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Hello, this is that cowboy from burl. This is kk7dbr. Hey, how's it going? It's. It's Ryan from. How are you doing up there? Well, I'm stuck down in my man cage trying to fix a bunch of 7mm brass that a guy had all way too long. They wouldn't feed through his guns very good. They wouldn't go in until I had to cut them all down. You have head spacing issues or something out of the outside of that? Yeah. They used. It's. It's a Browning bar automatic. And you have to use a smaller die. About a thousand smaller when you full length resize it. And they were way long. I had to cut them down quite a bit. The cases have been stretched for way too long to go through the gun. So I had to pull all the bullets apart and trim the cases down and resize them through the right. Through the right die. Pretty classic tool. I don't really hear too many people have one of those. Belongs to a barber that I go to and he couldn't get any bullets for you. I guess it's undone. Probably the gun. Probably in the 70s, 60s come out old Browning automatic. Used to hunt elk with a nice rifle. It's an older rifle but they just finicky it. Automatics, pumps, lever actions and that. They're kind of finicky what they take for reloads. They shoot factory ammunition all right. But hard to get a reload to go through them. Very good. Now one of these days when I get back to reloading, I got a 6,5 crate more than I finally decided to shoot this last weekend. But do some more work with it. I bought one of the creek moors I had kid I used to line up with. He. He told me he got a creepmoor and was shooting elk at a thousand yards with the thing. And I could. I can't believe it. That thing was more like an antelope and a deer rifle than an elk rifle. So I had to buy one to see I'm right. It's a deer and an antelope rifle. That still sounds pretty fun. You got any big plans for the weekend? I don't have any plans. I'm just going to stay down in my man cave plan play around in here. I don't have one plan at this age. I don't make plans. I just glad to get up everybody. I was a younger version of myself. Realized that not every day is given. I should probably appreciate things more. But I've learned that with age. Yeah, the golden age ain't quite cracked up that they said it was gonna be. If I knew I was gonna live this long, I decided better care of myself. That's what they all say, I guess. But it's all right. I'll hang in there. I kind of still enjoy it. I told my wife my 40th birthday is going to be in May. My goal is I want to be in the best shape of my life and keep it that way because my daughter's going to be a teenager when I'm in my early to mid-50s, so gotta do something about that. Yeah. And when she gets in her teens years, you'll age really fast. Trust me. I want to find out what Bobby Kennedy Jr's on. Kind of steroids are treatments he does. He's in pretty good shape. I think I'd rather baffle a grizzly bear than handle teenagers. And I've got one. I got a granddaughter that I'm raising. Thirteen right now. A handful yet, but I think I'll just grab me a drizzling rastle him down before I have to tackle her. I think if they're occupied with things that they enjoy, we're going to try to really push 4H or FFA on her. Hopefully she takes to it. But keeping them busy and entertained with things that keep them out of trouble. Yeah, that's for sure. Them girls, if they get into the 4H and horses and animals and livestock, they seem to hang in there and work good at it. Most of the girls I even grew up with that were in 4H and I had horses and did barrel racing and different events with the horses and livestock, they just seem to just turn out great. We all forecasted the gang snow up towards your way out of this storm. Well, we didn't have much storm. We had a little sprinkle this morning here in Panaca. But I guess tomorrow's supposed to be more rain all week. The rest of the week it's supposed to have more storm. What the weather says on my phone. And it lights on to a completely different what my. So we'll just. It'll be surprise to see, but mine says it's supposed to rain for the next three or four days. That's why I've been hearing myself maybe just trust the old weather rug. Never wrong. Well, I ain't going to turn anything down he throws at us because we do need moisture. We live in the desert. We need some rain to green things up. Even for next summer. We need to get plenty of rain. Bring your water table up. Now. I'm not going to argue with that. Our house is on well water too. So keeping it up is something that concerns me, especially with all the development they're doing out here. Yeah, I seen a thing on YouTube that Trump was Vegas and them was way overbuilt and they're going to have housing short dump on there. Then you can buy a house cheaper if you wait. That's what they tell me. I don't know what's going to be going on with the market. People said it's going to go up in front and it's all subject to a city that has their economy based on tourism. So I guess when those numbers are going down, you can see the rest of it. And k7ofo for ID. Yeah, I was just looking on that YouTube stuff on watch that. That guy on there says that a lot of the towns in Nevada, the bigger towns, are way, way overbuilt and the map shows they're going to have a crash in the market. But they've said that for years too. If they know it's true. Yeah, I don't know. Well, I'm gonna probably be clear here for a bit because I'm going to be dumping into no man's and no TR land here going north on 95. I'll probably pop back out in about 20 minutes or so, but I want to hear from you. I hope you have a great evening. I'll probably hear you this weekend. For sure. For sure. This is kk7bdi73. Have a good day. Tequila 7 oscar foxtrot oscar 73.

