Transcriptions for 2025-12-03

Or is that the. The main one right there? Yeah, I got. I got two of these, actually. I got two of them. I got a pair of them. And then I also have an 878 anytone, but they just died. It just froze. So when. When I turn it back on now just stuff in Chinese. So I don't want. I have a 578 mobile and a second 578 mobile. I have one in the house and one the truck. Hopefully you hear me over the music. I. Over here. We're setting up for concert over here. So they're testing the stuff. So you probably hear music in the background with. So, But. All right, nice talking to you. Have a safe drive up to Sacramento there. T7GWF Las Vegas. I was going to say it sounds like a good time wherever you're at. Yep.

Well, that's a cool radio choice you have there. And I'm sure your anytone can be revived. It sounds like a software issue, whatever it may be. But yeah. Cool to see another fellow Motorola user out here. I will be listening again. The name is Josh. November 16th November Golf Monitoring.

Kilo, delta 3, charlie, charlie x ray. Kilo delta 3, charlie, charlie, x ray. Amanda, if you have a copy, on kilo, alpha zero, whiskey, whiskey, tango. Over. Kilo Alpha Zero, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, tango. This is KD3CCX. I copy you. Thank you so much for your help. How are you doing? Over. This is so cool. I'm happy to finally talk to you instead of talking to you through the keyboard. Hey, it's working great. And you sound fantastic, Commando. Glad to have you. Hooray. This is fantastic. It feels even better than when I took the training wheels off on my bicycle. So I'm coming through.

Your local repeater and you're on your rig, Is that correct? That is absolutely correct. I'm talking to you on my Yaesu FT991 right now, and I've got it hooked up to a mobile antenna that's just sitting in my hallway, as a matter of fact. And yes, you're connected through the Internet to this repeater and we're talking to each other. That is so stinking cool. I love it. I actually have Echo Link running on my cell phone right now. I didn't feel like pulling out my laptop. It's first world problems, you know, But I thought, well, let me just do this and see what I've got. And here we are. So what time is it out there right now? It is 7:05pm Eastern Time, where I am.

Oh we're three hours behind you. It's only four o' clock here. Sun's just about getting ready to set. I literally live right on the border of Nevada and eastern border of Nevada and Arizona. Matter of fact I hop in the car and maybe drive five minutes if that much and I'm in Arizona. It's that close. So the only downside to living this close is it kind of gets a little darker sooner over here but I don't care. Still having a good time and you sound great. This is so cool. I'm so happy to talk to you. Wow, no kidding. You are close. Really Just a stone's throw and you're in Arizona. Okay. Okay. Not bad. Yeah, you've still got a little bit of time left in your day. Mine is winding down rather quickly. My cat has stopped sulking me and is now curled up on a heating pad napping so I think I have her reprieve for.

But anyway, yes, it's fantastic to finally get the chance to talk to you as well. Online is the. Technically, I'm still online, but I think this is cooler. Yeah, this is way cool. Now we gotta. Now we gotta get you. Get you upgraded and get you on HF and really get into the world. I don't know what you got for equipment. I guess you're just getting started and that's cool. But, yeah, we're all anxious to hook up with you on cw. And I'm a voice kind of guy, CW as well. But either way, I can talk to you. That works for me. Excellent. Yes, I am just getting started. I am vhs, uhf, and then Echo Link for the time being. I'm glad I have Echo Link, though, because it's obviously extending my range.

Of what I have so far right now my bow thing I just have the 19 inch little rubber ducky antenna working right now on continuing to study toward my general so that I can extend you know what I'm allowed to actually be on in terms of I guess technically in terms of voice but because I can already do CW now when I have access to an HF rig of course but in any case I'm also finishing up learning the characters working working on that ICR so that when I do get on I'll be a lot more confident and I'm also working to make sure that I can practice on V band comfortably while I'm waiting for an upgrade. Well that's great Amanda. I love to hear this. This is fantastic and I'm sure a bunch of people have told you this but you can always reach out to me for anything if you got questions. I'm sure you got enough Elmers on your side of the country there to help you out but.

But hey, we're all here for you, so if something sounds strange, just reach out to us. Ka0wwt. Yeah, I definitely appreciate you, but. And what I'm finding is that different Elmers in my life seem to have different specialties. So very quickly learning that if I want to get one or two suggestions instead of of 25, I'll pick one person to go to instead of a whole forum, because I'll be sitting there for hours with everybody's insights. And it's fantastic insights. It's also extremely overwhelming being brand new. So if I have any concerns or questions, I'm happy to come to you directly. Thank you very much. Katie3ccx. What a cool call, son. I'm glad to hear that. Yeah, well, you know, like I said, I know you know that. And it's like, give us.

Enough opportunity for as many you talk to. We'll have just as many opinions or even more. But that's okay. You talk to a bunch of different people and weed out the stuff and figure out what the real answer is and go with that. I didn't say that out loud. No, technically you said it over the air, not out loud. So I'll buy that that dog will hunt. But yeah, absolutely. It's been wonderful getting to meet people, and I'm really hoping to make it to the Daytona Hamvention next year so that I can meet some people in person. Steve N1SG has been helping me out with my characters on the Sunday afternoon Elmer Clinic, and I think he's that he goes there every year even though he lives in New Hampshire. So hoping to link up with him. I'd love to hear.

Meet you in person at some convention someday. I don't know exactly what takes place, where or when, but that would be really cool. Well, the wife and I are already planning a major road trip next year, and one of the places where we're going to be is in Dayton. So if you make Dayton, you will see me there, because in all my years of hamming, I have yet to be there. So we got a big trip scheduled, and part of that trip is Dayton, so I'm definitely going to make it next year. Outstanding. Oh, that's so exciting. My sister lives about an hour and a half away from Dayton, so I'm just going to make it a trip to see her, and then I'm going to pop over with Steve to be a part of the convention at some point that weekend. So that's super. D.

Exciting. Okay, as I told you, this repeater is. This conversation is going all over the place, so I don't want to hold this up too much, but I'm happy we got a chance to talk to each other and have this quick conversation. And we can certainly do this again at any time. Now that you're an expert in the field, You flatter me. Most days, I feel like I'm just barely keeping up with what's happening around me, but I don't mind. Everybody is so kind and patient. And like I said, I appreciate you making the time and helping me work through this, but. Yeah, that'll be just fine. I baked some oatmeal cookies, and they are calling my name, so I'm gonna hop off as well so that other folks can get on and do their yakking. All righty. I will talk to you soon on Discord.

Butch.ka0wwt. This is katie 3 ccx. I will be clear. 73. 73. Amanda, it was great talking to you. And we'll be over for the wife. And I will be over for those oatmeal cookies shortly. But keep the light on. K83ccx. K0wwt.

Six. Rhc repeater check two.

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.

W e6a x n repeater.

Please. Id. Thank you.

W e6axm receiver.

The gears west. Repeater frequency has been changed. It is now. It is now on 146.895 minus PL123. I repeat, 46.895 minus PL123.

D.

W e6a x n repeater.

Fresno link up.

W e set axm receiver.

Kk6vzd mobile.

Well, good evening, Chris. How Was your day? KN6GTM oh, it was okay, Ernie. It wasn't terribly busy and I got through it. Although the past couple hours, I gotta admit, I was kind of bored. Yeah, that's what happens when the afternoon gets long. I'll tell you what, things really livened up after the holiday here. Yesterday was really brutal back at the shop, and today was not a whole lot better. But we did get a few things done, so that was good. Everybody waiting until after the holiday to get their vehicles fixed. I thought they kept me pretty busy right up to the holiday. But then seemed like afterwards it was like, yeah, now we're thinking about every.

Everything else we should be doing. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, Well, I was just sitting here thinking to myself of the things that they had me doing now and that the. The fact that they are wasting my talents. I didn't copy all that. The last part of that transmission. What was that again? Oh, sitting there thinking, reflecting on the fact that for the past couple of years, they've actually been wasting my talent. They've kind of marginalized me at work, you know, giving me, you know, just really simple stuff to do. Okay, well, once you are retired.

Then are you going to go look for another job in that same field or are you just going to take it easy? No more, Ernie. No more. I'm not doing that anymore. I don't know what I'm going to do, to be quite honest, but I'm not going to do that. Okay. Well, I'll be curious what you wind up with, but yeah, maybe you'll have a lot of time to get involved in the ham radio business. I think what I'm going to get in end up doing is getting terribly involved in fixing my house up. Yeah. The worst thing about that is it might take more than one person to do some of that. I enjoy tinkering around at the house, too, but sometimes you need. Of course, when I get the boys.

I can corral into doing that, too. But sometimes it takes more than one person. Understand that. Understand that. I think actually, probably one of the first things they're gonna end up doing is going through my closets and getting. Pulling things out and donating them, throwing them away and giving them away. Well, that'll be something you can do by yourself. Yeah. My things. Anyway, I want to start on stuff, household things and stuff. I'd have to involve my wife, and there's probably not going to be an awful lot of agreement there. Well, if you empty out your part of the closet, maybe she'll have room to expand. Oh, yeah. Thanks. Yeah. Actually, we.

We have these discussions every once in a while, or at least one of us has discussions on how much radio stuff that I have. And, you know, I need to pare down. And I just think about all the boxes that arrive over, over time that have to do with her craft hobby, and then they just build up and build up and, you know, she doesn't think about that. Oh, yeah. That's the way things go. And just changing the subject a little bit here. Today was one of those days where the it just was beautiful because we haven't seen the sun for a solid day in quite a while. And today was just awesome. I couldn't believe how warm it got and how nice. It was a beautiful sunset here a few minutes ago. Yeah. That was something else, wasn't it? And yes,

Yeah. I walked out or came out to the truck for lunch today, and it's nice and sunny and warm. Yeah, it was a nice change. I was just talking to one of our neighborhood watch members today on the radio over early this afternoon. He was saying that somewhere in the 80s, I don't know if it was in the early or mid-80s, Butte county set a record 45 days of fog. Solid. 45 days solid of fog. It would've been like from mid November through December. And I. I thought, wow, that. I thought two weeks of it was a lot. I can't envision that. And I wouldn't be able to stand that. Yeah, that's. That's quite something. I know that in 2004, when.

Some of my good friends moved out here. They moved into Bangor here in 04 in February. And the whole month of February, I think it was like 28 days of fog. They had that time and they were about. Yeah, that's like you said, like, wow, what did we get ourselves into? And it hasn't been that bad since. To look back on and be thankful for, eh? Exactly. Most certainly. Yes, sir. So when I start cleaning the closet out, I think I might have a couple of Kenwood GMRS radios that I'd be willing to give up. Are you still providing those to people that are. That are looking to, you know, join your group up there?

I do have. I do that. Yes. And I. But I have plenty of them on hand right now. I, I wound up getting me getting a hold of several Motorolas, both handheld and base units. So I I've got plenty of them on hand. Not a lot of takers in this last six months. So I I've got quite an inventory. Okay. All right. Thought I'd ask if you ever get to a point, though, where you're looking for something, you've got people that need something, and just ask. And if I have it, you can probably have them. Very good. I'll keep that in mind. Occasionally we'd need one, but like I said, I was able to latch on to several. I was also.

Talking to sidetracks. I do some work on their ambulance once in a while and he said, yeah, he'll have me put some radios in and I did put one in for him, but I haven't done a whole lot more. So I've got some on hand just for necessary uses, I guess. Okie dokie. Okey dokey. Well, I'm just pulling up to the driveway, so I've got, I've got choir practice tonight so I got something that I gotta go back out for, but hope you can go home and stay home and I wish you a great evening. We'll talk to you later. 73 KK6 of EZV clear 73 to you as well. Have a good evening. Yep, I'm just pulling into the parking spot here at home too, so we will chat with you later. KN6 GTM clear W E6A.

D.

W e6a x n repeater.

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. W6RHC repeater check 3.

The gear's west. Repeater frequency has been changed. It is now. It is now on 1.46.895 minus PL 123. I repeat. 46.895 minus PL 123. W fix R H C repeater check 1.

The Gears Net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pm all amateur radio operators are welcome to join in on the net.

Ko 6ldz monitor w6rhc repeater check 2.

6ldz. Last call.

Please. Id. Thank you.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

W e6axm repeater.

Kilo5 julia, charlie alpha. Radio check. Kilo5 juliet, charlie alpha. Radio chat. Kilo 5 Juliet, Charlie Alpha, clear.

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 net.

K7amp, k7cgq, K7 emp. You need to get an antenna. It.

Kk6vzd mobile w e6a x n repeater. Kk6vzd ko6vty how you doing, Krin? Oh, doing all right. Just headed out for choir practice. Right on. Yeah, today I got. I shouldn't say I got stuck, but I was the only one at the office in the afternoon, so I closed that up. But our printer went offline, so we had it come out. And it was a new guy I'd never seen before. So I was talking to him for a minute and he's like, is that a HAM radio on your car? I'm like, yeah. And he's like, oh. He's like, what's your call sign? And I told him. He's like, oh, here's mine. I was like, oh, yeah, that's cool. So he's fairly new over there in Marysville, so he hasn't got stuff all the way set up yet. Okay, fairly new, new ham.

From what I can tell, but he's got a. He's got a call sign with five digits instead of six, so I don't know. Yeah. Okay. Just out of curiosity, what is it? I'm gonna grab the paper right now. I had him write it down because my memory is garbage, so his call sign is. If I can get the paper out. November 7th. Victor Echo X ray. Name is Henry, and I can't read the last name. Looks like Gravy, but I highly doubt his last name is Gravy. I think I've talked to him. The Victor Echo X ray sounds familiar. Okay. Yeah, I told him about the nets and everything, so hopefully he can get on there a little bit and.

Throughout the day and whatever as well. Great. And. And he works for what, Caloosa County? IT yeah, he's one of the new hire IT guys for Colusa County. He had a name. He gave me his first and last name. Henry is his first name. And then I can't tell it. Maybe C, R, A, V, E, Y or C. I just. I'll just look on QRZ and I can find it there. But his first name is Henry. Okay, well, like I said, I think I've talked to him, but I don't think I know who he is. Right on. Right on. Yeah, I chose not to. I didn't go to my veterans meeting today.

Tonight, and I didn't go to the club party tonight, so I stayed home. I ordered a pizza and had it delivered to the house. I might go ahead. Well, I'm going out to. I missed. I missed the club Christmas party because I have choir practice tonight, and I need choir practice tonight more than I need food. I totally understand that I can't sing, but more power to the people that can and for those that put in the work to be able to do it. But. Yeah, not much else going on. It's a pretty nice day today. Sun came out for a good chunk of it, and it actually warmed up more than it had in a while. Yeah, I caught it at lunchtime at least, you know, come out to the vehicle to drive while we're.

To get something to eat and then come back to work. So I didn't get to enjoy it that much, but it was nice. Yeah. I went over to the local hospital, which is across the street, to the cafe. It's a decent thing for the price, and it's healthier than the fast food options that are there today. They had cheese enchiladas with rice and beef, beans and homemade salsa. That was actually really good. Yeah. You know, that's kind of why I've been eating rather regularly at the hospital cafeteria over here. Because it's not fast food. It's not expensive restaurant food. It's cheap. It's decent food. Food. It's not restaurant food, but it's decent food. And it's. It. Yeah, it's. And it's not fast food.

So got a lot going for it. I actually had some. They had some corn chowder with bacon soup. That's what I ended up with. That sounds pretty good. Yesterday. Yesterday I ended up getting my usual, which is just a. Just a turkey. Turkey. Blp. But yesterday, I wasn't filling the bacon because they usually crisp it up way too much. Much. And so I put on the slip. No bacon. Well, they took that as also no avocado. And I was like, that was the part I was looking forward to. I didn't realize until I'd already left there and went to the office. That's too bad. Yeah. How in the world does no bacon equate to no avocado? Well, yeah. A good while back, my co worker went over there with me and she ordered a blt. And they didn't put any.

Bacon on it. And she's like, what happened? And they're like, well, you didn't mark bacon. And she's like, what do you think a BLT is? It's not bread. Lettuce and tomato. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. All right, well, I've destinated, so I better grab my music and get inside and get ready to work. So have a great evening and we'll talk to you later. 73 KK6VZD clear 7:30. Chris, good luck with the corral core practice and maybe I'll come over and watch one of the shows. I'll be there so you won't know, so you don't get any states. Right. Anyway. 73K6BGY. I'll be clear as well.

The gears west. Repeater frequency has been changed. It is now. It is now on 1. 46.895 minus PL 123. I receive 46.895 minus PL 123 W6R H C repeater check 3.

D.

W e6a x n repeater.

W6r h c repeater check 1.

Wp set a x n repeater.

Kilo7 Oscar Foxtrot Oscar mobile from nevada.

How are things in perump and 6k in a year? Things are pretty beachy. A little chilly, but I can't complain. How about yourself. When you see a little chilly? Well, I guess. Yeah, Las Vegas can get pretty cool, huh? You see, Chili? How. How chilly? According to the handy dandy thermometer, my car, we're looking at 39 degrees on the south side of Drone right now. Okay, that's a little chilly.

J, n6mgk w6r h c repeater check 2.

And you often get wind there too, don't you? Usually. Springtime is about the worst with the wind getting into seasonal transition between hot and not hot. About the only time I see them. Yeah, we're transitioning into summer here. So the last couple of nights we've had some thunderstorms and late evening early morning rain. All is good. We could use the water. Currently 74.55 degrees here right now. That doesn't cost you. Better you.

Southern hemisphere. Yeah, I'm sitting right at 4 degrees, just a little outside of Bogota, Colombia. Quite lovely, actually. I've been here a year and I haven't seen it below 70 and haven't seen it above 90. Yeah, we're sitting at a good altitude here, too. 5,000ft. We had a cat that adopted us here not too long ago. Go. He's not a cat, It's a kitten. Darn thing just bit me.

Bit me on the end because I wasn't paying enough attention to them. Cats are kind of funny. More of a dog guy myself. But I'll still hang out with the cat. Yeah, it's kind of fun. Keep the roads away. Fish the snakes and get pretty good stinks around here. All right, well, I was just heading off the bed and I heard you chime in there, so I thought I'd better reply to you. The name here is Ken. I might be talking to you before you said you're Oscar. Oscar Oxford. Oscar. Is that right? That's affirmative.

I'm looking at my qrz lookup log here. I don't know. Maybe I haven't. Maybe I haven't looked yet. What is your. What is your full call sign? I'll look you up right now. Full sign is going to be kilo7 Oscar, foxtrot Oscar. Okay, Ryan. And you're out of Bron. You're not far from home, huh? Okay, well, Ryan, nice to meet you. And I'm gonna go ahead and start shutting things down here and sitting to bed. Good. Keep talking to you there in kn. Here, again, the name is Ken, and I am in Colombia.

I'll have a great evening there, Ken and 73.

