GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-28

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Pretty quiet repeater. Anyway, hope everyone's having a good evening up here in Northern California. Expecting a little bit of rain this evening, so prepare for that. Maybe sit down and have a nice dinner. This is KN6MGK mobile. Hope everyone has a great day.

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Speaker A: K6lnk system 36 snow mountain range. N6grg36 local.
Speaker B: Kilo Nov 6 Mike Golf kilo Mobile Chico. Hey, Steve.
Speaker A: Yeah, Cal. Fire is doing one of those long talks and I've got that radio on that I have to key it extra times. But you're in there and. Yeah, it's kind of cold. I think the humidity came up.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. And cold here. But we've got some misty light fog, I don't know what you want to call it, because of the rain, you know. So it's visibility half a mile. Somewhere in the 40s, probably mid-40s, I'm going to say. So I've seen colder mornings, but the wetness sure makes you feel that way.
Speaker A: Yeah. Humidity came up enough to be a problem with temperature, but I don't know, I'm thinking maybe it might be gone outside. I don't know if it's going to lift before it lifts other places. It does do that here.
Speaker B: Yeah. It's a day that I wouldn't choose to work outside. Right now. That wife was saying, you're going to go to paradise. I'm sitting here going, now it's all going to be mud there, you know, can't get nothing done. It needs to dry out for a day probably now.
Speaker A: Well, here it wasn't. I don't think it was enough to muddy things up. It was just. It said it was going to be a third of an inch over a little. A little over a third of an inch. But I don't know. I mean, it didn't seem like it was that much. It was coming down kind of steady for a while, but it wasn't real heavy.
Speaker B: Well, you just gotten accustomed to getting an inch.
Speaker A: Yeah. And I did clear out a lot of area, so it makes it seem like it's not as bad.
Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah. Things aren't saturated like they are when it's like a week straight. So, yeah, we're just kind of not used to regular kind of a storm like this. But it's enough to make it so that I don't like to walk around in garden areas and stuff all that. My little boots get full of the dirt and stuff like that. You end up walking around with dirt all over your feet. So no fun. I'd rather just wait a day.
Speaker A: Well, the main thing I have to watch out for is if there's enough mud to muddy up Rudy's feet, that's a problem. I mean, they're hard to. A lot harder to get cleaned up. And it didn't seem that bad this morning,
Speaker B: so.
Speaker A: But yeah, you're right, we are. Both of us are used to a lot more rain. This is pretty short, little wimpy little storm.
Speaker B: Yeah. Now the one thing I would categorize this winter so far has been fog, you know, and that gets pretty tiring. I think you had complained about it one week there. You were tired of it too. So we've had some good days though. So this is like one day right now. Fog is not that big a deal, but yeah, it was one of those things this year I was categorized by the most fog I've seen in a long time.
Speaker A: Well, not to change the subject, but I'm tempted to load up, try to load up KM4ARCK stuff onto a SD card and then get it on to my PI 400. That really worked good. I was really enjoying having that.
Speaker B: Yeah, he calls it like 73 Linux now, right?
Speaker A: Well, he is, he did put out that thing where he wasn't going to do Linux anymore, but I think that's a mistake because it has its places and I think he's pretty much into JS8 and FT8 and nothing runs those programs more, more reliably than, than Linux on a PI or could be on any other computer too.
Speaker B: Yeah, KN6MGK. I think you probably think his videos and the clickbaity kind of titles of all youtubers is a little bit of a grain of salt because I, you know, he's, he's a Linux man. I mean, it's just that maybe when it comes to a field. Field system, you know, where, you know, there's some things that window you may want to do on Windows, like say a firmware's update or maybe you want to run, you know, what's that? Wires X. Wires X, you know, in like one of your transceivers in PDN mode. Well, that requires Windows. So anyway, yeah, there's some things that do. And so then it becomes like, well, I only want to bring one, one mini computer with me, so which one will it be, you know?
