W3GMS Thursday Night Roundtable

On this Halloween-week edition of the W3GMS 146.985 Roundtable, the crew dives into a surprisingly passionate discussion about everyone’s favorite childhood candy — and how our tastes have (or haven’t) changed over the years. From Reese’s supremacy to Scandinavian salted licorice, the takes get bold.

Along the way, operators share updates from the shack and beyond:

• BIOS battles and Linux wizardry

• New antennas in attics

• DX catches, POTA/SOTA activations, and 7-watt 1929 transmitters

• Plans to open the Field Day site for regular HF ops

• Winter Field Day prep, N1MM testing, and repeater housekeeping

• Plus: dogs blocking shacks, bricked PCs resurrected, and a 3D printer buzzing in the background

A fun, relaxed, candy-fueled net with great stories, technical discoveries, and lots of laughter. Perfect listening for anyone who loves ham radio, Halloween, or hearing grown adults debate licorice like it’s a contact sport.

What is W3GMS Thursday Night Roundtable?

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

Thank you.

Welcome to the 985 Roundtable.

I'm Greg, located in Kennett Square, the host for tonight's roundtable.

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So, that takes us to tonight's question for discussion.

Since we are very close to Halloween, I would like to know what your favorite type of candy is.

And it doesn't have to just be candy.

It can be a favorite type of chocolate, favorite type of anything you might have put into your jack-o'-lantern or pillow sack

or whatever you used to get your Halloween candy in when you trick-or-treated as a kid.

Or it can be your favorite candy now.

But what is your favorite candy?

That would be tonight's question for discussion.

Or feel free just to speak about your week in the ham radio thus far.

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K-N-3-I.

So, KB-3, Z-UV, short-timer via Echolink.

That's KB-3, Zulu, uniformed Victor, Adam in Romansville.

Okay.

For the digital stations checking in via Echolink and All-Star, so far, I have KM-3I, John, and KB-3, Z-UV, Adam.

This is for the short-time check-in list.

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KV3BWL, right in action, sure, promise.

Okay, looks like we only had one more, so we've got KN3I, John, KV3ZUV, Adam,

KD, Kilo Delta 3, Bravo Whiskey Lima, Frank and Exton.

Do I have that right, Frank?

You do, Greg, that is correct.

Okay, so tonight's question, if you'd like to answer it, what is your favorite type of candy,

or what was your favorite type of candy to receive when you went trick-or-treating when you were a kid?

On Halloween.

KN3I, John, this is W3DIB on the Thursday Night Roundtable.

W3DIB, KN3I.

Good evening, everybody.

I don't know, happy Halloween, I guess.

And thanks for doing the net control.

And my favorite candy when I was a kid, hmm.

I don't know, I think I liked Hershey Almond Bars.

It's probably a pretty good haul if I got those.

But it's a tough decision to make.

Today, I like Ritter hazelnut.

I think it's hazelnut.

It's a Swiss or German chocolate, I think.

It's pretty good stuff.

And I've been working forever on a Icom 746, the second one, trying to get it going.

And 746 Pro.

So at this point, I'm printing out all the schematic diagrams because they're too tiny to read.

And they're massive.

And I'm generating these huge things and taping them together and then tracing them out.

So I can understand what's going on inside there.

And that's about it.

Doing a whole bunch of other stuff.

Not ham radio.

Fixing things in the house.

Plumbing and refrigerator.

Water feed for the ice maker.

And all kinds of fun stuff like that.

So, let me turn it over to Adam.

KV3ZUV.

This is KN3I.

Okay, John.

Good evening.

KN3I.

This is KV3ZUV.

Adam.

Yeah, and again, here in Romansville on the round table.

And good evening as well to Greg.

Thanks for taking the chair.

Pretty good pre-ramble there, Greg.

Sounds like you're getting well-practiced with that.

Some very, very professional.

You've been practicing.

Halloween is going to be pretty action-packed.

I mean, honestly, anymore for kids these days, Halloween is pretty much all of October.

We've already been doing it for two weekends.

And tomorrow is sort of the crescendo.

And then I like to pretend that, you know, we go from Halloween to Thanksgiving.

Although, realistically, I think all the stores Saturday and Sunday are going to be putting up their Christmas decorations.

They kind of skip over Thanksgiving because there's not as much that gets sold for Thanksgiving that's seasonal.

They try.

But, you know, I think a lot of people are going to get a head start on their Christmas shopping in November.

But, yeah, it's been parties now for a good two weeks solid on the weekends.

And I think there's going to be more Halloween.

There's going to be more parties on Saturday, even though it's November 1st.

I know there are some classmates that want to do stuff for the kids.

So the kids really like October.

You know, it kind of starts.

Both of my girls have early October birthdays.

They were born three years apart in early October.

So they really enjoy this.

This is sort of like their happiest time of the year.

Although Christmas is going to be pretty good this year, too.

We have some nice travel plans for the holidays.

As far as candy, yeah, my taste in candy have changed quite a bit over the years.

This is going to be a pretty unpopular answer.

But I actually, I'm kind of in a black licorice phase.

I actually have decided I really like black licorice.

I feel like when I was a kid, I kind of didn't appreciate it enough.

And I think maybe that's just a candy flavor that maybe now that I'm middle-aged, I appreciate a lot more.

I especially like some of the imported black licorice from Scandinavia.

They sell salted black licorice from Sweden.

There's a Swedish candy store in downtown Lancaster that I stocked up on a few months ago.

And some of the salted licorice is salted with sodium chloride and some of the salted licorice is salted with ammonium chloride, which has a very unique flavor to it.

So I would say that's my current preferred candy.

And the other thing is that Rachel and the girls all absolutely loathe black licorice and especially salted black licorice.

So I know if I get it, it's not going to get stolen.

Whereas if I buy chocolate or if I buy fruit-flavored candies, which I do enjoy Starburst and Skittles, that's prone to be in pilfered by my wife and kids.

Whereas the black licorice, no one is.

People leave that alone.

So I have it in the back of my head that if I stock up on it, I know that I'm going to be the only person that eats it.

So that's another reason I appreciate black licorice a lot more now than I used to.

But yeah, chocolate is good too.

I especially like dark chocolate.

Some of the really gourmet dark chocolates from Switzerland, some of those are really good.

Aldi's seems to have a, if you go to the new Aldi's in Thorndale, which has only been there for a couple of years, they tend to have really good prices on dark chocolate.

And it's pretty high quality.

Although, you know, black licorice is pretty easy to find as well.

So yeah, that's my current candy preference.

I hope everyone has a happy Halloween for those who observe.

And we'll catch all of you on this roundtable next weekend around as we head into November.

We'll say 7-3 and we'll send it over to a Kilo Delta 3 call.

I guess, yeah, we're in the Kilo Delta 3 then.

I think it was KD3.

I think it was BWL.

Frank, nice to hear you on here.

Don't think we've chatted before.

But take it away from KB3's IDB 73.

Clear.

Good night.

I guess my favorite candy, even as a kid and still is now, is the very popular Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

Really can't get enough of those, even today.

As far as this week is concerned, I installed a Diamond X-30 antenna in my attic.

That's what I'm using now.

So that was an interesting exercise.

I also was reminded about how all of the holidays are all kind of mixing together.

people even call it hollow thanksmas.

Much to my chagrin.

And I was reminded of one thing that my brother did when we were very young when we went out trick-or-treating.

One year, my brother actually went out as Santa Claus.

So even back then, I'm sure we weren't thinking about mashing holidays together.

But he decided one year he wanted to go out as Santa Claus.

So I thought that was interesting.

Okay.

That's about it.

What I have for myself tonight.

And I wish everybody a great Halloween.

Hope everybody is safe.

And the kids are all safe as they make their way around.

So 73, everyone.

So I will turn it back to Greg.

W3DIV.

This is KB3DWL.

73, everybody.

All right.

Little pause for the cause.

I've got some notes here and I'll do some comments.

But before I do, is there any other stations, digital or RF, that would like to check in on the short time check-in list?

Please call now.

Thank you.

Okay.

Nothing heard.

So, yeah.

I've got some notes here.

John, I have to agree.

I liked those Hershey Almond Bars as a kid, too.

I don't know why.

There was just something nice about the crunch of the almond inside of the milk chocolate.

And those were delicious.

I'm going to definitely have to look up the Ritter Hazelnut Bars because having been to Belgium, I have brought back Belgian chocolate.

And it is good.

European chocolate in general is really good, especially because some of the darker chocolates are more bitter.

But they somehow managed to have that bite of a bitter dark chocolate without it being kind of too obnoxious and in your face.

And it kind of has like a mellowness to it.

A mellowness to it.

So, good luck with your ICOM 746.

I hope you're able to find out what's going on with it.

And, yeah, schematics are scary.

I'm surprised you want to print them out versus zooming them on the computer.

There is board repair software out there that I need to look up and send you.

Let me see here.

Ah, yes.

It's called Flex Board View or Flex BV.

And it's by a guy named Paul Daniels.

And his website is pldaniels.com.

So, Papa, Lima, Delta, Alpha, November, India, Echo, Lima, Sierra, dot com.

And depending on the type of schematic you have, it's very good at showing you what is connected to what.

Like you can click on a point in your schematic.

