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Speaker A: India. India uniform. How copy, mike? Okay, Mike, I got you loud and clear. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Yeah, I had turned it off for some reason I was surprised when I. After I talked to you, I looked at it and what was off and yeah, I had a crazy wind just blow through. I had clouds and it blew every cloud right on out of here. Or maybe it was like a low fog thing, but it was not on the ground at all. So more like clouds but blew everything out. And so now I have clear skies,
Speaker A: but still 100% overcast here. One other thing, Mike. You know, every year I do my taxes like everybody. And my accountant happens to be in Reading. I was wondering if you want to do a face to face during that time. I don't know when it's going to be. It'll probably be this month, sometime over.
Speaker B: Yeah, there's a chance of that. I've got some medical stuff coming up. I don't know what the schedule is gonna be. I haven't looked into it at all yet. But I know that I need to do two different small operations. So. Well, one's a little larger than the other one. I need to do them and so I'll be in and out around and so I don't know what you're about. About how far ahead are you looking at?
Speaker A: They'll be in March sometime. I know I got a doctor's appointment on March 13, but you know, it'll be between now and then. I'm still working on my taxes. I haven't finished yet. But when I'm finished I'll give you a call and maybe we can set up a date. Over.
Speaker B: Yes, it would be great to meet you. I'm gonna do one of the things really soon here. Initial thing to see, try to get the ball rolling. And the initial thing will lead to fairly quick and easy operation. At least it was last time. I didn't even have to take any medicine. So that'll be number one. And then the second one, there's a week long recovery where I'm down. That'll be interesting.
Speaker A: Well, I hope that all goes well. It's a bit getting old. I know that. This is Kilo. India Six. India. India. Uniform for id. Back to you. Golf Romeo.
Speaker B: Golf. Yeah, I wonder if Mike Golf. Kilo's up this morning for sln. Those are a couple of the guys that you're liable to run into on this frequency. Steve and Chico and King. Successful N normally normally up on up in Mineral. He's not quite there yet. I don't think he's hanging out down in the valley in his RV right now with his wife and maybe trying to make money over at the cafino because he can count cards. No, I'm just kidding. He doesn't count anything. But anyway, yeah, he's hanging out down here.
Speaker A: Okay, well, you know, what casino is that? Rolling Hills or what is that? Wind something? Or rather Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, he likes to go to Rolling Hills and he has family in Red Bluff.
Speaker A: Yeah, I live real close to. In fact, I'm across the street from Rolling Hills, so, you know, I always go there for, you know, lunch and dinner and stuff like that. Over.
Speaker B: Oh, wow, I didn't know you were that close to it.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's less. It's probably about a mile away. You know, it's on the other side of the freeway from me, but, you know, I'm on the east side of the freeway and Rolling Hills is on the west side of the freeway. But it's pretty close. Over.
Speaker B: Once, I think maybe twice, but I definitely remember once. One time.
Speaker A: Well, if you. If you're ever down the Rolling Hills again, you gotta look me up. I'm real close. Over. I can meet you down there or, you know, you can come over here, whatever you want. Back to you, Mike.
Speaker B: Well, now that I know you're really close, I'm gonna look on Google Maps. Right now. I don't have Internet, but I have phone calls, text. I get text through signal. And if I go outside, I get everything. Indoors, I get nothing.
Speaker A: Well, you know, all you got to do, though, do a map quest or, you know, one of those maps things on your phone and it'll take you right to my house. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was thinking from your description, I could probably just look around and I see it.
Speaker A: Yeah, I live on Chase Avenue. I'm right on the corner of 99W and Chase. You know, that's my property there.
Speaker B: Over. Okay. Well, it's pretty hard to miss a bunch of olive trees and typical groves. They're pretty well lined up.
Speaker A: Well, yeah, a lot of guys have ripped up their orchards and planted almonds. Over. And, you know, but trees for trees. I guess they figured there's no money in olives. I know some of my trees are 150 years old, so I can't let them. I can't rip them up. I feel bad doing that. Over.
Speaker B: Well, the only one. Only stuff that's going on up here, olive wise, I'm. I'm just outside of a whole ton of olive groves, historic olive groves. And there was a guy named Alexander. And there was a mansion. Well, there was a fire that nearly took out the mansion and blew into a bunch of olives. And I think that might be why a bunch of them were cut. A whole bunch of them were cut right up against Palm street and Olive Road.
Speaker A: Well, you know, olive groves will burn green because there's oil in them. So, you know, fires are bad for olive groves. Over.
Speaker B: This blew through. It blew. I think I could possibly say it blew east to west. It was either south to north or east to west. I don't know my directions over there. I think it was south to north. Yeah, south to north. And it blew through a property owned by some people I know by the name of Black. When the parrots were alive, I. I had met him, and I was just curious about what they were doing. And they. They had a bunch of nut trees. And, you know, they. When they were really into it, he had a heart attack maybe 10 years ago, at least. And when they were really into it, they would put a. Graft a male. A piece of male tree onto all these female nut trees, and that's how they would propagate their nuts.
