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WV7J, Rich, is that you trying to get in? Rich, WV7J, question mark. WV7J, exclamation point. Alright, underline this, we'll find out where Rich is when we get to him. Stand by, Rich, WV7AD, however he is up first, Michael. Good afternoon. Hello, O to you, Jack, and good afternoon. Whiskey Alpha 7 Alpha Delta Mobile here in Kirkland. Back from the hinterland, Jack, to give you a report. We, first night was at Coldwater Lake on Friday night in a parking lot. We set up a long wire and elk, it was a two meter, and then one of the guys had starling too. So I ended up with a long wire checking the Columbia Basin and I could hear everybody and they could hear me. Of course, that really ate something out. And we kept on having to turn the elk around to get out on that and bouncing off different mountains. But we did okay and we're at 37 miles so it wrapped up pretty quick. Drop for a second. I have kind of a sore throat and a cold, Jack, but I'll talk about it in a little bit. Then we moved to this place called Sisper's, look at that, down there, River. And they didn't set up a long wire, the guys decided this was the two days. And a guy named Corey, turned out he had a starling in a lot of electronics. And I set up my 31 foot Eagle 1 antenna and I could hear everybody but they had a hard time hearing me. I was right next to a mountain, especially on Sunday night and Monday night. There was a guy from Morton and a guy from Mosolite that was counting and they couldn't hear me and had to be relayed in. So that was kind of expected next year. I'll be at 4500 feet, hopefully. No, nothing blocking my signal out, my vertical. But everybody's clear as a bell and I could hear everybody. I was really surprised at that. And the runners came through at mile 148. They were a little more hanger. In fact, a lot of people didn't make it past us. But the fastest runner made it in 200 miles in 45 hours and 7 minutes. A couple other guys were pushing him, one was at 45 hours and 57 minutes and one was at 46. That is pretty damn fast on that rugged terrain, up and over hills, through rivers and everything. Drop for a second. Final note, I got a little scratchy here and then I decided I would try to drive down the mountain. They were trying to load the U-Haul up there kind of late and park in the base. I was walking across in the semi-darkness of the IZMA and I stumbled over a curve. At first I thought I had broken my elbow and I have to use my left arm right now to run the mic. So hopefully that will go away in a few days. I don't know. That's it from here Jack. Thanks for letting me talk. This is probably the longest I have ever talked. Anyway Jack, thanks for on the net. Remember it's a good day to have a good day. Whiskey Alpha 7 Alpha Delta. Alright, well welcome back to the real world boy. No, I'm kidding. There's nothing more real than the Bigfoot 200 out there in the middle of, well not really nowhere, but almost nowhere. You know, with the Starlink satellite dish and everything else, you know, you're really not too far away. Well that sounds like great results. 45 hours and 7 minutes for the top finisher. Holy cow, 45 minutes. I wonder if they're still sleeping in after that. Hey, are there any cash prizes? I don't really know what the winners or the top placeholders get from running that race. Michael, what do you guys do? Hi Jack, there are no cash prizes. I think your reward is surviving. They do get a medallion to hang around their neck and take home. Besides it, it's a, you know, they get, they're, as you can call it, the station has food, has a medic, and you know, these guys wile way through the water if their shoes on. Well that's, you're asking, is you run along a walk or whatever, you're going to be a blister and they have blisters. So guys are cutting those out and taping them up. But I think it's the reward is, hey, I survived and I did it. And let's see, Jack, there are guys that do them all. Now there's the, uh, TAO 200, the MOAB 240, and now there's in the middle of winter down there, Arizona 300. So some people try to do all four in a year. I don't know. Anyway, thanks for asking. Back to you sir. Whiskey Alpha 7 Alpha Delta. Alright, well it's a real testament to everybody's mental that they survived this thing at all, whether or not they're running or volunteering off to the side like you guys are, making sure everybody's okay. Wow, nicely done. Thank you so much for volunteering. That is some event. Boy, I tell you, you have a lot of memories there now. A lot more. You take care Michael. Have a great afternoon. Let's go see what Robert's up to. KK7 ZRY. Hello Jack, hello everybody. Thanks as always for hosting the night. Good news first, I am transmitting on my tweaked four element two meter tape measure yagi and reception is clear as a bell, so I hope that my transmission is too. I'm pretty excited about that. The bad news, yeah the bad news. Spent this weekend with a bunch of in-laws, long story there, not worth telling, but the short story is that we came back and my wife has COVID. You remember COVID? It was a thing once. Turns out it's still a thing. Seems like it's a mild case. We're isolating. I'm working from home. No need to spread it further than I need to. I wonder if you can transmit COVID using a tape measure yagi. There's a question for you. Anyway, that's all I got. Back to the net. Thank you Jack. KK7 ZRY. Alright Robert, well that is unfortunate. I'm sorry to hear that. So you're isolating and has she started to take anything? Is she doing a treatment of some sort? Or is she just isolating as well? Jack, we're dealing with a tough it out kind of personality, so she's not doing anything that she should be doing. But that's another long story. KK7 ZRY. Alright, well hang in there and help her when you can and when you can. I appreciate that. Hey Robert, having the work from home option is a great thing, isn't it? Alright, you take care and keep up with us and let us know. Through the week how everybody's doing, okay? Nice to meet you Robert. Alright, let's go out to Bonnie Lake and oh yeah Robert, by the way, nice job on that antenna. You were full scale on the Capra Park Master, Cougar Mountain and Magnolia. With a bit of business on Beacon Buck and Leek Forest around 40, so nice job. Alright, let's go pick it up with Grossie, W7DNG, Bonnie Lake. Hey Grossie. Howdy, howdy, hi. Where'd that come from? I think that was that Tim Allen? Anyhow, things are going good