Speaker A: Well, I mean you can carry a pie in your back pocket. So I don't know if that's something that he would be worried about. He brings a lot of equipment. Probably more, I would say more than the prepper because the prepper is hiking in with a backpack. But yeah, PIs are really pretty tiny computers. And even that PI 400, you have the whole keyboard but you don't have a screen. So yeah, it does make it. Some would feel it's a little less not just being able to open up a laptop. But laptops aren't generally. Well, he's Prepper's running one of those little tiny laptops. Did you watch that anti. Anti winter field day one? He has
Speaker B: no like 50 minutes long. Yeah, that's like his like third in succession anti field day things. I bet you this is the best one yet. So I'll have to watch it, but it's going to take me a little bit of time to get back to it. I like what the tech prepper does, but some of these things are like the, those little computers. He's still kind of young. He can, you know, you got great eyes so you can see all that little tiny stuff. But heck, anymore I gotta use my phone camera to take pictures of some things so I can explode them and read them. Like the other day taking a light bulb out of my Honda. I had to go to the auto parts store to get one. And I'm sitting here, you know, taking my camera to increase the size of the print on the light bulb so I can buy the right one. Finally I just, you know a nice cute girl there, I hand it to her, I go, hey, I think you probably got better eyes than me. Can you tell me what this says? So anyway, the point is, is that some of those small computers, number one, they're not mobile anymore and they're just not practical for some of us.
Speaker A: Anyway, that's your excuse for not carrying reading glasses is you get to talk to the cute girls and say, well, I forgot my reading glasses. Can you read this for me? Yeah.
Speaker B: Hey, well, there's nothing more sexy than a girl half your age saying, oh, this guy needs reading glasses, I'll be interested in him. I don't think so. Anyway, my glasses have reading glasses built in. They're progressives. Doesn't mean they do worth a dang for the most part. Actually. Probably need a new prescription soon. Probably needed one last year. Anyway. Point being that I doubt she cares much about me just doing her job, you know what I'm saying? So anyway, but I got that job done. I just try to make the point that a lot of times these things using like these little small computers that you can't hardly read, it's pretty tough. I already have a tough enough time. I think mine's a 14 inch laptop. I can't go any smaller than that.
Speaker A: When you're as good looking as I am, you really gotta be careful with stuff like that because they want to move in with you. But Anyway, just kidding of course. And I, I do feel that, well, oh, I wanted to mention one thing that I actually had that place, Riverside, that as far as I'm concerned they do the worst optum. Optometric work of any place I've ever seen. I mean they were not giving me the correct and I often wondered, well, are they doing this intentionally? But they weren't giving me the correct numbers and they refused to give me a prescription without me paying an extra $50. So I thought, well, you know, this is awfully strange that I'm getting the wrong numbers from these guys. But they actually said that they would
Speaker B: give me a
Speaker A: cataract operation and not change my, my prescription and I'd still be near sighted in that eye because I told him, you know, I really like see, they, they call what I'm doing mono vision and I'm doing it intentionally. I have mono vision where I have one that's a far sighted eye and one's a near sighted eye because I got the far sides of the lens and the right eye.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't understand what you said. So I thought for a moment there you were unhappy with them and then next thing you know you were talking about something that sounded more positive. So I don't know, I mean, but Costco has an optometrist. Walmart has an optometrist. Anyway, I go to Chico Eye center and it's a pretty big place. And yeah, they give me my prescription when I walk out the door and I don't buy any glasses from them. I did back in the day, but they wanted three to four hundred dollars every time I went in there, there for a set of glasses. So stopped doing that and started going to Costco where you can buy one, get the next one for 70 bucks or something like that. I mean it was always that way. Good deal at Costco for glasses.
Speaker A: Well, the reason I just get numbers from Riverside rather than paying two or three hundred dollars is Zenny has the best glasses you can buy for the least money. Z E N N I. And I've ordered them for years from them. And I'm still wearing a pair of zeni glasses right now because I looked through my old glasses and I found the right prescription, something really close. I do need to go to an optometrist like you're saying. Now here's the deal. When you have Medicare, you're older like I am and you have Medicare, then you're given a free prescription once every two years. Well, I found that when I went to see Them. It's a mixed. A mixed attitude towards Riverside. They did a lot of good things for me. But they have that one court. One court where you have to pay the extra 50 to get a prescription. And that's always, you know, kind of bugging. And a lot the stuff they were doing, I didn't think I really needed all that stuff. Maybe it would catch something that I didn't know was going on. But no, I didn't. They never told me I had any problems. And they do 50 billion tests and charge the government for all those tests. So, yeah, it's a mixed. A mixed thing with them. But I. I like. If I don't have any other problems, I like a good prescription so I can order my lenses and be done. And I used to get that from the one that would take care of the problem I developed. After they did the. That was called Shasta Eye, I developed a problem that was at a different name and you had to use laser surgery. And they refused to do the laser surgery where. Where Riverside went ahead and did the river Surg. The laser surgery right off. They did it quickly because they knew I needed it.
