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Speaker A: Hey, ken. Sorry about that. Yeah. How you doing? Doing old. I don't know if you dropped out. What's going on there in Panaca? Middle of nowhere. Nevada.
Speaker B: It's the best place to
Speaker C: be in Nevada. And no place where nobody wants to go. Nobody ever wants to move here. We're just out here by ourselves, loving it.
Speaker A: Any place that's in the middle of nowhere is a great place to be.
Speaker B: I guess you're down
Speaker C: there. I don't know where you're much about Columbia, but I knew. I knew a guy. I seen it on the Advertiser. With a mule. Raised coffee down there. I don't know.
Speaker A: Well, believe it or not, contrary to all of the Hollywood stories, coffee is the biggest product here in Colombia. Coffee and flowers and plants and gold. Oil.
Speaker B: That sounds like that's kind
Speaker C: of a rich country they got. If they've got gold and oil, there ain't much more you need. And coffee. They got coffee, they got flour. What more do you need?
Speaker A: I don't need any more than that. I just need my coffee. Need my gas for my car. I need electricity for my house. That's it. That's all I need. Well, the pretty little woman just sat back down here. We're gonna finish a movie. I just didn't want to leave you hanging. Or you didn't leave me hanging. One of those. Anyways, good to hear you, Ken. And you enjoy your middle of nowhere. If you go to qrz, look me up and you click on the little map, you'll see my. My middle of nowhere. Talk to you later. Good to hear you. N6KE.
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Speaker A: 6 mvp n7 tod system 21.
Speaker B: Hey Matt, what's going on?
Speaker A: Well, I was going to ask you the same thing. Heard you Saturday. Sounded like maybe you were out and about doing stu.
Speaker B: Did you say Saturday? Is that what you said?
Speaker A: Yeah, Saturday.
Speaker B: Well, I don't know. Yeah, I guess I was doing something but I don't quite remember everything but nothing too exciting I guess.
Speaker A: I guess I'm not the only one with that problem. Oh well came off of my four days off this morning back on the board at the bottom of it and probably won't go to work until tomorrow night is earliest. So the Northern Nevada Martin Luther King Memorial Committee does the caravan every day on Martin Luther King Day. Headed out to participate in that with the motor car in tower.
Speaker B: Okay, copy that. Well I am heading down south to 31 site and Jeff QLP is going to meet me down there and we're going to do some work on that tomorrow we set the plan and he way so but I'll be down in Southern Calhol week deal with other stuff too. So that's my plan.
Speaker A: Oh boy. Have fun.
Speaker B: Oh you know it certainly try. Hopefully they'll let me have on down there Weather should be decent. I think it's supposed to get some kind of a front coming in towards the end of the week but other than that hopefully things will go well. So all right. Some tule fog here in the valley so I think you know.
Speaker A: Yep, that's nasty stuff. 21 was getting a little scratchy so I just flipped over to 24 here but yeah, drive carefully. I've seen that they've had some pretty bad accidents down in in that fog there and don't know if you're going to be anywhere close to Bellflower or not but if you are, you have any extra time and you've never been might want to check out the LA County Fire Museum. Last time I was in that area went to that it was real very very interesting. So anyway drive carefully there and we'll catch you later. Step 3 For now M7 TOD bubble Sun Valley.
Speaker B: All right Matt, have a good rest of the day there and we'll catch up with you in 672. And one more chance for Jeff to wake up and answer the radio. And six QLP.

Speaker A: Hope he's not pulling a JKV on you, man. Wished I could come. Yeah, if they hadn't hold my breath on you, huh? It was all good until it was that man's company. Locked everybody down. Nope. Not granting any time off. No vacation, no nothing. Yep, it's all hands on deck for all the upcoming events. And no bueno, man. All right, I didn't. I wasn't counting on you going anyway. If we were, we would have talked way before yesterday. Yep, copy that. All right, dude. Well, I'll be here for you, man. At least remotely, right? There you go. You know it. All right. Fun in the pea soup here. So people don't realize, you know, you need to turn your headlights on so that you're tail lights will come on and other cars can see you too, from behind. But, oh, well, you can't fix stupid. Oh, and there's a lot of that out there, man. I encountered that my last trip to Tlock. Yep. All right, we'll. We'll be around. Catch up with you at 670K Tech. Check WP6J KV.
