GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-27

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Speaker A: Km6gso, ki60wj, km6gso.
Speaker B: I just talked to a couple of my Fresno buddies on the ham radio net here a little while ago. So we got my son's truck back together and just paid the bill. Ouch. Oh, boy.
Speaker A: Where'd you go?
Speaker B: One of the guys he had the Bible study with on Wednesday night suggested this guy, he does mentoring for new Christians as well. Just a great personality. And as soon as I started talking to him, within the first two minutes, I go like, yeah, this guy feels confident and I think he'll do good on that. So he said they could do the head gaskets so we didn't have to buy a whole new engine. That's what everybody else was recommending.
Speaker A: Well, that's great news. Glad to hear that. Possibly at least a quarter of what the price they quoted you before.
Speaker B: $9800. The other guy was promoting us 1918 to 1950 for a new engine.
Speaker A: Oh my goodness. Wow.
Speaker B: I can't fathom that.
Speaker A: But that's a big truck, so I guess that sounds about right.
Speaker B: You can change the tune on the engine and go from just basically bone stock to almost race car. And I think that's what pretty much screwed it up.
Speaker A: Well, I guess your son's going to be boarding lightfoot on the. On the pedal, right?
Speaker B: Roger that. We've talked to him about that. We just say, you know, this is the last bit we can do for you. We actually bid into our. You're going to go to England on this money. I don't think that's going to happen unless I've got some kind of a miracle that happens.
Speaker A: K i6b wj. Yep, roger that. Well, I just was over at my sister's house in Roseville and she's having me. I changed out from like sisters and there's one in their laundry room that's a transformer. So I just ordered that on Amazon.
Speaker B: We have an Amazon up here in a warehouse in Fresno. Cloven Avenue on 180.
Speaker A: Wow. Yeah, I know. It's Amazon's all over now. I'm sure you've seen the one over there in Hollister.
Speaker B: Got one in Hollister? No, we actually have one in Fresnel at Clovis avenue and Highway 198.
Speaker A: I wasn't aware of that one, but I did see the last several times I went over to Hollister to the station there and as you see, can come over 25 Highway 25 and come down that hill there. Huge acres and acres of Amazon.
Speaker B: I think of 25. I think of San Benito Mountain. It has snow on it, Alex. I got to see the video feed for it, and there were ice crystals sticking out on it, like about two inches.
Speaker A: Wow, that's amazing. When was the last time you were up there?
Speaker B: Week of December. I'm overdue to go up there, but I am letting it dry out before I go.
Speaker A: I don't blame you. Hey, I wanted to let you know I have a real good friend of mine, the engineer Prince from the ministry. He worked 18 years and then retired two years. And he can't do a whole lot. He's got some challenges, but what he can do is talk on the radio. And tomorrow morning he sent it down to Visalia where he can stay with some family members. And I just programmed his HD with frequencies on this system and also on Bonito and the current system.
Speaker B: I need to get my HP and put it in there. I just got a new battery for it. One of our guys went up to the Bay Area to the ham radio supply shop, and he picked one up for me. So I'm swapping them around, keeping one ready to go all the time.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's. It's good. He has an at and he's driving down. He can't drive anymore, but he can't do ham radio. I just took him out. We met for a ratified pick him up. He's natural drive. And we went to breakfast just two days ago at the Cracker Barrel. Anyway, I said, well, let me program your agency with us to use three swims of these, and there's some guys that you can talk to down in that area.
Speaker B: Okay, can you text the name of his contact information to me on the. You know, just do a text message to me on that. Hey, I'm CSO Ki6ewj. Affirmative.
Speaker A: Will do, greg. When I get to my destination here, I'll send that over information to you. The call sign is k7tdx. That would be paul bravo x ray.
Speaker B: I will. I will wait to get the text message. I'm actually driving right now. I'm at Herndon and Willow, and it's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 cars wide at this intersection. So I'm really trying to stay focused. Dancing, just. All right, Greg.
Speaker A: And I appreciate that. Yeah. If you hear a call out from him from his call sign, he should primarily be on the. This, this repeater here, the Carlo system, but over to the Kern system, which from where you're at would be the 3600. All right, I'll let you go. And it'll be all hands on the wheel there for you, 73. For now. Ji fix picture whiskey Juliet in Rockland, California.
Speaker B: Roger, ben. Anyway, this is kilo mike six golf sierra oscar 73.

