Transcriptions for 2025-12-04

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Kk6vzv mobile. Wp6axm repeater. Kk6syv mobile. How are you, Chris? Had to be going home. I had a long day. Well, a long day with not much to do, which makes it even longer. Ah, one of those. Yeah, it's not good when they just drag on you like. Come on, clock. Yeah. Now, if my superiors giving it some thought.

They could given me the capabilities to do some other things, to help people out. But they didn't. Lack of planning. So what about you? Well, today was Monday, so I spent most of the day catching up. Today was Monday. But it's the middle of the week. Best kind of Monday, I guess. Did you go to the Christmas party last night? No, I was home with my family. Yeah, I was out rehearsing.

So I couldn't tell, unfortunately. Would like to hear how it went. Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't bad. I'd like to have known what kind of things Joe got for the. Yes, and I am going to call it this raffle. Yeah, I forgot about that being there. But yesterday was my birthday, so I had, you know, home with the family for my birthday. Oh, yeah. Well, that's important. So tell me something. What is so evil about the word raffle that people don't use it? Technically, gambling. And since you're a 401 or we are a non profit whatever group, we're not supposed to do gambling for gain.

You mean like buying tickets in the hope that you're going to win a prize? Exactly. No, it's just we're doing the same thing. We just can't use the word correct. That's the same thing at the high schools. You know, it's football games. They did, you know, technically games. Games of chance to get something, buy a ticket and possibly win something kind of thing. And they said they couldn't really do it much anymore. Okay. That. Well, gee, to be. To be so caught up with semantics, you know, that's just kind of silly. Same thing. They used to run a.

Cake raffle for the years, and now they had to change it to the cake bonanza because they couldn't have a raffle. Well, you know, I don't know if you were going to have a raffle and you had to ante along the way that you or you had to up your stakes. I couldn't see that. But. Well, isn't the more tickets you buy, the more you're upping your ante? You know, the more tickets you buy, the better a chance you have of winning. Just by upping your. Upping your stakes does not give you that the benefit. Yeah.

No, no, I think it's a totally different animal. It should be, but I think all the Somebody put something through in the laws with a non profit. If you're running games of chance then you can't for gain of your your organization then it's not legal anymore. Okay. All right, changing the subject, do you know anybody that cleans gutters? Cleans gutters? No, I don't know any of them. Just kind of come to the conclusion since I'm almost 70, maybe I shouldn't be climbing on the roof. It's probably not the best thing to do on an.

Even like doing it, really. But I still do it. Well, I do it because it's a necessary evil. Don't necessarily like being, you know, getting up on the roof doesn't give me a thrill or any satisfaction. Yeah, yeah. They make extensions and stuff for blowers and all that stuff. I don't know how much you wanted to do any of that, but where you can blow the leaves out and then they make an extension for the hose that, like, washes the rest out. Well, believe it or not, I put something. I put together a little PVC tool to attach to my hose, to hang into my gutters, to, you know, put water in there. But my problem is that by now I've got a lot of material, and you actually have to physically get.

In there and move it. Using a blower just wouldn't hack it. Yeah, I understand. I'm saying to use the blower first to maybe get some of the leaves out, then you use a pressure washer on that big curved stick to the end to blow the rest out. Well, yeah, I end up getting there with the. With the blower and blowing the leaves that hadn't rotted yet out of there because they're light enough, and then going in there and grabbing all the matted together material with my hand yanking it out. Yeah. Just bending over when you're up on the roof or standing on a ladder for hours and then moving the ladder around. See, it was interesting. I'm not sure it was last year or the year before. I was out there cleaning that.

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Stuff out and had my hands in some rubber gloves. But there was water out there and it was cold. But my hands had been aching before that. For some odd reason, when I was sitting there doing that, I'd get my hands into that cold water and then numb them up really nice. It actually felt good. A little ice therapy? Yeah. Yeah, the ice treatment. Okay, Les, I'm. I'm home. I'm just pointing to the driveway now, so I'm going to bid you good evening and we'll catch you another time. 73 KK6VZD. Clear. All right, Chris. Have a good evening. KK6SYV Mobile Highway 65, south of Marysville.

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This is KM7 monitoring and wondering if anybody out there might be able to answer. A zoom man. Yeah, we hear you. You are very, very scratchy, but you're making it. I can barely pull out what you're saying. I did hear you call out for anybody. The name is ken. I am N6KN E.

All right. Nothing. Heard n6 kenny. I'll be listening. N6kmej. Okay, I think I heard ki6djx. Is that correct? Negative. Uniform juliet, x ray. I just wanted to know if scara was still connected to carla. Yeah, I think if you asked if Kara was still connected to Carla. No, no. Scara is no longer connected to Carla.

If you're talking about the Siskiyou County Amateur Radio folks up there in Northern California, the answer would be no. They are no longer connected to Carla. Carla needs to update their website then. Yeah, Sierra folks probably need to update theirs as well. All right, well, next time I talk to somebody over there, I'll mention that to them. There's probably a lot of deep in there that need to be done. Say again? I had to answer the door. Missed all of it.

Okay. Yeah, I said yeah. There's probably a lot of updates that need to be done in. In both Scara website and Carter website. I'm wondering why it takes so long. I don't know. Don't know. That whole thing just kind of. The Scara folks, they. They pretty much went under the rug like a better thing. So. Yeah, just. I don't handle those, those websites.

Are you in our mountain time zone or central? I am in Eastern Eastern Time Zone. 8:35, where I am now. Okay. Three hours ahead. Yeah, that's correct. Where are you located? Marysville. Not too far. Not terribly too far south from Fort Jones. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, that used to be my stomping grounds up there. I am now down here in Fusa. Columbia, Columbia, South America. Did you drive a.

Freightliner. Yeah, I did drive a Freightliner for a little while there out of Fort Jones and then a Volvo. I retired one year ago. Retired November of 2024. Time flies. I'm sorry, say it again. I didn't copy that last time live. Oh, yes, it does. Yeah, our one year anniversary came and came and left. And a couple of days after I said, I told the wife, I said, hey, we just, we just missed our one year anniversary down here. But yeah, we made it up. We went out and had a nice.

Hey, sinner. Celebrated our one year of being down here in Columbia. Is she teaching you Spanish? I'll say that. I'm kind of learning it on my own. She is a good interpreter, but that's about it. Well, it appears you're still using a node. I guess it works down there. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. These raspberry PI pulse jar nodes. Yeah. Don't work anywhere. Anywhere you've got wi fi or ethernet. Yeah. Anywhere around the world. Has your Internet been slow or been otherwise affected by the solar flare? I would have to say no. We're fiber optic all the way from here at my house, all the way to. Well, probably all the way to the Carla hub that I'm connected to. Yeah, there's a. There's a real good infrastructure of fiber optics down here in Colombia.

Is it all throughout Colombia? Pretty much. I mean, I'm pretty far out of town here. And, yeah, we've got great fiber optics. Does Siskiyou county have fiber optics? Oh, Siski County. Yeah, they do. Fort Jones even has it. We didn't have it in our house because they. I don't know. For some reason, they didn't come down our street. Go figure. I couldn't get fiber optics there in Fort Jones, but I have no problem getting it down here in Chinooka, Columbia. You must have a.

Milder winter there. We don't have winter. We don't have winters here. We're only 3 degrees above the equator. So as you guys go into winter, we're going into, well, what we call summer. We basically only have spring and fall here. That's it. We have two springs and two falls. Nothing more, nothing less. What's your elevation? Right here at my house. I'm a little above 5,000ft here in the. In the western. Or I'm sorry, the eastern. The eastern side of the Andes Mountains.

Yeah. Same elevation as Denver, but they have cold. If you go up into the volcano areas. Yeah. It gets up there, you know, 10,000ft. It could be cold up there. But here, where I live, no, we just, we just we have pretty we have very mild weather here. No lower than 70, no higher than 90. We can't tie up the system too long as you. If you know anything about Carla. So. And I do have to get back to what I was doing here. My wife is staring at me patiently waiting for me. But I remember talking to you before and good, good hearing you. So I'll go ahead and let the system rest. But I will be listening kind of off in the.

Distance here in my house. But again, good good hearing and good talking to you. You take care n6kne here in USA Columbia. Likewise. This is Mike Ki6ujx in Linda, a suburb of Berryv.

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Okay, one final check before I shut it down. Kilo. November 6th. Mike, Golf. Kilo, Carla 36 local. Good evening.

Still there, steve. Kn, six mgk and six trg. Yeah. Trying to work through a problem on a computer here. We'll see what's going on. Well, it took me a little bit because I'm eating a frozen block of fresh strawberries that were coated in a syrup. And since there is a frozen block, I have to pick up the whole block of strawberries and take a bite out of it. So I go wash my hands and stuff. Well, that sounds interesting. Yeah. They make ice picks. We have one of those. I bet you that would break off a chunk. Yeah, I was trying to do it with a fork, and it really doesn't work real well, so. So I just ended up picking them up and, man, they're cold.

Yeah. Sounds like a brain freeze. Well, pretty cool. Mostly on the hands. How's the vent going in since grt? So it's going okay? Yeah. How does this microphone sound, by the way? Sounds pretty normal. Yeah. Okay. Kind of expected it like that, but I think this microphone's a little bit the newer one like you have on the newer Yaesus. Anyway, I wanted to try it to see if it worked. About the same. Sounds like it does. Yeah. So what's been going on today? Anything out there in the airwaves?

Not a lot. Everything's working just fine. I see. The timing on this computer might. I don't know if it's changing or somebody's got some bad times. It might be good time to reset it. Yeah, well, I gotta work through this problem, and I just don't feel like it tonight. Now shut it down. But my laptop computer all of a sudden is not picking up my WI fi settings. So not sure what happened, but somehow it's not recognizing my hotspot or my WI fi. Kind of weird, Just on the Bluetooth. Was it WI fi? Yeah, WI fi. I have an Internet router in my house that puts out wifi. It's not picking that up. It's not.

Picking up anybody's now, usually there's about a dozen to choose from, including my neighbors. That's not picking up any network at all. Yeah, I have never had a problem with a PI. With WI fi. It's just everything seems to work okay. Well, I wasn't talking about a PI. I don't even know what that is. A Raspberry PI. I haven't had a Raspberry PI up and running for probably more than a year. Oh, so you're talking about Mint on a laptop? I'm talking about laptops, not Linux. Oh, Windows on a laptop. Yeah. Windows 11. It's the first time that's happened to me. So, on this, anyway, I've had it happen before. Well, one thing that.

Explain. It can explain very strange things that seem to go wrong. I'm pretty sure this is, this is what I've determined is that the system is going through a. An update. You know, it's downloading it, it needs to be updated, it's got a download coming in. But the strange thing is, sometimes, no matter how hard you try to find out if that's the case, it won't tell you that that's the case until the update is downloaded and ready for a restart. And then you do the restart and all of a sudden everything work. Well, I guess that might be some sort of Gremlin or something, I don't know. But it's pretty hard to get any update if it doesn't.

