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Okay, I said with the KAL okay, oh Everybody's had a good day so far Got range clouds around and Here May the morning or tomorrow So that must we don't achieve the time started I'm a dead test I don't like I hope it may be good today I hope you're better folks. It's getting three now. Oh no, I'm go Okay, so the next year of the chaos"},{"confidence":0.40260857343673706,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:55:54.266287+00:00","id":168212,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172680,"text":"Yeah, I can relate, James. Although, you know, I have to admit, I love Portland. It's my hometown. But, you know, I came, I saw, I drank beer from other cities because Portland just makes you jar much as a hoppy IPA. I just had that stuff. Thank you, James. You're having a great day, my friend. Probably, either, whether it was either a drink or a hold on to IPA for the sounds of it. Anyway, we'll say 73's and let's run on over to you. By the way, you can catch Amlice's date on Tuesdays right here and sometimes other days because he's been filming it for other people here too. Dave, thank you for all your, all your concerning efforts for the net. And with that, we're going to move on over to Fayette, Alabama. Say hi to Douglas, our Thursday net control. Douglas, my friend. How's it going? And, yeah, how's the summer progression today? Where are you listening?"},{"confidence":0.7674671283790043,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:55:49.738747+00:00","id":168211,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172679,"text":"This is KI7PKL, Roy in Portland, about to start the, oh, I guess it's doing the right thing. So much to start the last morning, I hear in a few minutes, but someone please be trying to see your report. The morning net will begin in five minutes. At this time, we asked that everyone, including NCS staff, hold all non-emergency traffic. Thank you. WL7LP."},{"confidence":0.4857712388038635,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:55:26.143967+00:00","id":168210,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172678,"text":"You"},{"confidence":0.8781609758734703,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:53:45.344850+00:00","id":168209,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172676,"text":"Good morning. The Alaska Morning Net will begin in 10 minutes. WL7LP."},{"confidence":0.6644458852031014,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:53:19.872206+00:00","id":168207,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172674,"text":"And yeah, we've got to study at 80-90 degrees, feel like 100 degrees to think. It's probably only 30 miles away about my dad, but yeah, communities up to 60 degrees to serve, ones that are out of their south at 11. So it's a torture, but that's the way it is down here in Southeast Texas. So what are we gonna do about it? Change of length, are we gonna be really good anyway? But anyway, I know my son, because this is a little static-y right about now, I got some antenna work to do, but if you have to do it right now, it's gonna be way too late, anyway, how you guys doing? Yeah, I can relate to being too hot to do stuff. And yeah, I've got a few chores around here that I haven't neglected. Probably use my health, okay? I'm trying to take care of my health. And yeah, that's been an interesting part as well. Especially when you have a medical thing happen to you when you're..."},{"confidence":0.7063420479496321,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:53:16.533598+00:00","id":168206,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172673,"text":"and I'm glad you're here. You're starting to feel better. And that thing you said about getting your balance back. Yes. Maybe we both get our balance back. Yes. I'll apparently for different ways. But yeah, that's an... I want you to be going off on that one. That's a whole other matter. Yeah, when you can't walk a straight line, let's just say you hope you don't, you know, if you drive, you hope you don't get pulled over because you can't walk a straight line. What can I say? Do what? On one foot? What? No way. Anyway, we'll say 76 and Roger. And let's go over here to all of them Texas. And probably the same other report is Roger. Laura, KI5, O-L-G. How are you thinking your next is the woods today, my friend? Mike is yours. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning. After an evening. Everybody on the net, this is KI5, O-L-G."},{"confidence":0.9128232853753226,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:53:10.948496+00:00","id":168205,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172672,"text":"I think what I'm going to do is let you get a long little doggy and get some more check-ins here. I'll say thank you very much for running the net today. By the way, I am going to try to run the net on Sunday. I'm about 10 days out from the last chemotherapy feeling much better and starting to get my case back, starting to get my balance back. So if I can, I'm going to give it a try on Sunday. See if I can last for two hours. Thanks so much for taking my check in. I hope everybody has a great weekend coming up. And we will say 7th Street. This is K-Zero, K-O-N, Carpeit D'Amion. Have a beer too. Very, very cool. Roger, thanks for all you do for your time."},{"confidence":0.4029609398408369,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:53:08.223698+00:00","id":168204,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172671,"text":"Yes, I just noticed you're in the AIM window that house, WP4GE, is a foreign broadcast on shortwave. We're really even fun. There are a lot of us into him radio and shortwave listening. He says, except for 40 meters. Well, 40 meters is pretty jammed up and sometimes pretty noisy. So you had QRM with a lot of stations operating and you had QRN as a Nancy with a lot of noise. But it was still an exciting time. What we do now is darn exciting just in a different way, in a much more technical way. All right, right. I'm going to send it back to you one time."},{"confidence":0.9517585514848561,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:53:05.942026+00:00","id":168203,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172670,"text":"of that melting of the technology. Pretty darn amazing. And it's, well, look what we're doing right now. Back to you, Roy. Well, Roger, of course, being a long time computer guy, when I had, you know, really had to leave the hobby for just practical reasons, to focus on raising my family, and basically making sure we ate and had a place to sleep and stuff. Basic necessities like that. But you know, you'll leave and then you, I completely lost my fingers out there. So well, where was I going with that? I'm not really sure. Anyway, Roger, I'll mention the back to you with work time. How about that?"},{"confidence":0.811767710165845,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:53:03.722712+00:00","id":168202,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172669,"text":"Well, yeah, it's not the same as it was, is it? I mean, back in the old days, it was much more of a challenge. And as you know, I'm a big user of FDA, which isn't necessarily easy, but it's very efficient. I'm working on a presentation for our club meeting. I think it's going to be a week from tomorrow of the problems that can come up when your radio is linked to your computer. And it's amazing. It's a touchy thing, you know. So it's, but on the other hand, it had been opened up because of it."},{"confidence":0.7247312039136886,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:53:01.853856+00:00","id":168201,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172668,"text":"as far as you go back, you go away, you agree for years and years and years of going back to that place and you need to go back to that place and somehow you're not the same. Everything's not the same. You know that seems like you can't go back. So I guess maybe that's true. For me, it was just absolutely magic back in the 70s and 80s. I loved listening to the foreign broadcast. There were lots of people, as I've often said, you get on 75 meters in the 80s. You need to be shoulders, shoulders, shoulders, people. And now, of course, it's a whole different thing. So I guess for me, the magic of HF sadly kind of died. I'm having a lot of fun playing with some of this VHF stuff. I want to get into the mesh core and some other things like that. But I don't know, I guess the world changes. Yeah, sadly, I haven't worked in the DX and there's all my whole long list of excuses back to you."},{"confidence":0.9361145408862891,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:59.027346+00:00","id":168200,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172667,"text":"one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. So there you go, Roy, are you working any DFTs days? Roser, I'm sad to say I have it. That's what this before, you know, I got back in the hobby nine years ago, all excited to get a good pickup, right where I left off in 1982. Right after a long story about that, I passed the extra and then I went off the air after I worked with the X contest. But yeah, sometimes life is like that. But, you know, I got back on and I started doing this stuff. And somehow, you know, I worked the CDS contest and it kind of a little de-expertory. Really happy because I'm that much. And I don't know, I guess maybe it's one of those things in life where you're."},{"confidence":0.8312106625391886,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:56.622315+00:00","id":168199,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172666,"text":"Let's see, 6 meters is open. Having some fun there. Working much DX on 6th, though. Back August it was maybe a year ago this spring. We had South American openings on 6th. I picked up a whole bunch of countries during that time. I worked for Falkland Islands a couple of times, but darn it this time, no. But I turned on the radio last night in 1930 before going to bed. And, oh boy, 20 meters. 20 meters was active. We were just a couple of stations in Russia. A station in the Greek island of Dona Kanesa. The island of Rhodes."