GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-18

Los Angeles link up.

Kilo7 Oscar Foxtrot. Oscar is mobile on the site.

32 link up.

Fred. No link off.

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Speaker A: Kl6mgk n6ann.
Speaker B: Yeah. So dawn, just to let you know, it is kilo November 6th. KN6MGK kilo November 6th mike golf kilo. Anyway, you keep saying KL6 anyway, but people know me out here for sure. And you are full quieting that time.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, that would be Alaska. No, that's what used to be Alaska. Anyway. Yeah, so I'm surprised I remembered the last three letters. It's been a long time, probably a year or so since we talked on the radio. So I look for your call sign around here, but I can't find it. After we moved, everything's gone. But I got the last part right anyhow, what do you expect? So. I'll change that antenna. Maybe tomorrow I'll get up the courage to climb up on that roof. I've been a little bit dizzy here for the last few days, but it has to be done. So I'll get up there and we'll be able to communicate directly.
Speaker B: Pretty sure.
Speaker A: And let me know when you want to do something with that antenna. Trust me, he won't overcharge you.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I'm concerned about anyone working at my house and climbing a tree like that. So yeah, I'm not in any sort of hurry to do anything about it. Like I said, I would probably take it down. So that way there I don't have to be concerned about it any longer being up there because I don't trust how it was put up there to begin with. So right now, because the way the feed line dropped off of it, it really needs to have someone who knows what they're doing with the radio up there because the likelihood is it's got self amalgamating tape on. Would have to be the antenna part has to be taken off of the, the assembly, you know, and that part stripped off, feed line refed up through it probably would have to go around a tree limb or something a couple times first just to keep that strain relief from problem from happening again. You know, you can't expect tree climbers like the one that put it up there that we paid to trim our trees. He didn't probably know much about radio at all, so anyway, but he did evidently strap it on there pretty good because it hasn't moved since then and other tree limbs have grown up since then. So anyway, it would just end up being a little bit of work for somebody if they were really going to try to make it work again. And I'd also have to get more feed line at this point. Probably end up getting a whole new length of feed line because I would need like 150ft, probably something like that. I think it's actually about 90ft. I don't know. Yeah, I probably have to get 150ft to have one straight long run from antenna to shack.
Speaker A: Yeah, you don't need anybody that knows something about antennas. You just need somebody that knows something about climbing. We can just lower the antenna down and we can do whatever needs to be done right there on the ground and then let him pull it back up and hook it back up again. Yeah, it's not as horrible and foreboding as you think. You probably made it a little bit bigger in your mind. It's small potatoes. We can fix those in antennas pretty fast right on the ground and then just hoist it right back up.
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker B: Hey, is that mark?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: KE6JBS. So I wanted to let you guys both know that both of your signals dropped off and got really scratchy on the 105. So it had to been conditions because you both came back up. So both of you were kind of really scratchy. That was just my son.
Speaker B: Hey, Mark.
Speaker A: Yeah, no problem.
Speaker B: That's good to know. Yeah, I was concerned that it was something that was his deal, so makes sense. If it was both of us, then it was something with conditions. You know, weather wise, it's been kind of weird. Some pretty good lighting. I've been told that thunder, Magalia, lots of hail. So yeah, it's gonna be pretty interesting over the next couple days.
Speaker C: Had some pretty good solar flashes. Anyway, I'll let you guys get back to it.
Speaker A: KE6 JBS heater down to just completely gone and then coming back up again. So I figured that was probably what was going on. But right now I'm looking out the window, I can see a hole in the clouds. A nice blue sky up there. We got something to look forward to. N6A double N.
Speaker B: Yeah, there was a bit of a double there with Mark in the beginning. And Marky, I copied what you said because you actually beat dawn out on that one. So anyway, appreciate you come back on that and let us know what happened or what you heard. That's always nice. And so 73 to you, Mark. And yeah, Dawn. Yeah, I don't know. We've had actually okay weather here. It's just been kind of windy and a little cool, so the sun's peeked out a couple times actually.
Speaker A: Huh. That's interesting. I waited to see if he was going to keep back up anyway, so. Yeah, thanks, Mark. Whatever. Your call was. I didn't write that down. I got a puppy in one hand and the microphone in the other. Anyway, so I guess we should get out of here for now. They probably like to have the repeater back. Thanks for the test, but let me know when you want to do that. This friend of mine has three brothers and all four of them are tree climbers and they have a tree climber service and I think I told you about them before. They're really good at what they do. I'll go ahead and jump out of here and go in and start cooking my dog's dinner and maybe we'll hook up a little later. KN6MGK N6A N.
Speaker B: Yeah, no problem. And yeah, so yeah, these repeaters these days aren't very busy but they won't care how long you occupy them most likely. There's not a whole lot going on on repeaters here lately. A lot of us have moved over to hf. Just enjoy some of that stuff if we're going to be on the radio. But I've got a lot of things to be doing right now that don't involve radio. A lot of gardening kind of stuff, getting seeds ready, things like that to keep me busy amongst getting these TV services going, getting the cell phone stuff all changed over. There's always something just about every day that's got to be done. Just as you know. That's life. Anyway, I think I'm going to go take a walk. So that would be another thing to do. 73kn6mg. Yeah, I'd have more fun doing that too. Getting. Getting your HF rig going up there and that way we could Talk Simplex on HF. Probably on 40 meters at night or even 80 tan 6 MGK.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's a good idea. I prefer 160, but we'll start out with 40 and see what happens. Okay, talk to you later. 7:3.
Speaker B: Okay. Volumes turned back down and back on monitoring mode. Kn6mgk.

