Transcriptions for 2025-11-16
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Hello Ralph, this is KK7DDI down the man cave. Ken, Good afternoon. Evening. It is raining pretty good here. It's been pretty constant all day long. Just looked out in my backyard. My backyard is starting to flood. We're finally getting some of the wet stuff. You guys getting anything up there? We haven't had any yet. I'm about to think it don't rain on even. Okay, well I think we're probably going to get end up getting some snow on our radio site. Check the temperature on the repeater I'm talking on right now. But angel, it's 31 degrees so I'm sure it's snowing up there. So we'll see what looks like when the sun comes up. Better run up there and make you snowman. Yeah, there you go. So what you up to today? Just been playing around down here in the gun room, the man cave and playing with brass and shorting this and horting that but just really doing nothing. I did loaf a few bullets just for the test. Go up and have a test range thing on some of these and see how they treat. Ah, there you go. I've been having technology problems today. I got a bunch of these Google home devices all over my house and one of them decided to go stupid on me last night and messed with it today. Figured out the WI fi radio on the damn thing went bad. So then my network went down and troubleshot that for a while. Found out one of my eight port switches went bad and was causing a some kind of conflict or something where my router wasn't issuing IP address. Whatever it was a cluster, it was a thing. So I ended up. I ended up ordering a new network switch from Amazon. Will be here tomorrow. And then I got the Google home thing. I bought a new one of those from Walmart so I don't know, they say things come in three so we'll see what burns up next. I know you're the guy that can fix. Won't be any trouble for you to get it back on. Yeah, I got the. I got the network running again. It's. It's something kind of an intermittent with the switch. I did a hard start back up but it's not going to last long. That's why I bought the new one. So anyways, yeah man, it's coming down with buckets out here. Driving through the side streets here and there's a bunch of. Bunch of the roads are flooded out so all good stuff we need, we need the water for sure. I think, I think it's supposed to let up a little bit tomorrow afternoon and start back up on Monday and Tuesday for us. When I was a kid growing up there in Vegas talked and over there the train tracks there was a where the road went down under the train tracks when it rained like that and get flooded enough kids would get her air mattress ride the flood down tuls and set off to the side and watch the cars dive in there till it filled up. Yeah I remember I don't know if it's still a problem where the Imperial palace used to be a casino that used to always flood out really bad and I know they got their you know we got a lot of the homeless here that live in those tunnels and underground areas and when it floods out you know I know the police try to get them cleared out of there and sometimes they don't leave and whatever so hey I gotta jump out I'll be back in a minute and 17.
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Hey, steve. Kn6mtkn60rt. Hey, what's going on? Good evening to you. Wondering if I was gonna hear anybody this weekend. 40 meters came up back, I think 20, maybe. Oh, 20 was hot right now, man. I was just going crazy on now and earlier 20. It was pretty hot. I couldn't even get on it on side then it was so full of people doing the sweet steaks. So I was at a different park. I had. I just, I moved over to 17 meters and got my contacts there. Well, that probably explains why there's not a lot on jsa, because they're. Is that a CW suite sweepstakes or both sideband and cw? No, the sweepstakes is all side band, I think. Yeah, the sweepstakes on cw, I think was last week. Oh, boy, that was close. Hey, last weekend was cw, this weekend side end, I guess. And I don't want to mess with the exchange and all that business, so anyway, but I was very busy on 20th pack. I kept trying to get a frequency and I kept getting, you know, clobbered with someone's loss of power, so it just was pointless. I moved to 17 meters earlier. Yep. And then, but just right now, I went, I moved to another park, a different one. And you know, this one here's the normal one. I go on and 20 meters CW. I slammed out 40 comment. 40 contacts CW in about one hour. Cool. Yeah. On 20 right now there, I just was able to pick up three stations from basically the east coast area and in a Mexican station, and there's there was one something like Olivia or something like that, way up in the upper part. Yeah, I got Mexico, same one. I seem to always get XE2XE2s. Anyway, seems like I think his name's Marco, so it comes up. Anyway, anyway, I seem to always get him when he tracks me down, but so I did get him, and I got one way out in Canada there, maybe Ontario or someplace. It's the other side. So the east side of there. I'll look at the map later, but nothing more significant than that this evening, but lots of east coast. Able to get 14 stations using that beacon at JSA call on 40 meters. 14 stations with one transmission for me. Actually two transmissions, though, for me, because the first one I put out about half a watt and I wipe. I, I. That makes it. So I get all the really super strong local stations out of the way, and then I crank it up and get the board. Distance, distance one. So altogether I got 14 by doing that. Yeah. So, yeah. How much Water did you put out on 20 meters? You put out like. I think my, my fan's even the lowest. I can go with five watts. I think. Oh, it'll go down to half a Watt with the 7300. I put it on 1% and it's whatever my meter says it is. Pretty. Yeah. Lately I've been seeing a couple of videos. This guy from Florida who likes the myths he talks about him Radio myths anyway, talking about NSAT half waves not being a very good antenna for efficiency. I think mainly it's kind of tricking your. It's using that transformer which is one thing, but it's using a little capacitor in there too. Kind of tricking your. Your radio to you know, accepting the, you know, the transforming, you know, accepting the impedance. But that your antenna is still not very good on a couple of those bands. It's still good on the main half wave band. Like say it's a 40 meter inch at half wave. Well, 40 it's still doing really good. And 20, it's not too bad. But the other bands is where it really not. Not the best. Well typically an antenna like that is good for 40, 20 and 10 because they're you know, multiples but like 15 and 17 and some of these others not so much. Yeah, well I guess on 10 I mean the reason why he explains in his video but it depends on the toroid that's in. It gets saturated easier I guess and heats up and it's really lossy as the higher you go in frequency. So whereas the multiple. You're right about that. But the other factors of the antenna make it less efficient then so found it interesting and he's claiming that I sent it to you. The video is over 30 minutes long presentation on off center fed N fed half wave. So anyway, I found that pretty interesting. I might. Maybe I'll experiment with that. Yeah, I haven't tried that one. It reminds me of a G5 RV or whatever they call those that has the. What they try to do is like come up with an area where the SWR is like below 5 to 1 on all the different bands. But not perfect on any band. Not resonant on any band. Right, right. That's the problem. I think this guy really likes. He really likes to have more resonant type antennas. Demiffing stuff. But he certainly believes in tuners and even you know, Unans and Ballons and all that. But anyway, you know, it's always fun to play with different antennas. I mean you talk about The Moxon and quads and all that stuff. So you know, there's a lot of rabbit holes so a guy can go down in ham radio and try different things. Just the off center finish and said half wave intrigues me because it's a little shorter too. I might be able to fit it on my property at home a lot better than some of these others I've been messing with. Well, that, that antenna that the guys were selling, the English guys were selling Antenna MLS or whatever they call themselves. That would be a performer but from the PODA perspective but more because of the fiberglass poles that were putting it way up in the air. See that's, that's what made that thing a winner. I'm not sure which one that is. You know, I'm talking about the Callum or something. Are you Calum McCormick or something? You know, DX commander. His antennas look all way more difficult like right now. I just did two podas in a couple hours and I literally. So I just used my vertical and I didn't even, you know, I barely pulled the radials off. I left the antenna intact. Just closed down the whip and pulled it out of the ground. So all I had to deal with to the second site was throw it in the ground real quick and put a. Put the radials back on. Was the one that I said they were calling a moxam. It doesn't sound like you watched it, but it really was what, what the ARRL would call a quad which is just a square. A square antenna up in the air. That's vertic. It's vertical, not necessarily vertically polarized, but it's vertical. I'll have to look to see if you sent me that one or not. But yeah, I'm interested to check that one out anyway. Yeah, well, I'm kind of just practicing. I mean