Loading...

November 3, Oscar Mike Oscar. November 3, Oscar Mike Oscar. Elaine in Florida. Hello Jack. Hello Elaine. Standby. I've got you out on the left side. Let's get back to Linwood and pick it up with Ashley. KG7BPX. Hello. Very good Jack. This is KG7BPX. This is the first time I turned on my RF radio since I've been back. Using that equaling dirt. Boy I can smell the dust burning. That's always a good thing. You always gotta burn the dust off the radio. But anyways, not doing nothing much. Went over to Costco, bought two lasagnas from there. So I think I'm gonna throw a lasagna in the oven for dinner tonight. Sure does feel good to be home. I was done over in Longview, Washington visiting family and what not. And it was quite nice. But boy I tell you what, it even feels nicer to be home. But anyways, I really don't got much going on. Maybe later on today I'll grab an SOS pad and scrub the skip off my copper cactus. No I'm joking. But anyways, I'll just go ahead and back on out and nice hearing everybody out there. This is KG7BPX. Turning it back to you Jack. Hey dude. Hey hold on, keeper of the lasagna there. So you bought two. Now I've seen they've got mac and cheese. They've got you know, in the little metal pans and they're in the paper box. Nice little graphics on the outside there. But are these lasagnas, are they meat lasagnas? Do they have a veggie option? Man I'd buy that in a minute but I don't think I've ever seen any lasagna there ready to bake. And I assume that's what you bought. Can you give us a little bit more info on that Ashley? Yeah, you know it is a Kirkland brand. I've bought plenty of lasagnas before Stouffer's, Mary Collender's and everybody man. And every time I do I always end up being disappointed. But you know Costco, they kind of keep an eye on things. That Kirkland lasagna, I've had it before, very good. You know, you don't get just a little bit of meat. You get a lot of meat and a lot of cheese and it is dang good. That's why I like going to the Kirkland brand. And yeah it comes in like a two pack. But you know just like everything else, the picture always looks better than the actual product. Hi hi, back to you Jack, the KG7PX. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven, November, Quebec, November. Alright well thank you very much. They might have a veggie version, I'm actually going to head out there today or tomorrow so I'll check and see if I can find one. But I have seen the mac and cheese, I've not tried those but I'm sure they're all pretty darn good. Their frozen pizzas look pretty good too. Alright well I will check that out, you have a great day, enjoy your lasagna. Maybe we'll make up some, maybe some garlic parmesan toast to go along with it. Man that sounds good, a little solid maybe, I don't know. Alright well let's continue on, get out to vine lake twelve fourteen PM, Grossie, good afternoon. W7DNG. Hi Jack and everybody on the net, hope everybody's doing well. I got another little project coming up that's got to do with music. I don't know if anybody's heard of cajun boxes, but it's kind of a visualized square box with a hole in the back of it, you use it like a bongo. That's a cajun box. I was debating on making something like that, just to take along to the nets and stuff, we got guys playing guitars. I didn't notice anybody had any bongos or drums but I'm sure they didn't have a drum set or something like that, but this thing's kind of cool. You can use it as a seat to sit out on it, but if you want to jam in like a little bongo setup you just look it up on good old YouTube, you see what I'm talking about, it's called a, uh, cojo music box is what they're called. Otherwise, rest of the stuff, my bunnies are doing pretty good, my weeds have gotten out of control. I had to break down and I decided to get me one of those weed poppers if everybody's ever heard of them or seen them. Kind of stick them in the ground where the weed is, it's got a little piece on it, you push on it and it pulls it up, so I got about a half a dozen of those to do. I decided what the heck, you know, I'll try that two mile outfit and stuff from Japan overseas. It's only three bucks, hey, three bucks is three bucks is what saves you from bending over. Um, got a couple other projects that I can't go into right now, got to go back into the hospital next month. Been waiting for the doctor to call, but he's probably too busy to talk to me right now and I figure so, I'll set him up later. That's forty thousand dollars easy peasy, so we shall see. Anyhow, everybody have a good day, meanwhile it's going to be a warm one, still today, still hydrate. Stay out of trouble and keep the hydrated folks at, yeah, W7DNG. Alright, Rosie, wow, that sounds spendy, yikes. Okay, well, keep the surprise and changes there. Yeah, the Bentwood boxes, those are quite popular here in the Northwest and man, those things are really amazing how they do those. You might want to take a look at those Bentwood box, Bentwood box, and they are really, really nice. Okay, well anyway, we'll talk to you soon, take care of yourself and stay cool today if