GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-30

K6lmk system 36 snow mountain range.

Kilo7 Oscar Foxtrot. Oscar is mobile on the side.

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This is Kilo Oscar 6. Kilo Oscar November. Anyone available for a sound check? Los Angeles link up? Sure. You sound good. Good. Audio signal's a tiny bit scratchy, but definitely okay n6kn.

Well, I'll assume he copied me in 16. The LB clear? Looks like it.

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What is over by the airport? M6QAR system 19 link up.

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Los Angeles link up.

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Speaker A: Los Angeles link up.
Speaker B: This is a whiskey six stroke vector uniform three foxtrot bravo sierra. Can I get my signal report? Over. This is a whiskey six stroke vector uniform 3F bravo Sierra. Any station active, Over. Hello, officer 6 mike bravo, india. This is whiskey 6, stroke vector uniform 3 foxtrot bravo sierra. Can I get my signal report please? Over. Roger that. I can hear you. You are very static. A lot of static and lot of you are wet. But I can copy you. Thanks for the signal report, over.
Speaker A: Station looking for a report. N6 drg.
Speaker B: Negative copy. Please reply. This is a Whiskey Six stroke bictoning from C Foxtrot Bravo Sierra.
Speaker A: Okay, Foxtrot Bravo Sierra. I didn't catch the first part. This is November 6th golf, Romeo golf. The other station you had talking to you in the beginning seemed to have very low audio. That was the problem. That's why he was scratching. I may be a little better. I hope I am. N6GRG. I'm in the north part of California, the northern part of California.
Speaker B: M6 grg. Copy that loud and clear. Your five six plus my call sign is whiskey six stroke vector uniform three foxtrot bravo sierra. I'm a southern part of california, long beach.
Speaker A: Over. Okay, very good. Whiskey 6 Foxtrot Bravo Sierra. I imagine you're coming in on system 31.
Speaker B: System 31. Call sign is whiskey 6, stroke vector uniform 3 foxtrot bravo sierra.
Speaker A: Okay, sorry, I didn't quite catch the stroke. And Victor Uniform 3 Foxtrot, Bravo Sierra and. Very good. I'm finally getting your call correct or close to it.
Speaker B: Roger that. Roger that. So what's your qph in north california? Over.
Speaker A: It's a rural location. A rural location outside of Reading, California. To the west of Reading, California. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Copy that. Copy that. That's very good. Fantastic copy. Loud and clear. And it's very nice to have that this much of rural location. And I can copy you loud and clear. Gear system 31, I guess, but. Okay. Yeah, it's a nice job, this gear. So 73 for now. Whiskey 6, stroke vector uniform 3 Foxtrot Bravo, Caesar.
Speaker A: Okay, whiskey six stroke Victor uniform three Foxtrot, bravo, Sierra. This is November 6th golf Romeo, golf. And I'm on system 36. System 36. And if you. I. I don't know if you've done that quite yet, but we have a website. Carla radio, Carla, Charlie Alpha, Romeo, Lima, Alpha, Carla. I hope I did that correctly. Charlie Alpha, Romeo, Lima, Alpha. That's Carla radio. All1Word.net November Echo, tango,
Speaker B: Carla radio noted. Copy that. Okay, I'll go through the website and I'll see more information about that. Time for this USO 73 maintaining from 3 Foxtrot Bravo Sierra returning. Final call, over.
Speaker A: Okay, and I'm on a very small Linko portable with a larger antenna. And I'm almost 75, 85 miles from the repeater. It's to my south N6GRG.
Speaker B: 73 for now. Have a good night. Over.
Speaker A: 73, you, you also. 73. Okay. Well, the problem isn't your power level, so the problem is not your power level. The problem is your audio. It's extremely weak. I would say that you might be using narrow instead of wide, but it's far weaker than that even it's very, very weak. So we can barely hear you at. I am using wise, but maybe I'm just not close enough to the microphone. That was a little better. Maybe one third of normal deviation. Normal audio level. It could be a lot better. Maybe that closeness plus if you were to switch it too wide, if it's in arrow might do the trick. I just got my technique. So I'm still getting, working with the mic and getting better sound out of it. Which kind of a radio is it? You also have a audio.
Speaker B: It's.
Speaker A: It's an end of, end of transmission audio thing going, which we usually on Carla, we don't usually do that, but it's not too bad. But it's almost louder than you are, so I'd say there's a microphone problem. But which radio is it? Okay. What I would recommend would be if you have a scanner or some other receiver that can pick up that radio, get off frequency on VHF and begin to test there may be a microphone gain setting in your menu. Check that out, see if you can figure something out because it's very weak. Trg, Good to talk to you. Kilo oscar mike bravo. Thank you.

Dan6trg back to local.