Have any established network attached to won't it won't get it. I mean, I could put an ethernet I don't think this laptop doesn't have any ethernet port in solely depends on WI FI connections. And so if it doesn't have any networking connections at all, it won't have any access to any updates either. Yeah, I've never had it shut down WI Fi, but it will cause the strangest things to go wrong when this is the case. You know, when it's close to being updated, things will just begin to fail. And then when you finally get to the update and it works, then you get it back. So yeah, that's a kind of a double whammy when you scoocher wifi and it's because of an update.

So was John on at all today? Seems like he was really early in the morning, fairly early, you know. But in fact, I was just, I think I was just getting off the 9:2 net when, when I heard him. But I might have confused today with yesterday. It something like that did just happen with it. Earlier. I got a connection at the.

See a connection with the person in Ecuador. I was trying to see it on the map, PSK reporter, but it's not coming in. So. Kind of interesting. Yeah. One guy got a connection on JS8 with a guy in France, and I was trying to see if I could get the guy the French station direct didn't. Didn't work. So I could get that guy. I could get the guy that got the connection, but I couldn't get the French station that he was. I could have relayed through the guy, but I didn't bother. I think you've got a lot better chance of getting.

Getting stations that are in Europe with FT8. It's just, you know, the same old thing where all you're going to get is a report. But yeah, at least you got something. Well, I found the station I got now, anyway, on Ecuador. I just wanted to see the location where it's located in Ecuador. So anyway, so I found him finally. But I don't see my little line being drawn between me and him, even though I did get him earlier. So it's kind of interesting. Well, occasionally in Ecuador you got people that don't have Internet. That's really kind of common in Ecuador. But unless he's in a big town and you know that, and that won't be the case. But yeah, in fact, I was watching.

This thing in Colombia where they had to go to this place called the Lost Cities. And it really didn't look like there was any Internet there. Well, I mean, on PSK Reporter, it says. It doesn't say anything about his rig, but it does say no cat control. So it's very possible that he doesn't have much, but. Yeah, anyway. But he runs it in some other fashion or something. And maybe the little balloons on this station for some other reason, he just put it there. I don't know for location, but anyway, I did find. Find the. The station anyway, so that's good enough for me. Yeah, that means at least that he's got Internet, so.

I would think it does. Although, yeah, I'm not sure that means he's got Internet. Could mean that other people are receiving him and then announcing that they have him. So. Yeah, that's tricky. Yeah, I'll just have to watch it in the next day or so and see if it confirms on qrc. I doubt it will at this point, but usually it would have confirmed by now if it was gonna. You know, I've been going through a lot of stuff, cleaning up a lot of stuff, and I was looking at this gadget that I've had sitting around and looked at the back of it, and the thing's got an actual low pass filter. It's a big giant thing.

And it's capable of being adjusted. And it was made by a company called Bud or something like that, which I think they used to make antennas too, but. Yeah, Low pass filter. It's the first separate one I've ever seen. Well, going back to John, I did talk to him this morning fairly early, thinking 7:30ish or so. I was just thinking maybe he'd come on this afternoon or something. Supposedly he was gonna head down to Red Bluff for a little bit, so. But I think he'd be back by now, though, so maybe he'll be back on tomorrow morning. Yeah, I said it was shuffling.

Everything around, trying to get ready. So, yeah, busy time for him. One of the other guys over here put up a node. Meshtastic node. Now he's about a quarter mile from my house, and the one he has is like about the size of a credit card. You may have seen some of those anyway. And you can just carry it in your pocket or whatever, dangle it off the backpack or whatever. Anyway, and we were chatting back and forth on the node from my node to his node last night, about 10, 11 o'. Clock. Between that time frame, he was pretty impressed with how far something like that could go. Like, you know, through the houses and stuff like that. Because sale is about a quarter mile away. It. Yeah, I was looking at.

My storage boxes and trying to figure out where it might, mine might be. I would have to go buy the go for the sensors box because it has more, more of that type of thing in it. But I need to look really closely at what I've got in that sensor, sensors, storage boxes way deep, way down. I have to move about 10 boxes to get to it, but that could be where it is. Yeah. So it seems like the right thing to do if a person was interested, is have, you know, at least have two nodes, you know, one that you could keep on.

Your person or close by, and then one that you could mount like above the roof line of your place or fairly high up as you can go, I guess. Anyway, that way there you can communicate from one node and hop through your other node and go around and hopefully reach other nodes and so forth. That looks like it's the correct way of doing this, by the way. Well, back when I was working a lot with Microbit systems and all that, all that sort of stuff, they had a. And. And when I was also working with Arduino quite a bit, they had these boards.

That you plug into. You could plug it. Plug it into any platform, Arduino, PI, anything like that. You could plug one of these boards and then they had a little nickname for it. I was trying to remember what the nickname was for that little square device, but I think it's shield. I think it matched SHIELD with the nickname for it, but. And I don't have a box labeled shield, but that's where I would have put that rf. RF type device like we're talking about right now. I do have a section over here on the bench where I have RF type devices, but doesn't really have a container as well. You know, this would have to be in the container.

One word that's used quite a bit is hat. Like, I have a raspberry PI with a such and such hat. Yeah, hats are a little more all encompassing. You know, they do usually do a lot like a whole receiver hat or something like that.

So how'd you find out about your neighbor passing? Are you asking what did I find out or how did I find out? Yeah. How? I mean, it's not like you discovered or something, right? Hopefully, you were just told or something. It was darn near me discovering it because. The emergency services came and they went down the wrong road. So I started calling, and somebody that lives down that road say, well, what's going on down your road? And turned out they were on the wrong road. So. I talked to.

I just happened to be talking to the lady that was taking care of the guy who died, and she's the one who. She didn't. I don't think she found him, but she. Everything but, I mean, she. She's been taking care of him, so she had. Knew how to lock the place up and call his family. So. And I talked. She was the first person I called. And then she called me back and said, yeah, have you heard? And I said, no. Yeah, he passed away. Yeah. Well, that's sad for, I guess, for us, mainly, but, yeah, it always is. And I have a heck of trying to figure out the right words to say.

I stood up for a second to see something that was going on on tv, and I missed a little bit of that. Well, that's okay. I had nothing to say. I say it's sad for us, you know, when you hear something like this, but. And I said that I have a hard time coming up with the right words to say. It's always difficult. Difficult for me. Yeah. Yeah. It's almost impossible to come up with something that will make. Make the person who lost someone feel better. And I'm sure the lady that was taking care of that guy is probably more impacted than.

Almost anybody in the neighborhood, but other than the family. I did tell the lady. Well, I thought that the family stayed overnight at his house because I saw one car come in that evening and then two cars leave in the morning. So, I mean, the guy's pretty close. Lives pretty close. I can see everything that goes on over there, almost. So anyway, yeah, not to change the subject, but it's crazy what's going on on Survivor. What they do is they'll have these tricky things come up where one or two people are taken to an island or have to compete for some kind of special award or something. Well, this boat came up and said. And the guy says, well, there's something for one person.

And it's extremely strenuous where they don't, you know, they don't feed these people. Excuse me. They, they, if, if they're lucky, they get rides, and if they know what they're doing, they're capable of catching fish. But. And sometimes they give them things to catch fish with, and they gave them one chicken, which they can't catch. So this one guy volunteers, and it turns out what he's got to do is they take him to a different island, and he's got to run all the way around this slippery island with the tide rising and make it around the island before the tide rises to the point where he can't go any farther. And he's successful at that. And he gets the advantage. It looks like an advantage, which is being able to stop somebody from voting. But then.

He makes it home, and he's done more physical labor than anybody on very limited food. And he won. Win a very, very strenuous contest against everyone just now. He just won. So, yeah, this guy is. He's been. He's been. He must have, like, ran cross country before he. Before he came on the game. Yeah, I used to watch that show a lot, and guys like that typically didn't win the show. So other people would vote him out as fast as they could, whenever they could. If he was with a couple other people, it's like a little mini group. It could last a long time, but he would still be voted out at some point towards the end of the show because it was usually someone who was socially better.

But maybe physically weaker, maybe pretty intelligent. They could win those card games and intellectual stuff, but they usually weren't physically fit like the guy you're describing. At least. The thing you're describing is that he is considered to be a threat because he's physically capable and pretty striped smart. This advantage he got is only going to help him for one little episode, one. One TV show, if you will. And then he'll be right back to where, you know, just being just like everybody else, so with no advantages once he uses it up. So yeah, you're right. They get rid of the people that are the biggest threat and you end up with somebody who's physically kind of wimpy and maybe not the strongest, smartest.

Person either. They're just not a threat. Yeah, that usually gets people by a long way. You remember that the one gal that won, I think her name was Sandra. They used to call her the Queen or something. Anyway, I think she won at least one. And then she did. She did one of those that she went pretty far, but not all the way. One of those where they take the winners and. And they put the winners against each other type of thing. Anyway. Yeah, it's a perfect example where she wasn't the strongest, but she socially was able to work her way through things, you know, and lie just the right way, if there is such a thing. Well, what do they call that person that goes to the prom and nobody even knows they're there? There.

That's the kind of person that can sometimes win in Survivor because of that not being a threat thing. They just. Everybody just kind of ignoring them, and all of a sudden, they're the last person. They're the person that's there. The last person. But one of the really interesting little cat 22s, if you will, of Survivor is at the very end, they all these people, a bunch of these people that were voted out, go on the jury, and the jury actually decides who the winner is. And if the jury, if the person made enemies or didn't contribute anything to the game, sometimes even when they are one of the last people, they don't win. That's definitely how it used to be. I guess they've continued that.

But anyway. Yeah, the jury of people that are generally the. But they generally. When I saw that even though a person didn't like another person, if they thought they played a better game, they would give them the win. But yeah, I kind of got bored of it all. I can't remember when, but it's probably half a dozen years ago. I quit watching it. I thought for a second I found my note. But all it says is an amplifier. It says 50 to 450. It's an amplifier. So if you look around.

Long enough. Maybe you'll find it if you really want it. I suspect there's not really much over here. It's kind of difficult to get people real interested in that kind of thing, especially when it requires probably about 100 of them all around to really make a difference. And I've got so many physical barriers to get to Redding or. And even worse for ants that I don't know, I don't think I have a chance. It's going to take somebody that's up on the edge of one of these cliffs, if you will, one of these places where things start to drop really quickly. That's what it's going to take for me to find. To get. Get into. It's going to take another node. There is one place over there near Wind river, because there's.

Casino where there's a chance I could reach them. And they're up above Wind River Casino and above the 273. Pretty much above everything. There's one ham over there, but it just doesn't seem like the type of guy that would have a nose up here. There. I. I say the only person who was really jumping on things like that was a guy. Yeah, well, someone has to take over, I guess. They don't have to be hams. And that's the thing about it is that you don't. You may not even know that someone has an already over there or something because they aren't the easiest things to detect. But they still use their. That note as a relay point. So that's what's interesting about it all.

