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Alright, we've got an epic list here. Let me count them. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. We've got eight ends on this round. So, I hope you appreciate it. No one else was waiting. There should probably be a list waiting when we get done here. But I am Brian, K-E-7, K-Z-H. This is the clock net. Up to the top. Doug, how are you doing tonight? K-F-7, okay. Please give us a report. Okay, great. Thank you, K-F-7. Okay, that is near the wood. And today was a pretty good day. I was out harvesting potatoes today, and I was thinking to myself, why am I short of breath? You know, why do I feel so, you know, out of it? And then I looked at the thermometer, and it's 86 degrees, that's why. So then I felt better, okay? But for a while there, I was thinking, okay, not my normal self. So I got concerned. But yeah, it got really hot. And I did get some, a bit disarvances. And I got in, I'm a workout, so I got in workout number 2,704 today. And so I've been in it for many years now, like seven plus. Got that out of the way. Other than that, it was a great day just to piddle around in the yard and get a few things done. In the next few days, I'm going to have some roof work done. So I think what I'm going to have to do, I'm going to disconnect all my antennas, because my, where I have it on my antennas goes straight through the roof. Okay, when I had this add-on built in like 1990 or so, I had to wear the cables that go right up to the roof, and they go right out through, you know, an electrical, oh I don't know what you call it, you know, same as you would have your electrical coming into your home, but this comes right up through the roof and everything. So I'm going to probably disconnect all that and have an indoor antenna for two meters. And I guess I'll just have to go through HF withdrawals. You know, not that I know all that active lately anyway. Anyway, that's my story sticking to it. KF7 okay, back to net. Hey, good stuff there. Yeah, I just ran some coax up to my attic to kind of do something similar, but it's not poking out. I don't have the antennas up yet. Yeah, I've definitely got those taken down. Your signal coming in, it looks like you're hitting, what is it, Buck and, no sorry, Cougar and Lake Forest Park, and you were hitting both of them like full 255, so hopefully that indoor antenna, you can at least make one of those receiving stations pretty well. I guess you could, so hopefully you can at least hit this repeater, and it sounds like you're not super active on the HF right now anyway, but I know that as soon as you take down those antennas, you'll be itching to do HF. That's just, when you know you can't, then you're going to crave it. So anyway, good luck on that roof repair, and we'll catch you down the log there, Doug. Oh yeah, potatoes, yeah, definitely sounds yummy. Alright, next on the list here, Rebecca, how are you doing tonight, and more importantly, como esta el presidente, KK7IJZ, please give us a report. Well, Brian, el presidente is doing wonderfully. So, he has pretty much the top floor, all of the courts have been bonafide, and the carpets have been, the rugs have been laid down, we've gathered up, yeah, we've gathered up all of our extra rugs, and just made him pads all around. Upstairs, he's in heaven, he loves it. He's so cute. Today I bought him these, what they call, they're like garden sticks, but they are these little shoe sticks that are Timothy Hay and Mint and Peat Lake, like all mashed together to make like little sticks, I don't know why, how many times can a person say sticks? Sticks, sticks, sticks, sticks, sticks, sticks, sticks. But he was, yeah, he appreciated it so much, so we just sat together while he was eating his little, his fun little garden sticks. And yeah, he loved them. His presidente is doing so good. He for sure is the presidente de la casa. But yeah, my cat, so I have two cats and Andy, my dog, so one of my cats Dewey is the best, and he and El Presidente get along so well. They love each other. And Dewey, they clean each other. I don't know if you've seen bonded pairs of rabbits, but one of my favorite things is that they clean each other, but Dewey and El Presidente clean each other. And they lay down together. And yeah, but Dewey is like the best cat. He's so awesome, but this morning he somehow got out. They're both, both of my cats are indoor cats, and my neighbor called and woke me up, and yeah, so Dewey was out just being a wild cat out there. He didn't know what he was doing. I went out there looking for him, because when my neighbors came out he had run off, and he was just like, I don't know what I'm doing. What is this? What have I done? And so it was pretty easy to get him back inside the house, but it just made the heart drop, because I love Dewey so much. He's the best cat. He's so sweet. I said, I think on the noon net or this morning's net, he's like that cat when people hate cats and they meet Dewey, they always say, I hate cats except for Dewey. That's Dewey. But yeah, Dewey's the best. He's so sweet. But yeah. Anyway, that's all for the pet report. My cat, Obby, orange baby is here, just being his most self. And Andy is downstairs visiting with Valentin, my brother-in-law. And that is the Rebecca pet report. Brian, thank you so much for hosting the net. I'm glad I got to give you a weird pet update. 7-3-88 and 33 everybody, KK7IJZ. Hey, I'll take the pet report any day there, especially when it comes to bunnies and kitties. Love it. I will say this. My rabbit, his favorite treat is it's a brand called Selective Naturals. And they make these little loops, metal loops and country loops and berry loops. I call them bunny-o's because they're in a big circle and stuff. And I just split them in half. My rabbit loves those. So anyway, I'm glad the El Presidente is getting the king's treatment, the presidential treatment per his name there. Good stuff. Thanks for the pics the other day. And yeah, glad everything is well. We will catch you down the log there, Rebecca. You have a good one. Alright, I am Brian, KE7KZH. This is the 9 o'clock net on the PSRG repeater in Seattle, Washington. Move along here to our Monday night net host. How are you tonight, Joe? I should have said Rebecca is also a multi-net host for many 9 o'clock nets. But Joe runs Monday night KXQTW. How are you, Joe? Please, give us your report. Hello there, Brian. Hi, Rebecca. 