W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-19

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Speaker A: Kn6mgk. How's it going tonight, Steve? Hey, Gary. I guess me and my friend there kind of doubled. Dawn, he's N6 Ann. Yep. What you up to, Gary? You doing okay and you staying warm? Oh yeah, doing good.
Speaker B: I heard you on Simplex so you
Speaker A: couldn't hear me, so I thought you lit up the machine so I thought I'd say hi. W6GRC. Oh yeah, yeah, thanks. Thanks for the use of the repeater. I'm trying to get in touch with my friend there from Oroville. I don't think he's hearing me either on 5:2, but sounds like you heard me. Just I couldn't hear you. Which, that's the way it goes sometimes. Anyway, thank you, Gary, appreciate it. And dawn, are you hearing me? N6 ANN? KN6MGK.
Speaker B: Yes, of course I'm hearing you and I'm sorry if I doubled with somebody. I didn't hear a cotton picking thing out there.
Speaker A: Well, yeah, on this repeater, since it's all star linked, we have to kind of like key down for, you know, quarter second or something, then speak. And believe me, I have a problem with that. I'm one of the worst at timing out repeaters and probably quick keying, so I'm the one who needs the most attention and guidance on not doing that. But anyway. So you couldn't hear me on five two at all?
Speaker B: No, I didn't hear anything on five two.
Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it's a tough one sometimes. I know if you put your call sign out, I never heard nothing, so. And Gary just said he heard me but I couldn't hear him. So, you know, it's not a surprise. Conditions too sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker B: yeah, conditions aren't real good right now, that's for sure. So if you program those in there, how come the frequencies aren't showing up? I don't know. You've got. You're calling them something else. I think you have different names for them than the names you were mentioning.
Speaker A: Well, I think it kind of depends. Also, I'm thinking you're using the FTM 400 and mine. The way I have it set up is it has a little frequency on top, it's kind of tiny and then the name is big. They call that the big tag. Like this one has the frequency on top and then it has corning on it. But anyway, so I would think that yours should have the frequency on it too. But anyway, we just, we know, we know people by their call signs too sometimes. So like this One's Gary, who was just on here, W6GRC, you know. The other one I mentioned was the AF60OA. That's Ian's repeater. It's actually located in Cohasset, so I imagine it would be a. It might be a tough run. I don't know. Hard to say for you in Oroville. I don't know, maybe you can make it. That's why I was hoping you could try.
Speaker B: Well, you didn't mention Cohasset. You said Arbuckle and Dobbins. And I looked on here and there's no Arbuckle or Dobbins, so I don't know what frequencies those are, so. I wasn't looking for frequencies, I was looking for the names you put in there.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And you haven't been on for a while. I probably programmed that radio four years ago. I bet you. And boy, in four years, lots has changed. So unfortunately, in some cases, a couple of these guys became silent keys.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker A: So unfortunately, their. Their repeaters dropped off, you know, when that happened. So sometimes or they get exchanged hand. Like this one guy named Bernie. Most people around here know who Bernie was. W6E C E. Anyway, he had a repeater, a couple of repeaters down here around Chico and stuff like that. I think he was in paradise at one point in time for a while, but he. I think he got burned out up there too, but. And then another one, the one that is in Gridley, if you remember him or not. His name was Ron and he was from Paradise. He had a repeater up in paradise and he got burned out too. Moved to Gridley, and now he passed away. So he was like in his. I'm not sure how old he was, maybe in his 90s or something. But anyway, so, yeah, unfortunately, things seem to have been changing here lately.
Speaker B: Okay, but you specifically mentioned Arbuckle and Dobbins. You're not addressing that. I don't know what frequencies those are on, so you might want to text me that information and I'll put it in here.
Speaker A: Anywho,
Speaker B: is there a. A repeater that you can think of that we can both get into that isn't maybe so busy? So we can yak a minute. That's what this one's for. Yak away.
Speaker A: Yeah, Gary's a good guy. And I don't know any repeater that doesn't have people on it, especially the owners that monitor them. So anyway, so, yeah, I don't know. I would just stay here. Yeah. If you're talking about a repeater, and you're sounding good today. Remember yesterday when you tried. We had an issue at some point in time, so. But I think that was conditions related, at least some.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I was telling you. It's just conditions. The signals were fading in and out. Like I said. The guy in paradise, I can't think of his name right now, but you know, he was pegging my meter. But then he just slowly started dropping off and he was talking to somebody and all of a sudden that guy came in real strong and then he disappeared. So it's just probably the weather, not a biggie. So yeah, when the clouds go away, we'll be able to have pretty good communications, I think just about anywhere we want to go. Anyway, let's move on to it. I talked to my friend Johnny and I told him about your predicament over there and he said that he'll, he'll go over there with me and take care of that. Very reasonable. And then he'll sit there and wait until you've made your little modification and then we'll put it right back. But, and when I say very reasonable, that's what I'm talking about. We don't have to get any deeper into the thing than that. You know what I'm talking about?
Speaker A: Well, if the offer still stands in a month or so when I'm ready to do something, I'll let you know. But yeah, not in any time frame to be doing anything right now. At least for a couple weeks while the weather is the way it is. We'll see. I'm thinking it'll turn around in a couple, three weeks or so. Then maybe I can do something. Yep. In the meantime I can prepare for it. If I was really going to do it, I would have to buy a new feed line. That's something I just don't want to do at the moment. So I probably have to wait, I'm thinking a month on that. So I don't want to string together like I did before. If I'm going to do something, I need to buy very good quality LMR 400 times microwave stuff. It won't be cheap because I need 150ft of it.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was just looking at that stuff today and it's pretty, pretty reasonable. I thought I was going to need some and then I remembered I had another brand new roll hadn't even taken out of the package in the garage that I had moved over here. So I used that. Yeah, I, I put this one up a little, a little bit higher. I. I stuck this thing up 20ft farther up in the air there. So I think it's. It's up there a ways now. But yeah, one of the reasons that we can do this so reasonable now is because of the weather and they're not working a lot right now. So he would be pretty much doing me a favor, if you know what I mean. So do you need me to order that coax?
Speaker A: No. Yeah, not right now.
Speaker B: No.
Speaker A: I don't want you to do anything like that. So I want to be in control of what I order, the types of things and from where I order it too, so. So no, not at this time. And if it never gets done, that'll be okay too. So not a big deal.
Speaker B: Okay. All right. I guess I better get my beams back up then because I would like to be able to do Simplex instead of monopolizing somebody's computer since I haven't helped pay for any of these. Okay, I'll let you go then. You're probably busy anyway. Not really.
Speaker A: Yeah, just I haven't actually had the radio on all day. Just haven't wanted to. So. Yeah, actually if you were wanting to spend money on anything, maybe it behoove you to get to get another HF antenna or something. Something. If you'd like the G5 RV, that's fine. I mean, I think there's other options out there. But you know, N fed half waves work just fine too. They don't require a tuner, not a major tuner, at least on the primary frequency. But anyway, lots of options. But a lot of us are doing more HF these days than talking on VHS and so forth. If you're around in the morning, you might listen out for John and Jay and stuff like that on 5 too. I'll probably come out in the morning, you know, tomorrow a little bit too. Then a lot of those guys, I think Jay, at least he drives down to Chico and goes to the Barnes and Noble and they meet, meet up with a group they had about 10 o' clock in the morning. And them guys are mostly all Simplex guys. So some of them are using another type of a program too on their computer called like FreeDV, which is digital voice over HF. Kind of interesting thing. But yeah, it requires the software and a computer, of course. But anyway, lots of stuff like that going on. So yeah, it takes some of the pressure off of repeaters and stuff like that. But these days they're fairly quiet. So the other thing we should test is going to the paradise repeater there's a couple different ones they have there and trying out digital back to you.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. I used to go to Barnes and Nobles for coffee. Oh gosh. Yeah, everything was a lot different then. I sure missed the hometown buffet there, I can tell you that. So. Yeah. What time of mornings are you talking about?
Speaker A: Oh, usually when at least when 5, 2 is fairly active. Be probably, I don't know, 6, 7 in the morning or so. Yeah. I don't know, something like that. I've heard them at 8 o' clock in the morning too. You know, something like that. So yeah, between. Between 6 and 8:30 usually.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. Well, the icicles haven't melted off of this door yet. By. I mean, this house gets really cold. You think yours is drafty? I could stick my hands outside the windows without opening them. So this is the coldest room in the house. So I don't come in here until the sun's been shining on this side of the house for while usually. Which is usually around 8 or 9 o'. Clock. And the sun didn't shine over here today, so I didn't get over here hardly at all today. Which means I don't spend a lot of time on the computer anymore either because I got the computer on the next desk next. So anywho, I think I'll go ahead and bail and maybe. Maybe I'll hear from you tomorrow morning or something. Yeah, I. For a long time I wanted you on H F but you weren't ready for it. So I don't. I don't really have enough. Enough room here for a G5 RV. But it takes a little more land than what I have and I. I cut down the best tree that was 120ft high. Now it's just wood. By the way, do you know anybody that wants some firewood? I got that thing cut in about 16 inch lengths and it's all stacked up here ready for whoever wants it. It's a freebie. They can have it for free. All they got to do is come and get it N6A and M.
Speaker A: Yeah, but that was like sycamore or something like that, right? It wasn't like oak.
Speaker B: Were we talking about gift horses?
Speaker A: Well, I just. The people I know, some of the ones, they won't. They won't go get nothing except for oak and it'll be free. That's what they do. So they get lots of it anyway. Yeah, but that's like martine and stuff, right? Anyway, he usually picks it up in big long pieces. I mean, sometimes I've seen them be like 12 foot pieces or something and you know, 2 foot diameter. And they'll dump it out of his yard and cut it all up and split it and all that. Then he sells it right after it seasons. He does that every year? Just about. But yeah, I don't know anyone. Most of us have all stopped burning fires, so sometimes we're told not to in Chico. Right. Anyway. But yeah, you can always put an ad out there on Facebook, Marketplace or something like that, and somebody will surely want to grab a green crab, whatever it is.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's sycamore and it's dry. I've had it under a great big piece of canvas every time since we cut it down last summer and.

Speaker A: It's already cut up, like I said, in about 16
Speaker B: inch
Speaker A: lengths. So all I got to do is carry it off and. Yeah, it's sycamore, if I haven't mentioned that already. Yeah, I used to burn anything. It didn't have to be oak. It didn't have to be a particular brand of almond tree. Firewood heats your home. I didn't like pine because that stuff like burning firewood with gasoline on it, but just about any other kind. And eucalyptus, man, I used to use the heck out of eucalyptus. That makes really good firewood too. But so does. So does sycamore. Anyhoo, I'll go ahead and let you go for now and I'll see if I can hook up with you tomorrow. So thanks for jumping on here for a minute, kn6mgk.n6ann. And thanks for the use of your repeater.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, no problem. For talking to me there. And the trip to ham radio outlet, you know, still on the table. Right. You may need to take a drive over there to buy you an antenna. Otherwise. I could lend you an N fed half wave. I got a 10 tennis n Fed half wave here. It's already built. Probably been sitting in my truck. Oh, I've got another one, too. I've got one with coils on it, but that's long. It would require the one I have. I think it's up in paradise right now. That's a fan dipole. It's got 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 on it, I think, in the form of a fan dipole. Got little coils on either end of the 80 to make it shortened a little bit. And that one, though, is. It probably requires 80ft to put it up. So anyway, so a lot of people don't put them up very high anymore around here, at least, especially if we're looking for NVIs. So 25, 30ft. Okay, well, 73 to UN6ANN from KN6MGK. And thank you to Jerry, W6GRC. KN6MTK clearance.

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Speaker A: Good evening. The time is 8:29pm.
Speaker B: W6lnd.
Speaker C: So, talking to Jim via text, he noticed that the St. John site. Internet's still down.
Speaker B: Probably will be for a few days.
Speaker C: All they have to do is plug into the power, downsize what they have up there. Small, little, simple controller.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, they don't want to spend the money they agreed to spend.
Speaker C: Can't be any cheaper sending all those guys up there.
Speaker B: One trip in the helicopter would cost more than what it would cost for what you requested.
Speaker C: I'm going to reach out to him again.
Speaker B: Well, I'm assuming you got some sunlight up there today.
Speaker C: Yeah, we haven't went offline at all. So I want to say we got. Our batteries are probably 70, 80% maybe. Maybe fully charged. Who knows? We can't tell. There's no Internet.
Speaker B: I was just gonna log into the Carlos system and see if I can see anything.
Speaker C: How do you know? A little bit better on.
Speaker B: Dad, was there any adjustments made to the rf?
Speaker C: Well, we did it yesterday. Right. You and I and Jim. Right.
Speaker B: But I didn't know if anything had been done. Otherwise,
Speaker C: it sounds pretty good. I mean, we're both on portables right now. A little bit of background noise, but not too bad.
Speaker B: So Carla's at 99.6%. Let's see if I can pull up the charging data from today. Made almost a kilowatt hour, which on that system, significant. All right.
Speaker C: So it sounds like we got plenty of light up there today.
Speaker B: Yeah, I would guess so.
Speaker A: Yeah. Gary has less noise than Jeremy does.
Speaker C: Well, I should have more because I'm in a portable in a car.
Speaker A: Well, I'm saying your portable sounds better right now than Jeremy does, but not by much. But to me, it does.
Speaker C: Yes. He's probably in his house with the blender going.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I imagine he is. Inside of his house. That makes a difference. He lives in a small, a very minor verde.
Speaker C: Well, Steve, we have the P25 system, and we can talk all night long and have zero noise. We're just trying to make a bunch of noise on ham radio because there's so few of us left that even talk on the radio anymore.
Speaker A: Yep, that's true. I was in the other room, and I could hear you, so I decided to come out here and see who you were talking to, because I couldn't hear. I couldn't hear Jeremy from the other room.
Speaker B: Well, I'm definitely on my ht, sitting in my easy chair.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Yep. Well, now, when I came into the room, then I could hear you.
Speaker C: Fine.
Speaker A: So you're fine.
Speaker C: Yep.
Speaker A: And even that friend who's an old. He's in his 80s from Oroville. Earlier, he didn't want to talk on the repeaters because he. He knows he. He hasn't contributed to anything for years and years. Right. So he doesn't feel like he should.
Speaker C: Well, he's more than welcome to talk on the re. Repeater. I'm giving him a personal invite.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, he's. He's also a real big Trump supporter, so he should get a.
Speaker C: Of course. He probably worked for a living.
Speaker A: Yeah, he definitely did that for probably 60 years and raised several kids and so forth. In fact, recently, his wife passed away. That kind of sucks. I think he was married for over 50 years, probably 60.
Speaker C: That's something to be proud about right there. With the same woman for 50 years. That means he has a lot of patience.
Speaker B: How is my audio now?
Speaker C: Sounds good,
Speaker A: but now, are you using your All Star node?
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm coming in via All Star.
Speaker A: Yeah, just a touch of latency, but, man. No, it sounds crystal clear.
Speaker B: All right. This is the shari node with ASL3.
Speaker C: So are you. You're transmitting into that with your portable on another frequency of 400 megahertz frequency, Jeremy. Correct, Jerry.
Speaker B: So I'm using RF in the house, but I'm not having to push out through the walls and.
Speaker C: Cool. Yeah. That's when I get the HAM radio room. Gonna get a desk next week. I want to do a Motorola CDM 1250 and connect it to the ASL. The Raspberry PI.
Speaker B: Yeah. You'll have to get an interface. You can either get a Dyna or might be able to get the same interface used on the repeater.
Speaker C: Yeah, it's a Yuri uri. Uri, I think, is what they call it. They make a Mini uri. This is working good, though.
Speaker B: Without having a controller. I saved a lot of money.
Speaker C: Yeah, it works really good. And it's pretty fancy.
Speaker B: All the announcements.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker B: I still say we need to get a real sultry actress to do the announcement.
Speaker C: Well, we have AI, Jeremy. So that we were using that. You heard some of the ones that I'm going to do with AI. It's pretty funny.
Speaker A: Did you see that Freddie Mac's that announcement manager. Is that what you're using?
Speaker C: Yeah. Jim Nissen, one of the guys who helps us out with this project. Actually, he did the whole project. We just sat around and watched him. He loaded it last night, so it's been working pretty well.
Speaker A: Well, I've heard some things while I've been monitoring here just for a few hours, but I really. That was in the other room, so I didn't hear what they had to say.
Speaker C: We're gonna do some graphic ones. That way we can make everybody upset.
Speaker B: You need to have a pseudo adult actress saying, who's antenna for longitudinal?
Speaker C: There you go.
Speaker A: Well, mine might be short, but it's kind of thick.
Speaker C: All these ham radio into wintos.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's got one of those thick radomes.
Speaker C: There's fetishes in every ham radio operator.
Speaker A: Maybe there needs to be a test to be on this repeater. Like, you know, a 10 question test, test your conservatism.
Speaker C: Well, wouldn't that cut out some of the morning coffee guys? I know at least one of them kn6odd. Let's hope not. We don't want to, you know, disassociate anybody W6GRC.
Speaker A: Well, maybe there's always got to be one token, one token libtard that's allowed. I don't know. Because you got to get one alternative opinion.
Speaker B: But that's about all.
Speaker A: KN6MGK. I'm going to go back to monitoring,
Speaker C: see what my wife's up to.
Speaker A: KN6MGK.
Speaker C: The good part is, is if we, you know, stir the pot, at least somebody's talking on the repeater. That's better than, you know, any repeater in Northern California in.
Speaker B: How many of those news lines are you going to play, Gary? W6LND.
Speaker C: I was thinking we should do it like on the hour, every hour.
Speaker B: I don't know, possibly get some noise out there, I guess.
Speaker C: We don't have that set up yet. I got to work with Jim on that, I think. Doesn't it come out on. Refresh my memory. Is that Friday? Every Friday it comes out.
Speaker B: I don't know. There'd have to be somebody that's more up on it than me. I barely know which way which end is up anymore.
Speaker C: I believe listening to it, I heard that it came out last Friday because I remember it saying Friday the 13th. So we'll have to, I don't know, we'll have to play it at a certain time every night or something. I don't know. What time do you think is the best time to play it? 7, 8, 9.
Speaker B: I'm going to say around 5 o' clock when people are driving.
Speaker C: That might make sense.
Speaker B: That might make more sense because then that would be mobile, you know,
Speaker C: The sky's the limit.
Speaker B: Hey forced me to get up and get on the big radio.
Speaker C: Oh, it sounds better.
Speaker B: It's a nice sounding radio. I wish the banding on it was just a little bit wider.
Speaker C: I take it at the. You're on the IPOM.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm on the 9700.
Speaker C: The audio is really good. Did you replace your mobile desktop?
Speaker B: It's still here, but I just leave it on public service because this radio won't do anything outside of the hand band at all. In fact, the receiver isn't even wide enough to modify it particularly. They say you'll affect the performance.
Speaker C: Well, that makes sense. This is the sideband radio, right?
Speaker B: Sideband am, FM digital.
Speaker C: That was interesting.
Speaker B: It's almost a waste of money because there's so much activity out here anymore.
Speaker C: Well, you can always start the activity.
Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Between doing that and I was working on my Koopa stuff tonight. What a nightmare that is.
Speaker C: Have you heard from Clarence at all?
Speaker B: I think I heard him check in the gears net either last week or the week before. I know he's out there every now and then. You'll hear him on. Hear him on Carla.
Speaker A: All right, good.
Speaker B: I can tell you, P25 sure spoils the guy.
Speaker C: Thanks for coming out and making some noise on the repeater.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was just saying I think P25 spoils us.
Speaker C: Of course it does. It sounds so much better.
Speaker B: Not to mention coverage from Doris to Harris Ranch.
Speaker C: Yeah, that's. That's the case too. This one. And put it up a little higher.
Speaker B: It's really nice to be able to sit in the easy chair and use an HT and not have static. Right.
Speaker C: Oh, now you're overboard. Definitely a little bit of noise on the repeater, but that site's super noisy. There's no way of getting away from it. I think. I think our audio sounds better than the other two professional machines that are up there.
Speaker B: It wouldn't take a whole lot. I think the power lines are affecting this.
Speaker A: This.
Speaker C: This system.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think maybe your theory there may be partially correct.
Speaker C: I think something must have happened to 36, because whenever I'm in town now, like as I drive around, it cuts out a lot. KN6ODG.
Speaker B: I don't think there's been any maintenance done on it in two years.
Speaker C: Yeah, because, you know, my house, I can usually hit it no problem. And I. I get kind of spotty coverage with it out there.
Speaker B: I've noticed on the HT it's not
Speaker C: as clear as it used to be.
Speaker B: So there could be something going on there. Could have water in the feed line.
Speaker C: It's hard to. All right, guys, I'm unloading the groceries. Talk to you a little bit later. W6GRC.
Speaker B: All right, Gary, we'll chat with you later.
Speaker C: I'm.