Well, hopefully getting the radios warmed up. We're going to start net here in about three minutes. Three minutes. Kilo November 6 might go a kilo.

Well, hopefully getting the radios warmed up. We're going to start net here in about three minutes. Three minutes. Kilo November 6 Mike Golf. Kilo. Sounding good, steve. Kn6jht.

QST, QST, QST. This is Steve, K6MGK, located in Chico. I'll be your net control station for tonight's Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society Club Net. This net meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30pm from the W6RHC East Repeater for the purpose of fellowship and public service through amateur radio. First off, is there any station with emergency or priority traffic? Please come now. Good. Nothing. Heard a couple things to think of when we check in here in just a bit here to maybe give to the group. Maybe you've got a It is December. Maybe you've got an item that you'd like Ham Santa to deliver to you. Maybe you can express to the group what that might be. The other thing would be, if you don't want.

QST, QST, QST. This is Steve K and 6 MGK located in Chico. I'll be your net control station for tonight's Golden Empire Amateur radio Society Club net. This net meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30pm from the W6RHC East Repeater for the purpose of fellowship and public service through amateur radio. First off, is there any station with emergency or priority traffic? Please come now. Good. Nothing. Heard a couple things to think of when we check in here in just a bit here to maybe give to the group. Maybe you've got a It is December. Maybe you've got an item that you'd like Ham Santa to deliver to you. May. Maybe you can express to the group what that might be. The other thing would be, if you don't want to.

Want to participate in that? How about ham radio goals, things that you'd like to accomplish in 2026? After all, this is December. We should be thinking about those New Year's resolutions. Okay. Are there any general announcements for the net? If you please have. If you have an announcement, please respond with your call sign right now. W6JS. Well, take them if they came, Tom. W6Js. Go ahead with your announcement. A good year resolution is come and get your license or upgrade. We're doing it this Sunday at 2:00' clock at the Elks Lodge, and Jim will be stepping in for me. I'll be in Reno. That's all I got. I'll be hanging around and until my time comes around. Okay, sounds good. Sunday, 2 o'. Clock. Else.

Participate in that. How about ham radio goals? Things that you'd like to accomplish in 2026? After all, this is December. We should be thinking about those New Year's resolutions. Okay, Are there any general announcements for the net? If you please have. If you have an announcement, please respond with your call sign right now. W6JS Pww. I'll take a miss. Nick came Tom. W6JS. Go ahead with the announcement. A good year resolution is come and get your license or upgrade. We're doing it this Sunday at 2:00' clock at the Elk Slides, and Jim will be stepping in for me. I'll be in Reno. That's all I got. I'll be hanging around and until my time comes around. Okay, sounds good. Sunday, two o', clock, Elks.

System24 link up.

Folks. Get your upgrade. I'm guessing FCC is all back in order and all the things are back the way they were. You can let us know if that is the case when it's your turn. How about Jamie, I think you were on there kn6pww. Come ahead.

Get your upgrade. I'm guessing FCC is all back in order and all the things are back the way they were. You can let us know if that is the case or it's your turn. How about Jamie? I think you were in there. K, K N6PWW. Come ahead. Hey, thanks Tom for getting the exams together and Jim for covering. Hey, I'd like to remind you all that we are putting together a QRP Labs kit purchase. I encourage you all to look at that's qrp-labs labs.com and look up a kit there to to buy the transceiver kits. I'm looking at the single band CW kit right now. They're. They're pretty inexpensive. So anyway, we're putting together a group buy. We want.

Want to get that done as soon as possible so we can, so we can get them built and, and debug together as a club. Contact Chris Koenig for, for payments on that. And as soon as we get up to 10 kits, we can get that order in the mail and, and start building stuff. That's it for me. KN6 Pww. Okay, question on your announcement, what group special buy would that mean for people? Do they get a percentage off or free shipping or what is it? Go ahead. I don't think Chris is going to be on tonight. I talked to him earlier today. I think the big savings is really on shipping. If we can, if we can distribute this shipping across 10 kits, it gets down pretty cheap. I am not sure.

Okay, question on your announcement. What group special buy would that mean for people? Do they get a percentage off or free shipping or what is it? Go ahead.

About discounts on the kits themselves so I don't want to say anything about that but the shipping is going to be the real deal. I am actually going to order two kits. There are two that look pretty interesting that I'm going to get so I'm going to probably burn one up learning to solder again and the second one is going to come out great but the different kits for me anyway. I hope I answer your question. I don't know about discounts on the kids for but just but amortized shipping definitely is going to be a deal. Okay. And sometimes on those group buys you'd think that putting all those together might delay the shipping. QRP Labs isn't the best with you know sometimes it's a one month wait for things over there Anyway. Sounds good. Hopefully people partake in that. If people want to know more about QRP Labs too there's a great guy. Call sign N6.

Okay. And sometimes on those group buys, you think that putting all those together might delay the shipping. QRP Labs isn't the best with, you know, sometimes it's a one month wait for things over there. Anyway, sounds good. Hopefully people partake in that. If people want to know more about QRP Labs, too, there's a great guy, call sign N6. I think it's N6DT. Anyway, he comes on 80 meters on Sunday mornings, about 7:15 on 3.855. Don Cantrell is his name. He's built a lot of those kits. So has Andrew Keene, I think it is. Anyway, emergency traffic, emergency net on 80 meters on Sundays. And he'll be a wealth of knowledge to all those builders out there because he's had to work on a lot of QRP Labs and he's had to help people get them all functioning. So.

I think it's N6DT. Anyway, he comes on 80 meters on Sunday mornings about 7:15am on 3.855. Don Cantrell's his name. He's built a lot of those kits. So has Andrew Keene, I think it is. Anyway, emergency traffic, emergency net on 80 meters on Sundays. And he'll be a wealth of knowledge to all those builders out there because he's had to work on a lot of QRP lab, and he's had to help people get them all functioning. So might be a good wealth of information. Thank you for the announcements, but while I'm asking, is there any other announcement? Please come now. Okay, catch my breath. Long winded steve here. Kilo, november 6th. Mike golf. Kilo neck control, kn6p.ww. I have you as first.

Might be a good wealth of information. Thank you for the announcements, but while I'm asking, is there any other announcement? Please come now. Okay. Catch my breath. Long winded Steve here. Kilo, November 6th. Mike, golf. Kilo, neck control, KN6 PWW. I have you as first there, and you're gonna be with us for roundtable. Alrighty. Thank you very kindly. N6 fav? How about k6est? All right, Jim, thank you. And thank you for stepping in with that.

There. And you're gonna be with us for roundtable. Yeah. Not a huge amount to say, but I. I will be sticking around. Thanks very much, KN6TWW. Alrighty. Thank you very kindly. N6SAV. How about K6EST? Good evening. This is Jim. K6EST in South Chico. I'll be in and out tonight. Thank you. All right, Jim, thank you. And thank you for stepping in with that gears testing on Sunday at 2 o'. Clock. Thank you and have a great evening. KG6 Kuo. Good evening, Steve. Thank you for running the net. This is KG6 Kuo, and I'll be in and out. And you have a good evening. Nice. Thank you, Lester. By the way, hopefully everyone had a great Turkey Day and Thanksgiving.

Gears testing on Sunday at 2 o'. Clock. Thank you and have a great evening. KG6 Kuo. Nice. Thank you, Lester. By the way, hopefully everyone had a great Turkey Day Thanksgiving. I did okay. Overstuffed myself a bit, but anyway, I didn't have turkey, though. Anyway, thank you, Lester. Appreciate it. How about KF6NCX? All right. I look forward to hearing about the CQ Worldwide contest, how you did you and Jevin. All right, I think next up is Tom. You're going to be with us, right? Yeah, this is Tom W6JS across the.

Did. Did okay. Overstuffed myself a bit. But anyway, I didn't have turkey, though. Anyway, thank you, Lester. Appreciate it. How about KF6NCX? Good evening, Steve. This is Larry, KF6NCX in Chico. And I'll be sticking around. All right. Look forward to hearing about the CQ Worldwide contest, how you did you and Jevin. All right. I think next up is Tom. You're going to be with us, right? Yeah, this is Tom, W6JS across across the freeway from Denny's. And we'll be sticking around. Thank you, W6Js. Appreciate you checking in. And have fun when you do travel across the Sierras there. Hopefully you'll bring back a little bit of some good green from over there. Thank you. And we'll talk at you in a few minutes here. How about can6qxl.

A freeway from Denny's and we'll be sticking around. Thank you, W6Js. Appreciate you checking in. And have fun when you do travel across the Sierras there. Hopefully you'll bring back a little bit of some green from over there. Thank you. And we'll talk at you in a few minutes here. How about can6qxl? Thank you, darryl. Thank you so much. Have a great evening. K7 kfs.

Kn6qxl. Darrell, butte valley, in and out. Thank you, daryl. Thank you so much. Have a great evening. K7 kfs. K7kfs. This is kevin in chico. Thank you for the net. Thank you for doing the net. Well, thank you very much for checking in. Hopefully we'll see a coffee one of these times. By the way, that is a function I rather enjoy. I get to it like, once a month. Maybe it's the Barnes and Nobles. Thursdays at, I think 10am Thursdays, 10am Barnes and Nobles. Only half a dozen people are there.

Well, thank you very much for checking in. Hopefully we'll see at coffee one of these times. By the way, that is a function I'd rather enjoy. I get to it, like, once a month. Maybe it's the Barnes and Nobles. Thursdays at, I think, 10am Thursdays, 10am Barnes and Nobles. Only half a dozen people are there usually, but be fun to see some others. How about Doug? KD6 Lok?

Usually but be fun to see some others. How about Doug? KD6 Lok Good evening Steve the Net Kilo Delta 6 Lima Oscar Kilo Doug here on Shiny Nimshu Ridge well it's kind of dark tonight but it's been sun when you guys in the valley have had to suffer with that fog. I sure appreciate living up here when I see that. Anyway thanks for doing the net Steve. I will be in and out tonight. 73 All KD6 Lok yes it's been kind of horrible great the last two days a little cold but anyway yeah the fog just felt like it was at the coast and it was kind of one of those things where you know get the moisture in the air and everything you'd just be really cold and felt felt wet. So anyways yeah I'd drive up to paradise and enjoy the property up there. It's a nice sunshine out of the fog. I was really enjoying that so anyway maybe some.

Yes, it's been kind of horrible. Been great the last two days. A little cold, but anyway. Yeah, the fog just felt like it was at the coast and it was kind of one of those things where, you know, get the moisture in the air and everything, it'd just be really cold and felt wet. So anyways, yeah, I'd drive up to paradise and enjoy the property up there with a nice sunshine out of the fog. I was really enjoying that. So anyway, maybe someday have a house up there. But it's not looking like it. So. Hey, thanks, Doug. And thanks for going up in the high country there and telling us what's happening up there. I'll be talking at you later. How about my good old friend there n60uk this evening.

They have a house up there, but it's not looking like it. So. Hey, thanks, Doug. And thanks for going up in the high country there and telling us what's happening up there. I'll be talking at you later. How about my good old friend there N60 UK you out there this evening? Well, I'm here, but. Old friend. Did you say old or just O, O L e? It's a good old friend. Okay. Doing okay. Still upright, I guess. Actually, I'm horizontal on the couch, but just check me in and out. Just wanted to say good evening to you and the net. So 7:3 all the way around. And have a good dad, as you will, as you always do. So carry on. Steve. Well, darn it, I was hoping to hear some. Some goals. I haven't heard anything yet, but we'll see a good old ham radio goals from you or. Or something from the ham Santa. Although I kind of a feeling if you want it, you won't have to wait.

Well, darn, I was hoping to hear some, some goals. I haven't heard anything yet, but we'll see the good old ham radio goals from you or something from the ham Santa, you know, although I kind of a feeling if you want it, you won't have to wait for Santa to bring it to you. Anyway, I know one thing I'm looking for is a little auto tuner I think for my yaesu. So anyway, cool clearance. Well, hopefully we'll get to get to breakfast with you one of these days and have a great evening. Thanks for checking in. Long spring of check ins here. So thank you very much being a good member and. Yeah, oh good old, kind of like good old friend or you know, maybe you are a little bit of an OG but that's okay. Very wise. Thank you for all. K6GAB, K6GAB, how are you doing this evening? You out there? Hey, good Evening, this is K6GAB Greg in North Chico. I will make a couple of comments when it's my turn.

For Santa to bring it to you. Anyway, I know one thing I'm looking for is a little auto tuner, I think for my yaesu. So anyway, cool clearance. Well, hopefully we'll get to get to breakfast with you one of these days and have a great evening. Thanks for checking in. Long string of check ins here. So thank you very much for being a good member and you have. Oh, good old, kind of like good old friend or, you know, maybe you are a little bit of an og, but that's okay, very wise. Thank you for all. How about the K6GAB? K6GAB, how are you doing this evening? You out there? Hey, good Evening, this is K6GAB, Greg in North Chico. I will make a couple of comments when it's my turn. Sounds good. We'll be carefully listening for that. How about KN6PJU.

Sounds good. We'll be. We'll be carefully listening for that. How about kn6pju? Ah. Surprised. I hadn't heard him. A neighbor of mine, kc6ufe. I bet he's out there. Gotcha. Sounds good there. Sounded good. I heard him earlier. How about kn6jht? Okay. Well, we'll see. I'll bet you hamburger on that one. How about.

Ah. Surprised? I hadn't heard him. A neighbor of mine. How about KC6UFE? I bet he's out there. Six UFP billing cafes out there. Check me in, Steve. Gotcha. He sounds good there. Sounding good. I heard him earlier. How about KN6JHT? This is KN6JHT. Chris and Chico checking in. Thank you, Steve. Sounding great. And I'll be here tonight. Santa might have to come a little early for me with those QCX mini kits. So that's it for me. And I'll be around for the talk. Back. Back to you. Okay, well, we'll see. I'll bet you hamburger on that one. How about KB6 CYJ? Good evening, everybody. KB6 CYJ. Scott in beautiful downtown Chico where it's cold and has been for.

Quite a few days we're gonna be in and out tonight. Just saying that we're hoped everybody enjoyed their Thanksgiving. KB6 CYJ hey, thank you Scott for being out there. Yeah. Hey, interesting one. A relative of mine makes turkey cinnamon rolls. I couldn't believe it. Turkey cinnamon rolls. Never heard of such a thing. So she sent me a picture of it and it looks like a regular cinnamon roll with the. With the icing on it but a couple little goofy eyeballs and bacon believe it or not bacon in the back for tails. So anyway, hey it's up my alley. I like bacon, I like cinnamon roll so how can you go wrong? The turkey doesn't mean there's turkey in it. That's what I thought. It sounded yucky but it was just it looks like a turkey when it's all done. How about KJ6WEX? It. Had a key up. Is that case.

Thank you, Scott, for being out there. Yeah, interesting one. A relative of mine makes turkey cinnamon rolls. I couldn't believe it. Turkey cinnamon rolls. Never heard of such a thing. So she sent me a picture of it, and it looks like a regular cinnamon roll with the. With the icing on it, but a couple little goofy eyeballs. And bacon, believe it or not, bacon in the back for tails. So anyway, hey, it's up my alley. I like bacon, I like cinnamon rolls, so how can you go wrong? A turkey doesn't mean there's turkey in it. That's what I thought and sounded y. It was just it looks like a turkey, but it's all done. How about KJ6WEX? Oh, how to key up? Is that kj6wx? Mark, are you out there? Okay, nothing heard. Ha6wv.

Mark, are you out there? Okay, nothing heard. Ha6wv. Okay, still running through the list here. And roll call. This is kilo. November 6th. Mike, golf, kilo call and roll off of the gears. Tuesday night net. How about KN6 KWM? KN6 KWM. Dan, Dan and Biggs. I'm in and out. In and out. All right. Well, if you ever come across a friend of mine, Larry Button Button, Pest control over there, they're trying to convince him to become a ham forever, but I just can't seem to get him. Anyway, I've had that luck on it. It's so. Anyway, thank you for being out there and being in bigs. Appreciate it. Thank you for checking in. I've got you. Got you down.

Okay. Still running through the list here. And roll call. This is kilo. November 6th, Mike, golf, kilo call and roll for the gears. Tuesday night net. How about KN6 KWM? In and out. All right. Well, if you ever come across a friend of mine, Larry Button Button, Pest control over there, they're trying to conv him to become a ham forever, but I just can't seem to get him. Anyway, I've had that luck on it. So, anyway, thank you for being out there and being in migs. Appreciate it. Thank you for checking in. I've got you. Got you down. How about N6JLX, Kn6udc?

D.

How about n6jlx, Jn6udc? How about Ko6kkw. And kj6ujx? Okay, I think this one checked in one time on Echo Link. How about November 6th? Zed Oscar? That's Ted or anyone on Echo link wanting to check in please come now. Nothing hurt there for a roll call. That's the list as I have it Looking for later missed members later missed.

How about Ko6kkw. And kj6ujx? Okay, I think this one checked in one time on Echo Link. How about November 6th? Zed Oscar, that's Ted or anyone on EchoLink wanting to check in, please come out. Not that hurt there for a roll call. That's the list as I have it. Looking for later missed members later missed members first. Please come now. There he is. Hopefully your Thanksgiving went well. Lots of leaves falling down in our neighborhood late.

Members first. Please come now. Kn6pju There he is. Hopefully your Thanksgiving went well. Lots of leaves falling down in our neighborhood lately. So anyway, got you down. Are you going to be sticking around? Probably not. I'm checking in and out. And I did have a good Thanksgiving, cold and all. Take care. Yeah, you as well. Happy holidays. Merry Christmas to all, by the way. Alrighty. Any other? How about we'll just open it up for members, late members, missed members, and how about visitors? Anyone want to check in before we move to the next step? Please come now. Okay. Nothing heard. Nothing heard. Remember the two questions there? Ham Santa, what's he bringing to you? Maybe any goals you have for 26. But right now.

So anyway, got you down. Are you going to be sticking around? Yeah, you as well. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas to all, by the way. Alrighty. Any other? How about we'll just open it up for members, late members, missed members, and how about visitors? Anyone want to check in before we move to the next step, please come now. Okay, nothing heard, nothing heard. Remember the two questions there? M Santa, what's he bringing to you? Maybe any goals you have for 26. But right now it's time for the swap segment. How about that? We'll check that out. Anyone out there have something that they want to sell, trade, give away or want, please come now at your call sign.

Now it's time for the swap segment. How about that? We'll check that out. Anyone out there has something that they want to sell, trade, give away or want, please come now with your call sign, W6Js. W6Js. Tom, go ahead. I have a balsam wood model airplane kit. It's like, I think it's like 42 inch wingspan. I think it's all there except for the motor. And I'm willing to give it to anybody who wants it. I don't want to throw it in the trash. It's got to be worth something. But my days are gone for doing that stuff. I shake too much. But if anybody wants it, they can have it. KN6PJU. Yeah, go ahead, Dennis. A little more information, Tom. What kit is it? How big is it? You may have said, but.

