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Are you done, Gail? Sorry about that. K0ECK. Alright. Yeah, that's my cue to reply. So, uh, well, I'm sorry about your cat. I've had dogs and pets and cats that needed to be euthanized. Anyway, but, um, uh, I'll just stop there. Take care, Gail. Sean, uh, KJ70XM, I didn't see you at the Rain or Shine Net. Sorry that you didn't make it. Um, but, uh, please give us your report. 33. Well, that is definitely true. I did not make it, but you know what? There will be other events and I will be there. Um, my report is as follows. It's quite warm and somehow, uh, boy, that's a first. And one of my battery-operated lights turned on. That's kind of interesting. I've never seen it do that before. Um, let's see, what else? Oh, yes, my silence on the radio was quite, um, interesting. That's because I gave myself a little break to get something to take care of and, um, yeah, uh, some, uh, other individuals kept dinging me quite often. So I had to take care of that. And otherwise, doing fine. Oh, now it turned itself off. Hey, that's interesting. You know, folks, when you have a light that does its own thing, don't be surprised. It comes with the territory. Um, as do critters. Hold on a second. As do critters, yes. Even I had a partner at one time with four legs and a waggy tail and I appreciated that dog a lot. But, you know, she's in a good place. As all our critters, for anyone who had one, uh, don't worry. They're always going to be a part of you no matter what. So they're never all that really far away. But, um, you know, they give us such joy having them and that's the big difference is they gave you all that wonderful love back for you and me. And so, you know, taking care of them in return, so in a way, you both win. But the main thing is, they will always be in your heart. That's what counts. As to me, wow, can't wait to get a new partner soon. So, I don't know when that'll be, but it'll be soon. Otherwise, this is a PGA 7 EXM at a light with its own sense of humor. Here, I'll get back to that. This is repeater station kilo kilo 7 November Quebec November. Well, Sean, this is not what you reported about, but, um, as you were giving your report, through most of it, two fire engines went by. Command Conard and Ambulance all went by with all the sirens blaring. And you didn't even hear a peep because I wasn't transmitting. Oh well. Well, maybe if we have any topic here, pets, um, euthanizing pets. Um, I just read, um, a little piece online. You see the kind of thing that's, it's little essays that you find now and online. And they're like top heads, but from nobody you ever heard of. But this one was from a veterinarian. And, uh, on this topic, so, take care, Sean. Uh, and so far out of eight operators, folks, four of us are YLs, so there you go. We had an IO from Jaron and that brings us to James in Detroit, Michigan. W8WW Whiskey 8 Whiskey Whiskey. James, please give us your report. Good evening, W8WW here outside Detroit. Good evening, everyone. Um, I have lost pets, um, over the last couple of years currently. We have three dogs and, um, they have all replaced over the years, uh, almost like bandages. But, uh, the unconditional love. I have a cocker spaniel who's a bit grumpy. He's got what's called resource guarding and, uh, we can have issues with him here and there. Um, the thing is, is that, uh, tonight I was on the roof again and, uh, the fire engine went by and my, uh, Charlie and the cocker spaniel started howling. What does that mean, fire engines? So, today I purchased 800 feet of 12 gauge two strand copper wire and I'm running that down to my, from my, uh, arrester down to a grounding rod. Um, while removing one of the PL-259 from the lightning arrester, uh, the PL-259 broke off the center conductor. So, I moved that over to the temporary other cable and, uh, I'm getting, uh, anywhere from, uh, 1.1 to 1.4 on the dual bands. So, I'm quite happy there. Um, I have about 30 feet of antenna wire that, uh, I'm gonna run. Accidentally put a hole in my drywall with my bed. Um, the, uh, adjustable bed frame got shoved back in the wall and fractured the, put a nice sized hole in the, uh, in the drywall. And the good thing is that this is on a, uh, outside wall. I'm gonna use that to put some vocab connectors and connect, uh, everything, uh, right outside that rather than going through my attic. But, uh, that's about it for you. Back to neck control, W8WW here outside Detroit. Well, fine business, James. Too bad that, uh, the PL-259 broke off of the center conductor. Um, and, um, of course, like every ham operator out there, I have VODHF connectors on everything, PL-259s, SO-239s. And, uh, but for my