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System7link.

Speaker A: Km6pso, ki6pwj. System11 link up.
Speaker B: I think it was something MKK or something like that.
Speaker A: I do copy you.
Speaker B: Your audio is a little on the
Speaker A: light side, so you might want to
Speaker B: get closer to the microphone and speak loudly and clearly in there.
Speaker A: But go ahead and copy.
Speaker C: California, where are you located?
Speaker B: Okay, I copy Emeryville. I'm over the hill from you towards
Speaker A: the east, over in the area coming in on system 11.
Speaker B: Well, I think we're too far apart.
Speaker A: You're on system two, if I heard
Speaker B: correctly when it came up.
Speaker A: And I'm on 11, so supposed to be on the same repeater in order to go to the local pl.
Speaker C: Started experimenting with the gala network, how far I can reach. I was able to talk to somebody in Las Vegas just recently.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Yep.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not very far away from
Speaker A: you at all, even though we're on different repeaters. But there'll be other opportunities and people
Speaker B: will show up for sure. It's Southern California that we've got back
Speaker A: online here the last month or so. There's traffic from down there and up
Speaker B: in the northern part of the state, Northern Nevada and Las Vegas. Greater Las Vegas area.
Speaker A: So anyhow.
Speaker B: But yeah, for locals to work, you
Speaker A: got to be on the same repeater. But anyhow.
Speaker B: So I take.
Speaker C: If you're new to the system, are
Speaker A: you new to Pam Radio as well?
Speaker C: Yeah, I'm new to both of them, the system. I've been thinking with it for many years, but I recently cleared my exam, so gladly I'm a new hamp.
Speaker B: Okay, well, welcome to the hobby. And yeah, just make sure you get close to the microphone and talk loudly and clearly so people can hear you because sometimes there's also noise on the links and stuff.
Speaker A: So that just makes it even harder.
Speaker B: But improved it since you first came on. Name here is Tom, by the way.
Speaker A: Mike picker. Tom Tango. And yeah, I've been doing this for way too long now.
Speaker B: I guess there's 85, so it's been
Speaker A: a few years, but anyhow.
Speaker B: All right, I'll let you know you're you're getting out there and hopefully you stay dry.
Speaker C: Do you have any suggestions as far as Sharla? Something similar to Carlock. I go in the wilderness quite often where I have no signals. I'm trying to see before I go
Speaker B: I can map out.
Speaker C: So any recommendations would be appreciated.
Speaker A: Yeah, there's a number of link systems
Speaker B: out there, both UHF and vhf. One place to go. Try. You can look at all the different repeaters out There. Then I think they list their, you know, the. Whatever the organization that runs them
Speaker A: is
Speaker B: narc, N A, R C C, that's the coordinating body for Northern California where
Speaker A: they coordinate all the repeaters.
Speaker B: And so, you know, there's different ones that are going to cover different areas as well as all the individual ones within the Bay Area. There should be a number that you can get into. One of the popular ones is the wind system and there's a few others. A lot of them will require memberships and stuff like that.
Speaker A: You want to use them a lot.
Speaker B: But I think once you start from that website and then you dig into
Speaker A: their web pages, you can probably get some more information. Assuming they have web pages for their
Speaker B: system,
Speaker C: That's very helpful. I'll start with the website and going from there. I've been also experimenting with echoleng. I forget what the exact name is. I think it's echoleng. I started my own link as well on the Internet. Trying to figure out how to connect with that. That's another thing I'm looking at.
Speaker B: Yep, there's that, there's irlp, also All Star. And there's, you know, digital modes, bmr, dstar. Different manufacturers have different ones.
Speaker A: Can't think of all of them right now.
Speaker B: And they show all those different modes
Speaker A: and stuff like that that in the NARC website as well. So a lot of information in there
Speaker B: for you that's probably the most up to date. You know, don't believe everything you. You catch out there on the Internet
Speaker A: and other lists that are out there since they're not.
Speaker B: They're not usually as accurate as.
Speaker A: As, you know, the stuff that south out there on the dark website. So anyhow, but good luck with it and keep trying and you'll.
Speaker B: I'm sure you'll find plenty of stuff
Speaker A: you can do and play with.
Speaker B: So anyhow, I'm gonna get back to it here.
Speaker A: So have yourself a good rest of
Speaker B: the evening already and we'll talk to you later. This is N6M.
Speaker A: Have a good evening. Los Angeles link up.