W6Js. W6Js. Tom, go ahead. I have a balsam wood model airplane kit. I think it's like 42 inch wingspan. I think it's all there except for the motor. And I'm willing to give it to anybody who wants it. I don't want to throw it in trash. It's got to be worth something. But my days are gone for doing that stuff. I shake too much. But if anybody wants it, they can have it. Yeah, go ahead there, Dennis. Let me go on the other side of my hamshack, and when my turn comes around, I'll give you the information.

W e6a x n receiver.

A little more information. Be interesting, if nothing else. Let me go on the other side of my hamshack, and when my turn comes around, I'll give you the information. I'll be listening. Thank you. That sounds very interesting. I can think of one other member who has something like that hanging up in his cat kitchen, of all things. He likes planes. I'll just put you that way. All right. Any other things, ham radio related items to sell, trade, giveaway or want. If you do, please come now with your call. All right. This is Kilo, November 6th, Mike Golf, Kilo here in Chico. Net control. Time for check backs there. Let's see what Jamie's up to.kn6pww.it.

Yeah, that sounds very interesting. I can think of one other member who has something like that hanging up in his kitchen, of all things. He likes planes. All this puts you that way. All right, any other things, ham radio related items to sell, trade, giveaway or want. If you do, please come now. It's your call. All right, this is kilo, november 6th. Mike golf, kilo here in chico neck. And time for check backs there. Let's see what jamie's up to. Kn6pww.

This is Jamie kn6tww here in. Okay. It's freezing cold outside, Chico. It's been colder. But, hey, you know, it's pretty cold. A couple of things. First off, some of you are probably aware that Gears has purchased a trailer and is refurbishing it for radio operations. The walls have been stripped out. The frame has been cleaned of surface rust. Tail light wiring is in place that. Thanks, Glenn, for that. And temporary floor is back in place. So the thing is, you know, moving along bit by bit, we're actually getting something done together. It's. It's kind of great. A lot of folks have worked on the trailer so far, but I'd like, you know, it's ongoing. It ain't done yet. So there's plenty left to do, and we need a lot of help. But I'd really like to thank Chris, Chris and Glenn, specifically among all the folks that have worked on it. Those folks are really putting a lot of time into it, so I really appreciate that.

What else is going on. Gears memberships are due, so check your radiator. I think there's a link in there to re up for next year. Also remember, Gears General membership meeting is Monday, December 15th. We're going to have election of officers for 2026 gift exchange. That's a $20 max anonymous gift exchange and also potluck. So I promise that I will not give a mass based presentation. It looks like it's going to be a pretty good meeting. Unfortunately I can't be there. I'm going to be traveling, but it's it. You know the the December meeting is always a good one. Going home with December. There is no official Gears POTA plan for December. Our pattern has been the last.

Saturday of the month. That's the 27th. It's two days after Christmas, so I don't think we can expect much there anyway. So there's no, there's no official plan for that, but I understand at least one member is trying to get together a group to do a pota. Anyway, we'll, we'll see how that goes. So look, look for email on that. But so far there's no official plan, and that's plenty from me. So kn6pww back to control. Okay. Yes, Kind of dog days of winter. I'll call them for this last poda right after Thanksgiving. A lot of fog and stuff around kind of later. People like myself don't like driving in the fog at night, so makes it a little tough. So I could see that being a problem. Maybe. Maybe think of doing parts on the air more earlier in the day.

Okay. Yes. Kind of dog days of winter. I'll call them for this last puff. Right after Thanksgiving. A lot of fog and stuff around kind of later. People like myself don't like driving in the fog at night, so. Makes it a little tough. So I could see that being a problem. Maybe. Maybe think of doing parks on the hill earlier in the day. You know, for the next time you do one in the winter there. Maybe we'll. Just a thought. Okay. Thank you, Jimmy. Up to KF6NCX.

For next. The next time you do one in the winter there. Anyway, just a thought. Okay. Thank you, Jamie. Appreciate it. Let's see what Larry's up to. KF6NCX. Yeah. Good evening, Steve and the rest of the net. This is Larry, KF6NCX, and Chico. Well, a couple of things. We had a board meeting last night, the Gears board monthly meeting. And one thing I want to mention that came up the meeting was a suggestion that Gears might work on developing a remote HF station. We've got a tower that was donated to the club. Chris and Glenn picked that one up. It's a 30 foot tower. And we have some. I have.

As I understand it, the elements to a good antenna that Charles Byrd, now a silent key, donated to the club. But we have the beginnings anyway, of creating a station that could be operated remotely. Remote operating is becoming more and more popular. We need to get a radio that we could use for this. And the idea would be members could sign up and use the use this station right from their homes remotely. And who knows, it could even become an attraction for drawing new members into the club, since that would give them the right to use this fine facility of a sizable tower with a yagi on top, hopefully with.

What's needed though, is a place to locate it, for one thing. So anyway, it's something to talk about and think about the other thing. Steve, you asked how did Jevin and I do in CQ Worldwide CW contest over the weekend and we felt like we did pretty well. We had a good time. I think we operated for 26 hours and we made 440 contacts. And Jevin had this idea that maybe we could get a hundred different countries in one weekend. He thought that would be great. DXCC in a weekend, but I think we got 80 countries. Anyway. We felt good about how we did and it was fun. Of course, when I look at all the ST tours that have been posted, ours was kind of a low to Midland.

Beep.

W6r h c west repeater.

Performance, but we're happy with it. Okay, back to you, Steve. This is KF6NCS. Okay, couple comments there, but first off, how many, how much power were you guys running? We were running 500 watts. Okay. Yeah, 500 watts. That, that definitely makes a difference. Okay, yeah, great. Well, hey, I was, I was just happy with trying to get anything. In fact, I wasn't going to do it. It was kind of discouraging listening to how fast everything was, but sounds like a lot of people were using, you know, some TX macros, maybe some memories. I know you used to have, like, a device that you can remotely operate your transceiver. So anyway, it was like 40 words a minute and stuff like that, but I still listened in on Sunday some, and I ended up with 19 contacts. And I was pretty happy with that.

Okay, couple comments there. But first off, how many, how much power were you guys running? Okay, yeah, 500 watts. That definitely makes a difference. Okay, yeah, well, hey, I was, I was just happy with trying to get anything. In fact, I wasn't going to do it because it was kind of discouraging listening to how fast everything was. But sounds like a lot of people were using some TX macros, maybe some memories. I know you used to have a device that you can remotely operate your transceiver. So anyway, it was like 40 words a minute and stuff like that. But I still listened in on Sunday some and I ended up with 19 contacts. I was pretty happy with that, especially with them going so fast. And so I take me, oh, two or three runs of them giving their call sign for me to get it, and I was like, well, that.

Especially with them going so fast. And so I'd take me oh two or three runs of them giving their call sign for me to get it and I was like, well is that A, is that a B or D? Is that a B or a D? You know, kind of thing. So then I might have to look them up on QRZ a little bit just to make sure and stuff like this. So anyway, I did have some fun with it, a lot of learning but. And I was happy with what I did as well. But I know we're near 440 of course, so congrats on that. Anyway, let me reset. Maybe it'll come to me. The other thing I was thinking but I guess that's it for now. How about we go to Tom W6Js? I'm here at W6JS. The model I'm looking at is called a Sturdy Bird. It's got a 53 inch wingspan.

Is that a B or D? Is that a B or a D? You know, kind of thing. So then I might have to look them up on QRZ a little bit, just to make sure. And stuff like this. So anyway, I did have some fun with it. A lot of learning, but I did as well. But nowhere near 440, of course. So congrats on that. Anyway, let me reset. Well, maybe it'll come to me. The other thing I was thinking. But I guess that's it for now. How about we go to Tom, a W6JS. Tom here at W6JS. The model I'm looking at is called a Sturdy Bird. It's got a 53 inch wingspan, it weighs 4 pounds. It's a remote control. It has three servos and a battery pack for it.

It weighs four pounds. It's a remote control. It has the three servos and a battery pack for it, but I don't have the transmitter. A Futaba. Looks like it's all here. As far as I can tell. I don't know what else it's missing, but welcome to it. Free. This is Tom W. 6Js. We're clear. Okay, sounds good. Yeah, if Dennis has further questions, I'm sure he'll. He'll come back here. Okay, let's see who's next on the list here. How about. How about we hear from Bill real quick? Bill, KC6UFE, KC6UFE. Bill and Cape. Good evening, everyone. Just enjoying the weather. I like the fog. Makes everything seem all warm and cozy.

But I don't have the transmitter of Futaba. Looks like it's all here as far as I can tell. I don't know what else it's missing, but welcome to it. Free. This is Tom W. 6Js. We're clear. Okay, sounds good. Yeah, Dennis has further questions. I'm sure he'll. They'll come back here. Okay, let's see who's next on the list here. How about. How about we hear from Bill real quick? Bill? KC6UFE.

Just want to question you. For you there, Steve, what kind of power level you running tonight? Seemed like you might be a little hot. Other than that, not much going on back to net. Okay. Well, yeah, I've been just kind of talking close to the mic because of the net control and having people tell me before that they can't hear me. So anyway, so, so I'll back off here a little bit. I'm not doing anything different. I'm only running 25 watts, so it's nothing but the power. It's all about me and being too close to the mic. I'm sure can't imagine anybody not hearing you. Yeah, yeah, I get it. KM6MGK. And honestly, that becomes a bit discouraging when people tell you they don't want you on the air. So anyway, thank you very much.

Okay, well, yeah, I've been just kind of talking close to the mic because of the neck control and having people tell me before that they can't hear me. So anyway, so I'll back off here a little bit. There's. I'm not doing anything different. I'm only running 25 watts, so it's nothing but the power. It's all about me and being too close to the mic, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, I get it. KN6MGK. And honestly, that becomes a bit discouraging when people tell you they don't want you on the air. So, anyway, thank you, Bill, and any solar updates, because I've seen some weird things this morning. 40 meters was pretty good, I think. Last night I was operating FT8 and getting the morning before I was off.

Any solar updates? Because I've seen some weird things this morning. 40 meters was pretty good I think last night I was operating FT8 and getting the morning before I was operating FT8 early morning and getting China, Russia and Taiwan. So I mean the 40 meter band's been really, really in good in the mornings. But what have you thought about solar stuff? A couple days ago we had an X class flare. Other than that, things have been pretty flat and nominal for this time of year and a lot of the upper bands are cutting out right at sunset and even 40, 80, 160 running all night and it's kind of sweet. So back in that. Thank you very much. Yeah, I put up a new off center fed antenna and was experimenting with that. It's kind of.

Operating FT8 early morning and getting China, Russia and Taiwan. So I mean the 40 meter band has been really in good in the mornings. But what have you thought about solar stuff?

Thank you very much. Yeah, I put up a new off center fed antenna and was experimenting with that and it's kind of east west oriented orientated so I think I'm getting some north south stuff pretty good. But tonight, tonight was kind of horrible. So anyway, thank you for the report. I appreciate it. Okay, we'll swing back around to Greg six gab. Good evening. What's happening? Hey, good evening. This is Greg K. Six Gab. I gotta go fast because I got another net at 8 and they call me first. I am hoping that Ham Santa will hook me up with a one of the Yaesu 710s and my goal for the next year is to get better antennas up in the air. I gotta go. Thanks to everybody. 73. 73. I'll probably start doing that Bloomer Net maybe next week. So. Yeah, we'll chat with you later. Hopefully we will meet for coffee and good evening to you.

East west oriented orientated. So I think I'm getting some north south stuff pretty good. But tonight, tonight was kind of horrible. So. Anyway, hey, thank you for the report. I appreciate it. Okay, we'll swing back around to Greg K6 Gab. Good evening. What's happening? Hey, good evening. This is Greg K6 Gab. I gotta go fast because I got another at 8 and they called me first. I am hoping that Ham Santa will hook me up with one of the gates of 710. And my goal for the next year is to get better antennas up in the air. I gotta go. Thanks to everybody. 70, 30, 73. Yep. I'll probably start doing that Bloomer Net maybe next week. So. Yeah, we'll chat with you later. Hopefully we'll meet for coffee. And good evening to you. Let's see. Oh, yeah. Next up, Chris KN6JHT. Good evening, Steve.

Let's see. Yo, chris. Kn6j h t.

Steve in the net. This is K6JHT, Chris and Chico. Well, I had one contact on CW this weekend and that made me feel all rosy. One contact to Arizona, and that was pretty great. But Steven, Larry, pretty impressive with your contacts this weekend. When I put up my DIY commander this weekend, I had a little surprise. It all collapsed on me. So I spent 20 frustrated minutes getting untangled and put back together and extended with all the six elements. So I put some hose clamps on each of the each of the joints on that. So I am extending it with confidence now. I did notice. I know Jamie mentioned it, but I must have missed it. The Gears Christmas music meeting, it said the 15th on the email, but on the calendar it said the 22nd.

So if anyone's out there to add some clarification I would appreciate it. And as far as POTA goes I wasn't able to make it this month but if we're planning on or if some interested parties are interested in December putta or maybe some people want to get together and plan out a winter field day plan for January I'd be into it so let me know. This is KN6 Jade Sheet back to you Steve okay yeah a couple of comments Winterfield day I know the GARS group at least is planning to go out to Black Butte Lake that's my understanding. Jeremy and I are probably gonna travel out that way and check it out to find a decent spot for that. We've gone there before both of us have separately but find someplace maybe that more people can join in together might be pretty interesting. Cool so dress for success anyway I don't know that too many other people run want to do Winterfield Bay.

Okay. Yeah. A couple of comments. Winterfield Day. I know the GARS group at least is planning to go out to Black Butte Lake. That's my understanding. Jeremy and I are probably gonna travel out that way and check it out to find a decent spot for that. We've gone there before, both of us have separately. But find someplace maybe that more people can join in together. Might be pretty interesting. Cool. So dress for success anyway. I don't know that too many other people run want to do Winterfield Day. Most of them want to stay home I guess anyway. And let's see. Comments. Oh yeah, hose clamps. I know DX Commander McCallum. He experimented with those and ended up putting surgical tubing around the clamp so that it would have lessen the effect of any interference and damaging the pole going up as well. I think that was the main reason. Then he came up with these pipes.

Most of them want to stay home, I guess, anyway. And let's see. Comments? Oh, yeah, hose clamps. I know the DS commander. You know, McCallum. He experimented with those and ended up putting surgical tubing around the clamp so that it would have lessen the effect of any interference and damaging the. Damaging the pole going up as well. I think that was the main reason. Then he came up with these plastic clips. Plastic. Like clamps. I think you can buy those separately from them. Just a thought. So anyway, out there, all I got. Anyone out there? Maybe Jamie can clarify the event. I think 15th sounds about right. Can you clarify that? Monthly meeting, slash potluck. Sorry, I think that's kn6pww. I think I missed the context there. You talked.

Plastic clips. Plastic like clamps. I think you can buy those separately from them. Just a thought. So anyway, out there, all I got. Anyone out there? Maybe Jamie can clarify the event. I think 15th sounds about right. Can you clarify that? Monthly meeting slash pollock. No, Chris was. Maybe you're on the other net too, but Chris was questioning that the calendar said like the 22nd and you stated the 15th for the membership meeting slash potluck present giveaway stuff. So can you clarify that date and time?

About the GARs or the. The Winter Field Day date? No, Chris was quite. Maybe you're on the other net too. But Chris was questioning that the calendar said like the 22nd and you stated the 15th for the membership meeting slash potluck present giveaway stuff. So can you clarify that date and time? I think I better check that because I may well be a week off. So I think I'm gonna check before I give a definitive answer. We gotta. We got a week to figure that out. K60WW. Jim, please come. The Gears Christmas party is on December 15.

Jim, please come ahead. Okay. And time. Thank you, Jim. Appreciate it. So 6 o', clock, December 15 should answer Chris's question on that. Thank you very much. Ague, Jamie.

Okay. And time. December 15th. That's Monday. Doors open at six. Meeting starts at seven. Thank you, Jim. Appreciate it. So six o', clock, December 15th. Should answer Chris's question on that. Thank you very much. KN6 Pww. Jamie, thanks, Jim. And I've learned to check myself if somebody questions what I'm saying. So, yeah, I really appreciate you coming back. And it's such a surprise to find out I'm right for once. So. KN6pww. Thanks. Okay. Rolled through the list pretty good there, I think. Let's see, anything else I can come up with? Well, I did do a Parks on the Air. Looks like I'm next year, so. KN6MGK. I did do a poda on Saturday.

Okay. Rolled through the list pretty good there I think. Let's see anything else I can come up with. Well I did do a parks on the air. Looks like I'm next year so kn6mgk. I did do a poda on Saturday but over here just locally at the Bidwill Sack river area there I actually ended up by the boat ramp because they keep locking that gate over there by Scotty. So backed up there and kind of next to the restroom. But that was kind of disparaging a little bit but it wasn't so bad. Set up inverted? No set up a little. A little vertical. Pat came around with his van which was nice. He's got a heater in his van so we put up an infant half wave and we made I think we that CQ Worldwide was going and it was rough to find a spot on CW at all. So I was hoping but I think I made one CW contact and I.

Saturday. But over here, just locally at the Bidwell Sack river area there, I actually ended up by the boat ramp because they keep locking that gate over there by Scotty. So backed up there and kind of next to the restroom. But that was kind of disparaging a little bit, but it wasn't so bad. Set up an inverted, no, set up a little vertical. Pat came around with his van which was nice. He's got a heater in his van. So we put up an infed half wave and we made, I think we that CQ Worldwide was going and it was rough to find a spot on, on CW at all. So I was hoping but I think I made one CW contact and I, I was trying to change bands, anything I could do to get away from that but no, ended up going on FT8 so, so doing data and got like, I don't know, 30 contacts I think on FT8.

I was trying to change bands, anything I could do to get away from that but no ended up going on FT8 so doing data and got like I don't know 30, 30 contacts I think on FT8 and then we did. Pat did one too and he got his. I don't remember if it was 10 or 15 or something, I can't remember. No, maybe it was. I think his was 24, something like that contact and all FT8. So it's not my favorite mode but it's good in the jam. It's good to know that you can do three things sideband, FT8 and so on. Well it was unfortunate I didn't hear people's goals out there too much because one of mine for 2026 definitely is wanting to learn like Vera FM, Vara, HF and Winlink put some skills like that together and some targeted communications. I've got a few goals like that also continue with CW and stuff like that.

And then we did Pat did one too and he got his I don't remember if it was 10 or 15 or something I can't remember no maybe it was I think his was 24 something like that contacts but all FT8 so it's not my favorite mode but it's good in the jam you know it's good to know that you could do three things you know sideband, FT8 and so on. Well it was unfortunate I didn't hear people's goals out there too much because one of mine for for 2026 definitely is wanting to learn like Vera FM, Vara, HF and Winlink put some skills like that together and some targeted communications so I've got a few goals like that also continue with CW and stuff like that a few other modes I wouldn't mind doing some FL digi some digital modes so maybe into next year maybe some group maybe has to be the paradise group will put together.

