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PBR, Gary. KI7 PBR, all right. Gary, I've got you. Who's next? Double HU, seven H. This is James. Jack, I need to be in and out, please. Thank you. All right, must be having a sale on some kind of special fruit down at the fruit market. All right, have a good day there, James. I'll talk to you a little bit later. CQ seven H with an I-O. Who's next? Kilo Kilo seven, seven, Papa Juliette, Macau, Covington, Washington. Macau's on the list. Nice to hear you stand by. Anybody else? This is repeater station Kilo Kilo seven, November, Quebec, November. Let's go back and talk to Gary. Gary, KI7 PBR. Good morning. Yeah, good morning to the net. Kilo is either seven, Papa Bravo, Romeo, or as a lot of people like to call it, Papi Blue Ribbon. Sitting down here in Chandler, Arizona, my dining room table. Just relax and lurk on this net a lot. Don't check in very often, but just thought it was a good time to check in. Just got back from a week and a half of being on the road. We were up in Zion, Utah. And I decided to do a full activation while I was in Zion. If you're familiar with Zion, it's at the bottom of a canyon. And so I did in a day and a half of activating, I managed to get three contacts. But I was just running a little camp too with a vertical portable antenna. It was fun, great weather. Had a good time. And then went down to Southern California to go see the grandbaby and the family. And had a good time. I tried the weather was good there as well. Spent a lot of time enjoying my family on the back patio in mid 80s, great temperature. And then when you're coming from Chandler, where it's 110, that makes for a pretty nice afternoon. Anyway, you all have a good day. This is Kilo India 7. Pop pop pop, Romeo. All right, Gary Brough, what a nice road trip that was. Well, yeah, I think at the bottom of a canyon, it could have been a little difficult. But hey, three contacts is three contacts, right? Hey, real quick, do you know Mike N58QM, also of Chandler, Arizona? Do you know N58QM by chance? Yeah, he's an annoying little guy. Yeah, we're very good friends. He was one of my very first radio contacts when I left in stuff eight or nine years ago. And we get together quite often. We go with a group that would call me. Every Friday, we have our hamster barks. It's the group that I started back during COVID, because it was something we could do and get out, get away. We'd go set up our portables in the park. And he's a big supporter of that. And we go out at least once a month between October and April every year. And in between, we just get together and lunch. But yeah, I talk to him quite a bit. He's a very good friend of mine. We're real good at spending each other's money on new radios. All right, yeah, I thought that you had mentioned recently, well, whenever that was, whenever, I don't know, maybe he mentioned you. I can't remember exactly how I knew that. But I thought I did. Well, there we go, the Romeo lunches, the events out in the park. That is great. Yeah, he's a good guy. And he has got a stack of radios about three miles high. That's great. All right, hey, Gary, you got to check in more often. Great to hear from you, my friend. All right, well, you have a great Monday, Scorchville. Of course, that's what Mike called it on the net last night. He checked in and said, yeah, we're back to Scorchville, 110, 115. Oh, boy. Anyway, all right, will you take care? Have a great week. All right, WQ7H, James checked in today with an I. No, sound good there, James. Have a good day. KK7ZPJ Magoo in Covington is up next. How you doing? Hey, Jack. Have a new radio here. It's a little balfunked. Or not balfunked, but balfang. Balfunked is defunct, I think. And I think it's getting the job done. Just has to get to my all-star network. I think as I last left it, the 3D printing bug had hit me hard. We bought a used unit for 120 and then went ahead and got the Anycubic Cobra S1. And as it turned out, that unit had some issues. And we returned it. And now we're expecting the Cadillac, which is the bamboo, 9 whatever it is, 9 series. And so plans are to get that sometime this week and unbox it and get it all rolling. In the meantime, we're making all sorts of accessories for it using the original one. Been just so much fun watching this stuff just come to life. And then today, last week I did some spraying of a fence. And I got a little bit of overspray on the siding of the house. And I need to go back with some goo to get the latex stain off of it. So it's kind of a yucky job. But somebody's got to do it because I can't leave the overspray on the siding. That's really all I've got going between work and 3D printer play. That's all that's making Mike an exciting boy. Back to you, Jack. Magoo, Kilo Kilo 7, Zulu Papa Juliet. All right, Magoo. Yeah, that overspray business, that's no good. Yeah, I knew a guy one time, a painting contractor, that oversprayed a whole parking lot of cars. Yeah, he told the guys that it would be OK. The wind's not going to come up. The wind came up pretty good while they were spraying. And oh, boy, did he ever have some hot, hot people in the parking lot there. Anyway, hey, real quick, so yeah, you're probably getting some really interesting downloads off GitHub and Thingiverse. Now, what about this new bamboo printer? I think the other day you said the great thing about this, other than being a Cadillac of printers, is that it will do four colors. Is that right? The one module that we're getting with it, in sort of a combo, it does the four. But you can actually stack three more of those units. So it could do up to 16 colors. The thing is, when you do multicolor printing on these things, there's a lot of filament waste because the filament has to retract. It's kind of crazy, though, because you can instruct it to take that filament waste that happens when it's retracting and instruct it to build something out of the filament waste. And so instead of just going into a garbage can, it actually puts the design down on the sheet. And you end up with a little bit of something from all that leftover retraction. But in some cases, you can spend more filament on color changes than you actually do putting it on the product itself. So it's definitely a filament waste strip, but it can really look beautiful. Oh, that's fantastic. All right, well, hey, that's another good way to promote 3D printing, too, I guess, and something really cool. I said, and just tell them, look, this is from waste filament. Oh, that's really cool. That's 16 filament. Yikes. Man, that will get spendy, I bet. Anyway, well, I'm glad you're going to have some fun with that and I'm glad you got the other one sent back. All right, you take care. I'm going to go have a good week. Let's see if there's anybody else for the 9 o'clock net. I'm Jack, KI7, RMU, five minutes past top of the hour, 10.05 AM here in Seattle. Anybody else, come ahead, call, sign, and name.