{"bucket":"13000","chunk_size":1000,"items":[{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T18:51:09+00:00","id":13000,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":12999,"text":" Well, thank you KM5Y, KI5SSR. We'll be calling for check-ins in a little bit. So, we're gonna start up at K4CUP. Mr. Fergil, you're first on the list. How you doing? You got any projects or anything you're working on? I bet you've had a long day at work today. And it's your turn. Over to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T18:51:31+00:00","id":13001,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13000,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T18:51:55+00:00","id":13002,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13001,"text":" Thank you, one minute till KI-5 SSR standby."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T18:52:25+00:00","id":13003,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13002,"text":" Where do you know Fred from? Hello Fred if you're listening. Hello Steve."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T18:52:59+00:00","id":13004,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13003,"text":" I'm not a bug eater myself, so I totally get that. I have no desire to hunt the caterers down and eat them, no thanks. And if I want fish, I eat fish. If I want, you know, they say they're from what, the lobster family, whatever. You know, more like the crawdads."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T18:54:25+00:00","id":13005,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13004,"text":" Well, Mickey, yeah, and ain't nothing like grilled food. That's for sure. I love grilled food myself. So yeah, I haven't done a lot of grilling this summer, but it's just been, you know, when it's 100 degrees out there, who wants to go start their grill up? But there's nothing like smelling it. Yeah, I definitely need to grill some food. And of course, I got the smoker. I've used it a couple times. Basically, both of them I've used a couple times. But yeah, one thing I like about grilled food, though, you can freeze it or eat it later, you know? And always change to a reed. November, November, November. All-star note 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. Yeah, I haven't had a smoker in quite a while either. I need to get another smoker and do some smoke. And I like all things smoked. Although I tried smoking turkey one time, it plugged up my pipe."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T18:54:47+00:00","id":13006,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13005,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T18:58:26+00:00","id":13007,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13006,"text":" and then I'm gonna shut her down. And I do wanna remind people that tomorrow we have the litter box lounge tomorrow evening, so come and join us. But let me throw it back at you Virgil for any finals. AI5SSR K4 CUP with Jeanette, it's been a pleasure to help out here tonight. And thanks to everyone that come and checked in with us, whether you was stuck around or just in and out, we appreciate you being there. And Jeanette, you know, I'm the type of person like, you know, I can't have too many, but you know, I've got too many. I've got a room full of stacked boxes and totes and things of cards from, you know, that's old and so forth. I think the oldest one that I have is from 1939. But I've got some old ones, antique cards, you might say. But anyway, Jeanette, thank you so much. And like I said, I'm always glad to help out. And join us next week as KL7FR, the Frozen Radio up there, or searching for fire, I don't know what he said, something about firewood or something, oh, recovery or something. But anyway, come join Mickey next week on the 11th Catch Happy Hour. Mickey's always a fun net control host and always has a unique question for us to participate in. So with that, I'll hand it back to KI5SSR. This is K4CUP. It's been an honor, been a pleasure to be part of this 11 Catch Happy Hour, which it always is. KI5SSR, K4CUP. Well, hey, yeah, so Virgil, why don't you plug the topic that you're gonna have next week on Saturday for the Litter Box Lounge that we're gonna be doing, because I think it'll be some interest. Okay, next Saturday on the Litter Box Lounge, I will be in there co-hosting that part of the net, and we're gonna be talking about medicinal herbal medicine. So if you would like to find out more, come join us on that, on the next, not this Saturday, but next Saturday in the Litter Box Lounge. We're gonna be talking about medicinal medicine. So, and I did find some, find out one this week that I could've ever imagined of trying. But hey, I'm gonna try it, and I know, and I'm not gonna kinda spill the beans right now, but hey, come check us out, come join us next Saturday in the Litter Box Lounge. Medici-ful herbs, KI5SSR, K4CUP."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T18:58:49+00:00","id":13008,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13007,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:00:04+00:00","id":13009,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13008,"text":" We don't have no crawdads up here, no cicadas, nothing like that. There's shrimp though. I like shrimp. Yummy. And one thing that's kind of unusual is the eels out in the Yukon, in the fall the eels run. Usually in November, the lamprey eels, they get, the big ones are like two feet long. They're super greasy. You got to boil or cook, I pry the grease out of them. Some people bake them, but those are really greasy. Some people jar them. Canyon jars. They're actually pretty good too. The lamprey eels, I was surprised. I thought that would be gross, but they're pretty delicious. They're high oil content. Get the oil to cook the grease out of them."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:01:24+00:00","id":13010,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13009,"text":" 7FR back in the shack. Good to hear Uncle Fred in here on the happy hour net and I'll have to try to get over to the beacon net one of these days. I haven't been playing much radio at all. I've been pretty busy. By the way, Virgil, how was my signal when I was mobile? I was a couple miles away from my node antenna on VHF 2 meter. How did you copy? Back to you. 807FR K4 CUB. Well, there was a little bit of, you know, just what I call white noise static, but you know your audio was coming through there real good, Mickey. So, not a problem hearing you and everything. So, it was working. I can say that and I'm sure everyone else that, you know, hears you also. So, yeah, it was working for you, Mickey. K07FR K4 CUB. I know you've heard the question, so I'm going to pass the microphone back to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:01:53+00:00","id":13011,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13010,"text":" Well, I don't guess he's here, but the Chiquitas are out. I hear them outside. You can probably hear them on my radio. They're loud. Heh heh."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:02:50+00:00","id":13012,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13011,"text":" Nothing here, so we want to welcome the new check-ins there. John, glad to have you. So you have a good weekend. KC8, uniform Juliet Echo. Ray, thank you for stopping by and checking in and out. And Fred, you stand by and I'll get with you here just in a moment. But first I've got to go back up here to the list. KL7FR, I think you're the next one on the list. Or the next contestant. So what are some of your hobbies, KL7FR, and some of your other new hobbies that you would like to take in? So KL7FR, K4CUB."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:04:33+00:00","id":13013,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13012,"text":" I believe I've got this, so let me turn this one down. Okay. KK7, SMN from K4 CUB. Brian, glad to have you, and thank you for answering tonight's question, trivia question, or just tonight's question. It's not a trivia question, but anyway, great to have you. Enjoy the hobbies, you know. And the more you do, the better you will become, and things of that sort. So I know amateur radio is a great big, you know, should be everyone's hobby. If not, you know, you're in the wrong place, and so forth. But anyway, Brian, we appreciate you for coming and checking in with us. I've got my new battery in the HT here, so, and we appreciate that. So I'll clear with KK7, Sierra, Mike, November, this is K4 CUB, your second round neck control host. So I guess I'm going to go ahead and take a break here, and then I'll be back, and we will look for some additional check-in. And then we will get started with our question round, so stand by."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:06:53+00:00","id":13014,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13013,"text":" Like I said, top of the evening to everyone on the happy hour and that. Well, ham radio is number one. We use it every single day, so that's the top hobby. But that's just kind of normal life routine now. But I've got a few hobbies. I've got a couple drones. Don't fly them too much, only when I have to document something. Another hobby I got is air guns. I like air guns. The types are like paintball guns. They shoot pepper balls or a rubber ball. Kind of like what you see with these and the riot type thing. And there's all kinds of different builds you can do. And I find myself playing with those. I haven't shot a firearm in a long, long time, but I have a blast shooting these. It's a whole lot cheaper. And one of them is so automatic. So I have just a blast with these air guns. And I have a scuba tank that I fill up the little tanks that are on the rifles. They have rifles and some hand pistols. Hand pistols take those little 12 gram CO2 cards. That's what the power is in the little 12 gram CO2. I got one that takes an 8 gram one. But anyhow, that's, I'd say, my top hobbies other than all the animals I got. The farm there, always working on something. But I would say that's probably my top hobbies right now. Camping, I should say. I've been doing that my whole life. I recently traded in my tent trailer and got a little RV. So we've been doing camping here the last few weeks. So camping is another big hobby. And I love to camp. So there you go on that, especially on a river or a lake, something like that. Let me reset."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:07:51+00:00","id":13015,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13014,"text":" K7, SMN, yeah, I've got a couple hobbies that keep me busy. I sing and play guitar quite a bit. I'm currently on the worship band at our church. So enjoying doing that, I fly drones here and there. And that kind of keeps me pretty busy. So that and trying to learn this ham radio stuff, I've been doing it for about a year and a half. And I keep digging further and further into it, completely driving my wife nuts with it because she's not a huge fan of it. But I've got a lot of work still. That's probably my biggest hobby right now, K7, SMN."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:08:47+00:00","id":13016,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13015,"text":" OK, I guess Woody checked out, so let's move on down. Before I go to the next one here, there's only a couple of you left here, or three of you. Are there any check-ins for the Leavencats Happy Hour net? This is K4CUV. We're looking for check-ins. Give us your call sign twice. Slowly and phonetically, please. This is the Leavencats Happy Hour looking for check-ins. Kilo Echo 8, Quebec, Foxtrot, Dangle. Kilo Echo 8, Quebec, Foxtrot, Dangle."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:09:17+00:00","id":13017,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13016,"text":" Oh, call coming from Missy. I got it picked out of the I got it picked out of the I got it picked out of the I got it picked out of the I got it picked out of the jail 7FR"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:10:17+00:00","id":13018,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13017,"text":" Timed up my HD and then my node had the ID anyway. Got plenty on the list for this weekend, but glad to get in here for the happy hour. Not always a good time. Thanks for calling the second round there, Virgil. You always do a great job. And thanks to Mykins Net for hosting the 11 Cats Network. Always good to get on these nets in here and hear familiar voices and some new ones once in a while. And really good to hear what I haven't heard in a while. And Uncle Fred there up in Ohio. So great net tonight. And I've babbled long enough, so I'll say 7-3. KL7FR, back to net control."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:10:45+00:00","id":13019,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13018,"text":" Be warned, CMD, WA, I don't know. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November. All-star Node 6222. Located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:12:41+00:00","id":13020,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13019,"text":" Now, how come that stray cat's here? He's taking it to ASC. That's what it says on the nettle, Tucker. Never mind. Oh, this is KC. KCV here, still in Valley Springs, California, where it is now 95 degrees. Yeah, just try it. Uh-huh. Okay, Cup. Let's see, what kind of hobbies do I have? Well, you know, I used to be pretty active before I got hurt, all crippled up. Used to surf and water ski, barefoot ski, and weight board, knee board, all that. I got a whole garage full of all kinds of toys that goes along with that. Even got a Harley sitting out there, it's fairly new. Uh-huh. Anniversary special, 100 anniversary. Oh, I can't do that stuff no more, so the only hobby I do is this right here, the good Lord gave me a gift to have. So, he got me a ham radio, and there you go. I guess he planned it all from the beginning, yep, from the beginning of time, before I was even thought of that I was going to be a ham radio. And I do have some RC helicopters that I used to fly quite a bit. Actually, I bought a brand new one, and I'm kind of like Chad. I got a brand new one still in the box. He busted it out yet and put it together and flown it yet, but I'm planning on doing that one of these days. Let me reset real quick."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:13:08+00:00","id":13021,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13020,"text":" V1 CMGWA ILL This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All-star Note 6222 Located in Shelton, Washington"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:13:58+00:00","id":13022,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13021,"text":" Alrighty, N5JOJ, K4CUP, Bill, great to have you with us. So, stand by and I'll pick you up here just momentarily before we go to the question round here, but just let you kind of give us a brief weekly update on how things are going there. So, stand by. Any other check-ins that would like to join us, come now."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:18:44+00:00","id":13023,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13022,"text":" Well, thank you so much, Ermickie. And yeah, hobbies are, you know, they're, it's like the more you put into them, the more you get out of it. So it's like the more time that you put into it, the more time that it will pay off in the long run. And just a short, quick note for all of those HFers out there, hey, if you worked the 13 colony event this past July, the certificates are being printed and mailed out. I have seen a few on some social media sites where there are people who are getting them. So if you did send your log sheet in or, and things of that sort, hey, be looking forward to getting those. I know sometimes they're a little bit slow about getting them or receiving them, but hey, it takes time. One of my most exciting things that I, another hobby, you know, I love collecting QSL cards. And when I come home from work this past week, there was one of those brown or yellowish brown ombre that's laying there from the bureau that had some DS cards in it. And so I was kind of excited that I got that. And because, you know, it just keeps adding to my collection, you know, and things of that sort. I'm still looking for one that I made years back. And I haven't run across it yet, but it's here somewhere. I just got to take time to look a little bit harder for it and so forth. So with that, KI5-SSR, K4-CUP. Any hobbies, Jeanette, I know you have tons of them. And maybe some new ones that you would like to adventure into. So KI5-SSR, K4-CUP. Over to you. Thank you, Virgil. Thank you for an awesome, awesome second round. And you know, a lot of stuff that Mike gets into, he gets into it. So I was kind of a tomboy, but all girl, OK? But I grew up fishing, so love fishing. Mike got me into cycling. Don't feel bad, honey, because I did get severely hurt at it. But it took me many years before that happened, so I got to do it for like 15 years or something before it broke my femur in my head. But I still do it, but I do it inside. And I do enjoy exercise. And I can't walk right now because I was working on gardening when I had a fall on my uneven backyard back there. So I've been waiting for it to heal. There's no break, but man, I don't know what's up. But anyway, we just keep plugging on. And CW, I've been working on CW. I'm really starting to get it. So yeah, sometime I guess I just need to have Mike put a radio out here for me. I really am working on finding us a new home so I can have my own little radio room. And we can have maybe more. Maybe we could run them both, or at least let me run some CW. But yeah, so that's been it. Sure, Virgil, trying to find a home that will work for both of us. So been working on that. Kind of wish you would have made an offer on the last one we saw. Seemed like that one really was a good deal. So I mean, really probably would have worked. But anyway, that's not here nor there. And at one time, I had a whole bunch of baseball cards I could have gave you, Virgil, that my dad gave me. Tons of them. Hundreds. I think Mike's probably seen them, but hundreds of them. Anyway, thank you, Virgil. Let me reset."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:19:16+00:00","id":13024,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13023,"text":" Alright, with nothing hurt, let's jump over to the Indian Station. Victor, you've walked Delta Alpha. Hello, Saunders. How are you doing today? Thank you for joining us and are you out for your morning walk? And I know he's in the future because it's Saturday there. Come on in, Saunders."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:21:27+00:00","id":13025,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13024,"text":" Good evening all. Good evening to everyone and all there on the Satheel Jyot Tech net. Thank you very much, Nam, for letting me in for a great second on this digital platform. All of you coming here, yes, you saw them, final blasting thundering light local station in my name. It is Coimbatore. All going good here. Saturday morning started here. Indian standard time is 5.14. Saturday morning 5.40 here in India. All going good. Temperature around 70-40 degrees F. Start right now. Bracing morning cool and comfortable. Very much supporting for me for doing my walking session easily. I have started my walking session 5.15 this morning. It will go till 6.15 by yesterday. After that going to do some breathing exercises. Yoga. And finally going to prepare ginger and mint tea for all of you. For all of you on the net. Welcome all of you to have a cup of tea in my kitchen at Coimbatore. After half an hour, we are all welcome. Welcome all of them. Nothing much particular due to my speedy walking. My breathes are always up and down. My apology for that. Thank you very much once again for letting me in. Your kind permission, I would like to say my 73 student all there. Mike back to net control. From Victor, Victor to Mike Delta, all for longer from India. Walking by. Thank you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:21:53+00:00","id":13026,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13025,"text":" So thank you so much for coming and checking in with us. Any other check-ins coming out?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:22:41+00:00","id":13027,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13026,"text":" I haven't heard that since I was down in Missouri last year, but I was supposed to try the fried cicadas, but found out about that weird zombie cake, a cicada disease, and turned me off with that idea. I don't really wanna eat no bugs. I'll stick with moose meat and fish, KL7FR."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:23:35+00:00","id":13028,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13027,"text":" Alright, well, I gotta go. It was a great net tonight. I'll try to get in on Echo Link tomorrow, because I'll probably be up in dropper treats in the afternoon when the net comes on, but we'll see how my Echo Link connection works up there. Anyway, always good to talk to you, my friend. Everybody on the happy hour net. It was another good one. $7.30, KL7.50, I'll be clear."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:25:00+00:00","id":13029,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13028,"text":" I've had a birthday and then I'm gonna go to Costco and buy something. Don't be reminding me. If I could walk, I've already been over there, but my leg has been bugging me. So I don't understand why, you know, I had x-rays. They said there's nothing, no break, but man, I tell ya, it's still really yucky. And I'm sure, listen, I don't do pawn shops. I like to pay full price. Sorry, but I'm not gonna say I've never done it, but anyway, thank you for spilling the beans and reminding me too. Thank you, Kevin. And we look forward to hearing from y'all in the next round, so hang out. Let's go talk to Charles, K04UMJ. Hello to you, Charles. How you doing today? And how about you? Have you got any projects going on? It's your turn. Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:25:31+00:00","id":13030,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13029,"text":" It's early evening to the fourth Juliet Echo. Name is Ray out of Michigan. I'm going to send it out, please. Hey, we'll just show it as an I-O. I just got done here. I just wanted to hear everyone in here. Great. Here we go."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:27:02+00:00","id":13031,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13030,"text":" I'm with you, C-SAR."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:29:02+00:00","id":13032,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13031,"text":" doing the net and this is KK7-SMN. Yeah, I would like to say I don't have any plans. I get to stay inside and enjoy the air conditioning for a little bit, but that's not the case. My daughter's getting married here in September, so we've got bridal showers and different things coming up. So I get to be out in the yard trying to get everything looking all pretty for all her guests coming over. And kind of exciting, but not looking forward to it. I thought it was pretty hot here in the mid-90s, but here in somebody earlier saying 118, I can't get up in too much. So yeah, that's my plan for the weekend is to be out outside in the yard, probably getting a little sunburned. So we'll see how that plays out. KK7-SMN. This is repeater station C-LOW on 7 November. This is KK7-SMN. It must be September, it must be the wedding month because I have another friend that's going on my trip because her daughter's getting married in September. But I'm going to be shooting out to Panama City, Florida. Got me a three bedroom on the ocean, 13th floor with a view that won't quit. And I can be safe just in case a hurricane rolls through. So I don't think I'll be going down 18 floors of stairs, but I'll definitely be in a safe place. So thank you Brian, we got another round coming around. So hang out, there's not a lot of people left so it shouldn't take too long. Virgil, over to UK4-CUP. Your turn."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:29:57+00:00","id":13033,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13032,"text":" Well, I did see a turkey recipe on the Traeger. I've got a Traeger. And I just say go buy it. I really, you know, those deep fried turkeys are really good. My brother does it. So I really don't really want to spend a bunch. You know, if I want to cook, one of the best turkeys I ever made actually was in the oven cooking it on slow in a brown paper bag. And this soul lady told me about it. I'm going to tell you what. That was the best turkey I ever had."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:30:59+00:00","id":13034,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13033,"text":" Mary Virgil, I don't know if she copied, I have... ...to get the bank before it closes. She sent me down the list a couple of spots, and I'll be back in the deck in about 10 minutes or less. Say all 7FR, if she copies. We got you in there, Mickey, so I'll skip you and... But I will get back with you, sir, before the end of the net. So, mobile's safe, my friend. Alright, next contestant, K6KJV, K4CUP. Hello, RevKev. Hope you're doing well, which I know you are, because you're here on the happy hour net. So, what are some of your hobbies and possibly some new hobbies that you would like to take on? K6KJV from K4CUP."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:34:30+00:00","id":13035,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13034,"text":" We are honored and grateful to have you as a part of the 11 Cats radio network, helping with our nets and especially on round two of the happy hour net today. Thank you so much for that. It's always great to talk to you and I think everyone else feels the same way. Great to have all the rest of you on the happy hour tonight. We are honored to have you all. Hobbies, well I'm a hobby junkie. I find new hobbies all the time and I'll get into it and I'll learn it and I'll buy a bunch of crud and then I'll get bored and I'll move on to the next one and that's why I got a couple of closets full of junk. But I love learning. That's the problem is I just start to learn new stuff and I get a lot of that at work but I have to do it at home too. And we do, you can definitely have too many hobbies that's for sure but I guess that's better than I don't know having no hobbies. I'm not sure, I've never had that problem. But you know Amradio kind of took over for a while before that it was music. I played music my whole life. Pretty much learned all the instruments and I was recording there for a while and I got into Amradio and just put all that aside and started doing this and then we started this network and that's kind of been a good learning experience. And we have drones, we started flying drones about a couple of years ago and we have those and we haven't done that in a while because we're too busy. And man they have to be updated. Every time you get them out, we got four of them now and you got to update the firmware and stuff on it. It takes a whole day just to update them and charge the batteries so we don't, then there's a whole day gone and so we haven't done that much lately. And then I work with a different guy every week and once in a while they'll tell me about something they're doing and I'll get interested in that and want to do that. I was thinking about trying model rocketry. That is really a cool hobby. You build your own rockets and you buy your own engines and that's, it's a step above the old little AFTIS rockets. This is like the real deal. There's a whole lot to it. You have to get a license to do it. But I do not have the time to do it so there's what I'm not going to do. But man I love hobbies. We go fishing whenever we get a chance there's another hobby. I do a lot of walking and bike riding. I do that more for exercise just because it makes me feel good physically and mentally and I overdo that all the time for some reason. But I don't know if that would be a hobby or not. I'm always looking for more hobbies so that's kind of what I got going on right now Virgil. Over to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:34:56+00:00","id":13036,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13035,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:37:20+00:00","id":13037,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13036,"text":" Had to wait for my note ID there. So, OK, any more check-in before we go to the list here? Any other check-in for the Leavencats Happy Hour net? This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven, November, Quebec, November. All righty. OK. Thank you, everyone, for coming and joining us and checking in with us. We're always, it's always a pleasure to be part of this net. And not only this net, but all of the nets that are here on the Leavencats. So this is kind of my new stomping ground in the litter box and everything. So I do enjoy the company and the time that we share here every week on the Leavencats Happy Hour net, along with all the other nets that are hosted here. So thanks to Jeanette and Mike for doing this. And all those that are linked up with it. But I will make note, and I'm pretty sure that fireside may be connected to us. So if you are connected to that, I think they may disconnect at close to the top of the hour. So if you are on that connection, feel free to jump over to the Leavencats side if the net continues to go before your turn. So with that, this is K4 CUP. I'll take a break. And let's get tonight's ticket round happy hour started. All right, KM5Y. Hello, Mike. Glad to have you. Glad you had a good week. And you're here on tonight's Leavencats Happy Hour edition. I don't know what net number this is. But anyway, it's always fun. So KM5Y, what are some of your hobbies and some of your new hobbies that you would like to go after? So KM5Y, K4 CUP."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:39:31+00:00","id":13038,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13037,"text":" You are more than welcome to do both parts. You got it. It's your round. So, hello Bill. Glad to have you here and always great to hear you. So thank you for joining us. Back to you Virgil. I'm so glad you're here. I'm so glad you're here. Always great to hear you. So thank you for joining us. Back to you Virgil. Thanks for coming. I'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:45:56+00:00","id":13039,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13038,"text":" And then of course it had the ID, so there you go. But anyhow, that's about it. That's a few hobbies I like. I also have a certain kind of gardening thing I like to do. Every year I grow some tobacco. I don't smoke it or anything, but I like trying different types. The nation here, they have a seed bank. And they do heirloom seeds from way back. And you just order your seeds from them. So I like to try out different seeds and different stuff like that and see if I can get them to grow and so on there. But that's about it, Virgil. Let me throw it back over to you. Oh, I think this is a 73 round. No, Jeanette comes back with a 73 round. OK, so let me throw it back over to you, N5-GOG. OK, Bill. I don't think they do the 73 rounds anymore, Bill. But anyway, appreciate you being there. And I think we kind of narrowed it down a little bit. So we don't really put a lot of people past their bedtime. No, I just can't. But anyway, great to hear you, Bill. I love hearing you come on here and sharing your wealth and knowledge also. And everybody shares a wealth of knowledge. So we've got one more besides our net control to go to. So all clear with N5-GOG. This is K4 CUP. We're moving on down to Kilo Echo 8, Quebec, Foxtrot, Tango. Hello, Fred. Welcome to the 11 Cats Happy Hour. I don't think I've talked to you before. But anyway, do you have any hobbies and any new hobbies that you would like to pursue? K-E-H-U-M-T, K4 CUP. Oh, they're Virgil. Well, first I'd like to head out back to Frozen, Mike, Frozen Radio. K-O-7, half hour, he used to come on our local nets. And I've been there much lately. I wish he'd give us a call again sometime. Boy, this ain't hobbies. I bowl. I don't do much really. I bowl. And I watch my sports, baseball. I watch a lot of my local teams, the Cleveland Guardians. And of course, radio. I hadn't been an All-Star for quite a while until a couple of weeks ago. I had to get a new laptop and move it around and got my All-Star to work again. It wasn't working for a long time. I changed internet providers and quit working. I got it to work again somehow, just playing around with it. Well, other than that, not a heck of a lot going on. Well, it's like 69 degrees here in Ohio. After it had been in the 90s, it finally cooled off a little bit yesterday and today. And I got up this morning. Believe it or not, it was so cool, I almost turned the heater on. KEA QFT back to neck control. Thanks for having me. KEA QFT from K4CUT. CUP. Thank you, Fred. And I'm watching the Cleveland Guardians right now on local TV here. And every Friday evening, I get a tune-in, if I want to, to the Cleveland Guardians game. And of course, I live down in Reds County, I'm in Eastern Kentucky, they consider it Reds Country. But hey, baseball is my sport. That's my go-to sport. I watch all the games that I can. I've got, matter of fact, I don't have what they call the subscription. But anyway, I've got a way to watch any game or all the games any game. When they're on and so on and so forth. And baseball is, baseball card collecting is one of my big hobbies. And man, I love collecting baseball cards. I've been collecting them since I was nine years old. I'm 56 now. November, Quebec, November. I guess 56 from 9 is about 47. I'm 56 now. I guess 56 from 9 is about 47 years of card collecting there. And it's my go, it used to be my number one hobby. Because I don't focus on it much as like I do. I still buy baseball cards, don't get me wrong. But I don't buy a whole lot. But I will pick up a few of the good ones along the way. So appreciate you, Fred. And thank you for coming and joining us. And so with that, I'm going to clear with K8QFT. I'm going to go look for that KL7FR station out there. Mickey, have you made it home? K4CUP."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:49:55+00:00","id":13040,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13039,"text":" This is KJ5FOX back at the CASA and on the All-Star node. I think for more than over, well, probably right around a year, man, I just wanted to be able to get on 11 cats or maybe a couple of other nets on a radio. And I love being on a radio. So I'm going to say that with my workload, there's probably not a lot of hobbies. But I'll give it a good shot. Ham radio is probably going to be the biggest hobby right now. Although, I'm going to say that I've got another hobby that I'm probably spending more time on. And that's like, I guess, fitness. I'm spending a couple of hours every single morning either doing a workout or a run. I guess you might say that's a hobby. More so spending more time on that than ham radio. Let's see. For the last year, I think July the 29th of 2024, I started buying some cryptocurrency. I'm definitely not some kind of financial wizard or something like that. But it's been one year. And for the most part, I've doubled the money. I play with it one or two hours a week. Let me reset. This is repeater station kilo, kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. All star node 622. Let's see. This is KJ5FOX. If you ask my wife, she would fill up a spiral binder on what my hobbies are. I got lots of stuff that I like. There at one point in time, I was buying a bunch of leather making stuff. And I bought me a leather hide. I made a wallet. And I've set that aside. I say I set it aside. I'm just waiting on the next leather project. My wife just told me I'm a knife collector. I just like knives. Nothing too expensive. I see a knife, and I just like the way it looks. And so I'll buy a knife. Wow. What other things do I like? I've got a couple of drones and a radio controller for flying those drones. And I've got a remote control airplane. I built a remote control airplane that has never been in the air. I think I was just worried about crashing the thing. Wow. You know, Virgil, I like to camp. I like to hunt. But right now, I think ham radio and probably fitness. And those are probably taking up most of my time. And the thing that hurts all my hobbies is the old job, the old going to work. But Virgil, thank you so much for doing the next. Great questions. Enjoyed listening to everybody's hobbies. And I'll pass it back to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:52:21+00:00","id":13041,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13040,"text":" Well, you know, hobbies and more hobbies and then more hobbies, so it's kind of like trying to have a plan for the backup for the backup for the backup. Mike, thank you so much and it's always a pleasure to, you know, help out when help is needed and things of that sort. I guess I'm kind of that guy like on the lifeguard on the beach, you know, waiting to come off my podium to run into the water and make that heroic save, you know, and so on and so forth. Mike, great hobbies, you know, and I think you made the right choice, Mike, by sticking with amateur radio and learning. That's one thing that we never get above, you know, is learning. I've learned some new recipes here tonight, you know, concerning cucumbers, so not that I'm going to be cucumber fanatic and try some of these recipes. And even sauerkraut, could you imagine, sir, kraut and chocolate cake? I just don't know. But leave it to the Germans, I guess. Appreciate you, Mike. Alright, KJ5FOX, good to hear you, Chad, and hope you're doing well. I know you've already given your weekly report and so forth, but tonight we're in the second round and there's not no knockout or anything like that. But, I mean, if you have a knockout question or knockout answer, hey, we would like to hear it. So, Chad, what are some of your hobbies and possibly new hobbies that you would like to share with the Knights Net? So, KJ5FOX, K4CUP."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:54:44+00:00","id":13042,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13041,"text":" I want to say hello to Uncle Fred. I haven't ever heard him on the happy hour. Lovecats.c over here, Uncle Fred. And, uh, let's see. I was continuing and talking. Uh, yeah, you know the good Lord keeps me pretty busy with his website that I steward for him. And the good old way of seeing him on the Bible study and the newsletter, which is gonna be coming out here pretty quick. Hopefully. Um, and, uh, yeah, just keeps me busy. So, uh, between the Lord's website and AFC and, uh, Pam radio, that's what I got going on. That's what keeps me busy. So, um, and everyone, I gotta say, everyone's on stock of pilot here and there, too, you know. And, uh, leading to a flight sim here and there. But that's minor stuff. So with that, I'll shut up, quit Ramblin' and pass it back to you there, KJV. K6, KJV from K4 CUV. Okay, thank you so much, Revcamp, for all that you do and for coming and sharing some of your hobbies that you do there. So, yeah, good ones. And, uh, yeah, amateur radio, you know, is number one in my book. And, uh, so thank you so much there. So, all right, we got two more people here on the list. We've got Bill and Fred there. Uh, so, uh, M5JOJ, K4 CUV. Hello, Bill. And thank you for coming and joining the Living Cats Happy Hour Net. Uh, so, uh, do you have any hobbies or any new hobbies that you would like to, uh, take a stab at? M5JOJ from K4 CUV. What are some of your hobbies?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:56:37+00:00","id":13043,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13042,"text":" Thank you, Sandra, Victor, Uniform 2, Mike Delta Alpha. Thank you for sharing. Have a wonderful day and keep making that heart good. All right, K6KJV, Ref. Kev. Hello to you, Ref. Kev. How about you? What kind of projects you got going on? You got your work done for Sunday yet? Anyway, come on in, Kevin. Why you gotta be a donor? This is K6KJV, Kevin in Valley Springs, California. And it's still a working process, but it will be. And let's see. Yeah, that's all I've been working on well. You know, yeah, I'll wait till the question out. But yeah, I've been working on my project, my weekly project all week. And let's see, what else do I got going on? I ain't got much going on. Oh, man. Y'all was talking about walking in nice, cool malls. Well, I know what you be doing walking in them malls. You be visiting the jewelry stores. And the pawn shops. And the coin dealers. I'm just joking. I just want to say hello to you and everyone else on the net. And I hope you all is having a good time. So I'll shut up once you get on down the list. And fasten back to you there, Mrs. Nett from K6KJV."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:57:01+00:00","id":13044,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13043,"text":" KEL 7FR, Frozen Radio. What's going on?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:57:35+00:00","id":13045,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13044,"text":" Alright, here he's done. Okay, M5JOJ, Bill. Thank you so much for joining the Levitt Cats Happy Hour Net. This is K4 CUV, as you know. And how's your week been? And have you got any plans, any projects going on your way, Bill? M5JOJ, K4 CUV."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:58:09+00:00","id":13046,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13045,"text":" I pulled one of your deals. My radio went dead. It changed the battery. Um, yeah, that's... I've seen those, but I don't know. I'm... I'm... If I don't know what it is, I'm probably better off, so... so that I won't gross out and I'll be able to eat it."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T19:59:05+00:00","id":13047,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13046,"text":" I got to change the battery in my HC because somebody forgot to put my battery, my radio on, but I've got another battery here. But anyway, Matt, good to hear you. Welcome to the Lab of Cats Happy Hour. We're glad to have you joining us from Oregon. So tonight's question is, what are some of your favorite hobbies or new hobbies that you would like to bring to the net tonight? So what are some of your famous hobbies or hobbies and possibly some new hobbies that you would like to take on? So KK7 Sierra Mike November from Kilo 4 Charlie uniform pop."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:01:40+00:00","id":13048,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13047,"text":" the node and the HT on low power, so I wasn't sure if I'd make it in on the HT, but glad it worked. Good to get a signal report. And yeah, ham radio is probably my newest hobby, and the other new hobby in the last five years anyway has been experimenting with alternative energy, solar and hydro and experimenting with water and gravity, a hydraulic ram pump that also makes compressed air, using an airlift pump to push water uphill. I built a tower that I was originally going to turn into a water tower, but before I ever put tank on it, I hung solar panels on it and got a ham radio antenna, so now it's a solar radio antenna tower with no water tanks. Anyway, a lot of my hobbies have gone by the wayside. I heard KM5Y mentioned model rocketry. I used to really be into that when I was at use, and I kind of miss that. That's definitely a fun one. Got a big open area, but I'm sure there's plenty of that in Texas. And a lot of my other hobbies too, like water skiing, snow skiing, different outdoor activities I just no longer do, and then when I lived out in the bush, I used to do a lot of woodworking, mainly building sleds and fish traps and various contraptions out of wood. I used to do leathercraft. I used to make holsters and rifle scabbards and knife sheaves and made some knives. I've just gotten away from some of those hobbies, so I need to re-engage in some of them. But good to hear everyone in here, really good to hear Uncle Fred in here and interesting all the hobby suggestions. I like several people that got too many hobbies, but I'm always looking for something new to try out, but I've got to get back to my list of two new before winter hits. I never finished my last year to-do. I never finish any of them, but they just seem to keep getting longer instead of shorter."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:03:07+00:00","id":13049,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13048,"text":" I'm here by the SSR, KL7FR. I'm figuring out what to cook for dinner, because all that food talk got me hungry early on in the net. I had had the sauerkraut cake before. I think it was a German chocolate cake. Yummy. I thought that was bizarre, put sauerkraut in a chocolate cake, but it was actually pretty good. Something else was mentioned, I remember, but got me hungry. I want to grill. I've only grilled a couple times this summer. I usually grill a couple times a week, but the weather hasn't been that conducive to it. My younger son has been gone for a month, so I haven't done no grilling, maybe. I like grilling burgers and dogs, and I've got a big package of ribs I want to grill up. It's only in the 60s cloudy and sprinkling here, so I don't think I'm going to fire up the grill today. But got to find something to eat, because I'm starving. KL7FR."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:03:33+00:00","id":13050,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13049,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:04:27+00:00","id":13051,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13050,"text":" Well, thank you so much, Chad, and yeah, good hobbies, man. And another thing about hobbies, you know, is finding time to do them. But there's always time to make hobbies there. So thank you so much, Chad. You have a super great weekend, and we're looking forward to hearing you on some of the other nets coming up this weekend. So with that, all clear with KJ5F0X. Let's move on down to N5XCX. Woody, are you there?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:05:21+00:00","id":13052,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13051,"text":" joke about smoking turkey and it plugging up my pipe. I used to have a little chief smoker that worked pretty good for small batches and I made a bigger plywood smoker that was 4x4x6 I think it was and it helped a lot more. But then I built a smokehouse in my backyard when I lived out in the Yukon. That was 24 feet tall 8x8x24 feet and I could put 50 king salmon all kinds of things into that smokehouse. I used to smoke moose meat, ducks and geese, all kinds of things. Even porcupine one time. Smoked porcupine is delicious. KL7FR."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:07:12+00:00","id":13053,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13052,"text":" Yeah, come check it out and if you have some information bring it too. And we'll have some information for you as well. So hey, it's a good thing to get into, it's a good thing to listen to. And yeah, so come and join us. And yeah, so also we will be having the Litterpock Lounge tomorrow night, be me and Mike. So we have a topic, so come and join us at 7 Eastern here on 11 Cats. And on behalf of the 11 Cats Network, we'd like to thank those that joined us tonight. And also thank those that linked their systems to us, making it possible for all others to join us, listen, and to participate in the 11 Cats Net. It's been a pleasure being your host. We look forward to seeing you here next week or tomorrow. This is KI5SSR along with K4CUP. We're returning the system back to regular use. And also don't forget the AFC, that's Kevin's Net on Sunday at 4 Eastern. Amateurs for Christ Radio. Feel free to hang around after the net and rag juice. So thank you all for joining us. And don't forget the website, 11cats.org. Sign up for our newsletters. That information that KI5CUP just gave you will be in our next email. So thank you all very much. KI5SSR, clear."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:07:41+00:00","id":13054,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13053,"text":" Thank you, KL7FR, KI5FSR. Have a great evening. I hope everything's OK with DSC. Thank you for joining us tonight. We miss you, Mickey. 73."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:08:16+00:00","id":13055,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13054,"text":" Alright, I think he probably lost signal or something because he was having a hard time. We were having a hard time hearing him. So let's go to KK7-SMN. Hello, Brian. How are you doing today, Brian? How about you? Have you got any projects or anything going on excited this weekend? Or just how you doing in general? Over to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:10:20+00:00","id":13056,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13055,"text":" and everyone on the happy hour net here. Let's see, well, projects I got going, always got projects. Mom would go to the auction probably in the morning and Hunter's doing a, he's gonna be in a movie choir scene, so I gotta take him to that. He's singing in a choir in Cherokee. So that's what's happening here. It's cooler, Virgil. I mean, it's been really, really hot in the last two days. It's been just really nice out there. I think it's even in the high 70s out there. We got a little bit of rain last night, like drizzle, not really rain, I guess I should say. It didn't amount to much, but it sure cooled things off, so we're happy about that. But anyhow, that's what I got going on, and projects, I got a ton of them. I'd have to reset 10 times there, but have to do with more of the farm out there than anything, all the projects I got going. But anyhow, let me throw it back over to you. It's good to hear everybody tonight. N5-J, OJ. Thank you so much, and I think I kinda threw a ranch in the flywheel here real fast, so I do apologize to Jeanette there for jumping in here, like doing a double dutch out on the streets of Brooklyn. But anyway, Bill, thank you so much. So I'm gonna hand this back over to Jeanette real fast, and we're gonna do this the legal way. KI5-SSR, K4-CUP, back to you, Jeanette."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:11:13+00:00","id":13057,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13056,"text":" Living Cats Happy Hour Net. And if there are anybody, any other stations out there that's been listening or just monitoring and would like to check in to tonight's Living Cats Happy Hour Net, now is your time to shine. Push the PTT button and let's hear from you. Let us know that you're out there and would like to check in. So come down with your call sign twice, slowly and phonetically please. November 5th, it's Juliet Oscar Juliet N5JLJ Bill, Northeast Oklahoma."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:11:35+00:00","id":13058,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13057,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:12:03+00:00","id":13059,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13058,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:12:29+00:00","id":13060,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13059,"text":" This is repeater station kilo kilo seven November Quebec November all star node six two two two located in Shelton, Washington"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:12:52+00:00","id":13061,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13060,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:13:14+00:00","id":13062,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13061,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:13:39+00:00","id":13063,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13062,"text":" 2, 4, 1, connected to node 6, 2, 2, 2, 2."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:14:03+00:00","id":13064,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13063,"text":" 7, 8, 2, disconnected."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:58:15+00:00","id":13065,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13064,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:58:47+00:00","id":13066,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13065,"text":" 6 2 connected to node 6 2 2 2 2 This is repeater station kilo kilo 7 November Quebec November all star node 6 2 2 2 located in Shelton, Washington"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T20:59:14+00:00","id":13067,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13066,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:00:22+00:00","id":13068,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13067,"text":" Node KK7IJZ connected to node 2462."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:06:45+00:00","id":13069,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13068,"text":" Hello and good evening. This is Rebecca, KK7IJZ. And it is 9pm Pacific time on this day, August 1, 2025. And it's time now for the PSRG 9 o'clock net. I'm Rebecca, again, KK7IJZ and I'll be your net host for tonight. This is a directed social net that happens three times a day, 9am, noon and 9pm. On the WW7 PSRG 2 meter repeater which is located on Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington. This repeater is operated by the Puget Sound Repeater Group and it operates at a frequency of 146.96 with a negative offset and PL tone of 103.5. All licensed hands and new licensees just getting started are welcome to join. If you have third party traffic, we'd like to hear from them too. We encourage you to press that button and tell us about yourself, your radio projects or just about anything else as long as it's suitable for a general audience. I'll be compiling lists of stations that would like to check in and I'll then ask for your reports. If you'd like to check in only, just let me know that you'll be in and out, also called an I-O. Please limit your reports to three minutes so that I can get as many stations in as possible. And three minutes is also when the repeater times out. When you're finished with your report, please end widget callsign so that I know that you're done. Again, this is Rebecca at KK7IJZ. Let's get this net started. I'll just set the widget callsign and name RF and internet. KELO Alpha 9, that's the hotel bender, KA9EHV. And PIMI with? KELO Julius 7, Julius X and 5, Lola! Alright, I have Ann, KA9EHV, I have PIMI and I have Robert. More stations, please. KELO KJ7 is directly uniform. KJ7 is directly uniform. I can magnolia it and try to break through at 401. You did it, Mike! You broke through! Got you on the list, Mike. More stations, please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:11:30+00:00","id":13070,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13069,"text":" It's Herb. Hey Herb, got you on the list. I'm going to go ahead and draw a line right there and go back to the top to Ann. KA9EHV33 Ann, please come ahead with your report. Well, good evening Rebecca and everyone on the net. This is KA9EHV33 Ann in Seattle. So I went up to Edmonds today and there were some really remarkable things about today. So I sat inside the gallery, I found a place where I can sit facing the door and I can be heard outside and it tends to draw people in. And I was in the gallery and I was sitting there and I mean the differential in traffic is quite astonishing actually. The first time I did it we had 12 or 13 people in and the merchants down the road had 2 or 3. So that's a substantial difference. Today's interesting point though was that although we didn't get as many excess people, what we did get is people who were willing to look and then buy. And the music I was playing while all this was happening was Peter, Paul and Mary. One Peter, Paul and Mary song after another. Rollin' in the Wind, Follow Me, which is a Paul, a Mary Travers song. You name it. If Peter, Paul and Mary did it, I played it. And then the second thing that was of note is I went outside to play for tips for a while. And some enterprising person took the prettiest, most wrinkled, one dollar bill he or she could find and rolled his actual, his or her actual $20 tip up inside the single. And we almost missed it. It was very funny. We were just counting along and there was nothing but singles and all of a sudden there's like, where did this come from? And so that was interesting. And then I got home and just have been going through Facebook and going through email and all the rest of that. That's about it. But it was a fun day in Edmonds and lots of nice people. And people who liked Irish music, oh my goodness. Would you please come around Mountain Time? Sure, sure. How about Molly Malone? And of course, Bo Carolin. Anyway, that's about all for me. 73338, all the numbers. Thanks to Rebecca for doing that. Thanks to all of you for listening. I love you all. This is KA90HV. It was so fun, Ann. I bet it was a beautiful day in Edmonds too. So not only was it a beautiful day, but you got to play a bunch of Peter, Paul and Mary. Aww, that's great. And that's a sneaky, it's a dangerous and both clever and dangerous trick, rolling up a 20 and a $1 bill. But yeah, money is money. I would have unrolled that dollar bill too. Aww, yeah. 33 Ann, I'm glad that you had a wonderful, money-making musical day. And yeah, thank you so much for your report. 33 and 80 and all the numbers. Next on the list is Kenny, KA7R8, 33 Kenny, please come ahead with your report."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:18:14+00:00","id":13071,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13070,"text":" and everyone out there on the net, can we hear, KK7RAB? Oh, thank you, Robert, pulled up the microscope for me here so I can see how I'm making it in stillness. I don't have a whole lot of fingers. He does listen to me every time. I've been working so much, Rebecca. I feel like I'm burning a candle at both ends in the middle and everywhere else in between. I stopped working at a reasonable hour today and we decided to just stay local for date night. We went down to the local Mexican restaurant and had dinner and came back home. Yes, we had margaritas. I have to, what do they call it? The blue hock. It's margarita that they make with blue caracao in honor of the Seahawks. And they were playing their actual football on the TV today and they hit the preseason. But they're out of the whole football game for so long I don't even know who's playing on what team anymore. But that's okay. Robert had his work at home day. He finished two projects today. It was really impressive the amount of work that he was able to get done. And so we just wanted to keep it mellow and stay local. Yes, thank you, Susan. That's third party traffic from Susan here. He fancies himself a radio operator as well. But he's not licensed yet. I'm gonna, I don't have too much more to report. I had another seat. Oh, I did remember a seat. I almost said a seat but I remembered. I shared one of my favorite seat there memories earlier today on Jack Smith. And then the other memory that I wanted to share was when I lived in Belltown. I lived in a building called, I can't even remember the name of the building. It was on 4th and Bell. And my apartment manager at the time would reserve space out on the sidewalk for us so that we could have rooms watching the towards the library because it went down 4th Avenue at that time. And people would make these really elaborate setups. Like there were people that would go to the bookstore and bring furniture set up on the sidewalk. And we had people that would set up an entire living room on the sidewalk, like a couch with a lamp and a microwave so they could make popcorn. And my manager, my apartment manager, let them run extension cords into the building so they could power all of their things that they had on their sidewalk living room. And then afterwards they would just return all of the things to the thrift store. And it was a lot of fun. And so I had really good memories from the torchlight parade when I lived in Belltown. It went down 4th Avenue. That would be fun to do again. But it's now down on the waterfront, I believe. So that was my other good, safer memory that I wanted to bring forward and share with you. Love the pictures that you sent to me today, Rebecca. And I'm a fan of self-presidency and I vote for no name change. 33 to you, all of the numbers KJ7, R and E. Respect and control. Thank you. Well, thank you for that wonderful report, Cammie. I love that. I love thinking about people just like setting up a makeshift living room on the side of the street in Belltown. That's awesome. I never got any of the torchlight parade or anything like that. I mean, it makes total sense. I moved here a matter of minutes before the shutdown. And in Leo land. So yeah. But yeah, that's a great memory. I love that. It's nice whenever you think of your Seattle stories that you want to share. It's awesome. You're so cool, Cammie. And yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing you again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm looking forward to hearing about Robert's day, Robert's work day at his real job. And yeah, I'm glad that you were able to get off the work early. That's awesome. Not early, but early for you. 33 Cammie and all the numbers. See you soon. This is Rebecca KK7IJZ. Next on the list is Robert, KK7JXMC. Robert, how's it going?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:19:49+00:00","id":13072,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13071,"text":" Robert, that's awesome. I'm glad that your business is drumming up quickly. You know, it's been a couple of weeks. And yeah, that's amazing. You're going to have to quit your job. In a couple of weeks, you're going to have to quit your secondary job just so you can focus on your actual real job that you should be focusing on. XM Automotive. Yeah. Get yourself done. Return clients and everything all ready. That's awesome, Robert. I'm glad that you all had a good day and got Margarita the Plow Roll. And yeah, that'll be a fun night on Sunday. I wrote down deals of wheels. Leo and I will be out and about on Sunday. He's got a birthday party that I'm taking him to. Now I'm trying to figure out if we're close enough we can come visit. But he might be. More about that later. Anyway, 73 and 88 to you both. And thank you so much for checking in. Next on the list is Mike in Magnolia, KJ7BEU. Hey, Mike, what's going on?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:24:29+00:00","id":13073,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13072,"text":" This is KJ7KX, we have Robert and you guys are going to... ... they were killing the fingers of them right now. Malmo, Chicata, the porgos and margaritas, the fantastic date we had at the little Mexican restaurant. And, yeah, by the way, the company probably now begins to think someone's outside. So, like, if a dog is like three foot tall and he's a hundred pounds or something, maybe four foot tall, six hundred pounds, I don't know, go ahead. Definitely bigger than she is. And, yeah, today was the stealth employment work day. I got a... somebody might drop his jeep off last night and I got up this morning and there were some main pillar lights on it and I got them all wired up to a switch panel that he dropped off today. And they came out pretty good. I'm not impressed with the way the lights fit on the mount because you can adjust them so they are straightforward only. They will not be the size, but for what he paid, he is very happy and his jeep is not mine, so it doesn't bother me. It's a hunting so this is for going out hunting, so we can put him in the back with the brand new carpeting that he's got. That's the name of the connection though, if it's in that shop, probably no. But nevertheless, he is a happy customer. He is a return customer, so excited about that. And then another good company, K&E Services, dropped another truck off today so I could do some diagnostics and repair on that. And that was pretty quick. Moving forward, the power of the lights up, there was a blow off to use, so I bypassed that with my tester. And realized one of the lights wasn't blinking and fell behind it and kept what the wires were cutting. So, that was pretty straightforward. Got a new light boarded up for it a senior Monday. And then now having that swapped in the next week so that when that client returns from vacation they can pick their truck up. And that's another C.A. truck so far this year, so that's a fantastic start to the year. Other than that, I know there's so much more I wanted to report on, but I can't think about it. We're going to go to the snow good tomorrow. I think they're doing a wink from mom tomorrow, which will be bittersweet because I've seen some of that family for a while. And I've got some bones to pick with some of those family members, but it'll be a good time anyway. Nonetheless, I'm going to meet you. I've been invited the day before instead of the day after. And then, yeah, Sunday I think we're going to try to do a remote test from the field of wheels. And it's the Homage, which is put on by a fellow friend, Sean, now likes performance. They're one of the main contributors to that, so yeah, pretty excited for the weekend ahead. The work, the full-time job, Monday through Thursday is going pretty good. I might have to try to break that down to three days a week, four days a week, and then we'll set a white belt for time and facility. So I'm going to start the term up pretty quick. So again, that's all I got. Thanks, Rebecca, for doing what you do. Very much appreciate you. And it's been fun. You get to be a renege. I vote for Pete Bonney because that's all I do is be a good time. Without President is pretty or Donny, I guess. Just kidding. Anyway, thanks, George, to you, my friend. Very much appreciate you and I won't keep political. This is KJ7JXM, clear? Back to you, my friend."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:27:24+00:00","id":13074,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13073,"text":" Well, good evening Rebecca and everyone on the internet. For me, that you all were still getting, any drama from the tsunami. When I heard about it, I was monitoring the, and seeing if there was anything going on. You know, I was, so thankfully, the way it didn't turn out to be quite the nature that it had the potential to be. But someone posted a video from your picnic last weekend, and it looks like everybody was having a good time, and having lots of fun. If you were on, and I guess I missed you, but it looks like everybody had a good time, the food looked really good, and it looks like they had some nice weather, so I'm glad that all worked out for y'all. I got around to actually programming this one HT that I have. So for the longest time, you know, there's only one or two sequences I normally transmit with, when I did use it, so I decided to finally break down after about two or three different instructional videos, because the manual that came with the radio didn't really explain much of anything. My final thing is that it really took a couple days, so I have like about three frequencies programmed. I cleared out like about 15 of the 99 available channels, so eventually over time, I'm gonna program more, so I can at least get the local repeaters, and the one or two of the calling frequencies, and the one or two meters, so I got that accomplished. Beyond that, well, it's a typical Friday, looking at the itinerary, visiting restaurants, and having a good old time, I'm on ice cream, I gotta get some this weekend, because I finished off the last old oven that I had at home about a few days ago, so it's been kind of hot, so it's been raining off and on, but so far no hair, it's not on wood, or anything to paint the vanes, so that's all I have this time around. Thanks for hosting, and I'll always give you your food as always. 7388, all the numbers, KFIWYB, that's an N."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:28:44+00:00","id":13075,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13074,"text":" crayon inside of a photograph like who got to it. I mean, adult, child, dog, cat. That's awesome. It's kind of like finding a secret drawing inside of a couch or something. But yeah, that's a good thrift store day. And it'll be fun to see if the photograph works and what kind of fun things you find on it. And for it, for that matter. You and Petrina have a lovely evening. And yeah, thank you so much for checking in. You sound good. 7-3 is an 88, so have a good night. I'm looking forward to whatever recheck you happen to come up with in a little while. Thanks, Mike. All right, and next on the list is Herb in Galveston, Texas. Hello, Herb. Please come ahead with your report."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:30:34+00:00","id":13076,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13075,"text":" Well, let's see. I haven't opened today's Amazon package. I've got a Monogrammed needle for a Columbia record player I bought. The thrift store for 14 bucks is a 16 RPM story record. I thought it would help me change those little things. It's probably worth more than the device itself. And it doesn't work, but it's a motor spin. So I've used a third wire from the motors, probably the transformer wire. It's just a little tiny board with a bunch of cold solder joints on it. It's still being used. And yeah, I'll put the new, actually it's a dual stylus that steals 16 on one side and you flip it and there's a 33-45 on the other needle. You know, one of those for ceramic cartridges. Yeah, that came yesterday. So I'll just have to get the soldering iron out. There's some crayon marks inside the lid, crayon inside rolling around when I took out the turntable part. Yeah, so it's kind of cool. It could be a little thrift store up there on Bob Woodward Highway toward Hill Creek. And interesting stuff in there. Oh, there's a great high chair. It was like a hall with a high chair. Something I remember from my childhood for like 15 bucks. Yeah, things like that. They're like, I don't remember those. Anyway, back to you and the net and thank you very much for being here."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:31:02+00:00","id":13077,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13076,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:31:28+00:00","id":13078,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13077,"text":" I have a friend who is going to be first and I have an Adam. Adam, what was your call friend again?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:32:58+00:00","id":13079,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13078,"text":" K-E-A-Q-S-T Rebecca. Got it. You're on the list, Fred. More stations, please. K-F-7. Okay. Doug. Doug, out there in the wild. Just being off grid. Just getting shopping. Got you on the list, Doug. More stations, please. K-X-2-C-W and I accidentally left you the video."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:34:17+00:00","id":13080,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13079,"text":" Council. It sounds like you're getting ready to start and make a movie. Some sort of council. Huh. What is, why can't I think of, I mean, I guess I'm thinking like Order of the Rings, but that's not really, council, council, council. Someone will come in and talk about some relevant council, but I just think of like, a council making plans, making plans to have Swedish pancakes two times a month. That sounds like a good plan, Bill. I feel like it's, yeah, people love talking about that. Hey, next place. But yeah, thank you so much for taking time to give a report, Bill. Appreciate it. 7-3, and have a wonderful, wonderful sleep. Next on the list is Wilco, W7LCO. What's going on, Wilco?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:34:48+00:00","id":13081,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13080,"text":" And since Bill said he's about to fall asleep, we'll see if we can catch him before he shuts his little eyeball open. K-87, F-W-B, K-P-7, I-J-Z, 88, 88, 88. Bill, please give your report."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:36:39+00:00","id":13082,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13081,"text":" I'm glad that we got missed by that tsunami as well. Yeah, just thinking about natural disasters. But thank you for your report, Herb. I'm glad that you got everything on the radio, about the radio all worked out and figured everything out. Yeah, you know, who needs a manual, right? But I'm glad that you got everything fixed out. And Town Guide Gary, I say hello, of course. And right now in the freezer we have vanilla ice cream. So I have just regular old vanilla. Vanilla is a flavor, it is not plain. It is an exotic bean. So vanilla. Well, thank you so much, Herb. 73 and 88 and all the numbers. And have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to hearing from you again all the way next week. This is Rebecca, KK7IJ, Zagula, Sea, Sea, Sea, Kilo, Kilo 7, November, November, November, All Star, Note 6222. Located in Sheraton. You like the list? Call sign and name, RF and internet. Wiscy 7, Lina, Charlie, Oscar, welcome. Hello, this is Rebecca Fox, Strut, Dangle. Fred Medina, Ohio. Hey, Fred. In Ohio, what was your call sign again?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:37:03+00:00","id":13083,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13082,"text":" you on the list? More stations please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:37:57+00:00","id":13084,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13083,"text":" They're still lightly open, but if they're too much today, I may be myself to create pancakes and cake sets not far from here. And get their own by the name of Ruth as Patty said, and make some of the best British pancakes in the world. Love it. So I'm going to make it a point twice a month, and go have better than me. And other than that, let's see, we had a meeting today here. We're going to set up kind of a council, and that's the garden area. So I go and get back to you. In the future."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:39:59+00:00","id":13085,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13084,"text":" Hey there, thanks for hosting the net. Yeah, this is W7L CEO Wilco. I'm at Duwamish Shot Club. I just got home and I had a pretty busy day. I didn't work today. So I had a date last night that was down in Miss Cleary. A town I didn't even know even existed. It's out past Olympia in Grays Harbor County. And it took me two and a half hours to get there because I left right after work on Thursday, yesterday. And so I was like, well, I don't want to do that again the next day. So when I left there in the morning, she had to go to work anyway. So I left at 5.15 and it only took me an hour and 10 to get back. So that was my morning. Nice sunrise drive up I-5 out of Grays Harbor. And let's see, went to the shooting range in Bellevue today with my buddy. And we try to go together like once every other week. And that's kind of a new tradition so that's fun. And then I had another date here in West Seattle. So just got home from that and made a nice salmon for dinner for her. So a big day all in all. And except for my boat sprung a leak, not in the hull, but in the freshwater system. Have to look at that tomorrow. Okay, yeah, very long report. Just send it back to you. It's 873 to you and everyone else out there. Whiskey 7 Lima Charlie Austin."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:44:06+00:00","id":13086,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13085,"text":" I've been to all those on the west coast. I'm a former soldier, was stationed at Fort Lewis and briefly in the 70s and I just like to get in there. I'm here a small star. And you know, just seeing if I could be lucky enough to talk to Puget Sound again, as I did a couple times this week. And basically, I just want to say hello and everyone have a good safe weekend. G-E-A-T-U-F-T, back to you. This is repeater station 27. Well, Fred, I hope that you come back and visit us again next day, 9 a.m. noon and 9 p.m. all pacific time. You're welcome to come back. Save us in your favorites. Our all star node is 2462. We're a really active repeater as well. So even if you're, you know, homing and hawing and bored after dinner, just throw your call star out and there's always someone that's there and ready to care, ready to beg too. So well Fred, have a wonderful, wonderful weekend and I hope to hear from you again. And yeah, that was probably exactly the same. Honestly. 7-3 Fred. All right, next is Doug, who is a new agent off grid, KF7, okay. Come ahead with your report Doug. Thank you, thank you for hosting the net, KF7 okay. And I am on grid in my home in Linwood. I have hot and cold running water. I have indoor toilet, okay. I have heat if I need it, not that it's really neat this time of year. I have air conditioning, right. Home cooked meals and all that sort of thing. You know, the things that everybody takes for granted, you know, it does give you perspective. I gotta tell you when you are off grid, right, and you learn to make yourself comfortable off grid, you get a different kind of awareness, if you wanna call it that, because you become very self-sufficient. You learn how to fix things. You learn how to make lists and bring what you need next time. And you get very well organized. If you're not, you just wouldn't do very well off grid. Yeah, but I'm back, you know, probably back in a few weeks or so. And I'm still cutting the wood that I brought back. This is all wild cherry. Wild cherry is very difficult to split by hand. It's kind of like the fibers are epoxy together, you know. It's not like maple or alder where you smack it with a maul and it just flies apart, you know, or anything else like that. But I'm definitely in a city living on grid like most of you people. But as I say, I become very aware of the creature comforts that everybody takes for granted. And so, you know, it's cool. I can't wait to get out there again. KF-7, okay, back to you. Thanks."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:47:02+00:00","id":13087,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13086,"text":" You got yourself out there. That's awesome. Two dates. Two dates a week. That is awesome. Yeah, that drive can be something. I live kind of in between Tacoma and JBLM. So I can only imagine what that drive was like, both after work. Yeah, I guess in the morning it wouldn't have been that bad, but coming down from Seattle that evening, no wonder he stayed over. I wish I could too. But that's great. Well, good luck on fixing the fresh water something something. I forget what you said it was in your boat. And have a wonderful weekend. I hope that there are more dates in your future. And if you want them, of course. Seems like you have fun. So, yeah, hope there are more dates in your future. You just get a bunch of dates. That sounds like fun. So we'll go seven three and have a wonderful evening. Next on the list is Fred in Ohio. K-E-8-Q-F-C. Fred, please come ahead with your report."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:48:19+00:00","id":13088,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13087,"text":" I'm glad that you can still see Wentwood, even in your creature comfort. Well, welcome back to Wentwood. Welcome back to light pollution and personal injury lawyers. And what else? You know, grift stores. Self-food, question mark? That's a fail, right? Well, welcome back, Doug, and I hope that you get back to your real life. To me it's your real life. I hope that you get back to your real life off-grid. Ah, yes, chopping wood and taking names. Thanks for your report, Doug. Yes, enjoy the beautiful weather this weekend. And the creature comforts, of course. 73, this is Rebecca, KK7IJZ. Next on the list is Joan, KX2CW33, Joan. Please come ahead with your report."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:51:45+00:00","id":13089,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13088,"text":" Joan KX2CW, Joan on Broadway, perched in the Capitol Hill Behavioral Observatory. And right now it's Friday night on Capitol Hill, the most urban neighborhood in Seattle, a mixed residential entertainment district, what would you call it? So yes, there are more bars per square block here in this neighborhood than in most of Seattle and most cities. You know, my other place was relatively off the main drag and there were still something like, there was not like 20 bars within the block in here, I don't even know how many it is. But I did not go out to one of them, instead I went to our gathering on Friday evening, where some of us get together in a community room and mostly conversation, mostly social interaction. I'm so glad that I've landed myself in this community, in this senior apartment here, right in the epicenter of Capitol Hill on Broadway Avenue in the Pike Pine corner, between Pike and Pine. And let's see, what else, I went grocery shopping, got about $20, no more like $30 worth of groceries, which is just a few things. And let's see, what else, oh I discovered that my microphone has actually been switched into a cardioid pattern instead of a figure eight pattern with a null plane, which is why probably, you know, my talkback speaker, which is on right now, is supposed to be in the null plane, the null plane of the figure eight pattern, pick up pattern. And someone heard it in the background somewhere, of course mind you, you can hear, you know, ammiosis, fire engines, police cars, the sirens, and big loud noises come from outside, they come in the windows that are just cracked. Anyway, I did get out and about, I did some socializing, and now I'm back in my apartment. And I'm going to go to the Recovery Cafe tomorrow, because I miss my women's circle about every other time it seems. But then what this, this weekend after this weekend, is that where we've got our rain or shine, I think that's right. I can look it up again, but if you know, you can tell me. Anyway, there's so much I could tell. Oh, there's some cops, there's a sound of cops. Okay, and an aide's car. Yeah, somebody's having a bad day. No fire engines, but the fire department's own ambulance."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:52:20+00:00","id":13090,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13089,"text":" I did Wishing Famous as well. I do not do video gaming. But there is one video game that I dream of playing, and it is the one where you pressure wash things. Have you heard of this game? I forget what it's called, but it's a game where you just pressure wash things. Back to you, Adam."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:55:52+00:00","id":13091,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13090,"text":" Fort Jones, I love that you are visiting with your neighbors. Now, I feel like it's been a few weeks that you've really got this great routine going. I love it. That's awesome. And what a great place that you live, too. Just like, it's perfect. Not only is it close to a park, but it's a walkable part of the city. You hear a grocery store. Just all the amenities are right there. And you're in a wonderful community. So you have, yes, it's just like built-in friendships, right? Well, yeah, thank you so much for your report, Jones. And I look forward to hearing more from you this weekend. Yeah, it'll be fun. 3388, all the numbers. All right, next on this list is Adam, KK7KHE. What's going on, Adam? This is repeater station kilo kilo 7, November Quebec, November. All star notes 16. Good evening, everyone. This is KK7KHE. Lisa Nido coming to you from my 30-plus-year-old Motorola HD 1000. This is a really old radio. Found it in a closet. And surprisingly enough, it worked. It took a bit of jump-starting to get it going. But this week, I've been working on a few years. State of Idaho, I have been rewriting a database for the juvenile detention center. I actually wrote this database last year. And they've been using it since January. They just got requested by the state juvenile database because they could get a copy of it. So I've been specifically looking for a copy of it. So I've been sanitizing and taking out all the county-specific stuff so that I can allow this data. I think I'm going to put it on my GitHub for anybody who wants it. By the way, Joan, I always love hearing from you. One watt is a lot. I heard you say that so many years ago, it seems like, although it's only been a couple. And that tower that I sent that picture on Facebook from, we bought that tower this year as a county. So very, very cool. Anyway, last but not least, I've been setting up my computer to stream 20-year-old-plus games. I figure I need to get in and compete with the young guys in my office who all stream games on their time off. I'm not really a huge gamer, but I love a couple of old, and I mean old, sim games, especially sim golf, sim tower, very, very old. But I've been working on setting up my computer to stream those to Twitch so that I can suck up the views and hopefully get rich and famous. Anyway, have a great evening, 88s to everybody. Thanks very much. Kilo Kilo 7, Kilo Hotel Echo, back to net."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:57:31+00:00","id":13092,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13091,"text":" Already because as you said the restaurant degreaser. Oh my gosh that just made I'm so filled with joy right now knowing that something like that is out there like cleaning Grill and it yeah degreasing a grill like that. Oh my gosh Anyway Yeah, that's so cool Thank you. Yeah, good Getting your program all together ready to send off into the oblivion for all of humanity to have Just in case anyone else wants to Start a juvenile detention database But yeah, that's so cool. Thank you so much for Checking in and I always like your reports of all of your stuff your quirky amazing Quirky is the best the best Best intention the quirky things that you do getting all those fun old computers and electronics and stuff back into working order and Yeah One want is a lot that is It's true well seven three and happy gaming I hope that you become a gazillionaire Seven three all right that was the end of that list I am going to stop and do some announcements"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T21:59:29+00:00","id":13093,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13092,"text":" long already my goodness I was talking for three and a half minutes take care everybody all the numbers on my hands 33 rebecca and on my way out i see you across the room and that's it for me kx to cw joe not badway handing it back to net"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:00:29+00:00","id":13094,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13093,"text":" Sorry about that, I got hit by my identity. Yeah, I actually have. My son plays games like that. He plays like Truck Driver Simulator, and he played like Restaurant Decreaser Simulator. So yeah, pressure washer. I have not personally played that specific one, but I know those do exist. Interesting what games people click with. Some of the games that are simple, the games of the 2000s get super funny. The ones from the 2000s, which is I like the old stuff, and I've used the formula, and I don't care that I've won it a million times, I just wanna go back and play for the satisfaction. Back to you, KK7KAT."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:02:46+00:00","id":13095,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13094,"text":" Alright, I have Campbell from Ontario. Hey Campbell. And I have Jeff from Onion City, Alpha Bravo 6, Mike Bravo. Um, yeah, I'll go ahead and draw a line there and go back to the top to Rich in Polo, K30E. Hey Rich, what's going on? Good evening Rebecca. Well, what's going on? Polo is all snuggled next to me here in the chair and that is a nice way to kind of end the evening. Hey, we had a great day. Um, let's see, it took them out twice and one of the places we like to go to is the Hamilton Viewpoint and there's always a lot of dogs down there so Polo has a good time sniffing around and the view is just absolutely outstanding. And other than that, I'm slowly getting back to my tinkering here because the other day when I went to Vetco I got one of those grab bags that they had with just miscellaneous stuff in there and I've got about a dozen resistors that were in that package and they are absolutely perfect for making a nice dummy load. So, I'm about to get the soldering iron out and maybe the drill, drill a couple of holes and yeah, anyway, getting back to small projects, that's a good thing. Anyway, thanks for doing the net. Back to you, K30E."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:05:18+00:00","id":13096,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13095,"text":" The every Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. That's every Saturday there is a real clubhouse. You can get the directions and all of this information at w7dk.org. It's a really great club. A bunch of really wonderful people are always there hanging out. There's donuts and snacks and there's a fridge full of Cokes and there's coffee and it's a great club. I highly recommend people go and visit the real clubhouse. Radio Club of Tacoma. And every Saturday evening there's the SimplexNet. So the SimplexNet is a great way to test your equipment. And tunnels, locations, all of the things. You gain great feedback from other radio operators. It is a check-in net but they do have space for desks at the end. But it really is a great way to test your equipment. But also just practicing Simplex. Practicing Simplex is an important part of our job. Ham radio is a service. So keep up your Simplex. And the frequency at 8 p.m. in the Seattle area is 146.56. That's 146.56 at 8 p.m. in the Seattle area every Saturday evening for the SimplexNet. And then the last report I'm going to do is our next Rain or Shine. So the PSRG Rain or Shine is... ...Joan Sunday. Sunday, August 10th. Green Lake. By the Boat Launch and the Cafe. We're going to be set up. It's going to be an ice cream social. It's going to be ice cream. It's going to be great. It's always so much fun to see people in person and..."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:07:30+00:00","id":13097,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13096,"text":" I'm glad you're getting back to tinkering with all of your fun tools and all of your gadgets. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, let us know how your dummy load project goes. And I worked on Hilton Viewpoint. That's awesome. New in Polo. Just seeing two deers. Just venturing around West Seattle. Beautiful, beautiful Friday. That sounds awesome Rich. Thank you so much for your report. And give so many kisses to Polo. And yeah, I look forward to seeing you again soon. 7.3 is in 88's and all the numbers. Next we had a recheck from Mike in Magnolia. KJ7VU. How's it going Mike? It's still going. Yeah. So all that talk of things reminded me of something I took a picture of on Jay's chair next to her workstation. A chair at Scream on Capitol Hill. And it's a game by I guess 100% Shoft is a company. It's called Dumpster Fire Party. And it's a game about how bad your life is. And I remember that picture. I was counting on you to laugh. And there's different versions apparently in both from 30 to 70 to 100 bucks. Except there is... I was looking on the paper. 160 bucks you paid. 2023. Oxygen booster dumpster fire. Nuclear blast addiction. The sign version for 160 bucks. Well guess dumpster fire party. I was just wondering what the heck is dumpster fire party?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:08:49+00:00","id":13098,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13097,"text":" If you miss the picnic or whatever, it's going to be a great way to see other hand radio folks in 3D, putting faces to name. The Rainer Shines are always a lot of fun, but for more information about the next Rainer Shine, which is on August 10th, please go to psrg.org. That's psrg.org. And yeah, check out all the events to consider. Alright, this is Rebecca, KK7IJZ. Let's carry on with the net. Call sign and name, RS and internet. K-O-E. Alright, I have Rich, P3OE. And I have Mike with the recheck, KJ7VEU. That's tonight, more stations please. KJ7OTV. From Bear Lake, YAC. More stations please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:10:07+00:00","id":13099,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13098,"text":" I have no clue. What is a dumpster fire party? You spend your life days up in flames, you throw a party? I don't know. Back to you, Mike. Well, in my search I found a return from YouTube about how to play dumpster party, dumpster fire party. I guess there's a video on the different options and game versions and stuff. But, you know, being a person who lives the American dream, so to speak, dumpster fire party is just part of the thing. I think it's a great, sounds like a good satire for what, you know? So, and fun with other people at the same time, potentially. So we'll see about checking that one out. It is intriguing, the name and everything. Back to you and thanks for letting me check into your net there. After I've executed the video."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:11:02+00:00","id":13100,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13099,"text":" dumpster fire party video game. How can you turn that into a video game? You can make anything a video game. You know, why not have a dumpster fire party? I feel like people were making like swimming pools or hot tubs out of dumpsters too. Why should I see that? I feel like it was like, I don't know. I'll have to look that up. But anyway, 73 Mike and Kisses the Katrina. All right, next on the list is Dean. KJ7, ODB, 88 Dean, how's it going?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:13:06+00:00","id":13101,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13100,"text":" This is Rebecca, KK7IJZ, and you are listening to the PSRG 9pm net. PSRG, the Pidgets Summer PETA group is located in Seattle, Washington. And, uh, yeah. You can find out everything PSRG at PSRG.org. There's a ton of information on our website. We do educational meetings every other month, and the educational meetings are recorded. So we have a whole backlog of these really just wonderful educational meetings. And just anything ham radio that you can possibly think of. And they're really interesting to go back and look at them. They're under the education tab on our website. You can also go on the website and become a member. And as a member you can have the capability of using our remote HF station, which is really cool. And we are looking to revamp our remote HF station as well. And if you have any interest in helping update the remote HF station, no matter what your experience level is, it doesn't matter. It'll be a learning experience for all of us. But get in touch with Brooks, our Vice President. K9BDC Brooks about the remote HF station. But yeah, and also on our website there's a column of events to consider. We do have a lot of reoccurring events. As long as, as well as, yeah, just one-off events."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:15:36+00:00","id":13102,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13101,"text":" Thank you much for the update. I haven't learned much today. I've been lazy but I did find the current timeline. The APC 8 from this character. I got that because I found that worker. As in that office work that will attach to the system. They go through the digital. From what I know and it's a non-linear. On the HDR looking at it and I haven't heard any digital. So I got this in here and I think that worked. But you know it's all up to me. But another thing that happened is that when I got a new digital printer. After having one that hasn't worked for 13 years. I'm having one that's been running and I've been testing it out. And I've been testing it out. And I've been testing it out. Really testing it. It's the most dirty thing that I've ever done. And I've been buying this one that we have. I don't know if it's a research model but it's really good. It doesn't act as well. Now it connects to a cloud and it can host locally. I haven't hosted locally since I've been running it. It connects to this cloud. That's the reason why it hit me. But I haven't hooked up locally only. And I also actually get the state resistor at me. See that word right now? I'm really tired. I'm really getting the electricity blasted. But I use the state resistor. I'm not out of here. There we go. Yeah, I guess the resistor uses different animals. Water you've been using. And that's pretty neat. And how much rent's being used? Is it less than 32? And how much rent's being used? Is it less than 32? But in our first report, they've taken a check in. So that they're all in case they're here."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:18:42+00:00","id":13103,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13102,"text":" And everybody on the net, this is Dean, GG7, ODB, overlooking Bitter Lake in North Seattle, although I can't really see much of the lake. Oh, I see a little bit of a shimmer from the lights. But anyway, we don't have a whole lot going on tonight. So earlier you were talking about the Simplex net, and you said something about visitors at the end. Well, actually, the Simplex net, there are no visitors. It's kind of a free for all. Usually, actually always, the net controller will usually go from A to M, do a portion of the alphabet with your suffix. So as ODB, I would be in the second half. And sometimes it's done in thirds. Anyway, yeah, so there isn't any roll call or anything like that. But yeah, the Simplex net is great. I always try to use different radios each time to kind of mix it up and see how a certain radio will work with a certain antenna. So you think you've got, let's say, four radios and four antennas. You've got 16 combinations. And then if you say, well, I'm going to try only five watts this week compared with, let's say, 50 watts the week before, you can kind of mix it up a bit. And then you can hear all the different. There are people you hear every week who are coming in really clear, which is really nice because if there is a, I don't know, some kind of disaster, you know those are the people you're going to be able to reach. So it's good practice. And another thing I try to do is go on battery power when I do the Simplex net. Not that it really matters, but it's just one other thing to do. Anyway, don't have any big plans for the weekend. Kind of nice is last week was there was a picnic. So there was a lot hanging over that weekend. And then next weekend is the ice cream social. So this one hopefully will be nice and quiet. Although there are the Blue Angels, so I don't know how quiet it's going to be. Anyway, KG 7 ODD back to net."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:22:03+00:00","id":13104,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13103,"text":" And yeah, I have a dishwasher here in the apartment. And it's the loudest dishwasher I've ever heard. It darn near rattles the windows. It's really, really loud. But man, it works OK. But yeah, dishwashers are handy. And I grew up, well, we didn't have one for quite a while growing up. And then we moved and got a dishwasher in a new place. They're handy. Yeah, so getting to the image radio, I had the antenna net tonight. And it was a really good net. And we had a, again, you have questions trigger these really good discussions. When you were talking about setting up a cheap way to put up a two meter 440 Yankee with what kind of pole to use and that and what to use to turn it. And talked about using a TV antenna turner, and I know it's a real technical way of putting it. But you just can't find those anymore. So you have to use it more in a commercial. But I tell you, you used to make something for that, and a rotator. And so we were looking at that and how to put it up in different ways and what would work, what wouldn't work. And he got pretty involved. And just a really simple question about how to put up a Yankee on a pole and how to turn it. And it got really in depth. So we went to net one an hour and a half. And it was just other stuff popped up. And it was just a really good net and a lot of participation, which makes it nice. Today here, it was in the low 70s and sunny out. And the schools are running around out there getting the nuts and peanuts that they put out for them. And when they all show up, I get kind of worried about them in a way. Like, it doesn't seem right they aren't there much on peanuts and whatnot. They'll all show up, thankfully. But yeah, good little guys. Yeah, I just had a couple of kids out there playing in, which I've forgotten how loud kids can be. But they're having a great time with their grandfather. And so it was pretty cool. I'm glad they were out there. And I scared the squirrels off. But outside of that, that was the worst effect. Anyway, that's it for here. Going to do some cleaning tomorrow. Tomorrow's my amateur radio day. So a lot of young radio stuff going on, which is great. So back to net, AV6MB."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:23:56+00:00","id":13105,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13104,"text":" I appreciate you talking about the SimplexNet. Yeah, honestly, I only, have I, I don't know if I've ever checked into the SimplexNet. Usually, like, I'm out and about with Joan and Sean, and Joan and Sean check into the SimplexNet, and I, for some reason I thought, I just associated it with a Check-In Net, but yes. While you were saying that, I was like, oh yeah. So, yeah, but it really is just a great net, just for practicing, yeah, seeing who you can hear, seeing what locations, who you can hear what, and it's, yeah, just what you sound like, and it's awesome. It's an awesome net. I'm so grateful to all of the people that host that net. Yeah, that are there, RYY does it a lot, and yeah. Even Amy Ann, K9, this is a baby, baby night IQX, does it a lot, and yeah. Well, that's fun. Well, have a quiet weekend, Dean, and I look forward to seeing you at the ice cream special. Seven degrees and 88. All right, next on the list is Campbell in Northern Ontario. Let me see if I can get your call sign up for that. Get your call sign right, Campbell. VA3, Fox, Bravo, November. Campbell, please come ahead with your report."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:25:20+00:00","id":13106,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13105,"text":" dishwasher after 13 years. What? That's awesome. We are living the wrath of luxury. That's amazing. Well, I guess you've only talked about your sister. But between you and your sister and your mom, I'm sure it's a lot of help. Yeah, dishwashers. Actually, using a dishwasher uses worse water than washing all of your things by hand. So yeah, there's that. You can. Statisticify those statistics. But yeah, well, Campbell, thank you so much for your report. I always appreciate everything you have to share about, yes, your life in Ontario. I hope your new job is still continuing to go well. And yeah, here from you again, probably tomorrow. 7-3, Campbell. I hope you get some good rest tonight. All right, last on this list is Jeff in Onion City. Hey, Jeff, how's it going? Alpha-ballo-6, Mike Bravo."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:25:57+00:00","id":13107,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13106,"text":" What brought you to Brisbane? I know that I feel like I've heard that you've lived there for a while and you also don't have to answer if it's too personal. But I'm just, I'm curious what brought you and kept you in Brisbane. Back to you. VK4, VAK, KK7, IJZ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:26:22+00:00","id":13108,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13107,"text":" 3K4, 3K, Matthew, how do, we can go into Australia."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:27:11+00:00","id":13109,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13108,"text":" Thanks for that and thanks for running the nets. Pretty nice clear skies here in Brisbane this weekend. It's Saturday afternoon at 3.20 p.m. Bright sunshine, we're about 17 Celsius here. So a little bit under 70 Fahrenheit, I think mid to upper 60s. Yeah, I've spent a bit of a break today. Went out to the hardware store and picked up some season"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:27:33+00:00","id":13110,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13109,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:29:56+00:00","id":13111,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13110,"text":" This is N3LMO, oink, loo, oink. Thanks a lot for joining the net tonight. Actually, it's morning here. It's 1.15 a.m. August 2nd. So had a good day today. Found that we had to clear off some of the bookshelves here in the living room because I have a lot of knick-knacks on there too. And a lot of them I just really don't need. I'm going to take you to one of the stores, like a Goodwill, and see if somebody else can use them. And they've been here for a long, long time. And the bookcase is even being where they all like it. They'll exceed them and they work from where I sit. So it's time to pass them on. And I don't want them to get broken. I have such phases, an eagle cookie jar, an owl, a sketchy web, a lot of breakable things. So it's time to pass them on and let the cats take over. Which they do anyway. And so it's been a good day. We got someone that put away a whole lot more to go because they decided to clear out the house as well. I have a lot of stuff that I don't need anymore. So my brothers won't have to do that someday. I hope it's not going to be soon, but someday. It's nice to know that I don't have a lot of things that I don't need anymore. So that's really about it for here. It's been a good day and it's a good night. We're going to the flat. Thank you for doing the rest, Rebecca. I love you all. All the numbers. 73, November 3. Oscar, Mike, Oscar."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:31:19+00:00","id":13112,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13111,"text":" out in Leavenworth and thank you for taking a break. I know that you're out there for the dogs, that they do not like the blue angels. And yeah, you know, what better reason do you need to have a little family outing out in beautiful Leavenworth? We do live in a beautiful, I mean, just a breathtaking part of the world and Leavenworth is such a cool place. But yeah, we all continue to have a wonderful weekend out there with your family and with the dogs and yeah, and the Nutcrackers. I mean, I guess they're called, yeah, what Nutcracker store, yes. Yeah, people do love Nutcrackers, don't they? Well, 73 and 88 Brooks and 33 to Megan, just in case she's back there listening. Yeah, thanks Brooks. All right, next on the list is Matthew in Queensland, Australia. ZK4, ZAK. Matthew, please come ahead with your report."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:33:21+00:00","id":13113,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13112,"text":" Good evening, Rebecca and everyone on the net. Can I be the sea brush here in Leavenworth? Having a good day today. Yeah, so took yesterday and today off work. Megan and I came over yesterday and today. Her mom got here and her young brother, his girlfriend, and their dog. And we got Trishie and Remy here. And yeah, we had a pretty good day today. We did go into town and this is my name, Kilo Kilo. Nutcracker, Nutcracker store. I don't really know if that's what it's called, but that's what I'm going to call it. It's a Santa Nutcracker. It's very pretty. Handmade in Germany. Smells pretty cool. And then a couple of little Nutcracker Christmas ornaments, like Christmas tree ornaments, Nutcracker soap. And then for there, we had some steaks. I grilled up some steaks. The rental house we have here has a barbecue in the back. So a nice, nice yard for the doggos. So they're having a good time. And then we just watched the Mariners. And JP Crawford hit a home run in the bottom of the night to win the game. So that was really exciting. They were trailing by a run going into the inning. So yeah, tonight's the row. Mariners win. And they're doing pretty good. So that's a bit of fun. Anyway, that's all I got for now. Thank you for coming out, Rebecca. 7-3, everyone. Good night, guys."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:36:20+00:00","id":13114,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13113,"text":" the antenna went well. But I'm sure that can bring up interesting conversations. For some reason, I feel like Rich K3OE would have had some input on that conversation as well about rotating, rotating a Yagi antenna. But yeah, that's cool. I'm glad that the antenna went well. And thank you so much for the scroll report. And it's funny, I've had this really low-grade migraine for today is the third day. And yesterday, I tried to get Leo to whisper to, like, not. And he just can't. And I just felt terrible asking him to rate it in, because I just really, I just don't. He's such a great kid. And so today, I wore some ear protection earmuffs. So I could kind of hear a little bit. But I just, like, looked like, yeah, I just wore ear protection earmuffs all day today. And it really did help. And yeah, I think that I'm actually going to sleep in with them tonight. Because I can hear a little bit with them on. But it really did help. So yes, kids are loud. Oh, kids are loud. Even one kid. And you have four. Oof. Hee hee hee. 073 and all the numbers, Jeff. And yeah, have a fun radio day. This is Rebecca, KK79JZ, listening to the PSRG 9 PM social net. That was the end of that list. So let's start a new list. Call sign in name, RF, and internet. KK7WIDIO. Thank you for your I-073. Have a wonderful night. More stations, please. Alpha Golf 7 Lima Romeo. Coach, with an I-O. Hey, Cody. Alpha Golf 7 Lima Romeo. Thank you so much for stopping by, 73, and have a fun weekend. More stations, please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:37:08+00:00","id":13115,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13114,"text":" I actually got married and the wife is Australian so we kicked around which country we wanted to settle in. The job market was a lot better over here versus the US at the time for my skill set in technology. The immigration process was pretty straight forward here. We have been here since 2018 and became a citizen over here just a couple of years ago. It has been up on 30 and has not seen snow since 2018. I still do not miss it."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:38:26+00:00","id":13116,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13115,"text":" I'm sure that some of your knickknacks will somehow end up in my house. Yeah, in my living space. I am a knickknack hoarder. Let's be real here. But, yeah, thank you so much for your report, Elaine. And, yeah, let the cats take over. The cats are definitely taking over over here. I have two cats. And, yeah, they own the place. Lovingly, with all of my heart. They own the place with all of my heart, for sure. 33, and you and Rob have a wonderful weekend. And I look forward to hearing more of your reports. And, yeah, 33, Elaine. This is Rebecca, KK7IJZ. Next on the list is Brooks, K9BDC. Hey, Brooks. Please come ahead with your report."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:39:20+00:00","id":13117,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13116,"text":" Out of Queensland. Got you on the list, ZK4, ZAK. All right, I'm going to go ahead and draw a line there. And I'm sure the Brooks won't mind this. I'm going to call for Elaine first. But first, I'd like to acknowledge KK7, WID, IO, Alpha-Golf 7, Luma Romeo, IO. And next on the list is Elaine. N3, Oink, Moo, Oink. 33, Elaine. Please come ahead with your report."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:39:44+00:00","id":13118,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13117,"text":" You're on the list. More stations, please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:40:11+00:00","id":13119,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13118,"text":" November 3, Oscar Mike Oscar. November 3, Oscar Mike Oscar. Elaine. Hello, Rebecca."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:40:35+00:00","id":13120,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13119,"text":" And yeah, that's you on the list. More stations, please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:43:08+00:00","id":13121,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13120,"text":" There's nothing like marriage to bring you to a different country, right? Marriage, job, whatever it might be. But that's, yeah, that's cool. I, yeah, I always mark down where people are from on, I keep a map of people. I mark down Brisbane and, yeah. I remember my dad had gone there quite a few times. One of his college friends lived there and so she had gone to visit a few times. And so I've, yeah, I've heard of Brisbane and I remember my dad really liking it. So, yeah, but that's cool. Well, that's great. Yeah, it's right on the water. I'm sure, yeah, that shirt's lovely. I'm sure it's lovely there. I love it. That's awesome. Well, congratulations on becoming a citizen, resident. And, yeah, I hope to hear more from you on this net. We do three nets a day, 9 a.m. noon and 9 p.m. all Pacific time. And even though we are in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, you still, you never have to, you never have to, all you have to do is hear us talk about cold and snow. Like you never have to be in it or you never have to miss it. All you have to do is hear about it. But, Matthew, I hope to hear from you again and maybe one day we can get some third party traffic from your other app. Seven three and all the numbers and have fun down there in Queens, London, Australia. This is Rebecca KK, seven IKZ. That was the end of the list. So let's start a, oh, you know what I meant to add? I'm gonna ask Matthew if you're still there. One thing I do need to ask you is I would like a cat report. How many cats do you have and what are their names? Back to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:45:40+00:00","id":13122,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13121,"text":" We have two cats. Both were rescues from the RSDCA. We're all decided for the prevention of cruelty to animals. They were both adopted to Penny's early young. The oldest cat, the one who is in charge, and as far as she's concerned, the oldest cat is Sarah, the NMGAR younger cat, who is a class A hunter. She's a little, being referred to her as a smoky cat. She looks like a black cat with very, very hard, existing, woodish grain stripes. So otherwise, she just looks like your average black cat. And he wants nothing more than to be marked right next to Sarah. Sarah does not agree with that. But she's the one that, whether we have a fly or any kind of a crawler in our unit, she's the one that killed it or placed it in towards it, depending on what position. But yeah, they're both our pride and joy. They like sitting on the balcony and watching people walk around downstairs, through the glass wall. So yeah, they live a nice, comfortable, spoiled life. Thank you. I love it. I love it. Thank you so much for you knowing me with that amazing time and work. And tell Sarah, tell Sarah she is the only cat. There is no other cat. There's just this other being that keeps her place, critter-free. Keeps her having this calm, wonderful existence as the only cat. Well, 7-3 Matthew, and thanks again. All right, Matthew was the last on that list. So I'm going to go ahead and do last call. Last call for this 9 p.m. PSFG social net. Last call."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-01T22:47:00+00:00","id":13123,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13122,"text":" Well, that was easy. That's a net, y'all. Matthew was at the booth. I'd like to thank everyone for joining me. It would not have been much of a net without you. And I appreciated hearing what y'all had to share. And I would like to thank the Puget Sound Repeater Group for the use of this repeater. For more information about PSRG, please visit psrg.org. That's psrg.org. PSRG has been hosting nets daily for well over 30 years. And the nets are a great opportunity for you to test your equipment. Because if you don't test your equipment, it's getting easy. Now we're returning the repeater to normal operation. This is Rebecca, KK7IJZ, signing off at 1029-ish. Good night, everybody. 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You never heard that from me."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T00:47:30+00:00","id":13140,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13139,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T00:47:59+00:00","id":13141,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13140,"text":" Beep Beep Beep"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T00:48:29+00:00","id":13142,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13141,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:37:31+00:00","id":13143,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13142,"text":" I just appreciate the fact that doing it will cost a tough job and you know, I don't get much hassle about it. This is repeater station kilo kilo seven November Quebec November all star node six two two two located in Shelton, Washington"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:38:05+00:00","id":13144,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13143,"text":" to be here for a trip. No, of course I don't have a scorecard. I'll remember you. I said I'll remember you because you have such a distinct point."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:38:31+00:00","id":13145,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13144,"text":" It's almost time to increase in Florida, but it's partly sunny, partly cloudy, yeah. Depending on what time it's on."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:39:04+00:00","id":13146,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13145,"text":" It's a sort of vaccine that is 250 chemical. See you later. This is Bob. Make sure you get it set. 7-3, we're fine. Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:39:27+00:00","id":13147,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13146,"text":" I think they're waiting and I appreciate the view."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:40:32+00:00","id":13148,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13147,"text":" subconscious thing or something so if I know that's a very good point so I appreciate that I will I will make sure I do do that if I'm checking into that I like to know who who's been in controller my name's not necessarily called fine so thank you I appreciate all of the next control anybody who does that control it's a volunteer thing they're stepping up and and they're volunteering their time so I appreciate all of the engine I didn't want this to be a complaint session just constructive criticism let's say it may be and with that we're at the bottom of the list on a worldwide French and that Joe was a use case of your neck control and today's question is that specifically that control something something you don't like about the waves and that controller"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:41:04+00:00","id":13149,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13148,"text":" either goes back and forth three, four, five times and can't hear them, or they let them check in and they say, we got most of that when you heard absolutely nothing. They can't hear it. It's just an unreadable f***ing violator. And on a good note, I like it."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:42:09+00:00","id":13150,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13149,"text":" And what I mean by that is, there's times I hear somebody, you know, break in, cut in, do whatever, and I control, I'll put you at the bottom of it. No, control the net. You are the net controller. So, control the net, run it, you know, run it the way it should be run. But, uh, you know what people, in other views, you are the net controller. So, uh, yeah, control the net. There you go. Anyway, enough of that. I'm ready for check-ins, and it's, uh, 7.40 here, so Joe and Joyce, I have you on the list. Anybody else want to check in, come on in now. RE1WIN. RE1WIN."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:42:34+00:00","id":13151,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13150,"text":" This is Kilo's Delta 7 Whiskey Alpha. That's KD 7WA Roy Mount Vernon Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:43:03+00:00","id":13152,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13151,"text":" Echo Whiskey Hotel, but in Arizona, K5EWH. November 7, Romeo Hotel, Victor. November 7, Romeo Hotel, Victor. It's a peppy."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:43:40+00:00","id":13153,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13152,"text":" Happy, Roy, Terry, Mel, and John, K, N6, EY, Z, I think I typed that wrong because I got too many letters, but it was John. So, anyway, let's go to the top and check in with Joe and Doris. $87 S and K, C7, GHD from KK7's internet."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:44:04+00:00","id":13154,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13153,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:44:58+00:00","id":13155,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13154,"text":" I made it in, maybe. Sometimes my VU meter moves and my name's up there, but I don't make it. Anyway, Keto Bravo 7, Papa Victor Whiskey. KA6, UYZ, John in Californians. Alright, let me jump in there and put on the brakes. That's 10, so we'll hold it up right there. Thanks, Gary. I always try to throw a question of the day in there just to get people talking. Sometimes I make these rolls, sometimes it's a great question, sometimes it's not. I've got you on your..."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:45:32+00:00","id":13156,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13155,"text":" Well good morning there Jill, we feel very honored being top of the list. We got kind of late start this morning and we were going to go outside on the porch and have our coffee and I thought, oh boy it's humid."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:46:02+00:00","id":13157,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13156,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:50:22+00:00","id":13158,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13157,"text":" This is Patrick out of Boulder. Node 5278 2. Connected to node 6. Well folks, there's another ham radio operator where we're going to be playing where is Waldo kind of game. Some folks, we can't keep track of where they're going. Patrick, have fun with that. Let's go ahead and go to Larry, K06 IHJ. Good morning, Larry. How's everything going? Good morning, Larry. Good morning. Coffee break next. How's it going? Well, the big night was last night. I got to be with my daughter for the first time in a decade, almost a decade, for a dinner. And, uh, as soon as we listened to him, she says, the best thing to do is to treat her like a feral cat. Let her come to you. But you'll never guess what. She was treating me like a feral cat too. We were both actually worried about the other one of them. And towards the other dinner, guess what? I got tears and hugs all over, and it is a good thing my daughter needs her daddy, and daddy needs her daughter. And she's back in my life. So, I guess nothing is world better than that feeling right there, my friends. And I'm on cloud nine, and I'm going to be here for a while now. So, I'm going to send it back to you with a big hi-hi smile. And K06 IHJ, everybody have a blessed day, because I sure am God blessed. I'm sending back to you, Warren. Thanks for letting that really, thanks. K06 IHJ, I will be clear."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:51:25+00:00","id":13159,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13158,"text":" Yes, sometimes feral cats can be a bit of a challenge. Fortunately, my daughter has not been a feral cat. She has been more like, I don't know, lovingly a leech. But anyway, we were worried about her coming home, spending too much time away from home. As a matter of fact, her and her new husband dropped in last night, so they dropped in for dinner. Hey, Larry, congratulations, and you have a wonderful week. K06IHJ, AI6JP73. All right, folks, let's go for one more round of In-N-Out, then we'll go to some RAGQ. Looking for In-N-Out, In-N-Out on the coffee break net."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:51:48+00:00","id":13160,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13159,"text":" Kilo Charlie 6, Sierra Lima Echo."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:52:13+00:00","id":13161,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13160,"text":" This is K-60C, good morning."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:52:43+00:00","id":13162,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13161,"text":" And good morning everyone. K6DCL, good morning Dave, K6SLE, good morning Graydon. There was a good double up at the beginning but Ray won. KK6AM, who did I miss? K6DCL, Mike. Mike. N9MUF Mobile."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:53:17+00:00","id":13163,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13162,"text":" Okay, the last station I heard was N9MUS, November 9, Mike, uniform Sierra Mobile, and then I heard Mike, K6YMM. Uh, did I get that, uh, N9 station correct?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:54:11+00:00","id":13164,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13163,"text":" show up unprepared. Well, I make a little bit of a prediction of making coffee. So, you know, it's kind of like, grind the beans, turn on the electric rod, put it in the filter. When the electric rod boils, pour part of it through, then wait and finish it up. Should I get real good coffee? So I take it then the coffee break net, part of that ritual, you turn on the coffee break net, then you start your coffee ritual. Pretty much so."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:54:42+00:00","id":13165,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13164,"text":" And good morning, Green. KC6 SLE. How are you doing today? Good morning, Orient. Good morning to the Net. I am doing fine. Lisa's doing fine. We are going to be backing up today and preparing to go up to Reno for next week. Get in time for hot August night."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:55:13+00:00","id":13166,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13165,"text":" Alright, we'll start with Ray. Good morning, Ray. How are you doing today? It's actually too early to tell and I haven't even started to make my coffee yet, so that's gonna... I'll just do that pretty quick and maybe then I'll be set up for today."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:55:35+00:00","id":13167,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13166,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:56:08+00:00","id":13168,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13167,"text":" We will let you continue with your morning ritual so that the day starts out properly. And, uh, feel free to drop back in at any time. KK6AM, AI6JP. We're going to be in a trench race with Larry. We'll talk about that all later. KK6AM."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T07:58:46+00:00","id":13169,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13168,"text":" We will later in the week, but at the beginning of the week we'll be staying at the Peppermill. We like the venue there, we like the show there, so we'll be joining a lot of good friends as we get together every year for Hanukkah night. So we're heading up there. We don't stay as long as we used to. We used to stay through Saturday, but the prices at the hotels up there have gotten so outrageous. On, well it used to be Friday, Saturday, but now they're starting on Thursday as well. Any way to squeeze out another dollar, you kind of can't blame them. I don't know if I agree with that. I can blame them, they don't do any good, but I guess I can complain. You know, it's not just the hotel fees, it's when they start tacking all the resort fees on there and an add-on for this, an add-on for that, an add-on for this. I'm with you. I prefer an airplane flight that has everything in it. You just pay one fee and away you go, right? You don't have to worry about anything. It's kind of, we've done quite a bit of traveling lately and every flight seems to be slightly different with one thing or another. Well, I was going to ask you about that because I know you've been traveling internationally, but do you experience the same thing in Europe that we experience here with, you know, the base price of the room and the cost of the base price and all of the add-ons add on there to get the price even higher. Does Europe do that or is Europe a little cleaner as far as this is the price of the room? Everything included. The way it used to be, we had one place where they offered breakfast for 38 euro per person and the exchange rate was about $1.15."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:04:40+00:00","id":13170,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13169,"text":" Things are changing there as well. Breakfast, Pepper Mill breakfast is not included. So you do have to go out and buy it. They have a lot of good restaurants. Even though we like to walk down to the Atlantis and enjoy some of the restaurants there as well as the venues there. The nice thing about Pepper Mill is it's just a really nice facility. We've always enjoyed it. But, I'm just wondering, you know, they don't have any problems. The part I don't blame them on is they don't have any problems filling the place up. So no matter what they charge, the place is packed all the time. Even the casinos pack all the time. So my theory is as long as people are willing to pay those fees, they're going to charge those fees. Comment? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. My apologies, there was a comment in there and I forgot to get back to you. Comment, go ahead. Morning guys, this is WA60. Yeah, H causes SRI. It's funny you should mention this, Graydon. There's an article in the newspaper yesterday about the hotel owners in Vegas screaming about tourism drops. And they said that the numbers for June is down 11.3% compared to last year. And the hotel industry has had to drop the price of 6.5% while the average daily room rates have lowered to $163. You know, you do have a pony in this race and that is, as a consumer, don't go there. So I think what you're seeing in Reno is what they're seeing in Vegas and it's starting to show the consumers are staying away. That's a very good point and I agree totally with you. That's why we've cut back. We've cut back to just the week, you know, we don't stay the weekend, we don't enjoy the weekend there anymore. But we have the option, we're going to, you know, fortunately we have the option of the house and home. You can go back and forth from the house and home to Reno. It's a little less convenient as far as the time you spend commuting back and forth. And if you can't take a break from different parts of the venue, go back to your room, do some other things, or go to other places. So we have options, so we're fortunate. Anyway, I better let you get back to the net. Everyone have a great day. I'll be checking in from Reno, giving some reports on. I don't know if anybody else is going up there for a hug or fights, but it's something we enjoy every year. Probably the main part we enjoy is getting together with all the good friends that we have. Can't see you successfully. Hey Graydon, before you run away, I saw a quick byline last week. Something about California changing the registration for classic and antique cars. And I didn't read the article, I was just curious if you heard anything about that. California has been trying for decades now to bring back a smog lawless for all cars of any age. Some of the older cars don't have much in the way of smog, but they want the smog check. They want the process of actually putting you through that, charging at these and so forth. It's been fought by SEMA, the Special Equipment Manufacturers Association, that go to that show in Vegas every year. SEMA has done a good job pushing that on. Jay Leno has personally taken that on. I think he called Jay Leno's office trying to get that permanent exemption for collector cars. The argument is, and it's a valid argument, I use it with mine, is that these car cars are not driven a lot. They're not driven very many miles a year, and from a contribution to the road and maintenance, a contribution to environmental issues, they are not a significant factor. But they are a source of revenue, and the state's looking at that."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:05:11+00:00","id":13171,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13170,"text":" Hello, Dave. K6DCL, did we lose you? Couldn't too long get back to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:05:41+00:00","id":13172,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13171,"text":" Good morning, Mike, A6YMM. How are you doing this morning? A6YMM. Good morning, Oregon and the rest of the world. Just down here having a plan. We're basically wrapping up another 10-31 exchange."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:06:33+00:00","id":13173,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13172,"text":" I'm not happy about it, but, um, yeah, okay. I understand we have a little bit more about it, but thanks, great, appreciate it. KC6 SLE, AI6 JV73. 73, let's hope that reason prevails. KC6 SLE. In this day and age, I am not optimistic, but let's move on to Dave, K6 DCL. Good morning, Dave. How are you doing today? Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:12:30+00:00","id":13174,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13173,"text":" I'll ask you about that. I'm thinking about making a move as well, but how does that process work? Does it work in each one or is it one that's fraught with anxiety? Actually, it's really very easy. You need to engage with an exchange company. I have one that I like. They have issues involved, but they're hiding reasonable from all standpoints. The bottom line is when you sell the property, the money goes to the exchange company and it sits there. When you identify your purchased property, your deposits and everything can go direct from the exchange company to the title company handling the sale of the property you're buying and then the other's paperwork to sign. But other than that, you might end up throwing some extra money in to complete the purchase. We haven't done any where we put money out. We've always thrown extra money in. In this case, we're getting rid of an HOA property in Florida and exchanging it for two others. This is repeater state. Are you looking to tax heavily if you take it out? All-star note 6222. Located in Shelton, Washington. If you take the money out, you're going to have to take half of your gains. If you leave the money in, it's a tax-free exchange. The objective is to leave it in. What we were able to do is a week ago Friday, we closed last Saturday. We flew to Florida. Sunday, we looked at houses. Sunday night, we wrote offers. Monday, everything was all wrapped up. Did the inspections on Wednesday. She'd been home on Thursday and now we're in the closing process. We're just waiting for the title companies to get their people together because we're all set to go. Okay, that does sound relatively easy, although it sounds like your machine, you've got this all figured out. There is quite a bit of homework involved. Before we closed on the sale, we actually had a list of properties identified that we thought were best choices. The market right now in Florida is not good for sellers. Because we were trying to get an HOA, we took it in the shorts on the sale. But the benefit is on the flip side, it's a great game of time to buy down there. We got what we feel are some new good properties. We got the right things wrong with them, a few things to fix up. All that is fixed and hopefully we'll be closed here in the next couple of days. So we're going to be talking to K6YMM from Florida for the next couple of weeks or so. We still live here. Our personal residence is not fault. For your personal residence, you don't do a 1031 exchange. Hopefully you can take advantage of the next benefits of keeping some of your gains. This is just for investment properties. I'm sorry, I was trying to make it funny there. Was K6YMM going to travel to Florida and fix up the right problems in Florida or is he staying home? One of the objectives of this was I am getting out of the fixing business, which is one of the benefits of having a property managed a long way from home. You don't get involved in going to look at everything that falls over, every garbage disposal that gets clogged and stuff like that. We have a great property manager and she has a great team of contractors. Any of us available, whatever needs fixing. Hey, I'm with you as well. Except turnovers, we tend to get a little too involved with the turnovers. But anyway, I'm glad to hear everything is going well. I'm glad to hear the 1031 went smoothly. We'll look forward to hearing you on the clock. You're breaking in the future. K6YMM, AI6JB, 73. K6YMM, 73, is there anybody out there? Go ahead and have a blast today. It's a great day outside."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:12:58+00:00","id":13175,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13174,"text":" I miss that."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:13:24+00:00","id":13176,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13175,"text":" We're all in the room for that. Good friends usually are not very kind to each other when they give healthy feedback."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:13:55+00:00","id":13177,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13176,"text":" I'm always fascinated to hear what the folks do in the studio. Flavors and arrangements, I guess, you, uh, that's I guess what really makes a fabulous, uh, fabulous album. The first one that came to my mind was Hotel California. Do you think about the flavor and the arrangement of all the music?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:14:19+00:00","id":13178,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13177,"text":" You're just hoppin' things up."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:14:53+00:00","id":13179,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13178,"text":" Very good. Well, it's always a pleasure chatting with you. You have fun working on your solo album. Maybe the band will show up. I don't know. But have a good time making music. N9MUF AI6JP 73. Making music is always a wonderful thing. 73 to you in the net. Orion, this is N9MUF."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:16:18+00:00","id":13180,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13179,"text":" Good morning, Jerry. WACC, how are you doing this morning? Good morning, Ryan, everybody. Oh, I'm doing fine. Still vertical. Went up on the roof this morning and washed off my solar panels. I noticed when we don't get rain that the dust and all the stuff that's in the air in our neighborhood settles on them and reduces the output. Got up and did that before the sun got up and started eating, so I feel like my day's done. This is repeater station, Kilo, Kilo 7. Well, that's one thing I would never do is climb on my roof. I promised myself once I got the roof tile inspection, when we built out, I'm never climbing up there again. So, more power to you. Well, the roof isn't particularly steep and it's all asphalt shingled, so it's no big deal. In any event, that was my big project for the day. Otherwise, just going to do little things around here. Good to hear you back. How long are you back? For a week or two? And then hitting the..."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:16:55+00:00","id":13181,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13180,"text":" This is also the same person who knew that I had trouble drumming on a song I recorded, what was it, about 15, 16 years ago. Because the rhythm guitarist was all wonky and he said, come into my kitchen, handed me a bottle of Le Bon and said drink. And when I was toast enough, he said alright, let's go back and play drums and I laid it down in one take. So that's the kind of producer he is. He understands what needs to be done."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:17:34+00:00","id":13182,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13181,"text":" They're all rather large so they managed to catch everything. But no, today will be a good day. I've got my music partner with me and we're going to sort out the band's not here. So I guess I'll be doing some more recording on the solo album. The only problem with that is a lot of the songs that we're going to be recording, I've never actually performed. So we'll have to dig in and figure out a bit more of the texture and the flavor of them with the arrangements."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:18:12+00:00","id":13183,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13182,"text":" How are you doing today? Good morning, Orian and Vinat. It's been an interesting morning. While taking my morning raft to Pilgrims, I had to go down the wrong hatch, and I spent a good part of the morning cleaning off three computer monitors. I'm going to go down the wrong hatch. I'm going to go down the wrong hatch. I'm going to go down the wrong hatch. I'm going to go down the wrong hatch."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:18:39+00:00","id":13184,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13183,"text":" It ends up like this. A death hit down the wrong edge. Moment. Three monitors. Boy, you must have spewed that everywhere."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:19:07+00:00","id":13185,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13184,"text":" My kind of producer here, Drake, I can handle that without any problems. And just out of curiosity, not that we want to get into the minutiae here, but what did he and you suggest?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:19:55+00:00","id":13186,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13185,"text":" talked about is making sure that you manage to retain a unique signature, a unique flavor throughout the music, but you don't wind up, if you will, repeating a formula too often. So that's the job of a good producer, and fortunately my friend David is a very good producer and we know each other well enough that we can give each other a good job. I do."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:20:22+00:00","id":13187,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13186,"text":" We're both single malt drinkers, so he decided that Obon would be the best one to, shall we say, loosen up the swing in the kit."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:21:02+00:00","id":13188,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13187,"text":" Alrighty, I can't remember what, is it fat bear? What do they call it? Do you remember? Yeah, this fat bear contest. Google it when you get done playing around here and look for that camera. And next time you talk to Faye to ask her about that, she's in another room. But she follows it and votes on the one she thinks is the biggest one at the end of the season."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:21:39+00:00","id":13189,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13188,"text":" Alright, I think I got this all sorted out. Good morning Dave, K6-T-L-D-C-L. Glad you could join us. I'll come back to you again. Good morning Simone, K6-N. Good morning K06-T-M-A for In-N-Out. Good morning Mark, WV6-PGN. We'll throw you at the bottom. Good morning Theta, WV6-E. Did I miss anybody?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:22:06+00:00","id":13190,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13189,"text":" WV-3, this is Jay Ann. The road first to the quick check. You can put me at the bottom of your list."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:23:07+00:00","id":13191,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13190,"text":" I don't think this is a live cam, but definitely got the video of bears hanging around the stream waiting for a fish, it looks like. I have a little video on my phone here that I took when I was up there, and you can see the salmon jumping up and trying to get at the falls and the bears just snagging them. It's an amazing thing. There is a live cam, I'm not sure what the address is for it, but you're a big boy, you can find it. No problem, no problem. Well Larry, Larry good God, good morning Jerry. Jerry has always his pleasure with all the fascinating things you did to share with us. Sorry about that, didn't mean to call you Larry. WA6E, AI6JB73. 7-3's, have a great day, WA6E."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:23:30+00:00","id":13192,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13191,"text":" CO6 DMA for green check in."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:26:40+00:00","id":13193,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13192,"text":" We're thinking about heading to Alaska in September, right about the time we're doing the club picnic camp out. So, are you going to drive or take a cruise or just fly up and bum around or what? Well, it's actually my wife's and daughter's idea. They want to go see the Northern Lights, so the thought is we go to Fairbanks and go to Denali National Park and check that off of our national park list. And they've got a couple of other things they want to see up there. Well, two things about Alaska that we really love. The first is about 30 or 45 miles east of Fairbanks and the second is a place called China Hot Springs. China is spelled Charlie Hotel like a November Alpha, C-H-E-N-A. And it's got a hot spring there that's wonderful to soak in, and it's quite a tourist spot for seeing the Northern Lights. In fact, there's a Japanese flock there on their honeymoon. Have I told you this before? Unfortunately, you have. Yeah, as soon as I started typing, I went, oh, that's what he told me the last time I mentioned it. Okay, and the other is Katmai National Park. That's worth a visit. And eventually, I'll have a fine time. And the museum in Fairbanks is worth the price of admission. And having said that, I don't know if they charge anything to get in. Katmai, spelled Kilo Alpha Tango, Mike Alpha India, Katmai National Park. It's the one you see in all the brochures where the bears are standing on the waterfalls and the salmon are jumping up into their mouths. It's at the base of the Aleutian chain where it comes in. It's across the bay from Anchorage. And you can only get there by plane or maybe canoe. You certainly can't drive there. It's kind of expensive to get there, but it's worth the price of admission. They actually have a live cam there that you can watch. It's probably active right now. Is that where they have that bear contest? Something that, um, what do they call it? Fat bear? Fat bear contest every year? Oh, my, you used the word fat. You know, you can't use that anymore, but yes, that's the place."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:27:07+00:00","id":13194,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13193,"text":" out of the English language, what do I replace it with? Oh, let's see, pleasantly plump. We can come up with a whole bunch of euphemisms."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:28:40+00:00","id":13195,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13194,"text":" star"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:29:06+00:00","id":13196,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13195,"text":" Excellent. Let's start at the top with Dave. K6TCL, deciding to take a little nap on us, huh?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:29:58+00:00","id":13197,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13196,"text":" This is the Coffee Break Net. Ryan, AI-6GB, you're at the push to talk. Alright, I'll take anything if you want an in-and-out. Let me know if you don't say. I'm gonna assume you're right. You're looking for check-ins on the Coffee Break Net. E6DCL, I guess I fell asleep. Sorry. Back. Hard to be happy after that one. K6DX3N, good morning, Oriental."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:32:01+00:00","id":13198,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13197,"text":" I'm going, wait a minute, what happened to me? I think I had my night on too low. Anyway, I'm here. It's interesting, beautiful then, another beautiful day, and the 90s maybe, but we can certainly manage, the temperature the way it is this year versus last year. We remember vividly the temperature last year being in the hundreds. Anyway, I'm glad it was a one-time deal. Other than that, I wanted to do a quick get-it-out because not much going on here. We have scanners and VHF and GMRS radios scanning away, and so we have way too much things to listen to. Anyway, I'll bid you a great Saturday, Orion, and have a good rest of the week. And the same to everybody, we're listening, we are listening, but I had the mic down too low. A6DCL, 73, Orion. All right, the engine key policy is accepted, I mean there's no problem, we certainly have you, we'll be happy to come back to you when you wake up. Anyway, it was great fun because you sounded like you were there, and then I kept calling and like, okay, never mind. A6DCL, AI6JB73. A6DCL, AI6JB73."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:34:11+00:00","id":13199,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13198,"text":" Good morning Simone, K-60XN, how are you doing today? I heard from the grapevine that last night's journey night was phenomenal. I don't know if phenomenal would be the word I would use to describe it, but it was. It was there. It was by committee and thanks for those who helped out. So yeah, it went okay. Dawn does a really good job. I wasn't trying to emulate her. I was just trying to read some questions and give other people a chance to do the same. So yeah, it was fun. Hey Garrett, I'm MAFTAD. I'm not sure what your MAFTAD is fitting in. I should know what that is, but I'll check my bench and I will go out and give six meters a try with you. Yeah, I never heard from you yesterday. I walked out of my garage last night, do something, and I go, what's that noise? And it was my radio still on the call frequency on six meters. So yeah, I'll try that out with you for sure. I'm assuming you're going to put up a vertical, a wire vertical. You're going to need some sort of counterpoise, right? You know that. Like some ground radials or something, elevated if you can. Yeah, I got not a whole bunch here. Just came out, got my coffee, sitting on my deck. I know it's probably going to be pretty warm today, so up here I come out and enjoy the morning."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:34:41+00:00","id":13200,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13199,"text":" the National Park webcams and I clicked on the Brooks Falls cam and this is no live stream. Let's see, what about Riverwatch? Let's see if that one works. Again, no live stream. So, yep, nobody looks like it. Nobody's monitoring them."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:36:44+00:00","id":13201,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13200,"text":" stores as a sail, a commotion fluid, what they call a crappy pole. It only has an eye at the very end, otherwise it collapses all the way down to about 3. And then that just sits in my tripod, so I just kind of cut it up above my roofline a little bit to see if I could get in. I'm only working with 15 watts right now, so I'm trying to figure out if I'm even making the repeater. Interesting, I just, did you say grab, I found C-A-R-B-I-E poles. Is that the one you're referring to? No, that's the type I'm talking about, it's a night residence, a brand name. The brand name is called Black Widow B-N-M-20-foot carbon fiber pole, and the second carbon fiber is fiberglass. And it just says extension pole for fishing. The crappy fishing is not casting, it's usually just, but it's casting. So it's a really lightweight pole, you can hold it 20 feet out with one hand and it's a very very lightweight pole. Now I understand, alrighty, I looked them up and I can see what you got here. So I'm going to push the six meter antenna up and see if I can, if anybody wants to play on 50.125 after the coffee break, that's what I'm going to be doing."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:37:16+00:00","id":13202,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13201,"text":" So that sounds like a wise decision. Sounds like a wise decision. Well, I heard from, I'm trying to find the gentleman who said it was Brett. Gamey6LUV said that he had a great time with Trivia night last night. And he complimented all you folks for being very, very smart."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:37:46+00:00","id":13203,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13202,"text":" Anybody at 50.125 MHz, six meters, play around. And then just one last little thing to uh, J-60, I left my masthead sitting at his house. Uh, I'll have to figure out some way to get back down there and pick it up."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:38:11+00:00","id":13204,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13203,"text":" Hey, good morning, Paul. K06-TMA. How you doing this morning?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:38:39+00:00","id":13205,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13204,"text":" A correction, I think that was Garrett K06 DMA, bend my antenna. Oh thanks Simone, how about K06 DMA, got the wrong call sign, my apologies."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:39:56+00:00","id":13206,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13205,"text":" Alright, let's throw it over to Theta at W-A-6-E-W-F. Good morning Theta, you and I haven't chatted in quite some time. Good morning, how are you? This is the first time I've heard anything about the Bay Area. If you want to look at the live stream, search for Katmai Bear Cam and it will take you to jor.org with the Brooks Falls Bears and Theta Bears. Right now there aren't any bears in the frame, but the salmon are like potholes for them, trying to get themselves up the falls. Some of them just don't have the right idea yet. It's kind of funny just to watch the salmon. But usually when someone starts to monitor the camera, they'll be moving it up and down, finding the bears on down in the river."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:40:25+00:00","id":13207,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13206,"text":" I'll make sure I get to him when I call him here in a split second. GAL6BMA, sorry about messing up your call sign there, Garrett. You have a wonderful day. AI6BMA."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:40:53+00:00","id":13208,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13207,"text":" Although I suggest you probably do it earlier in the day. Briefly explain what is your fishing pole antenna? I'm assuming you're just going to cast it up into a tree or something like that?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:41:23+00:00","id":13209,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13208,"text":" 6 PMA. Built my antenna today. Today I'm working on my fishing pole antenna. I'm going to try to get on the 6 meter calling frequency this morning and see who I can find. So I'm playing radio out on my porch today."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:44:59+00:00","id":13210,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13209,"text":" I know a whole bunch of stuff about nothing, so a little bit about something, a whole bunch about nothing, I don't know, something like that. Anyway, yeah, yesterday, Ben, my antenna, built my antenna, came over and we built two antennas and he handed me his PVC cutter and we got my tape measure and cut a couple pieces of PVC and I was able to, you know, assemble two Ed Fong antennas. Now I'm looking for a, you know, one of those satellite mounts that everybody leaves on their house when they move for dish network or for DirecTV. I have one already but it's being used by my Diamond X50, which I'm talking through right now, cross band, but I want to put another one, you know, eight, ten feet down the roof line for my Ed Fong GMRS J-Pole and then we built a dual band two meter 440 Ed Fong J-Pole, which I am going to put on a little folding collapsible tripod to take to like hotel rooms and, you know, just take on the road, travel or camp or whatever, it'll make a nice little dual band antenna that'll outperform obviously a rubber ducky or whatever else. So, yeah, that's about all I got. I'll let you get to somewhere else. Thanks for doing the net. Have yourself a wonderful weekend. This is Kilo 6 Delta X-ray November Cameron Park. Hey, Simone, you have a wonderful weekend as well. Did you get a chance to catch Ed Fong's presentation last Wednesday? Located in Shelton, Washington. Yeah, it was an exercise in do I still know how to use Zoom and it turns out I do. I was on my iPhone on Zoom and I even raised my hand and asked a few questions to Ed Fong and, you know, what I meant to ask him is what paint he would recommend if I want to paint the sticks. I'd imagine any kind of non-metallic paint would be okay, but I didn't know if he had one that he recommends. So if I want to make them black, I was thinking of shooting them black instead of the grey PVC, but just a minor detail. Hi, hello, but the one that makes all the difference in the world, especially if you live in an HOA someplace. Alright, Simone, thanks for dropping in and sharing and thanks for running Trivionite. You may think it's a small thing, but it's always part of what makes this repeater great. N60XN, AI6, I'm sorry, K60XN, AI6JB73. My friend Richard Slocum, who is N60XN, with a God Chuckle out of that one. Have a good one."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:45:51+00:00","id":13211,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13210,"text":" Right now, it is kind of funny to watch the salmon though. Like I say, some of them just jump straight up. Some of them just jump straight out. Poor salmon. What a hard job. Right now, they have to dodge predators and figure out how to get home to spawn."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:47:32+00:00","id":13212,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13211,"text":" Looking for hot weather, I was kind of wondering about what happened to our normal summer. This is repeater station kilo kilo. That wouldn't be complaining. Bob, I'll tell you what, I don't like hot weather and normal summer is not what I'd have wanted. To me, the summer for California has been just absolutely perfect. Back here, it's been hot. I think overall you're still going to have a below normal summer overall. So if you get one good heat wave out of the deal, you've dodged a real bullet this year. So what's happened to the summer with the normal summer is it has the high pressure area that generally moves from east to west hasn't done so all summer. And it didn't happen in June, it didn't happen in July. There's that persistent low pressure along the coast. If it had been January, it would have been raining. It would have been cold. It would have been snowing in the Sierras. But being that it's summer, it brings cooler weather and keeps that jet stream to the north. So that's what happened to normal summer there."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:49:21+00:00","id":13213,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13212,"text":" And the marine layer along the coast will thicken up again for a couple of days. So if you're headed for the coast, take a jacket. No sky July will continue with fog and low clouds along the coast. We'll clear back to the coast in the afternoon like it normally does. And you'll see some 80s and 90s. And then by Tuesday, Tuesday's the transition day, it starts to heat back up. And so what basically starts to happen is that that high continues to build westward from New Mexico and Arizona toward California. And as it does so by the weekend, say Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, there could be some upper 90s to low 100s. Now, how long does that last? As anybody's guess, it could go back to being cool behind that. Hopefully it does. You don't get too many days. But there will be some cooler weather before the warmer weather sets in. So that's pretty much what's going on. There could be some showers and thunderstorms in the northern mountains. And then those go away when the low pressure area coming out of the Pacific Northwest goes through. And then that high starts to build back in. Back over there to you, Ariane, and then we'll talk about the rest of the nation. WV-60J."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:49:45+00:00","id":13214,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13213,"text":" When it comes time for snow, that season passes this year."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:50:09+00:00","id":13215,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13214,"text":" I mean, that's what summer is all about here in California."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:51:57+00:00","id":13216,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13215,"text":" to everybody on here and I just wanted to tell Simone and the gentleman that he's going out to work six meters with, don't be disappointed if you don't get much. Six meters is an interesting band. You have to be real patient with six meters. It's one of those bands that it's either open or it's not. And when it's open, it's a great band. It's a magic band. I'll tell you what, there's some good sporadic E this summer, but sporadic E season is almost over. In fact, it acts like it wants to open today because I'm hearing a lot of beacons on 10. I'm also hearing 25 meg WWV, which is a good time that, you know, it wants to open. So just letting you know that that'll be an interesting thing. I hope it opens for you guys because you'll really like it if it opens. It's a great band, but it's one of those bands that a lot of people say, oh, it never opens, yes it does. But you got to be around when it does. And there's been some great sporadic E openings on six. In fact, there was some guys working here up on six this summer from the States. So when you get a good opening on six, it's fantastic. Let me take a break."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:54:08+00:00","id":13217,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13216,"text":" We don't know yet. I just got the 90-day outlook, and it calls for most of the nation to be under warmer than normal weather. And that would indicate high pressure, although it did say the way the West Coast could be under persistent low pressure. And that's still the situation. And it's not going to start getting hot until Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week. So what we have is we have two high pressure areas controlling the nation. We've got one over Bermuda, one over the desert southwest in the Four Corners area. And where do I sit? I sit in between those two highs. So that's good for us. But let's talk about California. California has a low pressure area off the coast. And there's the high pressure that's now moved westward from the middle and south part of the nation, which gave us about 28 days of just straight hot weather. It's now finally moved to the west and is back over the Four Corners area. The Bermuda high moved east. So it's back in its place. And so there's going to be a little low pressure area that moves through tomorrow, Monday, tomorrow and Monday. So that will make it cooler. Today will be about 96, 97 degrees. Temperatures tomorrow and Monday drop down into the upper 80s and low 90s for the valley and delta and foothills. Let me take a break."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:54:39+00:00","id":13218,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13217,"text":" Hi, Dorian, nice talking to you. This is WA60WF. Bye bye. And Dana, as always, great chatting with you. WA60WFAI6JP. Let's go and throw it over to Mark, WB6BJN. How you doing today, Mark?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:55:08+00:00","id":13219,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13218,"text":" Well, anyway, that's where you can find bears and they'll start the fat bear contest uh, uh, usually as they start uh, it'll be May, September when they actually have the contest."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:56:26+00:00","id":13220,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13219,"text":" fat bear contest even though, according to charity, that is not politically correct. Oh man. No, actually it is because it's good for the bears to be fat, that's what's going to get them through the winter. So we embrace the fatness of the bears. Yes, they are, they're happy about it. Oh, sure they are. Hey, I just went to explore.org and I got a webcam that actually has a bear there as well. Now there was a comment in there, I believe it was Ray. Comment, go ahead. Yeah, it was for data. You can stream them out of packet lot, so if you know how to reset things, probably how to reset them. Otherwise, we'll let Jerry know when he's around and available at 8 or 6 a.m. I know, it's just our service. We call it. Let's let you know."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:57:21+00:00","id":13221,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13220,"text":" you and all I can say, I'll go into the weather, it rinks here, but it's going to get hot. And it's going to get hot by the end of next week. There's some signs now that the high pressure area that was over us, and I've been talking about this, that that pie has been moving west, and it has moved west. And we're having absolutely beautiful weather, and we'll talk about that later, but you guys are about to get hot towards the middle and end part of next week, and we'll talk about that here. Back over there to you real quick, WB6DJ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T08:58:20+00:00","id":13222,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13221,"text":" hurricane season to go, so that's anybody's guess to when Michelle and John do some sailing at about this time of the year. For them, the Saharan dust layer has choked off a lot of that tropical development thus far, but that is starting to go away. So all bets are off when things will start to develop here in August and the beginning of September could be interesting. So you've got the rest of August, September, October, and to the 30th of November. So we'll see what happens, especially in the Atlantic basin. Back to you there, RNWB6DJ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:01:02+00:00","id":13223,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13222,"text":" I believe as long as it works, that's all that's important. And even though it may seem to be a pretender, it's still, what's more important is that it works. Got any PODA activations planned in the near future? You know, I've been out to a couple of the local parks, but I haven't done any that I would activate. I'm not sure if that's really a great interest or not. Generally I like to hunt some distant stations when I'm out in the dark, and we'll see what I can get out to. You know, the first time I set this thing up with the Spider Bean pole out in the backyard, the 40-foot pole on an inverted, off-center fed inverted B. My first two contacts were France and Japan, and you know, it's 100 watts. But not so much any EX since then, but I've been trying two quick setups, so that one takes quite a while with the guy ropes and getting that thing up and getting it to stay up. I got some clamps, but those seem kind of cumbersome. So you get it nice and tight, it stays up in the air, and then you know, getting the stakes all in, and it takes what, six stakes, plus the three little stakes that hold the base down and that sort of thing. So it's just too complicated, too time consuming, and the little tripod pops up in a few seconds, and up at the standard short length at five feet. The vertical seems to do okay, but I think with these raised radials or counterpoises that might improve it a lot. The test graveyard goes way up as you get that thing in the air with ground radials so that doesn't work, they decouple. And even when they're connected directly to the base of the antenna, they don't really work as ground radials anymore. They just have a rod sticking up in the air up too high. But anyway, I'll see what I can do and experiment a little bit in the backyard maybe this weekend."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:02:56+00:00","id":13224,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13223,"text":" However, there is an old cold front off the southeast coast that they're watching because there could be a low pressure area develop along that cold front off the coast of the Carolinas and Florida. And if it does so, it has about a 20% chance of becoming a tropical depression or storm in the next seven days. Not a whole big deal there. Other than that, in the Atlantic, it's clear. Nothing in the Caribbean. Nothing big in Africa. It's just not happening yet. And everybody's happy about that. When will it happen? And the hurricane people are saying, oh, lots of storms this year, better hurry up. Better hurry up because the chance of the peak happens in December. Or excuse me, in September. And let's see, in the Pacific, we have Gill, which is about 860 miles southwest of Baja, California. It will fall apart. No, I'm wrong. That is about 1,700 miles southwest of Baja. And it will fall apart as it gets into cooler waters. And then there's another couple of low pressure areas in southern and southwest Mexico that have a chance of becoming tropical disturbances. But no big deal. They're what we call fish storms, way out in the ocean. And do not expect to be inland. Fish storms, stir up the fish. Back to you there, Orion. WB6DJ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:05:50+00:00","id":13225,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13224,"text":" Yeah, it has not been hot this year really in Northern California. You've had some warm days and I think you've had a couple of days, over a hundred, but nothing. Unlike Dave, nothing like you had last year. It's all been back here. But I'm happy to say our heat wave is gone, broken. And much of the east coast is going to be under nice weather. In fact, we're all back here kind of under. We had a Canadian cold front go through, which is rare for the summer. I'm going to give my conditions real quick. Let's see, 30.18.30 on the barometer and it is steady. 73.6 degrees right now and 65 on the dew point. Now last week I was talking at this hour about temperatures already over a hundred and we're in the seventies and it feels like we're in the seventies. That's because our dew points are lower, which makes the humidity lower down in the sixties instead of the eighties where it was last week. Our temperature this morning, 64.8 degrees. You could keep the windows open all night and it's just pretty much that way across a lot of the mid south. We're going to get some rain here tomorrow, but a lot of the mid west Michigan is going to be dry and mild through much of next week. Same for New York. A lot of the southeast is going to stay cool for a while, but they say don't get too attached to it because the Bermuda high will start to move west towards us. And as it does that, it'll start pumping moisture out of the Gulf again and we could get back up into the eighties and nineties with more humidity at the end of next week. But they're saying that it won't be as bad and last as long as this past heat wave. So we may get a reprieve. They're saying a lot of the west could be under a prolonged heat spell. So might be your turn in August. Might be a lot of the west's turn in August for heat. The tropics, let me take a break."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:06:35+00:00","id":13226,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13225,"text":" Sounds like we have some great news in the hurricane front. I mean, obviously we don't want those. And if we do get them, they may be small ones. So it sounds like it's relatively quiet for the time being. Thanks."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:08:06+00:00","id":13227,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13226,"text":" And good morning Charlie. All right, let's throw it to the top. Good morning Patrick and to DYI. How are you doing today? Good morning Orion and everyone on the net. I'm doing all right. Not really a whole lot to, not really anything to complain about. So I guess that's a good thing. It's certainly cooler over the last couple of days than it has been earlier this week. We got down to 63 degrees this morning. And yeah, very excited about that. Hey, I'm with you. If we can get the overnight temperature down below 70, that is a great way to cool off after a hot day. And unfortunately when it gets over 100 here, it gets barely down into the low 70s. So those days I'm not looking forward to. Yep, parts of New York City, I would say actually most of New York City got up to like 97. So that's 97. With the high humidity and high dew points, dew points in the 70s and 80s. And so that's pretty miserable. Here it only got up to 87 I think. It's still bad enough."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:08:32+00:00","id":13228,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13227,"text":" Good morning, Greg. Good morning, Ron. And good morning, Patrick. Did I miss anybody?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:10:44+00:00","id":13229,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13228,"text":" Are you going to take trips down to North Carolina? Unless something comes up, no. I don't think I'll be going down there until probably around Christmas. So you'll be staying put this fall? Awesome. Sounds like a plan. Hey Patrick, look forward to catching you next time on the clock to break nets and stay cool. And to DYI, AI6JP73. And do you have a good one, Ws? You are not a W, are you? AI6JP and WYI. No, I'm not a W. Good morning, Ron. KA6UAI. How are you doing today? KA6UAI. Oh, I'm doing pretty well. The repeater got kind of fuzzy. I don't know when that happened. But I'll have to go out there and see if maybe a squirrel is climbing up my antenna or something. Something got it's strain sounding and sounded really great earlier. But anyway, not much happening today. I'm going to go out and finish cutting some wire. I had some 17 foot radials and I'm dividing them up with connectors to make various lengths. For tuning them I'm going to try the PODA performer type raised radials. Let me see if I can find something to support them on at the end and then maybe get some long stakes that will punch into the ground easy to do that. But making a couple of those at least, maybe four, out of the eight ground radials that I have and how it goes. But I'll call it the PODA pretender, I guess. It's the fake home built version that doesn't come with any parts."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:11:07+00:00","id":13230,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13229,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:11:40+00:00","id":13231,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13230,"text":" Definitely not want to live on the East Coast for that is your humidity. Hawaii, even though they have high humidity there, the temperature wasn't that hot. I think the highest we saw was like 82 in one day. Yeah, moderate tropics and all that. But, anyway, I'm looking forward to the end of summer. It will happen eventually."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:13:06+00:00","id":13232,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13231,"text":" and hope for the best. So thanks Mark, I do appreciate you checking in with us and letting us know how the weather is going to turn out for the next few weeks. I have to admit, I am looking forward to some hot weather. It kind of doesn't seem like summer unless it's hot. Although yesterday I got in the car, it was 102 in my truck and just for that brief moment until the air conditioner kicks in, it kind of reminded me a little bit about summer. Alright Mark, have a wonderful week. Look forward to chatting with you maybe next week on the Copier Breaknet and you say hi to Sarah for us. WB6BJN, AI6JP73. Hey, Oregon, you can have all the hot weather you want. I'd be more than happy to give it all to you. I do not like hot weather. I am ready for fall, man. You can have all the hot weather we've had back here and then some. Then you can say it's real summer. Alright man, talk to you later. WB6BJN, good to talk to you this morning."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:13:41+00:00","id":13233,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13232,"text":" Alright folks, let's go for some quick in and outs, in and outs on the coffee break net. And for those folks who want to just drop in and say hi, we'll do one round of quick in and outs and get back to some right too. Looking for in and outs on the coffee break net. November 2, no bleeding can you? K06-TAI K06-TAI, good morning."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:14:20+00:00","id":13234,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13233,"text":" Alright Ron, thanks for sharing and it feels like you're on track for another outing. So let us know how that turns out. You have a wonderful weekend. AA6UAI, AI6JB73. Everyone have a great weekend. Either do projects or relax. No real work this weekend anyway. AA6UAI, 738, everyone."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:14:50+00:00","id":13235,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13234,"text":" and you were able to slip right in there. Well, have fun with the family. You've got quite a brood there. So we'll let you get back at it. Thanks for checking in, Charlie. W6SOM AI6 JB73."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:15:39+00:00","id":13236,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13235,"text":" This is the Coffee Breaknet. Orion, AI6 JV here. Have to push the talk button in Northwest Roseville. All righty, let's go ahead and take more check-ins. If you'd like an in and out, let me know. Otherwise, I'm going to assume that you are a rag-chew looking for check-ins on the Coffee Breaknet."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:17:09+00:00","id":13237,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13236,"text":" The station copy that is traditional grip brew, that's unusual isn't it? Well it has, you know, you put the handle, you put the filter in there, you put a few pouches in there, and then it drips into an urn, so whatever you call that. Yeah, that's what I thought. I was always thinking that they use pouches and things like that. When you say traditional, I was thinking they actually open up the Folgers can and port it in there. Yeah, so I'm fueling up with my gas station copy, we're going to go hit the farmers market a little bit before it gets too hot. The procrastination got the best of me because, old unfortunately, it's about 10-15 degrees warmer this weekend than it was last weekend, and I ignored the art, so I get to pay for it."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:20:09+00:00","id":13238,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13237,"text":" You build a brand new antenna, you hook it up for the first time, and then you make these far off DX contacts, but you never seem to be able to make them again. I don't know what that is. It's kind of like the antenna has all this mojo, or limited supply of mojo, and you use it all up in the first contacts. Well, you know what happened. I'm not actually sure what happened, something between the computer and the radio glitch. I had the 891, the FT-891 from the HRD on the laptop, and you know, the band changes and tuning and all that sort of thing are real easy on there. And with the mouse and the scroll wheel you can do a lot of stuff, but the transmitter on that radio stopped transmitting, at least it didn't transmit anything, modulated all of the power output meter so that it was running at full power. And it showed a little bit of RF on my meter that I had, the RF receiver, and certainly lit up the HT if you had it close to the antenna. But it wasn't actually doing anything, no one could hear me, so that got real frustrating. I haven't tried that antenna since I got it working, I had to do a full reset, and at that time I had no way to save the settings, now I do, you have to have software to do it. So I've got the settings saved and ready to go if it ever happens again. It's not a big deal if you have that, but you know, I got all my settings done again, and the headset and the foot pedal are all working well. And a few more little things I've added to it since then too that may keep some of that from happening, but who knows, not sure what happened. But you know, with no transmission for two times out in the parks, I wasn't talking to anybody, and now it seems to be working very well. I made some contacts with a 34 foot dual 17 foot whip dipole up at 15 feet and rotated around the right direction. I made some contacts on the east coast pretty easy the last time I had it out, so it's working again, so we'll see what happens if I get that tall wire antenna back up."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:20:35+00:00","id":13239,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13238,"text":" Thanks, Greg. You have a wonderful day. Let's throw it over to Charlie, W6SOM. How are you doing today, Charlie?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:22:13+00:00","id":13240,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13239,"text":" how are you doing today? Good morning, good morning everyone. Greg K.O.68, just putting it on the shack right now, looking at yesterday, today actually, but yesterday wasn't the day to do it. I didn't find out about it in time, but Computer History Museum in the Bay Area had a vintage computer festival. And a bunch of, or some of the original members were doing a panel discussion in a forum and I missed it. Anyway, a couple of people have posted stuff on YouTube, so grazing YouTube this morning, living something that I wish I was at. Working on a video also for Ed Fong's presentation, I got it first pass through it. Got it chopped out for the suffocation, they kind of went off topic a bit. We'll get that cleaned up and get it out for review. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting on a little bit of data from one of the presenters at the meeting to finish that video. Other ones ready to go, so I'm going to clean things up, and I might actually, if I dare, get out and do some yard work today, not a whole lot. It's going to be warm, but not that high. It's awkward. K.O.68, back to you, Oregon."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:25:47+00:00","id":13241,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13240,"text":" was the Ed Fong presentation on Wednesday. I didn't get a count. It was quite a long list. It filled up vertically on the screen, the roster there, so I should have looked. It was very well attended. Got a couple good questions at the end. Again, we kind of went off topic a bit, but it was all interesting. That thing wasn't interesting. For the purpose of the video, I want to kind of stick to topics. But yeah, it was a good presentation. I learned a bunch of stuff. Really clever what he's done with this antenna. So I really, if you missed it, or want to go back and look at the detail, in doing the editing, I had to go through it, not frame by frame, but in some detail. I picked up a few things that I missed the first time around. It was worth going through a second time, just to pick up stuff like that. But yeah, really neat antenna. I'm assuming Jim is getting the logistics. He's got Club by being arranged so we can pick up some of those things on a discount. And I might indulge in that, I don't know. I have some 220 HTs, 220 capable HTs. And I've got a feed line going up to the roof. I don't have, I can't get it into the shack, just the way things are situated right now. The pipe that goes through the wall is full. And I need a way of getting that cable through. But anyway, I may just sneak some like RG8X or something, just to get the last couple of feet here into the shack. But yeah, anyway, so yeah, good presentation. I'll also work on the battery today. A little more construction, waiting for the bus bars to come in. But we've got 304 amp hours of batteries sitting on the floor here, looking to get fully charged up and put into service. This is, or this is to replace the AGM that we used at Western States slash field day. Gonna have 300 amp hours next year. KO68, Chad, back to you. This is repeater station, Kilo, Kilo, I am gonna have to get with you on that, because I'm thinking about building my own as well. Great, thanks for checking in, and we'll catch you next time on the topic break. That's KO68H8I6GB73. Yeah, we get together, and first thing to do is go back and look at, what's his name? Oh God, I can't think of his name. I did a video on it a couple years ago, one of the club members I just had out of COVID. What's his name? Michelle's the wife, what's his name? What's up, men of this, anyway. He did a presentation on that with all the parts listed and everything. That works. KO68H, all in today. Back to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:26:18+00:00","id":13242,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13241,"text":" I just took the radio off the mic, sorry about that. I just took the radio away and the lights gilled at me. Not much going on today. Just having fun with the kids and the family. Just taking it easy."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:27:36+00:00","id":13243,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13242,"text":" of if I need to do my yards is the neighbors actually, the ones to the left and the right, have horribly brown, weedy-type yards. It's the competition that's the league across the way, this old widow, that, man, it looks like she's, you know, running a fairway at St. Andrews or something. I mean, it's just gorgeous, so she's not my competition. It used to be when we had flat rate water, now that it's metered, I mean, I have a little timer to water my wife's bonsai trees on our back, in the backyard, and water is still like $140 a month. Heck, our smud pill is $540 for one month, last month. It's just ridiculous, dude, and we don't even have a poll."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:28:11+00:00","id":13244,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13243,"text":" I guess it's just you and me, Ryan, W6H. How are you doing today? So great. Sweats in the gas station to get coffee. I know, I know. What the heck? But, uh, you know how the gas station does its traditional drip through any, you know, K-cups of the house? It just looks like brown water. It tastes like it too."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:28:35+00:00","id":13245,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13244,"text":" And good morning Ryan, W6H. Anybody else want to get in here?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:28:58+00:00","id":13246,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13245,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:29:23+00:00","id":13247,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13246,"text":" I did mine on Wednesday before it started getting warm, so I did get one up on you there."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:29:51+00:00","id":13248,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13247,"text":" I am sorry, last station. You broke up. Could I get you a call sign again, please? Yeah, this is Ryan. This is with the C-4-6 Hotel. Good morning, Oregon."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:31:50+00:00","id":13249,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13248,"text":" Um, yeah, you guys must be using a ton of power. This smudge usually is much cheaper than PC and right on par with Roseville Electric. That's what I'm saying, it's our highest bill ever, so I'm looking for extension cords that are plugging into our box that, uh, perhaps... maybe the neighbors are doing a weed grow or something. This is insanely high. Um, yeah, we... we like to keep it cool. Um, Meatwalker is more accurate, especially when, you know, you have to put on extra blankets to go to bed because it's like, you know, your wife sets it to 66, that kind of stuff. So that probably explains a little bit, but, um... Yeah. Anyways, I like it cold too, but just not freezing. It's shattering cold. Yeah, but we've had such mild weather. It's gonna get hot, uh, for August, uh... It still will be this August if that... if last month was 500. I know I'm not looking forward to it, so, um, I'm looking around for a place to donate plasma. Just kidding. Anyway, that's all I got. Gonna go back, shower up, go hit the farmer's market, blah blah blah. I hear what Greg is saying about the plate and that, um, the pass-through is just... it's at max. Um, get a bigger hole saw. That's what I did. Oh my gosh. Uh, when I thought I had room for days, now that's filling up. Anyway, 73 and say hello to my friend, W6H."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:32:21+00:00","id":13250,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13249,"text":" KT, how you doing today? I haven't had a chance to play much with LAND-ASTIC."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:32:45+00:00","id":13251,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13250,"text":" This is the Hawaii hour. What island did you spend your time on?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:33:15+00:00","id":13252,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13251,"text":" Yeah, I didn't make it to Cal Poly, ended up at Sac State, but like I said, I know I have some friends. Actually, one of our subcontractors is a friend. He ended up going there as well and absolutely loved it."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:33:52+00:00","id":13253,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13252,"text":" and one of my neighbors. Good morning, Greg. KM6YKT. Let's throw it back up to Dan. Good morning, Dan. We're kind of making this the Hawaiian quarter hour. We got Ryan and you now coming in. What's going on with you today, Dan? It's just a beautiful morning. I'm looking forward to catching up with you. Why don't you go ahead and say hi to Greg first, and I'll come back."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:34:18+00:00","id":13254,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13253,"text":" I know what I own that you're on, but I'm sure colorful roosters are probably on the menu there."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:34:51+00:00","id":13255,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13254,"text":" Alright, good morning everyone, this is the Copter Breaknet. Ryan at the push to talk. Uh, looking for check-ins if you want an in and out, let me know. Otherwise, assume you are a rag juke. Looking for check-ins on the Copter Breaknet. K60, okay, good morning Ryan."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:35:47+00:00","id":13256,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13255,"text":" Any more John likes? I decided to go to Cal Poly this time. Okay, last time we talked to Tom and Darlene, they hadn't decided, he hadn't decided where he wanted to go. Well, good for him. Let's see, I think he was, was he in engineering? I think is what he was looking at. Yeah, the last I had talked with him about is he was mechanical engineering. So my son is going into computer science and then another roommate is physics. So the three of them all went to high school together and they're gonna room together at Cal Poly."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:37:36+00:00","id":13257,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13256,"text":" We're gonna sleeve in. Yeah, you're always gonna want more, always want more. Hey Ryan, have a wonderful week. Oh, quick question. I meant to ask you where are you gonna go for your farmer's market? I'd like to go to the Sunrise Mall. The parking lot, farmer's market. There's this yogurt vendor that she likes. We have a lot of food trucks and all that fun stuff. So Sunrise Mall, have you haunted it? I have not. We don't typically get that far south, but we had so much fun at farmer's markets in Hawaii. When you mentioned it, I said, you know, we should go do that. I'm assuming they'll be there Saturday, Friday and, Saturday and Sunday. I'm not sure. We always just hit it on Saturday. Here we can see the farmer's markets in Hawaii are just second to none. Love it because you got the tachikis and then you got the kamaaina that are coming over and taking care of all the fruits and veggies. And yikes, giant pineapples for like a dollar or whatever you like. This is crazy. Those are the best. We can just pick up a caguabas or some passion fruit, pineapples, take them right back to your condo, throw them in the fridge. Do what you gotta do or just cut them open."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:38:34+00:00","id":13258,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13257,"text":" It's a good school, but it's just a fun area to be down there. I know a lot of people want to stay after they graduate, and the job market isn't quite what it would be to support that many people staying, but it's really a beautiful area, so I'm in part glad he's there because it's a good school, but also it would be fun to go down and visit him too. So, anyway, Orion, I don't want to keep you too long. I know you've got somebody else waiting to get in, but I just wanted to say good morning to you in the net, and this is GM6YKT."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:39:03+00:00","id":13259,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13258,"text":" that's all that's the only vegetables is at the farmers market so and there's some meat you can get there just that's not very very common she said but generally fruits and vegetables that's all they that's where they buy it"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:39:58+00:00","id":13260,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13259,"text":" And good morning Dan at K6CLK. Good morning, Lori. And yes, I'm just enjoying listening to all the check-ins this morning. Thanks everybody. Aloha to all. I think of our wise man W2BX said a long time ago how much he enjoys listening rather than talking. And I think I'm starting to get it now. But yeah, I started to enjoy listening to all of the reminiscence about, reminiscing about the Hawaii trip and you not being able to decide which is best and being so diplomatic about choosing something in the center could move."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:41:32+00:00","id":13261,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13260,"text":" Greg in Roseville. Yeah, if you want to get together again with Meshtastic, I know we missed each other, I'd be happy to do it. One thing on the Meshtastic side, I just got a second Raspberry Pi bulletin board system set up, and now the two can automatically share messages. So if, for example, you were somewhere and you wanted, you couldn't reach one of the servers, they'll share messages with each other. They're both in my house right now, so it's just kind of, you know, theoretical. But they share messages, and so you'd be able to link into a bulletin board or a messaging system and kind of extend range that way or some different opportunities. I'll break there for a minute. Also on the topic of Hawaii, I haven't been back in a long time, I'd love to get back there, but I did grow up, well, I'd say the first, I'll say from maybe two to six years old, I lived in Hawaii, and it's always just had a kind of a special place in my heart. We were at the beach, I think, every day, rain or shine, it didn't matter. And so definitely, you know, miss Hawaii."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:41:57+00:00","id":13262,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13261,"text":" Oh, good morning Dan, K60 OK. Anybody else want to drop in?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:42:22+00:00","id":13263,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13262,"text":" Yeah, that is one monster of a telescope. I bet it can see the long ways into space."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:43:15+00:00","id":13264,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13263,"text":" Yes, that is awesome. It's kind of interesting. It's like the second week in a row now where I kind of talked a little bit about Hawaii and the connection to Hawaii that so many people have is kind of impressive when you think about it for a second. When we were there, I always knew that Hawaii had a lot of influence from different cultures. The Portuguese, the Filipinos, the Spanish, all of those folks, actually Japanese, Chinese, they all settled Hawaii, which I thought, I guess I knew but I didn't really fully appreciate until I spent a week there."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:44:43+00:00","id":13265,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13264,"text":" Having three close friends go with you is a huge, huge advantage. Kind of breaks that, you know, kind of softens that flow of college. And all of them are going to be, yeah, engineering. You know, when I went to college and I wanted to go to Cal Poly, you know, there was two major engineering schools, electrical and electronic engineering schools. It was MIT and Cal Poly. That's the place you went. So I understand Cal Poly still has that, that's head of the VSPO, still has that reputation. So good luck to them and congratulations all at the same time. Yeah, I think that's kind of fun because I went to Cal Poly and I wasn't influenced him to go there. He picked it on his own. But it's been fun to go back down to San Luis Obispo. And I hear so much on the net. In Aurora Grande, we stayed there a couple times. I still haven't made it in to get my cinnamon, cinnabons or whatever they are. But that's on my list of top through there chooses. I hear about it on the radio so much."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:45:41+00:00","id":13266,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13265,"text":" Is that the length of it or is that the width of it? Because either way, that's well over 150 feet. Correct me if I'm wrong, Greg. But that is the diameter of the lens, right? KF68, half-listening, 30 meter what? The 30 meter telescope that they were making, to put on monocay out. What are we referring to, a 30 meter telescope? That's the diameter of the lens, right? That's the diameter of the mirror. It's a reflector telescope, but yeah. Orion, you picked up on the scale of this thing. That's big. KF68."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:47:41+00:00","id":13267,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13266,"text":" We did see some that they were running around but not quite where you turn there's a chicken somewhere. And the big island is my favorite island. It's either a conor, lover, helo lover, rehab of preference one or the other. One of the times I tried to go back every year we missed it this summer. But because I'm a quarter Hawaiian so we like to go visit, do all the Hawaii stuff off trail. And they were protesting a 30 meter telescope, do you remember that? Over the mountain. And they had shut down the highway and man you know it was such a hubbub. They national needed a 30 meter telescope. Finally didn't get built because of all the national attention. You know the rock was there and we were just going by kind of 5 miles an hour because there was sharing one lane. And it made national news, do you remember that? No I don't remember that, how long ago was that? And that was on Mona Kia right? Yeah it was on Mona Kia the route between connecting Kona to helo. I want to say it's about 5 years ago I'm sure, well a 30 meter telescope I'm sure Greg would remember exactly when. But it feels like 5 years."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:48:56+00:00","id":13268,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13267,"text":" on the Kona side, although spending a week on the Hilo side, it definitely has its appeal. I don't know which one would be better, you know, nice beautiful beaches or, you know, the nice cool ones, rainy and I don't know. I don't know, both sides, I did enjoy my Waimea, we went up to Waimea, so I guess I'll say Waimea because it's right in the middle. Yup, I hear you. Kona side's a little touristy, totally in it, a little more lava-y, and Hilo just has that sort of working man's vibe, and got a rough buff, so I guess it's your question. Alright, with that, I'll sign 73 West Keo 4, 6 Hotel."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:49:53+00:00","id":13269,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13268,"text":" go back. I haven't been there in quite a while. But one funny story is I think I might have been around 14 or 15 and went back with my family and my dad wanted to take us up to Schofield to kind of remind us where we were and we were driving up. He had the window down. He was looking out the window and there was a guard at the gate that was kind of waving his arms and he said, Hey, after all these years, I think they remember me, which is kind of funny to me. And my mom said, No, it's a one way street now we're going the wrong way. So anyway, kind of a funny story."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:50:22+00:00","id":13270,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13269,"text":" time in the military at Schofield Eric so we lived on the base for a couple years and since then I've been to a couple of the other islands but that's where I actually lived."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:50:48+00:00","id":13271,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13270,"text":" and I don't think it ever got built. Anyway, I can get your preference. Are you gonna say or are you gonna say?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:51:41+00:00","id":13272,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13271,"text":" Oh, that's embarrassing. They remember me after all these years. Yeah, no, you're going the wrong way. That's a good story. I love that one. And also, I don't want to take up too much time here, but I think we have learned we have some common friends in Tom and Darlene, I think you might know from scouting and from St. Rose. And it turns out our two sons are going to be roommates in college this year. So we're looking forward to that down at Cal Poly."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:53:13+00:00","id":13273,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13272,"text":" Friend,"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:53:46+00:00","id":13274,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13273,"text":" I know something now about... Yeah. That she doesn't know. She always tells me about what's going on with your wife and the Carlson's. Now I'm gonna be able to say I'm gonna have one up on her. I'll just say I already chatted. KM6YKT, AI6JB73."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:54:20+00:00","id":13275,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13274,"text":" more towards Kauai. I think Kauai is still my favorite island, what they call the Garden Island. But, you know, maybe I need to go back and then compare and maybe I'll have to change my tune about which one I think is better. Hey Ryan, it's been a pleasure and I didn't realize you were part Hawaiian, so aloha. W6H AI6JB."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:54:50+00:00","id":13276,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13275,"text":" Good morning. The Alaska morning net will begin in 10 minutes. WL7LP."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T09:56:17+00:00","id":13277,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13276,"text":" That's the sad part, you kind of have to swallow your pride when they try to show off and point out how quick and sharp they are. You just wait, we'll see. That's going to be fun when that happens. Hey Dan, it is an absolute pleasure chatting with you. We don't get to do it very often. Thanks for hanging in here with me. I'll let you go so we can close out the net and I can get back to, well actually I have to go to the bathroom. But anyway, we'll close out the net. T60, okay, AI6GB. AI6GB, I was just going to suggest the same. Thanks for letting me chat with you. Thanks for talking a little bit more about Hawaii. I look forward to reminiscing about your trip a little bit more. I'm sure there are some more details that will slowly come out as you remember them and we all enjoy hearing them. So I'm going to say aloha to all the radio hana out there. Thanks for letting me do a long check in with you. It is a pleasure. So stay tuned. K60P, LK73 and aloha to all."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:06:27+00:00","id":13278,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13277,"text":" I do recall, I think I was taking Alia Kalawa and I was coming up the Halema'u trail and it's just a steep climb. You're at elevation and it's like just rock after rock of steep stair climbing to get up. And on my right, I'm thinking I'm doing a decent pace. You take a bunch of steps and you kind of catch your breath, take a bunch of steps. And there's this, um, you know, Swedish I think that just, they had that tone when they came by and they were all like saying something, humbling something together like a cadence with their walking sticks. And they were moving at a clip, right? They were moving. And the first guy says his hello and with a strong accent, like, not my end, say hi and I step off to the side, let them pass. By the time the 16th person came by, I was kind of rolling my eyes. It was lightning first, but it was just embarrassing that I was just kind of, there's a whole crowd of people that flew all these miles and were just in incredible shape. And I thought I was doing okay until that moment, very humbling. Like a freight train passing you going uphill. Yeah, geez. I thought, you know, here I am in a spot that I kind of took pride in knowing that I got off the route and what I needed to do to get up there and I'm doing okay here. And boy, I just realized that some of the people who hike all the time in areas that are probably very challenging, they get into a different state of mind. And I guess if somebody's setting a pace, there's the head that doesn't stop you to catch your breath. Do you go with the group or do you not? In 2012, me and three other adults took, let's see, we took nine scouts to Philmont Adventure Camp in New Mexico. And we did 87 miles in nine days. And we averaged 3.8 miles per, moving average was 3.8 miles per hour. So we were that freight train in a lot of cases. So it is satisfying when you blow away somebody that just is huffing and puffing and climbing a hill. So no offense. Yeah, I'm trying to not take any but it is wonderful to hand off to all the people that can do this, especially in a group, right? Because when you're moving together and you have all the things that can happen, you can have the condition of your shoes changed, your boots, your socks, everything else that come into play. And when you're moving as a group and somebody else has additional challenges, you're slowing as a group usually too. So to say that you moved quickly, quick clip, and you all got through, that's even more amazing. You should mention feet. One of the boys on the second to last day developed blisters. This is the first one I've ever seen in my entire life. We tried everything to try and get his feet to go, but he was a wrestler at Roseville High School and he was an animal. One time I was, you know, he jumped in front of the pack and just kept going and I finally caught up to Ethan and I said, Hey Ethan, man, you can slow down. And he says, Mr. Endres, I figure the sooner I get off my feet the better it's going to be. I said, alright, you lead the way. And there you go, I guess whatever works. He's right around the corner. You always got to be concerned about the one person who shows up in the group for a long hike and says, you like my new shoes? No kidding, no kidding at all. Fortunately we required all the boys to do the sheet town hikes. Not all of them did all of them, but they did most of them. So we eliminated that shoe issue and camping, you know, first time camping gear issue. So everything went pretty well. We were kind of happy with it. Like I said, our max speed was 4.1 miles per hour moving and our average was 3.8. And we started out at about, I think it was 4 or 5 thousand feet. We went to the top of Mount Baldy, the highest mountain in New Mexico, 12,400 feet. And we still did it with an average like that. So just kind of proud of the boys the way how fast we moved. Wow, amazing even at elevation. Did you feel it? Did you start to feel that you were working a little harder? If you don't move slowly and acclimate slowly, I think that type of stuff can be felt a little bit more prominently, right? One of the things I have to commend is the scout camp, the Philmont staff. I thought it was kind of strange and I didn't think of it until afterwards. But like the first day was only 2 miles and then the next day was only like 4 miles, you know. And then the next day was only like 5 miles. And I realized afterwards that what they were doing was making us go short distance at first and then we were doing long distances at the end. And so that acclimation period was happening while we were doing the short distances. So yeah, when we climbed Mount Baldy, it wasn't an issue. That's great. I can still want water. All the little tricks that get you there. It sounds like so much of my approach to do it today. Not at that speed, no. I was 52 at that time, I think it was, or 50, I can't remember. It might have been even less than that. It was 2012, that was 10, 13 years ago. So yeah, I was under 50. Dennis was our oldest, he was 54 and he was the slowest of the adults. So today, no, I could not do it. I was a fast hiker at one time but we're not that fast anymore. I hear you. It's old shit, the mast and the reins, the re-linings of all the stuff it took. I look up to some trails and I say, that's no problem, I've done that before and that doesn't really qualify you to do it now. Well the thing with you is that we're marveling when we were hiking the Dolomites because there's a lot of up and down with those and some of these young people were just kicking our ass. And I told her one time, I said, do you remember we used to be the one that was kicking the asses? Yeah, but we're 30 years older now. Yes, yes, I explained and we are in not decline but we've had our strong moments and we have the youngsters that are still working into their strongest moments. A simple hike up the Wahe'e Trail and I was trying to explain as we were coming down in the fog with my son's friends, telling them go slow, side step, you can get down. They were so excited about showing who was strongest and in that situation it was just entertaining because they just kept falling all over the place in the mud. They planned incorrectly and stuff and then they got up and were boasting to each other about who fell the least. And while they were saying how many times no one fell, how many times no one fell, I was proud to be quiet and just announce towards the end of the conversation that I didn't notice any mud on my butt. What did they say? They say, um, stuff like ancient wisdom shall outplay the agility or something, I can't remember what that phrase is but that's a perfect example. Yes, I'm sure as I get older the mud will end up getting there. I probably shouldn't have pressed the issue because kids these days, especially the ones that I have the pleasure of hanging out with, they'll remind me."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:17:48+00:00","id":13279,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13278,"text":" Well, it's not diplomatic. I guess it's my nature. I just recently got a subscription to this news aggregation service called Brown News. And one of the things they do is they evaluate articles based on political bias and based on what kind of companies, what kind of news agencies are reporting. Whether it's independence or corporate. And one of the things it does is at the end of the month it says you know you tend to do this or that. And most of my articles I choose to read tend to be central or centered. That is great. Yes, I have friends and family that would always wonder about me. I would watch and read both cleaning of news and figure out which resonates more. And sometimes when I would get frustrated with the unpacked opinions and I'd go back and I'm one of those odd guys too in an article when they have the footnotes I'll go ahead and dive into the references to find out, okay, where did they get this from? Just in even technical references, right? Or health related things that you want to go ahead and research and you just find out is it backed by something that you can agree with. So yeah, I get it. You've always been very, very off the road, non-confrontational. And I remember from the first days, some of the first days when I first met you and we were at the, I think, Forest Hill event. And you were very welcoming. You were very informative. You kind of explained things and showed me a number of things in radio and you're still doing it for others. So it's incredible stuff. Really appreciate it. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven. All right, my head is so big now it probably doesn't fit in this room anymore and I'm not sure where to go from here. Let's go back to Hawaii. All the great conversation about getting food from the farmer's market. And yes, I totally agree. You know, you guys are choice between getting expensive food that has shipping costs incurred that has been in refrigerated containers coming across the Pacific to get to market that was picked too early and probably treated in a manner to keep them preserved that affects the taste. I'm not saying that it's not still enjoyable, but man, compared to the stuff that's picked right off of the plants that comes straight from harvest to market to table, that's the way to go. And the locals know if you find your local source, even for fresh fish, you know, there are all these government regulations that prevents the commerce of some of these some of these items for safety reasons. But if you can find a good, good source, good relationship, you know, we've gotten to the point where commerce is considered a right. You know, you have all these rules in commerce, but you get back to the smaller places when people are dealing with people in commerce is a privilege granted by two green parties. I couldn't agree more. What's especially nice is like a pineapple. Here on the West Coast. We don't have the pineapples that we got a chance to taste when we were in Hawaii. But the downside to it, you buy a pineapple at the farmer's market, you better eat it the next day or so. It's gone from perfectly ripe to perfectly rotten. Yes. And I heard you're talking to Ryan. You can get a lot of the exotic stuff too that you don't you don't see very often though the state avocados that are the size of football. You still have to wait for them to ripen up. Boy, boy, the bowl of a huge bowl of guacamole that a single avocado makes is pretty impressive. Well, I have never been a mango fan, you know, mango drinks, mango this, mango that. I've never been a fan of mangoes. And our host, she grabbed some mangoes at the farmer's market and served them. And I said, What is this? And she says mangoes. And I like mangoes now. Yes, they have to be the right ones. I think I shared a few times about a neighbor who has a tree that I don't know where it came from. But these mangoes taste like mango mixed with coconut. And they are always so soft. So just soft, delicious, meaty, big. And when the winds come in, they drop. So if you time your walk back from the morning beach fun, you can arrive back just in time for afternoon mangoes. Yeah, that is, I think it has to be the other part of it has to be the fact that the mangoes that we get in think we got in Hawaii were fresh picked, then they were ripe when they were picked versus the ones that we probably get here in the store are just, you know, like you said, picked too early and preserved and shipped and you know, whatever else they might do to them. Exactly. You commented about your timeshare on the Kona side and deciding between the preference between the Kona side and maybe more upcountry in the wetter areas on the on the windward side. And I think it's a normal natural progression. You know, you get people that will enjoy the sun and the beach side, the windward side. That when you get older, you want to settle in and have more cool breezes. The temperature is a little bit more of a thing. And the rain is not bothersome. It's it's welcome. So I think you just kind of actually get there when you're done with the ocean, done with the crowd, and you want to go and just kind of get yourself off to your own spot. That's probably true. We have a we have a I have a co worker who just moved here from from Maui. And he and I were chatting the other day and he was commenting about the same thing. Maui is probably a little different than the Big Island. Maui has a lot more tourism. So you know, he has a different bent on it. But having grown up there, he definitely likes the quieter life. Yeah, yeah, I like getting off grid. Actually, when I go there, I, I get off on the trails that there hopefully aren't people, you know, but there's always that secret spot that you think you're heading to that has other people there when you get there. But yeah, there's something for everybody. And I think regardless of the island, even Maui, it's there. There are there are going to find some some peaceful solitude. Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. We were on the island on Maui and my wife picked up this book, the secret places or the hidden away places on the road to Hana. And like you said, you know, we we saw no one there were a few cars parked along the street, but not very many. And then we walked in probably a good quarter, half mile. And this waterfall and lagoon with the big huge road swing and I kid you not, there was 100 plus people that were like, Where the hell are these people come from? I know, it's so funny. I have a spot that I back where, you know, with a sign saying, you know, you shouldn't kind of be here. And I've been respectful about how big it is. I'm not going into any really off, you know, some sketchy places, but I get to my spot where I think I'm gonna just unwind a bit. And I swear there was a field trip going on. But for the kids all making a racket and set up a rope on a tree and we're jumping into the river. It was a fitting. We did the Tahoe Rim Trail years back in one of the hikes, Tahoe City to, oh, I can't think of it. It's like I think it's called segment number one. But it has a long section. It's a dry section. And then you end up at a place called Watson Lake. And we hiked all day. We ran out of water at like 8 miles. It's 13 miles. So we were parched and we finally get to Watson Lake thinking we're gonna be out in the middle of nowhere. And we hear a boom box going, people in the street. You're just driven there. You didn't have to hike. You can drive there. You know, my experience with some of the marathon hikes in the Tahoe area. They're so beautiful and you work for it. You work to get to the privilege of seeing some of these sites and being in some of these areas that when I get to those when I got to those areas, and I actually would think to myself, who the heck else would do this? And then you see somebody else there. There's a different attitude, right? It's not like, oh, my goodness, it's not a peaceful, alone place. It's like, hey, another survivor."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:18:28+00:00","id":13280,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13279,"text":" in regular phonetics please. Yeah, so I got KJ5, I don't know if it's JAD because it's hard to pull you out. You're a little bit low, but if you'll come back please. KJ5, KV, KJ5, KV, kilojax, five kilo, echo delta. This is Newham radio testing my device and I'm excited."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:19:31+00:00","id":13281,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13280,"text":" ordered one of those type braces too. So we shall see and I do have it wrapped, but like you said, you gotta move it about too. Thank you much and we heard your little one there, so. But we'll be clear with N8EX wishing you all the best. You guys have fun. KK7HLD, Dave, thank you for, well, for the both the corrections because the other one said Doug too, so. You know, Doug, Don, it's all the same. Anyway, sorry about that. KK7HLD, what about you? What's your favorite way to enjoy a crisp fall day, whether it's a walk, watching sports, maybe even working outside doing something, or just all the beautiful trees, all the different colors and maybe the food. Over to you, Dave."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:20:01+00:00","id":13282,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13281,"text":" The Alaska morning net will begin in five minutes. At this time, we ask that everyone, including NCS staff, hold all non-emergency traffic. Thank you. WL7LP. Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:22:35+00:00","id":13283,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13282,"text":" I got me smiling. That brought a smile to my face, saying y'all are biking. Yeah, I did get on my Pelletot and ride this morning. There's my ride. Yeah, I've elevated it. Jeff, I went to the doctor. I had x-rays and the radiologist looked at it. They don't see anything. But trust me, I don't hurt easy. So, this hurts. And so, I've been trying everything. Ice, heat. And then I looked up online and so now I'm doing some exercises. So, we need to get that ankle strong again so it could be that it needs to be exercised. So, been doing some of those. You probably proud of me. And it sounds like y'all are having just a great vacation. I'm just so glad to hear it. No one deserves it more than you. I love the hiking. And some places don't even really have fall. Or like Alaska, it's kind of fall all year. So, especially compared to us. And we do have some leaves falling down. So, I think that and a little bit of chilly weather this morning just kind of took that. But I'm going to throw it back at you, Jeff, before you run off and see if you have anything else. So good to have you here. And thank you, David. I'm glad you had noticed that he was short time. Back to you, Jeff."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:23:01+00:00","id":13284,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13283,"text":" Alright, uh, how do you say your name? Suga... I don't know, uh... Ujun?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:23:25+00:00","id":13285,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13284,"text":" AJ5, can you hear me?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:25:56+00:00","id":13286,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13285,"text":" Team 2ration First Code"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:26:19+00:00","id":13287,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13286,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:27:12+00:00","id":13288,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13287,"text":" KI-5SSR returning. So if you're mobile or short time stations, please let me know. I'll take you ahead of others. If you're not in North America, please let me know and I'll take you checking after any mobile or short time stations. We give you your call sign please. Two times, twice, slowly, regular phonetics, followed by saying your name. We also ask that you pause at least four seconds between every transmission giving all link systems time to reset and confirm you get your call sign. If you wish to check in, please call now."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:28:14+00:00","id":13289,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13288,"text":" It looks like the kids are arguing here. Hold on there, Rich. I will take care of that. But yeah, we kind of have our summer, but it's a little different. Hopefully, I'll hold off a little bit for you guys. And I'll take all and everything. My favorite thing for ankles is the figure-eight brace and wrapping. But I find that most people, the figure-eight lace-up brace has really helped the ankles so that they can stay compact. And that and the keep active. But it looks like I got to do some mediation here. So I will send it back to you. And everyone again, have a great weekend. And get out and get active. N-A-D-X."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:28:44+00:00","id":13290,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13289,"text":" But Jeff said he was mobile and it's NADD by the way, line 5. Do you want to check with Jeff and see if he's mobile? And by the way, thank you for being there. We really appreciate it. TTSM 8-7."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:29:09+00:00","id":13291,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13290,"text":" This is Sir, anyone else want to get on the first list, please call now."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:29:34+00:00","id":13292,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13291,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:30:30+00:00","id":13293,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13292,"text":" Okay, we'll go ahead and call Jeff. Hello Jeff. November 8, Echo X-ray. I just saw Check Me In, that was it. So, um, yeah, I don't really spend a lot of time reading the AM window when I'm running the net, because I got three different things going on, and still got a foot down here that's throbbing. So, anyway, hello to you. Um, and, uh, Jeff, I'm so glad you're on vacation. So that means you've got to lay down work for a little while, and you're with your family. Over to you, NAEX."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:32:34+00:00","id":13294,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13293,"text":" Well, hey, thank you, KK7. HLD, I hope you get your cord straightened out. That doesn't sound like fun. And of course, I do read the green screen. I mean, the blue screen. But I'm really not in a great mood, so excuse me for that today. And I'm just in pain. So I saw the check-in part, and that's really the only part that I really, at that moment, cared about. But anyway, we don't need to talk about that, because we're going to make the best of it. And that's just what I do every single day that I'm breathing. So it's not nothing new for me, but it just seems to thrive when I'm sitting up. For some reason, there's really no place to put the foot. So anyway, and I'm having to use the other foot to use my computer here. So I got the foot pedal thing. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. So that's using a lefty instead of the righty. Heh heh heh. I'm having to do things a little different. But anyway, Dave does our Tuesday net and does a great job. Dave, so come check him in. He's a voice of Tuesday here on the Alaska morning net. And Dave, I'll throw it back at you. And yeah, we did the RC cars. We went down that rabbit hole. I will tell you what. You better have some tiny, tiny hands to work on them. They were as expensive as a cell phone. I bet you know what I'm talking about, Dave. KK7 HLD."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:33:34+00:00","id":13295,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13294,"text":" Alright, Sergeant, I want to welcome you to the Alaska morning net and this also, since you said you're a new ham, first let me say congratulations to you. Great to have you here with us. You're a little bit low, I don't know if you're hitting a repeater or not, but since you told me you're a new ham, we do have a, I am running the new ham's net that will be on fireside. It will be the absolute tech net. So absolutetech.org is the website. That will be this Tuesday at 7 Eastern time. So I know you're in Texas, so Houston, there you go. Alright, so, but anyway, we will be back around searching. I have some other people in front of you, but stick around please. So let me reset."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:36:01+00:00","id":13296,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13295,"text":" everyone. Actually it's not morning for me either. I'm getting used to the net strain at 1pm versus 9am. And we're in Traverse City, Michigan and it is beautiful weather. We've been out biking around town and to the beach. Yesterday, today we biked to the big civic center here at the park and the kids are running off energy and I'm hoping to get the batteries drained so that they are not all fair when we have our family event later today. And get them all nice and mild. And if it is dropping please try to elevate it. That might help. But the fall day, it is actually, it feels like a great summer day. And the day, where the sun felt like gas water. But we get color change in September-ish. Up in Alaska and all the leaves turn yellow on the stair lane and the highway is driving along. And really it's the, we just kind of keep grilling. We grill through the winter. It all sees us. Really get to celebrate seeing the night sky again and looking for Aurora and the Alpenglot Mountains. But we try to stay on to our hike and do all the activities that we can and then get the skis ready and hopefully we'll have winter this year. Everyone else got winter but us. And so we want to get, have some snow packs so we can ski down the road and so forth and do all the other things. And yeah, but it's, there's all seasons have their activities and events and so we just look forward to what comes up there. But nothing else to report here and hope everyone is having a good weekend. Back to you Jeanette and ADX."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:36:23+00:00","id":13297,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13296,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:37:47+00:00","id":13298,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13297,"text":" Good morning. This is KI5-SSR. The name here is Jeannette, and I am in Grapevine, Texas. I'll be your host today for the Alaska Morning Net, where we are highly entertaining and moderately educational. I want to welcome everyone who has joined us this morning. This is an informal but controlled rag, Jeannette. We love talking and getting to know each and every one of you. We are also here seven days a week. That's right, every day of the week, starting at 9 a.m. Alaskan time, which is 1 p.m. Eastern time in the U.S. This net is on for about two hours but can run a bit longer. If you can't check in by voice or our NetLogger AM window, please go to www.alaskamorningnet.com and check into the Web Check-In button. Also, all ways to connect to the Alaska Morning Net can be found on our website. More information about us as well. This could start a check-in check-ins. Let me reset, please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:38:11+00:00","id":13299,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13298,"text":" It was also rotating as a unit."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:40:48+00:00","id":13300,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13299,"text":" the season got much different. That's not weird. I'm probably playing with the radio control cars, I mean. Working on the real cars, something like that. Real quick, do you need a verbal report? I have two chats on me. Barney and Andrew on my lap. And the puppies are in the bedroom with my wife. I reach extremely fast, so every time I see something I end up reaching it even if I don't want to. So, just glance and that's the computer I use with the name and those stuff. I'm just weird that way. So, I'm glad I could help. What else was going on? Yeah, stressed out over the coverage of the city. And then I tried to get the Lincoln back to the garage to make it easier to work on. Because I couldn't figure out why it was dying after a few minutes. But, I'm going to start now. So, I need to work on it out in front of the house, so that's always fun. It's a nice overcast day, it's a little bit busy. I'm supposed to get a dangerous one, so not too horrible bad. I lost power to my radio and my air conditioner last night. As far as I can tell, the extension cord went bad. I'm thankful for overnight delivery, I got a new extension cord. And got hooked up in time for the vet. I was kind of worried, I thought I had it selected to have a shift between 7 and 10 in the morning, coming in at 10 in the morning. Which I did, oh we got some chins of dog food because we always need that. And, the engine should come out from 10 to 3. I don't want to run a temporary cord to power up the radio. But, we delivered by the same guy, so that was pretty cool. He's back to you, 2K78."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:41:15+00:00","id":13301,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13300,"text":" N8 DVG, November 8, Delta, Delta, Delta. I'm not sure if you caught me the first time around. Uh, just let..."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:41:42+00:00","id":13302,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13301,"text":" Putting a J down there, so kilojouleat5, kilo echo delta, correct? That is correct, ma'am."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:43:10+00:00","id":13303,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13302,"text":" I did, I did already get you already on the list so let me just, we'll run through the list. Let me tell you who we've got. November 8, Echo X-ray, hey Jeff, thank you for joining us. Kilo Delta and I, Zulu, Blue Joel, thank you for joining us. Kilo Julia 5, Kilo Echo Delta Surgeon, thank you for joining us. Kilo 8, Delta Delta Delta, thank you for joining us. K-0, K-0, N, Roger, thank you for joining us. Kilo Mike 4, Victor Papa Golf, Douglas, thank you for joining us. And KK7, HLG, Dave, thank you for joining us. The question of the day, I walked outside this morning and it felt like fall. I know being in Texas that may be hard to believe but honestly it did. So my question is, and it's kind of corny but what's your favorite way to enjoy a crisp fall day? Whether it's a walk or watching sports or eating fall food like pumpkin, cinnamon, maybe even hot chocolate or watching your favorite football team, I don't know. KK7, HLG, over to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:44:13+00:00","id":13304,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13303,"text":" to hear you and have you here. So I know you're hooking up to probably, I know you're on a repeater, but do come back. I think it is on this repeater that you're on to the Absolute TechNet, which will be on Tuesday evening at 7 Eastern. So if you're in Texas, it'll be 6. So just to FYI, what is your favorite way to enjoy a crisp fall day? This morning it felt a little bit like fall, but of course we know it's not here in Texas. Whether it's a walk, maybe watching sports, or enjoying the scenery, or maybe even the fall food, over to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:45:12+00:00","id":13305,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13304,"text":" She sat down with me, and you're going to love the rest of the story. There's names on the benches throughout nature realm. And I'm talking to this lady and, and, and, anyway, long story short, the bench that we were sitting on was dedicated to her daughter. I forget what had happened. She was young, and she had passed away. So I told her I just happened to open heart and had a really, really nice discussion with her. And I stayed there, and she went on her way. And I never forgot that. And with that, you know, thank you for the time so much. And I hope everybody has a great day. I'll send it back to you. TI-5 SSR NHDD."