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Good morning, WQ7H, this is James. Thank you for filling in for NR7, Ever Refuse 7 Oreos. I love it. I don't know what happened this morning. I tried to connect and my gizmo just turned red and went crazy, so I just, I had to turn it off. So something weird happened. And I can only assume that if you were having interference problems, it was coming from me. Because my thing turned all red and was going nuts. So that's, there it is, blame me. There it is, there you go. I'm off to get some bids on some car maintenance stuff for my daughter. Isn't that always how it is? There you go. So I'm gonna stop by Greg's Japanese, oh is that, can I do that? Can I say the name? Well it's that or Honda. They used to make it simple. Remember those days? And they did too. That was a long, long time ago. I can still remember before the music died. And then I'm gonna go to Vetco and buy a, an eighth inch plug so I can hook up my paddles to my new radio. And that's what I'm doing. Good morning everyone. And we'll be back later to talk to Jack. Yay, beautiful day. You know, temps in the 70s, sunshine. Sunshine don't burn. And RTFM, this is James, back to net. Another quick comment when you get through to next station's view on UKZ. Oh Roger that, got you Daryl. I'll be back to you here in just a second for a recheck. And James, yeah, yes you can mention names as long as you have no pecuniary interest in that business. I can recommend a restaurant, that kind of thing. Hey, no problem. But yeah, you can't do business over the radio which is why there are times people have asked me about specific questions about guitars and I have to say, you need to call me. I can't talk about this. So some things I can and some things I can't and I tend to try and be very careful about doing that. So yeah. And what was the other one? I don't know, I don't know what else you said and I was gonna comment on it. I have the foggiest clue what it was. But hey, great to hear from you James and you take care. Have a wonderful Friday. Still trying to say Wednesday, it's Friday. Friday, Friday, Friday. And we will catch you again later, 73s. Daryl, I'll be back to you. Let me get this last check in and then I'll be back and give you a shout for a recheck. KJ7 Victor, Echo Uniform. Please. Well, you know that retirement theory. You'll have more time when you do your projects. Well, you know, that goes, fades real fast when you realize how life works. Let's see, I've watered my fig tree and a whole lot of the front yard and trying to revitalize grass and bringing in more birds from my bird sanctuary that way and insects. Because they come in and they love that water. I don't have a bird bath and it hasn't rained here much. So I do that and I'll have a good water bill for this month but you know, I'm trying to keep the birds fed in water and keep it away from the rats. But yeah, it's like that. Let's see, oh, and my penchant for just dropping in on things and supernatural events and just oddball. I show up and there it is, kinds of thing. Yesterday I went and stopped by my church to pick up, pick some raspberries out front. You know, and I got about eight or 10. It was hard to park and there's all these people around. And I bumped into Marlon Bortman's memorial service. And I go in and yeah, I knew him. And you know, Sheila says, glad you could come. You know, his wife. No, I just showed up and picked blueberries but here I am again on call just like I always show up and do other things and unexpectedly. And it's a party or what. Break for a moment here. And yeah, those who know me know that I'm just there. Things happen right in front of me. And I go, okay, I saw that. Oh, like I went through Oso the day before that slide because I wanted to go Friday and visit a friend of mine up the river there. And yeah, I beat the traffic and then the next day I went to the area where it's always raining and hailing and cold and wet. They had a slight surprise and they put a bunch of homes in there. Somebody doesn't remember anything apparently about that part of Oso and 530. Okay, well, you know, back to the future. I'm gonna go back to the senior center and work with no ISP on their internet. Thanks Dave, KJ7VEU 73. Hey, great to hear from you. And boy, I certainly remember the Oso slide. Wow, that was quite the event. And I'm very sorry about all the loss of life. Holy cow, what a disaster to put it mildly. So, hey, well, take care 73s. And yeah, it's funny how things work out that way when you walk into something and it's like, oh yeah, okay. I do that as well. And yeah, quite frequently. Or you'll think of somebody and they'll call you the very next day, you know, that you haven't thought of in years. And then it's like, all of a sudden you get a call from them and yeah, I do that all the time. So there you go. Well, 73s, we will catch you later and have a wonderful Friday. Let's go back and get the recheck gear. Darrell, what you got going on? Come on, V01, V01. Uniform kilo, Zulu, take it away. Yeah, definitely Victor Oscar, for sure. A lot of people put in Victor Zero and then they don't get me coming up. In regard to the radio stuff, I actually worked at a college radio station back when I was in high school as a communications credit. And then years later, this was about maybe six or seven years ago now, I actually found this service online called RadioNami. They've since been bought up by the shoutcast, I believe. And what RadioNami did was it let you upload all your MP3s to their site and you could create an automated 24-7 radio station. You could even put in advertisements, station identifiers, you know, all that type of thing. The kicker with RadioNami was they paid out the royalties to the music you played because I think that's the real kicker, right? With doing a pirate radio station is the artists don't get their royalties and they do from commercial radio stations. So RadioNami let you set all that up and then once you got it all rolling, it just played in an app on your phone 24-7. But then you could take a piece of software called Rocket Broadcaster and link it to that account and then you could go live. I used to do that a couple times a week, I'd go live and then I had Facebook messengers output audio patched in so I could take online requests through voice, you know, on the station and stuff and play whatever music people wanted to hear or whatever I felt like I was in the mood to play. And then those live broadcasts were archived so you could call them up again at a later date and I got out of it. I did it for like six or eight months. It didn't really take off. You know, I mean, I used to get maybe 20 consecutive listeners and stuff like that, but it didn't really take off so I gave up on it. But there are services out there for anybody that is interested, you can actually set up an actual radio station. Like it doesn't broadcast over RF, but an internet radio station that could be as good quality as an RF radio station if someone knew what they were doing. And if you got sponsors and things like that, you could actually put their advertisements over there and make a bit of money off it, but it didn't go that way for me so I just gave up on it. But it was a cool venture nonetheless and I had a lot of hams tuning in. I recently got into game streaming, playing video games and I got a game capture device and a streaming account set up and I've got into doing that recently. So you gotta have hobbies, man, and mine, having a background in computer science and communications. I worked for the Canadian government for a while back in the day doing communications for consulates and embassies in different countries around the world for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs. So I've got a background in this stuff and I just find it fascinating, man, with technology and radio, you know, things.