GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-17

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Kilo. November 6th. Uniform Yankee. Officer, can I get a quick signal check? You're loud and clear in Pinaka, Nevada. Kk7bbi. Thanks so much, bbi. Have a good day out there in nevada. From berkeley, california. Kansas, u.a.o. clear.

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Speaker A: Here.
Speaker B: Better.
Speaker A: I think it's on your side. I. I can barely hear you crashing. But the repeater is clear from here. From my side. Okay, I copy. I'll. I'll keep. Listen. Run away.

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Speaker A: Sam, That was a pretty quick radio check. Want to try it again so we can hear your audio? Go ahead. N6 kne here.
Speaker B: N6kne. This is w6tsj. W6tango, sierra, juliet.
Speaker A: Okay, that was much better. Yeah, you are. You're loud and clear. Great signal and great audio.
Speaker B: Okay, thank you. I do appreciate that. Your signal here is about 10 over 9. So full quieting on this end also. Thanks for the report. I'm located in Laguna Miguel. I wonder what is your qth?
Speaker A: Well, believe it or not, I am here in Chinatown, Columbia, Columbia, South America.
Speaker B: All right, that's cool. You're part of the. I guess this is part of this wind system. I've been a ham for a vintage ham, but I've getting introduced to some of these networks. Nice talking to you down there in Columbia. This is W6TSJ in Southern California.
Speaker A: All right. And just for information, this is definitely not the wind system. This is the California Amateur Radio linking association, or CARLA. And you can find more information@carlaradio.net org. Yeah, so if you want to take a look there, there's lots of information there for you.
Speaker B: Okay, fine.
Speaker A: Business.
Speaker B: Will do. Yeah, I noticed that there's
Speaker A: a few networks here.
Speaker B: Something in this area called Papa and then wind. And now I got Carla. So I'll continue to look at those and see how they work. It's pretty interesting. I do appreciate the info. And by the way, we're in the heat wave here. We have about 85 degrees heading toward triple digits today here in Southern California. So 73. Oh, by the way, the humidity is fairly low. That might be different than where you are. This is W6TSJ.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's a little bit different. I've got 81 degrees and 71% humidity. Okay, well, good to meet you and welcome to the carless system.
Speaker B: Out of those three systems you mentioned
Speaker A: Carla, Papa, and the wind system, the CARLA system is probably the quieter of. Definitely the quieter of the three. And it is very broad. It covers just about all, well, almost all of California except for maybe a very northern tip along the coast and up there by the Oregon Boulder state line.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: So, yeah, go check it out. Carlaradio.net and lots of great information on there. All right, you take care. Good to meet you. My name here is Ken and I am N6KN here in Chinatown, Columbia.
Speaker B: Okay, fine business. And thanks for the info. Good to know. And thanks for the weather report, too. 73W6TSJ.
Speaker A: Clear. Hey, Larry, how you doing? I was going to ask you if Your audio is low on purpose or. I had my volume down. Sounded like I had my volume down just a tiny bit.
Speaker B: Go ahead.
Speaker A: How you doing?
Speaker C: Oh, I'm good. I don't know, I'm talking like normal. Normal as I can talk but anyway, just got home. So I thought I'd say hi to find out.
Speaker A: Well you never ever, ever Larry, want anybody to think that you're normal. They may expect things from you that you just, you just cannot give. So yeah, never, never, never say you're doing imminent normal. Yeah, like I was just telling I. I didn't even look that fella up. I was busy doing some of the things. I didn't even get to write down his call sign. But I'll go back and listen to the recording. So how are things up there in Oregon?
Speaker C: Well I did notice that his audio was a louder than yours but he
Speaker A: kind of didn't make hello good here normal.
Speaker C: Hey.
Speaker A: So I had another friend also looked
Speaker C: at try to do that formatting and
Speaker A: upgrading and he determined which I think he probably determined that there's some running
Speaker C: my little laptop that that drive is
Speaker A: not working properly
Speaker C: not working correctly properly properly and could find the drive onto devices. But anyway there's a termination too something wrong with drive. So I just went ahead and ordered the upgrade. My birthday car heck was.
