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Good evening, it's time for the 9 o'clock net. This net meets daily at both 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Here on the WW7 PSR repeater in Seattle, Washington at 146.96 MHz with the standard minus offset and a PL tone of 103.5. I'm Paul, T7BJP, and I'll be your net host for tonight, Tuesday, August 12, 2025. This is a directed social net open to all license hands. Just let us know what's going on in your life. How was your day? What project, radio, or otherwise have you been working on? Here's what I'll do. I'll compile a list of four or five or so check-ins, and then I'll go back down that list and I'll ask you for your report. Just give me your call sign and your name and I'll acknowledge you. No tailgating, please. That means wild doubles and triples are inevitable. If you hear someone else trying to get in, please allow me to acknowledge them before you throw out your call sign. Also, please try to keep your reports to less than three minutes, which also happens to be the timeout interval for this repeater. Finally, please end your report with your call sign. You don't need to begin your report with your call sign, but please end with your call. In fact, both lets me know you are finished with your report and it keeps you in the good graces of the FCC. And with that, this is Paul, K7PJP, looking for that first round of check-ins. On tonight's nine o'clock now. All I need is your call sign and name. Kilo Alpha 9, Echo Hotel Victor, KA9HVM. All right, Ann, good evening to you. I got you first on the list. More stations, call sign and name. K3OE, Rich. All right, Rich, K3OE, I've got you. Kilo, Charlie 2. More stations, call and name. Kilo, Echo, Oscar. Charlie from New Jersey, I'm gonna be in. Hello, all right, Charlie. Good to have you here. I've got you on the list. More stations, call and name, please. KJ7, Victor Echo Uniform, Mike. All right, Mike, you're on the list. More stations, call and name. KJ7, EXM. All right, Sean, you're on the list. Anyone else, call and name. W8, W, W, James, you're outside Detroit. All right, W8, W, W. All right, that's gonna give us six here. We'll go ahead and run with that. Let's go up to the top to Ann, KA9 EHB. Ann, how are you tonight? Well, good evening, Paul. And to Annette. I am fine. I am nervous. I'm going to the Worldcon tomorrow. And the logistics are going to be interesting because the place for most of my speaking engagements are three blocks away from the hotel where I am staying. And trying to get this to work is going to be somewhat interesting. I'm not sure exactly how this is going to happen. I have kind of a general idea. And then I've already gotten one letter from a panelist who's got a bunch of slides that, of course, I can't see. I would really have appreciated if she'd sent it slightly before the convention started, like last week, so that I could have had a chance to have the computer read them to me. I don't know. This is one of these inclusion things that really I wish people would, if you did nothing else about diversity, equity, and inclusion, include by giving people time to deal with your data and the way they need to deal with it. Sometime when I have more time and less to talk about, I'll give my rant on alternative test formatting in colleges for blind people. Anyway, I did a little bit of work with the harp and wrote another chapter in the interminable saga of Raquelah. Do you know that it is really hard to write a moving story about somebody who's under really restrictive captivity? You have to read actual real life stories to make it work. And any way you do it, it's grim. So anyway, that's what I've been doing. 7333-88. Thanks to Paul for doing the net. Thanks to all of you for listening. I love you all. This is KA90HB. Back to Nat. All right. Well, yes, I'm sure when you're done with all this, sharing that rant will be something we'll hear. And I hope that despite that, it all goes well for you. And I imagine there are challenges on writing a story like you described. I hope that those reading other true life stories provided the sort of material background that you needed to make yours sound more realistic and work better for you. So, yeah, have a good time with Colin and 7333. All right. Let's go next to Rich K3OE. Rich, how are you doing tonight? Good. Good evening. I'm doing just fine over here in West Seattle. It was a beautiful day. Although a bit warm and mucky for a while. But anyway, this evening, yeah, the crazy antenna is a kitchen scene because I was cooking today. So I figured, well, I'll do a kitchen scene antenna. So anyway, I posted a picture and the SWR is acceptable. And I'm 5 watts on a handheld. And yeah, I'm getting in okay. So that's all that counts. Anyway, thanks for doing the net. Back to you, K3OE.