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Speaker A: Roger
Speaker B: that. I just want to let you know all tensions that empty as soon as I get home. A7cdx. He lives in Loomis and anyway, I'm going to have him try try it out this afternoon when he gets home, but got a program for a couple of ring to and Anyway, what's your 20? You're really scratchy right now, so I'm in a real bad interference area, so I'll have to check back with you later. Roger that. I'll be monitoring for another five or 10 minutes here in the car and then back at the house I'll be full quieting. And all of a sudden it cleared up pretty. Affirmative. Yeah, I just got my little HT with the mag mount on the Rice car. So it, I mean it usually does pretty good around town. There's a few spots where I'm not in high sight for the repeater there. Now, like I said, at least you're not having to mess with the cell phone. And it is getting out. So it's our good emergency ability to get out and help people out just like we
Speaker A: did up on San Benito Mountain. Ah, primitive. Yeah, good old time.
Speaker B: Yeah. The next, the next time you head up there, let me know. And if I'm not working, I'll see if I can hit that repeater. Alan, somebody else is trying to get in there, so I'm gonna back off. Have a good one. Sorry if I was stepping on you. I had my volume down. Sorry about that. Good. So go ahead and take the air. We're done with our conversation anyway. Have a good afternoon. We would like to pick
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Los Angeles link up. Km6goiwa6yre. Can you hear me? Yeah. There you go, Mike. You got it now. Truck still running okay? Yes, sir. Running like a champ. Good. Also. Did you take that system off 10? Yes, sir. I don't know if you've got a low power on that. That radio. See if you see. See if that's on low power or high power. Put it on high power if it's not on. All right. What is that? I can't really see and drive. I'm in. In between the king rails. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. All right. Just take it easy and let me know when you get home. All right? It says 2 hours and 34. Okay. All right, we're great. All right. Chat with you later. I've got the next edge on. It'll start getting better. Talk to you later. Wa6 yre la habra. Almost to Baker. Still.

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Speaker A: Las vegas. Good morning, Ralph. You're using some kind of a void. What's going on down there? And happy Friday to those who are not retired.
Speaker B: For the swap meet.
Speaker A: Oh, boy, must be that time of day again. Sounds like I'm having packing loss again. All iconic was swap meat. That's right. You're doing that today, right? Today. And tomorrow.
Speaker B: I'll rattle your cave. Ten. Good morning. And R17.
Speaker A: Good morning to you. So was it me or was it Ralph?
Speaker B: It was Ralph. Yeah, Ralph was definitely out. Probably in a bad area or something like that. Did you say he's on the way down with swap? Maybe going down the unit or something?
Speaker A: Yeah, I believe that's happening today. Maybe tomorrow for him.
Speaker B: Yeah, he invited me last year and this year he always invites me. I'd love to go down sometime, but. Yeah, but anyway, hey, if you're cues go with him. Maybe he'll. He'll reappear here. He's going down. I don't know how far along he is. Maybe it was in a dead zone down there on Arizona 89 or whatever that area is about 90 degrees down there south of Golden Valley. Anyway, good morning and I'll back out.
Speaker A: All right, John, well, thanks for jumping in there. I just finished my breakfast, so I'm gonna go in there and clean up the kitchen before the wife jumps up and does it. All right, I'll. I'll be listening, but from the other room. Excuse me. N6 knee down here in Chinatown. Columbia.

