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announcements"}},{"end_time":null,"id":205963,"participant_count":9,"recording_id":314649,"start_time":"2026-09-15T05:20:08.726818+00:00","topics_discussed":{"topic":null}},{"end_time":null,"id":205962,"participant_count":6,"recording_id":314648,"start_time":"2026-09-15T05:18:42.752729+00:00","topics_discussed":{"topic":"Casual conversation, check-ins, and announcements"}}],"topic":"Casual conversation and updates","transcripts":[{"confidence":0.8572823368012905,"created_at":"2026-09-15T08:27:06.394383+00:00","id":295914,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314924,"text":"Alright, just get on with it, Joan, just get on with it. Alright, this is going to be the last call, folks. I have the Roman numeral III, and I will say again this is Joan, KX2CW. The net has gone on for an hour and 42 minutes, which is par for the course for Monday night. But I'm picking up my mechanical pencil if there's anyone out there. Is there anyone out there who wants to join the net? Speak now or forever hold your peace. KX2CW asking for the last call."},{"confidence":0.9926489303221128,"created_at":"2026-09-15T08:21:52.096359+00:00","id":295913,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314923,"text":"Remember, if you don't test your equipment, we can't hear you. And you know what? It wouldn't be much of a net without you. I'm now returning the repeater to normal operation. This is Joan KX2 CW, signing off at 22.52, which is the same thing as saying 10.52 pm. Pacific time. Good night. Good night. Sleep tight. Maybe things will turn out all right. One never knows, do one. Good night, Joan. Kilo Echo, 4 Hotel. Good night, Kilo Echo, 4 Hotel."},{"confidence":0.9800836183130741,"created_at":"2026-09-15T08:15:11.655161+00:00","id":295912,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314922,"text":"33 to you too, Jim, and everyone else. Always a pleasure, always a good time here on the net. Rest well, whiskey 3, Gulf healthy Yankee."},{"confidence":0.9800088647753,"created_at":"2026-09-15T08:14:32.667773+00:00","id":295911,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314921,"text":"Broadway, signing off and clear, off and not clear."},{"confidence":0.9588877856731415,"created_at":"2026-09-15T08:10:27.257960+00:00","id":295910,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314920,"text":"the shortwave receivers. KJ7 EXM 33 Sean and this is Joan KX2CW asking for you."},{"confidence":0.740390918403864,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:42:04.603204+00:00","id":295854,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314851,"text":"a docent isn't the worst job in America. If you could do a museum, but I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what your situation is in Santa Cruz, although I have a friend whom I used to date in Santa Cruz. But I hope that that works out. I hope that you have a solution. Take care, Peter, and thank you for checking in. The next on the list is Grace, W3GAY. Grace, this is KX2CW, Joan, asking for you."},{"confidence":0.7924048975110054,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:42:02.744456+00:00","id":295853,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314850,"text":"working on down here because it's a real active club and they'd hate to lose their facility but that's sort of what's going on trying to get it's in the middle of a park now and they can't put houses or anything in because it's designated as a park and the agreement with the army and stuff so hopefully we're hoping they'll remodel it and make it into a museum and they want us to be dossants and stuff for the museum but I don't know something like that you know would be hard to run seven days a week so it only might be open on a Saturday like the one you have up in your area that's open every Saturday so that's basically what's going on and otherwise a lot of local activity down here K e6R a x will be"},{"confidence":0.6732807689242892,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:41:59.337456+00:00","id":295852,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314849,"text":"Your transmission stopped. You got as far as you belong to another club and your carrier dropped. Go ahead, again, Andrew. I mean, Peter. I don't know why it keeps dropping out, but it does, and I don't know it at my end. I belong to a club in Monterey. They're in a Mars station ever since the Fort Ord closed. And then the city red tagged it saying it doesn't meet up to code. It's not ADA accessible. The bathrooms don't work. And get it up to snuff might cost 400,000 bucks. So they moved, got a storage unit, moved everything in the storage unit, and now they have to meet at a American Legion facility in the local town. So it's something that we're working on."},{"confidence":0.9273805810998266,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:40:09.897107+00:00","id":295851,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314848,"text":"Some courts will have a hard way, will waive the fee if you're under financial hardship or something. Anyway, I'm out of that. Thank you, Sean 33 and let's see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, YL out of 16 operators, I think that's not a bad rate of YL. All right, folks. I'm now going to that was very short. Well, wait a minute. We got Graham. Yeah, and Sean was the last one. All right, let me make a note of the time and don't you love clickypits? Great. Yes, this is I love the pilot G2 Joe Pence. It is I've standardized on him and I bought all of these at Blix Art Supply. Yeah Because they have they have Don't have all just run of the mill pens. They've got the ultra tiny 0.38 millimeter ball"},{"confidence":0.9398574384395033,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:40:07.257330+00:00","id":295850,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314847,"text":"first name middle name and now she'll always be back. Sorry about that, suddenly I had to cough. And she's a smart cookie, she's a teacher, she's like a principal now. So, and you know, and you know, that's what, I think she told the judge, this is a fun story. The judge is asking, well, I do want to change your last name to your middle name. And she just said, because I've always been, and she stated her first and middle name. And so why not make it my last name? And the judge went, okay, it's not your last name. By the way, if you, Sean or someone else wants to do that, to have a legal name change, they do have a, hardship."},{"confidence":0.9373370014569339,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:40:04.748831+00:00","id":295849,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314846,"text":"to defraud or defame. In other words, with all these crimes. But if you're not changing your name to defraud anyone or to defame anyone, like changing your name to someone you don't like and then acting like a nice, pure person. You know, weird things like that. I mean, there have been weird cases. Yeah, you don't need a reason other than, like I know people who have just swapped their first and last names. But then, you know, you can just go by your middle name if you like it better. I know someone who's one of my favorite hand radio operators and she just prefers her middle name. And it is her name, you know. And some people will decide to, like I told you about my friend who changed her last name to her middle name. Because after three divorces, she decided that she'd always been, you know, her friend."},{"confidence":0.7320616867393255,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:40:01.938743+00:00","id":295848,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314845,"text":"like it then they'll go with it. You say anything else they may not so yeah you do have to kind of be careful with that but they do ask if you're doing anything you know trying to avoid anything or doing anything nefarious and you just be honest with them and tell them oh I like the name so there you go so that's a scoop I wonder how I know that because they asked me anyway this is KJ 7 EXM back to now. In a sense you really don't need any better reason than do you just like the name it's just because you wanted to change your name you know and the only caveat to changing your name legally or even going by a different name that isn't your legal name the only caveat is that you can't do it if it's"},{"confidence":0.6736023396253585,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:39:59.569337+00:00","id":295847,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314844,"text":"Well here in the King County area it will probably be something like over a couple hundred bucks to change your name and yes they do ask you questions of the reason why you want to change your name and if you're saying you like it stick to it because if you say anything else they can't turn the idea down because they can do that but if you insist on a particular name because that's what you choose to want to change it to you can certainly do that otherwise some people go in there and they change their name back to their maiden name or their other name they may have had at one point or another because they may have been you know married at some point and decided not to change it to something else so you know it can go either way but if you're looking to change your name insist on it that you're you know doing it for a particular reason like because you"},{"confidence":0.857559696556284,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:39:56.861914+00:00","id":295846,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314843,"text":"like, wow, you don't see that every day. On the day I find one of my radios actually getting two CX2CW past the side connection of buildings that we have in between us, is today we will be saying, wow, because, you know, not too many radios can kick it that way. Although I have barely managed to get her a couple of times on one of my radios before but, you know, that was a chance. Not so lucky because there are extra buildings floating around and, yeah, so there are like maybe four or five buildings kind of side kinked in the way. But, you know, once in a while, maybe if I'm lucky I might get her again. It's always possible. And so otherwise, had a nice day. So there you go. Ask to the name change."},{"confidence":0.953445788886812,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:39:53.882744+00:00","id":295845,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314842,"text":"Well, since the repeater has done its thing and so has CACs, 2CW, wonderful introduction. Yes, I will say that I think a couple people in my building do listen to us and have a good time and they don't say a word. Because they know that if anything happens around here, well, they find out about it. I know about it and generally we, you know, do what we do. But in the meantime, today was kind of a nice day. I'm going to say that it was blocking out, but, come sunset, it was not orange this time, but pink. Beautiful orange light pink. So that took me by surprise. So I knew there was a break in the cloud, but I didn't know how much until that showed up."