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Hello, ralph. You're on your way home from work. This is kk7dbr. Hey, Ken. Yeah, I am. Traffic's heavy. Typical for this town anymore. But yeah, calling it a week. Gonna try to get to Mount Potosi tomorrow to install that Peter I fixed. But it looks like the weather is going to be pretty nasty. Don't need to keep getting caught up there in a thunderstorm. So I think I'm gonna push it till next week, next Saturday. You don't like lightning? Not at 9,000ft at a radio site, no. Plus, you know, if you get a lot of heavy rains up there, it's gonna make the roads really bad. So now I think I'll. I think I'll skip. Skip it. Skip it till next Saturday. Yeah, there's no sense in tearing them up any more than they are. Yeah, there's portions of the road up there that are pretty bad. Some of the ATV'er guys go up there. They'll go around the fence and get up there and do they just tear it up going around corners really fast and trying to spin out things like that? There's a couple of spots where the road's really, really rough. Yeah, we got some kids here in this town, they got millions of acres to ride them dirt bikes in. And they'll go up in where our shoes shooting ranges. Where I go shooting, they'd be spin Brody and just light tear that place up. So it's rough to drive into it and hard to walk on down to the target because they can dig some big holes with them bikes they got now. I'll tell you, they really rip that place up. Exactly. Exactly. So. So what's going on there, what you've been up to? Yeah, I just got a project with my barber in cedar there. Has a 7mm that wouldn't take the bullet. So he gives me a bucket full of these. Sir, they just won't go in the gun. So I get tearing them apart to check them and they're way too long. And it takes a smaller size die to do them for automatics and pumps and lever action guns. So I'm going through them. I had to tear them all apart. And when I got them tore apart, I get in there, find that they're the powder charges in them run a long ways from 60 grains clear up to 75 grains. And that scared me. So I figured I ain't shooting any of them, I'm just gonna tear them apart. So when you say 65 to 75, is that too much? They're packed to potent I guess I'll use that term or one. There's no consistency in whoever dumped the powder they probably used just powder measures they used just been dumped the same charge all the time and they got some that are over and some that are under it just don't make the gun accurate at all and there the cases were way way long and the bullet was set too long and that all comes down to that it ain't gonna work in this gun I get it so I I I'm not I'm not that I mean I I've got guns right but I'm not I'm not a gunsmith or whatever you enter I'm a user so if there's too much in there then as the damaging the gun then if you use it. Saying the gun won't handle it but you ain't gonna get one you just think you ain't gonna get any groups that'll any accuracy out of the rifle some will be low powder low power and some's gonna.

And run them through this die that was made for the Browning bar and give them back to me. Okay, good. Thanks for the. For the education, like I said on the user but interesting. So it sounds like you got a heck of a. Heck of a little production line set up thing going there. That's great. It just takes a lot of time. I pull the bullet back out and resize the brass and clean the primer pockets and rebur the necks. It's just time consuming when you do them all. It just takes a lot of time. I know. I hope I have a little of that time to do that. Hang it, hang. I'll hang in there till it's done. Let all the links drop. So if the time's up. Okay, Very good. So how much do you think you save? I mean, I. Bulletproof, you know, what do you. You probably know as well or better than I do ammo prices are just through the freaking roof anymore. But you know, how much do you think you'd save by doing it yourself versus just buying it from a retailer? Like 25%, 50% more? Any idea? Yeah. Ralph, right now, the price of powder and primers and slugs and that, and if you figured your time worth anything. I don't think a guy saves anything. The only thing he can hope for is he can make his bullets more accurate. And for hunting and target shooting, I don't think a guy can save anything now at the price. They've got stuff priced so high that I don't think he can save anything. Okay, very good. Yeah, I never. I never really thought of it. I guess it makes sense. I never really thought that the bullet would actually contribute to the accuracy, you know? I know. You know, if you pack them more, you think they'll go further. That was something I always thought was kind of intuitive, but I didn't realize that it actually affected the accuracy of the gun. Yeah, them guys that are really into competition and stuff, they call on that brass being the. Probably the same brass, the same length. Sa.

