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This is KC2PKG, that's one of the signs of winter when Peter packs up and heads back home again. Our sign of winter, we put up the winter cat door, my wife insisted on it this weekend. So that's what's out there now and it looks like we're going to get a hard toss this week. So goodbye bugs. Alright, VA3KKY. Kevin, how was the antenna show? You know, the more I thought about that over the weekend, I said that's an antenna show. That's a very visual thing. Did you have fun? Did you have a good time? This is KC2PKG over to VA3KKY. Yep, I want to get into that and just warn you in advance, it will take a few retries. You know, because I said I would never do it, right? I do it tons of times. So anyways, maybe I'm as believable as Carney. Anyhow, let me say something on the first thing though. I don't think there's a Canadian equivalent to the National Federation of the Blind or the American Council of the Blind. First they wouldn't be called American. I don't think there is, but if somebody knows, maybe it means they know and I don't. Let's see, Reagan, I remember more Richard Little goofing on him and he used to goof on him when he'd make fun of his like, you know, like I think at the time they didn't know what was wrong with him. Years later they found out it was amnesia and other things, that he was long no more the president after that, right? Like even SNL started to kind of pick up goofing on that, but I used to love when Richard Little, if he's even still alive, I used to love his bits on Ronald Reagan, but I really don't know his presidency. I was a bitty bitty bitty kid. What I know more, I have a few lights out and suspense episodes that he's in when he was an actor. There was that one suspense thing where he's in with Ronald Coleman. Remember Ronald Coleman, the English guy? He died of emphysema, right? He didn't even make it to television, he died right during the time of a lot of that stuff. So I kind of remember something with him and Coleman, but I don't really remember him that well either, just that they were in old flicks. Now, okay, getting right to antenna day, hold on. Okay. Okay. I'll tell you halfway through in it, I wanted to leave because I was bored, but I'll tell you at the start of it, right as I was giving you guys the last overs, Robert shows up, right? So just at the point where I'm about to tell you guys, thanks for checking in, I can't do it without you, my dad's like, come on, and he's like screaming my name, right? And so I'm like, I'm doing this thing, I'll talk to you in a minute. He wouldn't accept that answer and he just kept screaming and screaming and screaming. I didn't know why. So I signed with you, right? And then, I don't know, I was going to go up there and fight with him. I'm like, listen, I got stuff I'm doing, I can't just run after you day and night. He got a chill, so I was all prepared to say something like that, but he told me, a guy is at the door, you moron. I'm like, oh shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit. You guys are signed, I got you looked after. So then I just walk away from the computer, I was leaving it going, I do that sometimes, and then I forgot my cane, right? Because I wanted to make sure I grabbed my headphones, my fanny pack with my vape gear, that's all that's in it. I took out the cigarettes and I took out a few other odd things that I didn't even know was even in there. And then I packed some candies and some hauls. There's a reason I did that. And so we got to Camber Valley Park in due time and it was funny, one of the guys, when I told him I forgot my cane, he said, oh that's easy, we got antennas galore here. And he gave me this fish pole looking thing. Luckily it folded. It's so funny that it actually folded, right? Because you could actually pull it out and have it a lot longer. They had a bunch of those they were using for radio. So he gave me one to walk through the park with. It actually worked. It was almost like a folding cane, just a little bit short, but then I'm little anyways. So it wasn't quite my style, but then it's not my cane, right? So anyway, so I got this funny looking scat that I'm walking around the park with, okay? And then the guy even attached like a little string on it because he seen me a bunch of times walking around Langley with the cane, basically just kind of like what I do, I tie the string to my hand all the time. So it's tethered to me. So he copied that style for me, right? So I'm walking around with this fish pole looking thing and I look like an old man with a scat. That's kind of what they said. They said, we don't even think you're blonde. You look like Merlin the ethnic magician. So anyway, so walking through the park, Robert makes radio. So he made this little tiny transceiver, right? It was for 80 to 10. It was five watts and he had it attached to one of those fish poles that I'm now using as a cane. It was drooped on the tree, not very good. If I wanted to, I could have just pulled it down. So we're in the middle of the grass area, in the middle of the park. He's not making any contacts. You can't do very well with five watts. You really can't. I mean, the people that are working that he's hearing, I'm sure they lie about it, right? I'm sure they're chilling out at least on a hundred watts and they probably got big antennas. They're not using a lookalike antennas. They got real antennas. So I probably made one or two contacts. The calling area, I think wasn't even the right one. Vancouver is 03. I was with a couple of VE2s. That was who was in my particular, well, we didn't have tents. We just had little sections in the park. There were five or six groups. So I came with the VE2s because Robert was carpooling. So he had bought a couple of Frenchie's with him and that's who I was chilling with. There were tons of VE5s and VE7s, but they were all over the rest of the park and they really didn't get with us. They were calling out 04, which is not even our area. No, no, no, no. The VE7s were calling out 03, like they'd say you're 5903. The VE2 guys I was swinging with, and I followed their instructions because I was using Robert's receiver, he said call out 04, which is not even any of the areas they're in. So they're essentially lying, but also what they're doing, they're not even logging any of it. They never kept any logs. So by the time we were ready to leave, the one guy said to me, what was it you worked? It was like a W9 and I couldn't hear the guy just like he couldn't hear me. I barely got my call sign through. And I must have frustrated those, I had a few attempted calls, I must have frustrated them, right? Because if they didn't get my call right, they were like, snap, I just almost had them. They were probably cursing under their breath. Snap, why did I even talk to them? I don't even know who the stupid bastard, what he said. I must have frustrated some people who made calls. What happened was, towards the noon hour, it started to really, really, really patter out rain. So we decided to just leave. We were getting wet, and so we packed everything away and left. I had said at some point that I want to cut it off before noon, but there was no need to do that. So finally we left, I stopped by a pizza pizza, I grabbed some super slices, and let's see, through the, while, during the day through the park, I was fooling with my phone. I didn't really have good signal in the depths of the park, so I just kind of kept it to a minimum. I was listening to the radio, but that's kind of how it was in the depths of the park. By the time I got home, my phone was at 26%. When I left the house, it was like at 100. So I don't even know if that's good or bad. It was like six hours. I put on all the screen saving things I could think of, and there's something new on my phone I didn't have before. Now on YouTube, you could put it to sound only. It's a check box, and that saves data, but it also locks your screen up, which will save some battery too. Maybe that's what helped, don't know. I'm still using the bleeding battery, because I'm keeping the other one when I absolutely, lutely, lutely, lutely need it, which probably won't work when I need it, right, because that's how things are. When you need them, they don't work. So there you go. That's my day. I've got to go. I'll listen a few minutes, but I haven't even started my stuff yet, so I'm being bad. Not unusual for me, right? So back to you, Gray, VA3KKY, and take care to the rest of the group. Peace. This is Repeater Station Kilo Kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. All right, guys. I just had some kind of weird echo-losing problem where I got kicked off, and I couldn't get back in, and blah, blah, blah. So if I suddenly drop out, somebody text me, and I'll skip over to All Star. Daryl, V01UKC, what'd you do this weekend? How'd it go? This is KP2PKG over to you, V01UKC.