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from your occult today. So that's EJ, 2388 to everyone. This is November 3, Oscar, not Oscar. Well, fine business, Elaine. You know, it gets more and more, it happens more and more as we get older. And then the memory, if you called on your neural pathways to like, oh, here it is. Look, this is the last time you saw that red envelope. And that's excellent. I'm glad that you found it. First thing I wrote down in the remarks column when you were talking about that you apparently had a safety deposit box that you can remember. I was writing, beware of jam. But I'm glad you found it. Anyway, take care, Elaine. And it's good to hear you. And take care. Hope you're going to be safe in Florida. Well, next we had the quasi IO from David, KI7 DRP. And that brings us to one of my friends out there, KG7 QEO, DJ, who was at field day too. DJ, go ahead and give us your report. This is Kulu Gull, 7 Quebec Echo, Oscar, kindly giving seven, quick accent operator. Name here is DJ, stand up Juliet. Quick signal check with you. I have my signal. You were getting into Capital Park as a secondary and getting into Beacon as a primary. And I had it partially covered up with QRZ.com. But I could see you were getting into those two receivers quite well. Back to you, DJ. Roger. All right, thank you so much. Well, tonight I'm at my friend's shack in the woods. I can't disclose exactly where it's at. He's been here about three years. So you've got to be careful. But I bought a solar panel today and a couple of other items. I bought a 30 watt MPPT solar panel. And we have an inverter here and a battery, a deep cycle battery that's somewhat good. It's good enough. And anyway, we're working to get some power out into the shack. And it really is literally a shack, homemade, out of pieces. Probably one of the most nice signs. Don't ask me where I got the signs. But DOT might be a little mad. I don't know. It has nothing to do with that. But anyway, probably no trespassing. It was a native girlfriend here, in particular. It's still never funny. But anyway, I'm in a shack in the woods. And it's a safe spot. There's a bed here, like a little bed, a couch. And now we've got power coming. It's a 30 watt panel, though. But I'm hoping that's enough to slowly recharge it off and on. I would have gone with 100 watt, but I can't afford that. And this one will fail. My understanding is MPPT is a little bit more efficient in cloudy weather. This spot gives about three hours of direct sunlight. The rest is indirect through the canopy. But there is a hole in it. And I'm not hoping to utilize it every day. But slowly, over time, I'm hoping that's enough to come by and effectively charge up. But a relatively good spot, high elevation. It should, you know, shift. But it's not quite easy to get to. The bus is 34, 35 minutes away. Go over towards Alki. I'll keep it that. But anyway, yeah, it's dry. It's safe. There's a bed here. Nobody else is here. Nobody knows about it, really. Well, a couple people, but, you know, close to it. Communities. And yeah, anyway, you see that I can stay here regularly. And it's away from all the, it's off the street, away from all the chaos. And I have, all my battery banks are now currently depleted. I was waiting for that solar panel, really. I'm probably going to have the library charge all four of my power banks. I was thinking about buying a projector. We have a large screen area here. But I can't afford that right now. So wherever you come next month, that's my treat to myself. But I did buy a smartwatch today. Amazing, what's it? $80. And that's going to be delivered tomorrow as well. So I'm looking forward to that. And I'm doing OK. You know, food and water is always the thing. But I got a shower this morning. Went to the mail center and got my debit card. And I had misplaced my wallet recently. Bush, I don't know which Bush. Bush number 25618 917. I don't know, probably. But that Bush is really far. Anyway, I think I'm about to time out. This is Q of 07, Quebec Echo Oscar, KG 730. We're almost there. Well, DJ, you were, by the way, you were getting a cent. Again, I'll say you had the strongest signal in the Beacon, a secondary strength signal in the Capitol Park. And Cougar, you faded in strongly into Cougar a couple of times there. And 30 watt panels should be plenty. My partner and I in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, living off the grid for 3 and 1 1 years at that particular QTH, had only a 20 watt solar panel that did a good job keeping a deep cycle battery mostly topped off. But we were QRP operators and just running into moon