That a few other modes I wouldn't mind doing some FL digi, some digital modes. So maybe into next year maybe some group maybe have to be the Paradise Group will put together a digital workshop or something like that. There's a couple guys, Dennis Riggs and Jay up there that no FT8 like the back of their hand and no FL Digi in case anyone's interested in like pfk31. There's also one guy up there, Dan Smith who does Earth Moon Earth. I'd love for him to show us how that all goes. But anyway those are a few things for me. So let me Ricky so let me let me yeah, just long winded Steve here kn6MGK watch the list as I have it. Let's check for any members that need to check in before we close the net. Any members visitors wanting to check in and make comments, please come down.

A digital workshop or something like that. There's a couple guys, Dennis Riggs and Jay up there that know FT8 like the back of their hand. And no FL digi, in case anyone's interested in like, PSK31. There's also one guy up there, Dan Smith, who does, you know, Earth, Moon, Earth. I'd love for him to show us how that all goes. But anyway, those are a few things for me. So let me, Ricky, let me, let me just Long winded Steve here. KN6MGK. What's the list? As I have it, let's check for any members that need to check in before we close the net. Any members, visitors wanting to check in and make comments, please come now. Okay. Well, it's been a good net. Wish there were some more folks that had some thoughts about.

W e6a x n repeater.

Okay. Well, it's been a good good night. Wish there was some more folks that had some thoughts about ham radio items they might want for Christmas and maybe some goals that people would have. I found that to be the case over the last few years. People are doing the same things over and over again, it seems like. But anyway, any comments for the Net? Any comments for the betterment of our group, please come now. Well, I heard out There it is December 2nd, so we've got us a few weeks here before Christmas. But I want everyone to have a very blessed.

Ham radio items they might want for Christmas, and maybe some goals that people would have. I found that to be the case over the last few years. People are doing the same things over and over again, it seems like. But anyway, any comments for the net? Any comments for the betterment of our group? Please come now. I heard a key up out there. It is December 2nd, so we've got us a few weeks here before Christmas, but I want everyone to have a very blessed holiday season and Merry Christmas to all. So we'll just do one final check here for comments for the betterment of the group. Kilo Nov 6 Mike Golf Kilo here, Neck control. Please come down with your call sign if you have any questions.

Holiday season and Merry Christmas to all. So we'll just do one final check here for comments for the betterment of the group. Kilo, November 6, Mike Golf Kilo here. Net Control. Please come down with your call sign if you have any comments. All right, let me go ahead.

Comments F6NCX Larry, go ahead. Okay, Steve, well, since you you are pleading for goals, I I can give you a couple Jevin and I used our club call WN6P whiskey November 6th papa in the contest last weekend. We got that call maybe about a year ago and used it mostly when we're operating together and it belongs. We tried sort of honored Bill Pope by assigning the call to the William Pope contest Club, we call it. Anyway, I mentioned we were hoping kind of a long shot hope to to get DXCC for the call sign WN6P over the weekend. But we didn't do it. So I.

Have a goal of getting the 20 missing countries or 20 more countries so that we do get DXCC for it in 2026. And another thing. I'll mention another goal. We worked lots of Japanese stations. They were coming in pretty fast and furious on 10 and 15 meters in the afternoons. Saturday, Friday and Saturday and Sunday too. And my goal was to try to work all the prefect prefectures in Japan. I don't know if we did that, but if we didn't, I'd like to get all those in 2026. The prefectures are. I guess they're kind of like ST states. That's how it seems to me in Japan. Okay, those are a couple.

Sa. System2link office.

Goals gave back to you. This is Larry, KF6NCX. Okay, that sounds real interesting and I did think of my other comment from earlier but here, not so long ago I was over at parks on the air spot and a guy comes up to me, asks me what we're doing. I told him am sure oh yeah, I'm an amateur radio operator. He gave us call sign. We looked him up and he goes yeah, I studied with Bill Pope, you know, and this gentleman's a little older so. Oh, interesting. Yeah. So that name comes up quite a bit around here. So well known individual and thank you for doing that. So the other comment I have is station four remote. Well, seems to me like you guys should already have one because that Kenwood 990 out pretty, pretty hard to beat that. I think you even have an amplifier for it. So. So maybe you guys ought to consider just keeping that for the club for that remote station. I don't think you'll ever get much better than that. So that was my confidence.

Okay, that sounds real interesting. And I did think of another comment from earlier, but here, not so long ago, I was over at parks on the air spot, and a guy comes up to me, asks him what we're doing. I told amateur. Oh, yeah, I'm an amateur radio operator. He gave us a call sign, and we looked him up, and he goes, yeah, I studied with Bill Pope, you know, and this gentleman's a little older, so. Oh, interesting. Yeah. So that name comes up quite a bit around here. So well known individual, and thank you for doing that. So the other comment I have is stable remote. Well, it seems to me like you guys should already have one because that Kenwood990, I'm pretty. Pretty hard to beat that even have an amplifier for it. So maybe you guys ought to consider just keeping that for the club for that remote station. I don't think you'll ever get much better than that. So that was my comment there. All right, thank you, Larry. Thank you. Group, let's just do one final check before we close.

There. All right. Thank you, Larry. Thank you. Group. Let's just do one final check before we close any comments. This is Kilo November 6th. Mike off, Kilo. Okay. I there was a heterodyne in there, so there's two. Let's go with Chris because I heard him clear probably because he's like right across the street from me. KN6JC Go ahead. Thanks, Steve. Yeah, we got the double whammy. Well, I want to thank Jim and Jamie for the clarification there on the Christmas party. And I do have a goal for this year. I'm a believer in achievable goals. Not that Larry's isn't achievable or admirable, but achievable for me. My goal is to call CQ on cw. I made a couple comments or a couple contacts recently and I think this year is the is the year I'm going to call CQ on cw. So that's it for me.

Close. Any comments? This is kilo, November 6th. Mike, golf. Kilo. Okay. There was a heterodyne in there, so there's two. Let's go with Chris, because I heard him clear, probably because he's, like, right across the street from me. KN6JHC. Go ahead.

And if you're interested in winlink or VARA ac, I played a lot with it when I was living in San Diego. I had a small apartment and the only thing I had to use for an antenna without the apartment manager saying, texting my wife and sending a picture and saying, hey, what's that? Was to tune up the rain gutter. So I played a lot of digital modes using the rain gutter and Windlink and VARA AC was pretty fun when I had the free time. So that's it for me. Tan6ht. Back to you, Steve. Okay, well, great. Well, yeah, a couple of us over here, friends of mine are all putting up 2 meter sideband Yagis by the way, and we live so close we can always practice CW back and forth on 2 meters so we're not bothering too many people. The people around the world have to listen to our to our bad. Our bad cw. So let me know on that. The other thing I didn't mention that I've been doing lately has been setting up meshtastic. Got a couple of nodes up. Noticed that around.

Okay, well great. Well yeah, a couple of us over here friends of mine are all putting up 2 meter side band Yagis. By the way, we live so close we can always practice CW back and forth on 2 meters so we're not bothering too many people. The people around the world have to listen to our bad CW so let me know on that. Another thing I didn't mention that I've been doing lately has been setting up meshtastic. Got a couple of nodes up. Noticed that around here medium fast seems to be the mode. Got a couple guys up in paradise working on it. A couple guys in Glenn county working on it. Be sure nice if we could get some more folks in the Gears Club or even around here. You don't have to be a ham to get involved and put a few nodes out there because the more the better. That's what I got. Let's see, there was another person out there after dining with Chris so more comments please. Come now. It's your call.

Here medium fast seems to be the mode. Got a couple guys up in paradise working on it. A couple guys in Clanton county working on it. Be sure nice if we could get some more folks in the Gears club or even around here. You don't have to be a ham to get involved and put a few nodes out there because the more the better. That's what I got. Let's see. There was another person out there heterodyning with Chris. So more comments, please. Come now. It's your call. KN6PWW all right, Jamie, go ahead. Since listening to Chris now, I got a whole list of things. First off, Chris, I'm right there with you. I have in fact called CQ on on cw but it's been a really long time. So I'm with you there and I'm gonna, I'm gonna share that goal with you. Maybe we'll end up answering you each other. It could happen. The other thing is regarding two meters between.

All right, Jamie, go ahead.

144 and 144.1. That is in the ARRL band plan for CW on 2 meters. So hey, you know, it's right there. And in fact, Larry was, was helping me practice there for a little while. Sending, sending cw. We joked about it at the time. It was almost like using a tin can and string between because we're only a few blocks away. But yeah, actually does work. I was real happy with that. And we do have a gears repeater, so hey, we could do that. Last thing I was going to mention though was we did actually have a POTA at the clay pits. I've heard different reports on that, but I know for sure two guys showed up, Chris Koenig and Greg Broyles. Both were there. Talked to CHR Chris earlier this evening. Don't want to steal too much of his thunder, but he said that there was the antenna rig that he brought.

Had some difficulties because of the high iron content in the soil and you can. You can tell him I repeated that in his absence but it strikes me as being kind of an interesting problem to solve. I know folks have operated there before successfully so I think we got to go back there sometime maybe in slightly better weather. I showed up just. Just as they were leaving Classic so. And it was. And it was. It was pretty cold out there, I gotta say. Anyway, that's it for me. KN6TWW and I gotta jump to another net so I'm gonna call 73. Bye. Alrighty. Yep, I set up my Shelly Gonz vertical there. No problem. I think Larry has one of those. He ought to get that out and. And put it in the ground. It worked fine when I was there but I do prefer the spillway boat if you ever get off that way. Jamie, over by the spillway by the dam there's.

Alrighty. Yep, I set up my Shelagon's vertical there. No problem. I think Larry has one of those. He ought to get that out and put it in the ground. It worked fine when I was there. But I do prefer the spillway boat. If you ever get out that way. Jamie, over by the spillway by the dam. Very good location. So I prefer that for Lake Oroville anyway. Good evening to you. 7:3, by the way. All righty. Any final comments before we close? Run a little bit late here. Just kilo. November 6th, Mike Golf Kilo. Yeah, well, one of my goals for this year, I still got about maybe a dozen more to do, but is 100 POTA activations. I'm getting close. I think I'm at 88 or 89, something like that. So about a dozen more in the next month. I can do it, I think, but it's going to be a push. I might try to go for five in one day one of these times anyway. Alrighty.

Good location, so I prefer that for Lake Oroville anyway. Good evening to you. 7:3, by the way. Alrighty. Any final comments before we close? Run a little bit late here. Kilo Nov 6 Mike Golf Kilo. Yeah, well, one of my goals for this year, I still got about maybe a dozen more to do, but it's 100 poda activations. I'm getting close. I think I'm at 88 or 89, something like that. So about a dozen more in the next month. I can do it, I think, but it's going to be a push. I might try to go for five in one day one of these times anyway. All righty. I guess that's about it. It's been a pleasure to be in net control. I think I'm going to take a break for a while from that task anyway. Y' all take care out there and we'll be talking down the coax line at some point. I'm. That's what I like about.

W e6a x n repeater.

I guess that's about it. It's been a pleasure to be in net control. I think I'm going to take a break for a while from that task anyway. Y' all take care out there and we'll be talking you down the coax line at some point, I'm sure. That's not all I got. So this concludes this week's Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society Club Net. Thank you to everyone who checked in. You're invited back next week. This is Steve KN6MGK returning the W6RAC repeater to its normal monitoring service. Net is closed at 8:19pm 73. All KN6MGK is clear.

God. So this concludes this week's golden empire amateur radio society club net. Thank you to everyone who checked in. You're invited back next week. This is steve kn6mgk returning the w6rhc repeater to its normal monitoring service. That is closed at 8:19pm 73. All kn6mgk is clear.

D.

Is am 7 pal test. If I'm getting through, anyone out there happens to be listening, I would appreciate a sign report.

Kg6 kuo, kf6 Obi, w6 rhc Repeater Check 3. Kg6ko.kf6djy. Yes, good evening, lester. I guess I. I missed the roll call. This is KF6OBI checking in with no traffic. Ks6 Obi, KF6tjy. Yeah, I was trying to get. Get a hold of lester. Sorry about that. No, I caught your call sign. Thank you for backing me up there.

This is KM7 Dal testing. If I'm getting through and anyone out there happens to be hearing me, I would appreciate a signal report. Kj7fku and you're coming. 5x5 full quiet. I appreciate it. You are also coming in 5 by 5 73.

There. I apologize for the mix up, but. Yeah, I haven't heard Lester out there in the last few minutes.

K6k u o k n6 p w.

This is Kim 7d A L testing if anyone out there can hear me. And I suspect that this signal is probably coming through pretty good. I would appreciate a signal report. Kj7fkq again. Yeah. That one is not as clear as the first one. You got some popcorn going on. And the overall quality is not as good as the first transmission you had.

This is kn6pww. A quick check on gears west. I heard nothing. Thank you Jamie for that bit of information. Yeah, we'll just stand by for another few minutes and see if Lester gets to the radio to start the net. Agree. KN60 www dot.

Well, I'll hop back over to the other repeater because your audio quality sounds good enough. You sound like you might be a knowledgeable guy. Is Repeater Book still sort of the best source for if repeaters are actually active? I've just kind of gone through repeaterbook and there are a couple other local websites, but they might be maintained the and loaded everything into the Baofeng, and I'm just kind of going down the list, making notes of what works and what doesn't. But it takes a while. So I'm new to this. I don't know if there's a better way. You just have to you're doing exactly what I did was just go through all the different frequencies to see what works or not. Yeah, Repeater Books did. There's also another website that got some good stuff called Radio Reference. And one of the issues that you you have with these.

That things can change so fast that takes a little time to get the website's update. Yeah, looking at the website thinking was like Las Vegas Ham or something like that that just had a table of some stuff that it was the correct frequency and correct PL tone, but like the call sign had changed or location had changed. So I lucked out with the program and felt like the name was wrong. Yeah, you just gotta kind of do some research and practice and see what's working or not. You know, there's a few clubs in town. You know, I believe that this is the Henderson Radio Network that we're on right now. I live in Boulder City. I'm always using the B1 on there. I know there's also the Las Vegas Radio Radio Amateur Club. And then there's also the Spring Mountain Radio Group. Those are like three clubs.

That are around also cincy repeaters and a few other ones around too. So they're out there. You just gotta kind of dig for them. Yeah, I was listening to. I think it was on the N4NJJ repeater network where I think some of them are linked. Some of them are wherever. It was a IRLP thing in between here and Buffalo, New York. That was pretty neat. But I think I ended up missing the window of whenever the nodes were still linked before. I asked him how cold it was up there. Yeah, some use like the wind system and other linking protocols and stuff. Yeah. If you're new to this, just keep at it. It gets really fun and you just have to practice it like you would musical instrument or something.

And other question I had was if I misprogram something and I have a DMR repeater set in and I hit with FM signal on that channel, is that going to screw it up for them? And is it going to be in a way that's super obvious for me because I've lucked out so far. Accidentally programmed a couple in, but then you can hear what's clearly DMR signals on a non DMR radio. But I just wanted to make sure I wouldn't be accidentally stepping on anyone's toes here. I don't think you would in that situation, because you're dealing with completely different protocols. I'm not an expert at it, but I'm going to say no on that. I really appreciate the advice. I think I'm going to keep on hopping on down this list and see how much more time.

Time I'm going to spend staring at chirp 73kn 7dal sounds pretty good talking to. Yeah, I would check out the website radio reference and I know that on Chirp you can access it as well. I do think you might have to pay a small fee for a subscription, but there's a lot of good repeaters on that as well. Good Talking to you 7 3.

This kn60ww. I'm going to be clear on gears east. Good night, folks.

Please. Id. Thank you.

D.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

86 mobile 101 in motor park system 26 lake.

Deep.

W e6a x n repeater.

W e6axm repeater.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

D.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

W e6axn repeater.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

W e6a x n repeater.

D.

Here.

D.

W6r h c repeater check 1.

Fresno link k6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

W e6axm receiver.

D.

Fresno link up k6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

M60.

D.

D.

D.

Good morning, kn6mgk. Well, I was playing a little FT8, but the only thing coming back to me is Japan looking for dx. You know, I see other things. Korea and stuff. Yeah. Anyway. Oh, there's one from Fiji. Wow. I'll have to try to get him. Yeah. This Fiji station Could be. Could be our friend Barry. By the way, I forget his Fiji call.

Yeah, you have to get involved with that Tabasco net at least listening in the mornings at 7:30. And then you'd find out information about him. But last I heard he's. You can look up his call and stuff like that, but he's in New Zealand.

Yeah. But right now it's okay, Right? And now you probably hear the hum back, right? This to be confirming. So I turned it back on. Yeah. Trying to run a little extra power. Anyway, no Fiji. They didn't come back to me, so that's okay. I gave him about four.

Five calls. Yeah, especially if it was him. I could look up the call here, but if it was him, he's an advanced operator. He would. He would try, I'm sure. Yeah. For me, I put a CQ out there, and Japan came back. Two different Japanese stations. And so I didn't even go back to them. See? I'm selfish, huh?

I guess you can call me selfish. I don't know. I just have lots of Japanese stations there, so maybe. Maybe someday. And by the way, it did find. It did come back. Fiji did come back to me.

So are you seeing anything good out on the bands? Okay, yeah. What are yb stations? Yb5. I think those are china, right?

I guess that's Indonesia. I said Indonesia. So hopefully. Because that Tunisia might be another country. I don't think I do. I'll try to get him.

Okay, so Chris said, down here, who lives? Oh, well, as you drive, a quarter mile from me, but it's a little less as a crow flies. Anyway, he put up a. Well, he didn't put anything up. Actually, he has a. He bought one of those, like, credit card style. Credit card style Meshtastic nodes. Put it on long, fast. Well, come 10 o' clock last night, he must have got it up because it started its beacon and I got it right away. And so he and I were chatting back and forth on Ms. Tastic, from this little credit card node thing inside of his house to mine. So I guess it works at short distance. Nothing. That was just the device itself. Now, for me, I have the two nodes. So.

It might be picking it up on the outside roof node. That's my assumption. But anyway, yeah, I just thought I'd let you know we're both on long fast. So. Yeah, just like the credit card looking thing, they cost about 30 bucks. Yeah. So I think I might have to end up getting at least one of those stick it in my pocket kind of thing. If it works that good. Because all I need is something like that to carry around with me with my phone. Then I need a longer distance one, like something for the rooftop that would be like maybe a little more powerful or something. I'm still looking into that. That'd be interesting.

How did your trial run go? I was kind of expecting to hear a little bit about that.

