GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-24

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K6SLF, Roger.

Speaker A: Hey John, how you doing? K6SLN, N6GRT.
Speaker B: Uh, just hanging in there. Uh, got done with everything we needed to do today and hey, came up here and messing around.
Speaker A: Yeah, I got some things done and I'm pretty happy with what I got done also. And, uh, yeah, if I can have another day like today, uh, I'm going to feel a lot better about things around here.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, this is work in progress. That's the way I see it. Um, so we'll need more than a couple days. We'll probably need a couple months overall.
Speaker A: That's the way it is here too, but, uh, The part of it that was really bothering me is what I got done today, or, you know, major progress on that area today. I also had another lamb, so I've got 3 black males and 2— and in fact, I've got— I believe I've got 4 males. 3 are black and 1 is white or gray, grayish. And then there's a spotted white and black female.
Speaker B: I've all together— well, that sounds pretty good. It sounds like you're gonna have quite a few, uh, when you start adding them all up.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've hardly begun. I'm gonna have more this year than I've ever had.
Speaker B: I just hope the market is good so I can sell them all.
Speaker A: Usually they sell right after the wing, and they're the first to go, but I've never had this many.
Speaker B: Yeah, good for you. Yeah, that's, uh, that sounds pretty good. No, we just got out and, uh, all cut up some limbs. And, uh, now these are big limbs, um, and break about— well, I didn't break, my wife, she ended up breaking about a third of the property. So we get the rest done tomorrow and the next day.
Speaker A: So what are you saying, a third of the property? You did what?
Speaker B: We rake this acre with pine, you know, you get pine needles, pine cones, and limbs are down and that kind of thing like that. So we, when we get back, what we do is we rake it and pick up the pine needles and burn them, or we haul them down here to the dump.
Speaker A: Yeah, I, uh, I've been doing that not only on my property but other properties also, helping people. And I was putting them in feed bags because they make, they make it really easy to start fires. But when you start getting all mine plus other people, and it's just too much, so I got I'm gonna have to insist they burn some of these while they got a little bit time left for the burning season, I think.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, up here we get burned, uh, I'm guessing now. I know burn season starts with, uh, uh, May. I think we burn now, to tell you the truth about it, but May to June, and the last day of May, I think it is. But when you got that many pine needles and wood and stuff like that to burn, you know, it burns for a couple days. I don't like to leave it, so I— oh, we just throw a couple bags or a couple tarps full in the back of the pickup and haul them down to Main Street.
Speaker A: Yeah, all my fires start— I, I set them up so they are over with within maybe 2 hours.
Speaker B: I—
Speaker A: and what, what I'm burning is mainly, uh, small, large and small branches, and anything like over 2 inches I'll cut out of it and use it for wood. So, and I, I kind of, I put them together in such a way that they burn, because it's hard, harder to burn that type of branch if you don't, if, if they're really separated, they don't, it doesn't happen. Uh, then I don't have any pine needles mixed into it, so that would help because they burn really fast if They're dry.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, we got pine needles. Uh, the wind— we were— I think we're getting 70 mph winds up here, um, this last winter, and, uh, a couple times it knocks branches down. As a matter of fact, we got a couple branches hung up In other branches, we gotta throw a rope up their neck or bring them down so they don't hit somebody. But boy, they really shed the needles and typhus.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've got one tree that they want me to take it down, and the way I'm gonna do it is I'm gonna go up to about what I estimate is maybe the 50-foot foot level and kind of top it because it's got these two big branches, one going one direction, one going the other direction. If I take those off, that really changes the tree. The, the owners might not even want to get rid of the rest of the tree once I do that because that's the reason the tree is— looks unmanageable because of the top part.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, these, yeah, these are like I said, you know, we just clean up, cut brush, that kind of stuff, get, you know, get it ready for cow farmers when they come by, if they come by. They were out here, I guess, Day before yesterday, not at our place, but, uh, they were out looking at tree and trees and stuff like that.
Speaker A: How many, uh, pine and fir trees would you say you've got on your property?
Speaker B: Oh, probably about 30.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's a lot for an acre, so that's pretty well wooded.
Speaker B: Yeah, you think, uh, well, we have mostly pine trees. I think might be a couple fir trees over there, but not very many. And cedar, we have a lot of cedar. Um, these things, they, uh, they came through and took 17 off of us, and I'll bet you we have anywhere from That'd be realistic, anywhere from 25 to 30 laps.
Speaker A: Well, up at those higher elevations like that, they have this kind of pine called the sugar pine. Do you think you've got those?
Speaker B: Yeah, we have a couple, but we also have peepine, what we call peepine. Um, and that sector right here, I'd say it's probably I believe somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 feet, maybe 20 feet from the house, is about 150 foot or so. It's about 5 foot in diameter.
Speaker A: Is there another name for that tree?
Speaker B: Uh, not that I know of. I mean, it's just pine tree. Uh, everybody right here calls those type trees peep eyes. Now that Ponderosa pine is what it is.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, Ponderosa.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Yeah, they can get big. So if you got sugar pines and Ponderosas, yeah, you got big trees.