Speaker A: Well, the only nut tree that I know of that needs a male and a female is the pistachio. Were there pistachio trees over?
Speaker B: Yes, that's correct. They were pistachios.
Speaker A: Yeah. Because, you know, I had a male and female pistachio tree, and I ripped up the male and I stopped getting pistachios over.
Speaker B: Yeah. And the way, like I say, the way they did it, they never ripped up any of the trees. I don't know that they even had a male anywhere. They probably had 500 female pistachios. And somehow, I don't know where they got the male males that they all grafted. That was quite a while ago. Grafted to the females. And so you'd have one. One tree out of every, maybe 10 that had a male on it.
Speaker A: Well, that's a good idea, But I don't really care to eat at pistachio, so I don't really care about it. But I do have walnut and almonds and pecans over.
Speaker B: I love pistachios when they're all, you know, canned up and from the store. I love them that way. I don't know that I. They didn't successfully have any pistachios after I met him because he was having heart trouble and he couldn't get the boys to do anything. And they had the water to the trees, and the water went up here. Everything went up with the water company. So there was no more egg water here. They just. They fake it now. When they first started out, they had egg water was actually a penny more expensive than the regular water, drinking water, and residential water or whatever you call it. And then they realized, well, it needs to be cheaper to meet the demands of the Bureau of Land Reclamation if they made it one penny less.
Speaker A: Well, I could tell you some stories about water here. I guess it was about 10 years ago everybody's well went dry around here. There was a big deal. Everybody was drilling new ag wells and stuff. But we also have federal water, which comes straight from the Sacramento river, and that's pretty cheap water. And it plumbed right into my property. Well, every now and then, if there's a drought, they shut that off and, okay, you guys have to use your ag water now and turn on your pumps. Well, in that transition period between everybody's well going dry and, you know, getting water from somewhere, because it was a backup, you know, some of the well drillers were six months out drilling wells. They said, well, you have to. You can buy water from the rice growers. So we went and we found rice growers. The rice growers were paid not to grow, but they had the allotment of water because they're a commodity and they got water every year, regardless of what happened. Normally we got water at that time for $40 an acre foot. The rice growers sold it to us for $600 an acre foot. Over.
Speaker B: Over. Well, we had something similar here going on, and there's this outfit called McConnell, and we bought there some of some of their water rights for our area out here to the west of South Reading. It's a kind of a big area to the west of South Reading. A water company out here?
Speaker A: Yes. And at that time, also, the wheel drillers, they doubled their price. So, you know, they said, well, this is a good time to take it to everybody. So, you know, if you did get a well driller, it cost you twice as much. Over.
Speaker B: Well, there's one guy now, I don't know if it's a private owner or something to do with our water company, but there's a well that was drilled. It looks like it's on what might be a horse ranch, because there was at least at one time a horse ranch, Because I see a big stall building over there and it to the west of Cloverdale Road, pretty close to the intersection of Clear Creek Road and Cloverdale Road. And it's kind of over by the land refuge place farther in to the east from the what, what you just call a dump. There's a dump out there and it's farther east of that. And the reason you know it's there is they have water shooting up in the air. I don't know what that's all about, but they have water shooting up in the air sometimes quite high.
Speaker A: Well, usually that's for aerating the pond or the lake that that's been over.
Speaker B: Yeah. And I don't think there's a pond there, so I don't get it.
Speaker A: Well, normally that's the way it works. They shoot water up in the air and you know, to aerate the lake or the pond. But if there's nothing there, then I don't know what that's all about.
Speaker B: Over. Well, there's another thing going on that has to do with the dump. And there is a big stack and it's a methane stack for methane. And they might have put in that big composting facility that the state's mandating that they put in and raised everybody's bills from the. This is Waste Management Company.
Speaker A: Well, I don't know this Kilo India Six India India uniform for ID. Back to Golf Romeo Golf.
Speaker B: Yeah. N6 GRG. And, and you know the waste management and that landfill is a complex situation. I was told by one outfit that it was owned by the city of Readingsville. I don't know what, how it's all worked out, but it's basically being as far as I know, operated by the Waste Management Company, which is a huge, huge company. So yeah, they pretty much do whatever they feel like doing.
Speaker A: Okay, well, I got a few things I gotta get done here today, Mike, but yeah, I'll keep in touch, let you know, you know, when I make that trip down there and maybe we can get together. This is Kilowindia 6 India India uniform. Back to you, Mike.
Speaker B: Yeah, the only thing olive wise that I wanted to mention was that the only pickers I ever see around here any longer are picking Sevillano queens. And I was shocked to see them in this one on Ollie street on Ollie Olive Road on what you call probably call East Ollie or North Ollie. You call it North Ollie because it's on the north side of Palm street. And I saw a bunch of figures there and I'm talking to they. None of them spoke English but the, the main head guy did and he was reading papers and stuff and didn't really want to talk to me too much. He did tell me they were queens and it was a big, a big bunch of Queens. I was shocked to find them there.
