GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-11

Speaker A: Nope.
Speaker B: November 6th, Juliet Juliet Tango. Looking for a radio check. M6JJT looking for a radio check, please.
Speaker C: K 9k a d. Shasta county at copper g. Loud and clear.
Speaker B: Thank you, sir. Did you say Shasta County?
Speaker C: Affirmative. Shasta County, California. I'm not any. I'm not on All Star.
Speaker D: I'm just using local repeater.
Speaker B: Oh, roger, roger. I'm checking out. I'm trying out a new radio here.
Speaker D: We're out here in Lake county, kind
Speaker B: of out in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker D: I just want to see how far I can reach out and touch some people.
Speaker C: You're a five nine, as they say. I'm in southern Shasta county, up in the foothills, 2200ft. You're coming in perfect.
Speaker B: Well, I'll tell you what, that is music to my ears. Thank you so much. I greatly appreciate you coming back and I hope you have a blessed day. This is November 6th. Juliet, Juliet tango.
Speaker C: Yeah, just one more thing. November 6th, Juliet, Juliet tango. I'm on the Stony Ford repeater. I don't know the exact frequency, but I. I have it programmed into my. My radio is Stony Ford.
Speaker B: Yeah, Roger, roger. I have the exact same one.
Speaker D: I don't.
Speaker B: Is that way out there in the middle of nowhere between Lake county and Highway 5.
Speaker D: I believe that's where it's at.
Speaker C: Yeah, affirmative. Except for I don't think it's Lake County. I think it's just north of there. Stony Ford is, let's say, west of Williams, California. Williams. So I think Williams is above you guys. Above Lake County. How many watts are you running on your new radio?
Speaker A: Yeah, and what is the radio and antenna too? That.
Speaker C: This is K9KAD from Shasta County. Once again, that sounded like a third party. And I do recognize that voice. I'm on a Anytone 578. I'm using it as a base station. It's a mobile, but I'm using it as the basis. 50 watts. And I got the Comet GP9, I believe, dual bander on my roof. K9K AD.
Speaker B: Yeah, very good. I'm running an Anytone also, and it's a 50 watts. And we have a diamond x 700
Speaker C: vertical on top of a roof over
Speaker B: here in Lake County.
Speaker C: Okay, copy that. We're just about identical. You got the diamond, I got the comment, but everything else is the same. You got the. The new Anytone 578?
Speaker B: Oh, you got me there. I'm actually not sure which model it is. It's a tri band fm. I'm not actually sure the Model number I bought it used. It was a great deal and I
Speaker C: bought it a long time ago.
Speaker B: I'm loaning it to a friend.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: Well, I'm sort of a newbie but I bought it as a package deal new a few months ago. It's the Tri Bander DMR Digital mobile Radio. I had it preloaded with every country, just about every little nook and cranny in the entire world and I just need to know how to get on dmr.
Speaker D: So you did good.
Speaker C: It's a great radio. I am extremely pleased with it. K9kad73 I'm just going to clear.
Speaker D: I could supply a little more info n6grg.
Speaker A: Yeah and kilo nov 6 mike golf kilo. I was the one who chimed in earlier wanting to know the radio, so need to give my ID as well. I'm hearing you all well from Chico, California.
Speaker C: Yeah, I recall that Chico voice. Is that Steve? I think by my memory. And do we talk on 2 meter simplex sometimes?
Speaker A: Yes, we do. Yeah, I've talked to you a couple times. Yep, especially on Thursday nights. You might even be able to get that other station N6GRG Direct as well since he's in Shasta county, over.
Speaker C: Affirmative. And I think there was one more unit that wanted to add in some information on the radio. So I'll just stand by, I'll clear my transmission. But I. I'm interested in whatever information that fourth unit needed to put in there.
Speaker D: Well, the fourth unit is N6TRG November 6th go radio go. And just wanted to say that for everybody that's new on the frequency. This repeater has two PLs and you're on the what we call the local PL123 and there's a higher frequency PL or tone that's used for link and to find out more information about all this stuff. If you go to carlaradio.net you'll get the lowdown.
Speaker C: K 9k ad. Thank you for that. I was familiar. Here's a question. If I do not nlt do not want to use Carlo and I do have the local which we're talking on. Will that restrict me which is what I want to non Carla radio traffic.
Speaker D: Well, what it'll do is make it so you communicate with the group on local which includes Steve and myself and a few others. Guy in Yuba City's on there and a few others. KN6SLN is on there from Mineral sometimes and a few other people. So it's the local group that you'll be communicating with. And it's a good group.
Speaker C: Okay, copy that.
Speaker B: Thank you.
Speaker C: I'm not ready to jump into Carla. And one last. I guess another question. I'm not familiar with All Star, although just touching the fringes. If guys are on All Star, does it pop up on this frequency also?
Speaker D: Well, there is a way to get into the link system when you're using All Star. There is a way to do it. You have to have some permissions and stuff. Although some. Sometimes you can get in through the Las Vegas. You're going on the link system when you're on All Star. And you'll have to get into the. Without permission, you'll have to get into the Las Vegas group and get in that way. And I forget what they call the Las Vegas Group. Steve might be able to say it, but that's how you get in on All Star. All Star is linked only.
Speaker C: Yeah, I'm familiar with the general overview. I don't really need it because as I said, I got DMR with a skybridge little. What do you call that repeater hot SWAT thing. Which is as good as or better than All Stars. But I just wondered because I hear All Star popping up on all my different frequencies and I kind of need to know if guys are calling from New York or whatever. But thank you for the information. I guess I'm gonna put this in rotation for doing radio checks. I never. I don't think I've spoken on the Stony Ford repeater before. So thanks again, everybody. Lake county, you're coming in loud and clear up at the Shasta county and 7 3. Thank you, everybody. K9K A D.
Speaker D: Yeah, good to hear you. K9K A.D. by the way, are you up in Single. The Singletown area by any chance?
Speaker C: Yeah, permanent of good memory. If I've told you I'm in Manson M A N T O N. I'm just below down the hill. They're 3500. I'm at 2200ft. So yeah, I'm just. My nearest little club is in Shingletown.
Speaker D: Beautiful up here.
Speaker C: Gorgeous day today now that the clouds cleared out.
Speaker D: I've got an amazing picture of a ditch that delivers water and repairing a. It was kind of like a sluice. I think it might have been made out of wood, maybe right after a fire. And. Yeah, so I'm familiar with Manson somewhat. A little. I've never been there. So. Steve, you still there? Let's let Steve get in here again and then I'm gonna stand by N6trg for my golf kilo.
Speaker A: Well, I'm standing by listening and lurking, but I don't really have any comments except that I've spoken to him before. The Lake county person is pretty clear. So anyway, he's got a little bit taller antenna. But anyway, we're all getting in there and yeah, welcome. We generally get on in the mornings and sometimes in the evenings and oh, you never know in between. But anyway, I don't really have nothing to add but, you know, except for welcome. KM6MTK.
Speaker D: All right, Diva. I just let you guys connect, reconnect and so yeah, really great to get JSA call going. I haven't really connected with you or KL7R yet, but it's working, so I'm happy about that. And now I'm going to take the other two micro sds and get them fixed to with the same settings so they work too. So I'll have have a backup. All right. Yeah, All Star is a cool thing. I almost got into All Star and then I kind of backed off a little bit. But you got to have really good Internet to really do well with All Star. And so. Yeah. Are you like on your way someplace, Steve in 6 prg?
Speaker A: Nope, just stayed home today. I'll work up in paradise tomorrow. But anyway, the other gentleman there was talking about DMR being better than All Star. And I don't know, I mean, I think it's everyone that's each his own kind of, you know, All Star. As far as sound is concerned. You can hardly tell the difference between an analog repeater. That's what kind of makes All Star nice dmr, you know, special stuff like having to have Brandmeister. And you know, it sounds kind of tinny to me, so I don't know, but I don't have anything dmr, so. But I. I know that there's kind of a little path you have to go through in order to get kind of going on dmr. So anyway, an All Star doesn't really need as big of a path, I don't think, you know, but you might have to have an All Star number. But that's pretty easy to get. So a lot of the little open spots and clear nodes all work All Star. And some of them will bridge other modes like DMR and stuff together too, which is pretty neat. So any of those scheduled modes I like for sure. But you know, I'm kind of more akin to the YAESU system fusion stuff since my equipment runs that. But that's all I got. I'VE been working on an antenna in the backyard here that I just pulled out from the back corner. It was kind of yucky, so I kind of cleaned it up and painted it again right now. And I'm going to go put a second coat on it and then at some point I'm going to look it up and see what it does. I picked it up at an auction and there's a guy up in paradise who wants an antenna. So if I can get it to work, I'll bring it up there and see if he wants it. All right, back to you. Can 6 NGK?
Speaker D: Well, yeah, great. Of course I'm talking on a radio that's All Star capable. Right now it's an Olinko. What is the number on this thing? DJ Mike Delta 5. And its capable is also not All Star. The other one, dmr and I had it working and back when I first got it, there was a lot of talk about all this DMR stuff's gonna come up and start working and it didn't happen. And I just kind of, you know, cooled off on the whole thing. So I've got actually two DMR radios, a CS800D and this one just. And this one's just a portable, but it's hooked to a nice antenna. So of course I'm making it down to this repeater with 3 watts. So anyway, so really good, Steve.
Speaker C: And
Speaker D: yeah, I've got to check this, this 5400, the micro SD cards that I ended up using because it might have FLDIGI on it, in which case I need to get it working too.
Speaker A: Well, the only other comment I have about DMR is it doesn't seem to be a lot of people in our area using it. So I think the only group I'm aware of is Orland, the Glenn county guys over there. There might be a couple people that still have DMR going, but low level, you know, repeater if they do so. But gentlemen, there, K9 KD, he could probably reach it if you have the right code plugged in for it and all, I'm thinking. But I'm not on it or nothing, but some of the guys over there in Glenn county are anyway. Yeah. So good. I'm glad you got your JS8 running. Are you going to be on 40 meters later or what? Because I did turn mine off this morning.
Speaker D: I've had it all. I've had it on 20 all day because KL7R is over there and I keep reaching out, not reaching him and I'm not sure exactly what's going on, why I'm not reaching him, but says he's on 24. 7. So I don't know what's going on but I just got it back and I'm having to, you know, reconnect. I have connected with a whole ton of people. I mean it's just incredible how many people I've connected with already and heard and so forth. So, yeah, and it's going non stop. There's always a QSO on it on 20 meters and the 40 is even busier. So yeah, I like it as 8 is my favorite. Works just like the FT8 except you can actually have a conversation. And 6 GRG.
Speaker A: Yeah, well that other stationary, Zach, K9KD. I know he has some HF aspirations I think in the future. So hopefully he sticks around and we can, we can talk to him on HF2 when he gets something going. Anyway, I'll say 73 for now and listen to your final. I'm gonna go back outside and put another coat of paint on that real quick. Km6MGK.
Speaker D: Yeah, I'm gonna try to send you that picture I have of Manton. A bunch of guys in Manton right after that big fire they had up there working on this. It's kind of some sort of like loose. Like it's a water system that feeds water into Manson. And boy, even right after the fire they got right on it. They were walking into the ashes to fix that thing because nobody had water without it. So yeah, Manson is an interesting place. Pretty, pretty country. I'm sure now you wouldn't even know there was a fire up there. But yeah, I've got that picture and it's pretty amazing. I'll try. I think I can make it go your way. Talk to you later. I'm listening.
Speaker C: N6GRG N6GRG from K9KAD about Matten. Yeah, we didn't actually get overrun with the fire here. It stopped right at the border. And yeah, Manton is flying full of Canals and PG&E sloughs and sluices and blah blah, blah. And I do remember reading in the papers about that rebuild. So if you check qrz, I just put my contact email on there. I made up a new email on, stuck it on there like two days ago. If you want to email me that picture, that'd be great. I'm in the history all the way from ancient Roman times or actually pre Roman times up to the 1800s. So this property, this area, it was like one of those old Western places in man.
Speaker D: So it's pretty cool. Thank you. Yeah, I will I've got your call written down canine KAD and I will find out where I've got that picture. I think I think I can access it right now from my cell phone but if I can't I'll get it over to the cell phone and right now the cell phone is the only Internet I've got because I don't have this other Internet that I've had for years that went away. So haven't figured out exactly what I'm going to do yet, whether it's going to be Starlink or something else. But I'll get it to you.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: One comment on Internet I was with Frontier, which is the worst company in the entire United States. I was with them before they were frontier. After 26 years of well, I don't even want to go into a waste radio traffic.

