GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-19

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Okay, Johnny, you sound real good. Just like Ralph said. It shouldn't affect you guys. So we're good to go for tonight. KT7LV. Okay, I'm gonna still call satirical net with a little bit of a twist. Okay, That's perfect. Love the idea. Okay, we'll see you right around 7 o'. Clock, another hour.

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Speaker A: N60ne. This is ki7lyd. Much appreciate the radio check. Thank you.
Speaker B: You're welcome. Have a good evening.
Speaker A: And6 Annie, you have a good evening as well. Tag 7 Oyb clear on your final.

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Speaker A: K 06kmh radio check
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Speaker A: Thank you, sir. Checking in from link 31, seeing how well it's working now.
Speaker B: Said it was la. Are you down in
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Speaker A: Angeles area there? Yes, I am. I know they were down here a couple weeks ago fixing things.
Speaker B: Good deal, good deal. Well, it does, yeah, it does get monitored them quite a few
Speaker C: times. We're there quite a bit of work on the system though because, yeah, it does take quite a bit of work to keep a system like this going, but good deal, we got it. I think it works really good. I'm very glad that you know that you get a little bit more range out of these little radios. All right, buddy, have a good day. K6MKF,
Speaker A: Thanks for the feedback. K06 kmh clear.
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Speaker A: San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara.

And 6 grt 36 local. Good morning.

Speaker A: And 6grg36 link near reading, california. Good morning.
Speaker B: Good morning. K0.6kmh on link 31.
Speaker A: K 0.6kmh N6 GRT linked 36 which is making it possible to transmit to the link through Reading. And I've got snowy slush up here. It's white rain basically. It's very wet, not sticking.
Speaker B: Well down here in LA it's dry, but it's supposed to get wet again later today.
Speaker A: I wonder, has it ever snowed in la?
Speaker B: Not to my knowledge with LA proper, but I'm heading out towards Palm Springs and it has snowed out there and definitely in the mountains, down in the desert it snows.
Speaker A: Yeah. Do you go over five over that? Well, I forget what they call it, that narrow part of five that goes up and back down to the valley.
Speaker B: Yeah, the grapevine. I'm not going that way today, but I have and sometimes that gets closed for snow.
Speaker A: Well, I'm sure it won't be really nice in Palm Springs, but I doubt if it'll be very wet.
Speaker B: There's a pretty good chance of stuff one two o' clock this afternoon and it can rain pretty hard out there. And of course I have to go measure sidewalks and such today.
Speaker A: Oh, wonderful. Perfect timing. But at least it's a
Speaker B: job of
Speaker A: sorts, a little bit different and I'm going to let you go. A HF net is just starting that gets me down into Baja California and that sort of thing. So I'm gonna sign with you. Very nice talking to you. I think you're a new ham. And welcome to Carla carlaradio. Net is the website and we'll see you later.
Speaker B: Yep, I'm very old friends with N6MVT, so I'm well aware of the network Ko6amh. Clear.
Speaker A: All right, well, I'm sure he's happy to Hear you on K0.6kmh, N60GRG, N6 go radio, go. Talk to you later.
Speaker C: Well, I'm local but I know that it has snowed in Los Angeles before, at least according to a friend of mine who grew up there as a kid when there was a whole lot less people, a whole lot less. I think it was like in the 40s when he was growing up. Anyway, he describes this of a snowy occasion once in a while. Anyway, good morning to you and hope you have a good 40 meter net. K and 6 MGK.
Speaker A: Yeah, good to.
Speaker C: Good to hear you, Steve.
Speaker A: Yeah, starting a little bit of it. Starting right now we've got CAMI in northeastern Nevada and K7 ofg out in Arizona so far and I just checked in with them and my, I thought I had my antenna all tuned and it said no. With flush and snow you get what I want.
Speaker B: And
Speaker A: it's looking like it could get colder and turn into snow, but I don't know.
Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, well, I mean I just got a text from a friend in paradise and he's got snow on the ground there and it's continuing but it shows on the radar, shows a mixture of rain and snow depending on what parts of paradise you're in. Then up in Magalia it should snow. So been coming down pretty good here for a little while. It woke me up. So although it seems to slow just a bit right now in terms of rain here in Chico.
Speaker A: Well, this snowy slush is really quiet, just like snow typically is absolutely quiet. This is not quite as quiet but boy, I just got out, I just had to go out in it and it is not fun out there.
Speaker C: Okay, well I'm gonna play the wonder map here. Let me see what it shows.
Speaker A: Yeah, and as I said in the text, if you got it is, I, I have no Internet now but I, I am able to get just enough to give me a seven day forecast. I don't think I'll be able to get any of the wonder ground stuff. Wonder map, wonderground, all that is not going to make it. I don't think into my phone but I'm working on, as I told you, I'm working on a way to get Internet. I think I can do it. I think I can get some pretty decent Internet with this plan I have.
Speaker C: Well, anyway, this flow looks like it's going more westerly. I'm sorry, more easterly. More like a typical storm where it kind of dips down into California and moves off to the east. So a lot different than the other day.
Speaker A: Yeah. Today we have interference on 7192. It sounds like, I don't know what it is. It's a very, it sounds like a, a Martian spaceship. Hang on, a.