},{"confidence":0.9384077853626676,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:37:11.859119+00:00","id":295844,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314841,"text":"All right, that's a very short middle round. Let me write, use my blue art pen, art pen, art pen sill, in this case. And I use the line as the upper serif for the Roman numeral three for the next round. Coming up, so Andrew already, I will have a talk with Andrew, so that brings us to Peter, KE6RAX in California. Yes, this should be a just short comment. Yeah, we had a, I belonged to another club."},{"confidence":0.5060238858064016,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:35:01.002863+00:00","id":295843,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314840,"text":"Anyways, much more ahead of us. And then in just a few days here, we are going on our camping trip to Hamahaw and Caben. And I have finally decided I will be doing a soda activation and I figured out a time of place and everything. Sunday the 20th this weekend, I'll do on 146th, that's all 5-8. From Jefferson Peak, for those of you interested in those numbers, it's whiskey7, whiskey slash Sierra Oscar dash 034. So once again, that's Sunday the 20th this weekend, 146th, that's all 5-8. Jefferson Peak, W7W slash SO 034. If I make it there, I'm going to see, it's a bit of a hike up and then a hike off trail to get to the actual activation point. So, but it doesn't look too bad, it's a rocky kind of ridge, so it should be easy. Anyways, thanks for running that. Joe and hopefully everybody has had a fantastic day and has a great night. This is KF7A, that'd be..."},{"confidence":0.9355207726891551,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:34:57.427901+00:00","id":295842,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314839,"text":"This is my lowest I've gone, and it's a noisy single at that point. But I'm like, we're talking about less than a third of a milliwatt. But I bring it back up because your listening comfort is important to me. Anywho, so it's time for me to close the net, Joan. You know, just get on with it. And so this is what I'll say. This is the post-damble. Well, that's a wrap. Thanks to all for joining us for the 2026 September 14, 9 o'clock evening net. Thanks to the Puget Sound Repeater Group for the usage of this repeater. And for more information about the group, please check out our website at, and you're not going to believe this, folks, psarg.org. The PSRG have been hosting daily nets for well over 30 years. The nets are a great opportunity to just your equipment and stay in practice."},{"confidence":0.7776794456518613,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:34:54.277108+00:00","id":295841,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314838,"text":"which is almost like full duplex folks. You know, we take turns on phone, which I like. But when you're operating QSK, if the other person starts suddenly sending back to you, you can hear them do that. And it is the closest thing to actually end up feeling like a full duplex conversation. But anyway, I'll stop, chase, congratulations, and thanks for checking in. And noticing the voter scopes, I recommend anybody who can be logged into something online to go look at the voter scope while the net is going on. And right now, I'm only getting into one receiver. But the thing is, you only need to get into one receiver. Why use more power? When I'm flooring, absolutely flooring, capital park, with a tenth of a lot, you know? And I may go down. I've gone down to ridiculously low power levels, folks, down to like 280 microwatts."},{"confidence":0.968329466487232,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:34:51.353329+00:00","id":295840,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314837,"text":"then you know how to say it. So that's one of my words of encouragement to people who are interested. They're CW curious. That's what you could say. And it sounds like you're CW curious. And by the way, I love my KX2. And one of the best things about it is I can either just dial the transmitter down to nothing to zero, or I can turn off what's called Vox. And the only time to use Vox with an aircraft is so that it will transmit. So it senses your sending. And it just transmits this QSK full break in. So the transmitter is only transmitting while a character element itself is being sent. And in between even the spaces of between the elements of a character, it is switching briefly for milliseconds, for just one millisecond even, to back into receive, which is it."},{"confidence":0.5383807366544551,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:34:48.545811+00:00","id":295839,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314836,"text":"T8 is its own animal and CD is CW is a completely different animal. It's like the Zen of amateur radio. If you go to field day where they've got a CW station and I remember going to CW tent and you walk in there it's like a shrine and it's silent and you just hear the operator and the logger sitting there listening and the logger is focused on logging on a computer. So the operator can just focus entirely on operating and there'll be a couple of other people sitting in there with me and them and it's kind of like a shrine or like going to church on the day off and just sitting there just going wow. So that's like the reward of CW it's like sailing and then some people might say well it's hard to learn how to sail. Yes but then."},{"confidence":0.8231051084068086,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:34:46.200730+00:00","id":295838,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314835,"text":"but it can't. It goes character, character, character, character, character, character, character, character, character, character. So it's like, and the next character's starting, so I end up finding myself just trying to think about one four character set and then ignore the next four characters while I'm thinking about say character set A and ignore set B and then I pay attention again to set C. So I can get in my mind every other set. It's a friend of mine gave this to me. They thought, they got it for nothing and they thought, I know the ideal person for this. And they were right. That was Uncle Rye-Rye. And seven, WAA. What an apple. Anyway, Chase, yeah, see W, people, their phone has got a kind of a psyche to it and in every"},{"confidence":0.909222357413348,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:34:43.415632+00:00","id":295837,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314834,"text":"You can get rusty real fast, as they say. And so you get to where there's instant character recognition, where you can hear a series of letters just being randomly generated and write them down. And I can do that easily at this rate. But what I do is I don't write them down. I'm trying to practice getting my retention and hold, in my mind, hold the four characters that come out of the machine. And then think about it and recognize, before x4 characters start, what it spells. And sometimes you get very humorous results. But I also wish there were a setting in this particular old device, where I could increase the spacing between the groups. So it could send character, character, character, character. And then I could have just given me a few seconds. And then character, character, character, character."},{"confidence":0.8609325252473354,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:34:40.762321+00:00","id":295836,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314833,"text":"and I find that I can just, I'm trying to get to where I can head copy and just remember the characters in my head. I'll turn it down again. I'll turn it down here. It's just on the floor, next to my desk. And I just never turned it off. I've got it set into the four character group mode. And it just sends, you know, a funny thing, at the four characters, if you get weird words pop in, sometimes it's an actual word. You know, it'll be, you know, the think of all the four letter words. And randomly, it's just completely random generation. And I'll spell the letter by letter into my head, because it's practicing retaining retention. And I'm at the stage where I, you know, I was flying along with good head copy years ago and then I moved to Seattle and I didn't get back on HF or even on the air for a while. And it's, it's, it's."},{"confidence":0.849759511416778,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:34:37.652348+00:00","id":295835,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314832,"text":"a lot of the repeaters, which is pretty interesting for me. So this has been fun to just kind of check that out. I've been doing a lot of FDA and learning CW currently. I've got a little 3D printed paddle that's been useful for me to try and practice with my icon. So just trying to use that practice getting used to sending CW without actually transmitting. There's a mode where you don't break in at all. And that doesn't activate the actual transmitter. So yeah, that's all for me. This is Chase in Burlington, Washington saying, 7.3 to the net, K-M7-G-E-M. Well, fine business chase. In fact, you made me, I have this thing called a Morse machine, which I always have going. So I have it sending in four character groups."},{"confidence":0.9284761898840467,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:34:34.513060+00:00","id":295834,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314831,"text":"All right, that was that wonderfully long tail, that eight second tail that we have, and it was even extended by Peter chiming in with KK7... ...P... sorry, yeah, WW7... ...P-S-R... ...that's the name of our... ...re-peater. And Chase, you are going to put a bow on the net. You are the caboose to put the bow on the net. So, Chase, take it away. Yeah, just wanted to quickly say hello and have a good night to everybody. Not much time on my end here for a long check-in. That's interesting. I finally started looking at the voter scope. And even at 50% power on my transmitter, I'm really begging a lot of the..."},{"confidence":0.8558939781326513,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:26:59.153102+00:00","id":295832,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314829,"text":"Okay, I'm checking the voter scope right now. Sorry, everyone. Sorry, everyone. This is to make sure I'm doing the right thing. Oh, yeah, if I rotate myself just a little bit, it makes the voter scope jump all over the place. So I'll listen, learn. Thank you all for the next, and I'll stop rotating while I'm talking. With Gethra, you can call for Alfie Enke. See, Grace, there you go. Yeah, I think you were getting in better to Lake Forest Park. The one on the bottom of the list. Although, yeah, you could pick one or the other spots or rotation or moving around, but you've got it. You've got it. Looking at the voter scope and moving into a place where you're getting nicely into one of the receivers is one of the reasons why the voter scope is there. Goodnight, Grace, 33, and I'm glad you're becoming a regular on our repeater. It's very nice. And you have lots of friends here. KX2CW, Joan."