GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-20

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Speaker A: Hello, Ken. This is KK7DDI in Tonaca, Nevada. This is Ken.
Speaker B: I'm sorry, I guess my volume was a little low. I heard Did I hear DBI in somewhere in Nevada?
Speaker A: Yeah, Kilo 7 Delta Bravo India in Tonopah, Nevada.
Speaker B: Okay, how are you doing up there? Tanaka, Nevada. Well, we've been doing pretty good.
Speaker A: Uh, it's got kind of warm today. The temperatures are rising. I guess we're going to get in the 80s 90s, and it ain't thrilling me, I'll tell you that. Of course, you've probably got better weather down there.
Speaker B: Well, I do, yes, but no, I know that that area up there in Nevada is very nice. As well. Um, well, it's slowly warming up for you, I guess, and slowly cooling down a little bit for us. Yeah, we didn't—
Speaker A: it went right from winter to summer, and we didn't get much spring. It was pretty short, I'll tell you that. But we'll take it. We could sure use a lot more moisture than we got this winter. We haven't had an extra lot of moisture, but we could use some.
Speaker B: Um, I know you have a river close by, right? Does that river get much flow from any snowfall, Milpaas? I guess it's not even a river, it's a creek or a wash.
Speaker A: Yeah, there's a, I'd call it a wash.
Speaker B: It comes down through here, but we haven't had any snow to run off.
Speaker A: That's the trouble. We haven't had a lot of winter at all. Very few snowstorms at all this winter, so Our watershed is kind of weak this year.
Speaker B: Oh, that's a shame. It just always seemed like Ely in the wintertime always had lots of snow in it, on it, when I, when I would drive through there. Um, huh, all right.
Speaker A: Y'all, last winter, Pee Dee really got hammered. They had a lot of snow. We, we went up there a few times and they had snow everywhere. But, and the Oaks just north of us It usually gets some snow, and they've had, they had some pretty good snowstorms there, but not like they usually get. It's been pretty sparse. I guess they got a foot one, one time this winter, and that's about it, and it didn't stay very long.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think I told you about my getting stranded out there on the Basin Highway, Great Great Basin Highway. Um, I didn't even want to go that way, but I had to because the other route south out of there was definitely in bad shape. So I was forced, and probably the one and only time I had to go down the Great Basin Highway Yeah, I got stuck out there for 23 hours. I think I may have told you about that. And one thing I'd like to mention is the Nevada Highway Patrol, they did an absolutely amazing job getting everybody out of there. Evacuated everybody over to the Methodist Church there.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'll bet they had quite a few chances to do that, cuz that, that place, when it snows, it can snow there. It can be a dangerous place all the way across them mountains. It can be pretty nasty up in there.
Speaker B: Well, I hope you get some more moisture. We get lots of moisture here. We get tropical rain, tropical rainstorms, thunderstorms that blow through here every other day or so. I think we had a real good one blow through here, uh, yesterday morning. Uh, yeah, so no, we don't have a water—
Speaker A: we don't have a water problem here per se. Well, send some of it up this way. We could sure use it. If I knew how to do a rain dance, I'd be out there dancing, but I can't dance a lick. I couldn't. I got 2 left each. We'll just have to wait and see what comes.
Speaker B: Yeah, all right. I should look up your county and add it, add it to, uh, Taiwan.
Speaker A: I think I'll do that.
Speaker B: All right, well, good, good talking to you as always. Um, I don't, I don't hear you on here much, but I don't get to chime in here much either. So, all right, Ken, well, you take care. Um, I need to finish up what I'm doing. I think the wife wants to finish a movie we started started last night. We just did our dinner dishes and I may talk her into coming in here and finishing up our movie. But again, good to hear you and hope to hear you on here more. You take care. N6KNE here, Chinooka, Columbia.
Speaker A: Yeah, Tim, that's been good to talk to you. I don't get on the radio much. I have a breathing problem, so I don't get on here too much. That's Lincoln County in Nevada, if you look it up. It used to have its good years and bad years, and this is a bad year. You guys have a good night. Enjoy your movies. This is KK7DTI. 73.