And did you try your triangulation technique?

I don't think so. I don't remember, though, for sure. I have to look at the settings generally. That's like if you're wanting to poke it into the Internet or something, right? Yeah. I think he's hooking up to the Internet he mentioned, right?

Well, if you look at that video that temporary online just did, he talks about that, you know, because he's in Arizona somewhere, and he wasn't getting any notes popping up. So he turned that on or whatever and hooked it into, you know, the USB C data cable into one and started, you know, he could. Then he could populate nodes and stuff like that. But it's using the Internet, but it's a way of getting started, at least to see if it works and how it works and all that. I guess I haven't been able to do nothing until. Other than just put out calls until Chris put his up, you know, a quarter mile away. So might end up taking some of that stuff happening in order for it really to start working.

Well, I guess I got asiatic russia again. Kn6mgk. Good morning. It's kind of fun, but. Yeah, I mean, I could definitely use more countries. Are you. How much above 100 are you now? Well, it's a contest. I gotta try to catch up to you. Hell, yeah. Well, it's a goal. It's gonna be. It's gonna take some time.

But it's tougher for you because you've already got those, say, 100 or so. So, you know, I think I'm one of my 26 away, so it's easier for a guy who needs a lot more. Yeah, we're talking countries. Yeah, yeah. All right, so that's my goal. 1. Yeah. I want to be like my brother up there in Magalia, man. How about John? Does he ever use his big beam up there and see what he can do? I remember him doing it with you.

Does Ernie use his anymore? Does Ernie have a tower? I guess. I'm guessing that's yes.

Well, there might be a chance you can do that in the future. They might start getting prepared, getting the names and stuff, cutting them trees down.

There's a pota station on. I can't believe it. So I'm gonna try for him. Of course. It's texas.

Now. Talk about sleeping in and six mtm. Good morning. Good morning. We were talking about you. Looks like my sweetie's going to work this morning. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why I slept in so late. Yep, but that's the way love is. Got a few things done. Anyway, Ronnie came over here after he left your place. I fed him some apple pie and.

He likes that Matt's off road towing or. Or something. Then I. I showed him Wrecker Rick's Murphy Deal Towing and I think he watched two of those. I was surprised he hung out. Yeah, I explained that to him too. Yeah, he did. And he still used a cut off wheel.

To cut it instead of the portaban.

I brought it over for that project right there. Otherwise, I'll have to call down there to Thomas Hydraulic, see what that cost. He's going to use it for something he's going to do.

Yeah, I. Before I use those, I like to heat up some grease. You know, you smear it on it and then you. Then you heat it up with a. With a torch or something, whatever you got, heat gun, whatever, and. And work it back and forth so the grease gets inside them. Piano hinges, I think they call those. But anyway, because, you know, if those are out in the weather, they will rust if you don't coat them on the inside.

So my memory's not serving me. Seemed like they had some type of a title down there by them. They got all different lengths and thicknesses and flange widths and all that stuff. So what? He wanted to buy something different to put on that year deal.

Well, since he's decided to go absorberant on prices, it's my chance to get some money back. Oh, yeah, Check. No, I didn't just got up. I. I went on 3900 last night for a little bit and. And they got that poop disturber. Evidently he lives in Reno or something. Comes out there cussing and swearing and, and carrying on, keying up on people, just saying cuss words. Doesn't actually talk. Dennis is over.

Had a surefire way of getting rid of them kind of people, as soon as they come on there, you just. Nobody else. Nobody else. Keys up. You can do it. You want go to it, go to a different channel or turn it off or whatever, but you don't respond to the guy. And after a couple of times, they know it doesn't do them a damn bit of good to come there to poop the stuff, because pretty soon they're sitting there by themselves, so they just go to another channel. It's very hard for me to do that. I like to rile them up. And I got a million games to play with them that I use for over 30, 30 years on the CB. So, yeah, I can. I can usually fire them up pretty good. The ammo.

Animal noises works real good. You tell them, hey, can, can you make any animal noises and, and get them talking? You know, I have got them to make noises before and, and then you move to the next animal. How about a cow? Can you do a cow? You know, it doesn't take long before they realize that they've been duped, but then they come back all the time. Well, that's why we like these digital modes, right? It's a little harder to poop Disturb on FT8.

Well, anyway, Desert Dave or. And some other guy that I didn't. Didn't know, they. They continued. They continue to try to talk to each other. Back in the good old days, I would have. I would have paid that guy a visit. Reno's not that far. Haven't heard you guys talking about your fishing game in a while.

Getting this D expedition from Vanuatu. He's been on in the mornings. He's been on right now. Anyway, I got him for a second time. Oh, that's okay. Yeah, this is a long term project anyway. But yeah, I was thinking that you get up early, you know, do some FT. Eight in the morning. Anyway, right now, this Y. What is it? YJ0GC in Vanuatu. The D expedition. Only on for a couple more days.

40 meters. And I probably only got, like, maybe, I don't know, 15 more minutes or so that I can even operate before I gotta get the wife up and get some breakfast going, stuff like that.

K6poc mobile general system 26 link k6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Thinking coffee is in order. I'll be right back. And six mtm.

All right, well, it's a brewing and 6mtm. I wanted. I was looking for immediate satisfaction, so I'm drinking a cold flappuccino. But it's a brewing anyway, that'll fit me for the day. I didn't expect Lori to go to work today, but. Oh, yeah, I'll have to figure out what. What I'm going to get done.

Well, you know, we. We put new ones around on Lori's mom's house. But I got those. I got those. And I have a couple of them brand new. Those screens that you put for the air openings along the siding. You know, that's probably your easiest way. Way just to cut out a couple square holes and screw one of those on there. Keep the critters out. Oh, yeah. Probably look nicer. Gotta get. Gotta get the ones with the screen in them.

Yep. I'd get to. I'd get the chemical guy to spray real good in there, too. Have you run it with that on there?

Yeah. Well, over the past years, generally, I always worked hand in hand with that. That way I made sure of certain things. And. And, of course, that was back in the cigarette smoking days. And he liked to. He liked to take a cigarette break. Work. That's all you did is sit around and talk or sit someplace, have a beer or whatever. And. But I. Back then, I always asked him, what, do you want to do a job? See, then it didn't matter how long it took. We agreed on a price. That sounded good to me. I'd say, go for it. Yeah. Didn't it? Sometimes.

Back, it turned into an hourly thing, that. The cigarette smoking thing. Well, he eventually quit, so. Yeah, There's a lot of meandering going on there, though generally, I didn't care. Just like any old friend, hanging around you and me and. Done it a bunch of times, you know, you talk about all different kind of stuff while you're getting it done. No big deal in general. But when. When it. When it's hourly. Yeah, you can't. It's not profitable to do it and. And all the. All the. Run into the store three times in a single day. But you're supposed to be prepared for that. That part ahead of time. I don't like paying for trips to Chico normally. That's the gopher work, and I do that part.

Soon. As soon as it takes the need to go do that. I sure not gonna pay somebody 30 or 40 bucks an hour to go to Chico. Coffee's up and 6 centimeters.

N6sm.

Well, John, if you're listening, how did your solar project or your turbine project, your wind project? How'd that come along? Just got my cup of coffee. KN6MGK. Carla 36. Oh, we're just sitting around here watching the money grow, I guess. Whose money? I don't know. Listen to 80 meter. And the answer to your question about the wind turbine, it's in the box, ready to go. Just got to go to the desert. Okay, so, yeah, you listen to 80 meters. You listen to those guys on 3. 9. 9. They're probably done by now, but, gosh, they start off. One of the guys gets up sometimes at 4 or 5 in the morning.

One of the guys lives right over here in Magalia. So listen in on that frequency occasionally, maybe you'll, you'll hear something interesting. And it's 3885 I'm watching, listening to it on that Dr. SDR. Is that frequency that they have the net or they have a get together every morning. Is that 3,955? Well, the one I'm talking about right now is 3,997. And there are some guys from around Washington, Reno, Nevada, one guy here from Magalia, Oregon. So a little bit of a diversity of locations, but within a few hundred miles of each other here. But anyway, you might take a listen into that if you're talking about Sundays.

Sunday mornings. That's 3855. Oh, okay. So they just have that on. 3855 is only on Sunday morning. Yeah, that 97. That 3997, I think you said it was. I think I went through that. I heard some people talking on that, but I'm basically listening to the. Oh, CNBC and checking emails and stuff like that. You know, just hanging out, getting ready to go to Red Boss. Oh, yeah. Cnbc, huh? Yeah. I quit watching them back when Mark Haynes died. Yep. That was the end of it for me. So I started watching Stuart Varney. Varney and Friends after that. Yeah. Mark Haynes and. And they were a pretty good group. And. Yeah, we used to.

Watch them every morning. You know, like I said, it's Erin Burnett. She went to CNN after she had a little run in with a Saudi Arabia guy or something. I don't know what it was. But nevertheless, yeah, Mark Haynes was pretty good. Yeah. Well, that's when things weren't too political. And, yeah, I watched it until the morning he passed away. And, you know, I watched Aaron Burnett probably for a little bit after that. But when she went full on communist, I was out of there. I didn't want to bother with listening to her anymore. So that's kind of what happened. And then still some. Okay. People left on cnbc, you know, but some of them I wouldn't listen to anyway. But, yeah, Varney and friends.

A couple good, good people on there these days. So the only one left that I, that I liked at all on CNBC was Rick Santelli. So. Anyway. All right. But whatever. Yeah. I've been watching Gold and Silver go sky high again. Yeah. I didn't see that. Well, I guess. Yeah. You talk about communists. I'm afraid that. Well, it's not what they call communism, but dictatorship if they don't be careful. The White House is going that way, but I think they're going to get in the midterms. It's going to change. Yeah. It seems like about every midterms. It does. So if there's a if there's a Democrat in the administration, the Congress kind of starts to turn.

More Republican, and then when there's a Republican and the administration turns more Democrat, you know, it's supposed to be kind of. That's kind of the way it's supposed to kind of work because, you know, change is supposed to be difficult. KN6MTK yeah, well, I mean, you know, it's. If everybody would. I don't know what you would say without getting too political about it, if, if you didn't buy the Supreme Court and threaten everybody that made the law. You know, I mean, it's blatant. There's a lot of people are breaking the laws, and you gotta admit that. And that's what I'm afraid of, is it's never going to go back like it was.

Yeah, well, the rules and laws have all been broken for a long, long time before I was born, including the Supreme Court and the stacking of the Supreme Court and all that stuff. Judges being bought off and stuff like that happening for a long, long time. That's nothing new under the sun. It's not even political anymore. So that's just sometimes about greed. So, anyway, it's unfortunate, but it's tough to find a perfect governmental system out there. I think that us in America have one of the best ones of the world, so that's good. But keeping corruption out of government, that's tough. When man is involved, we tend to mankind, at least, tends to be sometimes greedy and immoral. Yeah, well.

That's, that's I kind of agree with that. Once they get a little bit of power, they kind of use it, and then they get more and more and more. And next thing, you know, they kind of run the place without any garage rails, let's put it that way. But yeah, it doesn't make any difference who gets in there, just long as they get the one that's in there out. And, you know, like said it'd be three years, you got to put up with it. And then they put a Republican or a Democrat. That thing is just amazing. Yeah, every once in a while, like on the second Reagan administration, he won by a real landslide. So people were pretty well backed behind Reagan for at least the first part of his second term. And, you know, that's pretty much when I was first starting to vote and so forth.

And 6mtm. Well, I made a big mess. Oh, boy. I thought it was going to be one of them mornings, but the cleanup ended it up pretty good. So now I'm enjoying the fresh Cadillac.

So with Reagan. So, you know, but it is tough to find people that stand by. And then, of course, Clinton, I think he was pretty well for his second term, was pretty, you know, it was a pretty good administration, too. So it's really it crosses party lines that every once in a while you get someone who the majority likes and, you know, is willing to keep them for a couple terms. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what about radiant, about the 80s, he had a tough deal to deal with. And actually, he was a he was an actor, but he was a tough guy. I believe he went in there and just did it.

Run, everybody. Yeah. Good morning, Mr. Blake. All right, I'll catch you guys tomorrow. Yeah. Good morning to you. Good to hear your chipper voice this morning.

And, you know, he was dealing with 18% interest. And you know what that does. I guess I lost it. But. Anybody? No, he. He brought the interest rates down. You know, he. He dealt with a lot of hard issues when he inherited, I guess you'd call it. So he was pretty good, I think. Hard. But he. You didn't lose me. I was just delivering a cup of coffee to my wife down.

They sounded okay, but I. I know what you're talking about. I did hear it. Picket fence once or twice, but it was lightweight. The audio sounds good. See if I can get it right. Was it Dan or. Or Paul? He was doing fine then. A lot of dirt between here and there. Well, what's on the agenda today? He might be having some driving difficulties. I didn't ask.

The hallway. So it's that time of the morning for her. She's gonna get going in about a half hour. And I'll be leaving about 15 minutes after that. But anyway, I've been working this antenna I put up. It might be a neat one for you to try at some point. Maybe you could research it a little bit. Just an off center fin dipole. So some people call them Windhams. There's different varieties of them. You can build them yourself pretty easily. But instead of being fed at the center, it's fed off about a third of the way. And some of them are a little bit less. So maybe 20% of the way, it's fed in a different spot. And it's able to give you more bands. So this one I cut for 40 meters, and it works for 40, 20, and 10. So I get three bands off of one.

I didn't ask Stephen what was on his agenda for the day either. Blake probably only has one eye open, so I won't even ask him. A bar, huh? I can't think of a better way to start your morning. I didn't. I didn't have the catch container in the coffee, the bean grinder in there all the way. I knew I already had a little mess to clean up, but while it was.

And pretty resonant in those three bands too, because they're harmonic. It's not going to be perfect. It's like two to one. It's a little bit better than that. Like one and a half to one on 20 meters and 10, but two to one on 40 meters. So very usable. Yeah. Have you got it? I remember you saying something like that. Have you got it up yet? And I've seen that on YouTube. I've seen offsets and stuff. I'm not sure if it's the exact antenna or not, but yeah, you know, like I said, right now we're, we got 20 meter up. We've been making contacts on 20 meters and being kind of slow, but it's big enough. Well, have you ever gone to PSK reporter? Because you could plugged me in right now. I was working ST8 this morning for about an hour.

Brewing. I didn't have the little catch pot, the coffee pot in there all the way. I managed to get a full cup of coffee, but it made a big mess all over the counter. So don't feel too bad. I've been in there the last 15 minutes cleaning up all the grounds and the. And the spewed coffee, but I still maintain a good attitude anyway. Oh heck, I've. I've brewed a whole cup of coffee before and didn't ever even put the pot underneath to catch any of it. And that. That made a huge mess. Not that I worry about it. Even liquid mess is being too much of a problem, but luckily enough, it don't happen all that often.

And, man, my map's pretty darn good. I was getting I got into Indonesia, of course, Japan, that's pretty easy. But China, all over. All over China anyway. And of course, all over the United States as well. But little skip zones in there. But maybe just has to do with population between, oh, I don't know, say, Utah and, you know, some parts of the, what do you call it, like, the plains. So. But anyway, if you ever go to PSK reporter this morning, I was working it. So you kind of see the propagation. I was getting on 40 meters anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you, you know, I go on YouTube just like everybody else does. You do, too. Everybody does. And I went in and seen.

Yeah, We don't. We don't put our garbage out. We only have the one smallest can. So for two households, I installed a trash compactor so I can actually go two weeks without. Without worrying about missing the garbage guy. But, yep, we don't put the garbage in the garbage can and wheel the can out by the curb until about an hour before they get here. We've never had a bear problem, but I have seen dogs, because, you know, logging and everything. I have seen dogs going from one garbage can to the next one. They know exactly how to tip them over. Lori's mom used to put a bungee cord on hers, so even if a dog knocked it over, they weren't clever.

What that FT8 and I guess it's PSK is same or somewhat the same. Not the same, but somewhat. And you're on this 891. You have to get a external sound card to hook it up. He would tell us all how to do it, all that kind of good stuff at half dude. And I kind of enjoyed that. That was kind of cool. But what I'm into now, Steve, I was going to tell you, I told told Mike about it is to make this QSL card. We have a little card made up. Kind of designed it ourselves, I guess you call it. And I gotta give credit due for it's due. My wife is the one that's doing it. And when she gets it all fixed up, I'm going to take it down and get about 25 training.

Enough to get inside it. They just move on down to the next one.

Let me see. What is it that they don't like? It's not vinegar, anyway, right on the handle where you, where you, you know, lift it open. You just tie a good sized rag on there. I was hoping whatever they put on it, it's a smell that they don't like. And generally they don't smell the garbage because that inundates it. But anyway, one morning the guy was out there and it had the strap across the can to hold it closed. And the guy just kept shaking the can, shaking the can until he broke the strap. It was pretty funny. Probably did it for 30 seconds, just, just radical hydraulic movement until it broke the strap, so.

Send you out. Well, I'll have to get you on HF first anyway. Yeah, I have never made up any cards. A lot of people are doing them all electronically and stuff like that these days, but there's a few. I probably got a dozen of them here over the last few years where people send me that I probably need to send something back to them someday. I just happened. Yeah. Do you know what I mean by a PSK reporter? PSK reporter. If you just go online and you go type in PSK reporter. Do you know what I'm talking about? To be honest with you, not. Not really. I just know it like digital. Probably crossing your beard. That's not all I know about it. No, I'm talking about a website. I mean, these are things, tools that you need to know for propagation. So.

Yeah. We just don't put it out. You know, Tara. You probably haven't heard Tara out here too many times, but. But they. They had all kind of problems up there. They. They got an old truck or something out. Out in the yard. They put their garbage out there in there before they put it in the can. Yeah. And they've had the bear crawl through the chicken coop roof, get up on the roof, rip the roof back and jump down inside there. We have never had no problems. No problems with the bear. I'm a light sleeper, so. And I got a baby monitor out there. That's the other way around it. I don't know what you could do with your garbage out in the road to put a baby monitor, but.

PSK reporter online. If you just Google that, it'll, it'll say, like, display reception reports. You know, you can, you go in there and you can put, you know, use different filters and so on, like, what band, 40 meters, what call sign? And like I'm KN6MGK. And then, you know, look, look over the last couple hours and it'll propagate a map. It'll show you all the stations that we're hearing me on, say, FT8. So it's real important because if you go out in the field and you want to know what band is working, you know, how's propagation on all the different bands, you can really quickly operate FT8 for a few minutes on each band and get an idea as to how your, how your antennas are working. Yeah. Okay, so that's a PSK report, is that correct?