speed and efficiency is important because I really want to get. I'm going to try to do five podas in a day so it shouldn't be that hard to do. But I want to get it down to where I can get it done. I may not have sent it to you. I'm looking at what I sent you and no, don't think I did. But it's a company over there that's really big with. In fact if, if I had sent you anything it would, would have been questions about this FTE FTDX1 or something like that. It's like the. A take on the. Is it 705? Yeah, equivalent to a 705 in the Yaesu. Area. It depends on which version of it you get. You know, I mean, most people would end up buying it with the Amplifier Fire because it saves you some money. But it depends. I mean, I'm sure there's some people that didn't. It's been out for quite a while now, I think. I mean maybe not quite a year, but they're not long enough for. I think they first unveiled it and people were able to buy it at the Hamvention Dayton I think, and that's where they were getting it. It was of course announced before that, but that was the first time people actually had it in their hands. And you know, as usual, at least with the asu, they put it out before it was really ready. So it was kind of buggy. They've done some firmware updates, at least one since then, and I think it's been resolved for the most part. But there is something they're still working on, I think, because it's supposed to. It's going to include C4FM in it too. You know, obviously it's VHF, UHF and HF, so it does them all anyway. But you know, in a general 705 kind of way it looks that part of it is field version. And then if you get it with the Optima amp, that's what you attach it onto that and then you'll have 100 watts. Yeah. And that's the whole expensive. And the, the quad antenna that I think they, that quad moxam antenna that they were selling, that was pricey too by the time you got those two fiberglass poles that were like at least 40, 50ft. And then you have figures what, what looked to me like really pro write the antenna wire and, and then there. They didn't mention it much, but that requires a, a type of coaxial fallen transformer. All it is is a stub. Although they might have been using actually a transformer, you know, a ferrite transformer. I don't know, Bella type felon, but I, I didn't notice that part of it. But it's all black, this black wire that. Yeah. Looks pretty. Yeah. Well, you always build your stuff anyway. And I was, I was not in any hurry to get that new YAESU because of like you said, price and everything. It's pretty hard to break free with that kind of shekels because, you know, for me I want to buy just about everything. I think that it could come with, you know, in case you're going to bring it out in the field and you want A tuner. They sell a little tuner that snaps on the back if you really want to run it at 10 watts while you're out in the field, you know, and you want to do digital, you know, then they suggest you use a cooling fan, which is another item that you put on the back and you know, stuff like that, you know, then you're going to want a case to put it in. You're going to want, oh, they have, they sell like accessories to go around it to protect the knobs and things like that and you know, like the lock cases and all that business. So by the time you do all that stuff, you're going to have, you know, 2,500 to three grand into it. Yeah, they had a special tuner that was supposed to attach to the. Directly to the back of the radio kind of near where the battery was. And yeah, oh yeah, I could see it was going to add up pretty, pretty big time, but. Looks like a neat radio, but geez. But that battery will. They claim it'll run eight hours, probably at five QRP levels, but. Eight hours? Yeah, probably on five watts. Yeah. But it's also quite, I don't know how much heavier, maybe 25% heavier than the ICOM705. So anyway, and they kind of fool you about, you know, like, you know, it would have been nice if you could like listen to two HF frequencies at once or something and you can't. You can however listen to VHF and UHF at the same time. So you can have like say a repeater on and you can be working FT8 on the other side. You can do that. But yeah, you can't like have two HF on at the same time. The company that was reviewing it with first, first letter, first word is in the three letter, three word name which they converted to letters is Martin, I don't know what you mean. Was Martin something something. And it's in England. And they were the ones that were reviewing all this equipment. No. Yeah. The only one I really pay much attention to that's over across the pond is that radio tech guy, the prepper guy. Radio prepper guy from France. Let me think the course. Callum McCormick, DX commander. And then there's water Stanton, older guy. Really like him. Yeah, he's a neat guy. Seems like anyway he's usually only operating 100 watts a lot but he did something really neat the other day on a random wire and he was using a little amplifier. Talking about a PL network and how that's helpful on a random wire. What was the last guy. Because I know, I know the, the prepper. He always talks about how he has the accent. And the other guy, which I watch occasionally, the prepper guy, I used to watch a lot. But what was the third one? Water Stanton. And I don't know, I think what's his call signs like G0TJV or something like that? I don't know. G0 something. Anyways, Water Stanton. I'm thinking the other half passed away. Sign a key. But they have a business in England and they actually sell things and everything. So I don't know how big his business is. But anyway, in terms of selling handmade equipment and doing trades and all that. But he has a YouTube channel and he does some neat things. He came up. I don't think I've ever watched that one. But yeah, that prepper guy, he's good. That's a smart dude there. Yeah, he's been messing with stuff like Messtastic and all that way back when I got into it because of him. But I just never could get anyone else out here to do it. I still can't. I mean, it's ridiculous. There's someone doing it a little bit now, so I'm feeling like I have a better chance. But yeah, it's a tough one. I don't know. People just aren't interested, I guess. And I'm not even talking about just ham radio people because you don't have to be a ham to do. Ms. Tastic. Can6mgk. Yeah, N6trt. And I recognize the guy. I have probably looked at something because I recognize that guy. The face shows in his. At his channel. So I. I don't know. A couple of the guys I really like that are, you know, from Europe, I believe is some of the repair guys. One of them has quite an accent. He might be German, I don't know. He has a great shop and he did some great work showing why the wire wound version of a one to one choke is the way to go. And he actually measured all the other types and showed, you know, he had a way of showing how many of them. How much of the signal that you don't want that goes onto the coax. I forgot what they call it. How much of that signal made it through the choke with various ones. And the wire wound on the big toroid. My toroid is huge for that thing is really big. I probably run 5 or 600 watts. Well, what type of coax are you using? Because that's always my difficulty. If a person's using RG213 or something. It's pretty hard to get very many winds of that through a total rate. Well, that's why one of the reasons why he doesn't use that one plus that one is extremely inefficient. Okay, so then what's a wire wound? You're talking about where, where they actually just take like say 14 gauge wire and like enamel wire and run that around and around around or something like that inside of, inside of a box or something like that. And you have two so 239s on either side. Is that what you're talking about? Like the best current balance? Yeah, all of the better balance are built that way. And a one to one, which is not actually a balance, it's a joke. The best one is built that way. Yeah, yeah, I get it. Yeah, yeah. It would just be an I have choke. Yep. So but anyway, that's what I have in right now in my incent halfway. But it's a fun small one. It's from. I think it's from LG or whatever, you know, about 30 bucks I paid for it. I didn't build it. Anyway they, they sell them at ham radio outlet. It seems to be working good on the infed halfways. Well, you'd really like what I have for probably $10 and some wire and a couple of so 239s and some kind of plastic box. And you've got one that'll handle a heck of a lot of power. I mean this is a big toroid. Well, you came and buy it like a FT240 whatever size and that's only a couple inch toroid for much less than 10 or $15 now from Ferrite. And then, then you. And that's like mix 43. And then you know, you start buying your enamel wire, you start buying your SO239 and the box and all that business. And you're not spending $10 on all that. You're spending a heck of a lot more than that and spending lots of time on it too. Probably a couple hours, You end up with a 1500 watt 1 to 1 valon rather than a barely 100 watt 1 to 1 valve. By doing that. And that's probably true, but not really running any power, at least not on the infinite half wave anyway. Like 40 watts. If all I'm going to do is digital on it. One place I hadn't really checked very closely is Ally Express. And they do have a bunch and they don't look really large though. And they're not using the. Their, their measurements are all in millimeters but here's one