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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
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Evening. Welcome to the 985 roundtable. This is W3MFB Whiskey 3. Foxtrot. Bravo. Scott, I heard you in there. Hello. I'm the host tonight for tonight's roundtable. We meet here every Thursday evening at 8 o'clock on W3GMS Parksburg repeater. 146.985 megahertz. The PL tone is 100 hertz. And for those using tone squelch... You can use 94.8 hertz. Take a look at the repeater website located at www.w3gmsrepeater.com. Lots of information there about the repeater, the history, its users, antenna projects, you name it. A really neat site. Besides the roundtable, we also host the 985 workbench on Monday evenings at 8 p.m. And we focus on answering technical questions as well as exploring topics related to setting up and operating your station. So everybody's welcome there as well. Occasionally, we, I don't like to talk about it, so I'm knocking the desk, we experience an air mod on the repeater. This will, when it's really bad, weaker stations can be blown out. So we suggest you turn up the power and, see if you're coming in, all right, when you check in, excuse me. If not, you could use EchoLink or All-Star. You're 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 roundtable. discussions are informal, passing the mic around in order of which station calls in. So I suggest you write down who checks in. We usually write them all down, but if you just want to write down who's before you or who's after you, that's important. So you'll be able to turn it over to the next station in line when you finish your comments. one question tonight, maybe two. We'll see you at the second round. But we usually start with a question, discussion starter. You can answer the question if you wish. We'll talk about other subjects. If you have any suggestions or questions about the roundtable, can contact Phil, KC3CIB, or Jim, AF3Z. Both are good on QRZ. to talk. Pause a couple of seconds when you press the push to talk button. It's good etiquette and especially helpful for those on All-Star and EchoLink. When you do click the PTT button, wait a second before starting to talk, we don't want to miss what you have to say first. Uh-oh, my lights just flickered. Go figure the sun's out and we're in Callan Township and the power may go out, but we do have battery backup, so we'll be all right. Also let your mic drop for a second, let up off the PTT every two to three minutes, just for a moment so you don't time out the repeater. And it's also required to have a three minute timer by the FCC. Hold up for a second, W3MFP. 3MFB on battery power, just in case. Um, let's see here, where were we? Hey, you never know. That's why it's good to have a full battery next to your radio, just in case. Um, so yeah, tonight's discussion question is... Do you, all right, yeah, yeah. Tonight's discussion question is what HF nets do you participate in? What HF nets do you participate in, if any? And, or VHF nets, let's just put it that way in case some technicians are not on HF. What HF or VHF nets? And for MRW Whiskey 3 Juliet Alpha Mike W3 November 4, Mike Romeo Whiskey and Whiskey 3, Juliet Alpha Mike. Any other short timers for the 985 round table on All Star or EchoLink, please call W3MFB. Any short timers for the 985 roundtable, whether it be analog or all-star or echo link, please call. 3 station, can you say your call one more time? 3 Delta Zulu Mexico. Thank had everything else, the Delta was, I heard a Bravo. Thank you very much. Any other short timers for the 985 roundtable? The question for tonight is, do you participate in any HF or VHF UHF nets? And what are they besides 9A5? Or you can mention that as well if you want to. Over to November 4, Mike, Romeo Whiskey. Go ahead, W3MFB. W3MFP, here's N4MRW. Unfortunately, right now I don't have any HF capabilities due to my current QTH, which is fine because I'm usually at work. But locally, I do participate in one or two VHF nets down here in the Raleigh area. So I try to get on and on my days off. Cause by the time when I get off work it's a six and I get home at six thirty so I'm usually winding down for the night. Other than that, not too much going on down here. It's just been very hot and humid and next week they're planning, they're looking at supposed to be about a hundred, a hundred and two down here. So it's going to be very hot and feels like a furnace. So I'll send it over to Jeff, W3JAM, here's N4MRW. Alright, very good. 4MRWW3JAM. Fine business all. On the short timers. Go. evening to you, Mike. Thank you for taking the chair this evening. Good night. be on. I don't have, well, I do have HF at the moment, but I don't have HF. I had stood up a capability out in Studio B, out in the barn here, and I've yet to get my off-center fed dipole up. I've been sick for the last couple of weeks, we have extra horse work here at the farm, so the months of April, May, and June