GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-20

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Speaker A: Well, did you make it up to paradise and fixed grg?
Speaker B: No reason to. No, haven't been there. Well, tomorrow will be a week but was planning on going tomorrow. We'll see. There's a couple guys canceling coffee so we'll see anyway. But no, I wouldn't have. Didn't have any plans to go anywhere this week. Okay,
Speaker A: well, crazy day, that's for sure.
Speaker B: Yeah, for me I built a node, a little meshtastic node. I'm probably going to change it to Mescore, but I'm going to try it for a day. They had a little issue with it where I put the Bluetooth. It came with two different kinds of antennas, little tiny things with the Hypex connectors they call them. So anyway, I was putting the Bluetooth connector antenna. I put it in the spot where the regular antenna is supposed to go. So I was using it that way to try it out and I could see that my Bluetooth I had no, no, I didn't have a good signal. So I'm like well what's going with that? I go must have that, must. That other one must be the Bluetooth antenna. So I was looking it up and finally I found a spot. That's the hardest thing with these little devices is getting any good information out there anywhere. There's no place that publicizes it anyway that I could see, you know like schematics or like where to put this or where to do that. Nobody really has a really good build video on them so they have some that you can stop a video and see. But anyway, so I had to pull it off and put the Bluetooth antenna in another spot and then put the other antenna on that spot and everything worked work like it's supposed to. And the other thing was is I put the. I built a little battery with 3186 50s. I just put them in parallel and then they give you this little connector that connects into the board and after I connected into that board I wanted to get it in there a little stronger. So I put my needle nose pliers on it and was going to squeeze it and all of a sudden the whole wiring to the battery just burn up. Couldn't get it out of my hands fast enough.
Speaker A: Yeah, you really got to watch that. Anything to do with a lithium ion
Speaker B: battery,
Speaker A: they pack a lot of power in those 1865. Oh yeah, and it's always been hard to get info on some of these things. Quite often you have to go to a groups IO because those guys point you exactly to the best places to get the info. So if there's a groups IO, a mesh tasted group IO and whatever, or maybe one specifically about that device. There might be a group IO on that device. Exactly. So how much snow did you end up getting down there?
Speaker B: So I'll give it a little spot because I heard a little bit of a heterodyne there but. Oh well, I guess that person doesn't want to come on kn6MGK here on Carla 36 local tone 1, 2, 3. In case they need to know. Anyway, yeah, really no snow here. I mean I have a little video. It snowed for maybe 15 minutes but nothing stuck. You know that's in Chico proper. So where I live.
Speaker A: So.
Speaker B: But yeah, up the hill. I mean I don't know where it was in Paradise. Maybe I'll find out tomorrow. But the one friend that lives in the galia, he said 13 inches. So he's got 13 inches on the ground up there.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's, that's enough to change your activities. Almost can be. And of course tomorrow morning we'll have the coldest, coldest temperatures probably for the whole winter tomorrow morning. So that's going to be interesting.
Speaker B: Well, it didn't really change his. He had, he had an appointment down here in chico at like 9:30 this morning. So he made that appointment with about one minute to spare. I think it took him an hour to get there. So anyway, yeah, then he's got another appointment down here in Chico tomorrow. So we're doing it over again. I. He said they did run the plow down, down the cul de sac. So that, that was helpful on this first trip. Hold.
Speaker A: Well, you say you've got, if you, if you're saying he's got a trip in the morning, of course that's when there's going to be a lot of ice on the road. Black ice. That's the craziest ice situation of all. And yeah, the crazy thing about this cold, ultra cold like up there, it's probably going to be Even less than 24 degrees is that your pipes are all frozen and some of them split open and then when they unfreeze, of course that's when all the big leaks happen. And if he's not going to be there, that's a problem. Could be for you too up there at Paradise.
Speaker B: Well, it's not a problem for me or him most likely. I mean this isn't the coldest it's ever been. Only one day. I mean we've had probably like five or seven, five or six days straight Here in Chico. One year, it gets colder here in Chico than it does up there. Sometimes there's that inversion layer. So anyway, it's not a problem for me because I only have water running from the street right to my garden hose right to the front of the property. So it would be a problem for PID if it leaked beyond them. They control all that all the way back to there. I only control where my hoses are KN6MGK.
Speaker A: Most likely everything they've got is underground that they would worry about. Or in the meter box. Everything past the meter box they can get you for it. My company got me really good 300 bucks for it.
Speaker B: Yep, that's what they supply me with. That's right, A meter. That's it. And they even. They have to control all the way up to the back check preventer, which comes up above the ground. So they maintain that anything that happens on all the way to the back check preventer and it's on them. And I have to pay extra. I pay $5 a month for them to maintain that. So. Yeah. But then past that, it's on me. That's right. That's where I got garden hose hook too. Maybe I'll take a picture of it one day. So what's the worst that could happen for me is garden hose blows out? Maybe. You know, I think that's about the worst that could happen.