},{"confidence":0.7835793420672417,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:25:29.747473+00:00","id":295831,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314828,"text":"All right. That was Graham. Thank you for the recheck Graham. And W3 station. I picked up about three stations there. Was there a W3 station? Please give me your call sign in here. Yes, this was Grace. W3 J.A.Y. That's Wisky 3. Golf Alpe Yankee. Oh Grace, I love your call sign. I love it. It applies to me too. Anyway, more stations please."},{"confidence":0.9378555935744027,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:25:28.102701+00:00","id":295830,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314827,"text":"Kilo, Echo, 6, Romeo, Alpha, X-ray, Peter, and Monterey Bay. All right, Peter, I've got you on the list. And as this is your first report, or your first check-in, I'm going to give you an operator number. And we'll see. There we go. There we go. All right. More stations, please. Great whiskey, three eggs. We're getting through both. I just want to make a comment that no matter how rotten my Monday was during the day, and I had a triple day today, you make it all worthwhile. In the meantime, you have a great evening. You look like seven, golf, here I go. Clear and Monterey. Oh, thank you, Graham."},{"confidence":0.9201033741235733,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:25:25.624003+00:00","id":295829,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314826,"text":"Yeah, if you start doing it and you do have to pay for a membership. And, uh, and, uh, there's even a, I just noticed there's a button called the LICW Culture Guide. I'm curious, I gotta try this. What is this about? The purpose of this guide. Uh, it grew because a beginner could enter a class feeling nervous and leave the leading progress was possible. That's, that's one sense. It says enough right there. Anyway, take care, Andrew, and, uh, and, uh, and may, and may, and may the CW be with you. Alright, I'm gonna go on and take more check-ins for this middle round. Where's my pencil? There it is. Um, and, uh, I'll just put a check here that I already talked to Andrew. Okay, more stations, please."},{"confidence":0.9358102078549564,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:25:23.156433+00:00","id":295828,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314825,"text":"I was rusty and I decided to plunge back into it. Here's the best thing I can say about it, they make it fun. It is fun. They have classes going from the most basic level to just flying along, you know, QRS, just flying along 35 words per minute, which if you don't want to do that, don't. And some people do, so they do. And they have classes that go all the way up to lightning speed. But when you're just starting out, it's such a good experience. Back over to you, Andrew. That sounds fantastic. I've taken a look and this seems like it has a whole bunch of really useful resources. I will have to check it out some more. Thank you very much. K87, ATS. Awesome, Andrew."},{"confidence":0.9367695264518261,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:25:20.321120+00:00","id":295827,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314824,"text":"link on my Q or Z page which I'm not going to do since I'm just so easy to find. Anyway, and all 50 states and 74 countries and 182 classes a week and they start you out in a class called Carousel and it's really easy to start up and you can stay at any level you want to as long as you want. Though they have courses and you'll start in Carousel and do a few of those classes then you'll go to a kind of a basic level and it just, it's like, it's fun, it's summer camp Andrew. So that's my basic suggestion. There are many resources but I am a huge advocate of the Long Island CW Club because even though I had been, I had gotten my proficiency up before like 30 years ago."},{"confidence":0.48807562800014725,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:25:18.027400+00:00","id":295826,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314823,"text":"I endorse the Long Island CW Club. And they're up to 10,000 members now. They're growing by leaps and bounds. My member number is a few hundred or something. I forget what it is. In fact, it's on my... Let me quickly look at my two-car saying no, page, page, there we go. Oh, oh, it's... I'm Long Island CW 5448. I don't know why that is because other people that joined later than me that have lower numbers. I don't understand. Or else they redid the numbers. But yeah, so I got in at 5448 and now they're... It started out when I first heard about them, there were only a few hundred. And it's growing massively. Oh, and I think I have a hot..."},{"confidence":0.5739976171065461,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:25:15.273906+00:00","id":295825,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314822,"text":"You want to find the Long Island CW Club. You can simply type L-I-C-W as I just have done now and you'll see it appear as the first choice of the link. It says Learn Morse Code, M-C-W with the Long Island CW Club and I'm going to click on that link. I probably have more access to what's there as a member. There's the page, Long Island CW Club and the URL and if you want the actual URL it is as much together as one word as usual it says Long Island CW Club.org. Learn Morse Code, CW with the Long Island blah blah blah, is dedicated to expanding the use and popularity of CW. They do a great job Andrew and I'm giving you a pitch for it."},{"confidence":0.7406854013410898,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:25:12.617970+00:00","id":295824,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314821,"text":"Andrew, you know what Andrew I'm just going to ask you for your reach check right now. I'll go for it. Alright, I had a quick question about CW. I'm studying up being able to understand it by listening. I found Learn CW Online and that's been really helpful. However, I'm a little bit out of law for resources on how to see it or how to transmit it. And I'm wondering if the net has any good recommendations for strategies to learn how to speak more. Okay, so I'm going to ask you now. Alright, I'm a life member of the Long Island CW Club. They have the best method I've ever experienced. They make it fun. And so there are many resources out there, which are good. It's good that there are many resources out there."},{"confidence":0.8494987061077899,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:25:09.837271+00:00","id":295823,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314820,"text":"mechanical pencil, here it is. I'm going to get a couple more of these. These are $5 pencils at Blick and they're really good. And I'll just stop there. It's Blick Essentials. It's their store brand mechanical pencil and they're five bucks. I have no pecuniary interest in Blick. I'm just saying that I like this pencil so much. I'm going to go back. I'm looking at Blick's right now. I'm looking at their neon sign out of my window. The neon lights, they say the neon lights are bright on Broadway. And there they are right there. So if I want to go to Blick's, I'll have to walk one half block to get there. I like it. All right I'm going to say again this is Joan KX2 CW starting taking check-ins for the middle round, the second round of the PSRG Monday night net. Kilo Alpha 7, Alpha Tango Sierra Andrew with a recheck."},{"confidence":0.8127402365207672,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:25:06.944668+00:00","id":295822,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314819,"text":"will be the next PSRG board meeting and the meeting link will be posted by that time on the PSRG.org website. And, you know, I have a meeting that happens every Saturday that prevents me from getting to these meetings, so I will sometimes excuse myself from the meeting to get to the educational meeting usually, sometimes. That's why I'm not there some of the times. But it's a fun thing. Any member is welcome to log in and to that and just hang out and be there for the board meeting, you know, the board's business is everyone's business. And those are the announcements, people. And that repeater identification was identifying the repeater was saying, www7PSR, which is the call sign. In modulated CW. All right, moving right along, I'm going to do the middle round, pick up my"},{"confidence":0.9522547578542597,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:25:03.849890+00:00","id":295821,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314818,"text":"That is 10-4 is National CB radio day. Don't be ashamed if you have ever been 11 meter operator. There are many paths to get here to find your way through the portal to the promised land of Hammer Radio. And I back in the woods in the Upper Peninsula, we used it. We had neighbors out in the woods that that's how we stayed in touch and it's good to be on good terms with your neighbors. Saturday, October 10th is the Kitsap County Amateur Radio Association swap meet. Never been to it, but I'm sure that it's a really amazing swap meet. Saturday, October 10th also is at October, wait, this is old news. No, October 10th, okay, there we go. All right, that's not, I started freaking out. October 10th also is at 1330 or 1.30 pm on Zoom."},{"confidence":0.9147502839565277,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:25:00.790888+00:00","id":295820,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314817,"text":"All right, so Sunday, October 4th is the Tour de Forest Rally in Shelton. And I will state the URL in a partial form, which is usually enough to enter to your browser besides entering Tour de Forest Rally. You could also enter the URL and the easiest way to find their site is simply AmericanRallyAssociation.org. That will get you their website, AmericanRallyAssociation.org. And I'm sure that you can find the Tour de Forest on there, but if you want to put a forward oblique, a slash, as Americans call it, you can also put as one word Tour de Forest. But just AmericanRallyAssociation.org will get you right to their website in one shot. As previously mentioned, October 4th,"},{"confidence":0.9082232195263108,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:24:58.326147+00:00","id":295819,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314816,"text":"And Saturday September 129, huh? There's a typo. All right, that Saturday September 129 hyphen. As every Saturday is also the simplex net, which is moved and presently on 146.56 at 20 hours, local time, also known as 8 p.m. For those of you who can't understand 24 hour time, which is actually easier once you learn it, you say, why did we double 12 hour time? That's not easier. That's more convoluted. Think about it, folks, your ham radio operator. If you're listening to this, you should be versed in things like standard phonetics and 24 hour time and knowing that UTC is already tomorrow."