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Yeah, KN6SONN6GRT. Hey Mike, hey, we're just up here just sitting around. Um, yeah, the Bay Area, I'm watching Bay Area News, 86°. Well, I've got 83 right now. Yeah, well, I understand 83°, but San Francisco 86°, that's pretty hot. Yeah, yeah, I would think my daughter would like it, but I'm not sure. Yeah, I remember when we lived down there off of, uh, uh, Millbury, uh, it would get up to about 92, you know, like in September or August, something like that. But we always sit there and watch that fog roll over that hill, and that would come like turn the air conditioner off. Yeah, um, yeah, it's a crazy, crazy world right now. I've got the news, the sound from the news on behind me from the TV, and oh my God, a lot going on. Well, over in the Middle East there, they're shutting the oil off, and I don't know if you've been by a gas station lately, but we paid $6.76 or something like that a gallon for diesel down south there. Well, one thing that happened was today was the Israelis bombed— surprised everybody and bombed, uh, a— and like it was described as a gas field, a place. I don't know if that means, uh, a natural gas field or a place where they, uh, make gas or get gas. I don't know. You don't take gas out of the ground. Of course you gotta— it doesn't make sense to me what they said, but something to do with gas. If it's gasoline, then yeah, we're even in worse trouble now as of today. Oh no. Well, I mean, I'm, I'm not professional. I don't know for sure either. I'm kind of guessing like you did. That was over in Antar, I believe, how you pronounce it. And it was a history, uh, Iran refinery. It's supposed to be the largest one in the— I think it's the largest one in the world. And Israel blew it up. It's going to take 5 years to get it back online from the damage. And then Israel got on the news and was saying, okay, we're not going to do it anymore. 5 minutes later, Iran blew up a couple refineries in North Israel. So there you go. Oh boy, so yeah, that's gonna— that's gonna make gasoline go through the roof, I would imagine. Well, I mean, this is just what I think I know. I don't know for a fact, so don't take it for a fact. But what I heard, that the United States has took the sanctions off of Russia. So Russia is making money hands over fist by selling their oil. Um, and of course that's funding, I guess, Ukraine. And it's just a big circle, you know. It's, it's kind of crazy. If, if people hadn't got killed, and, uh, if you understand what I'm saying, if nobody got hurt, it'd be laughable. But people got hurt, got killed, and it's not Really funny at all. Yeah, they had to be desperate to, uh, and, uh, they are idiots to, uh, take the sanctions off of Russia, uh, regardless of what's going on, because, uh, you're right, that money is going to go to buying weapons to kill Ukrainians, and that's terrible. Yeah, so I mean, that's the way I was, you know, like I said, I'm not a, um, I'm not up on it. I don't know how it is over there, but yeah, they got a bunch of troops headed that way, and I don't know what all is going to go on. And I quit trying to guess. I just sit and watch. Well, if I'm not mistaken, was it, uh, uh, the guy that started the, uh, Vietnam War, um, Anyway, who was that? Well, actually, the Vietnam War started back in '58 or '57. The French went in there, and then we started— John F. Kennedy started sending advisory people to keep South Vietnam. The French pulled out, I believe, but we went in with just 500 troops. They killed some of our so they put more in there and they put more in there. And they got up to something like, I forget what the total number was, but yeah, it was just a mess back in 1964. Then Johnson took it over and it lasted all the way to 1975. Yep, and I almost ended up getting drafted to go there. And I probably would have enlisted as a, if I had been put as a 1A, I think they called it, then I would have probably, and not been able to change it, then I would have gone into the Air Force. Yeah, you're right, 1A, you're on your way. Now I'll tell you, I remember those days very, very good. 1964, I was like in 3rd grade or something, and '64, '65, I was up there at Rollingwood High School— no, Rollingwood Elementary School. You know, my recesses, I'd walk out there and all us kids would sit there and watch the Arlington of the West. And they would have 10, I guess you call them, yeah, 10 funerals all day long. And as a kid, we would see the 21-gun salute until we figured out what it meant, and then that was shocking. Oh yeah, huh. Yeah, we lost, uh, my, my, uh, my family was real friends with, uh, another family and they lost their son to friendly fire. So yeah, it was a rough time for all of us. Yeah, after, uh, in about '69 we moved to, uh, Oklahoma in a small town in the late '68, '69, and they were coming through there and just gathering people up— not gathering people up, they would get their lottery numbers, scribble lottery numbers, and you get called up for the draft. Yeah, that was about the time I was going through it, and They had this one year where they had this huge filibuster and my number was big enough that I just said, okay, even though I was in college, I decided to try to become a 1A. And I believe I was successful if I remember right. Filibuster— when the filibuster was happening, uh, they didn't call anybody up. So what— by the time the filibuster was over, uh, they hadn't called me up, and so they lost their opportunity to call me up because of that. Yeah, well, I graduated there, oh, '73, and that when the Kushner had got the ceasefire, if you will, that manner of thing, with Hanoi. And, but it took till '75 to get everybody out of there. And so that's the reason I didn't get drafted, because we got out '73 and then the war was basically over with. They were with the drawing, and so then they actually stopped drafting aggressively like it was. Yeah, and if the way the timing worked out, I probably would have been there during that time if I'd been drafted right towards the end when all the crazy stuff happened, I would have been there. Oh, when Saigon fell, right? And they were having to fill up the aircraft carriers with people and on and on and on. It was, it was an absolute, absolute circus. Yeah, I had a lot of, lot of good, good friends, um And actually, I guess you could say I'm pretty proud of that. To say I am a friend of his, he was— he graduated, I believe, in '68. Walked off the stage and walked over to the recruiter, because they had recruiters right there in the high school. When you graduate? He said, I want to join up with the Marines. And they said, well, here's a $2,500 bonus. You can spend the summer at home, and then we'll take you to wherever. They took him. He goes, nope, I want to go right now and give that $2,500 to his mother. And he went over and he went, did 3 tours, got shot 3 times, and wanted to go back, and they said, no, that's all for you. Yeah, wow. Um, well, hey, I gotta go because I just heard a bunch of really crazy noises outside from the sheep, and I gotta find out what's going on. So anyway, really good talking to you. Yeah, okay. All right, well, take care of yourself, Mike. We'll, uh, talk to you after a while, or tomorrow, the next day. All right, talk to you later. K, see you. Yeah, my sheep are having lambs, and there was some crazy noise out there right outside. Something hit something, I don't know. So I gotta take a look. Talk to you later, N6GRG.