Speaker A: Got a monitor for a little bit here. I don't think I'm too far from bed. W6LND.
Speaker B: Have fun unloading your groceries. K6JWM
Speaker C: there's the man of the hour. So could you tell any difference?
Speaker A: Jim, when I came in via All
Speaker B: Star over rf, I just turned the radio on. So whatever you're on now, it's full quieting.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm on my ICOM 9700. I'm probably blasting that thing with 100 watts.
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker A: But I'm going to switch over to All Star to see if you can tell any difference. Alrighty. Logging into my nodes so I can control. I don't use the dtmf. I guess I should.
Speaker C: Nah.
Speaker B: Either use super monitor or command line.
Speaker A: I'm actually using what's the almond?
Speaker B: Oh yeah, I've used that a few times. That one's actually pretty cool too.
Speaker A: I think the deal is it was an asl3 where supermon wasn't.
Speaker B: Yeah, you have to install used to be an ASL 2 but they favored the almond 3. Have you ever looked at the All Scan interface?
Speaker C: I haven't.
Speaker A: I'm sure the favoritism's due to Tim. Right.
Speaker C: All right.
Speaker A: Now I'm on my All Star note.
Speaker B: You sound about the same as you were on the repeater. I would concur.
Speaker A: I think that's half a watt going into the All Star node from my outside antenna. Yeah, I think even the audio is performing well enough. So many guys get on that they haven't taken the time to tune it.
Speaker B: Oh, sorry.
Speaker C: I double with you.
Speaker B: I said I think even the audio sounds just about right as well.
Speaker A: Yeah, I was saying that so many other guys get on that coffee break net in the morning and they've never tuned their nodes.
Speaker B: I would agree with that.
Speaker A: All right, Jim, well, good to hear you on here. Machine's working good.
Speaker C: All right, good to hear.
Speaker B: I know they had a another issue on their end this morning with the net. I think they had to reboot all of their All Star nodes. But glad it's working. So good chat with you. I'll be listening here for a little bit. K6JW1
Speaker A: all right, Jim, have a good one. Yeah, I think they got too many connections going in their vault. They need to do a server based node. Just my opinion. W6LND.
Speaker C: I doubled with you, Jeremy. Jim. What? Did you buy a up today or an AP? Yeah, I bought a.
Speaker B: What is it? The Wi Fi 6 AP.
Speaker C: Okay, cool. Once you hook that up, let me know how you.
Speaker A: How far it goes out there.
Speaker B: All right. Yeah, I put it. I actually installed an access plane on my barn. I'll have to send you the link to the Amazon site for it, but that actually covers the whole property. Even my IP based camera at the front gate uses it. Works pretty well.
Speaker C: Yeah, I've been a fan for several years. So my house, you know, actually all my rental properties have it, so I'm pretty ubiquified.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm blaming you for this, just so you know.
Speaker C: Well, then you're gonna have to start buying POE switches to run cameras.
Speaker B: Oh, my wife says I'm. I can't talk to you anymore.
Speaker C: Exactly. But the cameras are nice. That way you can watch the bad guys steal your stuff, right?
Speaker B: Well, I've replaced all of my switches. I bought those USW lights or the eight port switches. Four ports are poe. Plus I bought two of those,
Speaker C: so
Speaker B: I'm ready at least for poe. And then I'll slowly start. The camera's going to be a little more challenging because I got to figure out how to get a cable path from the outside into the house.
Speaker C: You have a couple of wi fi cameras.
Speaker B: How are those powered? Solar. Sorry about that.
Speaker C: I have one in my kitchen and then I have another one in my motorcycle garage.
Speaker B: How are those powered? Battery or solar?
Speaker C: Yeah, they're powered off of 110. There's a 110 connection on them
Speaker B: that actually might work pretty good. I've got 110 outside and then I'm looking to put 110 down by my front gate. So if I do that, I'll be covered down there. I have Arlo cameras now. I just dirt danger need to be replaced.
Speaker C: Yeah, they work pretty good.
Speaker A: The one.
Speaker C: The wireless ones, I believe they're 2K quality. They're not 4K quality. But today at the dealership, I took down three. Three AI cameras because I have so many cameras, it was hogging up too much of the bandwidth and I wanted to get six more cameras on there. So for every 4K camera, you can put three 2K cameras in.
Speaker B: What kind of connectivity do you have at the dealership? Fiber or is it wireless?
Speaker C: Have cable going there 1.2 meg.
Speaker B: My neighbor's house is still for sale. He's got one gig fiber. So, you know, if you need more Internet, you can certainly move down here. I know.
Speaker C: I'm jealous. So actually, we were just talking about this the other day. They're putting in fiber to all the outskirts areas of town in Orland. And the fiber that is in the town is so expensive that nobody runs it. I had it at the dealership for. It was 1800 bucks a month. But I backed it back down to the biggest plan Comcast had because it was like $300.
Speaker B: Yikes. That's ridiculous. Who was the provider on that one?
Speaker C: Tnt.
Speaker B: Say no more.
Speaker C: We don't have any choice in our town. I've banged my head up against the wall a million times to try to
Speaker B: figure out another way. Well, we have Frontier down here, which I've heard has been a complete nightmare. At least on the copper side. The fiber side has been rock solid. But overall, I don't. I don't. I don't. I'm not a big fan. They just converted us to fiber at the fire station and then took our copper lines and moved them over to fiber as well, but then didn't finish the job. So now we have to go and rewire all of our phones.
Speaker C: Well, the phone should be voip, right?
Speaker B: If you got fiber. No, what they do is they media convert it from fiber back to copper. We have an old legacy Nortel phone system in our station that we told them we didn't want anymore because it's Frontier managed. And Frontier says, well, it's so old we won't even touch it. So. But without that phone system and now run regular old phones. But yeah, no, they have a media convert in there for that.
Speaker C: Well, we have all voip at our station. I think it's our third system that we've put in, actually. They've switched it over a couple of times. And we have nec, which is out of business.
Speaker B: Oh, yikes. I tried. I tried to go Voight, but that got shot down. We were not. We don't do anything crazy with it. We have a phone. Phone in the station and then another phone in the admin office along with the fax line. And we have a 911 phone outside the station if anyone needs to use it. That's about it. So we're not. We're not too crazy.
Speaker C: Yeah, I don't. I think you met Ernie one time. I'm not 100% sure. I think so. He's a buddy of Jeremy and I, and that's what he does for a living is phone systems.
Speaker B: So
Speaker C: this company is called Communication Impact.
Speaker B: I haven't met him face to face, but I did talk with him on the phone. Speaking of that, we need to revisit the autopatch thing and get that thing finalized.
Speaker C: Yeah, that would be amazing. Ernie is in Tennessee for the Next week. So as soon as he comes back, we'll, we'll do a three way call and see if we can figure it out.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, just let me know
Speaker C: what I'm reading online. It looks like we can actually connect the ASL Raspberry PI into the GTR 8000 in P25.
Speaker B: Direct. Or is it through the V24 stuff
Speaker C: connected into the back into the header? I'll send you a link on it again. That's just what I've read on.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, I'm interested to read that. I think I might kick around the idea of building a conventional P25 system down here for my, my Nexcom connection, building that out.
Speaker C: Do you know anybody that has a little site up there.
Speaker B: That has a site now? I'm hoping maybe to get some tower space when we finally get our tower built.
Speaker C: Oh, I'm talking about up on top of those Sierra Nevadas next to you.
Speaker B: Oh man. No, I don't know anybody up there.
Speaker C: I think I do. I'll text him and see what sites he has that way.
Speaker B: All right. I reached out to a FCC frequency coordinator to kind of find out what the process is for putting a request in for a repeater pair. You know, that's not itinerant like I have now.
Speaker C: They usually want a location of where you're going to put it. But there's a lot of frequencies available for business. You know, there's nothing left for VHF on fire, you know, EMS or first responders, whatever you want to call fire for me. So we're always fighting for frequencies.
Speaker B: What about UHF? Is that pretty open?
Speaker C: Yeah, it is. UHF's open 7 and 800. They play a game with you. The game is you can have so many frequencies per county. We had four 14 frequencies assigned to us. We requested eight of the 14. So if somebody tries to go in behind us and get, you know, simulcast system and they need multiple frequencies per channel, they're going to have to bend and give them more.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was either I'm. Isn't 7800 exclusive for public safety though? I don't think you can get anything in that. That's not public safety.
Speaker C: Correct. It's exclusively for public safety. But on the high side in the 800s there is some business frequency still available there.
Speaker B: I was going to say I've got access to 800 meg subscriber gear.
Speaker C: Is the company that you're using to license your frequencies fit.
Speaker B: I forgot who, I forgot who. I reached out to off to find it and send it to you. But. The guy emailed me a long time ago and I just never went back to fill out the form. But they have this package that you can get from them. I think it's like 300 bucks and it includes five frequencies. And then they take care of all the licensing. You just give them your FRN and they submit all the paperwork and everything.
Speaker C: Okay, well that's reasonable. I just paid $280 to do a renewal.
Speaker B: I should send you the link to the nexcom system I'm a part of. They're starting to pick up in popularity. I guess a couple of the folks want went to Pamcation in Florida and I guess from what I've heard from one of the admins, the number of hours.

Speaker A: Applications exploded. I think they got like 15 new apps, and they usually only average like one or two. So the word. The word's getting out. In fact, if you become a part of it, we could convert that trunk system you got up there and put it on that network.
Speaker B: All right, send me the link. We'll look at it. The system I have up there is not trunked, though. It's. It's just a single frequency. We would have to request one more pair. Right. To be trunked.
Speaker A: Oh, sorry. I was talking about the hotspot one that we built for you. It's at your house.
Speaker B: Okay, yeah, let's do it. I'm all good for that. Is there an application fee to do it?
Speaker A: Oh, no, no.
Speaker B: It's.
Speaker A: It's open, it's free. It's a.
Speaker B: It's basically.
Speaker A: It's an experimenters group. So most of the guys use Smart Connect to connect in. There's a handful of people who have sites, So it's mostly quiet, but, you know, there is some activity. They run a weekly net on Sundays. I just became one of the net controllers, so I'm in their net control rotation.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'd be interested in getting to be a part of it and then listening to it. So I've seen a bunch of. There's a few younger guys that are affiliated with that, and they. They're part of these big radio groups down in Texas. I see him ordering pizza and stuff on his trunk system. So he's collecting all the surplus gear and then putting it up at his house. You probably know the same YouTuber that I'm talking about.
Speaker A: Oh, yes. Ctrs.
Speaker B: Central.
Speaker A: Central Trunk Radio System. I actually have a.
Speaker B: I used to be part of that.
Speaker A: I kind of shied away from it. It's an interesting group, but what's cool about them is they. They allow their users to use their itinerants. So you don't have to get your own Part 90 license to become part of their group. You just. You use one of theirs.
Speaker B: Is it licensed for the whole United States? Yeah. Heather,
Speaker A: hang on. Taking a picture. When you get a chance, look at your phone. I played the game and got a coffee mug from them, but, yeah, they have a nationwide itinerant and then they allow anybody to use it.
Speaker B: VUHF or vhf? I believe it's both.
Speaker A: I'd have to look at their frequency list, but I know when I did mine, I did. I did uhf, but I think they have. They may have one VHF pair. So you could do. At least do a conventional. All right. Sounds good.
Speaker B: As you know, we're very limited up
Speaker A: here
Speaker B: from paint pause.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Yep. I'm well aware. So. All right, well, yeah, I'll send you the link to the next comm. One of the admins is, I think he says he works for the San Mateo county radio shop, so he's a good guy. I think most of the RF sites are in California. There's a couple that are scattered around, but I have a feeling the Chicago group that's starting to pick up some steam, we'll get some stuff going up there. Wow, that'd be cool.
Speaker B: Well, we're always interested in that stuff, so we'll have to see how it plays out.
Speaker A: All right. Yeah, the application is pretty easy. Just go in there and they'll accept your HAM license as a verification. And then, you know, you can piggyback off my itinerant license since I'm good statewide. Sounds good.
Speaker B: Yeah. Send me the link.
Speaker A: All right, you got it. All right. Put this thing down, veg on the couch for a bit before I call the night.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm on the same thing. W6TRC. Have a good evening.
Speaker A: All right, YouTube. Have a good night. K6JW1.