},{"confidence":0.7119382151535579,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:54.763877+00:00","id":168198,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172665,"text":"30 degrees as 32 Celsius, good up to 95 today. We've got hot weather back. Well, I'll tell you as much rain as we had over the last two weeks or 10 days or so, it's nothing like central Texas, the so-called Hill Country, west of here, man oh man. They had this week, as we come on somewhere between 20 and 24 inches of rain and it is a mess over there. Fortunately, after the disaster, a master worked over 100 people died. They put in some warning systems and other measures that has kept the death toll on, the injury toll down this year for disaster. Let me reset."},{"confidence":0.8822167301550508,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:52.994093+00:00","id":168197,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172664,"text":"Okay, zero, K-O-N, and yeah, Rochester is taking a bit of a hiatus for the moment as I did a few years ago, but Rochester is sure it's good to hear you, and you know, I'm glad you're able to speak enough to check in to the net. That's a big plus right there. I do, my friend. Mike is yours. Well, thank you, Roy, and hello to all of my friends on the Alaska Morning Day. Yes? Sorry. You got it right? K-Z, R-O-K-O-N. In mostly cloudy, I would say, Houston, Texas, you know, it's Laura coming up next, K-F-I-O-G, and I were to double. We could just give the weather report in unison, because she's only about 25, 30 miles away from me here in Houston. And weather is often very much the same, of course. Currently, 90 miles away from you."},{"confidence":0.8022073195094154,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:50.489406+00:00","id":168196,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172663,"text":"like that. So anyway, I'll probably be watching the live stream. Yes, that's August 12th. And whatever James had me, I'm not sure what it was. But yeah, I'll probably be, because I always do. I always have an attitude. But you know, when the time comes, I'll bring it up on YouTube and I'll watch it from all these different locations. The usual scenario. Anyway, Ms. Irene, great chat with you. It's always my friend. And my friends, you can catch Ms. Irene here on Wednesdays on the Alaska Morning Net. And she is definitely our leader of the moderately educational part of the Net. And just a fun, interesting Net to dial, which I always look forward to. All right, so we'll say Ms. Evans, excuse Ms. Irene. And now we got another one that I also look forward to on Sundays. That would be Roger."},{"confidence":0.8096679480603108,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:47.539483+00:00","id":168195,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172662,"text":"It might be a challenge to find the place you could go there even if you had the money. Yeah, so to me it's just far, far, far away. I didn't even make it to the one a couple of years ago. I had talked about trying to go to Texas. I'm glad I didn't because I would have spent thousands of dollars in, you know, it would have been cloudy. I remember the one I remember most, it was some hotel. It had a four-day, you had to sign up for a four-day state. It had to cost $2,800. And it was one of those areas that got cloudy. I wonder how that went at the front desk. When everyone was disappointed, they spent $3,000 to be there. Yeah, I just wonder how that went. Did the owner and all the staff have to go and hide either something like that?"},{"confidence":0.7760592699050903,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:44.381634+00:00","id":168194,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172661,"text":"day then you would probably realize. But that's what it is. I believe the southeast of England or the south east of England will be getting a partially equipped, which is going to be over 50%. So that does turn around and I'll give you some idea. We're just a bit closer than you said way, way away. Anyway, remember what you said about 10 minutes ago. I'll turn around and pass it back and say thank you very much for letting me into the net. Okay, I said in pre-KL, do you want DTV clear? Yeah, yeah, I guess it's kind of a role to"},{"confidence":0.5327129781246185,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:42.490749+00:00","id":168193,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172660,"text":"Go find out the Tango Victor Retening. Thank you, right? Yes. It was a bit closer. It actually crosses the northeast coast of Canada. And going across the pole, I think it first starts, totality starts, and just off northern Russia, then across northern Canada, northeast Canada. Then right across the Atlantic, so a cruise ship or a ship going across the Atlantic will see totality. And it runs through Spain. The other part, which was the shocking one, was when? And it's next month, on a particular day next month, but obviously a particular day. But if you saw the..."},{"confidence":0.7645540101961656,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:40.712928+00:00","id":168192,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172659,"text":"Washington, it was like 105 degrees outside and high humidity. And at, you know, 70 miles an hour or whatever the speed limit was back then, the air was roasting hot with the high humidity and the high heat. It was, yeah, you, it literally you put your hand out there and it was, it seemed hotter than the air inside. So yeah, that was not very helpful. I never heard of a yard fan, but what can I say? There are some things I have not seen yet. I'll go ahead and send this on back to you. Yes, you guessed it. Roy, back to you, KK 70 children."},{"confidence":0.7406173634032409,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:38.788963+00:00","id":168191,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172658,"text":"There's the second here. All right, sorry about that. Let's see. Yeah, not too shabby. I'm still alive. Things have been going a lot better since I'm not so majorly stressed all the time. And as always, it's good to hear y'all on the next morning. I'll ask a morning that. Fans, you know when I was a kid, sadly, just second. Sadly, it was the vacation that my sister was abducted. But we got her back right away, thankfully. But we were driving up through Seattle. We're going through Washington."},{"confidence":0.4119121953845024,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:36.663372+00:00","id":168190,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172657,"text":"Roy and Douglas and I had breakfast at the pig and pancake and it was good. We talked about, we haven't talked much about radio, but don't tell anybody. Let's see what else is going on. I'm going to go visit one of my other hand brands in South Korean like I used to do on Fridays and couldn't for a while because there's no cars and stuff. Now we'll get again. So that's on my list. I might have a little shopping to do and most importantly, I think the cats are much happier since we met at Sonawmen. The rest we eat for a ball report, the lovely Andrew Takeda cat found my chest. I took my back up to the window on the sewing table. He was over here hanging out and some of my wife took the computer out of the running. And Kiro Puppy Dog is on my lap and Henry Puppy Dog is on the floor. Good."},{"confidence":0.7495572328101844,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:33.845154+00:00","id":168189,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172656,"text":"So good. You can only do that for so long, but you know, it kept us amused on the very hot day stuck in our apartment with so much good stuff. And yeah, we'll stay 73s and oops, we're gonna go a few past here. KK7, hand license, Dave. How are you doing today, my friend? I'm just seeing the same weather I am. How's it going, my friend? Mike is yours. Well, thank you very much. This is KK7 HLD. Hi, Laura, and I think I misspelled your name. So don't read it name when I was just pretending to spill the right. How's everybody doing out there? I'm Miss Irene, Hollis, Douglas, Scott, one of the Scott's in the course, Roy. Yeah, a shock you laid my way. It's not too much far from you, you know, you know, my own half or something away. We went on a Wednesday."},{"confidence":0.725349073900896,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:30.627881+00:00","id":168188,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172655,"text":"Great Japanese, my friend. Hey, it's funny, there are three guys on the net named Scott, and they always put up a different name. I always have to remember, oh yeah, yeah. When you're doing that, you just have a look at this stuff, and you don't know what to think about. Anyway, I have a great day, my friends. And always good to hear from you, and stay cool. Yeah, it's that hot breeze. Oh, maybe that's where we get the spray, little spring water. Yeah, that's what we used to do. Please don't anybody try that, excuse me. Okay, I'm not an expert, I'm just a little hippie. But yeah, we used to do that. In our apartment, in fact, we have the box set up in the window, which stands several feet back. We didn't want water to get into the fan or anything. We turned it up all real high, and we pushed our sprayer on a little fine mist, and we spray it. It would just, or it would be like little sparkles would come back and catch you. They, by every, one of those tiny little sparkles."