And then every once in a while they come up and maybe announce themselves. Then you may get the indicator, oh, there's one over there somewhere, you know, and they have, sometimes they have GPS locations, but they can be set ambiguous, so it could be a quarter mile off of where it actually is, you know, anyway, pretty interesting. So there's some hospitals putting them up, there's some search and rescue type facilities putting them up, you know, I mean, it's not like just ham radio stuff, you know, other people have their own reasons for doing that. Like if you have a little farm or orchard or something like that and you want to be able to communicate with people via text or something, you know, that's one possible way of doing it. So I don't know, maybe it'll take fire. I mean, it's already better than it was a couple years ago when I first got that first node and tried to get something going.

So it's already better than that. But who knows? They make different Yogi antennas and stuff like that. You can build your own pretty easily because they're small, you know. So, anyway, it's all something to think about. Well, if they're using 900, like I say, I'm pretty sure that antenna, that anti K and they gave me, I had a chance of it being a 1200 or a 900, and I think it's a 900. I think the easiest way to figure out what it is would be to just measure the physical size of those loops. But, yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what it is. And I, I was just looking at that sensors box with all that stuff in it that, you know, where I have to remove a bunch of stuff on top of it to get to it. But it says, it says shields and it says wifi.

QST, QST, QST this is Kilo Foxtrot 6 Oscar Bravo, India with a short message from KG6KUO, the Sacramento Valley Traffic Net Manager. He apologizes for last night and not being attentive to the clock as he was pretty deep into something that took his time away from from doing the net. And tonight he also apologizes for not running the net. He is picking up a family member at the airport as I speak. So if there's anybody that still wants to check in, just go ahead and sound off and I will try and record Your your response. KF6OVI W6RHC Repeater Check 1.

So it's got a little bit of everything in it. It's got opto isolators in it. So that's the one I'm going for. That's the box I got to get to. Well, before I let you go, it's nine o'. Clock. Gosh, I've been thinking today about this weather pattern. We're in of dry, it seems like. I'm just wondering if we're going to get enough water for this year or is this going to be another entrance into a drought? I just found two transistor assortments complete. Every transistor you could imagine in two boxes.

Ko6 obi, kf6 djy. Go ahead and check me in. Okay, thank you for that. Anybody else? AC6, UFE Bell and Cape. No traffic. Good evening, Michael. Glad everything's okay. Thank you, Bill, for your check in this evening. Next Kilo Echo 6, Papa Mike, tango. Rest here in Gerber. And I have no traffic. Thank you, Bill or Russ, for your check in this evening. Is there anybody else wishing to check in to the Sacramento Valley traffic net?

Well, I guess they're saying there's a chance for some showers about 10 days out. I will see. But yeah, it said that I'm just kind of weather patterns been kind of one of those where I've been not seeing the water. And as I drive over the lake like I did today, boy, they let the water out expecting water to come in. So I sure hope that we can fill that lake. Yes, I guess you said Oroville. In fact, I legitimately.

Well, I gave it a good gap there, kilo. November 6th papa whiskey whiskey, this is Jamie and Chico with no traffic and yep, thanks for covering the net. Back to Control. Oh, and and good evening, Mike and the Net. Roger that. You know, I apologize. I don't have the net preamble or roster with me. Lester has not provided that, so I'm just doing this for him tonight and we'll see how far it goes. Anybody else wishing to check into the Sacramento Valley traffic net. Hearing no for.

That the numbers in Oroville is filling up a little slower. You know which one was filling up the fastest? Was pretty sure it was the fastest with Trini Lake. Yeah. Well, you guys have been getting the water up there still. Even, like, you're sitting there telling me it's raining or whatever, I'm like, we're not getting nothing here. Yeah. Some of the brushes by the Lasso watershed over there where John is and stuff, and they've been getting some rain up that way, but more so than here. But still, it's not like last year when we were just getting immense amounts of rain down a little further south than anything's come so far this year.

Further check ins. We'll stand by, but everybody is that has checked in. You are free to go about your business and have a blessed evening. KF6OBI is not clear. I am monitoring for any further check ins. Have a blessed evening.

So, what About Alpha, Alpha, 5, Victor, India? Bruce? Has he been around on the Net lately or anything? Certainly didn't hear him last couple days been with Arduino. Because microbettis was controlled by an Arduino. Well, we doubled on the phrase I was asking you about. Alpha, Alpha, 5, Victor, India. If you heard anything from him in a while. Yeah, he quit that net along with Tony, the guy in. In Mexico. They both quit. Okay. Yeah. Did they go on different nets or they just. You just don't know where they're at at this point.

If they're in, if they're on other nets, they're not telling anybody or they're not telling me anyway. Okay. Yeah, well, I did get another Fiji station this morning. I could look it up which one it was, but. But that's not no big deal. It wasn't Barry. I thought, well, hey, I wanted Barry's back over there. You know, I could see it was from Fiji. And so when I got him on FT8, I looked him up. That's not Barry. But, yeah, I keep trying to get New Zealand, and I'm not, you know, people from New Zealand aren't seeming to hear my antenna, so I'll keep trying.

Yeah, back during the heyday of JS8, I was always getting. I was getting New Zealand a lot and South Africa. Well, your Antarctica friend, he was on earlier, right after it popped up on him alert, I was sitting right here, I turned it on, started putting calls out for him on FT8 and I even boosted up the power a little bit and was trying to see if I could get anything from him, but no, no response. So. I don't know, couldn't hear me tonight. I know we were having a bit of a magnetic storm today, but on 40 meters, the band was pretty good for digital anyway.

On 40:20 was body.

I might have just found it. I just found something that has kind of a heavy. Heavy. This. This note is a little heavier. Let me look at it. You know, it's funny. I just looked up this station, you know, on PSK recorder, and you can see my little. I got a little balloon on it, a little flag. And it says his station did pick me up. Minus 17 decibels, 8,621 miles. But unfortunately, you know, he wasn't. He wasn't coming back to my call, so. But looks like his station was able to receive my station to some degree.

Yeah, so far, no sign of that thing in this sensor box, but I'm not going to give up. There's a lot of stuff in this sensor box. There's WI fi shields and opto isolator systems and all kinds of stuff. So I could miss it, but there's so many. I mean, there's so many other possibilities here, but I thought it would be in some places that had to do with rf, a box that was strictly to do with rf. And I have a.

Found. I haven't found. I thought I. I had one, and I haven't found it yet, so I do think there's one that exists, though.

Alrighty. Well, I'll let you get after looking for that, and maybe we'll check in with you tomorrow, see if you're around. I'll probably go have a coffee with some of the guys for an hour or so. That's all I got going on. So we'll say seven, three. It's gonna be my bedtime. Not too far away. Actually, half hour maybe. So I'll say 7, 3. KN 6. MGK. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. If I ended up someplace in the world where I didn't have very much Internet and needed to spend my time doing other things besides Internet, things that require Internet, I probably want to be working on all these different gadgets with all these parts I've got and building things.

I did find one device though that I had completely forgotten I owned. It's a, it's a charging system. It incorporates a BMS up to like 8 cell batteries or something like that. 12 cell maybe, I don't know it. In order to use that part of it, it takes the special connectors which I think I might have put in a. Inside of a special connector box which I can see if not I, I know I can make these connectors. They're like for a four cell, four cell charging system it would take a five to five. I believe it's a five connector battery or maybe I mean part, or maybe it's four terminal parts.

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Or whatever. Anyway, I found that thing and it doesn't charge very quickly, but it's capable of charging any, any battery platform. Lithium ion lipo, even lead acid, it'll charge them all. I've decided to build a 30amp hour battery because I've got got the parts. I built a hundred amp hour battery, but I never did use it. So I can just take those parts and turn it into it. Well, I'll say 73 and I'll be clear. Kilo november 6th mike golf. Kilo. Talk to you later. N6trg.

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So good I can tune up right here. A little better then. Oh, well, I don't have any problem with noise here. I hear a little bleed over. But I could get rid of it real easy with the VC tune. I'll let you hear it. Not a guy. Quit talking. Bobby, Larry and them. So wait till I hear it again. I'll let you hear it and then I'll start. I'll start doing the tune. See that guy that likes to go by with it keyed up, Spinning the dial. There you go. Now I'll use the VC tune. Quit talking again.

See that? Twisted that right out of there.

Or not. I think my coffee is done anyway. I'm gonna run to the kitchen and get the other half a cup. Hey, today's today. You get to go down a morning thunder, hu? Well, I hate to think that about John or Jerry. Larry? Yeah.

Well, Carrie, Easy isn't up here at 5:30, but he's got the gravelly voice and they're, they're, they're about two hours apart. McMinnville is east of and slightly north from Winston, Oregon. But he's pretty easy to get accustomed to. Listen. I listened to him for seven, eight. Could have been nine months without keying up. And I still have trouble with the weatherman. They call them Larry and Ken. Ken just moved into a new radio room and just built a stick built house he's in.

A wheelchair, and his room has a slight little bit of echo, but as he keeps putting stuff in that room, that. That's going away. That's how I used to be able to decipher the difference between the two of them. So I don't feel bad. Been, what, almost two years now, and I still got to get two of them mixed. All right, I better go get that coffee. The pot doesn't shut off when the coffee's done. It just sits there and burns the canister.

Linda's up already, huh? He Ronnie wasn't open to no suggestions about bracing up the bottom of that. That one lid. I can't believe how heavy that composition is. I'm always surprised. I mean, I've lugged whole packs up, up ladders and set them on the roof several times. I know it's heavy, but you can only imagine when you do a whole roof with, you know, 20 or 30 packs. Darn.

I don't think that's your ticket. You should make sure something else isn't going on there first. Just slide that cover completely forward so it's not inundating it and try letting it run. Maybe something's going on with that regulator for the propane. That would be the other deal. I'm not sure how that gas likes to settle on the bottom of some place, or it rises up all the time. Most people that put those type of detectors put them up on the ceiling or up toward the ceiling, so I'm.

Going to guess that that gas rises like most gases.

Okay, good. Thanks for that. Yeah. And it's inside the cabinet. The bigger part of the unit, the sniffers. Probably right out there in the open. Well, there. There you have it. Grab yourself four little two by four blocks and put them underneath the four corners and see if that makes the difference. I do several tests before I put a damn fan in there. Although it doesn't matter much if you put a fan, the generator is going to be running and it ain't going to care about some brushless fan motor.

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All you got to do is look right in at your muffler hole or your exhaust hole. There's going to be one or two bolts and you just take those out, no big deal. And take that little flange off. It's got a bottle of one inch little nipple I've seen on yours that directs it out and make flange plate. Copy that other one. Exactly. It doesn't get that hot. 3838 steel. It's too thick. A quarter inch should probably be just right. That's what mines are, believe it or not. But you can go online and buy that nipple. I'll bet you they make it for the 9500. If you go look at the company that makes them for Hondas, I think you get like 25 bucks for it. And.

And that allows you to slide inch and a half flux tubing on it and. And just run it out the side and do away with that whole exhaust blowing in your protective cover. I know you're gonna fight this, but it's okay that you have the. It's. It's okay that you already have the louvers on there. That. That don't hurt anything.

