GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-08

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Speaker A: System19 link up?
Speaker B: Yeah,
Speaker C: it was. Give me one second. I'm helping the wife. Do something. I'll be right back.
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Speaker A: Okay. How you doing, Jeff? Sounds like you're working on some equipment. Yeah, and
Speaker B: I'm trying to figure out. I think I broke something in the process here, but, yeah, what you hear on your end. A couple of overs ago,
Speaker A: What I heard came out over the air was that Poll star link on 31 was up something to that effect. That's on the
Speaker B: desk here. I'm just running it through his pages. But I just tried it and it didn't let me try something again. Hang on just a sec.

Speaker A: All star link at 31 active.
Speaker B: Knot is chem out to you locally, but it can out globally. And yes, it said all star link on 31 active. And that was from the. That was from the Node 753 Santiago Note.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's on the bench here. And I've got it hooked up to a 7330. So you know, it's acting like it's actually at a site going through a 7330 and what have you. And then I have a microphone connected to port one so that I can key up and go through it. But I just reset the programming in and it's not on my end. It's not going through from the microphone through the S Comm. So I think I did like one little thing wrong in the programming and I'm trying, scratching my head at the moment trying to figure out what it is because I had it working yesterday before I linked with the S. Com programming on it. But. But the announcements are coming through so it's still connected. Just. I'm not going from whole port one to port three on the S. Com, but I can see all the LEDs I'm lighting up. So I'm. I'm going into the FCOM but not coming out. So I have it rather precariously connected with alligator clips, etc. So I'll probably pop something off maybe. But let me check that and see what's going on here. Okay.
Speaker B: You know, a lot of that stuff is beyond my capabilities except for the note itself. That's where I can come in and help. But yeah, so keep in mind
Speaker A: the
Speaker B: node, it's not doing anything.
Speaker A: The speed it's sitting at,
Speaker B: it's not on the full duplex settings. So if you're not hearing something that may be why,
Speaker A: Yeah, it's in the 7330 programming. It's on my end here. Like I say, I. I had it all working just the way it's supposed to yesterday and I was adding a couple things to the programming and now the FCOM is not talking from port one. If I see port one support three which goes into the All Star and comes out on the network and to you and stuff. So I definitely close the door there and I just have to find it. What I did, what I did, I put in the programming to switch between rf, which would be on port two to All Star, which is going to, to be on port three. Like we can switch back and forth and everything was working just fine until I did that. So this one's on me. I'll figure it out here. I just, I just discovered it just as you keyed up and said that was interesting. So I have yet to really look into it, but yeah, now that's on my end. But you know, I was going to
Speaker B: give you a full test with how
Speaker A: to go in heavy. Although I'm using a mic, so the audio level, not right now, but the audio level or tonal quality doesn't count because it'll be a radio up at the site, not just microphone. Give me a couple minutes here to see if I can figure it out. But otherwise everything is functioning just right. Except you and I should get together and there's one or two tweaks that we ought to do on it. It's announcing the time the All Star notice. And like I say, I think it's set for central, not specific. I don't know if courtesy tones are on or not. We need to probably revisit that real quick and check on that when you have the opportunity.
Speaker B: Yes, I, I, I am available to help you.
Speaker A: Okay, Just let me know.
Speaker B: Yeah. If you need me to change you in and we need to, we'll probably
Speaker A: need to get rid of that cron cat.
Speaker B: I, I could have, I could have forgotten to take that cron out of there, probably what happened because I don't have that in my notes. So.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, if you need, if you need
Speaker B: me to help it all on the All Star side of it, just let me know.
Speaker A: I'll be listening. Okay. Yeah, I need to get off radio so I can wrap my head around what's going on here. All right, we'll talk to you in a bit or whenever, in 6Q. Okay.