Speaker A: Are they still Milanos over?
Speaker B: Yeah. Big bunch of Seviano. There's only. As far as I know, the only. The only two Seviano orchards that I found are that one on Olive, and there's one right at the corner of Oak and Palm that was owned by this fellow that I made acquaintance with. He finally died. And her son was a kind of a jerk, but he paid all his pickers well. And they were a bunch of people that were probably all picked up by heights, for all I know.
Speaker A: When was this. When did this happen? It must have been in, oh, probably the late summer over.
Speaker B: Well, the pickers, he called them family. And they were. This was maybe five or six years ago. And I had met him and I was just asking him, well, how does all this work? And what he told me, well, he has the Sevillanos, not the missions, and they were grafted. And the whole. Gave me the whole story. And it was grafted maybe 30, 40, 50 years ago. And then he always had what he called family picked him up. And I. He said, why don't you come and help out? So I thought, well, okay. I thought, we're just going to meet a bunch of his family and stuff. And it. It was every. Every Mexican in the area, whether they were, you know, multiple families. And some of the. The ladies, you know, could barely scratch the surface and make any money, but they were there to help their husbands. I made more than anybody there. I pushed real hard and made some pretty good money. But even working as hard as you could, the most you could make was like 50, $60 a day.
Speaker A: Well, my pickers making $400 a day over.
Speaker B: They have power equipment.
Speaker A: Oh, they pick by hand. And you know what they do is they'll start, you know, they put on these little headlights and they go and they start picking at three in the morning. They'll pick until about three and you know, in the afternoon and, you know, the.

Speaker A: They're making three or four hundred dollars a day, no problem. And you know, they get paid by the box. In Spanish, it's caja. And they making like four or five dollars a box. Over.
Speaker B: Well, we were making six or seven a box and that's the most I could make. And I was making more than almost all of those guys. So they're, I guess, just not froze.
Speaker A: The guys I get are from Mexico. And you know, I don't do it anymore. Donna used to do it, but I don't do it anymore. We have a contractor and he has a big crew. He has a big labor camp, you know, with 300 guys in it. And you know, they. He goes straight to Mexico, brings a bus load of Mexicans back and they're pickers. Over.
Speaker B: So you're not actually paying them. He's paying them. So you're kind of going by what he tells you, huh?
Speaker A: Yeah, he does everything. The only thing, you know, I just get a percentage of the harvest and that is it. And he does everything. He does all the paperwork, the checks, all. Whatever you got to do. He does everything over.
Speaker B: Well, you might be interested if you actually on the chest to see what's going on.
Speaker A: I know what's going on. I know how much he picks every year and I know how much he makes every year and I know how much I get every year, so. But it's still worth it to me not to have to do any work and get a little bit of money at the end of the year over.
Speaker B: Yeah, I saw, you know, they'd load up this big pickup truck with these bins and they were very heavy. And it was a five acre, five acre spot
Speaker A: that's kind of small. Yeah, I guess, you know, a little family operation could handle like five acres. And know, I know that this guy that my contractor handles thousands of bakers, he has semi trucks come in and forklifts and stuff, loading up the semis to run the olives over.
Speaker B: Well, see, the difference is they're doing missions.
Speaker A: Oh. All the olives I have are civil autos. Over.
Speaker B: Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, that's it. Kind of a unique thing, that Seviano.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, you know, my wife, she's had this plate for over 50 years and you know, I inherited it about 20 years ago. So, you know, I'm just learning it. You know, she's done the whole thing by herself. I don't know how the hell she did it, but she did it over.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, it's an interesting business. I don't think It's a real money maker from what I've seen. But, you know, it's better than just having a bunch of brush.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, at one time when she was doing it all herself, she was making good money, but she also had other jobs because you never know before it's crop insurance. If you. You spend money on water and fertilizer and pickers and pruners and all that. And at the end, you know, you have a big hail storm or something like that wipes out your orchard, you don't get any income. And this was before crop insurance, so she had to have another job. She was a. The brine master of Bell Carter for a while. And then she was. She opened up her business. She was a natural fruits broker and she made good money at that. And then, you know, she kind of went in to have somebody do all the work for her over.
Speaker B: The water thing is a big deal here. They used to have a canal coming through and have places that got water rights and everything out of the canals and real egg water. Then they switched it over to having to take the water right out of the drinking water pipes. And that's when the water company started putting the kibosh on the whole thing because that made it so they had to run a whole lot more water through the drinking water pipes. And so they just basically shut it down.
Speaker A: Yeah, that water is a big problem. And you know, I have ag wells and they want to put a meter on it. I paid for the well, I paid for the well drillers and all the expenses that go along with it. And now they say, well, we're going to. We want to put a meter on there so we can charge you for your water over.