Speaker A: Yeah. Well, if your water. I think your water costs more than my water. Your water in paradise costs more than my water. And I like I say, I had one blowout and it cost me 300 bucks.
Speaker B: Yep. Well, one time it cost me digging up my whole line that went from the street to my house here in Chico. I did that all by hand and replaced that line. So I get it. If you don't do the work, you're gonna have to pay.
Speaker A: Yeah. Most of my typical blowouts from the coals are in faucets. This blowout that I'm talking about cost me the big money, was something else. It was quite a bit different. And it was a fitting that had been there for 15 years. Yeah, it got me pretty good. But, yeah, I hope everything goes okay. What I like to do when there's a 24 degree or less temperature, because that's what it takes to really freeze. Because 32 won't do anything, but 24 definitely will. What I like to do is shut the water off. And I think I'm going to go out there. I put a brass ball valve as my main shutoff valve. And I'M going to probably shut that thing off.
Speaker B: Well, yeah, here tomorrow a low is. Well, they're saying, I guess the low for Friday is 34, but the low for Thursday is 30, 31. So maybe by midnight it's supposed to be 31, I guess. I don't know. Let me look at what it says for today.
Speaker A: You ought to look up paradise, but yeah, 31 won't. Usually won't be a problem.
Speaker B: All right, now it's 42 degrees. 42 degrees in Chico according to Weather Underground. I didn't go out there and look. I don't really have a good temperature gauge anyway. I have something, but it probably has a 5 degree accuracy. Yep. No, it's showing, you know, between 6 and 7am 32 degrees tomorrow here. Yeah. So let me look up paradise for you and then move on to somewhere closer to you. Maybe. It says it's 35 degrees in paradise right now. Looks like it's heading for a low of 29. And let's see, on the 10 day. 32, 32 for the low tomorrow and 45 for the high. So yeah, that's not by any stretch of the imagination the coldest I've ever seen it in Paradise.
Speaker A: Well, if it actually does that, you're not gonna have any problem at all, probably. Especially with only one faucet. I've only, like I said, I've only had problems here when it's gone down to like 28. Anything below 28, I've had problems. I got to where I was like letting the water drip a little bit because that's usually all it takes to not have a problem. And yesterday I went out and double insulated one of my tallest flies. Some of my faucets are like 2ft tall. Those are the ones that have the problem. So I shouldn't have any problem with that one. And all the other ones, little by little they've gotten shorter. The last one that I had a problem with, I think it was hit by an animal. Had an animal rubbing against it or something like that anyway. Yeah. So you're heading home or you are home?
Speaker B: I haven't left my house today and yesterday I was gone until about 12:30, I guess. But other than that I've been here. So. Yeah, Igoe is showing the coldest. It's gonna be in Igoe is 27 degrees. It's 6am tomorrow.
Speaker A: Yeah, they said 26 here on Weather Underground and I think 24 on the seven day. So no weather. So. Yeah. And you know, I went out and Checked. And right here we had more snow than almost anything to my west. And that includes Igo and you know, that whole area, we had way more snow here than they had. So go figure. That's. That's so strange that it just targeted this neighborhood right here.
Speaker B: Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, I mean, they're showing 33 degrees, 45 for the high for Friday. That's Weather Underground. It's Shane. It's. It says it's using the reading station now anyway, and then kind of getting a little warmer a couple days straight. But rain, rain again for Sunday.
Speaker A: Yeah. And the rating station is what they're basing the current temperature on, but it's not necessarily the forecast. And then what I do is I go to NOAA weather and use this block thing which makes. Forces it to predict the temperatures for a little bit higher elevations. Because as you know, it mines 300ft higher than they are at least 300ft higher.
Speaker B: Well, by looking at the 10 day, you know, starts up again Sunday. So Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. And then after that, sunshine, partly cloudy sunshine and in the 60s again.
Speaker A: Yeah, some of those days coming up have a fair amount of rain. Some of them are a tenth of an inch, but some of them were a half. I think there was maybe one that was one inch. So, yeah, it's definitely interesting thing to look forward to. It usually warms up when that starts happening.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Monday into Tuesday. I think that's where you're expecting higher amounts of rain. Other than that looks like kind of wimpy stuff that you. You can handle. Do you have to go down and do any of those food deliveries?
Speaker A: Nope. I had one Friday and then one yesterday and I'm done because they wanted me to start doing like two or three in Anderson and I just, Nah, I, you know, it's just costing too much gas. I don't drive my, my vehicle that much anymore. I just take it easy. You know, having not having my JS8 on though, boy, that is really my battery voltages are going up. Like this time of day, it would be down to like 13.3 at least. And right now it's 13.84. So I'm beginning to see how much my. Well, I've even got my radio on right now. Left it on all day. But it takes a long time for this battery voltage to. It's a. It's a very slow moving thing because it's so big.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think that that could happen in both ways. Unless you get a ton of sun, it might take a while to charge it too, because if it gets down so low anyway.