And it will aid you with tracing where you might have to do it on paper manually with a, you know, ruler.

Like drawing it out with a pen.

This is really good for being able to kind of capture that stuff on, in the computer and use the power of the computer to do it.

So, I'm sorry.

I'm starting to ramble.

But all the guys that repair laptops, like Louis Rossman, who has a YouTube channel, I know they use that software to look at their schematics and trace them.

So, good luck with the other home projects.

Adam, it's really good to hear from you.

And, yes, I can imagine Mocktober is probably full of Halloween celebrations in school and friends having parties at houses and kids going here and going there.

And I, too, was weird even as a kid.

I loved black licorice then.

I still like it.

I like all kinds of licorice.

I am even weird that I like red vines.

And I know red vines is very polarizing.

It's the kind of licorice you either love it or you hate it on first hits.

I'll definitely have to check out the Scandinavian stuff.

I'll have to find out where you get that.

I think you said somewhere around here.

You didn't say Romansville.

You said some is salted with regular sodium chloride and other with ammonium chloride and it changes.

In my notes I wrote NACL and in my head I thought Chuck because it's very close to NA3CW.

I don't know why.

Anyway, brains work weird like that.

Frank, glad to have you with us.

And, yeah, the X30 antenna in the attic sounds like it's working very well.

You're getting in because I think you remember before you were just using a small HT like a Balfang or something with the regular rubber duck.

And I'm guessing you're probably now just sending the Balfang into the X30.

But your signal definitely is a lot stronger.

So congrats.

Job well done on that.

And, yes, same peanut butter cups, Reese's are...

I can't get enough of them either.

They are the kind of candy that you just can't stop.

And the next thing you know you've eaten ten of them and you're like, oh, I've got to stop eating these.

All right.

I'm going on.

Sorry.

We can switch over now to the regular check-in list for those that can stick around a little longer.

So, let's start off with the digital stations using Echolink or All Star.

So anyone for the regular check-in list using digital, please call now.

Whiskey 8, Charlie Romeo Whiskey.

Hello, Charlie 3, Sierra, Quebec, India.

Hello, Charlie 3.

Sierra, Quebec, India.

All right.

On the regular check-in list for digital so far, we have W8CRWCR, KC3SQI, Wayne.

Now we'll switch over to the RF stations.

And any digital stations left that would like to come in.

Please call now.

All RF stations for the regular check-in list.

Please call now.

Whiskey Alpha 3, Victor Echo Echo, WA3, VEE.

Three, GMS.

King, Fox, Tango, WA3, KFT.

Charlie 3, Lima Alpha, Victor.

Kilo, Charlie 3, Oscar, Oscar, Kilo.

Kilo, Delta 3, Bravo, Papa, India.

That's KD3, BPI.

Alpha, Foxtrot 3, Zulu.

Okay.

So far, I'm going to go through the list here.

I might pause on one call because I'm not sure I caught it perfectly.

So, at the top we have W8, CRW, CR.

KC3, SQI, Wayne.

WA3, VEE, Ron.

W3, GMS, Joe.

WA3, KFT, John.

And then this is what I'm not sure about.

Kilo, Charlie, 3.

Lima, Alpha, Victor.

Mike, uh...

Wait a minute.

Yeah.

Michael?

Is that the correct call?

Probably, uh, it's not a regular call.

It might be a first call.

KC3LAV.

This is Mike of Warwick Township, Lancaster County at the bottom of the hill.

Katie, back to you.

Got it.

See, goodbye, Mike.

And I definitely got the call right.

Correct?

KC3LAV.

We're clear, standing by.

Excellent.

So then after Mike, we have KC3OOK, Bill.

Then over to KD, Kilo Delta 3, Bravo Papa India, Simon.

Then over to AF3Z, Jim.

You are our tail gunner.

Are there any other stations that would like to check in for the regular check in list?

Please call now.

Okay.

Nothing heard.

Okay.

Nothing heard.

So, if you don't remember the question, I just threw a question out about what is your favorite candy.

It can be your favorite candy from when you were a kid.

It could be your favorite candy now.

It can be how your tastes have changed.

Because we've got some good answers.

W-HCRW, this is W3DIB on the Thursday Night Roundtable Halloween Edition.

Good evening all.

Thank you, Greg, for taking the net.

And let's see.

Well, my taste in Halloween candy has been the same since I was a youth and still that way today.

When I was a youth and you could score a Hershey bar or a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup at one of the trick-or-treat locations, that was a good deal.

And even today, I still like a Hershey bar or a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

And since I'm cheap, Saturday I'll be heading to Walmart to pick up some Halloween candy at a discount.

With that, let's go to Wayne.

KC3SQIWHCRW.

Okay.

Thank you, CRWHCRW.

This is KC3SQI.

I'm on Echo Link tonight because my dog was at a doctor's appointment in the rain today.

And she is not letting me go down the stairs to the ham shack.

Therefore, I'm on Echo Link because she's laying on my feet.

So, my favorite candies were caramels or red licorice or red licorice laces.

And that's pretty much the same today.

So, with that, I will turn it over to Ron, WA3VEE.

This is KC3SQI.

Good, Wayne.

Thank you very much.

KC3SQI and the group WA3VEE.

Very good.

And, Greg, thanks for doing the hosting tonight.

And a good quality chocolate bar.

Yeah.

The Hershey's would work.

Hershey's with almonds, like John said from the very beginning, that would definitely work for sure.

So, unfortunately, we're not giving any of those out tomorrow night here in the neighborhood.

Different topic.

You probably saw on an email that I coordinated with Joe a little bit to be what's called a field day site coordinator.

And this is everything except field days.

What I'll be doing is, you'll be hearing more about this in emails.

So, please check your emails regularly from Joe.

Anyone who wants to come up to the field day site to operate, either on an off contest weekend or a contest weekend or whatever, just for a couple hours, I will be announcing when I will be up there to actually operate.

And people can join me.

If it's a contest weekend, we are limited in a number of, first of all, one by one call size, special call size, like we use Whiskey 3 Romeo.

We are somewhat limited, or everybody's limited in how many times you can use that over a year's time.

So, if it's a contest, you'll probably end up using my call sign.

However, if you are a tech and you want to operate 10 meters, for instance, HF, between 28.3 and 28.5, guess what?

You can use your call sign.

So, this gives the folks with HOAs and restricted capabilities standby, an opportunity to actually get up there and operate and actually do some really good things.

For instance, this past weekend I worked 48 countries here from the station in Westchester.

And that wasn't nearly as many as I worked last year on the CQ Worldwide DX single sideband, in other words, phone contest.

It's a great contest.

We're countries like San Marino, Montserrat, Gibraltar was on.

The countries you just never hear.

The Vatican was even on in the morning.

And you have the regulars like Brazil, Italy, England, and all those.

But still, this gives everyone an opportunity to actually operate.

So, you'll be hearing more about that in the coming months.

So, I just thought I would throw that out there.

So, again, a good chocolate bar.

Absolutely.

So, Joe, what's your favorite?

W3 GMS.

WA3 VEE.

WA3 Victor Echo Echo.

This is W3 GMS in Urseldon, Pennsylvania.

Well, Ron, I like any candy that is doused with hot peppers.

So, any hot pepper candy is good.

Now, I'm not aware of any candy you can buy that's integrated with hot peppers.

But I always can create some due to the good graces of CR's wife, who keeps me well supplied with hot peppers.

Now, seriously, we'll give a serious note.

I, somebody mentioned licorice.

I forget several folks.

I have always liked licorice.

But I, for whatever reason, I haven't had good licorice in probably 20 years.

No real reason.

But it just seems like the way it is.

But for Halloween, I like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

That's by far my favorite candy.

A good backup to that, excuse me, would be a Hershey bar.

I like Hershey bars as well.

But primary number one slot, way above everything else, is a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

Greg, due to work I'm doing in the lab on Luke's transmitter, I'm going to make this one and done.

But I'll be listening on All Star from the lab.

Thank you for taking the round table tonight.

And I'd like to welcome all the first time check-ins.

I think we had at least one, maybe two, not sure, first time check-ins.

So welcome to my repeater.

The more the merrier.

And you're always welcome to use the GMS machine here.

Let's see, just another comment.

Second, what Ron said, we had a phone conversation and he said,

"What do you think of the idea of hosting some events up at the Field Day site?"

And he told me, like for contests and for people that are CW operators, there's the SKCC.

It seems like they're on all the time.

But Jim can highlight that more.

And that may be folks that are trying to improve their CW proficiency

and having some fun on a not a high-speed CW event.

Of course there's sideband, there's FT8, whatever, whatever.

The important part is let's start utilizing the site.

You know, I pay $600 every year to rent space for those two masts that are beams.

And I'd really, really like to see the site utilized more.

And it has been utilized very little.

And we're trying to fix that.

And I think that lining up with some contests and other special events would be a way to do that.

So let's make use of this site.

Let's see here.

One other comment.

I didn't make a note of what it is.

So I'll probably forget it.

But anyway, for Winter Field Day coming up, Keith, KB3ILS, is the chairman for Winter Field Day.

I passed the hat to him.

He's doing a spectacular job.

Look out for some new Zoom meetings coming up.

We're going to be likely switching our logging software over to N1MM.

And folks are evaluating that.