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Speaker A: Are you steaming up there?
Speaker B: Oh, I would say between steaming and warm.
Speaker A: Yeah, so what you been up to? I just got home a few minutes ago.
Speaker B: Well, I got this, uh, 2-meter up there, and then I started on the 10 and 20 and got about halfway through it, got tired and quit. And so I got the pole up, but, uh, gotta still run the coax through the roof and all that good stuff.
Speaker A: That's cool. Well, you're sounding okay. A little bit of white noise. How do I sound coming back to you?
Speaker B: Uh, you're sounding pretty good, actually. Pretty clear. Uh, yeah, I'm, I'm coming back from where I usually talk on this repeater, uh, 25 watts. I'm back down to 4 and doing real good with it.
Speaker A: Okay, well, that would explain why, uh, yeah, I'm not hearing you. I'm hearing you fine, but, um, there's noise behind you. So I bet you if you went back up to like mid-tower or something, uh, you'd be doing real good.
Speaker B: Yeah, let me see how this sounds. Hold on a second. Okay, that's 25. How's that sound?
Speaker A: Oh yeah, that was much better. Still a tiny bit of noise back in there, but Hardly distinguishable now.
Speaker B: Yeah, this is what I usually run on, um, and then I was talking to Mike earlier and I went down to 4, you know, to the low, which is 4 watts, um, and I seem to be getting into it. So I, I'm not sure, maybe it's all these trees they took out.
Speaker A: That could be. Well, you were getting into it with the low power, but you were just noisy, that's all. And maybe that's just conditions, you know. Maybe earlier, or whenever you talked to him, it was different.
Speaker B: Yeah, maybe. Yeah, were you on that 5.2 net?
Speaker A: Uh, not today, no. I just got home a few minutes ago. I've probably missed it for a couple weeks now. At this time of year, it's been tough, uh, right now with this weather to get home much before 8. It's too much to do.
Speaker B: Yeah, no, I tried to, uh, check in and apparently they heard me. They didn't know who I was. Somebody came in and said, some, I guess, is trying to check in. And I was listening to them, so it could be all these trees they took out.
Speaker A: Yep, it could be. So, uh, fill me in on the details. Yeah, what have you been up to? I know that you were down there Arizona for a while. So, and I know you got back, uh, well, not too long ago, but obviously now you're up on the hill.
Speaker B: Yeah, almost double with you there. Yeah, we, um, we spent, uh, probably about a week down there around Red Bluffs, mourning and stuff, and then, uh, we got all our stuff move back up here. And, uh, like I said, I'm in the process of, uh, putting everything back up like it was. And, um, you know, I can't believe how warm it— warm it is up here.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, yeah, we have the doors open and fans going here in Chico. So yeah, it's, uh, like almost 90 degrees or something today. Um, supposed to be warm tomorrow, but maybe a couple degrees cooler than today.
Speaker B: I don't know. Yeah, that's what the wife was saying, that was going to be like 10 degrees cooler on Saturday, I think it is. But anyway, okay, if, if it is, it is, and if it ain't, it ain't. But, uh, yeah, we were down there at Coorside and, um It got, kept getting warmer and warmer. Got about 92 and it was getting, you know, per the weather it was going to get up to 100. And we said, nah, we're not going to do that. So we just took off and come on home.
Speaker A: Yeah, probably a wise decision. Been a real mild winter. We had that one time frame I know Mineral got a little bit of snow then, but for a few days or a week there. But anyway, yeah, aside from that, I don't think there's really been that much snow.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, the gas prices— we've been, you know, we've been down there since December 15th, I think it was, and usually the fuel, you know, I'm talking Diesel now, um, it's usually about maybe $2.89 to $3 there in Quartzsite, um, but it, it never did get under $4.10, I think it was, and then it start raising to $4.50 and stuff like that. Of course, when we got over towards the Bakersfield and Calinga in there We paid, oh, I think it was $6.85 a gallon. That hurts.
Speaker A: Well, that's the going price it is now around here, I think, around $6.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, but you don't, yeah, the only thing is it doesn't have 1,000 miles looking ahead. At us, you know. I really feel for those, uh, owner-operator truck drivers, um, you know, they got $1,100, $1,200, $1,500 fuel bill every time they pull in.
Speaker A: Well, I don't feel nothing for them. They're passing it on. I mean, they're already used to that kind of stuff. They've been adding fuel surcharges on things, so yeah, they pass it on. And, uh, You and I consumers end up paying it. Yep. So one way or the other, if we're going to consume things, we're going to end up paying it. Yeah, maybe they eat it for a little bit, but for the most part, the guys I know are just putting fuel surcharges on everything.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's what FedEx and UPS and Old Dominion, um, they didn't waste any time when I was working for them. They just put a 15% fuel charge on and kept going. But the owner-operators, the old boy that owns his own truck, he's got to go through some pain to get the broker to get the fuel charge for him.
Speaker A: Yeah, so the load board guys, okay, well, yeah, so, well, hopefully the companies are going to offer to pay more for the shipping, right? So that the owner-operator can get paid more, or else he just doesn't take the job and sits on his hands and waits for another job that'll pay.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's correct. But anyway, nevertheless, it was a lot of fun down there. I mean, too, I got into that solar panel like I told you before, and I never did get the 10 and 20 meter up, and I got the 2 meter to talk around town there and stuff. But other than that, you know, we're just up here just with the windows open like you, and you know, it's I don't even know what it is. It's probably 75 degrees here.
Speaker A: Well, I wish you'd try one of these if you don't have one. And I don't know, because, you know, it's been a little bit, but one of those like verticals, uh, the vertical, uh, like it'll do a 20-meter or whatever, you know. I can usually set one up in about 5 minutes, and you might be pretty surprised what it can do for you. it'll be a little bit different radiation pattern, you know, so, uh, it may get you further out, um, because of the takeoff angle. And yeah, they don't cost a whole lot of money for the, one of the cheap ones like I've got, but, uh, yeah, now they do sell some more expensive ones, like a couple hundred bucks, uh, for like that, uh, Radiodity, uh, with a 40-meter coil or whatever. So yeah, there's some that are more expensive, I guess, but this one that I use a lot of times on, uh, on POTAs, you know, only cost me about $45.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'll tell you, you know, since you're talking, you know, mentioned the vertical, uh, we were out walking the dogs and, um, I walked up and here's this, you know, you know how big a campsite is, you know, in an RV park. He had a vertical like you're talking about, and he had wires on the ground. And I asked him, I said, how good does that work? And he says he's talked everywhere. He, you know, and that was a multi What he had was, I guess it was 20 to 80, something like that. I don't remember exactly, but it was a multi-frequency there. And, you know, plus he had a 2-meter hanging out there, you know.
