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Every Thursday evening at 8pm the Crew of 146.985 W3GMS/R get together on air to host a weekly informal net with varying hosts and topics
You're welcome. I didn't realize you could hear all the little bits of guitar. Anyway, I assume that, you know, one note really isn't music, so I don't think that is against the SEC rules, but you can't string too many notes together.
So once in a while I pluck a string just to, maybe that's being a little passive-aggressive or something, I don't know what. We're probably fortunate that you can't do music by way of ham radio. I think that would do the band.
I, so anyway, I really enjoy plunking on the guitar. I like music. I like the sounds and even just sort of playing simple chord progressions and stuff because I'm not all that great. I play around with it and I plunk on it and I make plenty of mistakes.
But there's something soothing just about playing and listening to the sound of it. So anyway, that's a little bit more about me.
Yeah, of course, my wife went through the cancer thing. That's almost three years ago now. And one of her best friends, not cancer that I know of, but one of her best friends is currently in the hospital, has been there quite a while and ICU and all that stuff.
And the last I heard, they really weren't sure why or what was going on. Miserable, miserable stuff. But it seems to be a part of this whole package deal we have been given. So one thing I never had was all the answers, Greg. Never had all the answers. And sometimes the best thing to say is nothing. W3DIB AF3Z.
Thank you, Jim. I do appreciate it. And yeah, you're right. I do the same thing. I tend to, having been on the other side of it, not the other side of I'm still here, but just being on the other side of people coming up and saying things to you when like a parent passed, you're just like, oh, it's just good to see somebody. It doesn't matter what they say. It's just good to hear their voice.
Anyway, I better get the things started for the round table. And with your guitar, we don't really hear that much. The only time I really hear is because I have a headphone in on the all-star side.
And I might hear the slightest little twing of like the end of a string as it's being put down on the stand or wherever. So with that, I better pause for the cause.
And at this time, we'll say, good evening. Welcome to the 985 round table. I'm Greg, located in Kennett Square, the host for tonight's round table.
We meet every Thursday night at 8 p.m. on the W3 GMS Parksburg repeater at a frequency of 146, 985 megahertz.
The PL tone is 100 hertz. For tone squelch on receive, use 94.8 hertz. Take a look at the repeater website, located at www.w3gmsrepeater.com.
Besides the round table, this repeater also hosts the 985 workbench on Monday nights at 8 p.m.
The Monday workbench focuses on answering technical questions as well as exploring topics related to the setting up and operation of your station.
Next Monday, join Mike, W3MOW, that's Whiskey3, Mike Oscar Whiskey, for the workbench.
Newcomers are very welcome and encouraged to check in. If you can't stay long, feel free to call in during the short time check-ins at the beginning of the round table.
Our discussions are informal, passing the mic around in the order in which the station's called in, so I encourage you to note who checks in right after you,
so you'll be able to turn the mic over to that station when you're finished with your comments.
We usually begin with a question as a discussion starter.
You can answer that question if you wish and comment about other subjects as well.
If you have any suggestions or questions about the round table, contact Phil, KC3CIB, or Jim, AF3Z.
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So every two to three minutes, just release the mic button for a moment, like this.
And then just pick up where you left off.
So tonight's question for discussion is, besides ham radio, what other favorite pastimes do you have?
Is it a sport you like to play?
For myself, I've gotten into running in the last couple of years.
It could be music.
Do you like playing guitar?
Do you like to create music?
Are you a DJ on the side?
Anything that is something else that you use to pass time or another hobby that you might have aside from ham radio?
I know that's kind of contrary to the hobby.
And hopefully you guys will forgive me for asking that one.
So at this time, let's have the short time check-ins for the digital stations using Echolink or All Star.
So that's all short time check-ins for Echolink or All Star only.
Please call now.
W1RC in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Good evening to all.
W1RC back to net.
Is there any other digital stations that would like to check in for the short time checklist? Please call now.
Okay, nothing heard. We will now switch over to the short time RF stations and all other stations, which is basically RF. So all RF stations for the short time check-in list please call now.
Are there any other stations that would like to check in for the short time check-in list? Please call now.
Okay, nothing heard. We will turn it over to Mr. Mike I believe it is in Marblehead, Mass. W1RC.
And once again tonight's question if you want to answer it is any other pastimes you might have outside of ham radio that is really a hobby or something that's a passion.
So, over to Mr. Mike, I believe it is Mr. Mike, W1RC in Marble, Mass. This is W3DIB on the Thursday night round table.
Very good evening. Yes, you are correct. It is Mr. Mike in Marblehead, Mass. Well, I have a lot of other hobbies, interests, collecting things, several collections that I like to collect.
And I like driving sports cars. I have a sports car. I like to drive. And, you know, I like to do all kinds of stuff. Ham radio is, of course, probably my favorite hobby.
But collecting is fun too. I collect all different kinds of things. I collect police badges. And that's fun. That's an interesting hobby. You get to meet some pretty interesting people doing that.
I collect spy radios, which are miniature radios designed for covert operation. And, uh, the list goes on. Um, leather jackets, uh, military and law enforcement, high quality, uh, professional grade leather jackets, uh, flight jackets, stuff like that. I got about 25 of them.
And I got to get rid of all this stuff because, you know, I'm getting older and, uh, my wife wants me to get rid of it so she doesn't have to later. So, uh, we're, we're doing that. That's fun too. So back to that. This is W1RC.
Excellent. Yeah, that sounds awesome. I, my collection is like, uh, my buddy, lots of records, too many records.
And, uh, uh, being on the other side of it and helping to, um, try to move some of the things along that were left behind. I, I now see what, uh, the good music station when he ends up, you know, having to be the kind of the help out selling off like a collection from a ham.
That's become a silent key. I now see all of the things that I have in my house that I think are valuable. They're not valuable to anybody. They're valuable to me.
And when, and when reality sets in, somebody goes to sell them, it's, it's going to be like rolling a dice if you find somebody that has the same interests and everything. Anyway, I'm starting to ramble. I apologize.
But anyway, that sounds awesome. Police badges. I can't imagine the people you meet and the spy radios. That really intrigues me because I imagine they use every little shortcut or trick there is to miniaturize those circuits and to reduce the component count.
And also ensure that it continues to work even in adverse conditions or not the best conditions or when parts start to drift out of tolerance. Because I guess with a spy, that's your lifeline back to, uh, your command center.
So very interesting. Uh, and do you want to be, I guess you're going to be one and done, Mr. Mike, uh, W1RC. Over to you.
I'll stick around for a while, but you know, if you go to call me and if I'm not there, that means that something has come up here and that I've had to do something else. But you know, I'll just, just monitoring.
Uh, I should add with the spy radios is the ones that I have are older, older stuff. Uh, vacuum tubes. I have a couple that are solid state, but most of them are older vacuum tube sets.
Uh, one is in a, uh, a typewriter case. It looks like a typewriter and it's actually a, uh, little CW station with a key. And that's kind of a neat item. It's called the PRC five. It's an American spy radio.
And, uh, and well, you know, you meet people in collecting hobbies particularly, but radio too, but in collecting hobbies, you, you meet and make friends with people that ordinarily you would never meet. I mean, I got friends that, you know, from collecting badges, uh, who are some pretty heavy duty cops.
One of them who unfortunately passed away recently was a criminal investigator for the IRS out in California. And boy, some of these guys got some stories that they tell unbelievable. So it's a lot of fun. W1RC back to net.
Excellent. I can only imagine an IRS enforcement agent. That must be very interesting. I'm sure they have some really good stories. After all, didn't they get Al Capone on tax evasion? That's the only way they could get it.
All right. So at this time we will turn it over to the regular check in list. So this is for all digital stations only for the regular longer format round table. Any digital stations that would like to check in for the regular check in list, please call now.
Whiskey eight, Charlie Romeo whiskey, CR.
Okay. So for the digital stations, we've got CR.
Okay. So for the digital stations, we've got CR.
Okay. So for the digital stations, we've got CR.
Okay. So for the digital stations, we've got CR.