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Well Mike, it seems like the military is doing their thing, so I think that's why some of these noise and the noise levels up pretty high on the 40 meter band anyway, especially towards the higher end of it. But I'm having a tough time even hearing Steve K and 6 MGK.

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Updated local information flood advisory Santa Barbara.

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Okay. N6 mike golf kilo. N6trg. They shut down all the paradise schools, And I just had a snowplow go down right in front of my house.

Speaker A: Golf, romeo, golf. I'll copy. India. India uniform.
Speaker B: Hey, Greg.
Speaker A: Well, did you get your gate open?
Speaker B: Yeah, I, I, I went outside and opened my gate and put my truck right a little closer to the road because if I do need to get out, it can be really hard when the snow gets heavy. But then the snow kind of slowed down a little bit, turned into like much smaller, much smaller flakes. But that can change really easily. So we could have another big snow event. I don't know.
Speaker A: I don't know if the weather here is any different than there, but it's supposed to clear up this afternoon. Over.
Speaker B: Between now and afternoon with, I mean, the way the snow was coming down, if that had continued, I would have had two feet.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker B: How are you?
Speaker A: Over.
Speaker B: Just below 1,000ft. Wow.
Speaker A: Soil level really dropped. Yeah, that's unusual. But you know, we had a big hailstorm here yesterday. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, nothing much. Nothing surprises me, but yeah, it is crazy stuff. No doubt about it.
Speaker A: Yeah, we had to open up a claim on the, the harvest report. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah. Is it mainly because they can't, they can't harvest?
Speaker A: Well, you know, if there's harvest damage, you know, we have crop insurance and we had to open up a claim and just in case it affected the harvest. Over.
Speaker B: Kind of a pre Claim kind of a thing, huh?
Speaker A: Yeah. Well, what happens is the claim adjuster comes out to the property and looks at the damage, and if it's significant, you know, we can make a claim on the crop insurance. Over.
Speaker B: Well, I've had antennas break and all sorts of things when the snow starts to stick to the antennas and the temp is actually going down rather than up. So anything could happen.
Speaker A: Well, I hope everything turns out, turns out all right for you. Did the antennas look okay?
Speaker B: Yeah, so far it's not sticking to the antennas, which that really soft, fluffy, really big flake type snow can do a lot of damage, but so far I'm lucky.
Speaker A: Yeah. You know, my son lives on the east coast and they're getting hit pretty good now. I mean, he's got a snow drift in his backyard, six feet tall. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, snow is just so crazy. If can it can be in a very easily be in a situation where you have two feet an hour. And that's what I had when the flakes were really large. That's what I had. If it had continued for an hour, I would have had a couple of feet.
Speaker A: Yeah, I know that. The important thing is to stay on top of it. You can't let it Set. If it turns the ice, you're in big trouble. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, and it has freezing temps. It has gone down to 30. It's 32.8 outside right now. So it was 36 when I got on the net this morning.
Speaker A: It's in the 30s here right now. And it's raining. It's not a heavy rain, but a light rain. And it's just a miserable day.
Speaker B: Over. Yeah, it's still snow here, but like I say, it's really small flakes now where before they were really big. But it changes really quickly. So if it goes back to the big flakes again, look out. We could have. We had a thing called Snowmageddon, and it was a very, very localized thing that basically followed the south. You know, south of the ridge. The Whiskeytown National Park Mountains are basically a really big ridge that goes from south west to northeast. And Shasta Bali is the last mountain of that string. And. And this, this Snowmageddon hit just south of the park along the line that was the same direction as the park mountain ridge is. And you know, I had three feet on that one.
Speaker A: Do they ever close? 299 because of the snow?
Speaker B: Over. Oh, definitely. They'll go into. They have these 4R. I think this one thing is called 4R, which is four snow tires or four chains. They'll let you go reluctantly, but they have all these designations and numbers and stuff to decide what the status is.
Speaker A: Yeah, I have to go down 299 to get to my brother's house there and McKinleyville. So, yeah, I'd hate to see that thing closed. I would. I wouldn't attempt to go across there now. Over.
Speaker B: Well, what they'll do is they'll go into change report chain. They'll. They'll have these chain stops and they'll. What they're doing is checking to make sure that you have change and that they think you're capable of putting them on. And then they'll go from that to change required and then they'll go from that to closed.
Speaker A: Yeah, I know that's a long. It takes me four hours to go across 299 to get to his house. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, and I hate to admit it, but back when I used to drive a post office truck to between Eureka and Redding and I had the truck that always made it. You know, my. It was because of my driving that my truck always made it. Where the guys coming from Reading wrecked a bunch of different trucks and put us into an emergency mode where they had to hire a Company that had Peterbilt brand new Peterbilt trucks. And I drove those. And then they keep changing companies and the post office would say we want this guy, we want Mike, he's our driver. Nobody else gets it. Drive. And that held for a long time until this one owner operator decided to push me out. But I drove for a number of years for the post office, driving mail back and forth between Reading and Eureka. And what would happen is, you know, the mountaintops, you know, Buckhorn, Berry Summit, all the different mountaintops are where you'd have to change required signs just as you were going up. And I hated that. Only one time did I ever ignore that and got a $70 ticket for not having my chains on
Speaker A: those trucks. Four wheel drive or two wheel drive. Over.
Speaker B: They were two wheel drive with no trailers. And, and during the Christmas season they'd overload them and it was pretty crazy stuff.
Speaker A: Yeah, I see some wrecks during Christmas season and you know, packages all over the highway. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, they, they would wreck trucks. See what they did was they divided the. Normally they divide the trip into two sections and they'd have a truck coming from Reading and it would come halfway and then he would stop and I would be bringing a truck from Eureka and I would stop and we'd walk across the highway and hop in the truck that just, I'd hop in the truck that just came from Reading. He truck hop in the truck that came from Eureka. And those guys on the Reading side always wrecked trucks. So yeah, it was a pretty crazy job. It was contractors.