Speaker B: Yeah, we have, uh, that's the biggest tree we have on our property is that we We got, we have about 6 of those Ponderosa pines and then cedar trees and I, you know, I'm assuming that there's other kinds of trees on here but they're smaller trees, you know, they're fir and I call them Christmas trees. Trees, because they're only about maybe 20 feet tall or something like that, 25, 30 feet.
Speaker A: Well, have you ever been in, uh, the big timber company plantations that are over on that side? They're— I think they're north of you towards Lassen. I think ever been in the plantations.
Speaker B: Uh, plantations? Now, are you talking about, uh, uh, logging roads and, uh, um, skid trails and stuff like that?
Speaker A: Well, they call them plantations there. They go all the way over to Shingletown. And some big timber company that I think they're planted, they might be in kind of like rows, I don't know. I've, I've, uh, I've seen, you know, I've been, uh, here when they've had big fires in, in those plantations, and those, when they burn, boy, they're really hot and they're really big, hard to get out. But, uh, yeah, they're, they're, they're just called timber plantations, and whether they're pine or fir, I couldn't tell you.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think what you're talking— I mean, I, I'm assuming what you're talking about is, uh, it is, uh, Pacific, uh, what is it, uh, Sierra Pacific that owns all the commercial trees around here. And up on the hill where I was riding by the quad, I'm talking way up on the hill, they go out there and they almost clear-cut, say, maybe 100 acres. And then you'll You can see where they planted, uh, every place they cut a tree down, they'll plant two. And like you said, some of those are in rows. Uh, those are, uh, cedars that are, uh, or pine trees. Excuse me, it's pine trees that they're planting. And, uh, yeah, a lot of that's in rows. It's been around for 50 100-acre squares that they harvest, and then they plant trees back. Yeah, what's interesting is, uh, I would say my backyard, let's call it that probably about maybe a football field from me, uh, well, actually closer than that, but where they, they logged all the way within a football field of all our cabins and stuff. They took out a whole bunch of trees way up on top. Now that's the Lassen National Forest, forest part of it.
Speaker A: Yeah, I thought I might be able to find something on the web talking about it, and they're—
Speaker B: I don't—
Speaker A: I think they're way off. Sometimes they get so far off when they say things, it's just they might as well not say anything.
Speaker B: Um, but I'm trying to find, uh, what I know are called the plantations.
Speaker A: They're really large and they've got company, company, uh, roads all through them. So all the— a lot of the fire traffic included a company road number.
Speaker B: Yeah, you got the A line, B line, C line, uh, number 2A, and, uh, I don't know what though. Now I'll tell you what, Father-in-law, he's 92, 93 now, so he, you know, couldn't tell you. But back when he was my age, he could tell you exactly where everything is. The logging roads and whatnot like that. It used to be Diamond and now it's Sierra Pacific. And that plantation that— I've never heard it called that, but I guess you could call it that— where they replant trees and then they move over so many miles and they clear-cut that and then they plant trees and they harvest and they try to do environmental stuff at the same time.
Speaker A: I'll tell you one thing, you're not going to find out anything about it on the web. They keep taking you to tree services, little tree service companies and everything else. And I use the word plantation.
Speaker B: And plantation was what the big companies called them. So I don't know, they're just so far off on the web, I just can't believe it.
Speaker A: It's the new AI. I don't think they were this far off before.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. But you know, like I said, they, uh, they do, uh, now up on the hill— when I call up on the hill And this is not the forestry. They had huge trees. I'm talking maybe 100, 150-foot trees. They went up there and harvested. I know they did because they're all dead in this one block. Now why they died, I don't know. They harvested it. So they probably planted seedlings. Now when we were out deer hunting, we ran upon some of those guys that was out planting seeds. Not seeds, seedlings, you know, they're probably about 3 or 4 inches tall. It's actually a pine tree, and they were planting them out there all over the place.
Speaker A: What was the name of that company you mentioned?
Speaker B: Well, it's the biggest landowner. It used to be, I don't know what it is now, but it used to be the biggest landowner in the United States. It was Sierra Pacific. And they, a lot of Red Bluff, they have a window mill where they make windows. They have a lot of stuff. They have something All over here, Sierra Pacific is. It used to be, like I said, it used to be Diamond Industries. Yeah, I'm trying to narrow down the web so they stop talking about little companies that will clip your orchard. That's stupid. Um, and they're still not quite talking about it, but anyway, yeah, there were some big fires in the Sierra—
Speaker A: I believe they're Sierra Pacific plantations all around Shingletown and and Lassen and all around there.
Speaker B: There were big fires there. Hey, yeah, I'll tell you there's some big fires. The Dixie Fire was one of the biggest ones, and then the Park Fire, I guess. What was it called, the Park Fire? I forget now. But the one that came all the way up to 36 and just about got us. Uh, that was a couple years ago when I was in Oklahoma. It came across, uh, Sierra Pacific Land.
Speaker A: Yeah, the interesting thing is they never did talk about that one going through plantations like these other ones did. These other ones were pretty crazy fires, but back when they happened, they talked about plantations, where with the Park Fire, they— it all— it's almost like they talked to— the property was more like BLM, it was more wild.
Speaker B: No, that's why they put gates on all those. Uh, we used to run snowmobiles all through these mountains on near Pacific Land, and, uh, used to be diamonds. Never had a gate on. Then people started throwing trash out, lighting up— oh, lighting campfires and leaving them burning. Then they started putting gates on. Well, after all these two big fires went through there, they put gates on just about every Everything except the public road, public county road.