Chicken coop. That works good. I'm out there in a hot flash with a. With the shotgun. They run away. One shot, they run away. We're not near a neighborhood like yours. We got lots of land around us that people shoot whenever they want around here. I don't shoot the bear. All you got to do is shoot toward them from a good distance. They just run away. They're afraid of the noise. You. You got guns. Blake, grab a couple of wad cutters. That way you can shoot them. Shoot them right. Shoot the noise right toward the baron. It ain't gonna ricochet or go through anybody's. Copy.

Well, it's PSK report. Sure. But I'm sure that it might come up that way. Okay, yeah, I'll do that after a few minutes or maybe when I get back from restaurant. Yeah, yeah, we'll see about it. We'll check it out. No, I really like that. I. I don't know. I've always used a, you know that QRZ chart, You know, where it says two bits. Good. That. That kind of thing. This is a little more exact, I think, kind of tells you where they're hearing you specifically or hearing anybody else. What stations? Yeah. So the one other comment I'll make, because I have a. You have the 891. I have an 857D, which is basically the same thing as an 891, but it adds VHS.

Car or any of that stuff. It's a lot of work to clean a bear down. I wouldn't shoot them. Well, what. What do you think, Jay? Can you. Can you see the electrical cord going up on the garbage truck L up there and arcing and. And jumping around as he's trying to dump the can with the cord attached?

And UHF all in one. Well anyway if you ever wanted to do say FT8 or JSA call or any digital mode the sound card you need is a digi rig and you just go online and order it. That guy is really neat. I just emailed him, I told him what rig I had and he said yeah just order this and this. It's a set of cables and the digirig and I did and I got it in and been using it and it works great. So anyway but the one that they sell is pretty easy for the 891. I think it's like the Dr. 891 or something like that. So they've actually made one specifically for the 891 and you know the total price of the cables and the digirig probably right around 100 bucks. It's not so bad, little extra thing you got to carry but I went to the dollar store and got this little plastic bag thing. It's very small but.

The digirig is the size of a matchbox, really. Cables is what kind of counts there. And. But it fits in there. And I put that in with my. My kit. So in haul the whole thing, my radio and that and microphone and all that stuff in a really small bag. KN6NGK. Yeah, that. Yeah. I think the one they were not advertising, but show it on YouTube. Was it Tiger single or something like that? And I think, like you said, it was running about 130 bucks, 134 bucks. Then you buy the cable, or the cable comes with it, and it plugs into the back of the radio. It's plug and play. Pretty much plugging into your computer. Get your software up and run it. Yeah, well, that's kind of what I'm trying to. Trying to help you.

We went to a lady's house up in, oh, I can't remember what they call it. Area. All the rich people up there up on the lake, up around. Shoot, can't think what they call that area. But anyway, it's up by Reno, but it's this side, big lake. And everybody has the exact same garbage deals. They're bear proof. He did away with that problem when they built that community up there. Now a little bit over there, more toward on the other side of 80, Up on the mountains up there, big wood.

Because even Mike would agree with you. Now that's old school like the signal length they're huge. Yeah you want to get the new stuff now. So digirig is it so things the size of a matchbox. You know it's not very big. Maybe it's a slight bit bigger than a matchbox but anyway it's very small. Yeah that old school thing was a big box with these serial cables you had to wrap all around them in a DC power cord and stuff. I mean at the Gears auctions they pretty much throw them away so I know people still pay for them and everything but I've never seen anyone pick one up at the Gears auction for three years. There's always one sitting there and it always gets tossed into the electronic waste file at the end. So everyone uses these newer digirigs now. They're a lot smaller, a lot more portable work just as good if not better. Can 6 MT.

Lake. Real common place. All the richie people live up there. It burned a couple years ago. Double. No, no, no. It's about two and a half hours from here. You go like you're going to Reno, but it's still a little bit south. Close. Giant. Giant Lake. Huge. I've been out on it. Can't believe it. The name of that. Everybody knows about that area. But anyways, that's. It's not.

Yeah, they come out with all kinds of newer stuff. Yeah, that's one of those. I think that. Tiger parts. I've seen them. Like you said, you know, I've seen them. I didn't know what there was, but I seen them. I'll be honest with you. But yeah, I've seen them on at ham swaps and stuff like that, you know, But. But no, we. We were just looking at it, and, you know, right now we're. We're just playing around with it. I figured I'd get two contacts a day. That's good enough for me to park some of the air. And I'm a hunter. And then I put in there. Qrz. There was a guy yesterday, he was really excited in la. He's been a half for years, but he just pried up his rig and.

Jk6vzb mobile, wp6axm receiver.

That important where it is. But the whole community has the big metal communal style garbage can. See, it's like the old mailboxes. You can put stuff in it, but you can't get it back out. And the doors big enough to put plastic bags on it, they. They can't get in it, though it works pretty good. When they. When they go in. When they go in to get it, to dump it. When the forks are all the way in and push forward, it unlatches the roof and they dump it the same way they do our cans. But it's a much bigger. It's a much bigger deal. Except periodically around the community up there must have cost them a small fort.

I was the first one that he got a hold of. He was really excited over that. Oh yeah, yeah, I already got one. Well I have to leave here in about 20 minutes but this morning I was up and yeah, I already got one contact on parts on the air this morning so. But it was FP8 like I said. So I was operating FT8 for about an hour and a podcast came up so I go, yeah, let's grab that. He was in Texas so not a big deal. But yeah, sometimes you fall back on wanting something that you don't have to talk on. Even CW is one of those. After about an hour of talking like I did the net last night and I was there for 50 minutes, my throat was getting dry. So anyway, it's nice to have another mode to fall back on and FT8 can be one of those and so can CW and so can other forms.

Fortune. Well, what's Stephen getting done today? Sounds like Cherry's having problems with his Flex Radio. I text him and reminded him about pirate ship. There's one of the nice things about Flex radios, though. He's had his problems. He said he'll never buy another Flex radio. This morning I felt sorry for him. Not that I'm laughing at him about it or. Or anything, because it ain't really funny, but it's a bummer. That just takes one or two Hamster.

Of ham radio, but it's just fun having different choices. And yeah, you get out there in the desert and you work some photo stations and stuff like that, and maybe you have lunch and just want to look at your computer screen and see what's populating. Like this morning, a Fiji station came on. I got Fiji. Some China stations came on, Hong Kong, Singapore. But the Hong Kong and the Singapore stations couldn't hear me. I could hear them, they couldn't hear me. That happens a lot. But anyway, but I did get Fiji, and I got there's a de expedition going in Vanuatu, and for two days I've gotten them every morning. So Vanuatu is coming in pretty good on 40 meters. So anyway, early morning on 40 meters has been really good. Then it kind of dries off during the day. But that's why it's neat to have a morning.

To give a radio a bad name, and I love mine. I had never had no complaints other than customer service. I probably wouldn't buy another Flex product because of their customer service. The radios are bad to the bone.

Multi banded antenna. And I'll go back to that, that offset of fed work. Three bands. So 40, 20 and of course, 10. And if you get one long enough, this one was longer, I cut it down. But you can get it to work, you know, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10. But I don't have the room for that here at the house, so. Working pretty good. Something worth thinking about next time you put up an antenna that you want to try something a little different. Yeah, well, like I said, I got the 10 and 20 meters. I gotta get me a little switch, you know, switch antenna type deal from the two coax up there so I can put them both up at the same time. But I'm waiting until I get down there to Quartzite. Now Quartzite, they have a lot of that kind of stuff.

The same thing you and me went through, Jay. For one thing, I didn't read the update. You got to read the whole update before you do it, because otherwise I would have known to. You have to go in and and download or upload the. Program before the one you're running. You have to start back one in order. You know what they were. You know what was going on with that whole deal. And if you had the linear and the radio, you had to do them both. Otherwise those radio wouldn't operate the linear after you updated the radio to the latest version wasn't for you. I probably wouldn't even have a flex radio right now. It's about ready to put that one underneath the back tire on the truck. But anyway, it in turn blew up the engine.

At that hampshire there and then down there. Yuma. Now that's a big corporate, I guess you call it corporate. These will show up. And plus they have all kinds of people there, you know, I mean, it's a pretty good sign down there. Yuma. So I plan on going in and I'll pick up those logging in there. Well, as a ham radio operator, we tend to like lots of coaxes running through our house, I guess. But it is kind of nice to be able to get more than one band on one feed line. So something to consider. That's why I like the N Fed half wave and I like the off center fed. I've also used a version of the G5 RV called the G0 GSF. That was probably the first antenna I built. And I was able to get on even parts of 80 meters, too. On the digital part.

And of course, that cost me about 350 bucks or more to fix. And then I sold it for half of what I paid for it and had into it. But anyway, that was a nice amplifier. They build a good product, but the testing on the software, they don't devote enough time for it before they release it. And I've seen that happen a couple of times with them. Then you're back dealing with customer service. So it's just not worth it. I'll keep the one I got and I'll probably sell it broken if I ever get rid of it.

Anyway on that one, and set that one up as a, as a, as a inverted V on that one. And I hung that one up at about 30, about 35ft or something like that. And that worked pretty good. But, you know, had its limitations, too. I built that one. So pretty interesting. But these multi banded antennas can be pretty nice, but they're not perfect. So they might be like, you know, 1 and 3, quarter to 1 or 2 to 1 SWR and so forth in different operating areas of the bands. But my understanding is you have that little antenna tuner, so that would fix it up. So it'll work really well with anything that's close to resonant like that. Yeah, it does pretty good. Here's a question for you. I think I know the answer, but I'm just going to.

Well, yeah, I never had any problem with the Maestro except for what I did to it with the cord. That I do have a complaint there with them. Those little small jacks, they. They don't live up to yanking on the cords whatsoever. And if you just happen to yank at the right direction, it bends where it touches the tip. Yeah, I can make the Maestro work if I hold the jack over to one side for the. For the modulation. Otherwise it does everything else. You already know that. You may. You made it work. Yeah. Well, anyway, the whole computer and the radios, I wouldn't even have got that little repeater style cross band repeat thing out in the garage for the handy talk on if it wasn't for Steven coming up and.

Going to throw it off to make sure that I'm thinking in the right mode there. As long as you get your antennas, say, 8ft off the ground, like the inverted B or something like that. The height really doesn't make that big of a difference. Or does it? The higher the better, I'm sure. But the takeoff angle is. Is okay. Say if you were 25ft of ground. Well, there's some tactical purposes for antennas right on the ground, especially for listening. So antennas can work anywhere. In fact, a lot of people will put up a listening antenna, like a loop on the ground, they call it. You can research that. Some people use their fence lines. Like, I have a wood fence around my house, and they'll put it right on the fence line all the way around their house.

Had that kind of radio, that 400 yaesu, he had those down so it wasn't nothing for him to do it. I just don't want to apply myself. I've the thrill is gone that end of radio. But anyway, I could fix the Maestro one of these days I might get a wild hair if I wind up in a wheelchair or something and I got nothing better to do than occupy myself. I can fix the Maestro easy enough. It's just making that one connection and hardwiring the microphone to it. Or putting a jack in the side. There is enough room in there to put the jack on the side. And they could have fixed the whole wiring problem had they just made a strain relief somewhere in the middle of the back of it so that the cord had to run through an S shape, anything. All the cords.

For listening. A lot of times you can transmit off of them too, but that's where the ground can absorb your signal, at least a good part of it. So it just depends on what you're after. But anything that's less than a quarter wavelength from the ground is considered NVIs. What do they call that? Very close communications. So, yeah, no, the ground plays a pretty important part of things. And higher isn't necessarily better. It depends on what you're after. If you're after dx, you know, further contacts, then higher generally is a little bit better because you have less ground absorption and more refraction from the ionosphere. So you would want higher. But let's say you want to talk to Oklahoma consistently, you probably don't want as much dx. You could be skipping right over them. So you want.

To hold it, so if you accidentally yanked it, it couldn't bend the prongs inside the jack. Not. Not that big a deal. You could. You could. You could hear Steve talking on the radio. Jay, He likes using the computer instead of a Maestro. He sold both his Maestros. He likes the way it looks on the screen, you know, 15 inch laptop or whatever. Touch screen. Yep. So he. He sent me a little short video, what it looks like, and it does look nice. You don't even need the Maestro.

To set the height. Right. So you get the best refraction for that type of communication. So my answer to your question is it depends. Yeah, you answered. All depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking for local, as we call local. Hold on. Or if you're looking for a long distance. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I get what you're saying there. Now, see, I have my. I have my antenna. The speed point of about 25ft. And the, you know, it's an inverted bead. And I come off the deck about 8ft at the bottom, and that's at each end, if you will. You know, of course, there's been out maybe 30ft or so, but I hit Texas. I hit Texas.

Like I'm hitting you and Mike and everybody else. Oh, there's two meters. I hit Texas 10 meters. Just easy. Yep. Yeah. And you know what? That's like hitting Japan. So Japan on 40 meters or on 20 meters, generally it's easy. So just like Texas, you know, so it's got the right, the right spot, you know, anyway. But totally understandable for me when I'm setting up portable, I like the vertical antenna. I've been trying to encourage you to get a vertical antenna, especially when they're cheap. Some of them are cheap. Like the one, one that I use that I can get over to the East Coast a lot. Real Easy is only 40, like 45 bucks on Amazon, you know, so, yeah, I think that that's a good thing to have in your kit, you know, and it's very simple.

Oh, yeah. Well, I already figured that out, because one time while I was playing with it, I seen it modulate, and so I reached back there and started moving the plug around, and. And I could make it work that way. So the opening is so small, and if you. If you take it apart, which I've had it apart before, they. They got that. They got it. That part of the board submerged in some type of a. It's not really a silicone application. It's. And it's not epoxy, so. But you can't just get to it. So I took the board completely out of there, because that's its own separate board, all the jacks, and you can see the bottom of the board just fine. All. All you got to do is get it hooked up, get it operating, because it does all that just fine.

The breakdown and everything. Now if you wanted to spend more money then you would go get like the JPC12 or something like a lot of people are or that radiodity one that they're selling right now. But yeah, Those are probably 150 to 180 bucks or something like that. So they get more expensive then. But I'm just talking about the cheap Chinese one. I have a more expensive one too but the one that works just fine for the price is that little one from Amazon. You know what is it about a 17 foot width that's extendable, you know and so it breaks down to being about maybe 2ft tall overall or something about like that when it comes down. So it's pretty small, easy to carry. Wrap my radials right around it. So anyway, but that just gives you a little bit different propagation than these wire antennas do. Yeah, yeah, no, no I, no I appreciate that. It's just nice.

And then you just need to feel around with your finger till you hear it hum when it's keyed up, watch it on another radio, whatever, till it hums. And then you found the contact on the bottom of the board. See what I'm getting at? Then you drill a hole in the side of the case. There's just enough room around there. Put your own mic jack in and run the ground and the positive wire to your new jack from the board directly. And don't mess with the epoxy or the silicone. You know why they like to put electronics in a suspension like that? Because they know. They know you're going to be carrying the Maestro around or whatever. And so the electronics go through, heck, dropping it and setting it down hard and airplane trips and you name it. So they. They just suspended in some type of gel that hardens. So anyway, I didn't.

I have looked at the. Oh, I'll forget this. I don't know. I got to wrote it down over here somewhere, but it's pretty expensive. But anyway, it's 80 meters, 40 meters and 20. I think it is 23ft tall and doesn't need any radio. But I've been Googling it and asking can I use my metal roof of my house or the radio on a vertical antenna? And some. Some come back. Oh, yeah, yeah, no problem. Just make sure the electrical contacts are good and all that good stuff. Other one says no, but I feel like that if you use the roof of your house, you're going to get a lot of noise. I don't know. Yeah, I think that's what's going to happen. But yeah,

Feel like digging all that out, because then it would look like a whoopty poopty. I think my way of fixing it's the easiest way. I sent it up to Larry. He took it over to Dennis's house before he passed away up on 37 and 97, I mean. And, well, he. It was starting to get sick. He has since passed away, but he didn't have the unction to fix it. He had fixed one before that, so he knew what to do. He just didn't have the unction to do it. So six, eight months later, I can't remember what. What. What the. What the deal was, but I think the next time I went up there, I collected it from. From Larry, and it's been sitting here ever since.

You can. I don't see why not. You probably have to put a screw in your roof somewhere, huh? To try to get a good. Make sure you get a really good electrical conductivity there. Use a little grinder to grind off a spot, you know. So that's my thoughts, but yeah. So if you could put a vertical up above it, right. Then attach the ground field to your roof. Sure, why not? Yeah. Like you were saying, I kind of feel like that you're setting yourself up for some RF noise in your shack. And you know what? At 100 watts, it's probably not a big deal, but you start wanting to throw 500 watts at it and you're probably gonna. All your computers are gonna start wigging out. Your mouse. Your mouse clicker thing is gonna move all around. I know. I've experienced all this. By the way my monitor shut off all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, I understand that. That's what this guy on YouTube said. He said that he lives in.

See with the StarLink in the RV with which Starlink texted me yesterday by the way, to just keep you up to date on that. Due due to demand. It's going to be late for the BE. Send me the Starlink Mini. It's only $5 a month and you can, you can can cancel anytime and put it back into a non op for $5 a month. Otherwise it's $65 a month. Yeah, maybe. Maybe it's even 165 bucks a month for that Starlink on the go thing. It's pretty small. Smaller than the unit you put on your house, which isn't that big a deal to carry in the RV anyway. But when we hit the road, you know, I got to have that Starlink and it would be so easy.

You know, homeowners association. You know, he moved there in a big attic. He put it in the attic. And he said that it's okay if you're running like 25 watts or even 50 watts. But he says you go pumping 500 watts, that's all going through your house. And I don't want to deal that. I don't want to even deal with it. But Josh, my son back in Oklahoma, he's got one of those kitchen faucets that I think the way you do it, you clap your hands or you touch it or something, the water comes on. The first time he keyed up his hf, he turned the water on, it off. Yeah. This weekend, my wife maybe turned it off. There was a contest at CQ Worldwide for cw. So other countries are looking for American stations. And so I'm listening. And CW.

To operate the base station here rather than outfit the whole RV with another whole separate radio antenna. And all that stuff between the Starlink and the. And the Maestro. That would have been great. Who knows how I'll tackle that problem when I get to it. Oh, I remember. J. 165 bucks a month for the Starlink if you. If you run it in. No, no, Cap. Roam. Roam mode. That way, while you're driving the truck, you can talk on your base station.

And trying to contact them and making a few contacts. And my wife starts yelling at me that I'm shutting off her appliance, that she's running. And so I had to quit. So anyway, that ended my radio day. But anyway, it happens, and I was running like, you know, maybe 100 watts on CW. So just trying to get these other contacts and other countries. So that's the way it goes. What can help that is if you put a good station ground in and I've got one pounded in out there. I just haven't attached to it correctly and everything. So that's something I got to work on. And then maybe I gotta change out one or two GFCI sockets in the house here. That would help too. Yeah, yeah, I got. I gotta run. But let me tell you this. I got a. Well, I got the regular house.

