GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2025-12-11

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M17t md las vegas. 7 Oso. How do you do, sir? Hey, Good afternoon. Doing good. Just leaving the office. Things are starting to slow down a little bit for the holidays. How about yourself? I'm doing the same, but things are picking up, so I'm happy to be leaving. Ah, okay. Kind of interesting that things are picking up, but good to stay busy, I guess. Yeah, we got a lot of folks that take some time off at the holidays, A lot of the government.

Some of the guys that we work with are going to be off starting next week for extended periods of time. I guess they have to have their use or lose vacation or something like that. They're burning up. It's funny you mentioned that. I just checked my LES. Apparently I just gained 20 days of use or lose. I think I'm just going to take all summer off. Oh, how long do you have to use it? I gotta refuse it up by the end of next FY. Was that one October 26th? I've still got a bunch of fraternity leave I gotta cash in I guess. Okay. Yeah, the guy, the guy I work with, the director, I think he's a 15 or something. For some reason he's. He has until like the middle of January do it so I don't know why it's different but whatever.

Taking off starting Monday through the 2nd of January. Good. Good amount of time to get out of here. That sounds like a good time to travel after the holidays. Won't be as busy. Sicknesses aren't as prevalent. Pretty good. Yeah. He's got a house up in Carson City. His wife and he travels up there pretty much every weekend. Kind of his future retirement home. So I think he's going to hang it up near the end of this FY or at the end of the calendar year. So I like working with the guy. So it's his heir apparent's a good guy too, so it'll be a good transition. Other than that, might take a little bit of time for the holidays. Probably not a lot. Get caught up in a few things. It seems like I'm always fine, even with the furlough and everything.

I was working during it, of course. But even then, when things were a little bit slower, I still didn't get completely caught up in everything. So are you traveling at all for the holidays? You staying local? No, I'm staying local. I have some time off taking spending with the baby, and the plan was to hang out with my wife, but she called to come in. She's a reservist here, so I'm really. Okay. So I presume then if she gets called in, she's going to be out of the local area. No, she'll just be up here. Got it. What is, what is her career field and what does she do. More or less on the.

Copy. Okay. All right, Very good. Trying to, we're going to try to make a run to Mount Potasi Friday. I'm going to take a day off. We're going to run up there. There's been a lot of snow melt. We've been up there, Got some cameras up there. Looks like the top of the actually, the comp site doesn't look like has any snow at all. But there's a spot on the promise side going up that doesn't get a lot of sunlight this time of the year. And I'm kind of worried about maybe a drift there or something. Pack a shovel just in case. I didn't have to worry, go up there, shovel snow for you. On a side note, pretty interesting to see if we actually get Toyota Hiluxes coming over here. Pretty fun to have getting. I didn't catch where that was. Hilux what Found the good.

Old Toyota Hilux that sold like these AK47s across the world, except for here in America. Oh, okay. I wasn't familiar with that. Okay, cool. Yeah, well, hopefully, fingers crossed, I'll be able to get through okay. You know, I've had the repeater fixed on my bench for better part of a month, and it just has been a matter of trying to get up there. As in cooperation, Man. The weather definitely got it turned quick there for a while. I remember you were talking about that for the inner thigh. You know anything much about the mesh tastic node? No, I've. I've never gotten into mesh at all, so I couldn't help you out on that. It.

A couple of the military guys I work with were interested in kind of developing a little network, pretty robust one in Vegas, but doesn't really do us much good up here on the other side of the Valley. It should, because there's a mesh note on High Potacy. So they've got a mesh at our radio site up High Potosi and our site at Red Mountain. And I think they may have something on Low Potosi, too, if they're not in our building. So you guys should be able to hit High plot, right? Or not. I think with how low power they are, it just doesn't get up. If I can't see it turn on. Okay. Yeah. You're not going to see High Potency from Indian Springs, but you'd see angel, of course. But I don't think there's a mesh up there. I'm not sure where they're all at Cornell.

I think I'm going to throw one up on my antenna map when I at the house. Little solar nodes. See how that does for the immediate area. Yeah, not even, I'm not even sure what kind of throughput they have to, you know, they're less than a watt. It's, it's commercial. Lora chip. Spectrum there. Very power efficient. What kind of data bandwidth do they have? I don't know the specifics on it. I know it's very small, so probably smaller than ATRs dashes. Okay. Yeah, we use, we use ubiquity bullets, microwave bullets to shoot.

