{"activity_count":55,"callsign":"WB4AIZ","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2025-07-25T21:53:26+00:00","found":true,"id":425,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-29T10:18:59.757033+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":36,"profile":{"confidence":0.8203,"counts":{"ncs":0,"net":10,"open_qso":16},"data_freshness":"2025-12-21T18:57:29","latest_topic":"check-in","most_topic":"check-in","open_vs_net_bias_score":-0.41,"personal_summary":"WB4AIZ is a regular participant who checks in during the net.","scores":{"civility":0.9,"focus":0.6,"friendly":0.8,"helpful":0.5,"serious":0.7,"technical":0.4},"source":"legacy_callsign_profiles","summary":"WB4AIZ regularly checks in during the net and is recognized by the host.","topic_coverage":{"check-in":"1.0"},"updated_at":"2025-12-23T03:20:30"},"qrz_status":null,"recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-27T17:23:31+00:00","id":11402,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11401,"text":" R-H-G-2 Quebec 4 Romeo X-ray call. Kind of young, many soggy days in. Oh, for the evening? Well, let me tell you, I think we got a few. I think we figured them out pretty well. But a lot of people didn't give me their names, so I'm sorry. I'm going to have to go by what is in the system. So then we've got KC5LWY, Mr. Andrew, Mr. Dennis KW4AG. And we've got you as well. Robert, W4BKX, I have you. Mr. Don, your audio is really hot, but I think we heard you. It was KF0LNZ. Miss Dennis, thanks for joining us tonight. Don't forget to come back tomorrow for the Monday tag YLNet. KM4YHK. W4PLP, Mr. Allen, I have you. OK, we have two different ones. W4PLP, Mr. Allen, and then an N4PLP, Tina. And again, there was one that checked in with me twice. I got you as well. And that was WB4AIZ. I've got you on the log. All right, if I screwed any of that up, because I didn't get your names as well, please go ahead and call now and collect me."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-25T14:53:21+00:00","id":10101,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":10100,"text":" from W8S and I'll say hi to Helen for me as well in the Royal Box in the background also. It's great to be a part of the International Radio Networks, well multi-mode net. Okay, so I'll be continuing with the net. I've got KC8, CC7YFE, I've got KI5SS, Jeanette over there in Great Vines, Texas and I've got Chuck as well, that's WB4AIZ. So I'm going to go to the top of this deal, what's happening in your world? Hope all this well. KC7YFE from W8SZ out."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-25T15:13:04+00:00","id":10113,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":10112,"text":" Yeah, KI5SSR from GWA DAF standout. So yeah, you know exactly how I feel, and I know exactly how you feel about Christmas as well. But thanks for popping in. I'll have to try and check into some of your nets as well, sometime very, very soon. And you have a great rest of your day, and have a fantastic week there as well over there in Great Vine in Texas. So I'm going to clear you of the GSA, that's KI5SSR. And then are we going to have a chat with Jack? And that is, of course, Whiskey Bravo 4 Alpha India Zulu. We checked in on the blue screen on Netlogger. Over to you there, Jack. Hope all is well with you, my friend. Long time no speak. I can't remember. Must be quite a while. WV4, KI5SSR from GWA DAF, that out."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-25T15:11:57+00:00","id":10112,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":10111,"text":" Yeah, WB4AIZ from GWA. They're out there over here in Newport, South Wales with the IRNKB1 multi-monad. Okay there, Chuck, you take care. It's great to hear from you. It's been quite some time since we've had a chat. And nice to know you're doing well over there in Florida. Well, we're obviously not as warm as Florida at the moment. We're coming up to about 60 degrees, 2 degrees, at the moment. It's coming up to 11pm here in South Wales in the UK there, Chuck. Fantastic to hear from you. And we'll talk to you again very, very soon. So I'll say 7 feet to Chuck over there in Florida. That's WB4AIZ. And a blue screen check in from Dirk Victor Echo, 3X-ray Delta Bravo. So before I call for any further check-ins, we've got to go to Dirk. V3XDB, we did an ECW lately. One of the HF bands, right, because I have another chance. So listen, V3XDB, WUH-ZL. Well, good evening, Dave. And if Sue is there in the background, hi to Sue and Graham and Helen and Declan and whoever else is listening. Hope all is well with everyone. Yeah, I was on yesterday for a while, but the bands have been just terrible, Dave. Don't even bother. I worked somebody in Ohio on 40 meters across the lake, and he gave me a blazing 439 or something like that. And I gave him a lot of the same. It was just atrocious, tons of noise and that sort of thing. So I haven't been on HF much lately. I've been on FGA a little bit, but not so much. I'll wait until the fall until the wet conditions get a little better. Tomorrow our club is having an antenna building workshop. So we're going to a local park. We did it last year, and this year we're going to a local park again and having building HF dipoles. I think somebody is going to try to build an OCF dipole. Some guy is building 2-meter and 70-centimeter Slim Jim antennas. So we expect 30 or so folks out, so that's great. And our little radio giveaway and sale at low prices project is wrapping up. And a lot of folks are going to be picking up their radios tomorrow at that event. So by the end of the summer, I think we'll have over 50 radios on the air that have been obtained through this little effort. I'll drop for a moment."