Speaker A: Last summer I jumped up to Starlink and at the time we were quote unquote, underserved, meaning Starlink hadn't penetrated the market here. And so I got the equipment, the router, the cable, the dish on the roof. 100% free. No come ons, no gimmicks, no nothing after the fact. 100% free. Anyway, my download speeds went from one megabyte per second. That's one. You heard it right on E for the entire 26 years. The DI connector, Starlink, it went to 200. 200. From one to 200. I did a test, what do they call that, a speed test the other day, and it was 400. 400. Upload speeds improved the same. So in any event, I highly recommend Starlink. I don't know if they're still doing that freebie thing, but take you 10 minutes to put it on the roof if you want to do it yourself. It's the best thing I've ever done.
Speaker B: Yeah, they've got that deal now and they're charging $39 a month for the first three months. And then it goes to 50. Or is it the first year or something? I don't know, it's a while. And then eventually goes to 50 and has everything you're talking about and the free gear. It is the full size station and not the Mini. I was surprised you have to actually pay money for the Mini. I would prefer to have the Mini, but. And they got a thing now where you can only go to four different locations in a year before you have to start playing the roving fee. So that was one thing. I wish they stopped making all these restrictions, but that's what they're doing.
Speaker A: Interesting. If I ever get time to go camping and driving around, which I've been planning for years, of course I might get the Mini or the whatever they call it, you stick in your car. But right now I put my full size Starlink on my roof and I have the cable coming in where all my RF cables come in. And my port and the side of my siding worked out perfectly, comes right into my radio room. And once again, it is the best technological decision I've ever made in my young life. Maybe the best decision I've ever made. Going to Starlink. It's that great. So if you can find a deal, you know, it's just my recommendation. I'm not related to that billionaire guy. I strongly recommend it. So I got a job I got to run down to Reading. Takes me a while from here. Although it's God's country the whole way. So 7:3 to everybody who jumps on the on the frequency I like talking. So with that I'll say 7:3.
Speaker B: Oh, you know what? You sounded so much like Elon I thought you were his brother. Just kidding completely. But yeah, I think, I think Starlink may be the way I go because it'll, if I move, it'll go with me. I haven't moved in since 2007 and and I only had moved one in my life before that so not like moving is a big deal for me but I kind of like to see a little bit more of the world. So anyway, good to talk to you and anybody out there that's listening, we're still going to be around N6 GRG. Although I'm going to go outside and feed something that's Some of my sheep are actually in Manton now. I sold a ram. There's a whole bloodline of mine in red Manton. N6GRG I got to go feed them.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