that really looks pretty large. It's a hundred millimeters diameter for $7 and 30 cents then they say. But shipping is 1187. What? Yeah. And you know, 100 millimeters. Yeah, that's not really all that big. A half inch is 13 though, so I don't know. Yeah, so 20 for an inch. So it might be five inches. Yeah, it might be about five inch in diameter. Yeah. And I don't know what it's made for. Could be it's like a mix. Better for power transformer work, you know like switch switching power supplies or something. I don't know. That's the problem with the Chinese. They. They don't give you all the numbers and everything that we need. Yep. Anyway, I pulled up to the house and been sitting here in the driveway for a few minutes. Need to get inside, maybe grab a bite. I want to upload these podas to get them done. Probably won't be doing any for a week now. Pretty well exhausted myself and I think we got some weather coming in, maybe tomorrow. So anyway I think we'll be. I'll be done for Monday anyway and so forth. So maybe sometime next week it'll clear up and I can do one at the end of the week or something. I don't know. Kind of where I'm standing otherwise I hunting from home. Here's a FT240, 43 for 1157. I don't see. What is it with these steroid companies. Shipping is $23. Wow, that's nuts. They must expect you sometimes. So that company will say if you spend 20 bucks we remove the shipping costs. So maybe, maybe that's how people can afford to buy these things. But yeah, pretty crazy. That's why Amazon might be the place. Yeah, we'll look up how much one cost there. Jeremy and I went in on an order, he ordered it. I think I got my thoughts the most. Look, 10 of them. They're like FT240.43 I think they are Anyway, so I have a bunch of toroids here that particular size that would work but I'd probably double them up, put one on top of the other or something like that and then run the wire around those. But like I said, I have to buy 14 gauge enamel wire or some people like that. I have a bunch of insulated wire here but I'd have to go through it all and find the good stuff, you know. So if you're going to do that kind of a thing though, you probably, you know, ought to use at least 14 gauge, maybe even 12. Yeah. If you want the power you're going to have to. Yep. The bigger the gauge, the more it dissipates heat. Yeah, I got this thing to go to Amazon. I'm looking at using my phone and. Seems to me like they were pricey on Amazon so I was scouring ebay back when I was buying them. I got a whole ton of them. Yeah, well, most importantly, if you have them all labeled, what they are and stuff, you know, you can always sell them. Yeah, you can sell them at the ham fest and stuff like that. People buy them as long as they're labeled. Otherwise they're not going to know what they are and they're not going to know how to test them. Oh, you got a label. Especially the ones that are gray colored, you know, like the FT2 4043 is. They're always great. So if you, if you buy a 30, I think it was a 33 mix, same color. So yeah, no point in buying those without rock labeling them. All right, well before I go, I'm gonna go inside. Any, any word from John? He's not on the. Not on the air. Right. He was a little there and yeah, he was, he was on. Sounded good. He was kind of shocked that he sounded good actually. All right, I'll let you go. In fact I, I told him. Well, hang on, let me make sure Steve's not listening. And several chances to jump in in and you weren't there, so you missed him. Okay, well it's good to know we hadn't heard him. Haven't heard him since Halloween there or the day before Halloween or whatever, so a couple weeks now, so. Okay, well that's good. I was hoping to hear from them about the snow and things like that up there. I'm sure they got some. See if there's any sticking around the ground. Otherwise I'll have to make a run over there. That way? Yep. Check out what's going on in the Lassen Forest after the spect storm set comes through. Okie dokie. I was hoping to hear him on HF or something too. Yep. It'd be nice if he could try to get me like today I was on sideband so might have had a chance. I did get a California station, I'm pretty sure so. All right, catch up with you mater. 73 kilo, number 6 Mike Golf kilo is clear until the morning. Most likely on 80kn6MGK. Well, he was mentioning that he was spending time on 10 and got some, even some foreign stations and was really happy with that. And by the way, FT240 43 from Amazon is 12.85 with no shipping with prime, of course, and makes 43, you know, 240, 43. So there you go. Talk to you later. N6TRG Yep, 73 KN6MGK is clear.
The Gears. Monthly general membership meetings are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue in Chico. Doors open at 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm all are welcome to attend. W Fix RHC Repeater Check 1.
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From november romeo 7 golf sound good in las vegas, sir. Hey, thanks, appreciate it. This is from Walman Creek. What's your location again? Kth is northwest las vegas, nevada. Northwest las vegas, nevada. My name is john and of course call is november romeo 7. Very good, George and 73. Have a good evening. It's raining here, so take care. NR7G.
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Qst, qst, qst. This is KG6KO, open Sacramento Valley traffic net. This net is part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this net is to relieve over traffic into and out of the Sacramento Valley and to provide a standard mercy net. This is a direction that. Please make no transmissions without permission and control. All stations are requested to stay on frequency. Traffic pistol now w6 rhc repeater check. One. Station with traffic to be listed. Very known what non roll call follows. Kf6obi. Kf6obi. Mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg 16 year old scholar. No traffic. Kg 16. Good evening, lester. In the group. This is kg6tso. Bessie with no traffic. Thank you, bessie. Kf6dj boarding. K6rcs. 6pmt. Jc6ufe.jc6ufe. Bill in capano traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww. This is kn6pww. Jamie and chico. No traffic. And good evening, lester. And good evening, jimmy. Thank you. All right, that's rollers. I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check in? Good evening, lester. Kf6djy. Bruce, chico. No traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you. Anyone else? No further traffic will kick in. This is K6KU. Closing segment of belly. Traffic daily 2100 hours local time through the W6 rec. 146.85 old metaverse. All stations are excused. I'd like to thank everybody who checked Kids tonight and the Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society for the use of repeater. This is closed at 2103 local time. $73 kg 6k. Yo. Clearing frequency.
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Kn6sln. Hey, John, you want to listen to something this morning? I don't think you can translate on it, but you want to listen on it. N6TRT. Just see what you can hear. What's that? Go ahead. 3.855. 3.855. Okay, that's 80 meter. Yep. And you could also check out SDR on it too. But that's the net. That's every Sunday. They have. One of the guys is pretty technically savvy. They have a net every morning. 38, 55 nd6t is on there. He's the most technically savvy. One of the. You know, he's known worldwide for his technical stuff. Although sometimes it's kind of odd, I think. Yeah, I don't think I can get it, Mike. 3855, correct. Yeah. You know, they may not be talking quite yet, but I haven't switched over there yet. But they should be there just having a chit chat. Okay, well, we'll just leave it on there for a few minutes. I heard him. See, I tell you the truth, but I think I couldn't even talk to him with that Huffler antenna. You know, that's an 80 meter antenna. Mobile. I had it hooked up with my pickup that time. Yeah, definitely. Conditions can change a lot, but they have stations that are running 5 watts and sound really loud. When conditions are really good. I'm. I'm thinking, you know, conditions are up pretty much everywhere right now. They're really good because I just got a station stationed in Australia that I've talked to for before. His name is Max. So, yeah, they're. The conditions are really good. That was on 40 meters, by the way, where I got that station. Yeah, yeah. Well, when I threw it out there, all those three guys that on 10 meters, on 405, I think there's someplace back in Idaho or someplace like that they were rang, chewing, talking, and it seems like they meet every morning on 10 meters. But yeah, that one morning I heard that 3, 5, 5 on 80 meters is when I had that hustler put up on my pickup. And then I just ran coax out there back into the house. And I believe if I wanted to interrupt, I could have. I'm pretty sure it could have. They were out there on the west coast and I guess they were all around Northern California, probably Nevada. Yeah, 3.855. And it started out as emergency network frequency for that area because we had all the floods and everything. Now I just got through sending a message to a Guy that's pretty close to us. No, that's not who responded. So I don't know, maybe that guy threw something out on frequency and then left. I don't know. But that was on digital. I did not have it. Oh yeah, I did get it. Did you hear that? Yeah, I heard yours. Yeah, I heard yours. Mine's nothing. I got probably amount of noise, a little amount of two here. I