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Okay, just tried the button on my headset to see if it would activate PTT, but nah, it doesn't. It just beeps when you press it. It's typically the pause button, you know, for music and stuff like that, but yeah, either way. No big plans, man. Take the bike out for a ride. Shortly after lunch, I think. I straightened it all up yesterday. The air intake is still a little wonky. It's still sucking a little bit of air that it shouldn't be. But, um, it's all good. I checked it over yesterday. It's off like a shade on the bottom. I don't know, it's just not fitting right. Maybe I don't have it lined up right or something. I'm not doing something right. And, um, I'd like to be able to figure that out, but I don't really know this stuff so well, right? I mean, I'm not a mechanic. I wish I was. Because then I could do this stuff really quickly and very efficiently, but with me, it's like trial and error, watch a YouTube video. Let me reset. Yeah, it's like trial and error, watch a YouTube video, pause it, you know, do a little tinkering, watch some more video. You know, that's the way it is when it comes to my level of, uh, mechanisies. But, at least I try. Hope everything's going good with you, Kevin. Yeah, I went to sleep last night, I mean, you know, at like 10.30 or something. And I woke up a couple times throughout the night, which is typical for me, and, um, went to the door and called my cats and managed to get all three of them in by like 4 o'clock or 4.30. Uh, the worst thing about this is because when I get Shadow in, it's all well and good, right? But then when I'm trying to get Dewey in, Shadow's trying to get back out. So the whole time I'm calling Dewey, I'm like, like trying to fight off a predator on the inside of the door here, right? He's like trying to climb me, he's trying to jump over my shoulder, he's jumping up on the counters. He's like doing everything he can to find a little inch to squeeze out. And that's where it gets frustrating, because trying to hold him in when he wants out is near on impossible. But other than that, Kevin, I won't keep it down too long, man. Um, I am here, and should be here, because I'm not tired, so, um, I got plenty of sleep. I was actually awake about an hour before the net started this morning, so, um, and I woke up and everything was still connected, which is great, because I did it before bed last night, and, uh, everything stayed up. So, we're still having a minor, let me reset one more time. We're still having some minor internet issues up here. It's very sporadic now, um, but it is still happening. I did notice that wonky behavior last night with the All-Star Note again, with the repeater kept disconnecting, everything kept disconnecting, so, I don't know. It's on my parents right now, anyway. I was talking to my old man about it last night, and he's been experiencing some issues, too, so, um, we're ever so closer to calling the company. You wouldn't think that would be so difficult, but with my parents, oh, man, it's difficult. Um, I'll be here, V01UKZ with the cowabunga net. V01UKZ, KM1X, well, glad to hear you got a good night's sleep, and, uh, sounds like it's gonna be a great day weather-wise, at least here, and I'm sure over there, because we've had great weather the last few days, so I would think our weather is making its way over to you. And so, uh, a good day to, uh, be well-rested, I think, um, and if you can get that bike fixed, um, it's certainly gonna be a great day to be out and about. I know that, uh, I, uh, I'm gonna be busy inside making spaghetti sauce today, and you were talking about your technical issues. My, uh, local 2-meter repeater has been, for the better part of the last month, we've had some, uh, Alpha Hotel who has been, uh, basically jamming. It started out there is a, uh, a weekly net on Sunday evenings, and this person started out by jamming that net. And now it's he or she has, uh, taken to just, throughout the day, uh, doing jamming, either just, you know, kurchunking non-stop, or once they hear people talking, uh, they'll just, uh, start playing music. I don't even know how they're doing this. But you would think that since it's been going on, I mean, sometimes they'll just shut the whole repeater down so that no one, including the jammer, can get on it, but that kind of defeats the purpose. Um, and other than, you know, trying to do a little fox hunt, um, which is gonna take a lot of resources, I think, I don't know how they're gonna get, catch this guy, to be honest with you. Um, but hopefully, uh, it won't last much longer, because it's getting to be a bit of a pain. So, I understand what you're going through there, Jarrell, with the stuff that you're working with to try to get the system, you know, running properly. And we thank you for your service. Alright, let's go to Kevin, VA3, KKY. Kevin, what's going on, brother? Uh, you got a big weekend plans? Uh, and, uh, Wendell, what, does school go year round for you where you work, or were they out for the summer, and are they gonna be starting up again here soon? Uh, over to you, Kevin. Well, uh, it's a regular year, as far as I know, right to where we kinda know the school year starts out, uh, on Labor Day, uh, holiday, and usually ends, uh, somewhere, somewhere in the middle of June before July, like, uh, the, the, uh, well, I know last year, cause, see, I don't even remember what it was this year, it was like the 28th or something, so it was really cool. So it was really close to July that, uh, the kids were off. Um, and