Okay. So for the digital stations, we've got CR.
Okay. So for the digital stations, we've got CR.
Okay. So for the digital stations, we've got CR.
W8CRW. Now we'll turn it over to all of the RF stations for the regular Thursday night round table check in. Please call now.
Whiskey Alpha 3, Victor Echo Echo, WA3 VEE.
W3GMS and Greg, I should have checked in under the early check in. But I am in and out tonight. So good to hear you. Thanks for sitting in the captain's chair. And we'll talk to you all a little bit later. W3GMS now clear.
I can put you at the top of the list if you'd like to do a short check in.
Work out good. Thank you.
Excellent. All right. Any other stations, RF or digital, wishing to check in, please call in now.
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Okay, so far we have got moved to the top of the list.
Okay, so far we have got moved to the top of the list.
That's correct.
Excellent. And we'll just do one more check. Are there any other stations that would like to check in? Please call now.
Okay, nothing heard. We'll turn it over to the good music station, Whiskey 3 Golf, Mike Sierra. This is W3DIB on the Thursday night round table.
Good Greg, and I'll say a very good evening to everybody. Did you have a question tonight? I probably missed it.
I did. Shame on me. I should have repeated that. Any other hobbies or pastimes that you have other than ham radio? Or if you just want to talk about the ham radio hobby, that's great too. But I figured if you have something else you're passionate about, let's hear about it.
Well, you know me pretty well. Ham radio is way up on the top of my list. I would say cars and working on cars, but I find the older I get, the less desire I have to work on them. But I still do it. And I still occasionally help Martha when she needs my help.
Let's see, what else? I love traveling. Yes. I love hitting the road and traveling and seeing new places and things like that. I really enjoy that a lot. So I guess that should pretty much cover it.
So I'll turn it back to you. I didn't even make a list here, but thanks for putting me on the top. And I wish everybody a very good evening. And I'm awfully sorry to hear about Biz. I heard your comments in your opening statement. And I think we all knew that that was coming. We just didn't know when it was coming. So as you so correctly pointed out, he has no more suffering. And there's a lot of gratification in that. I know he was having some very, very difficult days.
So, 73, tell Kim I said hello and we'll chat with you later. W3DIV, W3GMS now clearing QRT.
Thank you. That's greatly appreciated. It was, no matter how much you prepare yourself, you're never ready for it. Because it's so final. But thank you. And I will turn it over to CR, to W8CRW. This is W3DIV.
Very good, Greg. And good evening all. CR here. And let's see. Hobbies other than ham radio. Well, let's see. I would say I'm a tinkerer because things are always broken that need to be repaired. And I like to give it a go before you have to call in the professionals. So that keeps me busy all the time.
My latest tinkering job is I'm working on my shed right now. It's 20 years old and some of the T-111 siding has gotten rotted, so I'm replacing pieces.
Let's see, what else? I'm an aviation enthusiast. Years and years ago, I used to actually fly airplanes. I don't do that anymore, but I fly drones now. Those are about the two hobbies that I'm still currently doing. There's others, but I'm going to turn it over to Ron, WA3VEE, WHCRW.
Sounds great, CR, WACRW and a group, WA3VEE over here in Westchester. All very good. Greg, good evening, and good evening to everyone on the roundtable tonight. You guys know what my activities are, that's for sure.
Nonetheless, Greg, thanks for doing the chairing tonight. Stand by.
One second, let me grab a water here. Stand by.
Let me hold up the net here. This is WA3VEE. Well, very much so. Let's see. Radio is shared with a lot of other passions with me.
It's not the only thing that I'm passionate about, although, like Joe, it's very high on the list.
But with that, of course, is woodworking and photography and travel.
And I've traveled extensively and still doing a lot of getting around.
It's not unusual, as you all know, for me to hop in the car and go and do an 85-mile round trip someplace.
Or, like I did over the weekend, to go up to the Polish festival up in Doylestown.
And actually, that's a 102-mile round trip for me. That's absolutely no problem whatsoever.
Or to travel, in my younger years, to travel up to New England, down south, out west, anywhere.
I've been known to hop on a plane from Philadelphia in my single years and go out to the west coast.
A very rough itinerary.
And just hang around for, like, 21 days.
And just have a great time.
Never lonely.
Always engaging in conversation with people, things like that.
And, of course, the camera's always there, naturally.
And along with the travel, like over the weekend, like the photo journal things, as you guys well know.
And the hobbies are all intertwined.
I always said that any electronics or radio activity has photography.
And photography usually has some kind of, and woodworking, and vice versa, and all around.
Right now, what I'm working on is a console for, the middle console for the van, which will hold all the radios securely.
And that's, yet, both woodworking, radio, electrical, and, of course, the whole project will be photo journaled.
So, that all plays together.
And, of course, it's so that I can enjoy my travels.
So, everything's intertwined.
And, of course, in there also is cycling.
And, of course, naturally teaching.
So, there's not one, any, especially, even with radio, there's not one single thing that is a standout.
They're all shared passions, and they're all intertwined.
So, Chuck, your turn.
NA3CW.
WA3VE.
Thank you.
NA3CW.
Well, as far as hobbies, if you look around my house, obviously ham radio is a big one.
I enjoy music, mainly classical, but not exclusively.
I enjoy, I enjoy sailing.
Not that I've been able to do it yet this summer, and I've been waiting all year for September for everybody else to go home.
But then I have the other big time filler in my life is my sister.
And September is her month for many appointments.
And so, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get out this month or not, where I need a couple of days in a row.
So, I have lots of things that take my time.
She is one.
I was just with her for, you know, from door to door back, you know, leaving home and coming back home, it was probably about seven hours.
It kind of takes the core out of the day, not to mention my energy.
Right now, I'm going to refer a project on my trailer, my little four-by-six trailer.
I have parts to put on my Malibu.
I have parts to put on Patty's Cruise.
I do my own work most of the time.
There's yard work to do.
There's this and that and the other.
And occasional work on some other projects, like towers.
So, while I enjoy other pastimes, I don't have any other things that I do to pass the time.
That usually takes care of itself.
But ham radio is the big one.
And, you know, designing and making things every now and again, as I have the time and ambition, that sort of thing.
So, enough of my rambling.
Over to Mr. Bill, who can make interesting things.
KC3OOK, NA3CW.
NA3CW, KC3OOK.
Thanks, Chuck.
And Greg, thanks for taking the chair tonight.
And Greg, I guess your questions made me realize I'm probably pretty shower.
because I really don't have a lot of hobbies anymore, especially if you get outside of radio and woodworking.
And I'm not sure if woodworking is a hobby or a job or just something that has to be done.
A lot of them are just projects around the house.
Funny, I was thinking up until probably COVID, when I retired, I was more active.
I was working full-time and had time to do a couple of fishing trips a year and a couple of hunting trips a year.
And since then, I've hardly done any.
I didn't even fish this year.
So, hunting and fishing are the two things I like to do to get away and just relax.
Especially, I really like, not very good at it, but I like fly fishing.
I like wading in the stream, out with no one around, quiet, peaceful.
I don't even care if you really catch fish.
It's just getting out and getting away.
Especially, if it's somewhere with no cell service.
But I guess I'm going to have to come up with a hobby.
And it's, being retired, you'd think there'd be lots of time.
But my list is longer than the hours of the day right now, for some reason.
Maybe just because I'm moving so slow.
But with that, I'll turn it over to Scott.
Somebody does get a lot done.
W3KZG, KC3OOK.
W3KZG.
This is W3KZG.
I don't know about getting a lot done.
Sometimes I feel like I get nothing done.
Good evening, everybody.
I hope everybody's doing well.
Let's see.
Ham radio is one of my hobbies, but it's not the top of the list, I would say.
I enjoy it, but it's not the tippy top.
It does fall hand in hand in what my profession and what I went to school for,
which was electronics and computers.
So it does mold into that.
But I would say one of my passions is camping and off-roading, riding ATVs, getting away for a while.
Me and my brother went this past Monday, rode ATVs for the day, and felt really good.