Speaker A: Yeah, my cheap one will do 20 to 6 anyway, but yeah, you just have to make adjustments on the a whip, you know. And then the other one I have that, yeah, costs more money, has a coil, has a 40-meter coil that you put in if you want 40 meters, and you can tune it for 30, and of course 20, 17, 15, 12, 10, 6. So, but that one, that one did cost more money, so you'd have to spend probably— if you didn't want to build something, you'd have to spend a couple hundred dollars to get one one like that, but they're pretty neat for portable operations and they fold up into kind of like a flute case, so it's really tiny. So it'd be perfect for like, you know, going on your quad and going up to that place you like and just putting your radio up on the air real quick.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you, Steve, what was funny is, and the reason I stopped talk to him, is he had a 2-liter Coke bottle over the coil. I don't know if he was trying to camouflage it or what, but he had the bottom of the bottle cut out and the whip went through the top. And he had it sitting there, I don't know Wow, check this guy out. Anyway, I stopped talking to him for a little bit, and he was telling me that he's down with the HF, and you know, he talks to Brazil or whatever, wherever he talks. But yeah, he was a nice guy. He goes down there and stays 2 or 3 months, you know.
Speaker A: Okay, well, you can look up the reason for his Coke bottle. Some of those, I'll have to remember, it is the cheaper ones like I've got. If you get a coil like some of these less expensive coils made in China, they have— the way they've built them, they have some dissimilar metals in there, and any kind of moisture that gets in there over time can corrode, corrode, and then change your, you know, connections and, you know, just make a mess of the coil. So I'm pretty sure what he was doing was protecting the coils getting moisture. KN6NGK.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's what it looks like. I, of course, I didn't ask him why he had the Coke bottle over there, but it was over a coil, so you're probably right. Um, yeah, like I said, uh, most of the ham Operators, the president of the club that used to be the president, he was no longer. I went by and seen him and he goes, well, everybody's pretty much got old or quit talking, and the ones that hadn't quit talking died. I thought, oh boy, you're really good news.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, that's happening. We just lost another guy over here in Paradise. His name was Ernie or Ernest. I think he's one of the original founders of the club too, back in 2015. But, uh, you know, he was elderly, uh, and he was suffering quite a bit from a few different illnesses, you know, or what do they call that, debilitating, you know, diseases that are not really curable. He just tried to, you know, uh, handle it type of thing anyways. And, um, he was just really not well off, and, uh, he made the decision— I mean, this is what I was told anyway— to stop taking his medications, and he didn't last very long after that.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's too bad. But, uh, yeah, you know, like I said, um, I think the club that used to meet here in Quartzsite now, I believe this is— he said something about it turned into breakfast, uh, and they really don't— it doesn't seem like everyone's on, or, you know, they, they use it. You hear them on there every so often, they get on, get off, uh, but the rest of them are over in Blythe, and that was— that's a big club over there. And then of course here you get the guys with the, uh, side-by-sides and all that stuff out in the desert.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, I'm friends on the air, if you know what that means, with the one main guy who's, uh, the prepper over there in Arizona. I don't know exactly where he lives, I guess, but He's the Tech Prepper, KT7RUN. Anyway, he does a lot of JS8Call. He has a YouTube channel, does a lot of stuff. So, pretty neat guy, really smart, you know, smart as a whip and younger. But anyway, so I'm not surprised, you know, Arizona has a pretty good-sized group of people who do self-reliance. Speaking of that, like Paradise here on the 28th. We're having a booth over there for the Paradise group, and, um, it's, it's a— what they're calling a homesteading fair where they're encouraging self-reliance. But it's a fair at the Elk's Lodge, and, um, you know, I guess there'll be people just doing a variety of different things and showing, teaching, and learning, and so on. So I don't know what kind of draw it'll be at the Second annual, so they had one last year, I guess. So they're calling it a homesteading fair.
Speaker B: Yeah, that, that'd be kind of neat. Uh, you know, that's— I guess you live off the grid, is that what they're pretty much, uh, teaching and whatnot?
Speaker A: Well, in general, I think self-reliance, or becoming more self-reliant, doesn't mean you're necessarily off the grid, but let's just say you're trying to do more things for yourself or whatever, and maybe even try to develop a little bit of a community of folks who help one another, you know, type of thing. So, like, as an example, say someone has a freeze dryer you know, of your group or your friends. And then you have a bit— like this year I had a big harvest of probably a couple hundred pounds of persimmons. So it took my wife quite a while, you know, we were doing it for about a month, picking persimmons and cutting them all up and dehydrating like maybe half a dozen or a dozen persimmons every day. So That took quite a while to go through them all. So maybe it's all different kinds of things like canning and pickling and who knows what. I mean, I've never been to one, but I guess I'll be there this year because I wanted to help the president of our club and nobody else didn't seem to want to help him. So maybe it'll turn out okay. But yeah, we're putting up a station and, you know, hopefully talk to folks who are interested in emergency communications.
Speaker B: Yeah, don't get me wrong, I mean, I said off-grid, to me that's a good thing. Um, you know, there's a lot of people, especially younger people, that are, uh, you know, learning solar panels and buying 10, 15, 20, 30 acres out in the middle of nowhere and building their house. And I mean, they put a lot of money in it. They sell everything they got in the city and, you know, have a garden. And like you said, my sister, she cans, or she used to. She's moved back to town now. And my wife, we want to get back there and for, uh, for my sister to show her how to can and preserve food and stuff like that too.
Speaker A: Well, I haven't canned anything this year, and, um, if I canned something last year, it would have been probably relish.