Speaker A: Get any of that?
Speaker B: Nope.
Speaker A: I haven't heard you for several minutes.
Speaker B: Oh, okay. Anyway, I was just commenting on the higher voltages since I started stop running JSA call and, you know, that sort of thing. So five amps in the cloudy weather. Oh, today, though, for a while I had snow on the panel, so that kind of slowed things down, but it melted.
Speaker A: So what would you say is the biggest impediment to getting your Internet back? Just your location?
Speaker B: Well, the one I would want is $69 a month. I don't know. Starlink Mini might have future. Might be a good direction to go for future plans. But the quick and easy one here would be the new fiber. But I'm not going to spend $69 a month. I do have a hot. My hotspot running on my phone. I have my phone outside in a waterproof container that doesn't impede rf and it's working pretty well. I can. I can look at YouTube videos with it. That's probably the most I ever do is YouTube videos for data.
Speaker A: So how do you make a phone call?
Speaker B: Well, right now I don't. I don't make many phone calls. And the biggest bad thing is that I'm not getting texts, that most of my communications are texts. And I'm gonna probably go out and get the phone. So I'm about done with YouTube for the. For the day. Caught up. Haven't had it for a couple of days. So, yeah, I'm working things out little by little. But the cell phone signal, in order to get it at a decent data rate, I have to have the phone outside up as high as I can get it.
Speaker A: Yeah, it seems like it'd be a tough way to call 911 if you had to.
Speaker B: I just go out and get the phone. It's just I've got this stick that's like 10ft high and it's kind of stuck in a spot. So it's probably at least 15 total. And I'll probably make that even better. A little higher maybe. But. Yeah, I'm not gonna leave it out there tonight. I'm gonna go get it in a few minutes. But, yeah, and one lady lost a sheep. She's pretty upset. We have no idea why yet.
Speaker A: And.
Speaker B: Yeah, so kind of help her tomorrow probably. She was pregnant.
Speaker A: I wonder if we got cold or something.
Speaker B: It probably didn't help. I mean, I.
Speaker A: She. She doesn't have the.
Speaker B: Her Typically they're not allowed any coverage now. That one, she got that one to move and she claimed it was in a carport. But then I think it tried to go back to the flock and couldn't make it. Was out in the open, in the cold, cold, without shelter. And it snows. Yeah, just a whole lot of complications for her. And that's the sad thing about having sheep now. You know, the lambs, I mean, having lambs now. The lambs have a hard time because it's so cold. You know, you can imagine being born, you're all wet and everything in here you're subject to, you know, cold, cold, cold, so. And maybe snow, so. Yeah, not a good combination. Mine are quite different this time because I didn't get the ram until quite a bit later. So they're going to be born when it's a little bit warmer, hopefully. Typically, mine are born December, even December and January. And this would be late for mine even. But, yeah, I don't know what's going on with Earth. Anyway, I'm gonna go out and get my phone. So I'll be listening. And yeah, watch out for those lithiums. Those one is five O's Pack a punch explosions. If you have a short short, it's pretty much an explosion. All right. N6TRT.
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Los angeles link up. K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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