I think Greg is involved in that.

Dylan's involved in it.

We're going to have a Zoom meeting talking about it and things like that.

and hopefully have a good experience and no issues and everybody likes it better.

I think all the programs are good.

I don't think there's one that says, "Oh, that's a lousy program."

All the programs can develop problems.

But I think that there's a tendency and a feeling among the group to navigate towards N1MM,

which is really, really a popular logging software, both by small groups and mega groups, multi-multi stations.

So it appears to cover the whole span.

And let's see what else.

That's all I have.

That's enough for me.

And I will be listening, Greg, and can come back if needed.

Luke's 1929 transmitter, built as published, was putting out about 1.5 watts with a 210 tube, which was developed in the '20s.

And through some intricate GMS mods, I got it up to 7 watts and nothing's blowing up.

So 7 watts on CW is a very, very powerful signal.

And Luke will be using that in the AWA 1929 CW events.

And, oh, schematics and computer programming, or computer programs, rather, to highlight and blow up and all that on schematics.

I think that's a good idea.

However, in saying that, I start, I always start with a printed schematic because you can get an overview of the entire circuit,

from the antenna all the way through to the receiver and all the different stages, the transmitter and everything.

And then, when I kind of say, well, it looks like the problem is here, then I think that would be a great application for what Greg is talking about,

about getting in and blowing that up.

And you can see all the individual connections much, much easier.

But it's very, very important to understand the overall topology and flow first.

And to do that with little pieces is very, very difficult.

That's it.

Take care.

I'll be listening.

Come back if needed.

WA3 Kentucky Fried Turkey.

This is W3 GMS.

WA3 GMS.

WA3 GMS and the group.

WA3 KFT.

Okay.

Well, for a long time, favorite candy was Thin Mints.

Chocolate covered mint.

And in fact, at one point, my group was selling Martha Lynn Thin Mints.

They were about the size of a half a dollar and in a long skinny box.

And door to door.

I'm trying to think.

Oh, shoot.

What the organization was.

Oh, man.

It was only 11th and 12th grade in high school.

So, that was a few decades ago.

But that's one type of candy.

I'm not allergic to any candy.

So, whether it's chocolate covered or not or jelly beans or almost anything.

But I have learned to, I will say, have a package of candy and portion it out so it lasts for days.

Not just an evening.

Not like I was when I was a kid.

And much to the dismay of my parents because I had braces on my teeth.

Over to you, Mike.

KC3LAV.

WA3 King, Fox, Tango.

We appreciate that.

This is KC3LAV.

Mike, the Warwick Township at the bottom of the hill.

And I appreciate the welcome to the group here this evening.

I will definitely need to listen and participate from afar for a while.

It's definitely over my head.

Fortunately, Bill is behind me. My favorite candy is Strawberry Twizzlers. My brother made them for 20 years. And I think there's a Swedish candy you're looking for. It's similar to the Twizzlers. And they sell it at Green Hill here on Newport Road. But that's another line of we ought to talk about that in private.

Anyway, thank you all very much for participating. Thank you for letting me participate. And we'll turn it over to KC3OOK because I know who he is. Thanks again, We're Clear.

KC3LAB. KC3OOK. Well, thank you, Mike. He knows who I am and he's still talking to me. That's amazing.

And Greg, thanks for taking it tonight. And Mike, it's great to hear you on here. And I hope you can stick around for the second round. Well, for me, anyone that knows my wife probably knows I'm going to say my favorite candy is my wife since that's her first name. So I have to go with that, Greg.

But coming in a second would be not a type of candy, but a maker. We have a chocolatier here within walking distance from me. He's right up on Route 10.

Chattel's chocolates. He's Swiss and he's been here for years. And they're open most of the time. It's just a long driveway back in and they have a small, nice showroom. But I would rather go in and buy a huge, small pieces of very, very good chocolate than a big bag of the name brands anymore.

I have to say, when I was younger, I could eat a whole bag of Reese's Cups, but anymore to me, they just taste very gritty. So I guess my tastes have changed. And I've got another chocolate story I'll share for the next round because I worked in a chocolate factory in high school. But I'll turn it over to Simon. KD3BPI. KC3OOK.

Thank you, Bill. And thank you, Greg, for taking the net tonight. It's good to hear from everybody, as usual. My favorite net here. And as for Candy, I also concur. I didn't catch his letters.

The fellow at the beginning who talked about black licorice. I do enjoy black licorice. The flavor, it's a complex flavor. But it has the texture of a Twizzler. Well, I'm sure that there are some who don't like that texture.

But I happen to like the Twizzlers very much. Just not so much the flavor. Not so much the flavor, I will admit, of a standard Twizzler. But licorice kind of has the good texture and the good flavor.

Though, if I had to pick, if I was in the candy aisle and had my choice, I think I would go with Twizzlers. Those little mini Twizzlers.

They're very small. But I'm sure that everyone knows what I'm thinking of. And they're, I don't know, they're so easy to eat. But then there's the caramel and the cookie and, of course, the chocolate.

As long as it's not too melty. And as long as it's not too cold, either. Because when they're cold, the caramel kind of congeals. And there's not much, like, difference in that.

You know, it's kind of just the same as the chocolate. It doesn't have that, you know, pull it away from your teeth, pull it out of your teeth sort of texture to it, which is just so delicious.

I will admit, I used to be a Skittles fan. And also, I'll still do Starburst now and then. But they're just so, um, so sugary. And so sticky. And it just, it makes, I feel like I'm pulling my teeth out of my mouth.

I'm probably painting an unpleasant picture here. But all that to say that Twix or Three Musketeers, those are the ones that I happen to like the most.

And they both conveniently come in the small sizes. And Milky Way, I'll go for Milky Way. Unfortunately, I cannot have anything peanut butter. No peanut butter for me. It's, uh, I'm deathly allergic. Or at least that's what the, uh, the allergist says. He pricks my arm. And this little mosquito bite thing. Well, it's not actually a mosquito bite, but it's the same look.

It will grow so large that I remember distinctly as a small, as a child looking at this caliper that they used to measure. And it was off the charts. There were no numbers past it.

So I am cursed with the, the, the peanut, I'm the peanut allergy kid. I'm the one, I'm the one that ruins it for everybody. Though admittedly, I've never had a deathly reaction. It's, I'll just get bad hives. I'll be nauseous, etc, etc.

They make me carry an EpiPen, but, um, never had to use it. So, and all that to say that I just can't have Reese's. I've heard they're the best. Reese's cups.

But sorry to say, I have earned myself a permaban from the allergist himself. And with that, I'll, uh, send it over to Jim AF3Z. This is KD3BPI.

Very good, Simon. Thank you for, for all of that. And, uh, I've often wondered, and I don't know when the peanut, peanut allergy thing, you know, maybe it was around when I was a kid. I don't remember. But it seemed like everybody lived on peanut butter and jelly.

And, uh, sorry to hear you have to struggle with that one. Uh, first of all, before I get to my tastes, uh, one comment on using the site. And this is not any kind of a whatever. This is just my experience. Uh, one of my problems with the, uh, 985 field date site is it's a fair piece away from here.

And, uh, but the other thing relates also, I'm, as I said before, I'm a member of the Cornwall Ranger Station Club up here, and that's only about 20 minutes away for me.

But it took me a while to, and I still don't use the, the radio part of it much. Uh, but some of it is being there so rarely, I'm not sure what goes where and how to do what. And, uh, uh, going to the night, well, if you're there, Ron, that helps, obviously.

But the, the unknown equipment and unknown setup and all that stuff is part of what keeps me away from things like that. I just share that for information's sake. It's not a complaint or anything. It's my problem.

Um, so anyway, and, uh, Joe mentioned the Straight Key Century Club E. A little exaggerated saying they're always on, but there are a number of events. Uh, they have a weekend, what they call a sprint-a-thon.

They have sprints on Tuesday evenings, I think it is, for a two-hour time period. Then they have a 36-hour thing or something on one weekend a month, and they call it a sprint-a-thon. But anyway, so there are a number of those. Well, there's at least one of each of those during the year. Uh, so there you go. That's comments on that stuff.

Candy. Yes, I do like it. Um, for me, Reese's Cups are way up there. And also, I like the payday candy bars. It's interesting that when I go somewhere like a gas station, and, uh, I am also much better about not eating a lot of candy these days.

And a lot of these stores, all they have are the giant-sized things. And if you look on the labels, they probably have about 2,000 calories or something. Not quite.

But anyway, paydays I like because of the caramel, but also they've got a lot of peanuts. So, uh, Simon, I'm a real peanut lover. Peanut clusters and that kind of stuff and fancier stuff. I really like that.

But I also do like licorice. And, uh, you mentioned, I forget, Norwegian or something before. But, uh, for me, what I came to know is Australian or Australian licorice.

And it's big or short, like, cylinders of it. And it's a softer, not the harder kind of chewy stuff. And after eating that, uh, Twizzlers and that stuff really doesn't have a whole lot of flavor to it compared to the Australian stuff.

So, uh, that would be my other one. I don't eat Reese's Cups very often. Or the payday candy. Well, I don't eat any of them often anymore. I'm always going through withdrawal.

So, I think that's it. I might have something else to say round two, but not on candy.

