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I'm sorry about that. Christmas tree. Christmas tree. Yeah, no, I never did that. So anyway, well Aaron, thanks for bailing me out here. It seems like when we get a big dope spot here, you always jump in and say hi. He loves those pregnant pauses. I've been there, so I know what it's like. So yeah, I was in the other room, but I came running. So hopefully...

I've seen them made out of paper tape as well. I did have a paper tape reader at an old age. I think it was an age 8 or 8 9 and a paper tape reader that one of my fellow hams or fellow hams gave to me. But yeah, nope, I missed out on both of those as far as having to do it. So I take it Bob, you had the opportunity to do a punch card necklace. I remember...

I was right on the end where they were starting a microcomputer starting to take over. So, yeah, dodge that bullet. But yeah, I did run. I did do to punch some codes and boy, if you messed up or dropped them or something, you're screwed. Question? Hey, go ahead. Question. Hi, I'm Dan Ticci, a MSA. Question for both of you guys. Did you ever make a Christm...

I didn't do anything nearly as complicated as what you're talking about. And I'm an old school programmer too. I like to have the green bar paper there with my code on it so I can go through it and comment and change and stuff. It was a time consuming process and used a lot of papers. You know, we'll marry by 18-0 on the screen and that's okay, but I stil...

Yeah, I worked on a lot of different processes back in the day. My very first one was in 1802, an RCA Cosmic 1802 processor, and in the 6500 series, the 6800s, the 68000s on my Amiga, so I have an Amiga also. Yeah, fun stuff. I used to love it. Back in the day when you really coded, because you did it in assembly mostly. You can do basic too, but I did a...

and I decided I'm going to see if my buddy Claude could help me write some software for it, do 6502 stuff. And so we did. We were writing a Baltimore system in machine code for it and that maximized the speed. And so far so good we're working out a couple of bugs on some of the file transfer protocols timing. But mostly it's working really good. I'm reall...

Anyway, this one's a new one, so it runs on an FPGA, but it emulates everything, and it's really pretty high-tech. It's kind of like a hypervisor in the background that lets you control things. You don't have to use the old so it just drives it. You don't want to, you can use a USB drive, and things like that, and they emulate. I'm looking forward to it,...

Oh, that's funny. Because when you said it, I was like, huh? I was thinking like, like, ham radio toy, right? And you see, I had a new toy for the boat. I was completely thinking some sort of radio gadget, and you came back with Commodore 64. So that sounds like fun. Yeah, I haven't heard that name since the last time you and I chatted about computers. It...

Well, enjoy your walk. I would imagine the next few months or the next couple of months it's going to get pretty darn cold. You're telling me you're not going to be walking. But thanks again for dropping it saying hi. It's always a pleasure chatting with you on Sunday morning. I'm looking forward to the next time. Enjoy your walk. AB7 DFP, AI6, JB73. All...

Yeah, that sounds delicious. I like more fish than fish that I like. I like most of it, if not all of it. Yeah, I can't deal with fish that smells fishy when you try to eat it. That to me is just gross, but this bluefin tin that had the texture of almost a steak or chicken. It was very good. I told him about that and he gave me a couple more, so I got a c...

for this kind of weather I think. Well in my book 30 degrees or that, in that area that's certainly stew weather. We don't get temperatures down here much below that unless you go skiing. One thing I did out of the ordinary yesterday also is I went to Culver's and got a double cheeseburger. I don't, I actually don't really eat that kind of stuff at all. I...

I did not figure you a coffee brulee, caramel brulee, Starbucks guy, but very good. Are you guys seeing any kind of weather from your way? Is it a decent morning walk? Well, I don't know the temperature now. When I woke up with 30 degrees, it does still brisk. Out here, I mean things are frosty. I'm just wearing a hoodie and I feel fine. Well, you've been...