Speaker B: Yeah, Well, I long for the day where they tell me that'd be good for some sort of surgery to fix my eyes, but they haven't done so yet. So I don't know. But it sounds good that you're getting that done and getting your eyes taken care of anyway. That's a good thing. Yep. I think you said something about having a problem with your foot. Does that get any better?
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. No, it's not getting. Going to get better without a sur. Without surgery. Have you ever asked them directly if you have cataracts?
Speaker B: Oh, I don't need to ask that question. Yeah, I got cataracts. That's not a problem. Yeah, that's not the issue with my eyes. So that's one issue. I mean, my eyes are about. He usually says that they're about 10 years older than I am, you know, in terms of how they. How he sees other patients. So definitely have cataracts building in, but that's not the problem. They can fix cataracts, but still going to be wearing glasses anyway. It's mostly just that my prescription changes so frequently too. Anyway. Other issues like central service retinopathy that I had before that put a big blister on the back of my eye essentially and cut off the vision on part of it, so. And never fully recovered.
Speaker A: Well, I have what they call a hole in the back of my eye and I don't know how it got
Speaker B: there,
Speaker A: but it's not, it's in the eye that I believe it's in the eye that has the lens put on and cataracts removed and the lens put on. So combination of things that I had that other weird problem that has a strange name. I can't remember what it is. It's like these globs of stuff in cornea that they had to burn out with a laser. But now my right eye is just pretty nice. I walk around without glasses a lot because of that. And yet I can read close with my left eye so I can, you know, have a little tiny cell phone screen and read it. But the thing, the reason I ask you that question, have you ever asked and how bad are they? Maybe or something that, yeah, obviously they told you you've got cataracts is that night vision thing. That is the symptoms that you're describing is cataract. Cataracts will affect night vision more than any other eye problem.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. No, I'm not surprised. Yep. Also because it's my left eye that does all the work. You know, I get tired, you know, she's 10, 11 o' clock at night a lot of times. You know, by then my eyes are all fuzzy, you know, because my eyes are tired, I need some sleep, you know, stuff like that. It had to work all day long to do the work of two eyes.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, I worry a little with that night vision thing. You know, if you're trying to drive at night and you have bad enough cataracts, you won't see crap.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't quite think they're there yet, but I purposely get off the road. Like last night I left about a half hour early. I was expecting some rain. I didn't hit no rain. Had to get some gas. So anyway, I was home by like 5:30. So try to get off the road before it gets dark if I can. When I get home, like, you know, I actually have something. My wife says, hey, do you want to go over here, there? And I'm like, nope, I'm done. I'm in. So. And when I pull up to the driveway and park the vehicle and everything, I unload and I'm done for the night and no reason to go anywhere else.
Speaker A: Yeah. And Riverside claims that my eye that had the lens from shaft to eye, one thing that shaft I did do right was they, they did the job well. And, and I have a 0.5 and I think it's 0.5 to the far sided end maybe. But I'm not sure. Could be the near side. I don't know. Point five.

Speaker A: And on that, that eye. So it's so close to being perfect that you know, I don't have to worry about it. But the cataracts so far on my left eye aren't bad enough I don't think. Although like I said, chef die, they want the money. So they said oh yeah, we'll do that operation and give you near sighted vision just like you want. That was kind of cool. But anyway. So I suppose where are you heading today? Are you, are you doing Paradise?
Speaker B: Well, I've already stopped in the parking lot of Panera where I'm gonna go inside and get me some tea there in just a minute. But hang around here for an hour or so so we'll decide from there. I'm not going to Paradise. It's probably going to be all dirty, muddy and I'm not going to Yankee Hill or nothing. Maybe tomorrow we'll go there. But anyway, yeah, Friday, probably be working up in paradise then maybe Friday, Saturday, we'll see. Got a lot of gardening stuff to do so yeah, I'll just go back home and do some stuff around the house. Got seeds, oil on the truck here. It keeps telling me change the oil soon so better get, get to doing that. Got the stuff at home so. But we'll see if the sun comes do that today.