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Speaker A: Data just booted up. Made some comment. About what? He trimmed the list
Speaker B: down to 1500 check ins, not 15,008 zero. Yep.
Speaker C: Moved them up into the archive. Noticed that the auto fill was getting a little slow.
Speaker A: Yeah, poor computers just. Just can't take it. All right, we're getting ready. WA60. Thanks for your help.
Speaker C: All right, you guys have a great net this morning. And let's see. KC6 Sle. Graydon, are you monitor. Kc6sle?ai6us? K83 vgm. Jimmy, are you still monitoring 86 us? If you still have a question. Nothing. Heard AI6 us clear.
Speaker A: Did you get snow?
Speaker C: We did last night like at about 10 o'.
Speaker D: Clock.
Speaker C: And then it rained off overnight. And I just looked out right now and pretty fast snowfall. So probably. Probably pretty wet.
Speaker A: The news last night showed Meadow Vista right on that little fine line between snow and rain. Okay, well, enjoy it. WA 60.
Speaker D: It's trying at the airport right now.
Speaker C: Wat just jumping out going. And it's not going to be shoveled. You guys have a great net. Ai6us.
Speaker A: And you won in that conflict.
Speaker C: Ty.
Speaker A: Ty came out and said it's snowing at the airport. Wa60.
Speaker C: Morning, Ty. Crazy. You would think. You would think that the Auburn airport. A little elevation. Oh, well. These little microclimates. Yeah, it's coming down pretty good, but not sticking right now. A guy six us.
Speaker D: Yeah, it's not sticking.
Speaker C: It's just starting to re.
Speaker A: It's just.
Speaker D: Yeah, we'll see what it does. I gotta go to a Folsom thing though, so have a great night, guys. Said to hear everybody on W6TJR.
Speaker C: Good to hear you too, Ty. You have a great day. A high six 2s clear.
Speaker E: AI six us. K three bpm. Just have to get back my microphone. All I wanted to know is if I'm sounding okay today. Coming in this way. Rick did some work on his network and I wondered if it's okay this time. Ka3museum. Thanks, RH.
Speaker C: Yep, see you. Coming in through N3GMS's node. And yeah, you're making it in just fine.
Speaker E: Okay, thanks. I'll stand by for that.
Speaker C: All right, Jimmy, you have a wonderful day. We'll catch up with you later. AI six US clear.
Speaker B: WA 68kg. Second I'll tell you.
Speaker D: And6ug, is it snowing on the mountain?
Speaker C: Which mountain?
Speaker B: Burton.
Speaker C: Snowing in Meadow Vista. But it rained overnight and it is not sticking right now. But it just started snowing again.
Speaker D: Okay, cool. Yeah, they were. Last night I looked at the weather and they were forecasting snow down to Chico in the valley, but that definitely hasn't happened, so as far as I know. But yeah, that happens once in a while, but not this trip. So we'll see what happens going forward.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker D: All right, well, it sounds like you got the right kind of snow. It'll come and go quick, so that's, that's a. The kind of snow I like. All right, I'll let you guys go. I know you guys got things coming up here pretty fast, so have a great day. N6UG73
Speaker C: We've been in the 30s for a couple of days now, but yeah, right now we're about 33 degrees, so I don't think it's going to stick around long. Drive safe there, Burton.
Speaker A: AI6US.
Speaker D: Well, I'm at the desk this morning so far and I was on 40 meters and there was a massive noise Source up at 7.3 this morning. It was 200Hz wide. It was a mess. So, yeah, if you haven't been on 40 this morning, you probably don't want
Speaker C: to be there, man. Made something over in the horizon type stuff. Yeah, I was on 160 this morning.
Speaker D: It was open into.
Speaker C: Into Asia and 80 meters.
Speaker D: Yeah, this thing is really wide and we're hearing it all the way from Canada to my house and Utah. It's a mess out there. I don't know what's going on.
Speaker C: I'll go listen right now. Bummer. Hopefully it isn't something permanently parked.
Speaker D: Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker C: 73, you have a great day.
Speaker A: AI6US.
Speaker B: Either I didn't get in a few minutes ago, or maybe I got stomped on. WA60KG6NLW. Jerry, I know you're getting ready, but I got something for you real quick.
Speaker A: Go ahead, I'm listening. W8 16.
Speaker B: Good morning, it's Frank. Kilo Golf Six November Lima Whiskey. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to be around this morning, but you guys will be live to YouTube. Just look up my call sign and be able to find it nice and easy. That way if you want to let everybody know, they want to find out how they're sounding in the system. That's the way to do it. It's live every morning for the coffee Breaknet. Thanks, Jerry. I got to jump out of here because this working a double on me today. KG6 and LW.
Speaker A: Okay, Frank. Yeah, I did Google that the other day and saw that. So we'll let people know and we'll give you one of these very sacred and valuable early check ins that Brian didn't even know existed.
Speaker B: Oh, very much appreciated. Yeah, they worked us down almost into Barstow. We got to Mojave. Now they're crew vanning us back to Stockton. So it's been one heck of day. I'm technically still on duty. All right, catch you later. KG6 mildew. You have a great day.
Speaker A: Do you do the Tehachapi loop?
Speaker B: Yeah, well, we're at twice last night because we had the dog catch a crew. So up and back and then up and back again.
Speaker A: You know, as a mere ground lover, I really enjoy watching the trains go over that. Okay, Frank, thanks for the heads up. Go get back to work before they decide that they can do without you. This is wacv.
Speaker B: Oh, they're trying that daily. All right. Yeah. Livestream should be started by now because I tell my brother to start it. It's fine. 25 pass. So it should be up and running. 73 Jerry. Thanks.

Speaker A: Yeah, I want to see if I'm making it out there to California for mile case fqv.
Speaker B: Yeah, you're making it.
Speaker C: In fact, we're just about to start here.
Speaker D: I'll get the mic to data.
Speaker A: And indeed it is. It is time. This is the Coffee Breaknet. Good morning. This is. Let's see, the Coffee breaknet is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio club on the WAXE K repeater which is located in Auburn, California. I'm Zeta WA6EWF and along with Jerry WA6E who has been already talking, we're going to be your net control hosts and conversation facilitators for the morning. So who needs to have a quick in and out and get on with your day? Come tell us. Tell us your name and what's going on.
Speaker E: Ki 6 lop,
Speaker D: kilo charlie 6 sierra, lima, echo,
Speaker C: Kilo oscar 6kilo micromeo over.
Speaker F: K3vpm.
Speaker A: Okay, let's see. There was a bit of a kerfuffle there at the top, but what we think we heard is M3GMS question mark.
Speaker F: SK3VGM coming through the enter GMSO this morning.
Speaker A: Okay, we're still having trouble copying your call. Do it phonetically, please.
Speaker F: Ka 3 victor golf mike. Kilo alpha 3 victor golf mike.
Speaker A: Now that worked. Kilo alpha 3 victor golf mike. Okay, we got you. Ko6kmr, kc6sle, ki6lop, kj5gwn and yeah, kj5gwn. Who did we miss?
Speaker B: N9muf.
Speaker A: Check in case c8 fox, wayne victor mark on ohio case c8fqv. Okay, finally dropped it. Okay, so we added kc8fqv, n9muf and k n6wqu. And n6ckv. Carl. So up to the top of my list. Kj5gwn. Good morning, will. How's oklahoma this morning?
Speaker B: Good morning, PETA. Well, we're chasing wildfires here. Burned over 360,000 acres in Western Oklahoma. In the Panhandle. I had a new fire just come up at 7:00am Pacific Time. So got a new one working in the Panhandle this morning and the winds are picking up and we've got a red flag fire weather warning today. So everybody, if you're driving through Oklahoma, be careful, don't drag any tow chains, don't throw cigarettes out, don't do nothing because we're awfully dry up here. Anyway, back over the euphrated. This is KJ5 Golf Whiskey November.
Speaker A: Oh, well, you have my deepest sympathies. We know everything there is to know about fire, but it can really get going out there in the panhandle if the wind whips it up. So, yeah, you have my sympathies. Stay in and stay out of the smoke.
Speaker D: Kk7 yankee, oscar, charlie, ron, and twin falls.
Speaker G: No traffic.
Speaker A: Well, will you have a good day and stay safe. This is wa6ewf for the coffee breaknet. Ko6luv. Brett. Good morning. Okay, let's move on. Ki6lop. Russ. Good morning.
Speaker E: Good morning, Theta. Sitting here at Lake of the Pines and kind of alternating between slushy snow and rain and very cold and wet. I'm going to hang out in my garage workshop office the day and see what I can get done.
Speaker A: Oh, well, adventures in weather. Well, stay in and stay. Stay warm and stay dry. Hopefully you don't have any outside plans today. Oh, I don't.
Speaker E: Like I said, I'm just hunkering down and enjoying my time without having to
Speaker F: do a whole lot.
Speaker E: So, anyway, but that's. That's all I got today. We'll see if we get some more snow up here. That's always fun to get a little bit, and it doesn't hang out very long, but grab a picture, send it to the grandkid and whatever, and have a great day. So anyway, I'll get out of here and I'll say 73.
Speaker F: Ki6lop.
Speaker A: 73 Russ. Like I say, stay warm. Let's see. Ko6luv brick. Good morning, Dana.
Speaker E: Isn't that kv6luv?
Speaker A: KC6SOLE. Good morning.
Speaker D: Good morning, Theta. Good morning, Jerry. We're probably about 500ft higher in elevation than Russ at Lake of the Pines, and it's been snowing for the last 45 minutes pretty steady, so we already have about an inch on the ground sticking. Supposed to snow most of the day, so It'll be interesting. KC6Hesseli.
Speaker A: Very good. Well, it's just raining like crazy here, but nothing that exciting as you. Isn't the mix of rain and snow called grapple?
Speaker D: I think it is. We're beyond that now. These are big, fluffy white flakes. Yeah. I'll have to let it accumulate a little more, and I'll couple shots and send them to you later.
Speaker A: Very good. That's the way I like snow on my phone screen.
Speaker D: You like snow in somebody else's yard, I understand.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker D: My son is grumbling quite a bit this morning because he's getting ready to go out there and start working. And he doesn't have to work in the snow, but he has to have the snow around him when he's working, so I don't blame him. Cold outside.
Speaker A: It's all the way up to 40 here, so yeah, that's cold. Doesn't he have paperwork or something he has to do inside? Great. And Casey, success. Le. Did you get abducted by aliens? Oh dear. Well, I'll come back around. KO6KMR. Robert, good morning.
Speaker F: Well, good morning.
Speaker C: Hope everybody's doing fine on the net. I'm just going to do my usual routine today and continue studying my extra license and probably get out for some coffee later on with Karen. So that's going to be my day.
Speaker A: Over. Well, that sounds like a really exciting day. Good for you.
Speaker C: I appreciate you with the excitement saying it was exciting, but it's kind of a normal day for me. But I do enjoy it though.
Speaker D: Over.
Speaker A: Yes, we do enjoy, enjoy a normal day. Even if it is a little chilly. Oh, it just got cold. That's not good. I'm sorry, Graydon's son, you're going to have uncomfortable weather. Well, I'm glad that you, Robert, are going to have comfortable weather and enjoy studying and working on that extra class. We look forward to seeing you on the 2nd of March doing your VE testing to get your extra upgrade.
Speaker B: Yeah, it might be a little bit
Speaker C: later than the 2nd of March. I think the class goes until, oh gosh, sometime mid March. And I figured I'd just go ahead and take the class test right after that. Over.
Speaker A: Ah, yes, well, I understand that while all the information is fresh in your mind before you have to have to say, scratch your head and say now I know I saw this. What was the right answer?
Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I'm actually to that point. Now.
Speaker F: Over.
Speaker A: Keep at it, you'll win. And we fully expect to hear you say, you know, your. That you're extra. And if, if you don't get your. Your upgrade immediately, you get to say that you're, you know, slash AM or slash GM or something like.
Speaker C: Yeah, looking forward to it. Looking forward to it. And on that I'm just going to turn it back over to the net and sit here and drink a cup of coffee and listen to your guys chat for a while. So Kilo Oscar 6 KMR. I'm going to sign out and just listen over it.
Speaker A: 73 Robert, you have a good day. This is WA6CWF Ka3 4 Victor, Gulf Mike Timmy, good morning. I don't know why I had so much trouble hearing you.
Speaker F: Morning Rocky. Well, it's actually 55 degrees. It's been full ages of 40. At least according to my computer. That's what it says at the moment. So it sounds like for lots more back here than you guys are out there. It's supposed to make it all the way to 60 degrees today. It did yesterday also, but it rained all day. The sun looks like it's going to come out this morning, so hopefully I'll get to see sunshine for a while in my window in my computer room. It has to be in the 70s before I go outside, but at least I'll get to look at the sunshine and all that. It brightens my day when it's bright outside instead of dark and raining. Back to you, Theta K3BGM. Good morning, everybody.
Speaker A: Well, good morning, Jimmy. And I'm glad you're having nice weather for change. We looked you up on the map and see that you're just outside of Pittsburgh. Jerry has a cousin who lives in Pittsburgh, so she's enjoying nice weather too.
Speaker B: Well,
Speaker A: you get out there and get a little natural vitamin D and enjoy the sunshine. You have a great day.
Speaker F: I will. Thank you. And sometime when we're not involved in the net, you'll have to tell me. We're about in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Jerry's cousin lives and I can tell you if I've ever been in that town. Okay, Freebie Q, back to you.
Speaker A: Well, nice talking to you. Glad that you checked in this ka3 victor golf mike, this is waf. This is the coffee breaknet. Carl n6ekv. Good morning. How are things in your neck of the woods?
Speaker G: Good morning, fata, Jerry and Rocky. Well, I finished taxes yesterday. Had them all nailed off so we don't have that burden over our heads. And it's wet and windy here, really windy. So I got to go out and check the antennas in a little bit when it gets a little bit warmer.
Speaker A: Well, hopefully you don't have to go anywhere or do anything exciting.
Speaker G: No, it looks like today is a stay at home day. Just have to get the mail, trudge out to the mailbox, wait for a cool dry spell or a calm spell in the wind. Anyway, thanks for running that data. I'm going to say 73. Everyone have a good Thursday. This is insane. CKV.
Speaker A: 73 Carl, say good morning to Ruth for us and have a nice walk out to the mailbox in between the raindrops. KN6WQU Dan Good morning. Kn6wq.
Speaker D: Yesterday Zane was like, dad, it's Lincoln again. And I'm like, great. So I don't know what to do now.
Speaker E: I thought we were in the clear,
Speaker D: but heat is off. And we're back to back up Mrs. KN6WQ.
Speaker A: You must be so frustrated with that. That's just not right, you know, is just take that whole unit out and put a new one in for you, because they obviously have given you a defective ac system.