System 21 lit.

And 17.

System is linked up.

System 19 link up.

Los Angeles link up.

N6grg kn6mgk36local.

Speaker A: Hey, steve. Kn, six mgk and six crt. What's going on?
Speaker B: Well, I just sent you a message on both text and signal and I didn't see response, although I was talking to my mom. But I just wanted to say I'm just not seeing you on PSK Reporter from JSA call. So feel like, maybe, if possible, your ALC or whatever power output. You're not. Not putting power out. I don't know. I'm just double checking with you.
Speaker A: Yeah, I saw that. And I don't know how it is that I'm not being seen because I get a lot of replies. Like when I put out 0.4 watts, I got eight replies. So, yeah, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker B: Okay, well, it could also be that you maybe haven't checked that box that talks about reporting. Let me see if I can find it real quick.
Speaker A: Well, you've got to have Internet to use that.
Speaker B: Oh, copy that. Yeah. Okay, well, that would explain some things. Yeah. Anyway, I moved over to 40 meters right now, so I was on 20. Yeah, obviously you're probably never going to hear me on 20, which is too close. That's kind of what I'm thinking. But anyway, I wasn't getting a lot of traffic. I was getting at XV stations from, you know, Mexico. I'm getting the couple of stations is all on 20.
Speaker C: Yeah, I. I did
Speaker A: turn my ALC down, turn things down so that I would not have as much ALC going, but maybe too much. I don't know. I may have turned it down a little bit too much, but I'm pretty happy with what's going on. Okay, so you're gonna stay on 20? No, I just took. Just put it over on 40 and I'm checking things out.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, actually, I'd like to see if my station can talk to yours. And 40 is pretty busy right now.
Speaker C: I'll be right back. I'm gonna get my glasses so I can
Speaker A: see something. Nearly as busy right now. 20 was actually a lot more busy. Busy for me.
Speaker B: Okay, well, I mean, I put out one heartbeat and I filled the screen on PSK reporter. So on 20. No, that's not the case. I'm gonna get my glasses so I can see something on my computer. I'll be right back.
Speaker A: Yeah, I just put out a heartbeat and got maybe nine replies, something like 10, I don't know, quite a few.

Speaker A: Okay, well, I'm back.
Speaker B: Took me a second. Well, why don't you throw out a HP and I'll see who's hearing you.
Speaker A: Well, you're hearing me at. Well, I'm hearing you at Point. I'm hearing you at 7dB positive. I just sent out an SNR to you, so let's see how you're hearing me.
Speaker B: Says minus four.
Speaker A: Well, it came across to me is. It says kn6mgk, snr plus 04.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, it is plus four. I had my. I don't have my glasses on.
Speaker A: Yeah, see, that's the problem. I didn't have mine on before. I wanted to be able to see. Yeah, it says time delta 400 milliseconds. That's not bad. So. Yeah, anyway. Yeah, okay, well, you're definitely being hurt now for sure. So that's good. I like it.
Speaker B: Yeah. Pretty happy about it. Be nice to reach KL7R&I and eventually get some. Get some of the action going between me and all the stations up in Fairbanks that I had going before. I was trying to build that when everything died. I wanted to build. Build it into an Alaskan JSH called net or structure of some kind. I. Once I. I got a. I received a call from a station in a place called Bethel, Alaska. You'd have to look that up to see where it is. It's pretty crazy.
Speaker A: Yeah. See, there's a guy right now who's saying. He's saying CQ, CQ, W4 ADA. Hello from Western Washington. Yeah, see, those are the guys I like to try to talk to. Anyone that's new in the cq.
Speaker B: Well, just before you sent your. The message you have going out right now, a station, Station ww4 gpl, asked me for my snr to send. Then ask me to send his. Then my snr to him, which I said, told him it was minus 13. I think that might be florida. That's cool. I can receive Pico and Florida almost. Almost at the same time, but not quite.
Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I definitely see something up there. W4GPL. It says. No, that's from Ki4rj. Rxj. So he must be trying to get a message off to somebody. He's looking around for a relay station.
Speaker B: Yeah, WW4, which kind of surprised me.