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Hey, john. N7tnd searchlight. You're kind of noisy. Yeah, it's pretty noisy. I can barely understand you. Do you have uhf? Okay, yeah. That repeater is kind of numbly. And I were just talking about we got to get up there and work on this duplexers but yeah, you're probably 70% noise. Better right there. I turned up the wattage a little bit but I think it's a little bit more than my little power supply. I got it on too big. Yeah, it's better. Understandable. But like I said, like I said with that repeaters we've got to get up to do some maintenance. Not working as well as it should. Well, we're just on the other side of Searchlight and the Yuma swap meet. We're going to be there all weekend. Anyways. I don't know if you heard me or not. All right, John, take. Take care. We're going to be on the road for another three hours or so. So we'll be on the radio if you want to test some stuff. 17D searchlight.

Speaker A: Kfo, hqz n7t ending your own sound.
Speaker B: Kfo, hqg and 7t andy.

Speaker A: All right, now it's working. And for hdd. Okay, a little bit of. A little bit of hash in the background, but better than before instead of the few. Yeah, I think I got a bad jumper or something. Oh, yeah, that'll do it. Yeah, you're. Like I said, a little bit of hash. Much more understandable than before. Where the hell we're at? We're somewhere. Somewhere in the middle of frickin nowhere is where we're at, but Vidal. Vidal.
Speaker B: We're by Vidal. California, by the Agricultural Inspection Division.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think I thought I burnt the vinyl down on my radio or something. I wasn't
Speaker B: able
Speaker A: to get anything, but I put the intent back. I hit it with the coax, piped a little bit and it started working again. So I must have a bad connection. Yeah. May want to build a new jumper. Man,
Speaker B: I need to get this antenna outside as well.
Speaker A: Let me. Well, I'm running more power supply now, so I'm on full power. You can hear me a little bit better. Quite honestly. Really can't tell the difference, John. It's still about 50% noise, but it's intelligible. Okay. N7c ending.

It. John, this is Ralph, N7T and D. You're really, really noisy, man. Much worse than before.

You're there, John, but you're noisy in 17.

It's really a rough copy, john. I'm 17.

Yeah, I think on my end it's just got lots to do with where I set this into it. Yeah, yeah. How much? How much? How many amps is that power supply source? That's only a nine amp. Yeah, there's a really bad copy, John. Nine amps? Yeah, nine amp supply. That's not gonna. That's why I'm not doing anything high power. You're probably folding back the supply. You're not putting up what you need. So. Yeah, get the antenna outside, replace that jumper. Figure out a way to get coaxes out. Yeah, okay, I'll let you go. And seven, Tandy.

Los angeles link up. Ko6 Mike. Mike Golf monitoring.