So we're trying to go here again at the end of this month, get another trip in.
But the other thing is I really like, it's not necessarily just working on cars.
It's just working on anything mechanical with an engine.
Right now I'm helping the father-in-law rebuild a 1950 John Deere tractor.
We've got to pull the motor out and have it board so I can put new components in it so it'll run again.
Buy cheap vehicles, fix them up to make them reliable again.
Buy cheap trailers.
I like welding and fabricating, wrenching on anything.
Just kind of repair, rebuild, fix, whatever I can.
I just enjoy doing it.
Even enjoy repairing electronics, although I don't get to do that as much.
But I do enjoy doing that as well.
I don't know.
If you ask my wife, she'll tell you I have way too many hobbies.
And I'm stretched thin between them.
But I enjoy them all separately and I kind of hop from one to the next.
But, yep, that's all I'll say for now.
And I'll send it to the next person.
Who is it?
Oh, it's Jim.
I bet he's strumming the guitar.
AF3Z.
This is W3KZJ.
That was a low E.
Yeah, I have the guitar here.
All right, very good.
Good evening, everybody.
And, yeah, I have too many hobbies as well and too many interests.
And a lot of them you probably know about.
But anyway, the guitar is one.
Music.
I play a little harmonica, too, on the side.
But I haven't played that for a good while.
I like getting outside for a number of things.
Golf, hiking, camping, sailing, that kind of stuff.
And currently I'm into photography.
Those are the main ones.
I've been playing more golf the last couple of years.
Being retired and having some friends that want to play.
And so that's been good.
So those are the main things.
I do a little bit of reading, but I was never a big reader.
And music in general.
I listen to all kinds of stuff on YouTube right before this tonight.
I didn't hear the whole thing.
The Mahler's Second Symphony.
Resurrection, I think, is the name of it.
And that was being done by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
And incidentally, I happen to know the woman who was the principal oboist for the Dallas Symphony.
She grew up in the church in Mount Gretna when I was up there.
So anyway, I do enjoy listening to jazz and classical and some country stuff.
And I love banjo.
So anyway, all that kind of stuff.
And now, Charlie, over to you.
N3CRE AF3Z.
AF3Z, N3CRE.
Wow.
After a number of getting up there in years, things seemed to change.
What I did before COVID, I did a lot of ballroom dancing.
I did a lot of maybe more hunting and sporting things.
Since COVID and coming out of the three years of doing nothing, last year I started back.
And I've been trying a different variety of things.
But nothing really that's getting very successful.
I play golf, which is not successful.
I do do a lot of cooking.
I'm gardening, flowering.
And I'm starting to travel again shortly.
I have trips lined up to travel.
So, but I'm finding that I don't know if I have hobbies anymore.
I have more interest that I do for a little while.
And then maybe something else enlightens it more.
N3CRE, I guess.
I go back to net.
Excellent.
Excellent.
Wow.
I better see if there's anybody else that would like to join.
But definitely have some good comments.
Took a lot of notes.
So, are there any other stations that would like to check in for the round table?
This Thursday night's round table.
We're just finishing up round one.
Any stations, please call now.
Alpha.
Alpha.
Alpha 3.
Lima Hotel.
Leon, it's great to hear your voice.
Take it away.
You're our new tail gunner.
Usually, we go and say that we are under the bus, crawl under the bus.
We want to tell a different tale today.
We want to make this thing, you know, a little bit more interesting.
First of all, this is AA3LH.
And I want to go ahead and talk about my experience.
Now, listen, guys, I like telling stories, as you all know, about being under the bus, changing flat tires, and, you know, checking oil.
But let's go a different route tonight.
I guess everybody here knows that Sunday afternoon, I passed out in the kitchen.
I like to cook.
But it's not a problem.
But, you know, when you are standing at the stove, you get dizzy, and you wake up in the ER, you certainly know something has happened.
The wife was unable to get me up and realized that something was wrong.
But anyway, so let's make this interesting.
You got your boots on.
You got your chest waders on, because you will need them.
Got into the ER, and they want to put me through a donut.
Oh, a donut, that's pretty good.
I like to eat donuts.
Sure, sure, let's go.
So they put me through the donut.
They didn't even give me one bite of that donut.
They just went and put me through it.
They were greedy, you know.
They didn't even bother to give me anything to eat out of that.
Then, then, here we go.
Then they took me out of there.
They checked the results of the donut.
Then they put me, you know, they said, you come lay on this table over here.
We want to, you know, put you at a machine.
Okay.
This table, you know, it's not a kitchen table, and there's no food on it, you know.
We're cooking, right?
We're looking for food.
It's Sunday afternoon.
We're looking for food.
Now, what we were doing Sunday was cooking for food for Labor Day itself.
We have a little party over here.
So, anyway, they put me in, I'll go in this table, see where the food is.
They put me in this machine, and they slid me in feet first.
Now, this machine was a tube.
Kyron reminded me of being a tube, and they slid me in.
My face was about six to eight inches from the ceiling.
They said, put your arms up.
Why can't you get my arms up?
Pull me back up.
I put my arms up in the air, and then they pushed it in, and I couldn't get my arms down.
Pushed me in, and they slammed the door shut.
Sorry, sucker, you're in there, you know, type attitude.
I was in there for, I don't know how long I was in.
And, you know, then they opened the doors and pulled me back out again.
And, you know, so I didn't know if I was in there waiting for the return of Christ or not.
When they opened the doors, I wondered if Christ came back for the resurrection of the day,
because I was in a casket.
But anyway, yeah.
To go on with the story, you know, I mean, you know, I'm still here.
They were unable to really find out what really caused it.
So for three days next week, I have doctor appointments and more tests.
But they let me go home Wednesday.
Wednesday, Wednesday, late Wednesday afternoon, let me go home and, you know, stay on your feet.
Don't fall over, type attitude.
But anyway, here I am.
Yes, hobbies.
Hobbies.
I like to cook.
As you all know at your field days, yeah.
I like to collect old tube-type AM, FM radios and have some old phonographs.
Record players, if you will, that I have.
I've had around here for a long time.
I like collecting them and playing with them from time to time.
And, yeah, being back from the casket.
It is me.
It goes back, I guess, to Mr. D.I.B.
Go ahead, Greg.
AA3LH.
AA3LH.
Great to hear your voice.
I'm glad you're back.
You have an excellent way of personifying your story.
It's excellent.
But we're just glad you're doing better and glad to hear you're in better shape.
And everything's in better shape.
So I'll leave it at that.
I'm starting to fumble over my words.
Are there any other stations that we'd like to check in for this Thursday night edition of the round table?
Please call now.
Okay.
Nothing heard.
So, yeah, some quick comments here.
So, looks like a common theme is some people like to work on mechanical systems and cars.
So, good music station in there.
Scott's in there.
Chuck's in there.
Ron's probably in there as well.
I know Ron's got the current project with the radio console.
That sounds awesome.
And I get it.
Getting in the car and just driving 85 miles or 100 miles sometimes, it can be very relaxing.
When I used to get stressed out in college and things were just, I don't know, a little bit too much for the time or too much pressure going on.
Sometimes I would do exactly that run.
I would just get in the car.
And there was a couple of times that I probably got in the car and drove all the way to as far south as Rehoboth or down even far as Fenwick.
Only to turn around and come back.
But just that moment in the car at night.
Nobody bothering you.
Maybe some music.
A window down if it wasn't too freezing cold.
But it was definitely a very calming and relaxing thing.
CR, I know you love to tinker with things.
It's always cool to see all the projects you have.
And you always manage to find the project that has a part that is extremely hard to come by or is actually totally locked down by the manufacturer or they don't have it documented properly and it's almost impossible to find the real name of.
And then you end up going on a safari to find what the real name of the item is and the supply company to actually order one from.
But I think every time you've managed to figure it out, I don't think there's been a time, at least the times you've explained to me, that the one thing that comes to mind is the bolts that were to your hitch on the electric vehicle, I think, when you were working on the trailer hitch.
So, and really cool about flying planes.