},{"confidence":0.757755397260189,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:27.494744+00:00","id":168187,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172654,"text":"see on the news that pets is truly all I think and you can nick that with a cream base and put that on your body and it's so such a strong smell that it will drive the mosquitoes away and but I've got opos to blood so they they love my blood that's it they really do true with that blood type all right I'll say to back to you Roy let's get the rest of the chickens here as they all would say kwapu and be over the kos mpkl and then at seven threes all well that sounds like a good idea Kevin the only problem is that yeah it might just know might drive the bugs away but it's gonna drive the pretty women away too isn't it I don't know maybe I'll just do with slapping myself for a little while anyway"},{"confidence":0.7098060033627247,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:52:06.801393+00:00","id":168186,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172653,"text":"Yeah, I just think you're going through it down there. I actually don't. I look up in the weather station and I'm looking at it. It's like a hundred and eight. It's just, yeah. It used to be our record temperature in Portland, it wasn't that. It used to be our record temperature in Portland, it wasn't that. Yeah, man. I guess that says, admittedly, that's going to be at that temperature. That's going to be pretty uncomfortable. Yeah, sounds like you're hunkered down like a lot of other folks today. And that's, you know, when it's that hot, that's a good place to be. And, you know, something I mentioned earlier, you know, maybe other people do. I really don't mind a little air conditioner noise in the background because, uh, one, you know, little background noise, when it's in the room, just kind of has color to your transmission. You know, you can kind of hear you can burst chirping in the background or, you know, you're on the road or maybe you've got a yard stand. Yeah, so I'd rather hear a little air conditioner."},{"confidence":0.6637972712516784,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:50:15.719013+00:00","id":168185,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172652,"text":"Shockingly, the phase change from water to mist or evaporation actually takes energy, and that cools you down. If the humidity is too high, it doesn't matter what you do. You know, swamp coolers, mists, wind, ain't going to be doing much. So let's not be like, sorry, Miss Irene, over there in Great Britain and avoid their conditioners. When it gets that hot, we want to keep people alive and keep that going. The important thing is it's good to hear y'all. I see somebody M6 station, Lex. If you're listening, please check in through the last morning, Roy here would love that. And I'm going to go ahead and send them back to Roy because that's what we're doing."},{"confidence":0.7865971639752388,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:50:13.572613+00:00","id":168184,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172651,"text":"Yeah, I don't think I ever had heard of a yard fan either, but it seems like a great idea, except for the caveat, yeah, you know, under when it gets bad enough, you know, you're just blowing hot air around. Of course, I don't know when it gets to that point, maybe it's just if you go inside and throw out the air conditioner. That's probably what I'm going to do in a situation like that. But in the cars to meet you, what about that Mr. Stink? You know, what if we had like a little Mr. Stink? We could kick off every once in a while. It was like, ooh, it's just kind of walk through the yard. I don't know, you know, have operators sometimes like to experiment with stuff. What can I say to you? All right. Well, thank you very much. I have the problem is what cools you down in the breeze and evaporation."},{"confidence":0.6126166923592489,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:49:02.078371+00:00","id":168183,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172650,"text":"and it again always, always learn something that's not even watching it. All right, you take care and thanks. So, clearing with Greg, next up Joel, I gave a WB6 GUI. Good morning, hello, how proud are you? Hello, I'm Matt. Hello, this is Joel, and I'm the other, he'll be mobile and I can see the spot where I actually have a signal so it can't, it sounds like a company and every piece of it. Just running here, I'm just about all the fact that I've been at the WB6 GUI, please. All right, Joel, yeah, WB6 GUI and N6H. Yeah, just wanna, just kind of FYI, your audio is pretty weak there, pretty low. I'm not sure if you're just not talking into the mic or what there, but I just wanna let you know that."},{"confidence":0.792409430940946,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:48:36.343144+00:00","id":168182,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172649,"text":"a coat out, you know, vinyl coats or whatever, they're made out of PVC or something. Leave those out, they get brittle and they just bust. So don't leave coats out of your backyard. Plus it looks like, you know, you have coats in your backyard, it's like you're probably got a freezer area on your front porch. I think that's somebody one day, he said, well I do have a freezer area on my front porch and there's a freezer out there too. So, you know, that's kind of typical. I remember when the TV show, the Beverly Hillbillies came out, my mother, she said, oh no, because we lit up in Chattanooga and she said, everybody in the country's going to think we're like them. But I remember thinking, I don't care. That's fine with me. But I don't have that kind of money. Anyway, my sister went back, she had some friends, she was going to Vanderbilt."},{"confidence":0.70650215446949,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:48:33.525908+00:00","id":168181,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172648,"text":"K-I-7 PKL and the net this is WV4 JE, well, hey Roy and Scott also known as Kevin and Dave and Douglas and Irene and Roger and Laura man that's like the usual group anyway I'm in here at 85 degrees humid mostly sunny probably rain today again and what I'm gonna go out and try to cut the grass after this I'm gonna be around it for the hole in that coast I got to go cut grasses should have done it this morning and didn't do it but I need to cut some of the backyard I've got coats sitting around back there some of them from field day which I haven't put up yet some of them with nothing in them I need to do something with them you know if you leave"},{"confidence":0.7846332207322121,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:48:31.407668+00:00","id":168180,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172647,"text":"It was thought to be the range that humans could safely live in between zero and 100 degrees. It's not exactly accurate. There are serious dangers when you get below freezing. And 100 degrees can be a little bit rough sometimes, but that's where the system came from. So despite the fact that we have two systems now, the Celsius and the Fahrenheit, that was why it was made like that. Works the Celsius was made to go from boiling to zero, freezing. Either one. If you know them, we'll tell you where to avoid the temperature extremes. So everybody, like I said, have a great day. Cause lots of trouble."},{"confidence":0.9322406753069825,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:48:29.538619+00:00","id":168179,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172646,"text":"kinds of load technology and it might, you know, it might, is this pretty far? I don't know. Anyway, yeah, I'll say it back to you one more time. All right. Thank you very much. Yeah. A lot of times, if they're trying to be historically accurate, you'll even see fabric, can't be in fabric cover, can't be in the back of the roof. And the reason for that is if you keep the outside wet, the evaporation will help keep the water cooler. That could go two ways. Anyways, the important thing is be safe out there. Sadly, the reason we have the ferret height system of temperature was"},{"confidence":0.7764676436781883,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:48:25.247437+00:00","id":168178,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172645,"text":"Yeah, you know, you hear people talk about, you know, the Southwest United States where it's, you know, it's pretty dry most of the time, you know, love Nevada and Arizona and places like that. And, you know, I've seen videos where people explained how, you know, cowboys back in the day would, would you think to keep cool by, you know, sticking something around during the equidual moisture on it and rather than keeping their corner in that corner would make it cooler. But yeah, you're right. It only works in dry climates, which is why, probably why we don't have a lot of swamp coolers around here in Portland because it's too humid. But they're not thinking, okay, why do we call it a swamp cooler? Aren't most places that have swamps? I don't know, there's some disconnect there with that but, you know, I suppose if, you know, if I lived in a place like Nevada, you know, we might be utilizing that"},{"confidence":0.9406073316931725,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:48:08.019314+00:00","id":168177,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172644,"text":"barrapt 4 3"},{"confidence":0.7917584411122582,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:45:18.085872+00:00","id":168175,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172642,"text":"Just because I have an attitude about an eclipse that I can't go see doesn't mean that I should have an attitude about it. So I apologize for that. I have been hearing about this. I haven't really studied it. We're looking at it much just because it's way out of range and I can't go there and just a lot of stuff. But I think it's a wonderful opportunity. I was noticing one of the things I read saying that Spain has a total eclipse in the century. Oh man, I think they are way overdue. And that probably would be a good place to go for people in other parts of Europe. So you're a good place to go on a vacation and if you can afford the zillion dollar hotel room, as hotel rooms tend to cost a zillion dollars in the path of totality, which is why I'm not there. But if you do the fourth you go."