GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-22

Km7dal testing. Kilo mike7 delta alpha lima. Yeah, you're good. You're good, Cameron. You're making it in there.

And one last time, this is Ksunan Dal testing. Doesn't look like I'm getting it in very good on the fdr. And if I am, I appreciate everybody bearing with me for this. 3 Specification 73. Yeah, you're in. You're in there. Double check your frequency and make sure you're on the exact frequency that time it sounded like you may be off just a tiny bit and six knees.

Speaker A: I do believe it should have been the correct frequency. I've made a note of it. Thank you for the advice. 73km7d a l.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: You sounded great that time.
Speaker A: Yeah. I've got a choice of four repeaters that I could try for my backyard here. And where I'm at in Las Vegas is kind of a technical term, a bit of a diploma. So sometimes getting out on the radio is kind of difficult because I start running into the earth.
Speaker B: All right, well, you have a good signal, you take care n6kne and I'm here in Chenauta. Columbia. System7 link up.
Speaker A: Yes sir, you have a good one yourself. Km7b from las vegas, nevada.
Speaker C: AF6MQ on system three. All the, all the Nevadas coming through the wings there. Sounds really overdriven or distorted or something. You both sound kind of messed up. So how does system 3 sound? Going the other way? AF6M system 20.
Speaker A: The receive that I'm getting is really good. I would look at it on the sdr. It does look overdriven. Just in the waterfall. I'm not sure why.
Speaker C: Big beautiful system and there's lots of links and any one of them could be having issues. But. Yeah, no, you, you both sound pretty distorted and like you're on wide and it should be narrow or vice versa or something like that.
Speaker B: No worries.
Speaker C: It's doable. AF6M GIM.
Speaker B: Which repeater are you on? Did you say system system 7 or system 2?
Speaker C: My mind is system 3. 1, 2, 3. Out here on the Mendocino coast. It's up on the ridge. I think it's got a straight link to Vacca.
Speaker B: Okay, I'm going to double check the double check settings on Vaca. I think I made a play with
Speaker C: them a little bit last night.
Speaker B: Let me, let me make sure there's not something funny going on there. Okay, thanks for. Thanks for that. I'll check that out. M6P Andy,
Speaker C: that one, you sounded like your normal self. There's obviously a bit of slink noise, but that one sounded way better. So I don't know what to tell you on that. I don't know if it's this end or whatever, but that one was fine. AM6M2.
Speaker B: Okay? Yeah, and I was mistaken. It wasn't Vaca that I made the changes to. Yeah, there could have just been some lazy Internet somewhere. Okay, take care. M6 okay, Eddie.

Harmony.

Speaker A: Dude, are you awake yet? N6 mvt down there in the southland. Wp6jkv up here in the northland.
Speaker B: Well, I guess he's engaged or whatever.

Happening on the code cable6. Kra happo bay. Half mo bay. Who's listening?

You on the local area here. Can you go to system 32? I don't want to try it all up. Still working.

Kilo Bravo 6, kilo Romeo Alpha, go to the PL of 1148 and then we don't have to tap the whole wax.

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Los Angeles link up.

Fresno link up.

Speaker A: Hey, dude, wake up
Speaker B: down there. N6mbt down to southland. Wb6jkv airport. Hey, ken, have you heard a peep out of tom yet?
Speaker A: Kn 6 mgk mobile.

All right, back to listening. Wp6, jkv, mobile south stage.

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Los Angeles link up.

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Los angeles link up. K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Speaker A: Los angeles link up
Speaker B: k6lnk system 36 snow mountain range.
Speaker A: And 6 mbt normal anaheit.

System c link up.

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Speaker A: Los angeles link up
Speaker B: k6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.
Speaker A: And I mean wb6jkv for m6mbt around mike.

And 6 joa front 6 mbt. Are you around, charlie? And 6 mbt.

System 26 link up. 86 poc mobile on the kentucky slide.

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Los Angeles link up.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Alabama.

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System32, link off. K6lnk system 36, no mountain range.