Speaker A: It.
Speaker B: Who is trying to get in right now? The input. Yeah, unfortunately, he's quite the talker, too.
Speaker C: I want to just make sure you
Speaker B: let everybody know that's coming in through RF to run high power just because
Speaker C: we're on the backup AI6US.
Speaker B: Okay, Dan. KN6WQ WA6E. Well, I heard everything you said about the EMF and all the magic things coming in and destroying all your smart lights and so forth and about the air conditioning. That is so frustrating on a brand new system. The bad news, Dan, is that we are not on our remote receivers today. We're using the alternate up at Rob's house. And for some reason, you're mostly out of the repeater. I'm not sure everybody heard anything you had to say in that last one. I don't know what you're using for an antenna, but you're right on that critical edge where you. If you move 6 inches, you might be able to make it in. So you want to try one more short burst?
Speaker D: Nope.
Speaker B: Try it again. No, I know you pulled into the gas station, turned around. I'm sorry, Dan, you're simply not making it. So wait a while and try again. Okay, Sorry. Sorry, folks. Back to theta.
Speaker A: Ah, well, complications and problems. Anyway, dan's having problems and we'll get it all worked out eventually. So I'm going to say goodbye to dan and go off to work. Kn6wqu. This is wa6ewf breaknet n9muf. Daniel, you're coming in. Okay,
Speaker E: Well, that's a relief.
Speaker F: And sorry for your repeater fun there. Yeah, sorry I've got to jump in a little early. Was hoping I was in the middle of a CW QSO and wonderful Rachel with the gentleman down in two, Tennessee, who lived actually just a few miles south of where I live. And we both had trouble wrapping it up. I was keeping an eye on the time for the net and I was going, gee, I've got to end one conversation to start another, but I know this is the quick ride too, and you've got. Or a quick check in. You've got a lot of people there. Good radio day yesterday. Today, working on the class that I'll be teaching on Saturday. And gray skies here, but I'll choose. I'll make it sunny because I'm going to look at the sun. Seven three to you, Theta, Jerry and the net and nine muf.
Speaker A: Well, it sounds like you've got a pretty good day coming up, so enjoy and pet the kitty for us. Tell her she's a Good kitty. That I will.
Speaker F: Can't. She's hiding out at the moment. But I know she'll be here. Yeah, I've got a meeting with a friend in a few minutes. We get together every couple weeks and get a cup of coffee and wanted to jump on the net now in case the conversation was so 7. 3 again and 9 MUF
Speaker A: 73. Daniel, you have a great day. Let's see who KC8FQV. Mark. Good morning. All right.
Speaker D: Good morning. K. Step K. Wait a couple of seconds there. Gotta leave everything reset, you know. Yeah, you don't want to stack them. If you stack. You run out of your time if you stack. That why I always say, you know that why the guys say. Everyone says leave the system, go through a total reset. But yeah, it was foggy out here. It was starting to lift now a little bit because I went down. I was walking down. I could see a little better. Wasn't walking into it. Wasn't pushing it out of the way as I was walking. So it was good. It was like 40 degrees, 42 maybe. And yeah, I think you can use enough power. No one is next to that repeater that they're going to blow it out. Use the, you know, full power, you know, you, you know, and you can figure it out. There's only times you can't use full power is when you're between two receivers and it makes the two inputs start going bonkers. Then you power and then you'll get into one. But now that we only have one, you have to, you know, use enough power.
Speaker B: You're running on a car battery or
Speaker D: some type of unlimited resource. Yeah, you don't gotta worry about power.
Speaker A: But we'll send it back to NET control. Yeah.
Speaker D: Okay. Self qv.
Speaker A: Very good. KC8F UV. This is was CWF for the coffee break. Now you have a great day today, Mark. Let's see. National Day is today. You can probably hear Rocky in the background. I had to recharge the bark collar. So, yes, we're getting barked. National Day today. This is Iwo Jima Day. This is the day of the raising of the flag. It's tug of war day. That's fun or painful. I've been in both situations. Arabian Horse Day. We had an Arab. They're beautiful horses. They have this very elegant, narrow head which unfortunately, in my experience with them, leaves very little room for brain Chocolate Mint Day. That's excellent. Veteran girls rock. Yes, yes. We do prevent plagiarism. I don't know how you prevent that. You just catch it. U.S. coast Guard Reserve Day, Anthropology Day, and Texas Cowboy Poetry Week. I have read some truly great pieces of literature that were cowboy poetry. So that's a lot of fun. I've had to go look and check that out. Right now I've got one up that's called the Strawberry Roan. About the guy who said that he could ride anything and he ends up with, I know there's some ponies I cannot ride. Some of them living, they haven't all died. But I bet on money there's no man alive that can ride old Strawberry when he makes that high dive. So there you go. There's your cowboy poetry for the day. Who's out there? Who wants to join in? Let's do another round of in and outs and then we'll get down to rag chewing. So who's out there? Let me know.
Speaker G: Kilo golf 9 mike mike
Speaker C: and wb1g to add their kerfuffles.
Speaker D: In and out.
Speaker E: Kb6 luv quickening out. Good morning.
Speaker F: And ko6th.
Speaker E: Good morning.
Speaker A: At an elevation of 3673ft, this is sac valley's original 105 machine.
Speaker F: Okay, we heard kg9 mic, wb1g for
Speaker B: an in and out. Kb6 luv and ko68. There was somebody came in through kb7 dfp's node up in utah or sorry, idaho, but we didn't get the call. Try it again.
Speaker G: Kk7 yankee, oscar, charlie, ron and twin falls.
Speaker B: In and out. Okay, Ron, we got you for an in and out. Anybody else?
Speaker A: November 6th, Delta Tango, in and out. Okay.
Speaker B: Blank Juliet. What did I miss?
Speaker E: Kilo, Oscar, 6, India, hotel, Juliet maybe.
Speaker B: I hate jerks. Anybody else?
Speaker F: Whiskey Bravo, Three, Charlie, Sierra, Yankee, in and out.
Speaker B: Okay. Wb3csy, fourth in and out.
Speaker A: Carolina.
Speaker B: George in North Carolina. George, I'm sorry. I doubled with you partially. What's your call sign, please?
Speaker A: Yes, it's kilo romeo. Start again. Tooth. Kilo, romeo, sierra,
Speaker F: kilo, romeo, julio, sierra, kr4el.
Speaker A: Met stuart in hampstead, north stuart in hampstead, north carolina.
Speaker B: Okay, george, is it k, k, rovio 4 echo, lima, sierra. Is that right? Roger that.
Speaker A: Kilo romeo, four echo, lima, sierra at stuart in hampstead, north carolina.
Speaker E: By the beach.
Speaker B: Okay. Hopefully you're at the beach and not in the snow. Let's pick up the in and outs. WB1G.
Speaker A: Good morning. Wow.
Speaker C: Are you sure? You sure you want to take me
Speaker E: at the top of the stack?
Speaker C: Wow.
Speaker E: Okay.
Speaker C: I'm not sure I was first, but that's okay. Good morning there, Jerry and Theta.
Speaker A: Good morning. Good Morning.
Speaker C: Just working on a little project I have found method of scraping the. And sounds dangerous actually, but scraping the Department of Transportation web camera list of all those highway cameras and brought them into kind of a fun little interface now where I can look at all the web cameras up and down Interstate 80 and 49 and and have them all come up on one screen. And it's actually quite beautiful. It shows well the road conditions, which is fun. But also I saw just a short time ago some of that white stuff falling at Highway 49 in Pleasant Valley. In Auburn. Yeah, not sticking, not sticking, but snow in Applegate, snow in Colfax, of course, but even a little bit of the white stuff falling ever so briefly in Auburn. What a beautiful day. WB1G I'll give it back. You got quite the list.
Speaker B: Well, I guess you can enjoy watching the snow as long as you're not in it. Brian said he was having some real wet snow hitting the ground there and a little while ago a tie w6tgr if I recall the call right, he was up at the Albert airport. It was snowing there. The good news for me is it's not snowing here. And you know, Spitty, that we're sitting here complaining about a little bit of snow and a little bit of cold and the guys and gals back east are just laughing at us. They think we're having a heat wave.
Speaker C: Yeah, ain't that the truth. It beats Boston where it was negative one a few weeks ago and coming down gangbusters, cold and icy, slick, slick, slick. But yeah, I sent you a picture so you can get an idea. It almost has kind of stalker vibes when you look at my monitor. But it sure is fun. And in a day like today where it's exciting, you see the plows and people stalking, spinning out. When the highway's been open, people spinning out and. And the snow just coming down. It's very winter esque and very fun to do when you're in a house and the heaters blazing. 72 and you're in shorts and flip flops. There you go.
Speaker F: Hi.
Speaker D: Hi.
Speaker C: WB1G have a great day, guys.
Speaker B: When we lived back in Boston, occasionally I'd look in the news. Remember newspapers? We'd look in the newspaper and see the coldest place in the United States, at least in the lower 48 was truck. So that made me not feel so bad for myself. When I was freezing, I took a shot. Okay, fate has given me a message. You want to talk or move along? Oh, she wants for my cockroach
Speaker A: this is WA60WF. Nothing like communication. KG9M. KG9M, Frank. Oh, well, Jerry says he didn't sign off with Smitty. Smitty. You consider yourself Signed off, Frank. KG9M. Good morning.
Speaker E: Good morning, Faded.
Speaker G: Good morning, Jerry. And everyone on the Net. So it is actually snowing in Auburn. It has been snowing for about 15, 20 minutes. The vegetation's all white.
Speaker A: They're big flakes.
Speaker G: And it's snowing at a pretty good clip. So we're here at Roby Point within the city limits and it's coming down. Cars haven't come by on the road, so it is sticking. We haven't had a snow like this in a little bit, so it's great to see.
Speaker A: Oh, well, go out and take a picture real fast before it warms up enough to go away.
Speaker G: Yeah, unfortunately my wife has to drive in it, so hopefully, you know, it's not going to. It doesn't never last long. And the other thing I wanted to say was that tonight we'll be having a Ham Fest planning meeting in the Club Zoom Room. Invites have gone out. Appreciate all who will plan to attend that.
Speaker F: We'll just do a quick touch touch
Speaker G: base and see where we're at from the meeting last week and looking forward to talking to everyone and leading that event. So that's all I have this morning. Thanks for running the net and thanks for everyone working behind the scenes to keep the system running. WA6E WF kilogrel 9 Mike73 back to net.
Speaker A: Well, hopefully that the snow melts before you need to go out and do anything, if you do need to do so. Yes. And we see the Loomis Ham Fest meeting on our schedule tonight, so that's something to. And I probably won't check in on that. I know what I'm doing. I volunteered. Hint, hint, hint. We got lots of people listening. We need lots of volunteers and I'm sure you'll be calling for that. This is WA6DWF. This is the Coffee Breaknet KB6LUV.
Speaker C: Brett.
Speaker A: Good morning.
Speaker E: Good morning, Beta. Jerry, Rocky Coffee Breaknet Land. Hope everybody's doing well on this very wet Thursday. Yep, I've got plans for building an ark and I'm rounding up animals two
Speaker A: by two as we speak.
Speaker E: Yeah, a little bit wet and a little bit windy today, but at least it's not the white fluffy stuff that's landing at higher elevations.
Speaker A: Yes, I love snow on the television screen, on my computer screen, in the history books. I'm not a cold weather person. So I will stay in next to the fire today. So yes, I don't. Yep.
Speaker E: I too like to visit my snow and then like to go home. Back to home.
Speaker D: So. Hi. Hi.
Speaker E: Well, I will keep these short and sweet. I am actually sitting here with my mom, Bonnie from Newton, Kansas and my wife Beatie, who are also enjoying.