Speaker A: N7ld to stand for hpt.
Speaker B: Hey, john, just got back in the car. Good timing. M7pnd blight, california.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm picking the. Picking the repeater up way better now. So probably hitting it better as well.
Speaker B: Either you're a little off frequency or there's phase distortion. But your. Yeah, your signal is much stronger than it was.
Speaker A: Maybe the microphone that they're setting up for long time. Yeah, could be. Could be.
Speaker B: Did you replace that jumper or what?
Speaker A: Yeah, I replaced the jumper. I put a wattage here in line. Well. And now I got the thing bolted to a little depth ladder sitting here. And put the little radials on the bottom of it. So it seems to be picking the repeater up way better. So I was hoping it was. I was hitting it way, you know, better as well.
Speaker B: You're definitely hitting it better than you were before. 100%. Like I said, we've got it. We've got to get up there, do some work on the duplexer. So we've got quite a bit of that. The repeater's numb. So we gotta have that on a list of stuff to do next time we get up to Redmont.
Speaker A: Yeah, I put the radio down on low power. Did that take some of the distortion away? Maybe it's just because I don't have enough power supply.
Speaker B: No, actually, it didn't make a difference at all. So you're just as the audio. The signal level is about the same, I would say. So you can leave it at low power. Yeah, yeah, sure is.
Speaker A: I want to difference a step ladder and these little radials make. Yeah, I got a little brown plane.
Speaker B: What kind of antenna is.
Speaker A: It's one that Denny gave me years ago. And it's been sitting in my garage. It's comet these kind of three.
Speaker B: Oh, so it's a. It's a base station fiberglass collinear type antenna or what?
Speaker A: Yeah, I think it does 440 as well. Yeah, it's. I've got it in my. It's right here next to the radio. The bottom of the antenna is probably about 4ft high. And it's going all the way to. Got it.
Speaker B: Got it. Now, you get that thing outside, you'll probably be full crunch.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Made a big difference if just bolting it to the ladder here and putting the little radials on it.
Speaker B: Now the radials, as you know, gives you. That gives you your counterpoise.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: So. Good deal. I'm surprised you're not working today. You got the day off.
Speaker A: I don't Work anymore, Al. Oh, okay.
Speaker B: I thought you were working at locations North.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker B: Like, I lost track of things.
Speaker A: No, I took that. That first Doge buyout that came out. Me and Tom Edgar both took. Took that at the same time. Wow. Swr. Like, almost nothing on this thing as well. And so I stopped. Stopped working around March or April last. Last year. And we got paid until 31December.
Speaker B: Ah, geez, you can't beat that. All right, so how you like in retirement?
Speaker A: I'm liking it. That's why I got time to start messing with things like this. I. My. My old car is in better shape now than it probably ever has been because I'm out there in the garage all the time now. Do all my plastic car events and stuff and, you know. And now my cousin in South Carolina, his. His son got a ham radio license, and me and his son, like, talked him into going and taking the test when his son was upgrading to general. And he passed the test. He has a call sign. And so there. They've been kind of bugging me. They like to set something up here so we can kind of.
Speaker B: Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome. You gotta get your hands on UHF radio, man. Our, uh, coverage is like a dense fog around the town. The VHF's not that good. Like I said, we've got to work on it. But you gotta get your hands on one of those and talking to, like, High Flow to see Angel Peak, those major mountaintops.
Speaker A: Yeah. Right now I'm just. I'm just digging out things that have been sitting out in the garage forever. I powered up my. My old HF radio that has been turned on in probably 20 years. Haven't tried transmitting on it.
Speaker B: The bands are, as you've probably read or heard or whatever. The bands are really, really good right now. 10 meters is stupid good. So that was a good time.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's what my cousins were saying, as a matter of fact, that when they called me the first time because they thought that I had probably had something set up here. And I guess they were. They. They were talking to people out this way on 10 meters and had to tell them I didn't have anything set up right now, but I'm working on it.
Speaker B: Well, very good. Yeah, it's good to hear you on the radio. Hopefully we'll hear you some more.
Speaker A: So. All right, well, Lee and I are
Speaker B: heading down to Yuma for the swap meet and be down here until probably Sunday afternoon or so.
Speaker A: See what.
Speaker B: See what things they have that we can resist buying.
Speaker A: Roger, that. Yeah, I'll maybe hang on here a little bit more if I can get some coax run going out of the house. The setup that Denny came here is brackets and stuff you gave. It's designed to go on the. One of the roof fence up on the. Up on the top of the house, I guess.
Speaker B: Yeah. There you go. Okay. All right, John, I'll talk to you later. Put my hands back on the wheel here. Have a good rest of your day down there. It's gonna be in the mid-90s down here today, so pack shorts and a T shirt and 17.
Speaker A: Roger. Just to make a hurt on the current on the radio. Supposed to get almost 85 here today, so it's gonna be even warmer than yesterday. All right, have a good one. You guys. Drive safe. And Ford HD.