Speaker A: Well, I did find my infrared measurement temperature measurement goody and it works. So I am going to check out my engine. I. It's such a strange deal though with that. I don't know what to think with that. I suppose it could be all clogged up that radiator but so strange. But you know, I'm gonna do an analyzing situation with the temperature measurement goody and see what I, what I think after I see what I have there.
Speaker B: No, I thought you got all that cleared up. I thought you drained it all out, put new in and all that stuff already.
Speaker A: Well I, I did get the job done. You know, I did everything you're supposed to do but I don't feel that, that it actually was able to unplug it. And that's after doing the cleaning solution which is, you know, it's not a, not a very cleaning solution in my opinion. That flesh stuff, I don't think it's very acidic. I think even vinegar might have done a better job but I'm not going to do it over again because I did it two or three times so. And I'm just not happy with the result. And I do think my heater is flowing, you know my, my car heater though.
Speaker B: Yep. But, I mean, what's the indicator? You think that the radiator is clogged because when you drained it, you didn't get very much out, or what was it that makes you think that?
Speaker A: Well, it goes back to temperature. I have a temperature number right on my, you know, my dash, and it is not going up like it used to.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, but that could be something wrong with the gauge or something too. Right. So, yeah, yeah, he's got the right plan, I think, with your infrared temperature thing to check it. But they do have other thermometers you can put right in the radiator, too, so. But yeah, yeah, I just. I just don't trust gauges, especially older vehicles, you know, not that the gauge was bad, it's just that it's an older vehicle, you know, so. Temperature sensor or the gauge itself? You know,
Speaker A: I was just going to tell you I think the electrical is the first to go, but then I remembered what happened with my neighbor when we had that big flood down on the 273. And he's the guy that just. He just loves going to town. I mean, that's. That's what. I don't think he would do it if he didn't love it. And he just loved going to town. That's the only thing I can say. I mean, he goes to town more than almost Way, way more than I do. That's for sure. Pretty much every day. And on that day, well, the next morning,
Speaker B: he couldn't start it.
Speaker A: He had his son and a couple other guys that live there go out, out. And one of them. I heard one of them saying that this vehicle is dead. It is dead. So he. Obviously it was. It was a small Chevy, like a small suv, kind of a looking thing. And. And he had to have. He had to have the tow truck company come out and they came out with his big, huge vehicle right after that big storm and got stuck in his driveway. I mean, it was all they could do to get unstuck so they could load up his little Chevy.
Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, it's just like that temperature sensor that probably in the box somewhere, you know, you could probably find it and pull that out and clean it and put it back into it, thinking. But yeah, obviously it would drain the coolant. So that's a problem there. But I've seen that happen before, too, where the temperature sensor itself is messed up. Yeah.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. There's a chance. You know, in fact, one of the sensors I wanted to eliminate. Well, not eliminate. I want to double up on It. I wanted to have the original. Original temperature. Oil sensor. Temperature sensor in the vehicle. And I wanted to have a. Well, now actually is the pressure is what I'm worried about. So I want to put a pressure. And I'm not sure if I have a dash pressure sensor or not. I'm not sure. I think I do, but I wanted to. I don't believe that pressure sensor at all. So I wanted to put completely different pressure sensor system. And I have it. I just need to do it.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I've seen people put, especially on diesels, all kinds of different gauges in addition to whatever the factory installed on them. The anyway they have that truck long enough, you're going to buy some vehicle that's electric or something like that. Right. So you can drive up and down the freeway and not have to buy gas.
Speaker A: I do that with my E bike. Did you know that they might have made a change where they start trying to tell people you can't go over 20? I'm not positive about that, but I do know that I rode my bike over to the water department, my E bike over the water department, pay the bill, and building was closed, locked up tight as a drum. Everybody was out to lunch. And the guy that takes the money ran outside, unlocked everything and ran outside and said, well, come on in. And I was surprised. And then come to find out the reason he did that, I think was that he has an E bike. But we were talking about E bikes and he says, well, mine won't go over 20 years ago, 28. What did you modify? And I didn't modify anything that was at the time. That was what was legal. So I don't know. They're telling him 20 is legal.
