W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-17

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Broadcasting live from Red Mountain at an elevation of 3673ft. This is Sac Valley's original 105 machine W6 GRC, with a PL tone of 110.9.

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Broadcasting live from Red Mountain at an elevation of 3673ft. This is Sac Valley's original 105 machine W6 GRC, with a PL tone of 110.9.

Fill your coffee cup and join us for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.

Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

Good morning, Standby. We seem to be having an issue with the Controller again this morning. Sorry about this, standby. AI6US.

Standby. We're just bringing up the backup repeater voter receiver. So stand by for just a moment. We will be on the air in just a moment. Sorry about the delay.

Speaker A: Hi, good morning mates. Welcome to the coffee breaknet on the W6ek repeater located in Auburn, California. The coffee break Net, where the sun is always shinin', the birds are singin' and the fish are jumpin'. This net is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club in Northern California. We're here every day of the week from 7:30 to 10:00 Pacific Time. Please welcome your net control host and conversation facilitator for today's Coffee break net, Brian AI6 us checking in from beautiful Meadow Vista, California. Let's get the coffee breaknet underway. Good morning everybody.
Speaker B: Hey, Good morning. Brian AI6 us here. What an interesting start to the morning. We're just waiting for the local RF connection backup system to come online and so I had to put out a couple of couple of alerts to people and switch the system over. Yes, indeed, we are having a couple technical difficulties that are random and so we're trying to track it down. Appreciate everybody's patience while we do this. Good morning. Today is Tuesday and it is March 17, 2025, 2026. Let's go ahead and check out what the national days are. Today is National Public Science Day. Today is National Cabbage Day. Cabbage. One of my, you know, sometimes it's really delicious just to cut a slab out, steam it up and slather it with butter and salt and pepper. But you know, my favorite way is St. Patty's Day served up with a little bit of maybe even a non St. Patty's Day with a little roast beef. Let's see, today is Faschnacht Day. Delicious pastry Origins of Germany. And today is Random act of Kindness day. You know, maybe today is where you just see a neighbor who needs some help or maybe pick up the tab on somebody's coffee that's not as cheap as it used to be, is it? Good morning.
Speaker C: Let's see.
Speaker B: I'm not sure if the RF system is up yet. Let me check it and then we'll start with some check ins standby. All right, looks like the RF system is up. So system right now. So just kind of a heads up to everybody. The RF system into the W6EK repeater is on backup right now. We are not on the voter system. Hey, good morning. Let's go ahead and take regular check ins quick in and out check ins this morning. And let's start with, let's go ahead and start with Internet and then we'll take RF after that. Good morning.
Speaker D: Coffee.
Speaker B: Quick in and outs.
Speaker E: Kilo Golf 6 November Kilo November 6
Speaker B: Whiskey Quebec, Uniform K in 6W KC8
Speaker F: Fox Queen, Victor K6FQV.
Speaker B: Mark.
Speaker D: Whiskey november.
Speaker B: All right, coming in through Internet connections this morning we have will kj5 golf with november. Good morning. Good morning, carl n6 ckv. And good morning to mark case uv. And good morning to dan k and 6wq. Good morning to frank kg nl. Right, let's see who's coming in through local rf direction. Micromeo, over. All right, good morning, robert ko6 kmr and then a big, big kk6am got you there, ray. Who else was in that pile up. My all disappeared. All right, up to the top. Let's say good morning to Frank kg. Good morning, Frank.
Speaker E: Good morning, Brian. And that hopefully I'm making it out. I'll keep it under the eight timer limit for you, Brian, because that's how quick I'm gonna be this morning. Hope the repeater gets all resolved. And you're not the only one with issues this morning. I got a text here a few minutes ago from my watcher of the live stream control saying that the Internet side is a little bit funky at home with the All Star connect and the YouTube. Apparently YouTube's drone fits too. So it's just your casual Taco Tuesday here on the Coffee Break Net, Brian. Other than that, not much else going on. Oh, did I mention we're live on the YouTubes? Yeah, there you go. And then Thursday North House swap and Friday with Fridays with Frank. There you go, Brian. That's about all I have for you. I'm about to head to bed and dream sweet, sweet dreams. Hopefully AI6US in the coffee break net. Good morning, KG6NL.
