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We're back to WA780. Hey, Michael. Hey, good afternoon to you, Jack, and hello to everybody listening on the net. Whiskey Alpha Seven Alpha Delta Michael here in Kirkland. And it's a rainy day, Jack. That's okay. Needed the rain. Started raining softly in the middle of the night, and it rained harder this morning. And what am I doing? Well, I realized in my malware bytes protection, I don't think, even though they're kind of protected, I don't think I have any of the right computers listed. I'm trying to figure that out. And it's kind of baffling to me. So, oh well. And, because I have five computers over here, different kinds, and I want to get them. And there's five listed, but I don't think they're the right ones. One of them is, but the rest aren't. Anyway, and I'm packing up for a Bigfoot. And that's gonna be interesting. They decided to move our site to a place that's very small. I don't think we can get six A station vehicles in, and there'll be big trucks and R5 ham vehicles. And hopefully there's no one camped there, because it's right near a river. And one of the guys said people camp there all the time. We'll see. Don't want to park my vehicle out on the road. So I don't know what's gonna happen. Anyway, that's what's going on over here. Jack, thanks for the net. Everybody have a safe day. Whiskey Alpha Seven Alpha Delta. Well, Michael, before you get on the road to get down there, are there, or is there someone doing a site survey, a potential site survey early on, so that you can figure out well before you get there, just what you are going to encounter once you do? Uh, Jack, actually Google Drive maps, or whatever they call them, drove the road, so you can see how the road is one lane wide, very narrow, and no shoulders. And then it turns off onto this road that's closed. That's gonna be used as a trail. So they come up a road and then turn onto the trail. But there's not a lot of space, that's the problem. And I don't know whether the road's, I don't think the road is, road number 23 is closed. So it's gonna be interesting. I go to Cole Bar Lake the first night, and then we'll see if there's space for me or not, because the two days are gonna be in a converted school bus with all the equipment. And if anybody's camped there from people camping, there's actually, the spaces are real small, even if no one's camped there. I don't know if there's room for all our vehicles, so. And so the only way you know if anybody's camped there, someone drives it today or tomorrow, and see if anybody's down there. It's a long ways from here to go down and just drive it to see what's going on. Anyway, Jack, thanks for asking. Everybody have a safe day. Whiskey Alpha 7 Alpha Delta. All right, Michael, good luck to you and everyone else on the Bigfoot 200. That is, oh man, that's such a big unknown. Hate to have you get down there and find out that you have to turn around, Michael, unless you are parked on the road. No, thank you. You're gonna have to go probably. Oh yeah, all right, well hopefully people improvise, may do, and it'll all work out in the end, and you'll have a successful Bigfoot 200, especially after all the work and planning you put into it. All right, well I hope you do. Say hi to Kathy, of course, today, and thank you, Michael, for coming on by. Let's go back to John at Commando Island. John, are you available by chance? Why, yes I am. This is John Kilo 9, Juliet Echo Bravo. So not only do I have three radios running, one of which has no signal, one of which has a extremely marginal and almost completely uncopyable signal, and then one that has a barely copyable signal. So I'm going with the barely copyable signal one at the moment. So then I got a phone call and a station manager at the same time, so just perfect, perfect timing for the station manager. The PSA is for the Granite Falls Repeater. If anybody uses a Granite Falls Repeater, in Snohomish County, today it was narrowbanded, which means they changed a couple of things. They changed the frequency, so they knocked it down five kilohertz, it's now 146925, narrowband FM, 146925, narrowband FM, with again still a negative offset. This is Repeater Station Kilo Kilo 7, November, now has a PL 7 of 156.7, and it's by the Snohomish County ACS, but anyway, I just wanted to get that out there because it just changed like an hour ago. So that way folks can reprogram your radios. So narrowband FM, Granite Falls, 146.925, with a PL of 156.7, that's 146.925, with a PL of 156.7, and negative offset for that one. Anyway, that's the PSA, it's rainy here, we got almost an eighth of an inch, so I'll throw it back to the control, 73 K9JEB. All right, and I believe, I don't know if you were monitoring a couple of days ago, there was a couple of people working on a repeater up that way, and I believe that that is the one, and they were doing some testing, once it was all dialed in, I think Don from the very repeater was up there, somebody from our group, and others I think too, and I don't know how many were actually on site, but is that the repeater they were working on, because it seemed like they were changing something around, and I'll bet you that's what it was, do you know? That I don't know, it's likely though, but I don't know, the only one person that I recognized on the list of folks who were on here is Scott, in 7SS, and yeah, so anyway, they got it all squared around, and it's up and running, and it's all working, so anybody that has a radio program for the old frequency of the PL, it definitely won't work, and it's now narrowband FM instead of wide mode, so just wanted to get that out there, repeater book hasn't been updated yet, it might take, I don't know, months even for that to happen, so just wanted to get