I kind of thought, boy, you should have paid more attention to what he was telling. The older I get, the more I like it because it gives me something to do during the day. I don't just sit there and stare across the table with my wife and she wants to hit me with a rolling pin or something, but I can come down here and stay out of her hair. It just gives me something to do. And I kind of like to try to get up a lot. A lot of times I'm disappointed when I go up and find out I didn't do anything. Right. It don't shoot like I want it to. I keep working at it, finally, sometimes it'll work out. Yeah, right, right, right. Yeah, I know what you mean about having things to do. You know, we just called a bunch of our employees back off furlough, and a few of them were saying they were busy the entire time, had a lot of projects, and other ones are going, oh, my God, I can't deal with this. So, yeah, helps to have a hobby. Did you get them all back or did they bring some of them back? I know. I heard rumors that this thing was going to probably lose a lot of people their job because I don't know what they were. I just heard rumors that some of them would never be back. I hope they got everybody back for you. It probably make your headache for you. Hope they all made it. Yeah. Some of the government civilians that they've ripped, they're saying they're not going to give their jobs back because they reduced it for us. They got too many damn government people anyways, quite honestly. But no, we're contractors. So I brought back my entire workforce. I got about 650 some people that work for me between here and Colorado, and we lost 11 people over the furlough, guys. I just said, the heck with it. I'm not dealing with this. I'm retiring. Or some people found someplace else to work. So. But, you know, I was telling. Talking to one of the guys before I left, and he said, oh, that ain't too bad. You know, 11 out of 650, 660. But I said, you know, we're not going to see the full impact of this for another month or two. And. Because if people are out there looking for a job and interviewing, they're not gonna. They're gonna have to wait for that process to work itself out. So I don't know. And they just. They just kick this can down the road until the 30th of January. I'm afraid that they're all gonna go on their Christmas and New Year break, come back, you know, second week of January and go, oh, shit, we got two more weeks before it shuts down again. I don't know. Disheartening to say the least. Yeah, for sure. I. I heard that this is just for two months or something, and then they will do it again. And I just hope they don't. I think. I think if them politicians do walk these guys out for that, I think they need to pay. I think they need to be removed from office and take the pay with them. Don't pay them. Let them go without pay and see how they like it. Yeah, exactly. And 7TND Las Vegas. We'll see. I mean, nobody got anything out of it. It was nothing, but like you said, affecting a lot of people. The government people are going to get paid. When they come back, they're going to get back pay. My people won't, because, like I said, we're contractors. But yeah, a lot of pain, a lot of angst for no gain. I don't think either side, quote, unquote, one if there's a winner on stuff like this. Anyways, other than that. Yeah, like I said, since I'm not going to go to the Hill tomorrow, I got some other radio projects I need to throw on my bench and get some. Get some stuff fixed and, you know, spare parts made up and stuff like that. I like to have spare assemblies. I got a couple of PAs I need to repair. Their UHF PAs I can have on the shelf ready to go in case something craps out. So I might take the day and do that. If it's going to be rainy and nasty anyway, there's no reason to go out.

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It. Is there anybody out here tonight? 86 POC Mobile in Santa Rosa. Link up. 86 poc nx 60. Hey, good evening, adam. Good evening to you too, sir. This is my buddy in San Mateo county, right? Affirmative. Yes, the guy who's up here in Mount San Bruno. Right, I remember you. Well, as luck would have it, I'll be in your neighborhood Tuesday and Thursday of next year. I gotta go do a job walk for San Mateo county on changing five generators at five different comms sites. So it should be a pretty fun day both those days. Affirmative. Yeah, I was up there, what was it, Tuesday? So we put up a little repeater antenna on like the first, the first building that it could hit of the north side. So yeah, I look really close actually, but it's. We have a few radios up there, but you know, they're asking to put the generators up there. Well, it's actually not, not too hard to get up there as soon as you get the gate code. So I'm going to go with some liaisons in San Mateo County. They want you to change five generators at of the comp site. Oh, I'd be all over that. Reason being is you get to take home the units that they're no longer using. Most of stuff is about 10 years old, which is just fine because you know, I have a handful of comp sites up here in Sonoma county that I take care of that have generators from the 90s. And rather than try to reinvent the wheel here about how to get them connected to the Internet for on hop time, operating conditions, fuel level, etc, if you have generators that are being decommissioned, you got to bring them home anyway. Well, that is the win win. I, I dropped an email to Frank and Bill saying how are you guys set up on something? Do you want one of these? They're coming out of your neighborhood. You'll get picked up a litter. Just tell me which one you want. No response yet. I guess they're still looking at each other, but I'll ask them again. Absolutely. And I'm sure Frank got a new generator from the county. So they get funded by the county. They get to find like their old decommissioned classes. But yeah, I'll probably talk to Frank on Monday, so I'll pass the word if you haven't gotten a response from him. And let's see. Yeah, as I recall most of the generators are like on the side of the building and they're kind of outdoors. Maybe they'll have a cover on it or something. But that's all I Remember? And I think they're all trailerable so they look like they're large trailer bullet generators. Back to you, Adam. Katie picks the POC and ecstasy. Tell you, I have not seen these with my own eyes. I'm going to imagine that they are outdoor units and my game plan here was to pick them up with the crane, set them back down on a flatbed that we have, a big flatbed and take them someplace else. I have a few other things we could do with this, but I figure that Frank and Bill will be the first choice. You know, I don't know what they get funded and what they don't get funded or who helps them and what they don't get help with, but I like those guys quite a bit. So I figure, well, heck, you know, start there, I can take one down from any of these comp sites and just plop it where they want and come back and wire it. Or