GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-19

K06LUM, mobile monitoring.

System 24, link up.

Los Angeles, link up.

System 19, link up.

System 7 link up.

KZ6 video, KZ6 video, here's the FBI on Carlos.

Last station out there, your audio is extremely low, so it's hard for you to be heard. See if you can change things or get closer or something. And 6MVT. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Okay, yeah, something's definitely not, uh, putting out full deviation on you there, so I would definitely look into it, check your settings and whatever. All right, N6MVT.

System 2 link up.

System 19, link up.

System 21 link up.

Los Angeles, link up. K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

Speaker A: All right, this one might work. There, and I'll stay on low power. I won't blow my fuse. N6MBT, do you copy? B6JKB. System 32, link off.
Speaker B: K6LNK, system 36, Snow Mountain Range.
Speaker A: Ah, there you go. Yep, here and there. N6MBT.

86, POC Mobile in Kasadi. System 26, link up.

Hey, MVP, where'd you go? W6JKV on, uh, Trace Phillips. Buddy, I'm still here, coming up 101 in Hernando. Boy, that's a long delay, Echo. How long? I mean, it wasn't even hot. Was that like 15 minutes ago? How you doing? I'm home. I'm in Pacifica. Yeah, Tom got, uh, got busy. I'm just checking to see if he's back, but I guess not. Oh, Pacifica. Yes, that's a nice town. I was there a couple times for that Moncara job, and let me tell you what, I was blown away at that Taco Bell you guys have on the beach. Taco Bell Cantina. I'm thinking to myself, what's the liquor license like for that cost? I was impressed. Um, I wonder if there's another Taco Bell like that anywhere. I really do. Uh, that's a trip. Nope, this is the only one on the beach that I know of. Uh, yeah, I think they're opening cantinas here and there, but, uh, yeah, this one here is pretty pretty unique. So, um, yep, yeah, we, uh, actually use that place maybe once a week, something like that. Stopped in there twice, and I remember thinking the Taco Bell food you get there is like Taco Bell food anywhere. I did not get any of the drinks though. I had to keep driving back home to Santa Rosa. But boy, I thought that was pretty slick. I like how they have that trek deck in the backyard. I know why they do it. The bathrooms are all out there, so when you walk up the beach with your sandy feet, you're not tracking wet sandy water in the restaurant. You just go out the back. They got those mushroom eaters and those picnic benches out there. No, picnic benches are like, you know, tables for two. That's pretty cool. One of the locals was telling me there's some kind of barbecue restaurant that's also near there. It looks like a red train caboose, but I didn't see it. No, it's on the other side of the highway and north to Valimar. That's called Valimar Station. And, um, yeah, that's, uh, that's a pretty good place. Matter of fact, I think it's going to close down. At the end of the month. Yeah, they finally retired and, uh, it's a family thing. That was Hal and Barbara Asher's place. So anyway, yep, familiar with that one. Yeah, you know, before Taco Bell, it was actually Wendy's that's in that spot. So yeah, they're the ones that did the building and the deck and all that kind of stuff. So cleaners all got wet. Anyway, all right, man, I gotta set this thing down. I'm ready to hit the sack. I get up at 4 in the morning, so I think, you know, uh, our fans had a gig in Redwood City and just, uh, got home. So let's pull the plug here. WB6KTV going that way. Well, hey, hit us back. Well, you are an early riser. Hey, it's nice to talk to you. Check in to us on WB6AKBT P6 DOC Mobile. Alright, 73. Name's Mike on this end, by the way, and I'm on System 32 up in Montana, which coincidentally happens to have my callsign on it. How about that, Bill? See you. Get to work. Oh, me? No, I'm going to pull the plug, man, but I'll stick around waiting for you there, dude. You make it over to, uh, 24 yet? Yeah, I'm about to go into the tunnel, so I think you need to go in and go to sleep. Past your bedtime. It is way past my bedtime. So anyway, yep, I'm going to— I'll just stand by until you land. Because anyways, Chris and the lads aren't back yet. They'll probably be a little bit still, so. Ah, copy. Well, you don't have to stay up for my sake here, but I'm going into the tunnel. So I'll be back. By the way, they lit these things up. Looks like they got 49er colors now. Trippy. Alright, I'll be back in 6 NBT. Ah, check, check.

Oh no, the Nok is calling. I'll be back in 6 MBT. See ya, bye. Oh, all right, standing by.