Speaker A: I put a. I've been filling out up out all the blanks like I did before, like I used to and telling everybody, hey, this is a relay station. You can store messages here. Because I plan on having this thing on 24. 7 just like I used to.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm getting a few decodes here. It must be about. I don't know how they count them.
Speaker A: I got eight that were for you. I don't know if you've picked them all up or not.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I see seven. Yep. And then I sent one out to somebody.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: So anyway. Yeah, I see seven, so I must have missed one.
Speaker A: Yep, definitely at least eight.
Speaker B: Anyway, my antenna is working kind of interesting, you know, but maybe it's just stations. A lot of stuff, you know, from East Coast, Midwest. Just a little blank area between say. Somewhere around Elko, Nevada to about Denver. Not a whole lot in that area, but that way on the east and also the West Coast. Got pretty good on 40 today.
Speaker A: Yeah, that can be propagation. I gotta put my glasses on, but have to get so close to the screen to read it. I'm getting the six, the four in Florida. A zero, a one, A few seven. Yeah, pretty much just all over the place. Gonna kind of miss one feature that I had working on Windows, which was that it would announce that I'd received a message. I had this crazy music, you got mail kind of a thing that it would blurt out on the Windows machine. I've never been able to get. Anything audio out of a. Apply any kind of a Linux PI system. At least not so far. I don't have. Currently I don't have this thing. I don't have any messages in the message for it to blurt out. Yeah, so I have to put them in and it's kind of strange. They're like W. WMD format or something like that. I forget it was an oddball format.
Speaker B: Okay, well, I mean, at least you're being heard now. I feel better. I guess I didn't recognize or realize that you had to have Internet to be PSK reporter to have other people hearing you. That's what I was thinking, that they would still be recording you because they have the Internet, you know, but I guess not.
Speaker A: Yeah, you have have your PSK reporter set up so that it shows you more than just what the station you type in. You know, the search thing that you type in more than what it just that station receives. You have to tell TFK reporter to show you things that come from other stations. But you know, I. I Can't give you any details right now because I don't have Internet and I don't know what would happen if you tried to do it on a cell.
Speaker B: Yeah, it might work for a period of time, but once you learn there's no lose, you know, lose static IP or something like that or dynamic one, whatever it'll be, it'll be gone.
Speaker A: Yeah. What might work for me, the least expensive right now would be a hotspot because I think I could have a hotspot, not even have to pay for the debt or anything the way things are set up right now for me. And I mean a separate hotspot from, separate from my phone.
Speaker B: So right now, like I have the box that says enable spotting to reporting networks. That's like tsk reporting. Try to see if there's something else that you have to put in here.
Speaker A: Nope. Enables all you need it's PDSK reporter that you've got it set up correctly. If you want to see how many stations are receiving me.
Speaker B: See, all I've ever done was, you know, on the map, just put in like your call sign and search, you know, and see what it says. That's all I've ever done.
Speaker A: Yeah, there's other settings. You can tell it to show you. What the station you put in the search box is receiving or you can tell it to do to tell you both who's receiving it, who's transmitting to it. Or you can just say tell me who's receiving that station. I think I explained that. Right. Anyway, there's, there's some settings you can change.
Speaker B: I mean, just the ones I've ever messed with on the map are just at the very top filters. And like right now I say on 40 meters show signals and I said, I said received by so far. But I'm going to do sent by. Okay, there we go. Yeah, so, so I put sent by. So, so show signal sent by and I put in your call sign over the last three hours. And so yeah, it's showing me some now it's a pretty good map, you know, through the east coast and pretty similar to mine where part of the middle of the country doesn't have a whole lot going on. But yeah, you're being heard in, in Hawaii and Alaska. So the one in Alaska is the K3RR, not KL7R, you know. But anyway, that's the south part of Alaska and you're being heard by the NH6V in Hawaii too. So then also you're being heard over into Africa by EA8. Well, it's in the Canary Islands. Are you being heard over there?
Speaker A: Yeah, it's always cool to work South Africa. South Africa used to be really busy with GSA call. And sometimes, you know, when things are right, I. I get South African stations. I actually have full QSOs with them. And I used to have a lot of Australian stations, a whole ton of Australian stations. But I think they're messing with Vera Vera AC or whatever they call it. And usually it takes a while and they decide, oh, wait, I missed all the stuff that we could do with JSA call. At first, the guy on Vera AC was telling everybody it would do everything JSA call this, and absolutely it does not. I have a full license with them and stuff because I was kind of suckered into it.
Speaker B: Well, you're being heard by Ki6ssi. Yeah, he's on there for you. And minus 12 decibels.
Speaker A: Yeah. Been a while since I've heard from him. Most of that was off on the Internet. He used to be on 36 sometimes.
Speaker B: Yeah. So anyway. Well, I'm glad I. I don't know why it didn't show me something before, but it is now, so that's good. But, yeah, it seems like you got it going, so that's good. Yeah. What, what. What changes did you make that seem to make the most difference?
Speaker A: You mean to get it going?
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Well, you know, we talked about the F. The FDA preset and all that other crap, and I tried all that stuff and I was trying to just figure it out, and I finally said, hey, wait a minute. I know what worked for me before. When I first started, it was a particular video, and I have it in my playlist. So I got on the phone and I found the. Found the video in the playlist. And what the guy does is he rattles through the settings for a 7300. I mean, he goes through it fast, really fast. So he's practically reading them off real quick. Although he's actually whipping through all the settings on the 7300 at the same time. But he's just really fast. So what you have to do is
Speaker B: push pause with each setting he gives you.
Speaker A: Well, not only that, I was not looking at my 7300. What he was doing all that because I'm outside using my phone, so I have a pad and I'm writing it down and writing everything down, he says. And I put all that stuff in, and then I grabbed one of the micro SD's that I couldn't get working before and plugged it in. And made a couple of little changes and that I had it.
Speaker B: Okay, good. So then, now you said FL did. You might be on that same court.
Speaker A: Yeah, it may be. Get this out of the way for just a second. You can see what's on this, what's here. There's a lot here. Look at the ham radio. Okay. Yeah, I've got the whole FTJB tweak now like I had before when it was. It was amazing. KE6SLs would send out these messages in full format. And what I mean by that is with fldigi, if you're using full format, it fills out a form, a literal form that you could print it on a piece of paper.
Speaker B: So do you know the max minutes? It seems like I put in like 1299 or something like that. It's the most I can get for it to not time out.
Speaker A: I guess I dropped out.
Speaker B: Yes, you did. My question for you though was if you know the max minutes. I think I got to do 1299, you know, before it'll timeout
Speaker A: on JSA.
Speaker B: Roger.
Speaker A: Minor Stout, JS8. Now I gotta find out how to get that. Oh, there it is. Okay, here we go. What I do with that? It was kind of astounding to find this out. I don't want any time limit. So in setting. Where it has the time, the maximum time, I put basically nothing. I told it no time at all. And then it never does quit.
Speaker B: So it says auto idle, idle time, disable auto reply after. And then I think the default had a number in there, 999 or something. And I was able to put it higher. You're saying just to have it say, you know, don't put nothing in there. It just says mid sub activity and that's it. That doesn't seem like I can delete that statement.
Speaker A: It says there's an option disabled. That's what I put on there, disabled.
Speaker B: I'm not seeing that.
Speaker A: Just type it in.
Speaker B: Maybe it's a different section then. I don't know. Allowing me to type over anything. There's just a drop down. No drop down box. It has up or down arrow and I can't. I can't highlight it and delete it all. I can delete the numbers. That's all I can do.
Speaker A: Well, over on the left, there's the arrows on the right. And then over on the left there's you. You probably have something that says, well, there's a top little top little arrow and a bottom arrow. Click the bottom arrow and you'll find the disabled statement there.
Speaker B: No hit bottom. It goes to 1399. Nope, not going to go up. I'm in the 14. Fourteen forties max. I can. I can put nothing in that time frame.