},{"confidence":0.8400755743185679,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:24:56.109808+00:00","id":295818,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314815,"text":"a day say, happy birthday Brian. And back and back a few years ago I had my Facebook set to talk, set the pirate English and I loved it. It was fun. And met and their wisdom decided to disable pirate English. Why? Why? Why? Saturday September 19th also is as every Saturday is the radio club to come as open house from 10 in the morning to early afternoon. And go check it out folks have been there to the open house a couple of three times. I've also been there for other things you know for operating like street key night a couple of times and they have other stuff that goes on there but their Saturday is a nice get together. Sometimes they have pizza."},{"confidence":0.6820395577412386,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:24:54.049713+00:00","id":295817,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314814,"text":"And I'm going to grab a radio and see if I can get in, but of course when I'm underground and the train, it's going to be a problem. So if Jack's listening, I'm going to try, I'm going to give it my best attempt to check into it because it's a special occasion. But I'm not sure I'll be out to miss it. But anyway, this is this coming Thursday folks. It's coming right up. Then September 19th, also coming up and just a couple more days after Thursday, that'd be Saturday, is talk like a parrot day or... And it's also Brian K7KZH's birthday and Wayne N7AAK birthday. So there you go. If you see Brian or Wayne on the radio, wish them a happy birthday. Or just when Brian announces that his talk like a pirate."},{"confidence":0.8234875500202179,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:24:51.607938+00:00","id":295816,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314813,"text":"The problem is then I can't use messenger. So technically I'm logged in to Facebook just, but I religiously avoid the Facebook feed. It just drove me away and I'm only logged in because now messenger you can't just be logged in to messenger, which you used to be able to do. It used to be its own app. Anyway, I'm blathering. So here are the events to consider. Thursday, September 17th is new net. Number, number 25, 25, 100, 100, 100. And I am hoping to be able to check into that, but I also on Thursdays I have Veterans Choir practice, and we leave at noon to walk to the train station, take the train to the monorail, take the monorail to the Seattle Center, and walk through the Seattle Center to get to the Seattle Opera House, which is where our rehearsals are."},{"confidence":0.5326964229345321,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:24:48.465220+00:00","id":295815,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314812,"text":"I forget exactly when. I should have made a note of the date in my journal or something. But you know, they, they, and they're also our announcements that are on the PSRG website, which are not always as up to date as to pinned events to consider on the PSRG discussion group, Facebook page, which I miss. It was, it had become one of the only reasons for being on Facebook for that, my friends and family and the PSRG discussion group page and a couple of other pages, you know, but it, I don't know what happened to, for, it was like for other people, but it just, just my feet, it just turned into slop. And I just thought this is stupid. It's like, I'm not interested in this stuff. It's like pushing, I don't know what that was going on. I finally got just discussed, so discussed that I rage quit. I actually logged off."},{"confidence":0.8194520771503448,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:24:45.486050+00:00","id":295814,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314811,"text":"down. Did I write down? Yeah, you're solid into cougar at about approximately 240 on the scale. So that means that you were not full bit quiting, but you had a nice steady single. And if anything, I'd say speak up slightly. You know, some people are overmodulated, and other people are undermodulated. You could have spoken up given another 3 dB, and you would have been fine. And yes, you know, you've been a caboose. I miss cabooses. I'm a caboose lover myself. And Joan, just stop there. Alright, moving right along, I want to go to Jack and where Jack, because I rage quit Facebook. Now it's a couple of years ago."},{"confidence":0.9108314667554462,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:24:42.825276+00:00","id":295813,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314810,"text":"And CW does that too. And so even on CW, I would get in with two or three local friends, just locally. And we would just rag to on CW. And it's good practice. And then on phone, like we're doing right now, it's still, I don't know, it's also a kind of social skill and radio practice skill. And being comfortable, like losing your mic fried. And I need to keep doing the net now, like Joan stopped talking and let the net flow. Let the spice must flow. Anyway, we're modulated. So anyway, yeah, Graham. And I think I love making up humorous mnemonics and GFG. I haven't come up with anything yet. Great signal Graham. I don't know. And oh yes, as far as your signal go, you were, I mean, I wrote it."},{"confidence":0.6374746014674504,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:24:39.740126+00:00","id":295812,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314809,"text":"I would get into QSOs that would last for a long time, you know, on CW. And of course, if you do that, I mean, if when you're starting out in CW, by the way, folks, I'll just mention this, but it's hard, you know, it's kind of straining, you know, but if you keep doing it, gradually it's just by doing it and doing it, it's just like anything like riding a bike or pole vaulting or just anything that you need to lay in some sign-apses for it. And it does, your brain grows to order, you know, like I need to learn this language. And it's like doing a stomptish, like a German table, a German club back in the OP. And I would go to the stomptish every week and talk. You know, at first you're struggling to understand what people are saying. But then, you know, after several weeks, you're kind of going, oh, it just sounds like you're talking to me now now."},{"confidence":0.8323341966384933,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:24:36.832803+00:00","id":295811,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314808,"text":"And so I can also say I'm the grandma for G's now. But I said, yes, that's not even a vanity sign. And she said, you can get those? And, yep, sure enough. It wasn't even trying. Anyway, Joan, I could wreck you with you all night. But there is a limit. I just want to say 73 to everybody, all the numbers, actually. And Joan, I don't say this enough. You are awesome. You look like seven, go up here and go. Back to you. Aw. Flatter me. Oh, my gosh. Yep. I stepped. Well, I'm a ragtour. You can tell. I mean, you know, even on CW, on HF, back in the day, before I moved here."},{"confidence":0.7397621230532725,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:24:34.034442+00:00","id":295810,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314807,"text":"everything is perfect. And I'm talking on the full power of the style thing, but if I was at your location and had to put it on low power and probably, as you said, take the repeaters. So my call sign, it'll make sevens off, here it goes. One of the guys at the, exactly, the leg watching hand plugged meeting on Zoom on Zoom on Saturdays. Yeah, your call sign ought to be a grand signal generator. I'm thinking about that. Okay, that would work. And what's interesting about my call sign is I've got a friend back east who, she let her life is lapped, but when I told her that I'd gotten my life and, you know, hear my call sign, she says, wow."},{"confidence":0.5375831842422485,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:24:31.299345+00:00","id":295809,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314806,"text":"So, I have a sweet spot when I'm talking I'm only watching an M Club's repeater and when I'm at the sweet spot, it's probably my five. Otherwise, I can barely hear you. And same thing when I go over it's totally late on Sundays. I do my tight Chi lessons on Sunday morning and then after the club I'll camp out in the, you've got some shelter areas at the, at the living facility where we school rent space to do the tight Chi lessons. So, I'll get out there and, you know, again, if I'm in the long area, you know, you're hitting all the repeaters, you're hitting all the receivers, but you're not coming here, you're scratching, you're going to move a few feet or maybe 30 feet and everything else."},{"confidence":0.6896700594160292,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:22:54.032956+00:00","id":295808,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314805,"text":"I love it. And I've also checked off Graham because you already have to say. And that leaves one last operator on this technically middle round, although if it's a, you know, it's late enough for the net to be over. But I'll still always make a final call, which I haven't done yet. Anyway, KJ7EXM Sean, who is actually pretty close. Almost as close as I am. Unfortunately, there happened to be several large skyscraper apartment buildings, while I call them skyscrapers. They're generally like the sixth floor. With the sixth floor to 12th floor range. But anyway, Sean, go ahead. Give us your whole five watt. Or don't use more than five watts, since you live an apartment building. With a lot of other people, with short-wave receivers, I know it's their consumer electronics that only be handled."},{"confidence":0.7191642213326235,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:22:51.710699+00:00","id":295807,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314804,"text":"the multiple receivers and the Raspberry Pi that makes the decision that decides which receiver is active does a very nice job usually of handing it off like that. So I was noticing your single quality changing a little bit and then it changed again. I looked over the motor scope and I was seeing that you were swapping off of three different receivers, which is okay. It means the repeater is working properly. The word to the wise is if you're fringe and several operators tonight were, it's a good idea that when you find a spot where it's good, just stay there when you're transmitting. So I'm moving around. Speak this as a person who is guilty of moving around at different times. So anyway, Grace, I'm glad you checked in. I'm so happy and I do love your call sign. And I will catch you down."