Speaker B: All right, Frank. Yes. Checked out your last evening and yeah, very, very good. Very good presentation. Quite a visual dashboard. So very, very interesting. Well done. So, yep, hopefully we'll get. We'll get a lot of the bugs out of the systems and really appreciate everything you're doing. You have a wonderful day. Thanks for checking in this morning, Frank.KG6NLWI6US73
Speaker E: Just to give you an idea there, Brian, he dropped out for me about three different times through that one transmission. And I'm on a decent lifeline network, you know, Starbucks is nice. Anyway, have a good day. KG6NLW player.
Speaker B: All right, we may issue. Yeah, I'm seeing that standby. Thank you. Okay. Yeah, Frank, if you could give me some feedback. If I go in directly through All Star, am I having the same dropout?
Speaker F: Negative.
Speaker E: Solid copy on the All Star side. You know, all start All Star. You're fine. It's RF coming back in that's dropping out on you.
Speaker G: KK 6am
Speaker B: everything is being ingested through. Yeah, I'm seeing some drops even coming into the RF here. All right, thank you very much, Frank. We'll. We'll go with. See what we can do here. And I'm sure that Doug and Tom are monitoring what's going on here. Might be an Internet issue in the vault. Good morning. Let's see. KN6WQU. Good morning, Dan. What do you have for the net this morning?
Speaker C: Good morning, Brian. It is wet, wet, wet, wet outside. This is a day that I do not. Do not want to be outside. This is KN6W key. I'm debating if I'm going to go to work today. Yesterday I threw on a rain suit and tread through it a little bit. Made a little bit better than none at all. I guess today when the rain comes down sideways, it just makes a complete mess out of everything. Before you know it, you're soaking wet and then you get soaking and you're
Speaker B: down for a week.
Speaker C: So that's the kind that you just stay home and just enjoy the nice raindrops hitting the rooftop there. Anyway, that's all I got. This is kn6wt
Speaker B: something how rain will modify our activities. Well, you have a wonderful day there, Dan, and thanks for checking in. Always. Pleasure to have you drop by in the mornings. KN6WQU.ai6US Coffee Breakdown and good morning, Mark. KC8F QV what do you have for the net this morning?
Speaker F: All right. Yep.
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker F: Case qb yeah. When you first came saying, well, we have. You know, when you were keying up, it almost sounded like something over on the Internet that someone was. Had two things connected to the same connection and they were creating loop out there. I know that happens. You know, someone disconnects from one thing, they connect to another thing and they don't disconnect what they were connected to. But yeah, we got. We're pretty decent out today. Outside the sun's out. Most all the snow's gone already. Well, I was going to just ask you what Frank's call was. KG 6:00am or I am. I just didn't catch it quick enough. But anyway, I was going good. Yeah, I listened to the net last night over there on the mode net and we have issues sometimes we have a couple of repeaters that are here locally and issue sometimes, you know, because home. Sometimes they borrow someone's services. You know, they. Because we don't really need a lot of bandwidth and some of Them connections that they get into the sites now they got enough bandwidth to piggyback on sometimes but we'll send it back to Net. But yeah, I was just curious what Frank said so I could go and look at his site and go get into the YouTube deal and just see all the stuff he just talked about. Case C8FQV back to net control.
Speaker B: Yes, Frank's call signed as Kilo Golf 6 November Lima Whiskey and yeah K KG6L. Excuse me. KG6NLW.
Speaker D: All right.
Speaker B: Well Mark, you have a wonderful day. Yeah, I'm starting to get some reports back here that this doesn't seem to be just our system. I'm kind of bypassing a lot of infrastructure right now using Starlink and so. Yeah, but seems like maybe AT and T is having a system issue as being reported by others. So we'll find out. You have a wonderful day there, Frank. Excuse me Mark. And thanks for checking in this morning. We'll catch you another time. 7.
Speaker E: Comment.
Speaker B: Yeah, Frank, yeah, go ahead with your comment. I'd love to work through this list.
Speaker E: Yeah, last comment. Don't worry, I'm going to bed after this. That makes sense because I'm on at&t. Good night, Brian.
Speaker B: All right. Yes, looks like a couple reports of AT and T. So yeah, we'll, we'll dig into this more. You have a great day. Thanks, Frank. Good morning, Carl. Ckv.
