GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-29

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

There's somebody mobile and success. On my fanny watching television. And now I'm finally getting out to go for a walk.

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Kilo7 Oscar Foxtrot. Oscar is mobile on the side.

K7gnd. Larry, are you listening?

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System guide link box.

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November 8th at the delta hotel, and I'm on an hd in berkeley.

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Speaker A: Radio check from Orange County. You believe it, charlie? Loud and clear in mesquite from k0qg.
Speaker B: Pretty decent over here at 101 in Katati. AD6 POC mobile system 26 link off.
Speaker A: Can I make it back to you? K0qg and mesquite? You're loud and clear.
Speaker B: K0QG from K6K mobile. What part of California is that? I've heard of this but I don't know where that is.
Speaker A: We're on the Utah Nevada border about four miles away. I guess it was there maybe and a half from Utah headed up to St. George. We're on a handheld here in Nevada. Mesquite is not in California. It is indeed in Nevada, over.
Speaker B: I didn't realize that the car system went that far east. I knew it went down to Vegas and there's some stuff on the California Nevada border, but I didn't know it went that far east into Nevada. That's pretty impressive. Especially around the border of Utah. Right on. Here's Adam.
Speaker A: By the way.
Speaker B: I'm on the way home from work tonight.
Speaker A: You and I have talked before. You're in Northern California around Sacramento or somewhere. I believe I maybe talked to you about two weeks ago. It's still here in Las Vegas, but we're out in Mesquite this week.
Speaker B: So I'm Adam. I work for the utility company night during the day. I have a power engineering construction business. Tomorrow I have a meeting at Stanford University. 10:00am you know, that's probably as far as I really will go in one day. I'm going to be down there at 10 so I got to be back on the road at like say 6:30 in the morning. I'm not even supposed to home yet, but like my dad said, sometimes you have to go to where the job is. I'm actually north of San Francisco by about 45 minutes. Just driving home tonight, trying to get shower a little something to my stomach in bed. Back to it again.
Speaker A: Okay Adam, you're sounding good. Like I said, into Mesquite and dry safe. Be careful out there and enjoy your commute. I'll say 73 and it's been nice talking to you again. I'm sure we'll. We'll hook up again sometime. 73 to K0QG.
Speaker B: Friday. Bill, in the seat. You have a good night. I got about 15 or 20 minutes more driving home. K86 POC mobile listening.

