GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2025-12-02

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Wa7kqs, n7huv, n7huv, and wa7kqs. Good copy again, rich. Sounds good at my end. Okay, thank you. Looks like I'll be ready to do net control. All right. I'll be standing by. Wa7 kqf, n7 at uv.

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This is mike. Kd9pr. Elbow and scenic. No traffic. This is fantastic. Did you see phoenix? Like phoenix, arizona, Hard time. He may have picked up the wrong mic or had the wrong channel in there or.

Somebody else's desktop. What are you doing, Ken? I'm just playing around with this Skyworm crap. I completely deleted it from the Carla admin hub de added it. Just trying to get it to do what it's supposed to do. So far, so good. How are you? So I'm not crazy. I did hear somebody from Phoenix. I think that's what I heard. I was kind of in a rough spot, so it was a little spotty, but that's what it seemed to sound like. Okay. Have you been?

Okay. Had a few days off there for, you know, that holiday they celebrate over here, something about turkeys and people are turkeys or something like that. So that was nice, but, you know, weather is kind of ugly. But hey, you know, still didn't have to work and got paid for it. So, you know, what more can you ask? Oh, yeah. Isn't that the penguins and the Native. Native Americans. Native Indians or something. Isn't that what that holiday is about? Of course, with the pilgrims. Oh, it's a turret. They'll remember the. The native. Okay. I'm glad you had a couple of days off. Yeah, they don't.

They don't do that here, but Thanksgiving thing here. But we still did it. We made ourselves a nice, nice late afternoon, early evening dinner and all is good. We've had a couple of thunderstorms blow through here last night this morning and sounds like we've got another one coming ready to hit us here pretty quick. I hear the, the thunder off in the distance and I see some flashes in the sky. Looks like we're going to have another thunderstorm tonight. Ah, cool. Make sure you go run around out there buck naked and wet your feet and touch some metal, you know, antennas or towers or rods or something if you can, and key up at the same time. Woohoo. All right. Hey, I gotta jump out and get some gas here. Sorry about that. Maybe I'm fully.

Of it, too, but at least I got to put some in the gas tank. So I think you know. But I'll be back in a bit in 6 mpt. All right, well, it's already late here. I gotta take care of some animals and give one of them some medicines, and I'll be calling it quit for the day. All right, good to hear you. And I'll be listening just for a couple of minutes before I turn the volume down and head to bed. N6 candy Colombia. Sound like you said Fusa Gaga. Like Lady Gaga. Pusa Gaga. Her cousin. All right, sounds good. Step it out. And six mbt it.

I'll say it slower. Fusa gasu ga fusa gasuga. Yeah. I like lady yaga better. Okay.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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Hello world from state 6. Poc mobile. Katani 5, system 26, link op. System 2, link up.

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K6lnk system 36 snow mountain range. K6jjd.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Is there anyone listening to the system that can give me an audio report?

Good morning. N6 Kne here. That last station. Your audio was unreadable. You want to try it again? I started doubling with you. My bad. Try again. Yes, this is KI7 in Mesquite, Nevada. I just wanted an audio check and where your station is located.

Your audio sounds a little bit distorted. Maybe it's over modulating. It's kind of hard to tell. And the name here is Ken. And I am in Pusa Gasiga, Colombia, or just Fusa Pusa, Colombia, South America. Okay, Ken, how are you accessing the system? Are you on Echo Link All Star or what? Yes, All Star connected to the. Excuse me. The Carlo system there in California ds. All start. Your audio was a little better that time. I think maybe your microphone just may be a little bit hot.

Go ahead. Yeah, this is. I'm on a repeater on fm, so it's. It's kind of a weak repeater, but I'm driving through Mesquite, Nevada, on our way to Marysville, Utah. Okay. All right, now your signal, your signal sounds good. Into the. It's just your audio may be a little over modulated. Okay, I copied Mesquite going into Utah, but you're getting close. All right, enjoy and enjoy your drive there across the Bonneville Salt flats. Take care n6kne. And again, I'm in Busa, Columbia. It.

Okay, Campbell, thank you for coming back to me. And you. Have a good day. Ki7z.

My bad. You're on the 15. Never mind the Bonneville. I was thinking. You were. You were up on. Up on the 40. Yeah. Well, enjoy your drive through the canyons. How about that? Take care. M6KN.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Good morning. This is kilo. November 6th. Mike, golf kilo from Kiko. Hope everyone's having a great day. KN6MGK on 36, Michael.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range november 6, golf romeo, golf 36 local. Good morning.