Speaker B: Yeah, they got a lot of games with that. You know, they'll tell you that. But then if you check with the other people that have the meters, you can actually put water back in and negate the charge.
Speaker A: I don't know about that. So far I haven't put a meter on my well. But right now I don't even use ag water. I use federal water, which is the Sacramento river over.
Speaker B: Well, those well people may force you force the situation and the time they would push it would be during a drought. And I've read about a lot of. They have a lot of this going down in the San Joaquin Valley and it's the same rules and rags and California. And so that's what they do is they. They would get water, they'd take a bunch out and then they. The drought would Be over. And they take a bunch of water and put it back in. It's quite an interesting ball game. You can read about it. San Joaquin Valley has a lot of stuff going on with it.
Speaker A: Well, I know we're a lot different than San Joaquin Valley because, you know, we're so. I'm still only six miles away from the Sacramento river, so, you know, it's easily accessible for me. Over.
Speaker B: Well, a lot of this water is not coming out of the Sacramento. Actually. It's coming just going into the canal system, the acid canal and all that stuff. Do you know anything about that?
Speaker A: All I know is I'm getting water from Sacramento.
Speaker B: It's called federal water.
Speaker A: There's a water district, and I'm all plumbed into it. And I most. Well, normally I run Fiona Driver straight from the federal water. I don't even turn on my well, but I, you know, I got two pumps in my well. I got a domestic pump and then I have an ag pump in the same well hole. And, you know, I use domestic pump every day. But the ag pump, I only use it when drought conditions. Over.
Speaker B: You're plumbed into Sacramento. Do you actually see. Where are you plugged into their pipe?
Speaker A: If I'm plugged into their pipe and I have a meter on it, they know exactly how much I use, and that's what I'm charged for. Over.
Speaker B: Okay. Well, their water probably comes out of a canal that comes right out of Sacramento pipe. Sacramento dam is part of the acid. Acid system. And it goes way down by you. And, you know, at times. Certain times of the year, there's nothing in it, and other times it's overfilling. And the interesting thing is that canal. There's a couple interesting things about that canal. It goes. When it goes past Clear Creek, it actually goes under clear creek and comes back up out of it. Up, out and keeps going. And then when it goes down by Anderson, it goes on a trough that it's way above the. It's like you drive under it. You actually drive under it. So it's quite a canal. It goes way down by you.
Speaker A: Well, you know, Anderson is 60 miles
Speaker B: away from Mayover well, and Dam is another 50 miles north of Sanderson. So, you know, it's a huge system.
Speaker A: I don't know all the details. You know, I'm only six miles away from the Sacramento River.
Speaker B: You think they.
Speaker A: Why would they get water 60 miles away if they can get it six miles away? Over.
Speaker B: Well, there. I think there are more places where they take it out of the River. River. Besides the Sacramento Dam, it's probably. I believe it's all. Do you remember an agency name?
Speaker A: Only name I got is Federal Water. Over.
Speaker B: I see there's an agency that you're dealing with.
Speaker A: Well, it's some kind of waterworks company or something. I'm not sure the exact name. I never paid that much attention to it. I know that the guys come over and check the water all the time and read the meter and stuff like that, but it's California Water District or something like that. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, see, what do they call that anyway? Yeah, it's a big California agency. And it's the same agency up north as it is down south. They push the water all the way to Los Angeles, believe it or not.
Speaker A: Well, I'm well aware of the California Aqueduct and the Delta Mendota Canal because, you know, I am a past director of the California Striped Bass association. And there was a big stink when they put those back in the Reagan era, you know, when he was the governor of California, he pushed for the California Aqueduct and the Delta Delta Mendota Canal to run the water to LA over
Speaker B: a huge amount of politics involved. And it's a complex system and it's still all there. Still. I'm pretty sure you're tied into it as to who you're actually paying.
Speaker A: Well, I got to pay every month, actually. I have to pay for the dam. I know that we have to, you know, we have pay every month out of our taxes. Every year out of our taxes or the dam. And, you know, it seems like we should be getting free water for that. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'd be looking it up if I. But my Internet went away. But at one time I was studying it quite a bit. It's all part of the same system. And the water for various places comes from different parts of that system. And my water comes from the part of the system that comes out of Trinity County. And it actually goes through a tunnel right through a mountain from one river system into a different river system. In other words, it goes from the Trinity River System, which goes into the Klamath. It takes it out of that water system. River system and runs it through a mountain in a big tunnel and goes into the Clear Creek River. And Clear Creek river feeds everybody over here and feeds Whiskeytown National Park, Whiskey Town Lake, that whole thing. There's some power generation also. And then it goes into the Sacramento River. What they. And they. They feed it into the Clear Creek to keep it a little higher for the salmon population.