System12 link up.

K6dmu mobile system.

System 19 link.

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Speaker A: Updated local information flood advisory with multiple
Speaker B: Fresno, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Updated local information flood advisory with multiple San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara.

Speaker A: Updated local information flood advisory,
Speaker B: San Luis Obistro, Santa Barbara.

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System2 link up.

Los Angeles link up.

Speaker A: Updated local information flood advisory with multiple
Speaker B: Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura.

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On battery pack 15K6LNK system 36 no mountain range, Odd ac power at.

System2 link up.

Speaker A: Mobile 101 in Kadati System 26 link up,
Speaker B: Fresno link up.

86 poc mobile testing on katadi 5.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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Kilo oxford 60, kilo lima delta 67. Global monitoring system 7, link ox k6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Updated local information. Avalanche warning with multiple.

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Updated local information. Avalanche warning.

Speaker A: Updated local information. Avalanche warning with multiples
Speaker B: El Dorado, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Douglas, Lasha, Carson City.

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Speaker A: Updated local information. Avalanche warning with multiples
Speaker B: Alpine, El Dorado, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Douglas, Lacheau, Carson City,

System32 link.

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Hey, ralph. Hey, ralph. I don't know what happened there, but I heard you check in. Ralph. Good morning to you. N6 kne.

Speaker A: There you are. Good morning to you. I heard you check in there a little bit ago.
Speaker B: Yeah, we're having some issues on our mountaintops. Big storms went through the last couple days. The looks like we have a bad antenna or a bad feed line on upper potency. It's way, way down in power. Numb as a hustler antenna. Hopefully we can damage our superstation. Master expensive piece of fiberglass. And we've got intermittent microwave connections. On one of the other mountaintops. So we'll see a lot of bass going.
Speaker A: Yeah, I saw that blowing through there yesterday. And last night, In fact, it was even. Still a little bit of red there on the radar. Lots of yellows and a couple little spots of red that blew through there. Hopefully it didn't create too much. Too much havoc.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm just. The upper potency type is the one I'm worried about the most. Like I said, we just bought that antenna mode three or four years ago, but who knows? I don't know. It's definitely. It's definitely not a repeater issue. Like I said, the PA and the receiver are both way down. Hopefully it's a speed line or a jumper or something like that. It got whacked up with ice. But anyways, I'm sure we'll get the microwave shot. On the other mountaintop coming up from the valley. So I think the commercial outage. There's a commercial provider up there that we use. And the entire mountaintops offline. So good news is it's a commercial company. They're quick to fix.
Speaker A: All right. Yeah, I am hearing. I am. I am hearing a little bit of electronic electrical. Static there on your signal. All right, well. Well, you probably don't want to be transmitting too much. Got some kind of a problem like that. Good to hear you. Wanted to jump in and tell you good morning.
Speaker B: Okay. I switched to a different repeater. I was in the shadow of one of our other rocks. No, I took the. The one with the suspected bad antenna. I turned the transmitter up. We got. We got overlapping coverage. So it's no big deal. But. Yeah, I didn't. Everything is on the circulator, of course, But I still don't want to risk burning the PA up, so. All right, Ken. Have a. Have a good day down there. N7T ending. I'm just about to the office.
Speaker A: All right. You enjoy your day. N6 kne and if there was a Los Angeles station in there. Come on in.
Speaker C: In 6. Can you be clear and listening.