Speaker B: Just want to say good morning to everyone out here. This is NHP8. Your name is Keith. I'm up at Berkeley NHT on the open repeater and just want to say good morning. I just turned this thing on, See if I got it.
Speaker A: Yep, I got it. Yeah, Tom's probably dizzy, but anyways. Well, good morning to you. Have a great day off if you're off. So anyways, that's Mike over in Pacifica, WP68TV. And have a good one.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, I just reprogram. I just got my YAESU VX sixes back from repair. Programming. I come across the Carla machine. So. Yeah, I just threw these in here. So I just want to say good morning. It's pretty nice. It sounds like I got a good group of people out here. I looked on the Internet online and man, you guys got a nice wide variety of repeaters linked together all throughout California and Nevada.

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Speaker A: And6, mvp somewhere around coalinga.
Speaker B: I'm sorry, dude. I feel for you, man.
Speaker A: Okay. I haven't hit Harris Ranch quite yet.
Speaker B: Close the vents when you roll through there.
Speaker A: Let you act like you're supposed to breathe deep.
Speaker B: Pull that on Chrissy. Getting a break here.
Speaker A: I bet I probably got a slap across the face that cause you to pass out, you know?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. All right, dude, carry on. Just thought I'd let you know I'm still here with you in spirit.
Speaker A: And
Speaker B: Jeff is probably lurking and just kind of messing with us.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: I don't know what he's doing, but
Speaker A: I can't find his email with his itinerary for picking him up. You know, he made the Sol. Anyhow, I think I. I have the time frame and I know your part, so, you know, shouldn't be too.
Speaker B: Got a flight number? I can look it up, see if he's delayed or anything. If we start talking about you enough, you'd show up.
Speaker A: Yep.
Speaker B: Oh, I heard you this morning.
Speaker A: Leaving about 8:30. Okay. Have you been hearing me calling you periodically and. Or got my text yet? Well, no, no one. Yes, because I've been doing my morning ritual here. Breakfast, shower, etc. Oh, scratch the third one.
Speaker B: I did get your text.
Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, I can send that to you.
Speaker B: She had rolled over and smacked the snooze button again.
Speaker A: Sounds like a plant. So, Mike, did they give you today off?
Speaker B: Yeah, I got today off, but that
Speaker A: was the extent of it. All right, we got clear skies over there.
Speaker B: Beautiful. 68 degrees. Man, it's. This is like our summer.
Speaker A: All right, see, 48 degrees down here. Fog has been, you know, intermittent on and off and in and out, the whole nine yards. But, oh, well,
Speaker B: LA is gonna be a lot like us up here, so you guys will be in the good stuff. Yeah.
Speaker A: Okay. And Jeff, if you're still listening, keep an eye out for your text. And so far, so good. Somewhere somewhere around Coalinga and everything's moving along. So at some point I'll take a lunch break and, you know, everything should be within the time frame, I believe. Did you get my last. Over a couple of minutes ago. Because I did respond. What I heard that you got my text. Right. Did you say something else?
Speaker B: Okay, I think that was basically it. And then something about snooze.
Speaker A: And I came back and said that sounds like a plan. I think that was the last thing I said, but for a second there I thought maybe I didn't key it up or something, but. All right. No, yeah, I'll send You that there stuff and be headed out here in a couple hours. Yep. All right, sounds like a plan. I'm starting to smell something in the air. I think I'm getting close to whatchamacallit. Harris. All right, talk to you guys later. I'll be here in second meeting. Yep, that's the first clue. Okay, I'll catch you on radio or text or something when I get destinated out that way. And six qop. Hey, before I forget, I'm thinking you might want to re enable the pass shots back from up there. And then when I get in within range of 31, I'll disable it down here. So this way we'll have local control of things in case, you know, we have issues. Oh, okay. Yeah, can do that. Oh, do that in just a couple minutes there. All right. I'm thinking, you know, that'd probably be the smart thing to do, but, you know, who knows. All right, catch you later. N6MBT.