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Fresno link up.

N6grt36local.

Speaker A: Was that Steven there? And six grt.
Speaker B: Well, I'm, I'm out here, if that's what you're asking, but I was in the other room. Good morning. Yeah, good morning.
Speaker A: Good morning, Steve. Yeah. Looking for some batteries. Triple A for this little light that I'm going to put on my bike. My E bike. Anyway. How are you doing? I'm on. They're doing the weather right now. Steve is from Quartzite.
Speaker B: Nice. Well, one thing I'll comment on is your audio. It's a little different than it has been, so I kind of like it. But it reminds me a lot more of your Kenwood that you used to run. Anyway, the deviation has just got a little bit more deepness to it. I don't know what's changed, but that's interesting. All right. Yeah, cool. I know you'll be getting back to it then in a minute. One thing that I had for you actually is the ICOM 7300. I just want to make sure that, like when you're trying GS8, you know, you're putting it, I mean, you know, you hit your menu button and I think it's page two that after the firmware update where you have the FT8 preset, you're going to load that in. Right. That's how you're. You're attempting to, to do gsa, correct. Yeah.
Speaker A: So I think I've done everything right. I've always, I've always ran JS8. No problem with the 7300, so.
Speaker B: Yeah, okay. Yeah, but you didn't have. I mean, it wasn't until the firmware update where you, where they added that to it. Right. The FT8 presets and you, you know, on page two, that's the whole point of the firmware update. Right.
Speaker A: But what you got to remember is that the, the problem isn't whether, you know, it's just not trying to work at all. The problem is an error, and the error indicates that there's no audio coming from the radio.
Speaker B: Well, I'm just trying to make sure you're operating it, you know, as of the new firmware update in that. Right. In that correct mode. That's all. Because you say you've been operating it for a long time. That's fine. I know you have, but that's what, you know, the way that you do. It changed in that firmware update. So that's the reason for me mentioning it.
Speaker A: You say you go to menu and then what?
Speaker B: Well, I think it's the menu and it's like page two of the menu and there wasn't. There shouldn't have been a page 2 the previous version according to my friend Jay talking to him this morning. So. Yep. So the firmware update should have added the second page.
Speaker A: Okay. And then you go to where it says FT8. Click on it.
Speaker B: Yeah, something like that. Yeah.
Speaker A: There it says loads of preset memory.
Speaker B: Huh.
Speaker A: Okay, well that's good to know. I'll have to try it.
Speaker B: Yeah, if you haven't been doing that, nothing will work. Yeah, that's. That's the whole point of the firmware update.
Speaker A: So.
Speaker B: Yeah, I mean that's how you do it. And then you unload it when you go back to sideband. So anyway. Yeah, so do that and then go back to your normal. You know how you normally would configure JS8 in the program. I bet you it'll work then as long as you have those silicon. The silicon drivers. Drivers. Anyway, I know you probably. I'm not listening to 40 meters, but I bet you have to get back can 6 MGK.
Speaker A: Well, another thing that happened with. With it was I. I put the. The new version of JS8 in so called improved and. And it. And that version crashes. So I just got through putting FT8 preset in like you said and. And the new version version of JS8 still crashes. It just comes on and stays on for a second and then it quits goes away. So I did find out that the old version, the old version was coming up as having a virus in it. Well, the guy. It's a particular virus that shows up when the software is not licensed. There's some kind of licensing thing so. And how to get around it and so forth. So I'm going to put the old version of JS8 back in and then I'll try this new thing that you just showed me and see what happens.
Speaker B: Well, it can't hurt. Okay, well maybe I'll toss on 40 meters real quick, but that's not on at the moment. All right. Kate, mgk. Gonna get some coffee for the wife.
Speaker A: Wanted to ask you. One of the things I see on the preset is 20 Chinese writing or Japanese writing for choice number one. Any idea what that's all about?
Speaker B: No.
Speaker A: No idea.
Speaker B: Yeah. No idea. Yeah, you have to ask my friend Jay, you know that. That operates his 7300 all the time. So you know he has Apple too. He could probably do a FaceTime thing knowing. Knowing him, he's seen him do that kind of stuff before. In case you're ever Interested?