that out there, and let everybody know. 73, back to net control, K9JEB. All right, and I imagine the most up to date source for any changes in frequencies, PL tones, anything like that would be www.arra.org, and get on their site and look for the latest updates there. All right, well thank you, appreciate that, John, have a great afternoon, hope you're enjoying a little bit of rain up there. Okay, let's see who's up next, we've got James, WQ7H. WQ7H. WQ7H, I am James. Good afternoon, well there you go. Good afternoon, everyone. Hello Michael, you're sounding well, and I hope you enjoy the Bigfoot excursion. Yay, Cammy, thank you for checking in. You know, those carnival stereos, I remember back in the day when there was, there were, pshh, jeez, there were people that wanted in their carnival stereos, but they just didn't have the room, they were like apartment dwellers. And so companies like Avery Fisher started to market compact consoles. And so they would, they built really nice units, they were, they were real wood, and the turntables, real turntables, were in the top, and so you would lift up the top, and the turntable would glide up, and then you could play your vinyl, and then in the front of the unit was, of course, the tuner amp, it was a combo, it was a tuner amplifier combo. And then, and like, you know, it had the Avery Fisher logo, was it an angel or something like that, or it was like a note, or two notes strung together. Anyway, Avery Fisher, there you go, what a guy. And then he sold it. He done did, I believe, he sold it, ooh. And that was kind of the end of all the nice wood cabinetry, you know, it went for dollars instead of, you know. I mean, remember when Zenith advertised their stuff, like the quality goes in before the name goes on, and you'd see somebody soldering like a wire to a tube socket and there'd be the smoke, the magic smoke, and that was the quality going in before the name goes on, Zenith, ooh. There you go. I am, well let me pause for a breath. My little, my N5 BOC hotspot, there, lost some dust. I'm using the WPSD software to accommodate my dual port N5 BOC hotspot, and the software went TU last night, so I'm reloading the software. And my backup, well, it's kind of fuzzy too, so we're just drilling through and reloading, and that's giving me something to do today, because my Jodie Bear is with her daughter, Whitney, and they're down at Virginia Mason spending the day. She has like six, seven, seven appointments. They're checking on her because of all the chemotherapy that she has to go through, like all the time. About every six months she goes through a five week regime of chemo, so it's gonna be a tough week for her. But that's where she is at, and so we're here just sending out positive, we're sending out good vibrations. And so there you go, I've got a nice big pan of lasagna, which we will have ready for Whitney and Joan when they get back for dinner tonight. And there it is, so that's what's going on. I'm focusing on radio to keep my brain occupied. That's the news from here in WQ7H land. Old bird, you might think you're impervious. You might think you're invisible, you're not. And as I gaze in awe upon the new radio, RTFM, WQ7H back to Jack. All right, JV, great to hear you. Thank you so much for checking out. You enjoy that lasagna. Yeah, man, I love that stuff. Hardly ever make it though, and even less, but good to hear you. All right, well, you know, you gotta look at your eight timer to see what's wrong with that thing. Hey, I got a question for you. Did you realize, and I know you said that, you know, eventually Fisher ended up selling the company after he'd made the pretty good money there, but it says here when the audio market veered toward mass merchandising in 1969, Fisher sold the company to Emerson for $31 million in 1969. That was a stack of money. But then, listen to this, he sold it to Sanyo, or sorry, Emerson later sold it to Sanyo. And Fisher consulted for both companies, Emerson and Sanyo, so what a career. And an excellent violin player too. All right, anyway, James, good to hear you. You have a great afternoon. Let's go pick up our Megan off the floor after you get totally stomped on by James. Now, of course, not really stomped up either, I mean, K9 MLR Megan, how are you? Good afternoon, Jack and everyone out there on the K9 MLR Megan mobile here in Bellevue. Probably got stomped on because I'm mobile and I think I'm only on medium power. Jack, I'm not very good at working this radio in my rig. It's a different brand than most the rest of ours in our house, so I should probably figure out how to do that. So I should probably figure out how to change the power on that, their hi-fi one of these days, I'll get to that. But I am mobile-ing here. I got my heart rate up, the adrenaline going, and I got the blood pressure up, I'm sure, Jack, because I left the house and then I got a call, the alarm's going off, did you just leave, yes? I just left, what are you talking about? So nothing like sheer panic of trying to find a spot to turn around when you're not in a good spot to turn around and then race back to the house, not sure why the alarm was going off because the sensor that they said it was, was, it was closed, the door was closed, so I don't know, Jack, anyway, I'm awake now. Thanks for coming at 73, everyone, K9, MLR. Okay, you weren't trying to turn around on 405 or something crazy, were you? No, Jack, fortunately it was just down the hill from the house, but there wasn't a good spot to turn around because it was a weird intersection, K9, MLR. Yeah, that would be a little bit of trouble, I'd put it on 405. All right, well, you got it solved, that's a good thing too, so thank you so much. And your audio was excellent, excellent. If you were translating at that point