2025 04 07 ARES Net, Perkins County, Nebraska
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Abstract
Recording of the Eastern Nebraska 2 Meter ARES Net on April 7th, 2025, featuring Perkins County, NE. Net Control Operator, Brett Bieber, KF0NKS. Excerpt: Perkins County Those of you that’ve joined my nets know that I’ve been featuring Nebraska Counties and tonight I’m featuring Perkins County. Geography If you’re not familiar with where Perkins County is at, it’s not quite in Nebraska’s panhandle, in fact it borders Colorado to the West, and if you extended Colorado’s North border (the 41st parallel) into Nebraska to the East about 42 miles, you’d have formed the Northern border of Perkins county. So if you travel out West on I-80 and go south out of Ogallala, in Keith County, you’d enter Perkins. And I have family that lives in Perkins County, with property on the border between Perkins and Keith counties. Naming Perkins county was created in 1887 and was split from the south half of Keith county, but I wanted to spend a bit of time talking about its namesake Charles Elliott Perkins. Perkins was the president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and was in charge of the Nebraska division of the Burlington railroad, when it merged to create the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad in 1881 and Charles Perkins was promoted to President in that same year. During his presidency, Perkins built a strong management team, and insisted that the railroad use the highest engineering standards. He also bought up a number of competitors and if the competitors wouldn’t sell, he’d push for a dual route through the competitor’s territory. Perkins died in 1907 of kidney failure, which was called Bright’s disease at the time, and now encompasses a wide array of kidney diseases. Perkins died and was buried in Boston, but in a cemetery in Burlington, Iowa, the tallest moment, a granite obelisk style stone, sitting near a bluff overlooking the main line of the original CB&Q railroad is dedicated to Perkins. It’s said that locomotive engineers used to sound their train's whistle in a respectful salute as they passed his monument. As far as his legacy, Perkins is one of the most quoted executives by railroad historians, and he also purchased some large portions of land which were later donated to nearby cities. One such purchase was a piece of land in Colorado, where Perkins intended to build a summer home. Perkins paid $22/acre for the land which had some unique geological formations on it. He later decided its beauty was too great to be kept private and it would be better as a park. Unfortunately, Perkins couldn’t work out all of the details to ensure the land would stay open to the public before his death, but his children continued on to fulfill his wishes, and successfully donated the land to the nearby city with a number of conditions — First, that the park would remain free and open to the public, number 2, that no intoxicating liquors could be manufactured or sold within the park, number 3, only buildings necessary for the maintenance of the park could be constructed on the land, and the fourth and final requirement is that the park would be known forever as the Garden of the Gods. That nearby city was Colorado Springs, and since that original donation, the park has expanded in size and continues to see millions of visitors each year, and Perkins’s gift and legacy lives on. History As for Perkins County, Nebraska, the county seat is Grant, which was platted in 1886, but they missed the path the railroad would take by a half mile, so the entire town was loaded on skids or wheels and moved down the road to be next to the railroad tracks. Grant was selected as the county seat in 1887 and it survived all of that time, thanks to the crops grown in the irrigated sandy soil of Western Nebraska, and the railroad brought through Nebraska by Perkins, that carries those harvested crops to markets. Ham Info The license plate prefix for Perkins is 74, and I looked on the Tetranz ham info site and there are TWO amateurs in Perkins County. AB7QC, Milton Messersmith, and KB0BSL, Kelvin Kurkowski. So now you know a bit more about Perkins county, it’s namesake, Charles Perkins who oversaw the Burlington railroad expansion in Nebraska, and who preserved for the public the Garden of the Gods in Colorado.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.760 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".