I got a 6500 inverter and two seven thousands to choose from. It's this 3500 that I just bought. I wish I'd have got the 5,000 that would have ran everything. But that little. That little 600amp is only 110. It's not that much amperage, so I don't think I'm worried about that. If it's. If it's hot enough outside to run the air conditioner inside while you're sitting still, I'll probably be out and hiking and doing stuff early in the morning. I probably won't be running the air conditioner. The guys I talk to. So who knows, Jay? Maybe I'll be out in Arizona and it'll already be a hundred degrees outside when I get up in the morning to yak it up with the normal crew.

For the electrical box where when they built the house, they drive an eight foot copper rod in the ground. Well, I drive it. I drove another. It was about a ten foot. But I got about all but about four feet to ground and I hit a big rock. And the rocks up here, you know, they could be as big as your house on the ground. So anyway, I stopped. But what I found out one morning I woke up on this 20 meters and I got a lot of noise. I thought what in the world of that? Because the day before or the same week before they I had zero z up here and almost zero. I mean it wasn't completely, you know. No. Extreme. But anyway, what I did, I shut everything off my house and I flipped just the meter off and the meter itself was making noise.

About mounting the amp right out there by the antenna in the back of the truck. Oh, yeah. Well, you have a very short cord running to the amp.

Oh, yep. All righty. That can be. Well, anyway, it sounds like you got to get going, and actually, so do I. So we'll chat with you later. Nice talk there, and hope to hear from you again soon. 7 3Kn 6Mgk. All right, Steve, you have a good day there. And like I said, this KN6SLM6 7 is your wife. Run the red luck. See you.

I already did it. I ran the compressor for a half a day and I checked the cord periodically. There wasn't any problem there. I I don't want to pop that grill cover off up there on the top. And I'm sure not getting up on the roof for any reason unless a tree falls through it. Yeah, I've learned over the years what things not to do to create more work for yourself when it comes to roofs. That's why I'm not going through the roof in the shop to put a fireplace in out there. I'm going through the sidewall down there where I can reach it. But anyway, yeah, 30amps ain't a big deal for a number 10 cord. That is a heck of a nice cord. It's good. It's rated at 50amps. Even at 100ft.

I sure like the marine application the best. That, you know, a threaded ring that holds it in place and it's watertight. That was the best connection. I'm not even taking it with me. The generator is going to be in the back of the truck. I have a, I have a 20 foot and a 30 foot cord. It's hardly any use on either one of them. So I'll just run the generator. Well, we, we watched some shows last night, Jay, that Lori found on Cross Country Parks to parks, hitting all the parks, all the national parks. That's a one particular run that a lot of people do and some campgrounds.

That you go to, it won't allow you to run a generator. And some of those parks won't let you run a generator, even though they don't have plug in facilities. And I also learned something else about that deal, especially koa. A lot of people buy a seasoned spot. I don't know what that costs, but a lot of people book. They've already done it before. They know what places they're going to and when they're going to be there. So they make sure they save them a spot. You got to call ahead of time. If you have a season pass, you can call within a week or two and and they'll save you a spot or even a month. And then if somebody leaves or the next available spot, they end up holding that for you. And they have a couple of spots that they always leave open for full season.

People. So anyway, I. I don't plan on doing that sort of thing. I see a road that runs off the side of the highway, a dirt road. I'm just. I'm just heading out that way and pulling over on the side or at the first open area and. And sleeping there for the night. If we find a place next to a creek and hang out for a couple of four days or seven days, whatever you. You're able to do. Yeah, I'm not gonna go. I'm not gonna go from campground to campground. Forget that.

I've seen it being over, over the road. I was down in LA and one of my ham operators there. Lived, you know, a couple of blocks from the Walmart. Maybe it was a Kmart. And I just pulled the big rig in there. It was six or seven of them in there. They had a huge parking lot and there was plenty of motorhomes in there like Cabela's. They had a separate little lot just for big rigs and stuff. And you could just pull in there, sleep and leave in the morning. Yep. Little mall like places back east too, that I went to that were just four big rigs, but campers went in there. Had little community just like what you're talking about. Washer and dryer showers and one or two restaurants.

Yeah, I seen those. They got. They. They had one right there in orland that had the window units, but I think they only had 10. 10 spots for that. That way you didn't have to run your truck. It's hard, real hard on a diesel motor. You're just wiping the miles off it. If you let it idle all night, in fact, through the qualcomm, if you pulled over into a place like that, it would start and stop your engine. As the air conditioner would come on, it would start the truck engine and cool the truck down and then shut it off just so it wasn't idling all night. They made it illegal in a lot of places to let it idle all night anyway. But those guys that are over the road, they don't care about the mechanic repair bill. It's just the owner operators. I don't even know if Ortland still has that through the window thing, but that was a good idea. I don't know what they charge them guys for a night, but some of them guys.

The gears. Monthly informal breakfast is held on the second Saturday of the month at 9am at the Farmer's Skillet, located at 690 Rio Lindo Ave. Chico. All are welcome to attend W6RHC Repeater Check 2.

Only drive at night, Jay and so they pull in those places during the day, put that in the window and sleep all day while it's hot. All nicely air conditioned. And yeah, nighttime comes around, they take it out and drive all night. Truck lasts longer driving at night. Anyway, Like to finish this little ice box. I'm almost there. I. I made a couple of big time improvements. I wish I wouldn't have drilled the holes in the side where I did. Now it's an easy fix and if I really want.

To. I could go down and spend the $28 that's with tax and everything for a new ice chest. But this one's almost done, so I'm gonna live with it. I put. I found those gray pipe. They have electrical sweeps for the wire. And the opening on the inside is bigger than the. The clear tube. If you go with the three quarter inch like that better. The clear tube, I gotta go from the outside of the chest, but on the inside you ought to see how nice that looks with the preformed sweeps coming up out of the fan and just going up and pointing straight towards the output to go through the case and. And then I put the ribbed deal so you can put a plastic hose on the outside to run the air where you want to. So I end up.

With a not such a sharp bend. Using that clear tube inch and a quarter. The sweep has plenty of room inside of it, so. And it makes it look real clean inside the box. J. I like it. So what are you doing FT8 in it?

Oh, yeah. You can just hook the whole thing up and measure the output on top of the linear to see if it matches the numbers I already wrote down that we did from the stock fan. Yeah. I really appreciate you giving me, making that data available to me with your. I was gonna call it a monocular, but. Yeah. Yeah, an anometer. It's a three in one thing anyway, isn't it? Does temperature and everything. That thing's bad to the bone. Yeah, we'll be. We'll be able to match it. Match it up. I just. That's what you gave me the variable for, Jay. I can. I can adjust the flow without creating back pressure at the fan, and there is no equal to it. Right now, I just run in one linear off it. I'm going to run two hoses out of it so I can run.

One in the back where the 4 inch fan is on the back just to cool the hole inside of the unit. Besides the one that's isolated with the blower fan on the inside that just does the tubes. I'll run two hoses. The one that just blows around on the inside is an optional thing. You don't even need a 4 inch fan on the outside. But if you want to cool the whole case. And since I got two sides to pull off of. Yeah, so I'm only gonna have two pipes and two outlets for now. But I have the capability of running five pipes out of there. I got two on one side of the fan and three on the other side. So three quarter inch outlets in case I need to expand somewhere down the road I can run a hose over to anything the back of the 9700 or even over to the 101, anything I want to cool. Now I got a blower.

Capabilities. Yeah, that'd be nice. Just for the hell of a couple LEDs on the side of it, the front of it, to make it look appropriate. Yeah, I need to get a nice strain relief for the power cord running into the inside of it, but it's all going to look pretty darn sweet. I might. I might play with that today. I found a fresh tube of two cylinder epoxy and some ATV clear that I'd bought out in the shed. I wouldn't even have spotted that. I'm gonna wait till I get it completely done before I apply any gl.

Oh, I wouldn't, I wouldn't change the part that I would. Epoxy. If I epoxied anything, it would just be where you push on the slip on barbed outward. So you can put those. You know, if you transport it, you just. It's just an ice chest. And, and if you, if you want to disconnect it from the, the clear tubing, you just slide it on and off the, the barbed fitting on the outside. Once that's glued in, you can, you can take it apart on the outside. On the inside, it's all that gray 3/4 inch PVC. Yeah. I got away from the barbed clear tubing on the inside because it makes such a.

Sharp bend that it collapses it. So I went to electrical PVC sweeps. Can't beat that. And then it makes it look a lot nicer in there. I was thinking air horns.

It sounds familiar. I think I've seen that. Yeah, I think I seen that on the early models, like the 60 Thunderbird. Maybe it was a little earlier, 58 or 9 or something. The first, the first thoughts of the tilt wheel invention. Yeah. Well, I was watching those things last night about traveling across the United States, and that guy put an air horn under his Airstream. How do you like that? Four footer, comes with the electrical pump. And I was very impressed. Very impressed. Actually, it was a two horn setup. They were both separate from each other, both horns. And he put a button on his, his wife's side so that he, he made the one longer horn and she made the shorter. They were both the same loudness and they ran on the same tank. Air.

It was pretty funny. They could almost play a little tune between the two of them pushing the button, you know, they were playing with it.

D.

I think all The Thunderbirds were two doors and yeah, the 60 model one was a full size car. No doubt about it. That's just the way it was. But they, yeah, they made the other model. I know what you're talking about in the before the 60 models came out that the sport size and even it was too big. It was mid sized compared to today's standards. My Rodin one had a 409 or something and I wasn't impressed. It did lift the right side or the left side of the car up when you floored it but the damn thing was so heavy there was nothing quick about it. I always liked the body style, removable hard top at that. At least I got to ride in one. And I owned a 60 and a 61 and those were bigger, like you're saying much wider. And what a dream car. What a dream car. Man, I love driving it.

Appetite. Even in those days when gas was under 50 cents a gallon, it was still a gas hog. Eight little men with buckets. Well, it is possible that this one might have had the 60. One might have had it. Maybe it was an option and I just never seen it. Back in those days, somebody offered me 300 or $500 for a car that I just bought to fix up and sell. I took it as I didn't always have a car more than a month or two. You bet. Yeah. So who knows? It could have had it and I just didn't find that how you. How you activated it. Yeah.

It did sound familiar, though. Jay, I think I seen a car with that.

I know. Yeah. Well, I'll keep that comment to myself. You know, Tupperware parties and everything. Yeah, you wouldn't have appreciated that comment anyway. Yeah, well, they were doing the best they could when the first ideas came into mind. Telescoping. They were probably having a problem because you remember it was probably around the 60s that they started making. After a few head on collisions, rammed the steering wheel right through the guy's neck, they started making. Making it a law that you had to have a telescoping attachment down to the steering gear. I even put one on the 38. But anyway, you can only imagine what kind of conditions they were going through. Even on 9 inch swing away they had to have a universal in there.

It was a big selling feature. You know, the guy that was selling the new cars? Leave the door open and swing it away for the customer. So I can't wait to show that to everybody. Sounds about right. I was pitching Ricky Ricardo, you know, with Lucy driving one of those. Yeah.390 was probably the most common motor they used. What?

After. After 60. That 57 or so smaller Thunderbird with the. With the port holes in it that I wrote in that had a 409 in it, way too big. Sounded nice, Lifted the friend up nice. But I expected it to burn rubber. And it. I think. I think it could break a moose. But only talking a few feet at best. If you look at the weight of that car back then, Jay, I'll bet you it's even the sport, the smaller, Sportier one, still 6,000, £7,000.

So in 55. In 55. I don't remember which way it went because I was too young. But the 55 smaller model before the 60s model, the fins that were over the taillights in the back, like Cadillac used to do, were straight up and down. Then the. To make them different, maybe about 59 or something like that. 58, they slanted them so they were. They were outward. None set a straight up and down. They were pointing outward. And then, you know, you remembered Jay here just recently, in the last, what, seven or ten years, they, they re. They remade that smaller model Thunderbird, with the removable hard top with porthole. I didn't care for that one compared to the original.

The nostalgia crew. Yep. Big. They got. They got them all. Mercury Lincoln and Jaguar later.

Well, they did ride nice. I tell you that. I hated to get rid of that 60 or that 61. I only had that for a week. Same guy that bought the 60 from me bought the 61. What a beautiful car to drive, man. As good as a Cadillac any day of the week.

Brother. That was my giggle for the morning.

This stupid exhaust pipe running across over the water pump in the front of the motor.

Oh, brother. The things we came up with back in the day, which is something else I gotta do. Jay and I may run the. The clear hose up and over the top of the linear just so I can put a pin on the inside of the hose with a piece of rivet on it so I could see the flow in case it. Case it ever quits on me. Ate the ruin a 500 metal tube over no airflow. I have it. I have that set up. I still have that little setup energy.

Temperature gauge that it runs through the tube for the liquid cooling. I have that whole setup. I think I showed it to you. The Zalman Salmon liquid cooled. Now you've got the chip sets and manifolds and all that stuff. Still got it all brand new, never used even. I got two bottles of the non conductive fluid, cooling fluid.

And no, it's K something, I think. I was gonna say MGM's call sign, but I brain farted on the first part. What'd Blake do the other day when he was riding with you and I signed out with his call sign?

Yeah. Timer ran a big stick from the back seat hump out of a station wagon. Cut a hole in a rubber donut through the roof, had a big stick. You guys probably seen that Blake. Probably did. Talk about stupid looking. A big stick, a 18 foot antenna sticking out of the middle of a station wagon. Oh, brother. He definitely had to mochi in him.

Oh, it's just. Looks like Ron Ronnie sent me an E message. Hey, what was this hinge for? It looks like a Bronco windshield. Hinge? They sold a hinge for a Bronco front windshield? Fold down. I guarantee you they got way over a hundred bucks for that length. Looks like I gotta call Thomas Hydraulics today, See what they get for it. And then they'll tell me what you act the name of that hinge is. So anyway, I was busy sending him a voice text. I can't believe Stephen hasn't keyed up in 45 minutes. No, I. I always heard him call a piano hinge. But there's another. There's another technical name for it. The type of hasp or something. Just not coming to me. You.

You had another name for. Was just going to sit in the garage. I don't know what I used it for. The nice thing about those are that when you put them on a door, they're already lined up. You can't screw it up. You know, like when you put on two hinges and you got one slightly crooked, the door. The door gets in a bind every time you open it. Depending on how out of kilter. These metal doors that I have here, these security doors, they already have the hinge and the flange square box tubing that you put three bolts through to attach it to wood. Someday you might see where I put one on her shed that came out nice, very nice, and works perfectly.

Check. Interesting. I see. Or they might have the actual term. I. I just have a vague memory that Thomas had a. Had a little sign above the stack. They had. They had all different lengths. 2ft, 3ft, 5ft, 6ft, you know, And that was. That was at least a five footer, so, yeah.

I can't believe you didn't use it. That that would have guaranteed you a perfect opening. He wouldn't add to brace the back of the cabinet or any kind of weird stuff. Not tuned up on 97, but I hear Ken or Larry, the other weatherman. Larry. Yeah, There's Terry heading out the door. This was first morning in a long time that I just listened and didn't key up. I never heard F.Q. larry.

Local. Good morning.

Yeah. I wish I would have never told him about 97. He knew one or two of the people from over the years, but he never went there in the morning. I listened for seven to nine months before I even keyed up there. Steve kept inviting me off 3900 to go there early in the morning. And I wanted to get to know everybody's name and the flow, you know? When in Rome, do as the Romans do that, will you blend. You don't end up with some weirdo that decides they don't like you and mistreating you. So I waited and waited, and I never heard him out there. So eventually I did start talking up there. I told him about it because they're. They're. They're a different sort of.

Group, and they've been together out there 20, 30 years, like 3900 was. So anyway, Larry's ruined it. He ran Rich off there, who I didn't like anyway, but I just didn't talk to him. And. And he. He's you. You've been privy to some of the latest stuff. So. Yeah. So, anyway, we won't talk about people out here. I notice you always change the subject when we start doing that. But anyway. Doot. It's getting light out. I was gonna jack Stephen up for what he was gonna get done today. If It'll be interesting to see what Ron decides to do. I mean, his original idea plan, which I didn't like, by the way. I don't like sliding wood. The at.

D.

Cross wood. I would. I would at least. At least put some type of a low profile wheel or something. Wheels on it. So that. And a handle on the front so you could pick it up a little bit and roll it out. And then still you had to go all the way around the side because the porch ain't deep enough to. When the. You got to move it over to the side or pivot it out in order to do. Especially the gas. Yeah, I would do that whole thing differently. They sell little 12 volt gas pumps. Jay said that you'd pump the fuel into there. You just put the hose inside your gas can or whatever and let it. Pump it into the tank. But I. I would just get a permanent five gallon tank. Whatever. How much. How much fuel does that mammoth inverter you got.

Don't tell anybody that. Still electric. Probably safer that way. That is the nicest way to fill it up. And you don't have to worry about all that. If you just had a five gallon container, you'd probably never overfill it. You wouldn't have to lift the lid or do anything to get the right gas cap, which I don't know if Honda makes. That would be problematical. So they probably don't have an option like that. But yeah, you need to come up with a better idea. I myself would say screw that tank inside and just close the valve, and I'd run a different hose down to it and put an outside tank. Since they did put the tank on top, it's probably gravity flow, which would be your only deal. That's why I was thinking an electric pump, just so when you got home you could put 5 gallons or 10 gallons.

In a tank mounted alongside of it, then it'd be out in the sun then. Yeah, that might cause you another whole thought process in case you got a fire on and on and on. So, but that's, that's generally how I do it. I got a, I got an 8 gallon or 7 gallon metal tank that you put down on the ground, see. Then you just put your permanently mounted little pump like you got. You still got to lift the lid and see what it's filling it to. If you only had a five gallon tank like any that you fill up at the gas station, you'd probably never overfill it. But I know you just good enough to know that you're not going to want to worry about keeping an eye on it when you're electrically filling it up, that it might be overfilling it. Yeah.

Yep. You may find out if you look into it enough that that generator actually does have a fuel pump on it. It's probably. It's probably injected, right? So it makes sense that it would. It pressurizes the system. There's still probably meant to be a gravity flow, but you should look into that. If that's the case, you could just run a hose over to an outside tank. You know, do, do, do. Just. Just trying to overthink it.

I like that. That's cool. It was when I was thinking about this other deal about the air hose running to the bottom of the amp. I was thinking about putting a short piece of ribbon in there with a pin or something so that you could see the airflow anytime you looked over at it. But in your air conditioning business, as you guys probably got all kinds of thermocouples that you could simply put anywhere inside the. The tube area so that if it ever, if it ever started getting too warm because you didn't know that your secondary air supply shut off for whatever reason, it set off a buzzer or something or a light bulb, something.