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Speaker A: Kilo Oscar 6 by Bravo India Talked to you earlier about my quiet audio around. I did make some changes in my radio settings and I'm hoping to change them for a little bit.
Speaker B: Yeah, last station I know doesn't sound like the person you talk to is still around, but I heard that conversation. I hear you now and you have improved things quite a bit. I would say. It still could stand to come up more, get a little bit more comparison, but what exactly did you end up doing there? This is November 6th. Mike Victor, tango, Ferrari.
Speaker A: Hello. I did change my gain settings on the input and my highest level and I'm getting a little bit closer to the mic than I was before. But this is a. It's a waterproof ht, so it's probably got some kind of membrane over the mic that kind of deadens it down.
Speaker B: Yep. More than likely a lot of us end up taking a needle and popping the membrane a little bit. Just get a little, little something in there that usually doesn't have much of any effect, you know, as far as water egress unless you're submerged in the thing. So something to think about. But you want to be careful too. Maybe take it apart and do it. But anyhow, definitely improved. But yeah, I would just choke up on that microphone when you're talking, hopefully become,
Speaker A: you
Speaker B: know, there's still a lower gain there that you've got. Sometimes there's a deviation setting and. Or, you know, like I mentioned before, a narrow, wide setting. So anyhow, but at least we can hear you this time. So good job on that. And the wood chip story coming in on, by the way,

Speaker A: That seriously. Copied my last, but whereabouts are you located? Okay. Copy, Sentimental. I'm over in the Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Lafayette area. So not, you know, all that far away from each other, but a little bit. And there's a little bit of noise on your signal, too, which, of course, you know, makes a difference. But with a handheld, that's to be expected. So, anyhow, definitely made an improvement there. And you can make more. It'd be even better. But at least now you're in the game, so that's a good thing.
Speaker B: Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Hopefully get all these audio issues straightened out. Kilo, Oscar 6, Mike Bravo, India clear.
Speaker A: All right, have a good evening. Talk to you later. And six, MVT.

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System 26 link up. Kv6poc mobile in santa rosa.