they might even have someone on hand to do that. That is fine too. Let's see here. What else was I going to tell you? Hey, I, I sent a letter to the fella who is down there from Montara Ridge and the business card saying yeah buddy, I'm interested. Give me a shout anytime. I don't know if he received it or not. Is that Ralph? So the guy who actually operates it for American Tower named Mike, I think his call sign is jkv. I'm not sure what his prefect was. And then the guy who operates the San Bruno site is another bike, but I'm not sure he's ham. I sort of know him because he lets us go up there and put stuff up and that's not being used. So he's really nice to us. This is excellent news. I like hearing success stories like that, especially when there's a Compsite owner that's friendly with ham. I was not aware which of these at sites and not I'm registered to do work with American Tower. Let me tell you what, out of all the people we work with, they are probably my least favorite. And not because of anything that they do, but because they ask for $10 million of insurance. So that's okay. The problem is the customer ends up paying for it. And a lot of people are get sticker shocked when they say oh my God, you've only cost this much to do this. And I say, well if it wasn't an American Tower comp site with a 10 million dollar policy requirement, it wouldn't be. Geez, that's a lot of money. Yeah, I don't know what the premiums would be for a $10 million bond, but. Yeah, that's. That's interesting. Well, American Tower owns so many sites, so I don't know, they're kind of like a monopoly. But what are you going to do? Whether it's the elephant in the room. Oh, well, let's see. Tuesday, I guess. Rain, Rain, rain. No rain on Tuesday, I think so I think you'll be okay. You've been up to that San Bull site. The roads are kind of shoddy, but you can get a flatbed up there if you don't drive too fast. Other than that, I don't think you have any problems. I think a lot of the generators, they're just on wheels and you pull them out or they're on trailers. You pull them out on a delusionally on the left side or the right side of the building. Some have, you know, like old Kohler ones. Let me give it back to you. Okay, Find out most. I would be shocked if their trailers are on generators because why would they need to be mobile? They generally marry to a comp site. All the comp sites I've seen up here, unless they're rented, they're bolted to the ground and hardwired in. So I don't see anything that would suggest they need to be mobile. But we'll find out. So Tuesday I'm gonna go walk through three comp sites and Thursday I'm gonna see two more. So I'll go down there both days. Let's get a pretty good view of what's going on. I'll inventory these things and see how to get in and out. I you tell Cousin actually works at the crane company. He said we go down to San Mateo county frequently. He calls it smc. So really I'm not worried. If you could get. I mean if, if the thing. If units were delivered there somehow, then they could be picked up and replaced. We just need to know specifically where we're going. That. Yeah, there's like how many complex ones? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Either five or six complexes. One TV transmitting station. No, I'm sorry, a couple of them. I don't know if they went out of business. And so it's actually a lot of buildings up there, but it's not a thing to get up there, you know. But the thing is be careful when you drive up that road. There are a lot of. It's a park so a of lot. Lot of people walk the roads and they don't realize there's traffic. I'LL keep my eyes open. I have to tell you, we work Wolfback Ridge in Sausalito and it is located on Golden Gate park property. And a number of folks who come on up there and want to talk to you, ask questions, take photos, we sell tickets. Especially when it's fleet week and the Blue Angels are in, everybody wants to come up to the tower site and then watch the show. It's phenomenal. Buddy, with that one, I gotta tell you. I am pulling into the driveway and I'm gonna sign with you because I am famished and I gotta get something to eat. So let's chat in a bit. Okay? I'll probably be around this weekend, especially next week with the commute. This will be Adam here. 86 POC clear on your final. Yeah. Okay, Adam, you know, we'll chat again and I'll see what I can get together with the guys. So it's a bunch of house ham to operate up there and I'll get back to you. I'll be monitoring a CARL event. KD6POC NX60 go get something to eat and talk to you. 73. Buddy73u it's dinner time. I might have to cook it first, but it's dinner time. 86 POC. Petite.

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Qst, qst, qst. This is KG6 Kuo opening sector valley traffic net. This net's part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this net is to relay formal traffic into and out of out of Sacramento Valley W6RHC Repeater Check 1 and to provide a standard merchant net. This is a correcting net. Please make no transparency missions without permission. Near control. All stations are requested Stay on frequency to be skills. Near control. K6K year old Lester located west of will station with emergency or priority traffic. Please come down. Other a station with traffic to be listed. Roll call follows. Kf6opi is still in a meeting and asked for early check in. Kg6kuo is call enroll and no traffic. Kg6tso. Good evening, lester and the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you, bessie. K6rcs, Kf6djy, Ke 6pmt, kilo, echo 6, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening, lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, russ. Thank you. Kc6usc, kc6ufe, bell and cape. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you, kn6pww. Kn6pww, this is jamie and chico with no traffic and good evening, lester and the net. There is no further traffic of kick in. This is K6KUO closing Sacramento Valley traffic. This net is standing at 21100 hours local time using W6 Rec 146-855-150 neighborhood. All stations are excused and I'd like to thank everybody. Go check 10. Tonight, the Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society for the use of repeater. This net closed at 2103 local time. $73 kg 60k.u old clearing frequency. Kg 6 kuo. This is KN6PWW. Yes, sir. Go ahead, Lester. I'm not sure you actually caught me there. I'm having a little antenna issue here. But I did check in. No traffic as usual. Thanks. I did to get you. Thank you very much. All right, thanks, Lester. Uh, KN6PW does W clear. Hi, you have a good evening. KG6K UCLAIRE.

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Kg6ko.kf6djy.kf60jy, kg6ko. Go ahead. Good evening, Lester. Yeah, I just got back into the house, so. And was not in the truck with the radio. So, anyway, late check in, no traffic from Chico. Not a problem. You can get a late check in anytime I'm around. All right, good. Have a good evening. This is KJ6K. Okay, thank you, Lester, and have a Good night. Also. KF6DJY.