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Speaker A: This is Kilo Oscar
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Speaker A: Hey Steve.
Speaker B: KN6MGK. N6TRG. Yeah, you caught me making breakfast.
Speaker A: Okay, good. Yeah, good. You need to eat something for sure. You haven't been eating enough lately. Pretty nice outside. It's gonna be a beautiful day. I think. Kinda like a spring day almost.
Speaker B: It's overcast here, but I am getting. Well, I was getting eight amps, now I'm getting four and a half. But my voltage is up to full voltage. So that's why it's starting to go down.
Speaker A: So. Yeah. What's full voltage?
Speaker B: Right now it's 14.37 volts on a
Speaker A: cheap,
Speaker B: a cheap measurement device. I'd have to look at it with a. I know if there's a difference when I look at it with a really good meter.
Speaker A: If they say lithium iron phosphate batteries don't really go by voltage for state of charge, then why do we rate them by state of charge?
Speaker B: Because the guy that said that is not a scientist and I don't believe it.
Speaker A: I haven't seen any other way to measure batteries like that Anyway. So, like it would need to be current holding capacity.
Speaker B: Well, the controllers, you know, the solar. Solar controllers and like my Renati and all the others use voltage to determine what they're going to do. They control everything rated exactly from what they see from voltage.
Speaker A: The difference being, of course, they try to get as much amperage as possible. The charge the battery like at 14.6 or 14.4. Guess you can set that on something and get it up to its maximum voltage. And then of course it'll start letting go and start going down like you said you're seeing.
Speaker B: One of my better meters says there's a tenth of a difference. It's a tenth of a difference higher. It's actually like 14.46. The renergy. The renergy is, you know, paying attention to how much current goes into the battery and how much current comes out. So, you know, they're not entirely ignoring it. I don't know how much they use to control anything though.
Speaker A: Not neither, because like it say once it gets down to say 13.3 or 4 somewhere there. Well, it could stay like that for quite some time because that's what lithium iron phosphate does, right? I mean it won't go down to, you know, much less than that very quickly. It's kind of where it hangs out until it gets down to say, you know, on the higher 12, 12.8 or so. Most of my little portable batteries, they go down to 12 volts before they kick off.
Speaker B: Kick off. I gotta Ask you. Well, I'm gonna ask you what you mean by that and listen to it while I run over and check a cornbread thing I'm making.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, like out of Winterfield day, running my 30amp hour battery pretty hard all day, been on CW, finally hit, you know, the whole transceiver turns off because the BMS kicked in. You know, at some point in time when I went back to go charge that battery at home, because I pulled it off immediately once the transceiver kicks off like that. Because of power. Anyway, yeah, when I plugged in my charger it said 12 volts, so. So evidently the BMS sends that. The voltage went down below that number or whatever number is set, maybe it's eleven and a half, whatever. And that's when it kicked off the transceiver. You know, the transceiver, the 710 is pretty unhappy if it doesn't get the voltage it needs.
Speaker B: Well, there'd be two or three questions. One, did the battery shut down? Two, did you have a meter right across the battery when it did it? Three, what was the voltage that the 710 actually saw? Things like that.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean that's tell all stuff that was. If someone was interested, they would care. I don't. So I've experienced it before, measured it before, but it's been a while, so no, I didn't. I don't have any special devices on there measuring it because it's not important to me. It's kind of like someone has two propane tanks and they want to have gauges on them. It's like, well, just switch to the other one, you know, who cares when it runs out, when it runs out. But each his own, you know. So anyway, yeah, so that's all I got. I do have measuring devices I could put with the Anderson power poles on it and everything, but I just don't see the point. When I charged it up, it took like 26amp hours according to my charger before it filled it up. So it was only a half hour short of being empty, evidently.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, usually the BMS shuts down the battery at a lower voltage than that, like 11 volts or something like that. So my question is that you have a way to tell whether the battery had actually shut down or whether it was just the D710.
Speaker A: Well, I mean you could power back the radio after you transmit and you let off the key, you can power the radio back on. So yeah, it's hard to say which one. What was a chicken or before the egg or whatever. But it doesn't matter. I know that the battery isn't going to supply the voltage the radio wants when you key down anyway, so just switch it out, you know. But yeah, if someone's real critical in knowing that information, I don't know. I've operated with that battery probably 50 times. It doesn't bother me to not know. So I know I get, you know, say about, in this case, 26amp hours of use out of it before I have a problem like that. If you use a different transceiver, one that doesn't suck as much energy, then, you know, it doesn't require 20amps to transmit, then you'll have better, you know, better usage perhaps of that battery.
Speaker B: Well, if you can turn the radio on after transmitting and the battery is alive and everything's working, that kind of indicates to me that it's not the battery that's shutting down, it's the radio. But I don't know, you know, I've never operated with lower voltages on my D7300 because I've just always had it hooked to this big battery bank. And the lowest that battery bank goes is like 13.2 is about the lowest I've ever taken it to.
Speaker A: Yeah, well when you run digital modes or CW at high power, it definitely sucks the energy for sure. And yeah, you can hook it up to some sort of a switching power supply or a linear power supply or that 25kW battery system. So you're unlikely to find a low voltage to feed it. But the other thing about the 7300 is it is not as power hungry as the Yaesus are. You can ask Jeremy about that, knows. So that's just the way it is. And then the new Mark 2 is even better. So I think they were claiming it's 0.7amps on receive. That's pretty, pretty amazing.