Speaker A: I'm trying to find where. Where that particular option is. Hang on a second. I gotta get this. This is ridiculous.
Speaker B: Yeah, the one I was talking about was under file settings. And then let's see, it's under behavior, not Thunder, networking and auto reply.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Way over there.
Speaker B: Yeah, it seems like I should just have to wait for someone to throw out a heartbeat. So we'll see if it does that.
Speaker A: Well, there's idle timeout, Disable auto reply after, and I put disabled there.
Speaker B: Yeah, I wonder if that's a newer version or something that I'm running. Yeah, because mine doesn't give me an option like that.
Speaker A: Well, over there, where you're trying to. Where you, you know, on the right hand side of the disable auto support auto reply after, on the right hand side, that little. There's a minute of that inactivity there, right? That's what you see right now.
Speaker B: Yeah, correct. And the most I've been outputting is 1440, but yeah, I can't see a way that I can just type in disabled.
Speaker A: Well, there's two little arrows on the right hand side of where it says minutes of activity. And if you click on the bottom one, it will go to disabled.
Speaker B: Well, all it does right now is reducing the number of minutes. And I mean, literally it has 1400 of them to go through.
Speaker A: Well, where it says minutes of activity, put this is number one there.
Speaker B: Yeah, and when I do that, I can definitely do that. But then if I hit the down arrow again. Okay. Hey, guess what? It just popped up after I did that. I hit it went to disable, but I had to put the one in there because when I kept putting it on down, all it would do is drop down and. Yeah, so that's interesting. Yeah, so I put it to disabled now.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's a highly, highly complex computer operation and you're talking to professionals now.
Speaker B: Yeah, I couldn't type it in, that's for sure. And I kept hitting the down arrow and go down and then go up. It would stop at a certain spot and I could type. Type it in things. So I tried everything else. So I didn't try putting in just the number one. I cleared it out. You would think if I cleared it out with nothing and hit the down arrow, it would go to disable, but it didn't. It went to 1440.
Speaker A: Well, I was a computer professional for the NSIA. Zip.
Speaker B: Yeah, I know, Mike. You know everything anyway. All right, well, that's cool. So now I got to say disabled. Oh, that's good. So now theoretically if it's on it should just automatically do its auto replies all the time, right? With no idle timeouts.
Speaker A: Well make sure you click ok. That's in the bottom right there. Or it won't take it. You gotta, you know, make it say disabled and then click ok. Yeah, I
Speaker B: did that for sure. You know a lot of times on these settings I'll change one setting and then I'll hit OK and then go right back to it again. I don't FL I think isn't it FL did digi is that way like where you got to save every setting individually hit OK or else it won't remember them. It does all kinds of stuff like that. That's why I don't really like fldigi. Seems like it takes forever to set it up. Gotta download the right file for yae see or something like that to put it in the right spot. Wow, this is wacky.
Speaker A: Well I'll tell you, once you get it going it does amazing things. You know it can be completely automated if you have a net control that knows how to automate it. And what he does is he sending up has us send out a bunch of messages or by first he's sending out some bulletins on one speed with one particular mode. And then you, you have this little box on the top right corner that says R R or something you have that clicked and nothing else up there. And when you. Then he'll say going to high speed and he'll go zap, zap. Send out this little, little code. And all of a sudden your, your mode, your mode stays the same but the speed doubles. For this one bolton he sends. It's really cool the way it works. And then he, he sends out that message and then that when he's done it sends out the same code again and it goes back to the floor of speech. But without this sort of thing, you know, with if, if the station you're trying to receive doesn't send out these special little codes to tell you what speed they're using. You can listen to that and there's like so many different modes. You never figure it out.
Speaker B: Well, it doesn't seem like there's anyone on yet. I've been calling CQ a few times now.
Speaker A: Yeah, a lot of people won't reply to cqs. I never do. I just see a station there that you know is doing various things and I'll put their, select their, select their call, make it turn blue either by click selecting it on the right hand side or the Left hand side, I'll make it turn blue and then I'll say, anybody there? You copy? Because a lot of times these stations aren't there. There's nobody there. These things are just operating and nobody's there. You know, I leave mine running 24 7, so if somebody's trying to reach me in the middle of the night, I sleep right through. But they can always send me a message.
Speaker B: Yeah, so did you get my message?
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, you got her ask. What's it called? Ask back from me saying I got it. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker B: Yeah, I did. Just curious. Okay. Anyway, so, yeah, but that's. I like to respond to cqs. They'll just gab with the person for a few minutes if I got time anyway. I wouldn't do it if I didn't have time respond. But anyway, it's all good. Yeah, I didn't get any responses this time. Some other day.
Speaker A: Well, that's why I say, you know, relying on CQ won't get you that many QSOs. If you just pick out somebody that's replied, you know, replied to one of your HBs or, you know, just pick out some of these people and select their call and make it blue and then just say, are you there or do you copy? And if they are, then they'll come back and if not, then send them a message if you want and move on to the next person.
Speaker B: Yeah, a lot of these people are doing like what you do, you know, basically have a store. Store and forward station.
Speaker A: Well, another thing I do is I always, I always try to have things set up so that the call sign, like over on the right hand side, okay, you right click where it says, you right click over there on almost anywhere on the very top of that whole frame and it says sort box. And then I click call signs, replayed call signs replied recent first. Okay, so that way it organizes that whole thing. You're at the very top now of that list. The next station down is 33 minutes. The next station after that is 38 minutes. For some reason, it's not exactly sorted perfectly because there's, there's one on that list that's four minutes. One, that's one minute. One, that's one minute dot See? So there's a whole bunch at the top of the list that are very, very recent. You go down this list though, and it can say 12 hours, seven hours. There's a. Another one minute way down. So I don't know why it's not. Always sorting perfectly, but. It's Way better than. Than it would be without any sorting. So. So you know, you get your most recent people are right there and, and the reason you're at the very top is you actually communicated directly with me. So your call is highlighted. It's a darker colored print.
Speaker B: Deb, if you want the recent stuff then you would have to do last heard timestamp recent first. Right, because that shows them like you know, the most recent ones but the ones that you said replied. Well then that's different.
Speaker A: Yeah, you're right. I could use the timestamp thing. Change that. Okay, yeah, now I've got yours still at the very top but then the next one down is 15 seconds ago. So that's. Yeah, but that doesn't mean. Even though you just received something from that session, doesn't mean they're looking at the screen. So now if they have, if they have something in their system like I did where with my Windows system, where it would say, it would give me an audio alert, whatever I choose to have it say, I can have it say. But you put this audio alert in the notification thing and then. If you put a message in there box they'll get that audio alert. And so if they're watching TV they'll hear, their computer will say something to them like you've got mail or whatever they decide they want it to say.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've never messed with that. But that's just under notifications, right? Yeah, and it's a little bit harder
Speaker A: to do with Linux but than a PI or Linux maybe. I don't know if a Linux and a laptop would be easier but Linux and a PI is harder to get it to say anything. I think it could be that the laptop version of Linux would. That notification thing would work but like I say, you have to put files in the right spot. I think it's web we M D or something format. It's a weird format for audio file.
Speaker B: Okay, now here's another discussion. So tuning like there's this one here that says, you know, enable tuning tone. Now the way I've always used my machines here is just, you know, I go to the frequency like 7.078 and I just hit my tune button and just tune it up. That's what I do and it works that way. So but here, you know, I think you were saying that you were able to tune through your, through this interface, you know, through the JS8 program. I've never done that.
Speaker A: I just clicked tune on the upper, upper right there. Send out a carrier that's how I tune it.
Speaker B: Yeah. I don't understand. When I hit tune, all it does is it. It throws my transmitter into TX format, but it's not clicking. The, the relay is in the transceiver at all.
Speaker A: It doesn't transmit anything.
Speaker B: It appears like it, like it is. Let me see, let me see what kind of power it's putting out. Yeah, See, I'm set on 40 watts and it's. When I hit the tune button, it's putting out 40 watts and throwing a carrier out there. It just goes into TX mode. It doesn't, it doesn't like actually run the tuner in the internal tuner.
Speaker A: Well, something's happened to mine because it's no longer transmitting. I don't know what happened.
Speaker B: You mean under that or you mean all together?
Speaker A: It has to do with the audio settings. If something's changed, I gotta look at it.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. But anyway, this is one of them things that I've always wondered how to make that work. Or maybe it was. Maybe it just works better with ICOM or something.
Speaker A: For some reason it changed audio fitting in the setup. So I've got it back now.
Speaker B: So anyway, you get what I'm saying about, about like when I hit the tuner button on my transceiver, you know, of course you hear the clicking sounds of the internal tuner finding, you know, the relays are the right combination or whatever it wants to select. And then of course it'll. After a second it'll. It'll find that spot and it'll tune on the transceiver. So anyway, I was just curious how that button is supposed to work on the GSA program.
Speaker A: Yeah. One thing I don't understand is why they're so worried about alc.
Speaker B: I don't know. I don't listen to them completely. I mean, I like to have a little bit of alc, so I like it to be about, around three. But I think if you have too much, you're just kind of over modulating your signal. So I don't know if the other stations can pick that up. I don't know, like if you're.