Speaker A: I'm not going to fight it anymore. Okay. Yeah. So how old, if you were to guess, how old is your laptop?
Speaker C: This is a refurbished think pad I got off Amazon for $95 so who knows how old it is. Couldn't pass up a deal like that. So yeah, and I got it a year or two ago, possibly a couple years ago now.
Speaker A: Just old.
Speaker C: Not much. There's not much.
Speaker A: I guess you'd call it a laptop monitor. Yeah, gotcha. You know where I found a great place to buy?
Speaker D: Dj d6 studio k06fdi.
Speaker A: I don't even know where that's coming from. Take a look. Anyways, Somebody's coming in on vodka there. But they must not have their volume turned up on the radio. Anyways, Larry, I found that you know a local for you. It may not be local, maybe your jean or something but local computer repair they tend to have a lot of great used devices available for sale. I've always had fantastic luck finding like good old fashioned Windows 7 machines and things like that at those computer repair places.
Speaker D: This is K06FBI2 August 3600 India. I didn't get your call time but yeah, I'm on a portable here while driving. Not in my usual vehicle. So I have to bring the portable instead of the port mobile this time. Trying to help my dad on Carlos,
Speaker A: I think you said you're in Sacramento. Sacramento area. Yeah, you did kind of. You did come in in the middle of a conversation. So I'm thinking either you're on, you're listening to some local traffic or maybe you didn't have your volume up. But anyways, go ahead, give your, give your. Your, your party or your father, I think you said a yell, see if he comes back to you.
Speaker D: I'm currently on 101 north just south of Santa Cruz, so I'm trying to hail him from here and maybe because he's on the system 26 I believe I'm on the link but I'll give him a hail here in a couple minutes. He's a waster. Six fox red belt in yet.
Speaker A: I'll be monitoring. Oh, go ahead and give them a try. Larry and I were just chit chatting, nothing important.
Speaker B: But yeah, good.
Speaker A: No, go ahead, go ahead and give your other party a call there.
Speaker D: Correction santa cruz, That you're pretty scratchy there, but I do copy and that's a 06 FBI I'll be monitoring as well. Thanks for letting us get in contact other stations.
Speaker A: Thank you.
Speaker C: No problem.
Speaker A: So anyway Larry, there you go. There's my advice on finding a good used laptop or a desktop.
Speaker C: Yeah, I heard that there is a local shelter in town that heard good things about for.
Speaker A: For that. For use a little bit. I use it and all that. Yeah.
Speaker C: All right, I'll go ahead and back up but just want to give you
Speaker A: double update on my situation. Anyway, you take care of her and
Speaker C: I'll back on out and go back to monitoring.
Speaker A: This is K7GM. Okay Larry, I'll give you a yellow on your 84 right now if you're able. I'll give you a yell on your 84. N6 kne on my 84 here in Chinato Colombia. Can you yell out on your 84.
Speaker E: And hello Ken from 36 and 6trg.
Speaker A: What did you say?
Speaker B: From 36?
Speaker E: Oh, I was trying to catch Ken before He took off to 84. How you doing? N6 GRG?
Speaker A: I'm still here.
Speaker E: Okay, well I know you have have to get over to 8410 so I just wanted to say hello. N6GRG N6 go radio go up in actually, actually too warm near Reddit.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's a little humid down here. I didn't hear what Tom said. Hopefully it was nothing too important. Yeah. No, 8, 4 is just. That's the last two digits of my November. And then Larry, the last two digits of his node number is also 8, 4. And because he's born blind, if I tell him which one I'm going to yell at him on, he knows which node the sounder's coming out of, which he's got that figured out already because he's got his speakers arranged in such a way he can absolutely tell which one is talking.
Speaker E: Okay, well, I thought maybe we were. He was connected to like the Oregon Connection or one of those other VHF UHF systems up there, but now I know what he's doing.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's just radio. Some radio list up there. No RF involved, no FCC stuff required. So, yeah, it's just two radio lifts, adapters talking to each other. Working connection. That Oregon connection doesn't even exist anymore. It's all integrated into the. You know what. Now I won't even say it on here. All right, I'll be right back. N6 kne. Good to hear you, Tom. If you had something important, say it. You know, it wasn't just giving you a crap. So that's all. Now my.