Speaker A: Well, so you're not still working, are you? Just take care of your property now, right?
Speaker B: Over. Yeah, I haven't done that in a while and yeah, that was, that was the 90s when I did that.
Speaker A: Okay, so. And then you got into electronic stuff.
Speaker B: Over. Well, I was always in electronics. I had my own repair business and then I went into, in the 70s I went into two way radio, FM, mobile telephones and I did that, I did that for years and I did a little bit of television engineering but most of the time it was two way radio and I worked for some of the biggest companies and I worked on repeaters and everything.
Speaker A: Yeah, the TV repairman job that kind of went away because you could buy a brand new TV if a guy works on your TV for a couple hours. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, I never did TV repair. What I did was television transmitters.
Speaker A: Okay, well you get, my point is, you know, they get so much an hour now you can buy you know, a couple hundred dollar TV instead of having Somebody try and fix your old one over.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. And they've become, you know, all digitized in solid state. Now. When I worked for the industry, it was just before it switched from analog TVs to digital TVs. It was just before that. And they were just going crazy. They didn't know what it was going to be like, what the equipment was going to be like. They hadn't decided. They had a lot of different lobbyists lobbying the federal government to decide what TV was going to be like. They had no idea. And they finally settled into the system they have now.
Speaker A: Yeah, I was in electronics on that transition from analog to digital. And I remember doing jobs with vacuum tubes over.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. Well, when I first started, they had a lot of vacuum tubes. All the TVs were all vacuum tubes. When I first started in the 60s, in the late 60s is when I started, I worked for a company called Benzinger tv. But he see, since I had been trained in solid state and all of the other technicians didn't know anything about it, I was a solid state guy. So if something came in that was solid state, they handed it to me.
Speaker A: Yeah, you know that. Remember the, you know, when the integrated circuits first come out, you know, that was big thing, you know, replacing all those vacuum tubes over.
Speaker B: Yep. They called them tube jockeys. And all the other guys were tube jockeys. And I was the solid state guy that did the actual electronic repairs.
Speaker A: And then the printed circuit boards come along too. And that was a big deal over. No more hard wiring.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. In fact, I went to college in the 80s and I got a grant to go to school for a year. And we had some teachers at the College of the Redwoods who were very,
Speaker A: very
Speaker B: great electronic teachers. And Warren Unk and John Reese, they were very, very good. Warren uncle taught analog electronics, you know, transistor amplifiers and ICs that were analog. And John Reese taught digital electronics. So we actually worked with microprocessors in his classes. And they gave me one year to get all of that. There was a two year course, but I had already taken a bunch of the beginners electronics courses. So I had a year under my. And then I took the single year from those two teachers and had certificates for digital and analog electronics and all that sort of thing.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that was kind of neat to go from analog to digital. I think I designed my first printed circuit board in 1968 over.
Speaker B: Well, my first courses came from an engineer in high school. It was crazy. Eureka High School decided to start an electronics department in the, in the school in 1966. And from 1966 to 1968 they've had two years of electronics, a program of two years, and it was taught by an engineer and he was really good. And then I was like a sponge back then. So I picked up a lot. And by the time I graduated from high school, I had the equivalent of a college education in electronics. I went into Humboldt State, which is now Cal Poly Humboldt. I went into that school and they had a teacher by the name of Howard Gerrish. And he could tell I had my stuff in order and let me challenge every course he had. So I challenged every electronics course for that, his program. He was very, very good teacher, but he taught, you know, basically old fashioned electronics and digital was kind of a new thing for him.
Speaker A: You know, it's funny going. I'm thinking back of my electronics classes and, you know, I had my electronics before calculators come out and I learned all my electronics on a slide rollover.
Speaker B: Well, when I restarted retaking a lot of electronics in more modern electronics in the 80s, right around 85, 86 with those two teachers, Howard Gerrish and Warren Unk, who are both specialists, one was a specialist in analog and the other was a specialized specialist in digital. And when I retook everything, you had to have a very, very solid calculator, either Texas Instruments or HP in your class and know everything about how to operate it. And when you had a test, you had to use your calculator for the test. I mean, and they did not look at your calculator and figure, you know, try to find out if you had programs in your calculator because if you were capable of doing that, they figured you were, you were going to accept. So any if the better you are with a calculator in that at that time period, the better you did.
Speaker A: Yeah, I remember I was right at the transition between slide ruler and calculators. And I took my final exam with the HP35 over.
Speaker B: Yeah, the HPS were quite unusual in there. I forget what they called that. The formulas were put in kind of like backwards. It was very unusual. Texas Instruments was a lot more standard type calculator, scientific calculator. I now own a Casio, which is more like a Texas instrument, but a very good Casio. So you can do anything on it and you could put formulas in the Casio. So when I took my extra about six or seven years ago, way pre Covid, you know, and they had these huge groups of VE's and all that sort of thing. And when I took my calculator in, they had to double check it and make sure I didn't have any formulas in it because that's one thing you weren't allowed to do for a HAM test. And they checked it, said, okay, yeah, you're good, and, yeah, you could use the calculator for the extra test.
Speaker A: Yeah. Thinking back now, I remember the age 35, and what they called that was Polish Logic, where you put it in backward to do the formulas over.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's actually called Reverse Polish Logic. If you remember, it had that reverse name.
Speaker A: Yeah. That took a little bit to get used to, but I figured it out and I, you know, I did all right on my final, so I guess everything's okay. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, HP made some great equipment. I was. A lot of the, A lot of the toddler guys used hp, what we call a RF digital monitor. Rf, RF monitor. Anyway, they're. They're like, you can transmit out of this.