That is excellent news. Congratulations. Glad to hear that. It's been a long road. It seems like you've been handling that for a while. But it's great news, Carl. I'm glad to hear that. You have to be free for about five years before they say I've got it. But at least the first test shows I'm free. So I'm starting my journey to being cancer free again. An...

Looking forward to chatting with you again on the Copy Breaknet KC6 SLA, AI-6 JB-73. 7-3, Orion, and we've got hopefully today we'll get posted and have a little trouble with the website. But all this information I'm talking about and more will be on the club website under activities, specifically, box hunt activities, KC6 SLA. Actually, I think it's on t...

Oh, that is sad to hear because I have yet to attend one of those family ones. But maybe this year because I'm not doing the coffee breaknet on Saturdays. Well, we'd love to have you come out there and bring some family along. Again, I'm repeating family quite a bit in this QST and it's because this is a, you know, all of our Fox Center family events, all...

It will have four hidden transmitters. We're going to start at 9.30 with the pre-meeting. And for those that are new to Fox, I think we'll have a little introduction and give them some tips on how to do it. We'll have radios there for people. All you'll need is a 2-meter radio. We'll have radios there actually. People need them. If you have family members...

of Foothills amateur radio club. We have a tradition of doing one of our last of the year, Fox Hunt has a family event. They're all family events, but this one is particularly aimed towards being a family event because we know people are going to have their families up for Thanksgiving as well as Christmas. So this year, we're going to do that family spec...

That could change. And, you know, nice and cold. Yeah. Well, I just updated my weather, and it's not going to be here for quite a while. So go out and have some fun, and we'll catch you maybe next time on the Cocktail Breaknet. Thank you, Horan. And this is Nate, K-06-P-O-Q, 7-3, everybody. 7-3, Nate. Let's go on to Greaton. Good morning, Greaton, K-C-6-F...

Okay, so six EO and AI six JB. Oh, you know what? Actually, it's Papa Oscar Quebec. Nate, I believe. Papa Oscar Quebec. Sorry about that. Thanks for the correction. How are you doing this morning, Nate? I'm doing great. I got Mr. Biscuit next to me. He's watching me listening to the radio and watching some YouTube and enjoying my day off. Awesome. Yes, th...

Yeah, I can root actually both ways, so yay. But go Bengal. Alright, have a great day. Hello to everybody out there on the net, 73's and 60 MS. Hey 73 Bob. Good morning Aaron, W1 ATB. How are you doing today? Good morning Aaron. I'm W1 ATB here. I'm doing well. I have a new toy coming. One that I didn't talk about the other night. I've had it on order for...

No, he was Air Force. He did like 22 years in the Air Force. Well, I bet there was a little bit of inter-military rivalry. The dinner table on Thanksgiving for you guys. Well, Bob, it's been a great pleasure chatting with you. I always love sitting down and having a few calmer words with you. So, thanks for joining us today and looking forward to next tim...

up that's the travel that's it. So what other countries have you lived in? Actually that was our international gig. Pretty much except when my dad went to Vietnam, which I guess is a good thing we didn't go with that. But I think it's a good thing other than that it was all stateside. But we've been all over the states and then I went in the Navy for six...

You know But up on top of the mountaintop the Air Force had a little radar dome and that's where my dad Was one of the site officers up there, but But anyway, it has now become you know the big jet setter high-end resort type destination But it's kind of funny but that like say back then it was You know very very much what I would if I was going to Travel...

that I went to kindergarten with, because like you said, we were all within the same district and we just moved together from elementary school to middle school to high school. So yeah, I could see how that would be. You could miss out on that, but I mean, just being able to live in Spain, we traveled to Spain for three weeks once and absolutely loved Spa...

Well, I didn't know any better, but actually didn't start, I would say it didn't start being that thing until probably high school. And then one of the things you noticed was you were in school or something, and someone would say, oh, well, you remember Mrs. So-and-so from first grade or from kindergarten. You realize that all of the rest of these people...