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-27T17:13:17+00:00","id":11389,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11388,"text":" K6KJV, we got you WB4AIZ, it says Charles, but we'll keep it formal I guess, Jack. Ricardo, we've got you as well, KG4BEP, and then Ken, N4-7SS, we have you as well. So we're still out here on Echo Week, so go ahead and call to get on a log, y'all."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-10T17:24:01+00:00","id":15918,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15917,"text":" Alright, let me tell you what I got that go around. Man, we got a slew that time. That's wonderful. We got a couple out there that I never heard before. But, uh, they might have been on the net before. Emmett will tell us in a little while. We have Kilo-6 King James version. Our buddy Kevin out in Valley Springs, California. We have our buddy Victor Kilo-2 Delta Yankee Robert down in Australia. Glad to have you, my friend. We have Kilo Bravo-6 Delta Hotel Romeo. My couple Kelso Washington. We have in for L.R.K. November 4 Lima Romeo Kilo. Our buddy Wade down in Carrollton, Georgia. We have Kilo India-6 Whiskey Papa Kilo. Our buddy Bill in San Francisco, California. We have Kilo Golf 4 Lima Lima Charlie. Mr. Michelle in Sneapville, Tennessee. We have our buddy Kilo Juliet 4 Bravo Echo Tango Ricardo down in Birmingham, Alabama. We have Whiskey 4 Bravo Kilo X-Ray. Our friend Robert up in Athens, Tennessee. We have Kilo Yankee 4 November Bravo Kevin out in Memphis, Tennessee. We have Kilo Golf 5 Bravo Juliet. My buddy Paul in San Antone, Texas. We have November Victor 7 Sierra Sierra Kevin in Indian Springs, Nevada. Glad to have you, my friend. We have Whiskey Bravo 4 Mike Echo Delta John in Belglade, Florida on the log. We picked up Kilo Fox 8 Echo Romeo... Terry, TJ over in Allen'sboro, West Virginia. We have Kilo Fox 0 Lima November Zulu. Our buddy John, I'm 11, we're in Kansas. We have Kilo Echo 9 Charlie Sierra Lima, Louis in Wisconsin. We have Whiskey Bravo 4 Alpha India Zulu Chuck down in Florida. Glad to have you, my friend. We have November 0 Sierra Tango Golf Tony in La Mesa, California. Believe you said San Diego. We have Alpha Kilo 6 Juliet Echo Mr. Masatoshi checking in tonight from Japan. Glad to have you, my friend, as always. And Kilo India 7 India Hotel Uniform. Our buddy Dave in Murray, Utah. Alright, if I have any corrections or any other Echo Link check-ins, now's the time. Echo Link users, Echo Link users only. This is G.L. McCam for MPF. Kilo Mike 4 Mike, Papa Fox with a Sunday.net here in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Well, I didn't hear it. This is WB4IEJ, Whiskey Bravo 4, India Echo Juliet, Wayne in Chattanooga. Good evening."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-27T17:16:13+00:00","id":11391,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11390,"text":" J4, the E-R, Ricardo, Birmingham, Alabama. Blessings to all the operators on frequency, 73. All right, let's hold it up right there, because I think I had Chicago, Florida, and Alabama. Let me tell you, I did get Kevin, K6, KJV. Thank you, Mr. Kevin. We also got WB4, AIZ. We've got you as well. So there were two other operators. Oh, we got Ricardo. We got you. So there's one more that I did not get in that. So go ahead and call now. November, Victor 7, Sierra, Sierra. That's November. Victor 7, Sierra, Sierra. Getting in Nevada."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-17T17:07:05+00:00","id":18109,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":18108,"text":" Listing Bravo 4, Alpha India Zulu, WB4A, IZ, Tuckton, Kaleida."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-17T17:13:13+00:00","id":18120,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":18119,"text":" Alrighty, I love it, my participation from all over the place. Well, let's go ahead and cover what we've got so far. Good showing, to be sure, and I know I missed one or two because there was a pile up there at the beginning. But, what we came out with was Kilo-6, Kilo Juliette, Victor, Kevin, we got you on the log, sir. Mr. Robert from Down Under, VK2DY, on the log. JB-6, Delta Hotel Romeo, Michael, got you from Kelso, thank you for joining us. Let's see, yup, Kilo India 7, India Hotel Uniform, Dave from Murray, got you, sir. Whiskey Bravo 4, Alpha India Zulu, got you, Charles, from Florida, and I missed you the first time, but got you on the second one, so good sticking in there. Kilo Fox 8, Echo Romeo Zulu, Terry, got you from West Virginia, thank you for joining us. Mr. Wade, N4LRK, got you as well. Kilo Queen, Kilo Queen, wow. Kilo Quebec 4, Lima Lima Charlie, Miss Michelle, got you on the log as well. Kilo Fox Zero, Lima, November Zulu, John, got you in Kansas. Whiskey Bravo almost, Whiskey 4, Bravo Kilo X-Ray, Robert, got you. Kilo Yankee 4, November Bravo, Kevin, got you from Memphis, and Paul from San Antone, JG5BJ, you are on the log. Miss Janice, KM4, YHK, on the log as well, and Alpha Kilo 6, Juliet, Echo, Masa Toshi, thank you for joining us from Japan, and welcome to the Sunday Night Net. Now, if you would please, only those I missed, no new calls, any Echo Link calls that I missed, please call now."