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KX2CW W0XO

Well, have a great time with your talk today at the Museum of Flight. Dan is a docent down there, and we really appreciate his service at the museum with his volunteering. Thank you so much, Dan. Have a great day, W0XO. Jonathan, nice to talk to you again. Second time this year already, and it's only the first. Jonathan, W0XO. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Jack. This is Jonathan, Whiskey Zero X-ray Oscar. We've got to stop seeing each other like this. Hey, today it's calm. I'm looking up at trees that are probably 100 feet tall and there is no movement in the trees, which is nice because I'm working on an antenna today. I've got the antenna up but it's listing to the side. So I've got to, I'm digging through giant boxes of bolts and nuts and digging through remnants of pieces of aluminum and stuff and figuring out some sort of, doing some sort of backyard engineering, figuring out how to make this antenna mostly vertical. I'll probably end up having to put a couple guy wires or guy lines out. I got some background rope that I'm probably going to use, but any Every day working on antennas is a fun, good day, and what could possibly go wrong? Anyway, I'd love to hear the word dribble, it's one of those words you don't hear that often. Dribble, everybody's talking about, and they're not talking about basketball either, so. All right, Jack, back to you, W0XO in, up here in Everett. Hey, hold on a second there, Backyard Engineer. I think you're working, if I remember right, on the 9 o'clock net from this morning with Rebecca, KK79JZ. You mentioned a squalor, a square halo antenna. And is that indeed the antenna you're working with? Well, that's correct, but I don't know if I'm misnaming it. Because it's basically just a dipole, which KX2CW says all antennas are dipoles. But this one is even more so, and it's rectangular, and it's vertically oriented, so it's like a vertically oriented dipole. But I seem to be getting in really, really good. I can't wait to try this thing on the Cineplex net. Back to you, Jack.