Speaker A: The coffee break. Say good morning ladies.
Speaker B: Good morning, Data. Good morning.
Speaker A: So thank you very much all for being there. Really appreciate it. Thanks for running on that. And again, thanks to all the folks that are doing the work on the voter systems. I'm coming in through All Star this morning because I tried checking in or, excuse me, talking earlier on my R through RF and I just couldn't get through. Welcome to Extreme Noise land here in South Natoma.
Speaker B: Well, good morning. Glad that you're listening in. I'm glad we're abusing enough for you to be willing to listen. Yes. You have a great day and enjoy. I'm sorry, I am distracted. Jerry has a picture up here about some moron walking right up to a bison and he didn't die. The bison had one walked up to it. Oh, this idiot. Obviously this is a Disney animatronic bison. He did learn his lesson. He got chased down the path. But I don't know. People have no brains.
Speaker C: Absolutely.
Speaker A: Contrary to popular belief, scents is not common and it is not a flower that grows in most people's gardens. Anyway, thanks for the chuckle this morning. Beta, Jerry, Rocky, everybody out there at coffee break Netland. Have an amazing day. Stay on the dry side of the door, Take care of yourself, take care of each other. KB6 luv. Be of love. 73 Clear and listening
Speaker B: 73 Rhett and family, glad that you're listening with us. This is WA6EWF KO6TH. Greg, good morning.
Speaker D: Good morning Theta. Good morning everyone. Great ko6th. Tried to get in while I can here. Today is day before colonoscopy, so if you ever had one of those, you know what that means. So anyway, it is snowing here in Auburn, in North auburn. I'm at 1200ft, 1220 by the map and it's kind of sticking to the deck.
Speaker E: Sort of.
Speaker D: Kind of maybe. But everything else is so wet when
Speaker E: it's going to touch it.
Speaker D: Let's just say it's starting to ease up now. So anyway, yeah, definitely right on the edge. Snow wise power still on. No issues there. And we'll just muddle through the day. K06th.
Speaker B: Oh yes. You have our deepest sympathies. I'm so sorry. Well, it's a good thing. Take care of ourselves and we need to do unpleasant things things sometimes to make sure that we take care of ourselves. So you have as good a day as is possible on the day before colonoscopy day. You have our sympathies.
Speaker F: Yeah.
Speaker D: This is a just a follow up to what Happened back in December to make sure everything's good so no issues expected, but you gotta go through it. I consider it kind of a compressed. Think of it that way. A06th.
Speaker B: Indeed. Indeed. You have a great day, Greg. This is WA6EWF, KK7YOC. Ron, good morning. Kk7yoc. Okay, you are definitely in and out or abducted by aliens. One or the other. KB6SSN Tom, good morning. How's your day going? Kb6ssn Tom, am I being heard?
Speaker F: I believe you are.
Speaker G: I'm sorry about that. Hang on just one second. I'm sorry, I was being distracted by a neighbor's dog.
Speaker B: Tom, wiggle your mic. We can hardly hear you. There's lots of static and the very faint voice crying in.
Speaker E: Okay, Is that any better?
Speaker B: Yes, it is.
Speaker G: Okay, very good. I wiggled it earlier, but apparently. Yeah, I'm going to have to clean that socket out again in that darn thing. Oh, well, there's no perfect radio in the world, but there's some that come close. Yesterday Larry and I got the VL1000amplifier hooked up to the FTDX101MP and we were playing with that all morning long. And we had made some contacts and we made a short video of the experience. If you are interested in that sort of thing, you can go to our YouTube page and check it out. So anyway, that's about all we've been doing over here and kind of enjoying this this morning because A, I'm not in it, I'm in a nice warm vehicle, and B, it's not sticking, which means I don't have to start my snow clock. I have a policy. If it snows and sticks for more than three days, I move. So if I start seeing a tick, I'm going to start the clock.
Speaker B: That's right. Let's start that clock and move a little farther south,
Speaker G: Maybe just down the hill. No, it doesn't snow very often in Auburn. I was at the gas station earlier this morning right when it started to snow and the young man that was there said that he videoed the last stuck in Auburn, I believe was like 2019 or something like that. So it's been a little while. We've had our respite. So yeah, we'll take a little bit. It's no big deal. And I have absolutely no place to be today. I got grocery shopping done yesterday and all that kind of fun stuff.
Speaker F: So.
Speaker G: You have? Yeah, I could just relax in a nice warm house and watch reruns of Bullwinkle And Rockies.
Speaker B: What a perfectly lovely plan.
Speaker G: All right, you Bullwinkle. That trick never works anyway. You have a great morning. Theta, thanks for letting me check in and try to stay warm and dry today. It's not nasty, nasty, but it's. You might not want to go on it if you don't have to kind of thing. The roads aren't too slippery yet. So if you've got some driving to do, it might be a good opportunity. But now because it doesn't look like it's going to let up anytime soon. KB6SSN73 and have a great day.
Speaker B: 73 Tom, you have a great day too. And stay warm. This is WA6EWF KO6IHJ. Good morning, Larry. I assume you're safe and warm too.
Speaker G: Morning Theta.
Speaker F: Jared, Rocky.
Speaker G: And a loud shout out to out
Speaker H: there in the rain.
Speaker G: Probably at the farm. Ah, I'm doing good. I haven't even looked outside. I saw I was ran the cameras.
Speaker H: I went, man, I'm not gonna even get to rest.
Speaker G: It's one of these. I'm just gonna see the dry side of the door Play radio day.
Speaker B: What a perfectly lovely plan for the day. It's that. That's almost as good as watching Bullwinkle and Rocky cartoons.
Speaker D: Almost.
Speaker G: Almost.
Speaker H: But yeah, I like my radio.
Speaker F: Other than that I got nothing going on.
Speaker G: They will have to go to town sometime today or tomorrow.
Speaker C: Might put it off till tomorrow.
Speaker G: I'm out of paper plates of all things. Well, paper plates I need 9 volt batteries, some AC plugs and some. Yeah, I got a list here. So I think maybe tomorrow sounds better. Other than that they don't have nothing going on. I only have a cup of coffee
Speaker F: on the desk yet.
Speaker G: I'm waiting for that to get done. So I'm batting a thousand. Just no good. Other than that, everybody have a blessed day. Be careful out there. And if anybody's teased or hear the wu68 Ryan. I've been trying to get a hold of him for the last couple days since he went to Chico and never checked back in. So there's that. Everybody have a 60K6IHJ73.73.
Speaker B: Larry, you have a good day and stay warm, stay dry. N6DT Rick, good morning. N6dt. Okay. Kb3csy rick, good morning.
Speaker E: This is Whiskey Bravo 3 Charlie Sierra Yankee. I think you mean me. Theta, good morning to you. I have a clear note and I have a question because when I go out to Nodeventures sometimes that website is not real clear. I am interested in Getting the pre formatted SD card to be able to run ASL3 instead of my amboy. And I didn't click on that yet because it doesn't say anything at all about it will have the ASL version on it. But I suspect maybe if I click on it and put it in the bag, maybe there is information that I can be assured that I will get the version for my clear node that runs the ASL3. Does anybody know if that's correct?
Speaker F: Well, you know, our node guys nsxh and n2dyi haven't checked in yet. But what's the question whether your node can run asl3?
Speaker C: Comment?
Speaker F: We the node expert has awakened. Go ahead, Tom.
Speaker C: Yeah, good morning. Yeah, this is tom at n6h. Yeah, so essentially the ASL3 will be configured for your node. So you buy it from NodeVentures or if you just contact Jerry Silby and you get an image is sent to you, it will be configured for your your node. Then you have to work with him, get it active. So yeah, that is the correct statement.
Speaker E: Okay, so if I put that in the back and pay for it, then I know eventually it'll be converted over to the ASL3.
Speaker I: Okay.
Speaker E: I just didn't want to get the same exact image I have right now on my clear node and be paying for a repeat of what I already have. So I wish it would say that on the webpage clearly so you know what's going on. But thanks a lot, I appreciate the info. And this is Rick in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. And I know you're used to Theta having K call signs, but it is WP3CSY. Thanks a lot. Back to N.
Speaker C: Okay, yeah, one other comment. Beta first.
Speaker F: Go ahead, Tom. And we did have your call, correct? Go ahead, Tom.
Speaker C: Yeah, my call is NN6H. Anyway, yeah. Good to talk to you, Rick. Yeah, so if it doesn't say ASL3, I would probably email Jerry and ask Kim because it should say ASL3 upgrade. I have not looked at that page, but yeah, I know that you can order replacement for your existing node. So if it doesn't quite say that, you know, I would follow up with an email to Jerry about that, what I would do and he'll respond within, you know, I'm sure within an hour and then 6h. Back to you there, Jerry.
Speaker F: Okay, I've got a clear nose. I'm very happy with it. Why do I want to bother with the SL3? Tom, are you still there?
Speaker C: Is working fine. So I'm kind of in that Same boat. All new nodes I have are ASL3, but for the existing clear node, you know, it's fine unless ASL3 comes out with some feature that I want to have on there in the future.
Speaker I: AI6US.
Speaker F: Good morning Brian. I see you're back. You got the voting receivers back up. But Georgetown is still.
Speaker H: Yeah, Georgetown Network I think is having problems.
Speaker A: No.
Speaker G: One of the reasons you'll probably want to go over to ASL3 is because
Speaker H: the node recognition, they are doing some changeover of node configurations. So maybe Tom might want to address that. But in the future it may be necessary.
Speaker C: Yeah, there are some changes with node numbers but the clear node will support even the half wipe and it probably you might be fine for a couple of years and if you ever do have an issue there, then you have the upgrade path there to go to ASL3. So I don't think there's any reason to go to ASL 3 now for Hamp Voip, because everything, all the configuration and all that stuff is done, you know, in a Clear node app. And you know, I think it's just fine for me for a lot of people, but some people want to have the Latest and greatest
Speaker E: BB3CFY.
Speaker F: Go ahead, Rick, your turn.
Speaker E: Yeah, I appreciate. Yeah, I appreciate measure from you guys. That's what I was thinking too. And Jerry does say on the website site if you don't want to convert to the ASL3 you'll be working fine. But I figure sometime down the road maybe I'll need the ASL3. Now you guys are making me think maybe I'll just wait and see what happens. So I appreciate everybody who's in.
Speaker F: Yeah, I am a firm believer. And if it ain't broke.
Speaker G: Okay, Tom, thanks for the info and
Speaker F: I'm going to give this back to Theta. We'll move right along.
Speaker G: Waxee.
Speaker B: And this is WA6CWF and Brian. I put you on the list just because you talked. You have anything else to sheriff with the. With the net
Speaker H: negative because we don't do that. And you did miss Peter NH6 fu.
Speaker B: H6 fu. Yes, we did miss him. Thank you. I will. We'll call him NH6FU. Good morning.
Speaker I: Good morning. And what are you going to call me anyway?
Speaker A: Who cares?
Speaker I: The new ASL3 for the clear nodes is a really good setup. Now with that said ASL3 over, I got the the upgrade to ASL3 for my clear node 3B and I upgraded it and played with it and it worked just fine except I'm still working on trying to get supermod and broke it so it works but I can't get supermodel so I went back to hanvoip. Now what's the difference between the two for me? Well, Hanvio IP doesn't have firewall and therefore if you put it on a public IP address, people can hit you and do all kinds of weird bot stuff. ASL3 has its own firewall on it which makes it very very secure when you put her on a public IP. So for me I'm back to hand the IP and playing with ASL3. And as Tom I think it was Tom said I all my new nodes are ASL3.
Speaker F: Arizona well, you know, I'm not too sure concerned about the security aspect of it and my my clone node is one of the originals. I'm not sure it's capable of being upgraded.
Speaker I: Well the the original was the 3B and that is capable.
Speaker F: Okay, well I'll I'll think about it but appreciate the comments.
Speaker I: Oh, I'm not encouraging you. As you said, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I'm Back to the 3B with the hand voip on my install but I'm still playing and that's what I do at my age.
Speaker G: You should play. That's what I do at night.
Speaker F: Although I do like to be able to rely on it for communications when I need it. And by and large it has put fulfilled that from all over the country in our motorhome and here at the house. So I've been happy with it.

Speaker A: And me too. I was just playing. So either way is fine if you don't want to get hit by bad actors, because I do mine off. Well, that One is on 24 7, 365 and all that stuff. And I've never been hit because it's behind my rack. But if I put her On a public IP address, like a 44 address, I get hit like crazy. But it's neither here nor there in reality. If you're not a pseudo doodle guy, leave things alone.
Speaker B: Yes, comment
Speaker C: and go ahead, comment.
Speaker B: Yeah, Golf H. Charlie Zulaga, Manchester, uk, Hamburg. Support for a firewall. I'm afraid it's read the manual stuff, but it works very well.
Speaker C: Give me your call again. I know you're in Manchester, UK and I believe we've talked to you before, but I didn't quite pick that up.
Speaker B: Sorry about that. Nobody can get my call signed first time. Phonetically. Goldfate, Charlie, Zulu, Ekan. My name is Frank and yes, I've spoken briefly. I think I made a mess of your network last year sometime. Normally I just relay for the local. Local gateway, but it's nice to listen to you guys. G8C Zilly.
Speaker C: Okay, very good. I should have gotten your call because I see it here on Supermodel Gulf 8. Charlie Zulu echo from Manchester, UK. Good to have you on. Thanks for joining us this morning. Peter, you have anything before we move on?
Speaker A: Well, other than I got confused as to control right now. I think I figured it out.
Speaker D: Both of you anyway.
Speaker A: No, I just want to emphasize you don't have to upgrade. And if you want to make sure you keep your old SD card, which I did and I'm using the old one.
Speaker E: Yeah.
Speaker B: Anyway, there is support. There's a simple firewall configuration which really you should turn on anyway. After that then it gets tricky,
Speaker E: but
Speaker B: do turn that on. Find it in the configuration. Turn it on and yes, good morning from gacz.
Speaker C: Okay, Frank, well, what I hear you saying is we should change and Peter saying, well, if you want to. I think I'm just going to leave it alone. Frank, thanks for checking in with us and good afternoon to you and Peter Theta and I are sitting side by side here. She's the net control and every now and then I'm allowed to. To grab the mic, especially when it comes to a technical issue. So that's why you hear the exchange here. I'm going to give her the mic back and we'll move on. Thanks for checking in with us, Peter. Go ahead and finish it up.
Speaker E: All right.
Speaker A: Well, thank you very much. And yes, I do like ASL3. I really like Hamview IP, but I've been unable to get that firewall to work. So eventually I'll probably be completely on ASL3 unless AmbioFP gets off their butt and starts upgrading. Everyone, have a nice day.
Speaker F: NH6 fu.
Speaker E: Well, Frank, Peter. Yes. We were sitting right next to each other and I always say there are two kinds of hams. There are techies and there are talkies. I'm the talkie, he's the techie. He also talks a lot, I will admit that. But when it comes to Clear Node, he had one, he got one of the original ones and we've used it to great benefit over the course of the years. And so he knows the answers to all of these questions. And my answer is, Jerry, this is a thing. Is it working?
Speaker A: Absolutely. And you know, it's not a choice, it's just what you want. No problem, NH650.
Speaker E: You have a great day, Peter, and thanks for chiming in and giving us a some information. G8 Charlie Zulu Echo. Frank, do you have anything else for the net?
Speaker B: Yes, easily. Normally, I don't know about you interfere, but I wanted to be mistaken about the fireball situation. It is covered. It says that it just needs turning
Speaker E: on
Speaker B: and there's a simple firewall solution without getting involved in firewalls. Done by Dave. K4fxp it's just a script. It just needs turning on. It's so long since I turned mine on and run. I've had some running since 2020. Generally speaking, it'll keep a lot of things out. They have to be a serious hacker to get in them. Of course there are a few of them about, but it'll keep the rank and file of the wannabe hackers out, which takes a long enough to borrow Raspberry PI quite a bit. The situation is once they've got your number, same as they've got your phone number and the scam calls keep coming in. Well, it's the same with. It's the same with the firewall requirement, but anybody has just. And it will ease the situation considerably. With that, I'll go back to listening. Good afternoon, everybody. I'll say good morning, ghcz.
Speaker C: Okay, Frank. Well, it's good to know about the firewall. I really haven't had a problem myself with that. But I suppose the hackers are out there like you say, and if they want to come in, they're going to come in. I don't know what they're Going to get of any value, but they're welcome to come in. Thanks for checking in with us. Pleasure to hear you this. Is WA6E back to theta and I think she's going to call for another round.
Speaker E: Jerry says it sounds like a bar. Yep, I'm gonna another round for the bar, another round for the coffee break net. Who is out there? Who wants. If you want to be in and out, I'll put you at the top of the list. Otherwise we'll do some ragchew which we've come pretty close to doing already. This is WAXT TWF. Who's out there?
Speaker G: Kilo Delta 6, Charlie, Delta, Quebec. In and out please.
Speaker H: KV6 LUV, super fast recheck.
Speaker D: Ki 6tc, Kv 60, hilo, romeo 4, echo, lima, sierra, stewart and hampstead.
Speaker E: In and out.
Speaker D: Hampstead, north carolina.
Speaker H: Hilo, Ocean 6, Mike, Mike, India for a quick in and out please.
Speaker F: Kilo Quebec 4, Alpha, Papa, Delta, Andrew in Alabama.
Speaker E: Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama. In and out please.
Speaker B: Kb5dao,
Speaker F: November 3rd, tango, juliet, kilo 3, tjk 10 and pasadena, maryland. In and out.
Speaker E: Okay, let's see. I got a few in and outs here. Charlie, tjk and q4apd and ko6mmi and kd6cdq. And then the rest of my list, kb5vao, kb6ed, kr4els, ki6tc and brett. Kv6luv is a recheck. Did I miss anybody? Okay, let me get my recheck. Brett, kb6 luv. What, what do you have to add?
Speaker D: Just more of a kind of a
Speaker H: radio check back from thomas.
Speaker A: I heard you got the voter systems
Speaker B: back up, so I was just checking
Speaker H: to see if I was going to get back in on rf.
Speaker B: So it sounds like I did.
Speaker E: Thank you very much.
Speaker H: And back to you all. Kb6iuv clear.
Speaker E: Yep, you're here. Back on rf. So all is well. P6cdq. Good morning.
Speaker G: Well, good morning phaedru and annette. Hey, this is my sixth time trying to get on. I finally made it. I started back at 7:30 in the morning. I just couldn't break through all the chatter I guess. Well, anyways, I just wanted to check and hope everyone has a good day. This is katie 6 cdq73.
Speaker E: 73, Rick. Yeah, the voter receivers were off and they just came back on. So you get a whole lot more. More funds stuff. More, more talkability when the voter receivers are on. So we're very grateful for that. Okay, you have a great day. Ko6mmi. Good morning.
Speaker H: Good morning. Hopefully you can Hear me well. I am transmitting from within the house. I want to say thank you, sailor, for input on this theater and this net. It's my second time broadcasting. First time ever was yesterday and I just wanted to give a quick hello to all of you out there on the coffee breaknet. My wife and I just finished up our coffee and we wish you all the best on this cold rainy day. Dry drink the coffee into. The.
Speaker E: You're at the in and out. Okay, we'll have a good lunch. This is wac, cwf for the coffee breaknet. Kq4apd n in birmingham, alabama.
Speaker F: Good afternoon to all. I believe it's good morning to y' all right now. I just started working Echo link and found Y' all on YouTube through Frank Kag6NLW and thought I'd try it out and check in and that's really all
Speaker E: I got back to net. Well, thank you for checking in. Always nice to have a new first timer come in and join us. Hope you enjoy listening to the net and maybe get some useful information or mindless entertainment, one or the other. You have a great day, Andrew. I'm glad you checked in. Let's see. N3tjk in maryland. Good morning. N3tjk. Timothy, good morning. Okay, moving right along. W1atv. Were you in n out? I will assume that you are. Okay. Glenn Ki6tc. Good morning. Happy Thursday morning.
Speaker D: Theta Gary and the world. Lovely morning. I love the rain. I wanted to go back to bed this morning but I got my shower and got out and got a few raindrops on as I ran into the
Speaker E: restaurant.
Speaker D: Had my breakfast shared with coffee with Edward and well, I'm just fat and fatty. So good to hear the world.
Speaker E: Well, and the world enjoys hearing from you too. Glad that you got up and Ed's there visiting with you. Are you going to go do something fun or you guys going to stay inside warm and dry?
Speaker D: Well, Edward's off taking care of his business and so I'm stuck at home and going to stay sheltered and enjoy the net. And I'll probably spend a few hours on my computer. That's my norm.
Speaker E: Very good. Well, sounds like a plan for the day. That's a good one for. For a rainy day.
Speaker D: Now I'm listening to my talking book and right now I'm listening to Vicki Wynn's story. She's a news past news lady. Don't know, I. I don't remember her. But maybe somebody, maybe you might remember her news broadcast and I find it very, very interesting. It's My second memoir, I went through Connie Chung. Chun, is it Chung? Anyway, I remember her, but she's just one of those celebrities that has a very unique story called Boat Baby by Vicki Wynn.
Speaker E: Let's see, I heard of someone called named Nikki Wynn, but. She's on the Boat on YouTube. They've boated around the world and are continuing to do that. I haven't heard of a newscaster who's doing that.
Speaker D: Well, Steve, her story starts in Vietnamese. Vietnam. And she is a Vietnamese. And she was. She frequented this area from here to San Francisco and so forth. But, you know, the Boat Baby, she just. She was a baby when she. Her folks brought her to the States. They left a communist country. And so anyway, I'm just really fascinated by her story, and I recommend the book. So with that, Feda, it's just good to hear you and the rest of the world. And I'm going to say seven, three, and have a beautiful day. KR6TC.
Speaker E: Well, you too, Glenn, and glad that you checked in with us. This is DWF for the coffee breaknet. Um, let's see. KB6ed.
Speaker H: Good.
Speaker D: Morning, Theta. Good morning, Jerry and Annette. And another good morning to my dad.

