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So, uh, uh, demodulated by, uh, sound here. Thank you. There you go. Well, I just noticed, and when you said that, I thought, oh, Graham is sounding really clear. Oh, he's on the, uh, the node. And you're, you're obviously, you know, clear as about, and your modulation level is just right, Graham. All right, next check-in, uh, please. Okay, so I'm going t...

remember Fido test your equipment, we can't hear you. And as Lee Bond would say, it wouldn't be much of a net without you. I'm now returning the repeater to normal operation. This is Joan KX2 CW signing off at 2233 1033 PM Pacific time, good night, and fleet tight and possibly things may be alright.

and we missed you. Anyway, take care and I'll see you when I see you. Again, well folks, that is a wrap. I'm reading from my post-amble, my little portable network graphics of my closing outro post-amble. The Patree family would call them preamble and post-amble. So thanks to all for joining us for the 2026 July 27th, 9 o'clock evening net. Thanks to the...

There was something else, I was going to bring it. Oh well, anyway, you know, it will come out of me eventually. But there you go. If I was a German Shepherd, it would be a little bit calmer, but Miller wants to have a lot more pet to their step. For some reason, they're always full of energy. It's like they have ADHD, but it's dog form. And they're so co...

even at the cellar. Let's see. Well, if I was a German shepherd or a melon was, yes, you would be getting a quick hug in quick order and maybe a silly look and a high and yeah, there you go. But I wouldn't hug without somebody wanting the hug. Of course, it would be quick and painless. But if I was a melon, why would I probably be full of energy and proba...

And unfortunately my small tiny snack that I was feeding off of thought out enough from the freezer. But not quite melted enough to actually freeze point to you. So for that, yes, let's see. But all in all, I am not offended, Graham. Don't worry. It's not very often I accidentally caught with my mouthful. But interesting, and yes, I'm glad you got a good...

Someone would have gone and picked you up at the bus stop if you were only four blocks away But that's something to think about for for next year But anyway, yep, it magnolia park is very nice folks, but it is kind of out of the way Especially for public transportation. Anyway, Sean. I hopefully you're done Drinking and oh I get to write to take my purple...

And Tana and if I see a really cool beam up on top of a tower somewhere, I go, oh, oh, yeah, except that I can never afford to put that kind of antenna up anyway. So, saved by the bell. Anyway, Graham, there you go. And now on to Sean. Ella, did I write the time down again? Oh my goodness. Sean, we missed you at the, at the, at the pick-knap. You know, th...

looking up a news looking and he said where is it? I said see that little dark brown line it's going from the house into that tree. He says that's your antenna? Oh sure you can have the antenna. It was just one of those triumphant moments that I have I continue to have a visceral memory of it because of his reaction. He didn't say oh yeah I see it, no tha...

we'd be kind of very cooperative spirit on things. And each day, well, I'm not sure about antenna. I said, well, it won't be conspicuous. It's just made out of wire. And I'll put it up. And then you can come look and see if you don't like it, I'll take it down. And so I did. I put it was like a, I think it was a 40 meter dipole, 20 meters of antenna wire,...

run a brown dipole up into a couple of big trees next to your house and nobody knows it's there. I had a landlord one time. There's a story I'll tell. This will be my report folks. Let me write this down. Yeah, I'm writing it down. I'm writing it down in the lawn. Okay, so antenna. So I was living with my partner on an old house on a rich street called na...

And also the thing about antennas, I guess there's a thing called stealth antennas. But my antennas have always been like that because my favorite for HF, my favorite antenna is a dipole, a center fed dipole. But because I'm a low power operator, I don't need to use big wire anything. In fact, I often use, for instance, one of my favorite ones to use, you...

These huge arrays that these beams and she would say, no, you're not putting that on our room. But this little stub, yeah, that would be fine. And then of course I've seen in QST and on the air magazine, the Gigahertz antennas, microwave, and they've got plastic around it to protect the antenna. Okay, this is cool. Anyway, I just wanted to add that again....

Yeah, he was going to shift it. No, don't, don't, prouder. It's not synchronized. Oh, okay. But then you also were talking about the four, well, a trombone antenna. Okay, only halves can do that. That would make one excellent antenna, I'm sure, because depending on the link, you could tune it. But I think we were looking at a 440 antenna yesterday at the...

I'm thinking, oh no. I've almost gotten caught with my mouth full. She was not alone. So she knows I'm laughing with her, not at her. You were talking about tractors. My dad had a Kubota tractor, but what you drove probably preceded that. This was like in the 70s, but it was a diesel Kubota tractor, two cylinder. And of course, four, it had, I think, thre...

I guess that's a kind of finishing to do, drink hot coffee and prefer not that drinking coffee to be hot. It's just the coffee needs to be the hot but the air has to be cool. Anyway, Thomas, sorry that you weren't there but you know, it's not that, you know, it's fine if you were not there. There are other people that weren't there also for similar reason...

But anyway, yeah, the air coming in my north window is at 18 Celsius, but my Galilean thermometer on my kitchen sill, kind of one of the half walls between the kitchen area and the living room area, is telling me it's 24 degrees Celsius in here right now. And inside my apartment, I just turned on the air conditioner, the other room. You made me start thin...

other people from Texas were in the windy, all the censoring. It was like a summer weather in Finland to me. It was one day in three days in a saltwater pool and soaking the hot up. It was nice. So a victory was submarine and a tail of a whale and I guess one field and a bald eagle. I wish I had more time. I left like 11 a.m. yesterday to pop a gizam stea...

I missed you, but go ahead, Thomas, and tell us what's on your mind. Yeah, I missed you seeing too because there's a reason. I had two things that I had to go at the same time. Family, lunch, same payroll to my daughter and her friends who are on a road trip to California now where my daughter's going to start a new job. She's moving there and her friend...

Of course I would. All right, so anyway Jonathan, see where my mind goes. You say you get an eight foot brass pipe and I start thinking about trombones. Anyway, take care and we will talk later and get our head copy up to 20 words per minute. I keep saying every year I say that's my goal. My straight key night I want to have a perfect head copy. And it's...

and it becomes brass and you can change the ratio between the copper and the zinc and make it all kinds of different kinds of brass. And you can even add other stuff to it as well. And I'm just imagining you know, you're either going to make something you blow out of it or you're going to make something that you tune up as Nintendo. You could do both. It...

Anyway, yes, it was a pleasure seeing you at the PSRG picnic, albeit just way too brief. We'll talk a little more next time. And yeah, great seeing everybody there. It's been a great day today and my leg is, my broken femur is almost six weeks old and so it's healing pretty well and I can just limp a little bit now but it's almost time to get it re-exhrat...

things that I make. And it's good at that dimension of brass pipe, because it looks like it'll be useful in machining stuff, whatever. Anyway, I'm taking apart this random device I bought it in a state sale. And it's got four knobs on it, a button, a light, and a quarter inch jack. And it's got a whole series of 20K trim pots in it. Anyway, it's too hard...

All right, that long eight second tail is my signal to go back to the top. And in this case, the top is Jonathan W0XO, Jonathan. It was great to see you in the picnic yesterday. And I'm glad I finally got your microphone and your manual to you. Take it away, Jonathan. Hello, Joan and all the folks on the PSRG. Thanks for doing that tonight. I appreciate i...