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:56:05+00:00","id":13635,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":13634,"text":" were hosting the net. My journey's been rather short, but it was a long time coming. Similar to Scott, I joined Air Force a year out of high school, but that was back in 1968 when I joined. And I spent a lot of time at Key for myself with computers. And between keeping up with the computers and my time, 23 years in the Air Force, raising a family, I always had an interest in electronics, just trying to stay up to the times was hard enough with family and so forth. So I never really thought I had time to sit down and figure out the amateur radio stuff, so I didn't. And after I retired from the Air Force, I kept doing the same job for another, I don't know, 25, 26 years. So finally retired, and last September I ran across an audiobook that was fast track your technician license. And I quickly figured out I wasn't going to be able to do that with an audiobook, but it caught my interest. So I bought the book, started studying it, decided that wasn't going to be too bad to do. So I got the second book for your general license and started studying it. And about that time I scheduled it, my testing, for two weeks from when I started the first book. And went ahead and devoured the third book for extra, and went in and took the test two weeks after I started studying and passed all three on the same night. So that was back in, like I said, into September last year. So I'm still new at this. Like Mike, I don't talk too much on radio. I do a lot of listening, but not much talking. I'm on a break. So it's, like I say, more listening than talking. I'm trying to get into the HF side of it, but I live in an apartment complex on the third floor. And I haven't figured out yet how I really want to do that. I don't want to buy the equipment until I figure out what I'm going to do about an antenna. But DMR and All Star, I've got two All Star notes and, I don't know, five or six DMR notes, hot spots. So that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. So back to Nat. This is 82 IZ. Back to you, Nat. Well, A, D, 2, IZ. I don't think I know or heard of anyone that passed all three tests. First go. So now, man, you're a very good studier. And it took me a while. I was only going to get my check next year. And I used the Fast Track handbook as well. And I got to say, I tried the audio book, and I felt the same way. But I did get the book. And that was amazing. So I used it for all three of my tests. And I kind of broke it up. And Mike bought me a HF radio. He said, you got to get your General. And I was like, I don't want to get a General. I was having a hard enough time with the first test. And so I was like, oh, Lord, OK. So he had already done it. So I got the General. And then a year later, I talked myself into getting an extra, and I'm studying CW now. So Robert, you've had quite the journey. And we're just glad to have you here. And I'm going to throw this over to Mike right quick. And Steve is after you, Robert. Over to you, Mike. KN-5Y. OK, I'm 5, this is RK-5Y. Thank you there, Jeanette. And yeah, the testing, that's the whole, let me reset. KN-5Y returning. The testing is that's a whole other subject, isn't it? And I know I got that little study guide for the technician and got to about page three and just closed it and said, whoops, this is not for me. I have no concept of electronics. I've never understood electricity. And I just almost just put it down and I thought, well, wait a minute, let's go ahead and try this. And it's amazing. It can be intimidating, that's for sure. And I actually met a guy where I work that passed all three tests when he was 12 years old. And needless to say, I felt pretty inferior to that guy while we worked together for three days. But man, oh man, I think I have heard of one or two people doing that, and that's awesome. Sure wasn't me. I mean, I sweated through each test big time. But 82-IZ, KN-5Y. Rob, thanks for coming into the lizard lounge, lizard litter box. That's a whole other deal, the lizard lounge. There's one of those over in Dallas. The litter box lounge, welcome into the litter box lounge. I hope you'll come back. We meet every Saturday at 6 PM Central. And just a little announcement. Next week, we're going to have a guest net controller, K4 CUP Virgil. He's going to have a topic, a backup topic, because we encourage you all to bring a topic. But he's going to have a backup topic that I think that will be useful for everyone on here. So have that to look forward to for next week. So 82-IZ, KN-5Y, thank you, Rob. And we're going to go to, we have a Kilo Bravo 3 Papa Foxtrot Foxtrot. Steve, welcome into the box lounge. And don't forget, everyone, we are going to have a 73 round if you can hang around for that. That would be great. If not, we understand. But KV-3 Papa Foxtrot Foxtrot, KN-5Y. Steve, what's new with you? If you don't