Okay, 86, doc mobile 101, system 26, link optic. K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Speaker A: 62. Hey, buddy, whoever that was, that's all white noise. You can get a single copy on that. I don't know how well you thought you need me because on my end, Adam 86 pockets.
Speaker B: What a year. Still, besides the eye, I don't know if you're on an AC or you're mobile in a rough area
Speaker A: or a combination of both. I'm mobile right now. I'm trying to speak in with
Speaker B: a set of Install a little bit of this outpack.
Speaker A: If you're both on a back porch, that might suggest why we got a couple things Ko6i from KT
Speaker B: Mobile. I'm just driving home from work, so I'm sure there'd be some fluttering. What's going on over here? Copy that. Thanks, man. Have a good night. The 86 poc santaros.

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Los angeles link up. K6LNK system 36, no mountain range.

Speaker A: Updated local information. Cross advisory
Speaker B: with multiples los angeles, santa barbara, ventura,
Speaker A: k6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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Speaker A: The National Weather Service has cleared all alerts for this area.
Speaker B: Yay. Thank you so much. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

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Well, the noise went away on 40. So that transmitter, blue fuse N6TRT. That Russian transmitter, if that's what it is.

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Crackly but a readable signal. That was a double. Thank you. Could you go again please? Second this is K9 vag David. You have a weak crackly but readable signal. Is this any different? WA6 yre La Habra, California loud and clear off of Santiago. Carla31. Thanks for that. Is this any different? That sounds okay to me. And we gotta jump out of the truck. WD6WIRY thanks for that. I think I have a 2 meter problem. That's why I switched over to 440 chest. Thanks guys. Chance to take a few there.

This is mic zero ktr. Mic zero ktr radio track. This is mike yule, kpr registered and listening.

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Set it up, tested it, and a lot of features that wasn't aware of. It has airband receives and 220 receives.

