GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2025-11-15

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Hello, this is that cowboy from burl. This is kk7dbr. Hey, how's it going? It's. It's Ryan from. How are you doing up there? Well, I'm stuck down in my man cage trying to fix a bunch of 7mm brass that a guy had all way too long. They wouldn't feed through his guns very good. They wouldn't go in until I had to cut them all down. You have head spacing issues or something out of the outside of that? Yeah. They used. It's. It's a Browning bar automatic. And you have to use a smaller die. About a thousand smaller when you full length resize it. And they were way long. I had to cut them down quite a bit. The cases have been stretched for way too long to go through the gun. So I had to pull all the bullets apart and trim the cases down and resize them through the right. Through the right die. Pretty classic tool. I don't really hear too many people have one of those. Belongs to a barber that I go to and he couldn't get any bullets for you. I guess it's undone. Probably the gun. Probably in the 70s, 60s come out old Browning automatic. Used to hunt elk with a nice rifle. It's an older rifle but they just finicky it. Automatics, pumps, lever actions and that. They're kind of finicky what they take for reloads. They shoot factory ammunition all right. But hard to get a reload to go through them. Very good. Now one of these days when I get back to reloading, I got a 6,5 crate more than I finally decided to shoot this last weekend. But do some more work with it. I bought one of the creek moors I had kid I used to line up with. He. He told me he got a creepmoor and was shooting elk at a thousand yards with the thing. And I could. I can't believe it. That thing was more like an antelope and a deer rifle than an elk rifle. So I had to buy one to see I'm right. It's a deer and an antelope rifle. That still sounds pretty fun. You got any big plans for the weekend? I don't have any plans. I'm just going to stay down in my man cave plan play around in here. I don't have one plan at this age. I don't make plans. I just glad to get up everybody. I was a younger version of myself. Realized that not every day is given. I should probably appreciate things more. But I've learned that with age. Yeah, the golden age ain't quite cracked up that they said it was gonna be. If I knew I was gonna live this long, I decided better care of myself. That's what they all say, I guess. But it's all right. I'll hang in there. I kind of still enjoy it. I told my wife my 40th birthday is going to be in May. My goal is I want to be in the best shape of my life and keep it that way because my daughter's going to be a teenager when I'm in my early to mid-50s, so gotta do something about that. Yeah. And when she gets in her teens years, you'll age really fast. Trust me. I want to find out what Bobby Kennedy Jr's on. Kind of steroids are treatments he does. He's in pretty good shape. I think I'd rather baffle a grizzly bear than handle teenagers. And I've got one. I got a granddaughter that I'm raising. Thirteen right now. A handful yet, but I think I'll just grab me a drizzling rastle him down before I have to tackle her. I think if they're occupied with things that they enjoy, we're going to try to really push 4H or FFA on her. Hopefully she takes to it. But keeping them busy and entertained with things that keep them out of trouble. Yeah, that's for sure. Them girls, if they get into the 4H and horses and animals and livestock, they seem to hang in there and work good at it. Most of the girls I even grew up with that were in 4H and I had horses and did barrel racing and different events with the horses and livestock, they just seem to just turn out great. We all forecasted the gang snow up towards your way out of this storm. Well, we didn't have much storm. We had a little sprinkle this morning here in Panaca. But I guess tomorrow's supposed to be more rain all week. The rest of the week it's supposed to have more storm. What the weather says on my phone. And it lights on to a completely different what my. So we'll just. It'll be surprise to see, but mine says it's supposed to rain for the next three or four days. That's why I've been hearing myself maybe just trust the old weather rug. Never wrong. Well, I ain't going to turn anything down he throws at us because we do need moisture. We live in the desert. We need some rain to green things up. Even for next summer. We need to get plenty of rain. Bring your water table up. Now. I'm not going to argue with that. Our house is on well water too. So keeping it up is something that concerns me, especially with all the development they're doing out here. Yeah, I seen a thing on YouTube that Trump was Vegas and them was way overbuilt and they're going to have housing short dump on there. Then you can buy a house cheaper if you wait. That's what they tell me. I don't know what's going to be going on with the market. People said it's going to go up in front and it's all subject to a city that has their economy based on tourism. So I guess when those numbers are going down, you can see the rest of it. And k7ofo for ID. Yeah, I was just looking on that YouTube stuff on watch that. That guy on there says that a lot of the towns in Nevada, the bigger towns, are way, way overbuilt and the map shows they're going to have a crash in the market. But they've said that for years too. If they know it's true. Yeah, I don't know. Well, I'm gonna probably be clear here for a bit because I'm going to be dumping into no man's and no TR land here going north on 95. I'll probably pop back out in about 20 minutes or so, but I want to hear from you. I hope you have a great evening. I'll probably hear you this weekend. For sure. For sure. This is kk7bdi73. Have a good day. Tequila 7 oscar foxtrot oscar 73.

