GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-10

Speaker A: K6LNK system 36
Speaker B: on AC
Speaker A: now. Mountain range
Speaker B: battery announcement at 17 enabled.

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Speaker A: And 17 and the Las Vegas.
Speaker B: Hello, ralph. And happy Friday to you, Ken.
Speaker A: Thing Back at you. Back at you. So I'm not sure when you sent me that text the other day. I was out of town. I got back in cell service and got the message. But was all the audio testing and stuff done satisfactory satisfactorily or what was going on?
Speaker B: No, that was. Jeff was working on some stuff. He was checking some sights and he was kind of scratchy, but it sounded like he was able to clean up the signal. And then his ATMF were working. But. Yeah, it was just. It was a lot and I just thought it would disconnect it just so it wasn't coming out over your stuff. I think you saw in the text just as I was doing it sounded like you was then.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah, like I said, I was out of. In an area where there. I couldn't have my cell phone actually. And I had it whenever. Something different place. When I finally got back up there, I saw the message I was showing you. Anyways, all. It's all good. It's all good. So I'm glad. Glad you got things worked out. So what. What are you up to this weekend?
Speaker B: Any cool projects? Well, my wife played around with some of her new plants, flowers that she bought that we bought a couple days ago. She. I think we'll. We'll probably finish up with that tomorrow. And then it looks like Jeff is still working on some stuff with that new repeater going up on Santiago. So maybe I'll be able to get together with him tomorrow and get that done. Other than that, no, it's gonna be a nice quiet weekend for us. Yeah.
Speaker A: Cool. Yeah, I gotta. I gotta go to my mom's tomorrow and take down a Christmas decoration for it coming out of town, get up early, hit. Hit the gym and then go to her place, do that. I think the wife and I are going to go out, have a nice dinner tomorrow night.
Speaker B: Good deal. We. We had a nice lunch out today. You know, we. I don't know, we like to stay
Speaker A: home,
Speaker B: But you know, like lunch today we had a really nice lunch. So we do like to get out once or twice a week, but other than that we just. We love to stay home and make our own meals. Yeah. So we still haven't had our anniversary
Speaker A: dinner or have we. We had our anniversary dinner.
Speaker B: I guess we did. We haven't had our anniversary. The outing yet. I'm still trying to find a nice place for us to go spend a couple of days.
Speaker A: Yeah. Good. Good. Yeah, you know, we, we be eating a lot. I'm not a big, I'm not a big food guy. To me, food is fuel. Right. I just, I get yelled at by, by the wife every now and again for eating over this thing. But there's a, there's a really nice restaurant not far too far down the road from our house. It's around a man made lake that's on desert shores and we go there quite often, probably up to three times a month. So they know us and take really, really good care of us. So we like to go there. Matter of fact, we went there for Thanksgiving and I called and they gave me all this, the lady in the front giving all stuff. Well, you got to prepay, you got to put a deposit down. We have a fixed menu and let me talk to Mike. Mike's manager said, hey Mike, this is Ralph. He goes, oh, no problem. Don't worry about any of that crap we got you.
Speaker B: I would imagine a lot of places nowadays, in some neighborhoods, they probably, they probably have some kind of a hole on the credit card, especially with all that dine and dashing, the dine and dashing going on. Yeah, they don't do any of that here. All right. My wife is having difficulties giving one of our cats medicine, so I'm going to set this down for just a minute and give her a hand.
Speaker A: All right. An good to talk to you. I'll be on the road for a few minutes, so if I don't talk to you before I get back home, you have a good evening and I'll, I'll sure I'll hear you on the radio this weekend. N17.
Speaker B: See you later. N6.