Speaker B: Since I got both of you here, let me run just one quick thing by. You know the dilemma with 32, right. This structure is going to be completely removed and replaced and rebuilt. I think at that time I'm going to spring for a new antenna and feed line for 32. So what are you thinking for an antenna? Like doing enclosed fire fiberglass thing like about 7 decibels again? Or should we go with something a little more robust like tillaway?
Speaker A: Well, I don't know. I ponder that. Unfortunately, none of them are cheap in Callaway. There's no exception of it after. Sure. But obviously something that's going to hold up, you know what I mean, to the the south air and the high winds and brutality that mother nature brings in there.
Speaker B: Well, we got pretty good service out of this antenna TV products, the poor dipoles. But I'm sure they're probably nearing the end of their useful life. I have noticed as of late that the signal is getting worse and worse. You know, especially notice it in the usual spots where it used to be a little scratchy. Now it's not there anymore, like in sneak lane and the hole there and down there at work in the parking lot, it kind of flutters around and it used to be right to the peg. So yeah, I know it's antenna, so we're doing that. I'm going to replace the feed line also.
Speaker A: All right, well, that would be bueno. And let me know if you need feed line because we got plenty of it and probably need to move some of it. And also. Oh yeah, I'm definitely starting to gasp for air here.
Speaker B: I'm smelling it coming out of my radio.
Speaker A: God, it's just so lovely. And It's. It's only 48 degrees out. Imagine if it was 105.
Speaker B: We both have been there and done that, man. There's no getting away from it, especially at night. It's like, you know.
Speaker A: Yeah, I know. Believe me, I know. All right, well, what do you think
Speaker B: they're going to do that have any time frame yet? Well, you know, American tower, they're never quick to do anything, so I'll. I'll let you know. I'm thinking, you know, probably should keep the same pattern that we have. A little offset, you know, a little more juice up and down the cut. I think that that's a wiener. I wouldn't even mind a little more game.
Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. All right, well, see what you can find out there. You sure we're not running a watt or something? And seems like I can see antenna.
Speaker B: Could be, but the receiver's diminished the same amount, so. Yeah, spots where I've been reported as scratchy. Like, you know, when you go underneath the overpass there in San Jose before you get off by the airport, Ralph is telling me, hey, we got all scratchy there, and I was running 35 watts. So, yeah, I suspect it's the antenna or the connector up top, you know.
Speaker A: Okay, well, if you got the reciprocity effect, then I think, you know, and. Or, you know, maybe the feed line has got impregnated with H2O or who knows what. But yeah, I mean, those antenna antennas, my God, they're way past their prime for sure. God bless them, huh?
Speaker B: But, yeah, even here in my place, I'm line of sight and I can move my HT around that I can actually hear little tiny gnolls, you know, it doesn't drop up. I get a little tiny bit of hiss. It never used to do that, you know, so. Yep, I suspect antenna. But anyways, next trip, I. I got the site master in. I can see and Ritsu in the car, and my service monitor is still there. So anyway, I will give it the old once over and confirm. All right.
Speaker A: Garage is at. I think I'm going to pull over here and take a break. I'll be back. Not so long.
Speaker B: Yeah, I. I've worked at Kinga Box all the way through Bakersfield, so, yeah, that was on 99. There might be a little different story on 5, but at least you. You'll be hot as you climb the gate grapevine. But hey, when all else fails, there's always echo link, right? Oh, replay. You have all stuff. Sorry, guys.
Speaker A: All right. All right.