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Speaker A: General whiskey, echo, bravo, san francisco portable system 2 link.
Speaker B: Good afternoon to the Frisco Station from nr. 17. November Romeo 7 Golf. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker A: Agafia, 7 Golf, Whiskey Zero. Whiskey, Echo, Bravo. George, here in San Francisco. Just running around on Carla to the lake.
Speaker B: Okay. You down downtown area near the wharf or whereabouts?
Speaker A: Actually, over by city, Hal.
Speaker B: Oh, okay. City hall, but in Vegas, out in Frisco, so. Yeah. Okay, very good. Well, your signal sounds great. You're 100% in on the handheld. Sounds fantastic on Carlos, too.
Speaker A: Good job. I'm sorry. It's like the civic center area of San Francisco, where all the government building is, obviously. Yeah, I'm using a Motorola the R7550 and just running around the city at 4 watts and. Yeah, I've always liked the car system. It's been pretty cool.
Speaker B: Well, no wonder you're making it good on an XPR 7550E. That's quite a machine, Ralph. My buddy here in 70 MD. You got one of those, I think. Threatening to get one myself. Nothing like Motorola, huh?
Speaker A: I don't recommend buying one off of ebay, but you see a lot of discount sellers online and stuff like that. And there's one company called Sunny Communications, and they have pretty good deals on this kind of equipment. I got this radio for 350. And then I got a xtr6550 for 100 and a half. And they're, you know, both digital and analog. So you can do EMR if you're selling clients.
Speaker B: That's fantastic for that price. I mean, maybe they use.
Speaker A: Actually, the XTR was. How do I. The 7550 was a recovery from somebody who bought the radios, but they never used them and they were still doing the box, so. And the six. The 6550, it was used.
Speaker B: Just call Sunny Communications, see if they got any recovery radio. Sounds good to me. I'll be making that call today.
Speaker A: You're based out of.
Speaker B: What is it?
Speaker A: Lakewood, Colorado.
Speaker B: All right, good to know, man. Thank you so much. Yeah. What are you out doing? S. They just running errands or visiting
Speaker A: or vacationing, working or what? I'm catching a repeater right now.
Speaker B: All right, very good. All righty. Well, we'll. We'll catch both handful here, so got to get out all this.
Speaker A: Nr 7G, Whiskey Zero, Whiskey Echo, Bravo. Yeah, 7:3. Great. QSL. Happy to make the acquaintance. And yeah, what I mean by testing the repeater is I'm running around the same range jacket, so it's one that I installed here for a customer a while, so he's having issues and I'm testing anyway. 7:30. Have fun in Vegas. Don't lose all your money.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've been here 32 years. If I was a gambler, I'd be broke by now. But. Yeah, no, none of that stuff for me. No interest. So. All right, take care. NR7G. Good day.
Speaker A: Whiskey. They're always.