Speaker H: Good morning Brian and everyone else out there. Hope I'm making it. Yeah, I just got to do a little bit more on my taxes and I've got Smud coming to change the meters.
Speaker B: I don't know why they want to
Speaker H: do it but they want to change the meters. So I'm going to be out of
Speaker B: power for a little bit.
Speaker H: Other than that we're going to have a wet day. Thanks for that, Brian.
Speaker B: All right, Carl. Yeah, I was thinking that they had come out a few weeks ago. Maybe that appointment got pushed forward on you. Well, let's hope that this doesn't bigger issues for you and the meter change out goes well. Good morning to you and good morning to Ruth. Have an absolutely wonderful day ahead. It looks like it's going to be a wet one.
Speaker H: Okay, 73 everyone have a good Tuesday. Mzckv
Speaker B: good morning, carl. You have a great day. Good morning, will. Kj5 car golf whiskey november. Kj 5 golf whiskey november. Are you there, will?
Speaker D: Yes, I am and I got some results on my meal prep. My meal prep are going to be express shipped to me by Thursday so I should have some meals On Thursday there Brian. Keep this one short and sweet. I got a doctor's appointment in 30 minutes so this is KJ5 Golf Whiskey. Back to you.
Speaker B: Well good. I'm glad that they're acting on those missing on wheel shipment and this whole thing. I sure learned a lot about how meals and wheels are delivered in parts of the country. Had no idea that FedEx and the UPS would be involved in that process. Hey, have a wonderful day. Thanks for dropping in this morning Will and good luck at your doctor's appointment. KJ5 Golf Whiskey November AIC and let's check in with Ray Kkam. Good morning Ray.
Speaker G: Good morning. I've got another data for you maybe. I was kind of waiting. RF stations come along. How am I getting in?
Speaker E: Right now
Speaker B: you're having some drops that we're observing drops at and T. It's pretty much across the country right now so we're trying to narrow it down. Okay.
Speaker G: Because I noticed this must be coincidence you dropped when the wind gusts came through here. So maybe another point of some useless information.
Speaker B: I'm sorry, we. We dropped what? When did you say when the wind came through Heavy this morning.
Speaker G: Continues to have guests at the moment.
Speaker B: Ah, understood. Yeah, you're. You're dropping in and out as well. So yeah I think we're yeah. Might be related at and team. Of course we're on fire fiber in the vault but I know that Patrick are trying to see if they can do some ping tests and that sort of thing to kind of narrow down if there's anything on our end. Well good morning to you there Ray. Anything else for us this morning?
Speaker G: But like I said, I noticed when you dropped was when the bigger guest came through. So anyway, 73kk 6am
Speaker B: alrighty. Yeah I am going direct into All Star right now. Yeah I am seeing quite a bit of RF variation indicating there is one heck of a windstorm going on. You have a wonderful day Ray. Thanks for the point. Good morning Robert. KO6KMR
Speaker I: Good morning Brian. Sorry about all the problems with the
Speaker B: equipment but
Speaker I: things do happen otherwise I'm going to be studying up, doing a little refresher on the extra class that's tonight so looking forward to that. And then this weekend we're going to have an on site meeting so haven't got the details on that yet but I'm sure that'll be coming and looking forward to that. Otherwise probably head to the gym at some point today and try to stay out of the rain.
Speaker B: Over. Yes, I do know that the extra class is having a lab session, getting out in the field and setting up a portable system at a local park. And that's on Saturday. I think you said Sunday, but I typically have it on Saturday. Maybe it was moved this, this, this time. But I do know that they are also looking for Elmer's to help out. So hopefully some more information comes out.
Speaker I: Gotcha. Yeah, it's Saturday. I may have said Sunday, but it is Saturday and haven't got all the information yet as to locations particularly yet. But I'm sure that's coming over
Speaker B: okay. Yeah, that's kind of so excellent. Yeah, I know that it's a very good lab session for each one of them. It doesn't matter which class that they're taking. They offer several labs for each one of the classes and I know it's very, very well attended and quite a bit of fun. So something to look forward to. Well, you have a wonderful day today, Robert, and thanks for checking in. Yes, sir, you too.
Speaker I: And on that, I'm going to turn it back over to the vet. Kilohasker, six kilo Mike Romeo. And I'm just probably going to drink my coffee and listen from now on over.
Speaker B: All right, Robert? Yeah. I'm not sure, you know how long.