Speaker A: Piece of equipment with a very weak signal you can receive at the same time you're transmitting. It has its own internal dummy load. It has sweep. It has just all the equipment all in one box. But they're quite heavy, and we haul those all over for Carla work.
Speaker B: Yeah. If I'm not mistaken, you know Dave Parker, I guess you know Dave Parker, Right?
Speaker A: I know the name from someplace. Tell me about him because I. I know that name.
Speaker B: Bravo, Golf, Delta.
Speaker A: Oh, that's Dave.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Yeah, he was.
Speaker B: I think he was electronics teacher in his previous life. Over.
Speaker A: Oh, wow.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Well, in my opinion, the more you know about electronics, the more fun you're going to have with ham radio. Because that's probably the biggest problem with ham radio is you don't have to know electronics now to get a license. So. And I had one guy that I, I saw one video where they were saying, well, why should we ask about Ohm's Law and ham radio? Because they don't, you know, they don't accept to know anything about electronics now. So it's changed a lot.
Speaker B: Well, you know, I got all the required subjects for a degree in electronics, but I don't, I don't remember any of it. Now, she's. The last time I went to school, I think was in maybe the late 60s. Over.
Speaker A: Well, I. Yeah, late 60s was when I was in the university system and I tried. I was working with a guy named Rocky, a ham radio physics professor, and trying to get into physics, that side of things. And I. But I didn't have the math background that you needed. You needed a super heavy math background if you were going to take physics in a, in a university. And I didn't have that. So I was trying to get calculus and, you know, I took digital. I took algebra, trigonometry and calculus. And it just got a little bit too heavy for me to do it all at once like that. I mean, you'd be better off to actually have all those courses under your belt and then take physics.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's important. I know. And I. She's all about 30 years. I work for the Livermore National Laboratory, you know, for the University of California. And the. I work with a lot of physicists and. And some of those guys were so smart, they couldn't even talk to a regular person over.
Speaker A: It's kind of crazy. I got to know Rocky Piethman really well. He was the chief physics professor at hsu. Well, it was called HSU at that time, Humboldt State University, but eventually became, but one time a HAM Got on talking to me and he said, well, have you ever operated Mir, the Mir space station? That said. Well, yeah. And then he started to tell me a whole bunch of stuff about it. And Rocky got on there and said, hey guy, this is Rocky Piesman, I'm a professor at hsu. And he gave his call out and he says, Mike has a whole bunch of validated contacts with Mirror. He's been on Mirror every day for the last year. So, you know, you're explaining how to use the Mir space station to somebody that's an expert. And Rocky just, I just kind of went, oh my God. Okay, I didn't expect that. But he did that.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's nice to know a few people. And I think when I was at the lab, this is back years ago, I met William Teller. I don't know if you ever heard that name before.
Speaker A: Yeah, he was an inventor, correct?
Speaker B: No, he's the one that was with Oppenheimer. Worked on the atomic bomb. Over.
Speaker A: Yeah. Making him an inventor. He helped him invent the atomic bomb. Yeah, I knew of that name. Names go in and out of my mind like, yeah, well, he worked on
Speaker B: the Manhattan Project and he worked with Oppenheimer. And you know, he died years ago, but I met him and he was still working at the Livermore lab at that time. Over.
Speaker A: And that's a physicist extraordinaire. And of course they all had to head over to that top secret location which they've been, they've been videos about that top secret location. I think it was Nevada.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I used to work at the Nevada Test site for a while. They used to have a plane that flew from Livermore to Nevada tent every day. Over.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I've seen, I've seen a lot of video about those days.
Speaker B: Oh, well, you know, she's. I've been retired now for 25 years, so. Yeah, yeah, things have changed a lot since then. Over.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, and now we're really worried about Iran.
Speaker B: Who knows? You know, hopefully I'm not around when that happens. Over.
Speaker A: It could get heavy. You know, there are those who try to say that a nuclear strike could be on a city area and not proliferate out. But that's just not the way it works when one place strikes. Nowadays when one place strikes, another place has a reaction and strikes and it just goes from there.