Speaker B: My day is complete.
Speaker A: I can go have fun on E4 and we'll talk to you later. And.
Speaker B: Hi, Mike.
Speaker A: And by N6 MVT,
Speaker E: Well, they've got the. We've got the FCC and. And Ken's having to deal with the ccc. Colombian. Colombian Communications Commission or some other. Who knows what
Speaker A: the last C stands for. Cartel.
Speaker E: Oh, boy. Don't go there.
Speaker A: I have to throw in a go.

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Speaker A: Golf, romeo, golf copy. India, india uniform. Golf, Romeo, Golf Al copy. India, India, uniform.
Speaker B: Yeah, I wondered if maybe my. The first part of my call has been cut off or what happened there. But I heard you in 6 grt. How you doing, Greg?
Speaker A: Oh, pretty good. I made a trip to Reading today, and I thought I was just gonna get, you know, some guidance, but the guy did my whole taxes, so
Speaker B: we're
Speaker A: gonna, you know, we'll get together in April sometime, but, you know, I can fill you on the. In on the date when that time comes over.
Speaker B: Okay, that sounds good. Yeah. I would have had a hard time meeting with you today before. Before noon anyway, and it would have been tough because when I got. Yeah, another thing that's going on here is I. My. My lamps have started to. I had to deal with the mother and the lamb that just arrived this morning and get him to go to a separate spot where the mom can deal only with the lamb and not be in the flock, in the crowd, you know.
Speaker A: Well, how many do you got now?
Speaker B: Well, I've only got one lamb, but I'm expecting, you know, probably more lambs than I've ever had ever.
Speaker A: Yeah, I thought you were downsizing so you could buy a boat and join the cruising community over.
Speaker B: I missed the first part of that.
Speaker A: Thought you were going to downsize and buy a boat and join the cruising community over.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's the plan. But final end of the sheep saga is this one, which is that I've got a whole bunch of ewes that are ready to have babies. I had a brand new ram come in. They're absolutely gorgeous lamb coming from him because they're black and white, multicolored things. Kind of like. Kind of like a heifer cow. Like those. What do they call those ones that are black and white and. Yeah, this is the last of it. The lambs sell easier than any other type of sheep. The rams have become easier to sell now and then the ewes. That's the toughest part of all for some crazy reason. But anyways, that's the plan is to sell all of them off.
Speaker A: Well, have you been in touch with the, like, the 4H Club? I know they're in the market to buy young lambs and stuff for, you know, raising them for their projects over.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'll have to target for 4, 8 and future farmers here in Glenn county and. And so forth. And. And then, you know, I advertise also on Facebook. Well, you can't advertise on Facebook. I advertise on everywhere I can though. And yeah, I'll have to actually target the future farmers and the forage.
Speaker A: Yeah, usually they raise them and sell them and you know, you can maybe work out a deal with them, you know, to give you some of the money. Because a lot of farmers will buy 4H lambs over.
Speaker B: Well, they'll just have to buy the lambs and then what happens to them is up to them. You know, that's how it works for me. I don't try to do anything long term with whatever their plans are.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's the best way. I know Donna's kids did that. In fact, Donna's daughter went back to Red Bluff. That's where she went to school and she with the guest speaker at the 4H Club, over.
Speaker B: Well, that's cool. Yeah, I, I would have a lot to say about what I'm doing here. I've got the healthiest group of animals I've ever had. But. And I've learned a lot just recently. Now the, the, the ram I have produces females that are capable of giving a fair amount of milk. How much I won't know. I might not ever know. But that's the type of female lambs that they all get from what I have now.
Speaker A: Well, that's good. If there's a demand for it, I guess that's good. This is the Kilo India six. India India uniform for id. Back to you, grg.
Speaker B: Yeah, and I'll, like I say, I'll never know how that works out because I'm not going to keep record. And they're going to be doing what they do and producing milk or not producing milk. But the ram that is the father of all these is a Friesian and immediately you can see his breeding in these animals. The lamb looks very much like him. I haven't even found out whether it's a male or female just yet. But yeah.