Speaker A: We're going to be staying around today. We are having some fairly significant issues here with the Internet and right now we're kind of bypassing the whole rf. But yeah, you're making it in this morning and really glad that you stopped by. You have a wonderful one. K06KMR AI6US73. Good morning Northern California getting swept by some storms. I don't think it's related but seems like the. Well it might be. The Internet has taken some wonky turns today being reported. It's kind of a regional thing it seems like. So we'll find out more. Good morning, I'm Brian AI62 beautiful Meadow Vista, California where the trees tops our and it is just a wild weather morning. Let's go ahead and take another round of quick in and outs as you start your day. Just a reminder we are on a backup receiver for our repeater system so local RF stations you may need to use a little bit more power to get in this morning. So let's see who's out there. One more round of quick in and outs as we start our morning. Welcome to the Coffee breaknet Mike.
Speaker B: W8lbt k6tcl morning
Speaker A: first six foxtrot mike delta six city hotel juliet.
Speaker C: Kilo delta 3 alpha juliet november.
Speaker A: Ko6th Good morning. Okay, good morning. This is who I heard. I need to do a couple of fills on this. Good morning Greg Ko6th Good morning Anna KD3 Good morning Larry K06I Jay Good morning Jimmy N6fMD Good morning to Dave K6DCL and good morning to Tim W8LDT and let's see, starting us off there, would somebody start ending with the letter M? That's all we got on your check in Mike. Okay, there is a local RF station trying to get in but you might try it one more time. We did not catch that. All right, we will go with the list as we have it here. So starting off with Tim W L dt Good morning. Good morning Brian. Hopefully I'm making it into your into your repeater. Just wanted to jump in here and say good morning. I'm on my way to my normal lunch and I wanted to jump in and say hello. I'm glad you stopped by this morning and took a little time out of your day. So let's see if you are in Michigan. So are you getting blessed with a little break from this winter weather or how is your conditions back there? I think we reached up to about 60 yesterday or 55 or 60. Right now it's 46 blue skies, see too much sun, but definitely got blue skies and partly cloudy. So definitely enjoying the weather out here right now. Yeah, we know that yesterday Illinois, Chicago area was going to possibly break some records. Sounded like you guys actually have a nice little respite from the winter weather, but I'm sure it's going to return. Well, you have a safe outing there. Have an enjoyable early lunch or late breakfast or brunch. I'm not sure what you're headed to right now, but you guys have a wonderful day. Well YouTube, glad you're out here this morning even with all your. I'm getting a lot of dropping in and out so But I can copy most of it. So with that I will send it back to you and I will clear and sit back and listen ai6us w8ldt. I'll be clear seven three all right, very good. Thanks for checking in this morning Tim. I'm going to do before I move down the list, Patrick or Tom are either one of you on frequency just for a quick consult. Yeah:nn6h yeah, good morning. I am having excessive packet loss off the system. I'm just wondering if we might want to just do a quick asterisk. I didn't want to do it and disrupt anything you and Patrick are working on but I was just wondering if we should do a quick reboot on asterisk. We can be on the. We can do a reboot on the domain node. Yes, I had to log into it. Okay. Yes, I can, I can go ahead and take care of it right here but I just didn't want to do anything that is going to disrupt you. So at the end of this list of check ins I'm going to go ahead and I'll just cycle the server. Okay. Right now looking at the boater server right now. So you go ahead and do that to the master if you want and then fixation. All right. Thank you very much and appreciate what you and Patrick are doing behind the scenes right now. Morning everyone. Just kind of an update. We're having some issues we're not sure a wider area Internet issue because we seem to be having a lot of pack buffs both on RF and it's taken out our voter system as well. So just kind of appreciate your patience. Let's see, moving down the list, quick in and outs here. K6DCL Good morning Dave.
Speaker B: Hey, good morning Brian. Good to hear you. Happy Tuesday. Happy it's not raining as much if at all right now down here in Jamestown I think we had two and A half inches yesterday, midnight to midnight. So we had a good amount of rain and I think we had more than than Valley Springs had where my son lives. So other than that, the repeaters scan that we scan for police and fire. Very active today. So I want to say have a great day. Have a great, great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow. We'll make this1 short.k67 3.