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Hello, ralph. You're on your way home from work. This is kk7dbr. Hey, Ken. Yeah, I am. Traffic's heavy. Typical for this town anymore. But yeah, calling it a week. Gonna try to get to Mount Potosi tomorrow to install that Peter I fixed. But it looks like the weather is going to be pretty nasty. Don't need to keep getting caught up there in a thunderstorm. So I think I'm gonna push it till next week, next Saturday. You don't like lightning? Not at 9,000ft at a radio site, no. Plus, you know, if you get a lot of heavy rains up there, it's gonna make the roads really bad. So now I think I'll. I think I'll skip. Skip it. Skip it till next Saturday. Yeah, there's no sense in tearing them up any more than they are. Yeah, there's portions of the road up there that are pretty bad. Some of the ATV'er guys go up there. They'll go around the fence and get up there and do they just tear it up going around corners really fast and trying to spin out things like that? There's a couple of spots where the road's really, really rough. Yeah, we got some kids here in this town, they got millions of acres to ride them dirt bikes in. And they'll go up in where our shoes shooting ranges. Where I go shooting, they'd be spin Brody and just light tear that place up. So it's rough to drive into it and hard to walk on down to the target because they can dig some big holes with them bikes they got now. I'll tell you, they really rip that place up. Exactly. Exactly. So. So what's going on there, what you've been up to? Yeah, I just got a project with my barber in cedar there. Has a 7mm that wouldn't take the bullet. So he gives me a bucket full of these. Sir, they just won't go in the gun. So I get tearing them apart to check them and they're way too long. And it takes a smaller size die to do them for automatics and pumps and lever action guns. So I'm going through them. I had to tear them all apart. And when I got them tore apart, I get in there, find that they're the powder charges in them run a long ways from 60 grains clear up to 75 grains. And that scared me. So I figured I ain't shooting any of them, I'm just gonna tear them apart. So when you say 65 to 75, is that too much? They're packed to potent I guess I'll use that term or one. There's no consistency in whoever dumped the powder they probably used just powder measures they used just been dumped the same charge all the time and they got some that are over and some that are under it just don't make the gun accurate at all and there the cases were way way long and the bullet was set too long and that all comes down to that it ain't gonna work in this gun I get it so I I I'm not I'm not that I mean I I've got guns right but I'm not I'm not a gunsmith or whatever you enter I'm a user so if there's too much in there then as the damaging the gun then if you use it. Saying the gun won't handle it but you ain't gonna get one you just think you ain't gonna get any groups that'll any accuracy out of the rifle some will be low powder low power and some's gonna.