Speaker A: WB6JKV from N6NBT, you still there, Mike?
Speaker B: Got it, WB6JKV. So which is the bad news?
Speaker A: You've got to, uh, turn around? Well, he was wondering, I was like, well, did you read the note? You know, I mean, we got to give him notice and all this stuff and He's like, yeah, there's some— the hub is working and there's some nodes up, but there's like 13 of them that are down and all this.
Speaker B: And I'm like, oh. So he's like, yeah, we'll just wait and see.
Speaker A: But he's like, I don't know, something weird about it. There's no past performance history on these sites. And it's almost like, you know, they're new and got turned up by mistake. And I said, well, probably somebody's doing some software upgrade or configuration change and these things were locked down and got unlocked is my guess, you know. So anyhow, no, I don't have to turn around luckily, but I get to clock the time. So there you go.
Speaker B: Right on, man. Well, dodged a bullet.
Speaker A: Yes indeed. And, uh, Wait until the default tech gets 13 trouble tickets in his queue tomorrow morning.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm on a few of the email threads at work for the different groups and yeah, it's kind of the same stuff. And yeah, there's stuff that's out of our hands, but they've been having a lot of IFC problems and You know, talent loses connectivity with the director and then at the same time they lose the programming audio that's supposed to be in their ears. You know, the monitor was live and on air. And it seems like, yeah, for both sides it's going down, both on the KNTV side and over on the KSTS side. So I'm thinking to myself, hmm, common denominator is probably a power supply, right? Feeding the two master receive racks that pick all that stuff up. All the eggs are in one basket, so to speak. Yep, that's what you got to do, you know.
Speaker A: Look at what's common between them and what's a global connection there, you know.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, when, uh, the, uh, coupling was all done and all everybody QSY and change frequencies. And yeah, there's stuff all over the place. I noticed on one of the charts that a block of our, uh, Telemundo, uh, IFBs got clobbered. It's like, oh, no wonder. Yeah, this is Channel 36 up on Allison, uh, and they moved. It landed on one of our, uh, groups that we're using. And for all the wireless stuff in the studio.
Speaker A: So it's like, oh crap, that was a big scramble. Yeah. You guys got wireless comms and stuff like that in the studios at all? Or is it all hardwired or kind of a mixture?
Speaker B: System 11, link up. No, it's 100% wireless, man. Yeah, it's all, uh, that's everything. Everything is wireless. And, uh, that's pretty slick. They got the antennas up in the overhead where the lights are and everything, and the antennas feed back to the receivers in the, uh, server room. But yep, yeah, that was fun playing with that. I helped build the I got the first time dragged out the IFR, they go, oh, we got this. They got this nice little handheld unit that goes out to like 10 gigs. It's like, oh crap, man.
Speaker A: All right, I got another phone call. I gotta go. I'm sorry. I'll catch up with you, man. 672. Uh, krik krik.

Los Angeles, link up.

System 7, link up. K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

Los Angeles, link up.

K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

System 2 link up.

N6DUK, WQ6T, clearance.

[Speaker:TRANSLATOR] N7TND, N7LD.

7LD Highland Beach.

Fresno, link up.

Los Angeles, link up.

Hey Mike, how you doing? Yeah, you're making it in there, but it's going in and out. Like you're moving the radio or something, but, uh, your signal's fine. Yeah, I'm walking around trying to find a good spot. How's this? Yeah, that's much better. Yeah, okay, beautiful up here. Where are you? Yeah, I'm up here at Midland. Um, it's great up here. It's, uh, about 75. It's supposed to be 80° today. Yeah, it's going to be— well, we had 94 just the other day, and I don't know what it's supposed to be today, but going crazy. And I had two more lambs. I had twins last night. I have one— that first one was a single, and now I got twins. They're all gonna start being born. Who knows how many. Wow. Yeah, well, like I said, it's, uh, we got our antenna up, so I, I guess it's pretty clear now. I Oh yeah, of course I have some noise being on a portable with a long antenna. Got some noise. Yeah, yeah, we're getting, uh, I'm getting the feedback off the repeater pretty good. Um, yeah, we're running about 25 watts. So I guess we got her fixed. Now we start up with HF stuff. I'll bet I could reach you direct with this thing, but I don't know how hard it is to put a frequency in it. Hey, you faded out there. Your signal was great, but your voice kind of faded away there. I said I, uh, I could probably reach you direct. We could go reverse, uh, but let me try to put a frequency in. Hang on a second.