},{"confidence":0.9468942074105143,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:22:49.398165+00:00","id":295806,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314803,"text":"where you're picking up the repeater strongly, the transmitter's also located at Capitol Park. So if you do have a good signal into Capitol Park, you'll definitely get into Capitol Park if you're receiving it well. And normally, most repeaters only have one receiver and it's at the same location, usually but not always. And so you can move around as you're receiving. And if you find there's a sweet spot, then don't move your radio from that sweet spot when you talk. And that means even don't move the radio to your mouth when you talk because that might take you away out of that sweet spot if you're really on a fringe. Instead, move your head over to the radio where the radio is getting a clear signal. But generally, it's a good idea to not move around. Now in your case, I was able to hear your transmission through all of it because..."},{"confidence":0.9183301122060844,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:22:46.684476+00:00","id":295805,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314802,"text":"But I can see the Capitol Park, antenna from where I sit. I'm only about 800 meters away from it. But if you are off out there somewhere, quite often this will happen. If you're moving around, you'll get into one receiver best, but then your signal will fade out of that one, but then you'll get into a different one. And therefore there are only one receiver. It's just a S-B-S-O-L, but the multiple receivers make you stay within earshot of the repeater. But it's helpful if you're in that situation or it's swapping off from receiver to receiver to another receiver, and then back to the first receiver, to when you're transmitting, I give this advice to various people, is to stay on one spot as you're transmitting. And often, with multiple receivers, it's not predictable about the..."},{"confidence":0.9019668938761407,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:22:44.084623+00:00","id":295804,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314801,"text":"you were transmitting from handheld, which is a normal thing to do. But so you know that you were first getting it decently into Lake Forest Park to receiver, then you swapped off the Cougar receiver, then you swapped off into the Capitol Park receiver as you could see the voter scope. If you go to PSRG.org, look at the home page and you'll see a sidebar off to the right of the page and you'll see voter scope in red letters and you can click on that and you can see bar graphs of all six receivers that are active. And if you look at it right now, you'll see that I'm flooring Capitol Park at 255. It just goes 0 to 255. And the reason for that is that not that I'm running a lot of power, I'm not. I've got a couple of attenuators knocking my power down to 100 milliwatts."},{"confidence":0.5932263135910034,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:22:41.139528+00:00","id":295803,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314800,"text":"Well thank you General. This is great. It's always good to hear from you and everyone else on the net. I realize I'm coming after Kay and Andrew this time so I guess I get the last word. It was alright. I got my COVID shot which is COVID-influ shot scenes and if you haven't gotten yours yet, recommend that. A lot of the bits of the net tonight I was playing the game with some friends that ran a little long. But thank you all for keeping everyone who I could get here. So always a pleasure. Hello from Phoenix, Kirkland, Washington and the loud road I do my broadcast next to on these 12-way late night walks. Thank you all for the company 73 and with the three golf albany, keep back to that. Thank you. Alright, great. And one comment I'll make is we're moving around. I'm going to guess that you were moving as you were moving."},{"confidence":0.9528064827124277,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:22:04.758583+00:00","id":295802,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314799,"text":"Okay, just a little bit of an EX-out. Alright, just got in before I was gonna like, put a bow on it. Alright, Shawn, I've got you on the list. Oh, and where's my purple pen? Right, right, 33. And, oh, come on, make the pen isn't right. There we go. You see, it's a fountain pen for this, but it dried up. And for Grace, here we go. Alright, I love my art pens. Alright, I've got you Shawn. More stations, please."},{"confidence":0.9642482176423073,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:19:58.965757+00:00","id":295801,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314798,"text":"all there now the microphones where it should be. That's much better. Alright, more stations please."},{"confidence":0.9720380436629057,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:18:51.259993+00:00","id":295800,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314797,"text":"So I'm kind of on the park ranger side. You know, people, you know, like for instance native wild flowers. You know, the reason you're not supposed to pick them is because it's a species survival depends on it. It's not like cultivated flowers in the forest. And so someone, I remember always shadowing one of the rangers. Oh dear."},{"confidence":0.8169153956696391,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:18:18.881792+00:00","id":295799,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314796,"text":"Kila Mike 7, Golpeko Mike with an eye out. I've been here the whole time. Always good to listen to the net. All right, KM7GEM. That's another nice suffix, I guess. What's your first name? Kila Mike 7, Golpeko Mike. This is Chase at a firmerton. Chase, all right. Bramerton. I don't think I've ever been to Bramerton. Isn't that weird? I need to go there. A friend said love there. But they visited me for the other way around. I've got you in the log to Chase. I was just about to go. If the repeater drops, that's my signal that is time to drop the net. All right, last call, folks. I would take any last stragglers here, last call for the net. Thanks for watching."},{"confidence":0.8431083858013153,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:13:01.624902+00:00","id":295798,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314795,"text":"with his bellpings that I'm signing on. He's a fighter too, so I'm right back in the middle of my shack."},{"confidence":0.8396477342716285,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:13:00.848263+00:00","id":295797,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314794,"text":"I mean it's plausible a year so I go, oh okay well that's interesting, yep, yep I'm choosing myself. Oh okay and you know that works I think it's awesome and then of course everybody I'm used to having my name made photos so it comes from um, um, openly from Scotland but um by way of Northern Ireland but um and then of course there was a Kiliman um by the name of Sylvester Graham who was in a degree of flower and that's where a because of it being all graham crackers yep that's where that comes from and then on you know in other areas talk about what spot I especially"},{"confidence":0.7116509499649206,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:58.855660+00:00","id":295796,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314793,"text":"And I'm certainly 100 especially. The girl on the safari is, you know, he's exotic animals like lions and tigers and leopards. Wow, I want that up on my wall. Yeah, no. Yeah. And I won't, at the risk of getting political, I won't go any further than that. But you also touched on names. And I actually had a colleague at work who, you know, she had her maiden name and then she, when she got married, there was a abusive relationship. So she said, okay, I am not keeping his name, but I'm not keeping my, I'm not thinking that my maiden name. Okay. And she chose another name, I won't go just for privacy purposes, but she chose her own name and"},{"confidence":0.8465165110038859,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:56.168511+00:00","id":295795,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314792,"text":"Now folks, we've got the caboose of the first round. And then I'll move, I'll segue to the announcements and continue with the net. I'm looking in the clock. Not bad. So I am going to ask for Graham. Graham, please go ahead and give us your report. This is Joan KX2 CW asking for you. Thank you, Joan. And I am honored to be the caboose here. I'm honored to be here. I wasn't able to get into the net the last couple of weeks for one reason or another. But I have to touch on what you were talking about with wildflowers. I'm right there with you. It kind of resonates with me regarding hunting."},{"confidence":0.7993139262710298,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:53.696037+00:00","id":295794,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314791,"text":"be reading more power than the radio does on receive. When everybody knows the radio on receive will last way longer than it will on transmit. In fact, it bites people in the butt, you know, when they don't bother charging their radios and it works fine, it receives fine, it receives fine for weeks. And then they start transmitting and suddenly their battery dies because transmitting uses like 20 times more power than a receiver. Anyway, but good fine business to go to you sound good. And so the audio is good and the signal is a solid connection and it's working, it's working. And have fun. I love camping and it sounds like you're off in a remote area somewhere which just is all the better. I miss being, you know, off in the semi wilderness more than I've been able to do lately. Take care Cody."},{"confidence":0.914488046673005,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:50.951429+00:00","id":295793,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314790,"text":"And it's not all I get for now, so take three of you. I'm going to add back to that. Well, fine business. Cody, yes. That's one of the advantages of some radios that they will go down to mere milliwatts. And some people might go, well, what? Well, others, you can use one or a hard five watts, or it's like, think of it this way. Let me just say battery life. You know, as a musician, I had another reason to go down to milliwatts, because when I would record shows or run sound for other bands, I didn't want a transmitter to get into some of the equipment, some of the instrument amplifiers are kind of notoriously easily. You know, they act more like shortwave receivers than instrument amplifiers sometimes. But also, I tell people, think of your battery life. If you go down to milliwatts, that's all you need. Like to get into a local repeater or something, or your note, your all-star note. You are barely..."