let's see, how is everybody? I hadn't been in here forever. Um, I, I just been sleeping through a lot of the nets, and just work, work, work, work, work, I, you know, got some messages about certain things happening, yep, mute the manic situation, don't be heaps cool, okay, I got that. Uh, I wasn't hostile about it ever. I was most just like, look, how you go pick up a job like Sunday and then just walk away from it. So I had said that, I remember I had said that, and, uh, I guess at some point I was just gonna ask, I was just gonna ask to recall it, and, uh, I hadn't changed when I said, hey, look, if you're gonna be crazy, you know, I mean, come on then, uh, how's that gonna work out? Don't give yourself important jobs if you're out of your mind. So that's all I said, uh, I remembered it while I was off, but I, I, I've said it in, uh, occasional Q-Soles. We had a pretty, uh, crazy and important hip-hop death that took place on Monday, Howie, uh, Howie T from, uh, Full Force. And he was a big producer, right? He produced like a lot of groups, the Real Rock Band, a few others. He passed away, and, uh, I don't know how he, how the hell that happened. I suddenly heard, hey, if TMZ doesn't know, um, then you're pretty much screwed. There is supposed to have a, there's supposed to be a pipeline on all of this, so if they have no idea, then, uh, then you're messed up. Uh, well, that is kind of why I walked away from regular 2-meters here in Toronto. Uh, it kind of started before the 2000s. Yeah, there were too many jammers on, nobody was doing anything about it. The repeat owners seemed to just kind of, uh, let it, you know, roll through. They took it in their strides, and I was like, I'm out of here. Um, there's, there's, yes, people from Scarborough. Not only does that, but a lot of times, you know, when people do the, the, the conjunctive and keying up. Um, and I said this in the 90s, I honestly think sometimes it's hands that are bored, because you just kind of figure no one's gonna see what you're doing, so that you can get away with, uh, keying up your mic 30,000 times. Uh, and yeah, a T-hunt works. Usually it does. Usually when people know you've found them, it kind of changes the game a little bit. Of course, too, they can play the game forever to where, uh, you still have to find them. So I got tired of a lot of it, and I at least ostensibly knew somewhere like Echoing would be, uh, immune to it. And for the most part, it usually is. Um, it's kind of like on Do-Drop. I think the majority of the, uh, heckling and the bad T-ups would come from the RF gateways where people, where you couldn't do anything about it, right? Like here. Um, if somebody came in on someone's particular RF, all you'd be able to do is mute them and just kind of know, okay, maybe something's coming across Darrow or something's coming across someone else. Uh, but you know, it happens all the time across, uh, systems where, you know, there's these little links people are gonna be able to get through on HTs, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. But for the most part, um, well, cause one of the people that I used to hate here in Scarborough, he's just a major stooge. Everybody makes fun of him. It's this guy, Bruce, VA3YTV. You know, he's a black and white, right? It's one reason. And another reason is, if you get him talking, he speaks like a speed freak, right? And he, it's like a lot of hot air. And so it was like, okay, well, guys like that don't go to heckling. And so there was that situation. And then, um, we would also kind of avoid, there were certain characters and certain people we avoided just because they were just known to be bad. Like one was the Barra, right? Uh, the Buffalo Amateur Radio Association. It got around to blind people that they're not very friendly to us, so stay off their systems. They used to be all over the place. So when you lived, at least in the footprint of it, you know, 90 miles, um, and for a while I lived in, um, Medina, where my mother's lived for many years. You couldn't avoid it. It's like they were everywhere. So the best thing to do, um, it used to be said that those losers don't get on Echolink. Another one that's really bad, uh, we just didn't get off on the right foot. He ended up, he used to block me all the time when he would see me with that dick Langer, WB2JPQ. I think honestly he's as bad as what they say about some of the Barra guys. He now runs East Coast Reflector. I don't know how they do or what they do. I just never, never would be a part of anything he's a part of. So then in turn, anything they're a part of. So through the blind community and through other people, he's gotten a bad name. Um, and, uh, some people call him a common CB'er, so he's somebody to avoid. So there was a lot of characters that I kind of walked away from just even getting on Echolink. Um, certain aspects are still there and other aspects, uh, it's basically, uh, you know, a safe haven up to a certain point. Cause I think here, mostly you're almost totally protected from trouble. I mean, you'll get some on occasion, but mostly it's, it's easy. It's a lot easier to filter. So I even say, if you would have asked me in the nineties going into the two thousands, I would have said, why would you even want to go on any of the local frequencies? I would have said, they're pretty stupid yo. Who wants to get on and talk to, um, uh, Lloyd, uh, Midnight on Seminole Street and doesn't have a license in the first place? Or, uh, what is it Dan, the caretaker? That's who he was on CB? So he uses the E3IS.