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Speaker A: Los Angeles link up. Ko 6 mike. Mike. Golf. Radio test.
Speaker B: Radio test.
Speaker C: You sound mighty fine. Good audio, good tickle and six kne.
Speaker A: Gen6kne, I believe the hand the call sign was. Man, that's a long slope till on that repeater. K06 NMG. Well, now you're scratchy.
Speaker C: You were. You were pretty okay, but now you're a little bit scratchy. Yeah, I am N6KN. And I'm coming to you from Chinatown, Columbia.
Speaker A: N6KNE from Colombia. You must be talking on Echo Link. Very good, sir. Yeah, that's an amazing technology. K06MNE.
Speaker C: Well, even better than Echo Link. I'm coming to you via All Star. A radio less adapter plugged into a Raspberry PI. Coming to you from All Star.
Speaker A: Okay, you take care.
Speaker C: Good to hear you N6 Kenny.
Speaker A: For that technology on that Raspberry PI. One more time. One more time. Raspberry PI technology.
Speaker C: You must have a mound of dirt between you and the repeater. Now, it is a radio less adapter and it is plugged directly into a Raspberry PI. And that is of course voice over Internet protocol called All Star. Roger, roger,
Speaker A: Roger, Roger. Yes, All Star. Got it. Okay, I'm very familiar with the Raspberry PI's. Not with radio. Wait for the contact and the radio check. KO6 MMP.
Speaker C: Okay, you take care down there in Los Angeles. Watch your back. N6K80.
Speaker B: Five sounds really good In Reno, Nevada.
Speaker A: I heard you up there in Reno, Nevada. Are you also talking on All Star or Echo link? Over.
Speaker B: Coming through site 21, the repeater itself. Ka7zu.
Speaker A: Going through the repeater and then through what other protocol? I'm a brand new operator, so I'm not quite familiar with all the different technologies and protocols.
Speaker B: Welcome for hobby there. The Carlos system has new repeaters on top of mountains that are linked together. Or you can go to the different PL and talk locally through whatever repeater. So they list this one as repeater 21. And it looks over Reno Sparks Valley area. And so that's where we're coming through. It links all over to the different repeaters that they have up on mountaintop.
Speaker A: Roger, roger. Okay, so it's similar to like a Papa system or a Condor system. And did you say that was the Carla system? What is that? Charlie Alpha, Romeo, Lima, Alpha.
Speaker B: Both of those questions. And so yes, it's a very wide footprint of different repeaters through California and Nevada.
Speaker A: Roger that. Can you give me the call sign one more time? I got to get my call sign. Etiquette and, and memory dialed in on that. The call sign here is Ko6mmg Kilo Oscar6 Mike Mike Golf and that first name here is Brandon.
Speaker B: To meet you over the radio. The call sign is 0 alpha 7 zulu alpha uniform k a7d a u. My name is arla alpha romeo lima alpha november.
Speaker A: Roger that. That was Charlie Alpha 7 Zulu Alpha uniform and the first name was Arlen. Correct.
Speaker B: Job well done. Good reback.
Speaker A: Well thank you very much Arlen. I'm going to jump out of my mobile now. It was a pleasure talking to you and thank you very much for the radio check. I'm getting ready to run in and get me a stick of class 200 PVC. I'm going to build a 2 element collinear for 2 meters and then I'm going to build a 3 element collinear for 70 centimeters. So I'll be back in the mobile in a bit. But I do appreciate the radio check and thank you very much for the contact. KO6 MMG Charlie Alpha 7 Zulu Alpha uniform.
Speaker B: A good one there and that sounds like a bunch of fun that you're gonna go start building. So best of luck to you there and maybe we'll make contact with again later. This is Ka7zau, Arlin and Reno and by.

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Speaker A: Kn6mgk. Thought I might have heard my call sign out here. Just checking. Kn6mgk.
Speaker B: Okay. Nothing hurt. Kn6mgk clear.