Well, now that I know which direction the gas goes to. Yeah, of course it will. I got two of these fans that I got from the CDF department over there on the other side of the hill of the valley. I mean, you know, up about 5,000ft, they had a nice scrap yard that we went and hauled off. I took the end up up there and, and I've. They, they said you can have anything you want out here. And of course, we brought home quite a bit of stuff. And two of the things I got are the aluminum louvers. This. They look almost exactly like the ones that you bought yesterday, except for they're hinged and the fans on the other side.

110 volts. And when it turns on the fan, it blows the louvers open. That's pretty sweet, eh? So it's working the right direction. It's as big as your white things are. I got two of them. They're just sitting out in the shed. I don't think that's gonna work for you. But moving the air is the name of the game. I understand your whole fan thing. You got that little blower after. After you try the open unit, running with nothing around it. Just to make sure that that is what you're up against. If it runs continuous with that housing. Slido out. Yeah. Then I'd try just lifting it up. It's easy enough to make four legs for that thing.

Last thing I do is put a fan in there, though. It's not that it's a big deal to do that, but.

These are pretty old, but as soon as I got home, I wired them up and they both work just fine. I figured I'd put them in the shop up high, But I can't bring myself to cut any holes in the shops. Bad enough I. I had to do one little teeter trick there to get the coax in from the south corner. But anyway, yeah, I know better than to screw it. I have that nice swamp cooler I'd love to put in the back wall, but, man, it's just so hard on me to cut a hole anywhere in that beautiful building. The one big, beautiful bill.

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Yeah. The money they saved by having variable pitch probably cost so much that they never recoup the savings from it. The maintenance alone. Yeah, you want to keep that stuff greased.

Ella, I was pointing out last night on those couple podcasts on RVing and how they go about it and the tricks of the trade and all that. They, they sell a big calendar looking thing every time you go to a national park all over the United States. I guess there's 73 of them or something like that. When they go in the park, they stamp just like a passport. A national. I wanted to say federal, but it's just national. All those, all those federal parks have a rubber stamp so they can put that in your travel log. It's a neat looking passport looking book.

And, and they give you a sticker. I'm sure for a nominal fee that goes on that calendar looking thing, that they're real pretty color pictures, probably about two and a half inches, you know, by two and a half inches. And you, and you, and you peel off the sticky part and you fill in all those spots like a stamp collection and look pretty nice hanging in the rv. But you're back to what you're talking about there, Jay. You're going to look at it once or twice and you might share it with somebody else. Otherwise, it's just another thing in your ensemble of forget me not.

But I had to build a evacuation for gases. A lot of places blew themselves up because they were stupid about sparks. And so I would run the, run the evacuation tube over to a 30 gallon drum that I put water in the bottom for about 8 inches. And then of course I sucked off the top of that 30 gallon deal. And I used a car distributor. I only used six of the eight spark plug because it didn't matter, there wasn't no firing order. But I, I had my buddy weld in some deal so I could screw spark plugs all the way around, oh, you know, three or four inches above the water level so that if as the gases came, bubbled through the water down.

Down and through the water and bubbled up. It would create the sparks all the way around. It'd be little, little pops instead of one big explosion. And then, of course, I ran that out the roof and I. And I would squirt other things in there because, you know, they were getting pretty smart about locating people that were emitting those kind of fumes due to their illegality. You know what I'm getting at? Yeah. I would occasionally squirt starting fluid or, or whatever into there just to throw off the chromatology. They could fly over with a helicopter or airplane and see where everybody was admitting them fumes and know right where to go to bust you. They want to try.

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Catching me and never did. The other. The other thing was the other favorite place to do for them guys that went and did much smaller accumulations. I'll call them. They would just run a tube right down the toilet. So it was on the other side of that water trap. And well, heck, it would have been eventually end up in the sewer system and coming out several miles. There was no way they were going to trace it back to your house. Have been done before they figured all that out. Does not work if you have a septic tank. All right. I think the phone's booted. I can go see if this what the picture looks like.

Take your time. We'll be here for a while. Another hour and a half for you or something.

I don't think I'm gonna end up down on that end of the world this morning. I can't think of any other reason to go down there to make it worthwhile. Yeah, Especially since I just filled up the tank. We didn't go to church this week. Can't remember. Can't remember. I thought we did end up down. Oh, I ended up down there with you yesterday. That's what it was. That was. I still got a full tank. I filled it right up to the top of the neck and we went down and back and it was still on full. I could only see the full line. A very small piece of it. Yeah, I'd really like to have one of them. Not too big, maybe 10 inches wide and about bed level. I'd like to have one of them diesel tanks that run all the way across to the back of the truck.

Truck. So when we go from state to state, I never get caught with my pants down. And we could take advantage of the better fuel prices before we come back into California.

Well, if you're going down Skyway, right about where all the overhead power lines are, if you look over to your right, there's one sitting in the field behind a guy's fence. It's red, primer red. It's been there for a couple of years, looks brand new, and it is one of the skinnier models. It would solve some other hassles for me because I fill the tractor up. Either I'll siphon it out of the Peterbilt, or. Or I bring back a five gallon. Scuff about how big the tank is on the tractor. It might be. It's a little less, though. Four and a half or something. I always end up with a little bit left over. But anyway, if I had the tank in the back of the truck with the hose, I could just fill up the tractor easily. I will end.

Up with one of them setups. Another thing I'll probably invest in right away when I sell that Peterbilt.

Precisely. But we're getting ready to go around the world, so it'll be quite handy for us. Especially in the wintertime when you're looking for a little extra weight. Even though you're pulling a trailer. A little extra weight in a windy storm or rain and you end up on the dirt. Somehow it'll come in handy. Well, I want the hose and the pump on the outside and I could just open the deal and fill it up that way instead of running a and tap it into your tank and all that stuff. I would be used to hose most more often.

For the tractor, which, you know, I'll be using until the day I die. Someday when we're eating breakfast, though, if I don't remember, I'd like to hear some of the things that you've heard about which one of these people are going along with the fiasco there? I've noticed it for months anyway, and it's only a couple of them, but I know we won't mention any names or instances, but stuff to yak it up about over breakfast.

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It does so many other things. Yeah, what a crying shame. I bought that. I bought that big recorder unit and, and the drive in it and all that stuff, and didn't feel like messing with the synology. But, yeah, I already ran 200ft of 170 or whatever feet of Ethernet out to the garage, so it'd be easy for me to put. Put one of them cameras right at the peak of the garage so I could see everything that way. I got a tower. I can put one of those up on that. I could look 360 with it. But right now, my main thing, and I have a 200 foot piece of cable, I could run 40ft up to Twin towers out in the front yard so that I can look both ways up and down the street and put the camera on the inside of the yard, off the tree.

Pointing to the east. So it's not noticeable. So noticeable from the road. But I could be still be able to look up and down the road to see the license plate to what's going back and forth for its normal position. But that camera will. It has face recognition that will ignore dogs. Otherwise it'll move itself around due to movement. So, yeah, I have the cable too, and I have the little box that power boosts the power so that you can guarantee the movement voltage you need. Yep. So I'll have to get you to come over and configure all that stuff, whether it's, you know, you talked me into doing the network thing, so I got. I got you Ethernet connections right here at the shack.

And over it by the tv. Yeah, I could easily put plug cameras in all over the place next door and everything, because I got Ethernet running over there. So she has tv. Yep. I'm ready. Another. Another add on to the to do list.

Yeah, Once he gets a roll going, it looks like it's been getting harder and harder for him in the morning, but once he gets a roll going, he likes to keep going. Yeah, we're in the same ballpark for that. I hate running out of time, especially when it's kid. You know, it's like the last six pages of a book. You're hardly even able to stay with the story, but, you know, you're fatigued from reading, but you want to get to the end. That's how our work habits are. Yeah, I like having the unction to keep going, but it's not always beneficial. You're not doing your best work. Once you realize that, it's better to wait. Especially me and Lori talk about it all the time. If you're having trouble figuring something out, like.

A mathematical or at the end of the year. You know, finance stuff. You can get to the point where you know you're just wasting your time because you're not at your full potential. You wake up the next morning and boom. The answers are there already for you just because you've gotten past the fatigue point. Okie dokie. N6 NTM I don't see nothing on my phone or the deal, so I'll look at them pictures when you do it.

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Kn6slm. Hey John. Yeah, KN6MGK was looking to see if you were had been on the air and I told him you were on earlier because that's when you get on. It's pretty much early in the morning. Good morning. N6TRG oh yeah, yeah, we've been running around here going crazy. No, I was listening to that SDR. Did you hear those guys on 80 meters talking to Europe? Well, no, because my SDRs were all on 40 meters this morning. That's where I. I have a net in the morning. But yeah, that's crazy. Where were the guys located that were talking to Europe?

You know, I couldn't tell you, Mike. I. I didn't catch. There was two guys there, so they had to be quite a ways from Northern California. I'd say Southern California, probably, I'm guessing. But they. They were coming in pretty clear, but I could barely. Barely hear something. But they were talking to somebody over in Europe. They were doing C. And they said he was doing a night on them. Well, that's unusual. Which SDR are you using? That Shingletown one? Yeah. Yeah, the one over here at Shingletown. Or it's Whitmore, where it is, actually. But they were saying it was earlier. I would say 30 minutes into the call. Let's say he could.

Barely hear him. And then he kept trying to get get him, and he was still in there. They were trying to make good contact. I think it was a 5x7 that he said. I. I couldn't tell the difference up here, but from what he was talking about. Then his buddy got on there and also made in contact with him. Okay, well, I'm gonna try to bring up that singletown one. I'm just curious if I can do it. And I have a couple of them down in the of SDRs down in the Half Moon Bay area, which is south of San Francisco along the coast there. It's an old mobile telephone, big, huge antenna.

They got a whole bunch of antennas down there and a lot of information they show you. You can actually see which model the antennas are and what they look like, and they're huge. And so they're using all that stuff. But yeah, I'm curious about this shameltown one. Yeah, well, it's actually the. Where it's located, it's in Whitmore, which is right there in Shingle Town. But the Pacific place is Whitmore. That's where it's out of Northern California. Covers Northern California. But actually, yeah, it's pretty nice. You know, it is what it is. But yeah, it's snowing back here in Oklahoma. Back east, it's waiter, advisories and all that kind of good stuff.

Yeah. Do you remember if it mentioned anything about kiwi, or is it just a regular str. Hang on just a minute. I'll bring it up. Hold on. Okay. Mike, you there? Yeah. Okay. Kn6. That's something. Okay, it's northern california and it's kiwig. K I w I s p r software defined receiver in northern california. Used usa kr6la.

Is the call sign whitmore, california. Okay. Yeah, I use those kiwis also, but I use one that down on half moon bay. But I'm. And I've got that kiwi one. Online and I'm gonna see if I can branch it out the. The others on Kiwi. Yeah, yeah, this is. I mean, you know, it's. I'm not sure if it's a real great one or. Or not. He's got a 300 foot wide loop, 40ft there. Yeah, he's probably got an 80 meter loop then, which is. Generally speaking, they're going to match one of the full waves for.