Speaker A: Over. Well, as you know, there's no more salmon fishing in California. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, they're having a problem right now, but what they're trying to do is get the chinook. Bring the chinook back. They have the regular. I forget the other species of salmon. I think they're doing fine. But there's one that was close to disappearing, and they're trying to bring it back.
Speaker A: Well, you know what the problem is, and it's pretty well documented. The sea lion problem. The sea lions are eating all the salmon and the stripers. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, the fishermen complained about that. You know, the commercial fishermen.
Speaker A: Well, there's no commercial fishing either. And you can't do anything about it because the sea lions are protected and they're overpopulated. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah. And, you know, what you're hearing is coming from one side of the controversy, and I'm sure there's another side. And I don't know. I've been out of it. I used to live over there where the salmon fishermen were, and I'd go on the boats and the crab, do the crab fishing, too. But. And, you know, there's always two sides to every. Every controversy. And. Yeah, the salmon. The salmon fishermen would always complain about the sea lions.
Speaker A: Well, you know, I guess about 20 years ago, I used to live in Discovery Bay, and I lived in Discovery bay for about 20 years. And
Speaker B: the,
Speaker A: you know, Discovery Bay is in the West Delta, and it's the fresh water. And now there's sea lions at Discovery Bay. Over freshwater. Over.
Speaker B: One of the controversies, if you want to look at the others, the whole picture had to do with Shasta Dam and any other dam that they decide they want to put in, because, as, you know, salmon. The salmon population populations come from the headwaters of all these rivers. And they wiped out the majority of the salmon in the Sacramento when they put the Sacramento Dam in, because all the salmon were coming up the river and going all the way above Sacramento Dam was where all the natural salmon were breads or, you know, were coming from. So then they started the fish. The fish place over there. Have you heard of that Fish. Whatever they call it, breeding fish. They started that, and they've tried all sorts of different ways to make it so the fish know where they were bred from. Because for a while, quite a while, they were. They were taking the fish, the fish that came from that place, and they were taking them right down to the San Francisco Bay or in the delta area way out there, just dumping them right there.
Speaker A: Yeah, they were doing that during the drought season, you know, and I think I Know what? You ever heard of the Coleman fish hatchery up there? I guess it's over there near your area. Over.
Speaker B: That's between you and me on the east side of five there in this area, we call it Cern Creek Road and all that area kind of right near the borderline between Tehama and Shasta on the Shasta side.
Speaker A: Yeah, I used to go down there every year and watch that operation during the peak of the season and it was pretty impressive. The hit fish hatchery there. You know, there's a lot of, I don't know, mechanisms and stuff like that to get the fish and you can watch them get the eggs out and get the sperm out. You know, watch their operation. They got breeding tanks and stuff and that's. They breed the fish and stuff. And then they used to dump them near that area, but then they, you know, during the drought season, they were dumping them in the, in the San Francisco Bay area. Over.
Speaker B: Well, they're still moving. They're still experimenting with where they are going to dump them. It changes. And they changed it again just recently. And. You know, we're. We're way past the drought and they're still playing around with it because they just can't quite get it worked out.
Speaker A: Well, you know, like I said before, man, the sea lions are the problem, I think. And all the documentation I've seen on it points to the sea lions and they're protected. And until they do something, you know, unless they can bring back the great white sharks or something like that, it's going to get worse and worse. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, these great whites, I don't know if, you know, but the great whites, there's a bunch of them that are turkey.

Speaker A: And they follow them. There's quite a few of them. But, yeah, it's a huge controversial subject with different sides saying different things. And I will have a tendency to go by what the scientists say. I. But I. I've been out of it. I, you know, it. If I were in Humboldt, living right next to Humboldt Bay like I did all my life, most of my life, I would have a lot more I could say about it. But that's, you know, behind the Redwood curtain. So I would. Unless we got on hf, I would not know who you were.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know, I've been in West Delta most of my life. You know, Bethel Island, Discovery Bay, and I've lived in San Francisco Bay for a while, live aboard my sailboat and, you know, I've seen a lot of things, and the sea lions are a big problem. I don't know. Have you ever been to Pier 39 in San Francisco Bay? Over.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. You know, my daughter lives there. I go every so often down there.
Speaker B: I
Speaker A: also have followed some of the controversies in the bay, like the kind of. Like there's this one group of people that live on these boats that probably don't even have engines, just stay anchored for, you know, for 20 years, and there's a lot of controversy with that.
Speaker B: That sounds like Sausalito to me. Over.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's in North Bay.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know, I've been to Sausalito, and I know all about those boats that are, you know, they just get a slip and get a boat, and it's cheaper than buying property in Sacramento or San Francis.
Speaker A: Over.
Speaker B: But, yeah, I'm well aware of that. And, you know, I used to live on a boat in Richmond Point, Richmond, California, and I'm all about that. I know all about that. And then living in the Delta for many years, I know all about that. But I like living in Mexico, to be honest with you. Over.