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Kk6vzd.mobile. Kk6vzd.ko6bgy. Good morning. I'll be back in a few moments. I gotta go help mom with something, but I thought I'd throw you throw your response out there, so. Good morning, Chris. Happy Saturday. All right, well, I'll be on the air for a while. I'm heading to Lincoln, so I'll talk to you when you're available. KK6VZD.

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Kk6vzd.ko6bgy Good morning. Good morning. How you doing this morning? Doing fine, doing fine. Got a cup of coffee here. Got the windows open nice and cool out. Nice morning all around. Good morning to you, Chris. You heading up to see the, see the family again? Yeah, I'm going down to Lincoln, get my daughter and we're going to head off to an estate sale. Yeah, I'm not sure that there's anything we're particularly going to find, but you know, I was looking at some pictures this morning and there's a. Yeah, a tool, a rolling toolbox that if the price is right, maybe I'll come home with that. Hey, there you go. That'll be nice. I needed to start, I need to start doing that so I can start getting some. I want to start getting a larger collection of vintage safety razors. I got. The oldest one I have right now is from 58, I think, or 48, one of the two. I'm sorry, what did you say you were looking for or thought you might look for? Safety razors. Not, not the Sweeney Todd cutthroat razors, but the, the ones that they introduced right at World War I. Usually a three piece. And you put the little thin, thin blades in there. Yeah, like my dad used to use. Actually, you know, it's interesting, what was all the, the different types of new razor blades. My son shaves with a safety razor. I myself have started using the Harry's razors, oh, I don't know, five, six years ago. And they've given me the best shave I've ever had. So I'm sticking with them. Right on, right on. Yeah, I've used Harry's and it worked good. A couple years ago I switched over. Sorry, A couple years ago I switched over as well to safety razors and boy, it's a whole. Well, to say it's just like amateur radio for me. I'll put it that way. I've got way too much stuff. But all the soap that I've got are most, I should say are artisan stuff out of like Booneville, Arkansas and Arizona. Really good stuff. But it's my kind of quiet time. I'll put on some classical music, go have a shave and have at it. Yeah. So are you using a brush? Yeah, I've got a handful of brushes. Got a copper bowl. I've got this handmade custom. Well, it's not custom. I mean, it's somewhat small batch produced, but it's a porcelain two piece that you put hot water in the bottom and then you. I went down the rabbit hole. You know, it's interesting. I don't know, it's been a few years. I. I had an electric razor for a very long time, and I don't know what got me switched over, but I thought, you know, I want to try using a brush. I got a bowl of brush and I found an antique safety razor, or not a safety razor, a straight razor. And straight razor I pull out every once in a while. But I've never done a complete shave with it. But, you know, the brush, I, you know, I find that I like the suds that I get off of that. And it's kind of a nice routine in the morning to sit there and whip up a bowl of foam. Yeah, definitely. I definitely couldn't agree with that. If I might have to send you an email with a couple different shave soap recommendations and. I don't know, I mean, you can, you can use what you're using, but if you're open to suggestions, I'll send some over and. Really good stuff. I don't know how they stay in business because I haven't bought any stuff in probably two years, and I still have enough to last probably another two decades. I mean, the cost is such a difference. I mean, I could buy a hundred razor blades for this razor for $9, and you could get three, four, five Daves out of each blade. So I don't know. It's each their own. But yeah, the brush really makes a difference. I don't know why. I like the satisfaction. You know, I get a lot of satisfaction out of whipping up my own. So it's weird. And actually, my, my, my bowl, my cup is something that I bought a very long time ago. It's probably got to be 50 years old. And I tried it for a while and, you know, and then I put it away for 40 years or so. And when I decided to start, you know, doing the brush and I pulled that bowl out and it's kind of a nostalgic thing for me also. Right on. Love to hear that. That's awesome. Yeah, I got a couple. I tried. I tried the shaving mug, but I can't quite get my brush in there. They're too nubby. So I had to switch over to a larger vessel. Oddly enough, Dollar Tree Hat used to have these many tiny mini mixing bowls, the stainless steel ones, and I bought two of those. And it. You can cup it in the palm of your hand and it stays in your hand. It works perfectly. But yeah, they. I'm not doing too much shaving now that I grew the beard out, so I only got the lower neck and. But this safety straight razor is real good for trimming up if you're trying to get your sideburns all nice and neat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now you were talking about soaps. There was one soap I kind of settled on. I liked the foam I got out of it and all of that, and it wasn't terribly expensive, but then they changed it for some odd reason, and it's much harder to get to whip up a lather. And so I had to find something else, which also, I think it's like four, maybe five dollars a cake of soap. So that's still, you know, I've seen some shaving soaps that are like 12, 13, $15 a cake. And I'm like, yeah, that's a bit much. So, yeah, but be interesting to see what, what you found. KO6BGY for ID. Yes, there's. There's a couple good ones that you can get at like Target, Walmart, you got the Vonderhagen, they got a pretty good product and they're the ones they used to use, I think beef tallow and then they switched over to vegetable glycerin, I think. So that might. If that was what you were using, that might be why you're not getting the same