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to use one of the other external DNS things. Usually my wife's my detector. She tells me that I can't get through on some of the games and things she plays. So that's how I know it is not working. But very good. And that sounds like you're having a lot of fun with it. And that's what it's all about. Thanks for joining us, Colin. And catch you on the later version of the net. Victor Echo 4, Gulf, Whiskey, Sierra, George in Braddon. Welcome to the net. And George, tell us all about how you use computers and AM radio. Yeah, good morning, good afternoon. I know we're just sitting in the parking lot here at the local Canadian Tire. We're in shopping for something. But it was too much money. So I came out and I guess the net was on here. But all I use is a laptop with not very much logging on it. That's about it for me. As far as the raspberry pie, I like mine with ice cream. Back to net. Real good. They can be a little crunchy, I suppose. Very good. And thank you so much, George, for joining the net. And yeah, you can keep it simple. You don't have to have a million computers. You can get by quite well with just a laptop in the shack. Which has never worked for me simply because I seem to have way more computers than I need. And I'm doing this on a laptop as well. It's running IAXRBT. But it's my wife's laptop, interestingly enough. And I haul it down to the internet. And I haul it down to the shack every seven weeks on the net control station for this purpose. Otherwise, I'll run an all-star note in the shack here. And connect on one of the many handhelds that also seem to multiply in the shack. All right. Thanks again, George. Down the list, Victor Alpha 7, Romeo Charlie, Brendan, and West Vancouver. Thanks for joining the net today. Go ahead. Oh, good morning. Oh, good morning, afternoon, or the appropriate citations there that may be. Great to be joining the TransCanada net this Sunday. That's a good question. Yeah, interesting. I actually did purchase a laptop for the express purpose of Amrita stuff. Bit of an upgrade. Yeah, obviously, you can probably get a pretty rudimentary laptop for a lot of the programs that it requisite programs for various things. But we use it. I mean, I use it for logging. I use N1MM for all the logging I do. And yeah, that's great because it just reads the VFO. And you don't have to worry about getting a great frequency every time, especially for contests where you're going to a lot of different frequencies. And yeah, we've had a couple of those. Obviously, it's the season for that kind of stuff. And yeah, no Raspberry Pis here. And hoping to keep it that way. I do have hand clock running. Oh, excuse me. I do have hand clock running on another computer there on WSL. And since it refuses to run in native Windows environment. This is a kilo 7. But if I ever develop things, I do it in Windows IDE, how to avoid. It makes it really good to get your work and develop it in Windows, personally. But that's because I'm a sucker for blood and for punishment, as they say. Anyways, yeah, no, it's great. We use EZNEC for modeling our antennas and various transmission line built at Balin, actually just last night. And have that in line there. And so got that radio set to 14.14 there in eager anticipation. And yeah, so that's great. I put that in the line. And my S meter is sitting right on the peg, resting peacefully on the peg there. So that's good. And yeah, so there's lots of different things. I haven't even got to FT yet or the other digital modes, obviously. FL Digi is good for Olivia and other stuff like that. I set my computer time with the radio clock there using, I think it's multi-PSK or something like that. And so yeah, lots of different uses for that. I got this F2710, and it just plugs right into the computer with USB cable. So a little bit less complex than my old Canwood 430S. Over. Real good, Brendan. VH7 NRC from VE5UO. Very good. Nice looking check. Just checking out your QRZ page here. And yeah, thanks for sharing that. It sounds like it makes slight use of computers. And that's excellent to hear and the applications you're talking about. Don't feel shame because you use Windows. I'll just join you in that I like to do some of my development on the Windows side of things, even run Linux subsystem for Windows. And VS Code sometimes on the Windows side as well. I do like having some of the automated backups and things on the Windows side where I really don't have to worry about my code or my backups from N1MM or my other logging programs. Those can be backed up to the cloud. I kind of like that. Sometimes you don't want to have to manage all of your storage. So yeah, there's some upsides to it. Lots of complaining about what you got to give up to get some of those free features. All right, thanks again, Brendan. Appreciate it. And I should move on down the line here because I haven't gone to the US yet. And I'm quite late. But there is one other check in here. Tony in Gothenburg, Sweden. Zero mic 6 x-ray golf. Thanks for joining the Trans-Canada Net, Tony. Very much appreciate hearing from you. And tell us how you use computers in this. I'll be glad. Yeah, good evening from here. Good afternoon there, I think it is. Some 6x GP here, Tony in Gothenburg. Yeah, a lot of computers. But actually, I tried to combine them into one machine. I have a lot of Raspberry Pi's laying around. But I have more and more going over to Docker containers and virtual machines. And a while ago, I stumbled across the workstation of the Rembrandt model, Z240, I think it is. And it has quite good processor and memory. And I installed a hard drive into it, two terabyte hard drive together with SSD. And it works very well. I run DPM there as a host. And I run a lot of Docker containers there. And also, Holstar node, which I use right now, or AWS node. And running that, I have a 6 link node. It's another repeater system we use over here. So when I'm about to use 6 