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Kilo oscar 6 kilo oscar november. Listening, los angeles link up. K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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Speaker A: There's somebody there on the Las Vegas system. You're not quite making it if you have another repeater or maybe up your power. Good morning. N6T and E here. Good morning, ken.
Speaker B: 17d.
Speaker A: How are you? Hey, that's better. And I'll bet it wasn't you. Good morning, Ralph. How are you?
Speaker B: It wasn't me. I heard you though. I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. Just checking some emails here before I get dressed and head to the office. So how you doing?
Speaker A: Very good. Since you're a. Since you're a working man. Happy Friday.
Speaker B: Yeah, family. I'm trying to make it a short day today. The guy that I. My main counterpart on the government side took the day off. He's going to Carson City to go there for the weekend. He's got a house up there that he's planning to retire to, so his wife lives up there. He lives in Vegas. We usually go there for the weekend. So I got some couple of meetings to do early in the morning and then I'm probably going to try to get out of there around maybe, I don't know, maybe maybe two or three in the afternoon.
Speaker A: All right. Nothing exciting going on down here. Looks like we're going to have some beautiful weather today. And I think I've committed myself to going out, getting the car cleaned up. It needs a good vacuuming after we bought those plants. A good cleaning of the windows. It doesn't need a bath yet, but I hate dirty windows. And there's a couple of little suspender dings and dents in it that were there when I bought it. I'm gonna work on cleaning those up a little bit. Yeah. So all good. That's.
Speaker B: That's kind of sort of my game
Speaker A: plan for the day. Very good.
Speaker B: Well, I'm going to probably tomorrow go ahead and mess with those CULP files on the server, play around, see what I can do that makes a difference now. Like I said, I always wish they. I just wish they were more allowed for more dynamic control. I just don't. I don't get why they don't do it. Probably no technical reason, maybe just nothing, just really thought of. But like I said, the RTCMs do it, but we don't have those on sites like here at the house. I'm just using a standard Linux box Linux computer to host this node and it doesn't allow for the passing of those tones. So it's a weird thing. But anyway, so I'm going to mess with those cold files and See if I can set up some pseudo macros.
Speaker A: Okay. In my research this morning, I found that. This looks like just an AI response to my question. It's telling me that the duplex or the node at the site plugged into a contour. That duplex needs to be sitting at 2 in order to pass tones. So I thought I would try that. I guess if I set that at 2, the duplex set the duplex equals 2, which is currently at 1. And I may need to go in and set the link. Link to what it's at now. Right now it's sitting at link. So I don't know if I have to change the link to link to no, since I'm changing the duplex to two. So I'm gonna. I'm gonna play around with that. With the vacancy. The back. I said the only one that I currently have supermon access to. The other. The other ones just don't have any ports opened up yet.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, let me know how that goes. I think I set the clear RPT at Angel because we have a clear RPT node up there also for, you know that height of the. The bed pipe configuration back before you guys got everything fixed. I think when I said that to do start talking to itself because the controller ports are set for duplex the. On the RLC3. So.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Okay. Anyways. All right man. So I gotta. I gotta get going there. So I'd say good morning. I go get dressed and get the
Speaker A: heck out of here.
Speaker B: I gotta. I got a meeting at 6:30. I gotta be at 6. So I will talk to you later. N7T.
Speaker A: Okay, Ralph, you have yourself a great day again.
Speaker B: Happy Friday.
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Sa. Yeah. How you doing? It looks like you're. You're bringing up six. Goodness. System six. You're not on 16, right? What system are you cleaning up? Air can. I don't know. It's the. Was it the PL1? 173, 163, something like that, rather than 1 2. Okay. Sorry about all the noises. Just doing some testing here. How you doing? I have a question. Are you from la? Orange County. I was born and raised there in the city of La Habra. Did anybody ever call you a vato? I've been called a lot of things by a lot of. A lot of bad people. I grew up in Riverside, Valentine, Arizona, outside of California. But LA is cool people. You know, we bad rap la. But, you know, there's a lot of interesting stuff, nice people. Yeah, you say so. I never said I was from Los Angeles. I just always tried to avoid saying that. And I wasn't preppy, so I was just. I always said I was from Orange County. I don't know. Just. Yeah. Anyways, what's going on with you? Well, speaking of, I go for a walk in the morning out front here, you know. Oh, keeping active. A couple of Mexican guys in a truck slowed down and yell, hey, hurry up, vato. I said, what? Hurry up. You hurry up. Under the plan. Well, if that's all that happened to you, you're probably doing pretty okay. There's certainly worse things that could have happened. Oh, yeah? Well, my neighbor got his back window shot out. Wait, wait, what? Hello, this is Chico. Well, believe me when I tell you, nowadays, just Chica is nothing. Nothing compared to Los Angeles. You know, I was. I went to school, became an educator in east la. You know, this is some time back. They were offering huge amounts of money for teachers to come to East Los Angeles. Because the reality is that the bangers ran the school. All right, give me a second. Looks like I've got things hung up here. Now. Put them back where they were. Hang on a second. Well, I'm hanging on, but I'm thinking about making more coffee. You know, I'm just a slave to my senses, trying to cut back. Usually I drink a pot of coffee per day. I'm pretending that I'm in the submarine service, so I'm making a smaller amount. But now my name is Jones. Hello, Mr. Jones. Are you craving some coffee? Why, yes, that would be nice. Warm, smooth. Well, I'm not sure what was hung up there, but with anything, I did. All right, well, I gotta get back to what I'm doing. I don't want to tire the system up. You may hear some funky stuff come over. Come over the system here. Trying to just me trying to figure out some stuff n6 kne. Hey, well wait before you go. You have your own if you purchase. I think I understood the question. No, I just use all star stuff here. Roger73, good looking the contest and six side overview. Hey, I can go out and look for my vanqu buddies. Maybe they're out there yell at each other.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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Speaker A: Mgk, are you still on frequency W6PR?
Speaker B: Yes, I am. W6PR. Kilo, November 6 Mike Golf Kilo Chico.
Speaker A: Good morning and good morning. Whiskey Six Tango radio. Let's see, where am I? Well, I'm heading to Stony Ford to ride my dirt bike for the day. So I'm probably about 15 miles out of Ladoga if you know,