Speaker B: I got a feeling the next war is going to be from space. They're going to be hitting things with lasers and stuff from space. Over.
Speaker A: Well, at least they'll wipe out all the satellites from space. That'll, that'll be the thing that'll happen. All those machines exist now and the lasers exist now. So it could happen. And you know, the thing is, as you know what they tell the public and what is actually available are, is almost like two different encyclopedias.
Speaker B: Well, I know that's for sure. I used to work for military applications and I worked on National Ignition Facility and the magnetic fusion program. So, you know, I'm aware of their capabilities over.
Speaker A: Well, you know, I was always just in construction electronics. But I had a girlfriend whose brother was in Vietnam. I don't think he flew jet fighter pilot fighters. I think he was a mechanic. But when he left the service, he
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Speaker A: top secret publications with him. And then after he died, they let me have those top secret application, let me have those top secret things. This was in the early 90s and, and I was, I, you know, they didn't understand what they had. What they were, was schematics for the F16. And I was shocked to see advanced FET technology was available way back then.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, they, you know, they even had capabilities of changing the weather back in the 60s.
Speaker A: Over. Yeah, well, you know what an FET is, right?
Speaker B: Field effect transistor.
Speaker A: And they had, you know, the ones with Gates and J fets and the whole bit back then in the, in the F16 on the schematics, you know, they were, they were on the schematics. So. And we just barely, in, in the 80s and 90s, we were just barely being allowed to get into FET electronics then. So, you know. And yet they had them in the 60s.
Speaker B: Well, the capabilities of integrated circuits have come a long way. For about, I guess about four years I worked for this company called LAM Research. They made wafer processing equipment and the tools that they use to make the integrated circuits, you know, that's the tool that I helped design. Over.
Speaker A: Well, there was a company, I think it was called Allied or something. I forget now though what the name of the company was. It was a big, a big PC board and component. They actually made components, IDs, you know, and these guys that when they started sending all this electronics to China, they literally just shut the factories down, ripped them apart. And some of it went to China and you know, they ended up with fabs in Taiwan and all that stuff. Big huge fiasco. But these guys were told, well, you know, we're just gonna get rid of this stuff. We're gonna bid it out. And they would bid it out. And a couple of truck drivers up the street got Two semi truckloads full of it. And they let me. They weren't into electronics, so it just choked their. They had a semi truck trailer on the property full of their stuff, and they had just all kinds of stuff. So I went through it and grabbed as much as I could. And one of the things I grabbed was some small and large wafers. I had wafers the size of a laser disc and I had some wafers that were quite a bit smaller. A whole stack of them.
Speaker B: No, I think I know the name of that company. Applied Materials. Sound familiar?
Speaker A: Yes, that's what it was. Applied Materials. And they had two semi truck trailers full of Applied Materials equipment and had no idea what they had.
Speaker B: You know, that was LAM Research, probably biggest competitor. And they designed wafer process and equipment also over.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I know. Because all the design equipment was in these trailers. Yeah.
Speaker B: Oh, well, I gotta get going. I got a phone call I gotta return. So it's good talking to you and hopefully you get a break on all this snow that's coming down. So we'll talk to you later, Mike and 73. And this is kilowindia. Six India uniforms.
Speaker A: Yeah, I moved my truck. Open the gate. Move my truck in a spot where I could get it on the road if I needed to, and then it all stops. So. But, you know, it could start up really easily. Just start up all over again. And it's 32.9 degrees right now. So it's in the perfect situation where I could have two or three feet before it's over, or I could end up with 6 inches melting. You just never know. All right, talk to you later, Greg. Really good talking to you On Carla. It's making it into Los Angeles and San Diego perfectly now because they put an all star linked system on Santiago Peak. So on the link side, it's making it all the way into Los Angeles now. And you'll hear me. In fact, I spoke with a guy in Los Angeles this morning. All right, talk to you later. N6TRT.

