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PCL NET SCRIBE OCT 2 2023

WX4QZ, Daryl, Arkansas (Net Control/Scribe)
KE4TP, Paul, Florida (Connection Issues)
NS2B, Bob, New York (Sysop)
NT5R, Charley, Missouri
VA7RBP, Rick, Canada
KX4AC, Carl, Florida
KF5JRV, Scott, Arkansas (Lost Wi-Fi and Router Links)
KF5TVG, Bob, Oklahoma

**

WX4QZ:

I ran a D-Star Net for a fellow ham who 
has been battling Covid-19 for a week. 
He was lamenting that the net was less 
than an hour, and only three dozen 
checkins, but half of them were short 
time. He felt that many repeater owners 
were still unaware that the net had 
moved long ago, but we had put out 
several announcements on it. I had to 
remind him that folks check into a net 
because they WANT to, and NOT because 
they HAVE to...and that this is a HOBBY, 
and it should NEVER take priority over 
things like church, health, family, job, 
or honey-do's. I told him if he's burned 
out, he needs to take a break, but if he
is that discouraged for lack of checkins, 
he should end the net. I did that with 
the QCWA CQ100 net last Friday.

WalMart may have the lowest prices, but 
they also have the lowest quality of
delivery. For the second time, they messed 
up a delivery order, leaving out several 
food items, and delivered several food 
items that I didn't order, cared for, or 
could cook/use (they were given to some 
local area friends, who brought me 1 16 
pack of Ballpark Hot Dogs to go with the 
4 dozen buns that did come in), but my 
order for 2 16 pack of Ballpark Hot Dogs, 
2 24 packs of cheese slices, a bottle of 
ketchup, and a bottle of diet cranberry 
juice were never delivered.

I tried to start a return on the app, but 
failed; and was told to call a number 
instead. I spent 30 minutes working to get 
credit for all of the non-delivered items 
restored to my HMO benefit and debit cards, 
and they gave me a $25 credit on my next 
order of $45. I told them if this happened 
to me again, they'd have to give a year of 
free delivery (a $100 value), or I'd never 
shop with them again. It was the store, 
the driver, or both, to blame for the screw
up.

Some friends also took me to a local square
dance with a 50s theme and a burger cookout, 
so I was given several spare burgers and 
buns for food. I have to wait until my next 
disability award payment arrives in the 
morning, before I can do any more online 
shopping. The out of stock items, I could 
understand, but not the mis-delivered ones.

We're supposed to have storms Wednesday into 
Friday. I was hoping to go to a local college 
campus BBQ picnic on Wednesday, but if weather
is an issue, I'll skip it. We won't get much 
rain, but will get cooler weather for a few 
days. I also need to make a Post Office Box 
run this week.

I have 3 doctors appointments this month...to 
my urologist on Friday, my PCP next Wednesday 
(he's retiring next month, so I have to get a 
new one, and do a consultation with them), 
then have to set up an appointment for the 
podiatrist. I likely am about to become type 
2 diabetic, and that will be a major game 
changer. I'm already on Lasix twice a day, so 
I spend most of my time in the little ham's 
room (hi hi).

I had to take some Tylenol earlier for pain, 
and they knocked me out for about 3 hours. I'm 
still groggy, so I may wait to post the scribe 
until the morning, and just go to bed. My lawn 
guy will be here in the morning, and I have to 
be up just after sunrise. Not sure if that'll 
be my last mow until next spring, or if I'll 
get one more mowing done in November. I'll be 
glad for the winter dormancy, as that'll save 
me some money for other bills.

I'm still OFF of Hamshack Hotline...I have to 
see how the bills will shake out, before I get 
a new router or extender. I could not figure 
out how to set up the WiFi on the special phone.

**

NS2B: 

GE All!

A good week!  We're having Indian summer - I had
to break out my shorts and t-shirts for the next 
few days. Supposed to be back to normal, cold 
and rainy, this coming weekend.

Not much new to report here - still playing 
hamword.