Speaker A: Well, do you know what they call the marine marina area that's in the San Francisco Bay area? It's called the marina area. I don't know if it's a specific marina or what the deal is, but I heard some.
Speaker B: Is that marine Marin County?
Speaker A: Over.
Speaker B: Well, yeah, I got to get going. Mike. Good talking to you. We finish this conversation later. But the sea lions are the problem as far as I'm concerned. You know, I'm sure different sides of the blame, something else. But, you know, there's just too many people and, you know, you're just having to deal with the repercussions of that. Over.
Speaker A: Well, one of the groups that they blame for sure. Is the huge fishing fleets that are just offshore of our 20 mile limit quite often and taking everything they can get with huge nets. And they're doing it all over the Pacific and sometimes you come pretty close to the US So I'm sure they're affecting the salmon population.
Speaker B: Well, there's a lot of tuna guys out there too. I've gone tuna fishing a lot out in the ocean and you know, you get out 20 miles, I don't know what the limit is, but you get out so far there's no, no bag limits. I mean, you can get as many fish as you want. I mean, so that's what they're doing out there. And you know, there's a big problem in Mexico too with the,
Speaker A: I guess
Speaker B: the Chinese or Japanese are coming in with their big giant fishing boats or processing boats with a lot of smaller boats that go out. Netfish bring them back, they process them right in the Sea of Cortez. And the only constraint they have, they have to have 51% of the workers there have to be Mexican. They let them in and they just rape. The Sea of Cortez. A Sea of Cortez is not what it used to be. Over.
Speaker A: Yeah, and that's the very same group that's affecting the salmon population big time.
Speaker B: Well, I don't know about that, but I'm sure that they're taking salmon. Whatever they can take, they take over.
Speaker A: Yep, primarily salmon and tuna.
Speaker B: This is Kilo India 6 India, India. Uniform 73 there, Mike GRG and we'll talk to you later. I got to get some work done today, Over.
Speaker A: Yep, same here. I got to make plans too, so make some calls. All right, talk to you later. N6GRG.

Speaker A: M7t md las vegas.
Speaker B: Las vegas station. Mr. Ak7skw, kilo kilo 7 cherokee. Level 3 number system 21l is. Yeah.
Speaker A: Good morning from las vegas. Same here as ralph. How, how are things up in reno?
Speaker B: Big link pop. Things are quite nice in Reno right now. 53 degrees, kind of a beautiful day. So it appears that spring has sprung. Keep in mind that a week ago we were, you know, got a significant amount of snow, but that is all gone now.
Speaker A: Back to you.
Speaker B: Yeah, very good.
Speaker A: A couple, three weeks ago we got quite a bit of snow here. I'm looking at the western ranges of the snow. Bunch of ski resorts still host snow capped. But yeah, we've been a little bit warm here too. I was in Yuma, Arizona last weekend for the convention, the ARRL convention, and it was 98, 99 degrees down there. Absolutely crazy. But anyways, yeah, looking forward to a little bit of a thaw. Got a couple of our radio sites here, our mountaintop sites that have issues with antenna from an ice storm and not able to get up there. So anxious for some of the files so we can get those three repeaters back online.
Speaker B: Yeah, roger that, Ralph. Hey, sounds like you're the one doing the repairs on a lot of those repeaters out there. Is that the. Yeah.
Speaker A: For the, for the Las Vegas Repeater Association.
Speaker B: I am.
Speaker A: We're tied into CARLA for their network using all stars. So I maintain the ones in southern Nevada and a couple of them in Utah.
Speaker B: And. Very cool, very cool. And yeah, you're coming in, you know, good signals coming in here on system 21. And yeah, I'm a big fan of the Carlin network. I've got some friends down in California that I am able to stay in communicado with through the Lynx system. So very cool. Thank you, man.
Speaker A: Yeah, Tom, Jeff and the guys do a phenomenal job keeping that whole network up. Like I said, we've probably got maybe, I don't know, maybe eight repeaters on the network between our high band, our UHF radios, but Tom's probably got 30. He's definitely a busy dude. But yeah, it's a good capability to have and remarkably quiet for the amount of systems that are all tied together. I know a lot of the guys on Carla sometimes talk on local folks in blink mode, but it's still quiet. Not like it was, geez, back 20 years ago or whatever. All the repeaters are really, really busy. Not so much anymore, but it's still nice to have the capability,
Speaker B: I think, you know, communication has gotten so we Got so used to using our phones for virtually everything that it's almost like you have to pry yourself away from your phone just to use any other form of communication. I just, I'm new, relatively new hand. I'm going on two years this month. And yeah, it's been a fun ride. So gotten into asap, you know, over the course of these years, learning more codes and all that stuff. So it's kind of more of a throwback for me. You know, I actually work in the telecom industry, so, you know, kind of taking it back to the roots a little bit.