there during that time, you were just fantastic, so good radio there. All right, well, thank you so much. Let's go talk to Ethan, K5, ONA. Hey, thanks, before I tell you I have to repeat your hearing and some pretty bad picket fencing, how am I making it into the main heat? Your audio's a bit odd, but no, you're coming all the way across all six of our receivers, so yeah, great job, go ahead, Ethan. Okay, just making sure. Thanks for handing it over to me. You had good timing, I'm just jumping onto the five-headed south of Seattle from Linwood. Current travel time is 35 minutes. And I teamed in right at the right time I was listening to Tammy, I think it was, talking about console record players. If you'd called me about four years ago when I was moving to New Jersey from California, my grandmother had a beautiful Reader's Digest custom console four that we could not get rid of and I would have been more than happy to put that in the back of the Jeep and drive it on up to you, but unfortunately that is long gone. But the good news is with the resurgence of vinyl and the appreciation of younger generations, a lot of these units that would wind up in the landfill somewhere actually getting saved and lining up in the secondhand, got some things like that. And if you happen to like better sound, the units, of course, are very easy to work on. You can take the turntables out of them, take the speakers out of them, put something newer in them, and still keep the charm of having a full-size console unit. But weather is gray, not raining right now, but coming from California I don't mind the rain. Any weather is novel. But that's it, that's about all I've got to say. 73 and back to neck control, K5-1A. All right, he said, hey, you have a great afternoon. Well, and I was gonna say I wasn't sure where I was going to insert this into the conversation, but I've seen a number of those old consoles, like you say, refitted with modern electronics, and man, there's some crazy ones out there. They don't cost $275 like they might have back in the day. I don't even remember what the range on the pricing was. We had one in our house, so probably 68, 69, something like that. Man, we thought that was the greatest thing you'd ever seen. They had everything in, the radio, AM, FM, had the record player, the amp, oh man, had the big old speakers, that thing sounded fantastic. Yeah, it was just amazing. Anyway, yeah, now you can't like I say, if it's an old one you probably can't even get it away until you find somebody like Cammie who wants one. So let's all keep an eye out for Cammie and see if we can't find her a nice console that she can get over to the house there. All right, well anyway, I'll talk to you later, Ethan. Nice to have you come in, K5, ONA out of Linwood. All right, who else would like to join us for the new net? It's 1247 p.m. on Jack KI7RMU, that's you. Come ahead, call, sign, and name. Okay. Go seven Romeo. It's David Wallingford. All right, Rich, I've got you. David, I've got you, who's next? KM7, AJM. All right, I thought you would join us there. Thank you so much. Good to hear you. Skipper, stand by, who's next? All right, Rich, Seattle K30E. How are ya? Go ahead, please. Fine over here. A few minutes ago, I had some hard shadows, although not anymore, but anyway, nice cool day. I did get pulled up for a walk, and Jack, he'd be proud of me. I went down to re-PC today, and I actually took something to be turned in, and I didn't buy anything, so how about that? So I'm behaving myself. Anyway, Jack, yeah, the internal lab is open again, and yeah, it's fun to get back into the crazy stuff, and yeah, keeps me going, keeps me thinking. Anyway, Jack, I was amazed that you were able to find that label for the UGA orange. That just blew me away that you could actually find a good copy of that label, because I can't read all the one that's on the unit I have here. Back to you, K30E. Well, that totally drives me nuts when I can't see what the heck it says on there, that UGA horn by Hutchins and Company, and the part that I could not figure out was St. Charles, Missouri. Did you realize they were from St. Charles? Did you ever know that? Yeah, there is. There's photo. There is another morgue on it somewhere, and I think I do know that. Anyway, Jack, that was just really, really cool Sherlock Holmes work on your part. Back to you, K30E. Oh, I don't know about that. Pretty easy way to tell you the truth, but listen to this. I did discover a lot of the different forms on the UGA horn, the Claxon horn, is that apparently that one says 12 volts, but they're really more six volts, but apparently in the forms it says, yes, six volts is correct, but 12 volts if you want the thing to scream, and so I'm wondering if they did that on purpose. I guess they probably did, but so are you going to at some point take that out of the antenna, and could you maybe do a little demonstration and maybe record that? If the UGA claxon does, that's six and 12. And now the thing is quite rusty when I look inside, you know, so I don't know if this thing will still work or not, but you know, I've got a nice 12 volt power supply here. Yeah, I'll give it a go, and I'll let you know what happens. Either I blow a fuse or it works. Back to you, K308. Well, hydrogen zinc company known for their claxon horns, those things, they must have made a billion of those things because there's a ton of available, one guy in the, one of the former said, I've got 50 of those things here, so. This is repeater station, you've got to be quite a few of them out there. Well, I'd be really curious, that would be kind of a neat side adventure for the antenna adventure. All right, well, hey, take care, Rich. You have a great afternoon. Nice to hear Polo in there too. KI7RYW, David, how are you?