Yeah, are you, are you still there, Mike?

Speaker A: I don't know when I dropped out. Oh, you're back now. Yeah, you dropped out there. I just went away. Um, but anyway, that's all we've been doing today, and tomorrow we're going to finish up— oh, we're not going to finish up, we're just going to continue on what we're doing. Like I said, this is a long, I guess, everyday job, or, you know what I mean, it'll get shorter as the summer goes along. Yeah, I got an idea, maybe I can use the word plantation fire. Now, um, one of these fires I think got really close to Manton, and I've got this picture. And you know that one ham that's been coming on, um, K9KAD, um, if I can find that picture of all the guys working on it, was kind of like a sluice. I can't remember if it was made out of metal or wood or what it was made out of. It's like a big sluice that sluiced the water down to the town. Wow. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I've been to Madison, oh, I guess my whole life, probably about 5 times there. I know where it's at. Been through there several times, I guess. But, uh, yeah, there I think, um, not last summer, summer before last, uh, there was a fire over by, uh, oh, let's see, Battle Creek down in there somewhere, but it was pretty close to Manchester. All this happened way before the Dixie Fire. Now I'm reading there was a Rim Fire and the Camp Fire, so this would have to have been the Ponderosa Fire or the Rim Fire, 2012 or 2013. I'll bet you those are the fires I'm talking about. Yeah, it probably was, but hey, you know, like I said, there There's fires popping up everywhere between. I think this fire that I'm talking about, uh, was between, uh, Metz and Shingletown there. Well, with this fire, they lost 17,000 acres of plant— you know, plantation. Yeah, yeah, that's, uh, quite a few trees, I guess. But, uh, yeah, they, they got out. They, they have a cow fire up here. They have, uh, well, they, they stopped logging. Um, what they're doing is, I heard the other day, I was talking to somebody that knows, and, uh last of the forests, they stopped logging around us. But they're still running logs out here. They're still hauling them. Yeah, that's probably the difference between the news and what's really happening. Well, I'll tell you what, this year I believe it was, I think it was last year, when we got back from Oklahoma, They were logging and, uh, boy, I'll tell you what, about 2:30, 3 o'clock in the morning, one of those, uh, I call it a, uh, mill, it's something like a portable mill fired up and it was rocking this canyon like crazy, especially that time of the morning, you couldn't hardly hear. It woke everybody up. I bet a lot of people around here was upset. I got upset. I jumped in my pickup, went and tried to hunt them down, and I found out that they were on the east end of town here. Yeah, they, you know, there's no reason for it to be loud like that. Probably the biggest ones I've seen were run with Volkswagen engines so that, you know, they'd be air-cooled and stuff. But yeah, there's, you know, there's no reason to have them be noisy like that. Well, it only lasted, you know, the first night I thought, well, somebody running up and down the highway with a scooter, that's what it sounded like, you know, different thing. About 2:30, 3 o'clock in the morning, lasted all up into the morning, and then it basically quit. And then it started up again during the day. Well, during the day, I understand they're gonna make noise, you know what I mean? And I think everybody else around here thought the same thing. And the next night, that's when I jumped to pick up some of them. Then I found out where they was, and then I found out that people called in on them, called the company, and they stopped them and they started up at 6:37 o'clock in the morning. But that's cool. Be like I said, they have to work. Well, the interesting thing would be to know, to find out why, why they built something that's that loud, because, you know, They're just using like small car engines and stuff, maybe a diesel tractor engine. They can all have mufflers and everything. There's just no excuse for them to be loud like that. No, this is a, uh, the saw. It wasn't the motor you