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:50:44+00:00","id":13306,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13305,"text":" But I want to make sure I don't turn him out. But what I've been putting off, and you mentioned it the other day, which is extremely important, is physical activity. I love to lift weights, but I stopped doing that back in the end of January. Then I'd just wait for the bad weather to go away and just didn't start up again. So what I've been wanting to do all summer is get out there and enjoy some of the trails. Now, I have a place that is known as a nature realm. It's almost directly across the street from me, but it's still a little dangerous to walk through it, which I did after open heart. But what I'm going to do is just take my car over there. But I wanted to start the day, and I said, all right, I'll wait just one more day. So if you don't hear me on the net tomorrow, which you shouldn't, that's a good thing because I'll be out walking. But what it is is they have paved paths, and they go back a decent distance. And then eventually you can go on to off trails that will take you down to a metro park. And I made the mistake of doing that four years ago just to extend a little story here because it's interesting. I got on the trail that was developed to take you down to the main trail, the main park. And I wanted to get down there, and I had done it once. And it was real easy because they had built it. It was built later. Well, I let it erode and went back to being just like a one-foot trail. Let me reset the key if I could just add just one more time, please. I'm sorry to get off. I'm getting long-winded. But let me tell you what happened. I got on this trail, and it probably \u2013 there were other people going down, but I had a stick luckily. And so, I mean, the elevation was probably about two stories and a half. It took me four hours to get to the bottom, and I was, like, really starting to get scared because there were, like, parts of the path. It would be hard, but it was, like, it was real steep, and I had to be extremely careful that I didn't fall. Or you know what could have happened. So when I got to the bottom, you know, just the way it is, I had to make my way back up. Well, let's put this one \u2013 round trip was four hours. And I was very careful. I did fall once. Luckily, I didn't get hurt. I made it back to this main building, like, where you can watch birds and stuff. And a guy that worked there saw me and realized that he said, what happened to you? Because it was a real hot summer day. And he went and got me some water, and then the actual complex closed at five. And he walked me to the end of the park a lot with me. And I told him I just lived down the street because he knew I had a day of it. And let me tell you, that was, like, a big mistake I'll never make again. But I want to walk the regular pass, but I definitely will not walk the other half. So I think I made my story long enough. But we are getting a break. We're just in the 70s. We are going to go into these low 80s tomorrow. But what I did want to pass along \u2013 and I am going to reset one more time because it's important. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven, November, Quebec, November. We're returning. Everybody wants to watch. We're below normal temperatures in the Midwest. But by the end of next week, we will be back into more or less another heat wave. We have another round of hot weather coming. I'm just as happy because right now, to me, it's a little too chilly. But it still feels good in the morning when you get out there if you're in the direct sunlight. Once it starts to hit the 60s, which is rather rapid. But what I'm hearing is that there's probably going to be a lot of precipitation again come across different areas of the country next week. So all of those \u2013 I don't want to say anything bad, but if you're in northern Texas or north of there, watch. And then it looks like another area that's going to get hit pretty hard with preset would be, like, say, around northern Florida. Doesn't mean you will, but, you know, just be on the watch for that. And then after this next heat wave goes by, it looks like we might be in for another round of below normal temperatures. So I really wanted to get that out there. And with that, Jeanette, sorry to get so long on you. And I'll send it right back to you. N-A-D-D."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:52:04+00:00","id":13307,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13306,"text":" KI-5 SSR K04 VPT Douglas, Alabama. Roll Tide, roll. Hello Alaska Pointhead family. Hope everybody's had a good day so far. It's 80 degrees, feel like 87 with 81% humidity. We've got a bunch of storms down below us into the east of us. Well, mostly I sit and watch the football game. I don't hardly get outside too much, especially in the evening. I've got to get up in here and go get my sweetheart so you can talk to him just a little bit. My yard guys out here cut their yards, sound like. They still waited until I got awake, just earlier, waking me up when I'm sleeping. But anyway, hope everybody has a good rest of their day and I hope it gets better for them. That's how you save your $3 on a roll, Tide, roll. KI-5 SSR K04 VPT, save me threes."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:53:43+00:00","id":13308,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13307,"text":" I'm trying to pick on you. I'm kind of in pain today so I know what you're talking about. I'm trying to switch gears. Boy, that would really mess me up. Anyway, you know, thoughts and prayers I think is better. Right now I have three main RC cars. One of them is a rock crawler. Very slow but I can crawl over just about anything. One is a drag racer which is extremely fast but not the easiest thing to drive because you have so much power. I want to go a little faster but I'm in too late to change gears. And the third one is a six-byte six with four-wheeled steer that's a semi-truck contractor. I made my wife one with the same chassis. That's a school bus chassis. They're not horribly expensive. They're mostly less expensive. But by the time you add the radio and everything, it's up. Anyway, thank you very much for being there. It wouldn't be Saturday without you. And tell Mike we said hi and have a great day at KK70."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:54:46+00:00","id":13309,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13308,"text":" Hi, I'm SSI. Hello to you and to all of my friends on the Alaska Moray at Yes, Roger in Overcast Houston, Texas, where it's 88 degrees Celsius and going up to 95 with a chance of thunderstorms. My favorite activity in the fall, I guess, walking and also just sitting by the pool with friends and neighbors, because we haven't been able to do that all summer long, because it's just too hot. So I am on the run. I'm going to say 73. I've got a hammer-heel friend picking me up. We're going back to his place to see his shack, his rigging set up. And so I will say 73, and thanks for checking me in a KI-5 SSR case. You're OK with it."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:56:27+00:00","id":13310,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13309,"text":" OK, I'm 4 VPG, half 5 SSI. That's a pretty expensive salad. But yeah. But anyway, yeah, I'm glad they dropped the fries. I think they were too high for sure. But I guess it's just, I don't know. I didn't know they cost that much there. There's a really good place here that has like all really fresh stuff. I just love it. And they have different really, really good meats. So if I was going to have a salad, we have a Subway. I'd probably go to that other place. And it's not cheap either. So it depends on what you like. And you find something you like, you're going to pay for it, especially if you enjoy it. So I think you said you get two days out of it or something. So that's a good deal if you can break it up like that. But anyway, thank you, Douglas. We appreciate you checking in. Don't forget, voice of Thursday, Douglas. Roll tie roll. KN4 VPG will be clear with you. We're going to the Sunday voice. Kilo, zero kilo, Oscar November. Hello, Roger. How you doing, Roger? How about you? What's your favorite way to enjoy a crisp fall day, whether it's a walk, watching sports, maybe some fall feed, or just all the beautiful trees? Over to you, Roger."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:57:15+00:00","id":13311,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13310,"text":" I like to go to the park and the really fun thing to do is, you know, in the afternoon when the weather is perfect, grab some pho or some food and then eat in the park feeling the grass. That's like the beautiful and amazing experience that I generally have with my family. It's like a fall, a full lunch on the spring afternoon is my ideal mode of enjoyment."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T10:58:10+00:00","id":13312,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13311,"text":" Well hey, thank you KM4VPG, KI5, and the Alaska Morning Net. And Douglas, you enjoy that chicken teriyaki salad. And it's always great to hear you out here. And yeah, so nothing wrong with watching football. I get it. And yeah, be rooting for that roll tide, roll team. Anyway, thank you for being here, Douglas. Thank you for all that you do for Thursdays. And we do appreciate you. But I'm going to throw it back at you, see if you have anything else."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:00:46+00:00","id":13313,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13312,"text":" Why would you need it? Just let me tell you that after that, I cannot appreciate more. You stand in the back of me one more time. Couple of thoughts. You might check on the internet, get some answers there. But what I kept thinking about when you mentioned your ankle, why not try getting a little pan and filling it with ice and just putting your foot and your ankle on ice for a little while? I'll bet that would do the trick a little bit. And speaking of water, and sometimes I feel like suggesting it, but a good question for some that someday, because I'm really curious what people say about that. Since I was younger, I keep debating on it. But for you, I get my water from the store. And they say plastics are bad. But I'm honestly afraid to drink tap water. And I do have a filter on my main sink, but I just do not want to drink tap water. OK? But it'll interest you to know, because I found out one time before I thought about it, this Friday I do my grocery shopping. And I brought two long plastic, you know, small like tube type, I call them, containers of water. And they have a mouthpiece at the top. So that's what I'm planning on doing now. And you said don't go too far. See, nature realm, which is near me, has concreted paths. They don't go back so far. But you're really in the woods. You come back up, and there's benches everywhere. So I have a favorite bench. And I'm going to go sit on that. And then I'll do another round, go back to that bench. In fact, it's a little interesting. I'll just mention it real quick before I come out. Three years ago, after open heart, when I had to start walking, you know, I had a bad heart valve. So anyway, I was sitting on that bench. And a lady walked up to me and she said, could I sit on the bench with you? And I said, yes, you can. Oh, boy, I'm going to time out again. Let me reset."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:01:39+00:00","id":13314,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13313,"text":" K0KON, CAF5SSR, and it sounds nice to be able to, you know, just go for a walk and maybe just sit outside and enjoy the day and enjoy looking at the pool. So, thank you, Roger, for checking in and hope you have fun at your friend with the Ham Shack. And, yeah, so 73 to K0KON Sunday, the voice of Sunday, so don't forget to check in with Roger. N8, November 8, Delta, Delta, Delta. Hello, Dawn. How are you doing today, Dawn? Your turn."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:03:48+00:00","id":13315,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13314,"text":" Hey, Jeanette. Well, it's good to hear everybody again. You synchronized with what you said. You know, I always want to just come on and talk to everybody, but I know it's directed. But, you know, in regards to, like, I was thinking the same thing when you asked Douglas about, you know, the salad again. I know he always enjoys that. But just something to bring up. What I would say there is that you should try doing different things with it once in a while. I'll tell you what I miss in that regard. Going back in time, they stopped it during covert. I won't mention the store, but one of them, one of the stores didn't bring it back. But the more exclusive one did. And I haven't enjoyed it since it did come back. But I used to like to go into the store and get a salad bar. And I'd take one of them deep plastic tubs, and I'd load it with salad, and then I would, like, put, like, even soup, you know, like, strawberries on it, you know, like, just a whole bunch of different things they had. But I would always top it with, like, like, you know, the seeds, what do we call them, sesame seeds or something. And it would be completely full, and then I would, you know, douse it with, like, a vinaigrette or something, pay for it, take it on an upper level where I could sit down and enjoy it. And I thought that was so darn healthy. I mean, you know, you could just do so many different things. So I kind of miss that. Anyway, let me reset, and I'll come back to the weather. And then that answers your question."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:04:57+00:00","id":13316,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13315,"text":" Well, thank you NHDDDKI5SSR. Yeah, I'll be honest with you. Don't go out four miles, because if you got, you know, it beats you down, you ain't going to be back out there for how long? I mean, the whole point is to do a little bit each day when you can. And if you make it where you hate it, you won't want to do it again. The path that you took was for the professional hikers. So, you know, stay small, and just remember, however far you go, you got to get back. And I tell you right now, I carry water everywhere I go. So carry agua. So that's my advice to you. Thank you for all your input there on the weather. And we'll throw it back at you, Don, before we say 73 to you and move on down the list here. So NHDDDKI5SSR one more time."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:06:56+00:00","id":13317,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13316,"text":" I'm just trying to get used to using the other foot for sure. I'm a righty, not a lefty, but it's all good. We're going to work through it. And you know, you have to, I can't just lay around with my foot up all day and night. I do have to get up. I can get on it, you know. But anyway, we'll make it fit. And well, the RC cars that we had were already put together with the radios, and they were racing little cars. I think they might be four-wheel drive or whatever. And you can buy it, the souped-up version. It was pretty fast, I ain't going to lie. We wrecked them quite a few times. It's not like the drones that are kind of wreck-proof. These things wreck. And you can wreck our drones, too, but they have some settings on it that if you take it out of that, put it in a sports setting, you're on your own. And you can't wreck them. But yeah, we were constantly, constantly working on those cars, and we would get frustrated. So Dave, thank you for being here. You guys have a blast with it. And don't forget to check in with Dave on Tuesdays. We'll be clear with KK7 HLD. Let's go to our Thursday night controller, the voice of Thursday, KM4 PPT Douglas. Roll, touch, roll. Douglas, I'm sure you heard the question, but if you didn't, we'll be happy to repeat it. Over to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:07:54+00:00","id":13318,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13317,"text":" KI-5 SSRK on 4 VPG return. Not really, but I did think of something. My sweet honey chicken choc is sad it don't cost as much. Now, that last one I got, there might have been one more, I can't remember. The price dropped on it. It was $22.43. It's now $20.40 I think. I can't remember what the sense is. But yeah, I'm glad it went down a little bit. It was costing me a little too much, but I couldn't leave it alone. That's it. KI-3 is off. KI-5 SSRK on 4 VPG. KI-3."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:09:03+00:00","id":13319,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13318,"text":" and having grown up with it. I'd rather have summer extended. I really would because, you know, I've lived on the West Coast once, and I know the difference. But, you know, it's like, to me, summer's just too short-lived. You know, winter is nice, and you get some breaks, different types of things you would do during the summer. I mean, you know, I have to do, which I don't anymore, which I used to actually enjoy, like mowing and stuff. But let me just reset one more time."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:10:26+00:00","id":13320,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13319,"text":" The KI5-SSR, I don't drink my tap water and I tested it and it has lots of crud in it. So you can buy testers to test your water. So unless you're going to hold that plastic in direct sun, you're probably okay. But anyway, Don, thank you for that. Thank you for being here. And yeah, our park has the same thing. We have benches here and there and we also have trees that have little stones under them, dedicating it to people. So yeah, we have it as well. So anyway, thank you Don. And 8DDD will be clear with you. And let's see if the surgeon is still here. Kilo Juliette Fogg, Kilo Echo Delta, are you still with us? Hello to you and how are you doing? Kilo Juliette Delta, sorry, one second. Kilo Juliette 5, Kilo Echo Delta, KJ5-80, yes I'm still here."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:10:55+00:00","id":13321,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13320,"text":" Alright, remember we lost one. KG9ZGZ. Joel, you still here?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:11:25+00:00","id":13322,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13321,"text":" Kilo 7, Bravo Hotel Kilo, AISL, CHA, the Kilo, from the Kilo, Washington. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November, All Star Node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:14:05+00:00","id":13323,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13322,"text":" Hey, surgeon, yes, very nice. Hey, surgeon, we're here every single day. The Alaska Morning Net is on every single day. I wanted to let you know that so you can come and check in with us. And if you just got your license, don't forget to sign up for the Jump Start that is on QRZ. So check that out. The Jump Start is basically if you're within the first six months of your license, you can get the QRZ radio, which is pretty good. People love it. I've heard people talking on it. And it's $21. That's for shipping and everything. So it's really a great deal. So go check that out on QRZ.com. And let's see. Also check out Echo Link for your phone so that when you're not getting a good signal, you can jump on Echo Link and use your phone. I don't know if you need that or not. Back to you, Joel. I'm sorry. Back to you, surgeon. Joel, you are next. But surgeon, KJ5 KED. Thanks. KJ5 KED. It's Susan here again. I took the Jump Start. The kit was good, but then operating that was way too difficult. Compared to the ICOM radio my neighbor provided me, the ICOM radio is much better. And the quality is beyond what I could imagine on the Jump Start kit. It's kind of like a remodeled voice angle, some random Chinese radio. And the sensor itself is kind of like really low quality. And it took the fun out of the ICOM radio. So now I got an ICOM radio borrowed from my neighbor. He knows when to have radio. So he lent it to me. Now I'm having the real fun of programming it and enjoying it. I got a couple of other reasons why I can't survey ICOM. It's amazing, easy to program, the quality is better."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:14:40+00:00","id":13324,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13323,"text":" Alright, nothing hurts. So, this does bring me to the end of the list again, and I'm looking for more check-ins. This is KI-5-SSR, you're listening to the Alaska Morning Net. Mobile short time and non-America stations will be given priority. Please give that call two times, twice, slowly, and in regular phonetics. If you wish to check in, please call now."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:15:42+00:00","id":13325,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13324,"text":" picked up. Kilo India 7, Bravo Hotel, Kilo Hey, thank you for joining us. Golf 1, Delta Tango, Victor, Irene Mobile will be right with you, Irene. Kilo Mike 5, Yankee Mike in the grapevine, thank you for joining us. And Kilo Julia 5, Foxtrot Oscar X-Ray, hello the fox in the room, glad to have you, Fox. Alright, let's go to Golf 1, Delta Tango, Victor, hello Irene. And I don't know if you heard the question, Irene does our Wednesday net control host here on the Alaska morning net. But Irene, what is your favorite way to enjoy a crisp fall day, whether it's a walk or maybe watching sports, or for you maybe the races, or fall food, maybe just the beautiful scenery. Over to you, Irene."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:16:38+00:00","id":13326,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13325,"text":" Well, there's our answer. Anyway, but it really sounds like you're having a great day. And you really made that sound really beautiful. And I do. I love that. I like to see all the leaves changing and moments. There's moments. And so that was a moment. And I don't know about you, Fox, but we sure got a lot of jicadas going on out here right now. More than I think I've kind of heard here in Texas. In my area. KJ5FOX back to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:17:33+00:00","id":13327,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13326,"text":" Hey, KI5. Thank you, KI5Y and Mike. And yes, we stay warm here most of the time. We don't. It is a change when you go up to where Mike's from up in Canyon. And it does get a lot cooler at night and in the morning. So that's for sure. And I appreciate you being here, Mike. And thank you for sharing KI5Y. So we'll be clear with you. Let's go to KI7DHK. Hello, Victor. How are you doing today, Victor?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:19:41+00:00","id":13328,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13327,"text":" Okay, well, looks like we lost one and they can do a recheck. So this does bring me to the end of the list. I'm looking for more check-ins. Short time non-American stations will be given priority. When given your call sign, give it twice slowly and irregular phonetics, followed by saying your name. We also ask you pause at least four seconds between every transmission, giving all link systems time to reset. If you would like to check in, please call now. This is..."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:21:08+00:00","id":13329,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13328,"text":" Well, thank you very much, surgeon, and I've got to make a correction. I am not next week, I'm the following week. I'm the 12th, but every week we have a different net going on for the absolute tech net. So check that out, and you can also ask a question. So if you run into an issue, you can ask a question. And I caught most of what you were saying, but a lot of it kind of got caught up in the, it gets lost in the static. So sometimes people get the little rubber ducky antennas for their handy talkies, because it might help to get you a little better signal. Thank you so much for joining us. We look forward to hearing from you again, surgeon. So we're going to say 73 to KJ5KED. Let's go talk to Joel, KD9CTZ. Hello to you, Joel. How you doing? Question of the day, Joel. What is your favorite way to enjoy a crisp fall day, whether it's maybe watching sports or fall food, or maybe even just seeing all the trees, all the leaves changing colors, and maybe some pumpkins, cinnamon, or maybe some... But over to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:22:05+00:00","id":13330,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13329,"text":" Go find out to Tango Victor. I've got this shot to Jeanette. I'm on board the train, and the driver has just passed me. If we go come into the station one way and go out the other, he's just gone through his cabin. So I'll keep it short. Otherwise, I'll get drowned out by the cranky nose as he pulls the train out. So thank you for letting me in. I just thought I'd call you for the rest there. So back to you, KI7, Berg, and KI5, this is Golf 1, go to Tango Victor mobile out."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:23:31+00:00","id":13331,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13330,"text":" Uh, yeah, I took advantage of that ratio as a new ham. And, you know, I've got a BoFang ratio. I've got the, it's kind of a new ratio that came out, it's a TED ratio. I bought one of those. And I've also got just a little bit older Icom ratio. Not too old, but a little bit older. And this ratio that I'm on right here is hooked up to the All-Star node. I love this radio. And set the All-Star node aside, if I leave the house, this radio is going with me. The Icom will come with me if I want to play around with the D-Stars. So I really like the radio. I know a lady who's got one. And I've been trying to buy hers off of her for less than $52. So anyway, maybe she'll sell it to me. Anyway, I'll let it drop one more time. But, uh, Paul, you got me thinking about something."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:23:56+00:00","id":13332,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13331,"text":" Uh, KI-7B Bravo Hotel Kilo. Victor, you still with us?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:26:03+00:00","id":13333,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13332,"text":" Hey, Internet, thanks for doing the net today. Steven Houston, N5ZUA Mobile. I'm actually headed to Chase Bank right now. Somebody wrote me a paper check that owed me some money, if you can believe that. But money is money, so I'm going to go deposit it before they close at 2 PM local time here. And everything's going OK, I guess, as best as you could expect it to be. Still waiting to hear back from the insurance folks first thing next week. Probably Monday or Tuesday, so. And we'll get more information about the house when they call. Other than that, answers to your question, let's see. Yeah, you know, I like to go walking, so yeah, on a nice five or six mile walk on a fall day would be fantastic. I did go walking last week at the mall. That's just different, though. I don't know. I'd rather be outside walking, but it's so hot, I just decided to go walking at the mall. All right, well, I'm going to make this a one and done, because I am here. I'm going to run inside and go out of the deposit slip. When's the last time I did that? Gosh, I can't remember. All right, back to you. N5ZUA Mobile, 73. Thank you, N5ZUA. KI5SSR, and yes, I just love a beautiful day where you can go walk. And no, it's not the same, walking in the mall. Anyway, 73, Steve, great to have you, and thank you for checking in. November 5, golf, Bravo, Romeo. Hello. Gary, how are you doing today, Gary? And it's your turn."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:26:28+00:00","id":13334,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13333,"text":" This is November 5 Zulu Uniform Alpha Mobile. Again N5Z UA Mobile."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:26:52+00:00","id":13335,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13334,"text":" 5 Yankee, KM5 White Mike, in the great butt."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:28:42+00:00","id":13336,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13335,"text":" That kind of takes me back to, you know, I grew up in North Alabama and, you know, there was that time of year where you'd set out on the front porch and those things would be buzzing. You know, just good memories. But where I'm living right now, there ain't a tree in sight. I'm just kind of kidding a little bit. We live in a fairly new neighborhood and they planted these trees, you know, within the last two to three years. And so all the trees are like four foot, five foot tall. And there ain't no cetacean. But if I said that right, my wife says I always say it wrong. What do I say? Casada. Casada. It's a casada. Like a cassette tape, kind of. But anyway, yeah, I like sitting out on the porch and letting them things just, letting that buzz enter my ear and take me back to my childhood. Anyway, like I said, everybody have a great day. We got, my daughter's got some friends over and that's that, that was all that racket y'all heard earlier. They were acting like it was Saturday and playtime or something. My daughter says it is Saturday. Anyway, everybody have a great Saturday and a happy Sabbath and enjoy your family. And KI5SSR will pass it back to you. This is KJ5FOX."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:32:54+00:00","id":13337,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13336,"text":" I'm using it for your area, yes, if you're just using it to hit repeaters. But I've actually heard the radio and it sounded really good, but I will tell you that they hook it up to an All Star. I don't know if you're familiar with that. And once you do that, it doesn't matter if it's a cheap radio or not, it sounds fantastic. So just a little FYI on that, if you don't know what All Star is, you need to do a little research. It can even make the radio that you're using even sound much better because even though I can hear you, there's a lot of static in your connection, which is fine. And when you're on HF, there's static, you get static. But one of the beauties of people liking, you know, VO voice over IP, because we go through the internet, even though it's not, it is kind of, it is through the internet, so, and you'll get a much better clear. And that's why if you're hearing us and we sound pretty clear, that's why. But you can only go so far as far as your repeater lets you reach, and if you're not hitting your repeater, then you come in with lots of static no matter how nice that radio is or not. It can make a difference as far as, you know, but I mean if you enjoy it, I have a very, very nice radio. So my handheld is a Kenwood, so, but I've had them all, so I do know a little bit about them, but it depends on what you're going to use it for, surgeon, so you can make that jumpstart radio into a nice radio. Anyway, I'll throw it back at you, and then we're going to move on down the list, but I do want to thank you for joining us here today. And, you know, I'm glad that you got into the hobby, and I hope you join me on Tuesday. So, back to you. Thank you so much. Yeah, you get what you pay for on top of it. I'm kind of like a, I would say like a ham radio pure. I want to enjoy the ham radio just on the Internet, and use radio to connect with you, but a lot of my neighbors are saying, like, you can't use it, and then you want to have like a studio, you want to, it's kind of like you want to take the radio and get all that, and then get onto the network because you need to print and it's true. So, as of now I'm just exploring, I like to use the tape. I haven't created a tape before. I just took the tape and went off to the printer, and now I just have like a bamboo and tape and print. Right now I'm working on the printer, so it kind of makes me work on the radio. I just want to get back to the full complex frame, and then get it on the network. I think the part now connects to you, and to the internet for you. I know I'm connecting as you can see, so that's it. If the input doesn't know, I want to take the entire thing and connect, and then get it out for the camera, and to the stage, and put the sound on the button. That's it, and we're starting from home. Yeah, it's so much fun, but definitely I connect to you on the stage as well. Thank you so much."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:33:55+00:00","id":13338,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13337,"text":" K and 5-wise. So I'll have to admit, I think fall is my favorite. Oh, here's the other nice thing about fall. No thunderstorms, which makes my job a lot easier. You know, we deal with thunderstorms in the spring constantly, and in the summer they get a little better, but we still have them. In the fall it's just like almost every day is a beautiful day. But then, you know, winter's coming, but winter's a whole other animal. So that's another thing I like about it. I can go on and on and on, but I'll let you move on down the list there, Jeanette. So hope to see you all on the litter box lounge tonight at 6 p.m. Central. K and 5, SSR K and 5-wide. Back to you, Jeanette."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:34:21+00:00","id":13339,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13338,"text":" This is N5GPR November 5th, Golf, Bravo, Romeo, Mobile, Gary and LaGrange."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:36:43+00:00","id":13340,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13339,"text":" Hi, this is KM5Y Mike in North Texas in the Great Vine. Thank you, Jeanette. I hope everyone's having a great Saturday, and I hope you all have a nice weekend. It's about 90 degrees here, which is a huge reprise from 104 a couple days ago. So I'll take it in a little breeze out of the north. That takes me to your question. That's what I love about fall. We start getting those little cool fronts every week, a little breeze out of the north. You can breeze again. It's nice to walk out the back door at 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning, which is usually when I have to go to work. And you can actually breathe. Awesome. I grew up in West Texas, and it gets hot out in West Texas, but it cools down at night. So one of the hardest things for me to get used to when I moved here 25, 35 years ago, good gosh, that was a long time ago, was how hot it is even early in the morning and at night here in this area. So fall kind of pushes that out. Those cool fronts open up the air for great visibility. And of course, you know, that means winter's coming, but not too bad for Texas. We'll take it. And football season, you know that's coming. As soon as you feel that cool north wind hitting you the first couple times, you can hear the high school band over there practicing for their football halftime shows. And it's just I don't know, which is I just love the changing seasons. I spent, I had a condo on the Big Island in Hawaii for about 10 years. The one thing I did not like was the weather's the same there every day, 365 days a year. And if you're used to changing seasons, that starts gnawing on you big time. I better reset."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:37:09+00:00","id":13341,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13340,"text":" November 7, Foxtrot, Golf Papa. November 7, Foxtrot, Golf Papa, Scott and Houston."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:37:35+00:00","id":13342,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13341,"text":" GoFundMe, Delta Tango Victor, GoFundMe, Delta Tango Victor, Mobile, and"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:38:11+00:00","id":13343,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13342,"text":" Thank you Irene, I lost my cursor. Have a great day, thank you for getting on the log. We do appreciate people getting on the log so we know you're out there listening. So have a wonderful day and don't forget to check in with Irene on Wednesday. Golf 1 Delta Tango Victor, we're clear with you. How about you KJ5, F-O-X. Hey Fox, how are you doing today?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:39:12+00:00","id":13344,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13343,"text":" info x ki-5 ssr and that was that was a perfect scene to my question i have to say um yeah that's that's what i wanted was a nice morning visible something that really really you know makes you feel alive when you see it that sounds really gorgeous and um yeah so you know um i believe that surgeon city has that you know and was or guess he didn't just thinks it's like a cheapo thing but you know i mean i've i've heard them i think they sound good for the money you know now you know you just you spend a thousand dollars and get mine or seven hundred and something and get mine you know so just you know i think you sound great so if that's already or you're using as i've said before uh it's it's great searching um are you still out there and listening by chance"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:40:04+00:00","id":13345,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13344,"text":" Foxman, thank you for all that you do. Thank you for your help. Foxman does help me out on some of my nets, so I do appreciate you Fox. And good to hear some of that too, you know. It's good to have good memories like that. So we'll be clear with you, KJ5, and have a great Saturday to you as well and Sabbath. Let's go to KM5Y. Mike in Grapevine. Hello to you Mike. I'm pretty sure you heard the question. How are you doing?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:42:21+00:00","id":13346,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13345,"text":" Well, good morning, good afternoon, and good evening to everyone on the Alaska morning net. Just enjoying my Saturday. Hopefully everyone is enjoying yours. Hope everybody's having a good weekend. And, you know, I've been listening for just a little while, and I don't know, I kind of forgot the guy's name now. It was Surgeon, I think was his name. I don't know if he's listening anymore, but I did take advantage of that QRZ Explorer QRZ1 radio. You can buy them off of Gigaparts. I think they're $59. Hey, hey, hey, settle down. Sorry about that. Let me take a break."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:43:17+00:00","id":13347,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13346,"text":" Alright, let me tell you who we've got on the list. November 7, Fox Truck Golf Papa, Scott, thank you for joining us. November 5, Golf Papa, Romeo, Gary, thank you for joining us. I know you're mobile. We have one more mobile in front of you. November 5, Zulu, Uniform Alpha, hello Steve, and Kilo Quebec 4, Uniform Papa Kilo, Chris, thank you for joining us. Let's go to our mobile station for it first. November 5, Zulu Alpha, Uniform Alpha, how you doing Steve? And how's life treating you since all the drama there and your fire?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:45:15+00:00","id":13348,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13347,"text":" My favorite, I don't know exactly how you worded the question, but you mentioned talking about fall, favorite kind of fall thing. I think I missed it last year, but two years ago we drove to Arkansas and I ran a race called Summit to Summit in Hot Springs, Arkansas. So basically you start down in Hot Springs and they've got two summits there. You run to the top of one, come back down, then you run back up to the top of another summit and then you come back down into town. The finish line is start and finishes in town. And it's in November. The trees up there, they look like they're on fire. Orange and red. The race starts at I think six o'clock in the morning. It's freezing. It's not freezing, but it is cold. It was just great, great views while you were up there. When you get up on the peak you're looking out over the valley of just like so many colors. Just the question threw that in my head. That was one of my favorite fall mornings right there. So anyway, hopefully a surgeon heard about the radio and I'll pass it back to the net control. Everybody have a great weekend. This is KJ5FOX."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:45:40+00:00","id":13349,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13348,"text":" Scott Oscar X-Ray, KJ5FOX Chad, Idaho, Texas. This is."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:47:36+00:00","id":13350,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13349,"text":" and Saturday and hey everybody out there in Hamland, W9JAY, not in Seeley, Texas, still in Wisconsin. Sea Red Am, we're going to be up in Waupon today and for a couple of days I guess, the next town to the north is Sea Red Am. Visit the others, family members. Anyway, question of the day, fall, that's football season. And in Texas it's prime motorcycle riding season, it's a good time to go out and see. Go to the countryside and see all the fall foliage and all that. I'd like to say Texas has, the station kilo, kilo seven, November has about three months of summer up here. And in Texas you have almost three months of fall, which is very similar to summer in Wisconsin. And also in Texas you have about three months of spring, which is also the three months of summer in Texas. So it's quite as much summer as far as I'm concerned. Little to little bit of heat on one end of it and a little bit of cold on the other. And the cold isn't that cold in Texas, you know, I mean, even in the wintertime I can go out on my motorcycle in the afternoon anyway. That's pretty cool. I've been listening to most of it, not hearing everybody. It's really nice to hear everyone's updates and to be a participant in this vacuum at W9 to A1."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:48:56+00:00","id":13351,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13350,"text":" Thank you, KB2CMS. Roy, thank you, KI5SSR. Keto India 5, Sugar Sugar Radio. Yeah, better known as the Texas Kisser. Anyway, I live in Texas, Roy, and I've definitely been to New Jersey. And yeah, so usually when I've been up there, it's been really cold. So y'all have a lot more kinder weather than we really have here, but I'm in Texas, and we're here for the heat. That's what I'll say. Not always, I mean, but we've kind of had a mild summer this year so far, so we don't want to complain too much. But back to you, Roy. Glad you found us again. And we are here every day, so you can check out Check In Every Day, KB2CMS."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:50:01+00:00","id":13352,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13351,"text":" All right, we can hear you, Roy, just so Casey said. PKL, well you're on the list, WBD4JEE Hollis, you're on the list. Kilo Lima 5, Oscar golf, there's one of our Alaska stations. Hello, Jim. There hasn't been many Alaskan stations on today, which is strange, but glad to have you here. I think people are just enjoying the day. But the question of the day, besides how you're doing, whatever you'd like to share, is what's your favorite way to enjoy a crisp fall day, whether it's a walk, or watching sports, or just the scenery, which, you know, I know there, this question really isn't a great question for everywhere, because some places it does, you know, the different seasons don't really change much. But anyway, over to you, Jim."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:51:17+00:00","id":13353,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13352,"text":" Well, good morning young lady and I am bat dumb enough to be Samus every day. And thank you for having me on and thank goodness for hearing me. I was beginning to think my new All-Star node was kind of crapping out on me. The airway seemed dead all over the place. Thank you guys for out there. Let's see fall. Well, unlike anything in the fall, as soon as fall, summer starts ending there. Fall begins, everything starts calling to me. I kind of want to be out and over, outdoors doing just about anything. In hunting, camping, anything out in the woods. That's about it for me. You guys have a great day out there. Stay safe and we'll catch you maybe tomorrow. Kilo Echo 8, whiskey ice cream Juliet, back to you in head control."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:51:41+00:00","id":13354,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13353,"text":" KQ4, UPK. Chris, you still here?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:52:37+00:00","id":13355,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13354,"text":" Alright, we got a few more stations at time, so let me tell you who we have. We picked up Kilo Charlie 7, Yankee Foxtrot Echo Dale, thank you for joining us. We also picked up November 4, Uniform Papa Charlie Scott, thank you for your in and out. Kilo Robert 2, Charlie Mike, Sierra Frank, thank you for joining us Frank. Whiskey 9, Juliet Alpha Yankee, okay and okay so Whiskey 9, Juliet Alpha Yankee, hello JJ is our Monday Net host, the voice of Monday here on the Alaska Morning Net. Hello G-J, how you doing? Your turn."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:53:56+00:00","id":13356,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13355,"text":" Hello, Jeanette. KFI of SSR and the net N5 GPR. Well, I enjoy the fall for all the reasons that everybody has said here. We don't, I'm LaGrange, we're further south so we don't get really much of a fall before it, which is the winter because summer tends to hang on so long around here and it's so humid. But, now I don't know, I heard the fellow say that thunderstorms go away. We get some terrible storms. Those fronts come through here in the winter season changing over, but then it calms down, I agree with that. And Jeanette, let me just say this, I've been listening to you all the way from Bastrop, which is about 30 miles west of here, and your voice kept, I know that voice, I know that voice, and I finally figured out who it is you sound like exactly. Let me get a break."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:54:19+00:00","id":13357,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13356,"text":" Charlie N4EPC, in now please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:54:44+00:00","id":13358,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13357,"text":" for Yankee Actolima and Victor Arco for Gulf Whiskey November Mobile."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:56:15+00:00","id":13359,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13358,"text":" I'm hoping I'm far enough back away from the mic that I always have to get my eye out for the screen anyway and that proves to be a big liability in a way. So I have to shut my eye out for the screen to try to find what I'm looking for too. I'm kind of having a little problem with getting the mic adjusted on this, on this wrist-eye phone edition of Echo Wing that I'm going to have to, I might have to do a review or something and tell them, hey, you know, we've got a problem going on here. So I might do that after, uh, that, or after I get done. Anyway, I'm glad to hear that you and Mike are doing well. We're hanging in here as best we can and so just got to get the other stuff dialed in, rock and roll. Mark, good work, Jeanette. Thank you for being here and I want to thank everyone else, all of you guys. I can't get it to happen. So just to tell them why I beat, we'll send the hot mic back to you and I hope it don't burn. I hope it don't burn anybody else's hands. Have a good day everyone. Catch you later."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:56:38+00:00","id":13360,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13359,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:57:34+00:00","id":13361,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13360,"text":" All right, well, we had some key-ups with no sound. Anyway, Kilo Echo 8, Whiskey Oscar Juliet. Hello, Rick. How you doing? I don't know if I've spoken to you before, but welcome to the Alaska Morning Net, and glad to have you here. How are you? And the question of the day is, what's your favorite way to spend, to enjoy a crisp fall day, whether it's a walk maybe in the park, or just a walk outside, watching sports, or any of that? And how are you doing? Welcome to the Alaska Morning Net."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:58:04+00:00","id":13362,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13361,"text":" that change and thank you for straightening me up there. So Kilo Delta 2, Charlie Mike's here, I got that. So we'll get you straightened out here. So okay, so anyway, back to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:58:26+00:00","id":13363,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13362,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T11:58:59+00:00","id":13364,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13363,"text":" Thank you W9JAY. KI5SSR, thank you much and good to hear you Jay. And don't forget to check Jay's net out on Mondays, W9JAY. Thank you for being here, 73. How about you KB2CMS. Frank, how you doing today, Frank? Your turn."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:00:19+00:00","id":13365,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13364,"text":" I don't know how to be a bitch. So, whoops, wrong one. C95 SSR, this is a big Draco 48 thing. Sorry about that, uh, Janet. I almost called you pickle. Pickle, you know? Uh, yeah, we're mobile, and, uh, oh, I left a number that's for sure. I didn't go camping, and I was doing do things outside, you know? I was stuck in the house, and I was old. So, but I passed the bike over to my lovely husband. All the procedures are very quick in the afternoon. I'm driving out on the highway right now. I'll take the cup of bread, and then I'll leave and do some volunteer work. With that, I guess it's time to trade. We have a wonderful, wonderful weekend. See you at the G.W.N.E."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:03:21+00:00","id":13366,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13365,"text":" Well Roy, we're glad to have you back and it's Kilo India 5 SSR. Sierra, Sierra, Romeo. KI 5 is, 5 is Texas so just a little FYI most of the time. I mean, some people get different numbers but yeah that's our standard number usually so. And we're glad to have you back and we hope you'll join us on the 4th of Saturday. We have different net controllers every day with different personalities and so everybody does everything a little bit different but it's all still the same. Today I've only had I think one Alaskan station so we've been kind of lapsed on that today. I don't know where my Alaska people are. They haven't checked in yet or something so. But anyway, thank you much and please do come back and join us for KD2 CMS. Also we have a website, the AlaskaMorningNet. Hang on. The AlaskaMorningNetAllOneWord.com. So check that out. And Fireside also has quite a few nets. And that's going to be FiresideRadio.org. Check that out as well. We're hooked up to them too. So but thank you for joining us Roy. We'll say 73. Let's go talk to Dale KC7. Why F-E. Hello Dale. How you doing? How was your day? This is repeater station kilo kilo 7. I'm going to get in the rest of the world. AlaskaMorningNet friends just met by me. They've got that nice big bright ball out in the sky. It's blue. And you know it's looking pretty good out here. So I'm taking a few minutes and enjoying it. Came in a little bit late. Got caught up on YouTube. Got caught up in some moments. Had some people go in handcuffs. And they ripped something off from the store. Yeah it was rather interesting. So I really got a lot for the net. Other than just keep up the good work. Unless you keep coming back. And I've been looking for you and Michael. How are you guys doing down there? Good. How are you guys doing down there?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:04:59+00:00","id":13367,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13366,"text":" You're extremely hot. I mean hot. What I'm going to tell you is that I've heard people, I don't know where it is, but I've heard people talking about making adjustments to the mic in the settings in Echo Link. So get somebody to help you, maybe ask the S-Lutex, because I know there's a setting in there that you can adjust that will help you with this. Because it's really weighty. It's real distorted, and it's real loud. I'm just going to tell you, it hurt. You hurt my ears. But anyway, Dale, I just thought I'd throw that out there to you. But thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for all that you do for Ham Radio KC7YFE. This is KI5SSR. And I'm looking for more check-ins. We're getting to the end of the net today. So I don't want to say last call, but if we only start getting a few more people, where is everybody? Anyway. If I'm looking for more check-ins, this is the Alaska Morning NetKi5SSR is your host today. Mobile short-time non-American stations will be given priority. Please give us that call twice, two times, slowly. Regular phonetics, followed by saying your name now, please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:06:19+00:00","id":13368,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13367,"text":" Well, thank you Gary and 5GBR, KI5SSR. Don't recognize the name but now you got my curiosity. I'll have to look it up. Yeah, I don't recognize the name. I, I, yeah, I'm, I'm not a lot of, I mean, of course I know a lot about country music because, you know, I'm in Texas too. Anyway, Gary, thank you for joining us. We're here every day so come back and join us again and have a wonderful day. 73, thank you for the compliment. And, yes, I know, yeah, you're in LaGrange and Foxman, KJ5FOX is out, just out your way as well so we got two in here in LaGrange. Anyway, have a great day Gary. Let's go to N7FGP Scott. How are you doing today? Scott's our filling net host here for the Alaska Morning Net. So hello Scott."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:07:10+00:00","id":13369,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13368,"text":" That mic is just a little bit hot, so if you could just kind of back away from the microphone a little bit, I think it would be a little bit easier. But we're doing great. Dale, thank you. And the question of the day is what's your favorite way to enjoy a crisp fall day? Whether it's a walk or maybe watching sports or enjoying the scenery or maybe some fall food. Like some cinnamon, pumpkin, hot chocolate, any of the above. Anyway, Dale, come on back."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:07:36+00:00","id":13370,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13369,"text":" I have a statement to call it. It's Kilo Delta 2 Charlie Mike Sierra. Her name is Roy, Romeo R. City Yankee."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:08:32+00:00","id":13371,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13370,"text":" Well, I apologize. That's kind of my fault there. Hope it comes back. So you can always do a recheck. This brings me to the end of the list. This is KF5 SSR. Are you listening to the Alaska Morning Net? I am looking for more check-ins. Short-time mobile non-America stations will be given priority. Please give me a call two times, twice slowly, and irregular phonetics followed by saying your name. If you would like to check in, please call now. Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:09:39+00:00","id":13372,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13371,"text":" J-A-Y-K-I-5-S-S-R, so good to have you here, Jay. And yeah, you know, even in the winter, it kinda warms up in the afternoon here, so most of the time, so it's doable. You know, it's the mornings that hurt. And yeah, so I like it when I can walk without freezing too much, you know. I'm not really a fan of too cold, but you know, I don't mind if it's too cold, I'm in the house and I'm not planning on going out, but once I've made the decision to go for a walk or something, it needs to warm up. Anyway, Jay, it sounds like you're gonna be away from home for a while. You just keep doing more things, so I'm glad you guys are really out there enjoying yourself. So back to W-9, J-A-Y."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:10:05+00:00","id":13373,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13372,"text":" This is WV4JE Whiskey Bravo 4 using an echo echo policy somewhere in north west no north east Alabama."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:11:08+00:00","id":13374,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13373,"text":" WN and VE4YYL, thank you both very much for checking in. And thank you for sharing that. Thank you for volunteering, too. That's very sweet and kind. We love that. Anyway, 73 to both of you. This is KFI, SSR. Welcome to the Alaskan Morning Net. This brings me to the end of the list again. I'm looking for more check-ins. I'm almost short time. Non-America stations will be given priority. Please give me a call two times, twice slowly, and in regular phonetics. Follow by saying your name. If you wish to check in, please call now. ELO, Echo 8, Whiskey, Oscar Juliet. ELO, Echo 8, Whiskey, Oscar Juliet, Rick."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:12:35+00:00","id":13375,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13374,"text":" The CRI-5 SSR from N7FGP. Yeah, you know, I like the concept of battery-operated stuff, but boy, I don't know, it just doesn't, you know, maybe the inner technology is getting better, so hopefully in the future it'll be better. But it looks like we're gonna miss the biggest part of the rain and thunderstorms, so at least for now. I was just looking at the map, so. Hang out, I'm gonna let you get on down the log and I'm gonna be here listening, so. Okay, FISSR from N7FGP, 73, and everybody have a great day. Well, thank you, N7FGP, CRI-5 SSR, Scott, have a great day. Thank you for all that you do here and on the other nets as well. Appreciate you. So let's go to Kilo Quebec 4, uniform papa Kilo. Hello, Chris, and looks like you're in Florida, so hello to you, Chris, how are you doing?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:14:18+00:00","id":13376,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13375,"text":" getting on it years ago and I just got back into it on field day this year when I was trying out different repeaters with the Echo Link. I'm from New Jersey and I'm listening to everybody talk about the cold weather in the northern states of this country and I gotta tell you I sure wish I was one of those states. I really like the cold weather. This past week is a hundred degrees here and it was just terrible. I'm on vacation. I really don't like to go out when it's hot like this. I don't even like summer vacations. I really like a winter vacation or a fall vacation. Fall vacations are the best. It's like the leaves are changing. It's really my favorite time of the year and some of the northern states it must really be nice to have like 65-70 degree weather throughout the summer. July, middle of July we're in the hundreds, 90s to 100. Today it's about 73 degrees. It's a relief but Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was really brutal so I'll stick around and I'll throw it back to you. We're giving you a call again. I didn't write that down fully. KDP back in that control."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:14:47+00:00","id":13377,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13376,"text":" You're looking for a killer, just kill that trailer seven, Yankee Fox, that girl. You're looking for a killer seven, Yankee Fox, that girl. Will's put the other seveners out."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:15:13+00:00","id":13378,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13377,"text":" KL5, Oscar golf. KL5, Oscar golf. Jim in Fairbanks."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:16:36+00:00","id":13379,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13378,"text":" N7FGP, KI5-SSR. And I do want to tell Chris there, I apologize. I went from the two short times and then went down and then realized, ah, you're not forgotten, you are next, so please hang with us. And N7FGP, KI5-SSR, so sorry that you weren't feeling good yesterday. And you know, you can have days like that, and that is a problem with the charge, because I've got a blower. I love it, because I don't have to be gassing it or anything but it doesn't work very long before I'm back in here charging it. So it just slows you down quite a bit. And yeah, I've seen a ton of showers around, but not in my area. We were in a shower area yesterday, but it looks like we're clear. So back to you, Scott, N7FGP. Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:18:05+00:00","id":13380,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13379,"text":" W-O-J. Rick, thank you for joining us. I love to fish myself. I always look forward to that, because there's nothing like being out there on the boat with a little wind blowing as you just get out there, burning up while I'm trying to throw my line. Just makes it a lot nicer. But anyway, thank you for joining us. We're here every day, Rick, so come back and join us. Thank you for being here. K-E-8-W-O-J. So with that, I will say 73. This brings me to the end of the list. Again, I'm looking for check-ins of all the short-time non-American stations. Will we give them priority? Please give your call twice slowly and in regular phonetics. Follow by saying your name. If you would like to check in, please call now. W-9-J-A-Y with key-nine Juliet Alpha-E-Z. K-D-2-C-M-S-Z-O Delta-2 Charlie Mike Sierra Roy Romeo Oscar Yankee."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:18:28+00:00","id":13381,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13380,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:20:01+00:00","id":13382,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13381,"text":" in Miss Cuda, Illinois, in the city of St. Louis. We have family. We have family in the world ponds, and I may have missed one or two. I want you to come stay with us. I want you to come up and spend a week by us. Come and spend a week over here. You know, okay, we're retired now. Why not be up here in the nice, cool Wisconsin weather instead of the 100 degree Texas weather? We have the people that live in our house. That's, you know, the other half of the family down there. They're taking care of the pets in the yard and all of the stuff down there, so we don't really have to be there. So we're taking advantage of the situation for now, and it's working out great for us. Although I'm sitting around too much, not doing any exercising and eating way too much, so I'm gonna have to do something about that. In fact, I've been talking about it now for a whole day, but now it's time to do something about it. Thanks for doing the net. The net is really good hearing everybody else, and I guess that's it for me for now. It'll be a nice day."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:20:27+00:00","id":13383,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13382,"text":" This is repeater station kilo kilo 7 November Quebec November all star node 6222 located in Shelton Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:22:22+00:00","id":13384,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13383,"text":" Check in, KL50G here. Beautiful day again in Fairbanks. And yes, the weather just was so beautiful this morning I was out on the motorcycle, which to me is a good thing to do on a crisp autumn day. Used to be, when I lived in Wisconsin, great to ride out in the morning. You'd have to watch out for wind blows on the road if you're on a motorcycle. That was the one hazard I remember in Wisconsin. Now up here, I haven't done it in a couple of years, but my daughter, both daughters and I, would ride maybe 150 miles north of Fairbanks on the highway to Central, the little town of Central Alaska. And we would do that before the cut leaves changed here in Fairbanks. And as you head further north, you can see the colors really good for photography. And of course, my daughter would drive. That was a treat for me. I'd just be able to sit back and sip coffee out of my travel mug and enjoy the scenery. Maybe we'll do it this year. I don't know. But the other daughter is working out at the radar sites all over Alaska, so she might not have the time off to go with us. But yeah, we'll bring the dog. The dog will be in the back, the golden doodle, and that's always fun to bring the dog along. So I really enjoy that. Back to you, KL50G."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:22:50+00:00","id":13385,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13384,"text":" Texas rule, this is Kilo-Liva 7, Papa Kilo-Liva, GI 7, BKL, please take me last, so maybe I'll be within range of my nose in a couple minutes."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:23:18+00:00","id":13386,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13385,"text":" We picked up Kilo Echo 8, Whiskey Oscar Juliette. Rick, you're on the list. Anyone else want to join us? Call now."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:23:48+00:00","id":13387,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13386,"text":" Now you may not be old enough to remember this country singer or maybe country isn't your thing, but you are an exact duplicate of Gene E. Seeley. So that's a compliment and with that I'm going to jump here. But CAF 5SSR and the NET N5 GBR."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:25:12+00:00","id":13388,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13387,"text":" Hello Jeanette and hello everyone up there on the net today. You know, fall around here is about the time that it finally cools down enough that I can get out and do things. So that's kind of what I like to do. It just gets too hot. During the day I got out this morning and loaded the backyard. But you know, I have this electric mower and darn it, the batteries just don't last very long. So I spend more time charging batteries I think than I do mowing the yard. Oh well. Anyhow, yesterday I wasn't feeling all the greatest. So I'm doing better today. So I was getting out and doing some stuff. Trying to get things done. Anyhow, I think it's going to rain. I saw a few rain drops and some thunder booming in the area. So I'm going to have to look at the map and see where it's headed. Hopefully I can get out and do some more yard work today. But anyhow, back to you Jeanette."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:26:05+00:00","id":13389,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13388,"text":" Alright, we picked up two more stations. Victor Echo 4, Golf Whiskey November Glen, Victor Echo 4, Yankee Yankee Lima Rosie. Hello to both of you lovebirds out there. Question of the day is, what is your favorite way to enjoy a crisp fall day? Whether it's a walk, or maybe watching sports, or fall food, or maybe just the beautiful trees and the colors that pop out. Or how about some hot chocolate? Anyway Rosie, glad to have you. Hope you guys are doing well. Over to you Rosie."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:26:37+00:00","id":13390,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13389,"text":" I should and that really helps break up the monotony during the week. And this is always a good, I guess I got on this net in 2017 it was. So I got on this net about eight years ago. Boy, time sure does fly by quickly. Back to you KI9, SSR."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:29:11+00:00","id":13391,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13390,"text":" I'm not really doing anything outdoors except relaxing, but I have been working on some craft projects because next week from today I have a craft there that I'm going to be in and I have to drive two and a half hours down on the coast to do it. But I do glass etching and I etch different designs on different glassware and things. And I've been doing this for about 10 years, trying to build it as a little side business for my retirement and my retirement's finally here so now I'm cranking this up a little bit. But I can bring a lot of that work outside, which is really good. So I've been doing, it's not really outside work, but it's work I'm bringing outside. And I'm puttering away at that and getting ready. So it's just kind of fun and it's just something I like doing. And so that's my projects for the weekend and this coming week as I get ready to make that drive to the main coast to do the fair. So anyway, back to you Rebecca. This is KC1DQS. Well that's great, Pearl. That's awesome. I love that. And I mean, that's perfect in retirement. It gives you the opportunity to keep on doing something and you're doing something creative and you're still getting out and about, and socializing and along with all the radio stuff. But that's great. I love that glass etching. Well thank you so much for coming back with that and letting us know about your glass etching and what beautiful weather to be outside. I mean, I guess you're relaxing today, but what beautiful weather to be outside making art, being creative and listening to the net. Y'all have a great weekend, 7-3. And again, thank you for coming back with that. Next on the list is James. James, what are you up to? WQ7H, KK7, IJZ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:30:07+00:00","id":13392,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13391,"text":" But you can't see clearly now, right? But anyway, Roy, thank you so much. And don't forget to check in with Roy on Fridays. KI-70-KL, Roy, thank you for joining us and jumping in here and making our day. So hearing your voice out here. So thank you much. This is KI-5-SSR and we're getting close to closing the net. So this will be the last round to check in. This is your final chance to check in two times with your call. Twice slowly in regular phonetics. Followed by saying your name now, please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:31:04+00:00","id":13393,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13392,"text":" Brian, I believe you're the last one. KK4BK. Good to have you here, Brian. Welcome to the Alaska Morning Net. Don't know if I've talked to you before. I don't recognize your call, but anyway, hello to you. We're here every day, Brian. And the question of the day was the favorite way to enjoy a crisp fall day, whether it's a walk or maybe watching sports or checking out the scenery or the food or the hot chocolate, the pumpkin, the cinnamon, whatever floats your boat. But hello to you, Brian in North Carolina. How you doing?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:31:36+00:00","id":13394,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13393,"text":" Yellow Echo Six, that's right there. Good, I-O. Thanks for your I-O, Peter. Got you on the list. Yankee Victor Victor. Who was the Yankee Victor Victor station? GZO Delta Seven, Yankee Victor Victor. I've read one's favorite morgue."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:34:46+00:00","id":13395,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13394,"text":" Anyway, what's up, Grandpa? Um, I want to ask you a question. I mentioned this one time. This is an example. Any damage to the, uh, toilet, nothing. Just a normal cleaner on. And I have some cleaner here. It was not, it was in this place when I bought it. I guess I could call the tech another problem. But, um, I may look at an assistant for help. And I watched a video on YouTube, and that's what he was saying. You gotta be careful what you use on those things, because you can damage that seal on it. And the bottom of the toilet, because when you flush it, it just, you know, it soaks up, dumps it down. Now it goes back up, and there's a rubber ring on, and it pops up. It's, uh, it's, you know, uh, it's the, um, water in there when you flush it. Forty foot. But, I guess, um, was there anything particular that I could just go buy? Uh, this is the answer. Go anywhere or something. You could probably answer it for me if you remember. Anyway, thanks for calling. I'm gonna get in here late, and I did. Um, but, um, I have to go do this. I gotta grab my, uh, my ranch for this property. I'm on right now. I'm staying on. I'm gonna stay here, too. I told you guys that I probably should not ever move from there. Don't have to come on. Um, when I'm gone, it's pretty nice. Uh, some cars go through here, but the road here doesn't go anywhere, so it goes back around. It leads me around to the next thing on the highway. People live up through here. Um, there's a lot of change. Once you can see it, there are people. One of my neighbors is about 50 or 40, it looks like, and they have a run race, and, uh, the coyotes, they get rid of the ones that were... Well, there's coyotes... Well, I think there was a coyote up there that got rid of it, and there is a lot of boxes up here. And one of the things, and this is kind of cool, where I live is way out, way out, so... And I like that. Turn it back to you. This is Deb. You'd be fortunate to be here back then. But I think my question for you to come back here is, is this where I got involved? 34JE..."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:35:08+00:00","id":13396,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13395,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:36:55+00:00","id":13397,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13396,"text":" before JEE-KAF-5SSR. You know, and I was trying to think back. What I did was, somebody was watching my pet while I was at work, and they used paper towel to pick up the poop and put it down in the tank. So that tells you what happened to that, right? Because it was in Kansas, it got froze, and it busted my holding tanks. So that was a nightmare, and very, very expensive to have him, had to have him fix there. Anyway, so yeah, one ply, okay, one ply. But as far as the seal and all that and stuff, I think if I was you, I would Google that, because you may be able to use vinegar, something that won't harm it, you know. So my suggestion, I used to go to the RV stores and buy whatever they had, so I don't know the name of the stuff, but anyway, look into that, you know, and look up on, you know, I'm sure you can find something on Amazon for it, that's specially made for that. So you do have to be careful. Anyway, WP4JEE, have you got your yard mowed yet? Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:39:25+00:00","id":13398,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13397,"text":" Jim, that just sounds beautiful and yeah, that was something that J, W9JAY said also. So, the motorcycle. So, yeah, I guess there's nothing better than the nice fresh air, the beautiful sceneries, you know. And yeah, it sounds like it's a family affair for you there, Jim. Anyway, good to have you here. We'll throw it back at you for anything else, KL50G. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November. So, yesterday I went to the motorcycle shop and they had gotten, there was a recall on my sign luggage and the top luggage on my motorcycle that I picked up last year. So, I got all new side bags and the top box and now I have the capability of removing the side bags. You see, I had a problem with the first ones. I was afraid I'd snap off some little levers so I always left them on. But this morning I got to ride with just the rear trunk box, the top box and without the side luggage. And that gave me a more sporty ride and I'm getting so much better at cycling, motorcycling, with changing the gears and taking curves and doing the shifting at the right RPM. I mean, it's a skill set, a learning curve involved and I never really got really good at that over the years until this year. I don't know. I think it's just kind of a better transmission. You don't have to use a clutch now. You can just pop it into the right gear with your foot and it's smooth. I'm enjoying the motorcycling a lot more. Anyway, that's all I've got today. Hello to everybody and stay cool. I'm the KL5 Oscar Golf."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:40:01+00:00","id":13399,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13398,"text":" And who was that you behind Peter? Who was that behind Peter? KX2CW. Hey, Joan. KX2CW. I'll go ahead and, yeah, that's good. I'll go ahead and stop there. That's a nice little list. Go back to the top to Paul in Maine. KC1DQS. Hey, Paul. How's it going in Maine?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:41:29+00:00","id":13400,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13399,"text":" And everyone on the net is going great here. We are having a wonderful day. It is sunny, 75 degrees, low humidity, and a very light west wind. It's very, very pleasant. And it's supposed to be like that tomorrow, only about 10 degrees warmer. So we'll be in the mid-80s. But still a very nice day. So we can't complain. This, for the most part, has been a great summer. We had a lousy fall, a lousy spring. So we're having a great summer to make up for it. And just glad to have the weekend here. And we're just taking it easy. And I'm just out here on the deck listening to, checking into some of the nets I usually do. And I just stopped by to say hi. So have a great day, 73. And we'll catch you again. This is KC1DQS, back to net control. This is repeater station 7. This is the public service outdoor project that you're working on. We are no station 2. Located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:42:32+00:00","id":13401,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13400,"text":" Thank you, KK4, BK, come back and join us. I just want to thank all of you that checked in with us today, as well as those that just listened along. And it was a pleasure chatting with you and getting to know you better. I want to thank those that connected their systems to us to allow other people to use it to either listen or check into the Alaska Morning Net. We look forward to hearing from you tomorrow, where Roger K0KON will be your net controller. The Alaska Morning Net is now closed, and I'm returning the system back to regular use. And I just want to thank everyone for making this such a great net. This is KI5SSR in Great Rhine, Texas. Jeanette, SANG73."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:42:55+00:00","id":13402,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13401,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:43:30+00:00","id":13403,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13402,"text":" There's this weird phenomenon I don't quite understand. After I go to the internet, but after you go to the real happy hour at the place, you know, with the bartender and all that, when I leave, things just aren't quite as clear, and they aren't quite as crisp. I'm not sure what's up with that, but anyway, something to ponder. KI-7, TKL."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:46:00+00:00","id":13404,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13403,"text":" Well hey there Jeanette and everybody on the net. And thanks for taking my check in. Yeah, now I'm home. I'm actually on my node and so much better. We've got terrible propagation here lately, mostly on two meters. Right now this repeater here is on 70 centimeters, which helps. But I'm a little nervous about checking into any head on my HT lately after some of the signal reports that I've had this summer. Anyway, yeah, fairly nice day here in Portland. It's overcast now. But yeah, it's not raining. And how can I say, it's not hot either. Little humid though. Anyway, you brought up crisp fall days. Yes, as I was feeling kind of sticky on the way home because it's a little on the humid side. And I was dressed a little too warm because I came from church. But oh man, there's nothing like a crisp, clear, cool, fall day. Yes. All the things you said, Jeanette. Go, go, go get a latte, get some hot chocolate, go for a walk, go to some cool place or something. Yeah, just enjoy the beautiful weather. And hey, is the moon out or are we going to take a go? Oh man, a crisp, cool, fall day with a new moon. Hey, now you're talking. Anyway, thanks for taking my check in, my friend. And back to you. Hey, how's it going? PKL. Oh, that sounded wonderful. KI7PKL. Roy is our Friday host here, the voice of Friday. Roy, it's always so good to have you here with us. And yeah, you can go somewhere for a happy hour, huh? Anyway, I'll throw it back at you for any finals. And it is about time to shut her down. So we'll do one last row of calls. But please wait till we get done with Roy. Roy, back to you for anything else."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:49:20+00:00","id":13405,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13404,"text":" Whiskey Quebec 7 Hotel. This is James, and I've just parked at the Yakima Valley Fruit Market. I'm going to pick up some tomatoes and some Walla Walla Sweet Onions and Peaches. And they were out of corn a few days ago, so if they have corn, I'll pick up some corn. And that's my short shopping list. Well, it could be, but I'm terrible at Sean Connery. Going to be fun to see him, hear him say that list. Short shopping list. And so I'm not sure if I'm cooking tacos tonight or something else. I was going to do hamburgers because I have pre-made hamburger patties. But I've got packages of bulk hamburger that are like three days old. So got to use them up. And someone said, well, how about tacos? So there you go. So I need tomatoes. I know I have daisy sour cream. I love daisy. And there you go. That's sort of the dinner plan menu. And I offered meatloaf, but they said, oh, we just had a really good meatloaf. And I guess Christopher doesn't like meatloaf. So there you go. We got to change it up. So that's where I'm at right now. I just left the Maltby Cafe. I haven't been there for like seven or eight months. And it was so good. Tana, the owner, is now the sole owner. Tana, I know, is from Butte, Montana. And I'm from, I was there back in like 77 when Tana and her two other friends opened the Maltby Cafe. I was there so long ago and far away. Well, I wasn't far away. But there it is. So her other two co-owner friends have retired. So now she's running solo. And I just missed her. She was there this morning. I missed her, but that's OK. Anyway, it was still wonderful. They're such nice people. And yeah, she's from Butte, Montana. And it wasn't horribly crowded. I just kind of walked in, snuck in, found a spot. And I had eggs Benedict, which is not on my diet. No. But that's why I only go there very infrequently. I'm sort of waiting for what's in the fall? Beer day? Oh, well, I better get to it here. This is James, WQ-7, East Patch, Rebecca."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:50:19+00:00","id":13406,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13405,"text":" OK, well, I was going to tell you, yeah, I didn't know if you're coming, what node you're coming through. But this is the Alaskan morning net. And we do have, anyway, I was going to suggest that you check out Fireside as well. We're hooked up with Fireside. And they have a website, firesideradio.org, with more nets that you can hook up to, even if you're using Alaska. So I don't know if you said 29332. So I'm not sure. But anyway, one more time back to you, Brian. And then we're going to shut down the net."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:51:24+00:00","id":13407,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13406,"text":" You know, ants are everywhere. Ants, they are everywhere. Try and control them, but little do you know, they're controlling us. Ha ha ha ha. But yeah, have a great day, Grossie. Hope everything works out. And yeah, don't go down the price. People like to haggle. And yeah, get the money it's worth. That's for sure. 7-3, and have a great day, Grossie. Next we have Daryl on a rock, VL1, UKZ, and beautiful St. John Island off the coast of Newfoundland. And last on this list is a person I haven't heard in such a long time. It's Darren. Darren in misery. KM02, KK7, IJZ. Darren, it's good to hear from you. What's going on?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:52:35+00:00","id":13408,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13407,"text":" wonderful Taco Tuesday on Saturday And you know there's always I mean someone must have invented that Meatloaf tackle. I mean why not? We need meat right? Yeah, we'll have a wonderful day James. I'm glad that you've got your eggs Benedict and I visited the cafe and yeah, that sounds like a lovely lovely morning and Enjoy the Yakima fruit market And I will hear from you again soon. Have a delicious a delicious dinner delicious Taco dinner This is Rebecca Kk7iJZ and you're listening to the PSRT new net Next on the list is Jeff in Onion City Alpha Bravo Six Mike Bravo, please come ahead with your report"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:53:15+00:00","id":13409,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13408,"text":" Well good afternoon, thanks for letting me in on the net. This is the first time I checked into the net. There's a gentleman here in North Carolina that told me about your afternoon net, and so tried to put you into my HT today and saved my day today, and it just happens to be that you guys were having the net as I was trying, so thank you for being there. The answer to the question is I really like being out deer hunting and listening to the leaves fall on a crisp day like this."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:55:28+00:00","id":13410,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13409,"text":" They're so great. It's good to hear you and I'm glad that you got some tax-free shopping in. It's a great opportunity to take advantage of all of that, especially if you have weird size jeans, weird size pants. And yeah, so the ham radio outlet in, up here in the Pacific Northwest, that's just outside of Portland, right next to it is a can and glass recycling place where people bring in cans and glass for money. And I always like imagine, I always like dream of just bringing tons of cans and then try to get in for ham radio gear. I just think it's so funny that they're like right next to each other. Maybe next time whenever you're going to turn in your cans, you can come up to the radio, ham, you can come up to Portland and turn in your cans and get some radio gear. Just joking. But yeah, it'll be there. We had, I don't know if there's one up here, but I know what you're talking about. But anyway, Darren, it's really good to hear from you and you sound great. I am glad that you're sleeping well, even though you've got a flipped schedule, I'm glad that you're sleeping well. 7-3, Darren. Alright, this is Rebecca, KK7IJZ and you're listening to the PSRG new net. Let's start a second round. Paul, sign a name, RF and internet. KZ1DQS, Paul and James. KZ7H, this is James. Alright, KZ1DQS, Paul in Maine. I have James, hello James, W27H, more stations please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:56:21+00:00","id":13411,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13410,"text":" Thank you much and yeah, working on antennas when the weather's nicer. That sounds like a plan. And yeah, I was curious because I've heard you say you're going to mow your grass about, well, since last week. So I thought I'd give you a hard time. Hollis, thank you for joining us and yeah, I bet your aces has got something for you there. So it'll be clear with your B4 JEE CAF7PKL Roy. Hello to you and it's your turn."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T12:57:19+00:00","id":13412,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13411,"text":" the way you can just move it to whatever gear now. Maybe that's why it seems a whole lot easier. I didn't even know that. See, I learned something here today. And always so good to hear you out here, Jim, and I'm glad you're enjoying it. That's the fun part of it. And no time like the present. So we'll be clear with tail. Five-O-G. Jim, thank you for joining us. Whiskey Bravo 4 Juliet Echo Echo. Hello, Hollis. How are you doing today, Hollis? And I'm sure you heard the question. So, but anyway, how are you doing?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:00:45+00:00","id":13413,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13412,"text":" Yeah, I got my sleeping cycle reversed. It's like I've been sleeping all day and then I'm up at night. I had to get up and do some stuff today. I had a bunch of aluminum cans I had to take into the recycle place. So I got up early, like 8 o'clock this morning. Actually, about 7.30, I had to load them all into the...load as many as I could in. Take them over. I had like 57 pounds of aluminum cans. Hey, I got almost $40 out of them. Take them to the recycle place and they pay you for them. And they make two trips and then... This is like tax-free weekend. They say it's for school supplies and clothing and stuff. But it basically goes to everybody. And I got over to the shoe place, Shoe Carnival. I don't know if you've got Shoe Carnival store up there. That, uh...yeah, it's like almost $75 for a pair of shoes now. I didn't have to pay tax on them. I thought, well, I got there about a half hour before they opened and I thought, I'll go to Walmart. I hate shopping at Walmart because everything's so spread out. I mean, it's like...it's like they need their own zip code. It's like you need a map to get around the place. It's like, okay, stuff here, stuff there. And I need a new pair of jeans, but they didn't have any my size. I wouldn't have to pay tax on those, but... Oh, well, I got an odd size of jeans. My pants are like a real strange size, but... I got that done. I got my shoes. Had to fill up with gas and I thought, I'm going to get me a lottery ticket. And, uh, like a $5 scratch-off ticket. I don't play them that often. Hey, I ended up winning $10. Not really winning...I didn't really win $10. I won $5 because the ticket cost $5. But, yeah... It was nice just to get the pair of shoes. I haven't had a new pair of shoes in like two years. Yeah, tax-free weekend. It's for... Basically, it's like school supplies. You can get computers. And I could have gotten a road atlas, but I didn't think about that. And maps was something that you can buy. And I had to pay tax on. I didn't think about that. I'm not going to go back down there tomorrow. It'll be even worse tomorrow because it'll be the last day of tax-free weekends. But anyway, I'm going to get off of here and not tie up the net anymore. So I'll turn it back to you. It's KF-0Q. Go ahead, Rebecca."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:01:43+00:00","id":13414,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13413,"text":" Very nice, nice. KK4, PK, KF5SSR. We're here every day, Brian. And yes, I love to leave. It's one of my favorite things. And also, we have a website, www.alaskamorningnet.com. Check that out. It just tells you more about this net. And yeah, so how are you hooking up, if you don't mind me asking, Brian? This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec, November. All-star node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. I'm currently using an Antitone 878 through a DTIF hotspot."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:02:08+00:00","id":13415,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13414,"text":" Kilo Kilo for Bronco Kilo. Name is Brian."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:02:36+00:00","id":13416,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13415,"text":" Thank you so much for letting me jump in here this afternoon. Happy to have one more year count. This is QO, QO-4. Bravo-QO. Back to neck control."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:05:09+00:00","id":13417,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13416,"text":" So, last minute Robert got the invite to go and he said he wants to go and so I'm going with him. I've not met this side of the family and so I want to show up, I want to make a good impression and be respectful and all the things. So I put on the fanciest thing that I can still fit into and there you go. And yeah, I don't get to dress up very often. I mean there's something preventing me from doing it, I just don't because I never leave the house. But you know, I should do it more often. It's fun to do and I enjoy it. So there you go. Yeah, I don't have a whole lot more to add. We picked up some garlic at the farmers market today from a vendor that I haven't gotten stuff from before. I think instead of using the, what do you call them, the cloves, individually I'm going to roast the garlic and we can spread it on some fancy bread or crackers or what not. So more to come, I'm looking forward to it. That's about all I've got for now. I'm sure we'll have more later. Oh no, that's not true. I wanted to say that we're going to, we're hoping to do the net tomorrow from the Field of Wheels 4x4 event in Snohomish. So we're going to go out there after visiting with Robert Stanley to do a signal check from the area to make sure that we have good propagation. And I'm really looking forward to that Field of Wheels event. I don't really know what to expect but it's sponsored by Allied Motorsports and we really like them and they do, they know how to put on an event. So it should be good. So stay tuned and if you're around check in tomorrow from the Field of Wheels. KJ7 RAB back to net control."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:07:41+00:00","id":13418,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13417,"text":" I finished cutting my grass last night, but before it started raining, I cut that down. I wrote the name of it down last night, I love to call it, and so I'm going to look at it, see if I can find out what to clean it with. I've cleaned it once with some stuff in a bottle in there, but it was the one that transferred it, and I'm pretty sure that he told me that there was some cleaner in there. But you know, this hardware carries a lot of RV stuff now. You know, it was a couple of things there when I was in there for my camper. Well, there's a lot of campers around here. This is a very rural area, and people come here to camp. Some of them come here just to live in their camper. You know, I've been getting these days. You know, in a camper you have to know what's going to be right before you do it, because some people know. We have paper town things that don't want to integrate. And mine, my water froze, and it's a cold. It froze in the toilet, and then it froze in the pack going over, and I don't use my holding packets to get the air. I did use it for a little bit before I cut it. But there's a safety pin here, so I've got to work on, I'm going to pass the case very dead ground pipe, because right now part of it is swimming on the ground. And I also will run me a new water pipe, water line underground. I've got to think about it. I've got to get a crimping tool for my picks. I love my crimping tool, and I never got it back how worried it is, so I'll buy me a crimping tool anyway, but I think it'll be a rest. That's all done today. So I'm going to go to the store. I've been going to do that for about three or four days. I ran out of bread yesterday, so that's when I go to the store. There's going to be four days, and you're back to them."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:11:18+00:00","id":13419,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13418,"text":" put it on my calendar. I'm bringing Leo to a birthday party tomorrow. And I was thinking he might have fun going to that event as well, but we'll see. Yeah. But yeah, have a great day. And yeah, just get in and get out. Yeah, pay your respects, I guess. It kind of sounds like that might be questionable, but whatever. Pay your respects, get in and get out, and go on your merry way and carry on with the shenanigans. So yeah, you two have fun and drive safe out there. And yeah, so single check. Yeah, it'll be exciting. It'll be fun, something new. 33Cami7388, all the numbers. This is Rebecca, KK7IJZ, and listening to the PSRT Nunez. It is noon 09, Pacific time, and we have an IO from Zach. KK7WCP, and next we have an N from Grossy. W7DNG. Hey Grossy, how's it going? Going pretty good. It's overcast out here. Nice, cool, I guess you'd call it afternoon, evening, whatever. Rabbit Report, they're still all doing their thing. I'm still doing my thing, so that's the thing for the day. Oh, haven't made up my mind what I'm gonna do this week. I got a couple projects I've been procrastinating on, and you all know I'm the king of the procrastinators. Sooner or later I get it done. When? I've been working on my gate again. I got one of those electronic gates that I use when I take off, I can shut everything down and know everything's secure, why I'm gone, if I'm going on vacation and stuff. But the ants got into it, and I think they shorted out the board in there. So I'm in the process of pulling everything out, cleaning everything off, and see if I can get it up and running. If not, eh, it's just a cheap $100 bill, but we shall see. I hope to fix it better than buying something new again because the thing's been working so well. Yeah, that's about it. Sorry about that. Yeah, I had one gentleman call on the Eddie and stuff and trying to knock me down some more money on it. They go, no, I'm gonna sell it. It's a good deal for 1,500 bucks for somebody for a little beep-bop around vehicle for four-bike-worn or whatever. It's been reliable forever. It's only got $187,000 on it, and it's still not even broke in yet. But anyhow, I just don't need two rigs. I got my main car and two motorcycles, so I think I got enough vehicles. Everybody have a good day or tomorrow. Be safe out there, folks. Talk to you soon again. W7, DNG. Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:14:51+00:00","id":13420,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13419,"text":" I'm Jeff Hanks, going out. It's about, anyone rather cool for what we've been having here. There's a cold front going through here today, and so, I think it's not going to be really cold, it's cool, they scour a little bit. And, got some running around again today. I'm going to go to A-Card where they have this thing going on where you pay $5 to get a bucket, clean all this stuff, and then get 20% off. And see what I mean, there's some things on my list I need from there. And so, I'll go, I can go to Lowe's, the Lowe's is about 15-20 miles from here. And, the Lowe's I have to go to, I have to go to, well I just want to go to the south of here, but I just don't go to A's, I don't need that much. But, I need my $5 back, and I'll take the $5 for some charity. Anyway, and I've got two, one is a 10 meter dipole I've been working on for about three weeks, I've got most of it done, and a ton of things coming up. And, one of them was procrastination, I like to do that sometimes, so I did. Anyway, and to answer your question, I kind of think of what I've normally done in the far-and-wide, I've just been working on antennas outside, because, instead of having it so hot, and I have been out there working on one of mine, but I've finally got it up. But, I have some other things I'm trying to get in the building, and that's just not what you've been here, so I've got a place to store stuff, and I saw where, I think it helped Walmart, and some of these metal buildings on sale, and I'm thinking I might go over and get one of those, pretty sure, to store my, for most of the destruction out there, you know, my bank, and my, I think it's a manic, manic, you know people, because I need to go to a manic, and they know what a manic is, but I have a manic in the shovel, I'm up in the shovel, people would borrow things from me, weren't used to real, because I live with off-county charge of things, and I finally had to make a list, where people said they had manic, and I put their initials back, and asked her initials, but I could, they wouldn't return on my, forget about it, and then I, they signed it, got the card somewhere, I paid them with a,"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:15:39+00:00","id":13421,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13420,"text":" Alright, I have Michael in Yukon, I have Carrie in Scotland, and I'll go ahead and stop there. Alright, I'll go back up to the top to Fred and Medina Ohio, K-E-8-2-F-T. Please come ahead with your report Fred."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:16:36+00:00","id":13422,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13421,"text":" Have a fun ham radio day, have a fun squirrel watching day, yeah, on their little picnic table, eating nuts on their little picnic table. Hee hee hee. Well that's great Jeff, thank you so much for your report and have a great day and seven three. And thank you for being such an amazing ham-passenger. Next on the list we had an I.O. from Peter and Santa Cruz, K.E.6, R.A.X. And next we have an N from K.D.7, Y.Z.V. Please come ahead with your report."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:17:02+00:00","id":13423,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13422,"text":" Sorry to jump in there at the same time as the other fella. This is K-8 QFD Fred in Medina, Ohio."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:18:07+00:00","id":13424,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13423,"text":" Good afternoon, Rebecca. Definitely the audio is okay. Not much going on today. Still looking online for recumbent trikes. Doing that and also looking online for two APRS kits. So kind of keeping myself busy looking for those two things. Other than that, just not a lot going on. Keeping myself busy. Football season's getting ready to start. So my client is going to have me hopping pretty soon. At any rate, that's pretty much all I've got. I just hadn't checked in in a while and I figured I'd better check in before rumors of mipejacks go, uh, what do they call that thing now, viral? But at any rate, I'll turn it back to you, Rebecca, and thanks for doing the net kilo delta seven. Yankee Victor Victor, everyone's favorite Borg. Back to net."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:22:01+00:00","id":13425,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13424,"text":" or all of the HEM radio events, including our reoccurring events. Like tonight, 8pm in the Seattle area is the SimplexNet, and the frequency for the SimplexNet is 146.56. It's a great way to keep in practice using your radio and using Simplex. But anyway, that's about it for announcements. And remember, August 10th, the next Rain or Shine, it's a Sunday. Sunday, August 10th. Let's carry on with this new net. My name is Rebecca, 27IJZ, and this is a social net held on the PSRG repeater. So let's start a new list. I'll sign the name RF and internet. Grossy, W7, DNG, recheck. Hey Grossy, I got your recheck. Why don't you come ahead with your recheck? It's not what it is in regard as the gentleman that does the sandblasting stuff. I'm into that also. I just had a story. I've got a neighbor down the street that's into radios and stuff and likes his numbers on the back of his window of his truck. Well, he says, do you have anything that's more permanent that's besides being vinyl and stuff like that? And I says, well, I can sandblast it more. He says, really? He says, yeah, I like that. So I went and sandblasted for him. And he says, oh man, that is cool. He says, can you do any other things for me with some sandblasting? He had an emblem that he wanted on the back window also. So I did that for him. Turned out really cool. One of these days I'll get a picture of it and put it on PSRG page to show you what it looks like. But that's my story and I'm sticking to that part of it. I enjoy doing sandblasting too. I do a little bit of everything. And it's a technique. You know, a lot of them use chemicals and stuff, but I don't like putting chemicals on anything. Sandblasting is easy. I just use a good old plenty of sand like you got for the kids and stuff. I just filter it out and it works quite well. I got a cage to put everything in and I can do up to about a two by two foot size piece of glass or meter or whatever. Anyhow, everybody have a good day, better tomorrow. Grocery's just bringing that back up. I do that too. W7, DNG. Well that's cool, Grocery. That's right. You are a man of many, many talents. Many, many skills. And I didn't even realize that you could do that to a car's windows. I don't know why I didn't even think about that, but that's so cool. Thanks for coming back with that. Yeah, that's Paul in Maine. KC1DQS. But thank you, Grocery73. And come back and re-check if you want. All right, let's go ahead and start a new check-in. Paul signing name, RF and internet."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:24:16+00:00","id":13426,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13425,"text":" and somewhere on our side from our home 2TH, but it just feels like another world because you're going out to the coast there, Rebecca. Air M0, RKN, back to neck control. This is... Oh, that's so fun! That's a nice little trip, a nice little... Yeah, a nice little getaway, staycation of sorts before school starts up again, and, yeah, have a great weekend with your family. That's so much fun. Yeah, I'm looking at it on a map. I feel like I say this all the time, but I like to look at places that people mention on maps. I like maps. Ha ha ha ha! Well, Carrie, it's always good to hear from you. Have a wonderful evening, and, yeah, have a wonderful sleep, and we will hear from you soon, and, yeah, hear what you have to share with your and your family's ham radio adventures. That's great. I guess next week you're going... Yeah, as you said, back to reality, but, you know, we like to hear about... Yeah, we love to hear what you have to share, especially in your morning quiet time. Well, 33 and 73 and all the numbers, Carrie, and thanks for sharing about your... Ah, yeah. Ha ha ha! About your little, yeah, your little weekend getaway, caravan getaway. All right. That was... Carrie was the last on that list, so let's do last call. Last call for this noon PSRJ net. Last call."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:31:49+00:00","id":13427,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13426,"text":" That's sweet. Yes. We don't want you to go viral, especially for a long time. You're alive and well. And, yeah. Well, good luck on the bike hunt and the spring football season, everything. It's good to hear from you and have a wonderful weekend and check in more often, just in case you forgot. We do three yesterday, 9 a.m. noon, 9 p.m. Well, thank you for your check in in 7-3. Next and last on this list is Joan, KX2CW. 33, Joan, please come ahead with your report. 33, Rebecca, and here is Joan, KX2CW. Let me adjust my microphone gain so it can be commensurate with your voice. That's what I was looking at in the audio meter. And I thought, all right, Rebecca's modulation is just about right, so I will emulate your modulation level. It seems imprecise, but actually a lot of audio engineering is done that way. I mean, all our things digitized now and normalized. They have software for normalizing things. But in the old days, you just listened to how it sounded and you adjusted it. You rode the recording level, especially the live recording. You really just have to be kind of listening and listening to the blend of everything and twiddle the knobs. It's a craft. It's a dark art. It's witchcraft. It's very similar to radio. Anyway, so the mountain is not out. The insulating blanket layer of sleeping bag guts chewed by dogs is above our heads in all its marshley texture. Which I love. I like highly textured skies. I love, it's like a society. I live in a part of Seattle that is highly textured, sociologically speaking. Anyway, and I'm feeling the ham radio spree here, so I turned on my HF radio, my TX2. So not only do I have the CHF FM radio on to switch through which I'm speaking to you and all with you, but also the CHF radio in CW mode is sitting here saying, what do you want to wait for? But anywho, I'm ready to go to the Recover Cafe to my women's circle this afternoon. Right about now if I get there, I'll get there in time to be able to eat before attending the circle at 15 hours. So I have all of my outerwear ready to dawn before I exit the domicile. I don't know why I'm talking like this. I get in a weird mood sometimes. There are the bicycles parked in the staging area which they're supposed to be, that little square, little rectangle waiting for the light. It's amazing to see people actually blocking the traffic pattern as it was intended. Not that the people who designed the traffic pattern knew everything, but I've talked long enough. 33, Rebecca, and all my gals out there, I see you across the radio spectrum full of guys. And all the numbers to all my hams as appropriate. Joan, TX2CW perched in the Capitol Hill Behavioral Observatory watching all the behavior. Look at that. A whole clutch of pedestrians and the bicycles together all pulling out, going westwards bound. And there's the trolley. TX2CW, Joan on Broadway, back to net. Well, Joan, thank you so much for your report. Have fun at the Women's Circle, your writing circle, at the Recovery Cafe. And thank you so much for all of your reports from the Capitol Hill Behavioral Observatory. Punch on the Capitol Hill Behavioral Observatory. I should take a picture of my doodles that I did while you were transmitting. I think that you would appreciate it. But, yeah. Have a fun ham radio day. And, Joan, just in case you were wondering, you talk like that all the time. And that's why we love you. Because you're weird just like the rest of us. 33 and 88 and all the numbers, Joan. Have a wonderful day and don't forget your raincoat. All right. That was the end of that list. And I'll just go ahead and stop for announcements. All the announcements can be found at PSRG.org. If that's PSRG.org. Where you can find everything PSRG related and ham radio events to consider, ham radio and ham radio adjacent. A couple of things. You can become a member of PSRG. Yeah, we enjoy seeing who is a member and who participates. And as a member you can also use our remote HF station. Which is really cool. And, yeah. Yeah, for any questions about the remote HF station please get in touch with Brooks K9 BBC, our vice president. And as far as events go, the next Rain or Shine will be at Green Lake near a Green Lake cafe. And Cami KJ7RAB and Robert KJ7JXM will be hosting the new net from this ice cream social Rain or Shine. And it's fun. The Rain or Shine are in person ham radio events for PSRG. So bring all your friends. You definitely don't have to be a ham radio operator to come to the Rain or Shine. We want to meet you. We want to see you. We want to meet you. But yeah, that's August 10th. August 10th at Green Lake."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:33:24+00:00","id":13428,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13427,"text":" Maybe I'm making that name up. Ah. OK, so I have a KC8UGE, KC5LNY, or maybe it's an LNJ. Oh, I got all mixed up, y'all. I'll go ahead and draw a line there, since I'm getting all mixed up already. Already. And I'll go up to Rich and Polo, and we'll just see how this goes. Rich, 88 Rich, and Kansas to Polo, please come ahead with your report. Well, hi, Rebecca. Oh, Polo and I are just doing great. This cool day today is just so good for walking. So I don't know. I lost count of how many blocks we walked, but it was a good bit. And oh, my goodness, it was so nice. And, you know, met a few neighbors that I haven't seen for a while since last year. So it's nice to see a couple of faces I know. And yeah, and so now I'm a little bit late with my lunch, but I'm fixing that now. Polo got fed. He's over in the other chair, and he is just all conked out. So I don't know. There might be a nap in my future. Back to you, KC3OE."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:33:51+00:00","id":13429,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13428,"text":" that you stayed in outside of Edinburgh? Um, come back with that. I was, I'm looking at it on a map. What's the place called again?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:34:23+00:00","id":13430,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13429,"text":" There are a lot of Kenwood fans out there, so you are in good company. 7-3, have a good night. Have a good day. Next on the list is the Y1 MGS, Michael in Yukon. How's it going, Michael?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:37:04+00:00","id":13431,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13430,"text":" This is Y1NGS returning, Michael in. Well, we're in Caffeyen Lake in Kluwani National Park, Yukon. On the south, west shore alone. My wife and some friends are descending from the throne. They went up on hiking. They're cleaning up on the boat here from, uh, we just made some Texas wraps for brunch. That's going nice for my friend, my friend Lea and I here. They're about halfway down, so you can probably see them in about half hour. They're making good time. My wife is VY1-HELOV. She's got a radio up there as well, so we've been in contact. Rebecca, how are you doing today? Thank you for doing the net. Thanks for taking my check in. Did you hear everyone out there? Back to you for Richard IQ1. Mike Galt's here. Michael, how did I not know that your wife had a call sign? For some reason I just completely missed that. But, um, yeah, well that's the friend that y'all got to radio back and forth together. And, yeah, some visitors and, um, beautiful Yukon. Yeah, I'm sure that it's lovely up there right now. I, yeah, I can only imagine. I will always dream of cold weather, so there's that. Lea, did you want to talk about how presentable? Yes. Okay. And, yeah, well it's good to hear from you Michael. Yeah, I feel like I haven't heard from you in a while. I feel like, well I think last night you did an I.O. But, anyway, uh, 73 and all the numbers Michael. And just so you know, I'm doing great. I'm doing great. This is Rebecca KK7IGZ. Last on this list is Carrie in Scotland. How is the summer winding down? How is your kid enjoying his time? And, uh, yeah, how's everything going in Scotland? Over to you Carrie."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:37:30+00:00","id":13432,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13431,"text":" You have it, that's Fred. The Dyno IOS. DC2 is cute. Check it out."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:38:04+00:00","id":13433,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13432,"text":" Thank you, Madam, and WQI, KJ7, WQI, Matt, and Boston. It's true. It's true, Matt and Boston. I cannot even... Okay, here we go. Got it. KJ7, WQI, KJ7, IJZ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:39:22+00:00","id":13434,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13433,"text":" Yeah, here in the San Francisco Bay Area, it's sunny out and 70 degrees out. So my other weather station says not too far away, 78, so I wonder what the temperature is. Maybe I just divide it in half and we'll go for 74. Yeah, just getting going here. I slept in late, drinking coffee. The squirrel was out. There's only one squirrel. Looks like a skitter's. So I'm sure a couple others will show up here a little later on. I put nuts and peanuts out there for them. And the peanuts are already gone, so I'll probably be chomping on the nuts now. Yeah, it's just kind of my favorite day for amateur radio. There's stuff going on all day, so I really enjoy it. So let me hand it back to you. Thank you very much, as always, for doing the nav. AB6MB."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:41:13+00:00","id":13435,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13434,"text":" You have some domestic engineering to do, but I feel like that's something that you enjoy, keeping everything tidy. But yeah, you know, I have a couple of things. So I have some of those, like UV protecting shirts, but when I drive, I wear just, they have just like sleeves that will cover my hand too. So yeah, I'll do that just to protect myself from the sun. So even though I, have, you know, melanin rich, all skin, I still like to protect my skin from the sun. It is important. No matter how much melanin you have, it is important. And also I have tattoos that I want to protect. But yeah, I'm always, I've always got sleeves. And if I don't have sleeves, I've got some ridiculously high SPF, but yeah, it's good to hear from you, Mike. And I'm glad that you and Courtney are having a good day together. And now it's a good day to go out and spend time showcasing those satellites or in your case, my event. Located in Shelton, Washington. This is Rebecca, KK79JZ. You're listening to the PSRG new net. Next we have KC5LMJ or LMJ. LMJ, please come ahead with your report."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:42:39+00:00","id":13436,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13435,"text":" And what's fun is on this repeater system, we also have a boater's net every morning. So every morning at 747 hour time, there's a boater's net where people check in. It's a roster net. But you get to hear from all over the world, people, there's a, it's a weather and printer report net. So, yeah, maybe you'd like, yeah, I feel like some people don't know about that. But just in case you're listening, I feel like, yeah, the person, the KC5L, LWY, and you, I feel like you always enjoy that weather, the boater's net. So that's on this repeater system every morning at 747 hour time. And you get a really great weather report and a printer report. But yeah, thank you so much for checking in and have a wonderful weekend. And 73, this is Rebecca, KK7IJZ. I'll do one more last call, one more last call just for the heck of it, right? Last call, call sign and name, RS and internet."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:43:09+00:00","id":13437,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13436,"text":" And who was that who doubled with Charlie? I think I got it was an Ohio station. And you checked in, I think you checked in last night. But uh, yeah. What was your call sign again? It's K-E-8 something."