out here on the funny farm. Quite a few rabbits in the neighborhood, surprise. Daddy rabbit must have been having a good time the last show. I've seen some small ones about the size of a small softball and I've seen them as big as a typical cat in the house. Otherwise they're doing good and healthy. I haven't seen any birds taking any of them away yet, but I can tell there's always a few hawks laying in the neighborhood. Haven't seen the bald eagles for quite a while, but they come, we'll swap them through every now and then. I've got a problem with these. I can't remember the name of them. They're a tall weed, they're yellow. Yeah, tall weeds are tall and yellow. Anyhow, they've kind of taken over my front yard and I've got one of these weed puller things coming. Stick under, step on the button that's supposed to pop out. I'm going to try that and see what happens. It's the only green thing in my front yard, the rest of it's brown. I wonder if I just light a match and just burn it off. Nah, I'd better not do that. I'd probably catch the whole neighborhood on fire. I've got my schedule set up for September 8th. I'm going into the shock machine or sonic machine or whatever the heck they call them. I was talking to the doc and he says, while we're doing that, I see a couple little itty bitty ones laying there and we might as well nip them in the bud while we've got you laid up. I says, that sounds good to me, so we shall see how that goes. I've got a ride set up, short break. I've got a ride set up where my daughter is going to take me on down to the hospital. Her mother-in-law is going to watch over one young one. She'll take the baby with her and go do something with them and stuff and have some fun in the afternoon. Not in the hospital, but just away. Come pick me up about 4.30. Doc says it's not going to be that big a deal. It's going to feel like somebody hit me in the back with a 2x4. I've had that done a couple times in my younger days, but really looking forward to that. Otherwise, it's better than the alternative. I've had the other way done three times and it is an over run. I'm hoping this is the cat's meow when it comes to doing any kidney stones. If it works out good, I'm going to say, okay, you know every ten years I get these stupid things. So let's plan on every nine years we'll just go in and blast them all. Because I know it. I'm going to still get them. Hey Al, everybody have a good day, better than my. Stay hydrated. We're still going to have some hot ones. Be safe out there folks. W7, DNG. Alright, it was until almost the end of your report that I determined what in my mind you were going to go through procedure wise. And I figured the end sounds to me like kidney stones. Yikes, that is one of the most painful I have been told. Yes indeed, and many of you have done that. And if I tell you Michael, I told me a story one time, W7, A, D, that just, I just fell over. He described me in the pain. Oh man, no thank you. Anyway, you guys, if you do do anything gross, you let us know. What's up? Glad you got a ride there in Pakistan. Good. Alright, well let's go figure what's going on up on the rock with Darrell. First though, 12.13 PM, I'm Jack K, Hi7R, you're listening to the new net here on the PSRG repeater here in Seattle, Washington. V01, UKZ, let us have it there Darrell. Well, good morning to you Jack, and it's, well, it's afternoon for you now, that's right, this is the second net of the day. I checked in on the 9 AM that day earlier. It's 12.13 down your way and it is 4.43, just turned at 4.44 PM here on the rock. Jack G is burning my friend, absolutely burning up this way. We've got a fire just about 7 miles from here as the crow flies and it is burning massive amounts of territory. There was a mandatory evacuation put in place last night for the next town over from here and they've got something like 10,000 people evacuated and over 100, almost 100,000 that are on emergency evacuation standby. It's one of the worst wildfires that we've had in Newfoundland in recent memory and that's going on right now in addition to three other wildfires here on the island as well. So a great portion of Newfoundland right now is currently on fire, unfortunately, and that's been going on for the last couple of days. I didn't know anything because I don't watch the news and a couple nights ago I woke up after a nap and I smelled smoke so I just took for granted it was the neighbors are outside, they've got a little fire going in the backyard or something. And only as I found out that there's massive wildfires burning so close to the city here. St. John's is the capital of the province and for wildfires to be this close is pretty much unprecedented up this way. Let me reset one real quick. So essentially they've got six water bombers currently working on this fire close to the city here and upwards of 200 firefighters battling the thing. And they had it knocked down a little bit yesterday and then overnight last night. My phone went absolutely ballistic about 11pm with emergency evacuation orders, like I said, for the next town over. So today I haven't heard any updates but apparently it's still burning pretty bad and like I said a lot of people are still on, you know, emergency notice evacuation orders. So it's not good man. I gotta start watching the news around here because I literally didn't even know that this was happening until I got those evacuation alerts and just an absolutely crazy situation going on up here. We're hoping we don't lose power because the main highway leading into this part of the island is where the main transmission lines are and you know only about a quarter of a mile away from the fires. So we're really hoping it doesn't cross that highway because it could leave the entire city here in complete blackness for god only knows how long. Until that fire is put out and the transmission lines and poles and all that would have to be rebuilt. It's just going to lead to a very terrible situation if that fire switches direction. Other than that man, the air winds good. We're still safe here in the city for now but the smell of smoke is just absolutely unbearable. The sun is staying inside with the windows closed. Back over to you Jack. From here on the rock this is V01 UKZ and if anybody wants to look that up just search East Coast Newfoundland Fires or something like that. You'll find lots of video footage and whatnot on the internet there. With that Jack, back over to you in seven seconds. This is V01 UKZ.