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Speaker A: Detailed alert information For Tsunami Warning Tzz 530531 Cos 0433-5436-2363-6755 2087-5495-5034-9350 343-43-4646-529530-00650-55-0650 8509-1091-0410-3101 Orz 0 210-221-0310-1102-1002-4326 3:33 33 VCZ 0.98-099 096097 AKZ 328332323324326327318322325317731 735-721 72372572872977177378178578 777-91-91846 T New TAAQ TS West 9004260219 T 1746 Z 260219 T 1846-Z/ Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California coastal areas ZINT Message Underscore is underscore for test underscore purposes only. This is a test to determine transmission times involved in in the dissemination of tsunami information. Responses are required from all coastal weather forecast offices in Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California US Airport11th Rescue Coordination center at Elmendorf ASC California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska State Warning Point Emergency Management British Columbia the Pacific Storm Prediction Centre in British Columbia Joint Typhoon Warning centre in Hawaii U South Coast Guard 11th13th17th district offices U South Coast Guard Kodiak COMSTA and Kanespac Point Reyes CA Canadian Coast Guard MCTS, Comox and or Victoria FAA Regional Operations center in Seattle All Pacific Coast Tsunami ready community warning points. Responses should include time of receipt, agency name, email address
Speaker B: updated local information Tsunami Warning Alameda, Contra Costa del Norte Humboldt Los Angeles Marin Mendocino Monterey Napa Orange San Diego San Francisco San Luis Obispo San Mateo Santa Barbara Santa Clara Santa
Speaker A: cruz Sonoma Ventura K6LNK System 36 Snow Mountain
Speaker B: that's all folks.
Speaker A: System 12 link up.