Between the mountaintops for All Star to get the Internet. We got a main note on Angel Peak. We get Internet service from a commercial provider and then we shoot it to shoot it to our building at angel for the faa. Excuse me. That's how this repeater gets Internet. And then from angel we got a five gig bullet that shoots to high bloodices. That's how we tie that in on low potassi. We get Internet from a commercial provider up there too. And we shoot that, we pick it up there in a building on load, then we shoot that to Red Mountain. So that's how we get Internet there. So that's kind of how we're tied together. But they're all It's a hybrid of 2 and 5 gig bullets. Upon Angel. Pika used to be on the HXO's website and it looks like it's changed. I've been trying to reconfigure a radio. A lot of.

Yeah, there's a DMR repeater on Angel. Don't have. I can find out the information at the top of my head, but if you drop me an email, I'll send it to you. I got programmed into my DMR radio here. And of course there's DMR and High Potency and Red Mountain and Low Potency. I appreciate it though. I'll. I'll jump off here. K 704 is going to be on the side. Yeah, very good. Just like I said, drop me an email and I'll send you the info. Have a good evening at 7T ending.

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W7 cmo, are you still there? This is kd3, cbs. Oh, I'm still here. Okay, I don't know what's going on on my end, so I guess we'll have to wrap this conversation up short, so. By the way, can I send you a QSL card? Delta, I can do a qfl card.

Whiskey7 Tangle. Mike Oscar. If you've got my address, go ahead and send a QSL card. I copy you fine. Okay. 73. Sorry about that. I'm gonna say 73. Speed. So 77 tmo. This is kv3, cbs. Thank you.

Can you please come in? Again, this is kilo delta three charlie delta. Yeah.

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6 AES Livermore, checking in on 580, westbound. Buddy, who's out here tonight? Livermore. This is Adam over here in Santa Rosa. I only got adf. We didn't get your prep. Throw it at me one more time. Hey there, Adam. This is Kate. Six A, E, F, Kilo, Six Alpha, Echo, Foxtrot. I'm just on a drive westbound to go help some family, do some moving. Go ahead. Well, buddy, you're either a million years old or that's a Benji call sign. Yeah. Then here's Adam. 86, POC. Point of contact. I remember Livermore when I was a K kid. My dad did his drill weekend in Camp park, which I think is in Dublin.

Livermore and I would go with him to work on a weekend just to get out of the house and get away from my mom. Hang out with my dad for a thrill weekend. I remember going down there. It was a pretty good shuffle from Santa Rosa. Right on toc. I gotcha. Yeah, no, my call is definitely a vanity call. I am not old enough to hold an early K6 call but I do get that a lot, especially from our club members. They all wonder how I got it. I kept an eye on the call sign list for a while to get it because those are my initials. So I was waiting for it. It finally popped up and I earned it there. I've been call sign here for 35 years so I'm not gonna change. And if I see they're going to say who your first name. Additional mustard with a hey, what is it? Andrew Adam, Aaron.

Yeah, you got it. First time name here is Andrew. Andrew at aef. It's good to hear you here on the radio. I actually grew up in Washington so I'm not super familiar with the Bay Area but I moved down to San Mateo area to finish up high school and then moved east. Now I'm living out in Twain Heart. Do you know Twain Heart, Andrew? I can't say that I did. I graduated high school in 1998. I'm from Santa Rosa. I grew up in Santa Rosa. I wasn't born here but I spent all my teenage years here, you know in my when I went to college at Cal which is over there at Berkeley that's generally as far east as I went. I mean I've been to Antioch a couple of times for jobs. I'm the tower guy so I, I maintain and design communication sites. PHP is my biggest client but I got a pretty good sprint.

Of other stuff so I was up to East Bay sometime A lot of work in San Mateo county recently. Oh yeah big time dude there was sometimes going to save you and now it's oh yeah I've been to Seattle exactly twice in my life or Once was an AutoCAD conference once was for a conference at flow water jets. I really stopped at the Space Needle and I said that's a lot shorter than I thought it would be. Yeah the ride up the Space Needle only takes a couple minutes huh. Very cool. I grew up about 30 minutes or so east of Seattle in a little town there in Sammamish up on the plateau and my brother my brother had a boat he lived in a marina on a live aboard boat out in Berkeley for a little while. Very cool. Hey yeah I do little volt message communication stuff. I'm a control systems engineer so I do like automation and control system.