can hear something way back in the background, but I can't, I can't make them out. Okay, I'm trying to set my. I'm not over there right now, so I'm trying to set my SWR right now. And I think I'm going to be okay. Yeah, and they're not real strong to be either right now. So maybe when I got it, when I get on, you'll be able to hear me. Oh, I know. I gotta turn this one thing off. I've got on 80, me on 80 meters. If you've got a digital noisemaker in your house, that's where it's gonna show up the worst. And I've got one that only affects me on 80 meters. And I just shut it off and now everybody's charmed. And what it is is this Chinese audio amplifier that has Bluetooth in it. So it's funny. But 80 meters is that kind of a band. If you've got any noise anywhere, it's going to show up 80 meters and lower. Yeah, I got all, probably like I said, about 2. Oh, yeah, it's bouncing, you know, from 2.5 to 3. Okay. Yeah, it's just bouncing up and down. I, I got a feeling that's the way the wind is moving that antenna up, down, but. And like you said, it's probably noise inside the house here somewhere. Yep, you're gonna, you're gonna hear it on 80. And in order to find it, it takes a pretty special little shortwave radio with good reception on 80 and you walk around and that's one way to find it. Another way is to turn everything off, turn the power well, turn, unplug everything and then plug things in one at a time. And if 80 meters is the place to look for noise, the noise will kind of like get around the other bands. But 80 meters is where it's going to be easily heard. There's a. That's, That's ki6. There's the net control. There's nc6d right there. Yeah, I can't, I can't pick him up. Positive. Drag another antenna out, cook it up by the Time I get done with that, they'll be done. So. But that's every Sunday morning, is that correct? Yeah, and. And the thing about it, see, is that all these guys are considered to be local. Everything from Grants Pass, Oregon to Reno, Nevada to some parts of the Bay Area, Sacramento and stuff. Well, you can't hear them on any other band, you know, barely Hear them on 40, 20, forget it. Yeah, yeah, I understand that. Well, I consider. Now, I'm not an old timer. That's almost. I'm not an old Simon for sure. Not saying that, so don't get me wrong, but I'm saying Texas is a norm. Every time I turn that 10 meters on in Texas, they come blasting here about nines and eights and that kind of thing like that. I have a conversation with them all the time. Yeah, there's a lot of good stations in Texas and on 20 stations they run beams. On 20, if you go to 14.3, you'll hear nationwide what's going on because that's the Marine net and it's on every day. And they'll have a net control someplace in the country. It starts out in the morning, kind of east coast and then has State. Noah starts off. Yeah, yeah, it starts off in the east coast in the morning and then it works its way towards the Midwest and then, you know, with the net controls. And then eventually you might even have a net control in California. But he'll be the hardest one to hear. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard about that frequency there. But, you know, like I said, it's. It's one of those things I, I need to get this 20 meters up, but I'm not going to get out in the rain in the snow. Put it underneath that tent and put it on top of the tent. I got room for it on top. And then, you know, get the 80 meter hooked up, then I'll be set to go, you know, actually I need to get a 4,40 meters. I'm debating if I want to buy a vertical. Of course, that'd be back when we get back. And not have all these wires hanging out. Just have a vertical for 10, 20 or 40, you know. Well, as far as antennas go, the best one of the better antennas is going to be an antenna that'll let you work on all the frequencies, all the bands, hopefully with just the antenna, antenna tuner that's in your radio. That radio does have an antenna tuner in it, right? No, no, the 891 doesn't have any internal inner tuner, as they call It. But I got the matching tuner, the FC50, that hooks right up to it. So I use all the buttons on the radio and it controls the tuner and whatnot. Oh, wow. Okay. That's usually kind of pricey. Did you buy that radio new? You did, didn't you? Yeah, yeah, we got it brand new. And. And like I said, it, you know, it came. Well, the tuning came with the brackets and everything. It all looks one now. But. But yeah, you still have to push the buttons, you know, like, in other words, I just decided button A was talking. Let's talk. That there's three buttons in there. I assign button A for the tuner, so every time I go to a frequency, I push that button and it tunes it. There we go. Well, there's a lot of different antennas that would give you 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, and all the other bands with a. Especially with a good tuner like that one, I don't know for sure what I would go with, but one of the ones that people go with, and it's not, it's not an inverted V type. I don't know what would happen if you made it into an inverted V. But we were just looking at it from the flat version. Now, if Steve was listening, he could tell me what it is until I can describe it. You know what a dipole is, right? Just a regular single wire dipole. One side connects to the center conductor of the coax and the other side to the shield is the most basic version. Kind of like your inverted V, but it's flat. Yeah, yeah. Well, see, you can take these, the guy that built these down in Southern California, which there's not much to them. I mean, I'm not saying they're high technology. I mean, you could probably build one heartbeat. But you put it in L shape, you put in the inverted bead. You can put it what I call a T shape, where the coaxials just put it flat and you can actually put it on a slope. I did have it on a slope there for a while. Yeah. You know, there's a million ways to put up these antennas. And what they're trying to do is make it so it serves a certain purpose. Sometimes you're trying for certain directions and stuff. But anyway, this antenna I'm talking about is very close to a dipole, simple dipole, except that you. You hook up the wires one third, one third of the distance from one end, you cut. In other words, if you say you had a dipole, that's the full length wire, and you haven't cut it yet. Okay. You, instead of cutting it in the center, you cut it 1/3 from 1 end and 2/3 go on the other end and you hook it up. And it's a very popular antenna for multi band work. Yeah, I've seen them, I've seen where they, they call them offset I think or something like that. Dipole. Yeah, I've seen them, Mike. And you know what I'm trying to do and like, like I said, I'm on. I'm gonna. When I get back, it gets to be summertime. If I'm still up here in the woods. Going to get me a wire and start experimenting with running them all the way around the whole lot and see what happens. You know what I mean by that? I know that sounds kind of crazy. Why would you do something like that? I'm talking like 80 meters, trying to run it all the way around all these trees because that's going to be a long wire and also get a 49 to 1 and hook into it and maybe I'll get more different frequencies out of it. Out of one wire. Well, that, that offset, there's a guy that uses it for, used it for his POTUS at one time and it works on most all the frequencies and it's kind of directive, you can. He's trying, what he's trying to do is get signals in one particular area. I forget which one it is but. Bravo Victor Romeo is the last three of his call and he. I think it's maybe kilo India 6 Bravo Victor India. I'd have to look. And he does a lot of poses. I mean he does a ton of posers. Yeah, yeah, I'm still. Oh, what would you say on the poda and the that kind of thing like that QR's in. I got that up and running. I'm gonna get that other software up and run running here. Oh, while I'm in the desert probably. But you know, I'm taking it, you know where I enjoy learning and not trying to cram it all at once because you do that and I just think, you know. But yeah, 10 meters is actually pretty good for me right now. And then I'm gonna get that 20 meters up when I get the desert and then we'll see where it goes from there, you know, because like I said, Texas, all eastern states. Well, you know, you know about it already. All those come. Come in pretty good at times. Then sometimes it's flat, it's dead. Well, once you get going on, get something going that'll get you on all these bands maybe with one antenna. Doesn't have to be with one antenna, but. It could be. Once you get that going then. It's just gonna change your world. You'll have a lot of little, little details, not real important details to learn and just amazing what you'll, who you'll be able to talk to and when and where. And this 80 meter thing is really important because if there's a state emergency on 80 meters is where eventually everybody will migrate to because that's the only way they can hear each other. Yeah. Isn't that funny? I mean. Well, it's not pretty. Is scientific propagation, if you will. I mean, you know, I'm not trying to get, you know, above my pay grade but what I'm saying is I just think it's funny that you can talk to South America and you can talk anywhere you want to basically whatever the propagation. Right stuff, but you can't talk across the street. Yeah. One reason why I really like the 80 meter net in the morning on Sunday is because these guys get on early, at least 7 o', clock, the nets at 8 o' clock, but they get on early and they talk about, you know, semi technical stuff, you know like they like to build radios and, and just all kinds of little, you never know what it's going to be. Some sort of. Raspberry PIs are a big topic and Steve really likes it because he's into Linux and the Raspberry PI is Linux. So it just goes right down his alley there. Greg. Steve. Yeah, yeah. All that Raspberry PI or you know, the little digital deal I sometimes on used to be called the Dew Drop in that's what the, the they labeled themselves when I first started listening to them. But now it's called the Fireside, I believe it is. And they have nets almost 24 7. It seemed like they may have couple hours in between them and that kind of stuff like that, but you can always get a net and they have what they call a tech net and that's all they talk about is technical stuff. You know, how, how to build this, how to do this, how to do that. By the way, I, I gave you the wrong call for that guy. It's Bravo Victor Romeo and he's got a, a channel on YouTube called Kilo Bravo 9 Victor Victor Bravo Romeo Kilo Bravo 9 Victor Bravo Romeo. VBR Antennas is the name of his channel. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, hold on. I think maybe I've been on his site on YouTube. I'm not sure I can't say that I have or not, but yeah, you know, like I said, it's, it's, we're, we're just kind of enjoying it, kind of kicking back and, and I, I don't turn everything on. I mean this, there's more things this radio can do than what is what I'm doing with it. But the thing is, is I'm turning on what I want to do with it right now and then later on I'll turn more on, more on, more. Next thing you know, I'll have outgrow this radio. Well, Kiel, Bravo 9 Victor Bravo Romeo. Antennas is an important channel for Steve because he's really getting into antennas now and especially antennas for potas. And that's where that guy, you know, they're small portable antennas. So. And he talks about all the details on just about every, and every small portable antenna you can build. Pretty much talks about them all. Yeah, yeah, I hear you there. Yeah, I understand. Yeah, Josh was telling me that he's got an antenna. I'm not sure what kind it is or anything, but they guaranteed that he can be up and talking in less than 10 minutes. And he says if you really want to get that energetic, you could have it up and running. And I think he's like three or four bands on one antenna. Exactly. That's why I'm, I'm talking about this guy is because they're easy antennas to build out of just wires and stuff, and yet they give you all the bands. The only thing about the 80 meter one is it has to be a little longer than most of the other antennas. But, and, and the cool thing is when you can have a long antenna that'll still give you all the bands and that's what they do. And he's got all the different versions, some of them harder and some of them easier. Most of them are easier. Most of them are super easy. Yeah, yeah. And you know, he was just saying that, you know, he got that, Excuse me, you got that antenna. And he goes out parks on the air when he does it and he says he throws his radios out, up it goes and he's all there. Now. Does he ever. Well, he's, he's putting up multi band antennas. Is that right? Well, he's putting up one antenna that has multi band, is able to transmit on multi band. Well, what's his favorite right now, you know. Well, he can only talk on 10 meters right now because he's tech, so he stays on 10 meters, but he's looking, you know, like I said, you know, earlier that he's studying to be a general and extra, so that's why he bought the antenna. Well, I tell you, you should tell him we'll find one of these sites that'll help him with this. But a person like him that's doing ham radio right now and has all a lot of these ideas are in his head quite often can pass the general if they take this one little course or they just look at one little website. It talks about how to take tests. I used to do it all the time. I got really good at taking tests. And then I go and take tests on subjects I'd never done before. And there's always enough questions to get you up to the 70% area. And that's the way the ham radio stuff is pretty much. There's enough questions, you can pass the test with a little luck mixed in with just how to take tests info, you could pass it. Especially already doing ham radio anyway. Yeah, yeah, I, I understand what you're saying there. Yeah, he, he takes tests. He's a journeyman electrician. It works on the, on hospitals and all that kind of stuff as an electrician. So, I mean he, he's been through some tests. He's qualified to do all kinds of weird stuff. I can't tell you what it is. But yeah, you know, he, he just wants to, you know, he's, he's real busy working and taking care of kids and that kind of stuff like that growing church and whatnot. So, you know, he does this on his off time and that's what he does. Yeah, and there's a lot of people that are finding out that you can take the test at home. It used to be they were real particular about, you know, they'd have, have you have a camera on different things to make sure you're not looking at the answers. Because you can look at the answers. Right. You see, that's one of the things is you can, you can see all the answers. There's this one website that I use to get my 94% on my extra. I have to think about it for Hand Study. I think Hand Study is part of the website name. It's, it's so popular and so good that even ICOM started advertising for it. You know, that's the one they recommend. So. Yeah, and yaesu, all the big places want you to go to this one so you can get your license, you can look at all the exact questions and, and the exact four, usually four, four answers that you can choose from. And you can play this game where you use your taking tests stuff and just do it and see what you get and keep looking at your percentages of what you get till you I with the extra I got, I was getting up into the 80, 80% area. So I went and took it and actually got 94 on the actual test. So yeah, it works. Yeah, yeah, I know it does. Yeah. Well when I took mine like I said that technician that was almost you know, like, I mean I'm not, I'm not talking by no means but I already had enough experience. Experience with 11 meters. I took a, oh I guess it was a six hour presentation or class, whatever you want to and never studied. Just, just sat there and just took test passed it. And then a month later actually my general really studied and read the book and Internet everything and went and got got my general a month later. And then like I said, you know, on the extra that that takes used to be it you couldn't take it online. Now you take it online. So I'm really going to have to stay for that extra because I want to know about it. Well, as far as this 80 meter site, 80 meter 3855 Sunday morning thing, the talk used to start at 7:30 and it got so the guys started enjoying it so much that they started talking at seven and it's just talking about all kinds of technical topics Now I have to say one of the ones that they kind of, I'm sorry that they go towards is two things. Qrp, you know, low power rigs that they're building. That's one of them because they like to build things. Several of these things, especially Indy 6T likes to build them. And the other one is. Raspberry PI computers and not vhf and uhf at all. Nd60 is really well versed in cw. So that's why, That's one of the reasons why Steve Mike Golf Kilo got into talking with Andrew16 with Andy16 feels that CW is the most important. And now Mike Galpilo also does. He's probably on it right now. Yeah, yeah. Why had this SDR and I was wondering how come I couldn't get them. That's 3855 or it's 38-3.855. Is that correct? Yeah, they always say 3855 because they're talking t kilo cycle thousand cycles, you know 38, 38, 155,000 cycles. But 3.855 megacycles and either one will work in an SDR so it'll get you there. But a lot of them, you have to tell them you want to go to 80 meters and some, some SDRs don't do 80 meters so well. And then the distance is really good to the KFS sdr. Distances are really good to that one. As far as getting everybody clearly. Yeah, well, I messed around here. I was trying to listen to it or trying to, to get it on. I had an upper side band. It got me on lower side band. Yeah. So, yeah, I can't. Well, I, I mess with it. But yeah, it. I can't hear anybody on it. Okay. Yeah, I just. ID done. Everybody went quiet for a minute, but. I wonder if we should try 31, 46, 58. Okay, hold on just a minute. Let me get this thing refreshed. Yeah, there's quite a bit on there as far as the waterfall thing. Are they talking right now? They just stopped for a little bit. Now there's, there's one guy identified and identifying there. They like took. All took a break. Oh, okay. Well, this SDR that I'm using here, it's. Sometimes it, it freezes up. I think too many people get on it or something. I don't know. I'm not sure what it is. But anyway, yeah. Now we couldn't talk on 10 meters, could we? We're close enough. We can talk 10 meters. Well, I can't because I'm on 80 and I've only got one HF radio. Oh, I see what you're saying. Okay, yeah, yeah, that, yeah, I have to get that all that fire stick or Hustler and put some radios on the ground and stick it up, see what happens. Yeah, but you're, you're familiar with this 8900 or 891, ain't you?