Speaker A: Splattering or I don't know if that's the right word. But anyway, so eventually you want your ALC to be really low.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, HP works just fine. So I don't know. I did turn. I had it set up pretty nicely before I can fix it back to where it was. Just turn to pull the green line down on the right hand side. Yeah. Now I have no ALC at all and I still have 47 watts. So yeah, I guess that's the place to leave it.
Speaker A: Yeah, I mean that's the only way I know for transmit alc. Is that that green, that pull down thing that you pull down? The only other way you can change that is through the transceiver settings. Right. The digital gain, you could produce that or something. I've done that before and that changes it too. But I just find it a lot easier to leave that alone and mess with that little green bar there.
Speaker B: Yeah, I just messed with it so that the ALC is just barely showing. That's what they say to do. So that's where I've got it.
Speaker A: Yep. And yeah, I mean on the Yaesus that's what we do too. And then also we check our power output like you sound like you've done too, so that's usually a good sign. I've got a little bit of ALC and I can see that I'm putting out the power that I'm. At least I should be being heard as long as the band conditions are good and generally it works. I mean then of course it's timing, you know, timing. If it's off, well then you might be being heard maybe, but maybe not. So you have to be timed. So anyway, I've had that problem before too, so got to think my time one way or the other. So I tried that wwd, it seemed to work. So off to practice more with that on GS8.
Speaker B: Well, one interesting thing is that, you know, now that I no longer have Internet, I have to time it. If I shut JS8 off when I turn it back on, it's going to be totally out of time and I have to time it. So I time it with WWV and it stays fine for a long time. I mean it almost is still almost perfect and it's been on all day, so pretty cool.
Speaker A: Yeah. So yeah, that would be a benefit of having that 7610 because I know Jay does that all the time where he'll have. He'll do FT8 on one side and he'll be doing he'll be listening on 80 meters or whatever on the other. On the other receiver. Yeah.
Speaker B: Well, you know, on the. If FT8 had a way to do what you do with JSA call, then you could instantaneously time the FT8. But the way FT8 works is it reflecting on the time of the station, it's hearing and timing it that way, which, as you probably know, I. I determined there was a horrible way to go. Just like the automatic in the. As they call, terrible way to go.
Speaker A: Yeah. FP8, you can't time it that way so it doesn't have a button where you can hip and says time now, you know, so that kind of fails in that. In that regard. But my point was not on that subject. But my point was the 7610, you can be doing JS8 on one side and be on your 40 meter net on the other.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I got that. Although when JS8 is transmitting, what happens with the 40? It's on 40 meters. What happens to the 40 meters on the other side? It's totally screwed. Right.
Speaker A: I'll have to ask Jay, but he does. He may have some filters and points in there too. Yeah, I'll have to ask him.
Speaker B: Does you know if it has two antenna outputs?
Speaker A: Oh yeah, it does. Yeah. That's the whole point. Same with that, that new 7300 Mark II.
Speaker B: Right.
Speaker A: It has a separate receive also antenna. So. But it may only have one antenna output. But the 7610 has two. And it has a separate receive as well.
Speaker B: Yeah, you probably have to be on. On a different band for it to work.
Speaker A: Yeah, but that would be true. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Like you'd have to have. Yeah. Otherwise you get other problems.
Speaker B: But.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And they have other things you can employ too. But anyway, I'll have to ask him. I don't know how often he really works that way, but I know that he's on 80 meters in the mornings early like, you know, six in the morning, seven. And he likes to run FP8
Speaker B: early
Speaker A: in the morning too. So he does them both as far as I know. But any event, they're definitely different bands beyond 40 meters or 20. And sometimes during the day 10 or 15. Some guys are having fun on 30 meters.
Speaker B: Well, I'm going to take that beam and stick it out in the yard with a mast. I have. I have a really heavy mast. I'm going to stick it out in the field and just guide the heck out of it with ropes and stuff so the sheep can't mess with it and because they like to rub on things. So you have to, you have to project length and. And I won't have a rotor on it. So I'm just gonna have to control it with more lines. It's gonna look kind of crazy out there. But yeah, I'm gonna do that and get some use out of that thing when I leave here. If I leave here, I'll probably just have to get rid of it.
Speaker A: Yep. So did you see that the TTP group, they just. One of the guys put out a asking SNR and my station sent him one. Did yours.
Speaker B: From you? He didn't send me one. Well, I think what that is is the hb. I think that's how he did that.
Speaker A: Now do you still have that group call in there? The AT ttp, you know, because that's what he sent it out to. It was KJ5 CMF. So he just said at TPSNR. And my station sent him back minus 23.
Speaker B: Right now I don't have any groups in here. I think you're talking about ttp. Yeah, I see that. Yeah, I don't have any groups in here right now.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, so you'll have to reset that up. You were definitely on there before I could see on the tech preppers live stream, whatever. I could see your station responding to his back when. When you were on. So you were responding to him before. He never really mentioned you, but I know he could see that you responded to his station.
Speaker B: Yeah, he would probably mention people that are living kind of close by or are patrons. That's the way to get message mentioned on YouTube.
Speaker A: Yeah, just trying to be, you know, try to be more or less, you know, in his core group of friends that he trusts kind of thing. I think that's the way it is. I'm not, I'm not in that by the way. I'm just saying, you know, I'm. I'm same way you are. I just have the group on there and, and you know, occasionally I saw him on the live stream and I tried to send him a message or so, but I don't think I've ever gotten through to him. I don't think I got through to cam4ack either. I tried that one a few times on JS8 I'm talking about. But I have gotten through to a couple others like Ham Radio 2.0 and Josh. I've gone through to both those guys before, but that's it really. Oh, and I've talked on side Bend to KB9VBR in Wisconsin. For some reason, I get Wisconsin pretty good most of the time.
Speaker B: Well, I'm probably gonna get out of here. But yeah, with KM4APK, that's why I did the patron thing. And I think it was like only two bucks a month.
Speaker A: And
Speaker B: by doing that, once you're a patron with Patreon, they call it on YouTube, then you can ask questions at that. At that website, that patron.km4hdk@patreon website. See, you can ask questions there. And most of the time these guys that run these YouTube channels don't. They don't answer regular YouTube things unless they have a really small channel. They don't answer regular YouTube questions in the comments. They only answer their patrons. They only talk to their patrons. It's really common. Anyway, I gotta get out of here because I'm going dead.
Speaker A: I had.
Speaker B: I had a really good meal though. I made coleslaw from scratch with my fresh lemons right off the tree. And then I made hamburger with some really good seasoning and used up my last hamburger bunch. Good stuff. So I'm out of here. M6GRG.
Speaker A: Okay, well, we talk to you in the morning. 73. KN6MGK is clear and good night all. I'll be QRT and go take a shower. KN6MGK. Good night.
Speaker B: Good night. Boy, success. Getting this going, man. Incredible. Talk to you later.