So, and I'm trying to think of an alternative. I'd rather not be the tail gunner. I'd like something more peaceful, but I'll have to work on that.

So, anyway, back to you, Greg. W3DIB AF3Z.

Caboose.

Very good. We'll say the caboose. So, Jim is the caboose.

Is there any other stations that would like to join the log on this first round of the 985 roundtable? Please call now.

3CW.

This is W1RC checking in on All Star from Massachusetts.

All right. I thought I heard Chuck there. I thought it was Chuck that said caboose.

All right. So, we have NA3CW, Chuck, and W1RC, Mr. Mike, out of Marblehead, Mass. You are our new caboose.

So, over to Chuck. NA3CW, W3DIB.

I checked in earlier with the mic muted, so that didn't quite work.

When I was doing some antenna testing, putting out a carrier and make sure the microphone didn't pick up the room.

So, good evening to one and all, and I've been listening to the whole thing.

I've been here.

I had a day of beating my brains against an old Lenovo M91P desktop computer,

and I'm making it run on Linux 22.0, Linux Mint 22.2.

And I found some interesting factoids about it.

The BIOS in it is hard-coded to only respond to Windows in the UEFI file.

It's hard-coded to only allow Windows.

So, once I got that figured out, put it on legacy BIOS, and got it to run.

But, oh, in the meantime, I updated the BIOS, and it crashed in the middle of the update,

and so it bricked the machine.

So, I ended up having to sacrifice a goat and bow to the east and do what was required to re-flash the motherboard.

So, I had quite an afternoon.

But, it's all happy and running, and all is well with the world.

Favorite candy?

Well, when I was a kid, I think it was like CR said,

if you could score a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup instead of the 15th Apple, you were doing really well.

I still like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

However, we have graduated to the senior on a diet Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

They're little mini ones.

They're about the size of a thumbnail.

And about, I don't know, three-eighths of an inch deep or so.

So, you can, and we keep them in a jar in the refrigerator door because they're very meltable.

So, they're called mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and they come in a bag.

So, they can tilt the jar, get it two or three out, and it makes a very nice after-dinner dessert without laying on the heavy calories.

But, I still love the taste.

So, enough of that, and over to Mr. Mike.

W1RC, this is NA3CW.

Yeah, very good evening to Chuck and everybody else on the round table.

This is W1RC and Marblehead, Mass.

I got in here late tonight.

I was out doing some grocery shopping and stuff.

Mike, I'm assuming the question is a question about candy because Halloween.

Well, you didn't talk to me about Halloween.

I get, we're the Halloween capital of the world up here in Marblehead.

Next town over is Salem.

And, boy, do they ever do a thing with Halloween.

They get started in the middle of August.

And, it just keeps going and going and going until Halloween.

And, then it goes away.

I wouldn't want to go near Salem.

Even now, it's raining and I'm sure they're out running around the streets.

Tomorrow night's going to be nuts over there.

So, we stay away from Salem for about a month before Halloween.

But, my favorite candy is chocolate.

I like milk chocolate.

And, I particularly like Cadbury's chocolate.

Originally from the U.K.

But, they make it in Hershey.

They get a license from Cadbury's over there to make it here.

And, I like Hershey's chocolate.

Just straight chocolate.

Nothing in it.

No peanut butter or almonds or nuts.

Just nice chocolate that melts in your mouth.

Mmm.

Especially milk chocolate.

I really enjoy it.

And, Hershey's chocolate is different.

If you've ever had Cadbury's chocolate and Hershey's chocolate, they're different.

But, they're both good.

So, I hope that answers the question for tonight.

Turn it back to Annette from W1RC in Marblehead, Mass.

Wow.

Very good.

So, I've got some comments here.

And, then, before I do that, if there are any other stations that would like to check in, please call now.

Alright.

Let me scroll to the top of my Vim window.

Vim, the text editor.

Let's see here.

So, lots of different candy.

And, there's a theme, a reoccurring theme with the peanut butter cups.

People like Reese's peanut butter cups.

And, I can't blame them.

They're delicious.

Whether it's the mini ones that Chuck mentioned.

Or, it's the regular sized ones.

Or, it's the gritty ones.

That Bill mentioned.

I had to laugh.

That was funny.

I get what you're saying, Bill.

Because, with really good chocolate.

And, you go back to the Hershey stuff.

Even the Cadburys, like Mr. Mike mentioned.

The Cadburys from the UK.

And, the stuff that Hershey makes are totally different.

Like, the Cadburys from the UK.

It's got a really different taste to it.

And, it's crazy.

When you go from expensive chocolate back to the regular stuff.

You can tell a difference.

We got a few Belgian.

Dark chocolate.

Peanut butter cups.

When we were over in Belgium.

And, they were to die for.

The peanut butter inside was kind of like.

The peanut butter you get in a natural peanut butter jar.

You know, it was kind of like the runny.

Somewhat oily.

Peanut butter.

But, it.

That coupled with the dark chocolate.

And, the slight bitter.

It was delicious.

And, then.

Somewhat ruined Hershey's a little bit for me.

For just a little while.

But, I still love Hershey's.

They're still good.

And, CR.

That was hilarious.

Go into Walmart.

To get the discount.

On the candy.

I can't blame you.

Everything is expensive.

And, candy is not cheap.

That is for sure.

Wayne.

I love the caramels.

I love the caramels as well.

I'm thinking you're meeting the caramels that have the little white cream center.

And, those are absolutely delicious.

And, I've been a fan.

I've been a fan of those.

They've been a favorite of mine since I was a little kid.

Also a licorice lover.

I love that too.

Ron.

You got here with the almond bars.

And, I have to second that as well.

I love those.

And, I'll just reiterate what Ron said about the coordinator.

The site coordinator for the field day.

Site.

Up.

And.

Chester Springs.

I believe it is.

Chester Springs.

At the self-storage facility.

So, that's awesome.

Anybody that wants to come up on a field day, Ron will be putting out, I guess, to the email list,

which dates, whether it's a contest date or a non-contest date,

that he will be up there to coordinate operating from the field day site with all of the associated antennas.

Which is awesome.

And, Joe definitely wants everybody to take advantage of that.

Because, there is rent.

There is rent being paid yearly to operate from there.

So, we want to get up there more than just the field day days.

But, kudos, Ron, on hitting 48 countries on the, I think he said it was the CQ Worldwide DX phone.

So, Joe, there definitely are chocolate bars out there that have hot pepper infused in them.

I've had a few.

And they are good.

I have had them.

They have a little bit of that bite.

And they are out there.

You just have to look for them.

I've also had...

Yeah.

I think it was just chocolate.

I don't think I've ever had spicy licorice.

But I bet if you search for it, it's out there.

And, yep.

Just a second.

What Joe was saying about Keith KB3 ILS is our chairman for winter field day, the 985 winter field day this year.

So, looking forward to working with him and getting on the Zoom.

And, yep.

Zach and I will be evaluating the logging solution.

So, and kudos on getting Luke's 1929 transmitter up to 7 watts.

That's amazing.

Let's see here.

John, I have to look out for the Martha Lynn Thin Mints.

Keep an eye out for those.

And, Mike, yep.

I'm a fan of Twizzlers as well.

And that's cool that your brother makes them.

I know through a friend, somebody who works for the Reese's plant near Harrisburg.

He was on the line there that assembles the packaging, I think, after the candy.

Or part of the line that basically makes the peanut butter cups and then places them into the packaging and seals them.

So, I'm wondering if your brother did something like that.

Very cool.

And, had to look up, not new Chattel chocolates, I think it was, Bill.

He sits up on Route 10.

I'll have to take a look at that and go see the Chocolatier.

Let's see here.

I'll try to make it fast because I'm starting to ramble.

Seems like Simon, Jim, and even Chuck all like the Reese's peanut butter cup.

Jim has a soft spot for the paydays, though.

And I can understand that because I can like those, too.

And it is crazy about the peanut allergies because I don't remember them when I was a kid in the 80s.

And it seemed like around, like, the late 90s, early 2000s, you just kept hearing about this kid was born with it, that kid was born with it, another kid was born with it.

Everybody I knew that was having kids basically was like, yep, has a peanut allergy.

And it was anything from a slight peanut allergy to a severe peanut allergy, whereas if somebody even puts peanut dust into the air, they can start to feel their throat closing up.

So, that's kind of scary.

But, yeah, I will finish it up.

And, Mr. Mike, I agree with you.

The Cadbury's chocolate is delicious.

And I'm going to look up Salem to see how their Halloween celebration goes.

Sounds like it's pretty wild and fun.

So, with that, if there are any other stations that would like to check in before we go to round two of the round table, please call now.

Okay, nothing heard.

So, I will turn it back over to the top of the list, over to CR, to pick it up for round two of the 985 Halloween edition round table.

W-8-C-R-W.

This is W3DIB.

Thanks, Greg.

Yes, I'm aware of there are some chili-flavored chocolates out there,

and I just sent a link to Joe.

I know Lint makes some, and there's probably other brands also.

With that, I'm going to say 73, and I'll be listening out.

Let's see.

Wayne, pick it up.

WHCRW.

Do we still have Wayne?

KC3SQI, are you there?

Sure.

Yeah, I'm still here.

Sorry about that.

I hit the wrong screen.

