GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-16

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Speaker A: System 2, link up,
Speaker B: K6rduwa, san francisco.
Speaker C: San francisco.
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Speaker B: didn't know if you're calling me or not. This is WA50K portable. San Francisco. Yeah.
Speaker C: Cksuar South San Francisco. You're sitting out there by yourself? I thought I'd give you a chance to talk.

I went on the local PL tonight. I thought you were in a San Francisco area. This is WA6 echo kilos here at San Francisco.

Gyr 1632 on carla south san francisco.

Qar. I guess I went back on the local tone, but I guess you didn't copy me there. This is WA6 echo below Sierra.

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Speaker A: Okay, let's try it again. November 6th, gulf, inky, romeo, south san francisco. Sounds like fun. Anyways, kind of cold and wet out there at the moment. San Francisco? You live in San Francisco? You visiting or what?
Speaker B: The Mobile got finished playing it music gig at a restaurant and I headed back to the East Bay.
Speaker A: Now the guy who loves this repeater, he's got a band too called Dutch Uncle. Just the other day he went down and did a gig down there.
Speaker B: We're down there. What do you mean la?
Speaker A: No, Crystal Springs Golf Course. Private event. Anyway, his call is WD6JK.
Speaker B: Thank you, Mike.
Speaker A: She might find it interesting to talk to him. Correct. He's out of Pacifica. No doubt. Anyway, I was just sitting here reprogramming the displays on the radio so that you know, this one comes up as call sign with the Carla number after it. Now I know I'm on the network, otherwise I just leave it blank. This call sign, just one of those things where you were here and I was reprogramming Oak Hill, which is down in San Jose, and I thought I'd
Speaker B: give you a jingle. Okay. I don't know who brought up the LA link, but maybe you did. I don't know. I'm just riding along here. Riding with another person. Play at a restaurant in the city on Mason Street. 1:30 to 4:30 and we're on the way home now.
Speaker A: Sounds. Sounds good. Oh yeah. Anybody can bring up the link if, you know, if you hit the right CS detail, whatever it is, subtone and you hit right, you'll bring up the repeater, it'll announce itself. I'll be around 73. So by the way, the name of Here is George. 11-6-3. Green, yellow or red. And if you're driving, you might see a stoplight that's got green, yellow, red on it. Every time you see one of those. Now I'm thinking, neat.
Speaker B: We might have talked before. I was on the 679 phone company with Peter A few weeks back and I asked if anybody was around and I think he came back to me. The guy was in South San Francisco and it was probably you.
Speaker A: Likely I scan around all over the bends and whatnot and make contact with people all the time. Anyways, 73s and I will talk to you again. Driving and eating. Hey, just see up on here someone will ask you. Usually.
Speaker B: Just talking to a guy named Felix. We probably talked to him on Marin county yesterday and he told me about. I have Carla in my radio at home, but not just. Not just computer. He told me about it. I said, well, I'll take all over my 679 and put in this one. So that's what I did anyway. Have A Good evening.
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Speaker A: The second one was way better than the first. The first one had a bunch of noise. Hey, Johnny. An R7G.
Speaker B: Hi, John. Just doing a little test here in the seat. We've got a clear spot. And I was just demonstrating the fact that we can still get into high polish. It's going to be scratchy, but when we go on our repeater. This link is so much cleaner, my friend.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Okay, well, that's cool. Yeah, you were making it into high. There's just a lot of static stuff. Maybe with the yagi or something, a little more power came right out. You probably could have a little better time. All right, man. Take
Speaker B: care. Good evening. Yeah, I know. Okay. Hey, thanks. Have a wonderful evening. K70DQ. I'll be clear.

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Kv6, poc mobile santa rosa system 26 link op, Whatever that was. Give me another go with this really low audio. N6 something. Good morning, Adam, over here. On my way to work this morning. How you doing? Morning to you, Adam. Maybe this audio is a little bit better in 6QQ and Richard here in Selma, a little bit south of Fresno. Over. Richard, good morning to you, buddy. That is a little bit better. Nice improvement. I know some of these radios, you have to almost follow the microphone to give it enough audio to be heard. Well, I'm up here in Santa Rosa on my way to work this morning. I'm going to be a little bit late. I didn't realize we had to stop and fill this truck up with the fuel and then get down here. We're going through a fairly pretty consistent storm today, and they want. They want us on deck at the shop between 7am and 8pm so it's going to be a pretty long, long one. Hope there's something to do in the soggy green. Roger. Yeah, you know, it's just starting to rain down here south of Fresno right now. Just beginning 100% chance, so I guess they got that one right there. So. Okay, I'm over here, about to get the oil changed in the truck. I'll let you go. So be safe out there in the weather and good to meet up with him. Try to keep the oil change in the truck from making a big mess, buddy. You know, it's tough. All right. Katie Ziggs, POC Mobile Santa Rosa.

