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look at the voters scope because it was just a good enough signal to just casually listen to it without worrying about it. I'm glad you made it back. Alright, and we'll give you report. Fourteen, there we go. So next, Peter, different Peter is putting the bow on this third round. You know, we've got AE7WE, which I didn't check. And QRZ is IO at the very end. But Peter, KD7 medium wave in Shoreline. Please give us your report. You're putting a bow on the round. Well, okay, this is KD7 Mike Whiskey and Peter in Shoreline. And I am unfortunately nursing a bit of a summer cold and haven't been feeling too well the last several days. My wife's in even worse shape. I mean, we will survive and it's not COVID. We've tested. But so I'm kind of cooped up and fooling around and nerding out with some ham radio stuff. And so first of all, before I get to ham radio stuff, somebody I believe her name was Ann mentioned something about movable dough back in the first round. And I understand exactly the problem because I learned movable dough. And then when I was in college, I also took music courses at the Lawsey School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just across the Cambridge Common from Harvard, which was about the closest I ever got to it. And they fancied themselves the annex of the Paris Conservatory in the United States. So they were interested in you developing perfect pitch and they used a fixed dough system. And of course, whenever I did solfege, which is sight singing, then I would immediately turn dough into whatever key the piece had just modulated to. And they got very mad and they yelled at me, but it's okay. I still managed to get through the courses and did pretty well aside from that, so I'm not too unhappy about it. But anyway, Ann, if you're still there, I feel your pain. Now, because of my cold, I was planning on going to see the Blue Angels on Saturday. I was going to go down to Boeing Field and watch them do their take-off and landing and passes over the field. But no, fate intervened, so I did end up listening to them. In fact, I put some frequencies in the middle of last week up on the Facebook page. And it was really fun to listen to those guys. And when this one guy was going to roll his plane, he would say, going into a roll. And I suspect that the change of the pitch of his voice was to alert his colleagues to exactly what he was doing. Very interesting. And I listened to them on my little UVK5 quenching radio, which for 30 bucks is the most fun I've had in ham radio in a long, long time. You can put your own, put special firmware in it. It'll even do a simulacrum of SSD and it will do CW. So I'm thinking maybe I'll take that to a hilltop someday and see what I can accomplish with it. Apart from that, I was doing just some tests with all of the various antennas that I've got over the years to see which ones received well. Probably want to try transmitting. I'm wondering if anybody in the PSRG hierarchy would object if I did some tests late at night, would that be alright when I didn't disturb anybody? Or would that wake up a control operator and make him or her grumpy? So that's my story. And I will turn it back to you, KD7 Mike Whiskey back to that, to everybody. And so long, Joe. Well, fine business, Peter. You know, what I would do is not, I'm far from hierarchy. I'm a grunt level of, you know, control operator and this repeater. And, but what I would do to not have the possibility that you would be putting pain to a, you know, control operator, a repeater control operator that has the, you know, the power to control the repeater. That I would avoid doing it in the wee hours. I would do it at a late hour that is within normal waking hours when the repeater is not in use. You can do that when the repeater is in use or not in use. So as soon as this net is over and you hear there's, nobody seems to be wanting to transmit, then that would be the time I would do it. But this is only my opinion. I am, let's see, in my humble opinion, I am H-O. I do testing on the repeater, but I don't ever do it in the wee hours because that's what I feel it's like. If someone is tasked with keeping their ear on the repeater, you would be disrupting them. But if it's like, you know, 11 o'clock at night or, you know, 1130 or something like that, most people are still up at that hour. But that's also, that's not scientific. That's just me kind of taking a guess. Maybe I know, all the people I know are late nighters. Anyway, that little, we started talking about that cool little transceiver. I went into record mode so I could listen to it later and get the model number and look it up. Because if you can do single sideband, as we all know, single sideband is a specialized form of amplitude modulation called single sideband suppressed carrier amplitude modulation. So if it can do a, if it can do single sideband in any way, you're saying that it wasn't exactly doing it by normal means, but that means it can do AM, which means that you probably is a good radio to listen to aviation on. But people forget that single sideband is in fact AM. So anyway, Peter, thank you for that excellent report. I loved it. And even recorded the part where you were talking about that radio. So I'm going to listen to that again and review it. Alright folks, that's the end of this third round. I will start a fourth round, but at this late hour, I'm going to say that this is going to be for the handlers for last call. So anybody out there, anybody out there who wants to get into this net, this is last call. This is KX2CW, Joan on Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington, asking for last call. And we're going to land in the nation of November 3, November 9th. We're going to launch a new mission of no time south of Florida. We're going to land out. Everyone have a great night. I'm back out tomorrow, so I'll be away for the rest of the week. But if you wanted to say hi, hi and bye. Hope you all have a great rest of your week. Alright, I got three operators and I only got one call sign, or I want a name out of it, no call sign. So I've got David and Moberge in the Dakotas. Moberge, I forget which Dakota, but David, I did not get your call sign. So David, could you give your call sign and say the state where Moberge is? I'll try it out. Okay, N3N2V, November 3, November Tango Victor. David, once again, in Moberge, South Dakota, we're in and out. Everyone have a great night. Alright, thank you for that, David. I've got South Dakota in no television for your suffix. N3N2V. There were two other stations, I'm just rolling the roulette wheel. One of you had low audio and didn't give your call sign at the end, but both of you were talking for a while. But go ahead, those two stations, pop back in with your call signs and then I'll sort you out. KJ7, Victor, I've got your uniform please. I'll come in quickly. Alright, go for that, Michael. Oh yeah, let's see where to begin. Oh yeah, a Yupir Mapper on a postcard on a National Lampoon Vacation is at the UP's in Wisconsin. Let's see, what was the other thing? Oh, I am a HO in my humble opinion. Watch out, that means I am HO. That's in Black American English, but that's for a license plate if they'll do it. Let's see, what else did I want to comment on? I don't know, I've got to go turn the water off, my fake plant is trickling and I don't want to let it run all night. Thanks Joan. KJ7VU, good luck. Alright, got those comments Michael. And there was a third operator, not David, not Michael, who was the third operator. Hey there, this is Amber, Kilo, Mike, Devin, Bravo, Victor, Tango. Hopefully I'm not talking alongside anyone else here. Just wanted to pop in, say hi and say bye. I'm going to be talking about DefCon for the rest of the week and I hope that you all have a great week out there. Alright Amber, thank you for that. I'm putting you in the log, I'm counting what you just said as a report. And I've got Kilo Mike, Devin, Bravo, Victor, Tango. I'm going to look you up now. Last time I looked you up you weren't in QRSAT yet. So, uh, Kilo Mike, so we know we've gone to Mike already from the KKs. We can't use L or uh, oh we are Mike, okay yeah. Kilo Mike, there we go. Hang on, I have to do this one handed and I have like about a 100 degree sweep of my attention span here. BVT, that's it. BVT, doink, with one finger. There you are, you made it in there. You have 11 look ups, Amber. 11, 11. So put some kind of fun content in there for biography. Alright, I've got you on the list. And so, um, I better ask for more stations. I was just going to go let Amber give her report, but I'll make sure there's any more stragglers out there. This is last call. Alright, Kingston Bill. Okay Bill. Alright, I've got you in the log, Bill. Any more stragglers? Kilo, Kilo 7, Victor, India, November. Jesse with an I O. Good evening to the net. Hey Jesse, I've got your calls signed. Thank you for your I O. Uh, thank you for driving by. Anyone, someone who's doubling with Jesse, who is that? Okay, we've got Mike and Chandler. Okay, and then N5AQM. There was also at least one K station. One or the other of the other stations, please give a call sign.