Speaker B: Yeah, I would have no idea. I think you told me about that the other day. So I don't know. I made a comment this night, commenting that if I was on any of those E bikes, there'd only go 10.
Speaker A: Well, I didn't catch that. Are you afraid of. Well, do you ride regular bicycles?
Speaker B: I have, but, you know, it's because I'm twice your weight.
Speaker A: I mean, you didn't like I lived on a bike. Maybe you didn't actually live on a bike as you were being raised. See, I had four younger brothers and a mom that was extremely busy and she didn't want to take us to town at all. And so she says, you know, you guys want to go fishing down at the docks? You got her ride your bikes there. And that was 15 miles round trip just to go fishing.
Speaker B: Yeah, No, I wouldn't say I lived on a bike, but definitely rode lots of bikes as I was growing up. In middle school it was pretty far away, up some hills in Napa there to the, to the, to the middle school. I rode my bike every day except for maybe a rain day. So that was like a 10 speed at the time. I'd go over to his house, we lived maybe a quarter mile away and we'd watch some cartoons. Then we'd leave, I don't know, maybe seven in the morning or something like that from his place and ride our bikes to school. That was probably like a, I don't know, 20, 30 minute ride or something like that. And then back home too. So did that quite a bit growing up. But yeah, in college too because I didn't want to park at campus, didn't want to pay for the bills. So I'd ride, you know, a couple miles into campus, maybe three, four miles into campus every day and then ride home. But yeah, at some point in time that got kind of old. And so yeah, I've been enjoying the four wheels instead of the two.
Speaker A: Well see we, after riding bicycles and pushing bicycles through the woods, through the redwoods and making you know, 20 mile round trips through the woods, my dad got a Honda 55 and so we started. All of his brothers started working on way into motorcycles. And my first one was a Suzuki 125 that had a thing called a quick Change. I rode that, that motorcycle all over the 299, way out to the river and all over the place and up into the Cherney Alps. And you name it, I was everywhere on that thing. From Eureka all the way past Cherni Lake and into the Trinity Alps.
Speaker B: It was crazy.
Speaker A: But my last motorcycle was, and I still own it, a Suzuki 350. The problem with that bike is it's so tall. I've kind of, I've read a few things where they say you can lower it, but it's so tall and for somebody that's five, nine, you can't touch the ground. If you stop, you cannot put your feet out and touch the ground. It might be about right for you though. And other than that, that was. Man, that bike would go anywhere. And I rode it up on Chef's Folly.
Speaker B: Alrighty, well, I'm gonna head on inside. Been sitting in my truck. Getting cold now, so we'll chat with you later. Guessing that net must been have been pretty fast this morning. Ladder just didn't join them. But I'm gonna go ahead and get inside and grab me a hot drink and kick back by the fake fire for half hour, 45 minutes at least. I'll say 7, 3kn, 6mgk.
Speaker A: Well, get yourself a really sexy pair of expensive sunglasses. And then you'll have to. You'll have to tell that gal you're married when she starts flirting with you. All right, Talk to you later. Nvs trg.

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Speaker A: And 6kne and 6kne and 6grg 36 link.
Speaker B: Hey, Mike, what's going on? N6 kne here. Oh, not much.
Speaker A: How are you doing?
Speaker B: I'm just funny you ask. I was just going through Tom's allstarlink.org account, rearranging things so it looks better on the Supermod. The, the All Starlink page is changed. It did some kind of a massive update and they changed a lot of things.
Speaker A: The only thing they allow you to
Speaker B: put in the call sign box is your call sign. And I was trying to use system numbers. They won't let me do that anymore. Now I gotta go call sign. And then down on the, down at the frequency box I use the system number. So it's easy to. It's easy to see when you're looking at supermodel.
Speaker A: Well, that's too bad. It was nice to have all the extra information and hopefully they don't just figure that's an interim rewrite and then they're going to do it again and then you'll have to do your job again.
Speaker B: Well, it's just nice looking at Supermon and seeing exactly what everything is, you know, so if there is something missing, you'll. You'll catch it right away. I'm just trying to make it more user friendly. When you're looking at it, you know, what's going on with you? How's the temperature up there?
