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Okay, nothing hurt. Uh, we're gonna move back to the top of this. Let me check your list. Starting off with Kilo Echo Tui Tui Sierra Tango. Uh, if you don't mind, tell me your name. I haven't had a chance to look you up yet, and I don't recognize your calls, man. Um, today, my net is... Sorry, I hit the button again. Basically focused on, uh, the cow bunker net. Um, for you who don't know, this is my fourth time at NECA, so my first NECA on a Friday morning. And, uh, it looks like this is gonna be my scheduled spot for a bit. Um, so with that, I'm just trying to gather some data. That's what I do for a living. Um, I am a data guy. So I'm trying to gain some data to figure out how to craft and how to set up, uh, this Friday morning net. Uh, I want it to be engaging. I want it to be polarizing. I want it to be cutting edge. Um, I plan to talk about things like Raspberry Pis and software that can enhance your ham radio life. Uh, integrating, uh, artificial intelligence into not just your radio life, but your daily life. Um, I say I want ham radio 30.0. That's kind of what I mean. Um, I want to develop a sense of community within this group of people. Um, as a source of information and a place to ask questions and to get, if not expert advice, good sound advice maybe. Uh, you know, we have somebody here on here who says, hey, I want to build my own node. How do we do that? Well, I know how. I've done it a few times now. Uh, Daryl knows how. Uh, so this is, you know, this is some stuff like that. Somebody says, man, I would love to be able to write. I have a writing passion. I just don't know where to start. Well, we have Ray who has been a writer or is a writer still. Uh, there are so many people who have so much knowledge, uh, that they can share with us. Um, they have very fine services. So that's kind of where I want to go with this net. Um, you know, so today is about data gathering about what you like about the Cowabunga Net. Uh, I will be asking probably if you're saying what you don't like about Cowabunga Net. Maybe today if we make it. Uh, and I am looking for more honest answers. You all don't hear my feelings. I hope you don't hear Nells or Bills or anybody else's. But sometimes, you know, a fair assessment of what's going on is the best thing to have. And since I'm starting as a new net controller on a new day, I do not feel like I'm going to have that data. So that's why we're doing what we're doing this morning. So before I head up to K- uh, I'm sorry, K-E-2-G-S-T, it's easier to say yours than Fanatic's for short. Um, I'm going to tell you a question of the day again. What brings you to the Cowabunga Net? Do you come daily, weekly, monthly? And why? So with that, we will start with the next round of check-ins. Kilo Echo 2 Charlie Zero Tango, the mic is yours. Hello, this is Kilo Echo 2 Charlie Zero Tango. The name is Pete. Pete Papa Echo Tango Echo, MNS State New York. And I just sort of stumbled into the Cowabunga Net. I've been doing a lot of chatting over on the East Coast Reflector. And somebody there told me about the Dew Drop In. And I don't know if it's a reflector or if it's- I don't know quite what the Dew Drop In is, but I looked it up and found an all-star number for it. And here I am. I'm coming to you through a BaoFeng HT. It's a UV5RM. And it's talking about 20 feet up to my office where the all-star node is. And then through all-star over the internet to your net. I never heard of the Cowabunga Net before I just turned the radio on this morning. And I don't know a lot about the Dew Drop In reflector or whatever it is. So I'm just here to find out that basic information, what are you guys about. I think you did a pretty good job explaining the Cowabunga Net to me. But I don't know how often you meet or if there are other nets or what the deal is. So I'm just here to find out what's what. So that's why I'm here. Again, the name is Pete, KET2CST. Over to you. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7. Kilo Echo 2 calling Sierra Tsingo. Well first off, let me welcome you to the Cowabunga Net. My name is John, KET5IRQ. Then let's see what's still happening. First off, welcome to the Cowabunga Net. The Cowabunga Net is a 7-day-a-week radio, a ham radio network. I'm going to use Texas Times Central Time. I can use up to New York Times because my wife is from upstate New York. So for you it starts at 7.30 in the morning, every day. There's generally some shit-caps earlier that don't agree with that. And you can catch some of the regulars talking on there most mornings, I think. I generally don't get up that early because it's 6.30 in my time. By the time I get up and get going, it's time for the net. So I don't take part in much of the pre-net stuff. But I have heard them talk. AA4HO is a early morning guy. I know he likes to talk on that. You can get clearer information than I at the DDropIn.info website. We also have a Facebook page and a Discord server. If you're interested in joining the Discord server, send me a message. Let me know. You can look me up on QOZ, my email. I can get you in there. You can get a hold of Gerald Walford. He is a V01 UK team. He is our net manager. He's the guy that keeps the DDropIn going. The DDropIn is a network. It's an EchoLink conference server. The node is 355800. That's the main server. There's alternatives you can see on the website. There are a variety of nets that come on throughout the week. Feel free to go to the website and look up the schedule. I'm actually working on an... I think I'm making headway. I'm working on an AI chat bot that we can attach to the website. You can ask it things like, when's the next net? They can just pull up the information for wherever it's looking. It's going to be a little bit better. I can't spend all my time doing it. It's my normal job. That's something I have planned for this if I ever get around to it. I hope I gave you enough information about the DDropIn. If I haven't, again, DDropIn.info is your best source of information. We wholeheartedly welcome you to the net. We love having your people join us. You will get all kinds of views. You'll get conservatives, liberal, libertarian. You'll hear people talk about things you don't agree with. You'll hear things you completely agree with. The only thing we ask is, keep it civil. We are all adults here. We can talk about what affects our daily lives. I'm going to take a real quick break. There we go. Sorry, I was running out of time on my timer here. Yeah, we just ask everybody to be civil. Be adults about it. If you can't be civil, and if you can't talk with somebody at the normal adult world, then we probably don't want you on the net. Not to sound rude, but that's kind of what makes this net special in my mind. Anybody else can chime in and agree or disagree with that statement. We are very happy that you are here with us Pete. We are going to move down to John from Rancho Cucamonga. I really do enjoy seeing the name of your town. Good morning John. I hope all is well there. The mic is yours. KJ5, are you sending it over to KN6UYZ? Good morning Josh. Good morning everybody on the net. KN6UYZ. Gosh, everybody gave such great answers to your question already. It's a little tricky to come up with something fresh, but I made a couple of broad notes while I was listening to everybody else. I wrote the words that the net was unique, stimulating, and it had great questions. And then I realized that I started thinking about the people and I'm going, I feel like the people are unique on this net and the people are stimulating. And the people have great answers. So I think it's like everybody should give themselves a hand or a pat on the back or something, because I think that's who makes the net really such a great net. Something a little bit unique that I did, which I've stated before, is for the last few weeks or month or so now, I started doing a lot of research for trying to find nets. And I came up with 127 nets so far that I'm following to some extent. And let me reset for a moment.