heard, it was the saw. But what I'm saying is this was portable. Is where you hook onto it with like a, uh, uh, you know, semi-truck tractor and you pull it down the highway. That's how big it was. It was about a 40-foot trailer. And, uh, they— it's portable. They set it up. I thought it was a ranch, uh, because of that fire came across their property and burned a bunch of trees. I thought, well, they just built a sawmill right across from us. And, uh, they did, you know. But like I said, I found out later that some people called the company and said, hey, knock it off. And so they did. It was just the, uh, the workers must want to get a longer day, you know. They work more hours, they make more money, right? Yeah, well, the biggest mistake they were making was having it so close to the little town there. That's, that's over with, but I mean, everybody's good. I mean, we know that they had to clear out, and actually a lot of people are being including, uh, blasts of forest, uh, they cleared it all out and, uh, didn't clear it out, they thinned it out so that, uh, forest fire would be more manageable, that wouldn't get to the town of Mineral. Uh, I mean, it always got a chance to get there, but a lot less than what they had, you know. Yeah, and Steve's on there, but yeah, that fire, Ponderosa Fire, was 2012, September 17th, 2012. Go ahead, Steve.
Speaker B: Oh, I don't got nothing to add. I'm just letting you know I'm out here, uh, KN6NGK Mobile in Paradise headed back to Chico. Good evening, Mike and Sean.
Speaker A: Well, happy, uh, travels there. Uh, be safe there. Hope you had a good day's work.
Speaker B: Okay, well, it was, uh, it's okay, uh, but no, not really too much hard work. I just, uh, unloaded, you know, my trailer from the truck. But, uh, anyway, uh, I mean, I definitely got some productive stuff done, but not hard work, unfortunately.
Speaker A: Yeah, claimed they were gonna— said, I'm done with all that hard work, so if it starts getting hard, I'll do something else. But yeah, you're right. Anyway, yeah, go ahead, Mike. Yeah, because of that fire in 2012, they claim they're gonna— they claimed they were going to plant, uh, 5 million trees. So yeah, that was a big deal. Yeah, that's 2012. That was before I moved up here, and we lived up— we lived in Red Bluff, and that's when my wife asked me one morning— I think I already told you that story about— I worked all night at FedEx, got in, and she says, can you go up there and get my grandmother's pillows or whatever they made or something like that. I said sure. And the fire was coming up the canyon there. And by the time I got out of here, my pickup was full inside and out. The bed and the back seat and the passenger place was pretty full because you walk through the house there Oh, I can't leave this. Oh, I can't leave this. Oh, I can't leave that. So they were told to evacuate is what you're saying? No, they, they weren't. They, they weren't told to evacuate. She just, uh, the fire was coming up the canyon and, um, it was getting close. And we actually live in Red Bluff and, uh, She just didn't want to lose these keepsakes that her grandmother made. And I told her I'd come up here and do it. But no, to tell you the truth about it, I don't think they evacuated at that time. They may have, but I don't think so. Actually, it was kind of cool. There was two lowboys with D-7s on them, and we got up to the tramway there, and they pulled over the side of the road, and they turned left with those dozers, dropped the blade, and went through the barbed wire fence and cut the trail, cut across there, a fire break to stop, try to stop the fire there. Yeah, and I just realized I would get carried away with stuff, and I just realized I missed a net, but oh well. Not the first time.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was going to say, I almost missed one. I just turned to the channel and I checked in and out real quick, but it's just VHF for PeterNet. They start way too early for me. Anyway, back to you guys.
Speaker A: Yeah, you got to come up with a system. System so I stop missing these nets like that. Yeah, Steve, is that that Coffee Break net?