Speaker A: I've called it false spring. You know, it's a little warmer than normal. Some of the trees are blossoming that are probably going to get killed by frost. Which we had one the other day that was 28. So it's going to happen.
Speaker B: Okay, I don't remember. Do you have any fruit trees?
Speaker A: Do I have any what with me?
Speaker B: Fruit trees? Do you have any fruit trees? Fruit?
Speaker A: Well, I'm down to one pear tree and one lemon tree. Not a lot.
Speaker B: Oh, all right. My gardener is here right now. We got, we got a big mess with, With, Yeah, that mangoes. We got a big mess with mangoes. We got mangoes there up in the yard, all over the place. I need to go out there every morning and pick them up and I don't. If I don't, they rot out quick and the bugs get in them, the birds get in them, the insects get in, the animals get in them. They just make a big mess out there. I need to go out there every morning and pick them up. There's so many of them.
Speaker A: Well, you should be juicing them. The mango juice is awesome.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, no doubt. So how's the, how's the search going for new property?
Speaker A: I'm not even close to starting that. All my plans are, you know, I'll be surprised if everything works out if I do everything. You know, I'm getting up there in age, so I do think about that. But right now what I'm trying to do is at least make it possible or just possible to sell it because this one building that's on it was why it was so hard to sell in the beginning and why I got it so inexpensively.
Speaker B: Well, in about 10 minutes or so, if you're in the house, pull up, pull up one of the supermodel Carter super mines and it should look a little better. I think I'll be done here in a couple minutes. Yeah. So let's see. 54, 7. Oak Hill. Oak Hill is 67, right?
Speaker A: Did you say Oak Hill? I guess that's what they call that little thing.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's system seven, I think, isn't it? Yep.
Speaker A: System.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah.
Speaker A: So anyways,
Speaker B: in a few minutes take a look at the supermon and you'll see what I. You'll see what. I'm in the middle of changing.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think I left my computer on at home. I shouldn't have to boot it.
Speaker B: You probably have to hit the refresh button just to refresh it because things have changed since the last time you looked at it.
Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know that I have that tab still up and operational. I'll be refreshing it when I just click on it. Yeah, you wouldn't believe all the little roads around here. And I'm on another back road now called Olive. It's so narrow. You really have to. I have to get off the, off the road there. Live a car by.
Speaker B: Well, we've got plenty of sunshine here now, but there are some monsoon looking clouds off to our south and I do hear thunder every once in a while. So that's. It's always fun.
Speaker A: Well, one interesting, that thing that happened. We have TDS here, but you called Happy Valley phone company and the, The people, what is. That? Regulate everything for the state. I called them because I thought their rates were a little high when I first got here. And they said, well, we don't regulate small phone companies like that. Well, you know, they were purchased by tds. So TDS is one of the top, top four big ones. So. But anyway, they put fiber in. They put fiber in down my street and my neighbor went to get it and they ran into some kind of a Problem the day they were supposed to install it. And I have a suspicion that it's a level problem at that particular box or something like that because nobody else was on that bus. Before it was over, they had five TDS trucks there. They were all over the place.
Speaker B: Oh, all right, well, I'm happy to see that they finally fix my, my fiber optics. They changed some DHS stuff somewhere. They changed some equipment somewhere. Now my Internet is much, much better.
Speaker A: My IP address
Speaker B: stays static.
Speaker A: Well, I didn't actually talk to these guys. I don't know enough about fiber optics to know. I figured, well, I probably wouldn't understand what they're telling me anyway because language, you know, they use language that doesn't make sense. So I didn't ask them. But if I were to guess it would be a level problem. Like wherever they sample off of that line, they take a sample of the light and they run a single fiber optic line all the way into the house. I guess you know that.
Speaker B: Yep, that's what I have. Just a single, a single fiber optic line and I can have. I don't remember what the guy told me. I can have several, several modems on that one fiber optic line. Yeah, of course, we only need one now. When they, when I was having problems, they came with a tester and they plugged the fiber optic line right into the tester. And this tester was able to read the code, you know, to verify the account number and to verify, you know, a good, a good clean signal and pretty cool. Just, you know, it was just reading the reading the little laser light coming to the. Coming through the cable or coming through the fiber optic.
