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Okay, so don't have a predun question for tonight. So I guess we'll just see what people want to say about... Actually, I got one. I got one. Start with Frank. Frank, what's your favorite thing about Field Day that isn't Field Day itself? Come ahead, Frank. This is NA-70, Frank. Oh, probably the different foods to show up. Some people have some really neat stuff. This is an A-70. A-E-7X I like. Thanks very much, Frank. I sure like the foods too. A-E-7X I like. Come ahead and tell us what you like about Field Day other than Field Day. Well, good evening and greetings from CW Beach, which is where I'm currently parked. Although I'm about to go back up to the main Wagon Wheel campsite. But we had a really great day here setting up for Field Day starting tomorrow. I'm looking at the incredible 80-meter vertical that is going to be put to use tomorrow evening, I think. Anyway, it's been a really great day up here. I'll be doing a little bit of time helping to put up some of the stuff up on the bluff. It did not rain as expected. I was expecting to be putting up antennas in the pouring rain today based on the forecast. That didn't happen. To tell you the truth, there's lots of things I like about Field Day besides just the event itself. I think one of the biggest ones is I get to see a lot of people with expertise playing their craft and showing me things that I had no idea that's how this thing worked. For instance, down here at the CW set up, they put up a set of phased verticals that are going to be used to really magnify the signal going up over the saltwater. Apparently, that's one of the reasons the station every year has such a great signal. Just learning about things like that, I wasn't really too familiar with how that kind of antenna system works and gets set up. It's really inspiring and it's also making me want to experiment with some of that stuff myself. Quick drop. Just another quick example of that is Dean was showing me his massive 40-meter wire yaggies that he put up. I was extremely impressed. I had no idea how those worked. Seeing him explaining to me and seeing them in action and seeing how big they are, I never would have thought to try to put something up like that myself. But now that I was up on the bluff and he was showing me how it worked, I'm thinking, man, I can maybe put something like that up and it might be really fun to experiment with. Getting to rub shoulders with all these people who really know what they're doing is one of the big reasons I really like Field Day. That will send it back to you. Thanks for doing the net. 87xX. Thanks very much, Mike. I had a question of did the potluck come up and happen already and how was it if it did? Yes, the potluck was a huge success. We had all sorts of different food from taco bar to rice and chili with hot dogs, hamburgers. I brought a shared food replay with salami and cheeses. I think a big hit, everyone got fueled up and like I was saying, it's dinner tonight. We got a fuel up to make all those contacts tomorrow so I think it went really well and I think everyone had a great time. 87xX. Thanks again. I have to admit, I'm not... I should say I am ashamed to admit it, but Dean had to wipe off his 40 meter antenna array because I drooled all over it. I love it that much. Anyway, let's see. Moving on from that embarrassment. Let's move on to Casey1 I like just the camaraderie of everybody there. I find everybody is helpful. I think everybody is very thoughtful and willing to give information and show what they have for equipment. I just think the whole thing is just awesome. Anyway, that's about all I got for the moment. Casey1, B.A.U. That is absolutely too frank and let me say that you get that same feeling at Winterfield Day and to be honest, I carry those off throughout the year. It's almost like the Christmas spirit and Scrooge and all that sort of thing. Anyway, let's see. Next we've got KJ7, R.A.B. Cammy. Cammy, before I let you talk, I just said yesterday that you and Sheila should put together a book of all the good restaurants on the north end. I think that would be an excellent book. Anyway, come ahead, Cammy. Well, good evening to you, Gregor and everyone out there on the neck. Cammy here, KJ7, R.A.B. It's so funny that you should mention Sheila because I was going to mention Sheila. She made me what is perhaps maybe one of the coolest things on the whole wide world on her 3D printer. It's a gadget that I showed to her. She printed it for me and sent it to me in the mail. So, Sheila, if you're listening, thank you so much. And what it is, it's a little tray that holds sticky pads, but it has these set of templates where you can draw lines on your sticky notes or make different sections on your sticky notes or make lines with little checkboxes. If you're a checkbox person like me, holy moly, it's revolutionary, it's life-changing and it's pink. And so I put bright green sticky notes in