And run them through this die that was made for the Browning bar and give them back to me. Okay, good. Thanks for the. For the education, like I said on the user but interesting. So it sounds like you got a heck of a. Heck of a little production line set up thing going there. That's great. It just takes a lot of time. I pull the bullet back out and resize the brass and clean the primer pockets and rebur the necks. It's just time consuming when you do them all. It just takes a lot of time. I know. I hope I have a little of that time to do that. Hang it, hang. I'll hang in there till it's done. Let all the links drop. So if the time's up. Okay, Very good. So how much do you think you save? I mean, I. Bulletproof, you know, what do you. You probably know as well or better than I do ammo prices are just through the freaking roof anymore. But you know, how much do you think you'd save by doing it yourself versus just buying it from a retailer? Like 25%, 50% more? Any idea? Yeah. Ralph, right now, the price of powder and primers and slugs and that, and if you figured your time worth anything. I don't think a guy saves anything. The only thing he can hope for is he can make his bullets more accurate. And for hunting and target shooting, I don't think a guy can save anything now at the price. They've got stuff priced so high that I don't think he can save anything. Okay, very good. Yeah, I never. I never really thought of it. I guess it makes sense. I never really thought that the bullet would actually contribute to the accuracy, you know? I know. You know, if you pack them more, you think they'll go further. That was something I always thought was kind of intuitive, but I didn't realize that it actually affected the accuracy of the gun. Yeah, them guys that are really into competition and stuff, they call on that brass being the. Probably the same brass, the same length. Sa.

I kind of thought, boy, you should have paid more attention to what he was telling. The older I get, the more I like it because it gives me something to do during the day. I don't just sit there and stare across the table with my wife and she wants to hit me with a rolling pin or something, but I can come down here and stay out of her hair. It just gives me something to do. And I kind of like to try to get up a lot. A lot of times I'm disappointed when I go up and find out I didn't do anything. Right. It don't shoot like I want it to. I keep working at it, finally, sometimes it'll work out. Yeah, right, right, right. Yeah, I know what you mean about having things to do. You know, we just called a bunch of our employees back off furlough, and a few of them were saying they were busy the entire time, had a lot of projects, and other ones are going, oh, my God, I can't deal with this. So, yeah, helps to have a hobby. Did you get them all back or did they bring some of them back? I know. I heard rumors that this thing was going to probably lose a lot of people their job because I don't know what they were. I just heard rumors that some of them would never be back. I hope they got everybody back for you. It probably make your headache for you. Hope they all made it. Yeah. Some of the government civilians that they've ripped, they're saying they're not going to give their jobs back because they reduced it for us. They got too many damn government people anyways, quite honestly. But no, we're contractors. So I brought back my entire workforce. I got about 650 some people that work for me between here and Colorado, and we lost 11 people over the furlough, guys. I just said, the heck with it. I'm not dealing with this. I'm retiring. Or some people found someplace else to work. So. But, you know, I was telling. Talking to one of the guys before I left, and he said, oh, that ain't too bad. You know, 11 out of 650, 660. But I said, you know, we're not going to see the full impact of this for another month or two. And. Because if people are out there looking for a job and interviewing, they're not gonna. They're gonna have to wait for that process to work itself out. So I don't know. And they just. They just kick this can down the road until the 30th of January. I'm afraid that they're all gonna go on their Christmas and New Year break, come back, you know, second week of January and go, oh, shit, we got two more weeks before it shuts down again. I don't know. Disheartening to say the least. Yeah, for sure. I. I heard that this is just for two months or something, and then they will do it again. And I just hope they don't. I think. I think if them politicians do walk these guys out for that, I think they need to pay. I think they need to be removed from office and take the pay with them. Don't pay them. Let them go without pay and see how they like it. Yeah, exactly. And 7TND Las Vegas. We'll see. I mean, nobody got anything out of it. It was nothing, but like you said, affecting a lot of people. The government people are going to get paid. When they come back, they're going to get back pay. My people won't, because, like I said, we're contractors. But yeah, a lot of pain, a lot of angst for no gain. I don't think either side, quote, unquote, one if there's a winner on stuff like this. Anyways, other than that. Yeah, like I said, since I'm not going to go to the Hill tomorrow, I got some other radio projects I need to throw on my bench and get some. Get some stuff fixed and, you know, spare parts made up and stuff like that. I like to have spare assemblies. I got a couple of PAs I need to repair. Their UHF PAs I can have on the shelf ready to go in case something craps out. So I might take the day and do that. If it's going to be rainy and nasty anyway, there's no reason to go out.