Morning, Ken. Hello. Back to work. Snow all over the hills here this morning. It'll be a pizza. JKV and Ocean System 19 link up. Good morning, Mike. How are you doing, you guys? You guys got some weather also. Wow. We did get a pretty good thunderstorm that blew through here early this morning. That was kind of nice. All good here? Yeah, we had a couple of lively cells last night around seven. Got our attention. It's only like three seconds between the big strike flash and the boom. So I was a little too close for comfort and I dashed off. Exactly. Disconnect the incentive from the ho brakes. And I'm still sure not. Still not sure what I'm gonna do about getting my HF stuck up and safe from lightning. We get a lot of lightning around here, but I'll figure out something, I guess. And our electricity is a lot more stable now that they have most of it underground up here near where we are. It's a good thing. Hey, regarding hf, Headcountry is a reciprocal arrangement with the US you have to apply for license down there. Yeah, there's a. There's a small test I can take. But having already having my license state does help. I'm still waiting for my visa. I've got my FBI stuff taken care of. I still need to get the apostle and the. The stuff back from that for my FBI report. And once I get all that done, then then only then I can get my. My HAM radio license here for. Copy that. All right, man. Good deal. Sound like they got somebody up on the roof here. I got to go investigate. We have some air conditioning contractors doing some preliminary stuff. We're replacing one of the 105 ton units up on the roof. So couldn't pick the worst line. It's raining and it's cold. Something beats a dick in work. All right, Mike, you take care. I'll be listening N6K anymore. Good morning. How's it going? Hey, Larry. Good morning to you. I've got my coffee out of the way. I got my breakfast out of the way. The dishes are all clean. Got my hot chocolate out of the way. Yep, I'm good. I'm good to go for the rest of the day now. In fact, shoot, maybe it's. Maybe it's nap time. Wow, Mr. Efficient there, we're good for you. Anyway, good normal day here. I had three dirty days since the last time we talked the other morning. And today's my day. And Thursday, I'm gonna end with you all day. Oh, okay. Next time you're Looking at your. Well, you know what I mean. Next time you're looking at your 8.0Supermon, scroll down towards the bottom. You'll see a cockpit button. The button is there, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. As soon as I get that fixed, I will let you know. With that button, all you. All you do is click on it and it will bring up your ASL3 config. Yeah. This morning I brought up the. Tried bought up the cockpit just using the IP address and the port and that. Bottom it up but click on anything. I get those silly metal. This may be on posture or whatever. You know, you're at risk and all that. You know what that's all about? I don't know what it's all about, but I know it's kind of a normal thing for now. But yeah, you just gotta go down to the bottom down there and tell it. Tell it that you think it's safe. Okay. I just started drawing a little bit of junk, so yeah, I'll tell. Go to Supermon and try and try it over there too. Anyway, everything seems to be working good. Advantages that you're aware of that you saw while you're in it. Well, being that you're blind, Maybe not. Maybe not so much. But the cockpit gives you instant access to your. To your bash shell stuff, you know. And then it also gives you access to your firewall and things like that. Yeah, I mean it's. I kind of didn't care for it there at first, but now that. Now that I've seen it, yeah, I can definitely see the advantages of having it. You don't have to use putty, you don't have to use. Wind. Well, I guess WinSCP still has disadvantages, but yeah, you don't have to use putty if you have the cockpit into the terminal from the cockpit. Okay, I was just trying to. Okay. You know, get back into the other way and think I cockpit. All right. Yeah. As soon as I get that cockpit thing figured out, I'll. I'll let you know. Okay. All righty. Other than that. So just play around in here today. Winter is fun and guys, I didn't think it ever get here this year. Yeah, I saw that you had weather to your north, but. All right, well you guys definitely need your four seasons here. No, I don't get the four seasons, but I don't mind. All right, Larry, I'll let you go and I'll talk to you later maybe. I will be listening in. Six Knights and Jamar do you rough if you're still out there but didn't hear about the wild weather down there in Las Vegas area. Updated local information. Avalanche warning. Alpine, el dorado, nevada. Placer douglas lacho, carson city.

I just heard the Tahoe link come up. Anybody up there in Tahoe listening? Nothing. Heard n6 knight.

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November 6th. Golf Romeo, Golf 36 local. Good morning.

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November 6th. Golf, romeo, golf k&6mgk. November 6th. Golf, romeo, golf. You around yet, dave?

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Los Angeles link up.

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M7c. Andrew.

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9 trl mobile monitoring.

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Los Angeles link up.

Naya b and r connected.

Disconnected. N6 mvt wa6yre.

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Speaker A: System 7, link up.
Speaker B: K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.
Speaker A: System 10, link up.

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Los Angeles link up.

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System 12, link up k6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

26 link up.

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Los Angeles link up.

Fresno link.

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System 19 link up.

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Speaker A: And 6
Speaker B: grt 36 local. I don't know how many hockey players are
Speaker A: out there, but what a great day for hockey and I am not into watching hockey. Still is a great day for hockey. N6GRG.

System series link up.

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