Speaker B: Uh, Coffee Break net's in the morning. I heard you checked in today, so, you know, another Mike told me. Anyway, um, no, the Paradise Amateur Radio Society, uh, 6:30 Mondays. They have it over here in Paradise on both repeaters, Paradise and Magalia. And by the way, Echolink and Wires-X does work on those. I confirmed it. I did receive that email you got a long time ago, but it was down for a few days, uh, probably right during that time due to internet issues. So, but anyway, in case you ever need it, uh, it does have Wires-X and Echolink Yeah, that's the one over at Magalia, is that correct? Yeah, well, both of them, Magalia and Paradise. So W6PAR, Papa Alpha Romeo. Yeah, they're Wires-X and, uh, Echolink.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, no, I, uh, I got up here— well, you know, I've been back for a while, but, um I just got around and put this 2-meter antenna up, and when I put it up, I heard that on that repeater 105, and I heard that coffee break dance. I thought, wow, where's this come from? But I was really— I really like it. I checked in a couple times last couple days, not this morning, but I gotta just put it down, forget about it. Anyway, um, yeah, I gotta— I've had a couple of ideas on a system I could use to stop forgetting these, so I think I'm going to put one into action. I set up my phone, it's supposed to announce it. Yep, right. Ever since I got this iPhone, I don't get any announcements. And I'll have them and I'll fix it and I'll have them and then it'll go away again.
Speaker B: Well, when I upgraded, I upgraded back to another Samsung, so pretty well everything came across, just discombobulated or disorganized, so I still got to redo some of that stuff to make it the way I like it, but at least it's still there.
Speaker A: Well, this is saying I should have had an announcement at 6:30. It's in my calendar, so good old Apple screwed me again. But other than that, there, you know. Um, yeah, we're just hanging out, don't have much more. But anyway, we're going to get back to what we were doing and, uh, run around and see what's happening. So okay, we'll, we'll see you guys after a while there. This be KNS11. Be good.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, uh, those guys that operate that repeater, uh, the 105, you know, they're from Orland. There's a couple of guys there. You've talked to one of them before, uh, that definitely helps out. That's Jeremy, uh, W6LND. So Uh, you know, you can thank them for putting that coffee break on, on the 105. K-N-6-M-G-K.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I thought. That's what I was telling Mike here, uh, well, I guess it was a couple days ago. I was trying to figure out how do these people from Pennsylvania and Chicago, Tennessee, and every place like that come in. And well, I mean, I knew how they we were doing it, but I remember this repeater when you— I believe it was the Stars Dance or something. You gave it to me a couple years ago, that frequency, and I keyed it in and I started scanning. That's how I found that deal. But yeah, I, uh, I really appreciate it. Um, I enjoy listening to it. Every once in a while get on there and check in. Well, I'll check in every time I get a chance, but you know. Anyway, Steve, Mike, we'll talk to you guys later. This is KN6MGO. Hey Steve.
Speaker B: Uh, yeah, KN6MGK mobile.
Speaker A: Is that FETNET any relation to Winlink?
Speaker B: Well, Winlink is a mode, right? It's a mode where you can, I think you mean WinSystem, don't you?
Speaker A: Yeah. WinSystem, is there any relation?
Speaker B: Yeah, that came to my mind after you said Winlink. I go, okay, no, I think he's meaning WinSystem. Anyway, no, it's not. It's All-Star. So, uh, like, you know, Kenny Ken W— well, whatever his call sign— Kenny, he could get into it if he wanted to.
Speaker A: Yeah, but it's— I mean, All-Star is just— I'm sure the wind system uses a ton of All-Star now. So, um, yeah, anyway, uh, it's It's interesting how everything kind of branches out. In fact, Ken likes— his plan is to put together a big net like that. He may have a big net like that already going.
Speaker B: Yeah, Wind System has all-star nodes also. So, but no, I can tell you right now that the 105, as long as Jerry owns it, will never have the Wind System on it.