},{"confidence":0.641292460835897,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:45:15.374140+00:00","id":168174,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172641,"text":"Boy, over in the northeast United States, oh, it is just in Canada, just that whole northeast, it's just this big huge swash of purple from eastern Canada, eastern United States, all the way across the Atlantic and pretty much over the youth. Boy, what, you know, it's here importantly just a little bit cooler than it has been in the summer. I don't think we've had a hundred degree day yet, we've had a few 90s, some degree days, but, you know, I think a little cooler is what we've been used to, but still, you know, it is what it is nowadays, you know. Although I understand, I haven't had the orchestra on that much. Very proud of myself. I've saved a ton of money on energy. Okay, the question, yes, hold on a moment. And I have to say, I mean, I was a little taken aback by myself, taking, you know."},{"confidence":0.758096690882336,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:45:12.846756+00:00","id":168173,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172640,"text":"question back to you please. Did you get the answer to the question out on Wednesday from G1 DTV? Well hey I'm glad to hear that I'm glad to hear that things are getting a little better over there. I was looking at the smoke map last night and didn't usually extend to Europe but now it does and so I can see the same smoke map for Europe that I see for North America. And it looks like these were looking a little better over there which is definitely encouraging although the whole of Europe, I mean I don't think there was any part of Europe that didn't have some degree of smoke but at least it's kind of like the next rad map where it gets purple. That's where you don't want to be and there was no purple. It was supposed to be green and maybe a little yellow or something like that so that looked pretty positive."},{"confidence":0.8496453879544368,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:45:10.542818+00:00","id":168172,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172639,"text":"Let's see, G1 DTV, Ms. Irene, are Wednesday night control. How are you doing today, my friend? How are things over in the UK? Yeah, I'll just let you answer that. Go for one else to kind of return. Right? High temperature day was 27. It seems like they've managed to put out the, or at least contain the fires which was reporting earlier in the week. Well, yes, earlier in the week. Because I can now see the wealth mountains reasonably clearly. That's how it works. And the other question is, I want to find a question."},{"confidence":0.6757027937306298,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:45:08.524485+00:00","id":168171,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172638,"text":"we'll see, back to you, kick-ass 70 children. Oh, okay. Yeah, out of the course, on a hot day like this, when it came first, or we could just leave it out on the porch and see which one gets cooked first. Anyway, Dave, thank you for that call. It's Hollis. Yeah, great chat with you, my friend too. Yeah, too many things that are going to keep going here, but always, always good to hear from you, buddy. And yeah, fun not to do. All right, we'll say, St. W's, we've got Hollis and now let's move on across the point because I'm getting a little behind schedule here and I don't want the, I don't want the big bus to call me and do his office later on, you know, I'm saying so."},{"confidence":0.6962900012731552,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:44:58.886116+00:00","id":168170,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172637,"text":"Chicken fried chicken is, that sure sounds like a marketing thing to me. Dave, with a comment, go ahead. All right, thank you very much. No, it's not. Chicken fried steak and chicken fried chicken are simply a preparation that involves breading and pan frying. It's just a method of cooking is all. You can get a butterfly breast or something just cooked, but if it's battered and served with gravy, it's chicken fried chicken. And, you know, I mean, not something you could ever complain about. The other thing is, you know, which came first, the chicken or the egg, well, I ordered both from Amazon."},{"confidence":0.7950789068232883,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:44:56.582889+00:00","id":168169,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172636,"text":"waiter I said what's the difference in fried chicken and chicken fried chicken he had no idea he's all that stuff the chef back there he went back there and he never did come back about that so he's probably still wondering what is chicken fried chicken anyway I think they did it twice something I don't know what they did I'll turn it back to you really I've wasted enough time and I'm gonna like I said what working the arch on a little bit I work in my background for the hot and I'm just trying to get some things done let's see what else nothing I'll turn it back to you okay I said PK on the net this is WB4 JEE back then it KK7H LD comment okay"},{"confidence":0.8959618642926216,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:44:53.677331+00:00","id":168168,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172635,"text":"Anyway, I can't think I was going to say something else silly but I can't think of what it was. I've been watching these astromony, I call it stromony because I had a friend whose daughter called it a stromony, shorts on YouTube about astronomy. They have a few interesting ones on there. I'm figuring, watch out for gamma ray bursts because it doesn't matter, those things can be clear across galaxies, because that's it. And they said, you know, we might get zapped by one someday, just wiped out the earth. Oh no! So anyway, that's about it for me. Like I said, it's 85 and 70 mostly and I didn't know if Scott picked up my message about one time as their restaurant, they had chicken fried chicken and I asked the"},{"confidence":0.965887688100338,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:17:31.784208+00:00","id":168113,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172577,"text":"Okay, I got K-60CL Day, I got WB-6G-Y Joel and I got KO-6-TH. Did I miss anybody from this group?"},{"confidence":0.8627614825963974,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:16:05.824945+00:00","id":168110,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172574,"text":"It's like crazy. Well hopefully these fires will be put out and the smokers decide. I mean, eventually it will, but it's, yeah, these people have to be careful and stay safe."},{"confidence":0.7396245151758194,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:15:18.000305+00:00","id":168107,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172571,"text":"Okay, the last station coming through on the East Coast on Fireside. Your audio was pretty distorted there. I think you're over driving. I might want to back away from the mic a little bit there. Could you come back to your cross side again please? Canon. D- Nikker one alpha beauty share"},{"confidence":0.9321294113527984,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:11:37.403283+00:00","id":168102,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172564,"text":"It's been the last couple of weeks. I don't remember which net it was, but somebody in one of those very hot places like Nevada or Arizona or someplace like that was talking about how the breeze up to a point is comforting and cool and you get to a certain point and it's just a hot breeze. Yes, I've experienced that. That's a very, very weird feeling. I have a breeze that have it be hot. Anyway, I will send it back to you one more time. Oh, it's just because it's, I mean, Kevin, just because it's fun to talk to you. Kevin, back to you one more time. Hey, while before it be returning, well, I like that bug spray idea. I could put a mask on and goggles and just spray away and get the whole body at one time with one spray. Hi, hi. I did, I did."},{"confidence":0.7863793996247378,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:11:34.826606+00:00","id":168101,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172563,"text":"Hi to you Roy from Robbie Ray and Rusty's over here in the Sun KY4Nb over gas and PKL and Bennett and how to Dave coming up and Douglas and Miss Irene and everybody else. Well first of all, hey, this afternoon to you Robbie Ray and good to hear your melodious voice coming through the headphones and okay I wasn't totally off-paced then. Yeah, three foot wide. That's a pretty good sized fan and you know I just by imagine runs wild with this stuff I'm taking repellent. What if I stood facing the fan held the the bug spray out in front of me? You know I just get misted and bugs probably won't occloser. I probably shouldn't even talk about it. It's probably not even safe. Anyway yeah you know that hot breeze. I've heard people talk about that. In fact, just step."},{"confidence":0.896872378513217,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:11:32.404416+00:00","id":168100,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172562,"text":"powerful so I'm looking at it in just We're putting that in your yard the cost around a hundred bucks. Nope. That's they put out some air too. Well back you Hey, why before I'd be returning well, I think one of these is 30 inch and one's the 36 inch They're they're pretty big You just got wheels and roll it around and back you we keep them plugged in and covered up when we're not using them And the only problem with these yard fans is when it's this hot that basically they just blow hot air But we use them to blow the bugs away stuff like that and that that's a pretty effective mosquito repellent if you're within a few feet of them there and I'll put it's not impossible to hear me, but I just made a decision. It was so hot I was gonna leave them running Robbie right and I want to say hi third party"},{"confidence":0.9184773272524277,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:11:29.707848+00:00","id":168099,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172561,"text":"the river just goes a lot of places. It just does. I'm in Minneapolis, St. Paul. And I thought the Chicago River was kind of weird, you know, because it goes around to be blocked and stuff. I'm not sure if it's really a river canal or a little boat, but the Mississippi River, I mean, yeah, maybe it's just called that one, the Snake River. At least outdoors, because it winds around in this very beyond, you know, it's like any particular spot, if you don't know the area, you wouldn't know if it'd go in this way or that way, and you're probably going to be fooled, because it just goes all over town. Anyway, some of this, oh, yard fans, yes, I mentioned yard fans, and I'm picturing what's a yard fan. I kind of had this, you know, mental image of this, like, some four-foot diameter giant. Well, I guess they're not that big, but apparently they're..."