Speaker B: I haven't been there. But yeah, there used to be a repeater over that way, the 76 0, I think. Gentleman used to. I used to talk to him over that way. Nice. Yeah. So you'll be within pretty good range of this repeater for most of the time. Then seeing Mr. Peter's actually in the mountains just outside of Stony Ford there, so. Good deal.
Speaker C: Yeah, it's got good coverage, I think.
Speaker A: Is this mountain up on St. John?
Speaker B: Yeah, Roger, roger. Yeah, so anyway, yeah, several others are too up that way. Like the gears west for Golden Empire Amateur Radio. Same location but different VHF frequency, over.
Speaker A: Sure, yeah, I've been up to St. John a couple of times, so yeah, it's a great vantage point from up there. If you told me your name, I've forgotten it. Name here is Bill.
Speaker B: That Bill may have spoken to you before, but who knows. Name is Steve. Listed as Stevens, of course. But anyway, I frequent this frequency quite a bit every morning or so anyway. But some of us are starting to migrate to some other frequencies too, and a lot of HF work. But. Yeah. So you're riding some motorcycles today, huh?
Speaker A: Yeah, we're going to go up there and tear it up. We've got some chainsaws on the front of our bikes. There's quite a few trees that have been. Well, every storm they fall across the trails and so. So we go up and clean things up and after every storm we pretty much have to start over. So we've been working over in a different place, joined at the hip to the Stony Ford riding area, a place called Middle Creek. And we've got Middle Creek pretty much cleaned up. So now we're going to focus our activities on Stony Ford Trail.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know the names of the trails, but been to St. John myself a couple of times. Probably three, four times, I don't know. And yep, sometimes trees come down there and we have to take care of that too. So. Much obliged if you ever run up that way and take care of trees.
Speaker A: Yeah, I have. I don't ride without a chainsaw on the front of my bike, mainly because I totally suck at lofting my bike over trees.
Speaker B: Yeah, understand that. Yeah. Well, I suck at keeping the two wheels upright, so doesn't matter what I'm doing. So I pretty much quit riding motorcycles. But I enjoy four wheels these days.
Speaker A: There you go. Well, I'm addicted to anything on two wheels. I ride bicycles as well. Gave up the street bikes, although I do have a license plate on this particular dirt bike. But that's just for connecting trails. What kind of HF work do you do?
Speaker B: Well, I've been enjoying a lot of parks on the air stuff lately, but I've been taking a break from that for this month mainly. But yeah, so hf, you know, we do a lot, do a lot of 20 meters CW, 15 meter CW. Just starting to learn. So that's why I've been focusing more on that lately. The morning's been waking up early and doing some FT8 and used to do some JS8 call, but not a whole lot of that right now. And then of course, you know, some sideband work on 40 meters and I listen in on 80. But I don't really talk much except for 80 meters on Sunday mornings. Talk with a group of guys or listen to them and check in for about an hour. Deal. But you know, so I like HF a lot better than I like vhf. Of course I do too.
Speaker A: I'm in a bad area. So give me a second here. W6PR.
Speaker B: Last couple months of mesh radio. You don't have to be a ham to do it, you know, but there is a ham private channel on mesh networks on meshtastic. Some people are doing mesh core. Might delve into that a little bit later, but building some nodes, setting up a community of paradise and Magalia. We've gotten about 20 nodes around there now it's doing pretty well. Probably about 20 nodes here around Chico, but it needs probably 40 more, you know, to do anything good. So Chico is just a little bit bigger area and valley level, so harder to get vantage points. But anyway, mesh networks is pretty fun to play around with.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's a part of ham radio that I am absolutely clueless about. Mesh network FT8 just have not really sunk my teeth into that. I know I should. I enjoy 20 meters, especially in the summertime in the evening. And I enjoy. Well, I enjoy all the bands, but I also enjoy 160. I've got an antenna that works fairly well on 160 as well as 80. So late at night it's fun to get on those two bands and talk to the gun.
Speaker B: Yeah, I might mess around with that a little bit at some Point, but probably just put a loop low to the ground, though. But it'll be good enough for local comms anyway. But, yeah, mesh stuff is all. You don't have to be. We run under a watt, so you don't have to be a ham radio operator. So there's lots of people that get involved that have nothing to do with ham radio. It's just another way of communication using the 915 MHz area spectrum and people putting simplex nodes everywhere. So more of a texting kind of thing. A lot of times use your phone as the source of medium where you communicate back and forth, but you're not using any cellular infrastructure or anything like that. Whatever the community has developed.
Speaker A: That's interesting. I'm going to have to check that out. I've ridden in motorcycle groups that have a mesh network inside their helmets, which I'm looking at getting when I ride with these guys. The next time will probably be in March. So I've got to figure out what system they use.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Then I have no idea. But anyway, I wouldn't, you know, I don't know. I mean, this is all like digital stuff I'm talking about. It's like texting kind of, you know, so I don't think it would work for what you're doing necessarily. But. But so I bet you they're using something different. But yeah, it's coming on strong. A lot of ham radio people are involved in it too, just because. Because it comes natural to them, kind of putting up nodes and things like that. And. And, you know, it's kind of worldwide. A lot of people around the world use stuff like this. I mean, it can be bad and good. Right. So like say during the protests or whatever, and they decide that they want to use, you know, they want to get rid of the cell phones and stuff for everyone in the protest. Well, this kind of a network can survive that because everyone could be carrying a mesh network node with them and still using their phones to communicate, you know, so for that reason, some people don't like it.
Speaker A: Well, that's interesting. Yeah, that's. That's fascinating. I mean, the fact that from what I gather from you, that there doesn't appear to be any regulation. That's even more interesting.