Speaker A: How long you been in the lamb business? Over.
Speaker B: I think I'm coming up on 15 years.
Speaker A: Well, you probably know this is Kilo India 6 India India uniform. And yeah, I gotta run to the post office now. You know, they don't. It's funny, my CPA doesn't take card so I had to write him a check and I got to run the post office to mail it to him now. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, I can understand that credit cards require credit card machines and all that kind of thing. So I can see how that. What I would recommend to him would be to incorporate PayPal or maybe Venmo. But they probably tell you that you have to Pay the little percentage that is charged. But that's another way to do it.
Speaker A: Yeah, I could cut him a check. My bank could cut him a check and send it to him, but you know, I don't know what postage is, but no big deal for me. Yeah, I'll just send him a letter. I already wrote out the check and everything. So he'll be getting it probably in a couple days. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, they've even got ways. I haven't dealt with one in a while, but they've got ways where you can. Make a check at the bank site and then the bank site sends the checkout. It's actually possible to do that with some. Some banks. I haven't messed with that in a while though, anyway. Yeah. So are you home now?
Speaker A: I repeat that I missed that. Over.
Speaker B: Are you at home now?
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm at home and I'm getting ready to go to post office and my brother, you know, he spoke. He's in McKinleyville now and he's visiting my other brother and. And he might be coming through here and spending the night on his way home.
Speaker B: Over. Oh, wow. I wonder how the 299 did this winter. It was a crazy winter.
Speaker A: Well, I would have heard by now if he had trouble getting over there, he left here. It takes about four hours from here to get to McKinleyville and I didn't get any phone calls, so I guess he made it all right.
Speaker B: Over. Well, if you've been through in the last five years, you'll see this massive slide project that they had to deal with. Have you been through?
Speaker A: Yeah, I've been through there. Not too much in the winter, but I go through there a lot in the summer. I have never had a problem. Just that I wish there was more rest stops on the way or.
Speaker B: Well, a bunch of those winners. Before they finally got it somewhat worked out, they had to shut it down. Then they had to have guided a guided process to get through it.
Speaker A: And
Speaker B: at some time on, you had to go through only at certain times of the day. It was really tough for a while there.
Speaker A: Well, I never experienced anything like that. You know, I'll keep my ears open, make sure I get through before I leave. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's all summertime stuff. Unless something crazy happened right at the tail end of the winner, which if it did, it would take a while and I haven't heard of anything. I used to pay attention to that sort of thing anyway. Well, sounds like you're gonna have. You're gonna be a busy guy for a while.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think maybe we could schedule a face to face in April. I think that'd probably be best. Now, I didn't think he was going to finish my taxes today, but he did, which is good. I don't want to go back there, you know, unless it's a, you know, to meet somebody like you. But. Yeah, I was going to ask you, did India, Quebec, Papa check in today? Were you on the radio today? Over.
Speaker B: No, today was a special once a month Tuesday, a particular Tuesday that happens once a month where I can't be on the radio. I have to get out of here. I. And this particular time to go to where the volunteer effort happened. I actually did it on the E bike and left at 7:00'. Clock.
Speaker A: Well, then, you know, I was interested to see if he made it through La Paz yet or not. I know he was trying to make it to. It was a Cabo Falso. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know how it is in, in the Sea of Cortez, you. If you're trying to wait for good wind from the, from the, let's see, from the north, I guess you get it. You should get it a lot. It's the south wind. It's one that you. What you have to wait for. So. Yeah, I would think he would be able to make it that way.
Speaker A: Well, it's not too bad of a run from Partita to Magode, and I think that's where he's going to anchor out at Magode, which is right across from Marina de la Paz. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I'm just talking about that prevailing wind that generally comes from the north. But when you get inside the Sea of Cortez, it's not always that way, I guess.
Speaker A: You know, the last prediction that we got from the weatherman is their southerlies are starting to kick in, so he's going to get some light southerlies. And I think you can make it easily from Partita to the Magodia. And it's like four hours.