Speaker A: I generally try to do relish every year. Grow some cucumbers and bell peppers and onions and try to get all that stuff to come at the same time. And then generally I still have to go to the store to pick up something else to go with it. But I sure like my own sweet pickle relish. I can control the ingredients, you know, the sugars. And I usually use apple cider vinegar for the— pickling medium. And just when you have something, you want some relish on top of it, I like to open my own can. I don't like the store-bought stuff that's full of high fructose corn syrup. So I tend to do that every year, but I've canned peaches and pears and fruits and lots of tomato sauce and all kinds of stuff like that. But I just use the water boiling method. And I've opened stuff 10 years later that's still good. Not saying that's what you should do, but I'm saying I have.
Speaker B: No, I know that you have to be careful with it. You got to know how to do it. If you know how to do it, you're all good to go. But if you're like me, no, I wouldn't try it unless somebody showed me how to do it. My wife would tell me how to do it. But no, when we were in the Bay Area down there, Millbrae, we had a fairly, eh, not that big of a backyard. But my wife wanted to garden, so I said all we have to do is dig it up, go for it. And we planted corn, tomatoes, I don't know, squash. We had a watermelon and a pumpkin. Growing. And our next-door neighbor, when the corn got, you know, got probably 7 foot tall, 6 foot tall or so, the next-door neighbor's wife told her husband, says, "Look at that, they won't cut their weeds growing there." He said, "That's corn." And he told me about it. He was laughing at her.
Speaker A: Well, I've been improving my soil and my gardens up in Paradise every year. I'd have to look back, but I think I'm on my 4th season now. And it's getting better. Some things are getting better. Some things still have some failures, like this year when that snow came in and wiped out my cauliflower. I had already had a couple, but I had a couple more I wanted to eat. The snow just laid up on top of it and I didn't like that at all. I still ate one, but we had to roast it and it was okay that way. But it was— I still, I love— I'm not really that big of a fan of cauliflower. You grow your own and you can let it go to full ripeness and it tastes sweet and it looks pretty good that way. But so this year I didn't really get to enjoy it too much. And my broccoli, and it made it through that snow no problem, and it started getting bigger, and then all of a sudden this heat came and everything bolted. So I really only got 2 or 3 meals of broccoli out of that whole thing. And I grow all my stuff from seed, so that's the practices I've been doing. I get the seed and sow it and sometimes transplant the stuff, and so it ends up being quite a bit of work. And then when you have something like a weather take you out, that kind of sucks. KN6NGK.
Speaker B: Yeah, KN6SLN. Yeah, up here, um, all we have is a small— uh, we made a small above-ground planter box, if you would. Um, I guess it would be 6 foot by 4-foot, and my wife tried tomatoes and, uh, I don't know what all, you know, some small stuff. And, uh, and she got some tomatoes. Didn't grow very good, of course. You know, it's kind of hard to grow stuff up here, but she got some, not much, you know.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think it would just be about picking the right stuff for your area. Like the broccoli and stuff right now, if you had some fresh broccoli starts and stuff, your weather is not as hot as here anyway, and it would have probably been providing for you. You know, kind of the winter slash, you know, cabbages and brassicas and things like that would have probably provided pretty well for you. Tomato had you been able to put it in early enough up there. So this year anyway. But then I bet you right now, if you, if you put the— I wouldn't normally have said this, but I mean, the way this weather has been, seems like if you put tomatoes in like, say, a grow bag, you know, right now, that maybe if, if you were going to get a frost, you could drag it somewhere to cover it or something. I don't know, it seems like maybe this year would be a better year for getting tomatoes for you.
Speaker B: Yeah, you're probably right. Um, yeah, we did— we got a lot of work that we're going to do over this place. Um, yeah, we, you know, this really is the last time that we're doing it. Um, but, you know, like right now we're working probably every day. Um, when I say we're working every day, I work about 2 2-3 hours and call it a day, just getting things back together. And, uh, you know, and that's what we're up to right now.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, uh, Mike, I'll be up in Paradise tomorrow. I've already got my trailer with some stuff in it, um, and I'll leave fairly early. I'll probably leave by by, by, so, 8:15 to start doing whatever I'm gonna do. Um, here I pick up some more materials or whatever, but then, um, there's a ham radio group up there that meets at about 10, so I'll be with them and I'll probably be busy with them until about noon. I get back over the property around 12:30, and then, um, I've been staying until about 8 o'clock. So working there. I'm actually pretty tired out today, so, and that was from the day before actually. So anyway, um, so I have to recover a little bit. But, uh, anyway, um, yeah, it's pretty hard to, um, pretty hard to let these good days go to waste.
Speaker B: Yeah, they're actually good work days, uh, Yeah, I'll tell you, we had almost— I bet you we still have a quarter wood left. And we left it, you know, thinking we were going to come back in April and it'd probably be cold here. You know, that's the way it normally was. And I don't even think we uncovered it. It's still covered up. We're just using the wood that's on the porch.
Speaker A: Yeah, I was going to say, well, maybe next week if it gets a little cooler, you'll just have to snuggle in with the wife a little bit longer in the morning.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's what we, uh, you know, like, that's the only wood that we've been burning since we've been here. And we've been here a week and a half, almost 2 weeks. Um, it is maybe throw a couple logs in there and set them afire and let them burn out. And that just takes the chill off in the morning when we get up about 5, 5:30, 6, something like that. And, uh, you know, it's just really weird weather. You know, I hope a big earthquake or something like that don't come.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, well yeah, well I've got my ideas as to why it's this way, but nobody out here on the air wants to hear my tinfoil hat scenarios.
Speaker B: Yeah, well I just I think it's, uh, to tell you the truth about it, I think it's just a cycle, you know what I'm saying? But who am I? I don't know. And there's nothing really to do about it, so you just kind of go with it.
Speaker A: Well, that's the truth. Yeah, there's nothing really one person or we can do about it. But yeah, there's a guy up there in Redding has his website Geoengineering Watch. His name is Dave Whittington or whatever. So he talks about climate change and geo— they call it geoengineering these days.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know what's really strange? Um, now see, southeastern Oklahoma, they used to get ice. I mean, yeah, uh, they, uh, I'm going somewhere with this. So they used to get ice maybe once as far as, you know, sleet, rain, that kind of stuff like that. Uh, maybe one year they'll have maybe one day of snow or something like that, but we're sitting out here in 73 70-degree weather on top of this mountain where we supposed to have 3, 4 foot of snow in the— on the driveway, or maybe at least 2 feet. We don't have any. They got a foot of snow, uh, I think it was the last month or so, and it paralyzed them because like I said, they're not equipped for it.
Speaker A: So did you make it out to Oklahoma?
Speaker B: Oh no, no, I didn't go. I— we just went as far as Quartzsite. But I'm saying my sister and brother— I mean, yeah, my sister and brother. Well, my 3 sisters a brother lived back there, and I was talking to him. They said that, uh, it was like this, uh, it came an ice storm and a snowstorm, uh, that's in southeastern Oklahoma, that's down in Texas almost, um, and you know, I think the weather pattern has moved off the— up here off the Rockies back there, that's the way how they Yeah, better definitely change station. That's the one. Maybe, uh, maybe we'll get a white weather out here.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, that'd be something, huh, where you are have tropical weather.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I'll tell you what, Steve, it's, uh, what is it, about 8 o'clock? No, it's about quarter to 9. I better let you go get some rest, and, uh, I'm going to start shutting everything down and, um, and we'll, we'll be on the radio tomorrow or the next day or something like that. So we'll talk to you.
Speaker A: All right, yeah, we'll catch up with you later. Thank you, have a good evening and sleep tight. 73, KN6MJK.
Speaker B: All right, talk to you later, KN6SOS.