have been a little bit hectic with our guests. One of them actually left this past week. I've my workload a little bit, still more than just two senior citizens. and I, on top of it, with all the work and everything, I came down with bad cold and that darn thing's been hanging on close to a month now. Last couple weeks have been getting better this week, but the last couple weeks haven't been that great. So I've been doing a lot radio-wise anyway. nothing on HF. Years ago... Years ago, I was very active on traffic nets. Late 70s and early 80s, I was licensed in 77. So shortly after, I got licensed and earned the general license. I technician originally and worked at the code and finally got the general ticket in July of 77. And right around that time is when I actually got involved with traffic nets. So that was on 75 meters. That was a big part and also VHF, the marked VHF traffic net on Monday, Wednesday and Friday night. used to net control that way back in the early 80s. So that was my thing and that was the net operations. But nothing since. I really haven't been involved in any HF nets. Not even the Magicians net, which gets on Wednesday night on six meters. I'd like to get on that. The guy that runs it's just a few miles beyond me here over in Montgomery County and don't even have six meter capability right now. So anyway, I will get involved with nets on HF again, just nothing in the recent time frame. There you go. When I get my HF capability out here in the barn in Studio B, I'll more than likely resume my skids with my friend down in Maryland, WB3GUS. He and I were licensed at the same time back in 77 and went to high school together and so forth and probably one of the only people I still keep in contact from high school. In fact, he is. So there you go. So VHF nets I am, I do participate in a few. The drive time net on the Philmont machine, the Mark or the Marpleman Newtown morning net. Although I haven't been on in quite a while, just not a good time for me with the extra work and I'm really looking to just get back into the house and do something else. So don't have any capabilities in the house anymore. I decommissioned the ham chef there. Process, I'm in the process of rebuilding it. putting it all back together. It was my temporary shack from the early 2000s. It always meant to be temporary and just kind of got a little bit out of control. And it wasn't really much fun to operate in Studio A. So building it all back, we'll have it back up and running here. Probably not too distant future. So that's the long and short of it. Oh yeah, one other thing. I do operate. On Saturday night I'd like to operate on the Lancaster County Simplex Net. It's really kind of a propagation study from my perspective. I really enjoy seeing what the conditions are like week to week. I'm actually thinking about going mobile for that net. I did one time, but I may do it again. I may start it up again and driving to different locations, different high spots in the area and operating mobile into that net. For example, in the near future, I might drive out to Twin Valley in Morgantown and go out there. It's a pretty nice high spot. And see what I can see on a Saturday night or here, I guess, the case may be. Reconstitute my mobile setup and maybe even bring out my portable stuff, my telescoping mast, and set up a J-Pole or something and see what I can do just to try different things out. have all that stuff laying around from Ares racies from years ago and haven't used it too much in the recent past. So it might be a good application for it on Saturday night. See what I can work, who I can hear, and what's what. Anyway, that's all I have. I will listen out. Thanks again, Mike, for taking the chair. And with that, I will pass it over to K3DZM. I think that's Dylan. Please take it from W3JAM. K3TZM, how you doing everyone? So nets. I actually really do not do a whole lot of nets. VHF, UHF, or HF. In fact, the only nets I ever check into are probably the two on this repeater. The workbench occasionally I will check in. And I try to catch the round table every once in a while. I've checked into nets before on HF, just... when I've been hopping through bands and stuff. I'm not a fan of it. A lot of the nets that get run on HF, they're very stiff and formal and half the time when you're trying to break in, you know, there's a pile up and three people can't hear you and the net operator can't hear you and nobody's actually relaying anything because they're all trying to get in as well. I just don't find the nets to be a very fun part of the hobby. I understand their importance, especially if... something were to happen, like when disasters happen, the nets become really important. But I just, I don't know, I don't like them. I love the 985 nets that we do here. They're a lot less informal, much more friendly, there's much less rigidity for the hobby. But that being said, I do occasionally try to check into an HF net once in a while just for the sake of experience