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Speaker A: Bravo X reactor radio check to the Carla 16 Lakes of Mentor, California. Station calling November 6, India Whiskey Hotel in Chico. You're making it, but there's a little bit of the crackling noise on your signal,
Speaker B: I think. Carlos 16. I'm trying to think if it's bound back or if I believe it might be the snow mountain system. I'm trying to remember if you know which one this is.
Speaker A: You know I don't, but you know, the people out here talk about. And the radar from the air force base causing some interference.
Speaker B: The snap, crackle, flop I hear in the background. Yeah, that's the phase pause that the phase array system that we have to share with the space Force station that. Just east of the air base near Marysville. Yeah, it's one of those realities. And we have to keep another 50 watts. But I think most repeaters like this keep it much lower than that. But being a snowy mountain, it definitely helps a lot. All right, well, I appreciate it very much this morning as I go off to work, just check, make sure how Carl is doing.
Speaker A: Oh, you're making it, you know, but good copy. Have a good day. Here.

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Speaker A: System32 link up.
Speaker B: And 17. Morning, Larry. It's going okay. I got a couple errands I've run today. I took the day off. Got a bunch of stuff to do. Dentist appointment and help my wife set up for a craft show and a few other things. So it's a beautiful, beautiful morning. Traffic's crazy. That's just Las Vegas. How about you?
Speaker A: Well, quiet day here. It's quite unusual for me. Live a really great quiet routine life and my wife and I. Yeah, nothing on the agenda today, just usual stuff. Enjoying retirement. Sorry to rub it in, but anyway. Yeah, nothing on the agenda. 47 degrees and kind of drizzly, you know, I still don't get much rain today. Breezy our pattern right now anyway. Yeah, crazy traffic still, I'm sure you and this early. Although people heading off to work, huh?
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm on one of the. I'm on the beltway, going around town. It kind of circles a bit. The valley anyways. Yeah, it's nice here too. Nice cloudless guy. 64. Yeah, 64 degrees according to the car. So beautiful. Beautiful and calm. So we had a little bit of a heat wave there for a while. When I was in Yuma a couple weeks ago for the swamp, it was 99 degrees down there. 98 on Friday and 99 on Saturday. But it was, you know, no wind or nothing like that, so it wasn't too bad.
Speaker A: Yeah, I know you live in it every summer, but we used to live in Northern California, you know, on mountains. But they could get 100 down to Chico and you know, so where you saw weather. We've lived here seven years now and we. So until last year when we went back down there in the summertime for our grandson high school graduation, we hadn't been in that kind of weather in seven years, you know, I mean here one day for buses in the. Yeah, we're not used to that stuff anymore. We don't particularly care for it.
Speaker B: Yeah, me either. I just. I would very much like to get the heck out of here when I retire, but stay in Vegas. So we'll see how that, how that materializes. But I'm done with the heat and just the city in general too. Just really gone to heck over the time. Lived here, but buddy of mine bought a house up in Christian City. He loves it up there. Very smaller community, right not too far from Tahoe. Reno. Tahoe area about, I think he said a half hour, 45 minute drive and very pleasant. He said the houses are a little pricey, but you know, not as bad as Vegas. I've been thinking about maybe going up there sometime. Just kind of looking around.
Speaker A: Yeah, man. When I first went to Las Vegas in 70s, you know, much smaller city then. And then I was just in LA Bone Long moved there for a number of years and yeah, they're telling me how I was growing while they're there. When they hit a million people. We worked at the dryer. Well, mill factory, whatever I was, I think it was.
Speaker B: Oh, okay. Yeah, I've lived here since the fall of 83. I transferred here when I was in the Air Force. I was stationed at Alamoguardo, New Mexico. Base called Holloman. My Wide Sands Missile Range. Worked there for a little bit and then got your answer out here. Then I got out.
Speaker A: Okay. Well, thank you Ross, for serving our country. My late wife and I moved from Moreno Valley on the other side. The Airfish got hot in the ground. California outside of Chico. So that was a good change for us. Up from the desert to the mountains, covering snow and winter and all that stuff. It was all good.
Speaker B: Yeah, my wife grew up in. Oh she was born Baptist in Boston, Cape Cod area. And after her father passed, her mom pulled up stakes and moved west. Ended up in Chino, California, I guess. And that's kind of where she grew up.
Speaker A: Yeah, I used to drive through Chino every day when I commuted from Moreno Valley to Fullerton and I worked for all state and. Every day. Yeah, Chino's not worried, traffic. I'm just stopped going to work in the morning there in the 60s, that's where it started bogging down. Thank goodness for amateur ego man. Back in the 80s is when I really got into big guns and wearing o' rally. And it sure saved my sanity setting up here hours a day, minimum. On the road every day, commuting and yeah, good for me to have a radio there in the vehicle.
Speaker B: Yeah, I know. I know what you're talking about. That's what I got into it. Late 80s, I would say. I was always back in the. You know, I lived in Wisconsin. Well, not most kid. I was digging the cd, right. Never got into HAM radio. I never. I was always intimidated by the code. Right. And they came up with the technician class. No, code class. And actually the engineering director at the company I worked for back then, he was the one that talked me into it. He ended up being my owner. Brilliant guy, K7NM Lee Barrett, MSEE. Just a brilliant engineer. RF engineer. Did a lot of work in broadcast world. But anyways, that kind of got me into it. But back then, the systems were a
Speaker A: lot more active than they are now. Six thousand, seven thousand feet high. And coverage was incredible. They were all so busy. Oh, they were so busy, man. Some busy wait in line to make a call. That's all fine. I thought. Maybe 5 extra I got license again. Upgraded and all that. Not really got into it and vlog ever since. Good. Good stuff. Good memory. All right, I'll let you go there, Ralph. You got to catch your farm. Hope you have a good day there. And help your wife set up for a crash area. Always fun.
Speaker B: Yeah, you too. Thanks for the shout. That was good to chat. I'm just about getting. Getting ready to get off the interstate here, so. Good time get myself some caffeine here and get my day started. One of my. One of my bad habits. Well, I like those monster drinks.
Speaker A: Although they're not.
Speaker B: Supposedly they're not good for you, but whatever. All right, Larry. Have a good rest of your day out there. And 7TND Las Vegas.