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Speaker A: Radio check. Radio check. Yeah, I didn't get a call sign, but your signal is okay. A little bit crackly in 17 Deluxe,
Speaker B: Kb7rem2.
Speaker A: How about now? Yeah, that's better. Much, much stronger. What? What repeater are you talking?
Speaker C: Using a new handheld.
Speaker A: Walk about and tune into low code to see. Giving it a shot. 49.400. Yeah, no, you're fine. Full quieting now.
Speaker C: Awesome. Thank you for the feedback. Appreciate it. Not a problem. Have a good
Speaker A: rest of your evening. My name Here is Ralph. November 7th. Tangles, November Delta 73.
Speaker C: Radio
Speaker B: check.
Speaker C: Okay, again. That other station, no call sign, and you're noisy,
Speaker A: so I'm not sure what radio you're going into, but it's probably 50% north.

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Speaker A: Hey morning Tom. Kind of chilly morning. It down below freezing in my place.
Speaker B: Yeah, same here so far no irrigation pipes or float or anything like that.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's already 37. I actually just filled up my Jeep as a 287 a gallon man, I just wasn't have not been paying attention to gas prices but under three bucks. I haven't seen that in a long time.
Speaker B: Yeah, I paid. Paid like $346 pretty good for a while bucks. But we're I think. I think was the price of Sam's Club. Where'd you get your gas?
Speaker A: The Murphy Station just east of Easter Ranch on Craig.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, yeah, I know that place. So what are you up to today?
Speaker A: I go to my mom's house, take down her Christmas decorations for her and gonna have to. And I got it. I ordered a replacement battery for one of my Dell convertible tablets. I think it was only running like two hours or so so I found to replace some battery on Amazon. I'm gonna do some search around that but Dell actually has a really cool 3D tutorial online. It shows you step by step how to take it apart and remove the battery and everything else.
Speaker B: So it looks.
Speaker A: You gotta be careful. Right. Take your time. Time and do it. But looks pretty straightforward so I'm going to give that a shot.
Speaker B: Are the connectors soldered on or something?
Speaker A: No, it's a ribbon cable that slides onto the battery and then has one little retaining clips on. So yeah, like. Like I said looks really straightforward. A couple of screws in the back and then you got to take one of those little plastic jimmy tools or whatever and kind of pry the case apart, you know, kind of snap it together. But anyways looks pretty straightforward. I'll give, I'll give Del kudos man. You know they actually put that on the site on their. No kidding official site with all the instructions and stuff kind of. I don't usually see that. Right. But anyways give that a shot. It's a little convertible. It's like a circus pro type thing with a magnetic attachable keyboard. And I got it for a song on Dell refurbished. I got all my stuff on there to take to the sites, you know my VNA software and all my CPS software for all the Motorola radios and vector analyzers and all that stuff. So just a little nice little thing I can throw into one of those harbor freight boxes and take up to the radio sites with me.
Speaker B: Yeah, so I wonder if there's much snow up there.
Speaker A: Yeah, can't see on Polar Sea because you got to be on that mesh thing to see the cameras, which were not. As a matter of fact, we're going to put some actual Nokini cameras up there that are tied to our network that are independent from having to be on the mesh thing. So I can't see up there, but Angel's got quite a bit of snow. Highland got nailed. Matter of fact, we lost the Verizon card on Highland for a couple hours, and it came back, so I'm not sure what happened. Maybe Verizon had an outage, but everything's up. But, yeah, quite a bit of stuff.
Speaker B: Yeah. So far, not much snow up by my property.
Speaker A: Kind of relatively mild. Winter got a.
Speaker B: A couple days ago. That's it.
Speaker A: Yeah. And I think they were talking about it getting it warmer again next week. So whatever's up on the. On the hills will probably melt up pretty quick. I checked a lot. A tree on the mountaintops this morning was like 15 degrees up to both angel and high, and I'm sure it's already starting to warm up. But anyways, that's about it. Those are some of the projects I need to do tomorrow. I was out of town last week
Speaker B: for a little bit, so I was
Speaker A: trying to get caught up.
Speaker B: All right, well, You have a great day.
Speaker A: Have fun with your mom
Speaker B: and our 17.
Speaker A: Yeah. Fun times. Big dunkers. As decorations. Okay. All right, man. Enjoy your breakfast. Have a good one. And 7. T&D. Thanks for the shout.