And my buddy used to actually fly drones.
He had a bunch of drones.
He did a bunch of acrobatic drones.
And he would wear the first person point of view goggles and basically were looking through the drone.
And he loved to go up in the air, cut the throttle, have the thing flip over, do a tumble, and then goose the throttle, have it take off.
And he loved the acrobatics.
That was his favorite thing.
So, let's see here.
Chuck, I hope you get to go sailing.
Maybe go down to the Cape May Jersey Shore and do some sailing.
Wow.
I'm getting bad.
I keep doing that.
Maybe do some sailing with N2HM.
That's a signal to me that I'm talking too much.
And, Bill, I would definitely say woodworking is certainly a hobby, especially if you enjoy it.
And the fly fishing sounds awesome.
I don't think I've ever done that.
But I can imagine what it's like to stand in the middle of a creek in waders and just cast a line and hang out there, the sound of the water going by.
I know I've seen guys when I run down around the White Clay Creek area, especially towards, like, the late winter.
We'll see all the fishermen and the fishing season start.
And I'll be on the trails, probably driving on the nuts because they hear all the footsteps and everything in their otherwise quiet, undisturbed environment.
But I imagine it's actually really peaceful and excellent.
And Scott, very cool.
I didn't know you actually went to school for electronics and computers.
I knew you did a lot of things with mechanical systems.
But I also knew you did soldering and things, and you worked on electronics.
So very cool to hear you working on an old John Deere tractor, as well as welding and fabricating.
That's one thing I'd like to try sometime is welding.
I imagine it's quite a bit different from soldering, but maybe some of the principles are similar.
Probably not even close because it's totally different.
But, Jim, I can relate with the music.
I like playing drums, although I don't get to play them too much around the house because they make too much noise and they scare the cat.
And I'm a second for watching on YouTube, especially for learning things, music.
And very cool to know the principal oboist for the Dallas Symphony.
Excellent.
And I'll have to talk to you sometime about jazz, like what type you like, whether it's like verb jazz, things like Wes Montgomery or Jimmy Smith, or maybe it's more the Ella Fitzgerald.
It'd be cool to talk about it sometime.
And let me see here.
Charlie, I would totally take a page out of your book.
I think it's cool that you actually don't classify anything as a hobby and you just say, you know what, this is an interest.
I'm going to dig into this and I'm going to try it for a bit and see if I like it.
And if I don't like it, I'll move on to some other interest.
That's actually a really good way probably to find a new hobby.
And let's see, Leon, again, like I said before, I'm really glad to hear you're back and things are in better shape than they were.
So hopefully things stay perfect and no more dizzy spells at the ER or ending up in the ER.
No more donuts are being put through the center of a donut.
That doesn't sound fun.
And, yeah, I will stop rambling and we'll see if there are any other stations that would like to join us for the second round of this roundtable.
Any stations, please call now.
All right, nothing heard and we'll start off round two.
So we'll see if W3GMS is there.
And if we don't hear from the good music station, CR, feel free to pick it up and start round two.
So this is W3DIB turning it over to W3GMS or WHCRW.
On the Thursday night roundtable.
Well, it sounds like Joe is busy doing something else tonight.
This is CR.
And speaking of welding, Greg, I have a welding job lined up for tomorrow.
It should take me 10 minutes.
It takes more time to get all the stuff out of storage and set it up in order and do the job than it actually takes to do the job.
This is what we'll call a five-minute job.
And so that's how it goes.
Always something to work on.
Always something to fix.
Ron, your turn.
Oh, yeah.
I used to travel a lot, too, but that was prior to COVID.
After that happened, I stay home most of the time now.
W3EE, pick it up.
W8CRW.
Good morning, CR.
W8CRW.
W83VEE.
Here with the group.
Very, very good.
Yeah, not much more to add, but I know the feeling, CR, that you described here as well.
In the woodshop, a couple interesting things.
I'm building a table for someone.
Also, it's a little tiny one.
It only has about an eight-inch rise on it.
It's going to go on top of another table.
And that'll be, that's just a fun project.
That'll be very nice.
Nothing fancy, but it will consist of a plywood top, which is the radiator pine that I keep talking about.
It's the finer, regular plywood, but it's the finer interior-grade furniture-type stuff.
It's not birch, but it's pine plywood, pine veneer, but it's very nice.
They sell it at Home Depot, but it makes a very nice tabletop for general utility purposes.
And the edge of that will be banded with some poplar.
I might, if I have enough, if I have enough oak, I'll use that.
But generally, poplar or something hard, bang up against it, it won't damage anything.
So that's coming up.
And, of course, the console, that'll be a fun project as well.
And that will be a lot of going between the van and the woodshop travel to try to get things worked out.
And to probably do some templating there as well.
So all that's very good.
And I was describing the process to someone last night, and they were amazed at how much precision there is.
And I said, well, this is why you find a lot of woodworkers who are engineers, because they were surprised to hear, as most people are,
that one of the most important tools in my woodshop is a set of calipers, believe it or not.
And that's used mainly for joinery and stuff like that.
So, anyway, that will be coming up.
And, of course, I want to remind everybody, the Mullica Ham Fest, the Mullica Hill Ham Fest,
officially known as the Gloucester County Radio Club Ham Fest.
But we call it Mullica Hill because that's where it is.
Same thing with Kimberton.
That's officially the Valley Forge Ham Fest.
But we all refer to it as Kimberton because that's where it is.
That's on Sunday.
And I plan to be there.
I have some things to sell.
I have a couple things from other people, other 985ers I'll have on my table.
But most of this stuff will be going for very, very, very bargain prices.
I have a couple scopes, one of which I might actually employ at field day as a modulation monitor.
Never thought about that until earlier this afternoon.
I'm thinking about, what can we do with this stuff if it doesn't sell?
Oh, you know what?
That might be a good consideration.
Of course, also a frequency counter.
So that's another thing.
I mean, it's growing without bounds.
But nonetheless, if you're talking about a demo station like A3DTS up there, you know, why not?
It's available.
And if we use it, great.
If not, well, that's fine, too.
No problem.
We'll go back on the selling block.
So anyway, I'll have that and a couple other things, some pieces of vintage gear.
But, and a signal generator that does need work, but the price will be very, very good.
It won't be zero, but it'll be a contribution at K3DTS so that we can get the ARRL affiliation and get some liability insurance for K3DTS.
So that's about it from here.
Nothing much more to add.
I will listen out, but I'll say 73 to everybody.
And again, Greg, you and I can have a good radio link because you're pretty good on the input up here at my place from down there at Longwood.
So that would be pretty good.
So the three-way link between me and you, me and Simon, KD3BPI, and also my son, if I ever get them on the radio, KB3MNA up in Lionville.
Okay, Chuck, it's your turn.
NA3CW, WA3VE.
Leave a little pause.
W-H-E-V-E-N-E-3-C-W.
Add my thanks, Greg, for driving the bus tonight.
And also, Leon, so good to hear you on the air.
And glad you're done with donuts, I hope.
So, this past week, I was supposed to be helping over at Joe's with the tower project, but I was attacked by an endodontist, or actually by a bacterial infection after endodontist work.
So my face swelled up on one side, and I was having pounding pain all through the Labor Day holiday, and I didn't get much of anything done.
So I didn't get over to the tower job, but Joe and Bill did great work.
I saw the results of it and the pictures and such.
So I was really glad to see that.
Just a clarification, I don't necessarily like working on cars.
If I never had to work on another car again, it would be fine.
Problem is, I don't like paying other people to work on cars.
And they tell people, I'm cheap and I have trust issues.
So there are places you can go that you can rely on them looking out for your best interests, and there's a whole lot that don't.
So anything that I can do, I try to do myself.
Unless I'm out-skilled or out-tooled or out-workplaced for some reason.
Like, I have an air conditioning gauge set, and I can put Freon in a system.
But as far as tearing a system down, vacuuming it out, and all that kind of good stuff, I leave that to the pros.
Who was that actually have licenses to do that sort of thing?
But as far as most of the things on a car, it's nuts and bolts.