Speaker B: Dude, next time talk poster. The paid pause and the this. This butter from your display or whatever the Kenwood's doing is almost as loud. So. Anyway, just thought I'd let you know.
Speaker A: See ya. WP6 Jacob.
Speaker B: Wait, say that again. What?
Speaker A: What's you saying? Pave vase is almost as loud as me or something else?
Speaker B: Fake paws wasn't that bad. No, your. Your constant sputtering. You know that background sputter that's always there you were same level. Is that.
Speaker A: Yeah. Damn thing. All right. If I try and talk a little bit louder than would, but you know. All right. Jumping out there.

Speaker A: If you want my two cents, it sounds like you may have a dirty microphone plug there, Thomas. Try unplugging it. Plug it back in. Unplug it a couple of times. Plug it back in a couple of times. See if that'll clean you up. And hello, everybody. N6 knees.
Speaker B: Carry a can of Deoxit, man, because I live on the coast. That stuff's magic.
Speaker A: I'll bet Tom doesn't have it or use it or even consider it, you know. You know how Tom can be
Speaker B: around work, man. That stuff fixes about 90% of the problems we have. So. That's amazing. Always. Always used it anyways. But. Yeah, but I am going to give my poor little Bogan a rest here. And the rest of the system. Nobody be significant.

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Speaker A: Fresno link up. And 6 mpt.
Speaker B: Hey Tom, what system are you on now?
Speaker A: 48. No, not 15.
Speaker B: Okay, 15 is a good one.
Speaker A: Adult favorite. Let's see, what does the sign say coming up here? Junction Route 46, 18 miles. Oh, that doesn't tell you a whole lot, does it?
Speaker B: That tells me a whole bunch. I've been up and down that highway a thousand times. I know exactly where you are.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, you are the exception to the rule. You probably know more highways, freeways and byways than the average. How clumsy of me to even doubt that.
Speaker B: Where are you staying tonight? You going all the way down to Orange county or are you stopping somewhere there before the hill?
Speaker A: Going all the way, man. Going to. I got a place in Anaheim that both Jeff and I will be staying at. And then I'm picking him up sometime around 4ish at the John Wayne Airport here in OC.
Speaker B: Oh, wow. Isn't he special? Well, his Toyota Prius wouldn't drive up Santiago anyways.
Speaker A: Right?
Speaker B: All right, well good. Well, keep in mind there's been a lot of vehicle break ins down there, so just make sure you empty your car out. Wait a minute, are you driving your little suv? Your company SUV thingy? Yeah, good luck with that.
Speaker A: I'm driving the bigger hoe, as in Tahoe and loaded with stuff, man. So trying to empty it all out isn't going to be very practical. But the place does look safer. And there was parking, you know, off street, inside the courtyard type area or whatever you want to call it was more protected. That's one of the reasons why I texted. But anyhow, yeah, he doesn't have a Prius, but just like you know, you know, programmers are all kind of shooting whatever they prefer to pick them up.
Speaker B: All right, well, my very last night was in a hotel room there and the bottom of the hill there, grapevine. And somebody broke out the back window of my pickup truck and stole everything out of the back seat. The next day we hopped on a plane and left America. So yeah, that's the first time ever my vehicle had ever been broken into in my 60 years of being alive. Well, at the time I was 59. 59 years of being alive. My very last day living in United States, my vehicle was broken into.