Each band. And 80 meters is 275ft. So that's probably what he's got. And I've had Those miners now. 160. Yeah. So, I mean, works pretty good, you know. The reason I stay with that one is because it's close by me and I can. What I actually do is I compare my radio with it. So if it's getting a good signal, I'm getting a good signal. If I'm getting a good signal, it is. So that's the way I kind of look at it. Yeah. I like SDRs. We've got, you know, boats out there that have trouble with their signals.

Sometimes they're pretty weak. So we have to. We have to use all the help we can get with that network that I'm part of. Yeah. Yeah. Where you can hear them on the SCR and you can transmit. Of course, I can't hear myself. I guess if I use that one out of Oklahoma City, I can probably hear myself. But, you know, I just stay with this one for right now. Well, you know, having watched international stuff for a while, there was this one gal, the first time I heard that term, Kiwi, was this one gal that was on this boat called Delos, years ago, longer on it, but they. She was part of the. She was. There were two brothers on that boat, and she was the.

Girlfriend of one of the two brothers. So she was on it longer than most. And one day she was describing herself because somebody said, well, what part of Australia are you from? And she says, oh, I'm not from Australia. I'm a Kiwi. Well, I didn't know what she meant by that, but what that means is that she's from Australia. New Zealand. She's New Zealand if she's a Kiwi. Yeah. Since you brought that. I heard that. Long, long, long time. I never knew it, but I never even paid any attention. But, yeah, I guess you're right. Yeah. But, yeah, it's. I don't know. You know, it's. It's pretty cool. But anyway, I'm pretty sure it's pretty chilly down there. It was 28 degrees up here.

Oh, yeah. You mean down in the Valley. Yeah, 39 down here. I thought maybe you met when you first said that, I thought, well, maybe you went met down in New Zealand. But it's summertime down there. Yeah. And I'm bringing up. I couldn't get it to go from KFS to that one. So I am bringing it up like right now just by searching Kiwi so I can get it to show. Yeah. You know. You know how I got it was I just typed in SDR for. For my area, for this area. And it. It was in one of the search Louisville's. And I go, oh, Whitmore or Shingletown. I said, that's right over the hill from me.

So I clicked on it and saved it out. And that's the one I used. Yeah. Now, interestingly, The stuff in Whitmore, a lot of it was being handled by Guy Lemke. Do you know who that is? The Lemke? Yes. Yes, I do. Yeah, I met him. Talked to him several times. Matter of fact, that's where I got my wind generator. Oh, okay. Well, he, you know, of course, moved, but he had access to a small mountain to the south of him a little bit, called. I think it was called Blue Mountain, and so.

So he had a lot of technical stuff down there. I hadn't ever heard that he got into SDRs, but they were selling those SDR receivers from New Zealand. They were selling them, you know, and he wasn't. But, I mean, you know, the Kiwi people are in New Zealand, and I think they're one of the very best SDRs out there. I mean, they're. They're just amazing, I think. And I think I found that Kiwi here. Yeah, I've got it here. So I'm gonna be looking at it in a second here. Yeah, yeah. Guy I. I think he's pretty. He's pretty good, old boy. I mean, like Sid, he was from the Bay Area, actually. I guess.

He grew up here reading. I'm not sure. I'm. I really don't know him that well, but. Well, I talked to him. He always. He's pretty smart guy. Yeah. Now, they say that the one that you're talking about in Whitmore is run by a guy. Kilo Romeo 6, L.A. alpha. Yeah. I don't know. That might be. Guy said everything that it might be. Yeah. I'm gonna bring him up on qrz. Yeah. I'm not sure. I didn't go into that part of it, but. But, yeah. Yeah, Guy. He. He's out there in Nevada, south of Elko, I think it is. And.

And he's a working little dude. I mean, he's working every day on it and he's making a good little ranch. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Well, you know, I get. Maybe he might be even retired. But then he has a tendency to pick up jobs wherever he is. So. I. Yeah, I have a little section of QRD things and what did I do wrong here? It doesn't even say it. It says it can't find. Oh, I put a seven instead of a six. I gotta sign in anyway. But, yeah, I've been trying to get into logging and that sort of thing and. Steve talk.

About one logging program, a couple of them, and then I found more talk about them. And I saw this guy in a video, he was logging right on his cell phone. So I checked to see what he was doing. And he's doing this thing called Polo, P, Papa, Oster, Lima, Oscar, Logger. And then there's another number of others. But do you remember any names? You know, you've got that one program. Does it talk about loggers and which one they're using? You mean the names of the program? Both. The name of the program, the big program software thing you got, and then the name of the loggers that they use. There's probably 13 or 14 I got here. Hang on a minute. Let me see what I got.

Okay. The name of the company and you know it, you should know it is N3F JP okay, by company, you're saying that. That who put out all the software or something or put it in a package? Yeah. Well, I don't know if it's a company or not, but it's what it is is that's the number that they put on it. Software. And then I, I mean, this is what I take on it. And I'm not sure if it's right or I'm not sure if it's wrong. I don't know. This is my take is that that number that I gave you just few seconds ago, that N3F JP I believe is. Is a person. Some hams. I think it's a of matter.

And wife that put all this. Wrote these softwares together and. And now they're out selling them. And, I mean, they're really good. There's nothing wrong with them. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, you know, they started their own little business doing it. Yeah. Yeah. They're just. They. That's a. You know, nothing wrong with what they're doing. They're just putting it all together, probably on a CD or something. What. Can you give. Give me that. Those call letters again? Yeah. Okay. It was N3 FJP. Now you can buy that same software, I'm sure, at Medtronics. And see, there were. And this is the reason I say this is.

At the Ham Fest down in Lincoln. That's where they donated it. They donated so many copies of these bundles, or, yeah, I guess you call them a bundle of like 13 different softwares and all kinds of stuff like that. And then I heard that they were also donating the same software, Medtronics, for their little hand fest for their drawing. So I'm assuming what happens here is I know a little bit about marketing. If you give it away through events like that, then people see it, they like it, then their friends start buying it. Yeah, they. These promotionals on for Ham Fest are there's quite a group of.

Of them, and I got one, but it came through one of the companies, you know, one of the big radio companies. So it was $50 of free equipment, which I did end up using. And I've got one of those. I got one of those little digi rigs that makes it so you can take a radio that doesn't have digital and change it into one that does have digital. So. But anyway, let me get back to you here real quick on this call letter thing. I looked up November 3, Sierra, Juliet, Papa, and I couldn't find anything, so I must have a letter wrong. Yeah. Let me say it again. Okay? It's November 3rd, Frank, John, Papa. Okay. It was the F that I did wrong.

So November3, Frank, John, Papa. Because if you do that and go to their QRC page, if they're selling something, they talk about it a lot. They. They talk about what they're doing. So I may find what you're doing here. They're saying it might be part of the Northeast Maryland Amateur Radio Club. So that might be. Sometimes they'll take a silent keys call and assign it to a club. That might be what they did. And so far, I haven't found the package. Talking about the package yet. But it's probably in here. Yeah, well, like I said, now I'm totally out.

Link here because. So you can't take exactly what I said about them. I'm just thinking now, if you type that in your search, your search bar, it's like, hold. I don't know if that's call sign or not. See, that's what I'm saying. But you type that.com in your search bar and then their website come up. Yeah. And I've got the website on now because he talks about it at QRZ. And so I'm at November 3rd, Fox, Juliet, Papa now and looking at the software. Yeah, yeah. And like I said, you know, it's. I, I've used, used that sweepstakes one that day, and they're actually a population.

I mean, they may be a bigger company, but I give them credit for. Because Josh, he bought some of that software. I think it's $15 a copy, you know, for one. And he got two or three of them. And he said it was pretty cool that I got the bundle. And so, I mean. Yeah. Yeah. And apparently there's a number of different logging programs mixed into that software. So. Yeah, it sounds like it could mostly be logging programs. Maybe. I don't know yet. But yeah, I'm going to try to find a list of everything that's in it in one list, if I can.

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It does have one thing. One thing it does is it seems to have digital stuff, which I clicked on it and it couldn't find it. But it does have a lot of stuff. Yeah, there's. Digital. I. You know, I can't even. I can't even tell you what it has in it because I don't know what to use it for. I do know that it has different events for this year and I guess, see, and then that sweepstakes, I can use it next year and the year after and the year after, but just for that event. You see what I'm saying?

Yeah. And apparently that stuff you have to download as it goes because it's. Sometimes they'll just start up a new contest that nobody's ever heard of. Now the rig interface help might be specifically for the 7,300. That's interesting. That's the radio they show and it's a video on interfacing with an icon 7300. So. Huh. How about that? Yeah, well, I think the 7300 has its own sound card in it, I believe. And then you, you know, again, I hadn't tried it or anything like that, but I know a little bit about computers stuff. Then you just put the drivers in and you can hook your radio through it.

And then I, I believe that you can get it where it logs in. You know, it'll log the same if your radio is digital, which 7300 is somewhat. I mean, it's analog and digital signal stuff. I'm talking about the radio itself. It has a chip in there. It could. It could talk to your computer and tell your computer, okay, type in, you know, KN6SLN from Mineral, California. He's a five by nine or whatever. Yeah. And it's interesting, but he says how to interface your rig with his software. But I'm trying to find something to tell me what, what specifically. He's got a lot of software packages.

On his package. In his package. So, you know, I just want a big list of everything that's there because I'll recognize a lot of it. Yeah, yeah, I hear you there. Well, there's about fifth, I'm gonna say. Sure. There's about 13, maybe 15 different programs in it and a combination. And, you know, like I said, when I get in the desert, I ain't got nothing else to do. I'll sit there and figure it out. And then if I can't figure it out, I know somebody that can and set me all up. Yeah. One of the things that I'm looking at right now is he's got a section on antennas, and I'm looking to see.

I'm looking to see what. What he's got going there, but I started that SDR and it got racketed in my ear the whole time we've been talking because I didn't tune it to any specific frequency. So I'm going back over there, try to get it to be on there now. And where were you on 80, 38, 35? I'm still there. There's nobody on stuff. So the conversations are all over, huh? Yeah, pretty much. That was about an hour ago, I guess. And there's still people on there, but I'm not sure. I hadn't even checked them a while there. But the two individuals that were on there.

Before that was talking Europe. They were gone. And right now I got 20 meters yakking at me. Not at me, but talking. You know, they're starting to come in. Well, there was somebody really close to that frequency that you were on. There's. 38, 18, something. There's a conversation there, And there's. Yeah, anyway. Yeah, they're really close to that frequency. 3825 is where they are right now. Somebody is right now. And then there's another group of conversations at 38, 17.

I don't know where they are, but I don't hear them talking about conversations with Europe. But yeah, they're there. John, are you familiar with how to use the plus and minus so you can look at the curtain and see where people are? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. So that's how I found these guys. When you gave me that frequency, I saw those two conversations going on. One down a little bit, one up a little bit from the frequency you gave me. Oh, okay. I.