Speaker B: Yeah, it could be totally encrypted. So then the way that they would have to shut it down is by jamming the frequency, which is why they limit you to like, say one watt. Right. Not him. So they can come in and way overpower the system, you know, and Shut it down. Right. So that's what they'd have to do. But anyway, that's why they're finding some of these other countries, you know, that are involved with stuff against their own governments or whatever. They're using stuff like this, too. It's an interesting technology. It's come a long ways in the last couple years, but it's still got a long ways to go.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah? Yeah. I mean, based on what you're saying, I'll bet you there's a lot of people in Iran are using that. You know, a lot of people there are very technologically oriented.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. They're very intelligent people. And, you know, of course I want them to succeed in whatever they want to succeed in there, but I'll leave that up to the people. But unfortunately, if they get caught using something like that, they might, you know, unfortunately not be too happy with the results. So. Gotta be real careful with the radio stuff and even Starlink over there, I'm sure.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah.
Speaker B: Well, anyway,
Speaker A: nice talking to you. I think I'm gonna sign and continue my journey here and. Yeah, thanks for the. Maybe I'll give you a call on my way back. I'll try to write down your call. Sign here as I'm traveling up the Maxwell Grade here. Whiskey Six Tango Radio.
Speaker B: Yeah, no problem. I don't know if I'll be around or not, but feel free. Whiskey Six Tango Rodeo radio from Kilo, November 6th. Mike Golf, Kilo. My location is Chico and I'm taking a break anyway, but there's a few other people that listen on this frequency. If you have any problems or questions during the day, maybe someone can get back to you. Hopefully. I have to cross my fingers anymore because there used to be about a dozen of us and unfortunately a lot of them have left the airways. So we'll have to catch up with you later and be safe out there. Be careful on some of those roads. Ice and stuff like that. Maybe, but I'm sure you are. 73kn600gk73.
Speaker C: N6 GRT. One of the hangar routers. Although lately I've been very busy and away from the radio. N6G.
Speaker B: Hey, Mike. I'll say good morning to you, but. Yeah, I'm gonna go inside and get me some tea, so I'll have to catch up with you later, but. Yeah, good morning. It's in mid-40s here and gonna say mostly sunny skies, so it should be a good day. So hopefully you'll get some stuff accomplished. I'm sure you will kn6mgk73.
Speaker C: Believe it or not, it's cooler here than it was in Elko, which, you know, Elko goes down to like 20 or 10 degrees this time of year normally. All right. N6GRG. Elko, Nevada for those who are confused with what I just said,
Speaker A: is there any other elco question mark?
Speaker C: You know, that's a good question. There's sure a lot of Eurekas where I came from over on the coast.
Speaker A: Yeah, Nevada can get cold up there in that high desert, that's for sure. And right now it's. Well, I'm got a little bit of elevation. It went from low 40s, it's actually was 50 degrees. Now it's just they decrease in elevation down to 49.
Speaker C: Yeah, that's one reason why Keshevila hasn't put some big huge manufacturing plant over in Elko is because. Probably because it's cool there. So. Yeah, you're traveling.
Speaker A: Yeah, as I mentioned to Steve, I'm. I'm on my way to Stony Ford to ride my dirt bike. And this is Whiskey six Tango radio. Name is Bill.
Speaker C: Well, I thought we talked before. Yeah, I remember Tango Romeo and dirt bikes. Yes, in Stonyford. And I mentioned how one of the guys that used to have a lot to do with this system came up from Clear Lake, went over the top of the hill and down into Stonyford on the first trip that he did and checked into this repeater. So you know, that was his adventure.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sure that he was on Elk Mountain Road. I've traveled that road many times. Yeah, I seem to recall we were up out of Elk Creek a month less ago.
Speaker C: I do remember our speeches though. Yeah, there's a few out of the way places I've gone to over there on my way to the top of the mountain. This repeater's on. So. One that has the word glade in it. I recall that was a very cool one.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've been up to the top of the mountain a couple of times where this repeater is located. Yeah, it's a fun little trek. I mean it's Fire Road of course, but. But it was. It was fun to explore.
Speaker C: Yeah, this was back in the days when the repeater needed a lot of work and doesn't get much many visits now. But I remember on that particular weekend there were just tons and tons of off roaders in the area. A big gathering and one of the things that happened was this dad brought his son up there and the son had a little motorcycle. It wasn't an atv. It was a little motorcycle and I remember that kid going, we're going down this hill. I am scared, dad.
Speaker A: Yeah. You know, when you get to the
Speaker B: very top,
Speaker A: there is a. As you start down the hill, if we're on the same page, there's a bit of a grade. It's probably only 100ft or so. And if you're not experienced, I can see where that would completely blow your
Speaker C: mind
Speaker A: at the time.
Speaker C: See, they had this big fire up there and a lot of the things that were really tough to go over and around are now gone. But at the time there was one little rock outcrop that scared the heck out of people like that boy.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, you know, the older I get, the less I'm apt to
Speaker C: go
Speaker A: on these, what I call death rides. I enjoyed those in my younger years. I recently turned 70 and I can still kick butt, but I no longer enjoy these narrow trails with tons of
Speaker C: exposure where if you
Speaker A: make the wrong move, it could be catastrophic to your health.
Speaker C: Yeah, I've let my. I'm 75 and I've let my Dr. 350 just kind of rest for a while. I used to take it to the top of mountains and stuff. And I don't know if you're familiar with the Dr. 350, but if you're. I'm like 5, 9 and that is a very tall bike. So you gotta know what you're doing with that bike.
Speaker A: Dr. 350, is that a Yamaha?
Speaker C: A Suzuki.
Speaker A: Okay, I almost said Suzuki. A 50. 50 chance. Yeah, those, those are tall bikes. I'm riding a 300cc two stroke and the particular bike I'm riding, it's a Husqvarna, which is made by ktm. And I like this bike because it's got a relatively small cockpit. It's not tall at all. Now I have a four stroke Husky 350 and that bike is tall. And I'm six feet and I've got a fairly long inseam. But there are times where I do not like riding that bike. It's just tall. And if you have to put your foot down to maneuver over something, it could problematic.
Speaker C: Yeah, you know, you think you've got it covered and then you drive, you go someplace where there's a hole in addition to, you know, you're, you're about to kind of lean that direction and there's a hole over there.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. And it's a heavy bike to get back up.
Speaker A: Yeah, I did that in Idaho. I was going through a stream and I hit a rock midstream. I would say the stream was probably 2 1/2ft and my bike stopped. I put my left foot down and there was a hole and completely drowned the bike underwater. Saw fishy swimming by, so to speak, and we got the bike running. You can get a two stroke running a lot easier than you can get a four stroke running if you drown it. But ever since then, I hate going through streams.
Speaker C: Yeah, when I was really young,