And all the nuts and bolts are in the wrong places and hard to get to, but nonetheless, they can be done.
And so I try to do that sort of stuff.
I do all my own oil changes, tire rotations, and that sort of thing.
The basic ones, I've pulled heads and done valve jobs and that sort of thing in my past.
I hope never to have to do that again.
My Malibu just turned over 100,000 and 800 miles today.
And there's certain things that go bad in those cars shortly after 100,000, like 120,000.
That can cause damage, so I'm preemptively replacing a less than $100 vacuum pump that is driven off of one of the camshafts.
And those things are known to fail, and when they do, they tend to bust off the end of the camshaft.
So I'm preemptively changing it out.
Hopefully the replacement will last a long time.
And stuff like that.
Yeah, so at this point, there's a lot of things I'm helping people with, like my sister, my mother-in-law, trying to maintain my equipment, my household machinery and such whatnot.
And so boredom is never a problem.
Now tomorrow, we're going to do something totally different.
We'll be canning applesauce again.
This will be our third batch.
Well, yeah, it'll be our third batch and probably the last one for this year.
We like applesauce.
So we had the first two batches, we did 19 quarts of applesauce, and this will be our last batch.
So Patty and I work together, and we're pretty fast at it.
We're pretty good at it.
So, hey, one thing against another.
It's, you know, somebody says, well, you're keeping busy?
Absolutely, I'm keeping busy.
Not necessarily things that I can predict or like to do, but I am keeping busy.
So there you go.
And to put a cap on that, I am very grateful that I can be busy.
In my working days, there's two situations, one of which is the phone won't stop ringing.
The other one is the phone won't ring.
And I found I didn't really care for the one where the phone never rang.
So it's helping to keep me kind of awake, alert, and maybe helping my health as well, certainly my mental health.
So off to that, off to Oxford and Mr. Bell, KC3OOK, NA3CW.
NA3CW.
3-0-0-K here in Oxford where it's raining lightly again. We had about a half inch of rain today so far.
I don't have too much more to add. I was thinking I really do have to get another hobby, I guess,
but I already have time for the ones I do now. And unfortunately with amateur radio,
there's so much to learn. It'd be a different thing if I've been in it for 30 years, but
there's a lot of things I like to read. I'm interested in historic architecture, historic
restoration, old buildings, and really tied into it as history. And that was most of my
reading, but now it's not so much. But that's okay. I'm having fun. But, you know, Greg, maybe
I'll have to get a gun out this weekend and at least do some target shooting, do something
different little break. So, thanks for the question. I'll see if I can follow up on it. And with that,
I'll turn it over to Scott. W3-KZG. KZ-3-0-K.
W3-KZG. See, there's a few more things I guess I do. I do do some woodworking. I have a table saw
and a bandsaw and a planer and some stuff in the basement. But I do just enough woodworking to make
the things I need. And that's about it. Because usually it's either too expensive to buy a quality
version of what I would need and to buy the cheap version it's just particle board and it wants to
fall apart so like my my electronic workbench here that I have is I made it out of wood and
it's on the top I made it's just plywood with epoxy coating on it I stained it I actually
3d printed my call sign and put them down in the wood and then poured the epoxy coating over it so
my call signs in the table and then it's on adjustable motorized legs that I purchased
but I did have to weld some gussets on them to make them more sturdy because they were made in
china and then I have a bookshelf over here on the side that doesn't have any books well I guess it has
one or two books on it but mostly it's just a catch-all for ham radio junk but I built that as
well but yeah woodworking I don't I don't enjoy it as much as I think I should it's too precise
and my brain doesn't work that way I like to do things where it's I don't know just just good enough
and woodworking you have to be too precise so I always end up messing things up that's one of the
reasons why I like welding metal and fabrication because if you cut something a little too short
with metal you can either fill it in with weld or you can just weld a piece back on and keep on
trucking whereas with wood you can't weld wood back on you have to get a new piece so that's one of the
reasons why I like welding and metal fabrication because there's a it's easier to fix your boo-boos
the other thing I was doing is I've been well most of you guys probably saw my trailer that I acquired it
field day I just got the trailer a month before that so I used some of that welding experience to put new
axles under it so now it sits four inches higher and I also lengthen the tongue by two feet and that's
took some fabrication and welding and then I put I just just got done putting solar panels on the roof I have 1280 watts of solar on the roof and I'm wiring in the charge controller and now I have to weld a battery box up and put it I'm actually going to sink it in the floor between the axles so that the weight is low and to the rear of the trailer so the trailer is not overly tongue heavy and
things like that trying to keep the brakes and things like that trying to keep the brakes and things like that trying to keep the trailer as balanced as possible for towing so it doesn't sway and act goofy and way down the back of my truck so that's some other things I like to do I do do woodworking but it's just just enough for stuff I need Ron is more precise than me I'll let the good stuff up to him
let's see here who's a good to go to the GM AF3Z I bet you're still strumming the guitar over to you this is W3KZG73 everybody
okay thank you Scott I was I put it down actually about halfway through your transmission there and uh
yeah very good well I decided uh that I would uh Greg I would twist your question a little bit
uh talk about some of the things that definitely are not my my things woodworking is not one of them
I can sort of enjoy cutting something and nailing it together or something maybe but
finishing and like you just said Scott trying to be careful and make joints and stuff forget it
another one is painting as in house painting and that sort of thing having to paint rooms
woodwork all that kind of stuff forget it uh working on a car not really maybe a little thing but uh
no that's not my I did it years ago with no tools a little knowledge and if I had to get under the car I'd
just back it up on the curb so I have an extra couple inches to get under there uh I did that down in
Washington DC in fact um and lawn work garden work gardening uh landscaping uh I do what I have to but
no those are not some of these are not a few of my favorite things to quote an old song almost uh so
there you go uh but I've had all kinds of interests over the year oh I would have loved to become a pilot uh I've
enjoyed talking with our pal rbn to rbn a number of times my first love not able to participate but got
a few rides was uh sailplanes gliders I would have loved to have done that was a member of the soaring
society of america in high school but at some point I realized money and time it just wasn't going to work
out same with having my own sailboat that wasn't going to work out my dad was willing to hold on to the
boat that he had for me but I said dad that's not going to work so anyway that's my rambling for round two
and I will pick up the guitar again uh that is very uh calming and uh I gradually work on some stuff I've
got some music I've been trying to learn to play for music I always just play chords
but uh so I'm playing simple stuff but I enjoy it anyway and Leon yes good to hear you in here very much so
uh they had a gene for me as well so Charlie over to you again in three c-r-e-a-f-3-zid
okay Jim well you're giving me a lot more things to think about thank goodness one hobby one interest I've
never had is boating and uh thank goodness as far as uh I've never had any interest to get into boating
because all I've heard is a lot of bad news sometimes but anyway a lot of things like I say I do
I'm glad to hear that there's a ham fest that's a good idea I've been to a ham fest in a lot of years
maybe I'll head over to I guess New Jersey somewhere and uh I don't know what else I look around the house
I'm sitting there to death I look across I see my chess board nobody to play chess with there anymore
I used to play with a class b guy that was a class b champion and I played many many nights with him
very late with playing chess and a couple jugs of uh and I will say jugs of martinis but that's another
time in my life I do like to travel like somebody said I mean I've got a car 1920 car 2020 car
I mean I got 90,000 miles on it I put 20,000 miles on it a year I put 20,000 miles easily a year
and um but it's a wonderful world out there and I try enjoying it as much as possible
and I'll turn this over to Leon uh AA3LH
thank you thank you so much this is AA3LH I just can't get away from being under the bus
uh you know checking things out there and we can we kind of find a problem we gotta fix so hang on a second AA3LH
KC3H I just wanted to say good evening to everybody and uh thanks for uh all the prayers that you give for us I don't think we're out of the woods yet so please keep praying but thanks so much for being friends and and fellow prayers um KC3H
KC3H because uh...