You're talking about, not the big plus and minus, the little guys. Yeah. You can do by megahertz, so you can do by kilohertz, whatever, whatever it is. And you can slide it up and down, stay on 80 meters, and you can go all the way to. I think you can go all the way to broadcast, but, you know, up and down on the, on the select band. Also the spectrum. Have you touched on it yet? Well, before we change to something else, I'm talking about there's a list of modes, am, fam, drm, below the frequency, and then there's a plus and a minus. And if, if you have a frequency in there, and then you click plus, you move in on the curtain and get to where you're looking right at.

Specific stations that might not be on your same frequency. That's what I'm talking about. Plus and minus. Yes. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But see, they got three my. Okay, three minuses. You got three pluses and you go faster the higher you go. Then you got your big plus and you got your minus plus. That'll move the waterfall back. Force slide back forth stuff. Yeah, and then. But what I'm saying in both the school is that spectrum, you get to see what's on top. Yeah, well, and I'm not talking about. You're still. Look, I think looking at the wide view. If you see the whole spectrum. And what I'm saying is how does the zoom in on that actual frequency that you're listening to and see who's right next to them?

Or really close. Now I can see three conversations. One at about three point below between 3.81 and 3.82. There's one for one conversation. It's actually at 3.3873818. There's one conversation at 3818. Then right next to it, there's a conversation at 3825. And then just up from that, there's a conversation at. 38:35. See? So that's how zoomed in I am. I the whole spectrum is only on 80 meters. This little part of 80 meters, actually.

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And that's using the big plus, that just below the a.m. that's what that thing does, is it zooms in on. On the spectrum. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. You got a plus and a minus. But see, if you go up. Yeah, you're right, you're right. I mean that. Yeah, I know about that. And then I go up on top of the spectrum, then I can just sit there and find out who's talking. And, you know, it doesn't say where they're at. It says what, you know, what frequency and stuff. But you're right. Yeah. So look, once you're zoomed in on the. On the spectrum and looking at things and the whole. The whole width of it is only, like, right now, my home with the 38, 33.80.

To 3.85 right around there. That's the whole width on the whole screen. That's. That's the whole. That's all I'm looking at. And by. Look, by moving that curtain around, like, there's another strong conversation here at 3845. So that's how. That's how that thing works. It's really cool the way it works. And it's interesting. They got CW people and Sideband on the same frequency. And it seems to be like an interference from the PW guy right on top of there that they're saying probably 38, 45. And they kind of go away. But you know what you could do? I mean, this is where I said what was really cool and really sparked my interest is one night I was sitting here.

Am. I was wondering why these guys wasn't coming in. I couldn't KN them in, you know, so they sounded good. And I hit am, and they were just clear as a button. And I sit there and listen. And they're older amps. They were old, you know, and they were using vintage machines. And I thought, how cool is that? That is really, really pretty cool. Because AM is. You're really broadcasting, you know, out there. Yeah. I'm not trying to date myself, but when I first started as a ham, they didn't even have sideband. And everything was AM back then. And the reason they changed is because the original amount.

Transmitters had to have a, A, an audio amplifier that was high powered and used a lot of juice, and it was all tube stuff anyway, and had a great big old transformer in there and they'd run the RF through that transformer, that AM transformer, and modulate the signal. So. So, yeah, and it was very inefficient. But it sounds good, you know, if you listen to it, it sounds good. Right now, I'm not seeing any AM guys on here. Let's see if I widen it out a little bit, maybe I'll see one, but so far I'm not. Yeah, well, you know, my radio day started back in when I was like, 16, you know. Of course, I was citizen band. I'm sure that's.

Where pretty much everybody started. You know, they had like the 12 channel CBS AM and is what you have is what you got. And then, you know, like they went to 23 channels. And then that's when you stuck a little power to it. And then, you know, then it went to 40 channels. And then, you know, before that it was sideband if you had a VFO and what we used to call it a clarifier. Yeah. And, you know, it's interesting, but my electronics started in the audio area. I was fixing, you know, big audio amplifiers and small and turntables and cassette players and eight tracks and everything like that. I was fixing all that stuff. I had my old business.

And then this guy says, well, why don't you come over here? I don't think I made any more money over where he said to go, because it was a percentage of. In other words, the company took a lot of the money that I made, and I only got a percentage. So I would have been better off saying, well, I'll come over, but it'll be. My company won't. Was in inside of your company. And then I would have made money. I probably could have made that deal in the beginning, because that was it. I was the only person doing it, and I had to find people. Although there was a certain amount of liability doing, pulling other people in to work on equipment that within your company, if they screwed up, I had to go to court.

Court a couple of times because people screwed up so bad. And I won every. All the cases because there were ways of getting out of the responsibility. But, yeah, there were people out there that blew it. And one guy took a. A really nice car radio that had wax for all the adjustments on the coil, and he just forced up an adjustment thing into the coils and turned them anyway. And it cracked. Cracked the coils, and they were worthless. And the only way I got out of that was to say, was to say, the manufacturer. It was a manufacturer's fault, which it wasn't. But, you know, I had to get out of paying a bunch of money. Yeah. Well, yeah, I hear that there was a guy there in the.

Little town that there in southeastern Oklahoma that I lived in, grew up in. And we called him Sparky. And he was quite a bit older than me. He was probably 10 years, maybe 15 years older than I was. And what he would do is he opened a little business out of a 10 by 10 shack in the back of his house. And, man, he made a living out of that dude, because he could make a radio talk. I mean, he had all the siloscopes, all the other weird stuff there. That shack. You take his radio over there and I guarantee you'd be able to talk to anybody you want to. Yeah. One of the things that was one of my biggest moments, moneymakers, the company that I was working for, we had a shop in the Bay.

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Basement. Eventually in Eureka. We were in our started out in Arcadia and we ended up in Eureka with a big company, three floors and shop in the basement. And there were like eight or ten techs and I was like the manager. Plus I had to. I had to fix stuff. So the combination and we had this one gal that would talk to the tectonic and CB had evolved. When I first started it was Johnson and American companies. And sideband was SVD was American at the time. And then the Japanese started really competing hard. And they put out a lot of transistors that were Japanese transistors 2 SE2SA. And they were.

They had tight tolerances. They would, they had these transistor checkers and they would measure all the things that that transistor electronic formulas showed, you know, measure all the numbers and then name the transistor, put the transistor in that group, in that and like a two SA and a four digit number. That's what all. And, and because they were so tight in their tolerances, their transistors were better than the USA transistors. So. And you had to use those transistors to fix any of those CV sets. So the final thing I did was to take these Japanese radios and they, Japanese were afraid of the sec, so they were very careful to have lower mine.

Modulation and lower power so that when the FCC measured those radios, they weren't overpowered and over modulated. Well, I, what I did is I go into these radios, change the circuit so that they were right exactly at the tolerance, highest modulation and highest power that the FC allowed. I made a lot of money with brand new radios doing that and it was cool. I made a lot of money doing that. Yeah. KN6SLS. Yeah, he, you know, he set what you call the swing and all that good stuff, you know, and it would, it was like I said, they would talk and you know, those older radios had more power than these newer radios as far as ncbs.

So, I mean, they can handle a lot more, like you're saying. And, you know, it was it was just he just ran a good business because he was the only one in southeast Oklahoma that knew how to work on radios that we knew of. Well, see, E.F. johnson, the American company wasn't so afraid of the FCC because they didn't have to worry about import regulations. So, yeah, nobody. These American companies didn't worry. So the first radios were putting out full 5 watts and the full 100% modulation. You know, that was the difference. But then the Japanese got into it, and the FCC really watched them like a hawk. So they had to be very careful. So what they would do is put out a radio with 50% modulation and like, three or four watts at the most. Three watts.

Lot of them. So, yeah, that's how they made the FCC happy. And yet the radios were a lot nicer, I would say, especially the receivers. So they had a great product. It's just that they, you know, they couldn't do what E.F. johnson could get away with, but they could sell the radios for nothing. So at first, though, CB radio was 200 bucks for a 24, 25 channel radio of $200, you know. Yeah, well, you know, like I said, they, they come down quite a bit. Now, you in a truck stop, you buy a Midland, which, that was pretty good radio back in them days. Nowadays you walk into a Love's Truck Stop or something like that and buy a plain Jane Midland for 60 bucks, something like that.

Yeah, it's interesting. If you go to 3845 at that Shingletown Str, they're having a conversation, and somebody's interfering with their conversation with cw. Got CW right in the middle of their conversation. It's just a loud carrier with CW on it. So somebody doesn't like them anyway. Yeah. And by the way, that SDR has a problem with interference that you won't find at the KFS sdr, which work almost identical. They work better, though, I think, the KFS SDRs. But if you see. See why, if you look, study that KFS system, you'll see why it's so good, but.

Whoever has this SCR down in the lower portion of the band has a real interference problem. Carriers. Very strange carriers, actually down in the lower part of 80 meters where the seat CW is supposed to be. So until they fix that, they're gonna. People aren't gonna. Is it sideband? Pretty much. On 80 meters of sideband. Only because of that, all those carriers, of course, tcw, you know, they fill. They can filter the heck out of things. So nothing but. Yeah, whoever's got this is got some kind of racket. Probably coming from their own house. That's the thing about this interference.

It can come. It can come from their own house. Yeah, well, you know, like I said, we. One night we were sitting here and they had. I mean, people from LA to Half Moon Bay, Pacifica, San Carlos, a lot of Bay Area stations, and then out in Nevada, Idaho, and they all meet there about 7 o' clock on 3805, I believe it is. And they meet every night at seven o'. Clock. And there's. They're just a wild bunch. That's how I describe them. Nice people, but they're just a wild bunch.

They. They just speak your mind, that's all. Yeah. And. And one of the wildest groups is way up high in that band, Like 3996. They might be. I just saw a. Somebody put out a peep up there, And they're not there right now, but they can have long conversations up there. And they're just barely legal. Because, look, theoretically, you could go at. You could be at 39.99 with lower sideband and you'd be legal, but barely. Barely legal. Yeah. They say don't get any closer than three cases.

Of the 4 megahertz. So. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, it's too bad that there's that interference for this sdr, but what it comes from is right inside their house, you know, like some sort of power supply or something. Could be the 12 volt power supply that's powering the SDR that's causing the interference. It might be on a mountaintop or something. It should be that they'd have a better chance of no interference, but. Yeah, they've got a lot of interference. Yeah, well, like I said, I've been having a good time on it. I don't bother me because I don't get down there anyway. I'm just. The only thing that bothers me is I sit there and listen to that guy talk to Europe all over.

It. And, you know, any place, Texas, back east. I mean, like, I believe you said it one time, that's all local, and I'm beginning to understand that's all local stuff. Easy to get to, Even on my little 8891, you know, I mean, that's just, you know, good. I mean, it's fun, but it's local stuff. And, you know, I just kick it on and see if I can hear them and then hear them on my radio, see? Yeah. One thing that really surprised me, there's this thing called wwv. Have you ever heard of wwv? No, I haven't. Well done.