},{"confidence":0.7838914461041752,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:47.587322+00:00","id":295792,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314789,"text":"It means buzzing noise on the radio. I'm not sure what's causing that. I've heard that with my other node as well. That happens with different receivers. So I'm not sure if it's just getting overloaded from two of them on a shaft. Are we out in the area or what? You're in the developing AAA to hand out for no-grag hill. I can't put out some of them up too much such as way overkill for when you're in the same room. I want to get the new radio. It's going to be a full duplex note. So that gives me the option to put an attenuator on the transmitter. I could probably bring that down to just a few millilots. The HTM talking on right now is the Ekenwood D75. And it's low power mode, which gives me 50 millilots, which is perfect for getting into a node nearby. That..."},{"confidence":0.651974197696237,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:44.344844+00:00","id":295791,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314788,"text":"together in about a day. But the weather is actually kind of cool over here. It was in the mid 60s today. But it was nice and sunny and there is no smoke. The rain must have washed all that away. I got a little wifi module for my Alster node. The thing is barely bigger than the USB plug. But it is in there and it seems to be working pretty well. The rain isn't very good. But that saves me having an extra wire on there. The router is only 6 feet away. The radio is a little bit noisy. It's just a $10 valve hang. They will often be replacing that soon. But something a bit better. One thing I have been trying to figure out is when I walk around in certain places I receive like"},{"confidence":0.7463093996047974,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:41.592474+00:00","id":295790,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314787,"text":"I love it the last couple of times that I know for certain that I was talking to you at a Raider Shine. And so I have a vivid visceral memory of you guys. All right. And Sheridan, congratulations on Cub Scout. And I think it's wonderful. Okay, folks, we have, I think, an in from Cody, age seven L.R., although there was some doubling going on. So Cody, if you don't want to give a report, then just ignore my call. But if you didn't want to give a report, or even if you just changed your mind and decided to, that's fine too. So age seven L.R., Cody, please come with your report if you want to. Hey, John, I'm staying over at Steam O'Roc and Eastern Washington here. And I just got in here today. I have a brand new Oscar. I know the man that seems to be working fairly well for me, something that I have."},{"confidence":0.8877723995400102,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:38.246464+00:00","id":295789,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314786,"text":"of the four of them, including the dog, on a lake shore, or from the Great Lakes. So I see a lake shore instead of a sea shore. But then I love the one in the woods. Troy's kind of squatting on a stump. And I'm not sure who I'm looking at. Now, yeah, I think that's the three of you. I'm not sure. But anyway, I like it the one in the forest. I love the forest being from both the Great Lakes and living in the forest. And the semi-wilderness where I'm from. It's one of the things I like about the Pacific Northwest. But I've gone out long enough. I'll just stop. And I love your reports from all of you. And I'm going to write the time down as that. All right, take care of all of you. And I look forward to seeing you in real life, too."},{"confidence":0.6130630711714427,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:35.454773+00:00","id":295788,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314785,"text":"33 to you because Andrea Sheridan and some other YLs know that I like to tally, you know, the number of operators, the number of reports and the number of YLs. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, we're up to 5 YLs out of 13 operators. Thank you for bumping those YL numbers up. But I went looking to see if Andrea, if your name is mentioned in the little bio, and I notice these lovely photographs. Oh my goodness, look at that. There's a third one that didn't load. The first one is destroying a question mark. I suppose I could reload, it might show up. And what I do sometimes is just go into edit and you don't even need to do anything with that image to select it and then unselect it and then re-save and that often brings it back. But I especially, I like both folks. There's a picture of them."},{"confidence":0.5659766346216202,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:32.541711+00:00","id":295787,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314784,"text":"And speaking of the text of Troy that remember that October 4th is that date is 10-4. You know what day that is. And you know, don't be ashamed of 11 meters. That's what I tell people. Like it's much, radio is what you make it. And I used to term walkie talkie to mean handheld radios too for fun. And if anyone looked at my Your Z page they'll see that I have a list of, you know, the H.F. radios and big radios and little radios and serious receivers, you know. And walkie talkie. It's a category. But I was looking to see, first I was just Troy and Andrea and Sharon Dunne. Well, good reports from all of you. Thank you both Andrea and Sharon for giving me a couple of 33-some log."},{"confidence":0.9166694631179174,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:29.653118+00:00","id":295786,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314783,"text":"I went derby cars and launched water bottle rockets and things like that. Made s'mores, had a wonderful time, got to meet all the kids. And she looks forward to doing that again. And so do I, because I signed up to be in leadership position. So got away from the background, checked and everything. And apparently there's also talk about me helping out on a STEM event involving ham radio. So that will be a lot of fun. Anyway, that's what we have for you tonight, John. I'll send it back to you, K7T and P. Oh, thank you, all of you. Thank you for saying your wife's name, Andrea. Because Andrea, as you were speaking, I was like, what's your name? Say your name? Say your name? And I even went to your QR, two, two Troy's QR Z page to see if I could pick it out of the text."},{"confidence":0.687942935153842,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:26.287662+00:00","id":295785,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314782,"text":"up the name together before she passed away. So that's where Sheridan comes from. And hello to everybody, and I hope everybody as well here is Sheridan. So tonight we got a new table talker at Princess Tree because our other one broke and did look good and this time we surprisingly got the one. It worked well. We got a fancy, they don't want this tonight because it's a, a nice take to use table talk at Princess Tree. We had a nice day and I also had my first day of cuscal, which today they had an outdoor activity thing for a while. And yeah, we have a fun and I think it was a good night. Alright, and that was third party traffic from both my wife, Andrea, and my daughter, Sheridan. And yeah, today was first night. We got the pack together and she got to check out the"},{"confidence":0.9116061232052743,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:23.788243+00:00","id":295784,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314781,"text":"or Sherrod Aime? How should I pronounce Sherrod Aime? How should I pronounce your name? Over to you, Troy and Sherrod Aime. This is Joan KX2CW asking for both of you. Good evening, Joan and the rest of the Net, this is K7TMP, and the correct pronunciation is Sherrod Aime. It just felt very differently thanks to her mom and her grandma, who actually came up with the name. And yet she is here with me as well as my wife Andrea. And I think they're both going to give a report and one is going to say hi, I believe. So I'm going to turn it over to them. This is their party traffic from both my wife and Sherrod Aime. Hi, so Sherrod Aime comes from my mom's name with Sherrod Aime. My mother and I made"},{"confidence":0.895647480049067,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:21.019840+00:00","id":295783,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314780,"text":"objects and terrain, all those things. But good news is that you are getting unsolvly at that spot where you were transmitting from, you were getting solidly into Cougar at about two-thirds scale. Anyway, I've talked long enough. Take care, Jason. Good to hear you. And I will catch you down the log as well. Next on the list is K7TNP, humorously terminal node proxy, even though there's no such thing as a terminal node proxy. I've joked to Troy that he or somebody should write a terminal node proxy so that such a thing can exist. It would be a TNP. So Troy, you said you and Sheridan would... Let me look and see the spelling. I'm going to go back to the chat and look. Does Sheridan say Sheridan?"},{"confidence":0.8609683370360961,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:18.773315+00:00","id":295782,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314779,"text":"That's the point of the multiple receivers. You don't need to get into more than one. And chances are though, with the multiple receivers, there'll be at least one that you're getting into well. And what Jason's transmission is a textbook example of getting well into one repeater and the Raspberry Pi that made the decision decided that definitely Cougar was the receiver to be conveying for retransmission. And yep, you never know when something's going to change, but I'll stop there because otherwise it can turn into a whole conversation about that and about, I wouldn't quite call it propagation, although technically it is. I mean, propagation, there's atmospheric or like tropics, not all kinds of propagation. But yeah, with VHF, you're mostly talking about line of sight, but not exactly. There's tropospheric ducting, there's reflections from large metal."},{"confidence":0.8484263639239704,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:15.802051+00:00","id":295781,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314778,"text":"She has a meeting that was not scheduled, and so she has to go in at 10 o'clock in morning, work until about 9.30 at night. But yeah, me and Pat will have fun. Anyway, this is November, India 7. We went back to you, Jim, 7.30. We're going to find business, Jason. You were in the high 100s. As you could see, you were in the high 100s into Cougar. Everyone was a mile away. Meanwhile, it would momentarily top 200, but that's good. Now you know folks, now you know what those numbers mean. I want to write your time in. I forgot, but I will write down a time that is pretty reasonable. There we go. And yeah, and also anyone who is looking at the Worderscope and Listening to Jason is that the point is to get into at least one as well as you can, at least one of the receivers."