mind, tell us a little bit about what got you interested in amateur radio and maybe a little bit about your journey into a hobby. Over to you, Steve. Steve, good evening, Mike and everybody on the net. I started out in CB. And I thought that was kind of cool for a little while. But a lot of people were into it at that time. But I set it aside for a while and had some other things to do. And then in early 2000s, around 2004, I said, you know, I got to do something here. And I want to get back to what I, you know, something better than CB. CB, of course. And then I found the 2-meter. And I took my technician license, I believe, in 2004. First radio was an HT, a Yatesu T65. So it worked out pretty well. But that's about it. That's how I started. And hopefully, I'll work up to additional license. But right now, I'm just enjoying what I have. Mike, happy. Back to you guys. That's KB3 PFF. KB3 PFF. Well, thank you, Steve. That's a great story there. And yep, I started out with an HT and then got a Yatesu 991A and got on HF a little bit. And I've gone through several radios since then. And so what a great hobby. And we love hearing the stories. I'll tell you what. Hope you'll come and join us next week. We also have a net on Friday nights, the happy hour net. Starts at 6 PM central. It's a lot of fun. And then AFC, Amateurs for Christ net, on Sundays at 3 PM central. Speaking of which, I think the next man on the list is the main character of that net. So I'm going to turn it back over to Jeanette, KN5 SSR. Go ahead, Jeanette. Well, thank you, KN5Y. It would be my pleasure to introduce this is Hello K6KJV. How you doing, Kev? RevKev. And yeah, what's new with you? You can bring your own topic, which I know you have some. And what got you interested in amateur radio? If you want to share anything about your journey, we certainly want to hear it, Rev. So come on in. This is Kevo6KJV. That's right. Thanks very much, Mr. Knight. Appreciate you. And I really don't know where to start. Well, it was a lonely, hot May night in 1964. It was Mother's Day at about 3 o'clock in the morning when I had a never mind. I guess you don't want me to go back that far. Oh, man. Well, what got me into this, I've said it several times, but old C.E., just like everybody else. That's right. The old patriot man. Kickin' man. And oh, whatever else you want to call it. I used to have a 40 channel. Realistic, that's right. One of the best radios I ever had. Just a basic radio. I used to talk to my brother every night whenever he's coming home from work. And then I'd take him talk to some other guys. I used to, like, I was a little kid. And then I'd talk to sidebanders. And then I'd hear some guys fire up the old linears. And then hear the guy that's got the linear guy banging on his door, pounding down, say, we're going to get in there and we're going to whoop you. There was some good days. I liked them days. And I've always wanted to get my ham radio license. So I just took a long time to do it. Life, career, marriage, everything got in the way. Well, I'm doing it now. Let me reset. K6K, JV returning. And you know, I've only got my technician license right now. I'm planning to get my general. Don't know about that propeller head extra. I don't know if I could do that. But I'm having just fun being on the 11 Cats network and all the VoIP and digital modes. And like Mr. Mike says, me and him are in agreeance. Pam, church for Christ. Sunday, 4 Eastern. Same conference right here, 11 Cats conference. Oh, that's the best net around. Not because I'm involved with it, just because the good Lord raised it up. Right here on 11 Cats. So tomorrow, hey, I'll do Sheamus Plug. We got M7 POV. Mr. Josh, fine young man from over across the pond there in England. He's going to be leading the Bible study tomorrow. So if you all don't mind, stop in and support him. He'd like to have it. We'd have a lot of fun there. So with that, I will shut up and not start preaching. I'm getting ready to. I'll pass it back to Ms. Jeanette from Kix's Kid Doobie. He's bouncing down. We're rolling down that highway. We're going to do what they say can't be done. We got a long way. I better stop. Yeah, OK. I spent my singing money on something else for sure. But oh, that was a bad girl. I'm sorry. But yeah, I think a lot of people got into CB radio. You know, shortwave, I think it was rather popular. It really was too when I was growing up. And if you had a base station, oh my God, you were kind of, you had some money. I think about that. I remember asking about Amradio. They're like, we've got to have a license. So I was like, oh, I don't want that. I remember the first time I looked at the technician book when Mike showed it to me. I looked at it. I said, I can't do that. I just turned it down. Because I said, oh, that's just too much. I mean, I know a little bit about electricity, but that was really intense. And I actually did way better on the extra test. It's not as hard as you think. I did better on the extra than any of the other tests. And I scored in the 90s. So I'm proud of me. But anyway, with that, Kev, thank you for all you do for us. We're going to hand it over to KN5Y for remarks. And then over to Chuck, Mike. And after that, we'll take another check-ins and start the 73 round. So over to you, KN5Y. Sorry