and doing it and learning the process. And if there were... more decent VHF UHF nets around. I probably would check into them if I had the time. I know when I lived in Maryland briefly, I was for a little bit checking into the Racy's repeater that's down there. Or is it the area? I can't remember. It's one or the other. But I didn't know like them either because they kind of took what they were doing way too seriously for hobbyists that were acting as potential reserves. They wanted a lot of strict stuff and like meeting things that I couldn't make up with because I work. mean, you know, lot of the people don't realize that people have lives. And this is hobby. So I come in, I go, it's fun. I like the nets. The round table is what got me started on radio and everything. But for me, I'm more of a QSO guy. I would rather spark up a random QSO or... do a contest or do some digital or just rag show with somebody whether I know them or not. And I don't mind if it's a group but I'm generally just not a fan of the formal nets like the informal nets that we do here and that's why I pretty much spend all my time here. That is it for me so I'm gonna pass it back to I believe net control I don't think anyone checked in after me if I am wrong about that I apologize I'm juggling a lot of stuff over here. K3DZM, I'll be listening out, but I am done for the night. Have a good night, everyone. SW1RC R.C. Mr. Mike, how's it going? Over to you. Yeah, good evening everybody on the round table. I hadn't planned on being a short timer, but I guess I'm gonna be because I got work to do and I won't... I can listen, but I probably won't come back. Nats, let's see. Well, I don't do Nats much anymore. I used to do them once in a great while, but I agree with the last person who was talking. A lot of those guys take themselves far too seriously. Let me reset. I gotta get into this radio software and open up the timer. It's got a timer on it. Time's out. I used to like to check into it on 75 a.m. by the Timtron, WA1H and LR. Joe used to check into that one too. That was a good man. It was funny. It was entertaining. also, you know, there was one here in the Boston area, WA1QWT. Bob used to have a repeater down in Situate, Massachusetts, which is down on the South Shore, and it's across the water from where I live, and I used to get into that. Also, it was kind of a serious net. He was a really funny guy. I used to enjoy him a lot, but that net sort of went away. He did a retake of it a couple of months ago, but I missed it. I was working. my thing with the Nets. prefer one-on-one QSOs, not being part of a large group where you gotta wait your turn and everything. So back to that, seven, three to all. This is W1RC in Marblehead, Massachusetts. RCW 3 MFB in the group always good to hear you Mike and I hope you have a good one. It's good to hear you. Alrighty I guess we're gonna go with anybody that could stick around for the rest of the roundtable. We'll take all star and echo link check-ins. Starting now, this is W3MFB. Whiskey Alpha 3 Victor Echo Echo, WA3VE on All Star for now, but I will be switching to RF later. I WA3VEE on All-Star. Any other digital check-ins for the long-term, for the long haul on the Thursday Night Roundtable, please call. Nothing heard. Any other stations, whether you be analog, digital? For the Thursday night roundtable on W3J, I'm asking for Peter. Please call. W8CRW. NA-3CW. 3GMS 3Z if I didn't wait too long. KC3YSM. 3MFD, see if I got it. I heard a static something there, I don't know what it was. But so far, so far we have round WA3VEE, WACRW, NA3CW, W3GMS, AF3Z, and KC3YSM. Any other check-ins? All-star, echo link, analog, carrier pigeon, that would like to check into the Thursday night roundtable, please call. Didn't quite catch that. Did anybody catch that? Check in if you can increase your power or get to a higher location. We didn't quite hear you, at least I didn't hear on the output of the repeater. again. clear. He's using a wet noodle that's... Band opening happening. Put them down there. Well, hopefully everything goes well on the way on the way down. So w a 3 vee to take it. This is w a 3 mfp Very good. I would take it, however, I have no idea what the question is. I'm run around here trying to do field day stuff. What's the question? No worries. Do you participate in any HF or VHF nets? You can list, obviously, 9A5, but do you participate in any HF or VHF nets? question Mike. W3MFB in a group, WA3VEE, has run around here between feeding kitty cats and doing field day stuff, getting letters out and all that kind of stuff, kind of running around here a little bit, but I am on RF. Anyway, yes, I do participate in a number of nets, obviously the two here. I used to do the Wednesday morning Bruce Kelly Memorial Net. don't have a chance to do that anymore. Things are just very busy. That's on 75 meters. Every once in a while, what I will do is I will check into the e-cars net, and now Southcars. I participate in a number of, a couple