lather. But yeah, most of the stuff here that I've got is in 5 ounce tubs. And when I got it, it was about $13. But I mean, when I say this up last years, it lasts years. I mean, I. Anyway, I'm probably boring people, but I'm having a good time so I'm going to keep running with it. I got a whole bunch of older aftershaves, too. I actually got a German Brut that's really nice. It's actually a lot sweeter than the other one with less talcum powder scent. Then I got that Clubman Pinode W E6A X and repeater. It's not often that I time out the 085, but, yeah, I've got some classic aftershaves in there, too. Interesting, interesting. Yeah, I. You mentioned the Vanderhagens. That's actually the one that I use and I switched to that from Colonel Conk. The Colonel Conk's the one that. Man, it's like just a. Almost like a rubber puck trying to get lather out of it. I don't know why, but I like the Vanderhagen and, and I went to Bay Rum as an aftershave ages ago. Probably because I remember them using that on my neck or whatever after I'd get a haircut, you know, and they trim up my neck and then barber get some of that out and slap it on my neck. And again, it's probably. It's a nostalgic thing as much as anything else. Oh, absolutely. You get that classic barbershop scent. Yeah, definitely. I have one shave soap from. It's actually from a company called PAA which is Phoenix Artisan and Nakuch Vermont. They're boozy. They're not really, but it's based in Arizona operate. So I've actually, I've actually googled this. I haven't actually done it, but I've googled how to make your own shavings. So. And well, I know you have to invest in specific ingredients, you know, and you don't use a lot of them at a time. So I think just the idea of having to hang on to them until I make the next batch a couple of years from now is probably what stopped me from, from trying it. But that'd be kind of fun to make your own stuff. Soap. Sorry I stepped on your first part, but yeah, making your own soap. I actually have a bar of pre shave. So a couple pre shave soaps. Like I told you, I went, I went down the rabbit hole. But I bought. A friend of mine had a friend that was making handmade soaps and it turned out really well. I use it sparingly because I can't get it anymore. So I mean, even after like two years, it's still good. Yeah. Somewhere along the line I ran upon a YouTube video of somebody that said, you know, that tried. Wanted to answer the question is I forget whether it was dove or ivory. So does that make a good shaving soap? And I guess in a pinch it does. I can confirm it does. But. Well, I'll just, I'll put it this way. You know, your first shave in boot camp and you rushed it and you botched it kind of good. And it's cold outside. Yeah, it's not the best meat shaving medium to use, but it does work in a pinch. Actually, dove did come out with a three in one body bar that says it for shaving. I tried that too and I won't do that. But yeah, no, I like this way of shaving. It saves money. I mean, I can't even. I don't think I'll ever go through as many. I probably got close to a thousand blades here between all the ones I've bought. Wow. You know when my son started shaving with a safety razor. I had bought a safety razor and I went and I quit, I went to look for it and I can't find it. So I guess I must have got rid of it. It's quite possible there, there's actually quite a few decent priced ones on the market. Heck, even I even have one that dollar tree had for a while. That thing is not. Yeah, that's not good. It functions but it's, it's not good. Well, you want something that's put together, you know, just not thrown together. Probably, I guess probably the phrase that I'm looking for is tight tolerances so that it all fits together and operates together smoothly. Absolutely. The odd part is, I mean. Well, it's not too odd because I mean they had some kind of quality control cuz you, your mileage might vary kind of thing where some people are like yeah, I got one and it's really good. But maybe they like, maybe they like rough aggressive razors. I definitely don't. But yeah, there's. So I, I mean I probably have close to a dozen of those safety razors. Got a couple for Christmas. I got one that's actually, it's a leaf razor where it only takes half of a single one of the double edged blades. You snap it in half and put it in there. There's, I mean there's so many ways to go about. Kk6pgd ko6bgy. I talked myself out of a battery too. Go figure. Yeah. Oh. I wasn't quite sure what happened, but I was content to wait because I knew you'd realize that okay, you weren't transmitting anymore for some reason. Oh yeah, no, it happens. But yeah, I'll definitely, I'll definitely send over some emails and whatnot with different things and do you know what your son uses as far as what he's using for shaving and all that? Not really. I think that he uses, it's interesting. I think he uses the, the gel, shaving gel, but he uses a brush to whip it up into a foam and then applies it with a brush. But I don't know what he's using for a, for blades for his safety razor. What kind of what, you know what brand of either one. I'm not sure. I'll have to do some digging. Yeah, I even have, I have a couple, I have an Italian shave brush, it's an omega brand. And then I have a Italian shaved soap that smells like, like an amaretto. The first words that popped into my head was biscoff but not biscoff. Biscotti. So it's like an almond, Almond cherry thing going on there. So that's pretty cool. Then I got some other Italian shaved soaps that like the German, There's the equivalent of Barbasol. I mean, they're obviously worldwide, but the Italians have proraso and they have red, green and white. So they have. The red is sandalwood, the other one, the white one, sensitive skin, unscented. And then the green one is a eucalyptus. And boy, that stuff will open your sinuses. Yeah, Unfortunately, I have to go with the unscented because anything with scent in it irritates my wife's respiratory system, you know, so. But yeah, so once the interesting