},{"confidence":0.9033103140869311,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:11:26.534917+00:00","id":168098,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172560,"text":"and Rusty gobs outside and Robbie Ray and we're in front of these big yard fans so if it sounds like a propeller going there that's what it is because it is. So contained in a box though mind you. Anyway, doing okay here on a Friday, just remotely working on lunch break and got to do a little bit of yard work and brought to get some groceries and just get ready to maybe barbecue something like maybe some smoked sausage, nothing fancy, nothing long. That takes very long. But anyway, good to hear everybody out there, Roy. And I would appreciate you doing the net today. We sure do. And I know it's got to be cooler there. At least you got some water nearby. But wait, we do too, the mighty Mississippi River. KY4NB back to net. Wow, yeah, here's the Mississippi."},{"confidence":0.6574789403627317,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:11:23.486895+00:00","id":168097,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172559,"text":"speak English very much. So rather than have some problems with lack of communication and some of the dysfunctional stuff just because of not language barriers and stuff, we started taking the DX stations right off the bat. But that really disappointed in the United Kingdom. Jay invented English better than we do. Because they allow us, thankfully they talk to us when we speak American. After having said all that, yeah, it doesn't apply to the UK, thank you. Okay, well for NBA returning, okay, well that will work Roy. I was just going to offer for Ms. Irene to get in there first, but the net control is prerogative there. So it's hot, it's humid, it's going to get hotter and more humid next week."},{"confidence":0.6616063772235066,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:11:20.967570+00:00","id":168096,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172558,"text":"I read golf one, tilts and tango, picture. All right, it's good to see everybody this morning. We'll be good to hear everybody here in a few seconds or starting in a few seconds with KY-4MB Kevin, the mic is yours. Well, hi there, Roy, KY-4MB, Linda Elvis, barbecue's. I didn't know if you wanted to get Miss Irene since she's international across the pond. I'll just offer that KY-4MB back to net. No, that policy is very complicated. So yeah, there's a moment of explanation here. Maybe this is just my opinion. I think we started that because we had people checking in from various parts of the world, people who didn't."},{"confidence":0.8165925095478693,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:11:18.789542+00:00","id":168095,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172557,"text":"We'll already done we have This first round we have mostly coming in from the aim window, but what are up second? We have k1 or 4 and B is seven from the land of Elvis and barbecue KK 7 ham license to save just up the street looking at the same whether out his window I'm looking at mine Feel of my for a picture pop a golf guy glitching fit Alabama or if there's your neck control by the way KK 7 ham license David's are to stay in that control W.B. And sometimes other days to you know we heard them on twice this past week By the way, Dave we sure appreciate yeah, yeah Honestly, we got that can for VPG. Don't you start to receive that control W.B. Ford J. E Hollis and yeah, we're a real down there anyway It's good to have you Hollis and another guy with a telescope and across the pond we have our Wednesday that control"},{"confidence":0.7708219492009708,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:09:35.407125+00:00","id":168091,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172552,"text":"you kind of dropped out once they're during that last translation. It sounds like there's a lot of wind and stuff that you're dealing with. So you take care, be safe up there. Yeah, come back and join us on the content recognition here. I could say we do it every morning from 7.30 until 10 a.m. Pacific time on this repeater. And we also are on the All-Star Echo Lincoln on Wirezex. Anyway, take care and thanks for the check-in. Nice to meet you. Okay, so this is the content recognition. I will go ahead here and let me just do a quick round here of In-N-Out. So we'll do a quick run in-N-Out who's out there. I want to check in and then 6-inch. Okay, oh, 6-T-H. Good morning. Since you've been able to fix golf uniform yet? K6, DCL, good morning."},{"confidence":0.8825424553619491,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:09:32.317962+00:00","id":168090,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172551,"text":"hiking out there or your walk and it must be a beautiful country up there. KG6 AFA and a 6-inch. Yeah very good. A few of now any to my north and I'm up above a lake, cold lake, but I will linger here. I'm probably gonna head out so I just wanted to check in here, head there and say hi. So I hope you're still hearing me and I will pass along by 73 if you look at it and this is KG6 AFA portable and I will listen out. Alright very good there Bill. KG6 AFA and then 6-H for the copy of RickNet. My name is Tom by the way and okay very good. Yeah."},{"confidence":0.6059875955184301,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:09:30.092034+00:00","id":168089,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172550,"text":"You breathe, clear skies, no smoke, but there is a fire north of us up in Southern Oregon since I think oh it must be about 1,100 acres I think but no smoke yet after you. Okay, very good there, Bill. Yeah, KG6AFA and then 6A for the coffee ricknet. Okay, very good. Well, yeah, you're a little scratchy. I think you actually dropped out a little bit here into the repeater, the W6GRC repeater there. But otherwise you're doing okay. And anyway, it's good to meet you. And yeah, you're welcome to come back and listen to our coffee ricknet. It's just a root general reaction that we do, I can say, pretty much every day of the year. And we have different kinds of stuff to do it. So, pretty good. Well, enjoy your..."},{"confidence":0.6495984852313995,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:09:19.567678+00:00","id":168088,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172549,"text":"of Ohio. I did hear that there's some parts of maybe Northern Carolina area that might get a little bit of it, but no, we're not having a problem with the smoke, but they certainly are in, I'm going to walk inside because it's getting hot while I'm talking to you. The east coast are in danger smoke. They're seeing some air quality numbers. Tom, let me take a break."},{"confidence":0.9766434617340565,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:08:30.775752+00:00","id":168086,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172547,"text":"Father's lawn in Tennessee thought it would be a funny idea to mow over three large black bumblebees thinking that the blades would cut them into shreds. They shot out that side. They saw who was mowing that lawn. And yes, sir, they were mad, mad, mad. It keeps me into the house. I ended up with somewhere around 32 things that day. Note to self, don't mow bumblebees. That's my PSA. KB6LUV, view of love, 73."},{"confidence":0.6540515720844269,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:08:13.619430+00:00","id":168084,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172545,"text":"well and I can mention before about this weather. I'm definitely enjoying it too. A nice little bit on the cooler day side so that's nice and also cooler at night which is nice. All right, pretty good. Anything else for the net? Greg, Kale 6th and then 6th. Nope, that's about it for today and we're looking forward to next Wednesday. We'll be in the shack and we can, I can show some pictures of what I've been up to. 73, Kale 6th, back to net. Greg, there Greg and thanks for all that you do there with doing in the shack, hosting that and also which is on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month. Well we had the omered hat on the first and third Wednesday of the month and then also doing the video stuff, editing the video, some placing those on to our YouTube channel. So, looking forward to seeing the Jim's presentation about the open Ham clock."