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on PSRG eating your time. This is VK 3 kilo kilo here from the land of the future, where it is 10 past two in the afternoon. And Megan, I've actually taken a couple of days off work, so I've a couple of days owed to me. So I've driven about one hour and a half east of my QTH to the capital called Melbourne, which is in Australia. Those that know the map of Australia on the southern east coast of Australia, the state of Victoria, and I'm in Melbourne. So if you've got nothing to do, look me up, hi, hi. Anyway, I'm just sitting at the outdoor section of one of the local bars here. I've just had a nice lunch. And yeah, I'm just waiting for my friend to knock off. I'll be staying the night at a friend of mine's QTH tonight here in town. And he's a ham, and we're gonna do a few ham radio projects tonight at his place. So I'll be staying the night. So I'll be spending the night with him and his family. And yeah, I'm looking forward to that. And of course, I did make a nice chocolate ripple cake last night in this morning. So I'm sitting in the car in the fridge keeping nice and cool chocolate ripple cake with cherry ripe on top. So I'll have to send you a pic, but you're looking forward to having that later on tonight. And yeah, so we're enjoying ourselves. Good to get away for a while. It's been pretty cool here. And so we're bringing on spring. That's all I can say. Back to you, Megan. Thanks for hosting. And catch you all. Oh, and of course, how could I have to park without saying radio wave to Miss Trixie and Remy as well. Cheers to you and back to you. Cheers all. VK 3 double K here from the land of the future. Back to you. Well, Shawn, that sounds like a great couple of days off of work. Got out of town, even though you didn't go that far. That's okay. You don't have to go that far. Just getting out of town. And then you had a nice lunch. You're gonna hang out with another ham friend and work on some ham projects at QTH. Yeah, that's always a good time. And then you made some delicious chocolate cake. Yeah, that sounds really yummy. And you sound like you put some time into it. So hopefully it's as good as it is. And in the fridge, in the car. Wow, Shawn, you have the whole set up there. You have a great time with your ham friend there and have a great rest of your time off there, Shawn. We'll talk to you again soon. Okay, it is 9.12 p.m. I'm K9MLR Megan. We had an IO from Cody AG7LR. Thanks for dropping by, Cody. You have a wonderful rest of your evening. And now we're gonna go talk to Bill, K7WSB. How's it going, Bill? Well, good evening, Megan. This is Bill, K7WSB. I am up here in Steveson, British Columbia. My wife and I are going over to Vancouver Island on the Sosson Ferry tomorrow. And we thought this would be a nice jumping off point. For those who've never heard of Steveson, which I never had until recently, it's southwest of Vancouver, just at the mouth of the Fraser River where it dumps out into the Gulf of Georgia. Nice little town, nice little motel, and a nice little meal. So it's a pleasant trip. I wanted to report on something that is exciting to me, being a techno nerd, because when I travel, I just use Echo Link to get back into PSRG. And I've had trouble over the years with dropping out and, you know, if the screen goes dark, it's all just linked to all kinds of problems. So I decided to see what All Star had to offer. And I just had all my travel open All Star mode on my phone. So I just did this thing called Web Transceiver Mode. All Star, oh, I'm sorry, this is DV Switch Mobile. I'm an Android app. DV Switch Mobile, you put it into Web Transceiver Mode, and it runs like a champ. I've had it running now for an hour and a half, sitting on PSRG, not dropping out. And it's full duplex, so I don't have to, it's not too hard to get in. And it works. I recommend it. DV Switch Mobile, Web Transceiver Mode, go do it. Back to you, baby. This is 27 WSP. November, All Star Node 16-2, located in Shelton, Washington. Well, Bill, that sounds like a great trip. You're up in British Columbia, going to Vancouver Island tomorrow. Yeah, that is such a beautiful area. I do know that area because my coworker, my counterpart at work, she and her husband plan to retire up in that area. They have been traveling out and about around lately up there trying to see where they would like to retire. So yeah, such a gorgeous area. I'm a little bit envious there. Bill, you have a lovely time. And yeah, sorry to hear about Echo Link. I know sometimes it works really well for people, and sometimes it doesn't work very well at all. So hopefully you will find the right thing for you, Bill, and it will keep working for you. You sounded great tonight, though. So whatever you were doing was working great. Have a fantastic time, Bill. And we will talk to you again soon. Okay, last but not least on my list here is Matt, KJ7WQI. It sounds like you're maybe in Seattle. Take it away, Matt. Hey, family man. All right. I did take down a note of what Bill said there because it does seem a little more convenient than Echo Link, a little more able to jump in there. It was good to be able to see what you guys were doing. I think it was good to see what you guys were doing. I think it was good to see what you guys were doing. I am here in town. It was quite a journey to get over here. We flew Boston to Chicago, sat around for four hours, and then flew Chicago over here to Seattle. And unfortunately, I'm in a hotel room tonight that does not have very good RF systems. I'm in a hotel room, and I'm going to be sitting in a hotel room where I can get my hands on my phone. And I'm going to be sitting in a hotel room where I can get my hands on my phone. I have very good RF capabilities. I was trying before the net got on, and I cannot hit the PSRD from here. I can hit a few other things, but not enough to be hurt. So I am on Echo Link tonight, unfortunately. And then tomorrow we fly from here to D.C. And then from D.C. back to Boston. But yeah, quite a day. We found out in the air on the way over here that my airline had had an outage with the weight and balance system, which basically grounded every airplane that we had trying to take off. It's kind of wild. It's going to kind of lift up some air travel for the next couple of days because those schedules are packed tightly. So if you are traveling by air for the next couple of days, just be aware there's likely to be a couple of delays. But we're hoping to get out of here tomorrow. I have to show up at the airport. I'm supposed to be on an airplane at 1215 tomorrow, so I'm going to be able to catch just the first couple minutes of the net. But I should be here for the 9 a.m. net in the morning, which will be nice. Other than that, that's all I got. It's been quite a day. I've got a good 17-plus hours here in Seattle to relax and enjoy the nice weather because it is beautiful. Pilot told us on the airplane, he's like, it's probably going to be rainy when we get in. Turns out it was beautiful outside when we got in, so I love that that turned around. Anyways, thank you for running that, Brooks and Megan. Hope everyone's doing well. All the numbers, 73, 33, 88, 22, I don't know. Are there other numbers? I need to come up with that. Anyways, KJ7WY. Well, Matt, I'm glad to hear you got here before the checks and balances system went down because that does not sound like that would be a fun delay after going from Boston to Chicago and Chicago to Seattle. So I'm glad you made it before that delay, and hopefully you'll be late enough tomorrow that it will kind of catch itself before you need to head back out. And at least you're going the short way home this time, Hi Hi, and not the long way, like you normally do through San Francisco. Safe travels back to Boston tomorrow and back to, I think, the humidity. Take care of yourselves, Matt. Get some rest and, yeah, bummer that sometimes when you get near the airport, you just can't get into the PSR repeater, which is always a bad day. What you mean there. Glad to hear you connected with Amy and Madeline while you were in town. It's fun to hear when people pass through. You take care. Safe travels back tomorrow, and we will talk to you again soon. Okay, with that, it is 9.20 p.m. I am K9 MLR Megan. Gonna pass it over to K9 and BDC to run the next list. Stand by, everyone.