KC3H we're back on RF again yeah yeah dude we do appreciate your prayers that you guys came
KC3H for me we had to tell that little story I just thought how am I gonna tell you know make this a little bit different you know you just know you guys know I love to tell stories
And how can I make a nice story out of what just happened to me Sunday?
But Sunday things are pretty grave and pretty, pretty serious.
Now I go back on Monday.
They want to hang some heart monitor on me.
They want to check me for arrhythmia.
And they want to see what my heart actually does throughout the month.
So for the next several months, we are going to be, if I stay vertical,
they're going to go ahead and run tests and try and find out just exactly what happened.
They're not satisfied with the results that they did find.
Yes, we got two stents and already got balloons.
I guess I could just say, I got balloons that should be floating away in there.
I got balloons inside me.
I could say all that.
I do like to travel.
I like to travel.
And we have an HF radio in our van with antennas on it.
We like to travel and just see who we can talk to, how far we can talk and who will come back.
We like to do that.
It's a nice hobby.
Yes, it's back on ham radio, I know.
But I do like to do that very much.
Go out somewhere and see how far it takes.
You know, HF radio can go.
I have some old Clegg radios here that just see, which do not have a tone board in them.
And just see how, go out, find a hill somewhere.
Like a long run, 30 out there.
Breezewood there.
Breezewood area.
Or the hill I got.
Just see how far I can talk.
I have a two-meter beam.
The four-almah two-meter beam to take out there.
And just see.
Just see what I can do.
That's fun.
I really enjoy that.
That is a hobby that I have.
And I know we're not to mention ham radio.
But nonetheless, we like to travel.
We like to go camping.
And we like to stay away from the donuts.
All right, back to that control.
This is A3LH.
Excellent.
We'll add Leon and Gene to the list.
KC-3 HQZ officially on the round two of the round table.
And Leon, I never said we couldn't talk about HF or AM radio.
I just said if you had anything outside of it, no problem.
But that sounds awesome, traveling with an HF radio and trying to see how far back you can communicate to talk to friends.
And then you have a story to tell.
You're like, hey, we traveled out here or we're out in the middle of somewhere or we're camping here.
And we're still able to hear you, which is awesome.
So, yes.
And the only donuts are hopefully the Entenmann's kind.
My favorite are the yellow inside with the chocolate coating.
I don't know why I love those things.
But they probably don't love me back.
Let's see, I'll offer, I guess, a few more comments.
Oh, before I do some comments, let's see if there's anybody else who would like to check in.
There is time if you would like to get added to the end of the list here on round two of the Thursday night round table.
Please call now.
Whiskey 3, Mike Foxtrot, Bravo, on Echo Link, up in Lionville.
Wow.
Mike, you sound totally different over Echo Link.
Whiskey 3, Mike Foxtrot, Bravo, W3DIB on the Thursday night round table.
You're our new tail gunner.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I'm trying not to shout too much over the crickets and the cicadas all bouncing around tonight up here in Lionville.
Good to hear Leon out there.
And Gene.
Leon, I'm glad you're doing better.
I'm glad you're vertical.
And I did get your QSL card from Colorado when you and I worked each other on 40 meters with a bunch of the other fellas on the group.
So thank you.
And it was nice to see that they were bears.
So I'll have to send you one back.
Greg, I didn't hear your question.
I just turned this thing on momentarily.
And maybe I can answer it.
Maybe I can't.
So I'll send it back to you.
W3DIB, W3MSB in group.
I keep forgetting to do that.
I apologize.
The question is simple.
It's just, are there any other hobbies outside of ham radio that you have a passion for or have an interest in?
And it doesn't mean you can't talk about ham radio.
I didn't want to make it exclusive to not ham radio.
That would be totally not in the spirit of the hobby.
So back over to you.
W3MSB, W3DIB.
You know, it's funny.
I don't.
Thank you, Greg.
I don't really have too many other hobbies that I do anymore, I guess I should say, nowadays outside of radio.
I mean, radio has taken over my life.
But I guess basically, besides playing ham radio, CB radio, GMRS, shortwave listening, things like that.
But outside of that and inside of it as well is making new friends within the hobby itself.
I do appreciate meeting new people, making new friends, keeping tabs with them as well.
And then also explaining to non-hams and whatnot.
What's with those antennas and trying to get them interested, you know?
And just spreading the good word, I guess, about the radio hobbies is basically, I guess, my other hobby, I guess.
But yeah, I don't really, I used to paint, acrylic paint.
I wasn't trained or anything.
I don't think I'm very good, but it was relaxing.
We used to garden, but that was more of the wife's thing.
And I used to skateboard, but that's when my body was younger.
But so I don't really do those much anymore.
But, you know, radio is the passion nowadays and making new friends.
And that's about it for me, besides working and, you know, helping a family and whatnot.
So that's why I'm up here in Lionville on Echo Stink, as Ron says.
Just taking care of mom this week.
My sister's in the hospital, Chester County, and she's all right, sort of.
But they're still trying to figure out what's going on with her.
So I've been spending my time here overnight and in the morning going to work and then coming back here.
So that's what's going on.
So I just said to my wife before that I need to set my HF radio up here, throw a wire in the tree if I'm going to be up here for a little while longer.
Not having any radios here besides my HT or whatever's in my mobile is not fun, especially at nighttime.
I'm so used to listening to 40 meters at nighttime or the AM broadcast.
Maybe pick up a football game or a baseball game on the AM broadcast around the tree.
And I don't have that here, so it's kind of crazy.
My ham radio is my AM broadcast station.
So I definitely need to throw a wire in the tree up here and hook that up.
So anyway, that's it for me.
I'll say 7-3 to all.
I hope you all are doing well and enjoy your weekend coming up.
Happy Friday.
So I'll say 7-3.
Back to you, Greg.
W-3-D-I-B.
W-3-M-F-B.
Take care.
Very good.
W-3-M-F-B.
W-3-D-I-B.
Sorry to hear about your sister, and I hope everything is working out well.
And I definitely wish her well.
I'm sure everybody else here does as well.
Yeah, I get it.
I get skateboarding.
That sounds scary with, especially I'm thinking of like my body doing skateboarding
and some of the landing that you do or not landing, non-landing.
But I'm sure your acrylic painting was probably excellent.
You're probably selling yourself short.
But I knew you were into CB radio.
I didn't know you did the SWL or did the shortwave listening and the AM broadcast band.
That's really cool.
And, yeah, maybe it's worth throwing a wire up in the tree.
Before I ramble too long, are there any other stations that would like to check in
before we close down this edition of the Thursday Night Roundtable?
Please call now.
WLPB.
I believe it was N3, Lima, Bravo, Victor.
I just wanted to wave my hand.
I just happened to be recalibrating my antenna.
I'm located in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
Call sign, November 3, Larry Papa Victory.
And I wanted to wave my hand, everybody.
Hope you're doing well.
And I'm not getting any inclement weather.
We've been getting pretty good weather in this area for at least two or three days.
Looks like we're going to get a little rain.
But, you know, for this time of year, I think it's lovely.
So I'm going to say 73rd.
And everybody have a great evening.
This is Nancy 3, Larry Papa Victory.
And the name on this end is Al.
And I'll turn it back over to NetControl.
And I'm going to be QRT after your final.
Welcome.
Welcome, Al.
Anytime.
Join in.
And there's a Thursday night roundtable net at 8 p.m.
And then Monday night is the workbench where they talk about radio theory.
And basically you can ask questions.
And then the whole net will chime in with comments and answers.
So definitely welcome.
And, yeah, I see.
Glen Burnie.
That's awesome.
You're making it in pretty well.
So we'll say 73 back.
And I'm glad we got you on the log here.
So definitely check back in.
And we love to have new people on the repeater.
So, all right.
I'll make some quick comments on a couple things.
And I'll get everybody on their way.
Because I'm sure you don't want to listen to me ramble for too long.
Yeah, I'll just second what Ron said.
And I think he said this Sunday is the Mullica Hill Ham Fest.
And I guess it's really called the Gloucester Hill Ham Fest.
Ron, do you want to confirm that?
It's the Gloucester Hill Ham Fest if you look it up.