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Kn6sln, n6grz. Yeah.kn6sl, go ahead. Yeah, I thought you were five eight. I thought you were following me over to five eight, but I switched in order. I don't know what's going on with this radio. I thought you were following me to 5 8, but in order to do it, I had to switch radios and took me a while. I was playing with the radio, trying to get it to work over there. Oh, okay. Do you have five two there? Well, this radio's got everything. If I could just figure out how to make it go to all these different things. Yeah, I understand that. No, I heard you check in there. I had to swap out SDRs, and I'm down there in San Jose now. Did you hear that 55 thing? Yeah, yeah, that's where I heard you check in. And he was doing local there. I had. What I was ending up doing here was the SDR over here at Shingletown is locked up. I think there was too many people that are trying to get on there. And I was in line, if you will. So I just watched it, went to San Jose and that's how I heard your protocol. What do they call the one in the San Jose? Oh, boy. Let's see here. Hang on. Just let me. Let me check right quick. Okay. It's, you know, it doesn't really save right here. I'll have to back out of it to go. Yeah. Don't say Mike. Well, that's kind of a strange one. It doesn't say. Maybe you're just not looking at the right place. They always say what. What's on the screen? Just read me some of the stuff on the screen. Yeah, I'm sure it's probably not looking at the right place because I'm looking at the waterfall right now, but I'm going to give you the idea. Okay. It's kiwisdr with switchable antennas. And the last I heard, if it's coming out of San Jose or. The last I heard, I figured it out. And that's about the whole of the screen. You have to put your call sign in for the other one. You know this one here? You do? Okay. You stumbled into the Kiwis and the Kiwis have some of the best receivers out there. And it's worldwide, as you can see. If you went. But down, down the list and stuff, If you up, up in the top line, you know where the address is. If you just clicked on it, made it make it all turn blue, and then type Kiwi K. I w I space, sdr, space, kfs. That's Kilo Frank, SAM base, South, East. You'll get a really good one off of there because there's so many. That's the easiest way to get to that Kiwi sdr, KFS Southeast. Just to put it in the address line. And it just. Google brings it up. Yeah, hold on. Just saying. Let me get a pencil here. I got this one working. Tell you what to do. Okay, give me that address again there. Okay. It's not really an address. It's just a line to put into the address where the addresses go on your stream. And you just type kiwi, K, I, W, I space, Kilo, Fox, Sierra, kfs, space, southeast, space, SDR space. In that line. It's like as if it's an address. And when you put something in like that in the address, Google will search for it and then it'll. It'll say, well, you want the Kiwi KFSS Southeast sdr. And you click on it, and there you are. You're there. Okay, I'm sorry about this, but it's Kiwi. Now, you gotta talk slow because I'm not that fast of a rider. So try it again. This slow. Kiwi, just like Kiwi still. Space, Kilo, Fox, Sierra, KFF Is the next three letters. Space, Southeast. Or just search. SE will work. Space, sam, delta, Romeo, STR space and click return and it should come up. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, we'll look it in there and see what happens there. But yeah, this. This one here, it's reach. I guess those guys reach all the way to San Jose, though, right? Now I see it's giving me what they call the. Omnidirectional. And I've kind of suspected that that was what was going on for a while, even though I was telling it I wanted to Southeast. At Kiwis. The KFX system, Kilo Boxier system down in Half Moon Bay, used to have used all the antennas that were there because they're old antennas that are built out of steel and have huge towers. It's a whole huge array of antennas that they were tapping into and back when they had it set up as the Southeast one. See, you could make it a whole lot easier if the southeast one's not going to come up. You could make it a whole lot easier by just typing KFS base str. And the main KFS SDR will come up just by doing that on Google. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear you. Yeah, we, we. I want to say that. No, that wasn't half of that was Monterey. I got into Monterey. But that was. That's. That's way down there. So then I think this was fantastic. So I just put a shortcut on it. So I just click on it. Well, the kfs sdr primary main sdr is probably. The main one that's coming up right now. And I don't. Yeah, if you get. If it. If it doesn't say Kiwi, then that's the main sdr and it's a single antenna for all bands. And you can click on whatever. The first page. You can click on whatever band you want. You don't have to put your call letters, but you can if you want to. And you can work on almost every band from that one sdr. Yeah, well, this one here, every time I go into it, you got to put your call sign in and. But that's a big deal. And then. Then I can select from 10 all the way to. I can't say six because I can't remember if I had six in there or not. But I do know it was from 10 all the way to 160, I believe. Let me look at the Kiwi one might be. But the regular one is only 80 through 10 meters. Yeah, let me check. You're probably right. Well, see, you can't check without being at. Now, like, I have the Kiwi on here also the one where you have to put your call letters on and I can tell you what it does. Yeah. See this here, it shows where. What. What is LS MF and then goes 1, 2, 160 meters on amateur all the way to 110. Yeah, that's the Kiwi. I see the same thing. It has 160 on the top line. When I get to the Kiwi Southeast Kiwi sd, KFS Southeast Kiwi sdr. The first thing it does with. If I don't put a band in right off, if it takes me to a thing called WWV, which is a time. And that's at 101000 0.00, which is 10 megahertz. Yeah, well, I never get up on 150 anyway, so, I mean, it doesn't matter, but. But yeah, that. I don't know. Maybe they don't have enough bandwidth over here shingles down at all. I don't know what's wrong with it because sometimes it comes in really good, works really fine, and then it freezes and then when I kick it out, come back in to refresh, shows that there's three people in the queue. Holding. So that means it only allows so many people on at once. Yeah, and you know, it's just a privately run str. And a lot of what you're looking at has to do with the fact that you're looking at Internet. Who knows where he's getting it from? If he's got Starlink, it'll. It'll have maximum Internet. But if it's not, it won't be. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't know. I. All I did was I stumbled onto it and I put in STR for my area here. That's what I came up with, actually. It gave me a map. And all the SDRs that are on this map all over the United States look pretty good. And yeah, like I said, I, I don't. It just described antenna loop he had. Oh, you know, whatnot, stuff like that. I mean, you know, it's not worry about it. This one here is working. Well. One thing that these STRs will help you with is like when you're trying to talk to your son in Oklahoma, the way 10 meters works. In other words, when you get up in the higher frequencies, it doesn't matter what your noise level is like or anything like that. What I'm talking about right now is what they call propagation. And propagation can make it so that 10 meters will reach one state but not reach the state right next to it. That's propagation. And these SDRs help you get around that problem. Yeah, yeah, I understand that. That's. I guess it was yesterday or day before yesterday. Well, day four. Yesterday was pretty much dead. Yesterday was really good. And there was a guy down on the other side of Sacramento. I couldn't hear him, but I hear the guy out there in Wisconsin or whatever. Matter of fact, I talked to him and like you said, that sdr, you can hear over that, if you had it. I've got the regular SDR in one ear right now, listening on 10 meters and I've got kilo three. Kilo three kilowatt whiskey or tangle Whiskey. Yeah, Tangle Whiskey blasting into that SDR while we're talking right now. Now, I not might not be able to hear him on my HF radio, but these SDRs have these huge antennas and they can hear things that you can't hear anywhere else. Yeah, yeah, I hear that. No, I understand what you're saying there. Well, with my little antenna, you know, I mean, shoot, I think it's all about 20ft or something like that. I don't know. I didn't measure it, but something like that. But you know what's really interesting about it is that, you know, like, like those guys in Wisconsin and especially Texas, those dudes, they, they got some big antennas. They got bombs antennas, beams and oh, I forget what all they were talking about running kilowatts and stuff like that. And you know, I'm just running 50 watts. I'm doing half what the radio can do. So I mean it doesn't make any difference. I Probably turn down 25 watts and get the same result. Well, when you're talking about the, the different antennas, the only way to beat an SDR system antenna is with a big, what they call a beam on a tower. They will, they will beat it. That's where if you go to 14.3 megacycles, you're going to hear a bunch of different stations all over the country that have those beams most of the time. And they're the net controls. So that will, but they, they will put out calls like from Massachusetts. They'll, they'll say, well, I'm pointing one west or I'm pointing towards California. Any stations out there wanting to check into 14.3 net. And basically that's all it is. It's just people checking in. They have a few conversations, but generally it's people checking in. Technically it is a marine net, though. It's a marine net. And so they're supposed to be listening for boats and calling for boats. They don't do that as much as some of the marine nets that I pay close attention to. Yeah, let me identify kn6sls. Anybody need freak. Stay here. Okay, I didn't hear anybody, Mike. So I guess we're good to go. KN6 slime. Yeah, it was funny, that guy in Texas, I talked to him two or three times. I mean he's got it. He's a retired police officer down there. And then there is a guy that I talked to, he has a good station, is a professional, what do you call, Steel guitar player. He played for some big names and actually he's been up around for callous. We had a short chat there a couple days ago and I was coming in on the backside of his beam and I was doing, he was doing about a five by three, something like that up here. He turned the house around my way and he was blasting me out, you know, 5 by 9, 5 by 10, however you say it, you know, he was just filling her up. Yeah. And the beam I have, if I had a tower for it, it would do that on everything from 10 meters to well, 22, 10, 20 meters, I think 20, 15. That's how it's set up. It's four elements. It's huge. Takes a lot of. A lot of towering. I'm going to try to put it up on a pole, but I won't be able to make it directionally move around without just using a rope to pull it around. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, like, you know, believe me when you talk about stations out there in Texas, of course, now I'm in the RV business or I'm not in the RV business. I've been around a lot of them. When people from Texas come to Quartzite, you're talking. Jesus Christ. I thought maybe. I thought I had a good rig. You look at them. It looks like I'm in the poor house. I mean, they have a. They haul their toys and their cars in the biggest trailer that I got. And they have basically semi trucks with their. Yeah, I mean. Well, I guess what I'm saying is their camper is the island a body of load on a semi truck, if you get what I'm saying. And so I can imagine what their stations look like down there. Well, sometimes this repeater, when conditions are like they are right now, weather wise, it might not be getting as much solar as normal. I think it's gonna get solar tomorrow, but we could switch over to five, eight. Okay. Yeah. If you want to run over. I'll wait. I'll run over there now. I didn't hear you say that. You move over there. So. So, yeah, I'll wait. I'll put your call there on five, eight there. Okay. I'm gonna put a different portable on and I'll be there. Should work N6PRG. Kn6 is how I cut. N6grt. Qsy.