for the singing. K05, SSR KN5Y. Well, that wasn't bad, actually. Just don't ask me to do it. K6, KJV. Well, we meet again. Your little reset there was too quick for me, because I was going to try to find that stray cat to say something. But it was too quick. But thanks, Rev, Kev. Thanks for all you do. Looking forward to tomorrow. Yeah, CB, we probably should have a net sometime on everybody's CB radio shenanigans. Because I'm sure there's a bunch of them out there. Oh, man. That takes me back. And I actually bought a middle and CB at, I think, that same Amfest where we met Len, K05NYT. Over at Irving, the guy had a immaculate-looking middle and CB for $25. So I bought it. And my plan was just to gut it and put a Raspberry Pi in it and make an All-Star note out of it and have a retro-looking CB with an All-Star note in it. But that thing was so immaculate. And the guy that bought it from me just put the 40-channel mod in it, and I thought, oh, man, I can't do that. So I've got it in the closet. Someday I'm going to plug that thing in and hook it up and try to make a contact. I do listen to 11 meters on my HF radios off and on. There's craziness on there, that's for sure. But thank you, Rev, Kev. It's an honor to have you on this net. WB4AIZ, Chuck, great to see you here. In case you haven't noticed, you are in the Litterbox Lounge. And everyone's welcome here. We're any topic's good. We have two rounds. We're going to come back for a 73 round here in a minute for comments and 73s. But great to have you here. And what's new with you, Chuck? And if you don't mind, tell us a little bit about what got you interested in amateur radio and maybe a little bit about your journey, beginning with amateur radio. WB4AIZ, over to you, Chuck. WB4AIZ, how did you go off? And immediately started off in back in 1917, 17, 17, 17, 17, something like that. I was going to a after high school, I went to a, what, a college school up in Pittsburgh, and I got two hours from being in the, and it's a school. They had a whiskey-free Oster Zulu Echo hand station with parrot-draped twins. And so I got interested in the, so the horn code with a military box with a paper tape and a light. And that's how I did my box show. And in fact, the school took me, gave me a phone call with downstairs. I got a, I think it's 40. And the crystal, we get set. And anyway, this has to be $11 after that for a while. And for, let's see, $10 for the tube, $61.26. A two-spinner for the meter and $10 for a vertical. And that was like, you know, the stations like, I've got a queue, I've got a queue up to the cell charts. And I have to move down to Florida. I didn't have a queue. They were all in the back cells. But, and then I got my, I had done my technician class before I left Pennsylvania. And I was Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, and the stream was flawless. But I couldn't use it because I didn't have voice privileges. And then when I became a technician, I still couldn't because I was over the walker door, dauntless. So eventually, I got down to, uh, here to Florida. And eventually, I went into a VE walkway and got my general. They said the word in the pre-lock three test, they said the word is, you know, the word is, and they said a very important word. My name is, my duty is, my power is. So he used to use a listen for his, and then write down what he heard. So that's how I passed my general with a fractured little toe that day. So, yeah, it was a while before I got, I got to the junior ranks in 220. So, and now all I've done is a, and I got into the digital. Yeah, I got into the digital. And unfortunately, when I went into the, when I went into the system bearing facility, my radios got put in a box. I don't know where they are now. So anyways, I'm doing I-co-lankton, and I'm doing a lot of work on this cell phone. B4AIZ. That's my story, and I'm addicted to it. That'd be B4AIZ, KM5Y. Chuck, that is a great story. I need to dig into the history of how they used to do licensing back then, because I know it was a whole lot different, and I'm curious about how all that worked. And thanks for sticking with it. And wow, what a story. And I'm glad, thank you for Echolink. You know, it allows people in your situation to stay right on and keep talking. Echolink is just amazing what it does for people that can't, don't have the means to get on a radio. They can get in here and talk, and we get to hear what, about the history of AM radio from people like you. So that was awesome. Thank you, Chuck. I hope you'll come back next week. And all right, well, we're at the bottom of the list. If you're listening and waiting to check in, you are on the Litterbox Lounge net. You are in the Litterbox Lounge on the 11 Catch Radio Network. And we're going to take some more check-ins. Come with your call sign now."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-24T17:05:53+00:00","id":23700,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":23699,"text":" Whiskey Bravo 4, Alpha India Zoo, WB4AIZ, Chuck Ettel and Florida, on a, on a, aim. Uh, uh, uh, uh. Uh, uh, uh, uh."