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Speaker A: Let me see if I got that right.
Speaker B: Yep, this is BJ6NKR. Let's see. Near Hope Valley, in between Kirkwood and Woodford. Yep. Northwest Reno. All right. Are you. What routine are you coming in on? P5? I'm coming in on Topaz. I went to high power, so hopefully you hear me a little better.
Speaker A: You quite well. Full quieting. Yeah, I'm up on the p Vine machine, as a matter of fact, pulling up my QTA here at eight miles from my front window to the. Itching to get out there and do some fishing and get my kayak on the water.
Speaker B: But I just gonna need some of
Speaker A: this white stuff to go away first. I don't know if it's frozen.
Speaker B: Hasn't really. Well, it's been cold the last few days, but yeah, I'm not sure. There's probably some snow at hill pads, too. The snow levels were really low with last week's snow, so, yeah, it might be just a little bit, but I see the next storm coming in, unfortunately, are going to be warm, so not looking forward to that. Kind of makes things real messy once you got a bunch of snow on the ground and then it starts raining on top of that. But we'll see if it pans out. Anyways, name is Jeff, and yep, just heading back from Kirkwood, Going back to South Lake.
Speaker A: Very good. I'm glad to. I'm glad I got you. Yeah, the. The snow last couple days really got us, you know, and of course, you know, when I lifted by, really got us about a foot of snow here in Reno, and man, it just showed up fast and overnight. So, you know, I mean, it's going to be chance to grab our snow shovels as we should get. But the sun is out beautifully. And according to my truck here, it says with a temperature of 35 degrees. So things are smushy, which is nice. So I hope it goes somewhere where we can turn around and use those flavors. I'm not sure how that works. Anyway, I'm pulling up, up in the way of a really big stone. So the name here is David. I'm in a Chevy truck with a FTM150ESG product here. I'm talking about. There you have it.
Speaker B: Hey, David. Well, thank you for coming back to me here. And yeah, I hope you have a good rest of the day. Yeah, I'm surprised. The repeater sounds good. I think the snow might help out a little bit. Plus I have a. I have a newer antenna on the car here, so it seems to be working better than the one I previously had. And, yeah, I'm impressed. Foot of snow in northwest arena. I don't know if you said northwest or southwest, but, yeah, maybe you're up on the hill a little bit. See, we got almost three feet in meer the south Lake Tahoe area. It's really hard to, like, get a exact measurement because the wind blew it around. Like, it'll be like a couple feet in one spot and then, you know, more than three feet in another spot, so. But the average is probably between 2 and 3ft. TJ6 and KR,
Speaker A: I. I was at Edwards Air Force base before moving to reno, Nevada about 10 years ago. So by my definition, all this is a technological disaster. I don't even know how to deal with this. So anyway. All right. Gotta let you go, man. So why would ladies pull what I have in the truck? I am Dave, and this KJ6, you apply? I'll be clearing it.
Speaker B: Well, yeah, if you came from the Sacramento Valley area, yeah, definitely climate change from America here. Anyways, yes, name is Jeff. KJ Syncs NKR have a good night.