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Speaker A: Hey, go ahead John. Into the community.
Speaker B: How's the spot?
Speaker A: Pretty good. I mean day one, right? I think they open around here so all the typical players are here. HRO Flex Radio. Those guys. Good turnout. Walked outside and saw the swaps up a little bit. Some fairly good deals. Like anything else you got to shop around.
Speaker B: Cool. Is it well attended? A lot of people?
Speaker A: Yeah, I would say so. At least as much as last year. Like I said, tomorrow is probably going to be a lot busier. Today's like a half a day and it goes and shows on Sunday. But I was hoping to pick up that new Kenwood tribander. I talked to the HRO guys and they just admitted the effort to see for type acceptance and they haven't announced the price to the. The production date yet for it or availability date for it yet. So not out. They say maybe by. Maybe by Dayton hopefully. But I think they announced that they showed that thing in Dayton last year. So it's been a while.
Speaker B: Yeah. That's a tri down mobile, right?
Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. T220 440G star analog and APRs built into it. GPS. It's got everything. I'm sure it's going to be. It's going to be expensive I would imagine probably 800 bucks or so. I'm guessing.
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker A: But yeah, you can catch me now. I'm anxious to get rid of that icon DSTAR radio I've got in the Jeep and I'll replace it with this. You know I've got that Kenwood D74 on Keystar. The audio just sounds really, really good on it. So I mean they're advertising. This thing is basically having the same audio processing and quality of the D74. So it's encouraging.
Speaker B: Yeah. Could you imagine if that has DMR built into dmr? Could you imagine?
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah that'd be cool. You know that's what the radio I'm using now. This POC radio does all that, does Dstar DMR6 infusion T25 and everything. But I run a TV switch to do it. But yeah, that's, it's cool. And I haven't seen, I haven't seen Tony here. He was here last year, Tony Marson. And I was, I was thinking maybe I'd see some shark RFS around here. Know those, those little mike E things. I was, I thought maybe I'd see some of those flying around here but I haven't seen any yet. But I don't know if HRO sells those things. Or you have to get them direct from the vendor overseas.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think overseas I, I think you have to order from whatever. I, I've talked to a few people on to a few people on. And it's fantastic. The audio is great and it reads a rave review so. That's awesome.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I believe it's saying. I mean I talk to people on it so yeah, I share your sentiment. I got the open spot 3 and when this thing first came out it didn't have all stars so I was kind of. I'm not interested. But I guess the latest, the latest firmware Revision for the MyD allows you to do All Star also. So it's kind of everything in one little box. That's pretty compelling. I wish it had a SIM card tray in it so you could just go directly to cellular. But it's only WI fi. But nowadays you probably do the same thing I do.
Speaker B: You just turn your phone into a hotspot. Yeah, I'm getting ready to deploy a couple of, a couple of cameras. Arlo cameras they have take a LC4G SIM cards and cameras. They have AI detection that you know, sensors vehicles, certain breeds of animals and differentiate, you know, people and everything. So I'm going to put those up on my top property because I got a heavy airport going on right now. They're going crazy building roads, the house pad and everything. That started off Monday. So they've got a couple of pieces of heavy equipment there. Operators and water trucks. Yeah. So that thing that probably come along. Great wait to get up there and get a tower up. Trust me, it's gonna be be. I'm going to have a nice setup up there.
Speaker A: Yeah, I know you talked about that. I'm envious man. This sounds fantastic. You're probably going to have a stupid low noise for too. That's fantastic. Yeah, we'll have to. We'll have. Lee and I have been talking about that. We're talking about you on the way down here but getting you set up with an all star note whenever you're ready for it, you just hook into our, hook into our server in the, in the Vulture server and get on, get it on the network if you're up for it.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, 100. Yeah, I'm gonna put up a repeater. I'll probably do like a 60 foot power so I can shoot, you know with a decent vertical. So I could shoot over the little hills and is directly coverage into Spring Creek town itself. You know, people they'll deal with as well. I won't have any coverage on the other side of Elo Hills, but anybody in that valley around there, Rapid Lake? You know, there's a lot, you know, campers and stuff like that go through state park, you know, state recreation area. So there's a definite. Definitely people around there. It'll. It'll definitely have to be from time to time, but it'll be just right gearing up, you know, I'll have it up on a. Like a little hill, a little hill in the back of my property and just put some decent, you know, hygiene and go buy a stage or station glass or something like that. Just do it right, you know.
Speaker A: Yeah, do sell some bipolar. That'd be great too. Give you a nice, nice fat pattern. Universal uniform pattern, but okay. All right, man. Well, thanks for the shout, John. John's here, nswr. So he and I are sitting here talking to him and catching up. So I'll talk to you later. We'll be here. Probably going to head back to town about mid. Mid morning on Sunday. I would imagine so. Yeah, it's one of these days jobs that try to make it down here. It's a decent event. A lot of, lot of socializing. Matter of fact, I saw Frank and Linda here a bit ago and Frank's right. Yeah, we got to drive 5 hours to see each other.
Speaker B: That's really hilarious. Anyway, we'll enjoy it. Enjoy it and yeah, I mean, maybe by next year things will calm down and make our priority priority. Very good. Enjoy your afternoon and we'll see when you get back. Take care, 73. Enjoy the show. Good luck. NR7G, Las Vegas.
Speaker A: All right, John. Yeah, take care.