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-26T18:37:43+00:00","id":25282,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":25281,"text":" All right, for the dwarf planets, we have Ceres rising about 955 PM by month's end. Ceres can be spotted low to the south after midnight. Ceres is in the constellation of Cetus shining at magnitude 8.4. We got Pluto rising about 553 PM by month's end. The best time to spot Pluto is around midnight when it is highest in the sky to the south. Pluto is in the constellation of Capricornus shining at magnitude 15.1. Actually now is a good time to spot Pluto because the moon will not interfere. However, clouds will and the smoke out here in the west as well will definitely interfere with viewing Pluto but the moon will not. You will definitely need to get away from sea lights and get under dark skies and need at least a 12 to 15 inch telescope to spot it. As always, good luck in spotting Neptune, Ceres and Pluto. Our telescope and dark skies will be needed. Now, a 5 inch telescope will put out Neptune pretty well. Ceres may be an 8 inch telescope. Pluto is definitely around the 12 to 15 inch or better in size and lots of patience. Okay, we are at the tail end of a couple of meteor showers. The northern delta Aquarius meteor shower extends from July 16th through September 10th. Maximum occurred back on the 13th. So you may be able to catch a few of those over the next couple of weeks. There will be very few. The Perseus meteor shower, you may be some of those lingering but that was from July 23rd through August 22nd. That peaks back on the 12th. Yep, you may be able to see some of those stragglers but it is pretty much over for that. We do have a comet, comet C2024E1, which is passing through the constellation of Hercules this month shining around 12 magnitude. So a 10 inch scope or better will be needed to spot that one end under dark skies. Again, more patience for sure. Okay, that is it for the local astronomical news. This is KI0A control for the Colorado Astronomy. Got a few check ins to acknowledge. Yep, WB4AIZ we checked in. You are number 12 on the list. We got you. We have seen a lot of action over on YouTube so let me get that one in. We have a bunch of action over there. I am trying to catch up with everybody. Oh, alright. We have a lot of action over there. Thanks for all the check ins over there. Where was I? Richard, we got you. KJ5MOD. We got Jack K0B. We got Ed, W6RDEC. Let's see, all thanks for checking in tonight. Patrick NT98, thanks for checking in tonight. John W2JLS over on YouTube, thanks for checking in tonight. We got Steven. KJ5MOD, we got Ed. We got Steve. We got Steve. We got Steve. We got M6DAY, thanks for checking in tonight. We got Alexander. KD0SOQ, thanks for Alex. There we go, checking in tonight. Thanks for that. Let me see. That is a new call."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-07T17:07:45+00:00","id":34653,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":34652,"text":" Whiskey Bravo 4 Alpha India Zulu, WB4AIG, Chuck in West Osaforidia."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-07T17:16:50+00:00","id":34665,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":34664,"text":" Alright, let me tell you what I got since I added a little bit of a break there. Let's just start with you following along. We're going to start up at line number 9. We have KEL 6, King James Version of Buddy Camp at Out Valley Springs, California. We have Whiskey Bravo 4 Alpha India Zulu Charles down in Kennes City, Florida. We have Alpha Alpha 4 Hotel India Charles in Roanoke Rapids, Virginia or North Carolina. What did I say there? Did I mess that up? We have Charles in Kennes City, Florida. W before AIZ down in Floridian. Yeah, and then tennis. KELO Whiskey 4 Alpha Golf, Cape City, Virginia. KELO India 7 India Hotel, uniform, Dave Murray, Utah. Victor KELO 2 Delta Yankee, Robert down in Australia. Good morning, Robert. Hope you're doing well, my friend. We have Whiskey 4 Bravo KELO X-Ray, Robert of Mathis, Tennessee. KELO Golf 5 Bravo 2, anybody, Paul in San Antone, Texas. We have Whiskey 4 Alpha Mike Echo, my buddy Andy. Blue Ridge, Georgia today. Andy, you're allowed to do that, I think it's for like 5 or 10 years. Say your name wrong. But after that, they get upset. Hello, Rebecca. It was absolutely beautiful. And, Rebecca, you was absolutely gorgeous yesterday. As every day, but yesterday you was spot on a mason. And, Andy, you're a good looking man too, even though I don't normally comment on them too often. I'm proud of you. Alright, and let's keep on truckin'. We have our buddy John in Leavenworth, Kansas. KELO Fox 0 Lima, November Zulu. And we have our buddy Sondran from over in India. Victor, uniform 2 Mike, Delta Alpha. Glad to have you, my friend. And Kevin in Memphis, Tennessee. Kielenki 4 November Bravo. All us logged in by EchoLink on a Sunday night net. Keep them coming, EchoLink users only. This is KM4MPF."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-11T18:59:08+00:00","id":37691,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":37690,"text":" Alright, we'll come back and try to say it in a minute. He might have got called away. How about Chuck Fred? Chuck, how you doing? Meet WB4AIZ from K4HU."