And 6 GRG local 36 while still a lot of rain out around, especially down by Chico.

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Speaker A: I got a good morning and then everything went away. Try again. M7C on the.
Speaker B: Arab Alabama. Good morning,
Speaker A: Larry.
Speaker B: You're.
Speaker A: You're out of it quite a bit. All I heard was Arab Alabama. Good morning. And I recognize your voice. So you're not, you're not into your nose very well, but yeah. Good morning. Good morning. Looks like we're bidding getting a pretty significant storm here later today.
Speaker B: Okay, hang on. Once. I'm gonna switch nodes. A before LD
Speaker A: that was 100.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: M17.
Speaker B: Okay. Well, as long as that's. You guys are getting a big storm there today.
Speaker A: Yeah, projected. I saw the weather thing before I left the house and California's getting deluged right now heading our way. It's supposed to be here probably early afternoon and be with us through Wednesday or so.
Speaker B: Oh, wow. Well, I wonder, does Charleston a rainbow because it's gonna be flooded over there. Because I know that the water would really rush down off that mountain and flood that area. Or did they fix it?
Speaker A: You know, the flood control district has done a phenomenal job over the past decade or so. Probably more so we don't get a lot of that anymore. I mean, every now and again we'll get a little bit in some parts of the valley, but not near as prevalent as it was. They've done a great job. And then when the flooding does happen, it typically subsides fairly quickly. They got some good flood channels going through town retention basins all over the place. So there's a few spots. I'm not sure if that's one of them, but largely it's not really a thing anymore for us. But you know, having said that, we've been kind of in a drought condition for a while and montitude season isn't near what it used to be, but we'll get. We'll get a few inches every now and again. That causes some issues. They don't have any flood warnings out for us. They got high wind warnings out and we're supposed to get a couple of feet up in the mountaintops.
Speaker B: Okay, so how much snow have you guys gotten up there by the. By the site?
Speaker A: Very little. We got some around Turkey Day I think it was that locked us out of high potency for about a couple of weeks. I had a radio. I had to get fixed the 146.88 I had on my bench for a while waiting to be able to get up there. And then there's been nothing. But this storm that's coming through today is going to drop. Like I said, a foot or two of snow there. So that'll hamper us for a while unless we really get back in check a warm. A warm, you know, spot or streak or whatever. But it's been a very dry season.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's been that way everywhere. Colorado, so the Colorado river, you know, it's not gonna be flowing like it used to. I wonder, how does Lake Mead doing? Is it still way, way down or has it come up any.
Speaker A: No, it's way down. They're predicting, I think another 10ft down this year. I forgot how many feet entirely it's down, but it's down quite a bit. It's been on a decline for at least the past 20 years. It's pretty bad. Got a huge bathtub ring around it. Remember being this low?
Speaker B: Yeah, I remember. I think it was 86 where they had to stop all traffic going over the dam. That was before the bridge and it was just flowing like crazy. And then here it is, you know, 40 years later, later, and it's almost nothing. Gosh, that. That's too bad. And we've been getting a little bit of storms here and there. We're going to start warming up into the 70s next week. We're going to be having some thunderstorms. And Guntersville Lake, it's. It's huge. I don't think it's as big as Lake Mead was, but it's. It's pretty big. And it's fed by the Tennessee river and that thing's flowing all the time, sometimes more than we want, but it does run. So. Yeah. Wow, that's. That's something else. Having that lake down that back. You know, there's no fishing. Well, I'm assuming there's no real good fishing. There might be. N7TND AB4LV.
Speaker A: Yeah, I remember when the water went over the top of the bridge, or I'm sorry, top of the dam. They were worried about the thing just cavitating. Right. But, yeah, I used to spend a lot of time on the lake back
Speaker B: when I had a boat and lived