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Speaker A: This is K06 Lum testing mobile unit to the Carla repeater system. Testing again. Access to the Carla repeater system. Anyone available?
Speaker B: System 11, link off. Well, I guess
Speaker C: I'm available. You are making it in lob. Clear.
Speaker A: This is K06L U M. I picked you up as. Just had a little bit of a hard time hearing your call sign. Thanks for the reply. Okay, no problem. I'll
Speaker C: repeat it for you. It's November 6th. Mike Victor Tango, Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill area, Northern California. We're about to leave.
Speaker A: Okay, a lot better there. I got your call, son. Thank you so much. Yeah, it's great hearing you down in the Walnut Creek area. I'm up in Chico, north of Sacramento, between there and Reading.
Speaker C: Okay, copy that. Well, you're getting in fine. I'm guessing you're using either 56 or 36 up there. The UHF or VHF one.
Speaker A: Correct. Yeah, it's Station 36. I'm not sure if it's called Station, but yeah, 36 out of Willows is the one I'm accessing currently.
Speaker C: Okay, real good. Well, you sounded fine. Anything else I can help you with?
Speaker A: No, sir. I really appreciate the contact. And let me know that I was able to get onto it just fine.
Speaker C: Okay, sounds good. Literally and figuratively. All right, have yourself a good rest of your day there. Talk to you later. 6M.
Speaker A: All right. Yes, you two, this is ko6l. U m. Clear.
Speaker B: System 19, link up. Kh6ert, kh6ert, k6lp,
Speaker A: K6ert, this is k. Excuse me, kol. Ko6 lum. Could remember my call sign there for a moment.
Speaker C: I can tell you're in there, but you're really, really scratchy. Can't make anything out. K6OB,
Speaker B: it.