Speaker A: There was this group over in Eureka that were all part of this Miller, this company called Miller Miller's Off Road. And we were all part of that group. And we drive right all around the redwoods back trails and stuff. And there was one we went up and it was just, you know, ruts that were the size of a motorcycle. And I remember I had really good balance back then. It was just a little Suzuki, so I did fine. But I remember one guy with a Honda 350 falling into one of those holes and we all had to help him get out of there. I mean it was just a massive undertaking with all hands on deck.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, I'll bet. Yeah, that 350 was sort of a failed experiment with Honda. I had a 350 and I have to say that was probably the worst dirt bike I ever had.
Speaker A: It just did not. It just wasn't good.
Speaker B: Ergonomic wise, it was a real slug. But all that aside, you know, this
Speaker A: was back in the 80s so it was part of the learning experience.
Speaker B: But yeah, they're heavy and especially if you are on the downhill side of, you know, of a rut or a
Speaker A: hill,
Speaker B: it's nice to have more than one, buddy.
Speaker A: Yeah, they had old, I would say railroads, but they weren't railroads. The railroads were at the top of what I'm going to describe. It was called the big incline. And it was this long, long hill and everything was just all wet mud and ruts and you had to make it to the top of that hill. And I, I don't know if that, that guy with a 350 might have tried to go back, get back out of there after that experience he had. But yeah, it was quite, quite the place to be. And there, like I say, there was a railroad at the top of the hill of the big incline. And it went right across the top of what eventually became a very well protected national forest that just went right across the middle of nowhere. The redwoods above Eureka and Fortuna, Basically above that area. Yeah.
Speaker B: A lot of places have been closed
Speaker A: down for just that reason. And it became the Headwaters Forest, which was the story around the Headwaters Forest. One lady even lived in a tree for three years. So there were a lot of really radical people that wanted that type of happen. And it did happen.
Speaker B: Is that where the
Speaker A: whole spotted owl movement began? Well, a lot of the spotted owl movement started in Oregon, but yeah, that was part of it. They had this little bird called the murrelet down there. Spotted owls were around, but they, they were more not so much redwood birds, they were more like firs and pines a little higher elevation.
Speaker B: Yeah, I remember those days. They were pretty much trying to all
Speaker A: the old growth redwood.
Speaker B: I don't know, you know, and I get that, I get that. You know, you've got these big for profit companies that really don't care about the environment. They just want to make the big bucks and they'll cut down these magnificent trees and once they do, that's it.
Speaker A: Well, I grew up in it and I remember as a child, dad remarking, wow, all the big trees are gone and there goes a log truck full of toothpicks. Because second growth was so small. I was always amazed they could get a two by four out of a second growth. But yeah, the old growth went down to about 3%. But this one lady, I was working in a TV station, this one lady decided to live in a tree and her name was Julia Butterfly. And wow, she went through it. I mean it was absolutely. She, she just actually, seriously, she just barely made it. I mean she was right at the end of her life.
Speaker B: So was she up in this tree and you know, refused to come down because, you know, they'd have to pretty much kill her in order to cut this tree down. And I'm guessing that people would hoist food up to her and whatnot.
Speaker A: Yeah, that was the situation. And then the guards, they sent guards up there to keep people from hoisting food up to her. And, and then the people, the radical sent up a whole big group of people that surrounded the guards and danced and jumped around and acted like crazy people taking the guards attention away from what they were actually doing, which was figuring out a way to get food up to that lady.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know what, I do remember that, you know, I do remember that.
Speaker A: Only in Northern California. And then the TV station asked every, what they call photogs, which were people who were really good at handling cameras and all that sort of thing to go up and do because every, every news agency was going up to that tree to everybody had to get some kind of footage from that area. And, and they knew I was a hiker because I was at the time I was going up into the Cherny Alps every weekend. So they said, well, Mike, how I was an engineer, Steve, so I was a photog. But they asked me and I said, sure, I'll go. And you had to hike, you know, a couple thousand feet up the mountain to get to the tree. So it was, it was a backpack full of cameras and stuff. It was a pretty good hike. And I couldn't climb the tree. The tree was like. The first branches were like 50ft above the ground. And they managed to get. We managed to get this one lady up that tree though. And then I climbed a tree, a younger tree that was the top of. It was right at the level where the lady lived on a branch practically. It was quite an experience. Did any of your pictures get published
Speaker B: in a major publication?
Speaker A: Well, the lady that went up did a really, you know, I sent up a camera and she did a really good interview. And I don't know if anything, if anyone actually. I kept a what they called a 3 quarter inch Sony cassette of it. I might still have that, but other than that I don't think there's anything. But there are a whole ton of different interviews that people did and documentaries and so forth of that whole thing. So you can find a lot of stuff about Julia Butterfly.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm gonna look that up when I get back. That sounds like a good time waster.
Speaker A: Yeah, it was a pretty crazy time because these people were really radical and they went all over and they were wrecking equipment, wrecking logging equipment. And one of the things that happened in my life was that I was renting rooms at the time and at my house. And one of the kids, I call him a kid, he was like 19, 20, he got a job as a guard of some of this equipment and on his way home one night went off the hill and crashed and died. So that was quite an experience.
Speaker B: That sounds like part of the Monkey Wrench gang. Earth first movement.
Speaker A: Yeah, the Earth's first movement. I go over to Arcata and be having a burrito or taco in this one place and there'd be a table of bursters right next to me. And I remember one situation where I had this laptop that had this really good Internet and you had to reach Internet from across the street. And I had Internet and they didn't. And they were asking me, what. What do you have there? How are you doing that?
Speaker B: Well, that must have been in the mid 2000s if you were dealing with Internet.
Speaker A: Gee, it seems like it was a lot before that 90s. Sometime in the 90s, I think I left, I started becoming. I got out of engineering, became a raft guy about that time. Got out of it all. That's cool.
Speaker B: All right, Mike, I need to make a stop here, so nice talking to you. Thanks for traveling with me. I'm just pulling into the metropolis of Stony Fork and I'm going to stop here at the store and pick something up. 73. I didn't write your call sign down, but anyway, hope to talk to you again when I'm back up in these parts. Whiskey Six Tango Radio.
Speaker A: Whiskey Six Tango Radio. An easy call to remember. November 6th. Go, Radio, go.
Speaker B: N6grt.
Speaker A: Roger. Roger.
Speaker B: Very good. Wrote it down. Okay, 73.
Speaker A: 73. Yeah. Look up that situation. That was pretty crazy. Time to live through n6 grt.
Speaker B: Yeah, I sure will. Thanks for the info.