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Kn6mgk on vhf. I already shut my hf equipment down. Yeah, yeah, your signal was pretty strong from Everybody was strong, but all the short, short distance ones were pretty strong today. Yeah, yeah. I was looking on the Utah and I was coming in pretty good in Utah also, and so are you and so was Yankee Hotel Charlie. And actually both you and I were stronger than him in Utah, than Golfpapa anyway. And usually Golfpapa is pretty loud, so I found that pretty interesting. Well, when Golfpapa first turn came on, he was not running his amplifier and could barely get to Bravo Golf Delta or Echo X Ray Tango. So that was interesting. But.

Yeah. Great conditions for I guess what would be considered to be the non DX short stuff. That's basically Arizona is still considered to be kind of short for 40. But anyway, yeah, can't complain. And yeah, it's interesting with the weather. I used to do the weather and then I had one. There was one situation where they went in a real quick, quick weather and I just couldn't get myself together. I volunteered to do it and then they couldn't get myself together to do it. But yeah, I'm switching over to JSA Cult as we speak. And interesting stuff. Stuff going on with JSA Call I've had a question I wanted to ask you for a while, but you know that.

TTP group? Well, some of the people were saying don't use alcohol. What was that about? Well, I don't think that's the TTP group necessarily. I haven't heard him say that. I've watched every video that he puts out. I think. I guess I can't say every because I could miss one here and there. But for Gaston in Arizona, he does some interesting things and he's working on some interesting projects. So anyway, yeah, I don't think he's said anything about not using all call. I know that his most recent video he on purpose. Well, he on purpose wanted the heartbeats to come back to him. So he just put a heartbeat out there and it came back to him, which gave him the indicator of where his antenna was reaching. And then he was able to use that information off of JS8.

To extrapolate other Windlink DX stations in that area where he could hook up to to be able to send emails out. So he used JSA call in order to give him like general call areas of those stations. And he found out like he's in Arizona, this other one was in Tennessee that could hear him. And so he found a Windlink station in Kentucky which was like maybe 100 miles away or something. And so he could use that station for his Win link messages. So enjoyed that video. That's the most recent one I've seen. And again, he would have wanted people to come back to him so he could have a better indicator of locations where he was getting and getting a good signal back to you. Was he by can't use in Windlink? See, some of the guys are using are relying on V8.

Jeff for winlink. So which was he was using JSA call for winlink or what was he doing? No, he was using a variety of programs. But let's say the one he was using for winlink was VARA hf. VARA hf. So but he used JS8 to find the area where his antenna was reaching other people like on 20 meters. So in other words, like the way the Windlink program works is it'll tell you all the stations that are close to you. Well, that doesn't do you any good if you're in Arizona and if you've got a Windlink station 50 miles from you and you're on 20 meters, there's a chance, there's a good chance that you won't be able to hit that one. So the Windlink program is kind of defunct in that regard. So he was showing a way of finding out who you could hear, you know, simply by using J.

And heartbeats to get stations coming back to you. Look them up, you know, and be able to find out, okay, this one's in Tennessee. So let me find a WinLink station in Tennessee if I can, because I can get in over there. And then that's how he was sending his email through VAR HS, through that particular Windlink station on 20 meters that was, say, in Kentucky. Well, from what I've seen, you might be better off using FT8 to determine that sort of thing rather than JSA. But you gotta like. You gotta like FT8 enough to use it. I don't bother with it, but. But, yeah, the Vera is a very, a very good way to do WinLink, and I'll tell you why. I don't know how much you've heard about vera, but it.

As you send out a transmission packet, the station receiving it immediately does a packet check, and if it's not correct, it immediately sends back a thing to you that says, you know, send it again. So that's something that only Vera is the only one I know of that does that. There's not even a FT Digi program that does that, from what I understand. But I don't know everything there is to know about FT Digi, but I don't think any of the programs send out that correction packet. Yeah, well, I wish you would operate FTA a little bit so you could get a handle on what it does if exactly what's good for and so on, because.

In his scenarios a lot of times, like there's no Internet going, you know, so it's difficult to time your equipment. And FT8 isn't very good for that. And JS8 is way better for that. So that's why I would say, for instance, if you have no Internet, no timing on your computer, and you go on FT8, you won't hear any signals at all. They won't be decoding any signals. You could hear it on your radio, but you won't be decoding them because you're out of time. So the JSA program, as you know, without the Internet, there's several ways you can time it fairly easily, but regardless, you know, you send out a heartbeat and people will come back to you relatively quickly. You know, sometimes you might get eight, or, you know, you know the drill. But I think he only got four decodes at that one time. But sometimes you can get 8 decodes at once or something like that if you set a heartbeat at the right time. So anyway, you could obviously.