So, yeah, one of the other things that I really liked was homemade, home-pulled taffy.

Not the saltwater kind of taffy.

Itself.

So, that was real good.

But one time, we decided to make it when our parents went to Eastern Star for a meeting.

And we didn't realize that the milk was a little old.

So, when we put the milk into the hot taffy, it kind of curdled a little bit.

So, being up in the mountains in Colorado where you had 120, 160 inches of snow, you just kind of threw it out in the snow.

Well, next spring, this thing shows up.

And mom and dad started asking about it.

And my brother goes, oh, that's buzzard puke.

But, yeah, we didn't have any of that candy.

Okay.

With that, I will turn it back over and give it over to Rod, WA3VEE.

This is KC3SQI.

Very good, Wayne.

Thank you very much.

Hmm.

Interesting buzz on the audio here.

Sorry about that.

Anyway, all very good.

KC3SQIWA3VEE.

Not much more to add, but I will clarify one thing.

When I am operating up there, and this addresses the concern that Jim had, all you need to do is show up.

I will have radios, and I will have things set up.

And I have coax, and I've got all that stuff.

So, anyone will make it as easy as possible for us to use the site.

You know, we had the 710, the YASU 710 up there for the GOTA station.

It would be very similar to that.

In fact, it just may be the 710 or the FTD-X10, whatever.

But, nonetheless, all anyone who wants to operate needs to do is show up at the field day site on prescribed times,

which I will publish out there.

So, of course, this is all weather-related.

Now, obviously, we're getting into wintertime.

So, this would probably be in George's StarCraft.

So, it probably would take the first four or five people, because other than that, it would be pretty cozy.

Let's put it that way.

But, nonetheless, if it's a sunny day, that StarCraft warms up very nicely.

And I have a battery up there as well.

So, anyway, anyone just needs to show up.

That's it.

But, mainly aimed at people who just want to get some operating, want to use the beams up there.

As Keith, I heard earlier before the workbench, or before the roundtable saying, just wants to use the beams.

And if he's up there, too, I'm sure he'll be delighted to show people a little bit about CW as well.

My moods are primarily the voice, especially aimed at the newer operators who don't get a chance to really explore what HF is all about.

Most especially brand-new AMS.

If I can get them up there, that would be great.

Because we want to get them on the air, and we want to get them sustained activity.

So, I just thought I'd throw that out there.

So, let's see.

I think Joe said he is just listening.

So, it looks like it goes over to John, WA3KFT, to take it.

WA3VE.

I'll be listening, but I'll say 73.

WA3VE.

WA3KingFoxTango here.

Okay.

Very good, Ron.

So far, I haven't visited your Field Day site.

With the Marple Newtown gang, we've bounced around to three different locations in the last three years.

And I'd like to go back to the one that they used for 10, 15 years in a row.

It was a very nice picnic pavilion.

Plenty of big trees around with available limbs that you can hang stuff from.

And plenty of parking.

So, and in the worst case scenario, it actually had 120 volt AC.

But for Field Day, we ran generators.

And we've gone through a couple of generators.

But, and me included.

I'm on my second one.

So, we kind of go from there.

But, I enjoy Field Day operation.

I've done it, oh golly, I can't remember how many years in a row.

With different clubs.

And, and different locations.

On top of a hill.

One time was at the golf course over on 322.

Anybody that knows what 322 does, it goes down in a gully.

And, of course, right in a gully is where the golf course is.

They had a massive parking lot and a maintenance garage.

The maintenance garage had an overhang on it.

So, and it was on the south side.

So, the building was on the south side.

The overhang was on the north side.

So, you could sit there and you could be in the shade for the entire Field Day contest.

And, a couple of years that we were there, they actually put up a tower.

With a tri-bender beam and a six meter beam on it.

And, of course, you know, the six meter guys always complained because the tri-bender guys were chasing somebody.

And, we had to talk faster.

We would lose our contacts on six.

So, ah, hey, we've had fun.

We've operated from the gullies.

We've operated from plateaus.

We've operated from hills.

So, and our POTA location, a couple of weeks ago, in Ridley Creek State Park, literally was on top of a hill.

We weren't too far away from Route 3.

Well, so says the map.

They never went that way.

But, it was a nice, quiet location.

And, had a good time there.

With that, we'll say so long for tonight.

Over to you, Mike.

KC3 LAV.

WA3 KFT.

7th rail.

I'm in the habit of talking too long, don't I?

Alrighty.

Over to you, Mike.

KC3 LAV.

WA3 KFT.

Do we still have Mike?

KC3 LAV.

And, John, you don't talk too much at all.

It was great.

KC3 LAV, are you there?

Alright.

Maybe we'll try Mike at the end.

And, we'll send it over to Bill.

W3PIV.

KC3OOK.

Thanks, Greg.

And, it is always good to hear new people on here.

You may not have realized we had a second round.

But, I don't have too much more to add for chocolate.

I may have told this before, so I'll keep it super brief.

When I was in high school, I worked at a chocolate factory.

And, when they hired you, they told you, you can eat all the chocolate you want.

Really, all you want.

And, they were pretty smart.

Because, after about three days, you didn't ever want to have another piece of chocolate.

And, that stuck with me for a pretty long while.

So, that's about all I have on that.

And, Ron, I think that's a great idea.

Doing some special event things up at the Field Day site.

That's a good use of the site.

Good for new people getting in.

And, especially for the people in HOAs.

To be able to get now operating in some boats they may not be able to.

So, around here, I've been working on a cable tray for the ham shack.

And, I've got the base of it installed all the way around.

So, I'm just making a piece to make the front base of it.

And, that will be done.

And, we're just kind of plugging along slowly.

One little part of it after another.

So, that's about it here.

And, I'll say goodnight to everyone.

I'll be listening out.

And, I'll turn over to Simon.

KD3BPI.

KC3OOK.

KD3BPI.

Thank you, Bill.

And, um.

Yeah.

The, the.

I have a couple comments.

I'm getting better at writing these things down.

They come so quickly.

These, these.

You know.

Things you want to say.

And, often.

They leave my mind before I have the chance to say them.

But.

I wrote them down.

And, I wanted to say.

Yes, to JMAF3Z about the peanuts. I will say that peanuts have always tasted bad to me. The bad peanut allergy seems to have permeated everything.

So peanuts taste like dirt. Just not to speak poorly of peanuts, because of course they're very good, I'm sure, to some. But I remember the first time I had a peanut M&M. It tasted so bad. I spat it out right away. I'm like, Mom, why did you give me this?

And the only reason I know it was peanut is because the bags are so distinctively yellow. Otherwise I would have no memory of this. But it was a yellow bag she had in her hand. And as these things go, yes, I don't really remember much except the big things, which was the yellow bag in my case.

Yeah, so I haven't missed out on peanuts. Though I am right in that age that was set by someone, some other wise person. Right, late 90s. I believe it was Greg. I believe it was W3DIB. Greg.

He mentioned it was right at the end of the 90s into the early 2000s. And that's exactly where I am. I'm born in 1998. And that was, I believe there are theories of it now. And I'm just going to spend all my time talking about this now.

But the running theory, which my fiance has told me of, is that if you don't get peanuts in your diet early enough, your body is just, or I don't know if this is exclusive to people of my generation, but most people just don't acclimate to whatever peanuts have, whatever protein I guess it is.

Because I can have Chick-fil-A. I'm happy to report. Despite the fact they use peanut oil, the protein burns off. So I'm not too deprived in that respect.

And then, uh, I wanted to say NA3CW. It was cool to hear about your struggles with the UEFI BIOS on Lenovo. Um, that, I have also struggled with that on a few different machines. And it was, um, interesting to hear about the way you get around it.

Also, W1RC, Mr. Mike, I forgot about Cadbury's. I always think of them as an Easter candy, not a Halloween candy. And, but as soon as you mentioned it, those, I, uh, was able to go through a bag of them.

Um, I would get that same teeth coming out of my jaw feeling because you feel like you have too much. And it's like, I felt like my teeth were gonna get holes in them. But, uh, but that might just be a me thing.

Anyway, Cadbury's. A plus candy. I will admit. Quite a good candy. And then finally, Ron. Yeah, the field day sounds awesome, um, to me. I don't know that I could, I could probably figure out an antenna here at the apartment. But, um, it would be much better to have a dedicated site. Especially considering the fact I'm not far from it. Not far, um, on my daily commute. I live, I will not live, work right down the road. So I could conceivably do it after work.

And anyway, um, I don't have much more to say. No plans tomorrow night for Halloween. Just usual date night with my fiance. We'll probably go out to eat. And, um, and Saturday I have to work on my brother's car. He has an old Dodge Intrepid 1994. And, um, a bolt broke on the water pump.

He had a mechanic work on it. And he broke the bolt. But didn't want to fix it. So it's just dripping a little bit. And, um, Louie's fed up with filling it up with coolant. So we're gonna, we're gonna fix that up.

And, um, that should be it. I'm running my 3D printer in the background. And I think that's, that's everything from my end. Um, I'll listen afterwards for a little bit. Uh, but I'll say 73 to everybody. Always good to listen on the net. And thank you again, Greg, for running it. I'll pass it over to Jim.

KD3Z. This is KD3BPR.