Systems for low voltage stuff. You know, I'm very familiar with it. I had a buddy I went to school with named Crib Gray and he went to work for Automated Logic. It was out in like Alabama, Georgia, some spot like that. I don't really keep in touch with him other than a Christmas card and a Facebook post here or there, and that's what he designed. He and I met in engineering school. He has an undergrad mechanical and a master's in computer science. So they picked him up real quick. And he says it's definitely a culture shock living out there and the weather's not as nice that it's here. But it was something he liked doing. So there he is. He enjoys it. But now I've done, I've dabbled in you guys. My thing with Tom Sites is I do everything. Build the road, put the fence in, set the building, do the.

Industrial analysis on the tower you know point to put the fixes on point them where they need to go everything is turnkey set up I'm sure we have plenty of overlap Right on yeah hey that sounds cool I've always really enjoyed working on larger jobs One of the things I really enjoy with the work I do is getting into bigger sites where I can do like large building deployment you know it's cool to do small one off kind of jobs you know little onesie twosie jobs but I really like when we get a whole building and we get to do all floors we get to do all the different conference rooms and all the different like big installations for those jobs it's really fun especially when we get to involve some kind of audio or RF kind of stuff you know working with microphones or inductive literature loop that kind of thing but I've always really enjoyed being on bigger jobs when I can see it from start to finish we get in with the general contractor and we.

We don't finish until the client gets in the job. You know. Looking fairly cool. I got a buddy from high school that does a similar thing to what you do. Workman Communications. His name is Rick Workman. He's got a contractor's license for that local stuff I think it's G7 and he sets up cameras, access stuff for people coming through doorways, WI fi access points, etc, you know what I'm talking about. You guys probably see the same lady you might even know. But hey Andrew, I got to tell you what buddy, I'm actually going up the front of the house I'm going to shut this truck off. I've been running since 5:45 this morning so I'm going to go inside, feed the dog, feed myself and pass out. Terrific thing to meet you though. Put the hunters have a easy on this time with a nice one. Home and D from 86 dot clear after your final.

It on KD6TOC. K6AEF. Hey, it's good talking to you. Thanks for keeping me company. I'm on about four hours now of my drive to go help family get their move going. So we're heading out to San Mateo, and I'm gonna do a little work with them. I got the dog here in the back as well, so we're gonna get to their place. I'll get the dog inside and down for a nap. And we got a whole weekend ahead of us moving stuff into their new home. So thanks again for keeping company. K6AEF. I'll go back to listening, Buddy. All members of Buried Easily Allied Expeditionary Force were famous in World War II. All right. With that, I'm going to call it a night. See you then, bud.

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Kilo November 6th. Mike, golf kilo on Carla 36, 7:21 in the morning from Chico, California.

Well, I thought I heard Michael out here. November 6th. Golf, Romeo, golf. November 6th. Golf, romeo, golf from kilo. November 6th. Mike, golf, kilo. Yeah, I'm here. I was talking to. November 6th, Hotel Oscar Yankee on sideband. And he's in the campground. It's strange. They get this intermittent noise. Almost all these campgrounds get this intermittent digital noise. And it wipes out all of us. And they. They only hear. Even hear us come back. And then. And then you transmit. And when they're hearing everybody. So it's on and off. It's not always there. It's on and off, and it's digital noise in a campground. Go figure. Okay. Well, I mean, the only idea.

Idea. I've got on some of those campgrounds, they have WI fi and they have several of those antennas around and stuff that extend the WI fi and so forth. Wonder if that has anything to do with it. Well, not unless WI fi goes on and off. And as far as I know, it doesn't go on and off. It's just on all the time. And this is intermittent. It's on and it's off. And that's what's weird about it. Yeah, I was just trying to figure out what it would be at a campground, because lots of campgrounds have them things around. They offer Internet service of some sort, which is kind of neat when they.

But. Yeah, they generally are pretty inferior, but it's something it's good enough to like, text and things with a lot of times. But I don't think my WI fi calling works too well with it. But I wouldn't know for sure. But these days, with the advent of, like, the Starlink minis, I bet you a lot of folks are using that these days. Yeah, I suppose there could be something about Darling because that makes them intermittent, you know, they'll be. The noise will be there and it'll be gone. Apparently it's pretty solid right now because Hoi is not coming back, so. I don't know. Anyway, I've got 31 degrees here. How about you? Well, I haven't been outside. I can see it looks like it has been last few mornings where. Where it looks all cloud and stuff like that.