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Speaker A: I don't see him connected here. Let's see. See what I can do for you. Hang on one second. N6KN.
Speaker B: Is still there. Glenn
Speaker C: from nr. 7G.

Speaker A: Hey, John, I thought that that gentleman was calling somebody else, or did I hear him wrong? Is he calling you or somebody else?
Speaker B: No, that was Glenn, K7REO. He was calling for Ralph on 17. I was going to tell him that. Ralph. I talked to Ralph a couple hours ago. Yeah, a couple hours ago. He was going to his mother's house to take down some Christmas lights.
Speaker A: Yeah, okay. My. My bad. I thought he was calling somebody else. Somebody else that is connected in here sometimes the Carla stuff. How have you been?
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm just getting ready to head out the door, Putting on my shoes.
Speaker A: I'm just playing a little bit of radio learning. Learning how to do some programming with stuff I've never done before. And I think the wife is upstairs taking a little nap. When she gets up, I will probably finish up with our plants and our flowers out on the front porch. Yeah, nothing exciting going on here. Beautiful day. 81 degrees at the moment.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's beautiful here, too. It's like 45, 45 degrees.
Speaker A: All right, well, good to hear you, and. I'll probably be listening here for another. Another hour or so, and then I'll be in and out. Okay, you take care, and good to hear you. Hope all is well with you, and hope you have a great 20, 26N6. Kennedy here.
Speaker B: All righty, man. Take care, 73. Have a great day.

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Speaker A: That last station tried again. Didn't catch a call sign. N6 kne here.
Speaker B: M6K and E. Good afternoon. This is Kilo Oscar 6E Polymazulu mobile running five watt on a handheld portable. Approaching I5I50 addiction. Over.
Speaker A: Okay, is that the Sacramento area?
Speaker B: Sacramento area, yeah. Just testing this repeater. Just amazed with the signal here. Using a Kenwood handheld mobiline mobile here in freeway. Over.
Speaker A: All right. Yoi. You sound good. Excuse me. I'm having a. I think I'm having an allergy to one of my animals. Okay, well, good to hear you. And I didn't want to leave you in there with. With no answer back to you. The name here is Ken, and I am N6KNE. Sacramento. On a Saturday, Are you. You just traveling through?
Speaker B: Nice to meet you, Ken. The call again. Here is K06 Eko Lima Zulu. My name is Herbert. I live in the Natomas area in Sacramento. We're just going towards San Jose. And I got two handheld portables here. Just testing this repeater. And I'm just amazed with the signal in this area. But I appreciate you coming back to me on my station and hope to catch you again later, Ken, or some other day when you're not busy. 73 to you.
Speaker A: All right? You enjoy your drive and your handy talkie. Sounds good. Okay. Enjoy your day. Enjoy your Saturday. N6 kne. And I'm down here in Chinaalta, Columbia. You take care of.