Speaker A: over on the east side of town, back when you knew me. And combination of moving all the way to the west side of town, the drought had just made it just terrible. I mean, it would take forever to try to find a place to launch the boats. A lot of the smaller launch facilities that I used when I lived over on the east side of town had shut down because the water receded so bad. But anyways. But you know what? They're still building houses like crazy, so I don't get it. It's all about making profit. I guess you're thinking valley here has just been booming with population again. A lot of people leaving California heading this way. Some folks retiring from Midwest area moving here, but I don't know, they keep piling in. Houses keep going up. But anyways, we're in for a little bit of a cold streak this week and next week. Then we'll probably start warming up and get some melt on the mountaintops. But other than that, kind of more of the same. Got the day off today because it's President's Day. So I got a few errands I'm trying to run kind of out and about for a bit and I got a bad balance. I need to replace my off center fed antenna. I may get around to that today. I got the thing in a couple of weeks ago. I just haven't had a chance to get out there and put it in, install it, all that good stuff. So I might do that. Gonna probably be about it. Back to the grind tomorrow.
Speaker B: Yeah, okay. Real good. Yeah, we've got to take the, the truck in for some kind of a recall. I got to be there at 10:30. It takes about, I don't know, 10 minutes to get there. And then we're gonna go out to lunch. My brother's gonna pick us up. We'll go out to lunch and come back here. It's a place we've never been before. It's in one of the other towns. It's in Albertville. It's about 15 miles from here. Not too bad. It doesn't take very long to get there. So we'll, we'll see what that brings. And that's, that's been about it that's going on.
Speaker A: And you know, I have a lot
Speaker B: of fond memories about living in Pahrump. Especially when you guys had to take the helicopter up to Potosi to fix the repeater. That, that was just unbelievable. When you guys did that, you had a limited time to do it in too, didn't you? Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker A: I got pictures of that. We had to. I forgot if it was the UHF or the VHF box, but I remember we actually had taken antenna up there, station master, and we got pictures of myself and it's you guys in the metro helicopter. And the antenna was. Had both doors open on the helicopter and the antenna was sticking out both sides because it was so damn long. It was like 22, 25. They're big ass antennas. You can't take them apart. Yeah, we had to get up there and, and they dropped us off on potency and they had to go. They were just. It was a training exercise for them. And so they were like, okay, guys, you got like whatever it was however many minutes and we're coming back and if you're not ready to go and we're on approach, we're out of, you know, you guys are stuck. Which I'm. I'm sure they wouldn't let us stranded, right, because it was. There was no way to get up there with the snow, but that's what they said. And I remember vividly I was still doing alignments on the radio or the controller or whatever the heck I was tweaking on. And the helicopter was inbound and one of the guys was like, ralph, hurry
Speaker B: up, they're coming in.
Speaker A: They're coming in like, oh shit. Finishing everything else up, shut down the service monitor, packed everything up and then right about the time the helicopter landed. But yeah, that was a while ago.
Speaker B: Yeah, it was. I remember that. Oh my gosh, those days. And is there still a lot of packet use? I know you guys used to have. Was it 01 and 07, maybe 01
Speaker A: with
Speaker B: Wayne Shanks, K7WS? I can't remember. I think you guys had 0107 on packet, is that right?
Speaker A: You know, I don't remember if we had. I know there was 0105 07. I don't remember which ones we had. But yeah, you know, not. We don't do that anymore. I think there might be some packet around the valley. I don't really know. Kind of a note in the. What we don't use anymore. But yeah, we had, we had a node on low potency, high potency and on Red Mountain and we took all that stuff down long time ago. Right now we've got aprs up
Speaker B: on
Speaker A: Lo Potency, Angel Peak and Highland Peak. So there's, there's three nodes there. But I know there's some packet around. I'm not sure who's still doing it.
Speaker B: Okay, I remember it was pretty popular back in the 90s. It might have been before that. I don't know. I wasn't licensed till 89,
Speaker A: but I
Speaker B: think my ex got into it about 91 or 92, something like that. And talking to all the guys in Las Vegas and going into the 36 meter link over to Big Bear and talk to people in Southern California and there was, there was quite a few guys that would get on there. You know, I think of calls and I look them up and wonder what happened to them? There was a guy, his call was Kilo Bravo seven, Oscar, Oscar, Oscar. And he was some kind of a dealer at one of the casinos. And I haven't looked him up. And there was another guy. I don't remember his call, but he was a real old guy. And I don't think he's around anymore because that was like 30 something years ago. And he was probably in his 70s back then. So it's amazing how people just, you know, we all get old, but hopefully we can stay healthy.
Speaker A: That's right.
Speaker B: That's what it's all about.
Speaker A: I pretty much do the gym every day. Matter of fact, after I get done running my errand here, I'm gonna go do my workout, try to stay active. I feel good too. You know, I've been really hitting the gym a lot. Well, for the past 15, 20 years, probably. I've been really serious about it. So gotta stay. Gotta stay moving. But anyways. All right, well, I can't.