And I'm getting quite tired of it, to be honest. In fact, I'm starting to. My tinfoil hat starting to grow. Well, I've got absolutely clear skies now, but last night it was. I don't know if you've looked outside, but last night what happened here was fog in the early evening. And then I woke up or something and went out about midnight or something like that, just guessing, and all the fog was gone. And one of my neighbors that I help out, a lady that I help out, I say she's two or three miles away, at least four, maybe four miles, maybe kind of southeast.

And she had. Has fog when I don't down there. So. And I can look down towards Lassen and I'll see it down my street where I normally see Lassen, I'll see fog. A fog bank. Okay. Well, without going outside, I did tell you. I opened my drapes and I could see fog. Well, it says the weather conditions say 40 degrees fog. So I bet you that your fog lifting over there is what's cooled you down. The fog here has allowed the insulated layer to kind of help keep that warmth in. I should put quotation marks on the warmth because it says it's not going to warm up over 44 degrees again today. And I kind of thought that we were going to get a reprieve from this towards the.

End of the week and that sure isn't working out. So like I say, my tinfoil hat starting to grow. There's a guy up there has a website called Geoengineering Watch. He's. I think he's out of readings anyway, that guy, and he talks about the climate change farce and you know, the chem trailing of our clouds and stuff. Possibly they're doing that up north and radiation fog blanketing the north state down here to the valley. So that's the tinfoil hat stuff. Anyway, I will say this, that I certainly remember days of having a couple of fog here and there, but not weeks of it straight. So this is kind of an anomaly for me in Chico. Any well, all due respect, I would have to characterize that tinfoil hat.

A societal virus that's going around. You got to look at the facts to that's the way you eliminate that virus is you look at the facts. And that's what the NOAA is all about. We look at the facts and that's how they can predict. By the way, speaking of predictions, there is a storm coming Tuesday. But it and it's point it was light rain and now it's 38 inches. So it's increased and I have to be out in it. That's not going to be any fun. Yeah. You've been getting you've been suffering with.

That a couple times now. One time you got. You got hit pretty bad, so hopefully you'll dress for success this time. Yeah, OFG's on there now, so I'm saying hello to him. All right. Yeah, go ahead, ask him about your. About his logging software. All right, I'll let you get back after it. I'm listening to the other 2 meter channel here too, so. Yep. And I don't know, maybe I'll flip on the Chabasco as well. Kilo November 6th, Mike, golf kilo.

All right. Yeah, I talked to ofg and they opened up the net. I was going to tell him, well, you could get over there and that talk, Pola, but he just opened up the net. He's net control, so. Oh, well, Yeah, you know, he's about maybe S5 here, kind of like. Let me bring I'll bring up the preamp a little bit. Well, I guess that brings him up to about five, about nine, eight to nine, somewhere in there. So I'm not going to try to measure it because he's just totally clear. And we've got Greg on there, India in the uniform. Okay. So let me start marking stuff down. All right. Talk to you later. Kilo November 6th, Mike Golf. Kilo. 71, 92.

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Hey, steve. N60rg. Actually, I'm getting ready to turn off hf. I've got some things going on here. I'm gonna leave in about 25 minutes, but thought I'd help out with the net today. What's going on? Yeah, they're kind of sensitive on topics there and kind of funny about it. It depends on who you are as to what you could talk about. But that's kind of why I brushed off the mesh stuff over there. But over here, I'm trying to think about what. I guess what you're saying is that the higher elevations have mesh now, and that might be a possibility. I mean,

I don't know how far those low powered ones can go. Are they low powered guys? Yeah there's been a there's some of them are making their own little antennas and stuff sometimes little dipoles but little co linears also and putting them on the nodes. They're also using these little amplifiers I think you may have one I don't know but that might boost it up to close to a watt you know and stuff like that. So putting together little solar nodes and things like that so there are a few guys working on it at a little higher elevation so you may find others if you did have a node up you may find others around that have them that may even be further up and then you hop off of them. But also another mesh called mesh core that people are experimenting with which gives your number of hops and some directionality with the nodes you can use. You could actually create a path like you can.

And with APRs, you can send it from one node to another to another by design, and you can do up to 64 hops. So that's an interesting one. They might try in a couple of months. But I was just trying to give the update to that. Not sure how it doesn't fit into the QST portion of that net, because that's what general traffic means. But whatever, you know, it's up to them. And by the way, meshtastic, you know, has a ham spot. You know, you can tick the toggle and it puts it in ham radio mode. So it is actually ham radio. It can be anyway, ham radio mode. So, yeah, there's no reason why it shouldn't be at least a part of the topic on a QST section of the net over. Are you saying it should be part of the topic on the QSP portion of the.

