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Subj: PCL NET SCRIBE OCT 21 2024
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PCL NET SCRIBE OCT 21 2024

N5VLZ, Daryl, Arkansas (Net Control/Scribe)
NS2B, Bob, New York (Sysop)
KX4AC, Carl, Florida
KE8QPX, Mike, Michigan
VA7RBP, Rick, Canada
KF5TVG, Bob, Oklahoma

**

N5VLZ:

GE All, and welcome to the Oct 21 2024 PCL 
Net. 

No early checkins. 

Net order is Bob (NY), Carl, Mike, Rick, 
Bob (OK), and whoever else may show up. 

I'm dispensing with my comments, as I'm 
watching the doorbell camera for some
prescriptions to arrive, and have the 
capture buffer on for the scribe.

The time change is on Sunday, Nov. 3, at 
2am local time. Don't forget to "fall 
back", or you'll be an hour early for 
church, work, school, doctors appointments, 
ham radio nets, etc. Hard to believe it's 
almost November.

I waited all day for prescriptions that 
I had ordered last Thursday to arrive...
they are still not here at net time, but 
at least the doorbell camera is charged 
back up, so I can watch it during the net. 
I canceled The Pun In Life Net for the 
second week in a row, as I didn't know how 
long it would take for the medications to 
arrive. I have to take them with food, so 
I'm fasting right now. I may be a bad ham, 
and go to bed without supper (hi hi).

I'm slowly getting items together for the
insurance company from Lyft, after the 
wreck a week ago. I've gotten 3 ads from 
attorneys wanting me to file a lawsuit, 
and several want me to do such. While I 
had a similar wreck in January, 2020, I 
was hurt far more with that wreck, than 
I was with this one. In short, I'm not in 
any more pain than I usually am, and I'm 
not going to lie about my condition. I 
mainly want the bills for the ambulance 
run and emergency room paid...anything
else is "gravy".

59 of Arkansas' 75 counties are under 
burn bans, and while there may be some 
rain this week, we'll be lucky to get 
more than trace amounts. Some extended 
models are showing a stormy November, 
with a severe weather threat. We had a 
frost a few weeks ago, but not yet a 
killing freeze. I'm going to skip the 
lawn mowing another 2 weeks, since we 
haven't had rain here for nearly a 
month now.

I hope to go out this week to early 
vote, as well as make a Post Office 
Box run, and go downtown to get the 
police report from the wreck. I don't 
know if I'll go out to a Halloween 
Square Dance this Saturday or not. I 
need to order some more food, but I'm 
going to wait and see how much the Lyft 
runs will cost me.

GE Bob (NY), how was your week?? >>>

**

NS2B: 

GE All!

An uneventful week. Didn't do much 
radio wise. Our main Winlink hub came 
back online here. I had nothing to do 
with that - it just happened!

Spent the weekend in New Hampshire. 
Their foliage is at peak now - it was 
really pretty.

I think we're into Indian Summer - it 
was 75 here today!  For October, that's 
unheard of!

Not much else happening here - BTU 
Daryl >>>

** 

N5VLZ:

Bob (NY), FB on the Winlink hub, the 
fall foliage, and the Indian summer. It 
looks like this could be warmest Halloween 
on record for many areas.

GE Carl, how was your week?? >>>

**

KX4AC: 

GE All, we had a pretty quiet week here 
which was nice after the hurricane.

I missed the net last week for an NTS 
class. It was interesting, but mostly they 
just went over the training material on the 
web site. I am hoping to get into NTS after 
I retire, and move back to AZ where I can 
rig up a halfway decent HF antenna.  

Lets see ... it looks like there is an ISS 
contact this Thursday that I should be able 
to hear around lunchtime ... I look forward
to that. 

Also, the rescheduled hamfest here is 
scheduled for next week, Nov 1-2, so looking 
forward to that.  

We had a very pleasant weekend, I had a nice 
walk on Saturday.  75 degrees and not too 
humid. We are getting to the nicer time of 
year.

I guess that's about it.  Back to net >>>

**

N5VLZ:

Carl, FB on the NTS, ISS, hamfest, and wx. 
I'm ready for the cooler wx.

GE Mike, how was your week?? >>>

**

KE8QPX: 

GE everyone. The week flew by again. 

Funny that the temp here in MI is the same 
as FL and NY about 75 today. Colors are 
just about peak. 

A very nice day today. Haven't done a lot 
in radio, although I watched an interesting 
video today about the guy who ran the net 
after the NC hurricane. Callsign is K2DMG. 
Had never done a net before, and ran it for 
about 10 days. He did extremely well, so 
they say. 