All right. Thank you, Simon. Thanks for that information. You know, when you mentioned that, uh, about not getting peanuts in your diet or whatever early enough, I remember hearing that somewhere along the line.

That if you aren't exposed to it earlier, it can be a problem later.

But, uh, I'm glad to hear you don't miss the peanuts since you don't like the flavor of them.

And that's something I've often wondered about with things we don't like.

Because I don't like raw onions. Some people love them.

Uh, but I wonder how much our bodies are just trying to tell us this is not good for you.

You know, or something like that.

I don't know.

Of course, as a kid, you can get into other stuff where you're just being ornery.

But anyway, interesting stuff.

So thanks for that information.

And, uh, uh, Chuck, when I think you tried to check in the first time, I heard your little, uh, kerchunk in there.

And I figured I started actually writing down your call.

And then somebody else keyed up again, but nothing was heard.

And I thought, that's strange.

So that was you, I guess.

But, uh, I gave your spot on my list to somebody else then.

Um, and, uh, one other thing to comment on here.

Uh, as many of you know, I get on with a guy locally here.

Ten meters is usually where we go.

And these days it's around 1 o'clock, 1.30 in that time of the day.

And, uh, after we're done, we get on at 28.128, which is above kind of the normal CW area.

So I tune down just to see what's happening.

And, uh, I often don't make any contacts.

But I made three today.

I don't always try is what I'm saying.

But anyway, I heard a 5K0UA.

5K0UA.

Calling him pretty fast.

Uh, and I listened a bunch of times until I thought I had his call sign correct.

And then, uh, it was one of those super fast 599, you know, send the call sign 599 and, oh, you're gone.

So it's hardly a contact.

But anyway, it turned out to be a de-expedition on San Andres Island off the coast of Nicaragua, north of, uh, Colombia.

And looking up on it later, turns out Colombia and Nicaragua had some kind of fight over whose island it was going to be.

So it was a contested territory.

And then, up higher on the band, I, uh, heard somebody come on.

And they started calling CQ with a chirp to their signal, which is when the CW signal is not a nice steady pitch.

Sort of swoops up.

Roop, roop, roop.

And, uh, turned out to be a poda guy.

No, a soda.

I'm sorry.

Summits on the air.

He was on Thoradin, Thoradin Mountain out in Colorado.

10,541 foot little hill out there.

Uh, so I worked him.

And I don't know.

These podas and sodas, you don't get into conversations.

I don't know what kind of little rig he was using.

Maybe it was a little QRP thing or something.

But it was chirping away, that's for sure.

And then after that, uh, that was soda.

Then I heard NM5, oh no, this is the guy, NM5TW.

He's the one with the chirp.

And he was doing poda from New Mexico.

So I had three contacts.

They weren't all bing, bing, bing.

I left the rig on and I heard the chirp come on.

And I came in from another room hoping to find out what kind of rig it was.

So anyway, there you go.

Uh, that's about it for me at the moment.

But you guys got me hungry for, uh, Reese's Cups and licorice and paydays and all that good stuff.

So, now Chuck.

N-A-3-C-W-A-F-3-Z.

Thanks, Jim.

Yeah, with the audio on and everything.

It's, uh, funny how the little LEDs bob up and down now.

A-F-3-Z and A-3-C-W.

Well, to, uh, continue on to Candy Jag.

Uh, another favorite is, uh, Kit Kat's.

You get the chocolate and you get the cookie.

And, uh, a...

Not something you would eat a lot of, but something I really like, like one, is, uh, chocolate-covered cherries.

They kind of come out at, uh, Christmas time, I guess.

And one will do me.

Because they're, they're a pretty sweet and intensely sweet thing.

So I can't tolerate that a whole lot.

But, uh, yeah, as far as, uh, your body telling you things, I have, I have, uh, one hard and fast rule about food.

I know Joe knows it.

My, my principle is food should not hurt.

And I figure anything, anything I stick in my mouth that hurts, I am not encouraged to continue to chew it and eat more.

And swallow it.

Uh, Joe and I, I agree to disagree on this subject.

But, uh, yeah, I just, food should not hurt.

And interesting about the, uh, the peanuts just tasting bad to you when you had such a revolting allergy.

Where it, where it is just, you know, sneak up and, and, uh, make you sick.

Um, a few years ago now, I had a period of time when, um, I had this infection in my throat that was, uh, worked down my esophagus, got into my stomach.

It was a bad scene.

I couldn't eat.

And things that I dearly loved tasted horrible.

Um, bread.

I loved bread.

Bread tasted terrible.

I could eat like a hamburger patty, but no way the bun.

And things like that.

And it's, it's, you know, it, when they say taste is in your mouth, it really is, I guess, or in your brain.

But it was, until that healed up, um, my tongue was totally out of calibration.

And so I kind of agree with what Jim's saying.

It's maybe your body's way of saying, you should not eat this stuff.

So I'm glad you, uh, you're, uh, prepared for it and you know about it.

And I also agree that, um, I think part of the, uh, reset.

Part of the, um, dairy allergic kids that are allergic to all kinds of stuff, uh, part of it is in fair agreement with the scientists that it is a matter of exposure.

When, uh, when, uh, kids crawl on the floor and pick up stuff and put things in their mouth and they eat bugs and they eat mud and, you know, they're, they suck on handrails and, and do all kinds of gross things like that.

They're actually training your immune system.

So when you go to places, um, in the less developed world, shall we say, and the water there will kill you flat or make you wish you were dead.

Or, uh, if you accidentally got stupid and took a, a raw salad, um, and you wish you were dead for about three weeks.

And the locals can eat it just fine because they were born among it.

They have the right, uh, you know, microbes in their guts and all that kind of good stuff.

So if you see a little toddler and he's, uh, he's eating mud, hey, he's probably doing a good thing.

Tell mama, tell mama to get back in the house.

So, um, yeah, as far as the, the computer goes, it was a, uh, it was a headbanger.

Ah, educational as always, but I got it running.

And I found out any desk does not like Windows Mint, I mean, uh, Linux Mint 22.2.

It's okay on 22.1, but not 22.2.

So I found another remote administration program called Rust Desk.

Like Rusty Desk? Rust Desk.

And that works very well, very much like any desk.

And I put it in the, I put it in all the computers belonging to my, if you will, clients that I put Linux into because sometimes they need help.

And it's great not to have to drive wherever they happen to be.

So, those are my discoveries of the day.

So enough of that.

Uh, good to hear everybody on here.

And I'll turn it over to Mike if you're still around.

W1RC, this is NA3CW.

Thank you.

It's strange.

I heard a little bit of a, something like a little peep on the, uh, digital side, but nothing.

Mr. Mike, uh, Marblehead, Mass, are you there?

W1RC.

Yeah, SW1RC, uh, really don't have much to add.

Um, I'll just say good evening to all.

I hope you guys have a, a nice Halloween down there.

And, uh, we'll catch you guys next time.

This is W1RC, Marblehead, Mass.

W1RC, Marblehead, Mass.

I'll hand it back to you, Greg.

This is KDVBPI.

Got it.

Thanks, Simon.

I could totally hear your 3D printer going the whole time.

I could hear the...

Depending on what it was making.

I think it was Mike.

So KiloCharlie3, Lima Alpha Victor, KC3, LAV, are you there?

And would you like to add another comment for the tale of rainbows?

The tale of round 2.

KC3 LAV, W3DIV.

Okay.

Nothing heard.

And we'll put it out one more time.

If anybody else would like to be added to the very end of the list, there's still time to get added to the log.

So if you want to be added to the Halloween edition of the 985 roundtable, please call now.

Whiskey3, Mike Foxtrot, Bravo.

What's going on, Greg?

Doing alright.

Good to hear.

Good to hear from mighty fine buckets.

W3MFB.

Mike, we'll turn it over to you.

I don't know if you heard the question.

I just kind of asked if there was a favorite candy that you have.

But feel free to add whatever.

W3MFB.

This is W3DIV.

W3DIV in the group.

W3MFB.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

I had to stay away from all the chocolate and the tree nuts and the almonds and the peanuts.

Allergic.

Pain in the butt.

And yes, I agree to, I forget who said it.

I heard they taste like dirt when, like Chuck was saying.

They don't, when your body doesn't like them, they don't taste good.

I've tried them before and when it had a flat, it's Chuck.

If anybody needs EpiPens, I always have one of them on me.

At least two anyway.

But yeah, I always liked Runts.

Runts.

Love Runts actually.

The banana flavored is the best, I think.

In my book, any banana flavored candy.

Now or Laters.

Laffy Taffy.

They have banana.

Beebees.

They used to have that back in the day.

If you guys remember Beebees.

I'm sure some of you do.

What else?

Yeah.

That was pretty much it there, I think.

I don't really eat, oh and jelly beans.

Brock's used to make spiced jelly beans back in the day.

Traditional flavored dum-dums.

You know, so all the non-confectionaries.

Yeah, Halloween we're going to, we're decorated today.

The bride did most of it.

She had me on the ladder hanging stuff.

So we're decorated as best we can for right now.

Last night we were making up our treat bags for the kids.

And we do have allergy friendly stuff.

She, we packed bags like little gift bags with candy and toys and treats and whatnot in there.

So that's always fun.

So we'll be passing that out tomorrow.

And, yeah.

So we're a little late decorating this year.