Tobacco net. Well, I'm just saying, just Steve's comment in regards to being off the net or whatever, I don't understand his reasoning for that. So. Because like I say, it's it's a ham radio mode, so it can be anyway, it can be either. Or when you put it in ham mode, it becomes part of the ham radio mesh network, too. So anyway, yeah, that's all I said, just a comment. But whatever. You know, it's a marine net, so if they want to stick to marine topics, then maybe people should talk about just marine topics, like the cartels. Yeah, that's what I was trying to say was that it's a marine net. But then they want to say, however, if you're a sailor, you have extra privileges, and it's.

You're not a sailor, you have fewer privileges. Which. That's the part that kind of upsets me. With the net, they do that, and they can be really nasty about it, especially golf. Pa. Golf. Papa, in fact, said the word when he heard my call. He actually said the word crap after he heard it. So, you know, and he he has had problems with the actual net, with some of the remarks that he's made in the past. He actually said the F word to someone regarding a situation that he was angry about and got ostracized from the net for a while. So, you know, that net definitely has its problem, but they've always had. They've all.

Had this rule that they don't apply to everybody about what you can talk about and, and the fact that it's a marine net. So but they do have that thing where you know, you can bring up a topic and say but I like to talk about after net and they'll say oh okay, we'll reserve the frequency for you after net. And that's how they handle it when they're doing things correctly and fairly. Yeah. Well you notice that parks on the air, literally parks are on the land and that shouldn't be part of the net also. Yet that topic was even brought up by Net control today. So he's the one who brought it up originally. Anyway, I don't need to beat down the drums of your thoughts because I agree with you on that. It's dumb and the net's down to let me see here. I think I counted 10 that was including me, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

11 included me. And then you have the one guy Jim talking about in the QST about, I guess, cartels I've never heard of. So anyway, but I know they're out there nevertheless. Yeah, I mean, there's oh, and then we had another death of one of the club members out of paradise on Sunday. So, you know, the ham radio and nets and everything are all evolving and they need to be more inclusive and more into some of these newer modes that are coming about and the things that are actually driving amateur radio today. If they aren't, then it's going to just keep continuing to slide and maybe some new things will come about. But it's unfortunate. Amateur radio, it can be a real fun hobby, and some of them are taking the fun out of it. But anyway, his comment doesn't bother me. And however the net wants to run, it's.

Fine with me. But I'll listen to your final here. But I'm gonna have to go. I've got a place. I need to leave by nine anyway. Kilo, November 6th, my golf. Kilo, back to you for your final seven three. Yeah. You know, people get cranky and people do things that are unfair, and that's not helping ham radio. I agree, but. And that's always been the. And this thing where, you know, if you're not a sailor, then you have fewer privileges on this, that particular net. I think that is very, very unfair. But that's the way they're handling it, because, like you said, they're talking about cartels, and yet they're not talking. That's not a ham radio subject at all. You know, and so.

Yeah, it's crazy world. What can I say? They've got these old timers like 2foxtrot who doesn't even keep a list. I mean he, he's probably the worst person on the net because, because you've got to keep a list and yet he doesn't do it. So he always has to hand it back to net control. He never has a list. And you know, what can I say? That's just, that's the Shabbat. If you're going to be part of it, you have to go with the flow. Otherwise there's conflict. And I don't want con. I don't want to be a part of a net that has conflict. That's one thing that gets me about Golf Papa is that he will bring, he will cause conflict over nothing. Just a simple check in and he'll cause conflict. So that guy is off the charts on the bad side of ham radio as far as I'm concerned.

Anyways. Yeah, I can't find my mesh. My mesh piece. Haven't found it yet, but it'll show up. That's the way these things go. Just like my cell phone. I thought, oh, my God. Well, you broke up there at the end. All right, well, I was saying 73 earlier, but I was listening. Kilo November 6th. Mike off. Kilo. Yeah, I was talking about myself losing my cell phone, and this felt really stupid because it was in my. In my coverall doculator. N6GRG. Well, it's not stupid. So I've done plenty of.