I've got a frequency in. I've just got to get rid of the offset and I'll be on 5.8. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm monitoring 5.8 right now. Okay, don't go away. I'll be back, or I'll be over on 5.8, I think, in a moment. Okay, we'll be standing by.

Well, I've got the— I think I have the direction turned off, but the radio is wanting to switch to 115 even though it says it's on 58. I don't know quite yet how to fix that. I give up, uh, I'm gonna go, go in the house and get on a different radio. James, it's DRT.

Speaker A: Yeah, how's that?
Speaker B: Yeah, it's sick. You're deep. K6SLX.

System 2, link off.

Los Angeles Link up.

System 21 link up.

Ansix, GRG 36.

Speaker A: Uh, K6SLN and 6GRT.
Speaker B: Hey John, can you hear me? K6GRT.

Speaker A: M7LD and 7LD in 1700.
Speaker B: M7LD, M7LD, M7LD.
Speaker A: System 26 link off.

KP7REO mobile.

Los Angeles, link up.

K6DGW connected. K6LNK system 36. Snow Mountain Range.

KN6MTQ. KN6SLA.

KN6SOL, monitoring.

[Speaker:MAN] K6GZW connected.

—EZW disconnected.

L and disconnected.

Los Angeles, link up.

K06LUM, Mobile, listen.

Speaker A: N7CND, Las Vegas.
Speaker B: WBCJKV Mobile, deadly safe.
Speaker A: System 19, link up.
Speaker B: Hey Mike, how you doing?
Speaker A: Long time no talk. What you been up to?
Speaker B: You know, same old, same old, busy. Just about the heat, man. 91 degrees. I checked the weather app and it's 71 at home over on the coast of Pacific. I said, oh, can't wait to get there.
Speaker A: Yeah, my car says 95 and that's supposed to hit 100 tomorrow, I think.
Speaker B: Yeah, you guys are used to that stuff though, man. Not a coast sider. This stuff just kicks my ass.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's a little early for us though. It's been so freaking weird, man. Up and down, up and down. One week we're in the 60s, the next week we're in the 90s. But I got to, uh, when I get home tonight, I'm gonna change and get my evaporative cooler running. So I run that until I hit monsoon season. Keeps the Nevada energy out of my pocketbook.
Speaker B: Absolutely, man. Yeah, we used to have a place up at the lake, at Lake Berryessa. We had a swamp cooler on the roof. Hey, it kind of made it feel like it was cooler. Yeah, it was 100 degrees outside, so that and a margarita, it seemed to work.
Speaker A: Yeah, you know, I found that even when it gets up to 110, it'll work fine as long as the humidity stays down. Once we hit monsoon season, season, it's game over, and I gotta flip on the air conditioner.
Speaker B: Fortunately, I think the humidity around here is like in the mid-30s. That's not too bad. But yeah, you're right, when it's 70, 80%, and it's just more of a torture, man.
Speaker A: Well, shit, for us, 30, 35% is monsoon season. Typically we're down in the single digits, but Shit, anyway, other than that, I gotta get to some mountaintops, man. We had a bad winter on our big peaks. Got up on our upper Potisius side, I think we may have lost an antenna, a Super Station Master, and lost a radio up at Angel Peak, one of our other big sites. And I got a microwave dish I gotta replace that we use for our all-star backhaul between two mountains. So a lot of crap, just not a lot of time to get up there and do it. But I got to start planning. I got a, I got a lot of trips I'm making over the next month, so I'm kind of buried with work and even on the weekends for until about the middle of April. But then I think I'll be able to make some time. And with the warm weather, the snow's pretty much off the hilltop, so I think we're good.
Speaker B: The woods up in the northern Sierras and the central Sierras, uh, yeah, that snow is going to be melting in a hurry. That's going to create another problem in itself.
Speaker A: Yeah, just checked the temperature on Angel Peak, which is our highest rock here in the southern part of the state, is 65 degrees. So Yep, melting quick.
Speaker B: All right, man, I'm going to get on the horn and give the wifey a ring. Otherwise, you know, she's licensed, she could pick up and jump on here, but nope. Yeah, you know, women are funny. Ah, I got to love them. All right, see you, Ralph. I'm going to be over the WB6JKV Mobile, I'm about 10 minutes from home here.
Speaker A: All right, yeah, thanks for the shout. Yeah, my wife's got a license too, but she's not too much, which is whatever. Okay, have a good one, be safe. N7T ending.