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Los Angeles linked up.

Speaker A: Well, the sun is coming out in Chico. Kn6ngk.
Speaker B: Yeah, believe it or not, I've got
Speaker C: sun here. Also, the snow is melting quick.
Speaker B: Well, I do believe it, actually. Yep.
Speaker A: Supposed to clear up for a couple days now. Maybe you'll have enough time to fully recharge all your. All your batteries.
Speaker C: Well, so far I've only got three amps. I'm sure I've got snow on the panels. Won't be long, though.
Speaker B: And I'm
Speaker C: gonna go outside and look at them. So I'll be back. N6 grg. Okay. 73 kn6mgk.

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17 Las Vegas listening.

And six grc back.

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Updated local information Flood advisory, Los Angeles.

System7 link up.

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Six competitors.

System32 link up.

Speaker A: Ko0x, this is k06hlp.
Speaker B: K06HLP, this is K0X. Once again, excellent, excellent clarity. And we just have to pause a little bit longer on this system, even on local, but you sound great.
Speaker A: Perfect. Then I'll know what to do. In case I'm up here again and I need something, I'm going to switch back to. I should be able to hear you from the Walker Ridge repeater for the entirety of my drive. So if you want to stand by on the Walker Ridge repeater.
Speaker B: All right. Let me make sure that I can hit it with my hp, because that's probably what I'm going to hear you on. Hang on just a moment. Okay, yeah, go ahead and hammer on that PTC button. Let's see if I can hit get it with my H key here. Okay,
Speaker A: Copy that. Copy that. Ko6hlp. Qsy to the walker ridge receiver.
Speaker B: Likewise. Ko0s.

System 19 link up.

Deep.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Tahoe.

System7 link up.

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Fresno link.

M17 at the last second.

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System2link.

Settings.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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