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:43:36+00:00","id":13438,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13437,"text":" KJ7, I'm getting my math mixed up. My math mixed up. KJ7EQI, KQ7IJZ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:44:24+00:00","id":13439,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13438,"text":" I am, yes, I'm being four, zero, 40. And some of our dual band, and I don't count them as two, I was one, so there'll be two, but every one of those, and I don't know, I got so many that I don't know what to do with them all."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:44:50+00:00","id":13440,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13439,"text":" WOI, John Holland Falls, go with him, in and out. Thanks Rebecca for doing the net. 73."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:45:14+00:00","id":13441,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13440,"text":" The radio's four zero. Back to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:46:04+00:00","id":13442,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13441,"text":" Good afternoon. It's Kilo Charlie 5 Lima Whiskey Yankee. Over here in Galveston, Texas on Ferry Road. I have no traffic. I was just here for the check-in. I appreciate you. I listened to you for a while and I just thought I would check in. But it's Kilo Charlie 5 Lima Whiskey Yankee Galveston, Texas down the road from the Bolivar Ferry. 73s with no traffic, m'lady."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:46:27+00:00","id":13443,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13442,"text":" That'll be QM."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:47:28+00:00","id":13444,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13443,"text":" I feel like I sleep my best sleep I have when I nap. I always feel like the most, like a good afternoon nap is like the perfect sleep. So yes, do that. Follow Polo's lead and rest your eyes, Rich. And yes, today has been just a beautiful day. I love an overcast day. I'm more likely to go outside without the sun burning my eyeballs, as I like to say. But yeah, but anyway, it's always good to hear from you, Rich, 7-3 is an 88 and so many kisses to Polo. All right, next we have Mike in the Woods of Lacey with maybe Courtney in the background. 33 Courtney, KBA, BMY, KK7, IJZ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:50:05+00:00","id":13445,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13444,"text":" Well, once again, hello to the Great Pacific Northwest. Yeah, Rebecca, you were on last night when I got in here. Oh, you must put in a lot of hours here. I really didn't have much to say. It's very cool here considering the weather we've had lately. It's like 70-ish, 73 degrees or so. And very little low humidity. We've been in the 90s for the last few years. And it's really starting to cool off here. And I hate to say it, but fall might be coming soon. And the bad thing about fall is after fall, winter comes. And winter on Ohio. Oh, boy, it's not like winter in Washington. K8QFT, thanks for coming back to me, Rebecca. And I return to neck control. Well, Fred, one fun thing about wintertime is we still host nets. And yeah, I do sub a lot. And I'm subbing for Kurt, Alpha, Carl, Seven, Yankee Mike. He usually does the Saturday afternoon nets. And yeah, and I do every Friday evening and then every other Thursday. But you'll find me sprinkled in there all the time. I'm constantly subbing for people. But Fred, it's great to hear from you. And you know what? It will be winter. But then, as you say, what you forgot to mention is that after winter is spring. And then after spring is summer. And then we just do it all over again. But yeah, please continue to check in. And even in those winter months when it's cold outside in Ohio, whoop, keep on checking in. 7-3, Fred, have a wonderful day. Next on the list is Charlie, KCTO-SDO, KK7. K-7."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:50:34+00:00","id":13446,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13445,"text":" I'm Matt. And then was that you, Mike, in Magnolia, KJ7, VU? Yes, ma'am. Sweet. Got you on the list, Mike. More stations, please. Last call."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:51:03+00:00","id":13447,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13446,"text":" Yeah, I hope you're having a beautiful day out there at home, though. K27WOI. 7-3, John, thank you so much for stopping by. More stations, please. This is last call."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:54:21+00:00","id":13448,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13447,"text":" and Courtney says hi. And just getting a lot of stuff caught up from the week that I wasn't able to do. It's been pretty busy this week. So I also worked with APRS. I just came in from a pass. And then I remembered you running into that. I got to check in. So it's overcast here. I'm guessing it's like what, a rain layer or something? It'll burn off by probably about 1 or 2 o'clock. But I agree with you. It's more comfortable than having the sun beat down on you, especially if you're jogging or biking or booking satellites. Because it's not really for your schedule. You know, when I'm at work, what I'll do a lot of times and when I ride bikes, I'll have these types of top. I don't know what material this is. But it's like really cool temperature. It covers my arms. So I wear pants. I wear long sleeves. I don't want all that sun on me. I don't want to get burned. So I wear that and usually wear a hat, depending on how much sun there is, what kind of head it's going to be. And so that works out good. So an overcast day is way better. I think we're somewhere in the mid-60s right now. So really, it's perfect. You can go out. You can bike. You can jog. You can operate if you want to operate out there and what have you. So that works out real good. So it's pretty comfortable. But the humidity is up a little bit. So anyway, just knocking out a bunch of loads to wash in between. And what was interesting was when I did this path, I went out there. I was using two phones. I'm using one because I wanted to make a video of it. And so I had one phone on a tripod. And this thing will follow me around. It has like a motion detector. And it'll kind of follow me around as I walk around. And then another one that I was using for APRS for a terminal. And then I had an HC that has a TNC in it. Anyway, so I did have tracking. So I'm like, oh, I forgot which way it was going. Where it was going to rise. If I had a pretty good idea, it was supposed to be to the southeast, I think. So I just like aimed in the general direction. And I was paying this thing. And I honestly didn't know where it was. So that's how good that radio works and that arrow works. So that's kind of neat. Anyway, I hope everyone's having a good Saturday. And Rebecca, good to hear you. Good job on the net as always. And 73, this is KBA PMI Mike in the woods in Lacey."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:54:47+00:00","id":13449,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13448,"text":" N7JPI. Uh, all right. One more last call. Last call, RF and internet."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:55:38+00:00","id":13450,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13449,"text":" Oh, not much to report. I just got done watering my garden. Finally starting to get some tomatoes and peppers out of it. And this last week, it was very, very hot, humidity about like near Louisiana at times. The heat index was running 100, 110. And today, it's 80 degrees outside with about 40% humidity. So that's good. I'm going to send this back to net control. This is KCAGJD."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:57:46+00:00","id":13451,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13450,"text":" 0, ask 8, end of turning. Well hello there Rebecca, it's really good to hear you. It's evening here, so erm, August 9th at clock, one Saturday night and er, yeah things have been going good. Erm, summer holidays have gone in very quickly, it goes back to school on the 14th of August and of course, that's what I was thinking, August already, so it's been in very, very quick and erm, it doesn't feel that long from a resort in the net saying to you how the heck am I going to cope with these 7 weeks, but it's actually went in very quickly and erm, yeah he's actually been quite good and there's not been too much hassle with him. He's quite happily went out and played in his bike in his proof of friends. We went on holiday last week as well, we went to the east coast of Scotland last week just outside Edinburgh and there was a caravan we stayed in but it was fantastic, very relaxed holiday. There was a swimming pool on the site as well and we were very close to a beach and the weather held out well for us so we managed to actually get on that beach to the west. That's the important thing, there wasn't any room last week so it was great and this week it's been like any back to reality for myself, getting back to work and trying to do those 4.30am wake ups. I have struggled a bit with that this week so I didn't quite make all the nets in the morning which would be on 9pm next. I didn't quite make them all this week, I made a cut with them, I think I made Jones and I made a cut with Hopkins but yeah, I just didn't have going. But no, all's been good thank you and I hope things are well with you there Rebecca. This is LM0, Ask Tain, saying 53 Rebecca and 73 and all the numbers in fact, thank you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:58:14+00:00","id":13452,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13451,"text":" I have Neil in there. I have, uh, maybe it's Ray in Michigan. I'll go ahead and... Neil, what's your call sign?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:58:39+00:00","id":13453,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13452,"text":" 11, JPI. Greg for an I.O. Good afternoon, everyone."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T13:59:05+00:00","id":13454,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13453,"text":" Alright, we'll go back to the top to Matt and Kirkland KJ7C2I. No, that's not..."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:00:36+00:00","id":13455,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13454,"text":" I'm originally from South Louisiana and am very familiar with Galveston, Texas. And we have a regular here who texts in all the time from Galveston, Texas. And I can't think of his call sign off the top of my head because I can't. But yeah, his name is Herb. So yeah, well thank you so much for checking in. And we do three nights a day, 9 a.m. noon and 9 p.m. And our All Star link is 2462. So please, you can always connect to us directly. I'm not sure if you're coming in. I didn't check if you're a fake. Do drop in or fireside. But yeah, our All Star is 2462. And this is PSRG in the Puget Sound region of Washington. And I hope to hear from you again. Have a safe ride out there out in Galveston, Texas. And yeah, let us know how your hurricane season is going. Hopefully it's uneventful. Alright, next on the list is \u2013 and 73 \u2013 next on the list is KC-8UJE. I think it was a station in Michigan. Please come ahead with your report."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:03:18+00:00","id":13456,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13455,"text":" Well, hello Rebecca. I apologize not for talking on your net last night. I made it to like 11.25, 11.30, and then I was unconscious. I fell asleep just because I... you know, so I tried my medication up to make. But anyway, I do apologize for that. And well, here now, talking to you and everything and all that kind of good stuff. Anyway, I got two radios last week. I got 10 wood PN331 and a 331A, which was a 2 meter, 70 meter... I got a 2 meter, a 2 meter, and a 2 meter. Well, I kept one. Then I picked up a amplifier for the VHF radio and it was a good price. You know, I picked up all three. The Roger 500, which was a pretty good deal. However, I have to get rid of some stuff now. Because now I'm just using screen tech, you know, for my hobbies. But, I'll keep on buying and trading. That's all I can do. But I'm not allowed to keep anymore. Yeah, I have to get rid of some. Oh, after 40 radios. I think that's enough, Pop. Yeah, so before the target gets me, I'm going to say TC2, F2, back to net control."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:03:45+00:00","id":13457,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13456,"text":" Mike, KB8, B, M, Y. I have KC5, L, M, Y. I think that's what it was. And more stations, please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:06:50+00:00","id":13458,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13457,"text":" There are a lot of mats on this net. There's also a lot of bills, a lot of riches. And a lot of Michael. Anyway, I'm just over here in Boston. I've got a day off in between trips. Tomorrow, I think I just do a turn tomorrow, but it's three legs. Like here in Boston down to Denver up to Newark and back or something like that. So I'm working a little bit tomorrow. Today is a day for laundry and for painting the bathroom a little more. But other than that, I think I'm going to go ahead because I popped in here like maybe five, six minutes ago, not too long ago. I think I need to go into my Google fittings and set up reminders in my Google calendar for the net time so I can pop in and hop on the net. To the love here and y'all over there. It's a very radioactive, what does Jack say, active and engaging and something else. Anyways, as the saying goes, so many friends all in one place with PSRC. I'll throw it back to you. Thanks, Rebecca. Lovely meeting you at the picnic. And I would love to be there for the rain or shine on the 10th. If I can, I will. Hopefully I can get work off and fly over there and be there for the picnic. But we shall see. I'll throw it back to you. Thanks for the net. KJ7WQI. Awesome. Thank you. Have fun on your travels. That's a lot. A lot of flying. But it is, yeah, your job. And yes, thank you so much for your service. Yes, that is a, yeah. That is a thankless job being a flight attendant. Yeah, well, thank you so much, Matt. And it was great to meet you and have a good weekend doing laundry and such. I'm losing my mind. That's okay. But have fun in Boston and Denver and Newark and Boston and all of the places that you go. 73 Matt. All right. Next on the list is Mike and Magnolia. KJ7VEU, KK7IJZ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:07:17+00:00","id":13459,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13458,"text":" We're back. Medina, Ohio. That's what it is. Okay, so we got Fred, we got Charlie. 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Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. Well I was just calling out on the WW7PSR repeater because I'm doing a POTA activation here in North Bend, Washington. I'm at the top of a place called Cedar Butte. But I don't think you'll be able to do that for me. So I'll switch over to a different repeater and see who else I can get. Have a great day. 73 to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:26:12+00:00","id":13492,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13491,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:26:48+00:00","id":13493,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13492,"text":" I appreciate it. 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Part of it anyway. Appreciate it. I was making sure I was still connected. C-O-5V, this is David in Alaska. Thanks for the comeback. C-O-5V, this is Alaska. He's doing A-C-O-1."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:33:56+00:00","id":13508,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13507,"text":" KK7 LMT monitoring."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:34:23+00:00","id":13509,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13508,"text":" This is Kieler Mike 4, Juliet X-Ray Sierra, Joe in Memphis. Hey Joe in Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:37:27+00:00","id":13510,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13509,"text":" Oh yeah, I can help you find it. Yeah, I'm looking at the fire station and a couple banks, and I'm on the corner at the village. And everybody seems to be walking on here from all parts of Magnolia with their dogs and anybody else they're dragging along. And I haven't seen the easiest hub that's up here with a table. It's not at the corner of the school where they were last time I saw them. So they're probably down where all the people are on a block north of McGraw. And they're 33rd, I guess, and whatever it is north of McGraw. So yeah, I'm headed there. I got a max. I got the magma on the car. I was going to make some better intent on the HD one. And unless I can just set it on something, a car or something, just get out much better from that way. And I figure maybe I'll make a helmet. It looks like Marvin the Martian with an antenna on the top. Because I do have a World War II helmet, and I think a magma might work with it. I haven't tried that one yet. Get yourself an EU. I could look like the photographs. Continuous idea, Mike. Do it. Do it. Do it. Marvin the Martian. Do it, Mike. I love it. Yeah, thank you so much for your check-in. I'm looking forward to those pictures. 73 and have fun with the phobia. And yeah, if you lose your mind at University Place, I'll be here waiting to find it. 73, Mike. All right, we had an I-O from John and Paul's boat, K27WOI. And we had an I-O from Greg and 7JPI. And that's a net, y'all. I would like to thank everyone for joining me for this new net on this Saturday, August 2. Everyone, have a wonderful weekend. Enjoy seafare. For those who go, enjoy the 4x4 event tomorrow in Sammamish. Yeah, but everyone just have a really great weekend. And thank you so much for joining me. It wouldn't have been much of a net without you. We do three nets a day, 9 AM noon and 9 PM. And I'm looking forward to hearing from y'all and on another net. This is Rebecca, KK7IJZ, turning the repeater back to unmoderated use. 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KI-7, RMU."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:39:11+00:00","id":13514,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13513,"text":" You're Rebecca, you still there? 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Beep. Beep. Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:52:08+00:00","id":13537,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13536,"text":" Thanks for coming back, I appreciate that. What is your name? My name is Chris. The handle here is Graham Golf Romeo Alpha Hilt Alpha Mike. I've got a 24 hour watch on this frequency, which is the Dunedin, and this is my friend, um, repeated. Um, you're probably coming in through, uh, the divorced, uh, network, probably. Uh, over."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T14:53:17+00:00","id":13538,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13537,"text":" Are you using Echo Link or All Star or are you using a Hot Spot or are you using Rf to your own repeater? You're reaching me through All Star and this is a 690FZ which is the also the Canadian repeater, VHF repeater. I'm on the UZART branch 30, Otago, over. Ok, subject. We're waiting for the sun to come down here in Hollywood, Florida and we're going to go up and put another mast up on the other side of our house at the beach. 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I was able to talk to my wife using a digital mode C4FM from 50 watts on C4FM digital from my antenna at home which is 50 foot plus the 17 foot of the antenna, it's a GP9 by Comet and we were able to get a crystal clear C4FM signal for over 30 miles in pouring rain and I didn't die, I just, I keep talking about the C4FM digital technology and it is absolutely incredible and I just can't get over the ACRS and I need to make a connection over 2,000 miles with the digital repeater is unbelievable and I'm really loving it. The radio goes up into the sky into a passing satellite, goes across the third ocean view and the reverse trip down to your QTH. I'm running a 10-wood Tango Romeo 7-7-30 somewhat QRP or like tan, quite a bit more than I need and they bring some full short bands out of critical of about a meter or so in a vertical length, about a lot more than I can. Over. Oh, sounds like you got a blue antenna going, that sounds like a good one. This thing has got something similar to a GP3, it's about a, you know, a GP3 is a one meter, not one meter long, it's a high gain vertical and set up by a comet as well but it doesn't require a ground plane so it's nice, it's pretty cool, you have to push those little ground plane things in there. I don't know what the reason is for it but I'm able to receive air bands, I'm able to transmit on the 220 and, not me for 220 units but I got such a good SWR that I can transmit on the 220 frequency line and of course 270 centimeters on my mobile unit in my car that's a YASEN 510D and that, I'll tell you that radio right there, I'm in love with that radio, especially with the C4SM, the digital mode that it has and the system as well. It's really cool and I really enjoy the antenna because I bought the MOSIUS engineering, I can't remember the name but it's one of the top model GMRS, it's a week off from the next engineering, let me bring it for a second. My Dango Romeo 7730 is a very cheap 1970s model, it's a Dango Romeo 7730 running SM and seems to get the job done. What have you got through to you or you got through to me so I'm not sure you're doing something right. Yes, for brand names, YASEN is a very cheap brand, I've used SU equipment, the T-word equipment and also ICOM. I'm not too worried about the brand name, I've thought about brand royalty, it's just can I buy it second hand or does it check and does it work and those are the measuring tape that I use to get the signal out, it must be doing something right. Back to you in Hollywood there, ZLPC HCR in South Vanita, New Zealand. This is KU4, with 2LZ, HCR, Charlie Hotel, Alpha Romeo in Australia. I don't want to hold you up from doing whatever you're doing or have been planning to play radio for a while, that's cool. The sun is beginning to set so we want to get outside and get where we can have that window in between the sun setting and the sun fully set so we're not getting bit by mosquitoes, this is cool, we can get this thing up. I appreciate you getting us out, it's been a pleasure and nice to meet you, I'm sure definitely we will talk again many times again on the logs and I just want to say you have a wonderful rest of your day, what time is it there, I'm not sure, but morning, evening, whatever it is, enjoy the rest of it and fulfil the best of it and set my wishes about 73 from KU4, UPCA in Hollywood, Florida. Got a bit of pencil and paper out here and kind of write down your course line because I've got a hint on the frequency slide covering most of the cargo, that's the problem, which is a bit like a smaller version of a state. We've got KU4 and just the last bit of your course line there, by the way it's just come up past 5 to 10 in the morning and I've got a wash load, I was about 5 or 10 minutes or a bit of cycle where to go and then that goes on the wash line, so I'm mid-morning, New Zealand time or TV time. Ok, I will definitely, I'm going to write down that too, so it's 10 in the morning there, it's 10 am there and it's 10 pm, ok so I've got 10 minutes now, so call sign is kilo, Quebec 4, uniform, proper kilo, that's kilo Quebec 4, uniform, proper kilo and one more time KU4, UPCA, the name's Chris and it's sunny sunny Hollywood, Florida. Oh man, it's been a great talk and I hope we chat again soon. Roger, you said uniform, upper kilo and you said UPCA, so just get a verification of that course line, over. One more time, it's probably me because I do have a list in my voice, so it's, how am I going to say it, non-phonetically, KU4, UPCA, that's KU4, UPCA. Roger, I got that the second time, yep UPCA, by the way, your comment's about 220 megahertz bands, we don't have that band available to us in New Zealand, we are Region 3 and I think you are Region 2 I think, yeah, so yep, we just do what we can with our limited to a thousand watts, that's it. Just in the last few years, it used to be a hundred and fifty watts, so yeah, we just try to do a little with a watt and that can make your acquaintance and yeah, enjoy that lovely weather and watch the thunder and the winds or something and the platforms down the telephone edge."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:11:29+00:00","id":13554,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13553,"text":" from time to time we don't know whether it was a cut out switch or what. The time here in South Dunedin, New Zealand is 9.44am and of course we've had about three days of tsunami alerts since the Richter 8.8 Camchat earthquake the other day which has now just been recently lifted. Yeah, copy that. Sorry about the cutting out. It's a little bit too far away from the node and I was outside so that was probably the reason for it. No, I was saying, yeah, I was going to get my antenna a little bit higher up in the air. That's what we're working on right now, me and my wife together. It's just such a great help. And, yeah, so it's quite hot, very extremely hot out. It feels very swampy. It's, I would say, temperature wise 90 something, feels like 100 something. But down here in Australia, man, you must be feeling, well, it's the weather, it's actually like a winter time right now over there in my car. We've had sub-zero temperatures here at the net. We're at 45 degrees or anti-46 degrees south latitude. And I'm about 400 metres up from the deflagation on the east coast of the South Island. You can see dozens and dozens and dozens of endless tsunami alerts because they got Google pinned and all wrote loose for the next two or three days. I had my first decent night's sleep without any tsunami alerts going off at all last night. And I really needed a bit of sleep. So, as we speak, it's going to teach you about 10 and 12 degrees Celsius. The 90 to 100 degrees you're croaking is of Australian Saratite because if that was in Celsius, the sun would have expanded to follow us up high. Thank you. This is NL2, Charlie Hotel Alpha Romeo in South Dunedin, New Zealand."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:13:31+00:00","id":13555,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13554,"text":" and I didn't get the rest. Then L2. Roger, roger. Lulu Lima 2, Charlie Hotel Alpha Romeo. ZL2CHAR, over. Charlie Romeo, wait, wait, wait, wait. ZL2CHR, so it's Z Lima 2, Charlie Hotel Alpha Romeo. Oh, OK. Charlie Hotel Alpha Romeo. Like an Alfa Romero almost. Well, cool. All right, so ZL2 Charlie Hotel Alpha Romeo. This is KU4UPK for IT campuses. Now I know Jan and I, we created this server so that we didn't have any 15 minute misses or that. So you can do it as long as you want. And if someone wants to break in, you just let someone break in. I'm not sure how long you've known about the Shalom and a better conference server, but we worked a long time. We're up and running. And by any chance, your name is Scott. I want to say thank you because you did a lot of help. And I never got to ask where Scott was from or anything like that. So if you happen to be Scott, thank you. And Scott, let's say thank you, Scott."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:22:41+00:00","id":13556,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13555,"text":" ZL2CHR, ZL4IN, Alpha. ZL2CHR, you're probably used to traveling a bit. Communication from KQ4UPK in Hollywood. That was an interesting surprise on the All Star Network, wasn't it? Yeah, actually I did hear that. My name is Mike, and I'm in the South of New England also. I'm relatively new to the local scene, and I suppose I'm really trying to get back into radio. I'm currently using the eSwitch mobile client over the network, over the internet, and using All Star, and Blue Transceiver mode, so I'm being a bit modern, aren't I? Hi, hi. Roger, well it's certainly a bit more modern than getting Charlie Whiskey in a Titanic-grade spark transmitter. Hi, hi. And I'm Graham, I'm a golf player, Alpha, I have a Delta Alpha mate. And my TTH is about 50 metres to the east of Kings High School. That will give you an idea of where I am. Over. Roger, Graham. My TTH is Simon Richmond Street, and not too far away from the mobile care station there, believe it or not. So I've been retired now for 12 months plus a little bit, and I moved back to New England, to my hometown, to retire. And enjoy not having to deal with permissioned housing all the time, unless you're having a lovely time. So I'm enjoying digital modes, and I'm currently dog-walking my Labrador, who's decided to take herself on a bit of a side trip somewhere. So while I wait for her to return, I'll hit a tube, and I'm doing a bit of a shyness, so if you'll excuse my, what's the word here, Lindsay? I'm hitting the XU over. Yeah, ZL4IA, ZL2CHDR, we're on the wrong with the target branch 30, in fact we've got eight leads on, we've caught a 690 net at 730 on Sunday, so feel free to log in and join in on a more of an area. Yeah, I'm in my 70s and I've been alright since the 70s, so yeah, and don't worry about the bands, they're here for everybody. So starting stopping you from taking part, and I've got a few more minutes to wait for my Georgia load to fix you into a truck when it goes out on the line, then I'll have a 30-year brunch, then come on the bus into town and do some research at the separate lobby. What's up, is it 11 o'clock? Encloses at 4 o'clock on weekend. Over. Hi, Roger Graham. So here we are to enjoy that wonderful facility called Free Bus Transport for seniors. I actually haven't used that yet on my separate goal card thing. I think it's about time. I think they're not dog friendly though, isn't it? I've got a 12-year-old Labrador whose name is Chica, and she's still gone wandering somewhere. And I'll have to go and sort her out at some stage shortly. Just wondering Graham, how's the audio sounding using the TV switch mobile, how's that going through, over? Roger, no problem with your signal or with your audio or modulation. I've got no way to measure it, but to my untrained ear, you sound like your signal is spot on. Over. Hi, Roger Graham. That's great. It's good to hear. Well, it's one less excuse I've got to not go on the radio. I have three handhelds at home, all of which I use with hotspots. And I've got a little TV switch server and a North Starlink server. So I'm an ex-computer engineer by permission. And I did a lot of computer fixing and repair work as well as corporate. So that's my story anyway. So I'm currently on a mountain bike track off Flagstaff Road, Flat Road, just a bit shorter Flagstaff and down amongst the pines here. It's absolutely lovely, although I have to say it is cool. So grateful for my path to check it. So here, Richmond Street. I'm hoping to get back on H.E.F. at some stage. No record at the moment. But I do have an antenna ready to go. I've got a ZS6 BDA DOLM, multi-band thing, which I built. And it goes quite well. So it's sitting rolled up in this shed, waiting for me to lash out on the radio. I was very much interested in the new ZS6 BDA X1 things until I saw the price. And I became less interested. But it looks lovely. I'm a bit of a fan from here. Okay, growing your watch, it must be about done. I will actually check in tonight on 7.30. And I should even wander along to club meetings, shouldn't I? I cut my teeth at brunch 30 and a million when I was a youngster back in the 70s. So those were the days when people like Bernie Slick and Peter Johnson were very influential. I don't know who's holding the reins now, but gosh, it's a long time ago. All right, Gray, I'll let you get back to your watch and I'll be clear on your final ZL2, ZH3R, ZL4 and your Alpha. Roger that. The club meetings usually held on a Wednesday night, 7.30 arrival at 109 McCandrel Road. Fourteen o'clock starts and we'll hear all the news about what's coming up on tonight's 6.90 net."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:23:05+00:00","id":13557,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13556,"text":" Thank you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:23:27+00:00","id":13558,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13557,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:23:57+00:00","id":13559,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13558,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:41:27+00:00","id":13560,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13559,"text":" This is repeater station kilo kilo seven November Quebec November all star node 6222 located in Shelton Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:47:00+00:00","id":13561,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13560,"text":" The BB-9 CSP on the All Star."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:50:16+00:00","id":13562,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13561,"text":" This is repeater station kilo kilo 7 November Quebec November all star node 6222 located in Shelton Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:53:05+00:00","id":13563,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13562,"text":" K27, YNP, Hosea, NPs, Arizona. Can I get a radio check please?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:53:37+00:00","id":13564,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13563,"text":" Hello, KK7. I didn't get all that, but this is KK5SSR. Fixin' to start the Litterbox Lounge. Hang out."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:54:10+00:00","id":13565,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13564,"text":" Yes, ma'am, that sounds like a good invite. I appreciate it and I will hang out and listen in. Again, appreciate the invite and this is K87YSP monitoring."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:54:40+00:00","id":13566,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13565,"text":" I do want to tell you you're just a wee little bit too loud, just a little bit, but your sound quality is outstanding."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:55:07+00:00","id":13567,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13566,"text":" Copy that. I'm the Tula. They will push the desktop mic away from my mouth and hopefully that improves. Out of curiosity, where are you located?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:55:38+00:00","id":13568,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13567,"text":" Well, I appreciate that. It makes total sense. Again, thanks for the conversation and the invite. This is K87YMP, back to monitoring."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:56:05+00:00","id":13569,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13568,"text":" Please hold all traffic. The litter box lounge will open in five minutes. We hope you will join us."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:56:31+00:00","id":13570,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13569,"text":" Most five stations are Texas. Not all, but I'm in Texas. Grapevine, Texas. And most people know DFW Airport. That is Grapevine."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:56:58+00:00","id":13571,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13570,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:57:25+00:00","id":13572,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13571,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:57:52+00:00","id":13573,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13572,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:59:12+00:00","id":13574,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13573,"text":" This is repeater station kilo kilo seven November Quebec November all-star node six two two two located in Shelton, Washington"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:00:39+00:00","id":13575,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13574,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:04:19+00:00","id":13576,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13575,"text":" Good evening everyone, this is Kilo Mike, 5 Yankee. Mike in Grapevine, Texas, and welcome to the Litterbox Lounge on the 11 Cats Radio Network, where we have discussions on ham radio topics, global and local happenings, but most importantly, anything you wish to discuss. Don't forget to tell us about your pets or critters. We may be partial to cats, but we have a deep love for all animals. This is a controlled net, and sometimes we have multiple net controllers. We also encourage guest net controllers. Please let us know if you'd like to take your turn at being a guest net controller on the Litterbox Lounge net. In the Litterbox Lounge, we don't want to stress you out with a question of the day, but we will start with a topic. And if you have a topic, bring it on. As with all nets on the 11 Cats Radio Network, we encourage free speech, but require respect for others' opinions. But most of all, we want everyone to have fun and have a chance to speak. All of our nets on 11 Cats are recorded, so you can go to our website, www.11cats.org, and listen later if you're unable to make it to the net. This net will have two rounds. The final round will be the 73 round, but feel free to add additional comments during the 73 round. This system has the standard three-minute timeout timer, so please be mindful and reset early. And also, please be mindful that there are other stations on our list that wish to speak. Let me reset. Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:05:01+00:00","id":13577,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13576,"text":" Okay, I-5, SSR, it's always great when we don't hear anything, but keep an ear out. If you hear somebody that needs help, please, or a break, break, please just let us know, and we'll stop the net and try to help them, and then get back to the net. So everybody, welcome to the litter box lounge. Please call now with your calls signed twice slowly and in regular phonetics, followed by saying your name, please. Go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:05:29+00:00","id":13578,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13577,"text":" I'm on Echolink, I'll be in and out but may recheck. Nail 7FR mobile on Echolink. This is."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:05:52+00:00","id":13579,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13578,"text":" Charlie, Sierra, Papa."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:06:24+00:00","id":13580,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13579,"text":" Kilo Mike 5 Yankee returning. When we take check-ins, please give us your call sign twice, slowly, phonetically, followed by your name. We will always call on mobile, short time, and international stations first. Before we get started, is there any emergency traffic? Come with your call now."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:06:50+00:00","id":13581,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13580,"text":" Golf Mike Zero, Uniform, Uniform, Bravo, GM Zero, GME, Graham here in Alawa, Central Scotland."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:07:17+00:00","id":13582,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13581,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:07:39+00:00","id":13583,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13582,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:09:12+00:00","id":13584,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13583,"text":" Hey, that last station, you were cutting out. We didn't get any of your call. So maybe you, I don't know if you're hooked up on Echo Link, but maybe you need to disconnect and reconnect, and then give me another holler, because I'm going to run through the list and tell everybody who's on the list, and then I'll call one more time. So go ahead and jump out, and just get back on Echo Link again. All right, so we did pick up Kilo India 5, November Yankee Tango. Hello to you, Lynn and Fort Worth. You're not far from us, 20 miles. Kilo Juliet 5, Foxtrot Oscar X-ray, Chad the Fox Man. Thanks for joining us. Kilo Lima 7, Frozen Radio. Hey, Mickey, I got you down mobile. We'll be right to you just as soon as we can. Whiskey Bravo 9, Chicago style pizza. Richard, thank you for joining us. Kilo Zero, Echo Charlie Kilo Gale, thank you for joining us. Golf Mike Zero, uniform uniform Bravo. Graham, thank you for joining us. Anyone else want to get on our first list, call now."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:09:35+00:00","id":13585,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13584,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:09:59+00:00","id":13586,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13585,"text":" KJ5, F0X, Chad, Hado, Texas."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:10:21+00:00","id":13587,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13586,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:10:48+00:00","id":13588,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13587,"text":" Kilo, NDF 5, November, Yankee, Tango. KI 5, NYT, New York Times, this is Lynn at Keller, Texas."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:12:42+00:00","id":13589,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13588,"text":" Alright, there's Key up with nothing there, so maybe Echo Link's having a problem, I'm not sure. But, um, yeah, so I'm gonna throw this over to Mike for the pledge, and then Mike if you'll pick up FR first. She's got a shaky signal going on mobile, so hang tight. Over to you, KN-5Y. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November. All Star No. 6. Well, thank you KF5, this is Father Heated, stand by for Mike in the grapevine. Thank you Jeanette. And, uh, wow, what a great group already. I think that might have been W5MGM that was trying to get in, maybe he'll recheck here in a second. We're gonna do the Pledge of Allegiance, please stand if you're able. If not, we'll stand for you. Place your right hand on your heart. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you for that. Once again, this is Kilo Mike 5 Yankee, and we're gonna go to, we've got an international station, but a couple of mobile, we've got a mobile in a short time, we'll go to mobile first. Kilo, Lima 7."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:13:37+00:00","id":13590,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13589,"text":" Hey Mickey, glad you made it in here. We'll get to you first before you get out of range or into a no-sales zone. And sticking with our theme from the last couple of weeks, as you know this is Fairly You Know, new net. We're trying to get to know people better one more week of that before we start having different topics. So today we want to know what's new with you, what got you interested in amateur radio. And if you want, tell us a little bit about your journey into amateur radio. K07FR, cam 5I, over to you Mickey."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:14:40+00:00","id":13591,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13590,"text":" KAL7, firewood round up, got it, KAL7FR. Mickey, thank you for that. Yep, Alaska, it's obviously much more than a hobby. It's almost a necessity for communications, and especially for the Adidara. That's fascinating that that's what got you started. And yep, you gotta have it up there to communicate, that's for sure. So, well hey Mickey, you be careful. Thanks for coming in here. We hope you can make it into the next round. And I'm gonna turn this over to KAL5SSR to call for the next station. Go ahead, Jeanette."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:15:35+00:00","id":13592,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13591,"text":" KI5SSR and hey Mickey, thank you much. Always good to hear you out here and thank you for sharing. You always have really interesting stuff to say, so we enjoy it. Thank you KL7FR, let's go to Golf Zero, uniform uniform bravo. Hello to you, Graham, and what's new with you? And of course all topics are welcome, so if you have one, we certainly wanna hear about it. What got you interested in ham radio? Would you like to tell us a little bit about your amateur journey? Over to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:18:17+00:00","id":13593,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13592,"text":" KI-5Y and KI-5SSR here is KI-7FR mobile about 20 miles north of the QTH right now. Heading to Trapper Cape to look for a higher way to hop out of trailer a couple weeks ago and my SUV is a little too weak for it. So I need something more substantial and it's a firewood roundup time of year. This is our rainy month too, it's pouring rain here. Anyway on the topic, I got interested in radio watching Iditarod when the Ham's would do all the traffic. Passing trail traffic from checkpoint to checkpoint and back to the headquarters. I was a checker back in the 80's and 90's and I was fascinated with the bend. I got away from it and I got into doing solar power about five years ago and I was watching YouTube videos on different solar power setups. There's a Backwoods Trapper channel that had a show on solar panels and at the end he said, Hey you can get this little ham radio, bow-fang radio for 25 bucks, get your license and get on the air. I got interested enough for emergency communication so I bought a bow-fang right away and started listening to the local repeater. Not much activity on there but I studied for my license and got my check in general in March of 2021, so a little over four years ago. I still haven't got into HF, I've got HF rigged but I've been having problems with it. But I mainly wanted to get into ham radio for emergency comms, I didn't know anything about nets or just all the camaraderie in the hobby. So I think it's a cool hobby. Glad I stumbled into it looking at those solar panel videos. I'm meeting a lot of cool people from around the world, especially here on the 11 Tots network. Thanks for taking my check in. I think I'm about to lose signal, it drops in and out usually when I change powers. I'll try to check in again on another round if I have signal. Thanks again. KM5Y, KL7FR, back to neck control."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:19:25+00:00","id":13594,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13593,"text":" UUB, I have a couple questions. And how cool is that that your dog is just taking to being around people and doing its thing and being proud? Yeah, that says a lot about the owners, Graham. That's what I think. And hey, what was your handle? And yeah, I used to listen to it. I had a CB radio. And I remember hearing that, yeah, you could get another, and that you could talk on some of the bands because you had to have a license. And then I heard they were going to make us get licensed to talk on the CDs at all. And I was like, what? And then, of course, the scanners. But yeah, I'll throw it back at you, Graham. What was your handle?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:21:53+00:00","id":13595,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13594,"text":" So, tonight Mike and everybody else there, when I sat the Morse code test to get my full class there, I thought it was just going to be, I have to do the Morse code thing and get it by and get through. But it ended up being one of my, well, my very very best mode of operating. So, basically from 1993 onwards, you know, on the HF, it was always CW. I just fell in love with it. I loved just operating CW. Ever since, but right now, I don't have my GFX set up or anything else. So, I mean, I kind of miss the Morse. I don't miss anything else. But I love all the hotspots and the all-star notes and everything else that they've got. Very much enjoying that. Apart from that, all I can say is that we had a fantastic day. We took our puppy, Odin, who's 13 years old, and he took him out to a fun fair. Maybe a little bit much for a wee dog, but man, he did a wonderful, wonderful job. He was fantastic. And of course, he's just a wee puppy and he has lots of attention. But he's been socializing so, so well with the kids and adults and everybody else. And even the bangs and the pops and the music and everything else in the fun fair. He only had him in for about five minutes, but he was really brave. He was walking around, striding as if, I own this place. So, that's great. So, our puppy, Odin, is doing awfully, awfully well. And there we go. Back to you. And the first GMC, thank you so much. Well, fantastically."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:24:12+00:00","id":13596,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13595,"text":" Well thank you so much to KI5SSR and of course to K5... sorry KI5Y. Tonight Mike, thank you, thank you you guys do a fantastic job. What a wonderful bunch you have on the first rent of chickens. Goodness me, absolutely wonderful to be here. Anyway this is KI5Y, I'm here in Aloua, central Scotland. And yeah, well my journey as far as the amateur radio is concerned. I came through probably the most popular route. And that was, I was a CB'er back in the 1980s. I was a CB'er, I had a CB in the car and everything else and I loved it. And then of course these, what's it called, the scanners came out. And of course I managed to get a scanner and I'm listening around. And I could hear all this traffic that was happening on the like 145 MHz. And I'm thinking what's on there, what's all that about? So I was a CB'er and I was asking other guys and I'm saying what's all that about? Oh they go, that's the posh guys, that's the posh people. Oh they're the licensed guys. Oh really, okay. And how do you get licensed? Oh you have to go and sit at the exam and everything else. But don't worry about it. Well I did worry about it and I thought no, I actually want to hear myself on that part of the scanner that I'm listening to. So back in I think 1992 I got my first call sign that was, how much did you call sign? PM7MPX and within a few months I sat my Morse code exam and got my pleasant call sign. PM0EP. Let me just take a quick tip."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:24:49+00:00","id":13597,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13596,"text":" Alright, we added two more stations. November 7th, Foxtrot Golf Papa. Hey Scott, thank you for joining us. And Kilo Juliet 5 Golf Whiskey November will, in short, be the time. So Mike, if you wish, I'll take Gail after you. So, over to you, KN 5Y."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:26:58+00:00","id":13598,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13597,"text":" Hey, Papa, thank you, Jeanette. And you had to go and do it. I knew this conversation would lead to CB radio, and from there it would lead to what was your handle. And so no one's gonna find out what my handle was. They're gonna have to dig it out of me. Cause I too started in CB radio as a kid, driving the tractor. We had CBs on every tractor, every truck, and a couple at the house that we used to, for actually work. But it turned into a, like a, CB radio back then was like a little social network. I remember now there was your characters that were always on, and there was a guy that I thought was the best operator on the planet. And he had a great, he had one of those, I forgot what they call those, those 103 microphones, a golden eagle. I'll have to look that up. And he sounded so good, and I thought, man, that guy's got the ultimate setup. I could only dream about being like him. And I finally got to meet him one day, and it was a 14 year old kid. And I thought, oh my gosh, that just blew my mind. So, yeah, that was fun, but we'll talk more about that later. KJ5, GWN, hey Will, welcome, thanks for coming into the litter box lounge tonight. And we're just trying to make people better, just like last week, before we start talking about regular topics. This is a new net, just tell us what's new. We're wondering what got you interested in amateur radio. And if you want, you can tell us a little bit about your journey into amateur radio. KJ5, GWN, KM5Y, over to you, Will."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:27:24+00:00","id":13599,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13598,"text":" This is JJ5, GWN, Kilo Juliet 5, Gulf of Miss Carolina, Will and Oklahoma City, short term tonight."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:27:50+00:00","id":13600,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13599,"text":" November 7, Foxtrot Golf Papa. November 7, Foxtrot Golf Papa. Scott and Houston."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:28:45+00:00","id":13601,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13600,"text":" I thought it was so funny because you can just change your name if you want to just change your name. You can just change it, you know. And anyway, I enjoyed the CB radio. So, Graham, thank you for joining us. Stick around for the 73 round if you can. And I'm going to go ahead and throw this over to Mike. But before I do, is there anybody else who would like to get on this list? Please call with your call now. Two times twice slowly. And regular fanatics, welcome to the litter box lounge."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:30:03+00:00","id":13602,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13601,"text":" Good evening, Wright. Well, I started off in my amateur radio journey in high school. I was real close to taking my novice test back when I still had the code. I was learning the code then, and I was getting ready to take my novice test. But my Wright never showed up, so I didn't get to take it. So I got out until about three years ago when I was in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, which is about 45 minutes north of here, up Oklahoma City. And started studying with a friend of mine that I used to go to school with who lives in Kansas. And him and his wife pretty much helped me get my track and now they're trying to help me get my general. So that's the story there, Mike. Go ahead, KJ5, Gulf of the Skinnaw River."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:30:58+00:00","id":13603,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13602,"text":" Ah well, my handle was the Wanderer, so it's called the Wanderer. And I actually had two handles, so it was called the Wanderer, and once I opened it it seemed even I moved down from Inverness down there over here to Aloua. I got to the Highlander because I was obviously born in the capital of the highlands. So, mainly the Wanderer was my main handle. But when I came over here to central Scotland, the Highlander became a handle I had. So there we go, those were the handles. Thank you so much, GM0EB."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:32:21+00:00","id":13604,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13603,"text":" and we'll have a wonderful day. Great to hear you out here and we'll catch you later, KJ5GWN. Alright, let's go to Gail, K0ECK. Gail, how are you doing? What's new with you? And what got you interested in amateur radio? If you'd like to tell us a little bit about your journey or anything else that you would like to share, Gail, go ahead. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo special for Quebec November. Thank you very much for taking my ticket. And so, let's see, I got my ham ticket, I think it was 77. Anyway, I was married to a guy that had a ham ticket and I decided, well, you know, better to join him than not. So that's how come I got my ham ticket and I used to help with calling weather nets and stuff in the early 80s."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:35:03+00:00","id":13605,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13604,"text":" I know Hank, so I hope you put a lot of peppers in that corn brick as I know how he likes it. Good and spicy. I hope you all are doing okay. We'll talk to you all soon. WB9CSP, K and 5Y. Hey Richard, you've been in this hobby a lot longer than I have. I know you've been in it a while. Why don't you tell us what's new with you, Richard? Richard's got an excellent net that runs on Saturday afternoon starting at 2 p.m. What's new with you? What got you interested in amateur radio? If you want, tell us a little bit about your journey into amateur radio. I'll be seeing you, Richard."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:35:31+00:00","id":13606,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13605,"text":" I just couldn't quit doing stuff until this year when I decided that I liked All-Star and stuff. So now, now you know what I am. I'm a net junkie!"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:36:00+00:00","id":13607,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13606,"text":" 0ECK, KI5SSR, hang out if you can. If you're not here, we know you left. All right, back to KN5Y. Mike, over to you for Richard."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:36:26+00:00","id":13608,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13607,"text":" We made some cornbread and two cups of the stuff in my cornbread are cucumbers. Alright, back to you. K0ECK."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:37:53+00:00","id":13609,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13608,"text":" Well, Will, that's a great story. And yeah, I'm a novice. Man, that was before my ham radio time started, amateur radio, that is. And yeah, I'm ABO, but I'm still a pretty new amateur radio operator that just started about seven years ago. And I've got a neighbor down here that calls me a no-code. And that just, all that does is pump me up to work extra hard on Morse code. So thank you for that, Will. And I hope you have a great rest of the evening. I know you're short-timed. To everyone else, we will have a second round, a 73 round, if you want to make any more comments about anything you've heard or anything you forgot to say the first time around. But Will, thank you for coming in here. And maybe we'll get to talk to you tomorrow on the fabulous AFCnet. So Will, have a great evening. I'm going to turn it over to KI5SSR. Go ahead, Jeanette. Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:38:44+00:00","id":13610,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13609,"text":" Okay, Zero ECK, Gale. Well, that's crazy, and yeah, so how is it? Can you taste the cucumbers in your cornbread? And you sound like you got a little cold going on, Gale, and I hope Hank is doing okay, and that's pretty interesting. We're glad to have you back in Ham Radio, and glad you're the net junkie. So back to you, Gale."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:39:55+00:00","id":13611,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13610,"text":" Well, I don't think you can taste it. And Hank said you can't taste it. But anyways, yeah, it is good. It's really, really good. And so we're eating that and some 15-bean soup and drinking some homemade cider. And I made Hank a batch of Arnold Palmer tea that he likes. So that's a weaving up today. Plus Rex came over and visited us for a while and chipped into a couple of nets. And, well, what can I say? Called the nets. So that's where we are. 4-2-0-U-C-K."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:41:13+00:00","id":13612,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13611,"text":" Alright, there we go. Just wanted to let everything reset. For some of the new people, a little bit of advice I wanted to give. I haven't heard it in a while, but I just wanted people to know that the rule of thumb is, beginning of transmission, every 10 minutes, end of transmission when you're done talking. So that's the rule on ID. I haven't heard anyone do it in a while every transmission, but you know, just some of the family's been doing it a while. Anyway, I'm starting to ramble, Mike. So let me turn it back to you and I will stick around for the 7-3 round. And if you want me to make an announcement about my net, that's entirely up to you. Go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:44:22+00:00","id":13613,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13612,"text":" Well Richard, you bet. We would love, if you can wait until the 73 round, that would be great. But yeah, I know what you're saying, you got out of the hobby and came back and you know it's amazingly more common than you would think. A lot of stations I've talked to on digital and HF were amateur radio operators that had to get out of the hobby for some reason or another and ended up coming back so that's pretty common and I'm glad you're back. And you know you're right, I mean it's amateur radio, I guess it's a service and a hobby. But luckily we don't have to use it as a service very often and so it's mostly a hobby most of the time. But it's actually a whole ton of hobbies within a hobby. You know, you get started on HF, UHF and kind of figure out the repeaters and then you've got to learn, you're constantly having to learn new modes, new bands, all that stuff. So to me, it's a whole ton of hobbies within a hobby and so we'll come back to you on the 73 round, we'd love to hear your announcement. Richard, thanks for being here, we sure do appreciate it. KF5SSR, KN5Y, over to you Jeanette. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7.0. KF5SSR, Richard. The reason you don't hear me saying it every single time is because honestly it is not as required in digital as it is when you're on HF because here they can find you. But there it's pretty hard so a lot of people get away with a lot of stuff on regular HF and I've heard it, I'm sure you've heard it. So they're tough, that's where they're really strict at. Here they're a little bit more lenient and I try to make it more friendly. I call everybody by their call sign but I try not to be too strict on it but I've not gotten into any trouble over that yet. But anyway, it's good to get into the habit of doing it so when you get on HF you're supposed to identify every time on HF. Anyway, but don't worry about that. Let's go to KJ5F0X, Chad. Chad has been a ham and we've really enjoyed having you. So what's new with you? What got you interested in amateur radio? And if you'd like to tell us a little bit about your journey. Fox, come on."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:45:53+00:00","id":13614,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13613,"text":" This is DJ 5.0X. Well, good evening, everybody. I hope everybody's having a good weekend. I would say for the reasons that I wanted to start, they've continued on to this afternoon. At some point, I became very interested in survival-type stuff, off-grid. There was a show, The Preppers, grids going down, emergencies. I started seeing Josh on Ham Radio Crash Course. I started watching his videos. I got really interested in his videos. Once I found out about the Bofang UV-5R, it was over. I was getting one. I bought one, and I think that thing set on the shelf for possibly two years. I want to say I bought that radio in 2019. The Bofang UV-5R. Let me take a break."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:48:08+00:00","id":13615,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13614,"text":" I still have that radio, and it's got the, I wish I think every radio should have, I don't know why they don't, but it's got a great AM radio reception. You know, if you wanna listen to some AM radio, which I do sometimes, especially when I'm camping or something along those lines, it's got some great AM radio reception. So anyway, I bought that radio, and I don't know, I think I took a shot at the test, not necessarily testing at the way you have to go through the testing, but just on my phone, trying to do some of the tests, and I would pick it up and put it down. So finally, a little over a year ago, I said, well, I'm gonna do it, and got into it, and I say that brings me up to this afternoon, because I started messing around with CW, again, for emergency reasons. I could see how that would come in very quickly if things were bad or you couldn't communicate over voice, and you needed to communicate, you needed to communicate, so it's where CW falls in. Just this afternoon, I'm sitting here, I've got my Winlink account set up, I've sent my first email. Now, I just sent that email over the internet, like Wi-Fi in the house, but my next step will be trying to figure out how to send an email over the radio. And again, this is for emergencies. All right, let me let it drop one more time."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:53:33+00:00","id":13616,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13615,"text":" well result sends it Karen a a I was. I originally started out in 06 as a technician. Pretty much the whole time I first became a ham, I was a technician. I procrastinated. Somebody sent me a book out of Nevada. I just never went for it. I tried, but I never did. And after I did some stuff that I didn't really like doing and broke some rules, which I need better than to do. I left ham radio on my own accord so I wouldn't have to go the other route of what I did. And then I came back a second time last year on technician, upgraded to general. And I've been having a lot of fun with it ever since then. But ever since I got my general, it's been pretty fun. It makes up for the stuff you can't get on Echo League or IRLP or any of that stuff. You know, like Christmas Island, Easter Island, stuff like that. So, let me let it drop for a minute and then send. I got one more quick thing to add."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:54:06+00:00","id":13617,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13616,"text":" Delta 2, India Zed. Alpha Delta 2, India Zed, up. Yellow Bravo 3, Top of Foxtrot, Foxtrot. Steve, Rockville, Maryland."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:55:30+00:00","id":13618,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13617,"text":" Well, KJ5F0X, I think you have really, really jumped into the preparedness part of it. From everything you've told me, you've got to work a few events, as emergency, doing the radios in the background there, and that's volunteering. I think that's very cool. You're really getting involved. We're not involved enough, Chad, but that's because my husband has a full-time job. Which I know you do too, don't get me wrong, but he's usually out of town. You know that. But anyway, we're so thankful to have gotten to meet you, and this was one of Chad's first places. And so, Chad's been a blessing to us too. So, KJ5F0X, thank you for sharing that. I'm going to throw it over to Mike, see if he has any comments. If not, he'll move down to Lynn. And here shortly will be take-you-are check-in. So if you're waiting to check in, hang tight. So KN5Y."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:55:59+00:00","id":13619,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13618,"text":" This is Keto6 Keto-Viturian Vector. Keto6 Keto-Viturian Vector. This is your name now please. Oh sorry, uh, Kevin in L.A. Springs, California."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:59:32+00:00","id":13620,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13619,"text":" That's a great story and we got about 90% of it. I think your internet gave out there for about 30 seconds. Missed a little bit but we got almost all of it and thanks for letting us in on that. That's crazy that you learned all that stuff and then had to take the test. Later on, yeah, I think a lot of us probably got started in CB radio if you're a certain age that is. There's probably an age out there now that I've never heard of a CB radio. It's kind of similar for us. There was talk about the power grids going down and we were actually losing power once in a while. The infrastructure was getting behind and we thought, man, we better have a way to communicate just in case something bad happens. That was part of it. There's more to the story. The hobby has done so much for me personally because I was afraid to talk most of my life. I was just an introvert and even when I got my license, I sat back here, my technician, I sat back here on the back porch for three months holding an HT, listening to the Irving Repeater, I heard this group talking on the Irving Repeater every single morning and they were doing a morning prayer. I thought, man, I found the right channel. So I sat out there for three months listening to these guys every single morning and it took me that long to get up the courage to throw my original call sign out, Kilo India 5 Romeo Romeo Delta is what it was. It turned out to be the best group of guys I've ever met in my life. The ham community is just awesome. I couldn't believe that was the biggest thing I found out right away. What a great bunch. It's been a blessing that I got into it. Thank you, Lynn. Appreciate it. I hope you'll show up a little more often. We love talking to you and we'll take you fishing one of these days. I promise. KI5 SSRK and 5Y, over to you for some more check-ins. Absolutely, KI5 and YT. Lynn, come fishing with us sometime. You'll enjoy it. Don't feel weird or bad because that was some of the reasons we did it. What's funny is Mike really was sitting out there with that HG and every day I'd walk out there and ask him, are you ever going to talk or are you just going to sit? He was just like, ah. Then he was studying for his general. I think he already had his general before he even spoke a word, I'm pretty sure. Anyway, Scott, N7FGP, if you can hang on. Let's go ahead and take some more check-ins. You'll be the first one up. Everyone, welcome to the litter box lounge. We are now looking for check-ins. If you'd like to join us, come with your call twice slowly and in regular phonetics, followed by saying your name now, please. Go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T16:59:56+00:00","id":13621,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13620,"text":" We back on you, get a 5EQM."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:00:20+00:00","id":13622,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13621,"text":" N7FGP. Scott, are you still with us?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:02:29+00:00","id":13623,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13622,"text":" 5Y, Mike, and the Great Bun. And it's just I love hearing stories about how people got into this hobby. And Chad, I'll never forget when we heard this lonely lost voice for the first time get on our network and say, Owen, I just got my license. You're my first contact. And you have come so far since then. Oh my gosh, you're helping with our nets. And you're doing AM Club stuff, Poda. All that stuff is just amazing. The IC705 is, I know it's a little pricey, but it does so much. I mean, so much. And you would love that thing. And they also make little amp kits. You can build yourself if you want a little more power. But other than that, they are truly awesome. I want one myself. I'm going to probably try to get one of those someday. But thank you for all that you do for us, too, Chad. We appreciate it. And we'll come back to you on the 73 round. KI5, MIT, KI5, November, Yankee Tango. Hey, Lynn, it's been a long time since I've talked to you. Where you been hiding? And we met you maybe two years or three years ago at the Irvingham Fest. We haven't met either day. I know you've been working in November. OK, everybody else. But thanks for coming on here. And tell us what's new. And maybe a little bit about, I think you told me how you got into amateur radio. But I'll let you tell the story. How you got interested in amateur radio and maybe your journey, a little bit about your journey into the hobby. KI5, MIT, KI5, over to you, Lynn."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:03:51+00:00","id":13624,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13623,"text":" I first started being aware of learning about it. And the Ham Radio 2.0, I took their, watched their YouTube videos. They had a course on technicians license and the general license. And I went and took the test and I got the general license and that test. But yeah, it was mostly but always being interested, but it was more like a prep, prepper type of emergency communications. That's what I was really looking to learn about. And then I got into the weather reporting stuff and storm spotting. And first time I did it, my truck got all beat up with hail. So I'm not that into that anymore. As far as going out into a major storm coming in, coming in from the West here in Fort Worth, Texas. But that's it, that's my interest in nothing new going on, except work, still working all the time. This is KI-5NYT back to medic control."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:05:11+00:00","id":13625,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13624,"text":" KJ5FOX, yeah, so I think that's what started it all, was just being able to be more prepared in communication. And I mentioned the Morse code and the Winlink. On my shopping list, I've got a IC705 that I'd really like to have. I think they're a little pricey. It's a pretty small VHF, UHF, HF radio. It'll work with Winlink. I think they'd be a really nice radio to have with you all the time. So being prepared. I think that's it. Now, since I've been in, there's a world of things with a ham radio that I want to play with. But I think that's how it started. And it's always in the back of my mind, is just being prepared. So KF5, SSR, this is KJ5FOX."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:06:15+00:00","id":13626,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13625,"text":" Appreciate you identifying K6KJV. Kevin, thank you for joining us. Keto Bravo 3, Papa Foxtrot Foxtrot. Steve, thank you for joining us. Alpha Delta 2, Indiazulu Robert, thank you for joining us. November 5, America Quebec, Mike Hay. Mike, thank you for joining us. And let's go to N7. November Quebec, November. All-star, No. 622. So, um. Located in Shelton, Washington. All right. So, uh, Scott, how are you doing today, Scott? And what's new with you? And what you got, what got you interested in ham radio? I'm sorry, in amateur radio. And if you want to share any of that or anything else, come on down."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:06:42+00:00","id":13627,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13626,"text":" for this November top-up. J-J-7 QNP will be inside today, so just be listening. Thank you for the register."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:09:14+00:00","id":13628,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13627,"text":" I'm from N.Y.T. Yeah, it's good to talk to you, Mike. I know you talked about you was going to take me fishing someday. I need to take you up on that deal, get out of the house a little bit more. But, yeah, it was good meeting you guys at the ham fest. I haven't been to one since then, but... Yeah, my journey into the amateur radio... I had a CB when I was a kid. That was like the big thing. CBs, you remember, they had songs and movies about them and stuff. I grew up in South Florida down there and had a base station in my house there. And later on I'm an electronic technician by trade, so I went to technical school at Waco. And, you know, went through that program. At the same time, though, I was studying to get my FCC Class C license, which was a book I bought, and I was studying that. And it was a lot of vacuum tubes. Most of it, a lot of that stuff was vacuum tubes. Amplifiers, transmitters, all that stuff. I think you might have to do a code test to pass that too, but I never did take the test. And so, but I've always been interested in radio communications, and I knew a lot about antenna design and how that stuff worked. Back when I was studying to get that license, I knew a lot. Of course, I forgot all about it as life went on, you know. And then after they stole that 2020 election, me and my friends, a couple guys I knew on Facebook, little survival prepper-type groups, said, hey, let's all get him radio licenses so we can communicate, you know, if things go really bad. And then that was, you know, 2017, February, I got my license. Of course, I was the only one in the group to do it, and I never, I quit talking to that whole group because I got paranoid that, you know, maybe the government was monitoring us. So anyway, but then I learned a lot more about it. Let me break for a minute."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:09:36+00:00","id":13629,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13628,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:10:41+00:00","id":13630,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13629,"text":" and the rest of the net from N5AQM from Scorchville, Arizona, where I think tomorrow or the next day, we're going to be higher than 18. It's going to be warm. We had like an Indian spring for a couple weeks, and it was really hot. Look, it wasn't even hot, really, by our standards. But yeah, it's hot now. But that's why we have air conditioning high, high. So I grew up around ham radio. My old man was a ham. He got his license back in probably 1951, 52. His call sign was W3, Zebra, Victoria Yankee, W3ZBY. And I never did this long."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:11:42+00:00","id":13631,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13630,"text":" Wow, Scott, that is pretty intense and that's just a different, something different you just don't hear. And yeah, that's really cool that you did that and yeah, you should get back to the code. But I know everybody likes to kind of fall out and then yeah, hey, and I saw that yeah, if you wait a certain time, you can't, you know, if you pass that period, you have to take the test again. So obviously, obviously you retained quite a bit because, well, here you are on your back and it's cool that you got your call sign back as well, Scott. And thank you so much for being here and I'm going to throw this over to KF5Y and Mike over to you if you have a comment for Scott. And if not, N5AQM is next."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:13:43+00:00","id":13632,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13631,"text":" KI-5, this is RKM5Y, Mike in the grapevine. And yeah, Scott, I have maybe three amateur radio operators I've talked to since I've been doing this. Had a background in broadcasting, and I think that's really cool. And you know, there's probably a whole lot more than that, but I always wanted to get into broadcasting when I was a kid, so I admire you for doing that. But there's some fascinating stuff to learn about that. I think Scott, N4UPC, kind of knows a lot about that too, and he's told me a few crazy stories. But anyway, yep, Scott is around on some other nets, net controller on some other nets, so you might run into Scott somewhere else. Thank you for checking in on our net, Scott. We sure appreciate it. We're going to go now to N5AQM, Mike and Chandler. Mike, this is KI-5Y. We're an understudy net controller for the Litter Box Lounge on the Living Cats Radio Network. And Mike, we're just trying to extend our theme a little bit with this new net and get to know people better. So what we're talking about today, and feel free to bring a topic, but just let us know how you're doing. And we were wondering how you got interested in amateur radio and maybe a little bit about your journey into amateur radio. I love hearing about people's journey into amateur radio, N5AQM, KI-5Y, over to you, Mr. Mike."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:15:02+00:00","id":13633,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13632,"text":" 7F keeping returning. Once I got in working at a television station, a lot of the engineers there were all hams. And so they kind of prodded me to get my license. So they gave me audio tapes so I could listen to the code and practice that. And I got to where I could do the five words a minute pretty easily. So I took my novice and technician license and got those. But boy, that 13 word per minute just kind of killed me. And then I kind of drifted away for a while. So my license expired. I just missed the grace period for renewing. So I took the test all again and got a different call sign but got my old call sign back. So N7FGP is the original call sign I got back in 1980 over to you, Jeanette."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:16:21+00:00","id":13634,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13633,"text":" I'm in 7FGV. Sorry I was switching radios and this one doesn't seem to have the right tones in it to transmit. So I'm going to have to look at that, not this one that I'm on, but the one I wanted to be on. But, anyhow, sorry. As far as what got me started in amateur radio was my commercial radio stuff. So, when I got out of high school I went to television broadcasting school where the first classes I took were on Siri and all the radio stuff and all the tests, you know, getting your SCC license. So, I already had like the third class license. I think that was a really simple one. And then the hardest one was the second class. So I got that second class radio telephone license. And then the last one was the first class radio telephone license. And so that was a while ago. Once I got hired into a TV station. Let me break for a second."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:56:05+00:00","id":13635,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13634,"text":" were hosting the net. My journey's been rather short, but it was a long time coming. Similar to Scott, I joined Air Force a year out of high school, but that was back in 1968 when I joined. And I spent a lot of time at Key for myself with computers. And between keeping up with the computers and my time, 23 years in the Air Force, raising a family, I always had an interest in electronics, just trying to stay up to the times was hard enough with family and so forth. So I never really thought I had time to sit down and figure out the amateur radio stuff, so I didn't. And after I retired from the Air Force, I kept doing the same job for another, I don't know, 25, 26 years. So finally retired, and last September I ran across an audiobook that was fast track your technician license. And I quickly figured out I wasn't going to be able to do that with an audiobook, but it caught my interest. So I bought the book, started studying it, decided that wasn't going to be too bad to do. So I got the second book for your general license and started studying it. And about that time I scheduled it, my testing, for two weeks from when I started the first book. And went ahead and devoured the third book for extra, and went in and took the test two weeks after I started studying and passed all three on the same night. So that was back in, like I said, into September last year. So I'm still new at this. Like Mike, I don't talk too much on radio. I do a lot of listening, but not much talking. I'm on a break. So it's, like I say, more listening than talking. I'm trying to get into the HF side of it, but I live in an apartment complex on the third floor. And I haven't figured out yet how I really want to do that. I don't want to buy the equipment until I figure out what I'm going to do about an antenna. But DMR and All Star, I've got two All Star notes and, I don't know, five or six DMR notes, hot spots. So that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. So back to Nat. This is 82 IZ. Back to you, Nat. Well, A, D, 2, IZ. I don't think I know or heard of anyone that passed all three tests. First go. So now, man, you're a very good studier. And it took me a while. I was only going to get my check next year. And I used the Fast Track handbook as well. And I got to say, I tried the audio book, and I felt the same way. But I did get the book. And that was amazing. So I used it for all three of my tests. And I kind of broke it up. And Mike bought me a HF radio. He said, you got to get your General. And I was like, I don't want to get a General. I was having a hard enough time with the first test. And so I was like, oh, Lord, OK. So he had already done it. So I got the General. And then a year later, I talked myself into getting an extra, and I'm studying CW now. So Robert, you've had quite the journey. And we're just glad to have you here. And I'm going to throw this over to Mike right quick. And Steve is after you, Robert. Over to you, Mike. KN-5Y. OK, I'm 5, this is RK-5Y. Thank you there, Jeanette. And yeah, the testing, that's the whole, let me reset. KN-5Y returning. The testing is that's a whole other subject, isn't it? And I know I got that little study guide for the technician and got to about page three and just closed it and said, whoops, this is not for me. I have no concept of electronics. I've never understood electricity. And I just almost just put it down and I thought, well, wait a minute, let's go ahead and try this. And it's amazing. It can be intimidating, that's for sure. And I actually met a guy where I work that passed all three tests when he was 12 years old. And needless to say, I felt pretty inferior to that guy while we worked together for three days. But man, oh man, I think I have heard of one or two people doing that, and that's awesome. Sure wasn't me. I mean, I sweated through each test big time. But 82-IZ, KN-5Y. Rob, thanks for coming into the lizard lounge, lizard litter box. That's a whole other deal, the lizard lounge. There's one of those over in Dallas. The litter box lounge, welcome into the litter box lounge. I hope you'll come back. We meet every Saturday at 6 PM Central. And just a little announcement. Next week, we're going to have a guest net controller, K4 CUP Virgil. He's going to have a topic, a backup topic, because we encourage you all to bring a topic. But he's going to have a backup topic that I think that will be useful for everyone on here. So have that to look forward to for next week. So 82-IZ, KN-5Y, thank you, Rob. And we're going to go to, we have a Kilo Bravo 3 Papa Foxtrot Foxtrot. Steve, welcome into the box lounge. And don't forget, everyone, we are going to have a 73 round if you can hang around for that. That would be great. If not, we understand. But KV-3 Papa Foxtrot Foxtrot, KN-5Y. Steve, what's new with you? If you don't mind, tell us a little bit about what got you interested in amateur radio and maybe a little bit about your journey into a hobby. Over to you, Steve. Steve, good evening, Mike and everybody on the net. I started out in CB. And I thought that was kind of cool for a little while. But a lot of people were into it at that time. But I set it aside for a while and had some other things to do. And then in early 2000s, around 2004, I said, you know, I got to do something here. And I want to get back to what I, you know, something better than CB. CB, of course. And then I found the 2-meter. And I took my technician license, I believe, in 2004. First radio was an HT, a Yatesu T65. So it worked out pretty well. But that's about it. That's how I started. And hopefully, I'll work up to additional license. But right now, I'm just enjoying what I have. Mike, happy. Back to you guys. That's KB3 PFF. KB3 PFF. Well, thank you, Steve. That's a great story there. And yep, I started out with an HT and then got a Yatesu 991A and got on HF a little bit. And I've gone through several radios since then. And so what a great hobby. And we love hearing the stories. I'll tell you what. Hope you'll come and join us next week. We also have a net on Friday nights, the happy hour net. Starts at 6 PM central. It's a lot of fun. And then AFC, Amateurs for Christ net, on Sundays at 3 PM central. Speaking of which, I think the next man on the list is the main character of that net. So I'm going to turn it back over to Jeanette, KN5 SSR. Go ahead, Jeanette. Well, thank you, KN5Y. It would be my pleasure to introduce this is Hello K6KJV. How you doing, Kev? RevKev. And yeah, what's new with you? You can bring your own topic, which I know you have some. And what got you interested in amateur radio? If you want to share anything about your journey, we certainly want to hear it, Rev. So come on in. This is Kevo6KJV. That's right. Thanks very much, Mr. Knight. Appreciate you. And I really don't know where to start. Well, it was a lonely, hot May night in 1964. It was Mother's Day at about 3 o'clock in the morning when I had a never mind. I guess you don't want me to go back that far. Oh, man. Well, what got me into this, I've said it several times, but old C.E., just like everybody else. That's right. The old patriot man. Kickin' man. And oh, whatever else you want to call it. I used to have a 40 channel. Realistic, that's right. One of the best radios I ever had. Just a basic radio. I used to talk to my brother every night whenever he's coming home from work. And then I'd take him talk to some other guys. I used to, like, I was a little kid. And then I'd talk to sidebanders. And then I'd hear some guys fire up the old linears. And then hear the guy that's got the linear guy banging on his door, pounding down, say, we're going to get in there and we're going to whoop you. There was some good days. I liked them days. And I've always wanted to get my ham radio license. So I just took a long time to do it. Life, career, marriage, everything got in the way. Well, I'm doing it now. Let me reset. K6K, JV returning. And you know, I've only got my technician license right now. I'm planning to get my general. Don't know about that propeller head extra. I don't know if I could do that. But I'm having just fun being on the 11 Cats network and all the VoIP and digital modes. And like Mr. Mike says, me and him are in agreeance. Pam, church for Christ. Sunday, 4 Eastern. Same conference right here, 11 Cats conference. Oh, that's the best net around. Not because I'm involved with it, just because the good Lord raised it up. Right here on 11 Cats. So tomorrow, hey, I'll do Sheamus Plug. We got M7 POV. Mr. Josh, fine young man from over across the pond there in England. He's going to be leading the Bible study tomorrow. So if you all don't mind, stop in and support him. He'd like to have it. We'd have a lot of fun there. So with that, I will shut up and not start preaching. I'm getting ready to. I'll pass it back to Ms. Jeanette from Kix's Kid Doobie. He's bouncing down. We're rolling down that highway. We're going to do what they say can't be done. We got a long way. I better stop. Yeah, OK. I spent my singing money on something else for sure. But oh, that was a bad girl. I'm sorry. But yeah, I think a lot of people got into CB radio. You know, shortwave, I think it was rather popular. It really was too when I was growing up. And if you had a base station, oh my God, you were kind of, you had some money. I think about that. I remember asking about Amradio. They're like, we've got to have a license. So I was like, oh, I don't want that. I remember the first time I looked at the technician book when Mike showed it to me. I looked at it. I said, I can't do that. I just turned it down. Because I said, oh, that's just too much. I mean, I know a little bit about electricity, but that was really intense. And I actually did way better on the extra test. It's not as hard as you think. I did better on the extra than any of the other tests. And I scored in the 90s. So I'm proud of me. But anyway, with that, Kev, thank you for all you do for us. We're going to hand it over to KN5Y for remarks. And then over to Chuck, Mike. And after that, we'll take another check-ins and start the 73 round. So over to you, KN5Y. Sorry for the singing. K05, SSR KN5Y. Well, that wasn't bad, actually. Just don't ask me to do it. K6, KJV. Well, we meet again. Your little reset there was too quick for me, because I was going to try to find that stray cat to say something. But it was too quick. But thanks, Rev, Kev. Thanks for all you do. Looking forward to tomorrow. Yeah, CB, we probably should have a net sometime on everybody's CB radio shenanigans. Because I'm sure there's a bunch of them out there. Oh, man. That takes me back. And I actually bought a middle and CB at, I think, that same Amfest where we met Len, K05NYT. Over at Irving, the guy had a immaculate-looking middle and CB for $25. So I bought it. And my plan was just to gut it and put a Raspberry Pi in it and make an All-Star note out of it and have a retro-looking CB with an All-Star note in it. But that thing was so immaculate. And the guy that bought it from me just put the 40-channel mod in it, and I thought, oh, man, I can't do that. So I've got it in the closet. Someday I'm going to plug that thing in and hook it up and try to make a contact. I do listen to 11 meters on my HF radios off and on. There's craziness on there, that's for sure. But thank you, Rev, Kev. It's an honor to have you on this net. WB4AIZ, Chuck, great to see you here. In case you haven't noticed, you are in the Litterbox Lounge. And everyone's welcome here. We're any topic's good. We have two rounds. We're going to come back for a 73 round here in a minute for comments and 73s. But great to have you here. And what's new with you, Chuck? And if you don't mind, tell us a little bit about what got you interested in amateur radio and maybe a little bit about your journey, beginning with amateur radio. WB4AIZ, over to you, Chuck. WB4AIZ, how did you go off? And immediately started off in back in 1917, 17, 17, 17, 17, something like that. I was going to a after high school, I went to a, what, a college school up in Pittsburgh, and I got two hours from being in the, and it's a school. They had a whiskey-free Oster Zulu Echo hand station with parrot-draped twins. And so I got interested in the, so the horn code with a military box with a paper tape and a light. And that's how I did my box show. And in fact, the school took me, gave me a phone call with downstairs. I got a, I think it's 40. And the crystal, we get set. And anyway, this has to be $11 after that for a while. And for, let's see, $10 for the tube, $61.26. A two-spinner for the meter and $10 for a vertical. And that was like, you know, the stations like, I've got a queue, I've got a queue up to the cell charts. And I have to move down to Florida. I didn't have a queue. They were all in the back cells. But, and then I got my, I had done my technician class before I left Pennsylvania. And I was Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, and the stream was flawless. But I couldn't use it because I didn't have voice privileges. And then when I became a technician, I still couldn't because I was over the walker door, dauntless. So eventually, I got down to, uh, here to Florida. And eventually, I went into a VE walkway and got my general. They said the word in the pre-lock three test, they said the word is, you know, the word is, and they said a very important word. My name is, my duty is, my power is. So he used to use a listen for his, and then write down what he heard. So that's how I passed my general with a fractured little toe that day. So, yeah, it was a while before I got, I got to the junior ranks in 220. So, and now all I've done is a, and I got into the digital. Yeah, I got into the digital. And unfortunately, when I went into the, when I went into the system bearing facility, my radios got put in a box. I don't know where they are now. So anyways, I'm doing I-co-lankton, and I'm doing a lot of work on this cell phone. B4AIZ. That's my story, and I'm addicted to it. That'd be B4AIZ, KM5Y. Chuck, that is a great story. I need to dig into the history of how they used to do licensing back then, because I know it was a whole lot different, and I'm curious about how all that worked. And thanks for sticking with it. And wow, what a story. And I'm glad, thank you for Echolink. You know, it allows people in your situation to stay right on and keep talking. Echolink is just amazing what it does for people that can't, don't have the means to get on a radio. They can get in here and talk, and we get to hear what, about the history of AM radio from people like you. So that was awesome. Thank you, Chuck. I hope you'll come back next week. And all right, well, we're at the bottom of the list. If you're listening and waiting to check in, you are on the Litterbox Lounge net. You are in the Litterbox Lounge on the 11 Catch Radio Network. And we're going to take some more check-ins. Come with your call sign now."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:56:40+00:00","id":13636,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13635,"text":" K-M-5-Y-W-A-0-T-A-X, attacks man. Jack control, this is Kilo Charlie 7, Jackie Fox Echo. Kilo Charlie 7, Jackie Fox Echo. They'll have a sunny road for Oregon!"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:57:16+00:00","id":13637,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13636,"text":" She dozed off, Mike. Thank you, Hank, and we appreciate it. Thank you for that. So we're gonna go to KL7FR, see if he's still around. I know you're mobile, Mickey, if you're still around. 73 round, any comments, and do you remember your first contact? KL7FR, KM5, wire over to you, Mickey."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T17:57:54+00:00","id":13638,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13637,"text":" KF5SSR, this is KM5Y. I guess, Graham, it's awful, awful late over there in Scotland where he's at. So, Graham, we appreciate you coming on our net. Kilo zero, Echo Charlie Kilo. Gale, if you're still hanging around, 73 round, and I have one question for you. Do you remember your first contact? K0ECK KM5Y, over to you, Gale."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:02:18+00:00","id":13639,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13638,"text":" and KM5Y in their control. Bruce K-67YFE. Well, I was up at Oro Hall Park one day in the merry, merry month of May. Went to my surprise right before my eyes. Did a brand new HD. But I wasn't licensed yet. No. But anyway, I was up there at a summer camp for the blind and up there at Oro Hall Park. I had to go and make a little bit of a smile on someone's face, you know, with that. But that little merry-merry month of May, walking through the park, back to what I was talking about. And one day I was up there at camp. It was about the very first year I went up there and I saw a big HF station. But I thought it was a CD at first. Well, yeah, I was into CD for a little bit. About 95 anyway. But it was OK. But I thought I'd try to get to start studying for my ham ticket about probably 90s, about right around 96 or so. I think it was 96 or something like that when I ran into that one guy that was up there at the camp with a two-meter handheld. It was one of them HGX 202s. And a matter of fact, that was actually my first rig, was a 202 from Realistic, a Radio Shack brand. But yeah, but really, I got my license in 97. And it was the same here that I got my third and last guide dog I had. So while I was in training, I had received my ticket and my call. Well, first it started out as XFE. But then, you know, is it either XFE or is it YFE? Which one do I do with here? Man, come on, dude. But it finally is YFE, and it's stuck with me ever since. And I started studying. Let me grab a nickel here. It just so happened I got my technician license in 97. So I skipped over the novice and the Tech Plus because I think they were pretty much one and the same. I think they were anywhere from five to 13 words a minute or so. But started studying the code and got 13 words a minute general license and then kept on going, gotten my advanced. And right around 1998, I got my extra. So I took a year of hard studying. So that's where I'm at right now. I should get back into my Morse code and get back into AHF a little more than what, you know. I'm starting to get back into that too. So and working with, got to start working with this DMR too. So anyway, it's a fun hobby, and I enjoy it. So with that, the CHA5SSR Net Control and the group, KC7YFE, thank you for having me in here. And let's keep coming back to the litter box lounge, folks. Well, that's right. You never know what you're going to get in the litter box. A bunch of people scratching around. Hi, hi. But thank you, Dale, KC7YFE. And that was quite an interesting story. I had no idea. So sounds like you really have come a long way. And we sure appreciate you, Dale. You will hear Dale. You will hear Dale. All right, it's time to start the 73 round. Probably maybe about halfway through you will call to see if anyone wants to join. KM0UUB73 over to you, Graham, if you're still there."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:05:35+00:00","id":13640,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13639,"text":" Well, Mike, thanks for doing this net tonight. And I definitely enjoyed listening to everybody's answers. And you know, probably just because I don't know of another radio, I mentioned that 705, you know, I don't know of another radio like that. And you know, especially like in my shack, they're all ICOMs anyway. So I don't know why I'd be trying to switch up now. But yeah, I mentioned it being a little pricey. I'm always trying to figure out, you know, like I start looking at credit card points. And I just try to figure out how I can pull money from multiple places to throw down on something like that. I'm actually, my wife's probably getting aggravated with me because I got an American Express card back in April. You know, if you spend $3,000, we're going to give you $250 in statement credits. And I was like, well, I'll use that 250 for a radio. So I'm conniving for the 705. Let me let it drop. All right. Let's see. You know, I was sitting here. I'm actually pretty tired. It's like creeping up on my bedtime. So I'm having a hard time coming up with my, I kind of do remember. I'm having a hard time coming up with my first HF contact. But it was a Sunday afternoon. Actually, it was Sunday. It was Sunday for Echo Link, and it was Sunday for VHF. It was a Sunday afternoon. I stepped outside with my little Bofang UV5R. Excellent radio. It's got some good AM radio reception. And I stepped out in the backyard, and I made a call. And the guy who came back, it was a, I don't know. It's just because hams are so nice, but it was really amazing the way the guy treated me. To find out later who he was, I mean, this guy is a ham radio guy. You know, you should see the towers in his yard. And I said towers. The guy's got four towers surrounding his house. He's been a ham for a long time. He's a local leader in my area. And I remember when he actually sent me a QSL card. And you don't know who you're talking to on the radio. And to come find out, the guy was a big dog ham, let's say that. And man, he was just so nice and kind to me on a Sunday afternoon. I'll let it drop."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:06:33+00:00","id":13641,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13640,"text":" Oops, I think I'm next. Cam five, SSR cam five, thank you, Jeanette. Thank you, Virgil. That sounded like a Harley-Davidson pull-up beside you or something like that, so. But we can hear you just fine, Virgil, and you be careful going home. KJ five, F-O-X, it's time for the 73 round right here in the litter box lounge, all 11 cats radio network. So, 73 round, any comments, and do you remember your first contact? KJ five, F-O-X, cam five, over to you, Chad. Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:11:57+00:00","id":13642,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13641,"text":" Alright, well Mickey must be gone too and let's add Virgil. Let's just go ahead and call on Virgil right quick because he's mobile. K4CUP, hello to you Virgil, how you doing this evening? And whatever you want to add, come on in. Well, good evening Jeanette and KN5Y, good evening to you also Mike. This is K4CUP Mobile and I just logged on to rank2.app here in the mobile and man they've done some updating on that website. Especially on my end, they've got dark mode on there now. So I'm going to have to figure out how to, when I get home I'm going to have to figure out the settings on how to get that off of dark mode. So, because I'm kind of looking at a blue screen but all the check-ins on the west are kind of highlighted. So that's a new feature, something that I've never seen before on the rank2.app, rank2.app, I'll set that one. But, I don't remember my very first phone contact but I do remember my first CW contact. And man I was nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs when I was sitting there in the chair and you know it was just like between. And you know I was kind of like being too shy. So let me take a break and roll some windows up here because I'm starting to get some road noise. So let me take a quick break. And I was sitting there on the radio and the radio that I was using at that time. It was kind of a drifter, and what I mean drifter. If you locked it down, see the radio didn't have any lock buttons on it or nothing. So it either drifts up or down the band or whatever. I might be sitting on that 28027.00 and well next thing I know through the transmission it might drift up to .5 or .3. Or .5 or .6 or down, even maybe go on the downside. But of course it was an old radio, it was an old Tintec and things of that sort. But it was solid state but you know it had already done its due from the other radio operator. But you know this guy was calling CQDXCQDX and I thought, now I can either respond to him by throwing my call back to him. Or we're just sitting here like a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. So I kindly picked up, got up enough nerve to throw my call out there. Then it was KG4VMB. And so after I did that, this guy come back to me. You're 599 and my name is Sutton and I'm in West Virginia and so on and so forth. And the journey began there for my first CW. And I had a program called CWGDXCQDX which would copy out whatever was being sent. And to that end I still got that in my archives. I saved a copy of it, printed it out on a piece of paper. So I still got that down and that was back in 2003 and now here it is 2025. And so you know it's been nearly 22 years ago when I first made my first CW contact and I've not stopped since. But anyway thank you so much. I will travel on to the house and thank you all for doing this. And I'll be your host or co-host next week. So come join us. KI5SSR K4CUPMOVL. Thank you K4CUPMOVL. I think there's a Harley next to you and I want a ride. Just kidding K4CUPMOVL. Yes Virgil will be here next week and we'll have a really great topic to talk about. So come and join us. KI5Y over to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:12:53+00:00","id":13643,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13642,"text":" All right, we got a couple of movie star check-ins here. W-A-0-T-A-X, Hank, and KC7YFE. Hey, Dale. Thanks for being here. W-A-0-T-A-X. Hey, Hank, I don't think you've ever told me. Welcome to the litter box lounge. I don't think you've ever told me, first of all, what's new, but I don't think you've ever told me what got you started in amateur radio. Over to you, Hank. Bye."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:17:32+00:00","id":13644,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13643,"text":" my ticket in 1963. Well, actually I got my novice in 1964 and my general in 1965. We had the School for the Blind in Nebraska had a piece of property out that they had picnics and stuff at. So we were out there and somebody had a pair of walkie talkies and they were CB walkie talkies. So I started playing around with that and somebody, I just said, anybody copy this station? And somebody came back and said, yeah, can you guess where I'm from? And he said, Greenland. And after that I couldn't leave the radio alone. So other than that, but everything was so different, you know. When I got my ticket in 1965, I was out there and when I first got started with field day and all that kind of stuff, you had to build your own tuna fish can receiver and transmitter. So that was part of it, that was true preparation. And it ain't that way no more. Anyway, that's mine. Whiskey Alpha Zero Tango Alpha X Ray. W80TAX KF5Y Hank, that's pretty cool right there. I think my first contact was KF5LBTG right across the subdivision on a local repeater and I'll never forget it. I couldn't believe it when somebody came back and said, I'm from the North Carolina area. I was just sitting there and I was like, I don't know if somebody answered me, but I can't imagine getting an answer from Greenland. I can see why you never put that microphone down or that key. I know you like doing that too. We're going to work on CW Morse code there. Hank, I promise you, I just got busy. And, God, it's a struggle, but I'm not giving up. So Hank, thanks for being here. And I'm going to turn it over to the KF5SSR. Jeanette, go ahead. Thank you, Hank. W80TAX, the tax man. Hey, Hank, yeah, we are definitely going to get with you with the CW. But, you know, Mike did a clean sweep on the 13 colonies and I think 10 of them or something were done in CWs. He definitely knows more than, has done way more than me, so I'm behind. But that's just natural. Anyway, Hank, thank you for being here. And KC7YFE Dale, how about you? How you doing? And how's everything going? And what got you interested in amateur radio? That is the question. But, oh well, that's our topic. But if you have something you would rather talk about, we're certainly open. So over to you, Dale."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:18:27+00:00","id":13645,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13644,"text":" Alright, we got KY4VC Sean, thank you for your check in and for telling everybody I got a birthday coming up. I'll get you back for that one. But uh, yeah, uh, I sure would love to hear some third party traffic from Snowball. But uh, we got you in and out Sean if you want to talk a little bit, just go ahead and recheck. So KY4VC, KM5Y, thank you Sean. Any more check ins for the Litter Box Lounge on the 11 Catch Radio Network, come with your call sign now."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:18:49+00:00","id":13646,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13645,"text":" Charlie"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:21:41+00:00","id":13647,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13646,"text":" And it was 11 Cats. It was 11 Cats on Echo Link. Somehow, I don't know how, but somehow I started hearing about Echo Link and I thought, well, I'll give that a shot. I didn't have my General yet, so I thought this would, and I wasn't having a whole bunch of luck with my UV5R standing in the backyard, especially at night. At night, I'd try to go out to try to get that line of sight to the repeater and I'd go out there with my Bofang UV5R and at night, it's a lot more difficult to see the dog poop in the yard. So, I don't know, somewhere I figured out about Echo Link and I started trying to figure out online how that thing worked and who I could talk to. I do remember seeing that 11 Cats, I'll try this, see if this works, and that was a Sunday AFC. Yeah, I remember them. And the HF, I want to say, I don't have the guy's call sign, but I want to say that was Southern California somewhere and I was blown away. I was like, whoa, sitting here in Texas and got Southern California right off the bat. That afternoon, I think I got Southern California, Las Vegas, and New York City. New York City! And so, anyway, Mike, thank you all for this. Mike, thank you all for this net tonight. And I definitely had fun and we'll see you guys tomorrow at the AFC. KM5Y, this is KJ5FOX. This is KJ5FOX, Kilo Kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. All-star, Node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. KJ5FOX, KM5Y, Chad, thank you. That was pretty cool right there. And yeah, I think most of us remember our first contact. I remember my first contact on VHF. I do not remember my first contact on HF because by that time, I thought I was a pro and now I wish I would have. I've got it logged somewhere, though. I could look it up. It sounds like you're gonna be an ICOM guy."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:22:13+00:00","id":13648,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13647,"text":" KK7 and QN, RX test, RX test, KK7 and QN. KK7 and QN, RX test, RX test, KK7 and QN."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:22:36+00:00","id":13649,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13648,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:24:24+00:00","id":13650,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13649,"text":" This is Victor Alpha 3, Victor Whiskey X-ray 4ID in one place that I always look at, which is on Baffin Island in Callowhee. They had a wonderful day today, 14.2 degrees Celsius, that's around 50 degrees Fahrenheit. And they actually are having temperatures, and they're expected to have temperatures into parts of the week, potentially almost into the low 20s. It doesn't happen too often, but they do get north of 20 degrees Celsius every now and then. So of course, for them that's very, very warm. So we're seeing very warm, quote-unquote, Arctic summer conditions throughout much of the Arctic regions that are separated from the main North American continent by water. That's sort of the big divide. If you go to places that are connected, such as the Kennedy Bay, places on the edge of the Kennedy Bay, they can get up into the mid-high 20s, even potentially low 30s. That does happen up there. So you'll have Arctic water, which is very cool. It's on the order of 5, 6 degrees Celsius at this time of the year, but you'll have very, very hot air coming off of the North American continent. And another area that I like to watch is Churchill, Manitoba. They're famous for their polar bears. Let me cycle it."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:24:52+00:00","id":13651,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13650,"text":" Hey Tom, VA3VWX, you're not leaking in that time around. VA3VWX, okay, how is this now? Alright, you're understanding the plan."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:27:53+00:00","id":13652,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13651,"text":" One is giving me 0.8 celsius and the other one is giving me 0.0. I'm not sure which one I want to believe. But needless to say it's around the freezing mark which is quite warm for that part of the country."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:28:20+00:00","id":13653,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13652,"text":" And I've got you in. Thank you for joining us. NOSE 50241. Connecting to... NOS 62222."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:28:52+00:00","id":13654,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13653,"text":" And again, Tom, a shout-out to the moment here, he's ready with the climate updates for this week, that's VHV-VWX. And after that, we'll talk about it in the sky this week and in the Science Tribute Corner. Tom, VHV-VWX."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:29:16+00:00","id":13655,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13654,"text":" KK7, Inkyu in, RX Global Test, RX Global Test."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:29:44+00:00","id":13656,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13655,"text":" Level test, level test, KK7 and QN. RX, level test, RX, level test, KK7 and QN. Located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:33:55+00:00","id":13657,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13656,"text":" I do each week, I just start off with some solar weathers based on real asteroids. And then right after that, tonight I think POM is coming in, W838WX with the climate update. Solar wind, 455 power per second, so we're just under a threshold to interrupt solar storm activity. That's the 4.64 kt per cubic centimeter, so that's just 85. Index 146 on Fox 129, we have some fairly large ones. We have AR4153 right through to 55 at 57, and then at 51, 55, 66, 67, and then start of shield clusters up there. Ancient propagation, 80 in 40 meters for a day and a night right now. 30, 20, 17 and 15 all good for a day and night right now, and 12 and 10 there during the day and for at night. Takes us now to space debris. This is just the amount of object that's traveling overhead our planet. There's basically a cloud of debris that's been left up there since satellites and rocket ships have been going up. 31,259 objects are trackable these days, and I will mention there's much, much more than this, but these objects here, as I'm mentioning, each week are within just a certain size. These are the larger ones. And my location, just for context, is 1,983 today. Lots of things going up there. We'll look more about these tonight too, as I mentioned earlier. There's now some tangible evidence coming from radio astronomers. Now I'm not showing their images how these star-length constellations are now interfering with research. After all, I always include a few of these near-earth objects each week. None of these tonight are presenting any real problem for us. Today, or actually tomorrow, we'll have asteroid 2025 going 12, 5.9 lunar distance away, 4.4 kilometers a second, 7 meters of diameter. lunar distance? Just the distance the moon is away from us, so we use that measure for these objects of 5.9 times that. Just drop it. That's kind of the zone where once these larger objects come within, you can start keeping an eye on them. At that point, the gravitational effects of the Earth become much more pronounced, so you don't want to be dragging these large objects. Also at 2025, OV6, 6.3 lunar distance is 4.1 kilometers a second, 8 meters of diameter. At 2025, W3, 7.7 lunar distance is 13.9 kilometers a second, and 21 meters of diameter. None of those, particularly the 7-meter and 8-meter ones, present any real problem. The 7-meter one is probably the most likely to make it through the atmosphere, likely in the universe. I didn't get a chance to work out the destructive force of one of those. Maybe I will, and I'll just quickly, as the net goes on, take the smaller of the 7-meter one and see if I can come up with the hypothetical."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:34:18+00:00","id":13658,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13657,"text":" Node 52782 disconnected."