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Speaker A: I am, I am still here. But when initially loading my ESCOM code plug on, it wanted to push it off the Velcro on the trip. I just had to follow that on. I was looking around it. The stuff had to just fit in. Okay, so right now, me on a microphone that's plugged in for one of the FCON controllers on the Venture, and that's going through the FCON and out port three, which is the All Star, and going through the all star to the 750 mode and out onto the network. So that's basically the new antithesis. Now it's being reversed. It's coming out of port one here. So that's like about a 99% full test with using a mic instead of a radio in Port 1. Okay.
Speaker B: Again, what you're doing is all, you know, all stuff out of my, out of my realm. But I do have to say that the audio is about half of what it should be. Is that, is that a concern or is that just because of how you're plugged into it?
Speaker A: That is not the concern at this time. You may want to prove that out of sight on a mic here. It's an amplified mic. It wants 1 volt input. So regular mic, it'll hit you dead. So this has a little bit of a preamp. I probably haven't opened about a third. Could you turn it up? But it's, you know, it's not really
Speaker B: what we're going to be working on up there.
Speaker A: So there's no reason to. This is this full test here. So that's not any shape, but everything otherwise, everything seems to be working just fine here. It's five right now. What time do you have there?
Speaker B: Eight o' clock here, which is no problem for me. Yeah, I really think that maybe you should let me team view in there and make those adjustments, you know, just, you know, that'll just be less we
Speaker A: have to do when you guys are
Speaker B: sitting up there on Santiago.
Speaker A: Oh, definitely, definitely. That's one of the reasons I'm doing all this. See if anything you need to do it. All right, it's five o' clock here. My dinner ground six a little bit after. So I've got an hour. I didn't do it when I did three hours from in the past to like an hour ahead or something. But if you have time right now, you know, I'm open and working on stuff, so it's a good time for me. If you got a few minutes right now.
Speaker B: Yes, definitely. It'll just take me a minute. You said, you said the time announcement
Speaker A: and what else was there? The time zone needs to be changed. LA or San Francisco Monterey were watching and I'm not sure if we turned off the courtesy. Coming up. Lastly, I don't know if we want to tweak the audio once it's up there or if you save the config for backhoe where we tweak the audio and you want to tweak it now to that and then see if there's any fun there. So I'll let you decide if you want to do it with audio right now. Again, don't go by this microphone at all, but time zone and time disabled. Okay.
Speaker B: Yeah. The final simple USB configuration, we may
Speaker A: have to just wait until you get
Speaker B: it to the site and you can listen to it via super or via. Via the repeater and what's coming back through the system.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Yeah, so go ahead and send me the password and I'll just jump in there real quick and take care of those two items and then I'll double check the simple USB stuff just to make sure that they're the same in vodka.
Speaker A: Okay?

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Speaker A: Okay, it's on its way. And the one other thing you don't have to bring tight. Between the All Star and. I have the cable. It's not in place, so I just plug the cable there. Somewhere there's a config file that says, you know, I did have the port number. Know if you do research at first or if you have any clues. But at any rate, it just.
Speaker B: Yes, I do. Okay.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: I had to disconnect Las Vegas. That noise was coming from them. Okay, give me a second. I'm coming in. It.

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Okay, daytime is gone and the time zone is fixed, and the simple UFC looks.

Speaker A: Mask again and let's see if I can understand it.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker C: Okay what we have
Speaker A: is there's a cable going from the All Star node one of the USP ports on it to the serial port on the S node and by using one of the port numbers and it just incremented by one for no particular reason so it has its own port number if we use that port number instead the All Star would know to connect instead of the management port to connect to the USB port that goes to material port I don't know where that's at I looked in all the supermod and I I don't see anything eluding material for the filter somewhere else and actually extensively knowledge so give my explanation any idea where to look it up next week
Speaker C: sometime. Well this is just a simple USB
Speaker B: tune can you. I think what you're talking about let me go to it take a look at it and see if it looks like something that you may be referring to give me a second.