Do WWV, or you could just time your JS8 off of decodes or something like that. So I think he tries to show different methods of madness to get something done. And a lot of the stuff is in the works. That guy's in Arizona. Sounds like lots of people go to Arizona, huh? I mean, with Sierra. Papa Kilo, too. And on another note, what kind of boat does she have for sale? Have you looked into that? Back to you. No, I haven't. And I can tell you it's not one that's been tested in big seas and tested on a longer sail, because they just live on it in the harbor, and that's all they did with it. I've never heard of them ever going out, so I suspect it needs.

A lot of work. But from the living on board viewpoint, it's probably got everything working like the water system, kind of like an RV with a decent pec system and all that sort of thing. And pumps and everything are working well. They they wouldn't even have to use water storage in their water storage tanks because they've been plugged into water from the dock the whole time. So, yeah, that's probably one I would avoid. It just depends, though, on what it is. But yeah, and that's interesting that, you know, there's certain people that on our net that have been given a lot of latitude just because they're sitting on a boat, and yet they're never out in the water. And then there's others that are given a lot of land, too, because they they sailed 30 years ago. Golf Papa is one.

He did get around though, pretty well. But he's not really a sailor. He's into fast cars and stuff. So racing and that sort of thing, that's his whole life now. And a couple little horses on his property and that's it. Okay. So anyway, yeah, I, I used to, like I say, I used to do the weather on that and I might be able to talk if I really tried, I could get them to let me do it again. But lately I've been finding that I don't use an alarm and I've been finding that I, I finding that I slipped sleep in a little bit. Okay, well, hey, I gotta go, gotta go do something real quick. So lots of chat with you later. 7:3 for right now. KN6MGK yeah, great conversation on WinLink. I.

Need to get into winlink. Talk to you later. N6grt. I started to get into it a while back and found that the little computer I was using wasn't capable. But everything I've got is capable now. Talk to you later. N60RT.

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System24linkop. At 7pmobile fan. Downtown San Francisco. You got a good signal here. Okay, didn't catch the call sign there. I think the delay is linked. May have cut it off, but appreciate the signal. Report there from South San Francisco. Coming in on system two there.

Yeah, I'm new to this. I just wanted to push the button. I can't lie, I don't have a call sign, but I'm working on that getting that license. Okay, well, reason two and look forward to talking with you. Maybe when you get that M7 tod mobile Spanish range.

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Kn6sln monitoring.

Kansas ln n6grg up in the beautiful redding area. What's going on? Oh, not a whole lot of nothing there. Go where you go. Yeah, we're just hanging out, enjoying the beautiful weather up here. Yeah, sure did. Sure did change when that fog went away. Yeah, you know, I don't. I don't think we got any fog up here. Now like I said down around just east of Main Street. I believe that's where start to elevate we get above the fog here. Yeah.

Not surprised. We went above the fog and I thought we'd be looking down on it. But by the time I looked back, we were so far past it that we couldn't even see it. That was when we go. When we went over 60. Summit? Yeah. Yeah. It's just a few summits across the other. When you come between those two mountains there, the only thing I remember about it is blizzards. You know it? Yeah. It's not a truck driver's favorite place, that's for sure. Yeah, one night I drove all. I drove all the way to the top without chaining up and just soft pedaling every time I spun county fuel.

Kept it rolling, got up to the top and you couldn't hardly walk, it was so slick. And then I thought maybe. Well, maybe I'll put some drag chains on those trailers there. Yeah, you don't want to. What do they call it where the cab angles right into the trailer? Jackknife, I guess they call it, and all that sort of thing. I saw a lot of that on the 299 when I was driving postal trucks. And the semis would. What they do is they, like, point the. Point the semi and keep. Get it. Get the inertia up and they could make it through the bad spot. But then if they had to stop or slow down, they got in trouble. Yeah, that's what usually happens there. Something stalls you and.

Something jump out in front of you or something of that nature, and you hit the brakes, then it's done. You're going along for the ride there. Yeah. And a jackknife can wipe out the whole process. It's all over. Yeah, we back out of Oklahoma, we ran through, well, up on the Siskius. We ran quite a bit going into Oregon, Medford, and ran quite a bit there. But tell you what, when you get out there on 40, which is relatively flat compared to what we have here, there's the hills, you know, up and down and stuff like that, all 40, but. But when you compare it to here, it's pretty flat over here.