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:34:44+00:00","id":13659,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13658,"text":" KK7NUN, RX dust, RX dust, KK7NUN, audio dust, audio dust, KK7NUN."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:35:08+00:00","id":13660,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13659,"text":" you in the car."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:35:30+00:00","id":13661,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13660,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:35:56+00:00","id":13662,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13661,"text":" RX audio test, RX audio test, KK7 and QN. RX audio test, RX audio test, KK7 and QN."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:36:26+00:00","id":13663,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13662,"text":" Everybody, can I get a quick audio report, Kim, please? And, uh, I didn't hear a lot. You're sounding a little bit choppy. Um, come in again, you might be a little bit better."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:36:54+00:00","id":13664,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13663,"text":" And that's it for the tropics for this week and if there are any additional stations like to join us for the science test, and science and tech that can care for you, you can come on in."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:37:21+00:00","id":13665,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13664,"text":" KK7NQN, ORAC test KK7NQN. KK7NQN, ORAC test KK7NQN."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:37:49+00:00","id":13666,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13665,"text":" Radio check, radio check, KK7, NQN, radio check. Testing, testing, testing 1, 2, 3. Testing, testing, testing."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:38:16+00:00","id":13667,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13666,"text":" RX Level Test, RX Level Test, KK7 and UN. This is a RX Level Test, RX Level Test, RX Level Test. Woah. RX Level Test."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:38:40+00:00","id":13668,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13667,"text":" We'll start things off here tonight."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:39:05+00:00","id":13669,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13668,"text":" RX test, RX test, radio RX, level test, level test, KK7, NQN."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:39:33+00:00","id":13670,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13669,"text":" RX audio test, RX audio test, KK7 and QN. KK7 and QN, RX audio test, RX audio test, KK7 and QN."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:40:29+00:00","id":13671,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13670,"text":" So I do want to mention we are getting into the lowest, so August sees the, for the entirety of the month you'll see the lowest sea ice in August. And this translates into the first week of September typically. Where in the northern hemisphere you have the lowest sea ice. And of course inversely in the southern hemisphere it's the opposite. August sees the most sea ice in its entirety in the southern hemisphere. And of course the first week of September is typically when sea ice in the southern hemisphere peaks. And of course that's when it hits its absolute minimum in the northern hemisphere. So we are moving into the peak season for minimum extent."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:40:55+00:00","id":13672,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13671,"text":" Garage, bubble test, garage, bubble test, KK7NQN. Radio test, radio test, KK7NQN."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:41:17+00:00","id":13673,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13672,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:43:45+00:00","id":13674,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13673,"text":" And I'll pause here to look at the topics for tonight. The first two, they're the usual staple each week in the sky this week, and the science review corner right after that. And the first main topic, the 8.1 megatube earthquake, likely enhanced the fire of all mechanical eruptions. The earthquakes happened not too long ago in Russian stuff off the coast of Russia, in St. Louis, Kolkata. And there was a 8.8 magnitude earthquake, constant tsunami. But for the study short, likely intensified a volcanic eruption happened just within a few hours after the earthquake. The next one, what triggers lightning, may have just been solved. A lot of mystery around lightning over the years. The basic mechanism of it is fairly well understood, but there's more to it now. Wereholes might be the fabric of space time. And what happens if a quark falls into a black hole? That's just a quick explanation of what a quark is. A quark is a building block of all matter. A certain number of quarks go together, held by gluons that make up the individual particles in competent matter. So quarks coming together with four protons, a neutron, things like that. What happens when one of these falls into a black hole? And warm and cool temperatures have a different path to the brain. And 76 million radio telescope images show star-length interference. And the 550 mile long 828.8 or 829 kilometer long lightning bulb, the largest ever recorded. Shroud of Turrets, this has been something that's been on the computer over the years. And some new research on that. First of its kind, video of bizarre sea creatures and extreme depths. And large mega animals could evolve again, like the mammoths and the holy rhinoceros and the parasaratheriums, that sort of thing. Under the right conditions, these animals could come back into existence."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:45:28+00:00","id":13675,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13674,"text":" or how about, ah, Chris, V3RWJ, Chris? Okay, thanks, Chris. You got me okay? I just don't know if it's a repeater that Ken's coming in on. Ken, am I okay to you? Beep. You're just slightly garbled, but you're still perfectly understandable. Beep. Okay, well, I'll be here tomorrow. V3RWJ confirming I'm good with you. You can hear me through the system, all right? Beep. Yep, sounding good here. I think Ken's on WOO, so everything in and out of there sounds choppy. Yeah, QSL, thanks, Chris. I think that it's the connection to the repeater that Ken's going through. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was figuring. Okay, thank you, Chris. Full duplex is nice over here, guys. This is Victor Alpha 3, Victor Whiskey X-ray 4ID. Good evening, everyone. My name is Tom Tango-Oscar-Mike, and I'm just down the road from Ken here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and I do the weather portion, the weather climate portion of the Science Net every week. I've been, there's been a bit of a hiatus for the last three weeks. My apologies. It's just been one thing after another, and it is summer, so this week we'll resume. Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:45:57+00:00","id":13676,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13675,"text":" KK7, NQN, Radio Shack, Radio Shack, KK7, NQN. KK7, NQN, Radio Shack, Radio Shack, KK7, NQN."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:47:20+00:00","id":13677,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13676,"text":" And the NHC, the National Hurricane Center, is also watching another area, Disturbance 2, which is a development area. This is basically the whole area between, let's say, Puerto Rico and Cabo Verde, that chunk of the Atlantic Development Region, a huge area. So they're watching that for possible development. They're giving it about a 20% chance in the next seven days. They're not expecting anything to happen in two days or so. But for those closer to the U.S. East Coast, particularly if you're off the coast of Carolina or Virginia, so North Carolina or Virginia, there is a disturbance that they're watching, Disturbance 1, and they're giving that a 30% chance of development into a named system in either two days or seven days, so 30% in two days, and it's about the same. In seven days, nothing happens in two days."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:48:19+00:00","id":13678,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13677,"text":" VA3, VWX. Oh, did you guys have a... I missed out. I've been sort of back and forth. You guys had a water spout, did you? I know there was some as well. Was it yesterday or the day before down near Cleveland, Ohio, coming off Lake Erie? So you guys, you have one over there in Baltimore. Did you? It didn't hit any bridges, did it? No, there was some video of somebody, it was in the water there down near, between Baltimore and Annapolis. That can't be an exit. So it actually spit it out. You came on land, I think they're bullies quarters, it'd be closer to Baltimore. It'd be closer to Baltimore."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:50:46+00:00","id":13679,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13678,"text":" And they broke their all-time record. They got up to 41.2 degrees Celsius in Keshiwara, which is Tamba City, and in Hoyogo Prefecture. And the previous record there was 41.1 degrees Celsius, and that was set in 2018 and again in 2020. So they broke it by a tenth of a degree, getting up to 41.2 degrees today. And I believe that area is susceptible to downslope flows from the higher elevation terrain. That helps edge temperatures up. Still very, very hot nonetheless. Okay, and just while we're on the topic of heat, Ontario and eastern Canada have some very high humidity with human X values that were north of 42 degrees Celsius. This is back in the final week of July. The winds there, they got up to 45 with the heat index, so it was 34.5 degrees Celsius with a dew point of like 25, and it was making it feel like 45 Celsius. Hamilton 44, Sarnia 45, Toronto 43, Ottawa 43, a lot of places there across Ontario, southern Ontario, just absolutely. It was oppressive heat, high humidity. And what ends up happening is it can get... You get transpiration in addition to advection of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. So by the time the air gets here, it's like ultra saturated because it's not just human Gulf of Mexico air, but it's picking up moisture along the way from all the vegetation across the... Across the Appalachian, the Ohio Valley and whatever else. And then it gets in here and it's totally saturated. So it's very hot, oppressive heat, far hotter than... I said to some friends, I go, man, this is way more human than it is in some of the tropical regions at this time of the year. Like down in the islands, it was more human than anything they get. Okay, let me drop it. And I know there's a delay. My heat index here hit 111 once or twice, Kp3, JQQ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:51:38+00:00","id":13680,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13679,"text":" Alright, and the last one to discuss over here is investigation 90 South, and this is basically north of the Cocos Islands. And that is, that's probably, it has a low chance of development, but that probably will develop into something more organized. Is it going to threaten anyone at this point in time? It doesn't look like it, but it's still something to watch. So very, very busy out there. There's also a smaller one which is near Micronesia, but that's likely not going to do anything."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:52:01+00:00","id":13681,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13680,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:53:52+00:00","id":13682,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13681,"text":" So on Sunday, July 13th, after Montreal got slammed with a slow-moving thunderstorm that flooded them out, there was a huge hailstorm that impacted Calgary, or Calgari, as some people say. Basically, the storm formed near White Forest, Alberta, just before 6, and it crossed Highway 22 at about 710 in the afternoon, and it got to Calgari's northwest at about 740, and it blew through the city and it exited through Chestermere by about 818, if you guys know where any of those places are, not that it matters. And they had hailstones initially that were about 20 mm, 2 cm in diameter, that's about 0.8 inches, and the storms quickly increased in size to almost 2 inches, so they were 2 and east of golf ball. And they beat up the city pretty badly, it's been a little bit of a while since the city, I don't recall the last, I think it's probably been about 3 or 4 years since the city had hailstones that big, although I might be wrong, but it was significant because it did a lot of damage to the city for what it's worth. Again, Calgari's a pretty big metropolitan city, so they were getting 2-inch hailstones throughout the city, and they had some strong winds, peak winds at the airport got up to 93 km an hour, that's 58 miles an hour, and that blew the hail and exacerbated things."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:57:26+00:00","id":13683,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13682,"text":" of the year, Hudson's Bay, or excuse me, Hudson's Bay, Hudson's Bay, Sistora, Hudson Bay is the bay that looks like an ultimate bull in sort of the central, just the eastern central part of Canada. And Churchill's a community that's sitting on the western shores of northern Manitoba. And Churchill is famous for their polar bears at this time of the year. They also have a number of huge hydroelectric installations, just like northern Quebec does. But Churchill, they see some wild temperature swings, depending on the direction that the wind's blowing. If the wind is, if it's an offshore flow, they'll get, they can easily get temperatures into the high 20s, low 30s, you know, approaching 90 or more degrees Fahrenheit. And inversely, you know, the next day, if the winds swing around and they're coming onshore from the waters that constitute Hudson Bay, they can be down in the single digits in summer. So they have this whiplash phenomenon all year long, but I like to look at those temperatures. Okay, I just thought that I would put that out there, since most people don't think about these places. I sort of do think about them throughout the year. And I usually look at these places because this is when you'll start to see winter. The good news is there's no signs of winter right now. So we'll just put that thought aside, at least in the northern hemisphere. If you're in the south, sorry about it, it's very cold. Okay, really quickly, we'll talk about the tropics right now. A lot going on, very busy. A number of systems, Croeso, which is a severe tropical storm that's moving off out into the North Pacific, that's moving away from Tokyo and Japan. It brought some unsettled weather earlier in the week. And we also have 13 West, which is a tropical storm, that's moving in the same direction, out and away from the island of Japan. Shanghai dealing, and some other places, Yen-Cheng dealing with Koh-Mei, which is now Remnant Lo. That came in earlier last week as a fairly strong system off of the Yellow Sea. And beyond that, there's a Iona, which is a tropical depression that's sort of meandering north into the Pacific, not really threatening anyone. And once we get closer to Mexico, we have Tropical Storm Gill, which is moving away. It's moving towards the Hawaiian Islands, but it's gonna dissipate before it gets there. And a couple areas that the National Hurricane Center is watching for development. There's investigation 90 East, and there's another one which is disturbance two, which is sort of just south of Acapulco. Again, both of these development regions are gonna be moving away from Mexico, so not a threat to the continent at this point in time, but just watching it for development. Let me drop it."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T18:59:01+00:00","id":13684,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13683,"text":" Okay, so that's all the wildfires. Trying to get through all these things over here. Let's talk tornadoes quickly. And this is courtesy of the Northern Tornadoes Project, their dashboard. We are still at 34 tornadoes across the country for the year. One event is still under investigation. So we're getting up there. Canada typically sees about 100 tornadoes a year. Seems to have stalled out a bit. In the second half of July, we had a bunch and then it slowed down. So I don't know if we'll get to 100. We'll see. Sometimes Eastern Canada tends to pick up in August. So we might be able to fill the gap. I'm like, oh, let's get more tornadoes. That's not what I mean. I'm just saying that the weather pattern may be able to get us up to the 100. That's sometimes what happens. But I'm not asking for tornadoes. I'm just saying that the pattern could allow it. We had a confirmed ESO. The forecast is our harbor temperature. By July 25, we'll be reaching the bag across Canada as far as temperatures go. It was generally hotter than normal in the east, but slightly cooler in other parts of the country."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:02:32+00:00","id":13685,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13684,"text":" KV3 JKQ, okay, thanks for that. Yeah, so it ended up coming ashore. Yeah, they do that and they fizzle out, but they can still cause a bit of damage when they initially come on ashore. Oh, that's cool, I'm gonna go look. I'm sure there's video of it. It's always, you know, water spouts always intrigue me. I was always thinking that when I was in Florida, I was always looking for them down in the Bahamas. In the fall, we get a lot of them over the Great Lakes, and I was always thinking about taking a jet ski and going out there. You know, doing what you're not supposed to do, drive right up to one. Ride what? Ride right up to one, just don't get into it. Okay, thanks for that, let me cycle. Oh, by the way, the series of the Js and the Orioles, man, that was giving me some heartache back and forth, especially given that, no offense, that the Js were leading the league total as far as best performance, not just the ALEs. That's another story, I gotta say Baltimore did come out swinging that time, that, what was it, like 16-4? Oh my God, that was a destruction, as far as that game goes. Okay, let me get back on topic. Baseball's another thing. VA3, VWX, let me cycle it. I have a question for you at the tail end of your presentation, VA3, KDC. What the? It's funny, you look at, yeah. Okay, VA3, KDC, Omar, yeah, go ahead. There's a bit of a lag between the repeater and the lag might be on mine. Okay, Omar, I'll get you in there at the end of the presentation. Funny thing with the Js, right, you look at the standings, for it's an American League standings, the Js are the only Canadian team and you're top of the standings. I always laugh, it hasn't happened in years. Anyway, that's another story. Okay, so Canada, it was, the high Arctic was actually cooler than average. It was actually the coolest it's been since the 90s and this is with the 90, 91 to 20, 20 averages. So alert was 1.2 degrees, resolute 2.0 degrees below average. Whereas other places, Toronto, they were 1.9 degrees, Windsor was half a degree. St. John's, which is way out in Newfoundland, they were at 2.5 degrees. They were actually the warmest, they had the highest deviation nationally as far as major locations go across the country. That's interesting, so it was sort of a mixed bag. Let me drop it."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:04:57+00:00","id":13686,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13685,"text":" Yeah, it can be very, 111, that's a very high heat index. You're gonna sweat with that. Once you get into those temperatures, it's different, right? The heat, I know it's very hot in B.C., that's a dry heat. You go in the shade, you turn on a fan, it makes a big difference. You go in the shade, you turn on a fan with that type of humidity out east. I mean, a fan helps, but you're still sweating bucket threads. You're able to sort of sweat enough that you can cool yourself, you know, the way you do. The wet bulb temperature is far lower with the western heat, so you can actually have some transpiration and that'll cool. Whereas that doesn't work nearly as efficiently out in the east. Okay, we have a bunch of other things. Let me mention this. Montreal flooding, I was away for this, but on Sunday, July 13th, they had 100 millimetres of rain that fell in just 90 minutes and it flooded parts of Montreal. Montreal Trudeau International Airport, they got 58 millimetres, that's 2.3 inches, by the way, 100 millimetres is 3.9 inches of rain. And the city essentially flooded, underpasses were flooded, etc., etc., and there was widespread damage. And houses were flooded, homes were flooded, businesses were flooded, etc. And one of the areas that was particularly hit hard was St. Leonard, and they had a number of basements and stuff were totally just washed out. You know, the house was, the water was halfway up the second floor of the house, so some absolutely horrific flooding out there. And some major road closures as a result, too. Highway 40, 15 and 25 were submerged and closed. And they actually had about, the storm also had some gusty winds, winds of 90 kilometres an hour, and about 100,000 customers were without power at the peak. Let me drop it."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:06:52+00:00","id":13687,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13686,"text":" And while we're on the topic of heat, I just want to keep going on this. BC, they were very, very hot on July 30th. Lydon got up to 40 degrees. Ashcroft and Kamloops, they got a 39.4 degrees. Pemberton, they were 38.9. Lillooet, 38.3. Warfield, 38.2, etc. Very hot, very dry heat. You get it in the interior valley. Lower elevations, you get some thermal compression with some downslope flows, right? And boom, you get these really hot, dry temperatures, hence the immense fire risk. So it's a very hot, very dry heat. BC wasn't the only place that was cooking, though. August 1st, Suihean, which is in the UAE, United Arab Emirates, they got up to 51.8 degrees Celsius just cooking. And that was a national record, which they broke their national record, which was 51.3 degrees. And that was set in Mezayar in 2017. And the temperature that they set, 51.8, that tied the highest temperature ever recorded in the United Arab Emirates. And that temperature was reached in Suihean in June 2021 and Mezayar in July 2017. And those are desert regions where that was hot. And it wasn't like that was the oddball. There were lots and lots of high 40s throughout the entire country. So that was just the hottest, 51.8. That is really hot."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:08:13+00:00","id":13688,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13687,"text":" This is X-ray Alpha-3, Victor Whiskey X-ray 4-ID. I don't have a damage estimate for the, I don't have a damage estimate for the amount of damage from the flooding. But one of the issues was, it was a slow-moving storm, a small cluster of storms, and it actually happened with the ongoing heat wave. After the storms moved out, temperatures, the following day were back up into the high 30s with the humid Xs north of 40 degrees, so 40 Celsius is 104 Fahrenheit. So again, 45 is like, I think it is about 110 or so, but don't quote me on that, I can't do the math in my head. So yeah, some people were without power in the heat, so they weren't happy, but of course eventually they got all the customers restored. So interestingly enough, the same day that that happened, Calibri got slammed, let me recycle it."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:13:01+00:00","id":13689,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13688,"text":" This is Victor, Alpha 3 Victor, Whiskey X-ray 4ID. All right, we've had a few things come in. I was gonna mention the fires, since that's been pretty important. I know there are people who've been asking about that. So the fire situation for Canada, this is over the course of the last week. British Columbia, they've seen a doubling in the number of active fires in the past week. The National Prepareless Level federally is at a level five for the whole country. That's the highest level, and basically that means that there's a full commitment of national assets, and international assistance is also being mobilized to help with it. So there's basically an extreme demand for firefighting resources, so that's pretty high. Okay, back to BC. The Wesley Ridge Fire, that was north of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. That fire's grown and it's basically out of control. Last I checked, the Cantilever Bar Wildfire, that's near Liddon, and that blaze is causing poor quality in the Fraser Canyon and surrounding regions. Bear Creek Wildfire, that was on the east side of Harrison Lake, and that's led to road closures in the recreation area. And then when you look at Saskatchewan, they're provincially at a preparedness level five, so it's very, that's the highest it can get. And they have a number of massive fires as well. Let me cycle up. One fire, it's enormous. This is Lower Fishing Lake. This fire is estimated at over 554,000 hectares. That's massive. La Ronge, that's another one that's at about 207,000 hectares and north of Weyakwin, and that fire's estimated at 192,000 hectares, so those are the three biggest fires right now in Saskatchewan, huge. And that's of course, people always think Saskatchewan is prairie and wheat and flat, yes it is, but northern Saskatchewan is very rugged and it's a different world, right? Very different from the southern half. It goes from prairie land into heavy forest. Manitoba, they're also obviously at a five. The big fire there, Snow Lake, that one's 28,000 hectares, so excuse me, 28,000 hectares, and Leaf Rapids, that one's 73,000 hectares. Alberta, they're at a preparedness level four, so they're doing a little bit better than some of the other provinces, but they have a number of new wildfires. There's one burning near Lac La Biche, Fort McMurray, and they have some smaller ones that are ongoing, but those are sort of the big ones. And as far as evacuations go, Little Coquitlam River Village, as well as the Wesley Ridge wildfire on Vancouver Island, so there are evacuation orders in effect for those communities in the north side of Cameron Lake, and the Lytton First Nation in BC is also being evacuated. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven, November to Quebec November. There are a number of evacuation alerts, but that means you're ready to evacuate. That doesn't necessarily mean you've gotta go. The ones I just mentioned were the orders where get out of the way, things aren't looking good, so not great. And of course, needless to say, the smoke, the air quality is up and down, it's hit and miss. It just depends on the way the wind's blowing and what it's doing, right, what the fire's doing, the way the wind's blowing. So it's been, today for example, it was a wonderful day, 25, I think got up to 27 degrees Celsius here in Toronto, but the sky had that bit of a reddish hue to it because of the high level smoke. We were okay at ground level, but the smoke was way up in the sky versus the day before. The sky was this crisp blue color because there was no smoke. So it comes and it goes, and obviously the closer you are to fires, you can have other effects such as ash fall, things like that. We're not having that in Eastern Canada per se, but in Western Canada and the North, that's far more common."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:19:25+00:00","id":13690,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13689,"text":" VA3, VW X4 ID, and I'm just trying to answer for memory. So Calgary did have a hailstorm in 2024. I think that one was actually in August, but didn't go through the downtown core of the city. I believe it went to the north of the city. That one, that one had 130,000 insurance claims on that storm, and that one was one of sort of the big hailstorms that the insurance industry in Canada was using as a benchmark to say, hey look, this is becoming a problem, right? The claims are going up in particular as it relates to hail. So anyway, that's just an interesting point. So the big hailstorm, the flood in Montreal, so Calgary in Montreal, those were the two things that I missed while I was away as far as Canada goes. And something else that's interesting over here that I wanna share with you guys, Australia's pink lakes. I know we have a lot of people from Australia that are, that take part in the net here. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven, November, Quebec, November. All star node six two two. 78 three, WWX Freddie. So Australia has a number of pink lakes, and these lakes are essentially the remnants of ancient rivers that dried up about 15 million years ago when they left behind these salty basins. So the lakes are cut off from other bodies of water, and the lakes are actually, in some cases, 10 times saltier than the ocean, and this creates a perfect habitat for salt-loving microbes like, I'm gonna try and pronounce this Italy la salina algae. Hope I didn't butcher that kid and correct me. And salini bactere ruber bacteria. And these are microbes that produce beta carotones, and these are the same pigments that give carrots and flamingos their color, turning the lakes, these very, very vibrant shades of pink, like a Barbie color of pink. Not a dull pink, a very vibrant pink. And climate change and human activity are, they suspect now threatening some of these ecosystems, although these ecosystems are always naturally in flux as well. Lake Hollier, it lost its pink hue earlier due to extreme rainfall, and of course what happens is you have fresh water, which is rainfall, that dilutes the salinity in the lake, and as a result of that, the particular microbes that produce the pigments, they essentially drop in number, right? They die off and other microbes sort of take over. But these new cycle and scientists believe that the lake is gonna recover and become pink again in about 10 years. And there's another one, Pink Lake, and that's near Esperesence, and that one turned blue gray in the 2000s due to salt mining, and experts say it may not recover naturally without intervention. I guess they had some contamination. And it's interesting because these lakes aren't just beautiful, but they're also ecologically important. They support birds, brines, shrimp, and snails, and they give life to some, and they give insights into some of the extreme environments that life lives in. So I thought that was interesting, in particular, because flamingos are pink because of the shrimp that they eat, they're white normally, and they're born white, and as they eat shrimp and stuff, they turn pink, if you didn't know. But anyway, thank you, everybody who helped this group make a cigarette game. Thank you, thanks so much. And we wanna know what you can do for this different project. I mean, no matter what, some pokeball or whatever Rowling makes it, Slug Jamaica will help another group. I don't know if you can cover up my tv or in thisautions or something, but for all the way through we would love to see what wepeople make. And back or back I look into this city and figuring out how long it would have relationships with such big plants in this community, and to me, then, I don't wanna guess"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:20:20+00:00","id":13691,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13690,"text":" The V83 VWX. Ken, I just wanted to let you know, I'm glad all our Australian stations showed up, but they missed. I put in the part about the pink lakes just for them. I was like, all the Aussies are going to be here, and I put in that part dealing with Australia's pink lakes just for them, and they all showed up after the weather segment. That's okay. I'll have to find some more Australian content. The V83 VWX. Ken, I'm glad all our Australian stations showed up."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:22:57+00:00","id":13692,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13691,"text":" VK2, VY10, VY10, VY10, and our last station is a V7, umm, 7X engine, we might catch that. V7MK, Victor Alpha 7, Mike Kilo, just checking in. And you also got another VK station there, Ken, VY3, VWX. Alright, I got the V7MK and there's another station there, come on in. Victor Alpha Echo 3, Foxtrot Echo Oscar."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:27:22+00:00","id":13693,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13692,"text":" Um, Tom was talking about the, um, what triggers lightning and this is starting to come out. And, um, I was looking at the other report, I was looking at some other reports regarding this too. And, um, the interesting thing about this is it falls in line with some of the principles of how lightning forms in clouds to begin with. This one had a little bit of a different twist than what Tom was saying, particularly when you have, um, electrons. The electrons in the, um, in the thunder clouds are getting accelerated. The inflammatory nitrogen, oxygen, and all the X-rays. And a lot of this is propagated from cosmic rays that are hitting the, uh, the amateurs causing the acceleration and the buildup of energy. And it's all part of what you would call the photoelectric effect, which Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for. So the photoelectric effect occurs in the atmosphere. In this case, this is when roto-vistic high energy electrons, as I mentioned, are seeded by cosmic rays coming from outer space. And they gather in the thunderstorm particle, uh, electric field. And they give off these high energy photons called terrestrial gamma rays, flashes. And these are, uh, a little bit more powerful than the, uh, the normal X-rays you get through a doctor's office, like the, uh, hard X-rays or even the soft X-rays. And they all produce, um, uh, ranges within X-rays and even a radial wave to drop in. And the research, uh, this new research that was, uh, able to show how the electrons were accelerated by the, uh, powerful electric field and the thunderclouds. And how they caused X-rays as they were smashing into some of these air particles on the way. And then that propagates, that just propagates an avalanche of electrons. And those electrons are now, uh, producing high energy photons in the gamma ray range that's just dropping for seconds. So, as I said, the whole process falls under what's referred to as a photoelectric effect. Um, and as I said, Einstein won the Nobel Prize for it. And photoelectric effect, it's, um, it's emission of, of, um, electrons caused by photons striking, um, a certain kind of a metallic surface, but you can get them coming from other surfaces as well. So you have electromagnetic radiation is absorbed, and, um, and this is absorbed by, this week, uh, bullets of electromagnetic radiation. And in turn, that energy has to go somewhere, so, uh, it's given off by electrons, and then these electrons are released. And, uh, other charged particles can also be released as well. So that's basically, just wanted to add that onto what Tom was saying about the, uh, this new, uh, research and how, uh, electricity and then the, uh, lightnings propagated in the, uh, thundercloud. Uh, Tom, come on in. Thanks Ken, VA3WX. I, I reset the notes, so hopefully the delay is gone. And, uh, thanks to the, uh, VK2J8J for letting me know how terrible it was. I do appreciate that. Uh, okay, Omar, um, he had a question, um, and I, I didn't hear what it was, so hopefully he can come back in and give us a, uh, repeat the question. VA3 or VWX?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:29:00+00:00","id":13694,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13693,"text":" fucking fuck now forests"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:29:28+00:00","id":13695,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13694,"text":" This is a big K2 JHJ You're dropping in and out right? Dropping it out like every second sentence It's very hard to understand. Okay, we acknowledge"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:29:56+00:00","id":13696,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13695,"text":" It could be because of the weather, but you're getting it out like a lot. So, I don't know what that's about. The VK2 station, VK2 station, go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:31:47+00:00","id":13697,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13696,"text":" picture of three victory with the x-ray for ID and I just wanted to go through a couple other things here I have some notes a lot of stuff some weather around the world as we were discussing earlier in the u.s. or a significant wave that was affecting about 185 million people they had different warnings across a huge swath of the country and that was going on then of course we had the deadly flooding in Texas earlier in the year that was back on July 4th and in Asia China they had up a northern China they've been experiencing severe and deadly flooding in Beijing they had 21 inches of 54 centimeters of rainfall in some of the mountainous areas and that resulted in 30 fatalities and about 80 thousand people being evacuated and of course landslides and damaged roads were also part of the flooding and 130 villages lost power there so and then the other thing was Typhoon Cove that that made lands that sort of did a double tap where it made landfall spun around went back out and then came back in and that brought immense rainfall in Xinjiang and Shanghai and that forced the evacuation of about 282,000 people and in Europe Greece and Turkey they've been having some relative to them relatively large wildfires and that's been fueled by strong winds and the persistent heat wave that they've had in some cases temperatures got north of 40 degrees Celsius depending on where you are so it was so they're having their they're having their usual fires for this time of the year which is unfortunate"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:32:38+00:00","id":13698,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13697,"text":" Thanks Kent and Tom I'm not sure if I misheard so I'm just going to confirm when you were talking about the Arctic ice minimum maximum I may have misheard you so I want to confirm you were sort of the... ...what I heard... ...is he... ...is he... ...a follow up question I'm sure you can guess at. How in the world would that work? Anyway I'll send it back to Tom if I could, the E3WX."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:33:34+00:00","id":13699,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13698,"text":" This is Victor Alpha 3. Victor was the X-ray for ID, so I just wanted to get that in there for you guys. Okay, let me just reach out to Ken for a second because I got a...so Chris sent us an email, he was the one that sent in the article about the lightning, and I was actually going to mention it. And it was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. I don't know if Ken wants to discuss this or I can go through it quickly here. Uh, Ken, VA3KX, VA3VWX, do you want to discuss the lightning or do you want me to do it? Sir, no, you go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:34:17+00:00","id":13700,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13699,"text":" to VA-29. VA-3-FEO, just checking in. Back to vehicle 7, I'll leave Moscow Gulf for VA-7-MK. Checking in."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:34:46+00:00","id":13701,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13700,"text":" Okay QSL, and there is a bit of a... I'm gonna have to reset my node, there's a bit of a lag on my system here, so I apologize for that tonight. VA3VWX..."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:36:05+00:00","id":13702,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13701,"text":" and this is VHV KEX, we're having a little bit of trouble here, but let's see if we can push on with it. So that was K2JHJ from Australia. Any other stations out there if you'd like to join us, and if you have a comment for Tom, question, come on in. Okay, so this is VON. This is N-1H at the West Coast mile, United States, and I think I'm seeing some heat lightning or something. Okay, so give me. Okay, hang on a sec. Tom is just rebooting his system, and he's going to be right back. So those two stations, I think they're comments for Tom, VHV, D-W-X, and if he's ready to come back in, you can direct your questions or comments to him. And Tom, just let me know when you want to come back in."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:36:31+00:00","id":13703,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13702,"text":" Alright, any additional stations, come on in. If you want to reserve the internet wrapped for the benefit of the Australian stations, go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:42:03+00:00","id":13704,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13703,"text":" I'll do it in for your note as you're doing the reboot. Back in now, V3KDC. The question I had was, hopefully you can hear me, when you were talking about the Arctic ice minimum maximum, I just want to make sure that I heard you correctly. And if I did, then I have a follow-up question. Or did I perhaps mishear you? You were talking about the Arctic minimum, sorry, Arctic minimum. I have to say minimum occurring during the North American summer. To me, that just appears counterintuitive. So I'm wondering if I heard you correctly, or maybe I misheard. Anyways, back to you. VH3, VWX, you're VH3KDC. I'm, VH3, VWX returning. I think I heard what you were asking. I just don't know how it's counterintuitive. Okay, so, it's summer in the Arctic. So the Arctic minimum occurs, so August is a month that has the, for a monthly period, August will have the least amount of ice. And that also carries over into the first week, maybe two weeks of September, depending on the year. And then after that, it'll start cooling down enough where ice will actually begin to grow in the high Arctic. So ice cover for the Northern hemisphere is the absolute lowest. So snow and ice cover is the absolute lowest for the entirety of the month of August as a monthly measure. And then for the first week or two weeks of September, once you get into the third week of September, snow cover and ice growth goes up. So that's what's happening. And vice versa, the opposite happens in the Southern hemisphere. They get into their maximum, so you have the maximum amount of ice growth in the Southern hemisphere. And it typically peaks in that first week of September, and then it'll begin to very slowly diminish. And then speed up as they move towards their spring in the Southern hemisphere. And okay, I'm glad. Hopefully that all makes sense to you, which I'm sure it does. We'll send it back to you if you have any response. VAWX. Yeah, thanks Tom. Actually I misspoke twice now. So I texted you while you were telling me that everything you just said makes complete sense. I must have just somehow misheard. In my defense, I was driving home. So thank you for explaining that and clarifying. I'll send it back to you, and then I'll let you throw it back again. But it definitely answers my question. Thanks again. V3WX or V3KDC? All right, V3KDC, V3WX. Yeah, no problem for that Omar. I'm glad that, yeah, no worries you misheard. It's all good. It's there, yeah, and August is typically the warmest month of the Arctic summer season, where many places will consistently have temperatures above 10 degrees. I want to say north of 10 degrees, but they'll have daytime highs getting well above 10 degrees consistently. And many of the places still have, maybe not exactly 24 hours of daylight, but the daylight hours are still much, much longer than anything you get south of 60 degrees. So they're still getting long days. So that all helps, of course. Okay, I don't know if there are any other questions, but we'll send it back to Kenan if there are. He can take them. And if not, he can move on with the net. This is VA3VWX back to net control."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:42:32+00:00","id":13705,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13704,"text":" Control, net control, net control, this is VK2J, say. V83VWX returning. Sorry Omar, I had a... you... you... Station. Station calling net control, go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:42:57+00:00","id":13706,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13705,"text":" Okay, uh, 2 Delta Yankee, uh, just checking in."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:44:58+00:00","id":13707,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13706,"text":" So the main victims of the hailstones were of course siding, PVC siding in particular that does not like hail. Roof damage, windows, there was some localized base and flooding because of the ice, the hailstones and the debris that they brought down primarily tree leaves and branches. They block catchment areas and you get flooding. And vehicles, vehicles were the other thing that was beat up so of course there was a huge surge in insurance claims. And obviously trees and landscaping and sadly birds, birds are a common victim of these hailstorms right, the birds get knocked out of the trees and clobbered so it's not good. There was a hailstorm in 2024 in August that caused $3 billion in insured losses outside of the city and this one still has to be assessed. I don't know what the dollar figure on it is but I bring this up because it's very easy for hailstones to cause a huge amount of damage and they can impact agricultural areas right. If you have a farmer, you have a, you know they call it a big white combine coming through a big hailstorm, that's it you're going to get billions of dollars of damage and losses depending on how big the hail swath is from the storm. So these things can go quite a distance so that's not good. But anyhow, there you have it. Let me drop it."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:45:45+00:00","id":13708,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13707,"text":" Actually, if you come in one more time, I didn't catch much of that. You were breaking up. Try once more. This is Victor Echo 3, Foxtrow Echo Oscar. Just checking Victor Echo 3, Foxtrow Echo Oscar. Okay, guys, you're on time. Thank you so much for coming back. Thanks for watching!"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:49:03+00:00","id":13709,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13708,"text":" there's going to be an avalanche here at this time. We don't know what the precursors are, but we don't know where and when that trigger will emerge. You know, often cases with naturally occurring avalanches, triggers, they're enough pressure on a piece of snow, and that sort of gives way. And then the entire, all the avalanche, all the area where the snow is packed in such a way that it favors an avalanche will then move, right? The entire slope starts coming down, you can get a big avalanche. And this is the same thing in a way, right? Where it looks at the, it basically looks at things at an atomic level and gives us an introspect as to what's going on with the actual discharge itself. And hence they chose the name for photoelectric feedback discharge. That's what the model is that they made. Anyway, it's interesting, Kenko maybe elaborated a little bit more on it. And again, thanks to Chris at VE3RWJ for sending that in. It was, it's an interesting article. All right, with that, I will send it back to that control. One other thing I'm gonna mention to you guys, currently in Canada, we have a meme appreciation month. Sorry, it's not a contest. It's a special event station or a group of special event stations. It's for meme appreciation month. So a group of people, they've done this in mass, they've brought it together and they bought a number of different, they purchased licenses for a number of different special event stations. So if you're into memes and that sort of stuff, there's some interesting stations. VB4Ligma, VB3EET, Y-E-E-T, VC9CatGirl, K3K, cat, it's a whole bunch of interesting one, Rickroll, VC3, Rickroll, et cetera. So if you want some interesting stations, you can listen for those and just Google it. It's a meme appreciation month. If you Google meme appreciation month, RAC, Radio Amateurs Canada, that'll come up as well as their own station. The most recent one that's been getting some people worked up, they registered CJ2Satan, S-A-T-A-N, CJ2Satan. So if you want that one in your log and you can find them, go ahead. So there you go, they're having some fun. We do things differently up here, I guess. All right, back to Ken for Net Control, VA3VWX. And this is VA3EET, K-X, thanks so much for that tonight, Tom. And any stations out there, if you have a comment, question for Tom, come on in. Yeah, I just saw the question for Tom, it's V3KDC."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:52:11+00:00","id":13710,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13709,"text":" Alright, well we'll head into the next year, the main topics for tonight. And the first one, the first one I think I'll go through here is a wormhole. There's some discussion coming up as of late regarding some of the characteristics and properties of these wormholes. And there's always something new coming up, and mind you they're theoretical, much the same as black holes were theoretical not too many years ago as well. But wormholes, they can exist, there's nothing mathematically saying they can't. Period of relativity says that they're entirely possible. So there's a lot of theory put out there as to what they actually mean as far as the existence of the universe. So now they said they're theoretically possible, that wormholes exist, and normally they exist, it's also theoretically possible, and mathematically it's now proven that they weave the fabric of space right by connecting virtual particle pairs that pop in an arctic system. There was a question come up on one of the morning maps about virtual particles, are they actually real particles or not, and it depends how you want to look at it. I'll explain that a little bit later. But the, if it proves true that these particles are connected this way instead of a field of some type, therefore that means the wormhole is a tangible structure of the universe, not something theoretical at that point, not something that's dependent on something else, but it's an actual, it's an integral part of the universe. And the concept of wormhole, in this case it's applying to describe quantum entanglement processes. And most of the time when entanglement is talked about, it's in terms or context of particle pairs and how the action on one affects the other, no matter how far apart they are. Einstein referred to that as spooky action at a distance. Is that a thing? And he definitely wasn't in favor of that. However, it's now been proved experimentally that that process does exist. But now Einstein is beginning to think that the vacuum of space might be stitched together by elements of quantum entanglement. Therefore, everything might be held together by this phenomenon, and that this connection is exactly how a wormhole would function. What happens to one particle happens to the other instantly. What happens in some areas of the universe are connected instantly."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:55:59+00:00","id":13711,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13710,"text":" Oscillations don't always remain particles. Charged particles interact with the electromagnetic field. Oscillations in the electron field can affect oscillations in the electromagnetic field. So as, let's say, an electron is speeding around here and there, it's been found that time is the electric field itself is times the electromagnetic field oscillation. Therefore, it's sometimes a photon, sometimes an electron is dropping. As well, that oscillation can also produce other oscillations that become other particles. So every particle in the cosmos has a corresponding field, and they all interact with each other. So all these wiggles and wiggles produced by other wiggles combine to create a moving electron or other particle. The oscillations that continue and travel are called particles. Those that come into existence for a brief period of time are called virtual particles. Each of these is still just oscillations of these vast fields that extend indefinitely. And when these particles are close enough to interact, they produce and exchange virtual particles from a huge intermingling of oscillations and counter-oscillation. And this is the nature of quantum field theory. So one final thing to mention, the Heidenberg uncertainty principle. And it's required for all this. So this is required to help overcome temporary violations of energy conservation. As I was mentioning about particles popping in and out of existence. Well, the universe was in a coming to existence with a finite amount of matter and energy. So you can't create matter or energy or destroy energy or matter. It's all converted back and forth. So there's a certain amount there. So having particles pop in and out sounds like you're violating this principle of energy conservation. This is repeater station for the Heidenberg uncertainty principle. Help get around that. So this is why virtual particles pop in and out almost instantaneously. There's what's referred to as borrowed energy. This allows a temporary violation of energy conservation due to time energy uncertainty. And so just to put it in other terms, uncertainty principle, says that there's an absolute limit to how well pairs of properties can be known at a particular time. So if you nail one property down, unless you know about the other with any certainty, therefore a system's energy cannot be known with any height of precision. And that energy can change over a period of time. So there's certain things about a system that you can't know. You might know the position of an electron, but you might not have enough information to give up the precise amount of data on it, momentum, et cetera, et cetera. So therefore, these systems of energy cannot be known with any height of precision. And that energy can change over periods of time by some amount. And this energy fluctuation is the mechanism that lets virtual particles pop in and out of existence and maintain the laws of energy conservation."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:57:21+00:00","id":13712,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13711,"text":" I'm Dr. Angus from the Science and Tech Center this evening. Coming in from my home location here in Toronto, Ontario. If you'd like to join us or you have a comment, come on in. And that last topic, it ties into the next one about what happens if a quark falls into a black hole. Now a quark is a basic building block of particles. Not all particles have a basic building block. I'm not sure what's known right now. There's some theory from magneticals out there that electrons might have a decision with parts. But as far as what's known right now, they don't. But, um, composite particles like protons and neutrons, they're built up of smaller particles. Quarks make up these particular particles. So what would happen if a quark, from these basic building blocks, if a quark falls into a black hole? And if you'd like to join us or you have a comment, come on in and we'll get into this one."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T19:59:05+00:00","id":13713,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13712,"text":" And this is EH-VKX-10 here, Science and Technology for this Saturday evening coming to you from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. And if you'd like to join us, if you have a comment, come on in. And then after this, something a little different other than just space for a moment, I always like to add something about prehistoric animals, whether it's dinosaurs or mammoths, mastodons, that sort of thing each week. There's so much going on in research now, and that research is basically enhanced by the technology that's being developed. But it's actually about some of these giant animals, the megafauna, like mammoths, giant woolly rhinoceros, and all those huge animals back then, not the dinosaurs, but just the mammals, that they weren't very common. But with environmental changes, these huge animals could come into existence again. There's nothing as they actually couldn't. If you'd like to join us, if you have a comment, come on in. And then about how these giant creatures that were once common could come into existence again. Victor Alpha 3 in the Alpha Hotel. It's slash V A6. It's Alan tonight from Calgary. Just listening along."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:04:30+00:00","id":13714,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13713,"text":" They originated in South America about 35 million years ago. And they were big. And their common ancestors in all flocks were between about 150 and 770 pounds, or similar to the ranges seen among black bears today. And they walked on the ground. And the earliest flocks were already in good position to shift the world's climate and ecological changes. So the uplift of the Andes Mountains in South America led to changes on the continent and man-ore open, drier grasslands spread around. And they were there in previously winter woodlands and forests. Just drop it. Some of the flocks became smaller. They spent more time around, let's say, trees and grasslands. Or trees and grasslands were the biggest of the flock species. And the grassland flocks were the ones that belonged to these huge elephant-sized animals. And Earth has been shifting between warmer and wetter times. Like now, it always has been. But now is different. Now is different. And the cooler and drier climates over millions of years. So we're shifting between warmer and wetter times and cooler and drier crimes that happened over millions of years. The chillier, more arid times are what gave flocks their enhancement size. Indoor and epic older times. These bear flocks were able to hold on to their body heat, so they also didn't need as much water. They were capable of traveling long distances, efficiently due to their size. The cooler and drier climates, especially after 11.6 million years ago, led to these huge, huge expanses of grasslands. And they tend to favor the evolution of increasing body mass. And this is an archaeology that was in her report. The combination of climate shifts, mountain uplifts, and vegetation changes created an environment where flocks could evolve into a huge number of forms, including multiple times when flocks became giant. So they didn't just become giants at one point. That happened over time and time again. And at a certain point, these mega herbivores, they got so large that most predators can't touch them. They're able to access nutrition and food that other animals can't digest. And this is due largely to microbes. They're cut microbes that help them digest cellulose. And being large means you're also mobile. And there are advantages that have repeatedly pushed animals to get that bait over and over again. The same advantages gave rise to the species as well as more recent giant-like flocks and mastodons. And large flocks, they can travel further. And little grassland habitats stretch from Central America to a prehistoric Florida. And a lot of the fall, they're favored habitats between their continents. And the world were to shift back towards cooler and drier conditions. And they're going to be able to get back to the surface of the world. And they're going to be able to get back to the surface of the world. And they're going to be able to get back to the surface of the world. And as they get back towards cooler and drier conditions that help the spread of the grassland that gave flocks their size, similar giants could likely evolve. The problem is that humans are what we're doing to the Earth's climate, ecosystems, and existing species. The diversity in number of large species, why today, is vastly and often negatively affected by humans. The 2019 study of human influences on 262 megaflauda species on land and in the water. And they found that 70% are diminishing in numbers and 59% are getting close to extinction. But if that relationship were to change, either to our actions or intention, studies like the new paper on giant flocks suggest that ecosystems brimming with these megaflaudal species could happen again. In the animals, they change their habitat, which in turn tends to support more large species that adapt to those environments. The giant flocks that evolved in those grasslands help keep those open spaces open along with other huge herbivores like mastodon's resident, as well as some of the larger carnivores that preyed on them. And very, very ecologists know that from studies on how large animals like giraffes and rhinos affect vegetation around them, they've heard of herbivores and keep habitats open and open. Elephants, good example. Just dropping."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:04:53+00:00","id":13715,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13714,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:08:12+00:00","id":13716,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13715,"text":" ...weird way that the universe is held together mathematically as the threads of quantum entanglement, and as they've been proven mathematically to threads of quantum entanglement are kind of space-time falls apart. ...or it, the, it's referred to as, uh, it becomes, uh, desparatized. It then just breaks up and, and vanishes. Quantum entanglement, uh, has a substitute for wormhole. It doesn't just affect particle pairs, but the entirety of space itself. So, virtual particles, just dropping. So, to start off with, just imagine two particles, two particles speeding towards each other and about to collide. At some point, they bounce off and, and head in another direction. So it would make it possible for them to communicate so that we could, uh, they head in another direction. So, charged particles interact with the, uh, uh, micro-magnetic force, photons. Um, and therefore they react to light. So, when coming into contact, they met a type of photon, a virtual photon. A charged particle emits a vector field, which tells a particle how to react to other particles. This, uh, the farther away, uh, from another particle that we hear the field, um, the field is pointing out in, in, uh, in front of particle in all possible directions in the vector field. And when they get close enough, the field is so strong that there's a message, uh, that goes out along the lines of just how to go away. Uh, so that's, that's, uh, that message is detected from the particles and they just charge out of the way. So, every particle creates a field that extends all through space in every direction. The field is no less important than the particle itself. So, in the late 20th century, scientists came up with the notion of, of, uh, melding aspects of special relativity or quantum physics. So, they're describing a field as a, a separate entity of a particle. And, um, how the, uh, the field allowed particles to interact with one another, it became a particle itself. So, particles are, are now seen as, as not being solitary objects but out in a field. That is all through space. The field is not a particle. What makes things weirder is that the particle is actually excitations or oscillations within that field where if the field gets pinched off and a particle is created. So, this is where, um, particles all around us, we see all the particles, photons, neutrons, etc., etc., come from. These excitations in these fields occasionally get pinched off because they're interacting with other oscillations or, or, or wobbles, uh, uh, through the, uh, the, uh, the field, uh, which creates a, uh, a particle that's dropping."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:11:07+00:00","id":13717,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13716,"text":" that we're alive right now, and it's a blue whale. And it's evolved relatively recently. And the earliest blue whale fall, whale falve, I think, to about 145 million years ago. And it's about 98 feet long and more than 200 tons. And the whale is larger than any mammoth or dinosaur. And it's always had a greater amount of smaller species than larger ones, even during prehistoric ages, with all this metafauna. Our ecosystems are still in a, which are referred to as a, a megafaunal drop that began at the close of the ice age. This is repeaters nation kilo, kilo seven, November, Quebec, November. All star notes from North America during the crisis scenes between 11,000 years and 200 years ago. The land masses used to have multiple forms of mannip mastodons, giant brown spots, enormous armadillos. And various species of saber-capped, saber-toothed tigers, and calf, huge bison, entire wolves, and other huge creatures that formed an ecosystem. That's what I like as we have today. In addition, species like jaguars, black bears, coyotes, even white-tailed deer, golden eagles. They're also back then. Elsewhere in the world, we have terra birds. These are taller than an adult human. Wombat, mention a wombat the size of a car. Willy rhino, a variety of elephants. Pareto, waktoban, and a mannip. There's another one there. And other animals, ecosystems. Evil, supreme, and giant were the norm, rather than the exception for tens of millions of years. The giant death plots were among the greatest success stories back then. The herbivores, they evolved on South America. I think it was on an island continent. They only moved into Central and North America in the prehistoric bandana connected to land masses, which was about 2.7 million years ago. Some were small. They were all big, like the one I was telling you. At the museum, some were small, like the living two and three tool swabs, while others had a range of all sizes, right up to the size of an elephant. One in particular also was the omega theria."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:13:31+00:00","id":13718,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13717,"text":" And they traveled all across the wooded areas of the Americas back around 50,000 and 500,000 years ago. And paleontologists had debated, they've been debating a long time why, and looked like these went extinct. The emerging picture involved, while one was increasing human influence on the landscape, and a warmer integration of climate that began to change the world's ecosystem. Also, humans over hunting was driving some of these animals to extinction as well. But, less understood is how the planet came to give rise to the entire community of these huge animals during the hypocene. And now there's a new study that's come out. On the success of this loss, and it's helping show how the world of these ice age giants came to be, and that the Earth became these enormous animals. It could come again. So, for the Museum of Natural History, there's a paleontologist there, Rachel Nertigy, and some of her colleagues. The Tract house loss came to be widespread in several parts of the places in America through that area. And they published their findings of science this past May. The researchers found that climate shifts, that a lot of the spread of grasslands gave rise to big flocks of these huge hanging animals. And then these animals altered throughout those habitats to maintain a lot of pieces, that's so that their big bodies keep moving long distances. So the interaction between the animals, the environment shows how giants obtain their massive size, and how weird it is that our planet has fewer big animals than it otherwise would have."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:14:26+00:00","id":13719,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13718,"text":" a little bit about what would happen if a quark fell into a black hole. Again, that was just theoretical. They really don't know. Under theory, it would be eventually pulled apart. You have a quark, any quark particle, and they would be pulled apart and further and further and further. So you'd just have this sort of exponential growth of quarks. They don't even know what's really at the center of a black hole. Is there something else there? Or is there a white hole connected to the black hole through a worm hole? That's another theory that's out there too. Lots of South East don't even know about black holes."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:14:49+00:00","id":13720,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13719,"text":" You're checked in."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:15:12+00:00","id":13721,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13720,"text":" I'm glad you checked in."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:16:28+00:00","id":13722,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13721,"text":" And that next one started off with the largest swatch in about four years, I think it's been five years now, about five years since I've been to the Royal Ontario Museum here in Toronto. And while I was there I took some pictures and one of the pictures I took of the dinosaurs and the prehistoric mammals was of the brown swatch, one of the big ones, not the biggest one, but it was a big one. And one of the things that astounded me was how massive the bone structure on this thing was. So the largest swatch of all time is actually the size of an elephant. So this one at the museum was considerably smaller than that, probably about the size of a Kodiak bear, maybe a poor bear, maybe a bit bigger. But the largest of them was the size of an elephant."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:25:04+00:00","id":13723,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13722,"text":" So let's say we have a quark there, a pair of quarks, they fall into a black hole. And the more they're pulled apart, the stronger they'd hear to understand a quark. And you try to pull it apart, well, if you turn it off energy, you'll end up with a quark, any quark up here. And so you can do it. And I mentioned earlier, it's on both virtual particles. You have a particle, an anti-particle pair, and they annihilate almost instantaneously. So you might be thinking, well, if you have a quark, and it falls into a black hole, it becomes a pair. You have your four-handed quark pair. What isn't it? Why don't they come into contact and annihilate? Well, actually, strong force comes into effect. You have strong force that holds everything together within the nucleus of an atom. And the particle that's the force barrier for that is a gluon. So the gluon is a mediating force that prevents the quarks from annihilating. And when you form a quark, an anti-quark pair, the gluon comes into the rescue and stops them from destroying each other. But a quark pair falls in a black hole. So as I mentioned, the more they're trying to pull them apart, the stronger they just adhere to one another. It's like a rubber band. If you take a rubber band and stretch it out, you'll find that as you stretch it further and further, it's acquiring more energy to keep pulling it. So at some point, they will separate. The quark will separate with the same energy it took to pull them apart, and that could be immense. And that energy will result in two more quark pairs, then four, et cetera, et cetera. And the process goes on and on and on. So inside a black hole, the theory is that the process of quark pairs being created as they enter the singularity will terminate at some point, where the energy produced in front of here would become so great it would destroy the gravitational field of a black hole. So once the gravitational field of a black hole is completely gone, well, that's the main characteristic of a black hole. It's dropping. So this is all theory. No one really knows what goes on inside a black hole. And they really don't. It's all just theory. Well, in fact, the singularity, they don't even know if there's actually a singularity there. Singularity is where all terms of mathematics and physics breaks down. So it's not a way of saying, you know, don't know what's going on there. It's dropping. In fact, the singularity at the point, there's a phrase that's used with that. And it's a god divides by a zero here. So that was attributed to Einstein. There wasn't an Einstein come up there. It was actually a comedian, Steven Lightman, came up with that phrase. I'm not sure what context he was using. But it's applied here with the singularity. And so this is a way to express how math becomes undefinable at a black hole center, which is actually the term for singularity, where mathematics and physics break down. So probably the thermal process of continual quark pair production could result in a quark-gluon plasma. So as I mentioned, you have the gluons come into effect there. So it allows the production of these quarks so that they're not destroying each other as they come into existence in quark and big quark pair. And I hope we'll get to much more about them in the particle physics here about things. But what I'd like to find interesting too is quarks. They come in flavors and colors. And it's not flavors that you would be accustomed to take a sip of your favorite pop or coffee that has a flavor. You look at a scenery outside, you see the greens. And the crescent milk is checking the factors. These are just basically just metaphorical expressions to help describe some characteristics of quarks that's dropping. Flavors, up, down, sharp, strange, top, bottom. The flavors describe the mass and the electric charge on the quark. Goes from low mass up to high mass. Will be up down quark to the lowest of the masses right to the top model, which is the higher masses. And it's going left or right. Press a proton. It has a 2-3 charge quarks in 1-3 charge now quark, which gives a net positive charge. And there are all kinds of quarks. And any quark pairs are being created all the time. In fact, in a proton, these are the valence quarks. And one I just mentioned are valence quarks. They're the main quarks. But there's all kinds of different quarks in a proton that are being created all the time. Quark, anti-quark pairs are coming into existence and popping under because at that time. So they're there all the time. And then there's color. As I mentioned, color. This has a great interaction of the strong quarks. So it's actually a color charge. Red, green, blue. November, Quebec, November. All star, node 6222. So you need three quarks. You need three quarks to make any particles. So the proton in the project, three quarks to make up any of those particles. And each one comes in a flavor. And that corresponds to the color. So it's important that regardless of the flavor, the colors, which are primary colors, red, green, and blue, all combine to produce light. So if you're adding quarks to make something up, you could take an up quark and maybe another down quark and maybe another up quark. But you have to make sure they all have red, green, or blue. So the final product would be white. So it's giving balance to the strong force when they're being held together in the atom. So pulling quarks apart, it produces quarks, anti-quark pairs. And as I mentioned earlier, annihilation. It's just mitigated by the strong force carrier or blue ones. And quarks and anti-quarks, they differ only under charges. So anti-quarks are shown with a bar over the sample. So an up quark would have a bar over it. A down quark would be a B with a bar over it, et cetera. And another line, probably, concept too, is there could be atomic hadrons out there. Hadrons, the composite particles, could have more than three of these valence quarks in their makeup. So they could have four, five, six, seven, or more. These are just theoretical, of course. But the up and down quarks are the most stable and the most common in the cosmos. So strange charm, top, bottom, or the production of higher energy equations, both natural and artificial, artificial and magnetic, in part of what's called reson colliders."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:25:59+00:00","id":13724,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13723,"text":" which is really weird and mind-boggling too, is that thermal particles, by their definition, they pop into existence. They have their particles and they're a particle pair and they annihilate, self-inflate almost instantaneously. That helps conserve the energy conservation principle. But under certain instances, and not very often, but under certain instances, they can actually become real particles. This is a mechanism that happens around the event horizon of black holes, which gives rise to octane radiation. But only under certain circumstances can a virtual particle actually become a real particle."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:27:07+00:00","id":13725,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13724,"text":" Okay, I'll find some more Australian. All the Aussies know about their pink lakes. We were just talking about the bacteria that, the say, the salt, salt-loving bacteria that makes a number of lakes that you have turn pink. So we were just talking about that. So Australia's pink lakes. If you've never been to Australia and you go there, make sure you try and check out some of the pink lakes. We'll send it back to you Ken, BA3VWX. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7. This is BA3KX. Thanks Tom. Any comments for Tom, come on in and we'll have him to the rest of the, the VHB Jazz Can here, science and tech net for this Saturday evening at my home location here, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. If you have a comment or question for Tom, come on in with those two."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:28:40+00:00","id":13726,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13725,"text":" And this volcano is located in eastern Russia. And it started erupting right after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake. And there was a lava slope, and it's been spotted on the western slope. And the cameras are showing explosions and some strong glow above the volcano. And there was an ash flue. It formed about 1.5 miles, 2.5 kilometers high. It was 36 miles, 56 kilometers east of the volcano. And a warning was then sent out that the explosion of ash five miles, three kilometers high could also occur. I don't know if it did, but they put a warning for that. And weeks before the earthquake, the site was showing signs of unrest on July 21. On the 21st of July, time has found a lava lake at the summit of the volcano. And the cave was just ready to go. And the volcano, it rises about 15,000 feet, almost 15,000 feet, almost 4,000 feet above sea level. And it's the tallest volcano in Europe and Asia. And this is the data from NASA's Earth Observatory."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:29:35+00:00","id":13727,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13726,"text":" Thanks so much for joining in. Checking in or did you have a comment? No, just checking in. Thank you. You're welcome. And just to finish this one up here, it's important to note that Starlight, as I said, they're not violating current regulations. So they're not doing anything wrong. Technically they're doing something wrong but they're not doing it intentionally. So new regulations and protocols have to be put in place to now address this issue of an intentional radiation coming off, radio frequency coming off these satellites. So there's lots of literature with important radio astronomy research."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:30:25+00:00","id":13728,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13727,"text":" And this is the X-ray of the Canadian Air Science and Tech Net transmitting to you from my location here, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. If you'd like to join us, come on in. If you have a comment, come on in. And then after that, what about Starlink and the mix of radio interference? These satellites are giving 76 million radio telescope images. They're actually showing this interference."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:31:40+00:00","id":13729,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13728,"text":" more about the moon's surface than we do the deepest parts of the ocean. And sunlight, that doesn't reach deep into the ocean, so life on or near the sea floor, they can't use photosynthesis. So that's a plant and algae and some bacteria that infers sunlight into energy. And researchers have long thought that these branches where these life forms are found to host communities powered by other chemical reactions rely on hydrogen, sulfide, and methane. That's coming up from the sea floor. But chemo-synthesis-based communities, they're rarely documented. And most of the deep ocean remains unexplored. In fact, a study published in May found that humans have explored 0.001% of the deep ocean floor. And that's just below 656 feet or 200 meters."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:34:50+00:00","id":13730,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13729,"text":" And the chart has been a contentious item over the years and it's often been claimed to be the original very off-covering piece. And it could not have been created on a three-dimensional human body. There's a new study that's put out findings about this. And it's very likely that the image is an imprint of a low-release sculpture. And this is according to a graphics expert. This is repeater station Kilo 4. There was a study published on July 28 in the journal Archaeometry. And there was a Brazilian, a 3D digital designer, who specializes in historical facial reconstruction. He uses modeling software to compare how cloth drapes over a human body versus how drapes over low-release sculptures. And the image of the shrouded term is more consistent with a low-release matrix. This matrix could have been made of wood, stone, metal, and pigmented, or even heated, only in the areas of contact, producing this observed pattern. And the shoot was first recorded in the late 14th century. And controversy over whether it was an authentic relic from the crucifixion and death of Jesus started almost immediately. And carbon dating analysis carried out in 1989 placed the shroud's creation in around 1260 AD to 1390 AD. So that kind of solidifies its interpretation as an evil artifact. So during that time in European history, low-release depictions of religious figures were widely used. Previous art historians have already found that to be true. So unless we need how the shroud of term might have been made, the additional models were made. The first model represented a three-dimensional human body, and the second model was a low-release representation of a human body, so a sculpture. Using 3D simulation tools on virtually draped fabric, the two different body models were used in this case. So when comparing the virtual fabric to the photographs of the shroud taken in 1931, it was found that the fabric from the low-release model almost exactly matched the photograph. In the simulation with the three-dimensional body, the fabric deformed around the body resulting in a swollen distorted image."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:36:45+00:00","id":13731,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13730,"text":" the sculpture wouldn't cause the image to deform. It would look more like a photocopy, similar to the Shroud of Turin. And because it shows only the region's potential direct contact without any real volume or depth. And rather than assuming the Shroud of Turin was a result of draping fabric on a human body, an explanation was created with that funerary context, making it a masterpiece, I'd say, of art. So although there's a remote possibility that it is an imprint of a three-dimensional human body, it's plausible to consider that artists or sculptors with sufficient knowledge could have created this piece through painting or low relief. And one expert thinks that this particular graphic artist is right, but his study's not particularly groundbreaking. So from a forest history, it's been known that the body image on a shroud is comparable to a orthogonal projection onto a plane. Orthogonal just needs perpendicular right angles to it. Which certainly could not have been created through contact of a three-dimensional body. And Andrea Nicolleti, who's a professor of history at the University of Turin, she put a report about this as well. So this graphic artist, he suggests that his method is an accessible or replicable, and that his work highlights the potential of digital technologies to address and revel historical mysteries. So there's another piece of research that comes out that gives a plausible explanation for the shroud of Turin."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:37:11+00:00","id":13732,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13731,"text":" Okay, we have two there. Envix and then the second one is Queen in Goldwater."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:37:35+00:00","id":13733,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13732,"text":" Anyone else like to take a try? What organs can we try to survive though?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:38:07+00:00","id":13734,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13733,"text":" And I think that's about it for our route this evening. I think we'll kind of rip it at this point. If there are any stations out there, if you have a comment or you'd like to check in, come on in before we finish the next route for this evening."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:38:34+00:00","id":13735,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13734,"text":" And ocean researchers have discovered these alien-like communities filled with tube worms, mollusks, and these spiky white creatures at the bottom of ocean trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:38:59+00:00","id":13736,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13735,"text":" And, uh, did 4-1 want any, uh, any, uh, check-ins or comments?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:40:11+00:00","id":13737,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13736,"text":" work their way along the Kamchatka and Aleutian branches and discovering depths ranging from 19,000 to approximately 31,000 feet, so it's 5,000, 6,000 to almost 10,000 meters. And this region is very geologically active and it has a whole host of many volcanically and seismically active sites according to study. And so despite the hostile environments, these newly documented communities were just flourishing in these environments. Though the point is that if life could flourish in these extreme environments, these geomorph files, then it's quite possible that life elsewhere doesn't need the conditions here on Earth to survive. They may be able to survive in conditions that are far too harsh for trust in the light to survive here on Earth."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:42:34+00:00","id":13738,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13737,"text":" elephants, they push over trees, they trample vegetation, they chew huge amounts of greenery, and they transport seeds in their dung. And it's assembling vegetation while unintentionally planting them, the beings of noose, and they're destroying vegetation, but at the same time they're planting a new vegetation. So broad open spaces, they're essential to the origin of these giant flocks, and so by creating wide open spaces, they help bring about the evolution of the giants to Roman and the environment. So for now, the fossil record of giant animals that were here really recently, it's showing some of their bones aren't even petrified. In fact, they're finding some now when glacial lice is melting, their skin and fur are still on their skeleton. In a 2019 study up in Piusburg, herbivores in Africa, this is just an example, found that large plant heaters altered the water cycling incidents of fire. The vegetation of the environment in a way that there's no real modern equivalent. So the few mega herbivores that are still here, they alter the plant life, water flow, seed dispersal, and other aspects of their environment in their own way. So if things changed and the environment was allowed to continue naturally without our interference, we weren't wiping those animals, our friend or great, eventually this research is showing that some of these mega animals, not particularly those ones that were way back then, but new variations of them, could likely arise again. This is repeater station kilo kilo seven November Quebec November all star node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:42:59+00:00","id":13739,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13738,"text":" Okay, another one. I'll pull for that noise, okay?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:44:28+00:00","id":13740,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13739,"text":" While the International Telecommunication Union, it does regulate satellite emissions, protect astronomical observations, current rules focus on intentional transmission and they don't cover this type of unintentional emission. It's not only starlight catalytes that are problematic. The study's team, their survey focused on starlight because it currently has the most extensive constellation. There's more than 70,000 satellites that were deployed at the time when this survey was taken. Other satellites network. Their networks can lead to unintended transmission as well. N9 Tango Victor Sierra checking in. In that station, if you could come in one more time, your audio is a little bit low. I'm going to turn my volume up. If you could try one more time. N9 Tango Victor Sierra checking in. N9 Tango Victor Sierra checking in."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:45:08+00:00","id":13741,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13740,"text":" And as of the end of the weekend, Ken here for Science and TechNet, coming to you from Toronto, Canada. This is our evening, my whole location. If you'd like to join us, come on in. You have any comments, come on in. And then right after that, the Shout of Turrets. There's a new study come out about it. And we'll get into that one in a minute. So if you'd like to join us, you have a comment, come on in. And then the Shout of Turrets."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:46:53+00:00","id":13742,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13741,"text":" Well this one here, no it doesn't. And it's somewhat counterintuitive when you think about a big bang. That's the prevailing theory about how the universe started. Sort of from this incredibly small region of space-time that suddenly blew up into existence. And so in those terms you would think, well, you're not asked to be the center. But it wasn't. The universe is expanding equally in all spaces. And so matter, for a large part of energy, falls distributed equally throughout the universe. Unlike an explosion, if you look at an explosion you would see more material intended to be closer to the center of the explosion than further out. And so you expect that with a big bang, however, the universe during the big bang, it wasn't something that was a local, what you want to call it, explosion. It was where everything just expanded into existence immediately. There was no specific place where it happened. It just happened to all of space at that instance of time. So no, it does not have a center. And I guess depending where you're standing, I mean, if you could say that's your center, well, it would check them out. But technically no center. Too little that's a trivia."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:47:17+00:00","id":13743,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13742,"text":" Uh, your appendix, KI6WPK."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:48:16+00:00","id":13744,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13743,"text":" And this is the A3XJX. Sorry for the backwardness of this. That's right. I usually do the, in the sky this week. And then the science trivia corner. I think what threw me is I, that Tom was getting himself rebooted. I was getting a little bit more information on the, on lightning. And I think that's what started things off there. So that was, that was my fault to see that. Any additional stations you'd like to join us, have any comments, come on in. And then we'll get back to the, let me go to the main topics here for this evening for a week. We'll try to ribbon them. Maybe try and get maybe three or four more in for tonight."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:48:48+00:00","id":13745,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13744,"text":" Alright, and it just dawned on me, I missed two sessions earlier in the sky this week in the Science Review Corner. I think we'll do that in a moment. Because Science Review Corner kind of ties into that last topic in one area, there's a little bit of trivia there I thought you would find interesting about these megapod animals."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:50:22+00:00","id":13746,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13745,"text":" Well, there's an analysis of 76 million images. This is all prototypes stationed for the S-squared kilometer array radio telescope. The Starlink satellite mission affects up to 30 percent of images. In some data sets, the interference will likely affect research outcomes that are actually very much dependent on that data. And the survey showed more than 112,000 radio emissions from 1,806 Starlink satellites and found that much of the observed interference, it's unintentional. It's not like they're building these satellites and what's being emitted from them for communication purposes. They're actually in a culprit. No, this is unintentional. Some of the satellites are detected in a band where no signals are supposed to be at all. Like the 703 satellites that were identified at 150.8 megahertz, which is meant to be protected for radio astronomy. This is a study led by Dylan Craig, the Ph.D. candidate from Kirkland University."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:51:21+00:00","id":13747,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13746,"text":" And this is the A3AK, there's Ken here, and if there are any stations out there who'd like to join us, or you have a comment, come on in. And then we'll press on to another one, because I've tried for maybe two more for tonight. The next one is about a 550 mile long lightning bolt that extends across five states, and this is the longest ever recorded. This here isn't something new, however the data around it is, because of the size of this lightning bolt, they weren't able to accumulate enough data to be able to say a certainty just how big or how long this lightning bolt was until recently. If you'd like to join us, if you have a comment, come on in to the A3K scan here, this is the site of the segment."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:51:48+00:00","id":13748,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13747,"text":" And also vote for the, uh, spreen as well. And the gold ladder. The A3, IH, the A6."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:52:46+00:00","id":13749,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13748,"text":" That'll be 3K DC. I'm gonna hazard a quick guess and say, kind of no, unless you're considering where you're standing as being the center of it. And then of course, as far as we can see, Edward is our event horizon. That'll be the critical edge of what we can actually see. But yeah, other than that, I don't know if we actually can identify a center. Okay, so you're saying no, but you have you out there, maybe depending on or relative to where you're standing. Okay, so basically saying no, okay. Anyone else, that does say the universe have a center."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:54:07+00:00","id":13750,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13749,"text":" And the ocean researchers, they made this a discovery. It was made by a Chinese-led research team using a submersible at depths around 31,000 feet. And it kind of represents the deepest and the deepest and most extensive communities of these chemical reaction powered life forms known to exist on Earth. And these creatures survive in extreme condition. They're under tremendous amounts of pressure. They're in total darkness. And they get their energy from chemical reactions rather than from the sun. And the researchers' findings were published Wednesday, July 30th, in a journal major. And suggest that chemosynthetic life may be more widespread than scientists originally thought. This is repeater station kilo kilo seven, November Quebec November. The engine identifies the communities that were entrenched in the region of the ocean below, I'd say 20,000 feet, 6,000 meters. And this includes some of the deepest parts of the ocean. And for the most part, some of these ocean depths are largely unexplored."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:56:37+00:00","id":13751,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13750,"text":" And just before I go on to any more of the main topics here in the sky this week, I want to mention this too because this is coming up August 3rd, so it might be some folks that might be able to see this, transiting Saturn August 3rd. It'll be in the southeast just below Pisces. And again on August 19th will be another transit. And August 6th is a conjunction of Saturn and Neptune, so you can look for that too. But August 3rd... And Saturn is visible in the southern hemisphere, but I'm just using my local time here to view it. So you use my local time and convert it into your local time to see some of these transits on the 3rd. So on August 3rd, 2 or 3 AM, its shadow will begin to appear on the northeast eastern rim of Saturn. And it will take about 20 minutes for the moon to fully appear. And it reaches a midway position around 4 or 30 AM. And there's a couple of other moon's too that will be putting shadows over there. Smaller people will be harder to see. And on August 19th, 1.30 AM local time, along the eastern rim, eastern rim, you're looking at it through a telescope or binoculars on your left. Time begins to show itself by about 1.30 AM. This is on the 19th. And by about 2.40 AM, it's quite visible to the northeast. So that's a shadow here. So the moon is passing in front of Saturn and you'll be able to see its shadow as it's slowly going across the planet. So if you have a telescope, even a smaller sized telescope, you know a spotting telescope, you might be able to see it. Take a look. I think you'll find it interesting."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T20:59:38+00:00","id":13752,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13751,"text":" that the discovery is important. It's an important reminder that lightning can strike far from a storm cell where it would initially be a generator. So that gives them an interesting thought there that you know 550 miles away you're standing out here in your backyard and you're mapped by a lightning bolt. But the lightning that is within 5 kilometers, 6.2 miles, that's indicated with reliable lightning data, a person actually at that point should go to a lightning-safe building or a vehicle. Extreme chases show lightning can arrive within a second over a long distance. But these huge lightning bolts are actually traveling through the clouds. They're ground flashes and they're traveling through the clouds so they can eventually become a ground strike. So there's a lightning bolt. It went across five states. It was recorded for the longest lightning bolt ever recorded and this is from the World Meteorological Organization and they confirmed it. And the Omega flash traveled across 550 miles, 829 kilometers. It was from eastern Texas through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas to near Kansas City. It was in Missouri in seven seconds and being the previous record 477 miles, 768 kilometers. And the flash happened on October 22, 2017 but it was too long to be fully measured by ground-based sensors at that time. And as an estimate, you get data from a geostationary satellite. And finally, there's a document that the NASA said that the researchers published the findings July 31 in the Bolson of America, the biological society. This is repeater station. And they're supposed to have a slightly greater extreme through these flashes. Exactly how lightning gets its additional spark is still contested. We were talking about that earlier. Sometimes the same thing and now we know. But it's been highly contested up until now. But regardless how it started, it just shows how far these things could travel. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:00:06+00:00","id":13753,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13752,"text":" Whiskey 5 Tango Romeo, India. Whiskey Tango Romeo, India. Just to check in, this is Tree from Richmond, Texas."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:01:02+00:00","id":13754,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13753,"text":" doing things a little backwards here tonight, but I'll do a few more of the main topics in a moment. But I thought, well, the science trivia corner might as well do it while I've got it here. For those of you unfamiliar, there's a quiz, and I'll give you the quiz. It's more of just an FYI, just trivia that I always say is just dressed up as a quiz, just to make things a little bit more interesting. The first one here. We have only two tonight, so it won't take too long. The first one here, what organs can we survive without? So what organs do you think we can survive without?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:03:50+00:00","id":13755,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13754,"text":" It's a land mammal, whatever it is, is the Andrew Sargis. It's a skull, about 83 cm long, about 33 inches, roughly, body length 30.8 m, 12-13 ft, and it's about 6.2 ft, so almost 2 m high. And it was probably a scavenger, maybe even omnivore. And by looking at its jaw structure, paleontologists think it probably wasn't a very strong fighter, so probably just a scavenger. But that was at the time the largest land carnivore that ever existed, and the largest land mammal ever. This isn't the largest animal ever, which was kind of recorded as the land animal, the dinosaurs. But the largest land mammal ever was the Paracerritaria, and that was relative to the modern rhinoceros. It's about 5 m tall, almost 15 ft tall, length about 7 m long, 24 ft long, and it came in about 15-20 tons. However, there was also another one that they defined for that spot too. In most of the fossils in this one here, they showed it to be maybe around 14-15 ft tall shoulder, but there's been one fossil that they found, I think it might have been a lake bone, and they just extrapolated from the size of the lake bone, comparing it to the fossils that they found in this animal, the problem could have been bigger. So this is the paleo-loxodon, and it might have been bigger, in fact it's an extinct elephant, it's huge, it makes a modern elephant look tiny compared to it. And it's reached an item about 17 ft at the shoulder, so 5.2 m, and it weighed 22 tons. So there might have been another animal out there, in this case an extinct elephant, that may have been larger than the Paracerritaria, which is relative to the rhinoceros."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:04:18+00:00","id":13756,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13755,"text":" There's an ad re-cance and just recently there was an 8.8 magnitude earthquake that left Russia's Kuchakka of Nipah and that just seemed to most likely intensify a Russian volcanic eruption."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:05:08+00:00","id":13757,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13756,"text":" In this study, the scientists, they modeled the flashes' length. And what they did, they modeled it by vandalizing data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NORTH. They're using their Gold 16 satellite and these are what I'll use for the agency's satellites with mappers that are out there always monitoring the ground. And using the new algorithms, scientists were able to separate the Gold from millions of other light flashes to finally reveal it to a stand."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:05:32+00:00","id":13758,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13757,"text":" So the question is, does the universe have a center?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:05:55+00:00","id":13759,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13758,"text":" Um, B-I-I have you checked in."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:06:42+00:00","id":13760,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13759,"text":" And in this distortion that's often referred to as agamembran mask, or the agamembran mask effect, it was demonstrated in the video how the mask effect works. By painting a face and pressing a paper towel to it, there's all the images much wider than a front view of the face due to the distortion caused by imprinting a 3D object onto a 3D piece of fabric."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:07:53+00:00","id":13761,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13760,"text":" I think before I do close here, I'll put one more out there. And other than that, we sometimes, more times than not, talk about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and what that life form would look like from some distant natural planet. And comparisons are often made with some of the extreme environments here on Earth where some of these animals, a lot of them are cellular life forms. Microbes are surviving and it gives scientists some idea of just what extent life can go to in this environment and be able to survive. And so there's some first of a kind footage with capturing some bizarre sea creatures that were flourishing in extreme ocean depth."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:08:47+00:00","id":13762,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13761,"text":" I was going to pick one, the 7 meter one that was 5.9 meter distance away. If it were to theoretically hit us, which it's not going to, but if it were, what that would look like. And I did manage to work it out. It would be a 150 foot crater, that's 46 meters in diameter, 32 feet deep, and 17 tons of TNT. So a general thing to go by here is not to fight, but generally if you want to get an idea how big a crater something is going to make, just multiply it 10 to 20 times the object's diameter and that gives you a rough idea."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:10:03+00:00","id":13763,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13762,"text":" for the 8.8 magnitude earthquake, which was tied for the sixth most powerful earthquake ever. Tom, if you're listening, you might be able to verify or comment on that. And it hit the Econimpa at 11.24 a.m. local time there on Wednesday. And it was powerful enough to produce 10-foot, 3-meter tsunami wave higher than the tide off the coast of Hawaii, and we can't go to our local Russia. And this volcano had its last eruption, it was back in 2023, and there was a 1,000-mile-long, 1,600-mile-long river of debris that reached about 7.5 miles above the Earth's surface. We had the debris cloud that was just flowing above the Earth's surface, about 7.5 kilometers above."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:11:03+00:00","id":13764,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13763,"text":" So for this one here, yeah, appendix, wing, gallbladder, tonsil, adenoid. And we can also do without a lung. If you happen to have a problem with a lung in the wound, you can do without a lung. A kidney, you can also do without a kidney. You can function on one kidney. So that's it. Lung, kidney, wing, gallbladder, appendix, adenoid. Actually, adenoids fall into the, uh, tophol and adenoids fall into the category of plams, but I'll make that soon. And the last one here, um, with questions, and after that I was just going to straighten it out of you. Um, does he ever have a offender?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:11:27+00:00","id":13765,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13764,"text":" G6 D.C.W. Tonsilsen at noise."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:11:54+00:00","id":13766,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13765,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:12:22+00:00","id":13767,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13766,"text":" Matthew, BK4, BNK8L. Wow, that was a little over-modulated. Let me get your call again phonetically, thank you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:13:19+00:00","id":13768,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13767,"text":" Kilo 7, Victor Foxtrot, er, Whiskey Foxtrot Bravo, this is KA90HP, you sound good Bill. Thank you so much Ann, we'll talk to you in a few minutes, K7WFP. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, open air Bill, KV7DK. All star Note 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. KV7DK, how are you doing tonight? I just had dinner with Randy Neils and helped him jump his car, and apparently his battery just failed, but we got him started again. Solar, we all ought to be solar. K7WFP. Good night folks, KV7DK."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:16:04+00:00","id":13769,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13768,"text":" Good evening, it's time for the 9 o'clock PSRG social net for Saturday, August 2nd. I'm Bill, K7WFB, my usual co-host Rich, WB7J is travelling in Canada heading ever north toward the North Star. This is a directed social net that happens on WW7PSR 2 meter repeater, which is located on Capitol Hill in Seattle and operated by the Puget Sound repeater group. The repeater operates at a frequency of 146.96 with a negative offset and a PL tone of 103.5. All licensed hams and new licensees just getting started are welcome to join. If you have third party traffic, we'd like to hear from them too. We encourage you to press that button, tell us a little bit about yourself, your radio projects, or just about anything else. As always, please limit your reports to three minutes so we can get as many stations in as possible. This is also when the repeater times out. When you're finished with your report, please end with your callsign, that'll keep the FCC happy. We'll be compiling lists of stations that would like to check in and then we'll ask for your reports. If you'd like to check in only, just let us know, you'll be in and out, also known as an I.O. Again, this is Bill, K7, WFD. Let's get the next started. Please come ahead now with your callsign and your name. K7MG, Michael in Buckle, T.O. with an I.O. T. Ann in Seattle. Michael in, uh, somewhere. K7MG, you immediately forgot where you were. Thank you for your I.O. and Ann, we have you as number one in this round. Who's next? Whiskey, Sella, Oscar, Told Ann. Ann, we have you number two. Thank you. Next. WG7J, this is Rich. Rich or Rick or whatever we call you. It's so nice to hear from you. We've got you next. Who's next? Next, come ahead. Call sign and name."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:17:02+00:00","id":13770,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13769,"text":" We're here on the weekends for a lot of fun here. And those are getting us through on my other means as well. Adrian, a lot of losses too on the Canada hop. And back in fall, station for a nice big kick. And thanks everyone for coming in tonight. And, um, we, before we head off here, this net is, uh, is associated with the Skyline Energy Radio Club. And if you want to learn more about that club, you can go to www.skyline.ca or just do a Google search for the Skyline Energy Radio Club. Stop it. And my contact information can be found on QR is that of the player."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:17:25+00:00","id":13771,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13770,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:19:07+00:00","id":13772,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13771,"text":" And I think that does it here for me for this evening for my location here. This has been the Science and Tech Net. If you'd like to check in, we have a comment before we head off. Come on in. Whiskey Alpha 6 Alpha Bravo Charlie WA6 ABC. And that station I got your subject. I didn't get your B-fact. Can you come in one more time? Whiskey Alpha 6 Alpha Bravo Charlie WA6 ABC. Got it. Um, checking in or did you have a comment? Just checking in. Wanted to test my audio. I haven't had a Windows machine running Echo Link in years. So I just decided to put something together today. But um, very interesting, very interesting analysis of sea creatures, etc. that I caught at the end. And appreciate the, appreciate the net. Thanks. Back to you from WA6 ABC. You're welcome WA6 ABC. Thanks for coming in there. And I got ties, ties are over here for this evening. And um, time to wrap things up. And um, this Science and Tech Net meets each Saturday here of my home location here in Toronto, Canada. 9 PM 0 100 dollars GMC."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:19:35+00:00","id":13773,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13772,"text":" I wish everyone a good evening, morning, afternoon, wherever you happen to be. Stay safe and well everyone, and we'll talk again next week. Have a great day."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:20:03+00:00","id":13774,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13773,"text":" Thank you very much for the net. Very, very interesting. Very good. Thank you. G6D-T-W-K-S-6-U-O-L"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:20:28+00:00","id":13775,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13774,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:20:51+00:00","id":13776,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13775,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:21:16+00:00","id":13777,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13776,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:55:19+00:00","id":13778,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13777,"text":" The cell is slowing down a bit, let's do onesies for a minute here. AE7WE, Robert, come ahead, give us your report. Yes, good evening everyone, this is Robert, AE7WE, and I had a fun day just because I got to play on the radio all day. I was able to have some friends watch our kids as I went on a hike, I went up to Wilderness Peak and did an activation there for submits on the air. That was a lot of fun to make good contacts all the way up to Olympia and North as far as Kamino Island, so that was a lot of fun. At home, I have a new antenna that I've been playing around with, it's a Comet GB6, and I had it basically at ground level for the last few days, but today I got a couple poles and got it up 20 feet in the air so I could listen on the Simplex net, and that was a lot of fun, I heard so many people. Joel was just on here, I heard him very well, I could hear the host all the way down to Burien, and one station at Granite Falls, so it was amazing, I'm happy I got this antenna. So that's just what I want to talk about, I'm going to send it back to net, AE7WE. AE7WE, Robert, thank you, well I'm going to make a note of that antenna Comet, I think it's a GP6, sounds like it got great performance. Just two questions for you, I don't know where Wilderness Peak is, can you just give us an idea, and how high were you and what band were you on? I will try to answer the best I can, Wilderness Peak is on Cougar Mountain, kind of, I think it's off of exit 13 on I-90, and I think it's about 1300 feet, I'm not entirely sure, so it's a good elevation, but it's not a super high elevation, and I was doing 2 meter FM. Very good, sounds like a perfect day for it, not too hot, not too cold, just right. Very good, thank you so much. Who else wants to join us tonight, this is a 9pm PSRG social net, my name is Bill, K7WFP, come ahead with your call sign and name. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November, All Star Node 6... WA6 ABC, Whiskey Alpha 6, Alpha Bravo Charlie, Michael in Rockaway Beach. Michael, we have you on the list, let's see who else wants to join us, call sign and name please. W7LCO, I just had a question. W7LCX, what's your question? My question was for Joan about that thing that records the, some kind of wave analyzer that does other things, I was just wondering if you could ask her to say with a model number or whatever I would Google to find out more about that, because that seems super interesting. Thank you, W7LCX. W7LCX, well let's bounce right back to Joan, see if we can get a very quick answer from her and then continue with the net. Joan, can you help us out there? Blatantly, let me turn down the talk back. Well believe it or not, it is a Star Trek the Original Series hero prop tricorder manufactured by the Wanda Company. They have a reputation for making the finest, most accurate hero props. They started like, you know, 16 years ago making a Harry Potter wand that was actually an infrared controller."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T21:55:49+00:00","id":13779,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13778,"text":" before Victor Delta X-ray. This is Gabe in North Carolina. Dave in North Carolina, thank you for stopping by. We'll get you number one report position here. Who's next, internet only?