Speaker A: Give a little pause there for all the links to Dropout and seven PND Las Vegas. Yeah, I was going to ask you if you're into hf. That's good. I probably do more HF now than anything else. With bands being the way they are. It's really. It's fun and challenging. So I enjoy that. But yeah, I know what you mean about cell phones. I mean, you just go to any restaurant, people are sitting across from each
Speaker B: other with their heads in the cell
Speaker A: phones instead of talking and we're, you know, like I said, we're linked together with Tom and the guys over at All Star, which is the OIP protocol *, telecom industry, you probably know all about that. But we still have our 420, 430 radios on the mountaintop that we use as fallbacks in case we lose the Internet connection, which happens every now and again or there's something else happens. We still have the RF path, so whenever we go up to the mountaintop, we always fire those links up, make sure the radios are still tuned up and everything sounds good.
Speaker B: Roger that. Hey, just curious, are you into any of the, like, MET tactic or MET Core, any of that kind of. What do we want? Oh, it's kind of like texting, right? Except it's a, you know, stand alone system, you know. Are you doing any of that? No, no, I'm not.
Speaker A: Matter of fact, there's a mesh. One of the Mesh guys have.
Speaker B: They're.
Speaker A: They're on one of our radio repeater sites and we give them power. And the guy called Pup Pup, couple attenders are doing their mesh things. But no, I never got into that. Don't quite honestly see the point.
Speaker B: But.
Speaker A: And the mesh tastic thing, I didn't even know what that was until Yuma, one of the guys that was kind of talking about what that was all about, being able to have a little seminar on it. But no, I'm not, I'm not into that.
Speaker B: Though. Yeah I kind of got into that too. It's like you know to the you know ham thing it all kind of opens up you know it's like ham okay. Cmrs you know you know it's a similar. Platform that is all over the air versus no Internet. In that regard and it's another little thing to dabble in but yeah it's. It's all all fun and games. So anyway hey Ralph 687 SJW Mike here. Good rapping with you this morning I got to the office so I am going to bug out so I will be clear on your final man.
Speaker A: Okay Mike. Yeah no it sounds like it's kind of a modern day version of packet weird okay anyways yeah have a great day I'm not too far away from where I need to be too heading to meetings between officers have a good day up in Rio N7P and Del Las Vegas good to chat with you.

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Speaker B: Anybody out there for radio check? Over.

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Speaker A: K6ert, k6ert, k6obv.
Speaker B: Kh60rt. Copy.
Speaker A: Well, how's it going buddy?
Speaker B: Long time no stock. Yeah, roger that. I thought I already. I lost this radio for a day or two. I was having trouble with the received and the transcript part where every time I. It's the same dual band aid that I have in my. My rig. But yeah, I thought I. I was about to dump this already and move on to the next mobile radio but. Nope, still working like a champ. Doing good. Good afternoon. How about you? How's that weather in your end?
Speaker A: Oh you know, overcast, shattered clouds, possible showers here and there but typical day.
Speaker B: Sunny. But some portion of the value is pretty much overcast as well. I don't think it's going to rain anytime soon. Hopefully it doesn't Cool weather again. It's only early February of March and man we're already hitting 80 or something.
Speaker A: Yeah, tell me about it. We usually still have snow on the ground that I think we got an inch and a half. And that was it all winter.
Speaker B: I know you don't like heat so. Desert heat is not. Not a thing for you. I thought you're into cold weather and icy cold. Rick, the ice cold weather.
Speaker A: No cooler weather is okay, but not ice.
Speaker B: Have is Dean. Dean would have been in the area or he's somewhere in their side of the neck.
Speaker A: No, he's actually at home in Maine right now. Took him a while to get back home but he got back home
Speaker B: house
Speaker A: up there in Maine right now.
Speaker B: Pretty good. Can't complain. I miss the weather back home though. But we'll be there I think this summer or we're gonna push. Maybe spring breaks but if not we'll be there. Grandparents and probably spend two weeks, maybe three pushing. Yes sir. Hey, how do I sound on my transmission? Any noise? Any background humming? Any weird alien sound going on like a transmission?
Speaker A: No, no, I just hear the hum for finding the scene over here after it.
Speaker B: Yeah, because I'm starting to doubt this radio. It's. You know, it's an agent. It's my old trusty Amazon. I forgot the model. Ut UV something. 5888 new Xander. Yeah, starting to show some aging to it. So I don't know. I'm now looking into upgrading another Google standard mobile radio. I've learned my lesson. Moving gear. We have a lot of gear fun.
Speaker A: My repeater up and going. I got minks going everywhere. Yeah, so anyway 2006 LPB Fred get back to you.
Speaker B: Jeff. Did you settle then with the repeater site already up in your site?
Speaker A: Well, it's just here at the house for now.
Speaker B: It's going to get moved here shortly
Speaker A: on the camera side. Or if I'm going to move it over and use it for my All Star node when I move it. Or if I'm just gonna get another one and do it that way.
Speaker B: I heard some break there. Go ahead. Break.