You put about 6 inches of ice on there, 5 inches of ice, no snow, just ice. Then you have a problem. Well, the 299 down at generally the highway level along the river. Everything from Willow Creek to Redding, other than there's one peak have to go over and change required. Now, from Willow Creek towards Eureka, there's two peaks that are have chain required. You might as well just put them on, keep them on, go slow, because you can make it without chains. But the way California set up, they put up a sign says change required. Back when I got that ticket, it was only $70. I'm sure it's like 2 or 300 now. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm not sure what it is. Now. I know that they'll certainly give you a ticket. And, you know, a lot of those places, when I was driving, they, it would be slush and, you know, there'd be some swift spots, but as long as you use your head to kind of, you know, get off the fuel when you went through them, you'd be all right. But they make you put chains on and you'd be running on pavement. Yeah. Yep. And there's no way around it. You had to do it in California because they ticket you. Yeah. What me and this other old boy did, we got there by Rica, and we actually slept better than night because the road was closed. There was.

Motel rooms. It was like a circus. I swear. I pulled in there and I called my dispatcher from FedEx and I said, hey. I said, the road's closed. Are you going to okay me get in the room? And he goes, well, let me check. I go, no, there is no check. My wife already called and reserved this room, and there's five other people waiting on it. So either you say yes or no, because when I get online, that room is gone. Go ahead and get it. Yeah. And now what Ken Nke always said was Oregon was really easy going. They didn't slow down, stop the highway, and lift it up to the people to stay alive. And California is exactly the opposite. Yeah. You know, like I said, there was a.

We come off that hill, you know, right down into Wairica. And right there. Well, at Weed, that's where the roof is closed at, but there's nothing. You know, you can't go to bed there and Weed, unless you had a sleeper. And. Well, there was. I don't know, there was trucks everywhere. And in the morning when I got up, I had my truck all chained up before I went to bed. I got up, pulled out. I looked over there, and truck drivers fist fighting because they're. I guess they were trying to get out and they ran into each other or something. I don't know what they were doing, but like I said, it looked like a circus to me. Well, the one out.

Never forget. They close it down at Farnsworth, I think they call it Farnsworth or whatever they call that stopping point if you're going north. They shut down everything north of that. And that particular time, traffic started back up, and it was so tight with semis. They had a lot more semis than usual. And it was so tight with semis that the traffic was tight, three semis wide all the way to Red Bluff. So even a car almost couldn't get through. And those. And they were there for. They were there for two or three days. And the truck driver started getting really hungry. I thought, well, that'd be. I should start a pizza delivery business on my bike. Yeah. Now, what snowstorm is that? I know they had a few. That five was closed there at Redblock.

Well, I don't. I don't remember even the year it was a while back, but it was. I could probably eventually figure it out because it would be in the searchlight still, probably. But, yeah, it was pretty much historical. It was a big deal. And it was the. She grew. It was a serious problem. One year, this may be the year you're talking about. I'm not sure. But she was living at home with her parents, her other sisters as well. They closed down i5, and the people, you know, families or, you know, man and wife and stuff like that, they were asking people to take them in, and so I think they took a couple in so they could sleep tonight.

You know, without sleeping in the car. Well, see, the cars might have been able to figure out how to get off, but the truck drivers were so tight, they couldn't even get off. They couldn't figure out how to get by. It was solid trucks, and I figured I could get a motorcycle through it to make deliveries. But, yeah, it would be a tough situation. Nobody could get on or off the freeway. Yeah, yeah, that'd be. That'd be kind of fun. I always thought up here, you know, they have so much traffic and stuff. When I'm retired, of course, you know, I'm retired now, but is to build me a little coffee wagon and put it out there on the highway. Coffee or something like coffee.

Yeah. Any truck driver that was ready for what happened could really make a few bucks. And plus, everybody would really appreciate what he was doing and gladly pay the money for whatever he had. And what I would have is I've got this. High powered propane, dual, dual sided stove that I found. See, we used. I used to be a kayaker. They would go to these crazy places in the springtime that were big. They were really big, like out in the Salmon River.

And they'd be paid for by these big raft sales company. The primary one ended up being Wing, because Wing got all the government contracts and started building all these super high powered raft, like boats that had machine guns in them and everything. So they were really making a lot of money. And that was all for fun out there on the Salmon River, Nordheimer Campground. And so they'd hire these people that called themselves outfitters and they'd come out there and feed everybody and they had a whole lot of special things. And one of them was that that particular stove. They had two or three of them. And I have one of them now. Yeah, we.