you can. What's happening in West Seattle? Well, let's go talk to the man that's there, the radio operator Rich and his dog Polo. Rich, K3OE. Jack, doing fine over here, I'm swinging the big knife in the kitchen window again, so not scaring people I guess, maybe. Anyway, half a watt, half a watt, Jack, a whole half a watt, just like Joan says, watt is watt. Just as watt is watt anyway, on the cam tab, and yeah, that's my daily driver antenna here in the kitchen, so it's been there for quite some time, works great. Yes, yesterday was a little on the warm side and it's getting a tad warm over here too, so yeah, I don't think I'm going to get out there and exercise a whole lot. I'm going to go outside and walk Polo of course, but nothing real strenuous today for sure. So anyway, yeah, last night, you know, I was so tired last night, I wasn't up to doing a new antenna, but I still had one of the Joan antennas hanging here in the living room, so I used that again, still works great, and it was appropriate for Joan's net last night. Back to you, K3OE. Reg, did you happen to see that I put the other Joan antenna, the photo of that one, I posted that on your post as a comment, and I don't know if that preceded or was posted, that one that you made that's on there now, that you first posted to last night, so did you see that one, the one that is actually spelled out in letters? Yes indeed, I see that you did that, and that's fantastic, and actually that one was a little bit later, the one I posted last night was the first one, and then I decided to get a little bit more fancy, so I did the one with the letters. Anyway, Jack, back to you, K3OE. Alright, well yeah, they're both great, and then subsequently Joan had posted on Facebook, and you can look this up, just look up Joan antenna on our Facebook discussion group page, you'll find all these entries, but she has actually turned that into a QSL card, and I don't know if she's still using that as a QSL card or not, but it turned out great. Anyway, alright Reg, hey, thank you very much, you be careful, swing that big ol' chef knife there, and see how your friend Polo feels about that. Alright, well, I'm going to go talk to Brooks in just a moment, it's 12, 19pm, I'm Jack 8, I7RMU, he is K9BDC, and it sounds like he's mobile. What's going on, Brooks? Good afternoon, Jack and everyone, I'm K9BDC, Brooks here, mobile on I5N, going through the easiest trick, I made my way over to the express lane, and managed to avoid a lot of that construction traffic on the Chippewa Canal Bridge, had to meander a little bit to get to it, but yeah, I think it certainly helped. Anyway, beautiful day, very warm, oh man, I went into one of my customers into the shop, and wow, it was hot, just sweating, just walking around in there. Anyway, let's see, I've kind of been all over the place today, I was over in Ballard first thing in the morning, and then I was back into South Seattle, and then now I'm headed up to Marcozio, and last time I'll be headed over to Redmond after that, so yeah, kind of making the odd little path here for the day. Yesterday, when I got done with work, Megan and I filled up the back of the truck with all the styrofoam and garbage from the packaging for my new desks, and we took those over to the poster of my work, and then I went and I got a new file cabinet, so the desks are put together, the new file cabinet's in there, a couple other new desk things are put up, all my monitors are back assembled at the home office, and so it's all coming together, it's not quite photo ready yet though, Jack, I'll get a good one once everything's all set up and good to go, so hoping to get the FD991A set up tonight, so that, I guess tonight or tomorrow, so we can run it from there tomorrow night, we'll see. Thanks for doing it, Jack, 73, good night, BBC. Alright, well hey, I want to find out on the new desk, the butcher block style top desk for your shop, but you have used those for your new set up in your shack there, I'm wondering how you're doing power, have you thought about that? I know you have, of course, you have to have power in there obviously, but what are you doing for power, I imagine you're probably going to have an emergency power set up in there as well, maybe your EcoFlow or something like that, so how are you running power and what are you doing there? This is repeater station key R9, so, well, let's see, you can't talk power without cable management, so what I did do is I ordered up some cable management racks that I attached to the bottom of the desk, and those always have the power strips, and so just for the computers, I have those plugged into just the power strip and in the wall, but I do have a UPS that I have to use to get the power out of the desk. That's the power supplies for the radios plugged into, and then that way, that way the power goes out I can still operate that. Now that wasn't my ideal solution there, but I fell into the UPS, totally getting rid of it because it didn't work, and I found that the battery just needed to be replaced, so I've just been using that out of convenience. Can I be easy?