VHF, or rather, yeah, VHF nets. One is the Red Rose Welfare Net. I haven't checked into that in a little while because it's just been so busy. That's at quarter to eight every night since COVID and they're up to almost 1,900 now continuous nets night after night, which is wonderful out there. Great group of people. I also participate in the what's called the CARES net, which is the Christiana Aries-Racies net in Delaware run by Good friend of Joe's and mine and others, I'm sure. John D. Giovanni, L3 LUD, great guy. And his son was a frequenter here on 985, and I think it's Don as well. Good friend of Daniel, KC3 FKR. So I like to check in there and I've offered also offered help to John. Joe, you might be interested in this. I offered some help to John, because evidently his rig, and he can't have this for a net control for sure, his rig seems to drift in frequency. It's an FTM 100. I'd never heard one do that before. So he lives in northern Delaware, so whenever he's able to, I'll get down there, and I'm in Delaware, which is not too infrequent, as you guys know. I'll stop by and see just what's going on briefly with that rig. The other net I do is the first state amateur radio club. is the first, it was just on last night, that's the first and third Wednesdays of every month. And there's probably a couple more I'm forgetting, but nonetheless, I used to do the six meter nets with the Potsdam amateur radio group on Wednesday nights, but since my six meter stuff is down right now, that's why I'm ordering coax, I haven't done that, so. That's about it, Mike. I don't know who follows me. I didn't hear it, but nonetheless, like I said, very busy here tonight. Very rare for me not to sit here at the console during a roundtable or a workbench, but just wanted to make sure I got some things done to report on for our field day Zoom call tomorrow night. So let me turn it back to you. Rare occasion. W3MFBWA3VE. head is I probably timed it out but go ahead and pick it up W3MFB WA3VEE whoever is next. Thanks, Ron. WHCRW here. Do I have it? Pretty good. Mike, thanks for taking the chair tonight. You're on battery power, I'm on battery power. Pico's done its thing again. It's been three hours plus now. Anyway, NETS. I used to participate in the Maine Potato NET, but I haven't done that in a while. Lately, there's a on Sunday nights in Salem, New Jersey. 3967, first and third Sundays of the month, around 9 o'clock. And additionally, there's a BHF net there, 146625, which is followed by UHF net 445.31875 on C4FM. And after that, there's the Saturday... Simplex net and the red rose nets on Monday through Sunday, 745. With that, Chuck, pick it up. NA3CW, WHCRW. Very good. WHCRW and A3CW. We got quite a band opening. I think it's the Maryland repeater. They're like half scale here. Nets, there is, aside from the two on 985, there is one and only one net that I get on. Generally, that's about all the operating I'm doing lately, is the Antique Wireless Association PMAM net. It meets on Sunday afternoons. of course it's AM and I enjoy AM. I used to do very large AM back some years ago at the 100 kilowatt level. But I do considerably less power now. I run about 150 watts carrier and modulate pretty well. And it's a bunch of mostly old guys. between here and Maine. Most of them are concentrated up toward that end, a couple in New Jersey, and Joe and myself. And I run the pre-net and Joe runs the net. And they're a good bunch of guys, primarily technical people, and we can have interesting conversations and they're good natured as well. So that's my nets. So. Over to himself, W3GMS, NA-3CW. from the dining room. No, I wasn't eating. I was putting an envelope with the money in for you that I want to give you tomorrow, the $100 from Martha. We had another gentleman contribute 20 bucks and we had a book sale, so we got five bucks. So that's for you, Ron, tomorrow. Anyway, very good. Mike, thank you very much for sitting in the captain's chair and doing. doing the deed tonight and having a battery back up there so you're operating off of a battery. Excellent. storms were down your way, they were, I've seen a lot worse here, but we had a lot of rain for kind of a short period of time. Didn't seem like the winds were that excessive, but it all depends where you were. We did have the lights flicker enough to knock the computer out and the HVAC system had to reboot and things like that. We probably had eight power interruptions. They were very short periods of time, well under a second. So that's that. Now that's... generally not a net person, but I don't consider what we're doing now really a net, and that's why we call it a round table. It's just a rag chew among friends, and that's different than a traditional official net. But I did have one official net that I operated in as a novice back in 1966, and it really, really helped my CW speed. Down on the 80 meter portion, of the Navas band on a frequency of 37.39, which was one of my crystal frequencies, because we weren't