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Speaker A: K06FDI, K06FDI from KT6BDO.
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K6LNK, System 36, Snow Mountain Range.

All right, coming up to the next bend here, grabbing the cup. Nice, 64 degrees once I come over the hill. WB68KV, uh, Mobile. System 19 link up.

Man, I'm enjoying this light traffic. WB6JKV Mobile, nobody.

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KN6 SOM, Bonne Soir.

N6GRG with a very strange HF band this morning. N6GRG, 36 local.

KN6SLF, poetry.

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TN6SLN and 6CRG, reportable.

KN6MGKK6SO.

K6SLN, N6GRG, copy. Ah, there you are, Mike. Okay, uh, yeah, go ahead, uh, N6GRG. We can try to go to 5A. Yeah, if you can get over there. Yeah, let's go there. We'll be there in about, uh, 2 seconds. 10-6, TRGD, copy. Nope, still over here on the other frequency. Hang on.

Speaker A: Hey John, I was over there.
Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't hear anything, Mike. I'm monitoring both channels and, uh, yeah, I did— I didn't come through.
Speaker A: Okay, double-check it and let me try it again.
Speaker B: Okay, yeah, I got it all done. So yeah, go ahead.
Speaker A: Well, John, let me get another radio.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's all right, Mike. Hey, I wanted to ask you a question, you or Steve, um, on that, uh, 105, that Koin repeater. I'm hearing a net coming out of Auburn. Uh, is that, uh, sound right?
Speaker A: I don't know. Is that state of Iowa?
Speaker B: I believe that's what it was. Uh, now that was 3 and a half months ago, um, down there in, uh, Corning. It was out there, up there by, uh, where 36 is, I believe. Uh, but now I go to that frequency with the same PL, they're saying, uh, because it's programmed in, uh, there's a net Loomis. I guess the repeaters up there at Allbirds—
Speaker A: well, it's something to do with one of the clubs, and rather than using a repeater that has wide coverage, they use one of those, so I can't tell you. Always copy the repeater wherever it is. Oh, okay.
Speaker B: Well, I was just curious because, uh, they have All-Star hooked to it. Oh, they have several, several different, uh, internet, uh, EchoLink, All-Star, and I believe, I think they have Fusion, uh, because people from Chicago and, uh, back east is coming in, um, to that repeater on that net, and they have quite a following there. They've been doing it for 6 years, they said.
Speaker A: Um, did you get any call-in from here?
Speaker B: Uh, yeah, it's supposed to be the— well, I don't know if I call those— I didn't get to call those, but it's a coffee break net out of the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club. And, uh, I mean, it's— it comes— it blasts in here, um, you know. And I'm not complaining, I'm just saying That's just something new that I heard.
Speaker A: Did you try to talk to him and ask him where the repeater actually was?
Speaker B: I did try to talk to him. I know I can talk to him, but they, they have quite a following and, you know, I have to get in line to get on the net. Um, that's the only reason I didn't break in. I was just listening to him for the last 30 minutes or so, um, and I was just wondering if that was a new, uh— obviously it's not new, but they upped their power or something.
Speaker A: Well, have you been listening to this frequency a lot, that particular frequency?
Speaker B: Uh, well, before I went to the desert, uh, like I said, 3 and a half months ago, uh, uh, yeah, yeah, I scan it and all I've heard is, uh, people around, uh, Willows and Corning, Chico, uh, maybe Sacramento and stuff like that, you know. Uh, but now, you know, like I said, I've been getting all the way up here in Auburn. I've been going What? What do you mean?
Speaker A: Something changed.
Speaker B: And I was just curious, that's all.
Speaker A: Well, it is true that things can change, and the question is, are there two computers on that net? I mean, on that big computer? and raise their power maybe, or something like that. One of the club repeaters was getting all sorts of interference at one time, and that's why they had to change the frequency for their net. So you might be hearing the repeaters at where most of their interference is coming from, a completely different frequency. Oh, okay.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, like I said, I'm, I'm, you know, I'm just curious. The frequency is 147.105, I believe, the PO 100.

Yeah, what's really curious to me is Loomis, or even Auburn, is down there on 80 going up the hill, um, on the other side of, uh, I would say, uh, Yuba City. But I'm, I'm getting, I'm getting like a blast it. I get the full signal here. I mean, a full 20 or 30, you know, full signal.

Speaker A: I'm outside with a portable and I tried to move around. I was moving around and I got into a bad spot.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, no, I, I just, uh Sitting up here, you know, scanning the radio, and that came up, and I thought, wow, you know, maybe, uh, but they said they've been, uh, doing that net for 6 years, so they've been around for a while. It's just I've never heard of them, so I don't know.
Speaker A: You almost have to ask somebody that's actually on that repeater where it is. Oh, okay.
Speaker B: Well, like I said, I'll let you go and I'll listen some more, and if they give a break, I'll, uh, I'll ask him.
Speaker C: I'll ask him.