But really you guys call it the Mullica Hill Ham Fest.
And that's on Sunday.
What time does it start?
Okay.
Okay.
I think we might have lost Ron.
But Google is my friend.
So it looks like the 7th ARRL Southern New Jersey Section Convention in 47th Annual Ham Fest.
Gloucester County 4-H Fairgrounds this Sunday, September 7th.
And it looks like things start.
That's funny.
I don't see a start time.
Oh, actually here.
This year's event is set to open at 8 a.m.
So that's 8 a.m. on Sunday it opens.
And you can find it at GloucesterCountyARC.weebly.
At least that's where I found it.
Let's see.
Back to the notes.
And I guess I'll keep it short.
Lots of people helping.
Family.
And that's really cool to hear because that seems like what things should be about.
And Chuck, congrats on the applesauce canning.
19 quarts is a lot.
So you guys must love applesauce.
But I'll tell you what.
If we have some, I tend to eat it like way too fast.
The jar's empty in like two days, which is not good.
Bill, definitely get out and do some shooting.
And Scott, yeah, it'd be cool to, can't wait to see your trailer when you finish,
when you have everything finished.
And cool to see your 1,200, 1,280 watt, I think, solar on the roof.
You said you had it.
And I know with my DJ trailer, you talked about swaying and trailers misbehaving.
And I've always found it's such a delicate balance because there's either too much weight on the tongue
and it's weighing your vehicle down, or you have too much weight at the back.
And now you're hitting 55, 60 mile an hour, and the back of your trailer is kind of wagging like a tail of a dog,
which is absolutely terrifying because I've seen videos of what can happen if that gets out of control.
And it's not a pretty picture.
Or maybe search it on YouTube if you haven't already seen it, and it'll scare you into slowing down really quickly when you see that happen.
Jim, I love the way you twisted the question.
All the things I don't like doing, and I can relate with you with lawn, garden, and landscaping work.
It's just, it's, I've never been able to get out of mowing the lawn since I was a little kid,
and I don't think I've ever liked it because of that.
And I've always had push mowers, so that takes a, makes it a little...
Okay, the radio's telling me I'm starting to ramble.
So, I will, I'll end it there, unless there are any other stations that would like to get added to the list right here at the very end.
Please call now.
All right, nothing heard.
I'll say 73, and we'll say thank you to all stations for checking in to the 985 roundtable.
And a big thank you to Joe, W3GMS, for making the 985 repeater available to the roundtable, for the roundtable.
You are invited to use the repeater often.
In fact, that's a great way to show that you appreciate the gift of 985 to the amateur radio community.
Finally, we hope to hear you again this Monday evening at 8 p.m. for the 985 workbench.
This concludes the roundtable for tonight.
Feel free to stick around and keep the conversation going.
Have a great night and a great weekend.
73, this is W3DIB, now clear.
Thanks, Greg, for running the net tonight.
I go see these heart cardiologists on Monday.
See what for wild stories I might be able to come with for Monday night.
A-3-L-H.
Thank you, Leon.
I hope you get excellent news.
I've worn a Hulse monitor, if that's what they're going to have you do.
I know that's the device.
It's basically, it's almost like a portable EKG.
And you end up having to, they give you a pack of like little tabs that you have to stick onto your chest and then hook up the wires.
And then it just hooks onto your waist.
And I think even, if I remember correctly, you sleep with it every night.
And then just change the things in the morning.
Long story short, I have something called PSVT, or paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.
Paroxysmal just meaning occasionally or sporadically.
It doesn't happen all the time.
But basically, my heart rate can end up going a little bit too fast.
I'll be sitting down on a couch doing nothing and have a heart rate of like 140.
Hasn't happened in a while.
And it's not life-threatening, but it's annoying.
It makes you feel like you're, you know, your heart's racing and you're like, I'm not doing anything.
So, again, I hope you get really good news.
And it's really, really great to hear your voice.
And look forward to seeing you in person again.
Hopefully, I will make it to this month's breakfast.
So, back over to you.
AA3LHW3DIB.
I couldn't be vertical so I can do that.
Believe me, believe me.
Sunday afternoon, things were really, really very greasy as far as that goes.
My goodness.
When they came and got me, they put me on.
I don't even know.
They told me how they got me out of the house.
I knew nothing of it.
But anyway, that's in the past.
Now we go forward and see what else is new.
I know they were saying they thought that I might have ridden me of the heart.
And that's why I went down.
They want to check for that.
But it takes them a month to check for it.
So, I will be doing different things.
I know I have two heart doctor appointments on Monday.
And I have another one again.
Another doctor appointment on Tuesday.
They're going to have to run me to the doctor.
I can't go camping or going anywhere.
I just got to hang around the house for a while.
I can't go to the doctor.
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Like I said, I hope they find, give you very, very, very good, excellent news.
That's all I can say at this point.
Back over to you, AA3LHW3DIB.
Yeah, when they put me in the, I mean, they put me in the, I don't know, I guess the MRI machine that they had there.
Well, I, you know, I didn't realize how bad it was.
I mean, I've been there at this top of the thing about six, eight inches from my face.
I forgot to say that.
I couldn't even, my bail fang wouldn't even have worked in that thing.
It's so bad.
It was so lonesome in there, I forgot to say all that.
But anyway, you know, I want to, I want to tell a story different than trucking tonight.
But that made a nice little story.
You know, you know, you had to get your chest waders on.
But nonetheless, it was fun to do that.
Back to that control A3LH.
Yeah, I've been in, I haven't been all the way in to the donut or to the, actually the MRI, the tube machine.
And, but I was about halfway into the waste and, boy, does it make a ruckus too.
It makes a horrible noise.
They gave me headphones.
Hopefully they gave you headphones and gave you some nice music or something to listen to.
And then I remember they had a picture on the inside of it.
But yeah, I definitely, I definitely can, I'm a person that's definitely a little bit claustrophobic.
I wouldn't say I'm totally claustrophobic because for some reason the MRI tube did not bother me because the ends are open.
And even though I can't see the end being open, I know it's open.
And that little bit of, that one piece of knowledge, just knowing that, I don't know why that gives me the comfort.
Put me in an elevator that's got plenty of room, even a large, oversized elevator.
Don't like it.
It makes me nervous.
It makes me super nervous because just it's, I know it's completely enclosed.
I know there's a hatch, but you can't open that hatch from the inside.
And just that, that feeling, I don't like it.
Give me a freight elevator where the top's open and I can see the top of the shaft.
I'm fine.
And I don't know why because I know it's probably not safer.
But I can relate.
Sorry, I'm starting to ramble.
AA3LH, this is W3DIB.
Hey, I, I, cause I was, I was in bad shape Sunday when they put me in the tube.
And they offer, yeah, they ask, what kind of music do you like?
So they put music on, you know, put music that I like and I'm laying there and, you know,
going on with it.
And, uh, this wasn't, the racket wasn't so bad.
The, uh, let's see here.
They had a one machine that we had that sounded like a dog barking at me.
I said to the guy, where's that dog at?
And he's laughing at me.
I forget what that thing was called.
Oh, ultrasound.
The ultrasound, my, uh, um, my arteries in my neck.
Uh, I can't say what they're called now.
But, uh, the ultrasound, damn, to see if that was the problem.
That was not the problem.
But they did put two stents in my heart since they were in there anyway.
I could have said I had balloons in me.
I couldn't even float away with the balloons in me.
I must be way overweight.
But anyway, that's for another day.
I mean, I can think something else up for, for Monday night and see how Monday turns out.
Two doctor appointments on Monday.
I might have some weird stories from, for Monday evening.
Who knows?
Uh, anyway.
Well, I shouldn't have, you know, the workbench is not for telling stories.
But, uh, nonetheless, uh, next Thursday's coming around.
Uh, uh, go ahead, uh, G-I-T-I-B.
This is A through L-H.
I think they'd make an exception for you, Leon.
I think if you wanted to talk about it on Monday night, I think they'd say go right ahead.
Uh, everybody wants to know.
