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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.