I like it. You put that right inside the box, the air box. So, you know, with another little doohickey on the outside, a couple digital gauges for. So you knew what was going on with it. Like, when you're setting your variable speed to match the CFMs you want and all that good stuff, I'm running down the hall and six mtm.

I could hear you from just around the corner. Right there. I didn't want to pee myself. What? Larry, you did that for.

Anyway, if a guy was to mass produce these air boxes, nobody'd want to go make the part. The manifold that hooked to your linear or whatever, you were going to cool with it, but I guarantee you'd probably sell a couple of hundred of them off the top. Guys that had elaborate systems that just run an air pipe down the back of their bench so they could tap in anywhere they wanted with a short, clear hose or something. I got to have something, though. Some type of warning device. Be a bummer to have to replace five to $700 tubes times two over blower failure.

So I'll get back with you when I get to that point. I have, I have several two digit digital, For lack of better term, You know, readout. I could put voltage in and amperage in line. That would, on the outside of it, cut out nice square holes for it. On, off switch, the variable speed. Well, it has an on and off on that variable speed, so I don't have to worry about that. But you could definitely doll up the front of this ice chest.

Heck, you can buy them that you can have multiple choice on the color. All kind of weird. Pink and blue and yellow and green, red, you name it. That's a very small chip. Well, I talked to you off enough. I'll go look, see what's happening with the news. Work could break out at any time. I'm waiting for him to do El Salvador. That's going to be very interesting, but we're going to cut back the drugs coming into this country. He's kind of attacking the problem at the wrong end. Can you imagine or.

All these dopers, especially the heroin addicts and stuff, that are going to go crazy because there's dope's going to go sky high in price because there isn't going to be so as much easy access to it. And they'll be scrambling, rob analysis, stealing cars, you name it, to get the money to pay the exorbitant prices. But I'll tell you what might happen further down the road is you might find people go back to work because they can't get drugs so easy. It's not worth, not worth sitting around all day doing nothing.

The gear's west. Repeater frequency has been changed. It is now is now on 1.46.895 minus PL 1.23W 6R H C Repeater Check 3.

They let him get away with it, then Trump will send him a deal. Look, the next ones that come over are out of here. He'll. He'll. He'll add another rule to the rules of war. I'm sure if you come within a certain distance, we're shooting. They're just seeing how far they can get away with. Just like when Russia sent those balloons over, over Canada or Washington, Oregon, whatever. Remember when those balloons went over, it was. They got the units. They know it was purely surveillance. They were just testing the water, seeing what they get away with. Now they got drones. You have to send a whole bunch of drones and get away with that. But they have, they have ways of doing away with it. Now, from the sky, J. They can micro.

Microwave them little suckers with Star wars and, and they can override them with wide band, overpowering them so that they can't get no signal. They've. They've already came up with ways to overdo that, running several frequencies. So you just got to cover a huge band with and, and high power. They'll just drop out of the sky. And I'm sure that's what part of Elon's deal he can actually do that. They're probably implementing a lot of that Starlink deals so that they can create that dome over the United States that they can do something about air traffic. Well, the El Salvador thing, or Venezuela, whatever. They're getting ready to go on land any day now. You wait and see. They're going to do away.

With the help of Starlink, I'm sure. Now I'm guessing at that. But they know where every drug manufacturing plant is. Way out in the middle of the jungle. Yeah, they're just gonna, they're just gonna blow them all up. The president down there, they told him that, they already told him a couple of days ago, get out of your area, otherwise they'll die and you're no longer the President. The. The administration down there is afraid that the cartels will kill all the administration. So. And you could, you could see down there in that land, I mean, that's, it's overridden with mob style takeover. Been that way for 20 years, I'm sure. But anyway, we could eradicate a lot of that.

The idea is to stop people in America from using the damn stuff. That would be the other end. They should be attacking simultaneously is doing something about the dopers. You know, we really should just cordon off, like the movie Cordon Off New York and put, put a nice wall up. You can only go in and out through a couple of different places so you can get food and stuff into them and send all the dopers to one one state. You get caught with drugs or anything, you just send them there. And if they get straight on their own, they can test positive, they can come back out, test negative, I should say.

Perfect. Perfect. That's. That's what I call district mandering. That's what they're blaming Trump for. For resume regime change. Using drugs for the reason to get the the right administrators in down there so we can work with them. All right. N6 NTM yeah, it's only gonna get worse for me. I still got a half a cup of coffee. I better go do something else. Well, very good. I probably won't be able to resist coming by and seeing how far Ron gets. He's still sleeping in because he didn't get back to me over that text I voice text I sent him about the hinge. So, yeah, I want to see what he's going to do about hinging that hinge is the right way to do it. I think we both.

Know that. All right. Good. Good morning, Blake, Steve and whoever. Whoever's listening. Paul's at work or something, I guess. N6NTM Good morning.

The Gears Net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pm all amateur radio operators are welcome to join in on the net.

Fresno link, pop.

D.

W fix r h c repeater check 1.

D.

System32 link up.

7 7ld.

D.

Beers, 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.

And x, y and z. Mobile, sacramento.

N6yng mobile sacramento.

K7 is easy. Q testing.

The year's west repeater frequency has been changed. It is now on 1 46.895 minus PL 123. I receive 46.895 minus TL 123 W6 RHC Repeater Check 3.

N6yng mobile and listening. Carla 16.

D.

The gears. Monthly informal breakfast is held on the second Saturday of the month at 9am at the Farmer's Skillet, located at 690 Rio Lindo Avenue, Chico. All are welcome to attend.

Number 26, link up.

W e6axm receiver.

W e6a x n repeater.

D.

K7zzq testing with david and butch on the mesquite receder. K7zzq. Wat wa7kqs. You guys copy? Okay, I'll jump in here. Johnny, you got a quick keying, buddy. Quick keying. K0wwt. I can hear you both just fine here. K0wwc, This is K7VCQ. Holding the microphone down for a second. Is this any better? It.

Ka0wwt, wa7kqs. Butch, I copy you fine on this end. I don't hear Johnny. Go back to david, johnny. Wa7 kqs. K7bgq. I could not hear you on the m2 speaker. Well, Butch, I don't know. I don't hear any audio from Johnny at all. Okay, wow, that's wild, because I can hear you both fine. Okay, Johnny, sounds like there's something mucked up on your end. Ka0wwt, but I can hear you.

Good simplex, guys. K0wwt.

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 W6 RHC repeater check one.

Wa7kqs back on.

Ka0wwt.kwzq.ka0wwt. You're a little bit fuzzy, but you're still very readable. Very readable. Well, nothing I can do about location, but that's okay. But at least. Okay, we're on my Kenwood.

Radio right now. And so I think this is working a little better. Maybe then, I don't know. We'll see. So, anyway, he's got something to work with. It's perfectly usable. There's no doubt about that. K0WWC. Alrighty. Well, thank you so much for the test. And I'll be clear. K7ZZQ.

N6yng mobile listening to system 16 in lodi. Station in San Francisco. Good late morning. This is Essex Point and G Shock Mobile. I'm based in Los Angeles, but on my way driving stop.

From Sacramento. Audio is a bit low, but I'm not sure if that's a LinkedIn thing or on your end. Audio lows. That's my end. I'm not talking up into the microphone. I just woke up and turned the radio on and. Okay, well, there's somebody mobile they need somebody to talk to, so I'm here. Well, I appreciate you coming back to me. I called like a few times, actually, earlier this morning and was unable to raise anyone. So. Can you talk on the system regularly? Normally I'm up at about 6 somewhere right around there, and I talk a couple people to work and then I get back to bed generally.

W e6a x n repeater.

And I kind of hang here normally all day long. You know, once around the van, up and down, check things out, see what's going on, maybe find somebody else who needs a radio check or whatnot. And I'm always there. Terrible. Some kiddos. Oh, I'm trying my best not to. So I used to listen to this system a lot more back in like 2020, and then kind of hopped around the airwave. This didn't make it into the scan list. Radios. And then as I'm mobiling, I'm like, huh. Well, now that I'm out of range, my normal LA repeater. Might as well see what else works. I know there's car led just about everywhere in the state, so figured I'd put it in. Sure enough.

This thing works quite well. What's your name again? And call. I didn't quite get it the first time. Is George. And let's see, what else? November 6th. Green, yellow, red. You won't see any AC here on the freeway because. Traffic. Flights. That's an easy way to remember Ngyr. Okay, well, great. Great to meet you, George. So you said you talk to people on the way to work. What do you do?

I'm retired. I used to be a radio technician with something called RJ Network. And I was also the station security manager. Air Force missile contract Vandenberg. Lots of fun. You know, you go through the countdown and, you know, launching all kinds of weird hours we bring in to heat ourselves silly. While we watch all the recording instruments go off and whatnot. Basically, we're just receiving stations. That sounds like quite the interesting role, especially if you're into space exploration and rockets. I'm trained.

Semiconductor. And some of the trains I've worked on are the ones that run up by Vandenberg. And there have been a few times where we've had to hold outside the limits of the base for a rocket launch. And yeah, it's pretty cool having a front row seat, watch that thing shoot up over the ocean and pretty beautiful background too. That was probably me with one of my launches. Anyways, I retired from that, you know, everything was boring. After a while, I retired.

The gears West. Repeater frequency. I received 46.895 minus PL1.73.

Currently on uhf, the HF band, so I get to play around on all the computers and stuff. I haven't really had much of a reason to explore the other bands, especially because I live in an apartment and putting up an HF antenna would probably be a little bit difficult. And prior to moving out to my own place after college, I lived in college dorms and at my parents place. I don't think any of those places would want an HS are kind of going up either. So I decided to do a lot of P25 back home in Los Angeles. Probably my favorite digital mode. Don't use digital don't use digital voice. I'm old school, gotta use the voice analog and gotta play with it, you know, gotta talk to it digital play through.

But you know, I've done all that. I used to bounce signals off the APRS signals off of the space station as it went by, and I did that for a long time and was quite successful at it, more or less. After that I just started doing new computer time and the old one crashed. Oh yeah. Now we need new software, we need this and we need that. Never got there again. I've never played much with a hrs, although it does sound fine. So since you operate a lot of HF and Mitch ultimately do a lot of pw, No.

I like toss up to cw, but my ears don't work efficiently enough. Fast enough to decode. But I'm still trying. It's one of those things, you know, I've been tried. Didn't do it. Just keep battering my head off the wall until I figured it out in my head. But I was starting to listen to more cheap musicals on SBM lightly, so, you know, still a chance.

Well, I don't do much vw, obviously, on repeaters, but I did learn the code, picked it up pretty fast. I was given a practice talk later, and we practice on and got pretty decent descending and started, you know, learning the whole Alphabet. But it was one of those things where if you don't use it, you lose it. Well, I haven't really been using it. Best use case, though, is a lot of these commercial repeaters and amateur radio repeaters. They all IG in cw. So I'd like to get my copies back up so I can quickly identify with repeaters without having to first copy down smart, edgy, and then translate it or, you know, even haw over it first. I'd like to be able to know what repeater's going off anywhere with stress. When you do a lot of commercial band scanning or not useful.

Definitely be useful. No question about it. That's why I keep banging my head on the wall listening to it over and over and over. Yeah, I guess go practice oscillator over here. But MSJ used to make really nice memory gear. Memory gear over here for a co practice oscillator. It looks pretty nice. Yeah, I got electronic gears open, but makes a great co practice. So what type of radio are you talking on right now?

Ya ckd800r. A model that I've heard of. I know a lot of H2 Volks. I think I've heard a 2. 7 and then also. What else? 991 I don't own anything these new though unfortunately. I just have to play it with a lot of Motorola. Commercial stuff. Yeah, good old Motorola. As far as Motorola goes, infrared module that puts on one of the.

W e6a x n receiver.

Boulder at? I think that's about it. No, I got two of these radios. I got an ST89, 7000. I also got 7900, 7950 over here on the floor, got that display in it. And two more radios up garage hd and, you know, Sounds like quite the collection. So is amateur radio the main retirement hobby? She passed her time with her.

Do some other things as well. Kind of weird stuff the X Xyl is. Our kids destroyed the place. I'm still playing with it and cleaning it up, fixing it and whatnot. Most of the time it's. Yeah, I would say between computers and radio, that's more or less my thing. Got lots of computers, got lots of radios. What are all types of croppy? Oh, good question. Quite junk. I'm also quite good at accumulating junk.

And yeah, amateur radio, for me, my activity comes in ways, you know, I'll be very active and talking a bunch and then I kind of, you know, life gets busy and then I don't talk on the radio as much. The topic that we came during COVID when everyone was staying home, I was talking on the radio just about every day. And now it's kind of mainly something I do when I pass the time while driving. So again, thanks for picking up my call because the long road ahead of me is either listening to my music, which I definitely enjoy, I love listening to, but every now and again I feel like I need to chat it up for a little while. So, yeah, amateur radio has kind of been a driving pastime, but just these past few days, I've been programming my radios a little bit more and sitting in front of a computer, working on the software and updating things that I've been putting off for months.

Yeah, I got a whole bunch of computers. Computers keep everything straight. Trying to keep it organized but I'm finding more and more that I look at it, it's not worth bothering out the pile. I got a trunk in a car out in the driveway and I use it for my electronically garbage can full to the brim. Ah, you would have loved it back when I worked at went to school at ucla. The e waste pile they had there. Tons and tons of keyboards and printers, fax machines, all these various electronic dismos that collect. Unfortunately it is trust me, I check.

The Gears Net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pM all amateur radio operators are welcome to join in on the Net.

Well, I've done a lot of things in my life. Working with missiles out of Annenberg. That was the last part before I retired. And before that I was retired from the US Army Corps of Engineers. I was a network administrator. I was a guy he used to plane to if you're stuff didn't work and we fix it, what did I do before that? I was a contractor. And I was a contractor. I used to work for Litten Industries. Used to make night vision goggles, all kinds of crap like that. And what else did I do? I've done all kinds of things. Sounds like you've led some fulfilling careers, man. And.

They have lots of experience in your Belgium. I take it you're probably collecting at least a couple retirement pensions now.

Both working on them earlier, so who knows, maybe they want to talk back to each other and test again. Anyhow, thanks for answering my call and pleasure getting to know you. Hopefully we cross paths on the air again. Maybe I'll have to hop on the trip a little more back when I'm in sunny SoCal. N6G yr this is N6Y N Z. It's been a pleasure. Problem? Sure. Glad to keep you away for a while anyways. 73 Drive carefully.

W e6axm receiver.

6l eq connected.

Disconnected.

W, e, z a x, n repeater.

County Public Library, 1118 Sherman Ave. In Chico. Doors open at 6pM and the meeting starts at 7pM all are welcome to events.

D.

System24 link up.

The gear's west repeater frequency has been changed. It is now. It is now on 1.46.895 minus PL 123. I repeat, 46.895 minus PL 123.

On front.

Facebook.

19.

D.

Hpdh connected.

This is macdh. Is anybody around for a radio check, please? Hello? Hello? Radio check. This is november 6th golf yankee romeo system 32 south san francisco. Go ahead. And the tall is November Delta Hotel. I'm in Forklay and I'm trying to put Echo lynch on my tablet.

And I just got this tablet, and I'm just hooking this up here so that I can use it in case of a backup. But you're coming in peeping my needle, so you got a pretty good strong signal yourself. Unless you're listening to the input. I got a fairly decent signal, but out high altitude on the coast range, and we should work pretty darn good into Berkeley anyways. Yeah, you're. You're working just fine there. Everything sounds good.

Maybe one or two of these things at a time on this tablet. I don't want to over, over convince myself, overwork myself on this stuff. So I'm. I got a phone that I got to replace. I have a tablet that I replaced and I got. I just got my Yajuvs, this is back from Yeaju, and I have to totally program them. So it's going to keep me busy for a while to program everything. So I just do a little at a time and eventually I'll get everything back up again. All right, thank you. The name on this is Keith Ul Echo India Tango Hotel. And again, I'm in Berkeley. And thank you for the radio set. Remember.

Use a computer, you're supposed to back it up, right? Well, once you get the radio program, you get a little program called matter of fact, the program can help help you program makes it really easy. Called Chirp. C H I R P Chirp. Anyways, you download it, it's free. Then you download your radio into Chirp. And so that way it gets the format of whatever it is, how your format works on your radio, and then you input all the various frequencies off, tones and subsets, etc. Etc. And then save it. Now, yeah, if your radio goes south, you just go back to that file and load it up again after you get the radio fixed and you're good to go. Saves you a lot of time programming too. That's the main thing.

We'll try that. Is it an app or is it a program that I have to get online? The program, it works under Windows. I don't know what else it works under, but I use it under Windows. Works good. I just take my biofang and download whatever's on the biofang into the chirp, then edit it, add all the stuff I want, take all the stuff out that I don't want, set the configuration up the way I want it, and then save it. And that'll load it into the radio. And so I got a backup coffee on the computer. It's quite convenient. I mean, it's like 10.

Takes a lot of time to find those repeaters and dig up all the subtones and the offsets and all that stuff. So, yeah, I would use that program if I were you, just for the heck of it. I might look into that. Like you say, it takes an awful lot of time to look that up. And then I'm looking up for GMRS video, too, and to find out that the one up here in Oakland has a, you know, uses a PL cell phone, and it uses digital. What do you call that? DCS tones as well as next gen. That was a real hard thing to program into the radio just to listen to it. I just.

Program it to listen. I don't use it to talk. I got a regular GMRS radio to talk on. But you know, just to have it programmed in there to need it. But I don't use it. It's something else. So you're right. That is when you get into campus programming, just a little hair raising and head scratching. Lots of programming software up that you can buy and trip is free. They're constantly updating it, so I don't know how.

To work with CRMs or various digital voice radios and whatnot. But I'm sure those people thought of everything, so that's like that. I would give that one a first try on virtually anything. Seems to work quite well. Anyways, gotta go. M6GYR. I'm back for the radio test and the name on this is Keith. And I'll probably be coming back out here tomorrow. Every once in a while we'll use kyla. When I go up to Fairfield, I'll use kyla and then radio station in Jacksonville I can. And then Donna can be down here in. In Berkeley and I can hit her from there. All right, thank you.

And acdh. 73z6, qr. And kvdh disconnected.

Sears 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 W6RHC repeater check one.

D.

The gear's west. Repeater frequency has been changed. It is now. It is now on 1. 46.895 minus PL 123. I repeat, 46.895 minus PL 123 W6 RHC repeater check 2.

D.

And 6knd.

D.

W e6a x n repeater.

The gears west. Repeater frequency has been changed. It is now. It is now on 1. 46.895 minus pl 123. I repeat. 46.895 minus pl123w fix rhc repeater check 3.

D.

W e6a x n repeater.

We6axm repeater.

32 link up.

This is k7b and e.

W fix 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 net.

The gears west. Repeater frequency has been changed. It is now. It is now on 1. 46.895 minus PL 123. I repeat. 46.895 minus PL123W6RHC repeater check 2.