Wwv is the. Government time transmitter. It transmits the time from a number of locations and so on your 30, on your. On your radio. The primary one that's always been the big deal is 10 megahertz and it's AM. So if you go to 10 megahertz exactly with your radio, you can have it on lower sideband or upper sideband and it'll still work. And you can hear their voices and everything, even though it's amaz. Well, they also Transmit at, okay, 5 MHz, 10 MHz.

15 MHz, 20 MHz, 25 MHz. I don't know, maybe more. But right Now, I've got 20 megahertz on. It's coming from Colorado, and it's one of the strongest of the. All of them is the 20 MHz one. It's kind of amazing. You can kind of check the bands, see how the bands are working by listening to these, because they're always the same. 200 watts. They're always the same. So. And you can hear Hawaii. Some days strong, some days not strong. Yeah, that'd be kind of a check. Yeah, that'd be kind of cool. Yeah. You know, it's kind of funny, you know, you. You listen to these people, and you can tell the ones that have huge, huge beam antennas, and they're run.

Or they're running, you know, maybe 800 watts or something of that nature, and they just blow everybody off the air. And, I mean, they're not doing anything wrong. It's just. I'm saying they come in here really strong and obviously, you know, I was talking to that one guy in Texas, I think it was, and he goes, here, just a minute. I told him he had a three, a five by three, and he's a dismiss. You just. He turns it around, here he comes, you know, five by 20 or something like that, you know. Well, if you go to fort. If you go to 14300, I've got it on that. On that Shingletown. It's actually, like you say, it's not Shingletown, it's wood.

Whitmore. Whitmore. Whitmore's just down in the foothills. And then you get up to Shingletown. It's up higher, like where you are. But Whitmore is more like 2,000ft right around there at the lower hills. But that blue mountain might be about, like, 3,000ft. That could be where this. Where the STR is. But hearing that interference, I'm thinking it's at somebody's house. That's probably where it is. But I've got 14 1-4300 on that shingle town SDR. I got 14300 on there right now. And that's upper side band USB. And what that net is, is the. The original marine service net, the biggest one, although they have very few boats on it, but.

That's what that is. It's the original marine service net. And they don't call out for marine mobiles very often because it's kind of morphed into let's see who we can get and what we can do. There's people there right now, but I don't know that they're part of that net because the net might not have started yet. But anyway, it runs pretty much all day long. KN6MTK comment? Yeah, go ahead, Steve. Okay. Yes, good morning. I've been listening for quite a while, but just busy. Anyway, I want to take it back to the N3 FJP log software stuff. That is what we use like a winter field day. And like, we just had, just had the ARRL contest for CQ Worldwide CW.

Game.

And a lot of times these clubs, like the Gars Group, purchase some of the software. It's like nine bucks, I think it is. But anyway, and then they're able to use it for the whole club, right? And even set it up for networking. Now, we don't typically, like for parts on the air and soda and stuff. We don't use these softwares because they don't really integrate well, like with Linux that I've seen anyway. Or like Raspberry PI's. Or how about just your phone? Because some people want to, like I think you alluded to earlier, Mike, log on your phone. Some of us want everything to link together in sync so that we can log on our phone, walk in our house and, you know, be able to go on your desktop and be able to manipulate things and so on. So I don't know.

Much about the software other than I've used it like even this past weekend on CQ Worldwide for cw. It's very nice to be able to use this software for that purpose. And then of course we just download our ADIF files and bring those into PODA or you bring them into you know the contest like in Cabrillo Cabrillo format or whatever. It has those abilities. And what's nice about it at least for the contest stuff is it tracks like which dates you've gotten or what sections and so forth so you kind of it crosses them off as you go and it also kind of calculates your points and so forth as you're going along. So some pretty neat things about using that software but it doesn't seem to be full functioning like it's only you know you have to use it seems like when we're doing potas and stuff we have to use a variety of different sources. You wish there was only one.

But there doesn't seem to be. Thank you for that. Kn6mgk. Yeah. What do you think about that, John? Like I said, I know more about that software than I did a few minutes ago. Good morning, Steve. Now, maybe there is a Linux version or something. I just. I don't know. But I see it says like system requirements Windows 7 through Windows 11. Of course, if you have older XP and Vista, there's another version there, but doesn't really. I'm looking at the 10 meter one. I think the 10 meter contest is this weekend for anyone who cares out there. I don't know that I'll be able to participate much, but we'll see. Anyway, the 10 meter contest for this weekend will be very.

Interesting if the bands hold out and we don't have all these solar. Solar storms. Yeah. As for that, software is. Of course. The guy asked me. He called me when I. When I wanted. Asked me what I was running. I told him, I said, well, mine's running 10 and my wife's running 11. So that's, you know what it is, you know, So I like. I'll tell you what, I like XP a lot better than I like 10. 11. When you say xp, what are you talking about there, John? Yeah, you know, xp. Soft operating system, Windows xp.

That's older or older version of 10. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, that's going way back there. Yeah. Okay. By the way, Steve, that software system, the guy at november3fox, julietpopper.com has a special page on how to run everything you've got on Linux, Mint, just, just in Google. Just say N3FJP and then Linux and it'll come up. Yeah, perfect. Well, I mean, I like Mint and all run that quite a bit, but right now I'm not. And a lot of guys I weren't. Especially if you have.

Like Cam4 Ack's Raspberry PI where you're installing Debian and then you're putting Raspbian in there and of course his GitHub program. So yeah, it's unfortunate but yeah, a lot of things aren't made for, for like the Ubuntu stuff. But I don't know, I mean there's plenty of stuff in there and it very well may work just fine. So I've never tried it. I don't think I remember every time that I've been to like the Gars club, you know, I think like Jeremy lent me his Windows machine and when I bought one I have this Windows 11 little laptop here that I finally ended up buying just, you know, succumbing to it all because a lot of the software is made for Windows, you know. So I may be wrong about that 10 meter contest. I thought that's what the guy said on the, on the net this week. It looks like it's.

December 8 to 14. In that time frame, it's actually on December 13. So I think we're a week a little more than a week away. Then the ARRL 10 meter contest. So I think if that's the case, I'll be able to do that one. And now, wow, it's CWN phone. So maybe we all should gear up for that. John, myself, Mike, and let's see what we can do. Have you ever done a contest, John? No, but I think I'm fixing to do it. All I have to do is just go out there and untie a rope, bring my 20 meter down and put my 10 meter up. I'll be ready to go. Well, the primary beauty of the specialized band contest, like the 10 meter one, is that you'll find out where an especially.

Especially if it's international. You'll find out just how far the 10 meter band can really go. Because the only reason you may not know it right now. Is because there's just not as many stations there as you're going to have in a contest. In a contest. A whole ton of stations go there. And you'll hear stations from everywhere. And it's too bad we aren't both of us aren't set up on CW a little bit better. But that's where the really long, long distance stuff comes from in cw. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, I gotta hand it to Steve. If he's doing cw, I sit here and I listen to it. And I just try to copy down the dots. I can't get my brain moved fast enough, Make sure I have it there. But one thing about CW.

Well is I have a couple comments, I guess is that like on this contest and like actually for me, these points and stuff don't really matter. It's about the fun of doing it. I mean, If I got 10 contacts and said, hey, I had a couple hours of time, I could mess with it. That was fun. You know, that's what I'm about. But anyway. But you do get 2 points per phone QSO and 4 points per CW QSO. Well, anyway, so you get double the points right off. And then the fact is if you're running fast, like at least 25 words a minute, I mean, sometimes you're getting QSOs back to back to back, you know, really could now on 10 meters, it might be a little bit like a little more tricky like Mike's saying there because shoot, as far as I've gotten away, I think on 10 meters is Japan maybe. Yeah. So on digital modes I've gone a lot further. But on cw, well, I guess I've gotten over into Sweden also. Just depends. But.

Yeah. If you're setting up your 10 meter antenna you might just think about where you're gonna propagate to. So you might set it up like maybe more north, south or something, something like that to get east, west, I don't know, hard to say but for me I'm kind of set my antenna's up and so I am stuck with wherever it is. Yeah. Now one thing Steve, you said that is it going to be on the 13th? Is that pretty much so that you know of? Yeah. Well you can by the way have fun and look up. You can just Google ham radio contest calendar. Okay. And this site comes up that seems like everyone uses Whiskey Alpha 7 Bravo New Mexico so Whiskey Alpha 7 P NM Anyway, that particular guy, he's got a calendar of all of them and so yeah you'll be able to look at the eight day, the five weeks.

12 months. I mean, some people are really into all this stuff. But anyway, you'll be able to see the ARRL 10 meter contest. The actual time. Let's see, the dates are December. Yeah. December 13th. From 0zulu to 2400zulu on December 14th, it looks like. So. So it's going to start, like, probably Friday night or something. I don't know. I have to look at that. But I wouldn't be surprised. Usually a lot of them are that way Friday night. Like, what is that, 4 o' clock our time? You know, until probably like 4 o' clock on Sunday or something like that. That's how a lot of them last. Yeah. Let me identify kn6sl. Like I said, I don't get really consumed with. But I. I think.

I think it's kind of neat, you know, to participate and see how it works and stuff like that. I think it's really pretty cool. Yeah. Like I said, I'll. Before the 13th, I'll yank that 20 meter down and put my 10 meter up, which takes me all about 10 minutes or 20 minutes and see what I can do. Yeah, I was trying to look at that. Trying to look at that country list that they have at that FJP thing. I don't know. I can't quite figure it out yet. But I've got this. The big deal, John, that I would highly recommend is this map I've got. Let me see if I can go back to it, find out a quick way for you to get there. But the map lists.

Call letters for a whole ton of different countries and just explains how call letters work all over the world. Yeah. Yeah. That. Different grids or whatever. Yeah, I got it. But yeah, that, you know, like I said, I don't I don't plan on winning no contest or anything like that. Maybe a couple years from now or something. But. But it's just kind of fun to have something to do. And like you're saying, Steve is the point. You're just having fun doing it. And that's the way I'm doing. Are you going to do it, Mike, or. You'll be in there, won't you? I don't do contests. But what I like to listen to, what I like to check out is see who's on.

The air, especially when the contest first starts before all the pilots happen. Once the pile ups happen, it's no fun. For me, it's whoever's got high powers and to get through and that kind of thing. But I like to see which call letters are showing up especially. Is that an international contest, Steve? Well, funny that you mentioned it. Yeah. I mean, if you look at the rules and stuff here, see the multipliers and all that stuff. So, yeah, that's why using that software is really important on something like this, if you really cared about all that. But like, you know, it talks about, you know, multipliers for us, each US state plus DC for, for each ve, province, territory, once per mode. So that's Canada, each XE state, that's Mexico, once perfect.