Of stuff like that myself. Yep. Lose my. Lose my scissors, and they're in my back pocket. Yeah. Crazy. All right, K6MGK is clear. For good? Well, not for good, but for now. 73. Yeah. Bundle up. It's about 5 degrees colder here than has been all year. And 60 RT.

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And 6mbt mobile. Hey, you sure that John? Yeah, I ain't up that high up the ladder yet. Yeah, no kidding. She. I don't know if you heard. I'm even if you. If you know her, she. If she covers you guys or not, because I really can't keep track of this crap. But, you know, Jerry with a G apparently got the can after she's been in her new home for, you know, a few months. Yeah. And just closed on a house, so. Yeah, I heard that she's supposed to come to our party tomorrow, so I don't even know who she is, but she.

Like Brian's boss. That level? Yeah, Director level. Hello, Luis. I guess. And I've met her. She's real nice, you know, her lean forte was in development for a while, running that. And, you know, she's just. She's been trying to clean things up and fix the stupidity and, you know, and takes care of operations. When we say, hey, you know, development is being stupid and not including us with stuff or not paying attention or whatever, you know, she just. She actually tries to fix things and look out for us. And my manager, you know, really liked her because, you know, she really helped us and helped him to help us. And now he's, like, super pissed at this place, if that's possible.

Yeah, I know. Just listening. I'm not hearing any courtesy sounds at all when you drop off. I don't know why I hear when I am key, but I don't hear the normal length courtesy towels. That's interesting, but not that you need anything more to worry about. Yeah, really. Which system are you listening to? Or go through. Whichever that is. What is that, 16? Yeah, I wonder if something was done to that or not. Whether it went out to reinstall the all star stuff and I think that's one kind of zone.

That. I can't remember if That's a damp 404 POS's or an ASCOM controller. We've gone through several controllers up there. All right, I'll try and pay attention to that. Yeah, I just got the link radio reinstalled on 11 site, which has been down for months, and I'm going to try and go down to 40 site down in Greenfield Saturday and replace that yet again. See if that leaves it connects us back down to slow so, you know, never ends right? Yep, absolutely. I got a I don't know if I told you, but I got a going into Knocko's side up on Saka. Jason got a.

Sight up there. And he said, hey, include me. Knock said, okay, so I'm gonna move my hub over there and see if it does better into Slide. I was up at Slide right before all the snows broke loose up there. I could hear this hub quite well up there. Could barely even tell mine was there, where it's at, out there on south out there at Robert Site. You've been to it, the one on Crystal Boulevard out there. Barely even hear it, which might be partially from the antenna, I don't know, but. So I'm going to probably go up there, throw the antenna up, test it, make a couple tests on it, and throw the hub out there, and then I'll.

Probably in the long run move my stacking machine over there since it's in a you know who site right now and after a couple months probably should get it out of the generator cabinet. But I got to get somebody up there to get my antenna because that's a good antenna. I put it up there years ago, many years ago, but since been deemed a non climbable pole and it needs a lift. So next time somebody does any work there, I'll say, hey, can you grab that for me? I'm trying to picture where on daca, but that's okay. And yeah, what are you waiting for, man?

Get up there and get this thing going, get things connected and sounded better. I mean, is Jason in been established, or is it okay to move in now or what? You know, he's got the keys. Let me know. So he said, anytime you're ready to go up. I'm like, well, I need to, you know, I need to see what kind of availability or tower leg it's on. And if it's too far up there, the higher up the better because I ran a path to my carting site and I can hear here very well from my corning site, but there's just a little hill like maybe a mile away that just takes it out of line of sight. So I might have to go up there, hook around and see. That's still going to work. Okay. It should be. Not like you got 1000 foot higher mountain.

You know, right in the middle of the path. It's literally very close, and I could probably go higher up the tower to get away from it, but I got to get an eyeball on what's up there. As you come up that road from below, you kind of go left or right. When you get to the top, you go to the right. Right there. But I haven't been up there in so many years, I don't even have to see what's up there, you know? Yeah. Okay. A number of years ago, we were looking at the possibility of buying a small building over there off to the right somewhere.

But the parties involved that were trying to make that happen passed away. And you know, so did the opportunity. But it probably just as well because don't need that kind of headache. What else was I going to tell you? I almost gave what's his name? Oh, starts with a seat. Your cohort. Who after sending those calendar things out the other day, I know it was by mistake, but I almost said something to him, but I decided I don't have enough time to go deal with that. I'll scare him. Yeah, I understand. I'm a king.