},{"confidence":0.6634052217006683,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:08:11.038396+00:00","id":168083,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172544,"text":"could be done in the day. It's a matter of if everything goes right. But I don't get too distracted. But yeah, it's, they don't have a base that I can go selling almost anywhere with. And these legends aligned with the prop shaft so I don't have any worry about damage with that. And what else? Yeah, then the rigging will be all done. It takes about two weeks they said. So this is week zero or week one. I'm not sure if it's a two. And then I'll get it back after that. KS-S-T-H, back to you. Okay, very good. Well, it sounds like you're making progress there. Yeah, at least going down there and doing the, the boat or the battery install. You may have some help there to help kind of wedge that into the, into the area there. So, very good. Well, good luck with that. And I hope that all goes"},{"confidence":0.9438921159488105,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:08:08.363204+00:00","id":168082,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172543,"text":"that's kind of uh... it's beyond the safe side and some of the right thing to do ok very good uh... so are you actually getting your boat back on monday you mentioned it's a boat day or they still uh... they still working no i just made on the boat that the the uh... they're dropping the mast i think today uh... and uh... mister working on the uh... redo in the rigging uh... and then uh... but the boats available for me to uh... scamper down below and uh... uh... work on the uh... electrical system uh... which will be doing uh... on monday and uh... kind of battery to install uh... wires hook up uh... uses all that kind of stuff and get the uh... if i can get uh... the hundred twenty volt aside that wired up as well i've got a lot of work to do on this thing uh... self-inflicted of course but uh... yeah it's uh... uh... i want to get all that stuff that it's in theory could could"},{"confidence":0.8571696852644285,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:08:04.115119+00:00","id":168081,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172542,"text":"trouble so anyway we'll put that one by ear if nothing else is to get the rig of astronomy buffs and we'll just you know chat and commiserate about the weather but yeah video first and then on with that thanks for the help by actually by the way on looking at antenna to antenna pickup and how much you can damage things or stress components by having a transmitter receiver to close together haven't heard from the boatyard yet in terms of what their what kind of mounting options I've got but I think I'm gonna stick with with the hand radio antenna at the back of the boat and the VHF marine to the top of the mast KOSF TH all right bring it to great guy it was kind of fun doing that exercise and figure out just kind of what the what kind of way did you could be doing there very good yeah that"},{"confidence":0.7699375053246816,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:08:01.550802+00:00","id":168080,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172541,"text":"Okay, nothing hurt. Up to the top, KO68 is good morning Greg of low hop riding. Good morning to the repeater. That's Greg, KO68, good morning Tom. I'm just finishing up, I think, the last rendering of the open ham clock video from last Friday. It's got a few more minutes to go here that I'll get it uploaded. And then it's on to the projects, Monday's a boat day. So I got some carpentry and electrical work to do on pieces to install. And yeah, loving the much cooler weather. Yesterday wasn't so bad, today's even better. Tomorrow in theory will happen at a star party up into that city. It's going to be kind of touch and go in terms of the clouds. So we'll go through the window right around the time we'll be viewing. But I don't know if it slides in an hour or two in a long direction."},{"confidence":0.8389714658260345,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:07:58.785540+00:00","id":168079,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172540,"text":"Okay, very good. Well, I guess I knew where you were at. I wasn't thinking straight. I am west of Mount Chasta City, walking in an area called Trinity Divide, which is the divide between Second County and Trinity County. And I'm at an elevation of 7,600 feet. And just out walking the dog, actually my wife says, you need to walk the dog today, okay, but I don't think she barged on me. Being gone for hours here. And the weather here is beautiful. There's a cool breeze. I estimate the temperature."},{"confidence":0.8023374378681183,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:07:56.822544+00:00","id":168078,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172539,"text":"to the copy of RickNet. Yeah, case 6-AFA here. Name is Bill, and I'm just out hiking today, and I heard you guys on the repeater. I didn't realize that it was the copy-break net, but interesting conversation there. Anyway, I wonder where you're located. Did you say Discovery Bay, and where is that? Okay, yeah, well, good morning to you there, Bill, and welcome to the Copy-Break Net. Yeah, we do this every morning from 7.30 to 10 a.m. ish. On the W60C, Gary Peter, we do an all-star, and we equilate the Firezax. I am located in Discovery Bay, which is near Brentwood, kind of north of the Livermore area, so I'm just curious of where are you hiking at."},{"confidence":0.744880137698991,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:07:54.383985+00:00","id":168077,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172538,"text":"Well, that is, I guess that's an important lesson to learn there Brett. It was extremely important. It was learned and now I run from Bumblebees the moment that I hear or see them. Thanks for letting me drop in. Appreciate it, KB6LUV. Have a great day. You have 73. Clear and listen. Okay, thanks for that. Yeah, and that difficulty would be a warning for sure. I have to deal with that. I definitely stay away from those things. I mean, I'll do something from 20 feet away, but it won't be something like that. But anyway, thanks for that PSA there. All right. So this is the copy Brett Nett. So I have one last station here. I got KG6AFA who added themselves. Good morning. I don't have a name there. So good morning."},{"confidence":0.9019019679928368,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:07:17.470619+00:00","id":168074,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172535,"text":"Put it in my back pocket or put it in my shirt pocket and it charges off of USB C which I really like I really like the radios now that have that instead of the dedicated chargers so That's one of the nice things about the newer radios Okay, then if you and Lucy have a great day there and enjoy and we'll talk to you next time Clearing with the K60 seal alright, this is Tom This is the coffee brick net we do this every morning from 7 30 to 10 a.m. Ish on the W6E K-repeater Which is located in Auburn, California We're also on all star which is 51018 and on echolink and on a wire zex So a number of different ways to get into us here alright I'll go ahead and here and open up for a for RACCHU again And now let me know and I'll put you at the top of the list there who's out there. This is Tom and then 6 H"},{"confidence":0.6637948029316388,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:07:14.841636+00:00","id":168073,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172534,"text":"So we have multiple scanners we ended up at its life after five years and so I just used the red tail and a bow bang for scanners and it works well. So that's it. And that much else going on. K6, DCL, seven, three time. Take care of everybody in the next. See you later. Okay, Rick, at their day, K6, DCL and then 6H for the cockpit, Rick. Yeah, I have a number of different radios. I don't use them all. I do have the bow bang UV5R Mini that I use a lot. I use it for the cockpit, Rick, now at the bottom, just to monitor it. So little small and stuff."},{"confidence":0.9210978274100593,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:07:12.497246+00:00","id":168072,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172533,"text":"I guess that'll happen until the next radio comes up. Yeah, because you do have a good selection. You have the rat tail. And so now the FT70 and stuff, so there's a lot. So what is your favorite radio? Do you have one? Very interesting question. Lucie and I used the rat tail for a scanner, police and fire. And remember, I also had that Bofang UV 5R Mini. And that also is used for a scanner when we need it. You know, you can't always charge things all the way sometimes. And."},{"confidence":0.8301621685386635,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:07:10.148541+00:00","id":168071,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172532,"text":"to the coffee brick net that way. Anyway, that's about it, Tom, back to you. I hope you're doing well, K60CL. Okay, very good there Dave, K60CL and then 6H1. Well, you have already have a way of getting into the coffee brick net through all-star and stuff. Yeah, I think we don't have a lot of wire zexes people getting through, but I guess you could be one of those things there. All right, I was gonna ask you, what's your next radio purchase gonna be? Have you had any thought about that? Now we're gonna chill, we're gonna chill, not share what's gonna happen, but not looking forward to any more radios for a while. Well, okay."},{"confidence":0.899949935471846,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:07:07.649812+00:00","id":168070,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172531,"text":"in Massachusetts and they're having fun. All the pictures I've seen so far look like it cloudy back there. I don't know whether it's because of the Canadian smoke. I know by the way, I hear us griping about the smoke, about griping about the danger for the people who live up there. I know it's in a sparse area, but because I'd seen where the fires are, but there's still some people in there. And so we're thinking about them and praying for them too. What else? Not much else. We're still working on my 70D to get it up and running for digital and maybe I'll get it on wire zex. Later today is so I can get in."},{"confidence":0.8461969656248888,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:07:05.461279+00:00","id":168069,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172530,"text":"Alright, and I tell you, take care and you have a great day. Next up, Dave, K6-DCL. Good morning, Dave. How are you and Lucy doing? Good morning, Tom. Great to hear you. Lucy's outside spraying her plants and flowers, giving them water down for the day. I'm here listening to the coffee bragnet and enjoying it. Today is package day, I think. That's not a pen. Anyway, we're just as busy as all get out. My oldest son who lives in Valley Springs for his life. I have gone back to see my youngest son."},{"confidence":0.56167956335204,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:06:49.990041+00:00","id":168068,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172529,"text":"and I'll take your check in after any mobile or short time stations or somewhere. Yeah. Hey, if you're calling time, please give it twice. Slowly and phonetically. We also ask you to pause at least four seconds between every transmission. See if all the systems time to reset. Yes, there is a real thing there. If we don't do that, things kind of get a little bit dishelled. If you'd like to check in, we would certainly like to hear from you. And yeah, I'm just catching up on the A-m. So if you're checking A-m, you'll hear what probably just you hear in a moment. But if you haven't, please come back with your call twice slowly and phonetically. This is Golf1 Delta Tango Victor G1DTV. A-m?"