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:11:09+00:00","id":13780,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13779,"text":" Uh, just a second please. Okay, you got me when I was drinking some water and you said that and I started laughing. Yeah, Rocky came to the door and I was actually eating and looked over and he was standing on his hind legs looking in at me and so I put my meal down and went and got some peanuts and nuts for him and put it out for him and he was happy with that. He approved of what I sent there. He did a good quality check on the food. And yeah, earlier today brother put other nuts and peanuts out for those other squirrels. But yeah, the net that I just came off of in the poppus system, they were talking about pets. And actually these squirrels are kinda like pets to me now and wanting no cat boxes, you know. But they're entertaining and they do enhance and add something to my life and I'm glad they're coming around, you know. And I probably would get a, I actually thought about getting a cat but I don't think the two of them would mix very well. Anyway, of course I wouldn't let the cat out. It'd be an indoor cat. But you know, like I said, they're like pets without a cat box. So yeah, meanwhile here today it was about 72 degrees outside and sunny and I'm just, I have a, I have a program called Weather Station that I run on a tablet and it does, I cannot figure out how it handles the tracking of the different barometric pressures. It just doesn't seem to make sense the way it does it. It's still been a mystery to me and the trending and that so I don't know. One of those mysteries of life I guess. And but I have that up there and it shows the upcoming weather coming in next week or so and you know, the usual temperatures and time and you know, and barometric pressure and wind speed. And, cause it gets it from another weather station somewhere nearby. It's nice to have. And I have another weather station I use and it just basically tracks the temperature outside on my patio and does barometric pressure and time and date and everything. So it's actually, between the two of them I get a pretty good grip on what's going on out there weather wise. And I'm just trying to think what else we're onto today. And I watched some baseball and that didn't go well. So, so much for that. And so just generally pretty good days, can't complain. So I'll turn it back to Annette. Back to you Bill, thank you for doing it. And Rich has gotta get back here and get on the ball and give you some relief there. I don't know man, he'd rather go on a vacation or travel than help you out. You know, you gotta talk to him about that. AB6MB. AB6MB K7WFP, yeah I've talked to him. He just likes traveling. But I think Bella the cat may bring him home, we'll see. It is hard, you know, I'm not as good as Rich as in catching call signs and stuff. So he really supports me. Jack's helping me tonight. But I do wish Rich had come back and make it like old times. But he deserves a vacation, even if he had three since my last vacation. Well thank you Jeff, good to hear Rocky is doing well. That you have a standing date with Rocky. And he's doing well. And yeah, interesting weather station stuff. We're talking about mysteries. Lately I've been using AI a lot on some mysteries. I really didn't for like a year. I haven't really understood mesh-tastic channels and how the frequencies work and the private channels up. And I just never took the time to look it up. The other day I sat down with Gemini for about 15 minutes and explained everything. I mean it's really good for stuff like that. All right, let's move ahead now and talk to, where are we on the list? We're gonna talk to KL7DZQ, Kurt, come ahead Kurt. Well good evening Bill and good evening Danette. This is Kurt, KL7DZQ in Northeast Bellevue. Haven't had much of a chance to get on the 9 p.m. net lately and glad to be back. I've had a very quiet evening and it's nice to get on. Anyway, I've been working a lot with recycled materials and actually restoring my wife's childhood acoustic guitar. This is something that she got when she was nine years old and that was over 50 years ago. It's been sitting at our house for quite a while. It had some writing on it and had some stickers on it and I was able to remove that and remove the finish. And so now I'm down to the point where I'm going to be oiling it. Either boiled linseed oil or some other, tongue oil or something like that to bring out the natural colors in the wood. Looking forward to it, will it play? Who knows? Anyway, it's been sitting forever without any strings on it and so the neck may be no good. But anyway, it's fun to do and it's a learning process on how to actually work on these things and so this is a good candidate to do that. And now that I'm doing this, I built her a guitar from a kid for her birthday this year and now I'm hooked and I really want to start using recycled and discarded materials to create guitars and it sounds like fun. And really the only part of that that I don't really like doing is working with necks and electronics. But I like making the body. So anyway, that's my report for this evening. I hope everyone has a great weekend. Take care. This is Kurt, KL7DZQ, back to Ned. Kurt, KL7DZQ, K7WFD. That sounds like a lot of fun, yeah. I mean, it sounds like a whole new hobby area for you. I like the idea that you're refinishing this one. Refinishing is so gratifying because you can make such a much better appearance but doing something for like a piece of furniture or a table or something is just such a big job. But something small that you can really admire is like a guitar just sounds great. You don't have to put it out in the garage, you don't have to turn oil, you don't have to smell up the house, it sounds great. And yeah, I like the idea of the recycled materials. That's a great idea. Very good. Thank you so much for sharing that, Kurt. Let's move ahead and talk to Joan, KX2CW. Joan, how are you this evening? Hello there, Bill. Here is Joan, KX2CW, being careful not to overmodulate like I did earlier. When did I overmodulate? It was in my log. Yeah, it was at noon. I tried to adjust my modulation level to match Rebecca's but I overshot and I was overmodulated. Speaking of the relative humidity and the barometric pressure and the temperature, is I have them on my weathercaster on my iPad Mini 6. Which is really an excellent weather gasser, the weather app. And it's very thorough. Of course it says it's 18 degrees Celsius outside at the moment but it's cooling down. It's nice because all I have to do to cool off my apartment is to open the window. It's nice. I have three windows that crack open and that gives me some flow through. The only downside is when there's a lot of heat and the only downside is when the slackers are smoking. There's cigarettes down in the courtyard. It often wafts up into my windows. But what can I do? But I'm also looking at the barometric pressure and relative humidity and temperature. Although the indoor temperature of 24.2 degrees Celsius on my tri-quarter it has atmospheric sensors in it. And it does some real sensor stuff. I can detect electromagnetic, well typically the quality of the line, the mains electric utility. Which is usually the strongest electric field in a house. And in fact it shows how poor the quality of the sign waves. It's a very sloppy looking sign wave. And I've tested these my tri-quarter in other locations. And it's really showing a different wave form. A much cleaner wave form and less intense. But it also can sample audio. And much like FL Digi it can do fast for your transform on it and I can look at the audio spectrum and my voice fluctuating and stuff. In fact I can do that right now. Get out of the weather and go to audio. And there it is. I see my voice and a fast for your transform of my voice. But I can also switch it to mode to oscilloscope. And now I'm looking at an oscilloscope. But I can also change the mode to mixed. And I can see both the oscilloscope trace and the fast for your transform fluctuating. Anyway, but what I'll do today. Ah yes, I went to the recovery cafe to the women's circle. Which I was a facilitator of today. Because the regular facilitator was off doing something else. Also I have a friend, a professional singer, a vocalist. Who asked me about doing a recording of her. And so it makes me want to inventory my stuff. And I've got everything. I've got more than I need. After having inventoried I have all four of my dual diaphragm, dual element large diaphragm condenser canister mics. I have three of my super cardioid condenser compact condenser microphones. Plus the dynamic microphones. I've got five professional grade XLR dynamic microphones. But I also have my Tascam recorder. Which is capable of encoding mid-side. So if I record her just singing, you know like art songs or cabaret songs. She's an opera singer. Accompanied with a piano. I can do my cross figure eights. My convoluted version of it. Which is doing mid-sides and cross figure eight mid-sides. Which would work really well. In fact I'm talking into the microphone I would use. And the other microphone isn't doing anything. But I'm talking, oh my gosh look all on. KXCCW all the numbers back to net. That was the quickest close I've heard. Thank you for telling us all about your microphones. That you do have a great collection. And that does sound like a wonderfully fun project to record a really good singer. Do cabaret, I love cabaret. I like opera too. But you don't hear enough cabaret stuff. That stuff is so wonderful. Let's see where are we? Oh we're moving ahead now. And we're gonna talk to Joel KK7ZBX. Come ahead Joel. Hello, I had a nice evening in Kirkland. So my wife and I went to, I brought my radios. Went to Big Fin Hill Park. And so I could do this Simplex net there. I love this Simplex net. And really thanks to Dan and Jeff and Nelson and all the operators, the hosts for that. It seems to be complex to do all that, draw all that stuff down. And they even publish it for us. So it's really cool. And the idea I get from that is, you know, what's the intent of doing? You know, what can I do better? And so if you're just starting out like I am, there's nothing like it to really learn more about VHF. You know, multi-path. So I was up and I got some elevation off of that. My normal elevation's a lot lower than that park up there, up north of Juanita. And it was also good practice to have to run my mobile, which puts out, what can put out 55 watts, running on a battery. So I am glad I got some experience with that too, where I can kind of do like a fuel-date type test. And my wife was there and she read a book and I play with my radio. I will get her to get her to get eventually though. Get her on the radio one of these days. And she kind of, it was fun for her to watch. But I think I got her interested maybe. Who else? Anyway, KK7, ZBX. KK7, ZBX, Joel, thank you. That was a very interesting report. And just, I mean, heading out on a nice summer evening with your wife and just setting up and doing simplex."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:11:39+00:00","id":13781,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13780,"text":" Kilo, acto, six, Romeo, alpha, x-ray, Peter, Santa Cruz, uh, oh. Peter, thank you for stopping by. We'll catch you again sometime soon, I hope. Who else is out there? Internet only."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:12:06+00:00","id":13782,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13781,"text":" Okay, well we gave him a little chance there. Let's go back up and talk to Dave. W4VDX. Dave, come ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:13:30+00:00","id":13783,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13782,"text":" Hey, good evening, Net Control and everybody on the Net. This is actually Gabe. It's short for Gabriel, so it's called Bravo Echo. And I just built an all-star node. Worked on it kind of the last few nights and was checking active lengths and saw you guys on here. So I thought I would listen in and decided to check in. So I appreciate you having me. This is Whiskey 4 VDX, Gabe and Ava Mom. Gabe, thank you so much for checking in. Your all-star node sounds real good. Came in just fine. I'm building one too. It's an interesting bit of a hobby, isn't it? Yeah, let's continue this round now with everybody. RF internet, Dixie cups, whatever you got. Come ahead with your call sign and name. Alpha Echo 7 Whiskey Echo, Robert. Robert, we have you on the list. Who's next?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:13:55+00:00","id":13784,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13783,"text":" Bravo X-ray Joel. Joel, we have you. Who's next?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:14:55+00:00","id":13785,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13784,"text":" I'm in all things SDR and I run the DOCTO SDR Facebook group. It's the abbreviated version of DOCTO, Delta Romeo Space, Delta Romeo, and anything that's radio related. You're welcome to check it out. Alright, well, that was a live beautiful sunny day and for a winter's day and for the best day we've had so far, I was able to go out without a jacket for once. Considering there's been rain and freezing cold winds coming over the mountains, it's just left with us. No filter. Alright, Matt, connect control. This is getting good to the walk on. Jersey tornado."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:20:06+00:00","id":13786,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13785,"text":" Let's keep it rolling and go right back up to Jonathan W0XO. Come ahead. This is Jonathan Whiskey Zero X-ray Oscar in Maple Leaf. One of my last nights in Maple Leaf, actually, we moved up to a location in Everett, down by Martha Lake. I am emptying out this house over the last few days. I've been coming to the house, taking loads away in my smaller than a panel truck truck. I was very fascinated to hear Joan, and I, you know there's a song, make me a pallet on your floor. That's sort of an idiom. I have made a pallet with a lot of curtains and stuff. Somebody laying around here. I kept taking things out of the house until there was nothing to sleep on. So I did that because I decided I wanted to get some Indian food and spend the night here. But the tricorder thing was very interesting. Also, as far as the audio on Echo Link and any of those, I know how I want my audio to sound and I know how to structure it so they can sound that way to stay within the headroom and to not brick wall or distort or clip or anything like that. The problem is, seeing that and making that knowledge apply itself, it's really hard with Echo Link. It's really hard with a lot of the other things too I've found. It's just you can't, it's not intuitive and you don't get forgiven like with analog. There's no forgiveness when digital, when you overdrive you're just not intelligible anymore. It's horrible. So anyway, it's a beautiful night here in Seattle. Welcome. W0XO in Maple Leaf. Thanks for doing the net. Your voice is so pleasant. Well, thank you, Jonathan. Nobody ever complimented my voice before. That's good to know, W0XO. Thank you so much. Yeah, as I said, I don't really know much about audio. I'm just glad to get a signal out. The one thing I do like, of course, on Echo Link is it does have that test facility right built into it so you can record your own voice. You can at least hear what the tweaking that you've done, you can hear how it sounds. So I really like that. Very good. Thank you. Let's move ahead and talk to John, W7JSM. John, how are you today? Well, good evening, everybody. This is John, W7JSM. I'm doing good. I spent a lot of the day with one of the grandkids, Oswald. He's 16 months old. He's walking some and a happy little kid. But I had my guitar out today, so I put a pitch in his hand and showed him how to strum on the strings. So he was doing that and he was really giggling. He was quite enjoying that. I'll keep moving him in that direction. Anyway, I'll be mad. It's been a pretty good weekend. I haven't really been out in about a month because it's a sea fair and I know what traffic is going to be like out there. I plan on watching the hydro races and the Blue Angels show tomorrow on TV, but I haven't really done a lot other than that. So I've just been kind of hanging around the house. W7JSM. Well, hanging around the house with grandkids is extra special. And how great you had Oswald picking away at your guitar. I've noticed with our grandkids, his little kids just like music. It's just so natural. I was watching a band performance in a park a few months ago and just watching the two, three, four, five year olds, they just dance. They just get out there and dance and have a great time. It's really fun to watch. Thank you, John. You are listening to the 9 p.m. PSRG social net. My name is Bill, K7WSB. If you want to chat with us, come ahead. Give me your call sign in your name."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:22:19+00:00","id":13787,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13786,"text":" Time! About time I can get in. You guys do not leave all that off, right? My apologies ladies and gentlemen, but man! Come on then, just connect it to a multiple repeaters, multiple digital networks, and you need to allow time for people like myself to get in. And I'm autistic and I get super frustrated. And please understand that. And it doesn't help me, believe me. Anyway, on a better note, my name is John Juliet Oscar Hotel, November, like John the Baptist. I'm Victor Kilowatt, one juicy tomato, VK1JT. And I'm located in Casper, the capital city of Australia, in the capacity here, VK1, juicy tomato. Well, John the Baptist, I apologize. I left a little time for a dinner, but you're right. We move too fast and it's not fair to the internet people. But we have you down on the list if you want to give a report. And anybody else want to join us for a final poll, I have W0XO and John and who else wants to get a final report in. This is K7WFD. Call for the name please. K7WFD, what was the new operator's name? The new operator's name was Amber and her call is KM7BVT. Who else wants to join us? This is K7WFD. Kilo Kilo 7, Charlie Sierra Golf Mobile, Ryan with an R, IO. Ryan with an R, IO, KK7CSG, thank you for stopping by. Who else wants to get in on this final poll?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:22:54+00:00","id":13788,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13787,"text":" JT, this is K7WFD. Yeah, very good to hear from you again. I hope you'll stop by. Just closed out the net. Maybe there may be a post net though, if you hang around a little bit. But I'm gonna get the bed, because I'm tired. Thank you so much everybody for stopping by. K7WFD, clear."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:26:46+00:00","id":13789,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13788,"text":" And they made it do a bunch of real cool stuff. It does an audio analyzer that does a fast Fourier transform. And it also has parametric instruments and electric magnetic field sensors. And it has an electronic compass built into it, three-dimensional compass, and some other doodads. But it's actually a toy. But it does this real stuff. And it's my splurge for this year. I was waiting for it for five years. And when I got the email that said there was an invitation to purchase, I had two choices, to not or to do. Sorry. Thank you, Joe. CW. I'm looking at it right now. It's kind of cool. Back to that. Well, thank you, Joe, for that quick response. Let's move on to Michael, WA6ABC. Come ahead, Michael. This is WA6ABC, Michael, in Rockaway Beach, currently in New York, New York City. And it is 1252 AM, so I am not firing on all cylinders. I just ran across this net. You asked for check-ins. I decided to check in. I run an animal rescue, so the animals are all fed. Spent a little time installing Echo Link on my Windows computer. And not very impressed with the sound quality. I have professional audio equipment. And oh my god, you put that through Echo Link, and it just makes it sound terrible. So I'm on my iPhone right now. But I did get it working. I got everything talking to each other. And Echo Link is officially working on my PC. I just don't know if I'm going to use it or not. In any case, here's a net. Nice to hear, everybody. Thank you for that interesting tri-quarter discussion. And maybe when I have a few extra dollars, I'll buy it. That sounds like a lot of fun. Anyway, back to net from WA6ABC, Michael in Rockaway Beach, New York. Thank you, Michael. Interesting. Yeah, Echo Link. I use Echo Link on Windows. And I guess I don't have very good ears. I don't really notice the differences too much. But people do tell me that All-Star sounds a lot better. And as I say, I'm building a node, and I'm going to get that up and going. Let's see where we are now. Let's call that a round. Let's move on to what's called arbitrarily round four. This is a 9 p.m. PSRD social net. My name is Bill, K7WSD. We're looking for people who want to chat with us. So if you have a chat in your mouth ready to go, come ahead with your call sign in your name. Whiskey zero, X-ray Oscar, Jonathan. Jonathan, you're number one in this new round. Who's next? W7, JSM, John. John, we have you next on the list. Who's next to check in?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:30:39+00:00","id":13790,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13789,"text":" Well, I was pretty quiet out there not hearing any responses So let's turn this into a final call final call to the 9 p.m. PSRG social night. My name is Bill Okay, sub new up to be you want to join us file call call sign a name, please So you sound fine I didn't get a quick I didn't get a look at the Votescope just come back. I'll tell you how are you watching the motor scope? This is repeater station kilo kilo seven November Let me make sure I have your call have km7 Give me the the rest of your call in phonetics if you can do it this early in your career I Mean I'm not gonna be confident in that Yeah, I'm not quite sure he hasn't Bravo he has and oh I don't know yet So I'm getting the km7 Bravo Victor tango Oh, well, so what did you get your license I Have been on Thursday and went through yesterday Well, hey, you sound great what kind of radio you on I Am surprised that I found great this is a like bouncing you be five bar, whatever the cheapest thing on Amazon was I Be can heal very well Sound just sound fine. You come by and visit us anytime you like we have three minutes every day on this repeater 9 a.m. Noon and 9 p.m. Come by visit with us check your radio and let me tell you that I will be able to Sing you or yeah send you a certificate ARL sort of encourages to give a little certificate for first transmission So I'll I'll be getting that out out to you Probably how will I get it to you? Are you on cures egg yet? Have you signed up for that cures that calm? Don't believe so, but I can certainly look up how to do that I Know I Have your I oh but there was something else talking at some greater length. So is there someone else in there?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:31:07+00:00","id":13791,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13790,"text":" Yeah, the Wisc 7 station connecting for can you come back with your call so slowly and phonetically and please if you're still listening, thank you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:32:32+00:00","id":13792,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13791,"text":" Well, maybe John said his piece. He can come back if we've overlooked him. We heard from Joan, and we had an I.O. from Ryan, KK7-PSG. And that's it. That is it for the 9 p.m. PSRG SocialNet for August 2, 2025. Let me see here. I'm doing everything right. Not really. Well, thanks to everyone for joining me for this SocialNet tonight. I'd like to thank the Puget Sound Repeater Group for the use of this repeater. For more information about the group, please check out our website at psrg.org. PSRG has been hosting daily nets for over 30 years. Nets are a great opportunity to test your equipment. Remember, if you don't test your equipment, we can't hear you. We'll now be returning the repeater to normal operation. This is Bill, K7-WSB, signing off at 10.09 p.m. Good night and good luck."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:34:14+00:00","id":13793,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13792,"text":" OK, I think that was low enough to get those radio waves and internet tubes all lined up, even for a stranger. So let's go back to the top of the list and talk to W0X0. Go ahead. This is W0X0, Oscar Jonathan in Maple Leaf, North Seattle. Amber, I doubled before and that's a part of the game. Anyway, best to you, all I did was wish you a convivial, whatever, a very extended hand, a warm welcome to the greatest hobby in the world. This is W0X0, Jonathan, and we're like a salad of people. There's all kinds of different flavors and we're all here to communicate and have fun doing it in different ways. Big 73 to you, Amber, and also 73 to all the PSRG people, you know who you are. Jonathan, back to Nat, W0X0. Jonathan, how very well expressed, thank you. That was just perfect. A perfect welcome and introduction to the hobby for Amber. Very good. We had an IO from KM0Q and then we have John from John the Baptist. I'm going to remember this call. DK1JT, come ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:34:48+00:00","id":13794,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13793,"text":" This is Alpha Bravo Six, Mike Bravo, AB6MB, anybody around? Standing by for a call. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo Seven, November Quebec November, All Star Node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:35:14+00:00","id":13795,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13794,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November, All Star Node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:35:38+00:00","id":13796,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13795,"text":" Node 5 0 2 4 1 connected to node 6 2 2 2 2"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:36:00+00:00","id":13797,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13796,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T22:55:05+00:00","id":13798,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13797,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T23:02:24+00:00","id":13799,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13798,"text":" AB6MB, AB6MB, KC5WFH. This is Alpha Bravo Six, Mike Bravo. I'll copy Bill. Crystal clear, very clear signal. Plenty of strength, Duke. I've been listening here the last few minutes to, it's not a trivia net, it's just a net, a social net. And I don't know how to describe it to you. I'm listening to it on 147 080 here in the Seattle area. And it's linked in. Most of the people that check in are in the Nine Land, Chicago, Cincinnati, Great Lakes up in there. And I haven't yet to hear what the name of the net is. You may be familiar with it. I've not run across it before. I was listening to a net earlier on that frequency, a local net, an ATV net, as a matter of fact. Well, they played out at 9 o'clock. I just left it on that frequency and noticed there was some traffic. So anyhow, I thought about you. I know you're a late night listener, so I thought I'd check with you, see if you knew about it. KC5, WFH, you're... Yeah, I'm not familiar with it unless it's on the wind system. That's the only one I know of that would be going around this time of night. And that's the first thing I thought of when you brought that up. Do you think it could be the wind system? No, I don't, Jeff. I used to listen to the wind system about this hour a night, and it was, I thought, trivia questions. And this is not geared that way at all. And as I said, most of the check-ins are Nine Landers. I hear Chicago being..."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-02T23:04:05+00:00","id":13800,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13799,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T09:00:53+00:00","id":13801,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13800,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T09:08:28+00:00","id":13802,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13801,"text":" click b"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T09:09:52+00:00","id":13803,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13802,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T09:25:58+00:00","id":13804,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13803,"text":" This is repeater station kilo kilo 7 November Quebec November all star node 6222 located in Shelton Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T09:50:43+00:00","id":13805,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13804,"text":" and were supposed to get back to me last week to set up an appointment, because I was talking to some guy in, I don't know where, oh, he was in Houston, Texas. And so the local installer here in Spokane was supposed to get back to me, and of course he's never called me, and they don't give me a phone number to call them. So I'm a little frustrated, so I'm gonna have to get back on, chase that down on Monday, tomorrow. Back to you, Jack, K7, PDZ. All right, well that sounds like a service call to me. All right, well that might eat into your flight so I get four pairs in that cargo, so that's too bad. All right, we'll pick that conversation up later. Jim, great to hear you, say hi to Jane. All right, we had a comment in there, I wanna check that was WA7AD, was that you, Michael? If so, go ahead. Thank you, Jack, yes it was, was K7AD, I'm mobling, I just turned on the radio, I'm downtown Kirkland. Escargot, Lynn's Bistro, I've eaten it many times, but she's closed now, so it's served in a very strong garlic butter sauce, it's excellent. And so if you find a good French restaurant, you can probably have a good one. So she had very good escargot. And I think that's a good thing, she had very good escargot. And I think Jim referred to the, look at that car with the S on it go, the escargot. I can't remember that joke anymore. I was gonna make a comment the other day about Jim's fire and smoke alarms. I have seven or eight, I can't remember which, but the four in the common areas had a 10 year life on them, and as soon as 10 years done, the thing starts chirping like crazy, you have to replace it. And all mine are hardwired, and they're all connected together so one fails, and they all start to tell you, fire alert, fire alert. You need to change this thing so you can plug it in yourself. I'm sure in ET if they're monitoring you, they wanna, for your fire alarms, they wanna put their own in and probably make a big bundle of money on it, but they plug right in. But it's interesting, the only ones that we had to replace at the 10 year life were the common area ones, the ones in the bedrooms. Their bedrooms didn't have to be replaced. This is, but they're hardwired, but they have a backup battery, but it's hardwired, the backup battery doesn't get much use. Anyway, interesting, Jack, thanks for making my comment on the S Gargo, that's yummy. Back to you, sir, Whiskey Alpha Seven Alpha Delta. All right, we're moving into the food challenge round now here on the PSRG nine o'clock net with Jack, KI7R, have you, and commenter, WA7AD, Michael. So Muskrat, okay, Jim brought that up and I was like, okay, what is going on here? Am I just losing my mind? Did he just say he likes Muskrat? Which apparently, if cooked correctly, can be pretty good. But would you recommend for Muskrat, if you know Michael, would you cook that in a heavy garlic butter? I don't know, I've eaten just about anything, Jack, as you can tell. Probably in a barbecue type red sauce, I don't know how barbecue sauce maybe. One of my favorite foods when I was in college working at the liquor store in the public market, McLean's Market, I'd have barbecue pigs freed at a Filipino restaurant. I thought they were fantastic. So anything that's cooked right, it's yummy. I don't know, I haven't had loop fish though, I don't know about that. Back to you, Jack, Whiskey Alpha Seven Alpha Delta. Did you say Ludefisk? Yes, sir. All right, well I saw a WQ78 key up earlier. His station looked like it locked up, I had to disconnect him, but hopefully James will come back and tell us about Ludefisk because he and the Sons of Norway are commonly, well, I don't know, maybe quarterly, half yearly, something like that, are looking for so much Ludefisk. So much Ludefisk, it just turns your stomach thinking about all that Ludefisk. Anyway, yeah, it says here that in, offer prepared in various ways, this is muskrat now, including fried barbecue or in stews and is known for its unique flavor, which is often described as beefy or lamb-like rather than gamey or fishy when prepared properly. How about that? All right, so you were right there on the barbecue anyway. Okay, Michael, you have a great day and have a, say I do, Kathy for me if you would. All right, let's continue on. This is Jack, KI7RBU, as I said, 9.33 a.m. on a Sunday morning, nine o'clock net. If you'd like to join us, call, sign, and name. K7MG, Mickle and Muckletillo. All right, King of Corn, Mickle, I've got you, who's next? All-star notes, Miss Whiskey, KOB87, Hotel, this is James. James, thank you, who's doubling with James? This is Kilo Kilo 7, Mike Sulu Whiskey, Brian. Stand by, Brian, all right, who's next, please? KK7IJZ, KK7IJZ, Rebecca. All right, Rebecca, all right, I've got you on the list. Anybody else? KG7ODB, recheck. Start here, recheck in while it's fresh there, Dean, and then we'll go back and we'll pick it up with Mickle. K7OGB, proceed. This is Mickle, but it's K7MGE, just like my initials, so we'll try to get that correct on your list there, Jack. I have to say, Jack, you always come up with great subjects. I was just gonna do an I-O, but I have to respond to the snail discussion. Yes, I've had that before, but it was in Asian. Of course, they don't call it, the French words there. It's different, but that's not the most interesting thing. In fact, there's some things I'm not sure what it was that I ate, and that happens when you're traveling through strange and distant countries. Now, I know most of you folks think all I do is eat corn, but in fact, on one occasion, I was at a banquet and we were in the midst of eating live scorpions. Now, I gotta tell you, eating a live scorpion is something that you gotta be kinda careful, and you put the live scorpion in a little Maotai and get him drunk, and then you put him in a little junk and then get the stinger out and go for it. Actually, they're not so bad, but most things, as was said earlier, most things that are cooked properly, whatever it is, be it donkey, horse, a scented cat, or whatever, can taste actually good, unless of course you're a strict vegetarian, I would say. Anyway, this is K7MGE, Michael and Michael Teal, back to the net. Have a good day, everyone. All right, well, Michael, I wanna clear something up here. I have your call signed down correctly. However, what happened was Dean checked in. He's got a quick recheck, KG70DB. I had called him for his quick recheck, and then I said, and then we'll go to Michael. So that's what happened there. But wait a minute, hold on a second. I just wanna clear that up. But the live scorpions, okay, now these are, these have gotta be like little tidbit type, right? So maybe two inches long, and how big are these live scorpions, no stingers you were eating? Well, sorry for the misunderstanding on the earlier arrangement, because you really do do a good job with managing people and getting them in line, and I'm sorry to be out of line. About two inches, I would say. The interesting thing is, of course, they come a couple of ways. When they're live, they just come alive to the table, and you kinda pick them up with your chopsticks and get them a little bit drunk, and then pull the stinger out, and they don't really taste like much that way. The way that they taste a little bit better is when they're deep fat fried, and of course, you know, it's just the oil, so they kinda taste like french fries. K7MGE, back to net. Have a good day, everybody. Well, at least they don't taste like chicken, right? Okay, well that's interesting. They taste like french fries. Alright, well, on now, I wanna just go off planet, and we're just gonna go completely fictitious here, but let's talk about the Klingons' favorite, one of their favorite little delicacies is gash, which is basically mealworms, and I think on Next Generation, that's what they used was bowls of mealworms, kinda all moving around in the bowl. So, what you eat, gash, by chance. Back to you, Mikkel. My goodness, I'm getting some time on the net today. This is K7MGE. Well, it depends on how they served it. I mean, it's amazing, you know, you look around the world, and people eat all kinds of strange things, and oftentimes, times are pretty good. There are only a few things that I've really had trouble with. One, of course, was Mongolian tea, where they put, where they put grease in the tea, and it just, I couldn't take that, but I think it's a good thing. I don't think I'd have a problem with that if other people were eating it, if it had flavor."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T10:56:03+00:00","id":13806,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13805,"text":" busy working on that thing night and day I guess. So I don't know when it's ever gonna be done, but by the time they get it done, they'll probably have to do something with the southbound lane. Ha ha ha ha. Well Jack, thanks for doing that, and thanks for all the wonderful comments. I remember going to the Renaissance Fair when it was just a handful of people in the woods. Ha ha ha. Up around Ithaca I think somewhere. Yeah, it's come a long ways, and I would have liked to have taken that in if I knew about it. So that's it for me, and have a great Sunday everybody, and 7 GWG. All right Steve, you take care of that foot. Yeah, I'm glad you got to the Urgent Care facility right away, good job. All right, well if I could get you through that, of course, now you've got your medications. And say hi to Donna and the dozer of course. All right, let's go talk to Michael, he's got a comment, WA780. Well Jack, good morning to you, and everybody that's on the net. This is Whiskey Alpha 7 Alpha Delta, Michael from my home KTH. This is my regular check in, Jack, not a comment. So anyway, it's a great day, I don't know how the Blue Angels are gonna do it, they have to do the low thing I think, unless it burns off. And let's see, oh the big event for me, I gotta drive up to East Nomes County. We're gonna get together with our Bigfoot team, and I guess go over stuff, I don't know. I've got my list of things I pack, already made up, I do it every year. When I come home I revise it before I go through it again. Anyway, that's all that's going on here, thanks for on the great net. I don't know if you get two check ins, one mobile and one home KTH, maybe you get two marks on your little sheet there Jack. Anyway, everybody have a safety out there, Whiskey Alpha 7 Alpha Delta. All right, well normally you would start your day here on the nets as a regular check in with a report, but today you started with a comment. So yes, this is the second entry I have for you there Michael. Hey, but real quick if you're gonna be out that way, Snomish for the Bigfoot 200 race planning session today, any chance you can go by Craven Farm and check that event out? Well, I'm more worried about getting lost in the hicks of East Nomes County trying to find David Ball's house than the Craven Farm, so it's a good almost 45 minute, 50 minute drive out to where I'm going, I'll have to get the map out. Do it. Donor Craven Farm is not too excited about the big trucks and stuff, so that's up, I do have a eight foot, bad F-150, that's all I'll be driving to Bigfoot, so. Hey Jack, that's it, thanks for asking, back to you sir, Whiskey Alpha 7 Alpha Delta. Yeah, I was gonna mention that big truck that you have if you weren't going to, well you know, and hey, can't wait, Robert will be in the parking lot, so all you gotta do is just go to the parking lot and see if apparently I don't think they're charging any admission though, because it's a first time event. You know, I think you probably just get in for free. Anyway, all right, you take care, Michael, have a good time, and let us know how the Bigfoot session goes today. KI7Z, you're on the right track, KI7Z, yeah we're here with Dr. Tim in just a moment, it's 10, 12 a.m., I'm Jack, KI7RMU for the Sunday PSRG, nine o'clock, Ned, Tim, take it away, KI7ZEI. Well it's another beautiful day here in the great Northwest, yeah, starting out a little cloudy, maybe even a little cool, but it's kinda nice having a day like that once in a while and with the mix of the warmer days we've been having. So I think today will be kind of a carbon copy of yesterday's, so I'm supposed to come out. I'm getting ready for a trip this time tomorrow, I'll be half on my way to Alexandria, Virginia, gonna visit some friends there for a couple of days, got some work to do up in the Boston area, so I'm running a car, gonna take a trip for about a week, doing some driving, and back on the 14th. Got some things to do to get ready. I remember three, four years ago they had some kind of big get together down at, I thought it was like Seattle King County Emergency Communication Center. Jack, you might even remember this, or someone will, because there was a lot of hams there. Anyway, it was an emergency services kind of introduction and meeting, and looked like a pretty well-secured facility down there, chain link fencing all around the building down there, it was kind of in Seattle area, dried down, kind of new downtown. Can't find it in the Google though now. But they were taking some questions, and I asked if they were prepared for the zombie apocalypse, and the presenter said no. I don't think I'm prepared either, but that's one of my goals, getting prepared for it. Any kind of apocalypse, zombie or otherwise. Well, with that, wish everyone a good day, and back to you Jack, KI7ZI. All right, Temple, it looks like you will be out of town for the next Rain or Shine, and I'm gonna cover the announcements real quick, right after I stop talking here, and switch over to that. But I do wanna comment, but you will be back in time for the PSARA Antique Radio and Vintage Electronics Swap meet, and I think you went to that last year, maybe the previous year up at Shoreline Community College. Is that one of the shows you went to? I don't think I did go to that. Now that I live in Shoreline, I'm gonna start participating in more Shoreline events, finding out it's a pretty nice place here. But I will go this year, because I'm interested in that kind of stuff. Had an antique radio once, and someone gave me, but it was basically disintegrating the, tuning capacitor, the, it was, had corrosion, and the plates were falling off, and yeah, you know. So, it's been a long time since I had a working radio. Back when I was in high school, my dad took me down to St. Vincent de Paul in Seattle, and we bought this big, shortwave radio, all-band everything, everything, with big, kinda loopy antenna thing, and a little matchy guy for tuning. That was pretty cool. That was kind of my real introduction to heavy duty radio. KI-7 ZEI. Yeah, those worldwide receivers were pretty massive units, too. Well, I've got, talk about massive units, I've got a number of Collins pieces that I'm gonna be taking to that show, I hope, and I've got a great Kenwood Transceiver from back in the day, and that thing is like a tank, too. So, I've got a couple of pieces I'll be taking up there and seeing what we can do with them. All right, we'll have a safe trip to Alexandria. We'll talk to you along the way. I know you'll probably check in many times, and we hope you do there, too, and safe travels to you. All right, so real quickly, here are a couple of events. 10, 16 a.m. Next weekend, we are busy, busy, busy on the night. That's Saturday, the Radio Club at Tacoma does their open house, 10 a.m. to two, and then, of course, later that night, we have got the PS, or not the PSRG, but the Simplex net, there we go, 8 p.m., 146560 every Saturday, but in the middle of the day, 1.30 p.m. On Zoom, we have the next PSRG board meeting, 1.30 p.m. That's August 9th, Saturday, so come on by and join the fun there. Now, on Sunday, though, August 10, PSRG season seven, episode five, Rain or Shine net, it's a new net and ice cream social at Green Lake, so get on the website, psrg.org for all the details there. Come out and have an ice cream with us. That'd be a lot of fun. All right, and of course, the 17th, August 17th, Sunday, again, is the antique radio and vintage electronics swap meet the PSRA at Shoreline. Again, all the information can be found on the PSRG discussion group page and home page. All right, any questions there? Command, call and find a name. This is repeater station kilo kilo seven, November Quebec November. All right, we're still going. Let's see what's out there for the nine o'clock net. If you'd like to join us, RF internet command, call and find a name. West key seven, Oscar Hotel, Dan. All right, Dan, anybody else? KB seven RYY, Dan. Dan, you're on the list. Anyone else, please? K308. Morning Rich, I've got you, anybody else? Kilo Zulu Bravo X-ray Joel. Hi, Joel, I've got you. All right, anybody else? All right, Dan, how are you doing this morning? W70H, go ahead. Doing good, stand by one second. You caught me literally at the drive-through and they were handing me my soda. I had to grab it and put it in the container. I think there's a natural timing when I go for food. I could call the radio in. Anyway, I'm going down to the museum today. Today's the final day of the Seafair Air Show. I don't know if it'll be high. I think it'll clear though it may work. I took a bunch of pictures on Thursday of the Blue Angels and some others flying on the preliminary and it's not a lot over the museum. They moved the center of the air show a little south and east. I was on Newcastle and such, probably don't like it, but it's still great to see there. I'll go down and just stay inside, do my dosage duties. That's the plan for the day. Anyway, I think that's about it for the day. I'm gonna say have a good day. Sorry, I had to wait and try to listen to her and talk to you. Anyway, 73, and I look forward to the ice cream social especially, it's not the ice cream, it's the social. 73W708. All right, Dan, hey, you have a great day, last day of the Seafair. And yeah, get some more pictures if you can. We love putting up the pictures. All right, we'll see you at the Rainer Shine Net. That'll be a lot of fun. KB7RYY, Dan, good morning. Good morning, Jack, this is Dan, KB7RYY. I'm almost recovered from that trek up Mount Pilchuck the day before last. Oh, rocks, I don't like rocks. Anyway, I'm coming back from a hike of half of Boston Creek anyway, and I heard a few things I had talked about. First of all, the shortwave, there was some discussion about a shortwave, I forget what it was, but the shortwave bands are kind of opening up. There's people broadcasting, and funny thing, no Voice of America, no Jammers, what's this mean? Let me let it drop. The other thing was I was gonna talk about, I hosted a few boaters nets this week. Those faithless boaters, you know? Instead of doing that, they gotta go out in their boats. All right, back to you, Jack. KB7RYY. All right, Dan, and some of the boaters go out for a couple of weeks at a time, so I heard a couple of stations are definitely out. So was it kind of a lean pickings, I guess, huh? Yeah, Vic and I were alternating during the week, and then Vic took off. He's up at Port Ludlow, and now I think he can come in on Echo Link, but it's a little. It's the schedule filling up for the next week, so I get a little break. KB7RYY. All right, well, it was nice to hear Carlos this morning. That's good. All right, Dan, well, you have a great Sunday, Santa. You in, please? Let's get over to Rich, West Seattle, K30E. And yeah, the Ice Cream Social, of course, but the other event, oh, Jack. I went there one time so far, and I just may have to go again, you know? And yeah, the one time I did go, I think it was a couple of our fans. I think JD was there, and JD was there. So anyway, I don't know, maybe this time, I guess any game, I'll probably check in the beautiful morning, nice and cool. We're going to get more Roger shortly, that season, I think, really. All right, thank you very much, Rich. You have a great day. Santa had a polo for me, if you would. Let's go see what Joel's up to. Joel, take it away. Hi, Jack. Yeah, nice morning, nice cool morning in Kirkland. We'll take a run later on before this marine layer burns off, because I like it when it's cool. I'm just trying out the HTs, which I heard from good reports. Enjoyed that. One thing is, I can't remember who the operator was, but someone in Lake Washington yesterday mentioned you can listen to the Blue Angels. They have some certain frequencies that load AM as aircraft. But if you do a search for Blue Angels, see their frequencies, you'll find it on radioreference.com. And sure enough, I heard they listen to Airbus and Sol 1, and can make out what they're saying, never can make out what Alice is saying. But it has a new dimension to enjoying the Blue Angels, if you can hear them. That's it, KK7ZBX. All right, Joel. Hey, have a great Sunday. Enjoy sea fair last day. And yeah, just keep tuning in. The more you listen, the more you'll probably be able to make out when they're making transmissions at a couple of miles an hour. It's going to be fun. All right, nice to hear you, Joel. All right, we'll do the last call now at 10, 20, I want to say 12, 24, jeez. 10, 24 AM, I'm Jack KI7, I'll read the last call. Anybody else for the 9 o'clock net? T-Mobile Juliet 7, Romeo Alpha Bravo, Yay for the recheck. Check. All right, 35 minutes from Gates opening up out there at Snohomish Field of Wheels. Take it away, Kami, KJ7RAB. Thank you so much, Jack, Kami, KJ7RAB. We just arrived at the Field of Wheels. Wow, this is pretty impressive. We just won a lot from the parking lot. The guys come back, we open at 11, and Walter explains that we're doing working out at the net, and can we come and just get our parking spot. He let us in, so we're parked where we're going to. So I wanted to ensure that you can hear us clearly, and all is well. We're hearing you crystal clear here. So hoping the same is true on your end. And I'll do a live video running around so you all can see what's happening as soon as they open the gate and let us in. But we're parked here, and we're looking right at the Allied Motor Sports Jeep. So it looks to be awesome already. Thanks for letting me back, and let me know how the signal is. KJ7RAB, back to you. All right, no problem there. Thanks, Cameron. Well, I'm glad you got in. I figured you'd probably talk some sense into it. Hey, real quick, any women-owned Toyota is going to be at this event. Do you know anybody talking about it on the back line? This is repeated. I'm not sure. I haven't seen any chatter about it, and that's bad on me. I should have put some chatter about it out there. It's been a crazy couple of weeks, and I've been a little bit frazzled with work and everything going on in life in general. But one of my goals going forward is definitely to be a little bit more organized. But I'm always on the lookout for those LRT stripes and on the lookout for Toyotas in general. Oh, one of the things, a little bit off topic, but not really, that Robert says he's got going on there. FJ, people don't always wave at each other, and I'm always the one waving like crazy, and people don't always wave back. Well, we were driving down Highway 9 yesterday, and we passed an FJ going the other way. That guy rolled his window down, was waving frantically out the window, and even beeped at me, and I was like, whoa. Because my rig's all built up now, and his looked really stuck. And that kind of made my week, because I'm usually the one waving out the window frantically, and it was the other way around. So I thought that was pretty cool, and I wanted to share that with you. KJ7RAB, back to net. Well, you're a blue FJ. You have definitely earned some bragging rights there. It is really looking good, looking great down at the Communications Museum. We had such a good time looking at that when you rolled in with the new light bar and all that. Oh, fantastic. All right, you have a good time down there. Cammie Robert hosting today at noon, so 90 minutes away or so, from the Field of Wheels into the home. It's that new event out there. Runs 11 AM to 4 this afternoon. All right, thank you, Cammie. All right, anybody else? One last call for the 9 o'clock net."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T10:57:06+00:00","id":13807,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13806,"text":" All right, I want to thank everybody for joining me on the August 3rd, 2025 9 o'clock net. I'd like to thank the Puget Sound Repeater Group for the use of the repeater. If you want to find out more about our group and what we're up to, get over to psrg.org. And as I've said, stick around for the new net coming up in just a while with Cammie and Robert. And of course, Brian hosts the 9 o'clock net tonight, K7KZH. We've been hosting daily nets for over 30 years. The nets are a great opportunity to test your equipment. Remember, if you don't test your equipment, we can't hear you. So I'll now be returning the repeater to normal operations at 1029 a.m. This is Jack, KI7RMU. Good morning."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T10:58:37+00:00","id":13808,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13807,"text":" allheavy enrolled with visual"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:02:23+00:00","id":13809,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13808,"text":" KJ7RAB, KJ7RAB, W70H. W70H, KJ7RAB, how are you Dan? Doing good, I'm just here talking about the FJ Cruisers. My neighbor has one, I think Marilyn is now 82, and talking about playing FJ Cruiser, they have a rack in the back, really for the dogs to come up to get into the back. But, you know, like one of the hitch racks, the ramp pulls out. But, you may be thinking, they have a kind of unique one. When I say plane, I think it has manual crank windows. I know it's a manual transmission, which they really had to look for. They've never owned an automatic in their life. In fact, when they went to Italy 15 years ago, they went to pick up their rental car they preserved, and they said, we're told, oh we're sorry, we're out of cars, and they looked like the lot's full. Yes, but they're all manual transmission. They assumed Americans could not drive a manual transmission, and they've never owned one. And then, it even has plain old steel rims. So, it's the plainest FJ I've ever seen, but it's still running, it's a great car. That was all, hey have a good day up there, W70H. Damn, that is so cool. I love those old FJs. I aspire to have one one of these days. But, what I really, really want is an old International Scout, like a 60's Daven, I think. My grandfather drove one when I was a kid, two-tone red and white. But, the FJs are a lot of fun, and given your neighbor has one with the cranked windows, I'm going to say it's probably an old FJ40. Those are fantastic. I lose my mind every time I see one of those. And, I think they'll probably run forever. Thanks for coming back with that. I hope you have an amazing rest of your weekend, and we'll talk to you soon. KJ7 RAB, cleared on the side. Alright, and you made me think of something else. I've got a friend who has a Scout. I don't think I can get it away from him. It hasn't run in probably 15 years. The motor could be frozen, no reason to suspect that, but it's vintage. Gosh, I've known him for 40 years, and he had it when I met him. It's in his garage, and he's scared to take it out because there's stuff piled on it, and the garage might fall down if you take off the stuff that's piled in. But seriously, it'll be a great project car because it always ran fine. I'll talk to you later someday about it. I guess I'll find out if we can convince him if people came and removed it, he'd be happy. Anyway, have a great day up there, 73W70H."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:02:50+00:00","id":13810,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13809,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:03:13+00:00","id":13811,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13810,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:05:33+00:00","id":13812,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13811,"text":" Thanks Rick for checking in, appreciate that. And I'll go down the list to, where are we here, Victor Echo 6, it's Julia, Mike Baravo. And you are rechecked and I don't have your name because you're way up at the top here. But there you are, Jim, Jim at Fort McCloud. How's it going today Jim? And we are rechecking. If you want to join the question of the week, tell us about how you're using computers in the AMShack. Go ahead. Yeah, good morning, V6, Julia, Mike Baravo. Jim here. Yeah, I checked in earlier, I didn't think I was going to be around in any debate, so I'm here. I enjoy digital work, slow scan TV and some FT8. And do some chatting on the typing and stuff with a couple of programs that I have here on HF. But other than that, for a computer I just use old Windows 10 machine here and it seems to keep running here. So I haven't played it to Windows 11 or anything yet. Other than that, that's all I have for the net. Back to the net control, V6, Julia. Okay, real good, Jim, V6, JMB from Victor Echo 5, uniform Oscar, your net control station. Yeah, just checking the net page. Nice shack and I love the pictures of the dogs as well. Great, and thanks and catch you on the next one. Hopefully you'll make it to a future version of the net. Down the list, actually I don't have, oh yeah, so of course I have David in La Ronge, Victor Echo 5, Delta Tango. Thanks for joining the net today, David, and tell us how you're using computers in this hobby. Go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:05:56+00:00","id":13813,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13812,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:07:44+00:00","id":13814,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13813,"text":" There are Mike 6X side goals Papa, yourself 12X scientist and this is Neilamera Brutson."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:08:08+00:00","id":13815,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13814,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:08:53+00:00","id":13816,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13815,"text":" I also have Oscar Hotel 2 Lima Papa X-Ray and that was the end of that list. Any other stations who might want to comment on the packet radio or APRS situation, go ahead. This is the Houston-Papa-X-Ray for Romeo and Juliet, Arkansas's Catoon. Completed in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:12:25+00:00","id":13817,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13816,"text":" V5U0H2LBX returning. Thank you very much for the report. The reason for this is that in the past couple of days I have some strange problems with the 4G cell phone networks as well as internet connections and sometimes my latency is way off charge and it drops me off the net here and there so it's not very funny. WX-ray currently here in central Finland. We have a semi-cloudy wind is calm. It's almost 9pm here and we still have temperature plus 24 degrees Celsius. I'm not going to hold it very long. Thank you for taking me in. It was great to be here. Actually I visited shortly last Sunday but I was then at the callsign Oscar Hotel 6 Charlie X-ray. His callsign is 3 days old and a couple of days ago I just managed to start up the QR set and QR set CQ pages. There's nothing much yet but I'm getting there so this is brand new callsign never used anywhere. So VE5U0 on the net. It was great to be here. Very best 7 trees everybody everywhere from central Finland and I'm going to hand it back to net control and to you VE5U0 Oscar Hotel 2 Lima Papa X-ray 7 trees. Very good Yuka Oscar Hotel 2 Lima Papa X-ray from Victor Echo 5 uniform Oscar. By the way Yuka my name is Dave Delta Alpha Victor Echo. Many call me Steve as well. When I say my name not phonetically it does sound like Steve often so very good and thank you for joining us from central Finland and I'll just comment that there's very little or no noticeable jitter on your signal so probably not much of a latency issue at least not a variable latency issue so no drop packets solid connection here Yuka and thank you so much for joining us from central Finland and just to comment our temperatures are exactly the same and I am just before noon here so obviously it's very warm in central Finland this evening. We are typically quite a bit warmer than this at this time of year here as well but we are continental we're right in the middle of the North American continent so we don't have any in mitigating the large bodies of water for temperature and makes for fairly terrible winters. Thanks Yuka appreciate it and please join us again soon. I'm going to try and I know I'm on western Canada right now and I'm going to have to move elsewhere but I do love it when we have our overseas people join us here as well and there was one other one and I hope I got the call sign right Mike is zero Victor golf please correct me if I got your call sign incorrectly but please join the net now go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:12:48+00:00","id":13818,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13817,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:14:56+00:00","id":13819,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13818,"text":" I don't think it is. I think it's a pretty popular way for people to be writing their All-Star notes now, especially since the Raspberry Pi 5's. Once you put an SSD on it, or get it with sufficient amounts of memory, things are starting to encroach on the cost of a lot of those small form factor PCs that are out there in the marketplace. So, yeah, I don't think it's a crazy idea. Go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:18:36+00:00","id":13820,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13819,"text":" Yes, Mike Zero, Victor, both of them. It's really good evening to you, Dave. Nice to hear this. I'm a friend of Jukka, who was on just before me. He told me about this net. So I thought I'd pop in and say good evening to everybody. I'm currently coming in on the KV-1 IRN channel. My name is Simon, the Air India Mike Oscar November. I'm located in Warsaw, which is just north of Birmingham, in the central part of the United Kingdom. Using my outlets at the moment on Zello. I hope the audio is okay. I'm just watching the level meter. My unisex radio, I put it on charge. I have a couple of quick eyes. I used to use packet radio way back in the 90s, when it was quite popular here in the UK. There were BBS's mailboxes set up. I used to often have a chat with a few local guys over the keyboard, sending out our packet data over Tunics, VHS. Not doing too much on it lately. I did have a mess around with APRS on my edit home radio that I had. They may need to investigate us a little bit further. Yes, the call sign is correct, like zero, Victor, God papa. I must put a bit of basic name and location information there upon the QZ. I've just got it to hold the call sign. I won't hold up the net today. Thanks for taking my check in. Nice to be part of the Canada net this evening. And then zero, VGP. Very good, Simon. Sorry about that, about noting your call sign. I have net logger grab stuff out of QZ. Not sharing too much information there. That is okay. But I often think I get the call sign wrong when it doesn't fill it in. I appreciate you sharing your name and your location here, Simon. Thank you so much for the information on your connectivity. I will comment, it's very interesting. The Zello app obviously does blanking when there are no words being spoken. It's almost like you're keying on and keying off in between voice minimums. And that's okay. It's probably a lot more network efficient. Very good. And thank you for joining us from Central United Kingdom this evening, Simon. And please join us again down the road. I will open it up for further check ins. We'll try another round from Western Canada here. Victor Echo 4 and West to join the TransCanada Net today. Please join us now. Victor Alpha 4, Charlie, Juliet, Papa. Victor Alpha. Victor Echo 4, Donald, we're here. Romeo Norville, EVA 7 NRC, West Vancouver."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:19:04+00:00","id":13821,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13820,"text":" Low level 10s. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November. All star node 6222. Located in Shelton, Washington. Low level 10s."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:19:27+00:00","id":13822,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13821,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:19:50+00:00","id":13823,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13822,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:21:48+00:00","id":13824,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13823,"text":" Victor Echo 5, Uniform Oscar on the net. Oscar, I failed to leave my papa x-ray returning. Good afternoon. I'm not sure if you're Steve or Dave, but good to meet you anyway. Good to meet and hear everybody everywhere. Operator here is Jukka, you got it right. My current QTH is Kourou, Central Finland. I spell it for you, it's Kilo Echo Uniform, Romeo Uniform, a uniform. And if somebody wants to take a peek where I'm located, my locator is Kilo Papa 22 India Gulf. Kilo Papa 22 India Gulf. And to answer your question, for the time being I'm using computer Windows 10 Pro based system. Mainly to configure my 4G LTE based radios. Because sadly at the moment here at Kourou there isn't one single repeater existed. So my only gateway to the world is the cello gateways which I'm currently using right now coming through ZMR900. At this point I want to check, can you hear me alright? VE5UO OH2 LPX. OH2 LPX VE5UO, Jukka I can hear you 100%, go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:22:12+00:00","id":13825,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13824,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:22:35+00:00","id":13826,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13825,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:22:57+00:00","id":13827,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13826,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:23:20+00:00","id":13828,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13827,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:25:04+00:00","id":13829,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13828,"text":" I use computers all around the shack here, programming radios, I use HRD, I have my radio locks. This is much better stuff, no logical depth of that, no satellite tracking, I have a steady sheet in Washington, Raspberry Pi type trackers. And I'm just really impressed with the little Raspberry Pi, how robust they are. I've never had one go down on me, I've never had the problems I have with the PC. But I do have a question to see if anybody's ever run a note on a PC device, I'm curious to give it a try. But anyway, that's it, back to Nancy. Okay, awesome. Sorry, I usually follow up with another call and I didn't for some reason there, Rick. So yeah, I'm going to throw it out there, anybody want to chime in? So Rick had a question if anybody's running an All-Star node on a PC rather than just running it on a Raspberry Pi like most run it. There's a plethora of mini PC options, x86 compatible 64-bit platforms and things like that. Anybody running an All-Star node on a PC? Go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:28:04+00:00","id":13830,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13829,"text":" Okay, sorry, I got a complete double again. And, uh, I say G-P-1, zero, Victor, golf papa. Ah, thank goodness for full duplex. I got Mike zero, Victor, golf papa. Although that did not glean anything from Q-R-Z, so I'm just saying I got that one wrong. Um, I'm just gonna start at the top of the list here. Um, and, uh, I will start with, uh, two delta zero papa echo Yankee. And that is Gavin. Thanks for joining in that today. And, uh, Gavin, uh, did you have a comment, um, either about using computers in general in the AmShack or about, uh, packet radio or APRS, uh, in response to, uh, David's question? Go ahead. G-D zero, P-Y return. Thanks for letting me join. Um, computer wise, I've got all sorts of, to be honest with you, I've got a, uh, a Windows laptop, which runs, uh, H-R-D, amongst other things. Uh, I've got three Raspberry Pis, which I know we've discussed already. Uh, one of which is the, my Bravo seven, uh, Indigo Golf Victor Gateway that I'm currently actually working on. It's been online for a couple of weeks now, which has been very interesting. Um, I've got map books that I use for, uh, inventory software for my sort of business. Um, but my, I'm not an IT support guy. Um, where most of our, um, compute power is all cloud based. This is either all Azure or AWS. Um, but I'm happy in any environment. I don't really care. It could be Windows, Mac, or Linux. I'm, I'm happier in all of them really, as long as they can do the job that I need them to do. Uh, I could waffle on for ages, but I won't hold it back to you. Do use the APYN group. Very good. Uh, thank you so much. Uh, uh, there, Gavin, very good. And, uh, you must be by the sea. I think I can hear seagulls, uh, in the background. All right. Thank you for joining us and, uh, sharing, uh, sharing that with us. Um, down the list, Oscar Hotel 2, Lima Papa X-Ray, uh, Jukka, um, thank you for joining us today. And, um, do you have a comment for the net? Uh, go ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:32:12+00:00","id":13831,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13830,"text":" VE5-UO from VE5-Delta Tango and thanks for calling the net, Dave. And yeah, computers, I guess mostly, I would say mostly I use them for information about ham radio. That would be the YouTube channel and videos and that type of thing. As far as connecting with people and talking, I use hotspots, a clear zero, an open spot for, another one for DMR and the one I'm using now is Shark RF mic, which I enjoy using as well. But licensed in 95, my first purchase was a Radio Shack, 2 meter radio, second purchase, a computer and it's kind of been like that ever since. One thing I am curious about is if people are still using packet radio and APRS. Everybody has a computer but I wonder if those are still in use today, practical and popular. Back to you from VE5-Delta Tango. Yeah, very good David and thanks for your input. Appreciate that and I could offer my observations on packet radio and APRS. I know they are alive and well. I guess it really depends on where you go. I know there's some APRS gateways here in the city and a few stations that are using it. I'm not using APRS but there are several in town here that are. I think we have an APRS gateway at the university and a couple of others in town here as well. As for packet radio, packet bulletin boards and things like that aren't so popular at least here in my city. I know there's been some interesting developments in packet and I've forgotten the name of the protocol but it's a full duplex point to point packet system still leveraging notes software and AX25 and all that kind of stuff. I know it's around. Anybody want to chime in on their perspectives on the use of APRS and packet radio in their region even if you're a recheck or a new check? Check in now. Victor Echo 5, uniform Oscar here. To Delta Zero, Papa Echo Yankee. Scott, I hope those two leave my bikes right. H2LBX. H2LBX. Okay, just going to stop there for a sec because I had a bunch of collisions and I think I got the first call sign wrong but it could be wrong. I've got 2 Delta Zero, Eka, Papa Yankee. Just before I move on here and acknowledge others, did I get that call sign right? 2 Delta Zero, Eka, Papa Yankee. Is that correct? No, negative. It's 2 Delta Zero, Papa Echo Yankee or 2 Dopey if you like. Sorry, 2 Delta Zero again. Yeah, roger that. 2 Delta Zero, Papa Echo Yankee, 2D0PEY, QSL."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:32:34+00:00","id":13832,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13831,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:32:57+00:00","id":13833,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13832,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:33:20+00:00","id":13834,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13833,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:33:42+00:00","id":13835,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13834,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:35:23+00:00","id":13836,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13835,"text":" CAPCOM Amandaam, go ahead.ic"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:35:45+00:00","id":13837,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13836,"text":" Low voltage."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:39:14+00:00","id":13838,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13837,"text":" I got that whiskey alpha 7 alpha foxtrot victor before I get to you I'm gonna go to kilo kilo 7 November Quebec November hunter in Shelton Shelton, Washington, thanks for joining the net today and Hunter tell us all about how you use computers with amateur radio. Go ahead Yeah, I recently started on a pretty cool project and it uses a lot of computers and ham radios I have my all-star node running on Sandra Grosbury pie set up and then linked to that I have a team of three mini PCs that record and log and transcribe everything that's heard the Audio gets transcribed into text the text gets processed call plans get pulled USO data is a bit assumed off of like transcript links and stuff like that And then I have a scrubber that runs through the text and try it to pull call signs out of text Perfect right now, but it's running and it's all available in public Is that take a seven and two n dot net if anyone wants to check that out? I am currently actively working on it this whole computer also known and logging system is completely new and under test Pretty fun Kk7 and you in That's quite interesting hunter thank you for that I'm curious is the scrubber Software you developed or are you somehow? Leveraging AI for that go ahead Yeah, so the transcripts are written by AI it's the whisper AI through Python script That then runs a rejects on Python and It attempts to pull call signs and the call for the pool that then checks against you are these XML API if it comes back as a valid call sign it adds it to the database increases account and then Verifies if we seems or not and if we have increased count on team count and then update the last date and One so Software with the Python scripts, but most of it is like off the shelf shelf open AI and QR z API Oh That's very interesting very interesting and clever Thanks for sharing that I'm gonna dig in a little more here as well. I'm just looking at your at your Your website here Kk7 and QN dotnet for anybody who didn't catch hunter talking about that very interesting Thanks for sharing that hunter and Very much appreciate you joining that today. Please join us in the future and with that I will go on down to The Richard whiskey alpha 7 alpha foxtrot Victor go ahead You"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:42:30+00:00","id":13839,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13838,"text":" Alright, just gonna stop there for a second. Uh, the Sugarmark 6 station, again your call? Yeah, the call sign is Sugarmark 6 X-ray Golf Papa, SM6X, GZ, name is Tony and QKG Captain Bergson. Okay, thank you Tony, interesting. Uh, QRS did not pull your... Uh, oh, cause I got it wrong. It's X-ray Golf Papa. Okay, thank you Tony. Alright, I'll get to you, you're actually at the bottom of the list here, so just give me one moment. Um, and um, to find out where I was at. Victor Alpha 4, Charlie and Juliet Papa, Victor Echo 4 Golf, Whiskey Sierra, and Victor Echo 7, Nolibor, Romeo Charlie. And I got Sierra Mike 6 X-ray Golf Papa as well. So we'll start at the top of the list here and um, Colin, Victor Alpha 4, Charlie and Juliet Papa, Thanks for joining the Trans-Canada Net today and uh, tell us about how you use computers in this hobby. Go ahead. Uh, good afternoon everyone on uh, Net. Yeah, so primarily I run Windows and uh, I also run uh, Hyper-V inside Windows so I can virtualize uh, machines and run virtual versions of uh, hopefully some Linux virtual machines where I do some testing and stuff with uh, DV switch uh, running on Debian. Uh, also been getting quite involved with Raspberry Pis. Um, got a Raspberry Pi 3 that's running uh, an All-Star Sherry node uh, which is how I'm getting into the Net here right away, or right now. Uh, also have a couple of uh, Raspberry Pi W2s which are running uh, digital hotspots uh, for communicating uh, through those kind of uh, nodes. And then uh, yeah, lots of Raspberry Pis are starting to show up on my desk uh, not really radio related but use them for streaming music and also use the Raspberry Pi for doing uh, the uh, ad sync whole kind of thing where it uh, dumps all the ads and blocks them from your web pages. Uh, over. Okay, real good. Uh, thanks, Claude. Appreciate that. And um, isn't it funny how Raspberry Pis just seem to, they sort of multiply you buy two of them and before you know you have a whole, whole litter of them in the ham shack. And uh, very good. And um, yeah, I also do the same thing with the Raspberry Pi uh, to do the DNS uh, ad filtering as well and uh, seems to work fairly well. Um."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:42:52+00:00","id":13840,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13839,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:47:26+00:00","id":13841,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13840,"text":" Yes, good morning, this is WA-78. Good morning to you and the group. I've been following along here for the last hour or so. It's been fascinating depth with a lot of interesting information. I'm almost 78 years old, so computers and I have had our own share of difficulties. I use them a lot at work, only because I'm forced to, but I do not have any computers working in my shack. I just usually do HFTX on CW and a little bit of Sideman. I guess there's a computer involved, but I'm looking up on my laptop, maybe logging a little bit. I'm currently using an iPhone here on Echo Link, so I suppose I am using some form of computerized transmission. But nothing really fancy. I've got a small shack at home in Minnesota. I've got a couple of small radios on a Walmart picnic table right now. So, back to the net, thank you very much for allowing me to put my two-stands up. This is Repeater Station 8-7, November Quebec November. All-Star Note 6222. That was the Alpha-7, Alpha Foxtrot Victor. Thank you, Richard, for joining the net today. I left it open at the beginning of the net for somebody to chime in and say, you know what, I don't use computers at all. No, that's not your case, of course. But, yeah, offering an HF station without a computer and maybe just doing paper logging, that's a thing. Plus, you've got to be a better CW operator because you actually cannot rely on log programs filling in call signs or going off to databases and things to fill in information during contests and things. So, you are forced to really know your code when you do that. So, good on you and thanks for joining the net, Richard. Appreciate it and please join us again in the future. I'm going to open it up. So, I've only got seven minutes left of the net here and great participation today. There are some great ideas from people and some super interesting things that people are doing and lots of enthusiasm for amateur radio. So, good on you all and thanks for joining the net. Open it up to anybody anywhere and see if we can fill up the last seven minutes of the net to net control. Victor Echo 5, Uniform Oscar, Dave in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Please join us now. Echo 5, Echo 8, you're on Alpha 4, you're in the engine of Bravo, Georgia. Mike 7, Bravo, Yankee Delta. Mike 7, Bravo, Yankee Delta. Victor Alpha 7, Hotel Juliet Papa Charles in Surrey, British Columbia. Victor Alpha 3, Echo 1, Red Team, Carpool."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:47:51+00:00","id":13842,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13841,"text":" 7-alpha, MoxTron, Victor, WJ87A, FV, QSL."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T11:48:15+00:00","id":13843,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13842,"text":" Hey, do it, pal."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:05:14+00:00","id":13844,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13843,"text":" to use one of the other external DNS things. Usually my wife's my detector. She tells me that I can't get through on some of the games and things she plays. So that's how I know it is not working. But very good. And that sounds like you're having a lot of fun with it. And that's what it's all about. Thanks for joining us, Colin. And catch you on the later version of the net. Victor Echo 4, Gulf, Whiskey, Sierra, George in Braddon. Welcome to the net. And George, tell us all about how you use computers and AM radio. Yeah, good morning, good afternoon. I know we're just sitting in the parking lot here at the local Canadian Tire. We're in shopping for something. But it was too much money. So I came out and I guess the net was on here. But all I use is a laptop with not very much logging on it. That's about it for me. As far as the raspberry pie, I like mine with ice cream. Back to net. Real good. They can be a little crunchy, I suppose. Very good. And thank you so much, George, for joining the net. And yeah, you can keep it simple. You don't have to have a million computers. You can get by quite well with just a laptop in the shack. Which has never worked for me simply because I seem to have way more computers than I need. And I'm doing this on a laptop as well. It's running IAXRBT. But it's my wife's laptop, interestingly enough. And I haul it down to the internet. And I haul it down to the shack every seven weeks on the net control station for this purpose. Otherwise, I'll run an all-star note in the shack here. And connect on one of the many handhelds that also seem to multiply in the shack. All right. Thanks again, George. Down the list, Victor Alpha 7, Romeo Charlie, Brendan, and West Vancouver. Thanks for joining the net today. Go ahead. Oh, good morning. Oh, good morning, afternoon, or the appropriate citations there that may be. Great to be joining the TransCanada net this Sunday. That's a good question. Yeah, interesting. I actually did purchase a laptop for the express purpose of Amrita stuff. Bit of an upgrade. Yeah, obviously, you can probably get a pretty rudimentary laptop for a lot of the programs that it requisite programs for various things. But we use it. I mean, I use it for logging. I use N1MM for all the logging I do. And yeah, that's great because it just reads the VFO. And you don't have to worry about getting a great frequency every time, especially for contests where you're going to a lot of different frequencies. And yeah, we've had a couple of those. Obviously, it's the season for that kind of stuff. And yeah, no Raspberry Pis here. And hoping to keep it that way. I do have hand clock running. Oh, excuse me. I do have hand clock running on another computer there on WSL. And since it refuses to run in native Windows environment. This is a kilo 7. But if I ever develop things, I do it in Windows IDE, how to avoid. It makes it really good to get your work and develop it in Windows, personally. But that's because I'm a sucker for blood and for punishment, as they say. Anyways, yeah, no, it's great. We use EZNEC for modeling our antennas and various transmission line built at Balin, actually just last night. And have that in line there. And so got that radio set to 14.14 there in eager anticipation. And yeah, so that's great. I put that in the line. And my S meter is sitting right on the peg, resting peacefully on the peg there. So that's good. And yeah, so there's lots of different things. I haven't even got to FT yet or the other digital modes, obviously. FL Digi is good for Olivia and other stuff like that. I set my computer time with the radio clock there using, I think it's multi-PSK or something like that. And so yeah, lots of different uses for that. I got this F2710, and it just plugs right into the computer with USB cable. So a little bit less complex than my old Canwood 430S. Over. Real good, Brendan. VH7 NRC from VE5UO. Very good. Nice looking check. Just checking out your QRZ page here. And yeah, thanks for sharing that. It sounds like it makes slight use of computers. And that's excellent to hear and the applications you're talking about. Don't feel shame because you use Windows. I'll just join you in that I like to do some of my development on the Windows side of things, even run Linux subsystem for Windows. And VS Code sometimes on the Windows side as well. I do like having some of the automated backups and things on the Windows side where I really don't have to worry about my code or my backups from N1MM or my other logging programs. Those can be backed up to the cloud. I kind of like that. Sometimes you don't want to have to manage all of your storage. So yeah, there's some upsides to it. Lots of complaining about what you got to give up to get some of those free features. All right, thanks again, Brendan. Appreciate it. And I should move on down the line here because I haven't gone to the US yet. And I'm quite late. But there is one other check in here. Tony in Gothenburg, Sweden. Zero mic 6 x-ray golf. Thanks for joining the Trans-Canada Net, Tony. Very much appreciate hearing from you. And tell us how you use computers in this. I'll be glad. Yeah, good evening from here. Good afternoon there, I think it is. Some 6x GP here, Tony in Gothenburg. Yeah, a lot of computers. But actually, I tried to combine them into one machine. I have a lot of Raspberry Pi's laying around. But I have more and more going over to Docker containers and virtual machines. And a while ago, I stumbled across the workstation of the Rembrandt model, Z240, I think it is. And it has quite good processor and memory. And I installed a hard drive into it, two terabyte hard drive together with SSD. And it works very well. I run DPM there as a host. And I run a lot of Docker containers there. And also, Holstar node, which I use right now, or AWS node. And running that, I have a 6 link node. It's another repeater system we use over here. So when I'm about to use 6 link, I use virtual machine. So I also have a DMR hotspot with a WPSD on it. And I have an older Holstar node with a Cherry Pi on it. So I have a lot of computers and Raspberry Pi's. But I try more and more to get over to containers and virtualization just to save space on this little desk. And have more one place to go to when I have to manage them. So that's what I'm doing over here. No AHS going on. I only use 2 meter, 7 centimeter. And no antennas over here for AHS. No possibility to put them up anyway. So Holstar is nice. It's my way to get around the world. Back to you, guys. And take six GPs. Very good, Tony. And you're the first one to mention containers. To mention Docker and super functionality that you can get from containerization and microservices of sorts that way. But fantastic way to bring up a system with the applications included and becoming much more popular. And that said, I do not have actually a containerization platform running in my shack right now. But it will soon because I want to be running video streaming software and things like that from within my shack here. So need to build up a new NAS and possibly a bit of a home lab here. So very good. Thanks again, Tony. And appreciate you sharing your information and joining us from Gothenburg from the west coast of Sweden. Now a little bit of a geography lesson here because I did not realize where Gothenburg was relative to Stockholm, for example, which of course is probably a more popular known city here in Western Canada. So very good. Thanks again. All right, I'm going to move to the United States. I apologize for our American participants because I'm probably about 15 minutes late for getting down here. So hopefully I'm giving you enough time to check in with the United States of America for the Trans-Canada Net today. Please join us now. Kilo 6 Papa K Lima K6 KKL build. Whiskey N November 4 Victor WN 4V South Florida. WN 4V. KK 7 and QN Kilo K7 November Quebec November Hunter in Washington. All right, got two stations. Kilo 6 Papa Kilo Lima. Thanks, Bill, for joining us. And Whiskey N November 4 Victor, I believe that's John. We'll start with Bill. And then Tisha, California. Go ahead, Bill. OK, I use Raspberry Pi 2. OK, I use Raspberry Pi 2 to communicate with you right now. And it's on my repeater. And I build a repeater, and it has a Kenwood transceiver. And that's on simplex, on 444 megs. And that's on talking, and I can go around the town and all that. And so again, well, that's my Raspberry Pi 2. And I have a Raspberry Pi 3, which is linked to the Manteca repeater down at the water tower. And that ties in for All-Star. And Echo Link to give the repeater connectivity throughout the area. That repeater also is a fusion repeater. So it'll work both ways, digital and analog, as well as we can go this other way. My other equipment I have is, and you can see on QRZ, is a smartphone that's not a smartphone. It's actually an internet-only device. And I have a couple of those, and I really like those. Interrupted by telephone calls or anything else, and I can connect it in Echo Link and look at my email and do things and not be interrupted. And so you see it on QRZ, on my call. And basically, that's what I have on that. And again, well, my HF transceivers and everything, I have iComm. And so I'm very diversified in what I do here and in my amateur radio adventures. So now you know a little bit more about that. And I'm out here working on a 12-gig, on a 12-gig hertz offset dish, trying to make it work right now. So in the yard. So we're just busy with different projects. K6, thank you. This is repeater station. Thanks, Bill. Kilo 6, Kilo and Liam. I'm in air control, Victor Echo 5, uniform Oscar. And I'm going to always count on you to join the net there, Bill. Appreciate that. And thanks for describing the things you're into there. It sounds very interesting. And I always like to hear more about it. All right, down the list to Whiskey November 4, Victor, I believe that's John in Onaco, Florida. Not right. But thanks for joining us, John. Go ahead. Victor, Victor Echo 5, uniform Oscar, WN4V. Hello, good afternoon, Dave. Thank you very much for allowing me to check into the net. Currently it's very good. Node 5278. This is ChromeVox. I own one Windows computer I use for walking. But this one is an Asus Chromebook with Echo Link on it. And I also have 10 other computers in various strategic spots around my apartment. My preference, I also use another laptop I have for Peanut. I do quite a good activity on Peanut. And my preference is for Lenovo laptops. And again, I prefer ChromeVox and the Chrome operating system for various reasons, ease of use and that sort of thing. But I appreciate you letting me check in. I'm sure there are others that will be waiting. And again, I wish everyone a good afternoon in South Florida. By the way, my QTH is Bradenton, Florida. And I live, let's see, 79 kilometers south of the city of Tampa on the west coast. P5U0WN4V, South Florida. OK, thanks, John. I appreciate that. And just a quick question for you. Are you doing that with Chrome OS or are you loading those Chromebooks with the Linux distribution? Go ahead. I'm using a Chrome operating system. At some point in the future, I may just do that. I'm loading with Linux right now. Just a Chrome operating system, that's all. Over. Thanks, John. I appreciate that. Yeah, I wasn't aware that those applications would run under Chrome OS. So that's news to me. I'm not a Chrome OS user. But my daughter, Ra, who graduated university a few years ago, exclusively used Chrome OS for her for her academic work. It's just a simpler operating system for her, at least for her as a university student. All right, thanks again, John. Appreciate you joining the net and sharing the information with us. And please join us again in the future. Any other stations to check in from the United States of America, please join us now. Hero 7, November, Quebec, November, Hunter, and Washington. Beep."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:15:40+00:00","id":13845,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13844,"text":" Okay, just gonna stop the list there, uh, because I think we're gonna go over. Um, and, uh, I had some doubles, so I know I missed a couple of stations here, so, uh, the stations I have are Mike 7, Bravo, Yankee, Delta, Victor Alpha 7, uh, Hotel Juliet, Papa, I hope I got the call sign right there, uh, Victor Alpha 3, Echo Victor, and 2 Echo 1, Foxtrot, Uniform, Quebec. I'll start at the top of the list, uh, Keith, uh, Mike 7, Bravo, Yankee, Delta, thanks for joining the net, and, um, tell us about, uh, how you use computers in this hobby, go ahead. Uh, this is Keith in the northeast of England saying, first of all, thank you for allowing me into, uh, into the Trans-Canada Net, I'm totally enjoying all of the participation. Uh, great topic, no question about it at all, uh, and, uh, yeah, I use, uh, my, my computer here in the, uh, home, in the, in the home, um, uh, uh, because I have no, uh, ability to erect an antenna, um, so that, that puts me in the position that I'm in. I, I actually love computing, uh, it's been, it was my profession for 20 years, um, so for me, I use the, right now I'm speaking to you on the 3CX client, uh, here on the Windows 10 platform, uh, which is joined through the CIF portal of the Extended Freedom Network of which I'm an admin, um, and I do connect also through Pnot, um, and I also have a Raspberry Pi 3B, and that is, uh, used as my handheld, and, uh, right now I'm displaying the Pi style digital, uh, voice dashboard, uh, on my laptop, and, uh, I'm displaying on my, uh, normal, television screen in the room, uh, the net logger, so, uh, to me it's, it's, it's outstanding, we're able to use computing, um, I actually run a net which will take place after this, I'm sorry about the advertising, uh, myself, and that's called the NewHounds net, um, which takes place every Sunday, and that's at 1900 hours UTC, um, and to me, anybody who's, uh, joining, uh, amateur radio, using PCs, if you've got a license, it's coming out in our life anyway, um, so we, we are all embracing the hobby in its entirety, uh, and I hope that answers the question, uh, once again, uh, thank you for allowing in. Uh, M7BYD, back to the net control, uh, and thank you, Dave, cheers. Uh, cheers to you too, Keith, and thank you, uh, for joining us, and thank you for doing the, uh, the NewHounds, uh, net as well, and, uh, I will jump down the list here real quick, I'm gonna jump to the bottom of the list before I, uh, get the two Canadian stations, 2E0, Foxtrot, uniform Quebec, uh, John, in, um, the one I see in, uh, in Northampton, hope you've got that, uh, QTH correct. John, thanks for joining the TransCanada Net today, and, uh, please tell us all about how you use computers, go ahead. Yes, okay, yeah, it is 2E1FQQ, 2E1FQQ, uh, yeah, um, I like to use the computers, uh, not very often with radio, but I've got, um, I've got APLS, and I like to look at various websites, look at, at the radio, tune the sound of that on the website, uh, and just do some YouTube stuff, um, to do with, uh, to do with the hobby, and, um, I like to watch somebody rally on YouTube and stuff, um, I used to be able to tour the stations through the computer, but I don't tend to do that much on, uh, I prefer to use radios, so, uh, alright, I'm gonna let the last two stations come in and say hello, please, thank you for letting me in, um, hope to chat to you, uh, another, um, another Sunday, um, thank you, 2E1FQQ. Uh, thank you so much, John, it's great to chat with you again, and, uh, I know we've met here on the Net before, and, uh, always nice to, to talk with you. 73, um, I think I got the next call sign wrong, but I'm gonna try it anyway, Victor Alpha 7 Hotel Juliette Papa, uh, please correct the call sign, uh, if I got it incorrect, uh, please join us now. Yeah, hi there, yes, it's, uh, Victor Alpha 7 Hotel Juliette Papa, uh, my name's Charles, I'm in Surrey, British Columbia, and, uh, pretty new ham, uh, my job, I'm a homeschool teacher, and I, I spend a lot of time on the computer during the day, but I don't do a lot in terms of radio and computing, uh, I programmed my fancy Quan Chang K6 with, uh, Chirp, that's about as, as far as I got with that, and I, I hope I'm coming in well today, uh, good morning to all the, uh, amazing hams around the world. Ah, very good, I believe you said your name was Charles, thank you so much for joining the net today, and, um, congratulations, uh, on, on being a new ham, and you're certainly welcome to join us in future versions of this net, and, uh, appreciate you being here today. Alright, my last, uh, check-in is Victor Alpha 3 Echo Victor Richard in Cornwall, thanks for joining the net, uh, go ahead. Yeah, good evening, good morning, good afternoon, uh, yeah, should wake up there, uh, I've been monitoring the net for a while, I find it kind of interesting, uh, doing a technical analysis, uh, actually using the computer, uh, deviation, the, uh, I was just on there, I was running around 3kc deviation, I don't know if he's, and since he's new, whether he realizes it's supposed to be wideband deviation, uh, narrowband deviation, and, uh, the stations from England, and it seems to be on most of the time, they are about, uh, 10, which isn't too bad, and, um, the net station itself is fairly low on the deviation scale, which I guess in the communications we should all be at the same level, and this is what I noticed, and I also noticed that nobody seems to care one way or the other on many different nets that, um, there's different levels, but when you do get into an emergency situation, you would like to have the levels all even, and if you were to, uh, listen to, uh, commercials, police aircraft even, even though it is not FMAM, they're all within, uh, kc of the correct level, but, uh, for some reason we seem to have a problem when it comes to, uh, uh, well, repeaters, assembly repeaters, if you want to call the, the, uh, vehicle link, uh, over back to net control. Yeah, okay, thank you, appreciate that, um, uh, Richard, and, uh, yeah, I'm using a VoIP client, but, um, I know the deviation is probably related to the audio drive, um, and, um, yeah, I usually just do it, do it by ear, um, but you are correct, it would be nice if we were all, um, similar in, uh, in, in, in audio, uh, levels and, uh, and thus, uh, deviation on the, uh, on the FM side. Well, thanks again, appreciate that, and I'm going to close the net here, uh, and say something to everybody, and thank you for joining TransCanada Net as I close off just a couple of minutes late here, and great participation, uh, great enthusiasm, and, uh, passion for amateur radio, and, uh, uh, always look forward to doing this net, and I'll see you again in, uh, oh, obviously, six to seven weeks' time, uh, for the net, hopefully we'll catch you, uh, on here, uh, sometime before that, and net control, uh, next week, as far as I know from the schedule, is Chris, Victor Arco 3, Romeo, Whiskey, Juliette, always great net control station, uh, amongst the other net control stations, uh, that, uh, you'll hear here as well. And, uh, 73 day, everybody, and I will close down the TransCanada Net for this Sunday, August the 3rd, 2025, uh, 73 from Victor Arco 5 uniform, Oscar."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:16:08+00:00","id":13846,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13845,"text":" Alright, before I go on here, uh, the last station, uh, could you please send your callsign phonetically? Whiskey Alpha 7 again?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:19:55+00:00","id":13847,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13846,"text":" Okay, let's go back up to the top of the list and talk to Wilco, W7LCO. Come ahead. Hey there, how's it going? This is W7LCO. Thanks for hosting the net tonight. Today I went to the farmer's market in Des Moines and I got a new hat and I got a tiny jar of honey from Shipwreck. I was there with my mom and Judy bought me a candle for my boat. I think the scent was called Blood Moon and it was kind of like a real nice citrusy scent. So that was a nice morning. And then I went to see a play in Burien at the Performing Arts Center. They did Newsies, so that was really fun. And that was a date, so a fun kind of unique date experience. And in less exciting news, my boat water, fresh water system sprung a leak somewhere under the floor so the pump, I had to turn it off because it was just pumping water out. So that's something I'm going to be working on tomorrow morning. So that's about it for me. I'm just out in my car, just finished up a walk, so just going to head back to the boat and listen to the net on my way back. Thanks again. Sending it back to you, 73 is everyone out there, W7LCO. W7LCO K7WFP. Well that is a full day. I want to ask you though about the play Newsies. Is that a musical? And if you want to give us any more details on your date, we'd all like to know. Come ahead. Yeah, sure. Newsies is a musical, yes, and it was made into a movie that starred Christian Bale when he was a teenager. And it's really fun in my opinion, but I mean I like musicals in general, but it's a really fun one. It's got a lot of good Union socialism vibes, so that's always fun. Speak truth to power or whatever. Anyway, and then the date, this woman Nicole that my boss, who's also my best friend, introduced me to, who's cousins with his wife, and we hung out at their party at his house on July 4th, and so we've been going out on some fun dates lately. And I'm like a couple of weeks since then, so it's going pretty well I would say. Back to you, W7LCO. W7LCO, okay, 7WFB. Well, thank you. Yeah, oh, Newsies sounds like fun, and the date with Nicole sounds like fun. A new, a new maybe romance since July 4th. A summer romance. I hope it doesn't end with the summer though. Thanks for letting us know about that. Very interesting. Jeff, AB6MB, Jeff probably had a date with Rocky today, is that right?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:21:13+00:00","id":13848,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13847,"text":" Well, first of all, if I may extend apologies because I was responding to the situations we find here in the UK. Emergency situations that you have are entirely different. We don't have anything like that at all. So here, amateur radio is only used for amateurs. We don't use wideband at all. We use narrowband and older meters, 12.5k. So yeah, I fairly understand where you are coming from with your own situations you fucking may find. So yeah, I extend apologies. It wasn't... I should have had a broader mind, if you will. Apologies again. M7BYD standing by. M7BYD standing by."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:21:38+00:00","id":13849,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13848,"text":" Kilo, Echo 2, Fox, Yankee, Yankee. Are you guys making use of all of your conference?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:22:05+00:00","id":13850,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13849,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November, All Star Node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:22:33+00:00","id":13851,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13850,"text":" Kill a Echotwo Fox Yankee Yankee, New York City. Wanna make you so. Kill a Echotwo Fox Yankee Yankee, hope you so. Standby."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:27:49+00:00","id":13852,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13851,"text":" This is M7BYD. If I may make a comment to the gentleman that just was talking about the various levels. When you think about it, it's all paid for individually. The links, the repeaters, etc. are not commercial. It's called amateur radio for a reason. It would be fantastic if it could all have the same level and we aspire to be equal. But it's called amateur radio for a reason because that's exactly what it is. So to criticise those who spend some time in their roles as people who look after the repeaters because it isn't exactly right is being over critical. So that's just my comment. M7BYD standing by. When you have really noisy background you can hear other stations but the volume on your radio and your voice is not the same. So you can hear the sound of the radio. So the volume on your car will not allow you to hear the lower deviation. This is the point. It's supposed to be for amateur radio and emergency use. This is what the repeaters are also there for. And most people do tune radios. It's not a criticism because we're amateurs. We are professionals. And that's part of the whole thing. We do have the equipment. You have one KCD deviation, the other guy is at 15 KCD deviation and you're driving around in the car. The other guy is blowing the ear drums out and the other guy you can hardly hear because he's a whisper. This is the difference. So when you all get to approximately the same level then we're doing good because around here most people run about the same level. This is the whole idea. So we're able to hear. It's not the fact that we're amateurs that we can be all, when we do all over the deviation it's up to people who run the repeaters to talk to the people that are on there. Just like I mentioned the V-7, he might not know that we are not running metal band FM repeaters. We are running white band FM repeaters. So that is the reason why I mentioned that to him. So he can get it adjusted. It's not very hard. The idea is it's usually the equipment is like I know the guy that sets up ours. It's set up right to the money and everybody going into it, if I listen on his output from his QTH right now into the repeater that I'm talking through which is going back into his house, it says all set up to operate correctly and that's the point. In the case of an emergency somebody with next to nothing deviation can hardly be heard and that could be he's the most critical station that we need to hear. And that's all I have to say. We're not amateurs. We all have the ability to turn knobs on the test things. 7-3, V-A-3, V-Clear. Running to your station. You're absolutely right. Listen DMR, those people really have deviation problems. Oh yeah, DMR, that's another one. You get to the point where they're very well so loud that it sounds horrible and when you get the guys with the lower deviation or lower audio level and they sound real good. Believe me I know that. I have a DMR radio myself and yeah, it's too bad. It makes it very difficult. Like I say, if you're driving around in the car and you're trying to have a conversation, you turn up the knob for one guy, you turn it down for the other one. It's nice when you got the FM radio going and you're listening to music or broadcasting, you can go from one station to another and they're all the same. This is what the hobby was and it was at the beginning. 60 plus years ago we were the people who were called an amateur but we started it all off. We were the people that did all the innovations and everything like that at the beginning so being professional in amateur radio is a pat on the back. It's where we're supposed to be. Otherwise, let's go back to being CPers."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:29:36+00:00","id":13853,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13852,"text":" Two fluid Ord Barney, coming at you for two feet up, for an eight on seven-\u014d, 20 rad university and a 60- crossesey level for 34-yard-stamp special KlufmannMela has been sequel to prior didoon which is kind of cool. So, that means on fast rise we can add landed"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:32:41+00:00","id":13854,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13853,"text":" Okay, Mark, thanks a lot for taking the time to stop by and check in. I hope that you have an amazing rest of your weekend and 7-3. Okay, it's 12.13 p.m. I'm Cami, TJ7RAB. This is the new net here on the PSRG repeat. We are live on location at Craven Farm at the Field of Wheels event. I think there are more people here than they thought were going to sign up. There is literally a field full of 4x4 rigs and after the net we'll have a chance to run around and look at all of them. But here with us we have Matthew who also drives an FJ Cruiser and he's interested in ham radio. So he's kind of hanging out looking at all of our gear and learning about what is the net, how does it work. And I know we showed him the British stove and the Super Montage and the door bed and all the ham things. But I'm going to hand the mic to Matthew so he can do some third party traffic and push that push to talk button and say hello to you all. So I'm going to hand it over to Matthew for some third party traffic. Hello everybody this is Matthew here. We're live at the Field of Wheels event and good to see another FJ Cruiser here. We're part of the Jang group on Facebook so that's awesome. And really interested in radios in general. I got my GMRS license and working on trying to get my ham. It's nice to be able to talk to people farther than I can see. So I appreciate the opportunity to be able to walk in on this and listen to all you guys checking in. And this is a really awesome setup thing out here so appreciate it. And 7-3 is everybody out there and I'll pass you along. Matthew that was so cool and you're already a pro radio operator. We just got a good license for you and you'll be up and running in no time. That was awesome. Thanks so much for popping in and saying hello to everyone on that third party traffic. It's 12.15pm again this is Cami, KJ7RAB and I'm going to hand it over to my amazing co-host to take the next round. So KJ7JXM take it away."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:33:44+00:00","id":13855,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13854,"text":" Okay, so that station might have been an I-O-N. I didn't catch that. Next up we have Mark Piquet. Piquet 2, Kilo Kilo 2, Lima. I'm sorry, I can't read my writing. Come ahead and give your report. How are you? Good morning, all. This is Kilo Kilo 2, Lima. My name is Mark. I'm in southern New Jersey, just southeast of Philadelphia. Just thought I'd check in, report from New Jersey that the weather here is great. It's 80 degrees, the wind is about 2 miles an hour. It's a great break from what we've had in the last few weeks. Good to hear everybody on the net. I just wanted to say hi everybody and that's all I got. So this is Kilo Kilo 2, Lima. Back to net."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:35:31+00:00","id":13856,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13855,"text":" Any other operators out there that would like to get on the new list today? This is K27KXM, this is CSRG. Yeah, but please just unmute or your mumble will faggle here. There's so many off-road rigs that I want to go look at, but I'm getting here in a Toyota one on the Jeep guy, what can I say? Anyway, let's see, anyone else out there that would like to get on the list, name or call sign. How about Grossi, W7DNG, how copy? I got you on the list, and it looks like that's fine, but let's see if I can get a couple more on there. KI7 on our mute. Got the one and only Jack. Alright, anyone else? K3O8. We've got Rick on the list and RF land number one. Alright, let's see if we can get one more."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:35:56+00:00","id":13857,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13856,"text":" and there you have it, the other side of the upper skin on one leg. One more try."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:37:37+00:00","id":13858,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13857,"text":" JK7KXM, yeah you heard her, it's 12.16pm according to my clock, I don't know what clock she's looking at, which means the same one, but um, anyway, I heard her say 12.15, whatever, whatever it was, just at that same time. Anyway, let's see who else is out there, let's get their name and call sign folks, name and call sign. JK7KXM, Fox Kilo Bravo, 3. KK5, I got 3 on the list, it looks like I'm doubling where the internet station is, will the internet station come back? KK5, Galp Coast, Kilo River, Will Wilpola City, get out there and robert. Well good afternoon, well we've got you on the list, and it looks like I'm doubling with another internet station, will that second internet station come back? KK7, Yankee Victor Victor, everyone stay with Borg. Fantastic, I got you on the list my friend, is there anyone else out there, name and call sign. KK8, Mike Yankee. I got Mike on the list, who's next?