Speaker B: Over. Yeah, what I saw from. I was looking at it really close before I lost Internet and now I've got it back, I can start looking again. But what I saw was that if you tried to do some early morning stuff, there was that offshore thing and it'd be on the beam and you'd probably make pretty good time either direction, north or south,
Speaker A: there's a different wind thing. And around La Paz it's called the Carmels. I don't know if you ever heard of that term or not, but it's a wind that comes up at night and usually runs into the morning and then it calms down. That happens every day in the summer.
Speaker B: Over. Is it offshore or what is it?
Speaker A: It's a. I guess it's a wind that caused from the mountains near La Paz. And it gets really hot on the top of these mountains and then it's like a chabasco and it just moves across and it cools off. La Paz every day. That happens in the summer.
Speaker B: It's weird.
Speaker A: Over.
Speaker B: So it comes down off the mountains and maybe out into the Sea of Cortez.
Speaker A: Well, I don't know if you're familiar with the geography of La Paz. It's kind of in like a big bay area and it just whirls around in there. That's why they call this the magode dance is because the boats that are anchored in there, no matter which way the end the wind is coming from, the boats are all different directions. It is like a whirling wind. Over.
Speaker B: I like swinging around. So yeah, that'd be an interesting situation. I have heard that term cornwell quite a bit, but I've never heard it described. So you're the first to describe it.
Speaker A: Well, that's what usually happens. It not only happens. Well, it happens in La Paz. And then you get the big nasty ones that are called chabascos starting in like June or July and they run all through the summer. And. And those are nasty ones I caught. I guess it was in August one year. And we're talking about hurricane force winds. Over.
Speaker B: What's the pattern for them?
Speaker A: It's a thermally convective storm that comes off the mountains and rushes across the sea. Sometimes the clouds. Your city's big and thunderclouds and they. If they go straight up and dissipate, you're all right. But if they move across the sea, I mean, you're in big trouble. And you never know when it's going to happen. That you only got like a couple hours to prepare for it. Over.
Speaker B: So it could go north to south or south or I mean east to west or west to east. It could come off the western side and flow out. Or maybe come from the eastern side mainland and come out that way. Either way, maybe okay.
Speaker A: First they come off from east to west and then they go either to north or south. They're not predictable.
Speaker B: Over. Yeah. And actually seeing conditions like. Like that in the Sea of Cortez is really tough to do. There's no buoys. If they had buoys out there, you could actually see the wind speed and direction. That's all the buoys that are put out there by the. Well, not all of them, but say half of the buoys that are put out by the usa, which is very tight, they don't go south of the Mexican border. About half of those have wind speed and direction on them. And then there's a set of buoys that are way out in the ocean, but those don't help you when it comes to coastal stuff.
Speaker A: I just got a call from my son in Boston. I'm going to have to take this call. I've been trying to get a hold of them all day.
Speaker B: Days.
Speaker A: So we'll talk to you later, Mike.
Speaker B: Okay? All right. Well, make sure you park the car in the right spot. Talk to you later.
Speaker A: Okay, Mike. We'll talk to you later. Kilo India. 6. India.
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Ks 6, TWR San Francisco calling any station. System 2, link up. Kilo oscar 6, mike bravo, india. We are having a power outage in the Mission District in San Francisco. If you're anywhere close to that, are you seeing the same thing? Negative. I'm on the Lynx system, system 16 here in Sacramento. So. Yeah, you're not local, so. Okay, well, thanks for the comeback. Yeah, we've been seeing intermittent outages of the Internet many afternoons and now the power is down, which could be due to the heat someplace. Now I do, I do work for a company that has some offices in San Francisco, so I can. I should go check in. Check in. I think somebody else came back with a comment about the Internet. Say you're on Union street. So it could just be a neighborhood thing. So, yeah, thanks for the comeback. System 19, link up.

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Speaker A: Kilo Kilo 7 Sierra. Kilo Whiskey doing a radio check on system 16. Carla. Station calling. Kilo7 Oscar Foxtrot Oscar. I got you loud and clear. Hey, roger that. I appreciate the comeback. Just on the east side of Sacramento. I just wanted to see how I'm getting into that back a box. But you're coming in loud and clear as well. Thanks for the comeback. 7 of KW.
Speaker B: No problem. 73 K7. Fkw standing by.

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