Speaker A: Wow, that really blows, man. Crappy partying fu. You know, that really, really sucks. I'm sorry that happened to you. That's just not right. Not free and you know, just you hope that they get whatever comes to
Speaker B: them, you know what I mean? Well, we took all of our luggage we took it. We took all of our bags out, drug them into the hotel room with us. The only thing they got out of the back seat of the pickup truck
Speaker A: at the time was
Speaker B: a trash bag and a box that had some stuff in it for my daughter, you know, just some crap that I wasn't taking with me. So they didn't get much, but, you
Speaker A: know, it was just the point. Yeah, well, hopefully where we're staying will be, will be better, but I gotta put Jeff on night watch then. So. We're packing blankets so it's not very easy to see anything. And low profile antennas, so kind of hard to see those. Maybe they'll think I'm with ICE or something and then, you know, decide to trash the vehicle just because you never know anyhow. All right, well, that's the plan. And then tomorrow, I think. Yeah, we already talked about, you know, general time frame and, and what have you, and I'll just, I'll try and send you a message just to give you a heads up, let you know, you know, when we're heading out or something like that. So you have somewhat of a, a ballpark idea.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. I'll be listening and monitoring everything. All right, you, you enjoy the rest of your drive. And you still got, what is it, Monday? You still got. Well, with traffic you can still got about 16 hours to go.
Speaker A: Good luck.
Speaker B: All right, see you.
Speaker A: M6 candy. Watch it. That's not funny, Cu. I've got about three hours to go, but I don't think this thing is. Oh, that's smart. It's the built in GPS in the vehicle. So I don't, I don't know if it can take into consideration traffic stuff. It might, but I'm not holding that breath anyway. All right, have a good one. We'll talk to you later. And six mdt.

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Speaker B: Wid. Go ahead. N6mpt.
Speaker A: How you doing today? Hi. And how's this radio working? I'm on a handheld house. The worst day you were at. Are you around Fresno or something like that?
Speaker B: I am southbound 5. Let's see here. Coming up to something. Might be a clue. But let's see here. Hold on one second. Say but yeah, definitely south of. South of Coalinga and the Harris Ranch and Fresno county and somewhere in the middle of somewhere. How's that.
Speaker A: 41 yet. I run Settlement City. I know that highway very well. Anyways, how 330 miles past Harris Ranch. You're probably around. Yeah, you might be around Settlement city somewhere. Highway 41 and 5,
Speaker B: Lost hills. He's between cattleman city and lost hill.
Speaker A: That's kind of where you're at. All right. Everybody say hi. Where you headed?
Speaker B: Down to Orange County. Gonna go work on system 31 tomorrow and then attend a conference slash trade show the rest of the week and then head back to tv. So at least that's the plan anyway. See if we can stick to it.
Speaker A: Orange county from where you're at? About 15 hours, I guess. Or. Nah, I don't nut that 50 because I used to do that. Well I used to go along with somebody that drove. But yeah, I did a lot of trouble on that highway. Maybe about couldn't even guess it and I was. Which is somewhere around there. But anyways, let's see how you do over the grapevine, huh? Little. Little south of Bacon Fill there. Okay. But I say hi to you monitoring. We driving an rv.
Speaker B: Driving a Chevy Tahoe. Let's see here was Hill Vex exit. So. Yep. See Ken's on the. On the ball there. Probably does this just like the back of his hand. And I was going to answer tell you something else but I already just forgot. So, you know, I should have taken that exit and used the facilities. Oh well, all right. What else Can I say something? Oh well, it'll come back to me. Anyway, have a good rest of your day there and we'll talk to you later.
Speaker A: All right. I'll be monitoring. Me and my brother used to haul potatoes out of there. Go and drive truck and go to Santa Maria on 166. Yeah, I know five. I know five. Very good. Took it from one time. Took it from Seattle to la. Almost Canada. We made it up that far though. But yeah, I know the highway. Used to live in Oregon. Different Stockton. Been to Tracy Mana. All that stuff in there. Vi all that stuff. So okay. When you think about it. Give me an hour. 82. 60 w y.
Speaker B: Okay. And yeah, it says I got about three hours left or less than just south side, 128 miles to LA. So, of course, traffic not included. All right, see you later at 672.
Speaker A: Right around Highway 10 and 5. Oh, boy. Oh, no. This.
Speaker B: See.