Speaker A: AQN looking for a radio check.
Speaker B: Over. Roger. Sound sounds better than the person I'm talking to. I'm just kidding, that is. No, you sound good. Five by nine. Roger.
Speaker A: Thank you very much. Where are you looking?
Speaker B: Over. Central during the My kids school. Central, what is it? Washington, Las Vegas Valley. Roger that. I'm in Las Vegas. Also. Elevated part of Centennial. Okay, yeah, getting the repeater. Are you on portable HP or are you on the home base?
Speaker A: I'm in northern california
Speaker B: and kilo one bravo whiskey oscar in the state of maine. All right, more party. Bring on all the good, good old ham radio ragtubes. Anyway, the Centennial guy coming in. Even if you use the H, you'll probably get the repeater pretty often. No problem there. There was another station. Another station. Go ahead.
Speaker C: Well, I know I haven't talked to you in a while, but I figured
Speaker B: you would have recognized my voice.
Speaker C: I'm on a video call with Leonard on Discord. So I was like, who are you talking to? He's like, oh, I'm talking to Jeff. I'm like, oh, all right, I'll be right over.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker B: Good times. Yeah, I haven't been on that Discord. You know, I just had a little orgy, but kind of busy leaving, taking care of the kids. And I got sick. Man, I got sick so bad over the weekend. And, yeah, it wasn't. Wasn't fun. And I'm still, you know, doing my inhaler and oh, man, I got hit so bad. But anyways, you're home. You know, you're not heavy today.
Speaker C: Yeah, I'm home. I haven't been home in six months, but I'm home and cleaning out the truck and gonna have them come get it. And I'm moving to Tennessee.
Speaker B: That's a big move. What made you want to move to Tennessee? I mean, there's nothing wrong. I mean, I think you're good.
Speaker C: No, I just, you know, I got the opportunity to go down there and not have to pay rent for a little while and get under my feet and not have to drive truck anymore would be nice unless it's local. So other than that, now just opportunity and means so, yep, I got up here with the truck.
Speaker B: I'm gonna clean it out and pack
Speaker C: all my stuff that I'm gonna take with me in the Subaru and drive the 1400 miles from here to Jimmy's doorstep down there in Tennessee. And then we're gonna hook up meshtastic and GMRS all star and 2 meter and 70 centimeter and 10 meter and 11 meter all up in his tower. So we're going to get him situated down there, too. That's awesome.
Speaker B: Hey, talk to the guys here. Maybe you can link up with them or have once you get situated, you know, talk to the guys and maybe you can link up your system once you get established and. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. I can get a hold of you guys, you know, in an event of, you know, some rag cheering back to you.
Speaker C: Well, Leonard's got USRC and all kinds of stuff tied into a bunch of other stuff and stuff like that and. You know what I mean? Stuff and. Yeah, stuff.
Speaker B: Yeah, we know Leonard. Leonard never stops when working on his equipment and always got room for improvement. Yeah, we'll see. I'll send you guys some information maybe, you know, like I said, once they get established, because I don't think I won't be moving for the next maybe until my. My kids graduate high school. I think we're gonna be stuck here for a while. We'll see. But yeah, I'm trying to establish my community, trying to get away from all this HOA situations. I can put up a tower and give it 20, 20ft power. But yeah, I'm kind of limited with this housing situation. I'm getting tired of going up down in my attic, work whatever I can work on, you know, that kind of situation. But it is what it is. It's working. But I pick me better, right? System 26, link up for improvement.
Speaker A: You ain't got ears. Better get up a little, buddy.
Speaker B: Just take a picture of my attic. I made it so cozy. It's actually a man cave with a bunch of antenna.
Speaker C: I'll be out your way at some point in time.
Speaker B: Jeff.
Speaker C: My buddy Jeremy and his wife Tammy have retired from trucking as well, and they're.
Speaker B: They just moved out there to Vegas.
Speaker C: We're supposed to do a Vegas reunion at some point because that's where they got married. So probably October.
Speaker B: All right, well, you know where to find me and you know how to get a hold of me and you got my number, right? I know Leonard does, but. Yeah, take Leonard with you. We'll hit some one of the local casinos.
Speaker A: You never answer anything. You don't answer the radio, you don't answer your dmr, Facebook, nothing.
Speaker C: Oh, man.
Speaker B: Yeah, boy. Do you? Yeah, I work night and on my days off I got duty, daddy duty. And then I got sick over the weekend. Just lazy bum and. Yeah, enjoying what I call enjoying the mortgage. Stay home and enjoy the day and the evening and whatnot.
Speaker A: Yeah, Jeff, I've got so much stuff going, you can always get a hold
Speaker B: of me all the time. Pick up my girls and I'll be back in the mobile. I'll be back shortly.
Speaker C: Yeah, roger that. I'll probably be over Brandon Brandmeister Kilo.
Speaker B: One bubble with gastric.

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