box and some incandescent utility lighting that we would only turn on when we're in a back room and turn it off when we leave. I have that original 20 watt panel and a newer 20 watt panel, and I also have got a couple of 10 watt panels, which, of course, you can wire them in parallel to be a 20 watt panel. And I've only ever needed like 20 watt, a 20 watt panel. But I'm a dedicated QRP operator too. You're talking about getting a projector. You're starting to sound like you want to do things that may be outside of your energy budget. Also, the condition of the battery that you're floating is matters. Like if you've got a new lithium ferro phosphate four cell, that it won't lose power. It won't just lose its power sitting there. AGM batteries and lead lead oxide batteries are worse at that. It's going to lose power faster. But I'm getting off on the topic. I'll stop there, and I hope that it all works for you, DJ. So take care. Now we go to KK7QES. Justin, please give us your report. Well, hey, Joe. That's Justin, KK7QES and 73. Thanks for having that. I hope you're well. Interesting report from DJ there. I hope DJ is well in the shack too. Yeah, I'm always interested to hear what people are up to with solar projects and things like that. So good evening, DJ. I am winding down here in the shack tonight and just kind of recovering from a very busy weekend. And it felt like a summer that has been a little bit too full. But this is the first week in what I think is like six weeks that my family is not traveling out of town for kind of a long weekend or camping trip or something like that. So it's been really busy. It's been a great summer. But I'm looking forward to staying put for more than four days. It'll be really nice. And while I'm listening to the net tonight, I'm working on a little battery project too. I'm putting together, I'm going to call it like a breakout box for powering USB-C devices from a 12-volt lithium iron phosphate battery. And I have a few of those. And I just use them for powering radios, like during power edges. Or if I take them camping or for portable operations, things like that, which I haven't done much of yet. But so I have these batteries. And they're not doing much. And so I wanted to get a little bit more utility out of them. And so I've taken these. It's like a surface mount or a panel mount USB-C with multiple ports. This is the kind of thing that I actually meant for our heat. This is the heater station, low key load zone, November, Quebec, November. And put four of them in a little enclosure. Located in Shelton, Washington. And fused all that. And then put a power pole connector on it. And the idea was basically if we have a power outage, myself or my wife or anyone could easily just plug in one of these batteries to this little breakout box and have all sorts of USB-C charging ports that would power a multitude of devices. So anyway, that's what I'm working on. I'm not sure how exciting that really is to anyone, even myself. But that's what I'm doing. I hope everybody's doing great out there. I heard you report, Joan, about no smoke where you're at. We got a little bit of it here on Finn Hill. Just kind of the slightest smell faintly in the air tonight. So I hope it goes away, though. All right, I'll send it back to Nat. This is KK7 QES. Well, Justin, smoke. I'm going to check my weather guesser here, the weather app on my iPad. And I'm looking for the smoke. Just to see. It says air quality next is 71, which is worse than yesterday at about this time. So it's moderate. You know, I guess I could smell some smoke today. But it wasn't like a, what do you call it? It wasn't an oppressive amount of smoke. It was enough that I could tell it was there. And I have a pretty good sense of smell. And I could be a sommelier, probably. I can smell the difference between bed bugs. Not only can I smell bed bugs, but I can smell the difference between bed bugs and ticks. That's kind of the sense of smell I have. And I lost it. I had COVID, and I lost my sense of smell. I had long COVID, and I got my first vaccination and went away. And I've been noticing this year that I'm getting my sense of smell back. And getting it back is as good as it used to be. So anyway, yeah, air quality index of 71 for Seattle. And also, you know, batteries, the batteries that we have, battery chemistries we're using now of late, the last few years, is much better than the battery chemistries that we had before. So I'm all for it. Battery power. And many, many more duty cycles than it used to be normal. Take care, Justin. Moving right along, we've got Michael is back, KJ7VEU, to give a proper report.