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I took care of some stuff today that needed to be done. So I went to another building to go and deal with that. That went well and I got to see some people I hadn't seen for a while. So we had a good time of discussing somebody that we used to know that they had a late kind of memory thing for him. So I went and attended and everybody had a good time. So that worked out. However, I am going to point out that after I didn't know anything else had gone down until I got home and I find this message on my phone, are you okay? Because you didn't answer. So it turned out KJ7R got a little concerned and kept blaming me messages. And I finally answered him and said, I'm fine. Why? And he says, well you're still alive right? And I said, yeah I'm still alive. So any tales or mentions in the news of my having not be alive is that with someone else. So otherwise I am doing fine and apparently somebody else that had the same first name as me is not so fine and stuck in memory right now. So I'm not sure what the deal is there. But I am fine. So I told him it is greatly exaggerated and that yeah, they can't keep me out of the other place downstairs because it keeps kicking me out. So keeping it clean and presentable for a wide ranging audience. I'm still here and I can still be funny because I gotta be me. You guys can't get rid of me this easy. But I'm having a good time. Although it is a little on the muddy side. KJ7EXM back to Ned. ... ... Alright folks, you heard it. Laundry room downstairs. Well Sean I'm glad that you are alive and kicking and doing pretty well. As soon as you ... I knew exactly who it was who was worried about you. And honestly it's nice to have a friend who is worried about you and makes sense that you're safe and sound. So glad everything has gone well and thanks very much for checking in. Next up on this list is KJ7IXM. Brian, what's up? Good evening this is Brian, KJ7IVP coming to you from Pike Place Market. Don't often participate in the net. Usually just lurk but thought I would get in today as everybody has talked about. Saw the Blue Angels today watching westbound from Pike Place Market. You can't really see too well. I tried to listen to some of their radio comms. I was able to pick up some on 305.5 megahertz. But it was a little too wee for me to hear here. I'm getting ready to go back to my home town. I'm from Alabama, Louisiana. So I'll be heading back down there in the next couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to riding along with my old police department. I was a police officer in college and so I'm going to do some ride alongs down there. I've been trying to program new radios that I got in order to participate in some of the two meter nets and port 40 nets down there. And what I found was the new version of the radios that I bought do not work with chirp. So programming is really a pain having to use a phone app and dealing with CSVs and all kind of stuff. I am a professional software engineer so I actually looked into extending chirp support to these new radios. But what I found is that a lot of work to be done because there is no connectivity model for bluetooth with chirp and so that's the only way to program these new radios. And the UVPro protocol has not been reverse engineered yet. It could be quite an undertaking.