Down at the Coronado site. Got my overpeater out of there, got my link antenna down, which I think it's an actual 420 link antenna. I got one of those old antenna six elements. And of course I've been up there so long that damn stainless steel got bound up and, you know, couldn't get this stupid thing off. That was fun. Something was supposed to take five minutes, ended up taking a half hour. But yep, got it running in my garage. Now the TA was shot and it's running in my garage and doing pretty good, so I think it's still in all right shape. That might be the one. I stick it back. I don't know, but I guess, he said. Except John asked him.

Who is that? You know, and the John never remembers who I am. And he says, is that that guy that screwed me out of that building on Vaca? And I said, oh, hell no, that wasn't me. Don't get me on that list. That's funny. I meant to tell you and I didn't want to tell you over the air, but it doesn't matter at this point. Yeah, he conferenced me in with, on a call with Keith, mentioned your name and couldn't remember is he a good one or is he that, you know. And I couldn't think of, you know, Roborovo's name at the moment. You know, starts with a K. And I said, oh, no, no, no, he's definitely a good one. He's a good one. He's in it at a couple sites. You know, he works at the same company as I do, but over in Sacramento. And stand up, guy, no problem.

Blah blah blah. Okay. Okay. And you know, he's asked me that before but he's just never really had a lot of, you know, interfacing with you to burn into his, into his memory, which is probably good because there was a bad incident. He'd never forget it, trust me. So anyway, I got to talk to Keys for a little bit too. It's been a while since I talked to him as well. Yeah, I haven't talked to him in a long time. We'd be asked for quite a while after that. Yeah. Kind of interesting. Yeah. If he wants to. The only time I really interfaced with him was he took me on a. I went up there to get a key I think when I was going into Cedar Ridge to his house. I met him there and he took me on a guided tour of his whole museum up there before it went up. That was.

Awesome. I love that. That was one of the most interesting things. And we spent quite a bit of time together there. But he might remember that. I don't know. I'm kind of forgettable, you know? All right, I'm gonna get back to it here and make myself look important today. So what's going on? What I can fix anyway? I just heard you on. I haven't heard you in a while, but I say what's up? All right. And I'm driving out a rank of this one, so I'm going to do the same thing. I go pick up parts. We look like I'm doing something I'm sure that'll never last around here, but might as well do it while you can. Oh, I heard other changes are coming. Shoot. Hold on a second. Let me see if I can change repeater. Standby. System12, link up.

All right. Hopefully this is okay. I'm kind of in between both of them. So it sounds like they're coming up with all kinds of new stupid ideas for us for next year, and one of which is back to responding to sector outages and, you know, all kinds of little stuff. So, you know, I just holding my breath. Yeah, I heard that, too. And as long as they don't start it till after March, I'm all for it. Yeah, thanks. You know, the peace and quiet's been nice, but, you know, boy, the overtime, it's dried up. It's funny, you know, people are like, okay, yeah, I'll volunteer to go do that. Or, you know, if you need some help with something. Whereas I try to get somebody to cover me like crickets. And.

And then that damn thing is supposed to start next year, too. The Big Brother scope Worker version 2.0 and, you know, who knows what else. Man, just like, didn't we go through this already and try and consolidate regions and, you know, what have you? But I give it six months and then we'll revert right back. But anyhow. Yeah, well, look, they tried to consolidate California. That didn't work. Yeah, they're coming up with a bunch of new stuff. It's all about saving. And now our group over here said he's not authorizing any more DC requests until we've visited the site and actually troubleshot it. I'm like, well, on a lot of stuff I do. Some stuff I don't. If you've got a VSWR issue on a tower mounted radio.

Not a whole lot you can do, you know? I mean, go down and look at it and go, yeah, there's an alarm, power cycle, everything. But, yeah, more truck rolls and. And whatnot. Like, it's not really saving. I know. It's just, you know, one stupid thing after another, and it's like. It's like back and forth, just ping pong. But as long as they keep sending the paycheck, then whatever. That's what I'm waiting for is when that stops. And. And they decided, hey, we. We are still not efficient, and we can get rid of more people and make people buy more busy, and so on and so forth. So. More char. All right, well, I don't know how many times I told you you suck, but.

But you know I stand by it. Uh huh. I'm getting used to it anyway. All right, I want to run here. Got a couple things popping up, so catch you later. Have a good one. KJ, 6 KO. All right, talk to you later. And 6M ZT in San Ramona, it.

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