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Okay, well I'm coming off an extended weekend. Today is my first day back at work after 41 days worth of weekend and got a lot accomplished around the house, prepping for winter, took care of all my firewood, got rid of four trees that need to come down before the ice and stuff showed up, wife's got a new garden shed to keep all her tools and gardening stuff in and the lernatorium, the tribander is back on its home on top of the tower. I've updated my QRZ page, you can see some of the pictures from the process of putting that puppy up and the man lifts are in high demand in my area for some reason and I can only get a 45 footer so I had to do the old school climb the tower the last 15 feet to get it up there. Son and grandson helped me in support in the bucket and on the ground so the station is coming along. Right now I'm working on the lightning grounding. I'm digging a 100 foot long trench to put my ground wire in. I have little to no topsoil. I can't get a ground rod in 20 inches let alone 8 feet so there's an old hand dug well from some of the original settlers on my property in the 1800s and the water level is a constant 30 to 35 feet below the surface. So what I'm going to do is I've got some 3-ot copper grounding cable that I'm going to run from the short grounding rod by my entrance panel past the tower, going to ground the tower and then it will go into the well so my RF ground will be in the aquifer which is just about as good as I can get. I don't have to worry about freezing and stuff like that and it's degrading during the winter months so that's what's going on there. Let me reset. And I got to tail end to Daryl's commentary on what's going on out in Portland and I respectfully disagree. It's not Trump's doing. If you look at the vast majority of the people that are being arrested for interfering with ICE doing its job and their job is to round up illegal aliens, terrorists and human traffickers. They were activated after 9-11 and the states are not cooperating which means the Democratic governors and mayors don't mind having human traffickers and drug people in their cities and when you look at the people getting arrested, the vast majority, over 80% according to what I saw, are not even from that area. They're from out of state so they're either driving in on their own or they're being trucked in. And me personally, if you want to live in a rat hole, you can live there. I've got friends that lived in the Portland area for years, Seattle, California, New York City. These places are becoming unlivable and it's the President's job to secure the country and the last administration let in millions of unknown persons and it's only going to get worse but I find it interesting that the mayor of Chicago, which is on the list of places for them to go and kind of clean up, he says there's no crime problem there. Friday and Saturday, 70 people shot in Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, all of them. Places in those cities you cannot go. And so I just respectfully disagree. It's similar to the tariff issue with Canada. Canadians say it's Trump's fault but if you look at how that started, Mr. Trump just asked Mr. Trudeau to please put a little more effort into controlling the border and a lot of illegal drugs come in through Vancouver from Asia and a lot of illegal aliens come in from Asia and he just asked Mr. Trudeau, okay, could you please work on tightening it up? All he had to do was say yes, put a little effort into it but he said no, not my problem. And so Mr. Trump said okay, we'll get your attention a different way. So it's as much Mr. Trudeau's problem and cause as it was Mr. Trump's but anyways, there you go, Mr. Gray. Wonderful day in New York, sun's out, leaves are changing, great day. That'll be each way. I'll be here for a second, go around. V01UKZ with a respectful comment. V01UKZ.