Speaker B: There's something I was just gonna mention,
Speaker A: Doug, you were mentioning just top to my brain, but I forgot what it was. Anyways. Yeah, I know back in the packet days, I was heavy into it too, man. You know, had set your TNC up and send a message to some guy and, like, come back, you know, after work and your message light was flashing. It was kind of cool. But, yeah, hamburger was definitely different back then. Right before all the Internet and cell phone stuff hit, there's a lot more activity on the band, at least on the voice bands like vhf, uhf, et cetera. Now it seems like there's still a lot on hf, which I thoroughly enjoy, but not so much on these bands anymore.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I remember 8. 8 was so much fun. And then, of course, you know, it got stretched out into linking up with Utah and stuff. So a lot of people went to the more local repeaters. So I wasn't able to talk to them, except I could get into Black Mountain and I could get into the nine Fort machine. I think that was on the Tropicana. That was the only two machines I could get into. And. But yeah, there was some. Some people. There was a. Oh, gosh, some gal. I can't even remember her name. She. She was on 88, like, 24. 7. My God, she drove me nuts. She was talking to a guy, Larry Tatum, in Pahrump. And both of them just drove me up nuts. And a lot of jamming started happening. And they. They accused me of doing the jamming. And I thought, oh, my gosh so I didn't Even bother with 88 after that.
Speaker A: And 7T&D.
Speaker B: I remember the.
Speaker A: You know, we had. We had a lot of badge every there back in the day and all the bands, all the creepers, I would say. Yeah, 349 4. I used to be the trustee for that club a long time ago. Then it just got to be too much trying to keep Ajaxo on the air and those guys. I did the repeater for the Nellis Radio Club on Apex for a while and I just. I just had to back out of that stuff. Got to be too much. So I kind of pulled back. But yeah, there was a lot of that. I know 3494 used to get jammed a lot. A lot of people messing with their auto patches. And that thing on 88, that must have been before we were linked to the Snowbird system like we are now. I think it was probably just a standalone repeater back then.
Speaker B: Yeah, it was. Oh, I was also able to get in, I think, to the 8:2. I think that was on Christmas Peak or Christmas Mountain over off of. What was it? I can't remember. Gosh, going toward Indian Springs, I think. But yeah, I remember a lot of that stuff. It was a lot of fun. Had a lot of good times in Pahrump and Las Vegas. Meet up with a couple of friends and go out and have lunch or something like that. Yeah, that's when it was a standalone and it was a great repeater because when I got there in 1989, a lot of guys, you know, a lot of guys were in the real estate. And one guy was. But he did a lot of banking for real estate. He was driving all the time. So we talked quite a bit. And of course, all our Peters were really fun back then. And I went into California and I was tuning around, I found this repeater. It was a Mount Wilson Peter and I repeater. And I thought, good God, you know these people, are they on a Navy ship or something? Or they're really going at it. I'm never going to listen to that one again. That was a pretty bad repeater.
Speaker A: The A2 repeaters in St. Louis. It's one of the mountaintops over St. George, Utah. Remember which one? I want to say Frisco Peak. That's not right. Anyways, it's one of the mountains over St. George. It's still on the air. Matter of fact, it's LinkedIn to 88 through the blowhard system. We go high potency to Blowhard. And I think at Blowhard they spur off to a bunch of different radios. That might be one of them. Yeah, I know what you mean about the other activities. There used to be a link system here in California. Link system? That was bad that way. I forgot what the heck they were called. They may still be on the air. They had a drop off here on Mount Potency. Low potency I think that was pretty active but we've had our share of that here in the valley on some of the lower level Florida valley floor radio let's put my lab against it has subsided anyways. All right Larry. Well I'm where I need to be here for my first stop so let the system cool down.
Speaker B: Good to.
Speaker A: Good to talk to you and enjoy your your lunch. I'll be around today a little bit trying to get some things done. N7TMD Las Vegas.
Speaker B: All right Ralph, sounds good. I'm gonna get out of here and go see what the wife is doing and get ready and go to the get the truck head out. All right, you take care. We'll talk to you soon. AB4LD Arab Alabama.

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Speaker B: I wasn't prepared. That was said so fast and so quickly. I didn't say again. And 7 0kn John in Phoenix.

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