, YYN, mobile in and out, good morning. Okay, we have Joe KQ4, YYN, and Steve W8S-GJ was in and out."},{"callsign_confidence":0.8200000000000001,"confidence":0.7829292006790638,"created_at":"2026-06-12T23:27:48.891421+00:00","id":102137,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":102141,"text":"the and and you okay i'm going to say seven three to my gang clear of kb free gp x and i'll check in on the blue screen from uh... john uh... the k three hjq uh... so uh... john you'll be top of the list but uh... let's put another call out for any other stations like to be added to that list this is to w eight s and i'm with the international radio networks kb when multi-mode that if you like to work check in i please call out and he's on work of the list k-step qb"},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-25T00:46:01+00:00","id":97321,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":97320,"text":"All right, all right, George, I hope you have a good day, buddy. Sausage and green muffins are not bad. That's about, that and French fries are about the only thing I eat for McDonald's ever. We had the day that you were having today, we had yesterday. It rained and rained. We ended up, I think it's around two inches of rain through the whole thing. And we're going to get more rain in a day or two, I think they said. Which is good. We need it. We need it. All right, all right, George, have a great day. We're going to move from George to Bill. November 9, OFU."},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-24T23:08:32+00:00","id":96995,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":96994,"text":"Yeah, KBZ, where am I? Great, I hope you know I was just playing with you the last time around when I called you a son of a... See? But, uh, I, uh, I was just thinking about, you know, periodic table. When was the last time I looked at one? That was probably when my daughter was about four years old. So we decided to homeschool our children. We were very protective. And so my wife did the English in the reading, I did the math because that was my strong suit. But the chemistry or science in general, we hired somebody to help out. And as a result, my daughter got a master's at Mizzou, started college at 16, and my son started college at 17. And he got a master's, not a master's, but a master's, and an interview to science. Now, even though we were very protective, I mean, this was the 1990s, let me do a reset. Even though this was the 1990s, I mean, there was a lot of talk going about, uh, vaccinations and your first child, my daughter, and she was born in 1990, we were very worried about the vaccinations because of all the crap we were hearing constantly, right? But ultimately we decided that we didn't want to put other children at risk if our daughter contracted one of these diseases. And at the same time we felt that the odds were good enough that the risk to our daughter was going to be minimal. And then when our son came around in 96, we felt more comfortable with it and got it done fairly quickly and went dead-rat. So I think as a society, one more restart, as a society we should be trying to protect our children as best as possible. And sometimes it's things that we don't necessarily like doing, but we do them anyways. And that's just the way society is, you know? That's how we evolved and how we advanced. So I'm a believer in the vaccinations. I believe in them so much now that I've just had my fifth COVID vaccination. You know, it's my choice and it's because of my disease. I get COVID, I'm dead, and there's just no, no doubt about that. And, oh, Josh, yes, I have had, I don't know what you called it in the military, your army, right? But I have had the 21 gun salute, not once, but twice, so I know what you're talking about, buddy. air guns and there was always somebody would move or flinch and sometimes you get nice cuts across your arm you know maybe three or four inches long it was it was brutal man brutal anyways back to you baby zero man i can make it"},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-24T20:20:14+00:00","id":96439,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":96438,"text":"The station from Europe that was coming in you came and I caught partial of that Could you drive one more time with your call sign, please?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-24T18:56:01+00:00","id":96169,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":96168,"text":"Well, I'm retired from the City of Portland. I started out as a laborer and took a utility test and passed that. So I worked in sidewalks. Well, I started out at Night Street Cleaning and when the light rail was starting here and we cleaned the sidewalks off where we had power connections on each block and we'd plug it in the hose and clean the sidewalk off so people probably thought Portland was pretty clean but it got cleaned every night except Sunday I think. Anyway I took a AEO class automotive equipment operator and man I heard of people getting a stiff neck I actually got a stiff neck taking that test and I didn't I was down quite a ways 10 people or so on the test. They post what your score is and where you rank but nobody wanted to work nights and so I jumped ahead of a whole bunch of people and they offered me a nice street cleaning job again which was driving a fluster for sweepers so I I took that and so but I didn't