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Speaker A: Is the frequency in use? Is the frequency in use. Kilo Oscar 6 Echo Lima to Loop.
Speaker B: Station. Your signals very scratchy and unreadable. Over.
Speaker C: Okay, thank you, sir. I'll try it again later. Thank you.

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And 60. Well, I was testing some. I was testing a repeater controller command and I realized I wasn't connected with the one of my nodes that I thought I was going to listen in on. I'm going to try that one more time. Get back with. Give me one second. Error 302. I'm gonna have to have the Carla, folks. What are you up to? How are you doing? That's it. All right. I don't know if you noticed or not. I was able to get in there and I did update your Super Mar to 7.4. Yeah, it must have been eight. One. Okay, so that one. That one's on 7.4 also. Yeah, you said a one in the email. Yeah, yeah, thank you for that. By the way. You got to set the temperature real quick from 140 down to 95 and 105. I did look at this temperature on my other notes. I don't know why I never look at the one in the third notes. Yeah, I just said 99 degrees. Now that's a whole lot better than it was. At our. At our Dollar City stores. They had these cheesy little fans that you had. Little USB fans. Brushless. And they were good. I've got my Shari sitting on top of one of those. I do have to get another one. I think my. That's the one I have is. Yeah, those little USB fans work perfect for keeping those little Asharis or clear notes which use Raspberry PI 4s which run very hot anyway. They help keep them nice and cool and nice and quiet. Yeah, this one I set over there is overkill. And I had it sitting on top of mower right here. Yeah. Yes you can. So I've got a. Got a switch on. I've got to turn on low and keep them down. So even after the net this morning, I was running for over an hour on the net and still kept it cool. So yeah, I need to get it starting pressure through. I'll bet it brings to be. I'll bet somebody has figured out a way to make your node announce that the temperature is high. You know, say it gets above 120 degrees or even 110 degrees. I bet somebody's figured out a way to make that amount for you. I just, you know, that's one more thing I can research, I guess. Yeah, there you go. That'd be good. That would be good. I did have done similar dash and things that were port once and got things clearly not working properly there. This morning I realized why I need gone in some tests. Sedan got Superman's new icon and desktop for Supermon to get in the same road. Everything's all configured properly. Anyway, whenever you want to play another whenever, let me know. Yeah, you betcha. I just did a refresh showing you 8. 1, and now I. I lost you. There you are. Okay. Yeah. So your. Your clear nodes that beat. Court is updated. I think you may have said that, but I missed it. Yeah. So. I don't know. You said you may be available sometime tomorrow. Yeah. The only time I got something going on is between. All right. We'll see what's happening. I. I don't. I don't think we're doing anything tomorrow. But that could change in the morning. Okay. I'm always in early 6. 6:30. My time in the morning. Before or after that? One hour. I'm doing the M1K. All right. And I'll try to do a little more reading today. I think. That a question. Never mind. All right, well, good luck. And give me a yell. I'm confused. I'm looking at your 1884 and that. That west it. I may have to go back in there. Chain that one. Yeah. Okay. Something happened there. That one didn't change. I don't know why. I'll go back in there and do it again. Sa. I will fix that right now.