A lot of family stuff going on this year.

So we only got it done today.

And, yeah.

That's about it there.

I did hear about the email about the Field Day site being used for other activities.

Which is awesome.

I think that's great.

Great to get people that are on the air that can't be on the air all the time on HF.

I know, well, Winter Field Day and the VHF contest kind of coincide in the January month.

But I think that's January and June, I think, is when they do the VHF contest.

I think that would be a good use of time there up on the site.

But, yeah.

No, no.

Thanks for letting me pop in real late.

Sorry about that.

I was busy doing some stuff and just turned it on a little while ago.

So I'll pass it back to Greg.

W3DIB, W3MFB in the group.

Alright.

W3MFB, W3DIB.

I totally forgot to comment on Chuck's Linux issue earlier.

I am curious to hear more.

But I won't keep you on the net because we are going a little bit late.

Well, I guess we're not.

We're at 9:30 at this point.

But I'm curious if the reason you had trouble with UEFI boot mode was due to secure boot.

And did you disable secure boot?

And the other question would be, did you try to actually secure boot Linux Mint and use alternate signing keys?

Because I know Lenovo's are specifically known to have problems with if you try to do secure boot and you put your own signing keys into the UEFI BIOS.

And it's so bad that if you put your own UEFI keys into the BIOS, which are not the Microsoft keys like you mentioned, it can potentially brick the motherboard to where it won't boot anything.

Which is really frustrating.

I'm...

My opinion with the TPM 2.0 and secure boot, it's an unpopular one.

But I do not think it's a good thing.

And I think it's very anti-consumer.

That's just my opinion.

Anyway.

But I would be curious to hear more about your Lenovo M91P desktop issue.

And I'm curious how you got out of it.

Did you end up pulling a chip and putting it into an EEPROM flasher?

Or did you have another way of being able to rescue an otherwise bricked motherboard?

And I will second Rust Desk.

I install Rust Desk on my Arch Linux machines.

I actually built it from source.

And it is excellent.

It outdoes RDP on Windows.

Which is hard to do because that has good performance.

But Rust Desk will actually use GPU acceleration for the video and you can get really low latency.

Like I have had YouTube videos playing across a Rust Desk link.

And then I'll also forward my audio using something called Sonobus.

And the lips match the video.

And the lips in the video match the sound coming through.

And I can't believe the frame rates.

I get a video playback on YouTube through Rust Desk.

It's amazing.

I sometimes have forgotten that I've been on a remote machine.

And it's like, oh wait a minute.

I'm on a home machine from far away.

How's this?

Wow.

So, yeah, second Rust desk if you haven't used it to anybody else that might want it.

Mike, good to hear from you.

Wow, that has happened to me a few times tonight.

I have gotten very chatty.

So, seeing as it is getting later, I will keep it short.

It's good to hear from everybody.

It was good to be back on the net.

And I'll put it out one more time.

If anybody would like to be added to the tail end of the check-in list, round two, for the Halloween edition of the round table, please call now.

All righty.

KB3 EMS.

I doubled with you.

I think you said KB3 EMS.

Hey, Greg.

KB3 Echo Mike Sierra.

Chris here.

Welcome, Chris.

Got it.

I don't know if you heard the question or not.

It was, what is your favorite Halloween candy?

And go for it.

I'll make it quick.

I know it's kind of getting late.

Yeah.

I mean, you can't go wrong with Reese's.

Whether it's the Christmas trees, whether it's the pumpkins, whether it's the Easter eggs.

Reese's, you know, you can't go wrong with them.

I don't, so, I'm an 80s kid.

And I clearly remember in the 80s, they had these candies.

They were called bats.

B-A-T-T-S.

I have not seen them in probably 20, 25 years.

And it was a piece of rectangle taffy on a stick.

And they had, like, banana flavor.

And they had, like, strawberry flavor.

And it was just basically, it was basically taffy on a stick.

But they were called bats.

I remember that.

And they were really good.

But I haven't seen them in years and years and years.

So I'm going to stick with Reese's right now.

Of course, Snickers.

It always satisfies, right?

So I've got to say this, though.

Trick-or-treat is a little bit different from when I was a kid.

We go trick-or-treating in Valley Township, like, around the airport.

Like, the townhouses around the Chess County airport.

And I'm really surprised at how much setup there is for adults.

There's not one street to go down.

That there's not a bar setup where you can have any of the cocktails or drinks that you want.

Along with the kids getting the Halloween candy.

So I just noticed that the past couple of years.

I thought it was interesting.

But, yeah, there's got to be five or six different setups there.

So, yeah, that's a little different for trick-or-treating.

But, yeah, so that's my answer to the question.

Thanks for letting me in last minute here.

I literally turned the radio on about ten minutes ago.

After the kids finally got to bed.

So, I'll turn it back to you.

KD3EMS.

All right, little pause for the cause.

Chris, great to hear from you.

I'm glad you did get in there.

And bats, I think I remember those.

They had wax paper on them.

And they had, I do remember different flavors.

I think I remember peanut butter flavor as well.

And I remember you'd peel off the wax paper and then go to town on the taffy.

And I'd sometimes chew on the lollipop stick, too, afterwards.

But, yeah, I like that idea of having a Halloween for adults, too.

Very cool.

All right.

I will go ahead and turn down the round table.

If there's one more station that wants to call, please call now.

Otherwise, we will close it down.

Okay.

Nothing heard.

We'll say thank you to all stations for checking into the 985 round table.

A big thank you to Joe, W3GMS, for making the 985 repeater available to the round table.

You are invited to use the repeater often.

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 on Monday at 8 p.m. during the 985 workbench with Chuck and A3CW.

This concludes tonight's round table.

Feel free to stick around and keep the conversation going.

Have a great night, a great weekend, and a great Halloween if you celebrate it.

7-3.

This is W3DIB now clear.

W3GMS.

Joe, W1RC calling in by.

S.W.1 RC.

The QRT, good listening to the net tonight.

It was a good net.

Thank you.

here and listening for a few more minutes.

Yeah, Chuck, I'm still here.

Okay, here's the deal.

On the M91 key, in the UEFI code, it is hard-coded to look for a Windows boot manager.

Hard-coded in the BIOS.

So some people have figured out, and why in the world, but some people have figured out

how to cover that by putting in a dummy entry into the UEFI file to put a fake title of the

Windows boot manager and direct it to boot Linux instead.

The other approach is preset the BIOS to force it into legacy mode, and then install Linux Mint on top of that.

And that seemed to have done the trick.

Now, in the middle there, I had downloaded the flash, and it crashed, and it would break the machine saying they're doing beep, beep, beep, beep.

So I got into the research and found out that you can, if you create a appropriate BIOS CD, and this machine has a CD drive,

and you can get it in there, which was not easy.

I actually had to unmount the drive because it was not, it wouldn't open for me.

Apparently, it was out of position, and even the drawer wouldn't open.

I had to unmount it and get the drawer open with a paper clip, get the disc in there, close it, and then start the machine.

And once it did that, it thought about it for a while.

Oh, and before you do that, you have to pull the CMOS jumper to put it into the clear mode.

I popped out the battery just for insurance, too.

And totally depowered the machine, let it sit there for five minutes, fired it up with this disc, and it did its thing.

And it inserted the BIOS to the update, which was still pretty old, 2012 to 2014.

And then you go back, and you put in the battery, and you put the reset jumper back into the normal spot, and life is good.

NH3CW.

Wow.

That sounds like it was quite involved, to say the least.

And that's crazy they would hard code the Windows bootloader.

But I agree with you.

That seems to be the way the computers are going.

And I'm just, I have converted, I have converted fully to Linux, somewhat to the chagrin of some of my coworkers,

because they want me on Windows so they can run all the security monitoring stuff and everything.

I get that.

But I've really gotten to like Linux.

I've really gotten to like the CLI.

And now that all my development tools are coming over because Microsoft supports .NET Core on Linux,

I kind of don't want to go back, because the machine just performs so much better on Linux with the less resource requirements.

But that's crazy.

I guess the BIOS with the jumper, it has like a DFU mode, which allows you to kind of boot from a CD-ROM and say,

all right, I know that I'm kind of bricked, and I don't have my basic operating system,

but I'm going to go to this failsafe that loads from a CD-ROM and boots, and then is my recovery method.

But thank goodness they did do that.

At least you were able to get the machine back.

I'm glad to hear that.

But wow, what a rigmarole just because they decided to hard code.

Well, two things.

I guess one rigmarole is because the update crashed in the middle.

That's unfortunate.

But I'm glad you're back and operating and on Linux Mint.

That's awesome.

And yeah, I love Rust Desk.

It's my favorite.

Did you end up buying Rust Desk, or are you just using the free version and then doing your own networking with like VPNs?

And if you want to go to Don't Let Me Keep You, NA3CW, W3DIB.

NA3CW, well, I'm just doing the freebie version to take care of individual people.

This computer that I just did belongs to a widow in our church,

and she drives a short school bus and loves on the kids, and sometimes it's the only love they get, from what I hear.

And she had Windows 10, and so I showed her.

She said, you know what?

She says, you know, I keep getting these notices.

What should I do?

I said, well, let me show you something.

And this is a church, and at our mixer position, we have, in sound mixer, we have a digital board.