allowed VFOs. Everybody had to be crystal controlled back then if they were Navas. We had the Eastern Area Slow Net, EASN, and it was a CW net, and we passed traffic. So I'm not sure how many stations do traffic handling these days, but back then it was a pretty popular thing. So for those not familiar with traffic handling, say somebody in California wanted to wish a happy birthday to somebody in Pennsylvania. So through the various CW traffic nets, the message would get passed and then repassed and then passed again, and automatically it would land kind of close to the recipient. So ARL has certain forms, they were the traffic forms, and you filled them out and you had to count the number of characters, I think, or count the words or something, I forget. I they called that the check. And that's that, so it was all on CW. And I used to come home from school, get rid of my books right away. and get on the Eastern area slow net. It was only once a week, but it must have done pretty good because one of the old timers said, hey, we'd like you to be net controlled of that. So I was net controlled of the EASN. And I think that was the single most thing that really helped me. Not only did the CW have to be accurate, but some of it was fast or faster, even though it was called a slow net, well, well beyond the novice. speed range. So that was the first net. Okay, and then I don't think I really had too many nets that I participated in at all except for the Antique Wireless Association PM AM net. And that happens, as Chuck said, every Sunday we now get on at 6.30. Chuck runs the pre-net show for me from 6 to 6.30 and it's just It's not an official net. Well, it is called a net. So guess it's official. But it's just like this. And we have a round one and we have a halftime report between round one and round two, in which I comment high level wise on what people say. And then we have round two and everybody goes on their way till the next time. So it's a casual, very, very laid back type thing. And it's fun to run. I guess I've been doing that for maybe 10 years now, 12 years, something like that. And finally, the last one, I was very, very good friends, almost like an adopted son to Jim, W3AOA. and his wife never had any children. I met Jim when I was in my early 20s up at the campground. The George, WA3LVR, and George's dad ran north of Coatesville called Beachwood Campground. so, make a long story short, we were really, really good friends. Jim made it up until maybe 96 and due to an accident, succumbed to that, not initially. And before he passed, I told him that I would continue to run the W3 AOA net. And here again, it wasn't a traffic net, it wasn't anything, it was just a rag chew session every Saturday morning and that was that. So I've continued to do that since his passing. called now the W3 AOA Memorial Net. And every Saturday morning at 8.45 down on 37.18, we get four or five check-ins and just have a really good time. So that's that. My favorite operating, other than doing those special things, which I call very informal gatherings, is getting on and just calling CQ. I call it going fishing. And that's my favorite style within the hobby. A-B correction AF3Z W3GMS. Okay, thank you Joe, AF3Z here. Talking about the storms. Being out in the western part of the country here, it came through here, I don't know, quite a long time ago, it's fairly brief and not too bad, so no flickers or anything here. And I forget if I said it, but this is AF3Z here. Yeah, I'm not a big net person myself like a other people here. Back in the day, which would have been around 1980 plus or minus, when I got back into the hobby at that point, I did do some CW traffic handling. And I don't remember, PTTN was one of the nets, think, back then, Pennsylvania Traffic and Training Net. And you learned how to do traffic handling by signing into the net and somebody else was assigned to send you messages in the official format and all that. And the messages told you about information on handling traffic. That was kind of fun. K3EIP from Lancaster was the guy who sent the messages to me. But then eventually I got out of that and I haven't gotten back into it for quite a few years. My main nets are also quite informal. We use the term net loosely. Tuesday night and they're both CW. and rag chew types. The first one has kind of a funny name. It's called the lion, which stands for Lebanon and we cover more than Lebanon. But anyway, Lebanon, iambic as an iambic king. Now at that time, a bunch of people just did a straight key. Lebanon iambic octo-gen-ta, octo-gen-ta, which is sort of a Latin word for 80 because we were on 80 meters then. So the Lebanon iambic octo-gen-ta. We still call ourselves Lion but now we're on 10 meters. Most of us are using Iambic ears now. There's only two or three of us. And that also then spawned a young net, it's a lion that got nicknamed Cub and those letters don't stand anything but just for young lion cubs I guess. So now on Tuesday nights at 