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It. Is there anybody out here tonight? 86 POC Mobile in Santa Rosa. Link up. 86 poc nx 60. Hey, good evening, adam. Good evening to you too, sir. This is my buddy in San Mateo county, right? Affirmative. Yes, the guy who's up here in Mount San Bruno. Right, I remember you. Well, as luck would have it, I'll be in your neighborhood Tuesday and Thursday of next year. I gotta go do a job walk for San Mateo county on changing five generators at five different comms sites. So it should be a pretty fun day both those days. Affirmative. Yeah, I was up there, what was it, Tuesday? So we put up a little repeater antenna on like the first, the first building that it could hit of the north side. So yeah, I look really close actually, but it's. We have a few radios up there, but you know, they're asking to put the generators up there. Well, it's actually not, not too hard to get up there as soon as you get the gate code. So I'm going to go with some liaisons in San Mateo County. They want you to change five generators at of the comp site. Oh, I'd be all over that. Reason being is you get to take home the units that they're no longer using. Most of stuff is about 10 years old, which is just fine because you know, I have a handful of comp sites up here in Sonoma county that I take care of that have generators from the 90s. And rather than try to reinvent the wheel here about how to get them connected to the Internet for on hop time, operating conditions, fuel level, etc, if you have generators that are being decommissioned, you got to bring them home anyway. Well, that is the win win. I, I dropped an email to Frank and Bill saying how are you guys set up on something? Do you want one of these? They're coming out of your neighborhood. You'll get picked up a litter. Just tell me which one you want. No response yet. I guess they're still looking at each other, but I'll ask them again. Absolutely. And I'm sure Frank got a new generator from the county. So they get funded by the county. They get to find like their old decommissioned classes. But yeah, I'll probably talk to Frank on Monday, so I'll pass the word if you haven't gotten a response from him. And let's see. Yeah, as I recall most of the generators are like on the side of the building and they're kind of outdoors. Maybe they'll have a cover on it or something. But that's all I Remember? And I think they're all trailerable so they look like they're large trailer bullet generators. Back to you, Adam. Katie picks the POC and ecstasy. Tell you, I have not seen these with my own eyes. I'm going to imagine that they are outdoor units and my game plan here was to pick them up with the crane, set them back down on a flatbed that we have, a big flatbed and take them someplace else. I have a few other things we could do with this, but I figure that Frank and Bill will be the first choice. You know, I don't know what they get funded and what they don't get funded or who helps them and what they don't get help with, but I like those guys quite a bit. So I figure, well, heck, you know, start there, I can take one down from any of these comp sites and just plop it where they want and come back and wire it. Or they might even have someone on hand to do that. That is fine too. Let's see here. What else was I going to tell you? Hey, I, I sent a letter to the fella who is down there from Montara Ridge and the business card saying yeah buddy, I'm interested. Give me a shout anytime. I don't know if he received it or not. Is that Ralph? So the guy who actually operates it for American Tower named Mike, I think his call sign is jkv. I'm not sure what his prefect was. And then the guy who operates the San Bruno site is another bike, but I'm not sure he's ham. I sort of know him because he lets us go up there and put stuff up and that's not being used. So he's really nice to us. This is excellent news. I like hearing success stories like that, especially when there's a Compsite owner that's friendly with ham. I was not aware which of these at sites and not I'm registered to do work with American Tower. Let me tell you what, out of all the people we work with, they are probably my least favorite. And not because of anything that they do, but because they ask for $10 million of insurance. So that's okay. The problem is the customer ends up paying for it. And a lot of people are get sticker shocked when they say oh my God, you've only cost this much to do this. And I say, well if it wasn't an American Tower comp site with a 10 million dollar policy requirement, it wouldn't be. Geez, that's a lot of money. Yeah, I don't know what the premiums would be for a $10 million bond, but. Yeah, that's. That's interesting. Well, American Tower owns so many sites, so I don't know, they're kind