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Speaker A: And 16.
Speaker B: What's going on there? Ken? Good morning. Hey Larry.
Speaker A: I heard the ND Net this morning but I was in the middle of eating my breakfast. How are you doing? If you don't know what the ND net is, asked me to force myself to explain myself.
Speaker B: Would you please force yourself to find yourself?
Speaker A: Okay, all right, let me, let me pre oxygenate myself. The ND network. You and Ralph.
Speaker B: Oh, okay. All right, now I got you. That makes sense. So we'll have to try to make that more regular event to entertain you. Okay.
Speaker A: Yeah, I need lots of entertainment. How are you doing? How are things up there?
Speaker B: Yeah, don't we all need lots of entertainment? Oh, it's good here. Quiet, quiet day here. So I haven't done my breakfast out of the way. Just finish my special cup of coffee so I'm good to go.
Speaker A: Yeah, me too. I made kind of an extra large breakfast this morning. The wife and I were going to
Speaker B: try
Speaker A: and do a large breakfast, a medium lunch and a small dinner because
Speaker B: that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker A: So let's try and get into the, the routine of that. Unfortunately for me and my wife is I'm usually in charge of making breakfast. Then we're both kind of up for grabs for lunch, whatever we feel like doing. Usually leftovers. And then she's in charge of dinner.
Speaker B: Okay. Breakfast is pretty light. Music, cereal. Might have a small little light snack or something. So we don't need light dinner. Normal dinner she cooks up 4,50 o'. Clock. Yeah. So. We both of us are.
Speaker A: Well, I'm, I'm probably going to take a nap here. We had a hell of a thunderstorm
Speaker B: blue through here last night.
Speaker A: I think there was a good solid 20 minutes of nothing but thunder, non stop thunder. So that meant that the lightning strikes were probably.
Speaker B: I don't know, I'm going to say
Speaker A: the lightning strikes were probably at least 30 per minute. We even had one that was super close.
Speaker B: I just happened to be looking out the window upstairs.
Speaker A: One that was super close.
Speaker B: I mean it was only a couple houses away.
Speaker A: I'm not sure what it hit but boy, I tell you, it felt like it shook the whole house. Even though this house is all concrete and brick and big pillars and boy, it sure felt like it shipped a house.
Speaker B: Well, you know, spending most of my life in California here on the coast we don't get storms like that. From time to time. You describe Tim Murray in the new direct Alabama. You know they get a lot of lighting storms there, a lot of lighting Thunder, hundreds of stripes and all that just going on and on like he described. And I've only seen out the movies all. Well, I do remember back in Force Mansion, we just moved to dinner here in Southern California and we had that big lightning storm up there, 700 strikes in Duke county and started a bunch of fires. That was terrible, terrible fire event there. We're leaning her down into lighting just constantly. This is pretty cool. This is an auger and this is really cool. Those lightning strikes are hitting ground someplace, sure enough, although so many fires there in Deep county right here, 98, I think. But that's the only one of those.
Speaker A: The only time I think I've seen lots and lots of very entertaining lighting was in 83. As soon as I graduated my. So I took off with my brother. He was moving to Massachusetts, so we piled up his van and a little Nissan. Back then it was Dawson. And we moved him from Southern California to Ipswich, Massachusetts. And we stopped there, you know, on the Mississippi river there in Iowa, Des Moines. And it's all family. And my grandmother, the one and only time I ever met my grandmother, other than she coming to see me only being a couple months old. But yeah, the lightning just. It was amazing watching that lightning shoot across the sky. A lot of it didn't hit the ground, but a lot of it just went across the sky coming towards us. Pretty amazing. Ever since then, I thought. I just. I love watching the lightning and hearing the. Hearing the claps and the thunder.
Speaker B: There's different yarn coasters, different sounds. A lot of it happens out over the water, but we don't get them that often. Lightning bolts and thunder. But yeah, there is a cloud to cloud lightning.
Speaker A: All right, sir, I'm going to get back at it.
Speaker B: Good, good talking to you as always.
Speaker A: Anything comes up, let me know if.
Speaker B: And
Speaker A: here in the next couple of weeks, I'm going to be starting a couple of new adventures, one of them being the business I've been trying to start here, and the other is putting a rota. Putting our rota back on the air. Okay, Larry, good to hear you. Talk to you later. N6 kne.
Speaker B: I look forward to hearing all about it. Both of them. All right, stand by. Catch you later. Have a good.

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