Speaker B: Yeah, receive turns out is the most important thing because you're typically not transmitting 50% of the time unless you're running that stupid app called FT8. Haha. Just kidding.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, definitely. If you're calling CQ on FT8, you're, you're pumping out at least 50% utilization gap every 15 seconds. Calling CQ this morning I was, I was probably even higher than that because I was going from one to the other to the other. But I was only putting out 25 watts in the transceiver though the amplifier was doing most of the work. But yeah, but out there on winter field day, we were doing like 75 watts CW. And it's continuous. You know, it's, you know, CQ, CQ, call sign comes in repeating, you know, just back and forth, back and forth. You know, there's no, hardly any wait time at all. So. Pretty good power usage for sure.
Speaker B: How many watts?
Speaker A: 75.
Speaker B: Yeah. That's a lot of power for continuous. The, my, my, my radio will go up to 115 full power. That's a lot of power.
Speaker A: Okay, That's more power.
Speaker B: Yeah. Are you going over the dam?
Speaker A: No, but I'm out of that bad spot though. And I'm almost at the job site. So. You're in Yankee Hill. But I've already gone over. I didn't even look this time. But yeah, it's sometimes fun to run a little extra power. You can just, you know, get, get further out there on FT8. I was having a little bit more trouble getting into China today though. Plenty of Asian stuff, but no, China's
Speaker B: got two stations on KSA call a lot of the time. At least I used to. I haven't had it on in at least a week.
Speaker A: Yeah, you're running into a couple weeks real fast here. That'll be a couple months before you get it back if you do.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's why KL7R jumped in there and said, oh, I'm going to help you out. And I think I could download, I've got fast enough Internet now. I could download a system. I think I'm going to try to download the Cam4 Ack system.
Speaker A: Yeah, I thought you were working on that yesterday.
Speaker B: Nope, I did more carpentry and well, the day before, the last thing I did was try to put one sheet, one, one piece up. And I majored and yeah, 37 or 38, blah, blah. And then I cut it at 35. So that ruined that whole sheet. So I went down yesterday and got a sheet, a whole sheet of is 10. They're 10 foot long now. Siding for 34 bucks. And I'm ready to put up pretty much the last piece unless I mess around a little bit with this one other piece that the lines didn't quite match up and, and then I got it start working on the insulation.
Speaker A: Well, I thought you were tearing stuff down, not building stuff up.
Speaker B: Well, it's a combination project because I'm using all the insulation on the existing buildings, making them toasty, toasty warm. And one of the project was, you know, the wall on the end of the building that I'm keeping was right up against the building that I'm Getting rid of. So I had to remove enough of that building to be able to work on that wall. Because what I want is when I remove the trailer, I want that wall to be looking like it's been finished forever.
Speaker A: Well, having new siding on it and new paint and stuff, that's gonna look new, not. Not like it's been there forever.
Speaker B: Well, all I'm using is this green. I think it was originally white. There's a type of primer, it's called bullseye or something. And it's really good. And I, I rolled it and brushed it. So it's on there. Good. You know, my neighbor had five gallons sitting there, like 50, $60 worth of paint. And I said, well, could I have that? Do you want that? He says, yeah, I'll take it. And I did the entire building except for that one wall. And I ran out and that includes the greenhouse. I did everything in that green. So it's exactly the same color as this house.
Speaker A: Must have a dead animal around here. Got the buzzards for him. The vultures up there not too far from me. You down up there before? So I wonder. Have to go check that out anyway. Yeah, if you're using just primer, that's not going to be a good exterior. You know, if it's exterior, you're going to want to put something else over the top of that. Bullseye is good. When it's hit the primer, you need to have the. The right stuff in it to also give you some UV protection and lasting to protect that wood more than just prime it.
Speaker B: Well, I'm really surprised how well it's holding up. But you're right, you're right. That's what the painters would tell you because they want to sell you more paint.
Speaker A: Well, that's not true. You could, you know, when you paint something with a sonica primer, you know, paint all at one, then it has some of those things just like gasoline. Gasoline is gasoline, but. But it's all about the additives. When you go certain places, right? Not saying that like chevron is worth their additives, but they are additives. Like Techron for instance. But I generally like to get top tier gasoline. But I don't care. I'll get any gasoline if I have to. I'm just thinking that especially if it's sun facing, you're going to want something to protect it a little bit longer term. But whatever. Bullseye is good primer. I use it so it's good. And I've used it for some of my sign making. Stuff before, put it out in the sun. It lasts a long time, but, you know, it does. Does fade and start, you know, cracking and stuff like that, because it was just primer. So, anyway, I'm here and I'll listen to your final, but I'm going to go inside and work. KN6MGK.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've had some primers that just haven't held up at all. I don't think they should even be sold, they're so lousy. But this bullseye impressed me and I didn't buy it. It's the first time I've ever used it. And it, of course, now, the way he. The way my neighbor used it, he sprayed it on and he didn't roll it or didn't brush it afterwards. So it doesn't hold up very good when you do it that way. It had bubbles and all kinds of stuff. So he's got flaking and all kinds of problems. I don't have those problems. Mine is just perfect. All right, have a good one. 14.40. So that means it's actually 14.50. With this one meter, I'd have to pull out my. I've got a third meter. That's equivalent of a fluke. In fact, I do have a fluke. Fluke. I could pull out the fluke. And that one should be the most accurate of all. N6 tiers, you calculate.