Speaker A: We did get up early. I have an appointment with the dog trainer here shortly. And so we had to get out and get our breakfast nice and early. We were there when the doors opened.
Speaker B: You were invited, of course.
Speaker A: I forgot to tell you, but yeah. So good to have some coffee in my bloodstream. And now we're off for our fourth session of Ed and Clara training.
Speaker B: Very good, Very good. Well, like you have a good day planned out for yourself. Yeah.
Speaker A: After the dog train, I'm going to hit the road. Right on back up. High five. And over around Clear Lake and back to Rudra Valley and spend the weekend there and then come around Taco Tuesday, do it all again.
Speaker B: Very good, very good. Yeah, you can't miss Taco Tuesday. That. That is forbidden.
Speaker A: So I hope everybody has a good weekend and hope you and Jerry have a good weekend. It sounds nice to be sitting by a fire. That sounds really nice. I wish I had either my tablet with one of the series that I'm watching or a good book sitting by a fire, drinking some more coffee, some tea or something and a nap. It all fits in to grand vision. But I hope you have a really great weekend. Talk to you next time.
Speaker B: KV 687373 ED. You have a great day. Let's see. KR 4 ELs. Stewart. Good morning. Kr4elf. Okay, let's see. Moving on. Kb5 bao victor alpha oscar. Is that correct?
Speaker C: This is KB5 of VAO. Good data in the net. Not much going on here in Lubbock, Texas, except the wind and the dust. So I'm gonna try. Stay away from us.
Speaker B: Both my parents were born in Lubbock, Texas. My mother talks about being a little girl and having seen Gone with the Wind. No, not the wizard of Oz. And she saw a dust devil, so she went and jumped into it hoping it would take her over the rainbow. And it just got her very dirty. Yes, those pictures of Lubbock. Understand that? Can I get a name for our list, please?
Speaker C: Yes, you can. The name here is david delta.
Speaker A: Delta.
Speaker B: David power manual. Good, David, have you checked in with us before? Kb5va. Oh, did I lose you? Okay.
Speaker C: Sorry about that.
Speaker A: I had it very good.
Speaker C: Something loud was going on here and I missed your question. Try that again.
Speaker B: People to talk to. Who's out there who wants to either write you or do an in and out? Let me know your preference.
Speaker D: Kc1 wcd kilo charlie 1 whiskey charlie delta. Steven, black hill, s.d.
Speaker B: Well, KC1WC Steve in Black Hill, South Dakota. We've been to the Black Hills. We've taken our grandchildren there. Every one of them has been there at least once. Beautiful place. We really enjoy it.
Speaker D: Well, good morning Theta, and to everyone on the net, this is Stephen in beautiful Custer, South Dakota. We haven't had snow in the last several weeks, so I guess we were
Speaker B: due
Speaker D: new to All Star and new to the Net. But I just wanted to share a comment if you were interested in hearing. I've been into all the great comments and stories and I had a quick side note to share with you Theta on the something you discussed earlier, if you have a minute.
Speaker B: That's what we're here for, to carry on conversation. So tell me.
Speaker D: Well, as I didn't mention before, I'm more of a talker than a techie, but I am a national park ranger by trade out here in the Black Hills and I think I overheard you mentioning earlier that maybe potentially your husband had showed you a picture or a photo of a tourist with a bison. So just wanted to commiserate with you. I can appreciate being a park ranger in the Black Hills. You know, we have plenty of bison out here. And yeah, make sure everybody knows if you ever come to visit beautiful Custer, South Dakota to visit our parks and resources, be sure you get a T shirt, sweatshirt or hat downstairs at the gift shops down in downtown. And you know our famous saying here, Zeta, don't pet the the fluffy cows.
Speaker B: That we have the T shirts and our grandkids have the T shirts. Yes. And that is my our younger grandson's favorite saying. He applies that to many things that might be dangerous. Well, don't pet the blubby cow. So yes, and we had one that we're going through the Custer State park, licked our car, the front end of our car on the headlight, which made our granddaughter just laugh hysterically.
Speaker D: Yep. Qsl, we have that quite often. All the time. Especially the this time of year when we get the snow. We know that our friendly bison love the salt licks. And yes, at Jewel Cave not so much we're at day use park. But at Wind Cave National Park I believe they have the second largest herd of bison only to Custer State park and out in the middle of the road on the wildlife loop and definitely stop cars so that they can lick the salt for sure. Back to you.
Speaker B: We were wondering, I mean when we were there last time there were a billion motorcyclists. What does a motorcyclist do when you have a buffalo jam in the middle of the road?
Speaker D: That's actually a good question. I'm not really A traffic ranger. But I'm sure hopefully if they abide by our LE rules and regulations, they'll kindly wait in line. And if not, well, that's probably number two right behind. Don't pet the fluffy cows, because I don't think I'd want to ride by one either, because you never know when one's going to be in a snapping mood, and I don't think they'd appreciate the noise going by.
Speaker B: Yeah, we always scratched our head about that. What happens if. Yeah, we knew some people or met some people who were riding their recumbent trikes up to Alaska from Kansas. They were up in British Columbia when we met them. And later on we crossed paths with them again. And they said that there was at one point where they are wood bison up there in British Columbia in the Yukon, and the wood bison did not like their recumbent. And so they had to wait for a couple of people in pickup trucks to come along, and they kind of got in between them and they drove them past the. The bison so that the bison would. Fun times.
Speaker D: Yes, bison are quite the interesting breed. I'm not an expert, I'm not a wildlife ranger, but I know enough to be dangerous. And I definitely know, more importantly, stay away, because they can be quite quirky and quite temperamental,
Speaker B: And unlike all of these foolish people who think that they're automatronic and won't hurt them. Yeah, we made that message really clear to our grandkids. Don't pet the fluffy cow. And like I say, that has become a favorite saying in the house because our grandson thought that was so funny.
Speaker D: Yep, copy that. On a final note, I've worked in several different national. The country, eight or 10 or more east and west, both sides of the country. And yeah, it's just like a thing we would say. When I worked in Yosemite, it'd be the same thing. It's like, like, you know, keep it. Keep in mind, folks, it's not Disney World with trees.
Speaker B: Copy. Yeah, I get that. So the park rangers move around like. Like army or something like that.
Speaker D: It's similar. It's basically not a deployment. But you do have opportunities to move, as Southwest says, to move about the country based on your desires and your skill set and what the different parks are looking for and different rangers, you know, at the time that they're hiring, but lots of opportunities out there, but seeing a lot of great stuff around the country. But my fifth season in the Black Hills, and I really do like the resource here, and I like the town of Custer and pretty friendly and yeah, it's a nice place to be. So I'll probably do it for a little longer. Comment?
Speaker B: Go ahead. Comment. KB6LUV.
Speaker A: Gentlemen, you can confirm whether this is true or not, but I've heard that you can't escape in a buffalo herd. Hi.
Speaker B: Hi.
Speaker E: Back to the net.
Speaker D: Copy that. If what I heard was correct, if it's the old song, because I'm old school, you can't roller skate in a buffalo herd. But you can be happy if you mind to.
Speaker B: Yep. That you got. I was gonna say that, but you beat me to it. Very good. Well, I'm so glad you checked in, Stephen, and I hope you check in again and chat with us. It's always nice to get new people on here and you know, interesting people at interesting places and all kinds of fun stuff.
Speaker D: Well, thank you guys so much for the chat and thanks for picking me up and taking my calls later. Wishing everybody. 73 have a great day. KC1 WCD back to Ned.
Speaker B: You have a great day too. This is WA6EWF for the coffee breaknet things. Coming up on the last Saturday in February, which is the 28th at 7:30 at Mel's Diner on Highway 49 in Auburn, we will have the monthly breakfast and that will be followed by a fox hunt leaving from the meld parking lot. And Marty Ko6GXX is going to be the fox tender we have. Let's see, the next big event for the club is VE testing on March 2 as the complex church at 7. Otherwise there are various other tests. Granite Bay has March 14 and Folsom B E team tests on the second Thursday of the month. And that information is on hampsteady.org coming up. Ham Fest ham fest ham fest. March 28. The doors open at 7am if you're a buyer, 6am if you're A seller. We would be glad to have everybody in the wherever you want to come set up and sell all of your your treasures at the Ham Fest. It's the first ham fest of the season in Northern California and it's always a big event. And because it's a big event we need volunteers. The various heads of different committees were talking about that at the meeting last Friday and it sounds like we need about 5 more people on security and 5 more on parking and oh, Elmer's. We need more Elmers which is a fun thing that we do. They have Elmer's. Who you have people who are new and I'm sure all of you you're hearing if you're new, you're thinking, well what's the ham all about? And more importantly, what's all of this stuff that I'm looking at? So you can go sign up and have an Elmer join you and they'll walk around with you and tell you all these fun things to know about things being sold. Want to be an Elmer? That's fun for you too. What a fun trip, a fun little day to take. You go out with somebody and you get everything, tell them all about it and you find treasures that you want yourself there. So we need lots more Elmers. So think about spending half hour or an hour being in Elmer and otherwise then you can just wander around all on your own. So as I've said before, the more people who sign up, the less you have to do. So it takes a village and we are a good village. So everything's sign up. Let's see. I think this coming Friday is trivia night. It is trivia night. So Tomorrow night at 7:30, come check in for trivia. It might be an organized, well run, smoothly functioning trivia night might be chaos. You never know with trivia night so there's something to look forward to. Let's have a few more check ins. If you need to be in and out, let me know. I'll put you at the top of the list. This is WA6EW,
Speaker E: W2vx. Quick in and out.
Speaker B: K6dlk.
Speaker D: Good morning data.
Speaker B: Well, Good morning Dan. K6DLK and Doug. W2VX. Doug, how is your day going?
Speaker D: Good morning.
Speaker E: Theta and Jerry and Rocky and
Speaker B: at
Speaker E: your qth, I'm just kind of hanging out. I got up early this morning because the text message monster was pinging back
Speaker A: and forth trying to figure out what
Speaker E: was going on with the repeater and the remotes and all that kind of stuff. So there was some fun radio fun this morning doing diagnostic stuff.
Speaker B: Well they're all working now, so thank you.
Speaker E: I think I'm going to put on my, on my snow, on my ski outfit and I'm going to get on
Speaker A: my bike right down to the river.
Speaker B: Ha ha.
Speaker E: Just kidding.

Speaker A: I was about to be impressed or horrified, one or the other. Yeah. This is not a good day for going down to the river. It is pouring out there.
Speaker B: Well, you're only a few feet lower in elevation, but here it's snowing right here in Auburn, right at my house. Every two or three years we get maybe, you know, an inch or so of snow. And this morning is one of those. And of course, it had to be when Connor, our grandson, jumped on a plane and went up to Oregon. They might be getting snow in Oregon too, don't know. But he was here for a week. He went he going up to Oregon for a week and then he's coming back here for a week because we're celebrating Teresa's mother's 90th birthday at the end of the month. So it's just all kinds of stuff, all kinds of activity at the gth and now it's like Christmas in February.
Speaker A: Oh, 90 years young. That's a good reason to celebrate. And I'm sure you had fun with Connor visiting you and glad that he'll come back again and hang out with you and do. I'm sure you take him down to next Neverland. And he's duly impressed with all of the whirling, lighting things.
Speaker B: Well, he has an FRS, a set of FRS HT's, and they're in a case molded like one of his favorite TV cartoon characters, some dog named Bluey. And so he and I go hide in different rooms and we play on the frs and he's figured out how to use the push talk button and he has a call sign which is cj and because that's about as good as it gets when you're two and the kid in sentences and you know, it's just all up from where he's at. He's quite the little guy.
Speaker A: Good work, granddad. Get him started young so that it's not scary if it's something that I do all the time. Yeah, I do this with my granddad. I can talk on the radio.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I'm not. What's the youngest age you can get a license? Because I think we're going to get him licensed even if it's not a real license. We're going to give him a license.
Speaker A: There you go. I don't know. That's a good, good question. What is the youngest that someone has gotten a license? Our daughter got one when she was 14, but I'm sure they're younger than that. Who get it? Jerry hasn't done a good job of getting our grandsons into this. Although they're certainly smart enough to do it. I have to work on that.
Speaker B: Well, you have to be motivated. And generally that means that it has to show up somewhere above the cut line of interest. No interest. Well, enough interest, not enough interest. And there's only so much time and there are only so many interests. I can swear to that one. That's.
Speaker A: Oh yeah. I'm asking AI, what's the youngest that someone has gotten a license waiting for it to compute.
Speaker B: It is now computing. That's probably what caused the power outage in Seattle. I don't know if there's a power outage in Seattle. Spreading rumors. Ask something like, is there a God? Is there more than one God? It's always interesting to see what AI comes back with on that stuff.
Speaker A: Okay, we have answers. There are multiple reports indicating that five year olds have earned their amateur radio license, including Colton KE5CRD in 2015 and Veronica Herrington KC6TQR in 1991. So there you go. There are other seven year olds. So yeah, I think as long as they can read and write, they can get their license.
Speaker B: Well, but you know, these days maybe you don't need to be able to read and write because you could say that you have a reading writing disability. Somebody could ask you the question. You could answer. I'm gonna have to. So I guess we're shooting for age 4.
Speaker A: Want to make. Make him have the record. Okay, let's see. Mention that 10 year old Kenzie K E1 N Z Y which is that. That's a good. She got her own name, earned her amateur extra license. So yeah. There you go, dad. You have a goal now.
Speaker B: Roger Wilco, over and out. That's what I've been teaching him. Roger Wilco, over and out. He says Connor. This is Connor. Roger will go over and out. Anyway, enough out of me. It was supposed to be a quickie. You and everybody else out there hope you're having a safe day. Stay off of these snow if you can avoid them. This is W2VX. Or it was W2VX. I am clear back to the net. Thanks Theta
Speaker A: 7:3. Doug, you have a good day and do not go ride your bicycle down to the confluence. And someone had a comment
Speaker C: n9muf here. There's a group called Yacht Young and Communication Team. Several of those young operators that you mentioned are a part of it and they check into a night every a net every night at 7pm Central time. Except for Sunday night. It's on EchoLink All Star TGIF and XLX reflectors and 9 MUF.
Speaker A: Very good. Well, this hobby needs young people, so that's wonderful. Certainly encourage them to be a part of that. And thanks for the information. This is Wax CWS Dan K6DLK Good morning. It's probably not snowing in Fremont.
Speaker D: Good morning Theta. Oh my goodness. What's this I hear about the power being off in Seattle? I'm still laughing. WTVX always brings a smile. Grandpa Dougie. You know, I just go back to thinking about the friends that put the fuzzy football into the, into the crib thinking they're going to convince this baby in time to follow in the footsteps of athletic dad and play football. And the child goes completely the other way. You know, I wonder if operators testing and passing and getting their licenses
Speaker B: did
Speaker D: not get exposed to screen time. You know, that would make a difference, right? Once you expose to the screen, the tablet, the phone, the great little item that brings all the entertainment. And look, you can just press this button and talk to whoever you want to talk to without having to read something, learn something, test out. You know, you get to the whole what's the point Logic. I would think it would take a level of maturity to develop a desire and an appreciation for radio. Unless parents kept the screen away.
Speaker A: Well, that's a good point. Lack of screen time does encourage lots of other things. So unfortunately, I don't know. Her grandkids had plenty of screen time and they still managed to be involved in stuff and learning stuff. And our younger one, Jack, his dad loves baseball and he has the ball and the glove at a wee tiny age and he has very avid at playing baseball and he plays on league and he does all kinds of exhausting stuff. So yeah, it does work sometimes you do manage to train their little brains the way you want them to go sometimes.
Speaker B: Comment?
Speaker A: Go ahead,
Speaker B: Dan. I feel you. I hear you. This little guy, Connor, he's two and he has plenty of. He takes the, the Apple phone, he plays a variety of different games. He seems to be pretty adapt to it and he's also doing other things. So it may not be so much that they get exposure to screen time, but it's whether or not they get other activities that are more, you know, in motion and doing other things. So I think too, I think we'll see.
Speaker A: Indeed, you have to not use the screen as a babysitter. I think maybe screen time is okay as long as it's not the babysitter. So that they do have other things that they do.
Speaker D: Is that back to me Theta.
Speaker A: So, Dan, I suspect that your son didn't have a whole lot of screen time.
Speaker D: I'm sorry I doubled with you there. Theta. I was just checking if it was back to me. I'm going to confess he had a ton of screen time. And we battled with wondering whether we were doing things right as every parent I think does right. We're the screenager parenting generation where I guess the screenager movie came out and the schools were kind of pushing it upon the parents to come on in and see what detrimental stuff we're doing to our kids by exposing. But I will agree with Doug, it worked out okay. We call our son the walking encyclopedia and he will come into a conversation and have information that you wonder where the heck did that come from. And I think he's appreciated in his career now in his work that he's embarked on the path he's embarked on for that reason. He is very soft spoken. He is the opposite of me. You can always tell when I arrive in the Rose Garden, if you know what I mean. But he will be gracefully understated and and be very effective. And he has a lot of information in that head that I don't think would have come without all of the involvement in the screen that he had throughout the years.
Speaker A: Well, you certainly have access to all the information in the world, some of which may actually be accurate thanks to the Internet.
Speaker D: Yeah, the accuracy is the thing. You're right. And that's what I hope some of
Speaker B: the more
Speaker D: I guess insightful young people will figure out along the way through the reflection, through the analysis of all the info and what sits right with them. I do think that there is to some sort of guidance that leads us to truth.
Speaker B: But again, I'm going to leave it at that.
Speaker D: I'm happy to get in. I was explaining, I think by text to Jerry that it's good to sit back. You know, sometimes the coffee bar is always occupied with the regulars that the line forms out the door and the newcomers are frustrated they not being able to come in and park their butt and enjoy a cup with you in the morning. So it's nice to hear all kinds of new operators coming on in. Hi. And they should know if they're still listening that others are listening in and being entertained by what they're sharing.
Speaker B: So it's good.
Speaker D: Happy to get out of the way. I think even Starbucks is dealing with people coming in and parking too long.
Speaker A: Well, we had dinner last night with Marvin Tracy and went to N7 MSM we went to Olive Garden. Olive Garden is more subtle than amaranth high. They just kept bringing us the mint that they give you with the, you know, to bring you the bill and the mint. And she just kept bringing us mints so often, like, okay, you can leave. You can leave now. Yeah. Jerry says there are empty tables everywhere, and there were empty tables, but I think she probably wanted somebody to sit in her area so that she could get more tips.
Speaker D: She could be reinforcing bad behavior. I just see you say that sitting there, dumping these mints into your purse for later, thinking, hey, if we hang out here long enough, I could just fill this baby up.
Speaker A: That's right. That's right. Oh. Eventually, we wandered out, but we did make a tentative date for the next dinner night.
Speaker B: So
Speaker A: we've been hitting all the different restaurants around. We've had Chinese, Mexican, and Italian, and we think we're going to do barbecue next time in March.
Speaker D: Wonderful. Well, I'm so sorry that we missed you last visit. Tried to steal you away for Japanese food, but you guys had already eaten. And for those who are listening in and don't understand all these references,
Speaker B: I
Speaker D: would say the only time I've been kicked out, but it's not true. I got kicked out when Jerry got kicked out. Actually, Jerry and Theda got kicked out of a Thai food place, and we were sitting across from them, so we had to go to.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's it. That's exactly what it was. The poor little host came up to us and said, we have people standing in line waiting for tables. Can you leave now? So we did.
Speaker D: Oh, it wasn't that simple. And I'm wondering if Jerry had a career in acting or maybe just some time in school in drama club, because he turned to her with these big eyes, and in the most animated way, he said with a loud voice, you're kicking us out. And everybody in the restaurant turns and looks over at him. You know, I would have just kind of said, okay, let's head on out. We're good. Anyway, we've wrapped it up, but it's that extra exclamation point that will stay with me forever and always make me laugh. And what makes me laugh is your
Speaker A: comment, I've been kicked out of better places than this.
Speaker D: Yes. I think maybe to all those who are listening, maybe it should be a hand tradition. If you're enjoying the company of those you're with. It should show by how long you want to remain still seated there in conversation with them.
Speaker A: Yeah, we were working on the European model where we owned that table for the evening. The poor little gal was trying to move us along. And she even had the manager cruise by and ask us if everything was okay. We finally took the hit. Not as pointedly as at Amber Ty. We finally picked ourselves up and left.
Speaker D: Well, now I know what we should have done at the Tide place. We could have thrown our hands up in there and said, hey, we were waiting for the mints.
Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, the next time we get the subtle. Not subtle hints to. To move along, we'll do that. Well, where are our after dinner men? So we can't leave until we get those.