it. It is the coolest thing in the whole wide world. I'm thrilled to pieces. I can't wait to write a whole bunch of sticky notes. And what I like about field day, other than field day, I don't know, like just the whole, the whole, all the things. You know, like we're hanging out with a bunch of awesome cam radio friends. We've all got our station managers here. We've got our trailers. It's not the most picturesque place to camp in the whole world, but it's not about the spot. It's about the people that we're with and what we're doing. So, and that makes it all awesome. Thanks so much for hosting. As always, thanks for getting us in. Thanks for everything that you do. We really appreciate you. KJ7, RAB, back to net control. Thanks so much, Cami. And, yeah, you know, Dean gets lionized quite a bit and rightfully so, I will say. But, you know, right up there with him is Sheila, and he likes to think of a more backseat to things and be in the shadows, but she is effective in those shadows, I will say. All right, let's see. Now, let's back up to KJ7, JXM, Robert. Robert, what do you like best about field day, other than field day? Well, good evening, good evening to net. This is KJ7, JXM, Robert. And I have to say, it's the hanging out in the parking lot with all of our like-minded folk and having, you know, fun. I always like to chuckle because there's always an adult beverage or two here in the college parking lot. And don't tell anybody though. I don't know if that's allowed here on college grounds, but, you know, we brown baggater or solo cup, so they don't know what's going on. You know what I'm saying? Just playing radio. I mean, you know, it's a lot of fun. And every year I've been for, I think this is my fourth year now. I'll be hosting a SWAT meet here as well. So, I have a lot of fun with that. It allows me to get, you know, get geared to folks. And just like, you know, the infamous Mike and Key SWAT meet, I'm able to get rid of stuff and re-home it. So, you know, it's one of those joys that I have with radio and everything else. So, hanging out with folks that thankfully the weather's... I mean, right now it's beautiful. Gorgeous sunshine. There's plenty of blue sky. And it's just right. It's a little extra windy, but, you know, we can deal with that. Where we're set up, we've got a couple handicaps that we're able to tie our awnings off to, which is a good thing because it's really hard to drive the stakes into the concrete. It just, it doesn't work very well. So, again, thanks for doing it. You do my friends. Very much appreciate you. And hope you all are having a fantastic weekend. This is KJ7JX. And, clear, back to you, my friend. Man, you're making it sound so fun that I'm gonna have to double think going to Fort Flagler in the future. That sounds like a heap of fun. Let's see the swap meet. The baby swap meet is the key draw. But, yeah, I guess nobody ever guesses what might be in a red solo cup. But, yeah, and then finally hammering stakes into the concrete. Not easy and definitely frowned upon. Anyway, thanks very much, Robert, and continue to have a good time. All right, let's sneak down to N7 your hm, Mike. Mike, you're supposed to be running the digital set. What are you doing? I haven't ran the digital tent for a couple years now. I'll let somebody else take that over. How about that? So, there you go. Somebody's doing anything better than I was doing it. How about that? At least they wanted to do it bigger and better. So, you know, you know, and here as you're saying, I'm, as everybody else here is saying, this is the thing I like about Field Day the best. And, you know, we're actually literally all standing around in a Brooks' radio using the community radio right now. And all that good stuff. And, you know, so, trust a good time. You know, our station managers are all, station managers are all getting along, which is actually kind of a good time. You know, and, yeah, good time out here. And, yeah, I need to get back out to Fort Flagg one of these times. I need to get my key little award out there. I'm like, six, seven hundred into it. You know, just the time I've been out there. So, yeah, anyways, yeah. Hope he's having a good, has a good Field Day. Hope he's having a good night. My love, good stuff. And, you forgot to talk about the cops tonight, you know. So, anyways, that's all in our story. Anyways, back to you there. Have a good evening. And, seven-year-age. Oh, thanks, Mike. Sorry to get on your case. I shouldn't have done that. Definitely, you did a good job when you were running the Digital Sense. So, no shade should go your way. And, yeah, I've been calling Cammy over Robert lately because Robert says a bunch of stuff, and then Cammy comes on and says, yeah, that's all you get the air from her. So, I wanted to hear more. And, Robert still has plenty of stuff to say even after Cammy talks. So, it's all good. And, I hope you're having a great time too, Mike. Anyway, thanks very much. And then