6.30 the Cub net meets with a couple people or so. and then at 715 the Lion Net. And Cub runs around 15 to 18 words a minute or something like that. And the Lion we run around 25 to 28 words a minute. So anyway, those are my main nets, those two CW groups. Kind like Joe was saying, they're more informal groups. We don't do official call in. process and everything, very informal. So, I'm looking at my list. Oh yes, Steve, think it is KC3YSMAF3Z. ISM W3MFB there. I'm going to try to speak but I'm getting just all static. This is KC3. Gotcha, yeah, there's a band opening so if you can increase your power, but I do have you back to you Steve. Thanks Mike. KC3YSM and the group, good evening everybody. Let's see nets. Well, Joe, I guess you popped my bubble. The only net I'm really on is 985. I have participated in the C-CAR net in Chester County, local. That's about it. have a sample of I for me. what they're all about and all that. Yeah, you know, Steve, you live really close. Yeah, you're right, two miles away. And yeah, I keep a BioEnno 30 amp hour battery. I just charged it the other day. you take any chances. Leon, if you're still there buddy, AA3LH, you are a tail gunner. If you're there, I hope he's there. Come on down. AA3LH, W3MFB in the Thursday Night Roundtable. Mike, W3GMS, think Leon, last I talked to him, he was having difficulties with his two meter station. I don't know if it was an antenna problem or a rig problem or whatever. I believe the only thing he has to operate two meters now is an HT and a rubber duck. And the past several weeks he's been checking in on W3GMS. Hey Joe, thanks for the information. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, I thought he got on, him and Gene got on Echo Link before. That's why I was wondering if maybe he'd be there. So hopefully we'll hear from him. I guess I'll answer the question for myself. And Chuck, you're right, band opening, I just got on, obviously we're hearing stuff, but on VHF. dxview.org and the packets that go on. And yeah, there's a big blob of yellow all over Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland. Yeah, so definitely pretty cool. So if you're on HDTV and you want to get more channels, try scanning now, as my buddy Mark, KB3HIY used to tell me. But anyway, yeah, HF nets or VHF nets, because besides... Occasionally I'll check in the EOC's net prior to the roundtable every once in a blue, say hi to Fred and Frank, N3FLL, and then on my way. Let's see here. I used to check into the six meter sideband net and AM net on Wednesdays. But I don't have the antenna up like Ron. don't have my antenna up right now, so that's not going to happen. HF nets, I participate in checking in on the e-cars on the weekend. And also sometimes on the weekend, the activity group net, propagation net, starting on 17 meters. They move their way through 17, 15, 12, and then 10 meter. And they're all informal, which I like, just like here. well, except for EOC, that's kind of stuffy. But they're HF nets, pretty much, pretty informal. Sometimes I'll check into the old mist net on 40 meters. I think it's roughly around 7183 or 7184. They were on E4 last night. work all states kind of group and that's always fun. You always get confirmations on QRZ and if you're looking for a state out there you haven't worked yet maybe they're on maybe you can work them get a signal report and a 7-3 so that's always nice and then sometimes I'll listen to 3919 the friendly 30 to 11 ish. just kind of listen in the background. Sometimes I'll check in, ask a question, see how somebody is. But if for me, any other check-ins for the Thursday night roundtable? 6985 Brown Table, any other check in? KC300. Kilo Delta 3, Echo Mike Sierra. and three, C-R-E. I got Bill, KC3OOK, KD3EMS, and N3CRE. Bill, the questions for tonight is any HF or VHF nets you participate in. Over to Bill, KC3OOK, W3MFB in the group. W3MFB, KC300K, good evening everyone. didn't hear the whole thing. when you use to the question. I participate, I guess, a number. table. And... And that's Well, I still have my theater. And I'll... Chris. here it goes over to Charles N3CRE W3MFB in the group. Theresa, you here? Charlie? the workbench. here on 98. and I wish to check into the 985 roundtable. Nothing heard. Ron, if you're still there. Ron, Ron. W-A-3-V-E-E-W-3-M-F-B. very good Mikey I'm still here still running around like crazy. W3MFB internet WA3VE there was one other net I how I could forget this one but on Sunday night at 8 o'clock there's a St. Maximilian Colby net and I check into that that is run by a fellow by name of Lloyd Roach K3QNT and Lloyd used to run used to be CEO of WCOJ here in Westchester. He is now living out in Bedford, Pennsylvania, out along the turnpike out there towards Somerset on the way to Pittsburgh. And that's a pretty cool net. it runs about a half an hour, and that's usually pretty good. So that's a lot of fun. Again, that's on HF, that's on 40 meters on Sunday night. The only problem I have with that net