Speaker A: Well, the guy got so flustered, he took off and went to talk to some of the other guys and was just walking Rudy and I walked down because I noticed that the box was still off, off, you know, right next to the pole. But it was still. Hadn't been put back on its cover to cover everything. And
Speaker B: I was shocked.
Speaker A: There were two fiber optic missions meters there. They're probably like 500 bucks a piece. You know, knowing the commercial stuff, they were just laying on the ground there. Nobody around,
Speaker B: Huh? Yeah, that was dumb, huh? I bet they're worth a lot more than $500. That's that fiber optic testing stuff as we're. I bet that's very costly. All right, well, I'm checking updates here on the supermom, but it's not coming over yet. So it's all starlink.org they may have to do some kind of a. Okie dokie before they. Before they let that stuff pass or some. Some update may have to occur every hour on the hour or something, I don't know. Anyway, so, yeah, when you take a look at it, hopefully it'll be there. Okay, I gotta run to the next room real quick. I'll be right back. N6 Katie.
Speaker A: All right. Good to talk to you. Yeah, the. The meters, you know, I mean, somebody who was stealing wouldn't have any use for them. He wouldn't know what to do with them. But they're just stop these people from taking stuff like that. They just steal because they can. That's their only criteria. All right, talk to you later. Interest drg.

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Speaker A: Km6zol. Can I get a signal tech, please?
Speaker B: You are doing just fine. Good audio and good signal. N6 kne.
Speaker A: Thank you. N6 kne.
Speaker B: What's your Qch? I'm down here in Colombia, South America. Chenalta.
Speaker C: Chenalta, Colombia?
Speaker A: Are you serious? South America?
Speaker B: Wow. I'm in Lafayette, California.
Speaker A: That's incredible. I've never gotten anybody in South America ever.
Speaker B: Wow. Yeah, I'm a transplant from Northern California. I've been down here a little over a year now. Retired.
Speaker A: Oh, you retired in South America.
Speaker B: Must be a good deal there.
Speaker A: How do you.
Speaker B: Where are you exactly again? I'm in a small little town called Chinata.
Speaker C: Chinata, Colombia.
Speaker B: It's in the East Andes of Colombia and about an hour and a half drive south of Bogota.
Speaker A: Yeah, my aunt used to live in Bogota. She died, but very young. She was like the first Alzheimer's case in history. She was like 32 and she died, but her husband was in textiles in Bogota, so. Yeah. So they really liked it there.
Speaker B: Yeah, I like it. What I like the most, of course, is the weather. And everything's green. It's currently 82 degrees. We got some thunderstorms blowing in, which is a daily occurrence this time of year.
Speaker A: It's like 52 degrees here. California's been cold this winter. It's been like every day in the 40s and 50s.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've been watching this cold front moving around. California is not getting it too terrible.
Speaker C: But
Speaker B: I know Texas, Louisiana, Florida and of course the whole west coast there. They're going to get hit again here very soon. Super cold weather, You know.
Speaker A: Like I believe 80 million people are affected by this cold front going through. No one's talking about global warming anymore. He said it's global freezing.
Speaker C: People are all out to lunch.
Speaker A: Anyway. That's really interesting. Okay, really good talking to you.
Speaker B: You're first.
Speaker A: Km6.0 be on the side.
Speaker B: Okay, good talking to you. You stay warm. Ken here. N6 knee.
Speaker C: We're freezing our butt top here.
Speaker A: I think you said mlv. Where were you located?
Speaker B: Sorry, I started double with you. Go ahead, try it again.
Speaker A: An MLP station is something where you're located.
Speaker B: He's so cold. He froze. He can't talk now.
Speaker C: N6 mpt system 12 link up. Are you still there? Ab4lb?
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm still here. How you doing there, lb?
Speaker A: Kind of doing good.
Speaker B: It's cold here.
Speaker C: Today wasn't that bad. It was in the 20s when we got up and it was 43. Just a little bit ago was like 30, 38, 37. But the other day, man, we woke up to ice and did not go anywhere. We stayed put. A lot of crazy people out there. There was like 15 accidents on overpasses and bridges and all that stuff, so it was pretty crazy. But it's getting cold at night, and this coming weekend, it's gonna get down in the teens again, maybe single digits. So it's been pretty cold.