Sorry about that. Anyway, when I was in the oil field there, we go out there, we take a load out there of sometimes acid or, you know, drill mud, condensate, all kinds of stuff. And what they do, they pump it down the well. So many barrels per hour or so many gallons per hour, and you may be stuck out there six hours. But during the winter time, what we do is we get soup and stuff in cans, put it on top of our manifold motor up there by the blower and just let it idle for about, you know, maybe a minute or two. And we'd have hot meals. And the only thing is, if you forgot and left it on there, you'd have a mess. Yeah.

We all did that. The trick was you had to open it or it would explode. Some of them would. So you made sure you went over there and had a pair of gloves to grab that can. Yeah, well, like I said, we. Sometimes you have to get creative when you got stuck out there. So it was one of those deals anyway. Did you hear me? I. Well, actually, my wife, she made me up some QSL cards. I believe that's what you call it. Oh, awesome. Yeah. What I do sometimes I'll get somebody that says, I gotta have a QSL card from you. I'm gonna send you one, and you gotta send me one back, and I.

I don't have two SL cards. I don't do that. I don't care. I'm. I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna bug you to death, okay? And they do bug me to death. And so I found this website where you could make an online QSL card. You never did have a paper copy of it. Each one was custom made. And then you send that person a PDF and say, this is it. You print it out. And that's how I handle it. Yeah. Well, there was a couple guys sent me a. One was a homemade QSL card. Just a little postcard type deal. And then another one was fairly nice. And I got to think about that. I put it up a wall. I said, I got. I don't know, about 25, about 20.

20 contacts now and stuff like that. I said, well, to bring back the old spirit, the way they used to do it in the old days. That's how they used to do it. I said, I'm just going to send. I don't, you know, if they send me one, that's fine. That's fine, too. But I know I sent one. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It's a whole custom that was going on forever and ever until I don't know what really changed. Started slowing down and, And a lot. They. If you look on qrz, what they'll say is eqsl. And that means they're doing like I did, where they're making a virtual QSL card.

Some of them are really nice. There's a whole bunch of sites that do it all for free. Yeah, you know, I mean that, that's, that's the way to do it. Just send an email, then you print it out, same thing. And you know, like I said, I, it's just something I want to do. I don't have to do it. I just, I thought it'd be cool. I'm gonna turn up about 25 of them and see how they work out. And then when I get down in courts, I hand them out, stuff like that. You know, there's a lot of guys down there that does the same thing. They either do like little business cards or something of that nature. But I mean, not everybody does it. I mean, I asked my wife, I said, well, I said, Cost $0.05 stamp. She goes, are you kidding? It's my boy.

Yes, sir. And that's one of the reasons why they stopped. In fact, if it's DX situation, I've got one one situation right now. The guys in Antarctica. I don't know how you get mail from Antarctica to here. I might try to get one from him and. But I'd have to send him one of these. I don't have them, so I'd have to send one of these EQSLs. I'll bet at his QRZ side, he says he's saying EQS QSL also. So I'll have to talk to about that with him. But I knew him quite well when he lived in Fairbanks. He still lives in Fairbanks. He's only down there just to help the.

University of Alaska. They have, they have a thing going with Antarctic place. He's helping them out. Yeah, yeah, that's, that's quite a dream. You know, they have a. I know you know this. I heard that they had a Alaska net on 20 meters. Let me correct that. Not 20 meters, 80 meters. Well, they've got them on 20 and 80. The easiest one for us to get to is the 20 meter one. Yeah, yeah. Like I said, there was a guy on, he was over in Nevada, I think it was.

And on 8 meters and he was doing the net all over from the Bay Area all the way to Idaho, you name it. You heard him in there, I'm sure. Well, one of the people that I used to deal with that ran the 80 meter net part of the time. Usually there's a bunch of different net controls and he's slowing down a little bit because of health reasons. But he's back on now. I think he's spending most of his time on the 80 meter Alaskan net with the sailing net. You know, it's a boating net. And his call is Victor, Echo, Seven, Whiskey, Sierra. Mike, You know, don't quote me on this, but I think he was on there.

There was another guy doing the net and he was saying that he was getting healthy enough to take it back over or something of that nature. His name wouldn't be Markless. No, it's Bill or William. You can look him up on QRZ Victor, Echo 7, Whiskey Sierra, Mike. Okay, maybe it wasn't him. But yeah, they were talking the other night. I guess it was night before last when they had him. But anyway, they were coming in really clear because I guess there wasn't anybody on any other channels that I could hear. But on that 80 meters, I could.