Okay, so there in the rpt, we're only asking it to use one usb. Normally it states USD. Second USD. There is one usb connected from the raspberry PI up to the uri. Okay, so when that's connected to the. In the past, or whatever you guys did in Vodka, when that's plugged in and that's going over to the serial port, what information are you trying to get from the PI using that one? Well, the Raspberry PI connects to the material port of the F comp. So. Yeah, okay, yeah, I don't know anything about that. So let's. Let me do some research and. Okay, so okay, so again, what exactly is that doing? That connection between the Raspberry PI and the serial port, which I'm assuming goes into the back of the. In the back of the. The controller, the repeater controller. What? Exactly. What. What information is being transferred? I'm not sure what you mean by what information. We all saw using one of the USB ports as a USB material converter. Somehow what I just showed you on the screen is what I get if I connect through the All Star, you know, that port number that goes to the server. So then I have to set under 235 and I can do whatever I want. Yeah, okay, let me do some research then. I have never. I've never done any of that stuff, so let me do some research and I may shoot you some information via email and see if that's. If that's making sense to you. Because what you just showed me, I don't even know what that is. I. I've never seen any of that. And I don't even know what the 7330 is. Rock. Yeah, I understand. But again, you don't really need to know anything about that except how to get to All Stars to connect to a serial source. You know, that's what you want to research to a serial port? Some other device. Okay, I'm doing some research now. Okay. Yeah, so go ahead and go. Take care. Your dinner. Can I stay connected to yours on the. Via the tvr? I'll just leave it. I think if you get so far you'll know when you stop the serial foot kind of working. But until I put the cable in, it won't get the 70 30. It'll connect like the Terence in, you know. Yeah, go ahead. Okay. And I've already found some good information here, so I'm going to read through this, see if I understand what, what that's all about. Again, that's all brand new to me. Okay, I'll be listening. And I'll be researching in 6K.

Rank. Hello, Mike. I was just reading something here. And, Jeff, if somehow you can still hear me when you come back, take a look at the text document on your desktop. See if that's what we're talking about here.