Speaker B: Copy that. Well, I don't ever want anybody to think that I'm bragging, but, yeah, you know where I am. All right. Yeah. Over to. Over to you, sir. Tom, what time do you.
Speaker A: Or when.
Speaker B: When did you finally get back home from SoCal? Well, hello, Ken.
Speaker C: I don't know.
Speaker B: I think it was Saturday afternoon or
Speaker C: late afternoon or something and pretty much
Speaker B: crashed and went to the sleep and
Speaker C: the rest is kind of blurry.
Speaker B: Back to work Monday, so, you know, lots of fun, but seems like things
Speaker C: are working so far.
Speaker B: Yeah. Yep. So far, so good. Well, don't give up on getting that port opened up. You know, it's always nice to be able to go in there and look for errors or issues and make adjustments
Speaker C: and updates and all that good stuff.
Speaker B: All right, I'll say hello to lb. I gotta get back to what I'm doing and. Good to hear you guys. Ken here. Nice warm. Now I'm bragging.
Speaker A: Sorry.
Speaker B: Now I'm bragging. Nice warm.
Speaker C: Genota, Columbia.
Speaker B: And yeah, you guys, you guys stay warm.
Speaker C: That's okay.
Speaker B: When we're warm, you may be cold.
Speaker C: So we'll take that into advisement.
Speaker B: And yeah, the one thing that would be nice to get through figured out
Speaker C: is that DTMS muting, where that's happening,
Speaker B: maybe it's happening at multiple points along
Speaker C: the way or something, you know, but if we can control things via DTMs, that will help as well. So I don't know if we need to talk to experts or something like that that know what's going on or you already have, or we're in a stalemate or whatever.
Speaker B: Well, there is definitely some learning that I need to do. This type of stuff is kind of new to me. Sometime we need to. Maybe you and I can have a phone conversation that'll help me. Help me know where to look and how to look for the solution. Ralph. RALPH is also looking for the solution.
Speaker C: Well, there's got to be an answer out there somewhere because, like, you know, people got to do this all the
Speaker B: time, but it seems like it's inherently set to huge somewhere along the line,
Speaker C: you know, so that there's only control
Speaker B: of all Star type devices, but nothing past them.
Speaker C: Or maybe nothing past the last one or something, I'm not quite sure. But the answer has to be out there somewhere, because it's not, you know, rocket science or anything.
Speaker B: But anyhow, that'll give us some basic
Speaker C: telemetry and control over the controller, which we'll need to do.
Speaker B: And yeah, I'll have to give a
Speaker C: little bit more time before I start
Speaker B: poking about the other thing, because I
Speaker C: know the person down there was super busy with extra stuff, so. But we'll work on it.
Speaker B: And Jeff supposedly is feeling sick and
Speaker C: kind of out of commission, so if he hasn't got back to you a little soon here.
Speaker B: All right, I'll let you go.
Speaker C: We'll stay in touch. Talk to you later. I am 6 MPC.
Speaker B: Okay, relisting. You guys take care. And 6K, any.

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Speaker A: K 0qg test 02k 0qg.
Speaker B: Wow. That's some kind of call. That's exciting. Reach
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Speaker B: Thank you for the roses.
Speaker A: I'm coming down the hill, through the canyons in the Mesquite, so it's kind of choppy and noisy. I'm surprised I'm this close, but yet so far away. King0QG.
Speaker C: Oh, man. Good call. And, yeah, you know what? You have a really good signal. And I'm not gonna stand this the way guys do. Right. His signal is perfect. Loud, good, good audio. Just the way I.
Speaker A: Well, thank you so much. Yeah. I'm on a handheld in a portable headed down here to Mesquite, and we'll be in the area over the next day or two. Well, at least until tomorrow. 873Thank you for the comeback. K0QG kilowatt 0 Quebec Golf standing by.
Speaker C: Get your name. Pete here. Papa. Echo, Tango Echo. And you're on a handheld. Oh, my gosh, man, you must be some kind of super ham or something. You sound good. Anyway, talk at you later. K0QG N6I T in Chico.
Speaker A: It's bill. We talk again. K0q3,
Speaker C: Roger.

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