Let me try it again.

Larry, I'm gonna. I'm gonna really boot this one. Okay, Give me one minute. I'll get. You're. You should reconnect automatically. I'm going to do a reboot right now. And six canning.

Yeah, that's strange. Larry, I can't get in on Supermod now. I'll have to figure that out tomorrow when I talk to you. When I team you into you. I can't get in either. Okay, no problem.

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Speaker A: This is k06lwl monitoring los angeles.
Speaker B: Link up. Kilo kilo 7th november with key echo.
Speaker A: Kilo, kilo seven november whiskey echoes, kilo oscar six lima, whiskey lima. My name is david. I'm calling from east los angeles.
Speaker B: Good to meet you, sir. I'm in Las Vegas, Nevada and perfectly clear. How's the weather in LA today?
Speaker A: It's pretty warmer today. I think we're in our little bit, almost our 80s. Clear sky, sun is very bright, probably not as hot as Nevada. How's the weather over there?
Speaker B: You'd be surprised. The high doesn't get cold. It's 68 right now. The high's only going to be 70. The low of 41 today.
Speaker A: I am actually very surprised.
Speaker B: Yeah, that sounds pretty cold.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm just here on my lunch
Speaker B: break
Speaker A: trying to make at least one contact every day. I just got my license January 6th, so I have my handheld here at work.
Speaker B: Very nice, very nice. Let me get your call sign one more time. Mine is Kilo Kilo seven. No problem.
Speaker A: My call sign is kilo oscar six lima, whiskey lima.
Speaker B: Kilo oscar six lima, whiskey lima. Downey, california, correct?
Speaker A: Yes, that is correct, David. And I'm calling to you from here in East Los Angeles at my job. So, yeah,
Speaker B: very cool. I will log it in qrz. I don't know if you started doing any QRZ logs yet, but it's pretty cool to chase after different awards. You go under that qrz.com website and there's different 50 states and, you know, so many contacts in so many days. Pretty cool. There's a cool one right now. America 250 for our 250th anniversary. 250 contact. I think it's before July 4th, but it could be all year. I'm not sure.
Speaker A: Yes, I use the World Radio League app for my contacts. Wrl. I have heard of qrz. Would you happen to know about both and what you prefer?
Speaker B: Yeah, I do, too. I do Logbooks of the World and I do. And you can go between them. So you can export and import both of them. So they mimic each other. But I haven't done. I looked at World Radio League. It looked like very cool software. I didn't quite wrap my head around it yet. Got it.
Speaker A: I appreciate the advice and I feel the exact same way about qrz. I've gone on the website, I think I've made an account, but I have yet to actually look at the logbook for it. So that is something I will probably
Speaker B: be doing this week. Very cool. Well, good to meet you and have a good lunch. And I will talk to you again down the log. Kilo 4, 7 northwest.
Speaker A: You have a wonderful day and thank you once again for answering my call. Kk7nwl, this is k06lwl. I'll be clear.
Speaker B: 73, 73. And the call sign one more time is Kilo. Kilo 7 Northwest. Northwest. Have a good day.
Speaker A: Could you repeat the last letter I got? Kilo, Kilo seven
Speaker B: North.
Speaker A: Whiskey. And the last letter was
Speaker B: Echo, Edward. Echo Edward. Trying to stick you.
Speaker A: 73 KO6lWL. I'll be there.

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Speaker A: K7g&d. K7g&d at 60.
Speaker B: Good afternoon to you.
Speaker A: To you, Larry. I heard you a little bit earlier talking to Canada. I was going to get in there but kind of busy. I won't hold you. I just want to say hello. Sounded good and I just sitting out here with the 100 year old man. Yep. Just need my radio and said, oh, you got another radio. I said, as you know, I've got one among many radios. This happens to be a Kenwood film. I hope it sounds good like a Kenwood should. Go ahead, Larry.
Speaker B: Yeah. I didn't know you were a poet. So which pinwood are you using?
Speaker A: But I guess a good eight. I've got two or three or four of them. I don't know. They're the Kilwood F6A was Tango Hotel. Th F6A tri band handheld receiver. You know, DC through light. Pretty, pretty little handheld. Got a little stubby antenna out of the high capacity battery pack. So works good.
Speaker B: Yeah, I love mine. I bought one brand new from somebody still brand new in the box still when I was in Forest Ranch a couple years before we moved. I still use it every day. That's what I use usually to stock on my notes. On my all star notes and good little radio. Love it. And good afternoon for John there, sitting up here near you. And if you're sitting outside, a little chilly here to do that. It's 56 degrees and cloudy. It's ought to have nicer weather there.
Speaker A: John. I don't think he heard you say hello, but I. I told him that you said hello and he kind of nodded his head, I guess say hello back or whatever.
Speaker B: Yeah, as long as you do it up and down and not.
Speaker A: But he's. He's more down. I'm trying to get him to do the yard work here, but he doesn't want to cooperate. He wants to sit and watch me do it all. Go figure.
Speaker B: Smart man. Smart man. No wonder he hangs around you. He's smarter than you, right?
Speaker A: I told him, I said I don't know if he hears you or not. But he said here with a big grin on his face. All right, anyway, Larry, I won't hold you. Just wanted to wave a hand and you sound a little muffled to me. I don't know what the deal is it we like. Yeah. Anyway, like when camera's on, it's very punchy, sharp audio. Yours just seem a little. Maybe it's your voice or what you're on. I'm not sure. Are you on the on the mic or what are you doing.
Speaker B: I'm using hand mic and I'm on a milestone note and yeah Ken's trying to get it as sharp enough as he can but to still I know turn my voice and by the muscle sound so that still going to get so at least you can still hear me soon.
Speaker A: Quite audible just sounds a little it could be my my voice or my my hearing too so but no sounds good all right again I won't hold you I just wanted to say hello say hello to Ida and falafel still I still smack my lips one of those Ida burgers I can't stop but anyway I just drive by the fast food places and look at that see the commercials on TV and and I see you guys call out you guys call that a burger yeah right all right 73 Larry take care my friend.
Speaker B: Speaking of her she just pulled up out front from the grocery store and I need to go help some groceries I'll have to ask her she got the making for an Ida burger for you all right thanks for the shot fan John take care of it.
Speaker A: Are you perhaps listening. 60 okay.

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