That's about it. Back to net>>>

**

N5VLZ:

Mike, I saw a video on YouTube where a 17 
year old girl from NC has volunteered to help 
a local police department with dispatcher 
duties...she did quite well.  

Some fall color here, but everything is so dry.

GE Rick, hope you had  good Thanksgiving last 
week. How was your week?? >>>

**

VA7RBP: 

GE Daryl and all on the NET!

I had a pretty good week.

The temperatures here are cooling, but so far, 
it has been a nice Fall, no snow yet, but it's 
coming. The high mountain passes are getting 
some...

I've been doing my usual PACTOR sessions on 
40M and 20M in the mornings, and tried some 
ROBUST PACKER on 20M a few times.

I call a VHF NOON-TIME NET Monday, Wednesday, 
and Friday.

Been getting out for my walks most days.

I check into an 80M OLIVIA NET on week nights.

Saturdays, I join breakfast and coffee sessions 
with the radio club guys in Castlegar and Nelson. 
Saturday evenings, we have a Tech Club meeting. 
Our latest project for Halloween involves arduinos, 
servos and 3D printed eyeballs...

Arlene and I got out vote on Saturday in our 
provincial general election...no results yet...

We also got our latest round of COVID and FLU shots 
last week.

And I have been doing lots of reading...sci-fi 
stuff...

That's about it, so BTU Daryl >>>

**

N5VLZ:

Rick, FB on the wx, ham radio stuff, breakfast/coffee 
sessions the voting, reading, etc. I hope to early 
vote this week, but am watching the budget, as I'm 
almost out of food. We might see some rain Friday 
night, but I'm not optimistic. Got my flu shot last 
week, although the PCP forgot to enter the appointment 
for the full physical in the computer, even though I 
had the card for it...so I have to wait 3 weeks (sigh!). 
I should've sent them a bill (hi hi).

GE Bob (OK), how was your week?? >>>

**

KF5TVG: 

GE Daryl and all on the net!

Last week, I mentioned I was helping transfer some ham 
equipment from a family of an SK to some deserving hams 
with disabilities. The radios were delivered last 
Tuesday, and those hams were thrilled!

My Icom HF radio blinked and reset itself today, and now 
I don't get any audio from it. Not sure what happened, 
but I'm very nervous I'm going to have to send it in for 
repair. Fingers crossed it wakes up tomorrow, ready to go 
again.

Bought an adafruit "Monster Mask" a few years ago on sale, 
and am thinking about putting it out in the bushes next 
to the front door on Halloween. It has two LCD panels 
spaced about the same as eyes on a human head, and a 
microcontroller to generate a random series of eyeball 
and eyelid movements. Might spook the little ones!

That's all for now. Back to net control>>>

**

N5VLZ:

Bob (OK), FB on the gear transfer, but bummer on the 
audio going TU. I won't be doing any candy, as I'll be 
doing nets, plus being on the threshold of type 2 diabetes, 
I can't have any.

That's it for round 1...back to the top for final comments.

Bob (NY), got your email, and I concur. Thanks for the BBS.
Anything else for us?? >>>

**

NS2B: 

Nothing more here - everyone have a good week - 73! >>>

**

N5VLZ:

Take care Bob, see you next week.

Carl, anything else?? >>>

**

KX4AC: 

Everyone have a great week. Bob (OK) pretty sure that 
monster mask would scare ME if not the little ones. 
It sounds fun. Good luck.

73s to all and back to net >>>

**

N5VLZ:

Thanks for being here, Carl...see you next week.

Mike, anything else?? >>>

**

KE8QPX: 

No. Thank you for the net.>>>

**

N5VLZ:

Thanks for being here.

Rick, anything else?? >>>

**

VA7RBP: 

That's it for me as well, everyone have a great week, 
stay well, 73 until next time. BTU Daryl >>>

**

N5VLZ:

Thanks for being here, Rick...have a good week.

Bob (OK), anything else?? >>>

**

KF5TVG: 

Nothing else. Thanks to Bob (NY) and Daryl for the 
net! 73 all!>>>

**

N5VLZ:

Thanks for being here, Bob.

Still no delivery, but that wraps up tonight's net.
I'll post the scribe sometime Tuesday. 73 and GN DE 
N5VLZ, going back to watch the front door...about 
as much fun as watching paint dry (hi hi). >>>

**

P.S. The prescriptions finally arrived about 15
minutes after the net closed. I'm hurting from
sitting by the door all day, so I'm crashing out
after I send this scribe. DS

**


Daryl Stout, N5VLZ, Little Rock, Arkansas
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