Speaker A: Oh, it's great to have you check in and say good morning. Yeah, looks like so far since 10 o' clock the night before, we are up to five and a half inches of rain so far. Just crazy, crazy amount of rain. Well, you have a wonderful day ahead and please, please pass our best on to Lucy and yeah, you guys stay on the dry side of the door and hopefully that's indoors. Seven, three, Dave. And let's move down the list. Up next will be Jimmy in FMD for quick in and out. Good morning. I don't know if you're transmitting, but I think we're having. Whatever the issues that are going on, you're not able to get in. One more quick transmission. See if you're making it now. Jimmy in 6FMD. AI62s coffee breaknet. All right, nothing heard. Let's just see if Larry is able to get into the system. K06IHJ. Good morning, Larry. Good morning, Brian. Morning. Cos braid neck. Can you hear me? Young? We can copy you there. K06IHJ. Go ahead. Good morning. Good morning, Brian. Good morning. Coffee breakneck. KO6ISJ. I'll be a real quick here because it's gonna be resetting. It's raining. Hope everybody got everything stuffed around covered up and dry because it's coming down. I'm gonna stand the inside of the dry side of the door today and work on that hidden reamplifier and a couple other projects other than that. It's just going to be a hammy day. I'm going to send it back to you, Brian, so we can get to this list quick. Thank you for running that and having the patience and doing what you do. K06IH73 Before I let you go is the status I know on that Henry 2K floor model. Beautiful. By the way, somebody appears to have taken good cosmetic care of it. But are you figuring out what the issue is? Is it a bad amp meter or something else? Now I have the proper schematic and I can run down things. It's a common issue on a switch. So I got to figure out why the one switch does the multi function meter and the guest trio where it's getting its power for the common on that multimeter. So yeah, it's, it's in my grasp now. Spray. It's in my grasp. I got it. It's right here in my hand and it'll be up and running today, I guarantee it. Well, good luck on that. Yeah, As I recall, WA8 MPA Jim had actually, I think disassembled the. They are multi, multi layer wafer rotational switches. And as I recall, he actually took those apart and rebuilt a few of them. So good luck, sir. Thank you very much. All right, let's get on to the next one. K6 ice J next.
Speaker B: Next.
Speaker A: You have a wonderful day. Good morning. Clearing with ko6ihj. Let's head back and say good morning to ana. Kd3han good morning, ana.
Speaker C: Good morning, Brian and everyone else on the net this morning. Well, I just wanted to know if you skip the whole month because you said March 17th and it's only February 17th and did you give us the days for. For the cabbage, like for St. Patrick's Day?
Speaker A: Man, if I said March, it was because this morning was pretty hellacious as we started out. I'd probably get wanted to skip forward a month. No. Yes, thank you very much. February 17, 2026. And I did give you the correct for February 17. So, yes, today is National Public Science Day, National Cabbage Day, Fastnat Day and Random act of Kindness Day. So pass it forward. Thanks for catching. Hopefully I didn't, you know, get somebody on a new medication schedule because of that calendar mistake.
Speaker C: No, I just was curious because I. You were skipping my birthday because today it's my birthday and I thought maybe we were a month ahead and I had forgotten about it.
Speaker A: Well, good morning, Ana and happy birthday to you. I know we're having some system issues today, but let's go ahead, everyone grab their microphones and let's make a big kerfuffle and wish Anna a very, very happy birthday. Happy birthday AI6US. Everyone join in.
Speaker B: Hope you have many more. K6tcm.
Speaker D: Happy birthday, anna.
Speaker B: Wb6bjn.
Speaker A: Well, there you go, Anna. There is a. There is a group of birthday wishes that warm the heart.
Speaker C: Well, thank you, Brian and everyone else on the Met today. That did warm my heart. And everyone have a great day. KD3HAN.
Speaker A: Well, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Thanks for checking in and your birthday with us today. Clearance KD3AJN. And let's check in now with Greg Ko6th. Good morning, Greg.
Speaker B: Good morning, Brian.
Speaker D: Good Morning to that. Good morning everyone. Greg Ko6th get in a little bit early. Make sure I can get in before the system collapses. Totally. Today is definitely a stay indoors and stay dry kind of a day.
Speaker B: A great day.
Speaker D: Yesterday, lunch with daughter and niece and future. Let's see, how's the relationship go? My brother's daughter and her fiance had lunch over at.
Speaker B: Oh, I forget the name of it now.
Speaker A: It's over.
Speaker D: It's a restaurant over at by the Chinese place by Mickey Lou's and the shopping center on Elm. Anyway, I had a great lunch and then came back and huddled in orders with the storm kind of passed by.3 inches of rain according to the physical rain gauge yesterday afternoon and a lot more since then.
Speaker A: So.
Speaker D: Yep, staying dry. KR68, back to you.
Speaker A: Wise choice. Wise choice to stay out of this weather. Well, I don't know how much rain you got. It seems to have slowed down overnight. We got it looks like only an inch and a half overnight. So yeah, we're slowing down a little bit. But you stay safe, stay dry and have a wonderful day ahead. Thanks for checking in this morning Greg. And you are on the list, you and Carl. Yep.
Speaker D: Trying to keep up with Carl here. I think we're 1 and 2 or 2 and 1. Not sure which one's which in the check ins. Why not?
Speaker B: Anyway, everybody have a good day, stay
Speaker D: dry and we'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker B: Cares of fish.
Speaker A: All right Greg, you have an absolutely wonderful day ahead and we'll chat with you later on. Okay everyone, I am going to go ahead and I'm going to. I'm going to reboot the server here so some connections may be dropped. I'll just invite everybody to connect Back in to Node 51018Back up to Connect back up to Fireside or whatever method you normally check in. So please stand by everybody. I'm going to go ahead and do a reboot on the server. It usually will take about one minute or so and we'll be right back. I'm AI6US on the W6E K repeater and standby please.