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:38:59+00:00","id":13859,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13858,"text":" node 5 2 7 8 2 disconnected this is repeater station kilo safe people for everything that you do travel safe and um another comment oh pickles it seems like pickles are all the rage now you know there's a new flavor of the month if you will people are really into drinking pickle juice and eating pickles and all the things with pickles so books you know I wish you would have tried that pickle but I'm really curious to hear what what it would have seemed like so maybe it's time all the numbers to you my friends um and we'll talk to you soon and see you soon um after books we had an I.O. from Sean uh 33 D's Sean and all the numbers next up we have 23 7 C L C um I hope I got your call sign right if not you can direct that when you come ahead now and give your report how are you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T12:55:11+00:00","id":13860,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13859,"text":" Thank you for that my friend, and yes, APRS is a whole other farm, in which I just updated our beacon and I think it shows on the map where we are if I'm not mistaken. We should show that we're in the Snohomish area there at the Cuyman Farm. So yeah, we've got KJ7RAB-9 is the current beacon that we're running here, and I think I forgot to update the gate in this door because we're in Elorgen, but the next time it beacons out it should change to be used on the TSRG Rainer sign, which is a Rainer sign, but hey, I want to promote it and let folks know where we are. So it's a whole lot of fun, I love APRS, and one of my favorite things to do with it is to use Windlink to push the Windlink up to your man in your beacon, and it will let you know if you have any Windlink mail messages pending. So you get a little back-to-back that says, you've got mail for your kind of fun, because you don't mind if we go to the mail real quick. So thanks for that, very much appreciate you stopping by, and hope you have a great rest of your day. Next up we've got Mike, this is KJ7R, how are you doing my friend? Hi Robert, hi Cami, and okay, I'm on a Tomy, I'm using about 5 watts and one of my arrows, and I'm looking at the voterscope, so it looks like I'm pegging the needle up on the buck. And what's interesting is when I move this antenna around, I'm looking right at the Puget Sound, and I'm on the upper part, there's like an upper and a lower area of Tomy than the trails, and I'm by the amphitheater, so I'm looking right out at the water. When I move this around, you can tell that the VHS signals like bounce off the stuff, they're like bouncing off that island over there, bouncing off the tree, and I never noticed that before. I tried to work this repeater from this kind of distance, because all these years I was like really close to a repeater, and I just hit it with an HD, and so now you can really get a feel for how much VHS signals bounce around. Anyway, it's nice out here, it is overcast, so the sun's not beating down on us about 65 degrees and lazy, and I thought, you guys are operating remote, I should hop in the car and come out here in the woods and operate remote, and I didn't look to see if the tide's in or out, I think it's in transition, so when it's out you've got all the clam people digging clams, and it's usually hard to find a parking spot then, but I don't see the clam people around. And, let's see what else we were going to mention, let me do this, I don't want to time out. And the other thing too is I'm seeing I'm pegging the needle on Buck, but my receive is different, my receive isn't really that good, unless I move the antenna over a little bit, so that says signals bouncing off the objects here. Let's see, we did APRS yesterday, I did, I pulled it out and do a test to see if we can get a Wind Link message out, I hit the ISS, and I did some APRS over RF, a lot of times we just use the dash 10 at work, which is the, without the radio, just take it along, so it's kind of neat. So, it's neat, you can do stuff on the phone, and then if you need to do it off the grid, you can do it off the grid too, so it works out really well. Anyway, you guys sound good, it sounds like you're having a good time, and we're just enjoying the woods out here in Lacey, this is KBA, VNY, VECU, Cami and Robert. This is repeater station, thank you so much for that, it is fantastic out here, we're having a blast, lots of folks kind of checking out what we got going on, and just a tremendous outcome in showing us support through Allied Motor Sports, I guess I get their name right, and a lot of the off-road community is quite fantastic, so very impressed with how things are going for their inaugural event, looking forward to many more years to come, and next year I'll make sure and have my Douglas Barrow to be on site in the event, actually hosting just from the table and kind of getting a little bit more interaction from folks, and I think we'll get a lot more goodness going on, because ham radio, GMRS, and radio in general is a huge part of the off-road community, so kind of promoting the ham radio kind of thing is a lot of fun, I'm a big promoter for the UTRF, you know, and that kind of technology, that way people can see where we are, and having that interaction with everyone when you're off-roading is a lot of fun, even though I partly believe that we need to kind of create an alternate frequency for some of that stuff, so that when we're off-roading, we get a little bit more dedication on these, and everyone can get some of the iGaze 4, setting up a mobile iGaze, I guess that'd be part of the iGaze 2, but there's so much to do, so much fun with it, and yes, I use the app on my phone as well, that way I can get the signals when I don't have radio, and then I can also make sure that I've got the ability to send packets over the radio if I've got my phone on, which is fantastic with no service, so thanks for stopping by my friends, very much appreciate you, and hope you have a great rest of your day, enjoy the woods, it's so beautiful out there. Next on the list we've got Groce, W7DNG, how are you doing my friend? Well first, you've got Groce here, W7DNG, can you still hear me? Roger, you sound fantastic. Well I'm doing some experimenting, I've only had this thing about 6 months now, it's their new bull thing, the AR5RM, and I'm sitting in the middle of my living room watching the hydro race. So that's on that report, rabbits are doing pretty good today, that's overcast, so they like that, so they're out more eating the grass than yards, haven't got much going on, but this is a normal day once a year, that's all I watch, out of all the sports that I ever go see or whatever, the hydro's the ones I like watching the best. So anyhow, I hope this transmission is getting through, and precious visual radio, W7DNG, back to you. Well Dr. Stan, I'm getting cozy, yes it's pretty slick watching the hydro's, one of the advantages that my grandparents had, where they live and rent, they can see them from their stack, even if it's parabenoculars because they are up a little ways, it's just the sound of the water, but they're able to see them from their house, their room, which is quite incredible, I don't know if it's going to be the full race, or if it's going to be a freeze of it, I don't remember, because I've never actually gotten to see it, so with that being said, I hope you're having a great time watching those, and if it's not you're going to hit the radio from inside your house, with the little metal thing, those are such great radios, it's incredible how well they've done on those things, so thanks for dropping by, very much appreciate you, and have a great rest of your day. I'm wondering if you see any of these from where you're sitting now, and the first one is Zip-Tie Hero, that category is best described as best use of creative field repairs, the next one, I think we talked about this on the 9 o'clock net, Zombie Apocalypse Ready, best overland camping set up, and the last one, I love this last one, because I know you've seen a number of these, not maybe at this event, but I'm sure there's one, got to be one, most likely to fail inspections, so do you see any of those three from where you're sitting now? KI7RM, thanks for getting me in. I'm 40 Moly Jack, I can't see many rigs at all from where I'm sitting, the only rig I can see is a Dodge just on site for our door printing, and I think it's one of their personal rigs, it's pretty well built that Dodge, but I would say it's kind of a little bit of an overland, and a Zombie Apocalypse look to it, but definitely not the award winner, not in my opinion at all, there were some great looking rigs out there, I'm really looking forward to seeing what we got, and kind of getting out there and looking at what rigs are going to get, what category, we've got to get out there and vote on ourselves, we'll definitely post some pictures on what we think and what we voted for, and get that live video stream on there so that all the folks at PSRT can have experience and see what's going on out here, because this is a tremendous amount of showing support for this group, and the amount of off-road rigs in the parking lot, Jack, is just incredible, we know a car show right out here in the parking lot, so definitely kind of hoping for some other clubs to take up this idea, we get more of these events happening all over the area, it would be fantastic, and showing off for the off-road community, not all of us are mall callers, but there's definitely a few of you here, but now I've got a couple of fantastic built rigs, one of them is a 6.2 liter supercharged, oh what the heck is that thing, it's a gladiator, it's got the America's Most Wanted build on it, which is just fantastic, the thing is running, it's got a 16E axle, I think it's got three fuel-in pairs on it, and it's just beautiful, and then they've got the Knott Fobcat, which is a gladiator that's been fobbed, and has the Hellcat motor built in it, which is another incredible build, so definitely a lot of fun stuff, fantastic rigs out there, and hopefully we'll wrap this up here after a little bit, and get out there and check things out on ourself, because we've got to figure out what rig we want to vote for, we've got to get our votes in. So thanks for stopping by Jack, very much appreciate you, and when I send the video, you'll have to give us your vote on what rig do you think will fit what category. Next on the list we've got Rich, K3-OE, how are you doing my friend? Robert, Kenny, doing great over here in West Seattle, and it is just a ton of fun hearing you two out there. Anyway, Kenny, get much better than ham radio and off-roading together, as a matter of fact, any activity that takes you out to boondocks I think ought to be teamed up with ham radio, and I know you haven't got a chance to look around much yet, but hopefully you'll take some pictures, and I hope you're not the only rig with ham antennas on it. Back to you, K3-OE. No, we're definitely not the only rig with ham antennas on them. There's a few other ones out here, but I have to say, I think most of them are certain-ratty rig, so they don't quite use the radio the same way we do in the social aspect, they only use it for form and function. There's quite a bit of time, you know, if you're looking around to see what other ham operators we have out here, there has to be a view of them. I would put my money on it. So, we've got an on-call rider that can be showing up, hopefully he's in route, and that'll be at least one other rig out here. Not sure what he's driving, but hopefully he's got a ham antenna on it, because, well, he's an on-call rider and he has ham antennas. So, thanks for that, Rick, we do appreciate you, and what you do to get out, valve, place your radio out in the woods, which we're in the corner field, this is the radio on the back, there you go. So, there you go. This is KJ7J, NAGS-M, who's currently 1237 p.m., this is the new event on the W7ZS and the PZ-7 area, and I'm going to hand it back over to you, my other ham. Oh, oh, and yes, we are live on-site here at the field of wheel defense, hosted by N7 Farms and Allied Motor Sports. KJ7J, NAGS-M handing over to KJ7RAP."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:00:40+00:00","id":13861,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13860,"text":" Alright, so we've got that's Cami's real line there and I'm gonna have to begin but let's go to the top of the list. We've got SKB flying ice backwards. How are you doing my friend? Well, good afternoon Robert and everyone on the net this afternoon. How are you? Well, on Wednesday I drove down, I didn't drive, but I rode down with some friends to Portland. And early, by nearly Thursday morning we went to the free open source software yearly conference which was happening at Portland State University. Thursday through today. Today is the last day. And I just walked into my house and jumped on the net here. We made amazing time back from Portland today with about three and a half hours. I've never done that before. I feel like I should go buy a lottery ticket or something. The universe seems to be in my favor today. It was a great conference. It gets put on every year by the Software Freedom Conservancy non-profit group. And a lot of really great talks, met a lot of really nice people. Learned a lot even more about the open source community and all the things that everyone's engaged with. And yeah, I plan to go next year which is going to be in Vancouver, B.C. next year. They're switching it up a little bit. So with that I think it's lunch time. And I wish everybody a great rest of your day. Take care. KK7, Fox Kilo Bravo, back to net. Well that sounds fantastic. It's always nice to make the quick trip back from the Oregon area there. I love going down there. It's a whole lot of fun. And let's see, I'm going to go multitask here. Where's my mouse? Oh, I'm going to go up here. The way it's shut up here. So thank you for stopping by. I very much appreciate you. And hope you're having a fantastic day. You traveled straight there. Well, it sounds like you traveled straight. You got home already. So that's fantastic. And great for me. It's great to hear from you. Next on the list we've got... It looks like Will from Oklahoma City. KJ5, BWM. How are you doing, my friend? Good afternoon, Robert. Will here, KJ5, Del footsteps, Kino Oliver. Get ready to celebrate my birthday tomorrow. I'm not doing anything, but I am getting a year older. I'll be 54 tomorrow. So I'm going to go out with some friends of mine. Help with a little bit of summer biking early. And not doing anything else other than that. So anyway, back over to you, Robert. This is KJ5, Del for Kino Oliver. Boy, happy early Thursday to you, my friend. That is fantastic. And there's... it's definitely nice to sit down and relax and have a fantastic day. I hope you and your friends have a great afternoon or evening. And you should stay safe there. And make sure you make it to your birthday there, my friend. That's fantastic. And toast to Kino from all of us here on the Cesar Sound area. Great. Thank you for stopping by. Next on the list is... Everyone's there. Victor, Victor. How are you doing, my friend? Actually doing pretty good. I spent yesterday down at the Seattle Electric Bike Shop in Bapu playing with the dog. I like to get down there every once in a while and play with him. He's an older dog and doesn't play much anymore, but he loves to play fetch. Spent some time there giving him a little bit of exercise and walking around the building and stuff like that. Keeping myself busy. Any day they say that I'm above the grass is a good one. Doing some more research into APRS. Still looking for a trike and all that other fun stuff. It sounds like you guys are having a fun time over at that truck event. Bright sunny day for that, I guess. Alright, that's pretty much all I've got. So I'll turn it back to you. Kilo Delta 7. Yankee Victor Victor. Everyone stream at 4. Back to Mac."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:01:12+00:00","id":13862,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13861,"text":" Thank you so much, Robert. Uh, 10-8-6-8-7-R-A-B. Uh, we are ready now to build a new list of seconds. So if you'd like to give a report for an I-O, all I need is your name and call sign down ahead now."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:11:45+00:00","id":13863,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13862,"text":" Okay, well I'm gonna go with that list of few stations. Let's hear from James, WQ 7 H. How are you today? WQ 7 H, this is James. Good afternoon everyone. Hello Cami, hello Robert, and everyone that's out there. Look at those grey skies. I'm just not ready. No, I'm not ready. And hello Joan. Hope you're doing well. I'm, I have mostly my little mobile, little, yeah, it's a mobile antenna. This is a Yay28AS antenna put together. It's sitting atop a speaker stand from Sweetwater. And I gave the other Joan, my Joan, the candy in the box. So I just need to cut, I'm ready to cut radials, but I need to find my tape measure. I can't find my tape measure. Where, oh where, never mind. And then we'll hook it up to some nice coax and we'll apply magic smoke to it and see if it lights. I'm not really thinking that 40 meters will amount to much, not in this neighborhood. But if I'm on the road somewhere where I can sit at a picnic table and light her up as a field unit, who knows what the shadow will bring forth. That'll be fun. I'm kind of looking forward to giving that a try. That'll be fun. And, yeah. Anyway, so we've got the tools. We're going to try out the tools probably tomorrow. I need to find, I need to see in my little chest of goodies. If I have some crimping lugs for the radials. I'm going to cut some for 20 meters and perhaps like 10 or 6 meters. And maybe perhaps 40, you know like 3 sets of 3 or 4 or 6 sets of whatevers. And then I've got a spindle that I can roll them all up on. So I will be, you are not prepared. Sorry, old man. So that's what I'm working on. And I took down all my old, old pictures from my QRZ. And once I kind of have this together, I'll take pictures and get them all up there. I have one picture of the shiny new radio, which I am very much enjoying. It's working for, you know I was able to do HF the past few nights. Working well. Of course, you know the local QRM is there. But that's life. That's life. I'm going to send it back to you guys. You guys. Be well. Enjoy your day. Nice to talk to you, Cami. Hi, Robert. WHQ 7H back to net. Great stuff, James. Thank you for sending that picture of your new radio. It is beautiful. And I hope you enjoy it and make loads and loads of contacts. And just have fun playing radio. Thank you so much for stopping by to tag me with this. It's always great to hear your voice. And I hope you have a lovely rest of your weekend. All the numbers. Next up we have Joan, who is DCW and Joan. I am drinking an oat milk lavender latte. And it's in my double walled cup. So it keeps it warm and so I'm holding it in your direction. Cheers, Governor. How's your weekend going? Cheers. Governor. I'm right on the microphone head shelf. There we go. On a canister. Oh, it's milk lavender latte. Wow. I'd love to taste that just out of curiosity. Oat milk is one of the non-moo milks that I actually can drink. I mean, you know, I grew up drinking cow milk. You know, and we didn't raise calves on our farm, but the neighbors did on both sides. And you know how broader economies work. And we leased our fields to the dairy farmers on both sides, which were all Campbell's. They're all the larger family. There were some old Campbell's to the east of us. And there were young Campbell's to the, I'm trying to get my direction straight. Yeah, to the southwest of us. Yes, on Beattie Road. And Beattie Road, I asked my mother about Beattie Road, and she said when I grow up I could watch some Warren Beattie films. Which I did. The Parallax View is the one that sticks with me. Still gives me nightmares. A film for our times. Absolutely excellent. Oh, I'm not going to sound off yet. Cheers, Governor. Mmm. I am sipping on my patented drone, you know, siphon pot espresso, which I brew by the pot. And which I mocha by with whole organic chocolate milk. And I've taken to using organic milk, by the way. It's still cow milk, but it's organic cow milk. It does cost more, you know. As a gallon of non-organic milk crept up from like three-some dollars up to four-some dollars, I thought, you know, I may as well plunge into the world of this seven-some dollar a gallon organic whole milk. So that's what I've been using. And let's see. Oh! There's a friend, a friend is going to do a, you know, pro bono recording for her. It looks like she's an opera singer and she has some cabaret repertoire that she wants to record. And I think it's a perfect opportunity for me to showcase, if you will, my mid-sized stereo recording technique, which I've used for over 35 years. Um, you know, recording live bands and stuff, which were and probably still are invariably or mostly, you know, mixed in mon-oral. So I would run a synth off of their board, the band's live board, into track one. And then I would run my own size mix of from one to five high quality microphones on the stage. I worked out with Mike with the idea of it being what this mon-oral is leaving out. And I built my own design and built my own mixed out transformer so that in post, oh yes, the size mix will go into track two in a reel-to-reel tape recorder. And then I would mix it down in post. One of the things I would do is I would convert it from mid-sized stereo to left-right stereo. Sorry my chicken's long. But the other item is that, you know, I bought a couple of inexpensive microphone stands because I just want to make sure I, you know, I've only got a couple of mic stands that work. Although I only need one of them for this recording because it turns out this can be heard at a piano. And, but, I have two of them. And I thought this looks like the same diameter as this fiberglass pole, the large one, from the, it's meant to be used with my MSJ2289 ginormous rambier antenna. I wonder if I could just, this is a multi, pull that thing right out, and then swap poles. And sure enough it fits perfectly. It's the same exact size. So now I've got a small tripod, small lightweight tripod that I can just take right off the bottom of the fiberglass pole. Easier, lighter to pack, and I don't know when I get to use it, but it's sitting here in my living room, sit up, and I rather like it. This is KX2CW saying all the numbers to all the M's out there in the vacuum operating on the space. KX2CW, John, I'm down, right back to that."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:17:55+00:00","id":13864,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13863,"text":" So, so great to hear from you. And, yeah, I had a weird, I don't know, I don't want to say relationship, but weird perspective of milk my whole life. I don't actively seek it out. Like, I won't just go drink a glass of milk, and when I drink, you know, like, lactation stuff is generally non-dairy, but I do like to eat, so, you know, there's that. It's weird, I know. So there you go. I'm happy to hear your voice. It's great to have you check in all the numbers, and I hope you have an amazing rest of directional weekend. Let's see. It's 12.50 p.m. I'm Kimmy, KJ7RAD. This is the new net here on the CSRJ repeater. And we have a special guest here. I'm going to hand the mic over to Kim so that he can do a proper check-in. So KJ7RAD, over to you. N7, WAA. Hi, thank you Kimmy and Robert for hosting a snow rink and oat shining event here in Snohomish. I just showed up actually late and I'm hungry and the lions are like three miles long. I might not be hungry by the time we get up to it because my body will have eaten all the fat reserves that I had and I will no longer be hungry. Yes, I still love your tire combo on this thing. I'm super excited. We're going to try to find some parts for an LC250 today. Hopefully, Laura had said, well how are we going to fill the tires back up? I don't have air compressor. And I know they're dead now for the air compressor for a dual pumper under the hood but we didn't like that price tag. So we might need to get a ramp up. Anyway, back to net. N7, what an apple! Thank you so much Ryan. I'm glad that you made it today. It's so nice to see you and Laura here. It's a fun event and I'm just happy to see you IRL. Alrighty, well it's 12.52pm and I'm going to hand it over to my amazing co-host here to do the next round. So, KJ7JXM take it away. Whoa, here is KJ7JXM. Robert. Robert. I got her to say it for me first. We're going to go ahead and throw a last call out there. It's getting a little bit late. We want to go walk around and check these rigs out and make sure we can get up over here before we approach. So, last call for the new net on the 777. PSR repeater. KJ7, Victor, Echo, Uniform, Mike. I got Mike on the list. Anyone else out there? TVA CMY recheck. Got Mike with the recheck. Anyone else? Last call, last call."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:18:44+00:00","id":13865,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13864,"text":" Seven Hotel, this is James. Well good afternoon James. I've got you on the list. Expiration please. The X2CW. James! I don't think I've opened you in two weeks. I'll pick you up just in last week. I'm so glad to hear your voice. I've got you on the list. Next station please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:19:11+00:00","id":13866,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13865,"text":" I'm you. We got Jack with the reach. All right, this is my last chance, last call, last call."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:19:38+00:00","id":13867,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13866,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:20:00+00:00","id":13868,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13867,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:20:23+00:00","id":13869,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13868,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:22:16+00:00","id":13870,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13869,"text":" Well thank you very much my friend, appreciate you stopping by and as you've been done we will go ahead and wrap things up. We're going to go check out some waves now and see and make sure and do some voting for the different categories out there. You will post some pictures on the PSRT Facebook group to share and show what we've done and what we've got going on today. So big seven threes everyone and I will hand it over to Kammy real quick and you can also send it back to you via your 7RAD. Well thank you so much Robert and thank you everyone for participating today and even if you didn't if you're out there listening all of your reports and your check-ins are very much appreciated. For more information about the Puget Sound Repeater Group head on over to the website and that is PSRT.org and don't forget about the 9 PM net coming up tonight you won't want to miss that. Thanks again everyone. We're again here on site at Craven flying with the field of wheels. It's hard for me to say for some reason. We'll get some photos and we'll get those posted up on the website so you can see what's going on here. But until then have a great rest of your day. Check into the 9 PM net coming up tonight. With that we'll be retraining the repeater to unmoderated use. Take care and seven three everyone."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:22:41+00:00","id":13871,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13870,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:31:46+00:00","id":13872,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13871,"text":" KL7ILH, you are going to wrap the net up for me today. So let's go back to the top of that list. We've got the KJ7EU. Mike, how are you doing, my friend? I'm pretty good, Robert. And yeah, I'm in the house. I've got my LMR on my HT. And I've got to leave it bent like this and connected. It's either my HT, the pin broke off in the connector, or these cheap adapters where you unscrew it and it comes out with the socket, the pin, and the insulator, and then the other part, the shell is left, that kind of thing. Or it's the, I don't think it's the LMR connector. I bought this 100 and something foot piece from R&L all made up. It's been really nice. I mean, I got this huge long piece and my loss is really low up to my ground plane. The comet up there at 175 feet in this hole I live in. Everything I do, really pretty much the repeater, it's like H effect. So I've got to really have that thing up there. My 4 watts getting out well. Although, and I did have the beam only. I was in the HT antenna. I hit W7NY flying around St. Helens at 9,000 feet, even with the 4 watts. I get out real good toward Rainier and the other direction toward Salt Spring Island and L'OCCOCCI, which is in 4,000, sort of. So everything in that direction comes in full gliding and stuff. And then great stuff from, oh, that somebody in Roy or Buckley, I was getting them because they had like a 22 ohm in beam, like 400 watts or something. Yeah, it was crazy last night and interesting to listen to simplex with three stations reaching out to all the corners. Back to you, Robert. Thanks for letting me check in and have a nice afternoon. I just got in from a bunch of yard work. I'm trying to cut my way through so that next summer things grow out and I won't be trapped in the back or front of my house in the jungle. Thank you, Robert. KJ7VU. Thank you for stopping by, Mike. I do appreciate that. It's a pretty great day. It's the perfect weather for this. It's not too hot, it's not too cold, it's just right. And definitely loving the day. So thanks for that and I hope you have a great one as well. And we will be out with you again soon. Next on the list we've got a recheck from Mike, KV8, BMY. Y'all see a real good rudder. First of all, MA in there. Roger, roger. Okay, real good. You mentioned something about using APRS to give you a notification if you have a Winlink message. How is that set up or is it too lengthy to talk about right now? I want to say you just add Winlink next to your status message. I've got it set up on my radio, I don't have it set up on Tammy's because she doesn't have Winlink going. But I'm pretty sure you just add the Winlink phrase to your status message and we'll do that for you. If that doesn't work, I'll check when I get home when I'm the Chief and let you know what the special command is. You just add the Winlink or the command to the end of your status message and when that status goes out the Winlink system will hear it. And find out if you've got messages and we'll respond back with this next response message telling you how many messages you have pending. So I hope that answers your questions. Yeah, it does partially. I appreciate it. I'd like to set that up on my APRS. If you find out, let me know. If I'm not around, just send me an email real quick. I'm good on QRS. Whatever the command is, I'm not sure what that would be. But I appreciate it, Robert. You guys sound pretty good up there. Sounds like you're having a good time. I'm down on the water right now looking out. I'm a couple of feet from fusion sound here. But thanks again, Robert. KVA, VMI. Sure, my friend will do and thanks for stopping by and letting us know how well we found that. It was quite interesting and it was pretty static on receive. But not getting any noise from some of the equipment around here. But it was a cold night for all I know. So, thank you for that and I will definitely send you a message with information. Next, I've got a recheck for C-97 RMU. Alright, thank you very much. Great job today, you two. Thank you very much. I'm just wondering, Robert, if you could give everybody a brief rundown of the setup you're using, how you did it just real quick. Are you using battery power or what? And if you could, just kind of curious about how you did it today, if you don't mind. KIA-7 RMU. Well, that's a great question, Jack. So, I played the laser today and I'm in the Inwood DMZ 710G mounted in the AMV truck. I have the Eagle Flow in the back with the charge cable hooked up to my Surface tablet. I've got my secondary monitor set up here so we've got dual screens on the dash to know what's going on and to have control of the repeaters. And I've got my phone in the wrong spot as well as the clear note alpha is in the back of the rig with the ADD on the rear bumper. So, folks walking by or anyone out there can also hear what we're doing and be able to get in if they so chose to. So, yeah, that's what we've got going here. I did bring the AMV go box just in case we had a better opportunity to set up. But we didn't. And I did put the J-Pole up on the opposite truck with the tripod mount like I normally do. But oddly enough with the extra height, I think I was starting to get some bullseye paths so our receive was really, really rough. So I just switched back to the mobile mounted antenna she's got on there. Switching on the wrench to the rack which is working fantastic. There you go. Thanks for asking, Jack. And I know Kimmy got some photos. We'll definitely post those to the group so we'll get to see exactly what we've got going on here. So thanks for all your support. Thanks for that promotion. Do you want to get us out here to do some of this stuff? We had a lot of fun doing it. So, all thanks to you. Next up and wrapping us up is I've got the J75-L8. How are you doing, my friend? Roger that. It's KI-7-ILH appearing in the system. That's my good antenna somewhere else and I put up a T-I-1. Exactly. I wanted to make sure it was working properly and let you get on with your day as long as you can hit me okay. Yeah, we got you coming in loud and clear, my friend. So thank you for that. And I got the correct call sign, KI-7-ILH. And I definitely appreciate you stopping by. I'll get back to you so you can wrap up with your call sign. Thanks for watching."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:32:09+00:00","id":13873,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13872,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:32:32+00:00","id":13874,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13873,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:32:57+00:00","id":13875,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13874,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:33:20+00:00","id":13876,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13875,"text":" K7 HVF."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:33:51+00:00","id":13877,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13876,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:34:17+00:00","id":13878,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13877,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:34:39+00:00","id":13879,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13878,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:35:02+00:00","id":13880,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13879,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:35:34+00:00","id":13881,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13880,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:36:44+00:00","id":13882,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13881,"text":" A-B-9, A-D-X, A-N-D-S-O-U-S. And A-D-S-O-U-S. Thank you for your service."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:38:06+00:00","id":13883,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13882,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:41:01+00:00","id":13884,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13883,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:41:32+00:00","id":13885,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13884,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:50:02+00:00","id":13886,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13885,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:57:12+00:00","id":13887,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13886,"text":" Node 2 4 6 2 disconnected. Node 5 0 2 4 1 connected to Node 6 2 2 2 2."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T13:57:41+00:00","id":13888,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13887,"text":" Node 50241 disconnected. Node 50241 connected to Node 62222."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:01:27+00:00","id":13889,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13888,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November, All Star Node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. Kilo Kilo 7, November, All Star Node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:01:54+00:00","id":13890,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13889,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:02:21+00:00","id":13891,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13890,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:04:08+00:00","id":13892,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13891,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:04:35+00:00","id":13893,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13892,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:05:10+00:00","id":13894,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13893,"text":" V01 UKZ, this is W0G0. I just got your message, Allen. I just tuned in to hear that noise or where it's coming from. I only see a few of us even connected to my link. V01 UKZ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:06:18+00:00","id":13895,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13894,"text":" OK, I just connected to her desk, so I thought I'd let you know. WZO-G-L. Yeah, I'm just looking here now on the Echo Link side. Is it coming through my dash L, or is it coming from somewhere on Dewdrop Inn? I connected to Dewdrop Inn and didn't hear it there, so I think it's just your dash L link. WZO-G-L. That sound is coming from Jan's link. Sound. ZS6, ZYM, you're around Jan?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:07:51+00:00","id":13896,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13895,"text":" Again, ZS6, here I am, you around? I'm just going to make a quick video of what's going on here so I can send it to you. As you can see now, as soon as I unkey here, it's going to key up you honestly and make that noise. Now when you key up, just to show that it's going to make that noise after you key up as well. Okay, here we go, I'm keyed up, I'm going to unkey now. W0-2. Alright man, I'm just going to go ahead and disconnect this link because if a net starts here and that system is doing that, they're not going to be happy. So I'm going to disconnect this link for you when you key Z."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:09:53+00:00","id":13897,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13896,"text":" Man, I tell ya, was it that noise, Alan, that you were hearing? Um, on the system that just took care of that time? Yeah, that was it. It's a track on the YouTube channel or something like that, I don't know. Tell you the OGL. Yeah, it was coming from the Echo Link side here. But, um, yeah, people gotta start paying more attention to their links, man. I've been having to deal with maybe ten instances of that this week alone. This week and a half, I'd say. About ten different instances of interference or something not configured right or something cross-linked or like, ugh, man. I'm glad we can deal with it quick and like yourself and Chuck or myself, someone's always around, usually. When something starts happening, thankfully enough, because then I can just log in and take care of it, you know, no problem. But, you know, if that was going on during that, when that started, that'd be really irritating after every single transmission."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:11:09+00:00","id":13898,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13897,"text":" That's my job. Just kidding. It's a new deal. This is Reputation Nation. I'd much appreciate the help. I'm going to go send you out an email with that video attached there. Just let them know what's going on. I like to do that, right? Get a little video so people can see their own calls, sign, key it up, because people often say, well, it wasn't my system. Well, yes, it was, because here's the video, and here's the noise it was making. So there's no disputing it, right? It's just a friendly, you know, heads up. This is what's happening. You know, no big deal type of thing. Just try and fix it. And anyhow, I'm going to take off, man. I'm going to go email him. I'll chat with you later. Thank you. You are welcome. W0G0. V1UKZ, clear and listening."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:14:08+00:00","id":13899,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13898,"text":" PA3KK."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:14:41+00:00","id":13900,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13899,"text":" Hey there, Kevin. How are you doing, man? Not too bad, yup. Glad you got things situated there working properly. No more outage. Just this. Just this. Just this."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:16:59+00:00","id":13901,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13900,"text":" It does seem to be holding its own most of the day. You know, at least the way it does normally. You know, my link is staying connected for the most part. I did notice it glitched earlier today and rebooted her. Not rebooted, but she wouldn't do that as quick. But, you know, it used to be working. We had bad internet problems here, man, for a couple of days. And it wasn't just here, it was around the neighborhood. I heard people in other provinces talking about it. So it was something going on. You know, it was causing just the internet to drop out for a couple of seconds. Or so, like once a minute, or once every two or three minutes sometimes. But, yeah, it seems like it's working now. My video streams haven't been buffering. You know, that type of thing. Yeah, that would be major. Because we have like intermittent things sometimes at night. Where like, let's say, I can't get my Google Mini to respond to me or something like that. But, yeah, not quite in the way you're saying. No, that would be terrible. Two, four, one. Node, three, two, one, nine, three, three, three, disconnected."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:20:57+00:00","id":13902,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13901,"text":" Yeah, absolutely. It was kind of unique. We've never had that really happen before. And yeah, same as you. I mean, you know, there's times when you say, hey, G-word, and it'll just handle or it'll say, there was a problem. Try again in a couple seconds or, you know, some nonsense like that. That's why I want to get the Smart Assistant or Google, not Google, sorry. It's just called Home Assistant Set Up. It's a computer on your network that handles all of that stuff so that if your Internet goes, but you're still connected to your network, you can still control your smart stuff. Because, you know, if Google goes down, you ain't got no control over no smart stuff. None of it. Not even a light bulb. Yeah, that's one thing I always kind of thought about. Like, I worried about that, if that happens. But a good part of it is I mostly just use it for streaming. So I guess I lose that in particular. But yeah, I don't have it running under stuff in the house, at least not at this moment, at least not yet. But I'm sure from talking to me in the last several years, you've learned that technology is something that I'm very, very much in love with. I like it better than women, the Irish way, yeah? And soon enough, I'm not going to say that on the air. Let's just say technology is awesome. Oh dear, that sounds kind of strange. WZO GL. Yeah, I've already said that in terms of don't let me find an AI Shelly. But okay, anyway, dressed as a real doll or something. And the Japanese are coming out with some real, real cool stuff over there. Yeah, they actually have a robot system, they have a... WZO GL. They got the full service package of some of their droids over that way. And you know, might strike a rich one these days. I got myself in trouble. I guess I don't say anything too direct, I suppose I'm okay. And if you don't want UKZ, just so you know where to send the complaint letters. Thanks for watching!"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:31:44+00:00","id":13903,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13902,"text":" transcribed all that so that's entertaining take a seven egg UN that's funny what did you say capture involved you got it you got a something running on the system that takes audio and transforms it the video did Bill send me an email on this the other day or something the old UK Z yeah I got a logger set up on the whole start of it here and it records all the audio it hears and it feeds that into whisper AI that transcribes into text and it tries to pull call signs and stuff out and record the call plans that have heard and also keep the log of the transcriptions that is transcribed take a seven and you in well it is fantastic and QN I've spoken to you recently hey in emails yeah yeah a few times I was struggling with this system hopefully now I mean it's been four days now it's been dead stable so hopefully it stays stable I've been monitor only for the best four days and today's the first day trying trans leave some stuff man I hope it works out like you say any time I've got an email you about anything like that even I come across either bit harsh at all not man it's just like you say just let you know if any you know crazy crap is happening it's it's always a good idea to be letting all right away because as you know yourself this system does get very active from time to time and it just ends up with me having to send people freaking email but yeah it's all good man this stuff right it's all very experimental in its nature and there's so much stuff that could go wrong I just had to disconnect the station a few minutes ago for something very similar it was kerchunken after every single transmission just like that ten minutes ago so I mean it happens but it's never good when it happens but at least it gives you some more experience so you've obviously got a quite the knowledge of IT and whatnot if you're you know feeding stuff back through you know algorithms and doing speech analysis and stuff like that and playing around with whisper you've obviously got some knowledge in this stuff hey I've always been attracted to computers and computer control it kind of started in the automotive side and kind of crashed into like the smart home control and I got my ham radio license like oh we can do echo link and all-star and I got deep into that like late is this there's a lot of data going through the network right now I wonder if I can capture it well yeah I mean it just kind of fit balls in there a couple Python scripts and now I'm recording audio and transcripts and all that which by the way if you wanted to check that out that that take a seven and you end up dead everything public and available there you've got all great guys that are publicly exposed very very cool man very cool what's your first name again I don't remember emails and stuff yeah my name is Hunter I'm down in Shelton Washington kind of hanging around is the system works perfect as a stress test for all my custom script yes that's right same as our bill out here his son is named Hunter as well cool stuff man welcome to the hobby I don't know if you said how long you've had your license but we're a bunch of a bunch of creative characters around here let's just say that a lot of us around with AI and home automation and different things like that as well so you're definitely in good company around here now like say we do a little little extreme sometimes in the mornings with some of the topics that we discussed but that is a very very that where you can discuss anything on the cowabunga net in the morning so but throughout the rest of the day there's like regular sensible nets on here that you know don't push the limits in the mornings it's all fair game out here well glad to have you on the system man and nice to speak to you you know vocally instead of just in emails and stuff of course my name is Darryl vo1 ukz and Kevin was in there va3 kky and Alan was around there in the background w0 gl who knows who else man this thing is connected to that many countries and links and repeaters and stuff like that I'm using a local repeater here I'm coming in RF on a UHF repeater I'm just using a portable so I don't like text or text boxes or any of that stuff just strictly radio only unless I've got a login to the system and you know mute something or disconnect something or you know some other internal server command but other than that just our after that's how I like it the only UKC background to you Kevin yeah well it's good to have all these projects happening and keep ham radio fresh and interesting for everybody you know one person right there's a whole group behind most of that well anyways yeah some of that's good as far as recollection like if you want to recall something that was said a while ago I guess you know hey you know for years and we recently after several months ago got a turn back on again so it records up or can broadcast to fly 24-7 you can pull up any voice recordings that are there from the to drop in archives without being hooked up through echo you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:32:18+00:00","id":13904,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13903,"text":" I'm just going to echo link here on my cell phone. And, you know, my connection seems to be rather stable. Alright, we'll listen for you again. 7-3. VE-330."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:32:43+00:00","id":13905,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13904,"text":" Alright, I'm on the cycling side here now. My repeater for some reason."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:34:04+00:00","id":13906,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13905,"text":" Hello Jim, nice to speak to you. I do see your callsign connecting the system quite often and I'm having some internet issues here so I'm not sure how much of my transmission is excellent. ... my phone and with my repeater. So I'm just going to clear away for now until this stabilizes again. If there's any issues with the All-Star system, my apologies it seems we're still having some intermittent issues down here. So if anything's there, I'll be happy to answer any questions you have. I'll be happy to answer any questions you have. I'll be happy to answer any questions you have. I'll be happy to answer any questions you have. My apologies it seems we're still having some intermittent issues down here. So if anything's there, jacked it up. My apologies but I'm going to clear off for now. V1U, Casey, 73, Jim, Kevin, Alan, Hunter."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:34:39+00:00","id":13907,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13906,"text":" Yeah, QSL Jim, QSL 73 for now. I'll be back, I'm coming back for the repeater. It seems to be kicked back in again there now. But yeah, we've been having internet issues out here for the past few days. You know, we'll see how it goes. 73, all the best, VL1UKZ, thank you, RT."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:35:02+00:00","id":13908,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13907,"text":" for giving him a lot of business this weekend."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:36:47+00:00","id":13909,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13908,"text":" Hello? Say hello. My name is Jim. I'm in Cornwall, Ontario. VL1..."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:38:40+00:00","id":13910,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13909,"text":" Yeah, I'm glad I mostly remember. Node 50241 connected to node 62222. I remember everything I talked to everybody about, so I can definitely remember my own things. All someone has to usually do is quote. My link might be acting up again or something. Alan said that I was cutting in and out and reviewing you, Casey. Yeah, I heard up to about the broadcast of high and how often you have it there and looking back and then I just made a comment about it. And yeah, there were points in time where that happened to you just now. I'm not sure. I just figured they had it fixed because it wasn't doing all the crazy crap it was doing a couple of days ago. Well, I guess trial and error then, right? A new trial. Node V A 3 K K 1 1 P. I don't know what's going on. It's a video, Geo. Yeah, it could be acting up again. I'm looking at the supermodel there now and I don't see him connected anymore. 3X ID."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:39:12+00:00","id":13911,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13910,"text":" So if anyone's listening and needs All-Stars, use 49447. It's a little bit choppy, but that's only on receive. Transmit sh-"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:39:37+00:00","id":13912,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13911,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T14:59:57+00:00","id":13913,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13912,"text":" This is repeater station kilo kilo seven November Quebec November all star node 6222 located in Shelton Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T15:02:29+00:00","id":13914,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13913,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T15:02:57+00:00","id":13915,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13914,"text":" Node 5 2 7 8 2 disconnected."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T15:03:55+00:00","id":13916,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13915,"text":" Node 6 2 4 7 0 connected to node 6 2 2 2 2"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T15:09:00+00:00","id":13917,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13916,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T20:03:19+00:00","id":13918,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13917,"text":" Node 6 2 4 7 0 disconnected. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November. All star Node 6222. Located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T20:13:31+00:00","id":13919,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13918,"text":" Node 5 0 2 4 1 connected to Node 6 2 2 2 2 This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T20:54:21+00:00","id":13920,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13919,"text":" Node 2 4 6 2 connected to node 6 2 2 2 2 This is repeater station kilo kilo 7 November Quebec November all star node 6 2 2 2 located in Shelton, Washington"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T20:58:46+00:00","id":13921,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13920,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T20:59:10+00:00","id":13922,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13921,"text":" and one in each of one, hello hello. Hello station calling, we've got a net starting in this frequency in about one minute so please stand by. KI 7 CEI."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T21:00:00+00:00","id":13923,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13922,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T21:07:43+00:00","id":13924,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13923,"text":" Good evening and welcome to the evening edition of the PSRG net for August 3rd, 2025. I am Tim, KI7, Zulu Echo India. I will be your host for the net this evening. Sitting in for, I believe it's Brian, Kilo India 7, Kilo Zulu Hotel. You must be dispositioned, dispossessed to you someplace else. Anyway, I'm running that tonight as your host. So this is a directed social net that happens on the WW7 PSRG 2 meter repeater, which is operated by the Puget Sound repeater group here in Seattle, Washington. The repeater operates at a frequency of 146.96 with a negative offset and a PEO tone of 103.5. All licensed Tams and new licensees just getting started are welcome to join. If you have third party traffic, we'd like to hear from them too. We encourage you to press that button, tell us a little bit about yourself, your radio projects, how your weekend rent plans for tomorrow, or just about anything else. Please limit your reports to three minutes so we can get as many stations in as possible. And this is also when the repeater times out. When you're finished with your report, please end with your call sign. I will be taking groups of check-ins, compiling a list of stations we'd like to check in, and then I'll ask for your reports. If you'd like to check in only, just let me know. You'll be in and out, also known as IO. And I'm going to take calls in about groups of five or six. Appreciate you tailgating. Come a little bit slowly with your name and call. Technically it's nice. And let's go ahead and start taking some check-ins. So come ahead and name and call. T-O-E-C-O-S-E-L-L-O-M-E-O-S-E-L-O-H-O-T-E-T-E-R-I-O-T C-H. That's Seattle. Okay. We had three check-ins. The first two were doubling with each other very nicely. There was a station that was an IO. Would that station please come with your name and call. T-O-E-C-O-S-E-L-O-M-E-O-L-F-A-X-R-A-E-T-E-T-E-R-I-N-S-S-A-N-T-E-C-R-U-S-T-I-O. Located in Shelton, Washington. Peter, thank you very much for your IO. Hope things are going well there in Santa Cruz. And next there was a station in Seattle that I did not catch because of the doubles. So come back with your name and call. T-O-E-C-O-S-E-L-O-M-E-O-N-S-E-T-E-R-I-N-S-S-A-N-T-E-H-E-N. Okay, Ann, I've got you. Hang on just a second. Ann, I need to make an adjustment here. Okay, let's get some more check-ins. Come ahead. Hey, Mikey and Neil, California. And Neil, California. KK6-U-L-C. Okay, I caught part of the call for the KK6 station. Let me make one more adjustment here real quick. Let's have two or three more check-ins. Come ahead. Hi, Sam. K-H-E-7-F-W-B with an IO. Satellite Bill with an IO. F-W-B. Very good. And let's get one more station. Thanks for your IO, by the way. Next station."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T21:15:16+00:00","id":13925,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13924,"text":" Are you still there? Let's start with Peter, Kilo Echo Six, Romeo Alpha X-ray, how much you report? I see Peter was an IO. Thank you for your IO, Peter. Gotta want to read what I wrote down. Next we've got Ann, KA9 EHV. How's things going with you today, Ann? Well, good evening. Ann, thanks so much for running the net, and good evening to the rest of the net. This is KA9 EHV, Ann in Seattle. Well, things are going all right with me. I went to church this morning. I had one of the more vivid experiences I've ever had when I listened to a sermon and had a complete outline of the book. And had a complete outline in my head for a completely alternate sermon on the same lessons. Which is always a little frustrating. It's not that I disagree with what the actual preacher said. That has nothing to do with it. It's just that sometimes these outlines just sort of pop in and makes me think I'm on a podcast or something. The subject had to do with how to be rich towards each other and towards God. How, in other words, how to share freely and abundantly no matter what you think you have or don't have. And I find the message, however, in whatever form it is talked about to be unbelievably valuable for today's environment. And I had gone on with thinking about outlining it and telling stories of the different kinds of tippers that I see as a street musician. Because each of them share with me in a different way. And they all contribute to the experience. And even the ones who don't, but nonetheless talk to me or engage with me or simply walk by and I can tell they're listening. Gosh, you know, there's tons of people like that. And it's always interesting to just kind of find out who's doing what. So anyway, that's wrapping up to getting ready for Worldcon and so that's all happening. And yeah, life is going on. Played a little bit of harp today and working on a song where the accidental, the lever changes are horrible, but I think I can manage it. And so that's all that's happening. Someday I'll talk about a real radio project. Hoo hoo! This is 733388. Thanks to Tim for running the net and all of you for listening. I love you all. This is KA98 feedback tonight. And you say you're sounding great tonight. So I have a question. So you're coming up with this alternate sermon in your mind concurrently with the sermon that was actually being delivered. So is this something that you have practice at? I mean, do you sometimes actually write sermons and maybe present them? Oh dear, well, I went to Wheaton College, which is Billy Graham's alma mater. And it's really hard to go to Wheaton College and not get some training in how to be a missionary and how to give a sermon. But my actual training in that area started with a charismatic renewal in the 70s. I was in high school when I started being sent out to give testimonies and so forth to fellow youth groups. And then I went to Wheaton College, which only accentuated it. And then I joined Faith Alive, which is a lay witness program, and got more training there. So I've actually had quite a little bit of training for a certain style of preaching, which I call the sort of scripture-based testimony. And it's a useful style of preaching, because it's easy to, you know, you go through the lesson, and then you go through a little bit of testimony, and then you have a call to action at the end. And it's the call to action that I like. And all of the forms of training I had actually kind of coincided in that format. This is KA98V. This town's pretty rigorous there, Anne. Rigorous training and giving you some good results. Your creativity, another outlet for your creativity. Well, I remember going to, I was raised in a Catholic church, and I remember the sermons were not my favorite part, actually. And I don't remember any calls to action, so it must be more of a denominational thing. Anyway, thank you for your report. And let us know if you ever actually get an opportunity to give a sermon. You might talk to one of them ministers there and say, hey, if they ever need a stand-in, you're available. And you can come up with one quick, I'm sure. All right, let's get some more check-ins. We have a little bit of QRM going on this evening. So let's see who we can check on, check-in, full power if you're an RF. Let's go ahead and get some check-ins. Name and call. OK, 30. OK. OK, 30. OK, 30. Can you step over me? Sorry, I doubled with that last station. The last station, come back. OK, 30. OK, 30. I'm using in funding. I didn't quite catch the call. Maybe you're a little close to the microphone, maybe a little over much. Would you do something? Just try that slowly one more time. I heard, like, conquer or some such. This is repeater station Kilo. This is Kilo Kilo, 6 ULC. Kilo Kilo, 6 ULC. I'm in the charge. I checked in the first round, and I'm easy. You can call me. OK. OK. OK. Sorry about that. I may have half written down your call and not cut the whole thing. Let's go ahead and get your check-in. Come ahead with your call. Come ahead with your check-in."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T21:15:37+00:00","id":13926,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13925,"text":" KK6, ULE, come ahead with your check in please."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T21:21:57+00:00","id":13927,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13926,"text":" Okay, you may be coming in at an acro length, which may be a problem because of the QRM. I'm going to call for you again in a couple of minutes. And when I call for you, just come right ahead right away as soon as you hear the call. Let's get some more stations. More stations, name and call. D-3-7, Victor, I can hear you, more on the line. Okay, that's Victor Rico uniform. Let's go to the top place to get rich. T-3-0-E, what's going on with you today, Rich? Good evening, Tim. Thanks for doing that first off. And yeah, it's good to be all over here. And I thought it was time to start getting some crazy antennas working again. I posted a picture and this evening it is my kitchen antenna, which is a bunch of tin cans. So I'm calling it a tin can-tana and it's working just fine. Putting high power into it and yeah, no problems at all. Anyway, great day. Watched all the C-CARE activities on TV. I don't like to fight the crowd, so the view on TV was fantastic. Thanks for doing that, K-3-0-E. Well Rich, you're coming in pretty darn good there. Full strength on the beginning cuckoo. And your tin can-tana sounds like a winner, yes. What was in the cans? Are the cans all the same size? Are they the kind of medium-sized cans or 16-ounce, 32-ounce? What you got going there? And how many are in the kitchen? Well Tim, it's just a whole mix of cans. There's some small ones and some large ones. Anyway, I just posted one picture and yeah, it's a real conglomeration. But you know, some screws and some solder and I got it all together. K-3, I'll be back to you. Okay, well I'm sure it wasn't a random assortment. It's well thought about. You know, a theoretically accurate and effective arrangement and it is working well. So thank you Rich. Let us know when you're checking in on that again. And I'm actually the photos on the Facebook page, so we'll look at that. I haven't checked that. Okay, let's see. We had a station, well the station entered in uniform echo victor. I think it was uniform echo victor that I wasn't able to get before. Would you try coming in now please? Oh, probably a key to the tone of victor echo uniform. Like your magnolia. Are you talking about me? Yes, come here with your report. Sure, thanks Tim. Yeah, I still don't know why I'm here to have her suffer. I'm just thinking, I'm pretty warm you know, in the house here. I can't try to get Katrina to eat her wet food. She's not in the kidney type stuff, doesn't like it. I think I got to go back to my former vet. I mean the current vet is a better price but... So busy and I can't seem to get the right foods that they used to eat last time unless they didn't have allergies to her against it too. And she seems, they seem to be only able to get two brands that are really popular and have a lot of promotional money. And they were doing fine with New Low and during the Pro plan which are not as heavily subsidized regarding promotional and having vet's tier business going. So I got to go back to my best vet, Elliot Vey and down here across from the Seattle Animal Shelter. They got a lot of staff. They're in between on prices and they're really good. So, I'm here. I take my prescription and my lab work and have her prescription proper to get the right stuff. She won't get, she'll want to eat. She's about 50 in. That's doing very well. I just want to get her on the right spook. Keep her living out till 18, 19 if she can. At least that's how my cats have been living. So back to you Tim and I'll, I don't know, I think I'll want to bring out, I'll just put a vest on and I'll wear it as a sack. Thank you for your attention. Well indeed, it sounds like you got the food business in order there. Yeah, it can be frustrating. Cats can be very picky of course. And if there's a limited selection of cat foods available that can make it hard to find the right one. It's not causing any allergies, that they'll eat, you know, they'll thrive on. So it sounds like you got a winner there at the moment. Of course, that selection gets cut down when store of chains merge and so forth. You know, you have one that goes out of business and the other one's got kind of a monopoly. You can't keep up on the variety that you might have if you had multiple stores to choose from. And I guess you could go to one of the kind of red glove, blue glove, red carpet pet stores. It's got really good stuff and really good prices. You can get more variety that way but it can be a little pricey. Anyway, glad you got that handled at the moment. And let's see who else is out there by the way. This is Tim, Kilo India 7, Zulu Echo India, your net host for tonight. It is 9.18 pm and we're just kind of getting warmed up here to do it. Let's get some more check-ins. Make a call."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T21:24:47+00:00","id":13928,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13927,"text":" Station's come ahead please. Station, this is Lisa with ELO Mike 7 Bravo 6 at Ocango. Had a great weekend so far. Today was great because I've been blessed. Anyways, I hope that you all are enjoying this. I like making summer weather today. Hopefully everyone has a great weekend. I'm sure I get great news coming up soon. I hope you all have a great weekend. I'll see you all next week. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. All Star Note 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. I think the call was ELO Mike 7 Mike Tango. Did I drive that right? Yes, that's correct. It's Amber, and it's ELO Mike 7 Bravo Victor Tango. That's my phone name. OK, thank you for correcting me on that. I got your call right now. Alright, there was a station I think there was a sub-lane in there. Cadet station come back. Where was that? I don't know. Alright, there was a station, I think there was a doubling in there. Could that station come back? T-X-2-C-W. Thank you, John. I got you. Next station. K-K-79, are you good? Okay, I got Jeff. I got Bravo 6 Mike Bravo and there was a doubling station. Double, come back please. K-K-7, I-J-Z, K-K-7, I-J-Z, Rebecca. I recognize the voice, Rebecca. Alright, let's take one or two more stations. Come ahead. K-O-Q-O-7, Rebecca, I can hear Jeff."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T21:24:59+00:00","id":13929,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13928,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T21:25:12+00:00","id":13930,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13929,"text":" 7 Kilo, didn't catch the number 1, it was a dropout, Sierra. I'll call for you, next station."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:29:35+00:00","id":13931,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13930,"text":" OK, with that, we'll call it an end. We had 17 unique check-ins. I want to thank everyone for their participation. If it wasn't for your participation, we wouldn't have much of a net. This is the PSRG net for Sunday, August 3. And I want to, again, thanks everyone for participating. And don't forget, we've got nets three times a day, 9 AM. Here is a 9 PM Pacific time here, 365 days a year. I was going to say a week. 365 days a year. So everyone's welcome. And next Sunday, ice cream social at Green Lake. Check out the psrg.org page. This is 10PI7CBI saying good night."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:29:46+00:00","id":13932,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13931,"text":""},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:30:11+00:00","id":13933,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13932,"text":" Okay, maybe we got lost or I got lost. Let's get some more check-ins. It is 949 coming to Edmore Station. Name and call. Help, I got a 728 here in Roy. Bangdale, Washington. I just want to say hi and goodbye. I am I-O. Charlie, thank you for your I-O. You sound good tonight. Hope your weekend has gone well and you got big plans for Monday. Next station."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:38:20+00:00","id":13934,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13933,"text":" Okay, let's run the list. We had Tracy, thank you for your check-in. Joan, text 2CW. Come with me. Hello, Jim. Thanks for picking it up for Brian. And I thought of it, I almost did, but I thought, you know, two nights in a row I can't do it. Anyway, what I did today, I don't even know if I got out of that. Now that I think about it, I took two or three naps today, you know. So sometimes your battery is fully charged, and sometimes you just feel like, you know. Today was a tired day for some reason. But I got some good sleeping time. And the module was not out, it was a low overcast. And I could hear the planes, I mean, from one of the naps this afternoon. I was awaited abruptly by, I think it was a plane, the Blue Ranges were flying. But also saw one of their cargo planes. And I heard the turbopops of the plane, I forget what it's called, Fat Albert. But I couldn't see it, I couldn't see it, I couldn't see it largely because I just stayed in my tent bed. I kind of pulled the flap to look at the sky out of the window. And then I pulled the flap and put my dentist pillow over my head. So I just had been home drinking, sipping on coffee. Gosh, I don't remember if I got out of the building, I don't think I did. And I've just now made one of the things I like, foods I like. And maybe I shouldn't because it's starchy. But I have potatoes, I have a bag of potatoes. And once in a while I like to wash and scrub and dice up a couple of them. And put them in a bowl with salt and olive oil and faludu hot sauce. And bake them in the microwave oven for six minutes. And then I take it out and put some ketchup on it, some organic unsweetened ketchup. And I dimble on it. And I now have the last four pieces sitting here on my piano keyboard. Cheers, governors, thank you, Tim. Again, all the numbers to all my hands. This is Joan on Broadway in the Capitol Hill Behavioral Observatory. Handing it back to Ned. Thank you for the report, Joan. Yes, it sounds like you had a pretty much relaxed day taking some naps and so forth there in your tent. And observing the life down below. Even though they're small, those are people down there on the street. I had a relaxed day. I'm getting ready for a trip. I'm a little behind in my preparation so I'll be up quite a bit tonight. I should have taken a nap. It was a good idea for me to take a nap. I did not take a nap. I might have to nap after this, Ned, for about half an hour and 45 minutes. And then I try to get up so I can complete my preparation. I'm actually boarding an airplane at 8. I'm taking the train there, which means I need to get the train at 4 to 45 or something. Which is before the bus is running, so that means I've got to walk half a mile. That's a little less than half a mile down to the train station. At least it's walkable. I'm taking a suitcase, of course. So that's the fun I've got tonight. Okay, well, thank you for your check-in, Joan. Next we have AB6M-B. Jeff, come ahead with your report. Okay, Tim, thank you very much and thank you for doing the net. Yeah, I just had a nice day today to watch some baseball and some Tour de France bicycling and racing. And I got a nice temperature outside today, so it's very pleasant. Yeah, the schools are out there bebopping around, but I didn't see Rocky at the end of the day. So maybe he had a better offer somewhere, I don't know. But I got some stuff out there for him. Yeah, just doing some reading and working on some, about starting to write a book for traveling around Northern California, mostly the Bay Area. And see what else is going on, just to set the most over. Cherry hockey chicken, Jack in the Box has great cherry hockey chicken. It is really, really good, believe it or not. And you buy the, you know, you can buy it in a bowl and it just, I froze it and took it out and cooked it and boy, it tasted good. So I'm not sure how they did it, but they got a pretty good cherry hockey chicken dish with rice and that. That's about all I got, Tim. So let me turn it back to you and it would be great to hear everybody else. AV6MB. Glad to hear your weather's going down well down there. Jeff, up here we had most cloudy days. The sun kind of tried to get out a couple of times, but we remain mostly overcast. 69 degrees high right now, 69. Humidity is 60 percent, doesn't feel bad. Light wind, 3 miles an hour. Tomorrow it's going to get a little warmer, a little more sun. And then Tuesday and Wednesday it kind of pulls off again a little bit. Not bad though, not bad. And then towards the end of the week we get up into the upper 70s. Anyway, thank you for your report. Next we've got UK 7 IJC. Come ahead with the report. Hey Tim, thank you so much for hosting the debt for Brian. Well, you've got a lot to do tonight. Visit today's report in the morning. Today was a great day. I got to visit with Matt, KI7UES, and Dean, KG7ODB. It was a wonderful thing those two girls. Andy and I ventured out. And yeah, it was a lovely day. This is for Peter Station Kilo 7 November Quebec November. All Star Note 622. Located in Shelton, Washington. It was relaxing. Andy and I had some dinner and now we're just going back to the net. Let everyone have a wonderful, wonderful week. 7-3 and thanks again Tim. KK7IJZ in 33 to John. Well, Rebecca, you're sounding great there. Thank you for checking in. And it's always a pleasure to sit in and stuff on the net. So glad to be here. Let's see. Next, KK7, Kilo, Cedar. There might be a scene between Kilo and Cedar. I think I might have let her. Would that station come ahead please? 4-8 Tim, this is Justin, KA7QES. 7-3, thanks for running the net. Hope you're doing well. I'm a little late to the net. Enjoyed the round of pins. I'm finally winding down after a very busy weekend. Yesterday was the annual pig roast party that my best friend threw up every summer. And this year he roasted a 98-pound pig which was delicious and super fun. And I get to bar defend at his party and make an enormous amount of tea. He got to get those for phones. So, I spent a lot of West Week and a lot of my Friday night Saturday morning prepping things for that. Which was really fun. And everyone seemed to really enjoy the drinks and be having a thoroughly good time. So, I was happy. It was a great big party. Kids roaming and running through the yard and playing on a zip line. And the pro-ups just had a good time. And sometimes joining the kids on the line. It was really fun and silly. We all ate really well. And that was good. My wife and girls did not get to go to the table. They were on a home and kids camping in the end in the South Spence. And they got home late this afternoon. And we've all just been kind of unwind and cleaning. And our kitchen is currently a disaster. Probably will be until tomorrow, you think. But, yeah, that's how it goes. It's okay. We're all okay with it because it just shows we had a fun weekend. I hope everyone is doing great out there. And everyone had a great week. KK7 QES back to net. Sounds like you had a fun filled weekend and plans for the weekend. Yeah, excellent. Excellent. I like that. Alright. It is 9.31 now. This is KI7 Sulu Echo on the PSRG repeater. I'm going to take some announcements here. Let's see, I've got the announcement page in front of me. As usual, I'm not looking at the Facebook page. I should really do that. On our PSRG website, that's PSRG.org, where you can find out all the information about the Puget Sound Repeater Group. On the top of the page, it's got, Find Time was had by all at the PSRG picnic. Where's Jack? Jack was playing a trick here. He took three photos and everyone else stayed in place, but Jack, quick as he is, got in three places at one time for the photo. I don't know. So, check out where Jack is. It looks like, let's see, PSRG board meeting, August 9th, next Saturday, will be held Saturday, 1.30 p.m. on Zoom. As always, anyone who's invited to attend and comment, only board members will vote. Details for the Zoom login will be posted on the webpage, PSRG.org, so check that out. And I always find the board meeting is informative, so if you've never checked it out, try that out. Okay, let's see, coming up next week, PSRG season seven, so it's going to bring or shine Newton Met and Ice Cream Social, August 10th. That is going to be at Green Lake. So check out the webpage here. It's got the details, but basically it's going to be on the east side of Green Lake, just north of the Paddlebone Rentals and the Green Lake Cafe Confessions stand, so there's a parking lot right there, which usually fills up pretty quick. And considering this is noon on the 10th and sure, the parking lot will be pretty full. But there's street parking nearby. If you're a little persistent, you can find a street parking. There's another parking lot further to the west that is not usually, usually not nearly as busy as the parking lot near the concession stand in the pool rentals. So check that out. This will be run by Kenny, KJ7RAP, and Robert, KJ7JXM as hosts. We will be giving out when you get a chance to check in at the net table and pick up an ice cream ticket. So pick up a ticket, redeem your ticket at the Green Lake Cafe Confessions stand, which is located right near the Paddle Boats, across from the Paddle Boats. And then come back in and hang out with your hams. Hams, entry, and ice cream. And it probably will come smashing together, so we'll have ice cream all mixed up. I don't know. We'll see. Unfortunately, I won't get town, so I will not be there. Otherwise, it would be if you have a calling frequency shown, 46550 simplex. If you need directions to come in or whatever, I think you're pretty clear if you've ever been to Green Lake. Okay. So, let's see what's next here. Drop a sec."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:40:43+00:00","id":13935,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13934,"text":" Good evening, Tim. Thanks for doing the net tonight. And good evening to everyone else listening. This is Dean, KG7ODD. I don't have too much to add, although Rebecca, as she mentioned, we got together. Rebecca, Matt, KI7UEF and I, we met up on Capitol Hill and went out and had ice cream and coffee and just hung out. It's always good to get those eyeball quesos. We even tried to find Joan. We were standing down near the Ginny Hendricks statue. And so Matt tried to reach her on the radio, but to no avail, but probably some other time. And then before I took the light rail back up to near North Seattle, where I live, I took a little walk on Broadway. I went into Spin Cycle Records and looked through the store there. There's a pretty good vinyl record store, which is a lot of fun. Yeah, I guess it was a pretty good day. So anyway, thanks for doing the net. I hope Brian's doing well. KG7ODD. Thank you, Dean. You're standing good. Sounds like you had a good Sunday. Yeah, the weather yesterday and today suited me just fine. I'm fine with this just kind of pleasantly just warm, a little bit overcast, not too hot. So I've enjoyed the weather yesterday and today and it sounds like you did as well. Yeah, Joan, she comes off of the nets and then usually she drops off and gets on with two other activities. So it's hard to catch her when she's monitoring. But don't forget, we've got the show on Monday night coming up soon. All right. Thank you, Dean. Let's see if we have some other check ins. Come ahead and name a call. Yeah, November five, America. Quick back to Mike. 10-5-8-2-M. Mike and Chandler. Good evening. Got you there, Chandler, Mike. Come ahead and N5-8-2-M. Let's go ahead and get your report. Good evening, 10 Internet N5-8-2-M. Mike here and Chandler. We're back to Scorchville. We had a couple of weeks, we had like two weeks where it was really nice. Very unseasonable temperatures, really low. Now we're back to the 110s, the 115s. We had lows in the low 70s for a couple of weeks, overnight temperatures. It was just lovely. We were just loving it. But anyway, not much else to report. I was out at the model field all weekend flying early in the morning. It's really nice. It's okay in the morning. But it really warms up quick. So we're out of there by about 11, 11.30. So, out of the model field. But anyway, not much else going on here. The bands of the HF Vans still aren't very good. It's kind of a bummer. But I'm plinking away here, doing my best on FTE8. So thank you again and thanks for having me. N5-8-2-M. Thank you Mike. Coming in really good there. And yeah, the HF Vans got some spot activities, sort of scrubs and all that activity pretty much. But, yeah, G8 getting through and getting some results. So I gave you some idea what the propagation is. Alright, thank you for that check-in. Let's see if we have any other check-ins. This is Tim, K7-CEI. Coming in at name and call. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November. Call star node 6222. Located in Shelton, Washington. We'll have the last call for the net. Sounds like there's quiet down here. Let's see if there's any other stations. Come ahead. Internet, RF, uh, tin can, whatever. Come ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:41:04+00:00","id":13936,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13935,"text":" Kilo, Juliet 7, Golf, Delta, November, Brad in Port Orchard. Brad in Port Orchard, you come in quite well there. Next station. K9BEC, Brooks. Brooks, thank you for checking in. Next station. K9BEC, Brooks."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:41:16+00:00","id":13937,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13936,"text":" KG 7 ODB KG 7 ODB, come ahead with your request"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:47:12+00:00","id":13938,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13937,"text":" I'm at Kilo, Julie's doesn't, we all still did November over here in Port Archer. I, at the moment, I am watching my grass grow. I know it's dark, but I can still kind of see it. But I've been battling this problem where, so we have pretty low water pressure over here in my area. I had this city out and they made it and they said, oh yeah, your water's kind of low. Your water pressure's kind of low. They checked seven neighbors, they checked over the fire hydrant and we have the water district building right next door. They checked in all those places and they said, yep, it's not your problem, poor and low. And by the time you look up where your reservoir is and it's a water tower over the city at the other end of the neighborhood and it's only at about 600 feet. And my house here, our ground level, had about 500, well, about 540 feet, roughly. So we've got enough head of water to put much pressure. So I've been battling that, trying to water my lawn. But I just, I did some research on some sprinklers that do pretty, that are supposed to do pretty well on low pressure and I'm using those and they improved things for me, but I just replaced, I just had a hunch, had a piece of hose going from the spigot out for sprinkler and I just changed that out. And wow, I'm probably getting another purge with about half as much distance out of my sprinklers. I just went back there like these super adjustable sprinklers for speed, good with all kinds of situations, including low pressure. And wow, that made such a huge difference. Anyway, just amazed. And one little piece of hose that is an older one, I've been driving around for a while. So I guess, if you're chasing down, change out your hose. I'm pretty happy about it. I know you're getting old when you're excited about changing out a piece of hose, which is making you better able to watch your grass grow. Anyway, that's all I got. This is Keelah Julia Southern, in Gulf Delta, November in Port Orchard. Thank you for your report. Yeah, it sounds like you're one of those people that's used for the other. Yeah, it sounds like you're one of those people that's easily amused. I'm one of those people as well. I have trouble keeping myself occupied and happy. And it's kind of a good thing because that means there's always something to keep you occupied and happy because you've got things you're thinking about, things you're doing, and it sounds like you're doing them. You know that the analogy between water pipes and wires is very apt, the smaller the pipe, the smaller the hose, more resistance there is to flow. Even if you're not flowing very much water, it still reduces the pressure. So yeah, larger hose definitely will help out there. I'm curious though, did they measure the water pressure at your house, typically measured? Like you got a typically people have a faucet that's right there where the water comes in and that's where you would measure. Probably usually where they measure for the maximum pressure. Did they tell you what the pressure was? Yeah, I actually bought my own water gauge so I could measure it. And we both measured it at 37 PSI. And typical for residential water pressure is about nearly 60 PSI. 40 is considered the lowest acceptable, but with the warning that if you've got multiple things running, you may not have as much pressure as you expect. So 40 is really considered minimum. I'm at 37 and usually 50 to 60 is considered your typical ideal pressure. Your typical ideal water pressure. Thank you for that. Two more questions. So, Inspector Guy also had a water pressure gauge and I take it that your two gauges agree, that's good. And the question is, what other people in the Northwest who kind of get this, I don't know what you call it, kind of accept the fact that sometimes it gets a little dry around here, they don't even have the problems. I said there was gonna be a drought this year, although I didn't hear any official proclamation. But a lot of people just kind of let their grass, they don't water it and it just kind of dries out in summer and then as soon as rain comes around, September or whatever, then it gets revived. So I take it you want to show that like screen grass, how much grass do you have in your yard and like the yard size and do you do all of your yard or is there just part of it that you keep preying? Well, so that's the other part of the story. My yard, a lot of people refer to my size property as a postage stamp, it is very small. We bought the house with the property I'm living here brand new a couple years ago and we found out since then that the sliver here is really, really, really bad. It's basically sand with a little bit of like silky clay to hold it all together. You go down a few inches and it basically feels like concrete and it turns out what the builder did here to save money is they just left all that there still and then land caked it a little bit and then just rolled sod out on top of it. So there's no top soil. So I have been doing a bunch of stuff just to the, I don't know what is, 300 square foot yard in the front yard. That's all I'm playing with, that's all I'm watering right now. And it's basically, this is my experiment. I'm trying to figure out how to make this work. So I have brought in, I've top dressed it with a bunch of top soil and now I'm trying to fill in a lot of holes. I'm probably, well, I need to go down and get a bunch of peat moss. And I want to get some peat moss, I want to put down some seed and some peat moss on top of this. But the problem is I'm going to Disneyland for a week. I'll be basically out of town for almost a week and a half in the beginning of September. So I don't have enough time to get it, put grass down, have it all seeded and along well before we're going to leave. So I'm going to have to do it when we get back, even though it's going to be a little on the late in the season side, but hopefully it'll go. But once I've got good grass established, I am happy to let it go brown in the winter, or in the summer. That's no problem. I'm just trying to figure out with this little spot in the front, how to get grass established. And then I'm going to use what I learned here to do grass on the side of the house. And then I got to do a bunch of work in the back. I need to put in some play structures for the kiddos and stuff, and then get that to actually grow. Because right now in the back, it's terrible. It's like a desert wasteland with a few weeds growing in it. You can't really find any grass growing back there anymore. There's a kilo julius 7 in Gulf Delta November. This is repeater station kilo kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. All kinds of little julius 7-2. We've got quite a project there. Look at it in Shelton, Washington. Understand what your soil conditions are, and taking it one step at a time. Sounds like quite a challenge that you are up to there. So congratulations on that. And have a good trip down to California and Disneyland. So it sounds like fun for September. Thank you for your report. Hey, this is Tim K7ZEI. It is 946. You're listening to the 9 PM net for August 3, 2025. And I'm standing in for Brian TAE 7K ZH. This evening. Next, we have got Brooke. Brooke, come with your report. Good evening, Tim and everyone on the net. Welcome to BDC Brooks here in Newcastle. Good evening. Thanks for filling in tonight for Brian. That's awesome. Let's see. Had a hell lot going on this weekend. So I took Thursday and Friday off of work. And we went over to Leavenworth. Megan's mom rented an Airbnb. And so it was me and Megan and the dog, Strixie Remy. And then it was Megan's mom and her brother and her brother's girlfriend and their dog. And so we had a good fun time over there. Came back today, this morning. We got to check out at 11. So made our way back here home. Got all settled in. And just kind of had a little bit of a lazy rest of the day Sunday. We've been out of town, so it was just kind of nice to be back at home for the last part of the weekend here. So let's see. Last night, went for a nice walk along the river. The dogs got to go swimming and everything. So that was a lot of fun. We stayed up late playing cards. And then got a good night's rest so that it's kind of nice to finish off the weekend like that. So please mark Megan down as an IO, K9 MLR. She's over in the other room sending radio waves. And once again, Tim, thanks for covering the net. And I was going to say, 7-3, everyone. K9, BDC."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:47:27+00:00","id":13939,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13938,"text":" KJ7 IVP reporting 509 southbound near White Center has closed both lanes due to a road rage chase and shooting started on West Seattle Bridge and did just south of White Center as a 509 multi-vehicle crash."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:47:41+00:00","id":13940,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13939,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:47:51+00:00","id":13941,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13940,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:48:39+00:00","id":13942,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13941,"text":" Coming up we've got a Zero Retries Digital Conference, September 13th in Everett. A Zero Retries Digital Communication Conference will be held on Saturday the 13th at the Edward Hansen Conference Center in Everett. There's not been an inverse dynamic for Rio Digital Conference for several years because of the pandemic and other things like that. But there's going to be one this year. And the webpage has information about the Zero Retries Digital Communications Conference which has also got the acronym of ZRDC. And it's got all this information about it, AMLAN and the rest, on the PSRG webpage. So read up on that, get a little familiar with it. And if you're interested, get yourself down there to this conference which will be next, September 13th. Which ever is it? Saturday. Yes, yes, Saturday. Same for timber, that's a little ways out there isn't it? Just a little over a month. Okay, so I think that's it for the upcoming new news, upcoming events. This is KI-7ZEI, it is 9.36pm, let's get some more check-ins."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:49:17+00:00","id":13943,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13942,"text":" Thanks for the report. Did you say any idea what caused the multi-vehicle crash that was on the West Seattle Bridge? Negative. It was a shooting, a road rage shooting that started on West Seattle Bridge. The victim chased the offender to 509 South where they hit multiple vehicles and crashed out just south of Light Center on 509 South. So was it the person that was doing the chasing crash or the vehicle they were pursuing? Most vehicles as well as several uninvolved vehicles. Thank you. I grew up in West Seattle and it was a very safe place. I'm not sure what safe place is safe in the city now. Alright, thanks for that. Enjoy the rest of your evening. KI-7 CEI. No problem. That's why we stay inside most days. Disney 7 IVP monitoring."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:49:30+00:00","id":13944,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13943,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:49:43+00:00","id":13945,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13944,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:49:56+00:00","id":13946,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13945,"text":" Okay, a little slow for Sunday night. Let's run this list. First we've got Brad. Come ahead."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:50:10+00:00","id":13947,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13946,"text":" This is the Fox Star to the end. So I'll just call for you by Dan when it's your turn. Next station."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-03T22:50:34+00:00","id":13948,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13947,"text":" Node 2 4 6 2 disconnected. This is repeater station kilo kilo 7 November Quebec November all star node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington. Node 5 0 2 4 1 connected to node 6 2 2 2 2."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T00:01:32+00:00","id":13949,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13948,"text":" This is repeater station kilo kilo 7 November Quebec November all star node 6222 located in Shelton Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T02:17:25+00:00","id":13950,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13949,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T02:33:42+00:00","id":13951,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13950,"text":" This is repeater station kilo kilo 7 November Quebec November all star node 6222 located in Shelton Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T02:34:42+00:00","id":13952,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13951,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T02:41:07+00:00","id":13953,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13952,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T02:42:40+00:00","id":13954,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13953,"text":" This is repeater station kilo kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star node 6222 located in Shelton Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T03:04:43+00:00","id":13955,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13954,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T03:07:43+00:00","id":13956,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13955,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T03:08:03+00:00","id":13957,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13956,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T03:08:28+00:00","id":13958,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13957,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T03:09:24+00:00","id":13959,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13958,"text":" We all want you, Casey."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T03:13:41+00:00","id":13960,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13959,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November, All Star Node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T03:17:41+00:00","id":13961,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13960,"text":" you"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T03:18:07+00:00","id":13962,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13961,"text":" This is VL1, KZ listening."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T03:22:45+00:00","id":13963,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13962,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T03:37:44+00:00","id":13964,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13963,"text":" JB zero MA high. This is repeater station kilo kilo seven November Quebec November all star node six two two two located in Shelton, Washington. Good morning to you George. VL1 to you Casey. Now, as soon as the end of the war is coming, it's like, well it'd be like six or seven o'clock. I know you got a lot more still unusual for you to be up this early in the morning. Just past eight, just past 8 a.m. here. Let's see how much past eight, five past eight. So I'm guessing it's 635 on the East Coast maybe. We got an hour and a half ahead of, ahead of East Coast. But I didn't sleep yet man. Ran into a chick that I went to high school with yesterday at my next door neighbor's wake. And she dropped over the house and we were up late. So she only went home recently. About an hour ago, maybe 45 minutes ago I suppose. So I was up all night man, didn't sleep. So I guess I'll catch a nap sometime in the afternoon or possibly during the night, who knows."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T03:40:59+00:00","id":13965,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13964,"text":" I selected I didn't see the opportunity. So I'm just happy I'm in that. That's cool. So you went to the stand awake? It's my next door neighbor. You know, I mean, I wasn't into the stuff that he was into. But, you know, we know a lot of the same people. And I mean, I knew him since he's a baby. So it's just, you know, show your respect kind of thing. And then it was, oh, you can't leave. He had to stick around. And then a few more people I knew showed up. And then a couple of us came over here and relaxing. And me and Stephanie stayed awake the whole night chatting. So it was not a great time, I suppose. Like, we know it's the Irish wake type thing here, right? You know, you don't mourn the dead. You kind of celebrate them, you know? And everybody's, you know, usually drinking and, you know, having a good time. It's more like a party than a funeral, if you know what I mean. Jeez, I'd say good 25 years, maybe. Yeah, something like that. Not since high school. She is friends with my next door neighbor's sister, who I used to have a crush on back in high school. And yeah, so we all know each other. We're all tangled up. I mean, this is a small community. We've only got a couple thousand people, you know, that lives in this community. So technically, most everybody around here all knows each other. And like you say, even though my neighbor was into some sketchy shit, that I wouldn't do, you know, pay respects to his family and stuff. And, you know, I know his sisters since we're all kids, and they're my age, his sisters. And he was, you know, 14 years younger than me. I mean, I know him since he's a little kid. And he just got into some shady stuff later in life, right? And that led to his death. So it was bound to happen eventually. You don't do that kind of shady crap, and you don't live to be an old man."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T04:13:26+00:00","id":13966,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13965,"text":" I've only heard just a little bit of what was going on. But I agree with that. It's kind of nice to know that you stayed in one place all your life. Seemed like we were always up and going somewhere every year or two. It's hard to set down roots and make friends. Everybody in the house did. I don't know where they're at. And they've been alive and dead and successful. And Andy Gaff, I just don't know anything about him anymore. Just don't have that. Your factor of what would you call him? Well, you know what I mean. Just, we travel all the time. We just never really get to get close to anybody. Sorry, that's pretty close. You could do that. I didn't live in this community my whole life. Great chunk of my life. I lived outside it, actually. I moved outside the community when I was 18, got my own place. Then when I finished college and then I did university, I was in between working for the government at that time. And I spent some time over in Africa. I worked over there. And then I was in the UK for a while in London. And then I worked all over Canada and a couple of places in the States over the years, for like 20 years. Well, for about 15 years, I suppose. And it's only really in the last 15 that I ended up back in Newfoundland again. And then about 10 years ago, my grandfather passed away. And my sister was like, the apartment in mom and dad's house is empty. And they'll give you a good rent rate if you want to move back up into the community again. And so I was like, yeah, that sounds good to me. And because I get this place for well below market rate. And I get to live back in the community where I grew up again. So I was away for quite some time. That's why a lot of people from up here I've lost touch with and only started to reconnect with in the past couple of years. When I go to get my insulin in the mornings, oftentimes I run into people that I haven't seen in 20 years. And they all recognize me. But I don't recognize any of them. So then I'd say, well, they know I have bad eyesight anyway. So I just say, you know, I don't recognize you. And they tell me who they are. And I'm like, oh, crap. Make no wonder I don't recognize you. We were kids, like teenagers, last time. I saw you type a deal. And that happens almost on a weekly basis that I'll run into someone I used to hang out with back in school or something like that or people that my brother or my sister was friends with, you know, stuff like that. So but yeah, I haven't lived up here my whole life. I'm only back in this community the last 10 years. But my family is actually five generations in this community. It started with my great grandparents, then my grandparents, then my parents, then myself, my brother and sister, and then their kids. So my kids, my nieces are the fifth generation of my family in this community. We've actually got a road named after us up here. We were one of the first families to colonize this area. Yeah, absolutely. I'll be 45 in January. But yeah, you're exactly right. I mean, most of my life, this is where I went to school to junior high and high school. I did up here. So I mean, everybody that still lives up here, a lot of people have moved away. A good majority, though, have stuck with this community and had their families here. This is a beautiful spot. I mean, other than what was happening up here over the last few months, there'd never been crime in this neighborhood, and there probably won't be anymore. I mean, it was the people, my next door neighbor and the guy across the street that were bringing that drama around here, you know, they were doing stuff that they shouldn't, you know, like criminal type stuff. And they were involved with motor gangs and stuff like that, right? So my neighbor, I haven't said a lot of this on the air, but he's dead and gone now, God rest his soul. But they were involved with motorcycle gangs. And the one he was involved with was rivals with the HA. And they did some things to the HA, and then the HA came back and did some things to their club. And it just creates a lot of drama, like the exploding vehicles in the middle of the night and the 30 gunshots fired at a house in broad daylight, like this is HA stuff, right? And they pissed off some members of the HA, and then there was that accident out on the highway here where a car rammed into a motorcycle and killed the driver. And he was a HA member, and my neighbor was a member of a different gang, right? And they were just blowing back and forth at each other, like jacking trucks belong to each other and stuff like that. You know, one of them was worth almost a million dollars, literally $800,000 of contraband cigarettes, got jacked, and then some vehicles got exploded. And you know, it was just the stuff that they were into. And I'll be here to find out just about anyone, not just in Nova Scotia or anywhere in Canada, in the United States. We got, I don't see very many HA's around here, but there was some non-ducens. And that was a little bit of a challenge. I'm on this, uh... Huh. I hope we're there again. That's the guy I want. I'm the actual leader of the group, and it's a large group of non-ducens. I'm on the down number now. It's been a while since I met him, but he lives out there in Green Valley where I lived. And I was already riding parlors, and I went and stopped somewhere. And the guy came up and started talking to me, and he turned around, and saw us and handled them on the back. And, uh... Then I found out that he was the leader of the group, and the law had to go all over the country. What the hell is your name? I can't remember. I'm sorry. Mongols. Yeah, Mongols. They were the Mongols of the local group, and the independence that was big in the 1980s, they still exist today, but they're just a shadow of what they used to be. But the other group, in fact, they had a paper gene up there in Green Valley, and they rented out this big unity park from the city. And I guess they didn't realize what was going on until I was doing well, but they were actually pretty decent. They didn't do anything bad. But I remember I wanted to check them out, and I wrote in on my early, and as I was doing it in town, they had FBI and police on the side of the road, and they were taking pictures of me. I was just a regular guy. I'm nobody special. I don't belong to the boss or anything like that, but I found that very interesting that they were doing that. But like I said, nothing came of it, and they were actually very well behaved while they were there. Yeah, you'll find out now next time you go to take an international flight or something, and you see Georgia, if you come up flashing on a computer screen. One thing for sure, I mean, somebody could be in a V. FBI, CIA, whatever it is, but yeah, it was the time. I even wear the same outfit. They're very safety conscious, and they have to wear full helmets with visors on them, and I did the same thing. I usually met myself out with lots of safety gear, and so I could see where they might have mistaken me. I didn't have the markings on my jackets or anything like that, but yeah, I could be somewhere in the system. They knew you weren't part of the group. If you didn't have a cut, they knew right off the bat, because you're not allowed to ride without your cut on if you're in one of those clubs and skinned souls. The only time you're allowed to go ride without a cut on it if you're doing something nefarious and you don't want to be identified, but other than that, there's rules, right, for those clubs. You don't ride without your cut. You don't enter the clubhouse without a cut. You don't go to the meetings without a cut. That's your vest with your logos and your standing within the club, right? Your logo is on the back, your patch, as they call it, and then you got on the front, you got your co-patches or something that have like if you're a club president or a gunner or you got the 1% logo and stuff like that, that's all on the front. I know a lot about motorcycle gangs. Obviously, I'm a vision problem. I never rode with one or nothing, but I've met some guys over the years from being down at the strip clubs and stuff. They own, the majority of the strip clubs here in town are owned by HA, and my neighbor was a member of one called the Rock Machine, and the Rock Machine and the HA have been blood enemies since the 1990s, late 80s, early 1990s, and there was a huge territorial dispute back in the 90s in Quebec here in Canada, and two of those groups literally mowed each other down for a couple of years. Quebec nearly got burned to the ground, like that's a pretty large city, and there was so many bombings and vehicle fires and clubhouses getting firebombed and stuff back in the 90s. They had a state of emergency declared back in the 1990s, and police, federal police had their hands kind of tied because we don't have anything in Canada like the RICO Act, so they were able, we've got organized crime laws and stuff, but we don't have anything like the RICO Act where they can build a past, present, and future crime portfolio, I guess, on these groups. So, you know, pinning down a whole club under a RICO Act or under a RICO charge, that doesn't happen here in Canada. So they brought in some laws in Quebec back in the early 1990s to try and deal with some of these groups, and as far as I know, the leader of the HA, Mum Boucher or Maurice Boucher, they used to call him Mum because that's what his response to law enforcement was, Mum, Mum's the word, right? You don't say nothing, you don't know nothing, Mum. So he picked up that name back in the 70s, I believe it was, Maurice Boucher, and he started calling him Mum Boucher, and he was the leader of the entire Hell's A... He got locked up back in the mid-90s, I think it was. I did some really historical research into biker gangs because I always found the culture interesting, but it was never something that, you know, it was more from an educational perspective than it was, you know, wanting to know about criminal enterprises, but yeah, I got my finger on the pulse when it comes to gangs and stuff, and HA have been here for, you know, 30 years here in Newfoundland, but they were the only one, you know, here on the East Coast anyway, out in central Newfoundland, there's an outlaws chapter, and so they've basically stayed out of each other's way because, I mean, it's a five-hour drive from here to central, but back a few years ago, the HA's decided they want to have a presence in central Newfoundland as well, so there was shootouts and whatnot in central between the outlaws and the Hell's Angels who've been blood enemies for years as well, but then what happened in the last couple of years, this other group, the Rock Machine, who originally came from Quebec, started to decide they wanted to have a presence in Newfoundland, so they recruited some big muscle type guys like my next door neighbor, for instance, to do dirty work for them, and that's basically what was causing all the blow up here in this neighborhood, like the shootings and stuff like that, like I don't really talk about a lot of it, but one of the incidents, other than the vehicle exploding in my neighbor's driveway, a guy walked up on the house at three o'clock in the afternoon one day, and he unloaded two full clips, he pulled out two handguns and pointed them at the house, and unloaded both of them like 20 shots or something, and then he backed up about 20 feet, and he stood right at the very bottom of my driveway, right behind where my quad is parked, and he pulled out another clip and reloaded one of the guns and fired another 10 shots at the house, so it was literally 30 bullets in broad daylight, fired at my neighbor's house like back in April. Sounds like they don't mess around at all there. On one side, the Allie Angels were on the other, right on St. Catherine Street, right in the daytime. Yeah, in the 90s, yeah. It got out of hand. Just in the middle of something, it was just good morning, George, and good morning, girl. I've been listening to you guys talking, but I gotta get back to what I was doing, but I just wanted to mention that. Another thing I wanted to mention, they don't wear their patches now in Montreal. I guess because in Montreal, they forbid that. I don't know if you, they're all gonna probably know more about that. Oh, they also had a Hell Angels prison here in Quebec, and a funny thing, one of them took off and a helicopter landed there and took a few of them away, and the guards, they were trying to shoot the helicopter down this. None of them hit the helicopter. They were very bad. I guess they weren't very good at shooting or something, but they all missed the helicopter. It's a funny thing here. You know, it's just like a two separate systems here. I'm sure the Hell Angels prison's a lot nicer than a regular prison, that's for sure. Anyway, I'll let you guys continue. They'll be one of you. It's crazy that you mention that because I remember hearing about that incident, but back in the early 90s, there was a difficult time. The organized crime from the biker gangs under control because they had like 45% of the police department around the HA's payroll. Well, I know that, yeah, that's for sure. I mean, they helped them more. They were actually working with them. You know how it works with the stuff and the massage, powders, all the script joints, all the way from one side of Montreal to the other. They own it, Paul. That's the thing, see. This is why it got so rough in my neighborhood because you had HA's that were being ripped off and you had Rock Machine who were doing it and my neighbor was Rock Machine. And I can say this now because, I mean, he's dead and gone, but like you say, and what killed him was Crazy Boys because it had nothing to do with what he was into. Absolutely nothing. I mean, here these guys are ripping off HA's the past like bunch of months now. I mean, they were hired to guard a cigarette truck that had come in from the mainland, contraband, you know, reservation cigarettes. Apparently it was a tractor trailer load worth about 800 grand. And when dude came back with a big rig to hook up to the trailer the next morning, he found the two doors open on the back of the trailer and it was completely cleaned out and the boys were gone. So that's what led to the vehicle explosions and the shootouts and all that stuff. But what killed him like a week and a half ago was nothing to do with any of that stuff. Apparently he was sleeping with a dude's chick and dude found out about it and showed up to the house the night before and pulled a knife on my neighbor. Not my house next door, this is in the other end of town. He was at the chick's house and her boyfriend came with a knife and my next door neighbor, he was a big dude. I mean 6'4\", probably 250, 260 pounds of muscle. He was a giant dude. And so her boyfriend showed up with the knife and my neighbor just plucked, took the knife out of his hand and beat him senseless. And dude came back the next morning with a shotgun and boom, that was the end of my next door neighbor. So it literally had nothing to do with the gangs or the dirt they were doing or any of that stuff, man. He just banged the wrong dude's chick. That will do it. Were they both members of the club? No, dude that killed him had no affiliations whatsoever. This guy that I actually knew since I'm about, oh man, 19 or 20. I met him, he was friends with my group of friends when we were teenagers from the time we were like 15 till the time we were 20. I mean I'm still friends with some of the guys but I hadn't seen the guy that did the shooting in, oh Jesus, 20 years. I suppose you had 20 years since I'm like 25, I guess. I ever laid eyes on him but back in the day, I mean he was always a loudmouth but I never pegged him for someone to pull a shotgun and actually fire it. Well, you never know what people do when they get pissed. Yeah, right. I think you hear a strange question. Your town, how much the population of your town and what's the population of the different ones? The population here in town is just under 400,000 in like the city of St. John's, Mount Pearl, the surrounding area like the Avalon Peninsula. That's the most densely populated area in the province and in the province itself, we got just over 500,000 in all of Newfoundland and this is, we're an island but this is a massive chunk of land. I mean, you're looking at, to drive where I am in St. John's to the other side of the island in Corner Brook, you're looking at 10 to 12 hours to drive there and if you wanna drive up to the northern peninsula, the part that sticks up on top of the island, you're looking at another 10 or 12 hours to drive up there so you could literally travel around this province for days without leaving the province in the same thing twice but a lot of Newfoundland is just timber forest. We've got a lot of huge amount of forestry here in the island and it's not really overly developed as forestry because you have to ship everything. You know, everything had to be shipped to the mainland, you know, for processing and stuff like that so forestry is not a huge industry here despite the fact that we got tons of this."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T04:45:12+00:00","id":13967,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13966,"text":" So the majority of the population lives where you live. And there's about 100,000 people distributed around the island. And you know, maps do not give a province, you know. Maps are just terrible. And you look at a map, you go, hey, it's not really big. Because then when you hear somebody describe it, you know, it's a totally different story. But anyhow, it's interesting. 400,000 there and 100,000 for the rest of the island. It must be a lot of square acres per each individual. But if that was divided up per person, I don't know how big, you know, how much each person would get. But it would be a lot. Because if the island is really big, and make the best of it, Newfoundland is not just Newfoundland. Technically, the name of the province is Newfoundland and Labrador. Right here in Labrador is the landlocked portion of the province that's actually joined to Canada. And it is much, much larger than the island portion that it runs here. And I'm not sure what the population is up there. But it's bare. I think there's more polar bears in Labrador than there is people. Kilo, kilo, 7, November, Quebec, November. All star node 6222. Located at 400,000. Where's that one going to go, man? All bears. I had a dream. I used to ride a motorcycle. I always said I'm here to take a trip from Missouri up to Nova Scotia. And I wanted to do all backwoods. I didn't want to do interstate or anything like that. I mapped it out, and it was going to be roughly 4,000 miles left, 4,000 miles back down. The way I was going. And I thought, OK, I'm going to need roughly 30 to 40 days to do this trip. I never did it. Never did it. Now I don't have a motorcycle anymore, so I guess I never will. Man, I tell you, I'd love to be able to ride an actual motorcycle. I could get away with just around my own community here because the area that I live in is called Shea Heights. It's like an area. It's up on a mountain. It's like high above the rest of the city. It's about 650 feet where I am above the city. So my repeater antenna is about 650 feet above the city. But the top of this mountain is about 1,200 feet. And I was about halfway up it. And it's good because even though I have a vision problem, my vision is not too bad that I can't drive slowly. On a highway, doing 100 kilometers an hour, 70 miles an hour, it's like 110, my reaction time is not quick enough. I can't judge depth or my distance perception is not good. So I can still jump on my quad doing probably 30 miles, 40 miles an hour and be just fine to go into woods by myself and stuff like that. That's why I'm lucky. I'm in a closed off community because we've got a road that's a mile or two long that separates this community from the rest of the city. So you've got to drive up that road. And it's like one way in, one way out kind of thing. So in this closed off neighborhood, I could ride a small motorcycle like a Grom or a Honda Navi or something like that. I used to ride one of these Coleman outfits, 200 CC adult sized mini bike, they call them. And I used to ride one of those around up here and never had a problem. And now I ride the four wheeler. And I've been pulled over twice, never got a ticket or anything like that because it's known that people have been doing that up here for decades. So police don't really give you a hard time. They'll pull you over, they'll ID you. And I don't even have a driver's license because of my vision. And you're supposed to have a driver's license if you're driving a quad on the road. You're also supposed to have the vehicle insured and registered just like a vehicle, just like a car. Not for off road use, but if you drive it on the road, because there's a law up here that says you can drive an ATV on the road for up to one kilometer to get to or from a trailhead. Like you park a vehicle, you unload your quad, you can drive it for a kilometer on the pavement. But you got to meet all those criteria, right? Insured, licensed, and registered. Got to have a driver's license, all that stuff. I don't have none of that stuff. There's no insurance on my bike. I have no driver's license. I don't have a license plate on it because I only use it in this community. And a cop asked me, driver's license? No. Insurance on the bike? No. He said, see you don't have a license plate on here. I said, no. I said, but, I said, if you parked up here, I said you'd see probably in an hour five bikes with the same exact conditions. Like, you know, people just use them to get back and forth to store. Stuff like that up here. And, you know, you'd see a lot of it. And he was like, well, yeah, I know that. He said, I just got an ID just to, you know, just to show that we make contact or whatever. And, you know, nothing bad about it. You're not going to get no tickets or nothing. So I was like, whew, good. I'm not getting no tickets. It's all good. Oh, just hang on a second. I was getting a phone call. George, I'll be right back. How you doing this morning, George? How's everything out of your way? All right. It's been the first day back to work for the week. No rain. It's kind of nice outside. And nice and chilly. 