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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.
Here's holds a free Morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come learn Morse code W6R, H, C repeater check 2.
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Kilo Mike 7 Charlie India Bravo, KM7 CIBS northbound I5 at Woodland Mobile on the Mountbacker. Peter, into the lane. System monitoring. Be on the road for the next about four hours. Other station, I believe I copied the W7 as part of your call sign in here, Taylor. A little scratchy into where I'm at now, but you are readable. Good afternoon, sir. How are you doing? Or good morning. Actually, That still is morning. It's a Whiskey 7 Oscar, Whiskey Charlie, WS7, ow update. And I'm up at Taylorsville. Copy that. Awesome. Yeah, beautiful country up there. I'm heading back home to Southern Oregon after a weekend in Sacramento hanging out with some family and went and saw a show down at the Golden One arena last night. So, yeah, the weather here is overcast and I got storms on either side of me. How's it looking over there? It looks a little gloomy on the radar. Oh, it's a little wicked up here, but that's okay. Look at the camera. The snow is way up above 7,000ft. All good there. Again, it's just out here taking my dog for a run. Copy that. Are you on a portable rig then? I'm assuming. Yeah, Peter's about six miles from me, far away. Very good, very good. Yeah, you cleared up there a little bit, so, yeah. Sounds like you got a good. A good spot there. Well, it works most of the time. Okay, well, have fun driving. Copy that. Thank you, sir. For the contact, this is Kilo Mike 7 Charlie India Bravo, northbound I5 at the 505 interchange. Monitoring on the mobile station on the link system. Be on the road for about another three to four hours. Over and out for right now. KM7 CIB.
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Node 29767 connected to 649751. Node 29767 disconnected.
Km7 cib. Mobile, northbound i5 at williams. Km7 cib.
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W6 rhc repeater check 1.
Gears holds a slow speed Morse code net on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm frequency of 7.44 plus or minus if the frequency is in use. All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the next.
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The gears west. Repeater frequency has been changed. It is now on 146.895 minus PL123. I repeat, 46.895 minus PL123.
Kilo mike 7, charlie, india bravo, northbound i5, mobile and orland monitoring.
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The Gears Monthly general membership meeting are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue in Chico. Doors open at 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm all are welcome to attend. W6RHC repeater check 2.
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Hey, Ralph, were you able to get up the pulsey. Get the 80? No, I was. Weather yesterday was terrible and today it's still kind of nasty out there, so I'll do it next weekend. Okay. Well, it's been sunny here. We had overcast and supposed to be some rain, but I guess it all went your your way. Some of the weather, yeah, we got quite a bit. Not much except in California, of course, but we got quite a bit for Vegas. And the mountains are all socked in still. I checked the cameras and there's no signal up there. That's good, but it's all stocked in with clouds. You can't see any of the high peaks. Potency and angel and everything are under clouds. Things are going pretty well down here. I've been just taking it easy today, running around town and of course next week for me is a bunch of doctors and stuff. Don't get old, Ralph. You know, it all comes with the territory. I don't think there's any way to avoid that, but. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I know. I'm my only doctor call for the last couple weeks for her stuff, so she can't drive anymore. I got to take around everywhere, but.
Yeah, I'm going to try and make it. I don't know if I want to spend a couple of days, but maybe I come. I think. Is it Saturday? I think it's Friday. Saturday, yeah, it opens Friday and then all day Saturday, maybe morning or Sunday, I think. I think probably what we're playing end up doing is I haven't talked to Lee, I just got to talk to Lauren. But we'll probably end up maybe driving down there on Friday morning and maybe hitting the swap a little bit of Friday afternoon, checking the hotel. Right. And stay overset Friday night, Saturday night, come back Sunday, something like that. I think that's what we did last time. Okay. I guess you're staying at the same place. I think it's a Holiday Inn. No, I'm a Hilton guy. He was at one of the Hiltons that I stayed. I could envision it. I think it was home, two suites. That's what it was. Hilton home, two suites. They're pretty good. Got nice big rooms with full up to full big refrigerator, like full flat, like it's like a regular full size appliances and. And they've got breakfast included. Nice place. But you have to do a home too. I just got. I forgot where exactly it was. Obviously it's in Tucson, but I don't remember exactly which one. Okay, well, I. I'll see. I. I don't know if I want to try traveling. Let's see, from here to Yuma, it's maybe four hours, four and a half hours. It's getting harder for me to drive. I'm not as young as I used to be. I'll see because I'd really like to make it. I think it'd be fun. Kind of a last thing for me. I'll see. Maybe I can do it. I'll try and decide in the next week or so because I'm going to make a hotel reservation. Yeah, exactly. And if, you know, if you want we can swing by and get you. But yeah, we'll figure it out. Figure another one. Figure if you want to go check too and we can take it from there. Oh, you don't want to come way, way down here and that's very nice. Okay, well, we'll keep inside and see what can happen. I've talked to Joan about it and yeah, I would like to try. I mean the last time was I think three or four years ago when you and Ein. Lee went down there and really had a good time. So I'll see. Anyhow, I guess I'll go back and Watch the Arizona Cardinals play football. Okay. Very good, man. Yeah, I got the. All pinned up. I went to tune the receiver and it's ready to go. So I'm gonna go out there a couple times over the week and make sure it's still making full power and go from there, so. Okay. Have a good rest of your day. I'm 17. Yeah. I thought of the downloads of the repeater in which he showed a picture of it. Yeah, well, these things, you know, they've lasted forever and they're really great radios. We had a lot of them at one time. See you later. W7OQS convenience. Hey, good afternoon, 7tmd. How are you? A little bit wet, but it sounds like you're in the wetter there, Man. You're really noisy. Yeah, we're not getting any rain today. The mountaintops are all socked in. But we got quite a bit yesterday. I was out for a little bit. Some of the roads were flooding out and things of that nature, so we needed it. I think they're talking about more this coming week also. All right, well, that's interesting. You said that I'm noisy. I probably sound better on here. I was on 21, which I should have a pretty path on low power, but maybe not now on 23 gear. But anyway, yeah, we're getting a little bit of rain up north here as well, but kind of looking at some reports and everything and see that it's been very wet down there, quite a bit of rain, so try to stay dry. Tahoe. Yeah, that was. That was much better time, that. Yeah, like I said, it's good to get a little bit of rain. Like if it looks like Monday, Tuesday, maybe even Wednesday or something. I'm not sure what the percentage is, but it's definitely welcome. But I thought Southern California guys, man, they really got. They really got hammered, but I think it's pretty much past them by now. All right, well, not sure what CHIP forecast looks like for the week. Looks like we're going to be kind of wet up here for much of the week, maybe drying out towards the end of the week. So winter is kicking off at this time, but, yeah, I thought of that. The first big storm there. If you go right down the coast and come inland on the south, there a lot of rain, Southern California in your area. So kind of interesting. Yeah, I'm just looking right now. 60% chance of rain tomorrow and 70% chance of rain, thunderstorms on Tuesday. So looks like we're going to be in a wet pattern for a While. And it looks like it clears out on Wednesday, so. Yeah, very welcome. So, yeah, I just got an alert, says that supposed to get some medium to heavy rain within the next 45 to 90 minutes. So I guess something's on the way. All right. Well, I haven't peeked outside lately. I know that the forecast was for things. Trying to start tapering off this afternoon. Pretty good chance of rain throughout the day, but the rain that we were having earlier in the morning is supposed to let up a little bit, but sounds like got another wave coming in your area there. Weather radar looks like it's pushing in from the southwest right now up far away, so. Yeah, good. All right, man. So what else has been going on up there? Been busy working, keeping me really busy this last week. But I started my four days when I came in support. So off for the next couple days. Got a lot of stuff to catch up on around the house here to get done. Had the radio on. I have my dual band radio here in the house hooked up to a Bluetooth transmitter so I could connect the wireless earbud to it and wander around and listen to the radio. That's what I was doing. Heard you in there, so I jump in and say hello. That's pretty cool, that Blitzer