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Alright, we picked up KN4LBF, DE3FBX, Ben and N90FU-Mayo. Good morning to all three of you. We're going to start out with the KN4LBF. Good morning, D. How are you today? And you still think you'll be able to host the net next Saturday morning? If not, let me know. No big deal either way. What are your plans for the weekend, D? This is KN4LBF. This is D. Right now I am just giving thanks to be able to wake up this morning, give my gratitude. And it's 90 here, which is, well, it's going to be 90, which is great because it was 97 and over over here. We had a lot of rain and thunderstorms last night and it dropped the humidity just a little bit, just enough to be able to go out and do a couple of things. And not much today because today is my day of rest. But tomorrow I'll think about stopping by my friend's house and giving her some really beautiful veggies we have here. Anyway, not much and yes, I am going to be here on the 16th at 730. Yes, I am. I am ready. Okay, well, back to you, Kevin. This is KN4LBF. This is D. D, no offense, but that's a little warm. So it's early in the morning. That's downright hot. I just, what is it now? It went up from 63 to 64 here. And I can handle that, but I don't know that I could handle those temps down there this early in the day. That's a bit much. It's funny how, it doesn't sound like I'm the only one on this net this morning, but the older I get, the less I like the heat and the less I like the cold. So maybe we're just becoming old crotchety people that don't like it too hot, don't like it too cold. I don't know. But thank you for joining us, D, and we'll look forward to hearing you next weekend at this time. And now we're going to go down the list to VE3FBX. Ben, good morning to you. How are you today? Have you got any weekend plans that you want to share? Over to you. VE3FBX. Good morning, Kevin and everybody else up in the morning having a coffee. Been up for a grand total of a half an hour. It's my day to sleep in. Having my coffee, checking the news. Plans for the weekend are going to be relaxed. It's going to be a hot one here. Going to get into rewiring my radio setup. Finally got all the bits and pieces I want to get in. So hopefully this weekend I can get everything up on the air. Raised up one end of my engine at halfway. Then managed to hit Europe finally. So hopefully tonight and maybe tomorrow night we'll get some contact out that way. Other than that, going to take it easy. Back to you, Kevin. VE3FBX KM1X. Do you mind, Ben, if I ask you what kind of end fed halfway you got? Did you make it or did you buy it? VE3FBX. Kevin, I got lazy. I bought it off Amazon. I was planning to make a fantail dipole and just ran out of time this spring. Hopefully over the winter I get a chance to build the fantail and get it up next year. I just wanted to get up in the air. I'm a new ham. Just got my license this spring. Been in electronics and radio since the early 80s when I was a teen and into the Air Force. So yeah, this is it. VE3FBX KM1X. I want to say it was Monday. I was all ready to make a purchase of one. I had fed halfway. I liked my other one but it broke about a month ago. So I have been off HF now for the last month. What I was going to do was buy two. I was going to have one that was going to be pointing to the east. So that one would hit Europe. Then I was going to have one that was going to be pointing towards the west. I saw what was sitting in my cart online and how much it was going to cost. I thought, do I really need two? Can I just get away with one? So then I dropped it back to one. They won't deliver to my post office box for whatever reason. I get that if you get a battery or something, there's no reason why this couldn't get it. They won't deliver to a PO box. So I was going to have it delivered to my parents house knowing that I was going to be up there on Sunday. I said, well it's too early. I don't want to have it get delivered on Wednesday or something and they're going to be running around. I want them to be home when it happens. So I figured I'd wait until later in the week knowing that I forgot all about it. So I still haven't made the order. Now I'm toying with going back to getting two. If I get two, all I'm going to do is put the one pointing east up now and then I will wait until the foliage drops before I put the one going west up. I'm also concerned that the tree I'm using for the west one is not far enough away. I think the wire is 130 feet long or something like that. I think the tree is only 80 feet away or 90 feet away. So there's still a lot of extra there and I don't know. So we'll see. It'll make for an interesting winter though for sure. Thank you Ben. Let us know how you like that too. Bill! And 9-0-F-U. Good morning to you sir. Welcome to the Calabunga net. How are you? Where are you? And what are your plans for today? So listen, over to you. Okay. How are you doing? I'm going to push the button and then I'm going to pop back up. And I'm like, oh wait, you're not done talking yet. But I'm at home. My last day at home. Well, last morning at home I should say. My student is waiting for me. I'm just wondering if my truck has been fixed or gone to the shop yet. I put my truck in the shop Thursday morning. I wanted them to just check out the repair job on the differential. So I asked for that. And I figured that was just quick and easy just to make sure it wasn't leaking. But then I had some antifreeze coming out. These two hoses or top holes on the radiator causing leakage. I wasn't losing much antifreeze. But it was making a little bit of a mess inside the engine compartment. So I put it in there for that. That was the main thing. But when I went in yesterday morning, it sat all Thursday. So they had a lot of trucks they were working on. And now I'm just waiting. I didn't go back last night. And as far as I can tell from my air tag in the truck, the truck is sitting in the same area that it was when I put it in. But they may have taken it out and put it back. I'll find out this morning. All Star Note 6222 located in Shelton, Washington. Yep, just had to read the message. Yeah, I'm not sure. Okay. I may have been mistaken. We're trying to figure out tomorrow's net. And I knew he was going to be out here. But with respect to my intention that she was going to be covering your net next week. So maybe that's what I was getting. Or maybe I'm confused. And she's not going to be out here tomorrow. So we'll get tomorrow figured out. If nothing else, I might be able to pick it up. So we'll see what happens. But yeah, beautiful morning. I may have one here. All right, been able to get a full night's sleep the last couple nights. That's helped out a lot with the muscle relaxing in the back. So my leg hasn't been giving me too much bother. Plus I've been wearing my knee brace. So that's kind of helped keep things straight on my leg. So we'll see if we can continue. Usually I have like a week where my students got driving as a solo student. So I'm able to get a good night's sleep every night for the first week before I go back into team driving. Last time didn't quite work out that way because my last student already had enough hours that we were able to run team pretty much from the beginning. So we're still working on that. But good to be out here and keep me on the list. This is N9OFU back to KM1X. And I know if you KM1X, we're glad to hear that your back is doing a little bit better. I know last Sunday I played pickleball. And Monday morning, I was kind of sore all over. But I noticed that my Achilles in my right foot was burning. And I thought it was just because the heel of my shoe was rubbing up against it and it was just creating a lot of friction from running around. But it wasn't going away. A couple of days ago, I kind of just Googled burning sensation and Achilles tendon and they said that it sounded like it was tendonitis. And that you gotta take it easy and that it's common with people that play tennis or basketball like once a week. It's like, well, that sounds familiar. So there are some stretching exercises that I'm doing. They seem to think it seems to be coming from tightness in the calf. So I'm trying to stretch that out because I don't want to screw up my Achilles and need surgery or something like that. That would be new fun whatsoever. So we're just kind of taking it easy. All right. We are at the bottom of the list. We'll take one more call for check ins and then we're going to try to answer some questions or a question. So anyone anywhere that wants to get on the net come forward with your call sign now.