Well, if it was a boater's net, and of course, they could have anybody, whether they're a boater or not, check in in Alaska. But if it was primarily a boater's net, then that would almost for sure be the one that I. That Bill's involved in. He's in. What do they call that? It's on the island of Vancouver. Vancouver Island, British Columbia. And it starts with an O, I think, and it's way up this inlet, and then there's an airport there, and they build fireplanes, among other things. Yeah, I've never been to Alaska.

I want to go though one of these days I'll make it up there. Well he'd been part of that 40 meter net for a long time also. He was, what he do is check in on the 40 meter net, Marine net and then say he had to go and switch over to the 8 meter net. He did that for years and we became pretty good friends. Yeah, well you know like I said I. Cambridge Island, I got a contact from there which to me that's quite a ways. I looked on the map where it's at, that's down on the other side of Cuba.

Well, I've got him marked off here. Right where he is. I think I'm going there now. Yeah, this is it. And it's called Alberni. A, L, B, E, R, N, I. Alberni, comma, British Columbia is probably how you find it. There's a big airport there, right in the middle of British Columbia. That's what this guy. Where this guy lived when I first met him at the airport, because there was security at the airport. Yeah, I hear you there.

But, you know, like I said, it's just getting started on this thing and see what happens. But you know what? I was reading up or watching YouTube and that FT8, was it a target? Single sound card that goes in between the radio and the computer there? Well, I ended up picking up the one Steve said was everybody was using, and I was surprised. It's a teeny, tiny little thing and I've got it and it's called a digirig, and I'm not gonna recommend it till I've used used it. But that was for a radio that I now own that doesn't have a sound card.

I'd like to get all going because I think it'd be a great radio. It's 200 watts. 10 woods. Yeah. So you do have, have capability of getting on there. Yeah, I, I suppose that. Now, let me ask you this. Would that feed your logbook on your computer? I missed one word in that sentence just before the word on my computer. Yeah, with that feed. In other words, would that operate and just automatically fill in who you're talking to, where they're coming from? It doesn't actually fill it in for you. You gotta, you'll get the call and have to figure out.

Where they are, but FDA doesn't, nor does jsa. You get the calls and then you have to find out where they are. Like QRZ or something. Use QRZ or something. There might be some fancy program that does something like that, but the regular FT8 and JSA program doesn't do that. Oh, okay. That answers. Yeah, I didn't know quite how it worked. Like I said, I just, I seen it on there. I thought it was pretty interesting, you know, like, like you and Steve both were saying before I bought this 891 then a lot of the high end radio that I guess has a sound card already built into it. But yeah, I mean, it's just something to think about.

Well, it really makes HF interesting for me ever since I got into especially for me JS8 see, because even though JS8 some think it's a little complex and a little bit harder more work. You know, what it does is like it opens up things that no other mode has ever been able to do, including the most fancy modes out there like Vera. They make claims that they're doing what what's happened going on with jsa and they are not doing those things. And one of for instance, I received in my mailbox. Every JSA computer has a mailbox in it. If you have run that program and every GSA.

Program has a mailbox in it, so. And they're also capable of doing another thing that no other program has ever done, and that's a real solid relay, an actual relay from one, like, from one country to another or multiple countries. So I got a. In my mailbox, I got a message from a guy in England through Australia and into my mailbox saying, hey, I'm reaching you. This is kind of the long way of reaching you, but I made it all the way from England to Australia to you. Yeah, that'd be kind of interesting. Yeah. And these.

All this information is stored on the computer, whatever computer you run it. And I might still have it on one of my hard disk drives someplace, but because it's in a great big, huge text file. But what I did right after I got that is I put it. I made a YouTube video and put it on YouTube. And I photographed in the video this guy's call letters and everything. So I have actual proof of it because I made that video. Yeah. That's pretty interesting. They're putting computers with radios, of course. They've been doing that for quite a while now, I guess. Yeah. And, you know, they had a lot of different ways of doing it, and most of them, well, like.

One of the first ones was. Oh, what was that called? It was. It was prior to FT8, prior to JS8. Psk. Psk, I think 31 was what they called it. And it didn't do any of the messaging stuff. It didn't do any of the relay stuff. It just basic connect to a different. Send a message to a different ham radio operator and he'd send a message back. Almost like CW or something, except it was. Type it in. Well, that, that was pre. That was done pre. Pre JS8 and pre FT8. FT8 came out. And it. What it showed. They originally did this FT8 so that they could bounce signals off the moon because it was capable of super low signals, signals you couldn't even hear would register.