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-21T17:13:26+00:00","id":43916,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":43915,"text":" Yeah, this is AK-6J, Alpha Kiro-6-3 of Echo, AK-6J Masatoshi, checking in from Echo Rink, Japan. That was perfect, that go-around, my friend. We appreciate you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All right, let me tell you what I got, Echo. We started out with Whiskey Bravo 4 Alpha, India Zulu, Chuck down in Florida, glad to have you, friend. We have Kilo-6, King James Version, Kevin out in Valley Springs, California. We have our friend down in Australia, Victor Kilo 2 Delta, Yaki. Good morning, Robert, hope you're doing well, my friend. We have N4LRK, Wade, down in Carrollton, Georgia. We have Kilo India 7, India Hotel, Uniform Day, about Murray, Utah. We have Kilo Golf 5 Bravo Juliet, everybody, Paul down in San Antone, Texas. I have Kilo Mike 4, Yaki Hotel, Kilo. Ms. Janice, high-top signal mountain. We have Whiskey 4 Bravo Kilo X-Ray, Robert, up in Athens, Tennessee. We have Kilo Fox Zero, Lima, November Zulu, Shawn in Leavenworth, Kansas, glad to have you, sir. We have Alpha Kilo 6, Juliet Echo, Mr. Masatoshi, checking in from Japan tonight. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you as always. We have Kilo Yankee 4 November Bravo, Kevin out in Memphis, Tennessee. And we have Kilo Bravo 6 Delta Hotel Romeo, Michael out in Kelso, Washington. Glad to have you, sir. All right, who else do we have? We're taking Echo Link check-ins. This is Jim, Kilo Mike 4, Mike, Papa Fox, from the Sunday Night Dead here in Tennessee. Echo Link check-ins. Good."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-02T18:11:09+00:00","id":51955,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":51954,"text":" Okay, that's coming up, I just had it, I was cold past it. Coming up on October 12th through the 17th, 12 through 17th of October at Brawny Lake RV Resort in San Antonio, Texas. There's a link right on our page. Under upcoming events you'll see that there's a 2025 RV Infall Outlaw Rally. So check that out. We got plans for a couple of other rallies coming up down the road. Spring of course next year will probably be associated with Ham Vension again. We're going to have a fall rally, looks like it's probably going to be in Florida next year. And we got of course the attendance that we usually have at Arizona for Quartzfest and then Ham Vension and Ham Cation coming up here shortly. So that finishes my announcements. I have previously had checked in over here, if I can get the right screen to come up. Had AF7RC Phil, KB6WHB David, W4AKY Phil, W2SLR Jerry, and I see we have picked up Chuck, WB4AIZ and Mr. Terry back with us. E7MR and 82IH George. I'll get you guys on the list shortly. It's a topic for tonight. I've got a lot of topics guys. I need you guys to start sending me some topics. I'll end up coming up with Halloween at the Campground for a topic for tonight. Halloween at the Campground. A lot of campgrounds are big on Halloween. Others don't do anything at all. We don't do anything here at Travelers Rest because it's a 55 plus community so we don't have any kids around. A couple of times we've been at campgrounds though when there were Halloween activities going on and two of them stick out in my memory. The first one, they had a big kids fair type of event going on. The highlight of it was a great, they had a big huge hill in the middle of the campground and they put a plastic mat down like almost like a tarp I guess. They might have even built a plastic tarp and it had to be 75, 100 feet long coming down that hill. I guess longer than that even because it was a big hill. And they had water spray and all that thing. The kids would get up on top of it and slide down that thing and just had a ball doing that. That's some other stuff going on too. Let me reset."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-28T17:11:27+00:00","id":49133,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":49132,"text":" Alright, I'm going to start up here at the top. We've got quite a few, quite a few Echo Links so far tonight. We love it, we love it, we love it. Alright, we've got Whiskey Bravo 4 Alpha India Zulu over at Chuck Bama Florida. We have Keto 16 James version, uh, Kent, South Valley, California. We have Whiskey Juliet 4 Hotel Charlie, Papa, uh, Charles here, Chuck, hello to my friends. We have Keto Bravo 6 Delta Hotel Romeo, Michael out of Kelso, Washington. Keto 87 India Hotel Uniform, Dave Murray, Utah. Keto Mike 4 Yankee Hotel Kilo, Miss Janice out of Top Second Mountain. Keto Fox Zero Lima November Zulu, John in Leavenworth, Kansas. We have Victor Kilo 2 Delta Yankee, Robert in Sydney, Australia. We have Keto Quebec 4 Lima Lima Charlie, Miss Michelle in Stevesville, Tennessee. We have Keto Golf 5 Bravo Juliet, Paul in San Antone, Texas. We have Keto Quebec 4 India, Victor. Uh, Mr. Charles is up in Knoxville, Tennessee, glad to have you my friends. We have Keto Whiskey 4 Alpha Golf, Denison Gate, City, Virginia. We have Keto 8 Golf Echo Echo, Gerald in Fort Collins, Colorado, glad to have you my friends. And November Zeros here at Echo Golf, Tony in La Mesa, California. That's what I got so far. Um, no new calls. Did I miss any?"},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-28T17:05:54+00:00","id":49122,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":49121,"text":" Alpha India Zulu, WB4AIZ, PCM and gotten to Echo Link. Echo Link, right, shopping, Florida."