Speaker A: Yeah, I haven't heard the wind system in ages. They're probably a real mess.
Speaker B: Yeah, they can be. Some people like it. The wind system is, you can get it over here. The 440 machine over here for Gears East, they have the wind system on it until about 9 o'clock at night.
Speaker A: Oh really? Which repeater is that?
Speaker B: The Gears East, uh, Gears East is the 440 site, UHF. I don't know the frequency. I'll guess 440.650.
Speaker A: But do they like it?
Speaker B: Uh, the people that wanted it on there do. I don't know. I'm out of I can use WinSystem, the only time I ever would is if I was in Napa or if it was an emergency because my sister can get on it. Other than that, I don't care about it. I'm a Carla guy. I can't— I don't like the Win— I mean, I can enjoy conversations on there if I want to, but I got into Carla and so to me it's an either-or thing, you know?
Speaker A: Yeah, I have a tendency to not care for just solid conversation. But anyway, well, I can't even find a way to, uh, I can't even find anything that'll tell me if I got an alert what it should sound like. I, I look, looking at the app and I went apps and I went to the calendar and there's nothing there. It's just the way it— the way this system is organized, it's just really hard to find things. I see, uh, there's sounds and haptic. Maybe it's there, I don't know. Anyway, I'm gonna let you go.
Speaker B: All right, we'll go tend to those black sheep. Probably not a whole lot you can do if they're, uh, they're on— they're on the mother's milk, hopefully.
Speaker A: Yeah, this is what it's supposed to sound like, but I didn't hear it.
Speaker B: Well, it sounds kind of weak actually. Maybe you can bring up the sound a little bit, make it so it stands out.
Speaker A: Any better?
Speaker B: Well, I mean, it's about the same for me. I mean, I'm driving. I'm not really a good person to judge that in my vehicle with car noises, but To me it just sounds a little weak. Maybe it sounds perfectly fine on your side, and that's what counts.
Speaker A: Whatever you like.
Speaker B: Yeah, now that was about, let's see, I'm going to give that like a 3S unit increase.
Speaker A: That was huge. Yeah, I had to take the place where the speaker noise comes from the phone and put it right into the radio microphone on this, the Linko. I mean, it was blasting right into it.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, it was definitely louder than your voice, so, so yeah, that was— that would definitely get someone's attention, but the Anyway, yeah, well, was it the APRS net that you missed?
Speaker A: Yeah, I'd like to at least get put, put an APRS, uh, message on his. You just send it to KE6SLS and it comes back automatically when you reach him. And the better your APRS system is, the The better the reply is. Right now we don't even have a digipeter here, so it sucks.
Speaker B: Why don't you put one up? I think you've got the technology now.
Speaker A: Yeah, uh, yeah, I could have one up here. Now, maybe I will. I have to think about that.
Speaker B: Yeah, you can repurpose some of the other equipment you might have. Raspberry Pi, whatever.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that could be done. Right now I'm using my Pi 400 24 24/7 for JSA calls. It's working great.
Speaker B: Yeah, but I think maybe you got some others from Ken's stuff or something. Anyway, you don't need much of a Raspberry Pi for that, I don't think. Anyway, or of course they have other radios and stuff that already can do DigiPeter, but that'd be pretty expensive anyway. Yeah, but you don't even have to have much of a Raspberry Pi. 2-meter antenna up, uh, because I think you're going to be using it mostly. So it's just something for you.