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Speaker B: All right, we're disconnected. W6grc.

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K6j to be on. Well, it's working now. W6grc. Yeah, sorry about that. My. My duplex hotspot sitting next to my. My P25 system. And they're. They're pretty close in frequency because I do a 9.9meg split on my. On my duplex node. So I'll have to go in there and fix that. Yep, no worries. As long as we know what it is. I was scratching my. Yeah, I thought I moved it far enough, but I guess not. So I'll draw my. I'll drop my duplex node down into the 430s, and that'll be away from everything. So I guess they were having issues with the coffee net this morning. The. Their repeater system there, I think the hard repeater system, the RF part. Take a crap. Yeah, I was looking at the stats page and it looked like their node rebooted 40, probably now 55 minutes ago. So, yeah, I know they were having problems yesterday. Or was it Sunday? Their voter went out and they were running an alternate, so they brought the voter. I don't know, maybe. Maybe the voter screwed up again. When I connected back in, it was. It was running normally again. Their big issue is they have it. It's growing. A lot of people are connecting to it, and there's a lot of loose nodes out there. Keying. Yeah. So as I mentioned in text, there's another group that connects up. It's called the Fireside Chat. Fireside something or other. And I know they bring in a lot of echo link stations, and I think they also bridge into dmr. And I know they've had problems in the past, but. Yeah, that's. That's a problem. You get these networks that connect in and they bring, you know, hundreds of nodes with them, and you essentially, you know, your span of control is crazy because you can't control those guys. You just have to drop the main link. Let's see. Fire call coming in. So. Yeah. Yeah, that net's huge now. Are you saying that my $39 bo bang with my $29 raspberry PI is not sound equipment to connect it to this nationwide net? Right. Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing. That's why I stopped using dmr. I don't know if you're active on DMR or not, but a lot of these. A lot of these folks who buy the Chinese portables, the audio is just all over the place. You know, I would listen on my. I had an XDR 7550 and, you know, I'd Leave it at mid level for the most part. It's good. Works fine. But then there's these stations that come in here and they're just, Their audio is just, oh, my God, so loud. And then they're like, oh, yeah, I'm on a Baofeng dm, whatever, blah, blah, blah. Or the, the APX clone. I forget what it is now. So then you start adjusting the audio, you turn it down, and it's just, it's crazy. There's no, just, you know, no standard audio. It's just all over the place. Can you tell me how my $7 microphone sounds? Oh, it sounds worse. Oh, let me keep playing with it for like four hours and you can keep telling me it sounds bad. Yeah, it sounds like you're sitting on it and then talking really loudly. So, yeah, it's, it's crazy. You know, I think bridging, Bridging modes is cool, but if you're gonna do that, I think you need to make sure that your audio is, you know, you take the time to set your audio properly. It goes with the same, you know, I, I do a lot on the P25 size of ham. MMDVM. And now it's, you know, people are bridging in All Star and other things, and it's just half the time they blow noise into the, into the reflector and you're just like, can you, can you take the 20 minutes to ensure that your, your station operates properly instead of whatever. So. Oh, well, You gotta love it. I have a guy coming over to do some countertop measuring here, so I need to go prepare for him. I will talk to you later this evening if you're around. W6GRC. I will be here. Unless I float away. Catch you later. Have a good one. K6jw. All right, have a good day, w6grc.

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