Speaker A: Yes, and I think I've been slid the mint here as a hint that I should probably be clearing out of the way. A wonderful day with you hosting the
Speaker B: net there and a lot of new
Speaker A: operators again checking in voices that I haven't heard before. I don't think you have either so I better get out of the way. It was great coming in after Doug and smiling a bunch on him. Sharing the FRS radio play with Connor. And always a pleasure getting caught up
Speaker C: with you two as well.
Speaker A: So you have a wonderful day and
Speaker B: I will be off on the side
Speaker C: listing in K6 deal K673 and Aloha Theta.
Speaker B: Well aloha to you and Chris. You have a great day. This is WA6CWF W1ATV. Aaron, you're officially on the list now.
Speaker C: Well, good morning. Theta and Jerry W1ATP are in net. Yeah, I think it must have been my AI buddy that checked me in because I had it on in the background while I was around doing stuff. I was up really late last night. I was trying to catch a little nap. I was working on a 3D printing project. It took till 2am to complete. So wife got me up at 5, took her to work. She's going to Texas today so I go pick her up in about an hour and take her to the airport. It's just been kind of buzzing around here doing stuff.
Speaker B: Well I'll blame the producer for that one. He a note on the spreadsheet here on the log. So that's why I added you to the list. I don't know how. Maybe we all do need to worry about some sinister force that knows that we're up and listening to the radio and puts us on the list.
Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker C: It'd be kind of cool to have an AI buddy I guess a cloning yourself could you do mundane things and you could have them assigned to do things like check into the radio for me. I don't know but I don't know where you're there yet and I'm not sure I would trust it at all. So
Speaker B: wasn't there a movie about that where some guy cloned himself? You could walk into the the back room and I think it was a Best Buy or something like that. And he cloned himself and then he ended up with like 12 clones and it got crazier.
Speaker A: Assholes of Dwarf button Capital E. But accounts Dial the rich. What? Button hang up. But man Button hang up. But what? But hang up.
Speaker C: I don't know who that was. That was not me. And, yeah, there was a movie.
Speaker B: There's actually.
Speaker C: I was watching some YouTube, some doctor on YouTube. This is not actually. This is the avatar telling you, and it looked just like the woman. It was like, this is not. Not the doctor. I am her AI assistant and filling in for her while she's doing some, you know, some work or something. So I think it's coming. I don't know if that was real or not. It's getting to be the point where you can't always tell.
Speaker B: Boy, isn't that the truth. Well, yeah, we'll. Things will get interesting in the years to come as the AI takes over more and more. And now they can make it sound like your own voice. So you really don't know. Jerry had something where these two AIs were talking to each other on the phone and carrying on quite the conversation until it ended up at the end was kind of like, okay, hang up now. No, you hang up. I'm going to hang up. No, you hang up. I'll hang up. It was, yeah, fun times.
Speaker C: I remember doing that back when I was, I don't know, 12 or 13, talking to my girlfriend or something, you know, you hang up.
Speaker A: No, you hang up.
Speaker C: Yeah, I think we're in for maybe some hard times and rude awakenings when AI actually takes over or we give it the ability to do so many things because you're not going to create things that you cannot distinguish from reality. So it's going to be a real problem, I think.
Speaker B: Well, at this point in my life, I'm resigned to the fact that my grandkids are the ones who are going to have to fix this. It's not our job anymore.
Speaker C: Totally agree with you on that one.
Speaker B: Well, where is your wife taking off to?
Speaker C: She is heading to our place in Texas. She's putting some final touches on the place before we actually, it's going to be listed on Airbnb March 1, I believe. And so we. We just got the water heater fixed. We had a brand new water heater put. I don't know. I told this to some people, so if I. If you heard it, I'm. I apologize. We had a. We put a brand new water.
Speaker B: He.
Speaker C: About the place. The one there was working, but it was 10 years old. It's up. It's up in a really precarious spot. We're like 10 years old. We don't want the leak up there. Might as well just replace it while we got the house apart. So I put a new one in there, and it Seemed like it was working and then it wasn't. And then I, I got to looking at the wiring. I'm like, this wiring doesn't look large enough. Looks like it's too low of current, you know, too low of a gauge. So we had an electrician come out, sure enough, he's like, yeah, this is too small. So we pulled a new, had him pull in new wiring. So got all that going and then the thing still didn't work. Turns out it was, it was, it was bad. So we had to have somebody come out fix it. Some of it was done under warranty. Should have all been done under warranty, but it's so far away from any place to get it done. It's like they just said call, call somebody and reimburse you. So we're working on that. But it's all working out there to put the little shampoos in and the coffees and all that kind of stuff. So when somebody comes, they have all the, all the amenities that you need because it is, it is a drive to any place else out there.
Speaker A: So I'll make sure people have enough
Speaker C: toilet paper, things like that because then I don't, I don't want them. We have a septic system so I want to make sure they use the right stuff, you know, you know how it is.
Speaker B: So where is this house?
Speaker C: It is in Morgan, Texas. It's located on Lake Witt. It's about, I don't know, half a mile maybe from the actual lake. We have a big dock there and stuff that the community has and it's about halfway between Dallas and Waco if you look on a map.
Speaker B: Ah, hill country. Oh that, that's beautiful. Part of Texas. Yeah, I, that, that, that's pretty neat. Hopefully you get lots of people coming through there.
Speaker C: Yeah, if you going to be fun, I can't wait till we're living there. But that's probably another year to two years out before it's permanent. So like to get a little income coming in because it's certainly a draw on the account at the moment.
Speaker B: I understand. Well, hopefully you'll get lots of visitors coming through there who want to spend some time enjoying Morgan, Texas.
Speaker C: Yeah, I think it'll be fun and like my father in law lives there so he's got a place across the road and he's got a couple other airbnbs in the area. So I think we're going to be set up and you know, if we just get a few of them a year, I'll be happy. So that. That's.
Speaker B: Very good. That helps a lot to have a family member who knows about handling that kind of thing and is there locally to take care of issues as they crop up. So. Yeah. So you guys are gonna go become Texans? Well, you know, they're worse places to live.
Speaker C: Yeah, it seems pretty. I mean, everybody, every place has its pluses and minuses, and I'm sure we'll find some there. I know it gets kind of hot and muggy there at times. I've been there a few times when it's hot and muggy. But it's beautiful country. It's nice. We got three acres. We got a big hangar out there. It's got a big pad. But I'm gonna put another pad on the side and set it up for an rv. So if somebody wants to come bring an rv, they can park there and out hang, have everything hook up right there. So I think it'll be kind of cool
Speaker B: indeed. And, you know, one of the things that immediately came to mind is in that part of the country, you're going to have fireflies. And that's, you know, that's one thing that I really miss about Texas or California is the lack of fireflies. So you're going to have fireflies there, and that's very cool. Go out there at night in the dark and see those things flitting around, shining their little lights. Very cool.
Speaker C: We do indeed have fireflies. I hadn't seen any since I was a kid and I lived in Kansas. So, yeah, we were there, I don't know, a few months back and before the winter kicked in and there were fireflies. There's also chiggers. Anybody's ever had a chigger bite? You know what that is. We have deer on the property. We have wild hogs on the property. I'm not real crazy about that because there's a lot of them and they tend to be kind of destructive. Got lots of birds and some cardinals. Little cardinals. They were really cool playing around on the back porch. So, yeah, there's all kinds of wildlife out there. Really, really kind of cool.
Speaker A: Saw fox.
Speaker C: We got a couple of cameras on the doors. And so if something triggers, you see it. So it's all fox hunting, a lot of cats. There's a lot of stuff. It was pretty neat.
Speaker B: Very cool, Very cool. Going to enjoy that. And whoever shows up to for a little visit is going to enjoy living in your house before you get to live in it. Hopefully you only have good visitors.
Speaker C: Yeah, that's the thing, you know, I Have this really nice recliner there. I really like it. Somebody else is going to be sitting in it, darn it.
Speaker B: Just warming it up for you. Well, I'm glad that we, we finally connected. So you have a great day and get your wife off to the airport. All right. You guys too.
Speaker C: It's always good talking with you and hope to see you guys soon. Everybody have a great day. Try to stay dry. It was 39 here down by Arden Arcade. Almost three quarters of an inch since midnight. So it was pouring a little while ago and cold. So I don't imagine we'll get any snow here. We did have a little hail yesterday, but you know, it's down low enough where if I want to go see it, I can drive up and go, hey, there's snow and go home. All right, everybody, have a great day. 73W1ATV.
Speaker B: Yep, that's perfect. You have a great day and drive carefully out there in the rain. This is WA60WF for the coffee breaknet. We are slowly but surely approaching the end of the of the days and our conversations. So who do we have out there? We can do a little bit more rag chew. We've got a few minutes, but if you want to be in and out, let me know. I'll put you at the top of the list.
Speaker A: Alpha, India 6, Uniform Sierra, in and out. Kilo delta 6, hotel oscar, november, in and out. Kj6, zulu, hotel, in and out.
Speaker B: Kd3ajn, in and out. Okay, let's see. I got Anna 83 AJM and KO6L, MJL, K4LGI, Sam, KJ, ZH and KD6KO6 Hon, question mark. And Brian AI6US. Where's the Hon call?
Speaker A: Kilo Delta 6, Hotel Oscar November.
Speaker B: Yeah, okay. Katie 6 at 2 in. So up to Brian. Good morning. You're going to talk to us now. Okay.
Speaker A: Yeah, I just. I'm not in the habit of adding people onto the list because they like to. Some people will jump in with a comment but not really have time to talk. So that's why I kind of let people check themselves in. Sorry. And that was the position I was in earlier asking for a friend. How do you turn your dish start heater on when it's covered with snow and you've lost connection with satellite? Not saying it happened to me, but just asking for a friend comment. Your ability to turn on that heater is not a function of talking to the satellite. Evidently it is because I don't use my starlink. I just pass all my router activities onto a local router that I have here. And it's a saying I have no Internet connection and that I have to sign in to my account. And it's one of Those wonderful catch 22's that I think the, you know, not taking your satellite system offline I think prevents some of the ability to change settings in it. So yeah, I could go ahead and do a reset on everything, reactivate the internal router but then I'm just going to end up more work than anything. So I'm just going to get out a 24 foot ladder and go up to the edge of the roof and try blowing some snow off of the dish. You know, I was just trying to save some power, what can I say?
Speaker C: Yeah, well given where you are it
Speaker A: won't be too long before it melts anyway. But I used the app on my phone and I would do things like tilt it when I wanted to shut it off and that did not depend upon the ability to connect to the satellite. However it did depend upon my ability to connect to the router. I didn't use an external router, I used the internal one. So that may be the problem. Yeah, I think the broom solution is probably the best. Yes indeed, one of those first world problems. So any putting on the snow outfit? We have about, oh probably about 2 inches of snow now since the beginning of the net started.
Speaker C: So it's coming down.
Speaker A: It's absolutely beautiful out here but we want our wi fi. Lynn is home today and she's going what's, what's wrong with our Internet? I'm going to let you go. You guys have a great day. And yes, we are back on the voter system and Georgetown voter is up and down. I was just Talking to the IT person. Seems like they have nearing 2ft of snow out there right now and coming down. Have a good one. AI6US. Well we need the snow so I'm not complaining about it here even though we have just rained. Good luck getting the snow off and get back on the air with your Internet. That'll make a difference. I noticed that Georgetown was down from
Speaker B: where I sit here.
Speaker A: I hit all three of them pretty well full scale. So when Georgetown doesn't come back, you know that it's really hurting. Use a long pole on that broom to get up. Don't get up on the rub. This is WA60.
Speaker B: And this is WA60WF and I second that comment. And I know Lynn wants to make sure that your insurance is up to date before you can get up on the roof. You have a great day, Brian. And good luck getting your satellite back again.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna try a blower from the edge of the roof. It's only, like about six or eight feet in, so I think I'll be able to hit it with the leaf blower. If not, call 91 1-AI-6-6-US.
Speaker C: Thanks, guys.
Speaker A: Comment on the satellite dish.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Hope anybody can hear me. K9K A D. I put up Starlink
Speaker C: last summer and it has.