Speaker A: Oh, if I do it, I'm going to make it so it can be heard by everybody, um, because right now Redding isn't served, and you know, I'm 300 feet above most of those people, so Why not?
Speaker B: So you're saying if I was traveling down Interstate 5 that I'm not going to be seen in Redding? Because certainly was before, uh, but yeah, once you got, uh, Redding and into parts of, uh, above Old Shasta, you know, the bridges over, over Shasta and stuff, then it was a no-go after that through the Stack Canyon.
Speaker A: Well, there used to be a digipeter in Mount Shasta. I don't know if it's still around. And there's a couple of people that just live in homes in Redding that have digipeters. But generally speaking, that's not what you have. What you have is just people that are driving around and different things, you know. Digipeters have to be connected to the internet. All that kind of crap.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, um, at least, uh, the ones that we're talking about, right? I think what you can be a digipeater like the one on, uh, St. John Mountain, right? But it's not connected to the internet, it's just relays, right?
Speaker A: Well, I think there are people that are higher than I am elevation-wise. Basically, they're above Redding, there's these ridges that go above Redding and some of them are populated. So I know about them because when I was helping my brother as a roofer, uh, we would do some jobs up at some of these and they were fairly high elevation and so forth. But so if somebody, if one of those people put up a digipeter, they could do pretty well. But the one on Bali was just outstanding. I mean, when that one went away, that really hit APRS around here hard.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure I was getting into that one too sometimes. Mostly it'd be the ones from around here, but, or St. John, but, uh, But I think, you know, my signal would get into that one once in a while.
Speaker A: Well, there's an engineer that as long as he was around and had enough of a say-so, the typical amount of say-so that a chief engineer would have, things were doing pretty well. And then all of a sudden, all these engineers from— one engineer, he— I thought he was pretty nice. He was from Portland. But then there were— there's another group of people that got involved, uh, engineers that got involved who are, as far as I'm concerned, they're absolute jerks. And when they got involved, that's when it went down, just just coincidentally.
Speaker B: So I'm pretty sure it was one of those guys pulling into the driveway here. I need to unload some, uh, thornless blackberries, get them into some dirt real quick. So I'll have to say 73, Kilo November 6 Mike Golf Kilo.
Speaker A: Yeah, have a good one, have a great evening. Maybe I'll check in to make sure JS8 is operating correctly. And I will talk— then get off the radio and talk to you later.
Speaker B: 73 all, KN6MJK.
Speaker A: I timed it this morning and it's only 500 milliseconds off, but I need to put it— what I need to do is put it on the internet. Talk to you later.

System searching for Captain Lee Hop.

K06ASL monitoring El Trujillo, California.

N6IWH, KO6MNN. System 7, link up.

System 19, link up.

Los Angeles, link up.

Speaker A: Whiskey Zero Bravo Lima Charlie on Echolink. Hot Springs, South Dakota.
Speaker B: The station South Dakota, you're loud and clear into Los Angeles. Good evening, this is AD6UP.
Speaker A: Checking my EchoLink on my phone just to see if I can get out. Appreciate you calling in. Back. 73.
Speaker B: Uh, no problem, sir, no problem. We're coming in loud and clear, just a few static in the background. So take care. It's hot over here, got to be almost 90 in my ham shack. 73. AD6UP.
Speaker C: Now be disconnected.

System 32, LinkOps.

System is linked up.