Speaker B: I think it's up there at Auburn. I'm not sure, but they would have to link it to, uh, that Corning repeater. Uh, now that's how I have that one labeled. It may not be in Corning, it may be up there on the hill there, but that's the one that Aries out of Corning and pillows and whatnot used to transmit on. Okay, Mike, I'll let you get back to work there. I know he's pretty busy, and, uh, and we'll continue to, uh, monitor it and see what happens. But, uh, I'll talk to you later on this afternoon or something. We got to go pick up my grandkids. Oh, probably a couple hours.
Speaker A: Well, the reason I'm so hard to, uh, speak to is I'm outside by a barbecue cooking breakfast.
Speaker B: Yeah, there you go. Well, okay, uh, all right, we'll, uh, we'll talk to you later there. Whatever happened to the other radio you had, that, uh, the one you always talk on? Did it, uh, did it break or something?
Speaker A: Well, I was, uh, in the process— it was in a different building with that 70-foot, uh, connection, and, uh, I went to move it and I think I kind of messed up or or something happened when I moved it, it quit working. So I have to figure that out. Oh, okay.
Speaker B: Yeah, that kind of thing happens, that's for sure. That's what I'm always afraid of, moving these things around. Once I get them working, I like to leave them alone. But, uh, but you know, you have to move them. and, uh, hopefully everything works out. So, okay, I'll holler back at you later on this afternoon then. All right, this would be KN6SLX, um, we'll be monitoring back to 105.
Speaker A: Now, 105, the 105 that you're used to using, wasn't that that Reading receiver, Tehama County kind of thing?
Speaker B: No, no, that was, uh, I think that was 146450. That was a red block there.
Speaker A: Okay, so you're hearing people say It's in the Sierra foothills, the one you're talking about.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, uh, and he said that he was in, uh, the, uh, net was out of Loomis, or they're having a, uh, a ham fest over Loomis, uh, which is this side of Auburn. And that they're in Auburn. And, uh, now that's what I understand. That's when the nets— uh, I'll tell you what, um, when you get a chance, put in the Coffee Break Net, uh, Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club, and that's, that's who's doing it. I mean, they sound like really nice people. I mean, there's nothing— I'm not saying there's anything wrong with them. I'm just surprised and excited about them blasting in here with a great signal. And, uh, I mean, like I said, there's people from the East Coast checking in.
Speaker A: Well, there's a number of confusing things you told me. You're mentioning Corning, okay? You think you're hearing them on a, on a repeater that's in Corning. That's said it first.
Speaker C: Then you said Sierra Foothills and Auburn, uh, and then you mentioned maybe recording receivers in Auburn, but you haven't checked a lot because you didn't actually talk to anybody from Auburn. So maybe when you go over there, you can actually start asking questions to see if that's true.
Speaker B: All righty, I will talk See you later.
Speaker C: I'll go get my phone. Coffee, something.
Speaker B: Yeah, hold on, Met Mike. Let me clarify what I said, or what I meant to say. Maybe I didn't say—
Speaker A: I don't know.
Speaker B: Okay, I scanned 146.105 with the PL-110. That used to be recording repeating. And that would be, uh, like I said, you hear Jeremy Willows, uh, Steve, people like that on it, um, down by Willows and stuff, by Corny. Okay, that's where I scanned it. But yet with the same frequency and PL, PL, that frequency has a radio group or a club out of Auburn, Foothills, Sierra Foothills Radio Club, and it's a coffee break net that comes in on that frequency now up here and just blasts it like, like a thing is, uh, can't get a better signal. That's what I'm saying. And I just want to be clear, that's not coming out of Corning. I don't know if it's coming out of Corning or not. It's all the same frequency.
Speaker A: Okay, well, that's why I'm saying you got to— when you hear somebody that's actually in Auburn, you got to ask them some questions.
Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. That's what I was going to do, go over there and I'll just ask the next controller. I'll say, hey, where are you at? Or where, where's the repeater located. And I was thinking along the lines— what— and now this is me thinking, and that don't mean much, that's me thinking. I was thinking maybe that Auburn Club is linked to the repeater in Corning. I don't know, but that's why I was asking you, and I was trying to get ahold of Steve to see. Steve would probably know. So, uh, so like I said, that's always out of the way.
Speaker A: Well, another thing to add to the mystery, various mysteries, is that, uh, from what I understand, Steve and a bunch of the other guys talk on a repeater that I believe is up on, uh, the same mountain is this repeater, and it's owned by a guy. W6GRC is his call. And, uh, so if you hear those people, that's, uh, and they could be linking to anything because there's internet up at St. John's. So yeah, uh, there's a lot of different possibilities for what's going on. I haven't been trying too very hard to use that repeater that is owned by a guy named Gary.
Speaker B: Yeah, I, I don't normally talk on it. I, I just, uh, you know, that's one that Steve gave me, and, uh, and so I just put it on scan and I heard them in there, and I thought it was pretty interesting. I thought, well, I've been away for a couple, 3 months I thought, well, I'll just ask you or Steve, you know, did they link together or something? I don't know what they did. But anyway, you have a good day and don't work so hard out there. You better get to doing it before it warms up. Anyway, this be KN6SLM, we'll be monitoring.
Speaker A: It's kind of tough. Uh, it, it makes me think there's more than one repeater on that frequency. All right, N6GRT, talk to you later.