about the. I told you I bought a. An antique straight razor and it was in pretty good shape when it came, but, you know, I have no way of sharpening it, but it was already fairly sharp. Interesting thing though is, you know, you need a strop to. To get the really good fine edge on it. And I looked around and I took an old belt and I use an old leather belt and it's 100% leather, so, you know, I use that and it sharpens it up pretty well. Hey, that's good to know. Yeah, you got. You've definitely got a quality one there. It sounds like I have this. I have a shavette which is still the same shape as a straight razor, but it actually has a mechanism that you can open up and then the. It splits in half and you half of a de blade or the safety razor blade, you snap half of it, put it in there. And so you get the same mechanism as shaving, but you get a new blade each time. I've seen that, seen those. I was wondering, you can use a safety razor blade snapped in half, Right. How easy is it to do that? It's actually very easy. I still get the pucker factor every time I do it. Just because it's a razor blade and you're snapping it in half. But what you do is you leave it in the wrapper and the two prongs that stick out, you grasp that and then you just slowly fold it in half lengthwise and it snaps rather easily. Do be warned, those edges become really sharp. But it is actually rather easy to do. We six a x N repeater. Well, that's interesting. And I know the shavettes aren't that expensive, so maybe one of these days I'll buy one just to try out and see how that works. But yeah, I. I guess, you know, some of this stuff I appeals because it's old school. And you know, I, I, I like old school in a lot of things. Kos X bgy. Yeah, there's definitely that old school factor that I like as well. I mean just thinking like just the oldest razor I have, like I said is either from late 40s, early 50s, it's tiny little travel one best shave that I've ever gotten from that old razor. And it's crazy to believe that back in like 1903 or 1908 whenever Gillette patented the safety razor, you can still use that razor. You buy it on ebay and you can buy blades off of the Internet today and it works just fine. So if it's not broken, don't fix it. Exactly, exactly. You know. Well, sort of my thing about old school, you know, I really, really dislike the new vehicles with all the technical complications that they've got my truck, I've got a, I've got a two 2005 Colorado and it's a, how shall I put it? Lock your own locks, roll your own windows. It's a five speed, it has, it has rubber floor mat and no cruise control. And I absolutely love, well it's a truck at the bare bones. Yeah. I mean if, honestly if I could buy a vehicle that had hand crank windows still with wing window, wing windows, I would buy it in a heartbeat because wing windows are great AC for down the road speeds and the crank windows just work. I mean, I don't know. Just another thing that goes wrong with the technology. Yeah, let's see the interesting thing, probably the most modern gadget I have on my truck is it's got that system that GM put on their vehicles where you don't have to hold the key in the start position until the engine fires over. You rotate it over to start and you can let go to the key and the, the engine will crank until it starts. Oh, that's nice. I know my car is a 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse and it's got a rather long starting feature where you turn the key and you can actually hear it kind of like, I mean it's knock on wood, it's in good running order. It's just always been that way. It's just a rather long drawn out so you got to hold it. Well actually I found that every once in a while that auto start feature, if you want to call it that because it's not, but I'm going to call it that actually causes problems. I've had it where part of, part of it failed for a Short bit. And the engine actually wouldn't start. It would crank and crank and crank and crank, but at the time into the ignition system. And for some odd reason, the ignition wasn't getting any spark. It's just really weird. And I don't know whether it's working or not because being. Being an old curmudgeon, I don't care that it's got the auto. That, that auto crank system. I'll hold the key in the start position until the engine starts anyway because I know how to do that. Yeah, I don't think it mines too much. It's probably built that way. I miss my older vehicles. I mean, this vehicle, it's good. It gets me where I need to go and blind spots out the wazoo though. I mean, it was built for a person that was probably half my size and I'm not even that tall. Oh yeah, yeah. It's interesting that that auto shut up system, they. I'm not sure whether they built it for people who were lazy or. I, I don't know because I figured that, you know, I was. I'm intelligent enough to hold the key in position until it cranks. So what's the, what's the, what's the deal? Why would anybody need a feature like that? It's a convenient thing, probably. I mean, it's funny, whenever I'm walking through a shopping center or whatever and you'll hear it. I mean, people sitting there and they're cranking it over because they're not paying attention and it's like you hear the Charger just whining and whining and whining and all that. I'm like, hey, that sound means it's already on. You can let go now. Maybe they shouldn't have given them a license. That is true. That is definitely. They definitely hand those out sometimes more than they should. But yeah, my, my first car ever was a 1970 Mercedes. That was. That was interesting. That thing had. I don't think it. No, no, it did have power steering because it had that vacuum ball of death for the system. But God, that steering wheel was like the size of a Peter belt able cut in of front of you. And you're like, hold on, let me, let me turn the massive steering wheel. Oh, yes. Oh yes. Yeah. You mentioned the wing windows. Boy, I missed those. I mean, it was just. You'd be going down the road and you, you open that thing and you just