33TU and all my YLs. I'm glad I went to the Raider Shine net. Ice cream social at Green Lake. It's easy for me to get there. My MO for transportation with my tiny electric bike, I intentionally made it as small as I could. And I even got the shortest BMX bike frame that I could find. At the same rubber sale there was a better, ostensibly better Schwinn BMX bike frame when it was above. In inches, about 4 or 5 inches longer. And I liked the yellow one because, which of course goes to the east region for the name Bumblebee, because it was really the shortest BMX bike frame I could find. I bought it for $15 at a rubber sale on Beacon Hill. And then, it might have been on Mt. Baker, but I think it was Beacon Hill. No, it was on Mt. Baker. That's where the rubber sale was. See? See? And now I digress. Anyway, so, the reason I wanted to be really short, because I meant it for commuting with light rail. So I could just back it into the little corner there for the bicycles. And on the new coaches, there's more space. Enough space that I can actually tuck the front wheel in. So, barely just one handlebar kind of sticks out into the aisle slightly. And that's because of those really wide monkey bars I'm trying to take away to make them all flimmer. There's my two minute behavior. So, wrap it up, Joe. Wrap it up. So, I forgot what I was telling you. Oh yeah, my MO is to ride it to the nearest light rail station, and then take my rail to the station that's nearest where I'm going, and then ride my bike the last mile. Literally, in this case. And it's a nice way to get around. It's like my light rail extender module. So, I was glad to have some good conversations with people. Diane, W70H, you know, W as in whiskey, and OH as in the hydroxyl group at the end of the alcohol molecule. But anyway, and I'll stop there. KXTCW, Joan, on Broadway, all the numbers on my hands. Plane sailing, everybody. Okay, good stuff. So glad you were able to make the Rainer shine net, and I love your mode of transportation. Getting the light rail and getting that last mile there. So, glad it all worked out. And yeah, hopefully it was a fun time there. Hopefully get a few more ice cream social reports there. Really, I was bummed I could not make it there today, but I had too many other priorities that I had to attend to. So, anyway, thanks for that report there. And of course, Joan will be running the next 24 hours from now. So, stop in and say hi to Joan tomorrow. So, thanks for that, Joan. 73 is to you, and we'll catch you down the log there. Alright, next up, Jeff. Down to the Bay Area we go. Give me a squirrel report and then some, if you please. Jeff, Alpha Bravo Six, Mike Bravo, please go ahead with the report. Okay, I'm glad you reminded me of the squirrel report. I probably would have forgot it. Well, the squirrel report is, well, the squirrels were out there on the patio and eating up the peanuts and also the other nuts out there, and they were pretty happy. You know, and Sunday and Tuesday came by, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and Princess in the morning and Rocky at night, and he was having a great time. He was really hungry. He kept chewing away. Then he took off and when it got dark, he just goes to his bunny, not bunny, but you know, the squirrel bed at that day. Yeah, my grandson came over today and it was really the first time we spent any time alone together, and it was interesting talking to him. He's 20 years old and he's a really good kid, and just, you know, he's just getting his start in life and working at a lumber company, a lumber yard, and thinking about getting a second job. He did a nice talking to you, and we were just talking about music. He likes death metal type, you know, heavy duty metal bands and that, so they said, okay, well, you listen to him. And actually some of them kind of were okay, you know, and so it was something like the metal I used to listen to. The singers are constantly screaming, and you can't understand a word they're saying, but other than that, maybe that was a good thing, depending on what they wrote. Let's see what else happened today. Oh yeah, it's on the Papa System on their net tonight, and we're having a few of the Papa System, probably five or ten, are going out to Santa Cruz Island and camp there for four or five days. And what we've done every year is, me and one of the guys' wives, we don't go, but we handle the cogs because there's no cell service out there. So you have to use a repeater, so we make sure there's at least one of us listening to the repeater in case somebody out there needs something, you know, we got to urge you into our phone, somebody needs to be called, or, you know, something like that. And a couple years ago, they had the hurricane came across Mexico, went right up, right up Santa Cruz Island, and it was going to go over the top of the island there, which would have been good. So we got the word out to those guys, and they had plenty of warning, and we were able to get everybody off the island ahead of time so nobody was caught there in the big storm. So that's something about, you know, emergencies can come out of nowhere, no matter, they're just amazing. What do you have to be? Hurricane, crossing Mexico, then going up the west coast. What do you have? Anyways, it's good to hear everybody out there tonight talking about what they're going to bring and looking forward to it and that, so it's pretty cool. Anyways, so back to that, AB6MB. Okay, good stuff there. Glad you're able to spend some time with your son there. Death Metal. I wonder if you, I do appreciate some, I guess the hardest rock I've listened to, I've seen it three times, both of these bands, Opeth and Mastodon. Pretty heavy stuff there. I tend to not listen to a ton of Super Death Metal there. I've seen Flipknot and Comfort, if that counts, I don't know if that's Death Metal or not. Anyway, good stuff there. Oh yeah, I think you mentioned those comms, monitoring that repeater in previous years and stuff. So good on you for doing your part and being out there in the ham radio community, that's what this is all about. That's why we do this. As social of sorts, don't get me wrong, but yeah, we do it out there for those emergency communications and it can really come in handy as you have experience. So thank you for doing that. Thank you for sharing. We'll catch you down the log here, Jeff. Alright, next up here, oops, I should have looked up your name. Give me your name. I'm looking for Kilo Bravo 5 Tango Whiskey Golf. How are you tonight? Please give us your report.