Speaker A: Well, one thing I'm going to do is find out what the presets are that they just got through loading up. Make sure that they're compatible with the presets that I. With all the ways, setups that I use for it, if for jsa and that it matches. I don't know. I, I doubt that it's actually changing the setup at jsa. It's basically changing the radio.
Speaker B: Yep, that's what it's doing, I think changing the radio. And if you didn't put it in that mode before, it's a no wonder it didn't work. And it would make sense that you're not getting any audio transfer. Yeah. Because it doesn't know that that's what you're wanting to do or something. Yeah, you know, that's just something that, that's how we had to get Pat's working, you know, his, his versions of Windows and stuff. So I don't know. Yeah, I bet it will work now if you, if you use that, you know, the other motions of your JS8 and stuff should be all similar to what you're accustomed to for the settings and everything. All right, I know you got to get back to it soon. Here, let me turn on the volume. Let's see. Oh, I don't. Oh, I know why mode is wrong. Let that see. All right, talk to you in a bit. KN6MGK.
Speaker A: Well, by the way, OFG, who's doing the weather right now and who is Net control is at courtside. So anyway, that's what's going on. All right, talk to you later. Jump into the net if you'd like. And safe charging.
Speaker B: Yeah, when they told me I couldn't talk about stuff like nestastic and all that, it kind of put a little downer in me for a while. So, yeah, they don't want to talk about ham radio related things, just whatever their own stuff is, so. Oh, well. Yep. All right, I hear them. Can 6 MGK.
Speaker A: Who told you that you couldn't talk about
Speaker B: K7 ofg? You remember? You were right there. You were listening.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I missed that, though. All right, well, yeah, that would be a good question for him. Is, is there any mesh tastic at. At courtside? And also another thing that they said, I think it was maybe Steve again saying that you can talk about anything you want to talk about during the very last part. You know, the CQ thing.
Speaker B: Yeah, qst. Yeah, so that's what we were in when he said that. I couldn't remember. So. Yeah, your memory's getting a little fogged to it. You were right there, and we had a little discussion about it that day later, anyway, so. Yeah, then you told me that, like, the next day or so, they changed their mind anyway. But that was the section where I brought it up. I now come on to Chabasco very often, and I made sure I waited until QST to even bring it up. So that was a month or two ago, probably at this point. But I don't forget too easily. So I'll come back around eventually and try to catch up and say hello to those guys. KN6MGK. So get my wife some coffee and have a great day over there.
Speaker A: Okay? Well, one thing that you'll find is that they were doing that kind of thing with. With js8even, which is ham radio stuff, and they changed eventually. But it wasn't OFG that was saying that he actually thought JSA was cool. And he. You can use jsa. He does jsa. So, yeah, things vary. Things kind of change around. All right, get on it when you can. N6JRG.

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As the volume down. I hope I didn't interrupt anybody.

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Speaker A: Kk7 nun. Kk7 nun calling w7rsr. Ak7n u
Speaker B: n. W7rsr
Speaker C: works like a champ. Mr. W7rsr. That's awesome. We do. I wonder how far it'll go before I run out of service. I wonder if I can surely can't make it to Malapa, can I?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. In fact, I can hit high potency in front of my house. Is that true?

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System24 link up.

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Los Angeles link up.

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System7 link up.

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Los Angeles link up.

Golf kilo mobile monitoring red block, california.

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System can link up.

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Los Angeles link up.

And 6mbt on 31 anaheim.

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Yes, sir. Okay. I take.

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System 2, link off.

Ko6 mak monitoring.

Ko6 mak montering.

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All right. So what's the story with the Santiago boys today? Did they all make it home safely?

Well, I guess that probably means that Tom is not listening and Jeff is not listening. All right, well, I will be listening. N6 candy.