turn it all the way around and you just got this blast of air blowing on. Yeah, definitely enjoyable for Sure. I had a. An S10 that had those on there. For some reason, the guy. I don't know, I don't think it was factory because the doors didn't match the paint job of the vehicle. But I enjoyed them nonetheless. Yeah, I don't see that. Like, my car, it's got the spot where the wing window would be, and it's an actual. Another window because being with the Mitsubishi, this one long door. So you got the window and then you got a fixed window. And then my car actually has the automatic. I'll break. I got to think of how to explain it. Okay, so my windows are, I guess, frameless or whatever. There's. At the top of the window, there's no frame. It's just the window. So whenever I unlock the door or open the door, the window automatically drops down a little bit, and then when I close, drops down and then it goes up a little bit. So that way it doesn't slam. Oh, yeah. I first experienced that on a 2010 Mustang, and it just blew me away. I mean, it. I could. I mean, I guess I can't live without it because it's designed that way, but I don't know. It is what it is. That. That's my car, and I'm sticking with it. I got pulled over a couple. Couple months ago coming back from an American Legion meeting at night, and the sheriff was like, why do you have an amber strobe light on top of your car and an antenna? I said, amateur radio. And he's like, can you hear the cops? I'm like, no, never tell them. Different. Different frequency guys. Exactly. I'm a. I'm a good roll abiding ham. I don't go. I monitor those frequencies at home, but I don't mess with them anywhere else. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, I'm. I'm almost destiny. I got a couple of turns and then I'm into the apartment parking lot. So I'm gonna drive, drop off and hope you have a relaxing day. And we'll talk to you later maybe on the way home. 73 KK6VZD. Clear. All right, Chris, thanks for the conversation. Glad you made it safely. We'll talk to you soon. I'll have the radio on, so I'm sure I'll catch you on your return trip. KK6VZD, KO6BGY, all be clear. 73.

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W7oqf w7oqf7t. Ralph. W7OQ. Hey, I sent you a text. How about 4 o' clock today, your time? Do you copy that, Matt? Am I making it? Yeah, a little bit of noise and a little bit of hashing background, but you're making it. How does that. How does four o' clock today your time work? I'm not hearing you for some reason. I'll be run if you're listening or just check your text message. Okay. N7tnd.w7oqm. I'm on a different radio. I don't think it's. I think it's something to do with link. Oh, you're 100% now. With the other radio you were kind of noisy, like you're too far away. Whatever. No, you're 100% now. Anyways, how does 4 o' clock your time today work? Yeah, that works. Good. And what All Star channel, our alternate STEALTH altar server. 29151. Oh, I think that's what I'm on now, aren't I? Yes. No, no, you're on our primary Hub. You're on 150-29151. Oh, I missed the one. Okay. 29151. Okay, 4pm Today. Today. That's great. Yeah. You know, he and I. He and I talk probably a couple, three times a week on. On 10 meters. And I just ragged you whatever we talked about again last night. And you know, I just been meaning to reach out to you, so. Okay, great. So 4pm you're time on. On that note. And I'll let Lito talk to you then. Got a big storm moving through here. We're gonna. We're gonna go to potitude, put 88 back in. But a lot of. A lot of bad stuff in the valley today, which is good for getting water at least, so. All right, talk to you in a few hours at 7:00pm, New Vegas, 4:00 clock today. See you then. Hope you have a good trip up there and everything goes well w7oqf in Phoenix.

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Foreign. Hey. D'oh. Coalinga. I seem to remember your foul sign n6 with iwh chico. Roger. Good morning. I remember you as well. Owen. Yeah. How you doing? Nice day to here. Nice day here in Chico. A little bit cool, but sunshine, blue skies. How about you?

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M 17. Andy. Oh, Ralph. I wanted to check this radio. I. I went to high power. Mia, I've got a lot of packet loss on you, but the audio was fine when it was there. Well, have a good trip up there. W 700 and QM. No, no, we're not going. We. We canceled because of the storms coming through. It's really. It's really, really nasty up there. So I might go tomorrow if there's a break in the storm, and I'll probably go next weekend. So I'm just. I'm just heading to the gym. Okay. Talk to you later at 7. P. Ended. Oh, hi, John. Nice to hear your voice. Yeah, for sure. What are you doing today? Is it raining down there? Not yet, but supposed to rain this afternoon. It's cloudy and it's raining tomorrow. So things going well with you and the family? Yes, very good. We got back a few days ago from several days up in Spring Creek, Nevada. Spent some time up there. We have some property up there we're developing now, so. For retirement. So we were up there last Thursday through Thursday through Monday. Yeah, Thursday through Monday. So it was a nice little trip. It's a little bit of a drive about seven, eight hours north of here. Wow. Wow, that's a long way. Yeah, I remember you had some land up north. I didn't realize it was that far, but. Well, that's good. Enjoy it. I mean, you can always retire up there later on, so. I gotta run, but I did. I'm glad you said hi and hi to the family. W7OHQ active. All righty. Take care, 73. Have a great day from N.R. 72.

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Well, we got some windy conditions, maybe 10 to 15 miles an hour, and we got us about 70 degrees, partly cloudy skies. It'll be kind of hard to meet, but it's definitely a fall day and the leaves are coming down. So anyone out there listening? Who cares? Good afternoon to you. Hope you have a beautiful day and a great weekend. KN6MGK Mobile.

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