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This is Kilo Wishes Quebec calling pedestrian mobile system 26 link office.

Speaker A: Me. This is Ki6isq Utiah. Anybody out there got their radios turned on?
Speaker B: Okay, copy imq. This is november 6th, mike p. And we copy you from ukiah.
Speaker A: Morning. I didn't catch your call sign, but I appreciate you coming back to me. I. I do a walk some mornings and just try to hit the distance heater from Ukiah. So it's working still. All good to know. Thanks for coming back to me. This is Jim, KI6ISQ back to.
Speaker B: All right, Jim. Name here is Tom. And the call again is November 6th, Mike Victor, Tom. And yeah, I've been to Ukiah quite a few times. I think you said maybe you're taking a walk and Are you on a handheld then? You're doing pretty good for a handheld in Ukiah. Go ahead. Hey, Tom,
Speaker A: I. I am on a walk. I'm up real high. I think I could almost. There's a hang. I think I can almost see the mountain that you guys are on here. I've got a good line of sight and I'm only doing five west, obviously. Thank you.
Speaker B: Okay, so we're on down south on Geyser Peak, which is a ways down from you. So I'm not sure if you can see it from there or not, but you are making it, so good job there.
Speaker A: So this is Ki6isu. Bid you farewell. Have a great day.
Speaker B: Okay, you have a good day as well, 6 MVT. Talk to you later.