is not the net, but the frequency. It's 7241, and at 7242 there's a broadcast station. So you get a really nice kilohertz beat on that. So it's a little annoying to listen to, but not much I could do about that. But anyway, I'm going to say 7-3 and get out of here. I've got some more things to do. Got to get to bed, take care of some things here in the morning so I can be at the breakfast. and uh... joshua will be up to feel they site for a while tomorrow morning i would like to video the uh... coaxed off so uh... let's see let's see how that goes anyway uh... let's see again i do not know who it goes to so basically i'll turn it back to you mike i am probably the most busy i've ever been doing a during a roundtable session here every three mfb to take a w a three v e seven three everybody have a good night Say a prayer and hydrate. Don't forget to get some H2O in you. Turns over to W8CRW, W3MFT. Good Mike, still here. Batteries are holding strong, down to 90%. And it appears that this is going to be an all-nighter. And no HF for me for a while. It's one of the trees that came down, brought my HF antenna with it. So I have some wood cutting to do over the weekend. With that, Chuck, pick it up. And I'm going to say 73, guys. I will see you at the breakfast in the parking lot in the morning. Pick it up, Chuck. NA-3CW. Thanks, CR. WHCRW and A3CW. Yeah, as everybody's been talking, I have been in the shack here or the garage. I have an HTA out there. And just getting things together for tomorrow. I made a little monstrosity of a fixture to help with the coax cable assembly. It's basically just a block of oak. hole in it for cramming that ferrule under the shield. And it's an inch thick and that's about how much you want to. So that kind of gives you a quickie gauge. And I bought a 17 millimeter end wrench. and had to grind it down narrow so it would fit in the connectors. And so it sticks up as if you're holding a fork vertically and had a hot dog on it. This will act as a holder for the barrel of the connector. So when it comes to assembly and tightening it, it'll hold it there and prevent it from rotating and hold it steady while we use a wrench to tighten up the back nut. So I got that in my bag now. So I'm hoping that'll move things along a little bit tomorrow. Just scaring up extra solder and just fill the butane, soldering iron, et cetera, et cetera. I'm going to be bringing a little table and... I'll have an extension cord and a strip and whatnot as needed for whatever is needed. Same as I did last time. I'm just not going to bring the sawhorses and the boards since I'll actually bring a little plastic table and a chair. I'm trying to think what else. So anybody that's interested, I'll show you my little fixture. Like I said, it... The paddy says it kind of looks like a zombie wrench trying to reach up out of the grave. It's just this stub of a wrench epoxied into this oak block. So I'll bring my epoxy, I mean my zombie wrench fixture. Yeah, so just milling around here getting stuff loaded in the car since I'll be leaving directly from breakfast to go up to the site. So I have to have everything loaded basically tonight. So 73 to everybody, I'll listen out. And over to Joe. W3GMS and A3CW. Hey, very good. NA-3CW in the group. W3GMS. Chuck, I can bring my little vice. I think you saw it up there. It's just like yours except that the base is not as big a diameter. I don't have to bring it, but would it be any value or not necessary? I don't really think it's necessary with this fixture. I don't think we used mine when it was up there. least I didn't use it for the connectors that I was doing. So, I mean, I'll have mine in the car anyway. yeah, in your case, make sure you have, if you will, my cable cutters. And you're gonna bring the bird meters and the dummy load. I have jumper cables. I'll be bringing the 710 at a power supply and its microphone and such what not. So I'll be able to do the throughput testing. And unless he's taken it home, Ron's analyzer is still up there. And it's slug, again, unless he took it home. So that's the low down, NH-3CW. Very good, thank you Mike for letting us have that one-on-one dialogue. Very good, I won't bring my little boys. I believe all the other stuff at Ron's is still there. And by the end of the session tomorrow, he'll be able to take all the stuff home. And we deeply appreciate the loan of that. So that's great. We have your pliers in the vehicle. I have both bird watt meters with the 250 watt slug along with the bird 50 ohm dummy load in the vehicle. I have the bucket for the door prize, but I have no door prize yet. The plan is stop at Home Depot and get a door prize. I just haven't had a chance. So I'll have leave a little bit earlier. Martha will be right there. I can say it. Martha will be bringing her car tomorrow because... She is not going to the field day site. She's no need to it. So she's coming home. So that's that. And very good. I set out an agenda for those that can make it tomorrow