link, I use virtual machine. So I also have a DMR hotspot with a WPSD on it. And I have an older Holstar node with a Cherry Pi on it. So I have a lot of computers and Raspberry Pi's. But I try more and more to get over to containers and virtualization just to save space on this little desk. And have more one place to go to when I have to manage them. So that's what I'm doing over here. No AHS going on. I only use 2 meter, 7 centimeter. And no antennas over here for AHS. No possibility to put them up anyway. So Holstar is nice. It's my way to get around the world. Back to you, guys. And take six GPs. Very good, Tony. And you're the first one to mention containers. To mention Docker and super functionality that you can get from containerization and microservices of sorts that way. But fantastic way to bring up a system with the applications included and becoming much more popular. And that said, I do not have actually a containerization platform running in my shack right now. But it will soon because I want to be running video streaming software and things like that from within my shack here. So need to build up a new NAS and possibly a bit of a home lab here. So very good. Thanks again, Tony. And appreciate you sharing your information and joining us from Gothenburg from the west coast of Sweden. Now a little bit of a geography lesson here because I did not realize where Gothenburg was relative to Stockholm, for example, which of course is probably a more popular known city here in Western Canada. So very good. Thanks again. All right, I'm going to move to the United States. I apologize for our American participants because I'm probably about 15 minutes late for getting down here. So hopefully I'm giving you enough time to check in with the United States of America for the Trans-Canada Net today. Please join us now. Kilo 6 Papa K Lima K6 KKL build. Whiskey N November 4 Victor WN 4V South Florida. WN 4V. KK 7 and QN Kilo K7 November Quebec November Hunter in Washington. All right, got two stations. Kilo 6 Papa Kilo Lima. Thanks, Bill, for joining us. And Whiskey N November 4 Victor, I believe that's John. We'll start with Bill. And then Tisha, California. Go ahead, Bill. OK, I use Raspberry Pi 2. OK, I use Raspberry Pi 2 to communicate with you right now. And it's on my repeater. And I build a repeater, and it has a Kenwood transceiver. And that's on simplex, on 444 megs. And that's on talking, and I can go around the town and all that. And so again, well, that's my Raspberry Pi 2. And I have a Raspberry Pi 3, which is linked to the Manteca repeater down at the water tower. And that ties in for All-Star. And Echo Link to give the repeater connectivity throughout the area. That repeater also is a fusion repeater. So it'll work both ways, digital and analog, as well as we can go this other way. My other equipment I have is, and you can see on QRZ, is a smartphone that's not a smartphone. It's actually an internet-only device. And I have a couple of those, and I really like those. Interrupted by telephone calls or anything else, and I can connect it in Echo Link and look at my email and do things and not be interrupted. And so you see it on QRZ, on my call. And basically, that's what I have on that. And again, well, my HF transceivers and everything, I have iComm. And so I'm very diversified in what I do here and in my amateur radio adventures. So now you know a little bit more about that. And I'm out here working on a 12-gig, on a 12-gig hertz offset dish, trying to make it work right now. So in the yard. So we're just busy with different projects. K6, thank you. This is repeater station. Thanks, Bill. Kilo 6, Kilo and Liam. I'm in air control, Victor Echo 5, uniform Oscar. And I'm going to always count on you to join the net there, Bill. Appreciate that. And thanks for describing the things you're into there. It sounds very interesting. And I always like to hear more about it. All right, down the list to Whiskey November 4, Victor, I believe that's John in Onaco, Florida. Not right. But thanks for joining us, John. Go ahead. Victor, Victor Echo 5, uniform Oscar, WN4V. Hello, good afternoon, Dave. Thank you very much for allowing me to check into the net. Currently it's very good. Node 5278. This is ChromeVox. I own one Windows computer I use for walking. But this one is an Asus Chromebook with Echo Link on it. And I also have 10 other computers in various strategic spots around my apartment. My preference, I also use another laptop I have for Peanut. I do quite a good activity on Peanut. And my preference is for Lenovo laptops. And again, I prefer ChromeVox and the Chrome operating system for various reasons, ease of use and that sort of thing. But I appreciate you letting me check in. I'm sure there are others that will be waiting. And again, I wish everyone a good afternoon in South Florida. By the way, my QTH is Bradenton, Florida. And I live, let's see, 79 kilometers south of the city of Tampa on the west coast. P5U0WN4V, South Florida. OK, thanks, John. I appreciate that. And just a quick question for you. Are you doing that with Chrome OS or are you loading those Chromebooks with the Linux distribution? Go ahead. I'm using a Chrome operating system. At some point in the future, I may just do that. I'm loading with Linux right now. Just a Chrome operating system, that's all. Over. Thanks, John. I appreciate that. Yeah, I wasn't aware that those applications would run under Chrome OS. So that's news to me. I'm not a Chrome OS user. But my daughter, Ra, who graduated university a few years ago, exclusively used Chrome OS for her for her academic work. It's just a simpler operating system for her, at least for her as a university student. All right, thanks again, John. Appreciate you joining the net and sharing the information with us. And please join us again in the future. Any other stations to check in from the United States of America, please join us now. Hero 7, November, Quebec, November, Hunter, and Washington. Beep.