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Speaker A: Jeff, was that you I heard coming into Santiago?
Speaker B: You know, it was about to be a six pair of beat. I need to be losing his voice.
Speaker A: Okay, well, you sound like uop. And then of course, your call sign ends with T. So how are things in Huntington Beach?
Speaker B: Not bad.
Speaker A: Warming up.
Speaker B: It was kind of cool this morning, but not as bad as it was a couple mornings ago. So looks like we'll have some activity at the beach.
Speaker A: Yeah, I grew up there in Southern California. I can't imagine Huntington beach not having some kind of activity.
Speaker B: Pretty much for the surfers all year round. That's true. And I used to do that myself. Not anymore. I'm lucky to get around the house here. I tore all my stuff apart Here and
Speaker C: System 19 link up.
Speaker A: Well, I am now down here in Chinota, Columbia. But I was born and raised there in La Habra. From there I moved. I moved up to Northern California, Fort Jones. And then a year ago I set sail and permanently moved and retired down here in Columbia.
Speaker B: Sounds pretty good. Columbia. You'll have to give me a geographical location on that. I'm a little confused. Yeah, I grew up in LA harbor too. Actually, I was about 10 years old when I moved there and went to high school. Back in the 60s I had Earth. Yes, 50s, early 50s, actually. I went to high school in Fullerton and Larry got built in high school and goofing around here, so I'm not thinking of what I'm saying. Sorry about that.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's okay. So much. Hayward, confirming your call sign is W6PRP. Is that. Is that correct?
Speaker B: That is correct. Are we on the repair or we supposed to be local? I wonder if I got the same tune right. Please let me key it once, see if I get one. Beep. Oh, got two beats. Someone assistant. Now how the heck did I mess that up? Okay, anyway, the name here is Buck. Like Buck Rogers. Back to you.
Speaker A: Okay, well, I looked up W6PRP. I think that's what you're saying. W. Whiskey, whiskey, A6. I looked it up and it says there's a page out of Death Valley. Anyways, the other station. Go ahead, come on in here, say hello.
Speaker C: The other station has a very hot mic that and see if that's me or whether it is. Yes, he's voicing. Quite kind of hot there. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Yeah, okay, I'll back off a little bit. Better losing my voice here. How's this sound? I backed off a little bit. My. My voice is all messed up. I guess I'm on the repeater. I Thought I was on Simplex going through Santiago. So I kind of verify that system
Speaker C: that you're a single feet. So I think that's a little bit better. Yeah, you might want to back up. Your mic is really, really good one, I think. I think one PL cone is 114. And I forgot what the other one was for the single feet, Double P. But it sounds to me like you're on the single. And it looks like I am double on the system. System 19K650P when we find out what's going on there.
Speaker B: Yeah, I know the guys were working on it a while back. Some friends of mine were up there doing some adjustments. I don't know if they fixed that one problem. That was the system further up north. It was kind of real noisy, and they might have fixed that. Haven't been on Carlo for a while. And so the mic's hot. I thought I said, I don't know what I did this morning. And there's a Motorola. All the radios I have are Motorola except for the HF.
Speaker A: Huntington beach station. You sound fine to me. And I'm listening directly via All Star. So, yeah, unless something changed the Santiago repeater that you're talking into, you should be using PL Tone 162.2 because you are definitely on the link. And then the local PL tone is 88.5. And yes, to verify, I am in Columbia, South America, about an hour and a half drive south of Bogota.
Speaker B: Okay, I'll go along with that. Yeah, let me drop this for a minute here. I'll stand by for a minute. Yeah, I got two beats. Yeah, I'm on the other PL going through the system and take another look at that with a service monitor. Okay, very good. And you asked me a question, Laharboro. Let's see. I forgot what the question was. I'm gonna get an answer. Oh, call science. Yeah. Whiskey 6, Bravo, Romeo, Papa. Whiskey 6.
Speaker A: Okay, I got it that time. All right.
Speaker B: Thank you.
Speaker A: Yeah, I grew up right there on the street, right behind the 300 bull. Pioneer Street. I lived in the house. Well, after I left the house I grew up in, which was on the south side of Pinehurst. Later, we bought a house, and I lived on the north side of Pinehurst. I lived there in my adult years, and that was my backyard backed up right to the back wall of the bowling alley.
Speaker B: Oh, very good. Yeah, I live by working. The police station is. It's all new now. They rebuilt it. And where the church is bought up the property where I used to live. On Florence, East Florence there. And the street, of course, was. I'll think of it in a minute. Anyway, it's been a while. And it says 1950, 57, 58, 59, 60, 60, 62. I came after I got out of the service. I moved to Huntington beach and been here ever since.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah. Wow. That was. That was before my time. It's hard to tell you. All right, I'll let the system go. And good to meet you. I have one daughter who lives in Long beach and another daughter who lives there in Huntington Beach. So I'm always watching the weather and
Speaker B: the news down there.
Speaker A: Okay, you take care.
Speaker C: Good to meet you.
Speaker A: Ken here. N6T E and I'm coming in radiolift. That's why I still use my FCC cold.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, I get a little confused. I'm familiar with location changes on repeaters and so forth. I've been in the business doing that, but I get a little confused sometimes. So I got the color system to straighten out here. Now, since they worked on it, they made some changes and I had to fix mine to catch up with the changes. Take care, my friend. W6PRP Huntington beach and the other station 73.
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Speaker A: K0qg mesquite. K0qg kw.
Speaker B: Hello.k0qg in your, in your channel this day. My battery, I just noticed that kind of diverted me for a second. I never seen a red battery come up on the screen. So big on this thing. It's never gone down. I don't have my charger with me. How you doing today? Good. Where are you at? I'm up on the other side of the mountain from you. Looking at the new build up here in the more behind the Virgin river all the way to the top. These are homes. Oh, okay. I know where you're at. Yeah. Still going to come to Mesquite or what? She's sitting right next to me. You still got to go to Mesquite. She, she's going. Okay, you get a plan? I, I can't say yes, but right now she's changed her mind. We're working on it. We're taking a look at property. All right, well, there's a, there's a three bedroom house two houses away from me. Oh, you don't want me to be that close to you. But she's saying absolutely not. But how much? Ask him. I got other people talking. I can't hear you. Stand by. Okay, please repeat that, Bill. Oh, he's just laughing because she, she had said that absolutely not. Now she's not up my motivation to move here. She says absolutely not. But ask him how much I wanted three doors down. I guess we're going to have to have a long talk with her about, you know, the benefits of living in characterized baby. Oh, yeah, we'll do that. I, I think I'm going to lose you. If I vaporize, I'm going to blame it on the battery because it's red. I've never seen this big, huge battery that comes up on the screen. I don't know if I'm in and out of the computer, but I
Speaker A: will
Speaker B: talk to you later. We've been here since yesterday and we might stay another day, but 73 to Johnny K7ZQ from K0Q. Okay, Bill, 33, good luck on the battery. Talk to you later.

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