after the breakfast up to the site. To try to focus on what we would like to get done. And I'm anticipating a certain size group and I don't think there's any problem at all. We need that 200. some foot rule. I think you have one of those Chuck so that'll be good. you know, take a look at the agenda. It sent to all the people that says they're gonna operate field day. So that's that on that. Anything else? Try to think if there's anything else. As I said, I've just been loading the car so I don't have all heckness and forget it in the morning. So, Mike, thank you for running the show tonight and sitting in the captain's chair. You've done a very nice job. looking forward to seeing all those that can make the breakfast tomorrow and looking forward to seeing those that can make it up to the field day site. So, over to Jim. We're gonna talk about sailing tomorrow morning. And I believe Bob will be there, high probability Bob and 2HM will be there. And we're going to talk about the next sale. AF3Z, 73 AW3 GMS, now clear. Right, AF3Z here. And the sailing sounds good. All my sailing lately has been... I must be getting old. Anyway, my sailing has been watching it on YouTube. It's a very neat YouTube videos from Alaska that who knows where. So anyway, very good on that. yeah, I don't know how much I've been doing mainly audio work here, audio frequencies created by my guitar. So I've been listening, I've been playing the guitar. And my grand dog is here for another couple days. For the longest time she was barking like crazy out here. I had the door shut. last time I went out she looked very guilty and I left the door open and she hasn't barked since. So I don't know what that's all about. That's also audio frequency transmission from her. So that's about it here. So I will keep it moving. KC3YSMAF3Z. Thank you, Jim. AF3Z, this is KC3YSM and the group. Chuck, it sounds like you've got things pretty well organized for tomorrow. make good time with getting these connections. is there after. to seeing everybody at breakfast tomorrow. guess that's all from Downing Town here. So Mike, I'm not sure if Leon is with us or not. AA3LH, I'll turn it over to Leon or Mike. Back to you, W3MFB. This is KC3YSM, clear 73, everybody. I he's there, W3MFB. So over to Bill, KC3OOK, W3MFB and the Thursday night roundtable. 23MFB KC30K thanks Mike. thinking how nice it is right now. details but I had a pretty rough day and it was beautiful evening after the rain. So I'm sitting here really enjoying it here. that Bob will be there. Did hear you say that right Joe, that he'll be there tomorrow? My small table is still up there. day. KB3EMF. EMSW3MFB. Yes sir, I checked in late, was just asking if there was another question or I'm assuming... or anything like that. Any other final comments or whatever you want to talk about and then you could pass it over to Charlie when you're done. M3 CRE, but yeah, over to KD3 EMS. Very good. Yeah, so I had planned on hopefully meeting people tomorrow at the breakfast since I have not been able to get any since I got my tech license. But unfortunately, a couple of things. me to have. That was the intention, but I am definitely planning on. that out would be the first one I ever seen so I'm just trying to information and see what these things are and... for a good time. I will pass off to Charlie here. I will be a say 73 to everybody. KD3 EMS. Peace CRA W3MFB Yes, she's gone. Yeah, final comments from me. Not too much else going on. Happy Friday, everybody. Enjoy the breakfast. Can't make it, unfortunately, but one of these days I will. And all the field day prep going on. Congratulations and thank you for all the field day prep. And don't forget to stay tuned for Monday. I'm not sure who's hosting, but we'll be having our workbench at 8 o'clock Monday night on 146.985. And I'll say 7-3 to all. Thanks for all the check-ins. Looks like we got 14. We do have a text check-in, and that was Barry, KD3X. And he participates in the 6-meter sideband net and then the e-cars. and the propagation net as well. He's the one that got me onto that propagation net that starts on 17 meters. I think it's 18, 150, 75. I forget the time, because I'm never there during the day, unless it's the weekend and I gotta look up the time. It's usually in the later morning, afternoon. But yeah, he checked in via text. I don't know if that counts, but either way, I'm saying it anyway. But yeah, great to hear everybody and looks like Chris, he's pretty much a new ham for this month. So that's awesome. That's awesome. Great to have you here. And sorry you can't make it, you know, work sometimes gets in the way. I know, trust me. So that concludes the 95 round table and everybody have a good weekend. Stay cool, stay hydrated. It should be a hot one this weekend. So take it easy if you're doing any outside work. And 73, this is Whiskey 3, Mike Foxtrot, Bravo, closing the Thursday night roundtable, returning the repeater to regular amateur radio use. Take care, guys. Bye bye.