take any more tests there was a 8 year old 3 it was actually the sweeper driver test but I was okay with just driving a flush fluster so that's good I've been retired 21 years now, so it's cool. I never went to college. I'm not a book person, so Linda Lewis, she's too smart. She was on the honor roll at school, but I, I just kind of did what I had to do to get through high school, and but I don't, I don't read books or anything. To me, reading books is work, so I avoided, I I took, studied for the ham test, probably the last time I went to the books, but I just don't remember stuff anyway. I'm kind of like my dad, he said he would have the daily lessons and they'd have a test and then he couldn't remember what he was doing, I'm kind of the same way, I don't remember stuff, so wouldn't do me good. So anyway, I think Linda Lou and I are going to go shopping today. You can't be stubborn, PVW. You're back to now."},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-23T19:52:03+00:00","id":91630,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":91629,"text":"All right. Thank you, Russell. Good morning to Alan there. And let's see. There's a couple people out there that I was talking to in the background. I think they're listening. I saw Darryl's name pop up there. So hopefully he's enjoying himself. He got an early Christmas yesterday, and I hope he got that game that my wife sent to his sister over to her, and she likes it. Yeah, I'm just, like I said, I'm just trying to get everything organized inside the truck. There was something I was going to talk about, but I've, too much going known inside the truck to think about what I was going to talk about. It's only a week away, one more week until Thanksgiving. I should be home in about five days. I got a doctor's appointment for the day before Thanksgiving. That's the hard thing about being out here on the road is you got to make your appointments for the times you get home and you don't always not when you're getting home. So it's hard to plan out those things sometimes. So I got that doctor's appointment next Wednesday and then Thanksgiving on Thursday. My son's coming out from San Diego. We're still trying to figure out if we're going to go pick my mom up and bring her to our house because my son wants to see his grandma and have Thanksgiving there or if we're going to grab everybody and go up to my daughter's house. It's really going to depend on when my son gets there and he hasn't let us know yet if he's coming in the day before or the day of Thanksgiving because sometimes he'll come in on Thanksgiving Day, get there around 1, 2 o'clock in the afternoon just in time for us to spend a little time before we eat and then eat and then we'll, I think last year we did a, which we'll call it, bonfire out in the back where we sat out there and talked. If he does that then we'll end up just having to do it at our house but if he gets out there the day before we'll go up to my daughters. So I'm just going to time out here just a second."},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-23T01:53:31+00:00","id":88022,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":88021,"text":"All right, thanks for coming in I've got you I've got you on the list here this evening Checking in or did you have a comment as well?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-23T01:42:05+00:00","id":87982,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":87981,"text":"Come ahead with your report, Dave, good morning, and 33 to Sam."},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-22T23:54:20+00:00","id":87622,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":87621,"text":"88 Rebecca and happy Thanksgiving. Yeah, I'll be taking off in a couple of hours to go over to my sis and They're both good cooks she and her husband so I'm sure I'll get some take-home when I leave tonight and Let's see Yeah, her daughter and three kids will be there. They live over by Sahali and And her daughter wants to learn mahjong, so I got a loaner here from someone to take over there and teach her how to play mahjong. So we'll see what happens there, maybe we'll have a new mahjong player. And let's see, yeah that's about all I have, not much else going on, so you have a good turkey day. I think your mom is with you now. So you guys have fun, and Leo too. KG7FWB."},{"callsign_confidence":0.85,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-22T21:26:33+00:00","id":87137,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":87136,"text":"That's a good question because I'm not a traditional guy, we're having fajitas for our Thanksgiving dinner. Of course we will have pumpkin pie and deviled eggs, but the main course is going to be steak fajitas. And then at Christmas we generally, well my wife and family, we are going to have a turkey for Christmas. I haven't had one in quite a few years and we both like turkey now so that's a good thing. I'll have a couple of kids over and hopefully we'll have some left to make some sandwiches the next day, right? The turkey sandwiches are the best thing in the world. I mean, there's a lot of people, they go, you know, they either do turkey or ham. Some do prime rib and some do seafood. Whatever you really want. There's no hard given role and it's not written into our Constitution that we must have turkey itself. There's my answer and I'm sticking to it. Back to you KB0NAI."}]}