And so that was the next thing. And far and far more distant than CW people. And then the next thing after that was JSA call. Yeah, yeah, yeah. CW is kind of cool, you know, but crazy me, I mean, that's why I say I'm crazy. Think of it. I sit there and listen to it and try to write it down. Ain't no way. I mean, my brain's going to start that quick, and I'll be the first one to say that. Yeah. And it's a young people's mode, because young people have better hearing and better things going on with their brains. But if you pick it up, then you shouldn't let it go. Well, I did that. I was young, and I got it up to 13 words.

A minute, and then all these other modes were available, so I just stopped doing it and started doing everything else. That was a big mistake. Yeah, well, I don't know. That's. It's just something walking forward with it, you know, getting a sound card and doing that. Now I can type on the computers and text messages, email or whatever you want to call it. I think that'd be kind of cool. But, you know, it's just. Are there large community out there that has. That. Have FT8 or KS8? You mean one of those. These different modes? Is that what you're asking? There's large groups, yeah, there are a lot of people using that fta.

There's a lot of people because if you use it, let's say I get it and use it, if there's nobody on there then to receive it, there's no reason to have it. So that's why I was actually on the quite a few people out there. Well, here's the deal. For me, FT8, the first thing I tried was FT8 before JS8 even existed. And I wasn't too happy with what I saw going on because all the stations ever sent back and forth was like, you could put like one extra word like Steve will put the word pota in. I believe he puts the word pota in the stuff he's sending out. But it's basically, it's only your call letters and maybe the word pota. And he might be on there and gonna jump on and say, you know what you're talking, because I don't know what I'm talking about. But.

And I used to think, well, you could get a contact without doing anything. And he, both he and Ken said, oh, no, you gotta be there and do stuff. But you do very little. What you get for it is very little. Like, you don't even get the location. You just get the signal, amount of signal you're. You're being received at and the call letters, and pretty much that's it. Yeah. Let me end up like KN6SLs. Well, I, I can say this, Mike. I'm consider myself lazy on, on this and on that parts Parks on the air. I kind of like that, being a hunter, and it makes everybody happy. It makes me happy if I made contact. But I'm a hunter, and.

But they have to do all the work, you know what I'm saying? Well, you're going to be surprised because a database is being put together for you as a hundred. Whether you're signed into PODIA or not with an account, a database is being put together. So every time you do a hunt, your. Your callers are being put in this database. And then the minute you get your own coda signage thing, you know, basically it's an account. You don't pay anything or anything. It's just a spot where everything that has to do with you is located. All this, all these contacts that you got as a hunter are going to show up in that account. Yeah, I got a.

I got an encounter on parts on the air, and I'm, I'm going to mention, say there's like 10, 10 or 11 in there so far. And, and they put the, the activation person in the park. He's the one that entered all the data. I just went in there, read it. Yeah. Now, one thing that I did, I do, in addition to the POTUS stuff, sometimes I'll put it into my QRZ log, which is not automatic at all. You know, it's, I think if I believe you've got software that'll do a lot of automatic logging stuff, but I don't have that. So I go to QRZ and I just fill it out, and if I get it, I found out some details. I put it in within a half an hour.

Of when I actually did the contact. If I put it in within a half an hour, then it qualifies as a contact. I remember you were talking about that. Well, that's the deal. According to Steve. It's a half an hour. I think it was, according to Steve, anyway, it's a half an hour. Yeah, yeah. I got like about 6 over the QRZ, you know, and that, that's me putting it in there. Some of, some of them I put the wrong time in there because I didn't quite understand where they wanted local time or they were wanting that UTC time. But now I know that they want the UTC time. So now it will work out pretty good. Well, I would just get it in there as soon as you can and not worry about the time. Let the system fill in the time and then you don't have to worry about.

About it, it's correct. And as long as you do it within a half an hour in order, if you just get there within 15 minutes and fill it out, it's all legitimate. It's all settled. You don't have to worry about making mistakes. Just let the system put the time in. Yeah, that's what I do. Yeah, I got you. Yeah. So, I mean, it's kind of fun, you know, it takes time to. Good stuff. But anyway. Yeah, my QSL cards. Yeah, I'm gonna have them made up probably by the end of the week when we go to Red Bluff, and. And then, like I said, I'll kick them out, see what happens. But anyway, Mike, I'm gonna have to eat for lunch there, so I'm gonna run, and we'll be talking to you and SBK and six sl. Amateur. Well, do you have a pen or a pencil handy?