Getting geared up to do Pumpkin Patrol for 
Halloween. I've done that for a few years now. 
Time flies when you're having fun, I guess.

Forgot to mention i got my flu shot today. So far,
no ill effects - we'll see what the night brings - 
nothing else here - everyone have a good week.

NT5R: 

ge Daryl and everyone

Just returned midnight Thursday morning from a
couple weeks on road and short trip before that.

High school buddy wife put on 80th surprise 
birthday party. He had no clue until just before 
we started, 46 were there, including his brother 
from central Tennessee.

>From southeast Kansas after party we headed on 
west and ended up in Colorado then far southeast 
Wyoming.

Beautiful weather there and here since return.

Hollered "NT5R Foot Mobile" hiking up couple 
mountains in Colorado and couple other places, 
no one returned my call. Anyhow was fun.

Some photos of WWV towers just north of Fort 
Collins, Colorado, impressive.

Email to fellow on Youtube recorded guided tour 
of facilities few years ago. MAYBE get out there 
sometime for tour.

Derby Kansas (Wichita area) Radio Shack store 
good selection of ham equipment and fair prices.

Purchased used Kenwood D72, sweet rig, built in 
tnc, aprs, gps, dual band duplexer. Appears not 
used in a bout five years, really clean.

Daryl and Bob, thanks for all you do with net 
and node.

Small Radio Shack store in Berryville AR. One 
rack of RS part inside beauty shop type store. 
Still have Radio Shack sign front of building.

Rick, belated Happy Birthday to Arlene.

Carl, hamsticks work well specially 20 Meters 
and higher. MFJ sells adapter (or you could 
build) to use two hamsticks as rotatable 
dipole. Works and can null out noise sometimes.

Did see some fresh snow top of Pikes Peak last 
week.

everyone have an awesome week.

VA7RBP:

We're having our Thanksgiving Dinner next Sunday 
at our Daughter's, so Monday I'll probably be 
here...

Ok, last week, it rained most of the week, so 
most activities were indoors.

I worked on my Pi NODE, fixing the USB port 
juggling issue when you plug in new USB devices, 
installed QtSoundModem and adusted the 
configuration to get it going, and updated it 
when changes came out.

I have an HF PACKET port on my Pi NODE now
sitting on NET105...unless I'm using the radio
for something else.

Worked on getting rig control for my FT-890 
working on the Pi node. Got HAMLIB to work for 
rig control, with help from the bunch on 
groups.io, still need to get rigctld to start 
auomatically on boot up.

And it was Arlene's birthday on Friday, so we 
did dinner at a local restaurant.

Saturday, it was the usual breakfast and coffee 
sessions with the radio club guys in Castlegar 
and Nelson, and our Tech Club meeting in the 
evening.

Sunday, I drove to Fruitvale to drop off an 
antenna and pick up a tripod from one of the 
guys, and we fiddled around with trying to 
get a speaker-mic going on an old HT.

Today...I made an appointment to get the snow 
tires put on, we're getting snow on the high 
mountain passes now.

Arlene says thanks for the Happy Birthday 
wishes!

FB on on the hamsticks, Charley! My back ups 
are 80M, 40M, 30M Hustler Mini-dipoles and a 
6M hamstick mini-dipole using the MFJ-347 
mount, on a 18 ft rotator mast, and yesterday, 
the guy I was visiting showed me his set-up 
for Hustlers with attached radials at the 
bottom, they work pretty good! 

OK, that's all I have. Everyone have a great 
week, stay well, 73 until next time. Thanks 
to Bob for hosting! BTU Daryl 

KX4AC:

Good evening everyone

We have had a lot of rain here lately, but 
I was able to get a little outdoor work done 
on the weekend. Saturday was clear enough to 
take my usual walk, and I see that most of 
the work on the small dam over the nearby 
Eau Gallie river seems to done. All the heavy 
equipment is gone, and the dam looks finished. 
It blocks about half the river with a spillway 
(weir?) over the other half. There is a "look 
out for manatees" sign, too ... I did not know 
they came up the river here, I should look out 
for them.