60 degrees, right off that note, chilly. But it's a nice temperature. What? I am almost to my destination. I'll have to get off here. And pay attention to what I'm doing. But I'll chill to the ground, OK? I want to have a good day, all right? Hi there, George. And, yeah, I'm just waking up and just listening to you guys chatting this morning. All righty. We'll let you run. Have yourself a good day. We're having a nice one here. It's, it looks like the sun is coming out. It's good. It's nice and cool. So that's sort of like a relief for us. It's a relief from all that heat. All righty. We'll catch you later. From maybe 1A, I-4 will lead to end monitoring. What are the errors to the NI stay out there? K0, MAI. I'll be clear for a while. Well, it's only 20 minutes, boys, until the net starts. And no signs of falling asleep just yet, anyway. You know, the thing about living out there, you live in a beautiful place. But, man, it really, you know, it's the taxes that you're paying and the import and the food and stuff. That's the, if it wasn't for that and it was like the rest of Canada, that would be perfect. And you mentioned that those trees are old. So you got old trees out there because they haven't, they haven't stripped the forest clean. So it must be a beautiful place out there where you live. You know, it's a really good place. beautiful place out there where you live. That's probably the nicest places in Canada. Hey, and I looked, you're right. I didn't know they actually, you mentioned it this morning, you're 90 minutes ahead of time. I thought it was an hour. I never knew they did it by the 30 minutes added to it too. So I learned something new today. We're so far East, you know, the way the time zones line up around the world, we're so far East that we've got a half an hour time zone. The only other place I know that does that is Trinidad down in, you know, the West Indies, right? Trinidad and Tobago. They're the only other place that I've ever heard that does that. Apparently there's a few more around the world, but most of them are like GMT minus, you know, one hour or five hours or whatever, you know, the East Coast of the United States is GMT minus five. Then in Canada, you got Atlantic time, which is GMT minus four. And then you got Newfoundland time, which is GMT minus three and a half. So we're just that much further East that they needed to have a different time zone, I suppose. And I think it goes back to pre-confederation times because Canada was only, you know, completed by Newfoundland in 1949. We weren't a Canadian province before that. We were our own entity. We had Newfoundland currency. Our military was the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. It was, you know, we were completely separate from Canada. As a matter of fact, in World War II, there was like no Canadian military bases in Newfoundland. They were all American military bases. And that led to a lot of Americans, you know, marrying Newfoundland women or vice versa. And a lot of Americans settled in Newfoundland too. So there's like some American heritage here as well as Canadian. So it's an interesting spot. But yeah, you're exactly right. I mean, we've got some of the most beautiful ponds and like just untouched forest that you can, you know, actually still go and visit. It's kind of incredible. I mean, where I live, I can jump on my quad, which is parked in the driveway. And within 10 minutes, I could be sat next to a pond with fish jumping everywhere. Just nice beautiful grass all around the place and just park my bike right next to the pond, sit on a bench, man, and watch the ducks and stuff. It's absolutely gorgeous around here. This is repeater station. November, Quebec, November. Even Fisher, Quebec is nice. All the ponds in Washington. The only way that you're going to catch a fish in Quebec is if you pay $1,000 and they drop you, you know, in a pontoon plane. The plane will fly you into a place where you can go fish and that still has fish. Wow. That's a, because you know, I love fishing and there's no fish here. I tried fishing in all the places and there's no fish because everybody else did the same thing. So there's no fish left. Yeah, it sounds perfect out there. It's like paradise out there. You know, it's a really nice area. I saw a YouTube video on St. John and look at the airplanes that missed the airport. They flew up into the mountains. They crashed there. The planes are still there. You know, they don't take the planes away. They're, they look beautiful out there. You know, it's a perfect place. Especially when you got the, well, you got the quad. That's that there, the quad and all those trails. Boy, I used to do that back in Connecticut. That's a semi-second. I used to take the dirt bike on the power lines, which was the only place, you know, that I could take it. But yeah, it's a perfect place there. My friend wants to get a quad. And I was thinking about getting one. The problem is we don't have any place to store them during winter time. So that's why we're not going to get one. You got it made out there. To be honest with you, what I does with mine, I just leaves it in the driveway and I put a heavy duty tarp over it, go to Costco, get one of the really thick tarps and tied a little eye hooks down to the frame of the bike. And number one, man, I've been parking my bike like that now for three years and never had an issue. I can go out and I can pull that thing over first click and it'll start up immediately. No issue whatsoever. It's, it's good, man. You know, some people put some in garages and sheds and stuff like that, you know, especially buy a brand new one. I mean, mine is 25 years old and it's still in great shape. It's a 2000 and it's still in great shape, especially for the age. But when I got it, I had a bunch of work done to it. All the electrical was replaced, all of the bearings and the, you know, suspension bushings and all that stuff was replaced. I had the carburetor rebuilt. Oh man, whole bunch of stuff done to it. You know, all the running gear, all regular maintenance that needs to be done. I had done to it. So it still runs absolutely fantastic. And it's a, it's manual transmission. So you got the, you know, the ability to change gears whenever you want, you know, so if you're being, uh, you know, someone's getting a little too close to you on the trail, you can just drop the gear down and hit the throttle and boom, just like a motorcycle kind of thing, right? Yeah, exactly. I still like a motorcycle over a quad though, cause I was trying to tell my friend if you get a quad, you have a chance that you could get that stuck. You're going to have to have a winch on it. You know, uh, you get a motorcycle stuck too in the mud. I had that happen to me. I had to leave my bike and my friends come help me. I couldn't get it off myself, but you gotta be careful with that stuff. But yeah, it sounds like you got it all set. At least you got all the bearings and everything in tip top shape. Yeah, I'd like to do that again. I used to do it, like I said, when I was a kid and now that I'm retired and, uh, you know, I got all the time, I'd like to at least try to motorcycles again. I'm not going to drive it fast like I did when I was a kid, but you know, uh, I used to have a CR 250 with a two cycle and that thing was like a rocket machine, but today I'd be happy on a, maybe a 250 with a four cycle engine, you know, something slow, you know, like a wish bike, not, not, not, not nothing, not, uh, you know, uh, you know, nothing really powerful, just something I can put around on a 250 man. That's a big boyfriend. You know, that's the same frame as on a 450 pretty much. It's just a difference in the motor. I don't like a bike that I can't flat foot. Uh, when I learned, I, I can't say even really learned because they've been on one, half a dozen times. And I mean, I was okay with the clutch and, you know, shifting gears and stuff. I, you know, I only stalled it the first time and the second time I was good to go to get it in the first and then second and third. And, you know, I didn't take it over or a little bit or anything like that, but I like, if it was for me, I'm, I'm five 10, five 11, and I would want the one 25 just for me, just for putting around, because like you say, my vision is bad. A one 25 that'll still get you up to 80 kilometers an hour with no trouble at all. And that's what my quad can do. It can do 80 or 85 kilometers an hour. I had it going that fast on pavement. And, uh, my buddy was behind me. We were out trail riding and, uh, he was behind me when we came off the trails and we hit the pavement. It's kind of like a highway, you know, like a two lane highway. And, uh, so I got on the pavement and I just, you know, gradually got it up to fifth gear and I had the thing pinned. And you know, what it's like riding a quad, I mean, you're just riding on the knobs on your tires. Your contact point is small, right? So, and I've got like knobby off-road tires on this thing. So this bike was floating doing 80, 85 kilometers an hour on this highway. And, uh, when my buddy caught up to me, I was speedometer on my bike. When he caught up to me, he said he was doing 90 just to catch up to me. And he said, when he got behind me, it was about 80 to 85 kilometers an hour that I was doing. And, uh, mistake, right? Cause if you've got a turn quick or something jumps out in front of you, you ain't got a prayer stopping or turning that thing at those kinds of speeds. Yeah, I guess with the knobbies and stuff that would have been vibrating a lot too. Yeah. That's uh, you know, I had a, you know, another bike that, uh, I had before, you know, I had the 250, I had a, uh, um, a 100 Honda 100. It was a four cycle engine and it was for a child, but you know, I remember I was 16 years old when I had that cause I, uh, I put it back in my car in the truck and took it with me once. But yeah, it's, uh, but even, you know, uh, a little Honda 100 that's meant for a little kid, you know, I got on that thing and I, I had that bike for like two years. I mean, I drove it all over the place. It just wouldn't die. It was a Honda. The motor always started. I just had to adjust the points in it. That's all I ever did. I hit the points with clothes. If you let us sit too long, you'd have to put 20 thousands or something with a pillar gauge. We keep the thing timed. But yeah, I had a lot of fun and that was only a Honda 100. The seventies, the eighties and the one hundreds are a pretty small frame size. Then you get into the 125 and the one 50 it's roughly the same frame size as bigger than the 70 and the 100. But, uh, it's like a medium size in between the two 30 and the two 50. And that's just like frame size just for booting around for me would be just perfect because I can like just flat foot on both sides of the bike to keep it balanced. But I found it to Yamaha 230, the TTR 230 or the Honda CBR 250 or not CBR, sorry. The, uh, what is that? CRF, CRF 150 or 250. Sorry. It was just too big. Uh, I couldn't flat foot it. So the bike was like lean in one way or another. And I didn't figure that that would be a good fit on a trail. Like, cause if you got to, you know, you can get messed up on a trail or going up the hill. I want to flat foot that bike. I don't want to be having to lean it to one side and down, sit on one foot and stuff, especially where I'm not an experienced rider on two wheels. Now don't get me wrong on a quad. Oh buddy. I'm usually the guy leading the pack when it comes to the cross because it's stable, right? It's really stable. And so when a group of us get together, like a couple of my buddies and my dad and my brother, we're all riding our own machines and I'm usually leading the pack, especially when we're on pavement. My dad's actually seen me a couple of times. You mean you got to slow down or you're going to kill yourself because the way my tires are on the back, they're like a tractor tire pattern. Like, you know, like the rows of like, you know, knob, it's like a tractor tire pattern. And on the front, it's just knobbies, right? It's just got knobs every, you know, all over the tire. So when I'm doing on that, especially on pavement, it's not vibrating very much because I barely touched the pavement. I mean, it's floating above the pavement for the time that they're for the duration that each knob is touching the pavement. It's almost like feels like the bike is floating when you're doing, you know, above eight on a bike like that. It's dangerous as all hell. But, you know, it's really fun to get a trade off rate. It's how fun versus how dangerous. And sometimes I push it a little more than I should. But that's why I don't have a dirt bike because I figure they're a lot less stable, you know, and it's easier to loop them much easier. Like if you hit a bump and your wrist flicks back on that twist throttle, you could get flicked off into the woods very easily. With a quad, you got a thumb throttle. And I like that because I can be holding on to the bars really sturdy and I don't have to worry about the whiskey throttle, you know, if I flick my wrist back, you know, from hitting the bump or something like that. And I know that's something that seasoned riders, you get, seasoned riders, you know, you get used to that. But I'm not a seasoned rider on two wheels. I mean, I've really only started riding a four year, like three or four years ago. I mean, I've ridden them dozens of times over the years, but having my own is only three or four years ago. And before that I was riding one of those 200cc Coleman outfits with the CVT transmission, the belt drive on it. And those are limited, right? Like with the engine that's in them, they're governed. So you can only do 35 kilometers an hour, that's it. That's all those engines can do. Until you strip the engine down and you put a billeted steel flywheel on it and a billeted steel side cover and, you know, a high powered clutch and a bunch of other stuff, then you can get them up to like, you know, 80 or 90 kilometers an hour. But I didn't do it like that to that two wheel bike. And it would have been good to do it because that bike had balloon tires on it like a quad, right? One in the front, one in the back. It wasn't those like skinny dirt bike tires. This thing had like eight inch wide tires on it. So going faster on it would have been a good thing. I probably would have just stuck with that bike if it was faster. But I like the quad. I gotta say, I mean, I got a stereo on there with two 100 watt cone speakers from like a motorcycle setup mounted on the bars. So I got, you know, nice loud music on there and a communication thing in the helmet and stuff like that. So it's, it's safer, I think, with my vision restrictions and my, you know, wish to have speed. And I mean, I've rolled a couple of them over the years, you know, roll the bike or something like that. Luckily, I never got hurt, but you could very easily get hurt, right? And that's what I kind of worry about. So I don't really go by myself riding anymore like I used to in the beginning. Because my brother in law's brother had a bad accident a couple of years, last year or the year before, where one of the back wheels came off his quad while he was riding, he was drifting around a little bit and he pulled out the axle and the whole worksheet came right off with the wheel. The axle literally separated from the, from the CV joint in the middle, like your rear differential. It came right out from the differential and the wheel was left on the side of the road with the axle sticking up off it. And that bike flipped and they went off, off the side of the mountain and he broke his wrists and his arm and broke himself up pretty bad. He cracked his helmet like an egg. So I mean, if he never had to be wearing a helmet, he probably would have been dead. But my point is, is someone with perfect vision that's been riding quads for like 30 years can get into an accident like that with my merely three or four years experience, you know, solid experience, I could do worse to myself. So I stopped riding by myself pretty much all together after that. Yeah, you got to be careful on those things, especially quads. I mean, even on a motorcycle, I think they're both just as dangerous, but somehow I, I, I, I don't know, I just feel safer myself. I feel safer on a motorcycle because of, you know, I guess a quad, if you went up a big hill, you know, I can get up on a bike and I, I lost bikes, motorcycles, you know, I went over, you know, dumped them going up the hill, but motorcycles isn't bad because you can just jump off of a quad and the thing hits you and lands on you got to be really careful. Another thing I know you could do with tires. I think I told you this before a year or two ago, you know, if you could get some 632 screws and you drill a hole through your knobby and you put these little 632 screws in nut, nut, nut them and weld them in place with a little spot welder here, we have a little weld machine. You take it out on the ice and you can really have fun. You know, when it was really ice, like a pond is frozen over with a perfect nice, nice ice and you could really, that'll dig in and you can really have a lot of fun. I seen that done in Connecticut. It's something to do if you have an old pair of knobbies you want to hold on to and use them for that. Man, I follow a YouTube channel called Seaboys TV and the boys do all that kind of crazy stuff. They've even started out dirt bike tires and all kinds of stuff, man, with screws and that you just screw them in with a screw and a washer on it and weld the washer to the screw just like what you're saying and man, oh man, you can do some damage on some ice with a pair of those outfitted. That's for sure. Anyway, what time we got here? We got four minutes till net, man. I'm going to stand by that short gray is there in the background looking to get ready. George is pretty surprised to hear me on an hour before net, but like you say, I didn't go to bed last night, so I'm still awake for the next little while. Anyway, the old one UKZ with AB1AR. It's almost nine o'clock where you are right now. It's almost nine o'clock. Yeah, it's getting late in the day where you are there. All right, I better shut up now. The net is going to be starting. AB1AI, Affordable to Me, too. I didn't even say anything because Darryl doesn't get on in the morning, so I figured, you know, that I'm smart. AA4H. You could have run, but you could have jumped in on the conversation. Yeah, I could have, but I didn't. I just wanted to let you know why I didn't because I wanted you to get your, uh, in whatever you could without me interfering. I had these a few times this morning and didn't really hear anybody and then I heard George ID, so I jumped in and started having a chat back and forth with George and then brought in Hobden there and we've just been having a chat ever since then. But, um, yeah. Anyway, I'm going to stand by here. I'm looking forward to Greg getting started. I'm not in a situation this morning where I've got to worry about waking up for the net because if I had to go to sleep at like 6.30 in the morning when my friend went home, then I wouldn't be up right now, let me tell you, or 7.30 in the morning, 7 o'clock in the morning, whatever it was. I can't remember exactly, but, um, yeah. Either way, I'm going to stand by for that. I'll be going to UKZ. Yeah, I heard you this morning. I heard George twice this morning, but I was working on an email with a friend that's in the hospital, so that's why I didn't get back to you. I'd be standing by for the net."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T04:46:01+00:00","id":13968,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13967,"text":" Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, August 4th, can you believe that? Complete through the month already. My name is Gray, my callsign is KC2PKG and I'm coming to you straight out of East Machias, Maine. So this is the Monday morning version of the Cowabunga Net. Cowabunga Net eats seven days a week and the G-Drop In server, conference server, runs 24 hours a day, so there's always something going on here. Cowabunga Net is dedicated to discussing things without rancor or anger and we can deal with some pretty touchy subjects and we do very good at it. So try us out on something and you will see. With that being said, let's get going. We got a lot to do today, it's gonna be a fun time. So come now with your callsign. This is KC2PKG. W0GL, L and C PUs Missouri, good morning to everybody on the net and I am in and out."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T04:46:14+00:00","id":13969,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13968,"text":" This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November All Star Node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T04:46:41+00:00","id":13970,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13969,"text":" Good morning, Gray. V-A-1-W-R-N. Checking in. Good morning, negative troll. This is K-N-4-L-B-F. This is D. Good morning, Gray. G-L-O-G-L-5, India. From here, Quebec. K-J-5-I-R-U-K-Z. Good morning, Gray. Good morning, K-L-O-G-L-5-I-R-U-K-Z."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T04:46:53+00:00","id":13971,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13970,"text":" DE-1, W-I-N, you still out there?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T04:48:41+00:00","id":13972,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13971,"text":" All right, let's cut it off right there. And I'll tell you who I got. We got W0GL, thank you for checking in, Alan. You were one and done. Darryl VL1UKZ, I can't wait to hear why you were up all night. MD KN4LBF and Josh KJ5IRQ and Ron AA4HO. What's gonna do for us? Like, you didn't get any sleep at all last night? Your sleep schedule must have really messed up. What's going on with you? This is KC2PKG, over to you, VL1UKZ. Well, it all started yesterday afternoon. Bodies started showing up left, right, and center at my neighbor's house next door. So I figured it was his wake. And so I dropped by to extend my sympathies and whatnot to his sisters and mom and stepfather and stuff. And I ended up sticking around over there for a few hours, just talking to everybody. I was running into people that I hadn't seen in, Jesus, decades, man. Anyway, I ran into a friend of mine, and I hadn't seen her since, Jesus, since a year or two after high school, maybe. And we got to talking for most of the evening. And then she dropped over here, and we were having a chat and smoking a few and watching TV and a few other things and whatnot. And just ended up up till like the middle of, well, seven o'clock this morning, I think she went home, something like that. So I was just up all night, man. And so yeah, I'll end up catching a few hours later this afternoon or something like that. I ain't got much on the go today. So it was no big deal. But yeah, I figured, man, there was bodies. There was like 50 or 60 people there, I'd say, easily. And bodies were... Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh, Chuck. Man, oh man, he's a smart guy, that Chuck. Yeah, so ended up hanging out all night, and here we are. Then I got on the radio about an hour and a half ago, and I'd just been chatting with George and Brian and Ron jumped in there just toward the end. So yeah, I'd just been awake all night, man. You know, nothing wrong catastrophically or anything like that. So yeah, back over to you, man. V01, UKZ, this is KC2PKG. Well, that's a nice story for a change. When you said all these bodies showing up next door, I was like, uh oh, what is that about? All right, VE1WIN, Peter. What is going on with you? How was your weekend, Peter? What are your plans? This is KC2PKG."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T04:49:24+00:00","id":13973,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13972,"text":"mm"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T04:55:04+00:00","id":13974,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13973,"text":" So we'll go to D KN4LDFD. How was your weekend? And you have plans for the week? This is KC2PKG over to you KN4LDF This is KN4LDF, hey great, how you doing? Hello. Good morning everyone I'm grateful to be up this morning gave my praises and here I am I want to tell you I knew well my husband was sick So this morning I took a COVID test and apparently I have COVID so Sometime this morning. I have to head over to urgent care to get the antibiotics because of my age and Other issues, I believe I should get the Antibiotic and stuff but um, otherwise, I feel great I don't as you know, I have to easily isolate so I guess I'm not doing a thing this week Anyway, I'm in good cheer. I know You know, I feel good. So hey I'll give it back to you. This is KN4LDF back to gray KN4LDF This is KC2PKG. That's too bad But you know when you're exposed that close of course, you know COVID's the same disease that always was some people get a lot of symptoms some people don't get any at all Which makes it really hard to control, but I'm glad that you are You know taking the pains to isolate yourself a little bit and not pass it on apparently COVID is really rocking in Florida Right now you mentioned it Last week and I started looking it up And COVID's on a big resurgence So uh, I don't know, I'm up to date on my shots. I don't think I've got it But we'll see And we live so far from everybody else on the planet That uh, this is, it's like living in quarantine The first go round with COVID, you know, we kind of felt trapped And then we realized about a week and a half into it that this is the way we live anyway We just, we don't go out that much and we live at the end of a dirt road Alright, um, KJ5IRQ Josh, how was your weekend? And uh, you got any plans for the week? This is KC2PKG KC2PKG, this is KJ5IRQ Uh, this is another work week Not been a whole lot Today's uh, uh, day set apart, but other than today, the rest of the week will be just work Um, my wife has me rebooting chicken coop And uh, I'm making a little bit of headway on it during in the morning, it's too hot to do in the afternoon right now I'm actually out here right now getting ready to put in a few studs and frame in the door I'm gonna get that done this morning While I listen to you fine folks Uh, other than that, that's it The weekend was, it wasn't bad, it was a little actual My wife cooked a beautiful piece of style last night And I'll tell you what, it was one of the best things I've eaten in a while Uh, especially with the food plan in mind That's what I call it, a food plan, not so much a diet Uh, I'm gonna go and get some food And I'm gonna go and get some food Um, so yeah, it was delicious, so Yeah, that's it, that's all I got to report on so far, I'll send it back KJ5IRQ, back to KC1 KC2? PKG KJ5IRQ, this is KC2PKG, I love salmon I really do, especially in a rice bowl Uh, pretty, pretty good stuff Ryan, 884H, I'm gonna go and get some food I'm gonna go and get some food Uh, pretty, pretty good stuff Ron, 884HO So, how was your weekend? And what's going on for you this week? This is KC2PKG, over to you, Ron, 884HO Good morning, Greg, good morning to everybody Participating in the caribou I'm gonna get on the jet-truck and I'm, uh, looking forward to a nice productive week I got, you know, my screenshot, but Finished an email to a friend in the hospital I spent a little time on it, you know, make it a little entertaining for him Uh, it's just boring And they're, you know, you don't get a lot to do He had amputation They're not always good And, uh, they're trying to save me And, uh, they're trying to save the rest of his foot Now, and, you know, I don't know what, uh, the results of that are gonna be Uh, I made a few friends on X Uh, I found, uh, some people I have in common Uh, that was nice I'm looking at one of these posts Uh, I don't, uh, understand, you know, why people eat with their hands I kinda am a little disgusted with it It seems to be a cultural thing with some people And, uh, with some cultures It just looks, uh, so wrong You know, I mean, I've always been taught to eat with a fork, you know Uh, other than that, it's been pretty good I've been looking at the futures And, uh, that's very promising after the profit-taking Maybe, uh, a little too promising I expected more profit-taking today I don't think that's been enough because we had come so far I still have stuff that I'm looking at that, uh, didn't come down That, uh, probably could have But at least, you know, that signal is some strength there So I'm gonna be focusing on them today If, uh, if the hot open sticks, if it holds up So that's what I'm looking at right now Uh, gray and, uh, and then, uh, let the time go by quick Before the market opens in a few hours AA-4-H-O, roger, I'm on Florida back to gray and then control Going to UKZ, quick question 3-E-1-W-I-O You had me at your question, Darryl And I'll pick you up in one second there, Peter Great, uh, Ron, you mentioned you eat everything with a knife and a, well, with a fork Just curious, you're not one of those fellas that, like, cuts up a hamburger You know, like bun and all Or eats, like, a slice of pizza with a fork and knife Or, like, cuts up your chocolate bars, are you? Beep Now, better to eat potato rice and, and, and pork You know, I mean, to just stuff it in your mouth and, and, like that Um, you're not looking at, at what I'm seeing here right now I'd send you the video if, uh, you want it And, uh, that's how they eat, you know, I mean, we have food that's designed to be eaten with your hands But, uh, not like this Just imagine eating with chopsticks I can't see how people do that Just two sticks, man, rice or small little pieces I can see eating noodles with it if you had some talent But I see some of these Asian people, man, and they're pros They're pros with the chopsticks I've seen them like it before, like, eat all the rice with chopsticks Back over to you, Greg Uh, you know, when you can see this, KC2, PKG Yeah, about half the planet eats with their hands predominantly Um, so that's, that's too bad That's too bad for you If it, uh, if it kinda grosses you out But there you go, everybody And I'm glad somebody mentioned chopsticks Because I think that that is something Uh, even if you practice it three times a day You know, a lot of Asian countries, you know, they have three meals a day And they practice them three times a day You get pretty good with chopsticks Very, very good, as a matter of fact Alright, Peter, VE1WIN, we missed you on the first roll Uh, how was your weekend, Peter? And, uh, what are you doing this week? This is KC2, PKG Yeah, very good, Greg, VE1WIN I'm having internet issues here, so I don't know what's going on here, and it's in the news, so Uh, when are you going on the weekend? Not much Yeah, we got a family barbecue today We got about, uh, 40 to 50 people coming So, there you go And this week, I don't have any plans at all, Greg, so Back to you, Greg VE1WIN, you said you were going to be one and done Or you want us to just call you and see if your internet is still running? Uh, put me down as one and done, Greg I'll check in later once I figure out what's wrong with it, so It's only quarter to nine here, so they give some titles I want to recheck later I will You shall have it, okay Um, this is KC2, PKG, and I'm doing a call for check-ins for the Monday morning edition of the Cowabunga Net Uh, come now with your call sign This is KC2, PKG This is KC2, KN6, UIC, John, transfer commander KN6, UIC Located in Shelton, Washington"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T04:57:16+00:00","id":13975,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13974,"text":" Alright, we've got three more stations. We've got KN6UYZ crew. Rancho Cucamonga. AA4HI. Chuck joins us here. And we've got Gary. M-N-0-R-K-N. Very excited about that list. Okay. KN6UYZ. Um, how was your weekend? Have you got plans for the week? Something going on? This is KC2-PTG. Over to you. KN6UYZ. Uh, good morning everybody. KN6UYZ. Uh, good to hear everyone out there. Just got out of, just rolled out of bed. Barely. What time is it? Quarter to, uh, quarter to five here in California. Well, uh, Eat With Fingers. Uh, that sort of hit a bell. Well, uh, I went to a restaurant called Dama Creve in Los Angeles quite a few years ago. And they didn't provide silverware. No silverware at all. We ordered a dish called Lemon Chicken and it comes out as a whole chicken. In fact, we ordered two of them. And there were four people. And one person was designated the person to tear the chicken apart in pieces with their hands. And it was sort of a hot chicken to boot so it was sort of a problem. And rice and olives and, uh, so the one person tore things apart into sort of bite-sized pieces. Sort of boning it at the same time. And, uh, everybody jumped in at the table. We were sitting on pillows with a small, low table in front of us. And, uh, that's how we ate dinner. It was, uh, different. Seeing internet pictures of people eating with their hands is a little gross. Uh, so yeah, not my, not my thing. And then somebody mentioned salmon. Was that Josh? Salmon, yeah. Love salmon. Salmon and rice. Salmon and rice bowls, that kind of thing. Uh, great. But, you know, the last time I bought salmon it was almost tasteless. And I don't know, that was the grocery store. I don't know how to really, I don't know how you get good salmon to ensure that you're getting the right thing. Because they paint salmon, right? They paint them painted orange. They make it look like it's, uh, the color is right. I don't know. There's two or three different grades of salmon in the grocery store and I have no idea which one to get. So that's sort of a problem for me. Maybe somebody knows the right way to do it. That's all I have for this round. KN6UYZ, back to that. The only way to get salmon is come to Newfoundland and catch your own. You're allowed two per year with a $20 salmon fishing license. North Atlantic salmon. Yum, yum. Get you some. Alright, KN6UYZ. This is KC2PKG. Yes, salmon. When we were traveling in Alaska, um, I remember pulling into, uh, Fred Meyers. And, uh, going over to the fish counter and the salmon was so red you could see it across the store. It was just amazing. Um, we, Peter had a comment and I walked right by him. So I've got to go talk to Peter now. Peter, what's your comment? This is KC2PKG."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T05:07:27+00:00","id":13976,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13975,"text":" W0GL, I'm sorry, so it's up to you. Okay, I have a comment about eating rice. I thought this is how it was done, but I looked it up anyways just to make sure. But for eating rice, you put the bowl up to your mouth and you scoop or shovel the rice into your mouth depending on the stickiness. So that's how you eat rice with chopsticks. W0GL, victim out. Alright, W0GL, this is KC2PKG. Now we're going to go on the truck, AA4HI. Chuck, how was your weekend, ma'am? And you have plans for the week? Something going on? When is your son coming home? He should be arriving home pretty soon, shouldn't he? This is KC2PKG, over to you, AA4HI. Craig, he's home. Take him up to the water. He's home. Keep him up in Washington, DC. Anyway, it's something weird in the tour park when a dog comes out and tries to bite a rider, but the motorcycle will scare you all behind. No one wants to get chased by a dog when on a bicycle, especially when you're going down a road like 25 miles an hour. But anyway, he's home. He's glad to be home. He's finally getting not being so tired of jet lag and walking so much. He had a great time. And I'm glad to get to see a lot of the world. And I've been on HF working a lot of parks on the air, photo stations, CW, iPhone. And also, it cooled off great. We've had a few days of cool weather. I don't know whether or not it's going to get back, I think Thursday. But good time to work on the antennas. I get to get that Delta Loop up higher. You know, if I didn't feel like getting out there, the wind is so hot and gray. I mean, it's just a musical. For two months, it's been like that. So with the cooler air, it makes you want to get back outside and do something. Look at that drop. So anyway, I'm throwing the doobie out there and take that coaxial cable out of that 20-meter Delta Loop and bring it back to a cleaner balance outside. So I can get it up higher because I didn't have any more coaxial cable. And I can tell I need it to work anywhere other than 20 and 10. So that's kind of the fun about it. I've been enjoying HF a lot. I hope you've been enjoying your FTX1. I know a lot of people want those things. And there's a lot of hype around like is everything when it comes out. And you got some saying, no, no, no, I like the 705 better. It's lighter. But you can't beat something with two bands and two antenna ports. You know, I say two bands at once and two antenna ports. So I think it's pretty darn cool. And anyway, life goes back to work this month sometime. Because it's back to school month here, anyway, down south. So there's a lot going on here. I'm glad to work at my dad's house. You know, helping him out. All he does is cruise a lot more. You know, that's his thing now. He'll pay his price a couple times a week. You know, he's got sprinklers and hiss. What he likes doing. But everything's going pretty good down here. Coming back with your gray A4 chair. This is redo. A4, A9, this is Casey, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, I am having a lot of fun. It's my next one. I use it every day. It's my second way into the net. And I can tell the hell. Because it's got so many indicators. It runs a waterfall display. It's called a waterfall going up display. It's in 3D. It has an oscilloscope display. And it has a fast pore-ne-er transform. Fast pore-ne-er transform. So I get to see everything about what you're saying. The entire audio spectrum is represented by that. It's cool. It's very cool. I love this screen though. Alright, Terry. MM0, R, A, N. Are you still going for an FTX1? Or are you waiting and biding your time? This is Casey 2, PKG. Terry, I wish you a weekend. Good. MM0, R, A, N. Return as well. Good morning, Gray. Good morning to everybody on the net. I'm going to hear everybody today. Firstly, the FTX1F. Funny you should mention that, Gray. I actually ordered one last night. I've decided to order the Optima. I spent several months watching videos, good and bad reviews. I just like doing it. I think it looks great. I like the versatility. Obviously, I go to the caravan quite frequently, my sister's caravan. I think it would be quite a good go-box radio as well as the C-3. I can see a lot of uses for me personally for using it. I just like the dual-band feature as well. The more videos I've watched, I think the more I talk to my health into it. One of the UK radio deals, a family has got stock direct from Yesu, Japan. It should be shipping. They're getting a load of them in shipping in the next week or so. I'm a little bit hoping that I manage to get one from that batch. If not, I'll just bide my time and wait out till it is available. There we go. That was my big purchase last night. My weekend was quite peaceful to go on a screen. My son and my husband, they were at a truck show on Saturday in Edinburgh. I did some of the stuff. I came home and just enjoyed some of the sunshine we had. Yesterday, I was actually attending coming on the East Nae and the worldwide friendship. I was locked in and I was sitting in my living room on the sofa. I know these off. I fell asleep for about two hours yesterday having an afternoon news there. I got up and I was just sitting there. I was just sitting there. I fell asleep for about two hours yesterday having an afternoon news there. Hang on, I'll take any hit. I must be getting to that age where I'm starting to need this afternoon nap. Hi, hi. My apologies. I've maybe not been on quite as regularly as I usually am. We're still in the school holiday period. I've been telling it out and about. I'm not talking as well, but it's been a bit of a juggle from time to time getting round everything. It still goes back to on the 14th of August. Normal service will resume, so that will be that. I was listening to Josh saying that he's on a healthy eating plan. I too have started on healthy eating. My eating was just getting a little bit out of control. I was getting a little too full and eating the bad stuff. I studied last week on my healthy eating and I've lost five pounds in weight. I'm quite pleased with that. It's working. I can do it if I set my mind to it. It taught me that the salmon actually will enjoy salmon as well. We're quite lucky in Scotland. We have lovely fresh water salmon here. We're quite renowned for our salmon actually. People actually come here to salmon fish. They eat salmon and think salmon's from here is lovely. They're a quite big fan of salmon there. Anyway, Mm0rkn, but they need control. Mm0rkn, this is KC2PTG. While you're waiting for your FTX10 rod, take a look at some of the accessories. I got one, which is kind of a taste for it. It's really a framework with handles on it and stuff like that. It makes it much easier to pick it up and move it around. It's just a big brick. I got that on it. It looks cool and it directs the sound a little bit better when it's got that on. It looks like it's in fall without getting hurt, which could happen. I'm happy with that. I'm still waiting for the Bluetooth chip and the GPS to come for mine. Those seem to be in short supply. Although I may have to go back and check and see if I actually did order those or did I just zone out in the middle of that. All right. Well, it's good to hear from you, Carrie. That's great, and you lost weight too. Unbelievable. Good for you. All right. Let's see if anybody else wants to get in on the Monday morning version of the cowabunga net and then we can get going. Come now with your call sign. This is KC2PKG. Join the conversation. We're dying to hear from you. Come now with your call sign. Remember, 9 Oscar Foxtrot, uniform in 9LFU. KM4GBC Kilo Mike 4 Quebec Bravo Charlie, Jeff North Carolina."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T05:18:03+00:00","id":13977,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13976,"text":" And I think we got another three here, although I see N8YQJ. Ralph, out there, did you want to check in, Ralph? Yeah, I must have doubled. Yep, I sure tried to. N8YQJ? All right, well, we'll give you a minute to collect your thoughts and we'll go to Bill. N9, OFU, Bill, is that truck of yours moving again? This is KC2PKG, how was your weekend? And what's your plans for the week? Yeah, I hope not. I'm not in the truck right now. It's moving, I'm in trouble. But we are on the road. We're back heading down towards Las Vegas for delivery and then California for pickup. We'll come back up and then eventually get the next load afterwards down to Vegas so we can get back to Phoenix. The student was supposed to test out on Wednesday, but we're going to end up having to move it to Thursday or Friday because of this load that we took going down to California. But she's the one that pushed the button. She goes, we can take that. And I said, yeah, but if we take that, then we're going to have to change your schedule for your test. She goes, that's fine. Change it. So I said, all right, well, I'll let you do it then. So we are on the roll. I just stopped here at the truck stop. Well, to take a quick little nap. My hip's been getting back to normal. Still a little off, but without all the excessive pain and everything going shooting down through my leg. So happy about that. But I stopped to take a nap and did that. Didn't want to get up. But I finally got up and I'm cooking a soup real quick for a meal. Then I'm going to get back, head and south and be home by the end of the week. And my next student is in school. She graduates on Friday. So pick her up probably Saturday or Sunday the 7th, which we end up getting back. But keep me on the list. I'll be here for the rest of the night. And I know a few back to KC2 to KG. And I know a few. This is Casey to KG. Well, it sounds like you got a really good student this time. That's great. That is great news. And let's talk to Jeff since we haven't heard from him in forever. So can for QBC is a case to P.K.G. How was your weekend? And got plans for the week. This is Casey to P.K.G. Good morning. Casey to P.K.G. Good morning. Can for QBC. Everything's good in western North Carolina. And we've been camping. Camping for a week at the local campground here. I tried to check in there a time or two. But the service is just not that great. And then I worked for a week and it was extremely busy. So I ended up sleeping in most of the mornings. And then we went to camp. And last week I was at a primitive campground. There's no service over there too. So I did come out a couple of evenings. I texted Bill, maybe and Daryl. It was a big mess because it rained all week. The thing was soaking wet. We got home yesterday. We had a good time but it was just extremely wet. Anyway, so that's the last three weeks. That's what I've been doing. Camping, work, camping. So I'm back now. I've got work Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday this week. Anyway, Q.B.L.S. Great camp for QBC. Hope you're well. Camp for QBC. I am well. This is KC2PKG. Let's go to Ralph. N8YQJ. Ralph, what's going on? And would you pronounce his name? O-N-O-N-D-A-G-A in Michigan. How do you pronounce that? This is KC2PKG. It'll be U. N8YQJ. Okay, very good. Wish they'd give all of you and everybody else into the net. And that is pronounced on Hana-daga. Hana-daga. Just a small little town out in the middle of nowhere here in Michigan. Had two bars. A post office. They did put a dollar store in. Family Dollar. It's been here for about two years now. But it'll end a gas station. And that's about it. So the biker bar burnt down a couple of years ago. So, and they decided not to rebuild. But as a resident of Michigan, it didn't matter if you rode, if you didn't ride, if you lived a long ways away from Hana-daga, everybody knew about OTs. It was a decent bar. When I first started hanging out out here with Pam, we went up there to get some lunch. And we ordered two trikes, which is a two-wheel drive. And I think we drank four beers. You know, maybe five. Because I think I drank three and she drank two. And the bill wasn't 20 bucks. And I'm going, wow. I think I could fall in love with this place. But I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I think I could fall in love with this place. But Hana-daga, we did have a Hana-daga drag strip. That is like about two miles from the house. But it shut down and it reopened and shut down again. But that was what this little town was known for too. People would come to Hana-daga for the drag races. So we have a problem with the young kids drag racing in Lansing. And there's been a lot of accidents. So when they reopened the drag strip, he posted on social media, come out here. We'll let you drag race for free. And so I don't know what happened, why they shut the drag strip back down. But I'm kind of sad to see it go. But yeah, it's pronounced Hana-daga. Let me buy a second. OK. Pam bought this place, oh, I don't know, five years ago. And she's got 11 acres out here. And it's just nice. Nice area. So it's nice because we're waiting. It's 30 minutes from Lansing, the capital city, and 30 minutes from Jackson. So we're right in between two major cities. So that's what I like about it. You need to go to Blows or Home Depot or something and pick something up that'll be not that far. 30 minutes from my workplace. So it just all kind of works out pretty good. Clay, I should be around so you can keep me on the list. Back to you. All right, it ain't white, TJ. This is KC2PKG, and I've got a good plan to plug here. I believe my headset is dying. All right. All right, well, we'll get one more call for check-ins. And then we're going to play some 20 questions. So sharpen up. Remember your team if you'd like to get on the Monday morning edition of the Cowabunga Net. Come out here, guys. We'll be right back. All right, so we're going to play some 20 questions. The Monday morning edition of the Cowabunga Net, come out with your call sign. I am KC2PKG."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T05:20:33+00:00","id":13978,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13977,"text":" KN4 at OBS, this is D. Is it in Asia? KN4 at OBS. This is repeater station. KN4 at OBS, it is not in Asia. All starts at OBS. KN4 at OBS, it is not in Asia. Uh, KJ5, IRQ, what's your question, Josh? Uh, let's see, let's find that most efficient way to narrow this down, huh? KJ5, IRQ. If it's, uh, going to my countries would take a while. Golden continents would be quicker. Uh, there's only seven of them. And I think we can probably rule out and on it, huh? Or it might be a good one to pay for it, would you? Um, so that's gonna leave six contacts. So we can't really do it by a climate because it almost sort of gets hot and almost sort of gets cold. Yes, contacts are probably, that's probably the easiest way. Um, let's go with, uh, oil in Europe. Is it a place in Europe? No, it is not. It is not in Europe. That was the third question and we go to Ron, AA4HL, what is your question, Ron? Okay, uh, is it related to a country? It is definitely related to a country. To a country. Alright, so it's not in the US, it's not Asia, not Europe. And it is related to a country. Um, we've been around it all. KN6UYZ, what is your question? This is KC2PKG. Alright, well, KN6UYZ, how about South America? It is not in South America. Next one is AA4HI. AA4HI, what is your question? Chuck, what is your question? Is it in Oceania? Oh, New Zealand and Australia, that area. No, it is not in Oceania. I hardly ever hear anybody say that. Oceania, but you're right, it's not there. It is definitely not there. So, uh, Terry, MM0RKN, what is your question? What is your question? MM0RKN, is it a desert-like place? Yes, it definitely qualifies as a desert-like place. Alright, and then we go to Bill, N90FU. Oh, yeah, you got it on key. Alright, excuse me, so it's a desert-y, is it somewhere in the Middle East? Is it in the East? Is it in the East? Is it in the East? Desert-y, is it somewhere in the Middle East? Yes, it is, it is in the Middle East. Alright, we move on down to Jeff Cam for QBC. I don't know if you've played this game before, but we're playing 20 questions, we're trying to narrow down the place I'm looking for. And so far, it's not in the US, it's not in Asia, not Europe, it's related to a country. It's not South America, not Oceania, and it is in a desert-like place, and I'm gonna tell Bill that it is in the Middle East. So what's your question? Is it Saudi Arabia? No, it is not Saudi Arabia, although it is close by. Okay, so it's not Saudi Arabia. And A, Y, Q, J, Ralph, what is your question? This is KC2PKG. Oh, me? Okay, so what's your question?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T05:21:18+00:00","id":13979,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13978,"text":" I know I heard that name before. It must be the drag strip. That used to be a motorhead. Of ill repute. All right, so this says we are looking for, in this 20 question, a place. A place on this planet. So, don't want to give it away. So we'll go right back to the top of the list. Remember, you're narrowing it down. You're narrowing it down. Peter, I mean, sorry. Terrell, V01, UKZ. What's your question? You say, what's my question, Grey? Go ahead. Yeah, what's your question? You have to question me to figure out what place I'm talking about. Ahem. So it's over to you. Oh, I've got you. 20 questions. Never do good at these bloody things. Is it in the United States? Good question. No, it is not. All right, we go to D-KM4LBS. We are looking for a place that's not in the United States."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T05:21:54+00:00","id":13980,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13979,"text":" Specifically the Gaza Strip, but I'll accept Gaza. That's good, man. Eleven questions, you nailed it. I'm very impressed. Very impressed. Okay. And you guys are starting to narrow things down, which is real important. So with that, I'll make one more call for check-ins. Good game, guys. And then we'll get on to the big questions. And I hope you guys have looked at them. But right now, I'm going to see if anybody else wants to get in. On the Monday morning edition of Carol Bonganette, the Monday, August 4th version, come in with your call sign. This is KC2-PKG."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T05:22:33+00:00","id":13981,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13980,"text":" That's question number 10. Go to question number 11. Gee, KN4LBF, what is your question? This is KN4LBF. Is it Africa? No, it is not Africa. Okay, and after that, we go to KN4LBF. Okay, and after that, we go to KJ5IRQ. What is your question, Josh? You know, KJ5IRQ, I was sitting here talking with my wife, and I was going to call it and see if I'm right, because I had a separate moment, and I don't think anybody said it. But as you're please call me, I was going to do that right off the bat, but I thought maybe that's what it was, and I didn't want to end the game that quickly. Is your name, is your, is this place, doesn't?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T05:22:44+00:00","id":13982,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13981,"text":" Hey, YQJ, are you still out there?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T05:23:01+00:00","id":13983,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13982,"text":" Alright, we got called away or something, so we'll go back to the top of the list. Uh, this is gonna be the tenth question. We got twenty. So, Daryl, D-O-1, UKZ, what is your question? Uh, is it the UAE?"},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T05:23:26+00:00","id":13984,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13983,"text":" KI 7 ODD that was the highest squeakiest interference I've ever heard and it was also very fast. So you may want to check your connection if you're hearing this anyway and see if we can get a much clearer audio from you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T05:24:57+00:00","id":13985,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13984,"text":" Alright, nothing hard, KI-70DD. We'll try again, though. I'm gonna put you down. We've heard that before, and I can't remember who had it, but that kind of distortion is, it reminds me of somebody doing the same thing. Alright, let's get on to the questions here. And that would be, the first question, there it is, good. A lot of us were pair stuff. And we restored the cabinets, chairs. When I was quitting smoking one time, I started to scrape all the white paint off of the kitchen chairs we had, they're big wooden kitchen chairs. And it really helped, I just kept my hands busy the whole time and I was not smoking, and then I got it all done and sat in a chair and fell apart completely. It just collapsed into me. So I wasn't too proud of that one. But I'm asking you about something that you've repaired or restored that you are proud of. You think you did a good job on it, and it really worked out for you. Let's start off with Darrell, B01UKZ. What have you repaired or restored, Darrell? This is KG2PKG, over to you, B01UKZ. Mostly computers, electronics, got some drywall over the years. Anything that's got like a flashable firmware. Android phones. Oh God, man, pretty much anything tech related, I pretty much have my hands in at one point or another. I fixed a repeater recently. Got the repeater up and running again. So lots of stuff to be fixing and getting going. My ride will be here in about a second. I'm taking over with me. No second about it, he's already in the driveway but yeah, that'll be my answer, Gray. B01UKZ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:04:12+00:00","id":13986,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13985,"text":" The 01 UKZ, you have a smooth ride and an easy shot. In the meantime, we're going to go to the KN4LBF. J, what have you repaired or restored that you think you did a pretty good job on? It's over to you, D. This is KC2PKG. This is KN4LBF. This is D. It was something very simple, but I am proud of it. When my parents died, they had this Asian 3D face made of porcelain. It's about two feet long and one feet wide. And I'm looking at it. And through the years, it's about 75 years old right now, it looked like it needed a little uplift. So the figure on top hat is a female, and it had a crown on top of her head. And I repainted the crown gold and just her sleeve gold. And the retouch was amazing. It just made an amazing improvement how it looked. And I'm just looking at it right now. And I'm pretty proud of it. Back to you, Gray. This is KN4LBF. KN4LBF. This is KC2PKG. Porcelain. Have you repaired or restored porcelain? That sounds very hard. It really does. And the fact that you painted it and you're proud of it, that's great. That is great news. Josh, PJ5IRQ, what's something that you either repaired or restored that you're particularly proud of the job you did? This is KC2PKG. Open to you, Josh. PJ5IRQ. KC2PKG. This is KJ5 on cue. Something I would have had that I'm particularly proud of, oh, gosh, I remodeled a house before. That was pretty cool. I'd say I remodeled houses around here. And the houses are houses, I should especially clarify that. I've repaired a lot of things. KitchenAid. My wife loves the KitchenAid mixer. And all year after we bought our, I think it was our second one, it went out like the first one. I was getting really frustrated with it. So I did some digging around. And it's the brushings. I don't know why I didn't think about that with the first one. I fell a fool because I threw the first one away for like $20. I got to replace the brushings and kept the first one. I replaced the KitchenAid with some good brushings. And gosh, it's been years. And it's still working just fine. She uses it all the time. That was personally a good fix. KitchenAid mixes, you know the cream and galakop, at least that's what I was really concerned. There ain't no point in paying more money than that for something that does the same thing. Let's see. I do have a project coming up. As soon as it starts cooling off into the fall, rather I want to be outside all day every day. We have an old family bench. Joseph E. Ford built this bench. Not that y'all would know him, but he happened to be one of the first people in the Middle of Wales to open the store. And she's got to give you an idea how old this bench is. I have an actual picture of him in this last sitting on it. It is 1888. It's over the rock. It was my grandparents, of course. It got passed down to me. And it's an old, bad shape. I mean, it is a bad shape. But we're going to look into repairing it. I want to keep it as original as possible with as much wood as possible. So I may end up using clear epoxy or something to fill in some voids. But the idea is to bring it back to a shade of a swirly void. I can't tell you how many seeds of the fence people in my family have sat in that bench over the years. I mean, if some of them could tell a story, wouldn't you love to sit and have that word pour out the stories since, at least in my family since the late 1880s? Man, talk about an explosion of lighting ideas. Anyhow, yeah, so that's coming up. That bench, I'm really excited about it. The only thing I don't know is who gets it after me. I've got two boys and a daughter. And it's always stayed with somebody with a last name before it. So I'm sure it will stay with my boys. And I sure it won. And so I'm going to see who ends up at the house in a safe place for it. And that's probably who will get it. Sorry, I had to reset for a second. I was running out of time. Anyhow, that's it. I'll send it back to you, KJ5. I'll help you back to KG2PKG. KJ5 IRQ, this is KG2PKG. A bench, a family bench. That sounds cool. That sounds cool. I'd love to see a picture of that. KI7ODD, I see you in the text box. You want to give it a shot now? Tell us how your weekend was. Maybe tell us about something you restored or repaired that you're particularly proud of. Over to you, KI7ODD. This is KG2PKG. This is better now. This is KI7ODD. KI2KC2PKG. I actually am thinking, let me think. Oh, yeah. I restored stuff before that. My squeaky here is my fan. It just squeaks, squeaks, squeaks. So don't worry about that. I should have read this text thing. Ah, never again. All right, I hope my audio's better. I'm sorry about earlier. It was my rig. I need a new one. I need a new rig. Gosh darn it. All right. What I did yesterday was I was thinking about beading, playing with my, getting my crafting done. I did some sewing last weekend, but this weekend I am going to go on and be at the Idaho State Convention for ham radio this year, which is going to be awesome. I hope I get the 7800 icon. I hope I get it. Just hopefully I can get it this time. I don't, I don't. I can't, I couldn't even sleep last night. Sorry about that interference earlier. All right, have a good day guys and gals. Okay, this is KI 7 ODD, Murray in Spokane, Washington. KI 7 ODD, I'm Murray. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. That, your audio sounded fine. That time it was perfect going through there. So I've got you on the list. We'll be hitting you again. And Steve, N0BF, I've got you on the list too. We're just going to keep working down the way we're doing it. DA 4 HO. Ron, is there something that you repaired that you are particularly proud of? So what do you do? A4 HO, this is KC 2. Yeah, you know, you might remember me talking about, you know, when I redid the bathroom and the shower, I put caulking and you're supposed to put silicone on it, and I put silicone on it. And I put silicone on it. And I put silicone on it. And I put silicone on it. And I put silicone on it. And I put silicone on it. And I'm supposed to put silicone. And then I, you know, when it started leaking underneath, I had to get all of that out and redo it and put silicone in there. But that's really nice. You know, I got granite top on the, you know, the sink, new sink and toilet, completely new shower. And it's really nice. I did the water heater and the copper pipe I had left over, I made myself a UHF antenna that I use with my All Star Network. Whenever I'm on my mobile rig or HT and I'm on All Star, the signal goes through the antenna before you hear me on here if I was to do that. And I got one of those nano-VNA's to make sure, you know, it was resonant at the right frequency. That I needed it at. All kinds of things. The vehicle I drive now is new. The one before that, even though this was an upgrade, it had all of the features because I put in a lot of aftermarket stuff. The GPS I added and a whole mess of things. The side rails to step into it. Of that I do, but I didn't have to do that with this last vehicle I just bought. You know, because it came with it all. But I did install and put the automatic garage door opener in. And that I'm pretty proud of. It works really good. Now I just drive up to the house and I don't even go out the front door anymore when I take the car. You know, it's in and out through the garage. The door opens, pull the car in, door goes down, come in through the garage now. If I think about it, there's a lot of stuff. Except for the stuff, you know, I don't have the tools for it. I have to pay somebody to do it. AA4HO, Ron Nirma, Florida, back to you, Gray and Nick. AA4HO, this is KC2PKG. And it is all the something with the house. You know, I lived in a house in Morristown for 30 years. And I can't tell you how many weekends I spent either under the car or working on the house or cleaning up that yard. It was just endless, endless. I'm so glad to be out of that. Because I don't like any of that stuff. As it turns out, it's kind of fun to create things. It's kind of fun to repair places. But when you're doing it in all your free time, I built a car there. An Aztec 7 from FiberFab, which goes on a Volkswagen chassis. And that would best two years of my life. I'm never going to get back. I went to sleep, because it's fiberglass, I went to sleep crunchy every night. It was just terrible. My wife hated it. Alright, KN6UYZ. What have you repaired or restored that you're particularly proud of? Okay, John, this is KC2PKG. Over to you. KN6UYZ, thanks so much for having me as usual. Yeah, you know, in 1970 I bought a Corvette. And, you know, come around 1974 or 5, the car needed a great job. And so I decided to take care of it myself. And jacked up each tire individually at the house. And decided I'd grab a screwdriver and place it between the calipers and the rotors and pry the brakes apart so I could insert a new pad on all four wheels. Well, that worked great. Good job. Padded myself on the back. I took off in that car and next thing I know, I know, the brakes were pushing all the way to the floor. I had to have that car towed back to the dealership and it cost me $1500 in 1975 to have that brake job done properly. Apparently you're supposed to relieve the pressure in the system, in the brake fluid system because I didn't do that before pulling everything apart and losing the, and I blew the seals and all the pistons. And this is a dual caliper system. And it was very expensive. I don't know what $1500 in today's money might be, but it was a problem. So with the exception of not being proud about my brake job, yeah, that's one of my better jobs. Back in that K and 6 UYZ. K and 6 UYZ. Boy, that brought back memories. This is KC2, PKG. I used to always do my own brakes and all of that stuff. And what it leads to is you're driving down the highway two states away from your house and you're thinking to yourself, did I put that spring back in? In the left rear tire? Did I put that spring in? Those were my thoughts after working on my car almost every single time. I was like, I don't remember. And of course, the first brake takes three hours. And the second one takes two hours. Third one, you know, takes about an hour and a half and the fourth one is over so fast you can't remember if you put the spring in or not. It just gets better and better as you go around. Alright, AA-4HI. Chuck, what have you restored or repaired that you are particularly proud of? It's over to you Chuck, AA-4HI. This is KC2, PKG. This is repeater station key low. We had some heads up and some chairs and last night I had to figure that out. And it took a long time. A lot of winter to get on the fingers. It's just about all done. And I want to do it again now. I can understand why people charge so much to do it. You know, time and of course it's just too easy to work. But, um, you have to wear your guns, you know. It just takes a while to do things. Yeah, it is. Anything you're rushing through sometimes it's just not going to be the way you expected it. So, um, anyway, same with the old antennas I like to try out, to build. I mean, you just have to think about it, give it a shot. If not, repurpose it. But, uh, the chairs I think are the best thing where you're wrong. So, what I've done in handling them, they took a long time. They done, throughout the summer just working on them. You know, when she was out. So, uh, anyway, that would be it. Back on to you, AA4-HI. AA4-HI, this is KC2-PKG, Wicker work. That's weaving, weaving with Wicker. That is a big job, especially if you've never done it before. Because you have to figure out what the pattern is. And then kind of trace it back. And a lot of those things, as I remember, the Wicker is fastened with a wooden peg. You know, it goes in, you put the Wicker in the hole and then you pound it in a little piece of wood to hold it there. Yours may work differently, but the ones that I worked on, that's what you had to do. And you had to get that peg out first. Um, it's not specialized, but it is trying. It's very trying, I think. MM0RKN, Gary, when you repaired or restored, you think you did a pretty good job on. It's KC2-PKG over to MM0RKN. MM0RKN returning. Well, Gary, very frequently, I have to repair and restore Lego figures that have broken various Lego models. Cabs, trucks, DAF, radar, all sorts. So quite good at fixing those when they've been knocked over or accidentally dropped. So frequently, do not a bad job of getting them back together. But on another note, I really enjoy restoring Kenny Oak furniture. One thing that I did was an ottoman, many years ago, not enough. But it was one of these ottomans that would store, you know, bed sheets and that could be at the end of the bed. And it was very old, and it seemed better days, but I actually managed to sand it all down, repainted it all, then put a nice kind of fabric, soft cushion on top, and managed to turn that into a sort of storage box come window seat. So that was one of my things that I was quite pleased about in the past. But recently, not so much time really to do a lot of repairing and restoring. I was going to put it in front of my son's PC. He said that I had to play one of his games, and I couldn't get it fixed, so I basically had to do a complete refresh of his laptop. I think he's overloaded it with too many DLCs. So we're going to go back to the start again. So yeah, I'm repairing that. Hopefully I'll do a good job. MM0RK in. Back to you there, Gray in the net. MM0RK in. This is KC2PKG. That's what I used to do for a living. Put people's workstations back together. After they just put something dumb on it, or they had a problem of some kind or another, reallocating memory, and all of that stuff. I'm glad I don't do that anymore. I really am. Alright. Bill, N9OFU, what have you repaired or restored? Do you think you did a pretty good job on it? Over to you, Bill. N9OFU. This is KC2PKG. Alright, I've been trying to think, trying to think, trying to think. And most of the things I'm coming up with is just, you know, things I've put together, you know, like furniture, you know. I love Ikea. Some of that's been pretty intricate when you get into some of these. I'm trying to think. Like the, well the cabinets, I don't know if the cabinets, but the drawers and stuff. Getting all that lined up properly and put together when it's got, you know, two or three different sections, an open section. I'm trying to remember, I know I've done my repairs or in battle. It always seems like something needs to be fixed, put together, or repaired at the house. But nothing really stands out that I really floated over. It's just, you know, it needs to be fixed to fix it. And that's all I can think of at this time. Sorry, I'm just not coming up with anything. Alright, N9OSU. Not to worry about it. KC2, PKG. Bringing that Ikea stuff together, I found one of the neatest tricks was to take the Allen wrench that they give you and saw it off, saw the curved part off, the bend in it off, and then put it in a drill or a driver. And then things go much faster. I'm turning that little Allen wrench. Alright, KM4QBC. You do a lot of repair and restoration, Jeff. Council, what's one project, or two if you want, that you're particularly proud of, that you really think you did a great job? It's over to you. KM4QBC. This is KC2, PKG. KC2, PKG, KM4QBC. Well, great. One thing that came to mind, my wife and I both worked on this, like Josh was talking. My grandpa's old house was a really neat place for me to hang out. I had a CB radio in there. That's before I got into ham radio. Anyway, long story short, the old house was just a plank-mored house, you know, back in the mountains. And a big tree fell right through the middle of it, so we salvaged what we could out of it. And I got all the windows and doors. And my wife and I, I still got a bunch of windows that are the way of the house when I first got them, but we sanded these window panes down into the old six panes. They got six panes in them, and you know, the glazing and all that. So we redid those and repainted them, and we put pictures of our family in there and hung them on the wall. So we're really proud of those, and it's really a special thing. Plus our Volkswagens. My son and I are working on an old bug now, so pretty proud of that one. That's you, Gray. That's a couple. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November-November. I thought you were led with the Volkswagens. Is that the one you're working on now? Is it the black bug? Back to you just for a second here. KN4QBC. The black one was actually done by somebody else, but you know, a Volkswagen's clear there's always something in there to work on. So, excuse me, we have done a little work on the motor, done a little work on the interior. Used to touch it up to make it a little better than it was, you know. So the next thing I'm going to do is just a little more work on the motor. I'm thinking I'm going to put a new carburetor on there and probably a new Kilo. So, just to make it a little sharper, because I'm going to start driving it to work this time of year, when hopefully it starts to cool down. And next month or so, after August anyway, I'll be driving it to work in the day and in the night. Can't drive that thing in the summertime, it's just so hot. You can drive it in the evening some, but it's just so hot here in the summer. It's hard to drive in that time of year, but it's fun at certain times, but when it gets up at about night and you're in that thing, you're like being in a sauna, I guess. You can't wear the work clothes down the road and be all sweaty and going into work there. Anyway, back to you, KN4QBC. KN4QBC, Volkswagen repair guy. It's good. I think Volkswagens are really cool. And I could kick myself for when I finally ended up in a car that I didn't have a Volkswagen van. I mean, they're the coolest. They really are. And I think back on that time I was thinking, oh man, I went out of the hotel room. Wherever I went, you know, I didn't need to sleep inside, I could sleep in a car. Which is a fun thing when you're a kid to do. Maybe not so much now. Any of YQJ, Ralph, are you out there? We're asking people what is a project that they've worked on where they restored or repaired something and they're particularly proud of it. Ralph, hey, YQJ, over to you."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:07:31+00:00","id":13987,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13986,"text":" It doesn't sound like Ralph's still around. He's on the list, so we'll keep trying him. Um, Steve, you just joined our list here, N0BF. Something that you were paired or restored, that you're particularly proud of. Over to you, Steve, and tell us how your weekend was. N0BF, this is KC2PPG. This is N0BF. Checking in Cleveland, Ohio, and I'm glad you picked me up. They're great. Been out here. I got here by the train, went to New York, Buffalo, New York, and then got a car, drove back to Cleveland. Had a big birthday party here. Some family, and then we are gonna head back with the cousins here at Buffalo and hit the train back next week. So that's what's going on here. That's how the, I guess, weekends slash weeks slash days, whatever, it's going that way. Great. You want to know the accomplishment. Wow, I don't know. I'm thinking over my past 80-some years, and one of my, I guess, the first thing that came to my mind is I was so happy. I've ruined a lot of things, fixing them, but that's how you learn how it works. And I'm so happy. I'm so happy to learn how it works. Anyway, I bought a little 56 Chevy when I was a kid, a high school kid. I rented a Shilton's manual out of the library. Check it out. And I read through that thing over the winter, and I rebuilt that car, engine and all, with pistons, oversize pistons, rings, and bearings, all kinds of stuff. Anyway, I didn't know what I was doing, but I took screwdrivers and pulleys and stuff, pulled it apart, and put it back together, and I'll be danged if I didn't have a car for high school. Anyway, this is M0BF. Back to that. M0BF, that's pretty good. That is pretty good. Wow. And it actually ran. You rebuilt the engine. Yeah, the Shilton guides. My god. I was always thumbing my way through a Shilton guide. And they're good. They really are very good. There was a garage in Boston, in Harvard Square. And it was run by two brothers. And they finally got on the radio. And they were on NPR for the longest time. What were they called? I can't remember. Click and Clack the Capit Brothers, they call themselves. And you could go to this garage, and you'd have a full garage with a lift and tools and all that stuff. And they would just rent you that space. Plus, there would always be someone there who knew a lot more than you did about how to do something. So I did replace headlights. I brought it over there and parked it in there, and raised it up a couple of inches so it was easier to work on. And I went through and replaced all the headlights with, well, Krypton bulbs, I believe is what they were. And it was cool. It was like having a brand new car. Although I got stopped by a cop who said I needed to put American lights in it. And I was like, really? So I had to take them out. But they weren't very cool. They were hella halogen. That's what it was. They were hella halogen bulbs. All right, we got down to the bottom of the list. If anybody else wants to get in on the conversation or somebody feels left out, should shout out right now. This is KC2PKG. You are listening to the Saturday, the Monday morning cowabunga net. And we're waiting to hear from you. So come now with your call sign. W0TL, with a comment."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:12:45+00:00","id":13988,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13987,"text":" Alright, we picked up George, that's good. We did get something from Marie there, just for a second. But she didn't say anything. So we will go back to the top of the list and we'll go on to the next question. I was looking for something, I was sitting on the couch looking for something that is common to all people. Or most people. In the way of food. I want to try and ask a food question every Monday. And this one is about meatloaf. And I want to know, do you like meatloaf? Do you make it? And how do you make it? And what's your favorite kind? So tell me all you know about meatloaf. And we're going to start with Gerald, V01UKZ. Over to you Gerald, tell me all about your meatloaf. Hey, I gotta confess man. I was just watching a video and I was caught up in it. Can you guys get blueberry pie Oreos in the States? I just searched online, apparently they're not in Canada yet. But apparently they are a thing. I just saw someone eating them in a short video and they looked absolutely delicious. They've got like the white Oreo in the cookie part instead of the black one. And they got blueberry pie filling cream on the inside of these sons of guns. And they look fantastic. But what were you asking about meatloaf? Oh, not sequitur, okay. Yeah, do you make meatloaf? Do you have a favorite kind of meatloaf? How does your mom make meatloaf? We're finding all things meatloaf this morning. So over to you, V01UKZ. And I actually met Meatloaf back in the day. Back in the, I guess about 10 or 11 years old. And he was doing a concert here. It's not the Meatloaf you're talking about, but. And I ran into him and two of his backup singers. The female one and the male one. They used to go on tour with him. And I got to meet him, shake his hand, say hello. And I knew who he was back in the day because I grew up in the Meatloaf. My parents were big fans. But the meaty Meatloaf, the protein loaf that you're talking about. Buddy, I absolutely love it. And I make it the same way my mom makes it. With onions, green peppers, and red peppers. And grated mushrooms. They got to be grated because they got to be like fine in there. You don't want chunks of mushroom. Instead of using ketchup, a lot of people use ketchup as a binder. They use mustard and barbecue sauce instead of ketchup. And you got to bake it just that little bit extra longer on broil at the end of it. Because you got to get that nice crispy part on the top. You know, I haven't had Meatloaf in a while and my mouth is watering now just thinking about it. And since I started cooking everything in the air fryer, I'm wondering if I laid out a loaf in the air fryer, how well would that cook? Well, I might just have to find out, Gray. But how do you like your Meatloaf, man? Fill us in. Alright, D01UKZ, this is KC2PKG. I tend to make it, when I make it, I make it the way my mom did. Which is, you know, there's bread in it. And that becomes very important for the chew. That's what the bread is in there. And to absorb a lot of the fluid that comes out of it. And I could go on for hours about Meatloaf. And there's so many different kinds too. If you like donairs, that's a kind of sliced Meatloaf. Gyros, same thing. It's kind of a sliced Meatloaf. We're going to move on to D. D, I bet you know what we're talking about here. We're talking Meatloaf. How do you make it? Do you like it? So what do you do? KM4LBF. Well, this is KM4LBF. This is D. When it comes to Meatloaf, I have to make it for my husband. He's a Meatloaf mashed potato man. And the way I make Meatloaf, I make it very simple and fast. I even use ground meat, beef, or turkey. Depending on what's on sale. And I put breadcrumbs. Not egg, egg substitute. And my seasoning. I put different seasonings, different things to make it stick together. And I put it in the glass cookware. The same glass cookware where I make my lasagna in the grill. I use that also to make Meatloaf in the grill. And that's what I do. But when I do it in the house, I actually don't put it in the oven. I put it 4 to 5 minutes in the microwave and it just comes out just as good. And it's much quicker. So that's what I do for Meatloaf. KM4LBF, I'm going to have to say my 73 is great. Back to you. KM4LBF, this is KC2PKG. Well, we'll miss you. But we'll let you go and talk to you tomorrow, I hope. And you make it on the barbecue. On the grill. That's pretty cool. That's a good idea. AA4HO. Chuck, Meatloaf, do you like it? Do you ever make it? How do you make it? This is KC2PKG. Over to you. AA4HO. Oh, this is going to Ron. This is going to Ron, sorry. AA4HO. Meatloaf, do you like it? Do you make it? It's over to you, man. This is KC2PKG. Yeah, I'm definitely a fan, Greg. I like shepherd's pie. That's pretty cool. I haven't mastered making that, though. I usually have to eat it. You know, when somebody else made it. Though I will have mashed potatoes with my meatloaf. I tend to add a lot of fillers, like bread. Oatmeal. And then I'll put egg in it. So that it holds it together better. So when you slice it, you actually get a slice and it doesn't crumble. I add stuff like an onion soup mix with it. If not, I'll add liquid smoke. Some... Beef stock. Or bone broth. Beef bone broth. To enhance the flavor. Because I'll buy it pretty lean. And that kind of takes away from the flavor. So I'll have to use flavor enhancers with it. And bulk it up with stuff that... You know, I have to watch what I eat. Because I can't eat anything I want. And I put weight on it. So I'll fill it with lower calorie stuff. The good stuff that enhances the flavor. I even had a meat grinder around here. Where I ground my own hamburger up. So this way I knew how much fat was actually ground up with it. Instead of being so trusting and buying it from the supermarket. The ground sirloin is usually from the supermarket, not too bad. Ground sirloin doesn't really have a lot of flavor though. So I usually go get ground chuck or ground ground hamburger. If I'm going to be making meatloaf. And bake it. I've made it good in the microwave before. And actually I don't see much difference either way. So that's how I've been doing the meatloaf. When I get the urge. AA4HO Ron, you're on the start of that degree of negative control. AA4HO, thanks Ron. Yeah, you know it's interesting. I have settled on 80% ground beef. You know, try and get the 90 or 95 and it just ends up tasteless too much. So the 80% has got enough fat for real taste to it. Alright, I've got to fix a couple of things here. Alan had a comment and I want him to go ahead with his comment. Hope you can still remember it Alan. W0GL, over to you for a comment. Thanks for watching."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:29:05+00:00","id":13989,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13988,"text":" Alright, watch that one. That's too bad. Um, okay, well, I'm just a meatloaf lover in the house, so we're gonna go to Josh. KJ5IRQ Josh. B-loaf. Do you like it? Do you make it? How do you make it? This is KC2PKG. This is Repeater Station Kilo 7, KJ. I would like to know who actually eats meatloaf. Kilo is nasty. I mean, it's filled with crap like meat. And binders. And spices. Oh, wait. Meat. I'm the people. I love meatloaf. I, uh, actually, I don't even care for the meatloaf when it's cooked. I'll eat it, mashed potatoes and all that. Cool, whatever. Man, it's the next day. I'm telling you, that's where it's at. Meatloaf sliced up, served on some bread. Where it's at. Especially if you have a little bit of, you know, gravy and a little bit of mashed cabbage. I do the same thing on Thanksgiving, though. The next day on Thanksgiving, I usually make me a Thanksgiving sandwich. And it's gonna have turkey and cranberry and stuffing. And, yeah, it's just one big nasty sandwich. Man, it's so... Meatloaf. Yes, we do have meatloaf here. And it's different to anyone who makes it. My last cooks are completely different than how I do. I do two versions. One's a gourmet version and one's just an everyday version. The everyday version, I either get really good ground beef or I buy a chuck roaster and make it myself. There's a texture thing involved with meatloaf, I think. I also don't just use generic breadcrumbs on it. My life almost always has some sourdough bread around here somewhere. So we drive that out and we make the breadcrumbs out of that. But what I do in mine, I think a lot of people do, maybe not on this match. At least here, in my neck of the woods. We're moving our meatloaf together. We've got our meat in our binders and spices. Bell peppers and onions. It's already been softened. Sometimes I grill them and then I'll saut\u00e9 them a little bit. Get that char built into it. Lay all those profiles. And, yeah, we'll get that whole sucker mixed together. And then what I do is I'll hollow out the center and put some cheese in there. And I'll cover it up with some more meat, you see. So basically I made a meatloaf pocket for cheese. But it doesn't end with that. No, no sir. I like to go one step further. And I'll throw that sucker on my smoker. If you've never had smoked meatloaf. Now, I'm not saying liquid smoke. I've used that in the past and it works to the pitch. But it's a poor substitution for a good smoked meatloaf. Unfortunately, this day and age, eating smoked really kind of hurts my digestive track. But that's one of those things that I'll have. Gosh, I'll probably don't make meatloaf like that twice a year maybe. It's a lot of work. But, man, I'll tell you what. It is the best meatloaf. And I also kind of like Dell. I don't use ketchup. We make a barbecue sauce and it's a simple barbecue sauce. We make it for chicken, for everything basically. And we use that. So, yeah, there you go. KJ5, IOKU, back to the neck control. I'm not a big fan of smoked things, but that sounds really good. KJ5, IRQ, this is KC2, PTG. All right. We will move on to KN6, UYZ. Do you like meatloaf, John? And do you make meatloaf? Or what is your favorite meatloaf? What about you? Uh, lost your name. Okay. KN6, UYZ. This is KC2, PKG. Uh, good morning again, KN6, UYZ. Yeah, I like meatloaf a lot. Although I've never made it in 77 years. Uh, because I don't really know how. I don't really know much about spices and things like that. Uh, I guess my favorite way of having it would be the way my mother used to make it. However that was. So, I guess I like meatloaf. Uh, but, uh, what, barbecue sauce on the top? Yeah, I'm sure that would be tasty, and I would be happy to eat that. Especially with some mashed potatoes. But, uh, the way I was used to it was with some kind of ketchup, uh, flavoring on the top. So that would be my preferred way to go. So I don't have anything that interesting, I just don't make it. Never have anything that interesting about it. I don't want to have any of that. Uh, I'll tell you what that is. I'm going to get a little bit of a good slice of meatloaf. Uh, I've got a little bit of a good slice of meatloaf. And, uh, I've got the chicken and the chicken. I just don't make it, never have, but if somebody wants to invite me over, I'll be happy to come and eat it for you. KN6UYZ, back to Nat. Beep. KN6UYZ. All right, we gotta take her. If you got extra meat, we'll invite John over. This is KC2PKG. Oh, and you got my mind to whirl. Josh, with the meatloaf sandwiches, they really are good. They really are good. That used to be my first wife's favorite thing in the world was meatloaf sandwiches. And you really have to work on the body of the loaf itself, so it can be sliced very, very thin. And that takes a little extra binding to make it work like that. All right, Chuck, AA4HI. Hey, loaf, do you like it? Do you make it? And if you do, how do you make it? This is KC2PKG. Beep. You know, Cory, I'm not a big fan of meatloaf. It's okay. But it's not my favorite food. Well, I mean, maybe my wife maybe makes it a couple times a year, and never in the summer. You know how it is here. I don't see anything like that in the summer. At least me, I don't. So I don't really go crazy when I hear it's being cooked. I'm like, okay. I don't think it's wonderful, so to speak. But anyway, that's the way it goes. What do y'all like, what was it like? So I'm great, I don't like it. With some ketchup on top, onions, and whatever else is in it. But I don't know, I really am not like cheese. I can't wait to eat it. So I probably went on to the first one who says I really just don't like meatloaf. Anyway, back with you, AA4HI. Beep. Ah, we got one. AA4HI, this is KC2PKG. I was waiting for somebody to say I really don't like meatloaf. So you won the prize, gold star for you. All right, Terry, MM0RKN. Meatloaf, do you make it, do you like it? Is it different in Scotland somehow? We'd love to know all your thoughts about meatloaf. So this is KC2PKG, over to you, MM0RKN. Beep. Beep. We'd use lean scotch beef mince, three rashers of bacon, finely chopped, an onion, finely chopped, carrots, tomato, and some herbs would be put in there as well. Maybe like chives or parsley or something. And you'd have three tablespoons of fresh bread. And it would be put into a baking tin. Just cook, you can slice it into nice slices. It's perfect for sandwiches as well. So yeah, that's how the traditional Scottish meatloaf is there today. MM0RKN, back to net control. Beep. MM0RKN, this is KC2PKG. That sounds good. That sounds like a recipe that would work. You know, there's two basic philosophies I've noticed for meatloaf. You can have meatloaf with gravy and potatoes, or you can have meatloaf with ketchup. And I've never seen the two put together, but the philosophy up here in Maine, where we go, the meatloaf has gravy on it, tons of it, and lots of potatoes. So meat and potato cake. But when I was growing up, it was sliced much finer. It had ketchup on it, there's the eight, it had ketchup. November, Quebec, November. All-star notes, please use. And so just a totally different thing. Some people put them in a loaf sheet, and some people put them on a baking sheet, a rimmed baking sheet, and they just leave it open, a mound. That's how my son does it. And either one works, either one works. Okay, Bill, N9OFU. Meatloaf, we're talking meatloaf here. Do you like it? Do you make it? And if so, how? This is KC2PKG. All right, well, no, I don't make it. And my wife doesn't make it. So if I eat it, the only chance I get to eat it is if I find it out in the wild. I use a bow and arrow, shoot it, take it down. You know? No, but there's Chuck's Up, Flying J, and Pilot. They all have meatloaf. And every now and then, I'll grab one of their slices of meatloaf, you know, get it with potatoes and vegetables. And it comes with a red paste on it, either ketchup or something. Similar, maybe I have tomato paste, but I think it's probably more ketchup. I think my mom used to make it when I was a kid, because I seem to recall having it when I was a kid. But other than that, it's just being able to grab it. Sometimes when I'm out on the road and I get a hankering for it, I remember, every now and then I might find a buffet that has some meatloaf as one of the items on there. So I usually grab some of that too. But that's what I know about meatloaf. I don't eat it. It's not something I go out of my way for that I have to have, but I don't mind it. It's a fine meat-like substance that I do enjoy eating from time to time. All right, back to you. Oops, sorry, sorry. Also, the other last question. I remember my mom had gotten a screen door, a wooden screen door from someone who moved and it didn't fit her door. So it was my chore to take that thing and make it fit. So I had to do some trimming here and there, then add some stuff on the bottom to keep the bugs out. I totally forgot about that. So I was proud that I was able to get that put together and up for her and her mobile home there in Casa Grande. Back to you. N90FU, this is KC2, PKG. It's interesting, because I just finished retrimming a screen door to fit in a very, very old porch where everything is warped. So we used a spring and a wire to pull it tightly closed. Come on, because screen doors aren't much fun if they've got big cracks around them. All right, KM4QVC Jeff Meatloaf, we're talking Meatloaf. Do you like it? Do you have it often? Do you not make it? And if you do, then how do you make it? This is KC2, PKG. KC2, PKG, KM4QVC. Josh was talking about she just bakes it to that right, I don't know, it's kinda crispy around the edges a little bit, and then ketchup on top. So I think she puts that on there because she gets it out. Anyway, I love it, I love it. And later that same day, we used that for supper. I'll make the sandwich with a little mayo, white bread, and just a touch more ketchup. So yeah, man, I'm all about it for KM4QVC. All right, another big vote for Meatloaf. This is KC2, PKG, thank you very much, KM4QVC. And we'll try Ralph again, see if he's out there. Hey, YQJ, do you like Meatloaf, Ralph? And do you make it? We'd love to know how you make it. This is KC2, PKG."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:29:27+00:00","id":13990,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13989,"text":" discussion which is pretty interesting. Steve, N0BF. Meatloaf, do you like it? Do you eat it? Do you get enough? And have you ever made it? And how did you make it? This is KC2PKG over N0BF."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:29:43+00:00","id":13991,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13990,"text":" And how do you make it? It's over to you, Marie. KI-70DD, this is KC2. PKG. Hello. This is KI-70DD. Marie, of course."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:29:55+00:00","id":13992,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13991,"text":" Yeah, the meatloaf was. Yeah, it was."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:34:00+00:00","id":13993,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13992,"text":" Sounds like second breakfast is struck again. All right, George, I don't think we did the intro for you, so you got a lot of questions to answer. How was your weekend? What's going on in your world this week? And meatloaf, do you like it? Do you hate it? Do you make it? And if so, how? Take it away, KV0MAI. And the TV's rolling out. Yeah, I was kind of wondering what happened. And I checked in at the end of the round. And I thought you'd call upon me and get into here. Started getting paranoid, thinking, well, maybe I need to change my call sign or my name to disguise my voice. You were not still here. Just kidding. Just kidding. I'm doing well. Everything is fine. Good weekend. Good weekend. And I restored the wall. All-star node 62. Something like that. But we did it. We switched all the rails. All of our decking. Skating it. And then we're two years later. Two years later? Yeah. Yeah, I think the wood, you know, why I killed that darn thing. The wood was absolutely terrible because wood was flying out the door left and right because everybody was doing projects at the house during COVID. And so the straight-up wood that I got was, man, it was still soaking. And they hadn't cured it properly. So when I put it all together, I ran into some trouble. So after a couple of years, I had to resurface the deck, which turned out really nice. Super, in a baby's blood. Can I reset? Yeah, well, I killed all my steel on that porch a lot. And I really like that porch. And I think that's the one that I really admire the most. I do all kinds of trimming and gravel. I put in new floors in the house and stuff like that. And that's really gotten me. And let me see. Meedle-o? Um, well, you know, I never really had meedle-o. I remember maybe my mother making meedle-o when I was really, really young. But I think it was only once. My wife doesn't make meedle-o. I never ordered meedle-o from the restaurant. So you can go ahead with a video. I don't know how to make meedle-o. It's hand-earned, you know? You can do anything with hand-earned, I guess. One more thing. If I was going to make it, it would most definitely have to have dark cheddar cheese in it, jalapenos, some kind of Montana spice and some sort of one. If I was going to give it a try. You know, I'm 62 years old. I think I've had it once when I was like five. So I don't think I really missed out, to be honest with you. And the last thing is, as I'm waiting to get to talk to you, I'm following this truck driver. And he veered off the road onto the side and hit a guardrail. Boom. The dandlestay I ever saw. It was one of them guardrails that had, instead of metal going all the way down, they had metal wires going through, three wires. And that thing flew out there. There's a wire all over the place. That was kind of interesting, kind of exciting. He looked like he was OK. He got out of the vehicle and I was going to fly. I think he maybe fell asleep at the wheel or something. Anyways, back in that control. AB0MAI. AB0MAI. It meet once in your life. That accident, that sounds terrifying. And that can happen, you know, you can nod off. And all of a sudden, you're shooting across the lanes. That's too bad. Sorry about not picking you up right away. That's one of the challenges I face. One of the challenges I've got here is keeping the list straight. Especially when people are commenting over and over. I get distracted and I skip names and stuff like that, which is really bad. I don't mean it. Don't take it personally. I'm very sorry. All right. Let's see. Well, we'll do one more call for check-ins. It's 927. And then we'll get on to the next question, which is about common sense. And your feelings about common sense. So if you'd like to get an answer to that question or any other question at all, join us here on the Monday, August 4th version of the Cal-Bunga Net. And we are looking forward to hearing your call signs. So draw right out there. VE3SBX, Victor Ecto 3, Foxtrot Bravo X-Ray. Hey, Greg. I'm going to have you call with me on a suicide hotline once. But I made it through. So don't you worry. She didn't offend me at all. No, it doesn't. That's very well. OK. Thanks. Bye-bye. Thanks. Bye-bye."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:34:11+00:00","id":13994,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13993,"text":" Yeah."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:35:05+00:00","id":13995,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13994,"text":" I think that's two. Two news stations came in there. We got VE3FBX and now KV7, KVW. VE3FBX. How was your weekend? You got plans for the week? This is KC2, PKG. Over to you. This is VE3FBX. The weekend's continuing. I have Monday off from work, so still in weekend mode, getting stuff done around the house. To answer the last question I heard, Love by Meadloaf haven't made it in a few years, so I guess I'm about due. No plans for doing much of anything extra this weekend, just work, sleep, and repeat. Back to you, Net Control. VE3FBX, this is KC2, PKG. It's good to hear from you. Thank you for joining us. Now, KV7, PVW. I don't know if you heard the last question or not, but we were talking about your feelings about Meadloaf, but I'd also like to know, how was your weekend? What are you going to do this week? So this is KC2, PKG. Over to you, KV7, PVW."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:37:44+00:00","id":13996,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13995,"text":" I don't think Linda Lou makes it too often, maybe every couple of months or so. She makes it with half Italian sausage and half hamburger. I think she might put sausage and crackers in there, break them up and put them in there. I eat meatloaf with ketchup on it. I don't put ketchup on everything, but I do prefer ketchup on meatloaf. I made with half Italian sausage. I don't put Italian sausage. When I made spaghetti, I think we used all Italian sausage. It's a little spicier. A friend of mine 50 years ago told me to put black olives in my spaghetti. So we do that. They have mushrooms and black olives in there. Anyway, I don't know, I'm concerned about common sense. I don't think the government has any common sense. Maybe some of you will be back. And there you go. Nice segue, Mel. Thank you. Common sense is a phrase we use all the time. I'm never sure when someone says, use your common sense, or something like that, what they're talking about. What are they talking about? Common sense. So I'm going to ask you guys, tell me what you think makes common sense. What does it look like? And give me an example of it. So I will go to Gerald first. B01UKZ, tell me about common sense, Gerald. This is KZ2PKG. Ah, geez, Grey, you're asking the wrong one now. I have a little lot of common sense, man. I don't know. Common sense is, F around and find out. That's what I'm going to say common sense is. You know, if you ain't got it, you F around and find out. That's it. I've done that so many times over the years that it's not even funny at this point. But yeah, now common sense, man, it's obvious. You think about what you're going to do before you do it. That way you don't have to F around and find out, right? You just think about stuff. I always think about stuff before I do it. I joke a lot, but you got to have common sense. You really do. Because if you don't, like I've said, I got a little bit of common sense. I didn't have any common sense back in the day. I won't fly ramps on anything with a wheel, be it one wheel, two, four, doesn't matter. I ain't flying no ramps on nothing. I did back in the day. Didn't have common sense. Cut my face up pretty bad. So I started growing a mustache, believe it or not. I flew over to bars on my bike and scraped my face up so bad on the pavement when the wound started to heal. I started to grow hair on my top lip and then I started to shave it and then I just grew a mustache. I had a pretty thick mustache by 15. I could buy beer at the store, underaged, at 15 and 16 years old. I was the go-to guy that could fool the people working at the store. They didn't know me. They didn't know any of us. But I had hair on my lip so I was more confident than most. But yeah, I did some stupid crap over the years but now I've definitely had the common sense knocked into me. Let's just say that much. You can only mess yourself up too many times before you get common sense. That's my inscription. Greg, I can't wait to hear what everyone else has got to say about this one. V01UKZ, hashtag, F around and find. Alright, V01UKZ, this is KC2PTG. I was surprised when I first formulated this question how hard it was to answer. But you seem to say that experience can develop common sense. Let's see what Josh says. KJ5IRQ. Josh, what is common sense? This is KC2PTG. Over to you. KJ5IRQ."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:43:44+00:00","id":13997,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13996,"text":" All right. Sorry, sorry. I was, uh, declining a phone call. Uh, I guess the cat's sort of out of the bag. Today's my birthday. Don't make a big deal of it. I hate birthdays. They're just another day. But my mama calls me every year and, uh, tells me the story of the birth in 1980. The hottest... I don't know if it's still the hottest on my record. I think it is. The hottest record on the record in Texas. Uh, I don't know. I get a story every year. Anyhow, yeah, it's just a big... Uh, but that's why I don't like going back to you. Uh, what is common sense? Man, that is a great question. And it's going to change depending on who tells you what common sense is. Because there's no set definition, I don't think. Uh, I mean, there may be guidelines, but, I mean, my common sense, in general's common sense, are two totally different common senses. You know, if we hail common sense, it'll jump on the snowmobile or his quad and go to the store. That's not common sense here because I'd get pulled over and probably get a ticket. Uh, so, yeah, common sense is different, I think, depending on who's defining the common sense. But I would say that it's sound judgment. I think sound judgment is a good way to put it. Um, I think it's derived from experiences, it's derived from book learning. Um, I don't think you gain common sense from learning anything educationally in the mindset of books or in structured learning. I think common sense is something you pick up as you go. Some people pick it up faster than others. I think that's a very big point to make. Um, some examples I had written down. Okay, uh, wait for people to exit an elevator. I'd drive me nuts to get on the elevator, uh, and I'm standing on the elevator trying to get off and people are rushing to get on. It's like, yo, wait a minute, let me get off and that's going to give you more room. Common sense, right? Uh, looking for a reason to cross the street. I would consider that common sense. Uh, checking the weather forecast to see if you need an umbrella or not. Pretty common sense-like thing. Um, I wrote down a four or five other ones. Uh, here's a good one. Avoiding your phone during important meetings. Uh, and I would probably push out on not only meetings but interviews or anything else along the way. You know, just basic common sense. Don't play electricity while it's raining outside if you're outside. Uh, disconnect your antenna if you have no safety protocols built in place so that if lightning hits it, it doesn't fly everything in your house. So those are the common sense type things that I think of. And again, I think it's very ambiguous. I can't say that word very well. Um, to a lot of people. I hope that gave you an inkling of, I don't know, common sense with that. Um, oh, hey, and let's say if you really need a gig understanding Greek common sense by Thomas Paine. KJ5-IRQ, back to neck control. Alright, KJ5-IRQ. This is KC2-PKG. Great big description. You seem to hint. It is a result of experience as Daryl did. So that's two pretty experiential things. And everybody and his brother is now asking AI what common sense is. Um, A8-4-H-O. What do you think common sense is, Ron? And do you have an example for us? So what are you? A8-4-H-O. This is a common sense. A8-4-H-O. This is KC2-PKG. Yeah, I've had to take quite a few exams in my time. And you're not going to get through them if you think, you know, the answers to the questions require that you have a lot of common sense. I mean, you really got to know the material. Otherwise, you know, training and experience helps a lot with great instincts. And then you can say, well, I have good common sense. For an example, you know, my stock trading. There's a lot that goes into that. And somebody just getting into it, they tend not to do well at first. So common sense would tell you that you should get some training before you get started. Instead of rushing right into it. So that's how I view common sense. And a few examples. I don't have any more right now offhand. So I'm going to give it back to you. A8-4-H-O. Ron, Miramar, flood. A8-4-H-O. This is KC2-PKG. Okay? Okay, that wasn't too bad. K-N-6-U-Y-Z. John. Common sense. What do you think it is? And the other example. This is KC2-PKG. K-N-6-U-Y-Z. Well, the only example that I have that comes to mind is don't walk in front of an oncoming train. That seems to be common sense to me. But I think more importantly, I went to the internet on it. And I saw a couple of definitions. One that."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:56:55+00:00","id":13998,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13997,"text":" It is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple, I thought simple was important, a simple perception of the situation of facts. I sort of liked that. And then the other one I sort of liked was the common sense, this is from Wikipedia actually, is more or less universal, which a universal thought that is held more or less without reflection. So apparently it's something you don't have to, or not supposed to have to think about. It's just something that comes to you or that you have. So I don't know, is that pretty dry information? Well, that's the best I could come up with. KN6UYZ, this is my 73 round. I'm gonna go back to sleep. Thanks everybody. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November. KN6UYZ, well have a great rest there buddy. And thank you for joining us, really appreciate it. All right, we move on down to Chuck, AA4HI. Chuck, define common sense for me and give me an example if you can. This is KC2PKG. I agree, AA4HI. I guess common sense is, to me, is not only understanding how to do, you have to be able to implement it, I guess is what I'm saying. You know, being extremely smart. But the smallest things, you know, not being able to understand. Because I really can't think of anything any better than what someone else has said. But I guess you always think about someone as really smart, but I don't know. It's very difficult for them to do simple tasks. And I don't even know if that's even a fair assessment, but you know, because all I've got is from years of someone saying someone doesn't have common sense. But I think a lot of people have common sense. You know, a lot of people, as we know, are not all geniuses, but they can work with their hands and figure problems out and have a lot of good reasoning skills, you know, with other people. I think that's important. I think that has a lot to do with common sense too. Instead of just being directly by the book, being able to talk to someone and explain to them what's going on. That's what I guess it is to me, Gray. Back on you, A4-John. A4-HI, this is KC2PKG. Yeah, it's something beyond being book smart. Chuck seems to be hinting. We used to have a lot of people who had taken every test, knowing the man in the computer business, and yet they had a lot of trouble applying that knowledge. And they did because they didn't sort of have a sense of how everything fits together. That's my example anyway. All right, Carrie, MM0RKN. Tell me what common sense is. And if you have any examples, I'd love to hear them. This is KC2PKG. MM0RKN, I think common sense is something that you kind of develop as you navigate the world. You get more and more of it as you mature, let's say, squat. And as you mature, you get better at it. And I think I worked on myself when I was younger. And my grandma, I visited her very frequently, but I remember the best day that I visited her, to tell her that I was going to university. I passed all my exams, I'd get really good marks. That was fine. And when I visited, I made her a coffee. And she went into the kitchen, and she said to me, this was her words, give me the clever, but you have no common sense. And the example here is, I've made the coffee, but I had left the milk sitting out in the counter. I hadn't put it back in the fridge. And of course, if the milk's left out in the counter, it's going to turn. So that's my example, but I think it comes with maturity. MM0RKN, back to neck control. MM0RKN, this is K2PKG, you're the second person to come. And you've heard you haven't got any common sense. And I often wonder what people mean when they say that. To me, it always sounds like you don't believe what I do. You don't have any common sense. And it's often used as an insult, which I think is, that's the interesting thing. But we've heard that from a couple different people. It is an insult when you say somebody doesn't have common sense. We'll find out. N9OFU Bill, what is common sense? And do you have any examples? Over to you. N9OFU, this is KC2PKG. Thank you, Greg. I've been refining my answer, my response. Because, I mean, just breaking down the word common, it's something that's common, something that everybody knows, kind of just takes for granted. Like if you take a loaded gun pointed at someone and pull the trigger, you're gonna shoot them. If you stick your hand in the fire, you're gonna get burned. If you snip the red wire instead of the blue wire, you're gonna blow up. No, just things that, because of shared experience, especially like here in the United States, I mean, it's not just a regional type thing, but there are some regional aspects to it. But it's things that everybody has in common as far as what they know, and then being able to implement it in your everyday life, like don't stick your hand in a fire, don't load a gun at somebody and pull the trigger. These things are just common sense things that you know if you do it, there's going to be an adverse result or effect or an effect that's going to be a result or a gun result or effect. But just based on what you want to achieve, doing the thing that you know is gonna get you to that point because there are some people out there that think if they do this or if they do that, nothing bad's gonna happen or something good's gonna happen and it doesn't because they don't have the common sense or the shared experience that other people have that would have known, no, that's not what you want to do if you want to achieve a certain goal. That's gonna achieve the opposite. So it's something that most people know or take for granted because of shared experience, shared experience, why everybody's seen this movie, everybody's heard of that story, so everybody knows that you don't want to do that and then someone comes along and does it because they didn't see that movie or they didn't hear that story and they thought that doing that would have a different effect even though everybody else knows that that was wrong. So it's a common experience, a common sense. Back to you. N9-OFU, this is KC2-PKG. One second. Had to clear my throat. Shared experience, shared knowledge, common knowledge that is common among groups of people. That's interesting. That's a very interesting thing to bring out. All right, Jeff, KM4-QVC. Tell me what common sense is and do you have an example? It's over to you, Jeff. This is KC2-PKG over to KM4-QVC. This is Repeater Station- KC2-PKG, KM4-QVC, well, great. All these answers have been really good. I don't have anything to add much. I like what Bill said and I like what Josh said. By the way, happy birthday, Josh. I just saw that on your wife, I think, did a Facebook post. So happy birthday from North Carolina. Anyway, on gray, I, you know, I told them I like what Bill said and what Josh said and what Chuck said to you, so I'll just leave it at that. But I do know this. I can tell you this, gray, I know people that have it and I know people that doesn't have it. I'm a pretty good judge on that side of it. KM4-QVC, back to you, bud. KM4-QVC, this is KC2-PKG. It's a very difficult question. I'm glad I'm asking it. And I'm finding out you're kind of educating me on what you're feeling about the phrase common sense. So I'm happy about that. Marie, KI7ODD, tell me what common sense is and can you cite an example? Over to you, Marie. KI7ODD, this is KC2-PKG."},{"ai_pass_count":0,"analysis_step_count":0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-04T06:57:41+00:00","id":13999,"node_number":"oldsys","processing_time":null,"recent_steps":[],"recording_id":13998,"text":" De3, FBX, this is KC2, PPG, alrighty. Wisdom and experience. Wisdom and experience. We'll ask what wisdom is someday, too. That's another tough one that's tough. Tough to define."}]}