},{"confidence":0.9083570125691879,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:12.689917+00:00","id":295780,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314777,"text":"Good readable copy kicks to see W.E. back to Jason This is November India 7 Lima Jason at usual so yeah in trouble shooting a new issue option and transmission here at work many of you know I work in some parking lots and Where I'm at moving as much as one foot could degrade the signal pretty good, but they have added an additional I 75 white post Which all reflect back in different ways so my normal look out spot no longer works and Usually I just pull the voter scope. I'm kind of hitting several receivers at one time Usually I can hit one but now where I'm at now it's bouncing all over the place between all of them But anyway, yeah, not a whole lot going here at work tonight pretty pretty Seasoned days not a whole lot going on but tomorrow Marshall works a Ungodly 12-hour shift"},{"confidence":0.6280541636727073,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:10.299511+00:00","id":295779,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314776,"text":"Andrew, I had no trouble copying you throughout your whole transmission, but you were being swapped back and forth between Cougar and Lake Forest Park just for your information. All right, now I'm moving right along to Jason and I7L as I stared at the blank space of the N and I would, that's Jason, I know his call sign and wrote it in for you. Let's see how your receptionist, over to you Jason. Good evening Joan and the net, this is November, India 7. My house might signal now. You are mostly to Cougar, your modulation is good, slightly high but that's not bad if you are noisy and you are solid into Cougar, although only about two-thirds scale. And then say to speak clearly and speak up and all those things, but good copy, good copy."},{"confidence":0.9562628583884553,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:07.989733+00:00","id":295778,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314775,"text":"turning up the audio game. But as you were moving around, apparently, you were swapping back and forth between the Cougar receiver and the Lake Forest Park receiver. And fortunately, the audio didn't change much, but the voter, the little Raspberry Pi that was deciding which receiver was going to be the active one was not making up its mind. And a word to anybody out there, any new operators, especially, when you're transmitting, when you are a bunch of transmit, move your radio if it's a handheld around to a place where you're picking up the receiver well, of course, with our multiple receivers. It's less the case. But to where you are receiving it really well, and then while you transmit, don't move. Just stay in that one, park yourself in that sweet spot as many of us call that. And as you were saying,"},{"confidence":0.7428249232470989,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:05.462229+00:00","id":295777,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314774,"text":"people that, like what were supposed to do them? It was like one of the options has always been to just not change your last name. You know, so anyway, but that was not an hilarious story that you just told like, oh, I'm not unusually tall here in this town. Oh dear, anyway, and Powell seeing it on gravestones and stuff like that. Anyway, but I digress as usual. Kate, 33 and thank you for checking in. So I'm living right along. NI 7L, Jason, I just know I was just like looking at that space and what I know is calls and I wrote it in. It was hard to hear Jason. Oh, by the way, Andrew, I just wanted, there's some information to give to Andrew. I was looking at the voter scope as you were checking in and it was a bit noisy. The modulation level was a bit low, so within the range of just compensating my"},{"confidence":0.9139951176734434,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:12:02.411349+00:00","id":295776,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314773,"text":"then you could use your spouse's name. I did that. And the only thing that happens is Social Security Administration wanted to know if I was using that new last name. I said, yes, I've been using that name. And then they were fine with it. They just want to make sure that I wasn't up to no good. And so if you wish to just use your spouse's last name, because legally, almost everywhere, you are who you say you are. You know, changing your name formally is actually a formality for certain reasons. But if you want to, for instance, if you're worried about voting and your name on your driver license or your voting registration, agreeing with your birth certificate, you might want to. You know, I've told people."},{"confidence":0.9552411831165146,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:59.808427+00:00","id":295775,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314772,"text":"and we got to the cemetery and there's my name because Powell is just on the big family tombstone. And honestly, I feel a little bit more comfortable changing my last name to something else and so I'm gonna keep it on my call sign regardless. But yeah, we got to say some nice things about my grandparents, have basically launched with some of my cousins and then we had to turn around and take two flights home so my sister could get to work and that's been kind of the adventure. It was a big one. I'm glad I'm back, I'm glad I can say hey to the net. And yeah, that's how it's been, K-T-7 POW, back to next. All right, Kate, K-T-7 Powell. And you know, I'm not saying to do this, but you could not legally change your last name, keep your maiden name. But they're not."},{"confidence":0.9001345559954643,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:57.129854+00:00","id":295774,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314771,"text":"when this was going to be at 2 o'clock in the morning on Tuesday. So technically, technically on Monday. But it took me a minute to talk to my therapist and then talk to my sister and then talk to my spouse and then decide we were going to do this. And then we booked multiple Southwest flights which all felt like being strapped to a rocket to the other side of the country where I got to see my family. And it's a little uncanny going to the town my grandfather is from. And a, looking around and I'm like, are these people look like my cousins? Are they coming? No, they just live there. They probably are my cousins. But they just, you know, they just happen to live there. It's a normal person over there. And I look around, I'm like around here in Seattle. I'm kind of tall for everybody. I'm a little tall and I go there. And I'm a normal height. I don't stand out very much at all. There's plenty of other tall women wandering around who look like they could be my cousins. And it's a little uncanny in the city."},{"confidence":0.7997078612735051,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:52.452420+00:00","id":295773,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314770,"text":"I like it, Andrew. I can't wait. I can't wait to hear what your new last name, your new married last name will be. That is very cool. And I have friends that do that, and I think it's wonderful. All right, Joan, keep going. Move right along with the net. You tend to bog down and get into a conversation. So the next one's easy. KG7FWB, Bosnova Bill, with an in and out. Radio Wave Bill, if you still have yours on. And next, I love the call sign and the name KG7POW. Kate, please give us your report. Okay, well, I'm back from upstate New York. We, me and my sister, took a double back to back red eyes to get up to Green Witch, New York, to bury my grandfather and his second wife, who's also my grandmother. So my dad told me about this. He told me."},{"confidence":0.8988910120388027,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:49.379000+00:00","id":295772,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314769,"text":"no matter what happens she's never going to change her name again. But she finally changed it to her middle name of all things that was completely different. None of her married names and not her maiden name. And you know, why not? Why can't you name yourself? I know several friends who have named to themselves. And it's perfectly legal if it's not with intent to defraud or commit a crime. Changing her name is a perfectly legitimate thing to do because, you know, names are arbitrary. Your parents named you. What were they doing? You know, my names are like names that have been passed down in the family for generations. And on both sides of my family, there are drones on both sides of my family. And my mom's middle name and my aunt's name and my cousin's middle name and another cousin's name. And, you know, they're all over the place. And, but I've gone on and on."},{"confidence":0.6931714611127973,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:46.700297+00:00","id":295771,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314768,"text":"trail that will lead from your birth certificates directly to your legally changed name. That has not been a problem in the past but it could be in the future. But I have friends who changed their last name because they wanted to take a new last name together which sounds like what you guys are doing. I also have a friend who changed her last name to Lynn. She had been divorced about three times and all these different names were made name and three different married names and she decided to say I won't say her first name on the air for privacy but her first name and her middle name, Lynn, she was always that name. She said I've always been so and so Lynn. So if I changed my last name to my middle name then I will still always be that name. And I've decided."