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Speaker A: Kn6mgk.
Speaker B: Hey steve, what's going on? N6trg.
Speaker A: Well, I'm on local. I'm sure that was just a mistake. But anyway, yeah, I don't know. I thought I heard you put my call sign out there. I thought I heard it maybe could have been a half hour ago too. But I came back out here, put my call out and nothing. So anyway, okay, I did some. I went to paradise like I said I was going to yesterday and I had breakfast with the guys there and decided that with the snow on the ground that may as well not hurry back anyway or hurry to try to get anything done. So did drive to the property. I do have a couple of pictures but yeah, it's basically a big mud hole with about 4 inches of snow sitting on the ground. Still not really melting too well, some melted because now it went up to about 40 degrees. But I think it will hold there for another day at least maybe two.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm driving along and had a little bit of Internet. It took me a while to get some of it going because some reason some of it was shut off. But driving by a guy who's getting fiber installed right now or probably that's what they're doing all over the place around here. And. Yeah, I've got one friend asking how I did with with the hotspot and I my reply would be I'm kind of happy with it. It worked pretty well. But I lose access to my phone when I do.
Speaker A: Well I wonder what about if you have another old phone around. Maybe I'm just trying to think maybe if the SIM cards out or something it won't be helpful but I was thinking of some sort of a WI FI calling system. When you put your hotspot in the air and then you're able to use another phone to use it. As for WI fi calling or something. I guess, I don't know, maybe I'm not thinking straight.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think maybe WI fi calling might work, but I don't know. I mean I always thought WI fi calling and texting required a sim. So I don't know. I don't know if it'll work or not.
Speaker A: Or at least an emergency call, you know, 911 type call or something. I don't know. But yeah, I'm pretty sure I know that since we just changed the service plans from Verizon to Xfinity that that now they don't have even a SIM card that they give you. It's so all digital now.
Speaker B: The esims ESIMS are really popular, especially in foreign countries.
Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't know much about it because the last one that I got was five years ago and it had a SIM in it. So I don't know. But. So for instance, now I don't know much about these, but like at Walmart you could get like, what, like one of those. I don't. People call them burner phone sometimes or you put Smart Talk on it. You might, you might spend $40 or something to get one, but it's a certain amount of time or something like that. So I'm trying to think of something like, okay, you use your phone as a hotspot and you have another phone you can use through that or something. I don't know. I mean, I'm just trying to think of something like that that has an idea. Otherwise I would have no idea that the ones I've given you already. And a lot of us do spend a lot of money for, for Internet. I think the cheapest I could probably get away with right now on Internet is about 70 bucks a month or something like that.
Speaker B: Well, I'll tell you what, my friends who are the most up on things you can do are people I can say scaning who says use WhatsApp or Signal or any one of those things. And that's what I've been suggesting to you when it comes to communicating with me, because anybody that's using WhatsApp will be able to communicate with me.
Speaker A: Okay, so how does that work? Like if you have your phone in the air, you're able to look that up on your other device, like your laptop or whatever you might have inside your qth there, you can see something like a WhatsApp. I guess it's like a digital text or something.
Speaker B: Yeah. The beauty of it is that for you on a phone, it's almost identical to a text message. And it's not better. It's basically free. And then he likes to use Signal. Signal is the one that certain people use because supposedly everything is encrypted. So nobody can be looking in on it. That's what they supposedly say. So. But. And it's no harder to use than WhatsApp. Exactly the same and identical to a text message. So it's just another version. I don't know that WhatsApp is encrypted or I don't know if it is or not.
Speaker A: Kn6MGK yeah, well, what we're finding out with like the Nancy Guthrie disappearances, nothing's really encrypted if they really Want to uncover something, they can probably find a way to, to do it. So I don't think I would get anything and assume that anyway. But yeah, something I should look into, just put, put on my file system here and try something new. I don't know, but I was thinking the whole Internet thing for you would be just a temporary thing. Yeah,
Speaker B: it's just all I care about is being able to communicate in a text message type format which either one signal or WhatsApp will do both while my phone is in the air. That's the cool thing.
Speaker A: Well, you always got ham radio. I guess maybe someday they'll have the mesh network get over to you closer. You know, we're starting to see like one person in Reading or so one in Anderson has put some up. So I don't know, maybe at some point it'll creep in that way. But really I think that ham radio club over there, the Marconis and all that, if they start getting interested in it or whatever, they could probably have the ability to put up a dozen more nodes around pretty quickly if they wanted to. And yeah, that's not the be all end all by any means, but it is a connection into some of the other systems like the Bay Area system.
Speaker B: Well, we're pretty well connected with Carla all the way to Los Angeles, so if we really want to do that, we can just go over on Lync and do all that. Ham radio is great for a lot of things. The thing about Signal is that we're able to send photos. And that was back when you were having trouble receiving my photos. When my phone decided it didn't like something about your phone. I don't know what was going on there. I was trying to get you to look at Signal because that's how I get photos from Ken. And of course with Ken, I suppose he could be texting me, but
Speaker A: ever
Speaker B: since he's moved to Columbia it's been Signal.
Speaker A: Well, one thing I think might be a positive, I could be wrong because I haven't used it or whatever. But is the one where like, like this morning I was up at 4 in the morning, right. Haven't, you know, didn't sleep well. So say I wanted to text you something. Well, of course that would bother you, so I wouldn't do that. I could, but I have texted you a little bit late though, but not early I think, but anyway, I wonder if I could use something like Signal. And that way there, you know, you just check it when you got time and you're awake and all that.
Speaker B: Well, the thing about signal is that if I'm not awake, then I won't have it on and you won't. You won't be bothering me. So you could send me something in the middle of the night that you're thinking of. And I believe the minute I turn the computer on, it'll still be there, and I believe that's the case with WhatsApp also.