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Speaker A: Los Angeles, link off. How is it being retired?
Speaker B: WB6JKV in line for gas at Costco in San Ho. That doesn't suck. Oi, Swallow, still there? That's good.
Speaker C: Yeah, I'm just sitting here fixing radios and going through some old stuff I got from Frank that didn't work, and I think I can fix it. Had an old 40-year-old or 30-year-old Alinko dual-bander, the first dual-bander they ever made, and had all kinds of problems. Got it working, put new lights in it, converted into LEDs, make a nice garage radio. Yeah, just go through the list.
Speaker B: Sounds good. Hey, maybe you can build me a good repeater with a link, put it up on Mount Jarrah, replace my two back-to-back mobiles that are up there that something crapped out. So hey, there you go. All right, I'm hopping out, getting gas. I'll be back. System 19 link.
Speaker C: All right, yeah, I, uh, I got a spare one, uh, I gotta go pick up from the old practice site. So there you go. More on this later. KJ6K.
Speaker B: There you go, 927.4. Dope! I'll be back.

Speaker A: Well, that didn't sting too badly.
Speaker B: I'm back.
Speaker A: Over you.
Speaker B: Peace.
Speaker A: It's JKV.
Speaker B: How much is the Costco over there?
Speaker A: It was $4.99. Now it's $5.17.
Speaker B: Oh, okay. I never get Costco. The one over here, it's Not as cheap as the other stations around here. I don't know why they've always got a line in front of them.
Speaker A: Probably still about the best deal going. And up in South City by the airport, uh, wife got gas there yesterday and it was $5.49.
Speaker B: Yeah, I had bad luck with Costco gas once. I got over in Vallejo and At the Etsu over there, and I filled up with their premium, and man, that thing was pinging and vapor locking all the way home.
Speaker A: Oh man, should have had some, uh, you know, tire, uh, weights, you know, lead to throw in the tank just to help that out.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, that thing's got way too much compression anyway. Need to pull it apart, remedy that, because a new set of pistons is really cheap for that thing. But somebody put 11.8:1 compression pistons in that thing when they rebuilt it. I'm like, what were you thinking?
Speaker A: You could buy custom from, uh, Chevron and, uh, get what, 102, 103 octane, something like that.
Speaker B: There was an ARCO station in North Sacramento over here that was selling 106 for a long time, and I think they still do. I don't know why, it's kind of an oddball location for it, but yeah, it was pushing $10 a gallon.
Speaker A: Holy crap. Wow. Yeah, but it saves the engine in the long run though. Uh, now my buddy, remember Arturo, ZLD? Oh yeah, he used to use aviation fuel. I don't know what your game was on that, but it worked. It made his little, uh, little buggy go.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I recurved the distributor and I got it to where it'll go down the highway all right. I need to do it again, but, uh, I got Buddy over in Noah that has a, uh, one of the old Sun distributor machines. So I might head over there with it one of these days, but I need to get this— that is way too much compression. I can get a set of factory pistons that are shaved, I think it's a 10 thousandths, and put a thicker head gasket on it and drop it below 10. That'd be fine.
Speaker A: Yeah, I remember when we built my buddy's, uh, 283 punched out to a 292, put 11:1s in that and a little Isky cam, and that was pretty good for back in the day. But, uh, yeah, you get over 11:1, man, you're really, uh, struggling trying to find the, uh, the gas for that.
Speaker B: Yeah, it depends so much on the, the engine that design now. I've got my Mustangs running about 10, 10.5 to 1, and because it's a newer designed head, it's got a stroked 302 in it, and newer designed head, that thing runs fine on a regular. If it's a hot day and I'm at sea level, it's kind of better off with mid-grade, but I'll Most of the new cars are running on regular and they're running 10.5 to 1. My brand new Jeep V6 is 10.5 to 1. Couldn't believe that, but they've got cylinder designs and valve timing changes to make all that stuff work and they still make a lot of power.
Speaker A: Yeah, this Jeep's a V6 and yeah, I think it's rated for like 295 horsepower. Something like that. And man, this little fucker is pretty snappy, man.
Speaker B: Was it a Grand Cherokee? Yeah, yeah, that's what I got, the '21 Grand Cherokee. And yeah, it's, um, it, it's, it'll surprise you. But, uh, yeah, you put a 5,000-pound trailer behind it, it ain't so happy.
Speaker A: Probably not, but yeah, I just put a set of big old TAs on it a couple of weeks ago. I bought the thing, it came from Colorado and had some radical mud snow on it and it was pretty noisy on the freeway, but it picked up a huge bolt and I had to replace the one tire, but it's like, it's time to replace all the tires. 65,000 miles on them. So man, it's so quiet with these TAs and the steering is so much more responsive. It just feels nice. And, uh, oh wait a minute, let me go through my menu settings here. Let's see, tire pressure, nope. Ah, here we go, fuel mileage. I'm averaging, uh, let's see, oh, 22.2. That's not too bad.
Speaker B: No, I've had two Grand Cherokees. My first one barely got 20, and I had a V8 in it. Um, and man, that thing could pull. That thing— I looked at the torque curve on that old— was it a 4.7 V8? Um, I pulled my Edsel on an all-steel trailer to Vegas, and I started up Baker Grade figuring I'd be in second gear most of the way up there. All I had to do was take the thing out of overdrive, and it was doing 55 all the way up there without even struggling. And then I saw where people are looking for those engines because they— then the torque curve, it went to maximum torque at like 1,100 RPM and stayed there until about 3,500, and it was right at maximum torque. I'm like, wow, no wonder the thing went up that hill so good.
Speaker A: The way they ought to build them. Oh yeah, hey, you know, speaking of them distributor machines, I remember those old old Sun machines, man. I, uh, I had a dual point Telco and I put a curve kit in it and tweaked it, you know, on the Sun machine to work with my Nova. Man, that was fun. It worked.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, well, they're easy on GM because the springs are on top. The Fords, they're all on the bottom. You gotta test it, pull the thing apart, make an adjustment, put it back together, test it again. That's an all-day ordeal with a Ford. But, um, yeah, here's a note for you. If they try and tell you that ethanol doesn't reduce your gas mileage, first of all, it's physically impossible for it not to. Um, but I drove that Jeep of mine from here to almost 40 miles from the Canadian border, and I get always like what you do, 22, 23 on the flat road going going up and down I-5. I filled up with non-ethanol gas in Klamath Falls, and from there all the way to— what was the name of that town? Something in the middle of— on the other side of the Columbia River in Washington. 26, sometimes 27. I thought, well, it's because I got a tailwind. Coming back against the headwind, still got 26.
Speaker A: Oh, Vancouver?
Speaker B: No, little Kennel Falls, Washington, way— a little town way out in eastern Washington on the Columbia.
Speaker A: Hey, Altair, yeah, we went out there and looked for a paging site for Page Flight back in the day.
Speaker B: Yeah, my uncle's got 80 acres right on the river up there, so we went up to visit him, but Yeah, I was surprised. I thought something was wrong, man. This thing, you know, the wind's always blowing over the Columbia River Valley. I thought, yeah, it's just the wind. But nope, coming back against it, got the same mileage. And as soon as I hit California and stopped, got gas at the Indian Casino down there, and, uh, on the other side of Corning, boom, back down to 22.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, yep. Not only they charge us more, you get less, less bang for the buck, literally.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, they keep saying, oh no, you might see 1 or 2% drop. I'm like, no, I'm like, every test I've seen from a Roden Track or anybody who's just tested said it's about 10%. 10 to 12% difference in fuel economy. So this whole 2% thing is a bunch of crap. But yeah, anyway, you put 10% ethanol in and burn 10% more fuel, so what good does that do?
Speaker A: There you go. But, um, yeah, one time for the hell of it, uh, there, Idaho, you know E85 in there. It really didn't like it.
Speaker B: Uh, God, does mine even take it? I don't think mine takes it. Um, oh, and it's, yeah, um, the Tahoe. Okay, yeah, I put it in my truck one time because the guy says, hey, want a free fill-up? I like this company truck. I'm like, sure, I don't care. So he filled it up and I usually get 12 That truck, man, it got 5 and 6, 4 with a headwind.
Speaker A: Yeah, and whatever else that crap does to all your, uh, fuel line components and everything else, right? Yeah, that stuff's pretty harsh on seals and hoses and you name it.
Speaker B: Yeah, all the new, uh, stuff built for it. Even when I rebuilt the Edsel, I put all new lines and gaskets and stuff, and the fuel pump and the carburetor that are all good for ethanol. And that's all— of course, that's all you can get in California. But, uh, it's just cheaper because, you know, ethanol is very high octane, and you don't have to put so many additives in the gasoline to bring the octane up like you do, uh, non-ethanol gas. So I understand it. And, you know, if you've got a turbo something or other Like my old Volvo, the light premium, you know, fine, run that, you'll get more power out of it, but you ain't going to get any better gas mileage, just for darn sure. It's just not physically possible. When you put something in that's got such low BTU and mix it with gasoline, it's going to lower the overall BTU. And well, BTU equals gas mileage, so there you go.
Speaker A: Oh, math, man, I get that. All right, I am back. Back. So, uh, about 90° here in San Jose. Back to work, Steve. Greg, peace out. Maybe get KTV. Uh, no water mobile.
Speaker B: All right, catch you later. Yeah, I just ripped my, uh, TL-922 off the desk here because I'm going to trade it for a John Deere tractor. So I got to hurry up before he changes his mind. I'll build a solid state one to replay this. Catch you later. AJ-16.
Speaker A: Ah, get to work! Oh wait, no, you don't have to do that anymore.
Speaker B: See you. Good God, it—
Speaker A: God, that it is!
Speaker B: That was a— that— I recognize that. That's a That's an RLC link timeout timer. We timed it out. It says LTO, link timeout.
Speaker A: Bye-bye. I used the timeout 52 simplex, for Christ's sake.

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