Yeah, go ahead. I want you to write this down. Kilo, Charlie, 4, KC4. And then a forward flash, you know, a slash that's leaning to the right. Kilo, Lima, 5, Sierra, Echo, K, L, 5, SE. Okay, got confused on that. I got Kilo, Lima, five, se. Okay, whoever is a forward slash. Go. Okay, the first part is all one long series of letters and numbers. Okay? The first part is TKC4 and a forward slash. You know what a forward slash looks like?

Yeah, go ahead. After that, you put the KL5SE. So it's all. All one set of letters. And if you go to QRZ and look up KC4 forward slash KL5SE, you'll see what I'm talking about. And if you look at his log, you'll see my contact. Oh, okay. Yeah, I got. Yeah, well, you're. Oh, you mean on the one in Antarctica? Okay, gotcha. Yeah. So, yeah, we'll check it out and. But anyway, I'll let you run this BK and 6s. Okay. Yeah. And most of what he did is either FT8 or sideband. I don't see my contact on there right now because.

Apparently it has to go down a list of some kind or I don't know what's going on. Like, it's not showing. He's got 288 and it's only showing about 20. Anyway, talk to you later. N6TRT. And most of all of it is 20 meters.

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Charlie, Alpha. Radio check. Radio check. November, Gulf and Stockton. You're sounding loud and clear. Well, I must be off the frequency a little bit. Sound like making mouth. Where are you located? 448.020.

That frequency. I'm not too familiar with the system. I'm not sure, but that's. I'm not sure if that's a coordinated pair or not. I feel like usually they. Engine 7525 or 00. Did you find this on a repeater listing? First I gotta figure out what's going on because I can barely understand you. How's my signal? Your signal is loud and clear.

This is WA7 key QSN Mesquite. Jim, if that's you, you're on the right frequency and you sound just fine coming through the mesquite repeater. And so does the other station, wherever he's located. Wow. I'm getting you with the. Basically the same as the other guy. Okay, I don't know what the issue would be because I'm hearing both of you fine. You should be. Should be able to hear the repeater. Okay? Because you're hitting it solid. All right? Anytime you say, like 1, 2, 3.

Every one of the like one is one with in it. Combined together, same thing. Every word has that little hash in it. It's got to be my station. But I don't see how it could be. But you never know. Okay, well, if you're listening on F, make Sure you're on FM mode and 448020 is the receive frequency right now. Could this be an issue with your hearing aids? No, I fired her many years ago. But no, I don't wear hearing aids. Okay. From my end, I can't tell what that issue is.

Sound just fine. I'll let you carry on there and try to troubleshoot that WA7K, QSN Mesquite. All right, I appreciate, but I'm gonna have to go for now. This Kilo Five Juliet Charlie. Thank you. For the other station on the radio, check and take out aca. Clear. This is November Six, Yankee, November Golf. Josh, over here. Mobile. On the way to Sacramento. Jim, I think your name is. What type of radio are you using? Is it new or is it used? Or is it Juki Duke? All right. I guess he already up and powered it down. This is N620, mobile.

Yeah. Everybody's sounding good on my end. I'm in Las Vegas on hypertosi. Everybody sounded good, so it must be just something with the link that sometimes happens on this system. The wake us is up. Las vegas station, this is n6yng. I see your mdt idea. What type of radio are you using? I'm using a motorola cp200d. That's what I'm using. K7kwf. I'm also on a motorola. I'm on an apx6500.

Those TP200Ds. Those are good radios. I have one of them. And the first. The first radio I made my very first amateur contact on was a TP200. No deep, just the standard one. But those are definitely the workhorses of a commercial world. And I. Your computer call sign is kilo7kilo whiskey Oscar. Is that correct? Kilo7, kilo whiskey foxtrot. Kilo 7 kilo whiskey foxtrot. Well, great to meet you. This is November 6th Yankee, November Golf N6YNG. Based in Los Angeles. Currently approaching Sacramento City. So, is you a fan of Motorola equipment, or is that just the radio you had on hand or. That's an interesting radio choice. They're not exactly DC radios to use on ham.

Oh yeah, this is a good radio. It's an old goodie. It even works good on dmr. I really love this radio. You can pick, sometimes you can pick these up for like 50 bucks. You know, it's only 16 candles so they don't have a lot of channels, no display or anything like that. But it's, it's a nice little radio though. It works pretty good. Yeah. The fact that it has no display, I mean that's a really difficult situation because I mean I struggle to remember what I have programmed in my six speed channels because I don't use it frequently enough. And the other thing too is I started out with a 4 channel CP200 same radio, almost no DMR and no display. And having to walk back to the computer and, and open up the CPS anytime I wanted to change any of the four channels was kind of a pain. Have any other radio.