},{"confidence":0.709162561730905,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:44.395391+00:00","id":295770,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314767,"text":"they've done the paperwork part, it's time to do the fun part, which is we are creating a spreadsheet and filling it up with names and sorting them by honestly, mostly how easy they are to pronounce over the phone or the radio because I know we all know that's really important in a name. Anyway, it's been lots of fun to start filling out the list and hopefully, once all that paperwork's done, we'll get it in the FCC database and then we will let you know and hopefully reveal a new exciting last name. Anyway, this is a 7-8-S. Andrew, back to that. Oh, that's sweet. Andrew, I have friends that have done that where they've decided just to take a different, make it, you know, well, to pick out a different last name for both, to change both their last names. Mind you, for voting, for the future, make sure you have a paper"},{"confidence":0.7767865819235643,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:41.820003+00:00","id":295769,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314766,"text":"K-87 ATF. Hello. It's been really nice this Monday to get back into the routine of things. It feels like this, I know this weekend has just been two days, but there was a lot of logistics surrounding getting taken to New York and back. It's nice to get back to work. Come home, have dinner, have everything be as it usually is. I have something to ask about. Oh, this weekend I decided I looked at my to-do list and I decided it was finally time to ask the court for what paperwork we needed to do to do a name change. This is two years late, we got married two years ago and have not yet updated last name. You don't get a freebie, but we want to do it. Anyway, now that I've got a freebie, I'm going to have a freebie."},{"confidence":0.9157914912158793,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:39.134719+00:00","id":295768,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314765,"text":"of hemorrhage operators are kind of belligerent and impolite to the ranger who's doing their job and asking why are you damaging that tree with your antenna? It's not going to be helpful to any other hemorrhage operators if you're an a-hole. But anyway, I presume that Mark, you will cover that. Maybe not so many words. You know, there's an etiquette. And you know, walk softly and then leave nothing. Go only pictures and leave nothing but footprints, as they say. And I've had my say. This is KX2CW packed in it. Holy come, holy jone. What's up with you tonight? What is going on? Are you drinking? Are you on your second or third cup of coffee? Oh, OK. All right. Well, all right. Let's move right along. And go to Andrew."},{"confidence":0.9429948782134387,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:36.447958+00:00","id":295767,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314764,"text":"and got really obnoxious about it. And then Laura Combs says, do you want me to give you the $500 ticker to whatever it was, but now would be a $1,000 ticket. Or do you want to, thankfully, listen, hear me out. Anyway, gosh, I'm overmodulating. It just, the person became, the camper became arrogant and riled and wanted the ranger to give the flowers back. And the ranger was like, excuse me, but you don't understand. And she let them off, but I couldn't believe it. Instead of going, oh, thank you, Ranger. Thank you for reminding me that it's technically a felony to pick those flowers. No, OK. So I think about that whenever I hear a story about the parks on the air where I am real."},{"confidence":0.8490009565245021,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:33.893276+00:00","id":295766,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314763,"text":"It's like a general rule. If you don't know for sure, don't. Look at it. Mayard, take a cotogram slides of it. Or at least they take your 10 gigapixel Canon camera and take some beautiful, beautiful photographs of those flowers and leave them be. So first Ranger Holmes was nice about it and found Faunson people. And she said, are you the people that have the camp that is there? And they said, yes. And she said, well, I found these on your tent. And I just want to gently remind you that it's forbidden to pick the wild flowers. And the person said, where do you have those? My flowers. Give those to me. And the Ranger was being as nice as possible. And I just could be at first to gently remind them that you're not so... But then the person..."},{"confidence":0.8164499790097276,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:31.457863+00:00","id":295765,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314762,"text":"48 horsepower twin on the back. I think it was an Evan root twin, but I could have been wrong. Someone said, what? Really? Are they using that? And a midship's helm. It was very great. I love that job. But I was shadowing Lora Combs, the acting emagoloid ranger on her rounds, because I was seeing, well, this is the business end of National Park. And on one of the tents and one of the campsites, she found a bouquet of wildflowers, that someone that camper had decided, oh, I'm going to pick all these flowers. I'm going to put them on my doorstep, which is an understandable sentiment. But the problem is these aren't cultivated flowers. She could have caused the extinction of a species of flower conceivably. And if everyone did it, it would be sure thing to happen. That's why you're not supposed to pick the wildflowers and protected wildflowers."},{"confidence":0.9821974293274038,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:28.225925+00:00","id":295764,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314761,"text":"Yeah, no, Rangers. Because what Rangers do is sort of like, you know, it's like the backbone of the work that the Park Service does. Whatever Park Service it is, it could be County Park, you know, or City Park. You know, we make jokes about Parks and Rec. But I know a couple of people who work for Parks and Rec in different cities, and the ones I know take their job very seriously. And so if you injure the Park, the Rangers are charged to protect it. You know, that's their job is to say, you can't do that. What are you doing? And so this one was, I was shadowing Laura Combs. He was the acting of a Lloyd Ranger, which is on way far corner of the Park. And, you know, I had my own boat. I would use to get around the Park that they issued me. It was the Black Duck. It was like an 18 foot Lendhowl with a..."},{"confidence":0.9563740368344282,"created_at":"2026-09-15T06:11:25.389751+00:00","id":295763,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314760,"text":"All right, this is going to be my report. Let me make a note of it. Yeah, writing numbers down. All right, here's my report, folks. When I worked for a Nile on Royal Royal National Park, I was not a ranger, not at all of the technician, if you will. I was a support, worked at headquarters. I was a photographer and a darkroom technician. So as an actual scientific photographer, I did all the darkroom work for the park. I would be sent off variously to by scientists to photograph, you know, most skeletons with my centimeter ruler in the picture and sent off my maintenance to document structures they wanted to rebuild and even did press photos. And I did everything. And at out of park, the management of the park, if you will, the head ranger and the superintendent encouraged us, people who were working at desks or me in my darkroom. At headquarters to-"},{"confidence":0.6949411233266194,"created_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:39.369434+00:00","id":295659,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314654,"text":"We removed our cabinets all the way today. That was actually relatively easy, other than the countertop gave us a fight coming out. The ones that was gone, the cabinets came right out there, sitting on the front porch, and I should probably put a strap or something on them so nobody comes up and knocks them down in the night. Anyway, then we racked out, well actually we had finished some actual work on the subfluering with subfluering under the cabinets and cellophanes, and it's meant to insult some more boards underneath the support, things like that, etcetera, removed some more forged nails and things like that, and then we just finished a little bit of go racking out some of the hardwood, it has to acclimate to the humidity of the space and such, and we're testing it. The hardwood right now is like 5.0% humidity, and the subfloor is at 9.6%, and they can only be 3% apart, so definitely needs to sit overnight at least, but we'll check it again in the morning and hopefully we can get the one room entirely finished and we'll move the furniture into that room and then proceed with the next room, but we've got to start down the middle of both rooms first."},{"confidence":0.8953631818294525,"created_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:35.743586+00:00","id":295658,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314653,"text":"I love you guys. Oh, I'm just like, I want to write the purple pen for Rachy for the 33 for Rachy. Here we go. See folks. I just love this homey kind of thing. And I'm going to take the balloon. I'm going to write 88 for clay. Actually, we'll do it to 88, right? Because you're my family. My actual fam. Alright, come on Joan. Just get on with it. Alright. Getting back to the net. Next we have Alec, K-7-A-Z-V. Alec, please give us your report. Good afternoon, Joan. I keep that on the desk. Just for you. I am Capoups. I am out of energy. I am tired."},{"confidence":0.8617910789713884,"created_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:32.798869+00:00","id":295657,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314652,"text":"segues from temporary running temporary who would just wouldn't play temporary and then to a movie soundtrack very spacious like this outer space you know it does this brain you know and all the soundtrack i've you know i might want to watch it just to get this the the music or maybe i'll just get the soundtrack album uh... and then and playing uh... uh... it was just you were all over you're all over the you were like scribbling your format uh... segues were were scribbled i love it i love it uh... as as a Rebecca would say i love it i love it i love it and uh... i'll say the same thing and of course i tell Rebecca that i love her and i tell certain people i just told us no more bill that i love him so i should why could i not say to my own love my own brother and sister so"},{"confidence":0.934895695218494,"created_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:29.862201+00:00","id":295656,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":314651,"text":"ago how that'll work she is governor's hmm hmm oh dang i make good coffee yeah the show i was expecting to hear all that brass rock from the seventies and uh... and and then it then it was co something completely different so it was it was interesting to hear that all the stuff that the difference it was it was a collective which is you know commercial broadcasting it won't touch a collective you know they they want everyone to be in a rut you have the same publisher publishing different women's magazines that that gradually draws their audiences apart in the separate and to separate rut that i'm talking about her publishing of course and now what's going on is is that same phenomenon on steroids you will never hear at a commercial broadcast station"}]}