},{"confidence":0.7892692113916079,"created_at":"2026-07-17T17:06:47.251913+00:00","id":168067,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172528,"text":"Well, good morning, everybody. This is Gila Wengia 7, Papa Kilo Vima, and my name is Roy, and I'm in Portland, Oregon. I'll be your host for today's Alaska Morning Net, where we are highly entertaining and moderately educational. I also welcome everyone who's joined us this morning. This is an important but controlled right to net. We love talking with and getting to know each and every one of you and we are here seven days a week, starting at 9 a.m. Alaska time, which is one eastern time. That is on for about two hours, but can run a bit longer. If you can't check in by voice, you're in the net larger AIM window. Please go to www.alaskamoy.com and check in button. Also, all the ways to connect to the Alaska Morning Net can be found on the website. Okay, let's get started taking seconds. If you're a... I'm sorry if you're a mobile or short time station, please let me know. I'll take you ahead of the others. If you are not in North America, please let me know."},{"confidence":0.7882863940163092,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:35:25.326944+00:00","id":167958,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172415,"text":"and stuff, you know, when they had some of the volcanic action there, where basically it gets into the upper atmosphere and because of the jet stream and stuff, it ends up getting all around the world and affecting the other parts of the world. So it's crazy what all that happens. Yeah, and even when they had the real bad fires, you know, in California, there were people a few weeks later after he had left the East Coast that said that they believed that there was some of the smoke from the California fires that happened in Europe. So yeah, it's amazing. And yeah, let's see, I think what was it, crack a toa? When it went off, they figured it orbited the earth like seven times. Yep, but there's definitely definitely definitely."},{"confidence":0.676155534469419,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:35:23.221707+00:00","id":167957,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172414,"text":"storms complete with lightning. They don't get much rain out of them, but they can. And so from that thunderstorm, the updraft pulls that smoke up into the upper levels, up where the jets fly, and even higher than that. And, you know, they say this smoke that's over the eastern seaboard. Well, at some point end up in Europe, and it may go completely around the globe to a certain degree there. Yeah, I definitely can believe that. I mean, I've seen movies and things and different things when they talk about the weather stuff. Yeah, and having the fires themselves producing their own weather fronts and all sorts of things. And yeah, as far as stuff going around the world, I remember when we had some, I think, mountains saying how."},{"confidence":0.841077028920776,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:35:21.104871+00:00","id":167956,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172413,"text":"Yeah, nothing big going on here. Just the usual stuff. Probably go to church on Sunday if we feel good. And stay in cool. We're going to get some rain here too. They're expecting thunderstorms today. And I think we have some cumulus building already. And daytime heating. The thing with this smoke, and I learned something. Do you know? And I should have known this because they did hear it somewhere. And they were talking about how what makes this smoke travel so far. When the fire starts, like the fires did in Canada, they heat the ground. And the air from the fire rises. Because it's hot. It's warm. And it produces a pyro-cumulonimbus. Fires can produce their own thunderstorms."},{"confidence":0.8014961900189519,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:35:18.832040+00:00","id":167955,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172412,"text":"uh... you know it's not good daniel is saying that maybe tomorrow they were going to get some rain there that might help uh... help with their smoke situation up there in chicago well in the l-n-l-a but yeah i mean four hundred on the uh... per air quality that that is definitely unhealthy even for a per healthy people i mean that's uh... that's crazy uh... i hope that uh... hope they do get some relief there hope they get some uh... you know and yeah i mean having all that uh... wind coming from the north east like that definitely pushes all that stuff into it to the u-s so we'll pray for them and and hope that all that stuff uh... clears up soon here so that's that that's not good alright and uh... high to sarah good actor advocate and get that no good morning i came to sarah there i could hear from you there anyway the host of everything else is going well with you there uh... mark and you and sarah and you have a great weekend uh... wv6 bj and and six h"},{"confidence":0.9339065595995635,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:35:15.667941+00:00","id":167954,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172411,"text":"have a very good chance of turning into anything. But there's another one in the northeast Gulf of America that if it gets its act together, it could become a tropical storm. I don't think it's going to be a big deal. But what it will do is bring a lot of rain to areas of Texas and even Florida, places that have had 20 and 30 inches of rain, they could get more on the top of that from that tropical system if they don't need it, especially in Texas. They've had a lot of rain in parts of Texas. Back to you there, Tom, WB6, DJ, and. All right, Mark, yeah, WB6, B.J., and then 6H for the coffee bricknet. Well, yeah, I thought I'd go a lot of things going on. And yeah, that's."},{"confidence":0.991829245400272,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:35:13.229755+00:00","id":167953,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172410,"text":"but they're telling people not to even go outside. They're telling people that are healthy that they shouldn't be outside because of the air quality being that high. It's really a terrible, terrible thing. And then in the tropics, we have Hurricane Alita in the, or Tropical Storm Alita in the Pacific. And then we've got two other systems are in the Pacific, one off the coast of Mexico, Southwest Mexico, and another one off the Hawaiian Islands that have the chance of becoming a tropical depression or hurricane. So the Pacific is pretty busy. In the Atlantic, there is a tropical wave in the Cape Verde Islands, I'm surprised, but it only has like a 10% chance. It doesn't have to be."},{"confidence":0.7459323930421046,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:35:10.908466+00:00","id":167952,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172409,"text":"And it might be just a temporary thing because high pressure wants to try to rebuild back in behind it. And the North winds, if the wind blows out of the North like it has, but see, we're getting southerly winds here. So it's keeping the smoke away. But you get up into the Midwest and they're getting Northeast winds that are blowing down out of Canada. And that's what's bringing the smoke to the East and the parts of the Midwest. They're under a different wind flow around this high. So if the wind starts to shift and blow from the Southwest, it'll push that smoke away. And hopefully it'll bring in some rain and clear a lot of it out. They're supposed to get thunderstorms over the weekend. But then there might be another area of smoke coming late tomorrow and into Sunday. So but maybe they'll get some time off from it."},{"confidence":0.9294091863557696,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:35:08.158778+00:00","id":167951,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172408,"text":"There are some air quality numbers that are up around 450, almost 500, which is considered very hazardous. Say hi, Sarah. Hi, Sarah. I'm talking on the radio to Tom. Hi, Tom. You remember Tom? Yes. Yes. And that was Sarah. I said, say hi, Sarah. She said, hi, Sarah. But yeah, they're having some real dangerous smoke problems. And high pressure and nice sunny weather is not their friend. They need some rain, and that looks like that's coming for part of the Midwest. Let me take another break. And that will hopefully clear some of the smoke out as the cold front starts to drop southward."},{"confidence":0.6854670017957687,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:33:00.304589+00:00","id":167950,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172407,"text":"Boulden to town, I guess Denise was going to meet him and he was going to like reach a blind do all that stuff. So anyway, it was good to hear from him and a nice surprise check in on the copy right now. All right, well you take care and thanks for the update about Jeff at his 1000 mile mark which should be right north of Yosemite and Sonora Pass here. All right, thanks for that and appreciate the update and appreciate that Denise has given us or that Jeff is doing those updates and giving it to Denise. All right, so clearing with Brian next I have Dave, K and 6 Y C J, good morning and in the law of Friday."},{"confidence":0.9115636274218559,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:32:46.759707+00:00","id":167949,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172406,"text":"that is not a good thing. So, and I'm sorry, yeah, I haven't heard anybody getting bit by those, but it's not like that's pretty nasty stuff. Comments?"},{"confidence":0.9378940090537071,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:30:34.499138+00:00","id":167948,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172405,"text":"Okay, and 6 Y C J, are you there?"