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Speaker A: No reply needed. What's going on?
Speaker B: Hey, Mike. I was just listening to my audio
Speaker A: using
Speaker B: Ralph's Clark County, Nevada scanner. Web Web scanner. How you doing?
Speaker A: Yeah, not too bad. It's weather time on the HF Net, Marine net that I have something to do with in the morning and on 40 meters. And so I'm kind of half listening to that while I'm talking to you. So, yeah, my. My digital system went berserk. Something happened, and I no longer have JSA call because it gives me an error. So I'm working on that. And other than that, I'm going to get tons and tons of solar today. That's what I'm looking forward to, is lots of solar today. N6PRG.
Speaker B: Solar as in sunlight to recharge batteries? Or are you going to look at the sun in a telescope? Or are you going to look for some ETF activity?
Speaker A: Well, you could do just about any one of those things with it. I power my ham radio with it. I power my refrigerator with it. And I could go outside, get a tan. Even that.
Speaker B: A tan? At your age, you better be careful. You may. You may have some appendages fall off.
Speaker A: Well, the main thing I'm worried about is I've already got enough problems with too many ladies chasing me around. So if I get a can, that'll make that worse.
Speaker B: Yeah. Ladies, as in sheep. Right. Those sheep, they really like those older canvas men.
Speaker A: Oh, my God. What's going on down in Columbia anyway? Gee whiz.
Speaker B: Hey, you're the sheepherder. I thought that was a very appropriate response to
Speaker A: the.
Speaker B: The ladies, as you say, chasing you around.
Speaker A: Well, the only reason they want to have anything to do with me is I feed. And if I don't have food in my hand, they run.
Speaker B: Oh, okay. Yep. You know, Marco, he was no lady, but he knew how to chase you around if you had something that he liked.
Speaker A: Yeah. And that particular breed, I don't know.
Speaker B: I have.
Speaker A: I have a new ram now. All the old rams are gone, and I have a new ram and things have. Oh, there's a. There's a marine station, all right, down from down in Baja. There's a sailboat. Anyway. Yeah, we have. We have a new ram here, and he's. His mother was capable of putting out a whole ton of sheep milk. So that's a new thing here.
Speaker B: All right. And this new new year, this new property you're looking for, are you going to continue Raising sheep or are you going to give that up entirely?
Speaker A: No, probably no sheep and maybe not even property. Hard to see. It's hard to know what's going to happen. I may be visiting you because of what's going to happen. Yeah,
Speaker B: well, I tell you, we got the life down here. That's no doubt. I like it. I think it's a good end. Good place to end our, you know, our story here on the planet. In fact, we've been here over a little over one year now, and I'm hoping the family will get down here and visit now that a little bit of the drama has gone away. Between a couple of those presidents who like to. Both of them who like to run their mouth a little bit much. But, yeah, it's all good. All right, well, I am going to go back to listening and I'll let you close it out. You know how the system is. We don't want to tie it up too much, And that's pretty much it. We're going to have a beautiful day down here today. Nice and warm. We did a bunch of shopping yesterday, including some plants. So we're going to work on some plants, get the new stuff hanging up. I like the hanging plants. The wife likes the stuff on the. In the pot, so it doesn't sit on the floor of the. Of the deck there. So. All right, you take care. Good to hear you. And I will be listening back to you for the final. N6 Kenny.
Speaker A: Okay, Ken and I would think that you would have more tropical fruits down there, so I hope that you're able to take advantage of that sort of thing. I don't know if you have coconuts, but coconuts are pretty popular among the sailing community because you can go to a dry island and get water out of the coconut.
Speaker B: So,
Speaker A: anyway, yeah, glad to hear that you're experiencing springtime and the beginning of getting a Summer Garden together. N6TRT talk to you later. Ken in Columbia. This is November 6th. Golf Romeo Golf in Redding.
Speaker B: Okay, so I will respond back to you just real quick here. So currently on our prom, on our property here within our tract, we have lemons and limes. And they don't. They call them yellow limes and green limes, but we have lemons and limes, oranges, kumquach, most definitely coconut. And we also have lots of mangoes. Like, I don't like this time of year because the mangoes, I gotta go out there in the morning and pick mangoes up and throw them in the pile for the gardener to put them out Thursday mornings.
Speaker A: Yeah. Listening. Listening to the weather pretty closely because they're now they're calling for relays to see if anybody has any questions. It's a relay net. Everybody puts out a relay. Call everybody for every part of it. So lots of action and yeah, great tropical fruits. I would love to be in a place where I could chow down on them. So. Excellent. And I'll be listening today. And fish grt.
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Speaker B: Your audio is a little bit low there. It sounds like it needs to come up about to 25% or so. You have any way of doing that?
Speaker A: N60? Yeah. Are you talking to me, Ken? Ken, were you talking to me? NC trg?
Speaker B: No, wasn't talking to you. Somebody came in on one of the Tahoe links asking for a radio check or audio check.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm kind of multitasking here. Got a headphone in my ear doing HF. So anyway, that Tahoe station, November 6th, Golf Romeo Golf with N6NKE also here. Did you need an audio reporter?
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: What I've
Speaker B: got to do,
Speaker A: Candice, is put one of the other systems on some sort of PI and see if I can get a test of JS8 with that because there's a chance it's not the radio. Alrighty. N6TRT, I'm gonna go back to HF, talk to you.

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Speaker B: Good morning. Good morning, sir. It's a nippy cold one over here. Anyhow, I can either call you on the phone or continue call you right here, depending on what will be for you. So let me know. Well, at your convenience, most definitely. No hurry. I just have a technical question for you that would probably be best over a phone call. Okay, well, I'm off to an appointment on the road, so I can do it right now if you're clear for it. Yes, if you're driving, it's probably easier if I call you, so I'll just go ahead and just that right now if you're available for it.

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