of like a monopoly. But what are you going to do? Whether it's the elephant in the room. Oh, well, let's see. Tuesday, I guess. Rain, Rain, rain. No rain on Tuesday, I think so I think you'll be okay. You've been up to that San Bull site. The roads are kind of shoddy, but you can get a flatbed up there if you don't drive too fast. Other than that, I don't think you have any problems. I think a lot of the generators, they're just on wheels and you pull them out or they're on trailers. You pull them out on a delusionally on the left side or the right side of the building. Some have, you know, like old Kohler ones. Let me give it back to you. Okay, Find out most. I would be shocked if their trailers are on generators because why would they need to be mobile? They generally marry to a comp site. All the comp sites I've seen up here, unless they're rented, they're bolted to the ground and hardwired in. So I don't see anything that would suggest they need to be mobile. But we'll find out. So Tuesday I'm gonna go walk through three comp sites and Thursday I'm gonna see two more. So I'll go down there both days. Let's get a pretty good view of what's going on. I'll inventory these things and see how to get in and out. I you tell Cousin actually works at the crane company. He said we go down to San Mateo county frequently. He calls it smc. So really I'm not worried. If you could get. I mean if, if the thing. If units were delivered there somehow, then they could be picked up and replaced. We just need to know specifically where we're going. That. Yeah, there's like how many complex ones? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Either five or six complexes. One TV transmitting station. No, I'm sorry, a couple of them. I don't know if they went out of business. And so it's actually a lot of buildings up there, but it's not a thing to get up there, you know. But the thing is be careful when you drive up that road. There are a lot of. It's a park so a of lot. Lot of people walk the roads and they don't realize there's traffic. I'LL keep my eyes open. I have to tell you, we work Wolfback Ridge in Sausalito and it is located on Golden Gate park property. And a number of folks who come on up there and want to talk to you, ask questions, take photos, we sell tickets. Especially when it's fleet week and the Blue Angels are in, everybody wants to come up to the tower site and then watch the show. It's phenomenal. Buddy, with that one, I gotta tell you. I am pulling into the driveway and I'm gonna sign with you because I am famished and I gotta get something to eat. So let's chat in a bit. Okay? I'll probably be around this weekend, especially next week with the commute. This will be Adam here. 86 POC clear on your final. Yeah. Okay, Adam, you know, we'll chat again and I'll see what I can get together with the guys. So it's a bunch of house ham to operate up there and I'll get back to you. I'll be monitoring a CARL event. KD6POC NX60 go get something to eat and talk to you. 73. Buddy73u it's dinner time. I might have to cook it first, but it's dinner time. 86 POC. Petite.

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W7oqf w7oqf7t. Ralph. W7OQ. Hey, I sent you a text. How about 4 o' clock today, your time? Do you copy that, Matt? Am I making it? Yeah, a little bit of noise and a little bit of hashing background, but you're making it. How does that. How does four o' clock today your time work? I'm not hearing you for some reason. I'll be run if you're listening or just check your text message. Okay. N7tnd.w7oqm. I'm on a different radio. I don't think it's. I think it's something to do with link. Oh, you're 100% now. With the other radio you were kind of noisy, like you're too far away. Whatever. No, you're 100% now. Anyways, how does 4 o' clock your time today work? Yeah, that works. Good. And what All Star channel, our alternate STEALTH altar server. 29151. Oh, I think that's what I'm on now, aren't I? Yes. No, no, you're on our primary Hub. You're on 150-29151. Oh, I missed the one. Okay. 29151. Okay, 4pm Today. Today. That's great. Yeah. You know, he and I. He and I talk probably a couple, three times a week on. On 10 meters. And I just ragged you whatever we talked about again last night. And you know, I just been meaning to reach out to you, so. Okay, great. So 4pm you're time on. On that note. And I'll let Lito talk to you then. Got a big storm moving through here. We're gonna. We're gonna go to potitude, put 88 back in. But a lot of. A lot of bad stuff in the valley today, which is good for getting water at least, so. All right, talk to you in a few hours at 7:00pm, New Vegas, 4:00 clock today. See you then. Hope you have a good trip up there and everything goes well w7oqf in Phoenix.

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