},{"confidence":0.8877675156109035,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:29:01.894138+00:00","id":167946,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172403,"text":"of their uh... back to you sir wb six bj okay record america wb six bj and and then six h for the coffee breaknet well definitely enjoying the you know a little bit cooler days here and also the cooler nights and which means i could like you mentioned before probably not as much the so that uh... the night can go off but uh... uh... up in the last couple days uh... that has been nice uh... to enjoy some nights for i can actually sleep without all the heat and having to keep the recognition but pretty good okay and are you getting affected by any of the smoke from uh... the canadian fires absolutely not no no we're too far south it's all uh... to the north of us illinois would probably be the closest maybe some part"},{"confidence":0.7717862833629955,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:28:59.682953+00:00","id":167945,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172402,"text":"It's going to kind of make it turn north. And because of the high pressure area in the Rockies, the monsoonal high, and the low pressure area off the coast of California, the clockwise flow around that high and that counterclockwise flow around that low is going to pull moisture up out of Mexico. And that moisture from Alita is weak and is going to unwind and that gets caught up in that flow. They were even saying that Modesto might have a shower in the morning, Monday morning. So there's a possibility that if it works outright, depending on where those pressure systems set up, that there could be some thunderstorms that might affect the valley, but more likely the mountains. And hopefully their wetting rains and not dry lightning storms, their tom."},{"confidence":0.7710796535015106,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:28:56.849861+00:00","id":167944,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172401,"text":"California is going to have nice weather. In fact, it's going to be nicer because the high pressure area that has caused the hot weather is moving east towards us a little bit. And so we're going to be hot and humid here, but we're also going to get thunderstorms. Let me take a break. And then next week, I guess it really kind of turns up the heat a little bit. We could have temperatures up around 105, not temperatures by 105, but temperatures in the 90s. And feel like temperatures of 105 down here. But for California, it's going to be nice. Temperatures in the 90s. There will be some monsoonal moisture, though, that's going to move toward California. They got Hurricane Elita in the Pacific off the coast of Baja."},{"confidence":0.8919827185571194,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:28:54.774425+00:00","id":167943,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172400,"text":"Let's see, I would like to give you some conditions here. Right now it is 84.2 degrees and it feels like 93. And I'm sitting out here in it. And it's bright sunshine. 30.10.2 on the barometer. And let's see, humidity 76%. 4, gusting to 3, gusting to 4 from the northeast on the wind. And no rain today. No rain yesterday, but we did have lightning yesterday. We had about 32 strikes."},{"confidence":0.8263658808374947,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:28:53.251087+00:00","id":167942,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172399,"text":"And they dive Bob me, you know, you know, you're wrong. You know, flying right around like get out of here But I got stung just sitting out here at the table Minding my own business and I guess one got on me and I kind of swiped I knew it was there and I swiped it away And it got me in the hand Yeah, yeah probably near near a nest I know in a lot of times so when we used to go camping and stuff too, you know you get right towards Sunset you get all of that you know when you're in here out there cooking barbecue and stuff and you get all the yellow jackets and the Walk of the stuff coming for because of the food and the meat that you're cooking. So yeah, none Not a good thing one of the the bad things with the camping Yep, well, let's talk about the weather And the weather and the sun just came out and boy is it high"},{"confidence":0.9023237754590809,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:28:50.212428+00:00","id":167941,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172398,"text":"kind of ground cover stuff that has a flowering, you know, what it'd be to there and, you know, I can be working around them and, you know, they're trying to do the their thing and, you know, they don't bother me at all. So, that has no problem, but it's the it's the wasp and the yellow jackets that I don't like. Ah, they're kind of mean. Don't die of bombing. We had up, I had up, we had up one over above the door, the back door where I go in and we don't have them anymore. We spray it up there and, or, and we also have a pest control that comes in and sprays for all that kind of stuff. So, we're we're pretty good, but I'd walk, I'd walk around that and I know the sound of them. They have a they're have their own particular neat sound and they they dive bomb me, you know, they just be walking to get into the house."},{"confidence":0.8808976592898199,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:28:47.146695+00:00","id":167940,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172397,"text":"Carpenter be and I don't I think the females can sting you I Don't think the males sting but the females do And we had those down here too, I've never been stung by one But they can tear up the railing we had a I guess a swarm of them that messed up the The railing in the front yard on the door the one down the stairs and there's a big hole in the rail They Were they I guess they were living inside that rail that railing they're up Tom there go Yeah, that that is pretty strange, I don't know what the purpose of yellow jackets and lost them stuff I mean it's yeah, I guess they can do damage there with some of their their nesting Yeah, bees are nice. I mean I have a bunch of bees. I have a bunch of flowers and things You know"},{"confidence":0.7378071573873362,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:28:44.791087+00:00","id":167939,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172396,"text":"Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, I got stung. I've been stung by a wasp before. And they're not fun. They hurt worse than I've also been stung by a bee. Bee stings aren't bad. Not to me. They hurt. I feel kind of sorry for the bee after it stings, but I think I stepped on the bee. But they don't really want to sting you unless they have to because you sting the bee stings and they die. But wasps and wasps, yellow jackets and stuff like that, they can pump you a couple of times. And then we also have down here, we have something called the carpenter bee, which I think is kind of in the wasp family. It kind of almost looks like a bumble bee, but it's a carpenter."},{"confidence":0.4703772455453873,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:28:42.463448+00:00","id":167938,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172395,"text":"Yeah, I can't really stay away from the lost. The abbom here in Discovery Bay, and so they usually nest underneath the fences and all that stuff, and I can or incite sheds and things like that, or eaves or houses and stuff. So I kind of know it and stay away from it. I actually got a, I've only been stung by a bee, I've never been stung by a lost, but stung by a bee one time, and it was kind of an odd situation. I was actually driving, riding my jet ski in the water, going around 40 miles an hour, and I literally had a bee fly and land on my knee when I was going 40 miles an hour, and it stung me. And that was the person only time, so it was an odd experience."},{"confidence":0.7958467166338647,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:28:38.012845+00:00","id":167937,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172394,"text":"Good morning to you, wasps. Well, I got stung here about a month ago. Good. And I know it was a wasp because it got me twice and that didn't feel good right in the hand. I heard it buzz and I kind of swiped away and it got mad and came back and got me. It hurt. I've been stung before. I had one. Oh gosh, I had one get up my go up my shirt sleeve. Got me right in the arm, almost in the armpit area. And I tried to get it out of my shirt and it got me more than once. Those things, you know, it's bad enough that they get you once and then they can just pump you again. And it's not a good feeling there. Go ahead."},{"confidence":0.8722807675600052,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:28:35.470855+00:00","id":167936,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172393,"text":"Okay, very good. I'll put you on the list here after Mark when we get our weather here. All right, so up next is Mark at WB6BJ and good morning, Mark. How are things in Tennessee? Hey, good morning, Tom. Everything is great here. I hope you can hear me okay there. Okay. Sound fine, Q5 copy. Great, I'm sitting out here on my back deck. It's a beautiful day here. As long as the sun isn't shining, we've got some cumulus clouds and it's behind the cloud right now and it doesn't feel half bad. God is providing some shade. Thank you very much."},{"confidence":0.8366666021756828,"created_at":"2026-07-17T16:28:33.469964+00:00","id":167935,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":172392,"text":"that and yeah sorry to hear about that. Alright so I'm going to go ahead and clear with KB6ED and here in W1 ATV do you want me to add you to the end of my list? That'd be great. Thanks Tom, W1 ATV. KB6AFA. Okay, KB6AFA do you want to be added to the list too? I have marked to go through here but I can put you at the end. Yeah that'd be great, I didn't mean to put in there. I just turned the radio on and I would like that. This is KB6AFA. Okay very good, no problem. I see you coming through from the W6GRC repeater system."}]}