I finally got the antenna mount I ordered from 
MFJ, Fedex seemed to have lost the first one, 
but MFJ was good about replacing it. I got it 
setup on the car with a 20M hamstick and took 
the FT-991A out to check it out. Not too bad, 
it was good enough to talk to North Carolina 
and Lousiana. I should probably think about 
getting a screwdriver antenna, but the hamstick 
is fun for now. Since I am in a ground-floor 
apartment the car is my best bet for HF.

Still playing HAMWORD.  I like it.

A quick clarification. The manatees I was 
talking about are the big sea-cow kind of 
things. We have sting rays too, but they are 
different.

I will likely be AWOL next week. The local 
ham club meets the second Monday of the month.
Also, we have a local hamfest next weekend. I 
will be back in two weeks to let you know how 
it goes.

Charley, thanks for the info on the MFJ mount. 
I will definitely look into that.

73s to all.

KF5TVG: 

GE All!

Weather is starting to cool a bit. Today high 
was 89 and the rest of the week will have 
highs in the 70s. Yea!

Picked up contacts from Liechtenstein and 
Lithuania on 15m ft8 today. Hope they confirm 
thru LOTW soon. I'be been chasing VR2XMT 
(Hong Kong) for the last 10 minutes or so, 
but he doesn't hear me. Have been stalled at 
134 DXCCs for awhile now.

I told the developer of HAMWORD, Mark, N5HZR, 
that we picked up a couple more players, based 
on the conversations here on this net. He was 
delighted! Told me there are now hams all 
around the world playing. I need to get started 
on this weeks word. Last week got it in 2 tries, 
but the week before it took me all 6 tries.

Ditto on the flu shots and HB wishes to Arlene. 

Many thx to Boss Bob and Daryl for running the 
net and providing the equipment. 73 all!

**

Replies From WX4QZ:

Bob (NY), it's supposed to warm back up here 
after a few cool days this weekend. The changing 
of the seasons. FB on HAMWORD...I'm spending less 
and less time at the computer, with the vision 
and pain issues. I got my flu shot last month.

Charley, FB on the travels...glad you're back 
home. And, FB on the friends surprise birthday 
party, the nicer weather, "NT5R Foot Mobile", 
the WWV tower photos, and the YouTube facilities 
guided tour. Saw the article of a few Radio Shack
stores coming back. No ham gear stores in Arkansas 
that I know of; closest one in Paris, Texas. We'll 
have to ask the other Scott (Berryville) about the 
area Radio Shack. FB on the Kenwood D72. And, I've 
used those Hamsticks in the past myself. I remember 
seeing Pikes Peak from a distance when the local
collegiate choir went out to Colorado Springs 40 
years ago.

Rick, FB on the Thanksgiving at your daughters 
next week, but bummer on the weather. I'm seeing 
snow in some of the higher elevations...so the 
snow tires are coming in handy. FB on the Pi NODE, 
and related hardware. Happy belated birthday to 
Miss Arlene...hope the dinner was good. FB on the 
radio club guys with the eatings and meetings. GL 
with the speaker mic and the antennas...and FB on 
the hamsticks setup.
 
Carl, bummer on the rain, but glad you could get 
some outdoor work and your walk in. I saw references
to the Eau Gallie River on the Brightline train
construction videos.  Yeah, you need to avoid the 
manatees...thanks for the clarification. Glad you 
finally got the antenna from MFJ, and got it set 
up. As funky as the HF bands can be, you have to 
make do with what you have. I haven't done anything 
with HAMWORD. We'll give you a courtesy check, next 
week...just email me your response, and I'll put 
them in the scribe.

Bob (OK), part of the weekend here won't get out of 
the 60s, and it'll be in the 40s Sunday morning. FB 
on FT8 contacts on 15m...GL on getting confirmation, 
and the contact from Hong Kong. FB on HAMWORD...too 
bad I don't have the strength to do it, and not sure 
if I could do it with just RMS Express for my WL2K 
messages.

**


Daryl, WX4QZ




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