Speaker A: An automatic warmer. I just checked for the first time we're getting snow where I'm at and the automatic warmer is activated. K9K A D.
Speaker B: So there you go. The automatic warmer maybe got overwhelmed. I don't know what's going on. But yeah, that's, that's good to know.
Speaker A: No, unfortunately it was not an automatic and yeah, and it will not allow me to do it in bridge mode. So. Yeah, there, that's why I'm heading, heading out to get the 24 foot ladder. Thanks guys. AI6US.
Speaker B: And we've had one snarky comment that said send out the flamethrower. Yeah, I don't think you want to use that on your starlink. Good luck. This is WA CWF KD6 hon.
Speaker A: Good morning all. Just a quick note that Forest Hill is doing very well with the snow, lots and lots of it. And we have lost power.
Speaker B: Well, you say you have not lost power. That's a good thing.
Speaker A: No, we have all of Todd Valley and most of Forest Hill. It looks like no power.
Speaker B: Oh, well, that's a bad thing. Well, I hope you find and you have lots of quilts that you can wrap up in to stay warm until they get the power back on.
Speaker A: We rely on the fireplace all the time, so that's not a big problem. Only real problem I think is being snowed in and if we get too much snow, branches falling and sometimes trees.
Speaker B: Yeah, and I understand it's heavy wet snow, so yeah, we've seen lots of it hanging on the, on the branches. So hopefully that won't happen to you.
Speaker A: Yep, we're hoping to. KD6H O N. Good day all.
Speaker B: Good day. Stay warm. KJ6ZH Chris. Good morning.
Speaker A: Good morning to the KJ6 Zulu Hotel and trying to stay dry here with the rain and everything like that and so haven't checked in a while.
Speaker B: So I thought I'd stop by and
Speaker A: see if everybody's still alive. Appears they are. So we'll turn it back to you. This is KJ6ZH Chris in Granite Bay.
Speaker B: Yep, there are a lot of us still out here talking and staying warm. We still have power, although there was a flicker a little bit ago which was concerning, but nothing got disconnected. Glad that you're okay and you're checking in with us. You have a great day. Ko6mjl Good morning. Ko6mjl does that call right? Okay. This is waxt cwf 83. Good morning, nana.
Speaker C: Good morning Beta and everyone else on the net today. Not too much going on here. I had to go grocery shopping this morning, got that done and come home and they're all put away and we have a radio club meeting tonight, so we're going there. It's really a nice day. It's 57 degrees and the sun is shining and almost all of our snow has melted. And good luck to you all out there with snow. Hope everything is good. Everybody take care.
Speaker B: You take care too. And yeah, if you have to go out there shopping, drive carefully.
Speaker C: Well, I already went shopping and I'm in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, so right now we don't have any snow. We have some fun this morning, but it's gone away. The sun is shining and it's 57 degrees.
Speaker B: Oh, you're having the good. You're having California weather. Well, good. Go out and enjoy it then.
Speaker C: Yes, we're getting the nice weather this time. We had our bats and actually we were home for a week. We didn't go anywhere because of the snow and cold weather. It was down around zero and below. So now it's getting a little warmer. But it's supposed to go back down this weekend.
Speaker B: Yeah, I suspect this storm will wander over in your direction and get there eventually. But go out and enjoy the warm while you've got it.
Speaker C: Well, it's supposed to be nice today and tomorrow, so I'll get out there sometime and enjoy a little bit of it. Everybody have a good day and stay safe out there in California. KD3, Hannah
Speaker B: likewise. Anna 7:3, as you take care. This is WA CWS K4LGI. Good morning, Sam.
Speaker A: Good morning. Faded, everybody. Annette here from chile, Denver. About 31 degrees, very sunny. I'm glad you got some snow there. I think Brian wanted snow this year, so it worked out pretty good there. His end of things, I guess. Two inches since the net started. That's pretty good. So I won't say too much. It's good to hear the new voices on here this morning. It's very nice to hear people coming in from park ranges and all that, that's for sure. Have a nice day, everybody. And checking in from inside here was noisy, but it's kind of cool outside and I'm just getting over that cough thing. Maybe it'll only be a couple of days here, not in two weeks, rather. K4 LGI. Thank you and have a good day.
Speaker B: Well, I'm glad you're finally getting over that. It's been a stretch, hasn't it? You have a good day and enjoy the sun. This is WA60WF. This is the coffee breaknet. We are approaching 10 o' clock so I will take quick in and outs or log only. What is your preference? Let me know.
Speaker A: N2DYI, in and out, log only. N6 in ctsync, quick in and out. Kilo mike 6.
Speaker B: Mike mike for the log please.
Speaker A: Data. Kilo oscar 6, lima, golf, papa glenn. Log only. Kilo oscar 6, echo, bravo, quebec. Log only.
Speaker B: Thank you. Okay, let's see. We got K06ebq for the log says good morning and we got you logged in. KO6 LGP for the log. Hope you have a great day. KM6mm for the log. Still not talking to me, huh? Okay, and let's see. N6 CTC, we got you in. And Patrick into DYI. Who did we miss?
Speaker A: Kilo, Kilo seven, Whiskey, Quebec, Bravo, log only.
Speaker B: Kilo, Kilo seven, Whiskey, Quebec, Bravo for the log. Okay, gotcha. The log. You have a great day. Up to Patrick and to Dyi. Good morning.
Speaker A: Hey, good morning. Theta also, Ka6uai checked in right at the top. So I don't. I think he was a log only, but I heard him when I keyed up. Anyway, just got back from the dentist office. Half my face is still numb, so I'm speaking with as much diction as I can muster after having my face contorted into many unnatural shapes for about half an hour. Hopefully that'll be the last time I have to do that for a while.
Speaker B: Oh, that's so fun. And then you just bite the heck out of your inside of your mouth because you don't. Or your tongue because you can't feel it until after everything wears off. And then you realize. Oh.
Speaker C: Ow.
Speaker B: So I'm. You have my sympathies.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've done that before. I think I've avoided that this time around. I think I'll find out in a little bit. Let's see, it was about 11:30. He said it would wear off in about an hour and a half. It's been an hour and a half and it's starting to wear off. So anyway, nice weather here while you guys are getting all the Snow. We have 68 degrees right now and it's supposed to get up to 73 tomorrow. Although it's not going to be that nice. It's just going to be warm. It's going to be kind of rainy and drizzly and cloudy and all that. Pretty much all day tomorrow and not enough today. So it's going to get cooler. And then by the end of the week next week, it'll Start getting back up to these temperatures again.
Speaker B: Well, you know, Mother nature seems to do that. It's cold, it's warm, it's summer, it's rain. Yep. Well, it'll work its way around.
Speaker A: Yep. And before I go, I gotta say it was kind of, it was kind of amusing to me. I, I use, right Now I'm using AirPods as hearing aids and I have my phone set to read notifications when they come in. So I'm sitting, you know, I'm on the dentist chair getting, you know, having a drill drilling out two of my teeth and I'm getting notifications about the voter system being down. And I'm thinking, yeah, I'd much rather play with the voter system than what I'm doing right now.
Speaker B: And they make the drilling louder. You should have just taken them out.
Speaker A: Well, it's got noise reduction, the noise canceling. So I turn that on and that definitely does help until the bone induction comes into play and then it's just bad and there's nothing you can do about it. But yeah, it was kind of interesting getting all these. I was getting real time updates as Tom and Doug and Brian were looking at voter stuff and I was just kind of going, yeah, don't think I'm going to be very useful right now.
Speaker B: Well, if nothing else, it distracted you from the fact that the dentist was using a jackhammer on your teeth.
Speaker A: It certainly did that. Anyway, theta, I will let you get on with things. Good to hear you all this morning. This afternoon here. And I'm going to crash because I didn't sleep last night, got kind of distracted doing stuff. And then by the time I went, oh wait, it's already five in the morning, I kind of went, yeah, it's probably not worth going to sleep because I have to get up in a couple of hours anyway. So I'm going to do that now. Stop me. Have a good one. WA6EWF into
Speaker B: night night. Sweet dreams. This is WA60WF N6CTC. Good morning.
Speaker A: Well, good morning. And to everyone else on the net, good morning as well. I just wanted to make an announcement that now that I've been a ham for over three years and I just graduated, got my associate's degree, so following the mantra of treat yo self, I'm going to go buy my first HF radio today. So I'll be headed down to the candy store here shortly to go set free my pocketbook and 6 CTC.
Speaker B: Well, congratulations on finishing all your coursework and getting your aa. Nice to have another Graduate in the group and definitely you deserve an HF today. So have fun at the candy store. I'm sure there are people there who will be glad to help you pick out the perfect radio.
Speaker A: Yeah, someone's getting guaranteed commission today. But have a great day. And if people are getting snow, enjoy the snow. It was just cold and rainy here in Rosenville. Seven three, everyone N6 CTC, back to Ned.
Speaker B: 7:3. Chris, you have a great day. This is WA6CWS. We have passed the 10 o' clock magic hour. I will do log onlys for extremely quick hello in and out. Who's out there? Home of the original 105 with a PL tone of 110.9. This is. And actually hearing nothing on Monday night that I am going to say that this has been the Coffee Break Net. The Coffee breaknet is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio club on the W60K repeater, which is located in Auburn, California, where the sun is always shining up there above the clouds. At the moment the birds are singing. They are singing and the fish are jumping. Maybe this is DWS returning the repeater to normal operation, whatever that may be. Everyone have a lovely day. Bye bye.
Speaker A: I apologize. Can you get me in under the wire? I don't just do a log only. I just didn't get to the radio.
Speaker B: Sure, Peter. I'll add you to the list. You have a great day.
Speaker A: Good morning. Good morning to Jerry Rock and the rest of the kdq. Thanks so much. Kb7dfp. Ken mobile, twin falls.
Speaker B: I thought I was going to miss you. Kb7 dfp, this is wa60wf. Yes, I will add you to the list. So what's for lunch?
Speaker A: This is going to be a good one. Probably spaghetti. Yeah, I just turned on the radio as you were closing it out.
Speaker B: Well, good timing. Actually, I had you already on the list. I just didn't have what the lunch was. I'm going to have ravioli. We went to Olive Garden last night and I ordered ravioli and ate half of it. Very carefully divided in half. So I have ravioli for lunch. So it's. It's a. An Italian food day.
Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. And you know, ravioli sounds good. I forgot. I guess I forgot it existed until now.
Speaker B: I like it a lot. It's not Jerry's favorite, so we don't have it very often unless we get an Olive Garden. And then I make a point of getting the full size serving and taking half of it home so I can enjoy it the second day too.
Speaker A: Well, that's great odds to keep in mind that they have that there. So anyway, well, you have a great day and thanks for adding me to the list. KB7 DSP mobile,
Speaker B: you have a great day too. This is WA6TWS,
Speaker A: This is ke8epv, kilo echo8 echo, papa bravo mike in sanford, michigan and I just found you on the the YouTube and grabbed hold of my handheld and came in via All Starlink. Like to get on your log. K E A G p b
Speaker B: k e 8e p b. I will add you to the law and glad that you found us. We're here every day from 7:30 to 10 so you can have another chance to get on and chat with us.
Speaker A: We'll do sometime. Thank you very much. Ke8epb clear.

Speaker A: Whiskey Bravo Golf Uniform Yankee for the log and a spaghetti with me and brown butter for lunch.
Speaker B: I'm sorry, give me that call again.
Speaker A: Whiskey Bravo Six Golf Uniform Yankee spaghetti with mesistra sauce and brown butter.
Speaker B: That sounds good too. It obviously is Italian food day today.
Speaker C: Hey, since the net's over, I'm just going to feel free to jump in here. N6 CTC. Brown butter and mazithra. Man, that's old spaghetti factory talk. We're brothers and we just don't know it. I love that place. It's a family family staple. Every year I take my son and he gets a cotton candy limeade.
Speaker B: N60TC.
Speaker A: Yeah, spaghetti factory goes through about 200 tons of cheese a year.
Speaker B: Whiskey Brevis. Exculging a permanent.
Speaker C: Not high on my list of good places to eat Italian food, but it's. It's got a special place in my heart. And also, you know, ravioli. The great thing about pasta is, you know, if you don't like something in one shape, you could just get it
Speaker B: in a different shape.
Speaker C: I am more of a fan of the tortellini as opposed to the ravioli, but it's just a personal preference. Okay, well, now I'm going to have pasta for breakfast. Have a great day, everyone.
Speaker B: N6 ctc. N6 ctc. Kr6ebq.
Speaker C: Do you want to have pasta for
Speaker B: Breakfast with me at 6 CTC? No, but I have some of my sourdough that I made yesterday, one of my better loaves, so I was enjoying that. So, you know, sourdough and pasta go together, do they not?
Speaker C: Oh, yeah, they do. However, when I worked at Mary's Pizza Shack, we made a metric buttload of focaccia bread. And I didn't know previously, and it might not be the real way to make it.
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker C: We just took the pizza dough and put like olive oil and then like a herb seasoning with cheese on top and baked it. That's how we got gotcha bread. But I got hooked on that stuff.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's about the right way. Hey, I was going to ask you, though. I heard you're going to the candy store. What rig do you have in mind?
Speaker C: Well, with. With all the incentives Right now, the Yaesu 710 field is. Is Triple 9s right now. So I'm going to go in there and take advantage of that deal. Plus, I was probably going to get that one anyway.
Speaker B: What's that one going for? Hopefully not cheaper than when I got it.
Speaker C: $999 is the price on the website right now. I think there's two rebates available. One of them goes away here in a couple of days next week I think it is. So I was hoping to get my tax refund before the deal went away and it looks like that worked out. So I'm going to slide in there. Take advantage of that.
Speaker B: Well, congratulations on your certificate and also congratulations on your purchase that I know you'll make today. So good. That's the same one I have. Only problem is I need to get it out and use it more. But that's my problem.
Speaker C: Well, I already bought myself a little 12 volt battery so I can go out and get portable because my apartment complex is not conducive. Especially because I live eight feet from Safeway. But you know, Veterans park just down the way. It's already stopped raining. I mean and just gotta go down there. I'm gonna grab an antenna. I have one I ordered that's a vertical. It's not here yet, but if they got an NFET or something down there, grab that and I'll be sitting my, my rear end down. Calling CQ somewhere.
Speaker B: Go do it. Glad to hear it's happening for you. Maybe sometime we'll have to get out there together. I just need to. I just need to do it. I'm just so darn busy though. I need to make more time for it. Anyhow, with that I will say 7 3. Be careful driving down there. Good luck. K06EBT clear.
Speaker C: Hey, thanks for saying hi and just, you know, it's kind of like on the freeway. I'm not trapped out there. They're trapped with me.
Speaker B: CTC sub 30.

Speaker A: Qst qst qst
Speaker B: Survive the ladder climb. Used the RV scrubbing pole to brush off the dish. Starlink Internet connectivity has been returned. Turned on the snow melt and Lynn is happy. I will survive. Ai6us Happy wife, happy life. Ko6evq. K9kad that's great news and I must apologize to the Coffee Breaknet people. I broke in with my Starlink comment. I didn't know you were in the middle of a net, so apologize for that. Glad you got your Starlink up. K9 Kad off Wi Fi on on Starlink so it was wanting me to do a reset? Heck no. All right, there's the rest of the story. AI6.
Speaker A: K9K AD that's great news.
Speaker B: And I apologize for breaking in on the net earlier with my comment. I didn't know you guys were in the middle of the net.k9k80 oh, no problem. No problem at all. Now we're a conversation net. So people call break all the time. No, it was just kind of a. I had always assumed that I would be able to communicate. I guess some features are available through bridging, but it said for that feature I needed Internet connectivity. So I'm going to probably go in there. Lesson learned is probably don't turn off the Starlink wifi, even if not using it. And yeah, leave the heater in automatic even though we don't get that much snow. Never too old to learn.

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