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-02T18:19:34+00:00","id":51966,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":51965,"text":" Okay, Jerry, good to have you with us tonight. And yeah, one of the campgrounds that we go to quite often, well, they've been there for October, though. They're in southern Alabama. We've got families, a lot of families in southern Alabama. We go up there every fall. Actually, we'll be going up there in November for Thanksgiving through New Year's. We'll stay at the campground up there. It's a county campground, nothing big, nothing fancy. There's ATV trails all over the place. But it's a nice campground. But I'll tell you, we enjoy it. It's really nice. All right, I got some big carpets, too. Next on the list is WB4AIZ and 4IFellic over the field. Let me save that. I added KA7RON. Good evening, Ron. Got you on the list. And WB9CSP, Richard. So got you guys on the list. We'll be down to you shortly. Go ahead, Chuck. WB4AIZ from K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-16T18:20:06+00:00","id":62053,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":62052,"text":" Okay Jim, I knew that you would have had some experience in some freezing weather somewhere along the line. You're up a little bit further up in the colder areas than what we stay during the summer. Alright, one more on the list we have is Chuck, WB4AIZ. Chuck, I know you're not an RV'er, but you've probably had some kind of experiences with being in freezing weather that caused some problems. So tell us about it. Over to you, WB4AIZ from K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-26T17:11:21+00:00","id":69571,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":69570,"text":" We have WBB4AIC, Whiskey Bravo 4 Alpha, India Zulu, Charles, San Yucuna City, Florida. Glad to have you, my friend. We have our buddy, Kilo 16, James, Murgers, Yucuna County, Alabama Springs, California. Good morning to my buddy Robert, Victor Kilo 2 Delta, Yaytke, down in Australia. Glad to have you, my friend. Hello, Kilo Bravo 6 Delta Hotel, Romeo, Michael, Alcalza, Washington. Hello, Kilo Golf 5 Bravo Juliet. My buddy Paul down in San Antonio, Texas. We have in November 4 Lima, Romeo, Kilo, Mr. Wave, down in Carrollton, Georgia. Wave, I'm glad you got in there this week. I know sometimes you get stepped on four or five times. Glad to have you, my friend. We have Kilo Quebec 4 Lima, Lima, Charlie, Miss Michelle in Sneapville, Tennessee. Glad to have you, ma'am. We have Kilo Whiskey 4 Alpha Golf. And that's our buddy, Dennison, Gate City, Virginia. We have Kilo Fox 0 Lima, November, Zulu. My buddy John up in Leavenworth, Kansas. Glad to have you, my friend. We have Kilo November 4 Bravo Yankee Uniform, Mr. John, out here in Oodle Wall. He's our neighbor. We have Kilo India 7 India Hotel, Unit 4. Mr. Dave up in Murray, Utah. I have Whiskey 4 Bravo Kilo X-Ray. Everybody, Robert up in Athens, Tennessee. Glad to have you, sir. And last but not least, we have Kilo November 4 Echo Whiskey Tango, Mr. Thomas up in Carthage, Tennessee. And that, my friends, is where the good Ag line comes from. Ha ha ha. All right, we're taking Echo Link Chickens. The name here's Jim, because Kilo Mike 4 Mike popped the fox. And we're taking Echo Link Chickens. Call signs two times, one's phonetically. Give me a name, give me a location. And that's the two of us I have out there wishing to chickens at the Sunday night event here in Tennessee."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-10-23T18:18:09+00:00","id":67336,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":67335,"text":" I got heat up here tonight. Okay, Jim. Good to hear from you tonight, and I hope to see you doing okay. And we'll look forward to seeing you again here. It's actually, it sounds like we're probably going to be gone before you get here. You know, we go up to the family visit from Thanksgiving through New Year's every year. So we've got a campground up there that we like. I think you all were there once, if I'm not mistaken. But anyway, we'll see you when we're both here. How's that? All right, Chuck, WB4AIZ. Good evening, Chuck. How are you doing tonight? How's Linda doing? WB4AIZ from K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-12-21T04:46:32+00:00","id":79366,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":79365,"text":" Uh, good evening Jim and everybody on the net. This is Kela Robert 6, Delta Hotel Long Ale. This is Robert Mike, Delta Hotel Washington. Friendly City. Ah, hold up right there. We got three, three doubles. And I, I think, I know all of them were. Let's see, we had Whiskey Bravo 4, Alpha India Zulu. Uh, our buddy Chuck down in Florida. That was the first one I missed. And then we had Kela Bravo 6, Delta Hotel Romeo. And that was our buddy Michael out in Kelso, Washington. And he doubled. I think it was our buddy up in Athens, Tennessee. Whoever else just checked in, go again."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.8980528265237808,"created_at":"2026-05-25T02:45:35.059655+00:00","id":3049,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":3049,"text":"All right, thank you, Matt. Got your answer down there from Delta N Alpha. Next we have WB4AIZ Chuck. How you doing, Chuck? What do you have for the big enough tonight?"}]}