Speaker A: Station on 36. New station on 36. This is N6 GRG. I'm on the local PL. I have a PL of 123. Do you have that in your radio abiding center?
Speaker B: This is ko6 lum.
Speaker A: I'm.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm on the local pl for the 36 repeater.
Speaker A: All right. K06L u M man 6 TRT. Sounds like a fairly new colt. How are you doing today? My name is Mike. I'm up and ready.
Speaker B: Hey, Mike. Doing fairly well, thank you. My name is Matt down here in Chico.
Speaker A: Yeah, just.
Speaker B: I learned about the CARLA system of repeaters last week. So trying to make sure that I can get on them and have all my that correctly.
Speaker A: Okay, well, so far you're doing great. And you're of course you're on local now, which means that all those other guys that we were hearing aren't hearing us now. And there's a pretty good local group when they choose to be on, but not a lot. Some of them do not get on very much. However, Kilo November 6th, Michael kilo gets is on here on local and myself n6trg and maybe a few others here and there. There's a fellow over in near Yuba City that gets on every once in a while. So it's a pretty good group. Go ahead.
Speaker B: It's wonderful to hear. Yeah, I'm new to ham radio, got my technician's license in early January, so I have a mobile unit that I'm talking through right now. I don't have any kind of base station yet home, so getting used to the airwaves and enjoying getting to meet people through that.
Speaker A: All right, well, very good. And a few of the things that you don't have to worry about with local are that you could pretty much transmit immediately after someone calls you or. Or if you want, you can transmit to someone you hear. One of the things about local is that you'll hear this particular beep. Listen to this. Kind of made it happen three times by keying. Another thing about local is that if you transmit on it, you won't hear the linked transmission for 30 seconds. They're muted for 30 seconds, so anything coming from the link will just go away. The link, as you might have noticed, sounds quite a bit different, has different beeps and so forth.
Speaker B: Yeah, I noticed that. Thanks for letting me know about that. I remember reading on the CARLA website about waiting a few seconds if you're talking on all the link repeaters. But thanks for the reminder on that.
Speaker A: Yeah. And one of the reasons we have to do that is some of our repeaters are connected via All Star. And All Star has a delay, a certain amount of delay that makes it so that your first words won't make it to whoever you're talking to. So if you key up and then wait about a second, at least a second, maybe two seconds, then everybody in the system will hear you. And, and right now we have people listening down in the Los Angeles area with a very clear signal because of All Star. We have an All Star setup down in Los Angeles. Now. We also have a fellow, a good friend of mine in Colombia. November 6th. Yeah, November 6th. Kilo, November Echo, insta kn e. Ken is down in Columbia and he's the guy that sets up all the All Star stuff. And, oh, what else? Of course, Mike. No, Kenya. Mike Golfilo, his name is Steve. And he'll. He's on. I like to pity him and say when he gets out of bed, but he's actually on quite often at right around noonish, you know, before or after noon, depending on what he's doing that day. Today probably a pretty busy day because it's not raining and it's beautiful outside. So he's, he's a busy guy trying to get caught up. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think I heard some chatter yesterday around noon. So, yeah, it could have been him.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: I have my son with me right now. He's 10 years old. And I think he kind of blew his mind a little bit when he said that there's people in the LA area that can hear you loud and clear through the All Stars. So we're really enjoying all the conversation about that. Thank you.
Speaker A: Yeah, you'll hear of the CARLA systems that are on All Star. You'll hear Reno, Nevada, that's All Star. An All Star repeater over there. You'll hear Tahoe, where they had that huge disaster and devastating loss of life. We have a couple repeaters that would have somebody in that area where that loss of life Pappas could have actually talked to us. And about the only thing they can't do is talk if there comes with snow from an ambulance avalanche. But other than that, they can talk to us. And then there's just a number of stations all around the Tahoe Reno area. And there's one called 14, that's right on 80, Highway 80. So the thing to do is to go, if you haven't already, is to go to carlaradio.net carlaradio.net which is a very deep site. It has photos of the Repeaters, it has all sorts of things. So the only thing it doesn't do really well is the mapping right now. But it has a lot of info. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've been to the website and you're right, it's a lot of info there. And I haven't made my way through all of it just yet. But certainly look through it and it's a cool system. Like I said. I just learned about it last week
Speaker A: and
Speaker B: getting used to everything. Quite, quite a lot to get used to, but working on it.
Speaker A: Yeah. Do you travel anywhere around California? Do you travel much?
Speaker B: Not too much. Go up Northern California, I think you said you're in Reading, so up that way, Shasta area, and occasionally down to the Central coast. But that's pretty much where we travel mostly.
Speaker A: Okay. Well, we have a system on Shasta, Bali. So if you're at one of the big shopping malls in Reading and you look directly to your west, especially if you have binoculars, you can see our antennas up there on that mountain up there. That's the system 25. And then travel towards Alturas, you'll go through Bernie. And just before you go through Bernie, there's a little summit that you go over. And if you were to take a left there, which don't do it because there's lots of gates and stuff, but if you were to take a left up at that summit, you go towards one of our repeaters up there called System 20. And then there's the repeater at the top. You might call it the northern top of the lake, if you were looking at it on the map. And to the west of Highway 5, called System 13. And currently I believe it's got low power, but with a good radio in your car, you can access. And it's not real strong, but you can hear it in Mount Shasta. And it's just. It's running six watts. When I. Last time I left it, I. I had to set. Turn it down to 6 watts to get it to run at all. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Good to know. Yeah, I planned on programming a bunch of those into my radio if and when we do get to travel. So that would be fun to utilize for sure. Yeah.
Speaker A: And you might hear people talk about weed and that sort of thing. Well, there used to be a second system that we were connected to up there and we're no longer connected to it. And I don't know, sometimes the website's not really updated real well, but some of the system. That goes east all the way to the Nevada Arizona border, I think the town's called Mesquite. Goes all the way east to that. That town.
Speaker B: Oh, that's cool. No, I haven't.
Speaker A: What they decided. They made an agreement with us and if you're a Carla user, then you're automatically okay to use the entire. See, they have. What do they call that, That direction ever. You can have that ready in your radio also. And yeah, as far as the other. All the other repeaters, they don't have a lot of local action like this repeater. This repeater has more local action, I think, than most. Your QSO is down to 15 minutes. However, on 36, even though it's a battery powered site, you can have much longer conversations on local.
Speaker B: So this is Ko6 Lum going clear.
Speaker A: All right, I got you. What was your name again?
Speaker B: Sorry. Matt and Mike.
Speaker A: Right. Be talking to Steve eventually, also soon. So, yeah, just listen for those beats. That way you'll know whether we're on local or link if you hear this beep right here, we're on local. All right, talk to you later. Have a good one. N6GRT. And if he's around, k6 mike golf kilo. I'm sure. N6grt. Well, he did say it was his birthday and he's maybe meeting his mom someplace. So hard to say what's going on. N6 GRT.