And it has, you can network it out to any number of external devices.

And so I have the online mix displayed on the app on this old, old, old, all-in-one, old Dell,

that I have running on Linux Mint.

And, you know, I got this thing out of a closet and, you know, put in some memory and put in a solid-state drive

and made it human again, and then put Linux Mint in it.

It runs very easily.

It's running at about, you know, 15% of its CPU load and about 15% of its memory load to run our mixer board.

So I used that as a separate mixer panel, if you will, to do the online stuff.

And then for the room, I do the controls in front of me.

And so I brought her over there to show her.

I said, this is a different thing.

This is not Windows.

This is called Linux.

And I showed her, you know, it's got Google like you use.

It's got word processing.

It's got a spreadsheet.

You know, and I asked her, tell me every single thing without fail, every single thing you do with a computer.

And it was all very much low-level stuff.

So I showed her this thing.

And she says, you sold me.

What's it going to cost?

I said, nothing.

So I grabbed her machine this morning and spent the day horsing around with it and got it all straightened out and happy.

So I'm only using, at this point, I'm only using Russ's desk to manage her computer when she has questions.

I use any desk on my two sisters that have it and my mother-in-law.

So that's my client list so far.

NA3CW.

You're a good man, Chuck.

That's awesome.

That's cool that you got her up and running with that.

And, I mean, she'll be fine with that for a really long time because, yeah, Linux Mint has the LTS.

So, yeah, I hope that happens more and more.

I hope you start seeing more people saying that they have an option out there because everything going to the big MS cloud is just crazy.

I've got a bunch of guys I watch on YouTube.

One of them is Braxis.

And he talks about all of, like, the stuff that they're doing.

And it's really scary if you look at what the TPM 2.0 chip is capable of.

There's an E.

I forget what the E is.

It's like your entity key.

It's the one that's burned into the TPM.

And it can digitally sign things.

Microsoft has this attestation service that literally reports back whether you have a Linux bootloader on the same hard drive.

And then it's up to software manufacturers if they want to decide to let you run their software or not.

So in the future, TurboTax could say, hey, you can't run TurboTax because you've got a Linux dual boot.

But anyway, crazy stuff.

Don't want to keep you.

Yeah.

Kudos in helping people out like that.

Yeah.

I guess I'll say 7.3 so I don't keep you on here forever.

NA3CW, this is W3DIB.

I'll be clear on your final.

I'll listen.

Yeah.

The more I keep looking into Windows 11, the more I just, I'm disgusted by it.

It tries to convince you that it's about productivity.

It is constantly interrupting you.

It's constantly showing you things.

It's constantly selling you things.

And no matter, you turn off pages and pages and pages of switches so it'll just leave you alone.

But they do an update and it turns all the switches back on.

And then the fact that they can manhandle the TPM chip remotely and do things to your computer and blow away your Linux dual boot and stuff like that, that's just flipping over the top.

And I'm not having it.

So, you know, if I can't run TurboTax on my VM, well, I'm going to have to find somebody else to use.

So there.

I have Windows 11, the hacked up Rufus version of Windows 11 on a VM, and it runs.

I only have it there in case I want to use it for something like TurboTax, but I don't know if it will allow it.

But we shall see when tax time comes.

Or, like I said, I'm just going to have to do something else.

So have a good night.

And always interesting and educational.

W3DIB, NA3CW.

Yes, I'm with you on all of that.

And, yeah, I've seen other ways to simulate the TPM using Vert Manager with KVM.

But I have not gotten into that yet, and I probably will end up doing that just to have a Windows 11 VM around like you do,

because there's always a piece of software you end up having to use or do something with.

So, excellent.

73, have a great night.

Really great talking to you.

W3DIB, clear.

Sure.

NA3CW, QR2.

W3DIB, KD3EMS.

W3DIB.

KD3EMS.

W3DIB.

You thought you were getting away with the radio for a second, didn't you?

That's okay.

What's up?

Hey, great job with the net tonight.

Like I said, I was only on for about 15 minutes, but great job running the net.

It sounded really, really good.

And, you know, it's kind of funny.

You know how you forget about something for like 30 years, and all of a sudden somebody says one thing, and it's like, whoa!

Like memory reload type thing.

Talking about just candies, I completely forgot that they were in wax paper.

And the second you said that, I'm like, oh my gosh, that is exactly it.

1,000%.

And the guy before that was talking about the runts.

I forget who that was.

Talking about the banana runts.

So, that was a good topic.

I'm not sure if you picked that topic out, or if somebody gave it to you.

But that was a really good topic for the night.

Thank you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Yes, as soon as you said it, I remember, I was like bats.

And I was trying to place it, and I was like, wait a minute.

I remember it was like a two-color wrapper, and it was like wax paper.

It was very like liney or sticky.

Like the lines or the font was like super stick figure-like.

And like, yeah, I could almost, I could taste them.

It was crazy.

I could taste the peanut butter one, because I remember those are the ones I'd always,

and I've been getting, but the bananas ones were definitely my favorite, too.

I always liked the banana candy.

And even now and later, you could break a tooth on them sometimes, because they either were so hard that they literally would break your tooth,

or they were so sticky they would rip your tooth out of its socket.

And then, yeah, Laffy Taffy, that came along a little bit later, and it was always soft and wonderful.

And, gosh, that's funny.

80s kid here, guilty as charged as well.

So, really cool talking to you.

And, yeah, I got to get, I keep saying it, I got to get on here more often.

And I think you're right down the road.

I looked up your call on QRZ, and you're, I think you're just in Gap, right?

Yeah, I am actually in Whitehorse.

So, I lived in Gap for a little while, and Whitehorse is still a Gap address.

But if you know where the Gap luncheonette is, there's a Gap, or not the Gap, so, yeah, the Whitehorse luncheonette,

and then there's the little gift shop, right in town of Whitehorse.

There's a little thrift shop, gift shop.

We live right there.

So, right on 340, right here in town.

Cool.

That's awesome.

Yeah, we might be able to hit each other's Simplex, maybe.

I don't know.

I'll have to, I should have tuned over to the input when you were transmitting before.

But, yeah.

Oh, man, I can't wait to, um,

Oh, thought I lost my app there.

Uh, can't wait to maybe get some leftover Halloween candy tomorrow when, uh, we help my mom hand out the stuff in her neighborhood.

But, yeah.

Glad you got in there, and, um, glad you got on to the round table for tonight.

So, I will, um, I'll probably say 73 at this point, because I'm trying to wolf down some late dinner at this point.

So, good hearing from you.

Uh, KD3EMS.

Uh, good hearing from you, Chris.

KD3EMS.

W3DIB.

Now clear, but listening.

Roger that.

Hey, real quick.

I, what area are you in there?

Uh, you said, are you by Gap, or?

I am at Longwood Gardens.

I am on property at Longwood Gardens.

So, if you have been, uh, past Longwood, like, near the back part of the property, um, that's where I am.

So, yeah, not too far from Gap at all.

Uh, KD3EMS.

W3DIB.

Okay, I sure recognize your call sign.

You and I were talking about satellites about two months ago.

Like, wait at night, like, nine o'clock at night.

So, no, I got you.

I know exactly where you're at there.

We actually, we had a pretty long conversation at night, actually.

So, yeah.

I'm still, like, I'm still kind of new.

I'm still kind of getting used to call signs and who is who and everything else.

So, but, uh, yeah, you and I had a pretty extensive, uh, talk, actually, probably a couple months ago.

So, very good.

Well, hey, listen, enjoy your dinner.

Um, and, uh, let's catch up, uh, catch up soon here.

Is your, uh, is your email on QRZ?

I don't know if it is.

Um, I will, I will go on there and make sure it's up to date tonight.

I will get it up there and, uh, put it on my little bio page there,

because I was logged in looking up call signs.

So, if it's not there, it will be there within the hour.

And I do remember us talking about, um, call signs.

I think you also talked to me about, it was either running or cycling that you did in this.

I think you were in the, I think you were into cycling, if I'm not mistaken.

Uh, that might be so many different.

Um, I worked for Longwood Fire Company.

So, I worked EMS at Longwood Fire Company.

So, I was there for several years and stuff.

And, um, no, we were talking about, like, satellite.

So, we were talking about, uh, when the dude escaped from jail and stuff like that.

So, uh, that's what we were talking about.

That's right.

Well, another side effect of being an 80s kid.

My brain is, uh, not as sharp as it was, like, 10 years ago.

So, uh, forgive me.

Um, that's cool.

You probably know one of my coworkers, then.

Uh, did you know Tom Robinson, uh, Longwood Fire Company?

Uh, KD3EMS, W3DIB?

W3DIB, yes.

Actually, um, uh, yeah, actually, I catch up with him just as I was leaving there.

Um, I went to a different station from there.

So, yeah, definitely.

Yeah.

I did not realize he was a coworker.

I walked past him every day.

We're in the same office, literally.

So, yeah, wow.

Talk about a small world.

Cool.

Well, uh, you have a good night.

And I am going to try to not talk with food in my mouth.

So, sorry about that.

Uh, KD3EMS73.

This is W3DIB.

And, uh, yeah, definitely look forward to catching up with you, uh, soon.

And I will make sure my email address is out on QRZ.

W3DIB now clear.

73.

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