They definitely are, everybody, everybody cares about what's going on, especially with you.
Uh, so I definitely think they would make an exception for that.
I know I would.
Uh, hopefully I wouldn't get in trouble for it.
But you have an excellent way of personifying your story.
I, it's, the way you word things is, is amazing.
Like, it's kind of, it just paints a picture in your mind.
And, and I know, you, I don't know if you intend to do it.
You do it in kind of a comical way, almost like a cartoon.
But it's, I don't know.
It's, it's excellent.
It's an excellent quality.
I wish I had the ability to do what you do with the words.
Cause, um, even though it's a very serious subject, and I don't know, I worry and everybody worries.
But like, you, you, you manage to turn it around and like make it not so bad to talk about.
And I hope you get nothing but the best news.
I really do.
And, um, yes, I do know about an ultrasound too.
Cause they did one of those on my heart when I had the PSVT thing.
And it does, it does sound like a parking dog.
It's kind of funny that you say that.
I didn't think of it that way, but it is weird to see your own heart beating on a screen.
That is a really weird feeling, especially seeing it and thinking, yeah, yeah, you know, it's in there.
But when you actually see it, it's kind of like, oof, that is scary.
That thing just keeps going.
And thank God it does.
I'm back over to you, AA3LHW3DIV.
Back, back to you there.
I'll tell you what, my wife said, but I never put her in one of those machines.
She can't, she'll be fighting all the way in.
And I said, well, I said, I'll tell you what, when you felt like I felt, you certainly didn't feel like fighting.
I don't think I was all the way with it.
And they said, put your arms in the air.
When they went out, they meant put them over my head so I could slide in there.
They wanted my whole heart exposed.
They didn't want my arms blocking any part of my heart.
They meant serious things that, my hands over my head.
I couldn't put them down because the ceiling was too close to my head.
So I'm in there laying in there, you know, just waiting and waiting and waiting.
And then they turned me loose, brought me back on again.
But there was a guy, they had a speaker system.
They were talking to you, they'd play you music and, you know, la, la, la.
And they had a monitor right on me and something would go wrong.
They were right there.
And anyway, it was all right.
I don't say I want to go do that again, that a field is good.
But back then it didn't matter.
I keep my wife out of the session.
That won't go well with her, she says.
A3OH.
Yeah, I think it definitely, at that point when you're in there, it's like, well, they've got to get some information on me.
So I think I'm going to cooperate.
I remember the biggest thing was just staying still.
They want you to stay still.
They were MRI-ing my knee at the time.
And it is really cool if you have a computer and, gosh, I don't even know if they give you an optical disc anymore.
They used to send you away with a CD or a DVD that had the actual MRI scan on it.
And obviously you take it to your doctor and the radiologist gets a copy digitally now.
They probably send it through the good old cloud, the internet now.
But it was cool to pop that CD or DVD into the drive on my laptop at the time.
And the way, it was a full self-contained program that would load on its own.
And you could, you basically roll the middle wheel on the mouse, the little scrolly wheel.
And that would navigate you through the layers of the image.
And I mean, the way the MRI works, I mean, it just, it takes a scan at different layers.
And then they can literally go through a cross section of your body at any layer.
They can go like, you know, an inch deep, two inches deep, three inches in.
And then it just through right rolling that wheel.
And it's, it's pretty amazing how it works.
I mean, that along with all the superconductors and all of the technology that it takes to make that machine work.
And I don't know, it's quite an amazing invention.
And thank goodness, thank God they invented it because, boy, it gives them eyes into things that you just can't see any other way.
And, yeah, it's necessary for the best medical care we can get nowadays.
But yes, I definitely, I can understand your wife not wanting to go into an MRI tube.
They are definitely claustrophobic and tiny and scary.
AA3LH, this is W3DIB.
I wonder what they do with somebody who just couldn't take it in there.
It's so claustrophobic they couldn't take it.
I wonder what they do.
Did they give them some medicine and knock them out so they lay there unconscious or something?
I wonder what they do about that.
They didn't offer me anything.
They just showed me the tube that they were going to put you in their feet first.
And so they pushed this table, I had no food on it, you know, pushed me in there with their feet first.
And I didn't realize how small it was.
And they got in there, ooh, the thing is small.
And they said, put your arms up.
And they went above my head.
But I don't know, did they give you meds for those people that can't take it?
Do you know?
I don't know.
Do you know what they do with your arm?
I don't, I really don't know.
And I mean, I just did a quick Google of it.
I don't know if they can knock you out because if they need you to cooperate or turn or move or move your arm out of the way or something like that, I think they almost need you conscious.
And then I don't know.
I should just answer the question with I really don't know because maybe the, you know, being unconscious also would affect things in the body that they don't want to affect.
So I, yeah, that's a really good question.
I wish Google had a better answer for it.
But, you know, let's see.
Yeah, let's see.
If someone's claustrophobic, I guess they say, it does say they have a wide bore MRI scanner with a 70 centimeter diameter, which provides more head space and wider openings than the 60 centimeter bore scanner.
So they give you a whole 10 more centimeters on the larger one.
But there's tons of articles about how to minimize your fears of the MRI machine and tips for coping.
So it sounds like I don't think they do knock you out.
AA3LHW3DIV.
AA3LHW3DIV.
AA3Z.
Yeah.
I have it on good authority. They don't knock you out, but they can give you like a, I can't think of the word, Ativan is one of them, I think. But something to, you know, calms you down, makes you less nervous or something. But I think they do that at times. I've heard that. AF3 is that.
They didn't even offer me anything. They just said, crawl on the stables and, you know, don't smash the roast beef or something. I'll push you in here. But yeah.
I didn't, for me, I guess I'm not claustrophobic or the condition I was in Sunday evening or Sunday afternoon, I was not claustrophobic for sure. I survived that. Go ahead, Greg, A30H.
Thanks, Jim. That's awesome. Yeah, I never thought they probably could give you something for the anxiety. That makes total sense. That's probably the easier way to deal with it because then you're just, hey, you don't care.
That would be nice sometimes. I could use that when I'm on an airplane. For some reason, I get on an airplane and I get, it gets my nerves every single time. I gotta like find some way to like either through a breathing exercise or just drown myself in something on my phone so that I can ignore what's going on.
Oh my. I don't have too much more to add. I don't know if, Jim, if you wanted to take it away, I'd turn it over to you. AF3Z, W3DIB.
Very good. Yes, in my profession, I haven't been in one, I don't think, but I've heard a lot of conversations and stuff. So anyway, what did I have? I think I had an ultrasound one time. I don't remember what for.
But it definitely wasn't the MRI tube thing. And they have open MRIs now too. I don't know if there's advantages, disadvantages, or just a lot more money or what.
But there's variations of it. Yeah, what'd you say, 60 or 70 centimeters. Doesn't sound like a whole lot of difference, but a little bit more.
If you've got a long nose, it lets your nose fit in or something. Very interesting. Well, I'm gonna call it quits here. I've gotta get up and moving early.
And I've been sitting here, working with the guitar, trying to learn this classical piece.
And there's one little measure I keep working on, trying to get my fingers to do what they're supposed to do. Hopefully someday they'll figure it out.
So, yep, good to hear you tonight, Leon. I was waiting to hear that charming voice chime in there, and so it was good to hear you come in.
If you'd been over there much longer, I would have popped in on you over there, but you got out too quickly, which is good.
I always told people, you don't have to stay here just till I get back here again.
All right, catch you later. And good to hear you both.
Again, thanks again for hosting tonight, Greg.
A-A-3-L-H, A-F-3-Z.
Sitting here, Jim. We're wasting Joe's money, and he likes that, so we're making Joe happy right now.
All right, 7-3's, guys. Y'all have a nice night. This is A-A-3-L-H.
Thanks, Jim. Thanks, Leon. It's great to hear both your voices as well.
Yeah, I'll say 7-3 as well, and great to talk to you, everybody, and great to get back in here.
Leon, definitely will keep you in my thoughts and prayers and keep thinking about you.
So, this is W-3-DIV, now clear.
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