Speaker A: What? I don't even know what time it is now, but you might go there, hit it around two, I guess. I don't even know what time it is, but anyway. Okay, Traffic. Traffic. Start from the grapevine all the way down to. I don't know, I'm guessing Anaheim. You're going? All right. Talk to. I'll be monitoring.

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Speaker A: If that was you. Never mind. I'll scratch. Hey, Jeff, how you doing? Hey, Ken, how's it going? Doing pretty good. Getting ready to leave here in a couple minutes. See if Tom was up over the grapevine yet or what have you. I know he passed Harris a good hour or so back. So he's south of that somewhere in the Bakersfield area, at least.
Speaker B: Well, if I was to guess, he could have stopped in Lost Hills to get some gas. If he didn't, and he's probably heading down towards the bottom of the grapevine there. He could be.
Speaker A: He could be getting close to that,
Speaker B: which 15 doesn't work too good there.
Speaker A: Yeah, he can actually pick up 30 in the Bakersfield area, but I was not able to. To get it to respond to me about an hour ago. Just trying a couple of codes and trying to do a thing or two. So I don't know if 31's online or it's just not decoding DTMS stuff. I'll check with him when I get down and see if he was able to get into 30 at all at any point. He's right at the bottom of the grapevine on the north side here.
Speaker B: Well, in my experience, 30 has always been kind of tough there on the five. Sometimes it works a little better, a little bit better there on the 99 or. Or if you're traveling across the 58, but on the five there on 30, sometimes it could be a little tough. You may not hear him anymore until he gets up to the top there
Speaker A: and he's able to hit 31. Yeah, and 31's path, the link path, is so bad that I actually shut it off about three weeks, four weeks ago. So even if he gets into 31, he won't get back up this way until I get down there and we get each other on 31 local there. That's all right.
Speaker B: So when do you arrive there in John Wayne?
Speaker A: About 4pm so that'll more or less be pretty close to just about right for him to come scooting down in there. And he might get a chance to stop at the hotel first, or he might just go straight to John Wayne, depending on how many stops he makes between now and then.
Speaker B: Well, his GPS probably has been calculating real good, but he's gonna. He's going to have a very, very slow progress there on the five through Los Angeles. May even be better off taking the 210 over to the 57 and go south down to John Wayne that way. That's the way I would go. But you know. Yeah. Taking that five all the way through Los Angeles, that's going to be extremely slow for him.
Speaker A: All right, well,
Speaker B: when I wake up in the morning and I have my breakfast and my coffee and all that stuff, I'll be standing by on standby. And it's going to be very nice having Santiago working correctly and. And on All Star.
Speaker A: Yeah. Fingers crossed. It just goes. Well, if anybody should know traffic down there, you should know it pretty well. Yeah. It'll be Monday afternoon, so he'll hit all of the commute traffic just about as he's cruising through it, trying to cruise. Actually, if we get up to the hill around 11 or noonish, that's like closer to 3 your time. So I suppose you could be ready a little early, but we probably won't be ready. And at that point. So you're afternoon time, so keep that in mind. Okay. We will catch up with you tomorrow, if not later this evening sometime. And again, fingers crossed it all's going good here. I'm just about to get on the road in a couple minutes.
Speaker B: All right. I already talked to the wife. She gave me. She gave me tomorrow afternoon off. All right, you have a safe drive to the airport and a safe flight down to John Wayne. If you get there and Tom's not there, just grab yourself a cold beverage. Talk to you later. And I will be available tomorrow.
Speaker A: Get her done.
Speaker B: Take care.
Speaker A: M6K and E. Yep. That's the plan, is get down there and get him on 31 local and find out whether or not I've got time to get a cold one. Okay, we'll talk to you later in 6qov.

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Speaker A: You're a little scratchy, but you're making it. Where. Where are you coming in from?
Speaker B: Hello, this is Herbert Ko6ekolimazulu from Sacramento. Over.
Speaker A: Okay, yeah, you're a little bit scratchy, but you're making it. Hello to you, and I hope all is well there in Sacramento. N6K at E.

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