K8YFR. I don't think you've been in our net before, but come ahead nonetheless, and don't be a stranger in the future. Yeah, good evening, everyone. This is Jeff, K8YFR, and you are correct there. Not a frequent person to get into the nets up north as I'm down in Thurston County. So, I think for me, what I enjoy is already been shared, the camping, the camaraderie, the folks, the solo cups, all of that fun stuff. But also, I get a chance to get into nets that I don't normally get into down in the Olympia area. So, I've heard good things about the Fort Flagler Field Day stuff. So, I was talking to me about it last week, and this is the first time I'm getting up to the PSR-G Field Day. So, for me, everything is new and fun. And, yeah, as Cammy would say, all of the things that have been shared previous still apply. Thank you for running the net, and I hope everybody has a good field day this weekend. K8YFR. Well, thanks very much. Back at you to have a good field day, and we get several people from Olympia that check in. Hopefully, if you gave it a try, you might be able to reach us. So, at least try to not be a stranger. Thanks again. And do have a good time. And finally, for round one, we've got KK7B and R. David, who finally snuck in there at the end. Come ahead, David, and tell us what you like about Field Day. Oh, they're not Field Day itself. Evening, Greg, and everybody listening. Well, this will only be my second Field Day, so I don't know a happy opinion of that yet. Last year, I was up to my eyes doing stuff at home, and then I didn't make it out very much on Field Day. I think I had a couple of contacts at home. This year, I don't know if I'm going to make it out either. I've been stopped in the face a hundred times by my child asologist, so I kind of look a bit scary right now, so I prefer not to scare people with my oleamugs. So, we shall see what the morning bahouls for me, I suppose. My wife and my kids are going out tomorrow, so I will be able to do my own thing. So, I haven't made my mind up yet. I will see in the morning how well I sleep overnight. The thing I did enjoy last year was just that they share a lot of people on how joyous they all sounded. Unless people can be a bit, maybe a bit weary of times, or we're talking with the weather or something, but last year, they're all out and about having some fun. I burst into a number of people on two meters and they were all off in the fun, so it was great to hear people out there and having a bit of crack as the others say. And I'm super glad it's Friday. Yeah, I have to figure out what I want to do this weekend. Maybe I might call it a local park or something. I didn't know. I was very tired. I will figure out the morning, not too hard, but I do have a home radio job tonight. But today, it was super windy and that was never fun to be able to roof on its windy, so I'm not going to do that anyway. Alright, great here. I will send it back to you at the 7th of November. Yes, please do not go on the roof in the windy. I do not want to hear that you got blown off. Yes, so, well, as field days come and go, I'm sure you will create more of an opinion for yourself, and I'll try to remember to ask next year. Alright, thanks very much, David, and I hope that you managed to do something anyway. And let's go on into round two. So, give me your call sign and name. Two more steps up in the bus, and thank you, Chris. Mode at Fort Flagler, with a guest. Oh, hang on, steady-key person who just tried to check in. So, it sounded like we had Ross after Dave. Ross was that you? It's a Roger Roger, and I have a guest. I'm a fuel-jurious, selling Charlie Bromhor. So, Robert, are you Ross's guest, or is Ross still got a different guest? Negative, he has a different guest, but I haven't heard him check in yet. Well, Ross, put your, um, says your friend to have a call sign. Now, this is Rob. I don't know what's your last name? Rob Nordstrom. And he just passed his technician in general license on Thursday, and he doesn't have a call sign yet, so he's my guest. And I'll let him tell you the story of how he got here. So, here's Rob. Hi, everybody. This is Rob, and I've been listening to your net for several days, and yesterday was the day Ross said, I know you people are out there, but why don't you come and help us? We're going to need some help. And I said, do you know what? I'm coming out, and here I am. You've been listening to us for several days, and you weren't scared off. That's amazing. Anyway, thanks Rob, and hope that you get your call sign real soon. Usually they give them out on Fridays or Mondays, as I recall, so maybe you'll see it Monday. Anyway, we're still taking chickens though, so if you'd like to be on the Round Two check-in list, come ahead. W-A-7-B-E-B-E. Yeah, that would be a fire. I got Kilo Fox 7 Bravo, what was the rest of the suffix? Bravo Sierra India. I'm just turning it out. Can I get a handle to put down on the spreadsheet? Here's Ray Romeo off my Yankee.