own purposes, I've been using end connectors, uh, or BNCs. But, um, and I used to, long ago, solder PL-259s on, uh, the correct way. But I haven't done that in years. I've now, I've now edged more into, um, the appliance and category when it comes to, uh, putting RF connectors on cables. Like I'll just buy a cable that, that has them already pre-installed. Uh, I could still do it, but I haven't really had a need to do it. So, anyway, take care, James. And, uh, thank you for checking in and I'll catch you down the log next week. Last on this first round is our friend Jeff, AB6-FE, in, uh, Union City or Onion City. Is that what you sometimes call it? Uh, which is just a couple of miles from the San Francisco Bay. Uh, Jeff, uh, this is KF2CW asking for you. Okay, thank you very much, uh, Joan, and, uh, thank you for doing the net tonight. Um, yeah, yeah, it's funny with, uh, getting animals, I guess it's kind of, uh, something we chat about here right now, and, uh, which is good. Um, I remember we got these two cats, and they're the gray cats, and, and I called one my main cat and the other one my backup cat. And, lo and behold, what happened was the main cat went and that wasn't his name, it was Smokey. And then the backup cat, uh, Pepper, he, he went later on. And, and still very painful, and I cried. And then I had, uh, after those two cats, we were out with my youngest daughter's birthday, when she was five, and we went by a, uh, a pet rescue place in the mall. And I, and, uh, and one of us said, hey, let's go and look in the cats. And I said, yep, but we're not going to get a cat. And, okay, uh, we went in there and walked out with a big white cat. And he was with us for quite a while. He was definitely the, uh, the top cat in the house, you know. He was, we had other cats, but he was definitely the one in charge. And, uh, so anyway, I, I'm thankful, and I just wore no more pets, and that didn't last very long. But I have good fond memories of that day. But like I said, we said, oh no, we're not going to get him, no cats, we're not going to take cat home. That didn't last very long. Uh, anyway, uh, yeah, I just got out the, uh, DMR net, uh, for the poppa system. And we had a really good, you know, in-depth discussion on, uh, DMR radios. And, uh, you know, when I first got a DMR a few years ago, they sort of really muffled to me. And now they, they don't. And I, I know it's not, I, the reason the, the, uh, audio's gotten better, I think, maybe, with, uh, the different, uh, systems. But I don't know, but it's funny. I was talking about that on the net tonight, how DMR usually sounds kind of muffled, but it doesn't do that to me anymore. Rarely, I have heard it sound that way. Uh, yeah, here in the Bay Area, we were in about, uh, about 80 degrees today, at nights and sunny. And, uh, you know, just working on some stuff I've got here. And, uh, and, and I started watching the baseball game and changed the channel on that one. That was annoying. Uh, anyway, uh, so, that's about it. Uh, I can't think of anything else. I'm sure I'm gonna miss something. But, uh, back to you, Joe. Keep up the good work, AB6MB. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven. Well, thank you for that, Jeff. And, uh, yes. You know, my comment I want to make, I've been wanting to make in the last two or three reports of, uh, euthanizing beloved pets is, uh, I'm in the, uh, in the school of, uh, or in the camp of, of, uh, that you should always be with them and holding them as they go under. Uh, because that's the thing that they need. The last thing they need is to know that they're an abysm of, that they're, they're human. And, uh, um, that's all I'll say on that. I wrote a bunch of stuff down. When you say main cat, it always makes me think of main coon cats. I've never met one in person, but I have seen photographs of them and I think that'd be really cool to live in the same household as one of those. Um, I'm sure that any other cats in the household are not happy with that. I read one story, one essay about someone who had, uh, a cat that they, they actually didn't want. And, uh, I don't know if I can, it would take too long to do the setup for the story, but they basically got a main coon cat. And when the main coon cat appeared, their existing cat was so alarmed that it left. It disappeared, never to return. And, uh, I'll just stop there. Otherwise the story telling gets too long. Take care, Jeff. And, uh, I hope you enjoyed the feeds. I haven't seen any of the feeds that Jack, or, you know, Jack seemed to be doing some video as he often does. I haven't seen any of that. I saw, um, I watched, uh, Madeline's, uh, live stream before I, I, uh, showed up there.