feel. Yeah, I've got a. I got a Bluetooth blue microphone I use for my end, my POC radio when I'm driving around. It works out pretty good. So. Yeah, those are cool. Yeah, it allows me to keep an ear on things and still, you know, get around the house and get things done. So I have. I'm kind of an airplane nut a little bit anyway. And have the air traffic control frequencies programmed in this radio, too, so I can set it up, scan and listen to those while I'm wandering around or listening to the ham. But just kind of a. Not particularly motivated. Had to get up early this morning, get a van, ride back from Elko. So wet outside today. Just kind of hanging out. Could be more productive. Maybe I'll get motivated here as the afternoon goes on, but got a lot of stuff to get done around the house next couple days regardless. Like I said, just put the radio on and listen to what's going on. Something that always seems appropriate on a day like today. Yeah, I like listening to the airport. McCarran Airport, too. The problem is I'm in a CCNR area here. I got my discount for my scanners in my attic. So not the best situation. Right. So I got a hard time hearing it. I could pick up the tower one of the tower frequencies. Fairly decent. Of course I can get the aircraft, but it's not very optimal. North Las Vegas Airport, I don't know, maybe three or four miles away from me and I can hear that one just fine. But it's not as much activity as McCarron, although I did somewhere, I got it bookmarked. There's a YouTube channel out there that runs. I don't know if it runs 24 7, but it runs a lot that has a camera pointed at the carrot runways and then it broadcasts the tower. That's kind of cool. Yeah, that's kind of neat. I don't know if they still have it, but I remember when I lived in that area they had a wide spot next to Sunset Avenue there where you could pull off at the eastern edge of the Runway there and watch the arrivals and departures there. It was kind of cool, but I got a. It's kind of tough. I can understand now when you're in an HOA area and have to have your antennas concealed. I'm actually in an HoA area too, but it's so old that the CNRS are very prohibitive or I'm sorry, not prohibitive, but permissive. Not prohibitive. And so my VHF and UHF antenna is a copper pole J pipe. Can't talk copper pipe cable that I built years ago up on the roof, single story house. Not up real high, but it works pretty well. And7TMD. Yeah, they still have that barrier by the Karen. You can pull over. They got a couple of them, naturally. Now what I did is I put a comet x50 or diamond x50 dual bander inside a pipe, inside the vent pipe and then put a. Put another PVC pipe over the head and it painted it the same color as the roof. And that works pretty well. I'm glad to hear that that area is still there. When I was in Las Vegas, exactly, maybe for meetings earlier this year, ended up some spot, kind of an industrial warehouse area just north of the airport. We actually went to a Walmart over there and pulled over not far from the Walmart. Kind of a. Kind of a warehousing area that was right there next to the runways. Had a view there for a short period of time. Oh, what was the other thing I was going to say about. About the antennas and stuff and keeping them concealed as far as the X50 goes. Oh, that's what I was going to say. When I lived in the peak 95 to 97 in my apartment I had a diamond. What is it? XT7900. I don't remember the number on it, but it's a. It's a kind of a long high gain dual band mobile antenna. And just had that on a mag mount in one of the bedrooms in my apartment. That was good enough that I was able to get into the 718 machine there in the Las Vegas area. Oh wow, that's on Angel Peak in the building just across the parking lot from where we're at and County Building. That's a hell of a long shot. And there's not. That's not. You know, I don't think. Well, there might be a line inside, I think. Depends on where mesquite you were. I remember a long time ago we had a repeater at a water tower area on the. At the. Be the. Yeah, let me think. It would be the west side. No, the east. East side of Mississippi. I think it was whatever one off the highway. And it had. It had. It had a line of sight to our radio site on angel. We ran a 420 link that connected it to the main network. And then the guys that have the repeater, they moved it to the airport. So when we went up there and moved it for them with them, we lost our line of sight to Angels. And now we end up ultimately connecting to All Star, which is how it worked in that. My apartment was a block south of Keaton Boulevard. I don't know how much the town's changed since I was there almost 30 years ago, but I was a block south of Keaton Boulevard just right before the boulevard at what then was the kind of eastern edge of town. Anyway, made the 90s reef bed and headed back up north towards I15 there. And again, I don't know the changes that have been made, but the city fire station was right out my front window of my apartment. Right across kind of right across the street from me. So that's where I was at. Like I said. Just with that diamond XT 7900 there in the spare bedroom was able to get a good signal into Angel. That's pretty cool. The town's growing a lot in here, so I'm sure. Probably a little different from when you were there, but. All right, man, well, I'm gonna let you go. Thanks for calling. Catching up. It's been a while. Yeah. You're a lot. You're a lot stronger into the. Into the repeater you're in now than the original one. So you got a good copy him. Take care. Have a Good day. Man and 7 TMD Las Vegas. Here, Al. Good chat with you. You have a good afternoon as well. Yeah. I don't remember when the last time I went to was. There was a. At some point we were on a road trip with my wife and the young one quite a few years ago, and in that area we drove back up through southwestern Utah and everything on the way home. But it's been quite a while, and it had changed a lot just in the years that I've been gone the last time I was through. But I know it's continued to grow and change a lot. Anyway, have a good afternoon, good chat with you, and hope to catch you again soon. Seven three for now and seven Tod. Spanish break.
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Here holds a free Morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come learn Morse code. W6R, H, C. Repeater check two.
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N6dukwq6t. Well, there you are. Congratulations. I have to give you another star on that clipboard. Sounds good. 60 UK ord. Yeah, not bad. So it seems to work pretty good. And you say this is where we. Now if we punch in to talk to QNN in 6 QNN, just type in. Just put in 173.8. Yeah. Yes, that's correct. You do that and it'll bring up, bring up the link. Otherwise we're just local. It's just local. You know, it gets up to Red Bluff here, Sacramento and you know, what have you. So. But yeah, if you want to go to Las Vegas or you know, wherever you need to bring up the link, which is what on this frequency? 173.8. And that's just a model band. That's just a two meter radio I have there. So you can't. Do you have a UHF radio also or. No little dual band UHF ehf. But you know, unless you hook it up to an antenna, it's not too good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, copy that. I think you're probably just an ht. I would imagine so. Yeah, well, you're better off right here. So yeah, if you listen here, here Richard on he won't hear you if you're on the local on this PL here 123, same PL as Mount Becca that you were on earlier. The 195, same PL 123 and. But the Dr. Richard, if you hear him on, he won't hear you unless you, you know, put in the PO of 173.8 and I'll bring up the link and you'll hear you. It's not on very often. I caught him by accident. I was just like I say, playing with an old radio and dialing around. I heard you come off previously. It was kind of ironic. But anyway, we're just on local here now. So anyway, sounds good. Yeah, that's 2100. I have one of those. 2100, 2200, whatever. Those are actually pretty nice mobile radios. I kind of like those. So anyway, yeah, I got you confused about the bad foot guy. That's dxr. He's over. He's over on the coast. So yeah, DXR at last. So anyway, your voices sound alike. I got confused. But you know, at this point in time of my life, I, you know, you know, it's. It doesn't take much to confuse me. There, go ahead, Cut out or what? But I said you're in good company. Weather or something. Might be acting up a little bit. Well, listen, I won't hold you. You have the info there. So anyway, good luck with it and have fun. That's all I can say there. Yeah, my grandkids are here, so I think I'm going to. Before they go home, I'm going to spend a little time with them. But thank you for all the help and really my pleasure talking to you and maybe I'll get around to. Well, I'll try to get to you tomorrow when I'm. When I get that new bird. So. Take care. N6DUK WQ6T73 Clarence. Okay, copy that. Good here again. Looking forward to work. You again. Keep your powder dry, as they say. It's raining again here. So anyway, nice day yesterday, though. Anyway. Seven three, my friend. Take care. Six to UK Corning three.
Gears holds a slow speed Morse code NAT on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm Frequency of 7.44 plus or minus if the frequency is in use. All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the next W Fix. RHC Repeater Check 2.
The gear's west. Repeater frequency has been changed. It is now on 1. 46.895 minus PL 123. I repeat, 46.895 minus PL 123 W6 RHC Repeater Check 3.
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