Speaker A: Ko6eld from november romeo 7,
Speaker B: Go ahead. This is KO6ELZ handheld portable here in the Dixon area. Mobile, how are you today? The name here Server.
Speaker A: Hey Herbert. Good afternoon. Yeah, I saw your QRZ page. I like your picture. All your shacks, all your equipment. That's pretty impressive over there on Mondale Way, Fendel Way. Anyway, yeah I heard you talking to Ken down there in Colombia, South America and welcome welcome to Carla on on the LVRA system over here in Las Vegas, Nevada. Handheld. So I just want to let you know, give you a pre report, let you know your. Your Kenwood's doing a good job for you. Sounds fantastic. I hear you're mobiling your addiction I guess right now. And you headed back to Satinento or something? So Good, good strong signaling. Sounds very clear to do A Just headed home. What are you doing today? Just driving around. So pretty cool over here. Probably in the upper 40s right now. Pretty chilly today here in Las Vegas.
Speaker B: Dear Senator, thank you for coming back to me. Oh yes, thank you for visiting my jacket. Yeah, it's long years of saving money just to boot up that setup. Thank you for appreciating it. Yeah, actually we're going now to San Jose with the family and. Yeah, so this is the Carl repeater. Oh yes, I'm fascinated with the signal actually I'm using a PH Backstrat 6 Kenwood handheld UHF with the Tripander rather. Yeah, you're coming. Good signal here too. A good audio, over.
Speaker A: Very good, very good. So what's. Is it cool over there today? Is it raining? Is getting rain going on or anything like that?
Speaker B: Actually we have a great weather here. I think we're only about 61 today and we have, we have sunny weather here at the moment but there are some overcast area in Sacramento but I'm here now in the Deepton area, Dixon, California going towards Bacaville California going to San Jose and yeah, we have a good weather here sir, over.
Speaker A: Well, very good, very good.
Speaker C: System 32 link up.
Speaker A: My name is John again. My call is NR7G of under Romeo 7 Gulf here in northwest Las Vegas. Didn't have much else to say but talking to Ken. I thought you say hello and welcome. Stop by, stop by a little more often. Say hello, hope you have a great day and drive safely. Well, I'll clear out of here on your final 73 from NR7G LA
Speaker B: USL that's clear NR7B. Yes, most probably you're gonna hear me every day now because I signal in this repeater so hopefully I will meet a lot of friends here and report some of the weather here in the Sacramento area. Yeah, most probably. I'm gonna put this on the memory on my mobile. Bait in the house, too. My 73 to you, John. NR7G. Thank you and hope to catch you again, man. KO6ELZ Mobile, Vacaville, CA on the handheld 73 12.
Speaker A: God bless.
Speaker C: Hey, Herbert, could you repeat your call sign slowly? I want to look you up. N6,8N.
Speaker B: Yes, m. Ken, the call sign here again is kilo oscar six echo, lima, zulu. Copy.
Speaker C: I got you. Okay. All right, Herbert, you have yourself a safe drive into the Bay Area. And good to hear you. Welcome to the system 6 kne and hello, John. John, I'm looking at his photo
Speaker A: qrz.
Speaker C: He's got a lot going on there, doesn't he?
Speaker A: I know, right? Look at that thing, man. It's a vertical soundtrack. I love it. Anyway, Herbert, if you're s. Is amazing, Ken, that's difficult. A lot.
Speaker C: A lot of hammer put in a little space.
Speaker A: That's like super cool. Yeah. Welcome to the system. We're glad to have you here. Yeah. All right, Ken. Well, I'm on the computer. I'm doing some computing. Well, I guess what else? Turned on the heater. Good heaven. And I came home from a. A meeting and got back at, I don't know, 11 something. It was 61 degrees inside the house. I got modern insulation, everything. But I think overnight low last night was 30 or something like that. So, yeah, it's just chilly. So I turn on the heater and I'm just heat it up a little bit. Anyway, take care, Ken. NR 70. Roughly.
Speaker C: All right, John. You know, I have to brag a little bit, being only 4 degrees north of the equator. I am 81 degrees inside the house. No air, no air conditioning, no heating.
Speaker B: 81 degrees.
Speaker C: Okay, Herbert, you take care, John, you take care. Good to hear you. N6 Canadian. This is kilo kilo 6 mike gaba alpha jack in half blue bay, mobile, and I can give a weather report
Speaker A: from the coast of california.
Speaker C: You go ahead with your weather report there on the coast. It is absolutely stunning here. It's 80 degrees outside, clear skies, very little wind, and it is beautiful. KK6 MLA. Well, that sounds pretty amazing for Half Moon Bay.
Speaker B: All right.
Speaker C: Yeah, That's actually very good weather for Half Moon Bay this time of year. Okay, John, thanks for that. You take care. Six mike lima alpha 73, clear.

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Speaker B: Hey, that's fake news. Stop that.

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