Mode, then you got each DXCC country once per mode. And then you got each itu ITU region. Like what we're in region three, right? So each region you get a multiplier. So yeah. So then it talks about the exchange. You know, for Canada, it's the Rst plus the state in Providence. For Mexico, RST plus the state DX Rst for, like, if you talk to someone in Hawaii or Alaska or, or, you know, other countries, you give an RST plus a serial number. So and then there's mm. I don't know what MM stands for. It's interesting. But so, yeah, obviously it's and the maximum, I mean, there's all these rules. You know, you could be listed as high power, low power, low watts. So I think all of us would be your QRP. And maximum operating hours, 36 hours.

So there's all these little rules and stuff that I don't care about. Usually I just jump on on a Saturday or Sunday or whatever, I don't care and start playing. That's what I do. But that's me. So everyone can do their own, their own little deal there. Let me reset. I've got one more thing as a comment here, and it's pretty important actually. So one. Okay, kn6mgk I just wanted to make a mention of something that happened to me like this morning, which is something that drags down newer operators and people who get excited about doing new modes and things. But yeah, this morning I was up at like 4 in the morning doing FT8, and I was getting other countries and so forth, and just so happened to come across this Vermont station, W1KO K0K O Kwisky 1K 0K.

Okay. Anyway, that doesn't matter but you know, I got him and it all, you know, it all came across and everything. And so then because it's Vermont and I need Vermont, that's the last state I need for, for workdall states. I mean I asked for confirmation, I sent and I just made an email out to the guy real quick, hey, could you log this in QRZ and then hit here's his response. Hi Steve, we worked at 1228 UTC and you're asking me to upload my logbook of the world 21 minutes later, question mark. Don't you think that's pushing it? And then 73 with his name and call sign. So anyway, and this guy's a ham for over 30 years. You look at his QRZ page and you know, he talks about that he's just doing it for fun anymore and stuff like this. Well, anyway, I find that quite interesting.

Interesting. It's very discouraging that someone who, you know, who's been a ham for 30 years would say something in that way to someone who's five years maybe of a ham. And you know, he doesn't maybe know that necessarily about me. But anyway, you know, that's why we send emails and stuff, so people can do it at their convenience and so on. We're not trying to decent for me, I'm not trying to be pushy to anybody. But you know, what am I supposed to do? Look up his phone number and call him at 4 in the morning? I think he'd be more pissed at that. All right, that's my rant. KN6MGK. Do you remember the one local pushy guy? Remember that guy? Yeah. Well, this is the kind of comment you'd expect from a guy like that too. And I'll just say one more thing. His call sign is Whiskey1kok. And if you sound out the last part of his call,

Call. That's the way he acts. Well, I wanted to throw something out for both of you, especially for John. I'd like you to look at this if you've got. Are you there, John? Do you have a computer going? I don't know. I was watching this, that Ham Nation, I think, last night or. Oh, shoot, I've got a brain for it. But anyway, anyway, it was subnation. I think it was Ham Nation. Anyway, what they were saying, and I know you guys watch them on YouTube, you've seen these people. What they were saying is that the old ham, as in that guy that you were talking about, needs to take these new hams that are coming up and be an ambassador to ham radio. Instead of trying to say, hey, I know it all and I know that, but you know, just like what you like what he's saying. He. He's been there 30 years.

Years, so it doesn't mean that much. But you've been there five years. I've been there three years, Mike. Been there, what, a hundred years? No, I'm just kidding. But what I'm saying is he knows he's done it. It's fun to hear somebody that really is excited about it. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. 200x. I have something for both of you to lo at. John, do you have a computer running? Yeah, go ahead. Okay, just put in the following K. Start over again. Victor, Kilo, Hotel, Alpha, Mexico. That's VK Ham. Just put that word in. VK Ham. O N.

Word and then put map, or put world map, if you want. And this thing that should come up is a map of all the call letters all over the world in color. And if it doesn't, I'll give you more. A few more words that you could. So you can make it come up. Yeah, it doesn't come up, but yeah, okay, I got. I'll. I'll type it in here later, but yeah, Steve, you know, that's. This guy. What was his name? He was.

Pretty cool. He said that, you know, people like him need to be ambassadors to people like me, you know, because, I mean, somebody that's been a ham for 30 years could crush me. And I'm sitting there and go, oh, boy, I messed up. I really messed up. And he's going to be in Quartzite on that courtside ham fest. I'm going to make a point to meet him and. But, yeah, you're right. That's. That's not the way to do it the way that God did it. I just tried what I suggested there. Victor King. Victor King. Ham. All one word. Vkm. Next word is world. W, O, R, L, Z. If you do that, the top of the thing that Google.

Gives you from coming back, the top one is the one, and you click on that and you got the world prefix map. I got. It is right now I got Australia, but yeah, it shows where it's got. I can get the world map. Okay, well, if you're putting in BK ham, B K H A M, nothing more. And then space, the word world, W O R L D, Google gives you a list of things and on the very top one, if you click on that one, the world prefix map comes up. That works.

Yeah, I got it. I got three of them here. Yeah, they're. They're all sitting in. Did we lose Steve there? No, just let, letting you guys talk. I didn't really go though but because I'm gonna go grab a cup of coffee with the ham radio guys for, for an hour. So anyway. But yeah, mine if it brought it up but you know, I don't know how useful it is for me at this point. If you're curious about it when you're on the fly with somebody it's cool to be able to look that up. I like other ones that I like the MUF and stuff like that. Maximally usable frequency TSK Reporter. That's one I'd like John to be able to get to a little bit more is checking out so that you could see what digital modes can do for you. Like PSK Reporter is a spot where you could check.

Your propagation and so forth. That's a really neat one. It's more useful to me is that one and also the HF for HF frequencies, the maximum usable frequency to kind of see like when there's possible openings for 10 meters and stuff like that. It just gives you a good indication. But anyway, I think earlier you guys were talking about digital a little bit and I can't say enough good things about the little digi rig for like if you have an 891, they sell one that's specifically for the 891. So if you ever were thinking, John, about doing digital modes, that'd be a good, good tool to have with you is a little digi rig with a set of cables. So anyway, yeah, that's all I got. K6MGK. Yeah. The answer to that is I think me and you were talking or me and Mike was talking about I was.

Getting into FTA and I'm sure there's others. There's a lot more, I understand that. But right now, if you can understand what I'm saying, my wife, when we get to court site, we gotta put in or she's wanting to put in all these blackout curtains or curtains, I don't know. In other words, she's wanting to redecorate. Fits well. So when she does that, when I get back up here, then I can redecorate my lot here with a long wire and possibly that dizzy rig. If you get what I'm saying. Uh huh. I always ask for forgiveness later, but. Yeah, sounds like you're wanting to put some, maybe even some day night shades in. Or maybe you have those and you're switching them out to something else, I don't know. Anyway, yeah, have fun with that.

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You're right. That's what it's called. Day, night. The last time we were down there, we got an estimate for him to come out there in the desert and this guy out of LA is a vendor and they're going to stall him for a price. And she got his phone number up and so she's going to call and see if we get the same price, which was pretty good for all the shades that she everything in the home fifth wheel. And it's kind of modernized. It's about seven years old now. And so if he's there at that big tent down there, she's going to the big tent and doing what she wants to do. So that means I can go to courtside Ham fest. And now they're Yuma and she's a ham radio operator. So she understands. Yeah, yeah. I used to install those day night shades and stuff before. Yeah.

Seems like it was about seven, eight years ago when that was standard in all the land campers and trailers. They all came with day night shades back then so anyway. But we had to upgrade the older ones. That's what we did a lot of and they are pretty nice to have them. For me I think it's nice in certain areas to have day night shades but there's. There's some that I just like to leave the whole, the whole window open and look out anyway and I don't want to have any sort of a day shade on it, you know but that's me. And then there's certain ones that of course the day night shades are good to have on. So anyway it just depends on the floor plan of the RV anyway but it's cool. Yeah. Then you can play around with some other stuff you want to do like put up another antenna or buy a digi rig or something like that. That makes sense.

Yeah, I, I'll get the what I do in the morning. I have a table and we took out some of the leisure chairs if you will, just enough, you know, we have the couch and you've seen them Steve, and I'm sure you've seen a Mike where they have two, two recliners and a couch over here on the back and then you have a tv. We took out one of the recliners. So I put in a. When we go to the desert I put in a table and I open all the windows up so I'm looking out over the desert talking on the radio and doing computer work and she does her thing and that kind of thing like that. But this time we have a 10, a 10 by 10 or 10 by 12 tent you can roll up. That's gonna be my ham shack. So anyway, back to you Mike. Yeah, I think the craziest thing that I've ever.

Ever seen in the way of. RRVs was a completely 100% RV that they had on YouTube. And I don't know if I could find it nowadays or not. I think it was Australian. And it had. What do they call those things that the whole floor slides out. It had. Has those on it and. And it was home built. The whole thing was home built on a big old truck, on a big old flatbed truck, like a one ton or something like that. And pretty amazing. The only way they could visit other countries would be loaded up on a ship, but.

Yeah. Pretty amazing to look at. And it had a bathroom and a shower on the back that had little domes on it. So it was quite unusual looking. Yeah, those are couple slide outs. Yeah, there's quite a creative bunch that. Some stuff. I'm just wondering if it's legal to have the stuff that they bring down there. But apparently it is. It comes down the highway and stuff. But anyway, guys, I'm gonna have to run, so I'm. I'm gonna check out here and then we'll be back on later on this afternoon or something like that. So anyway, this BKN6SLN will be clear on you guys. All right? Yep. Yeah. Hey, seven, three, two.

John73 mike, I'm taking off to go have a cup of coffee. Kilo nov 6 mike golf. Kilo clear. Audio. Yeah. What's the easiest way to get information to you, John? Do you look at your email? Mike I didn't catch that. I think you said something about. Yeah, but that email that you got is. It's active. Yeah, I'll look at it. Well, I haven't said anything lately, but I've got your email, so I might try to get some of this together so you can see it. All right. N6, TRG, K and 6 and so on.

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We 6a x m repeater, Kilo oscar 6 bravo gulf jt monitor. And 6iwh ko6bgy. How you doing, Pete? Staying warm over there? It's kind of cold over here in Calusa, it's not even 45 degrees. Oh, we've got the thermostat up on high. I mean, really, who cares? Heat, drink, can be married for tomorrow. You have to pay the bill. Oh, yes. We get ours and they got to get theirs. That's for sure. We had our.

It was a work holiday thing, but it was for the consumers. So, yeah, me and my other co workers cooked ham, turkey breast, cranberry sauce, the whole nine yards. It's kind of sad. Some of these people, this is the only meal they're going to get for the holiday season. They don't have a lot of family. Wait a minute. This was for Thanksgiving? Technically, yeah. We didn't do anything for Thanksgiving leading up to it for them, we decided it would be easier to combine the Christmas and the Thanksgiving one. So that's what we did. We had probably close to 40 people come over and get some. Get some meals and take some home and fellowship and shoot the breeze and whatnot. That's great. Everything is.

Expensive. But I have to tell you, I love having turkey dinner. You know, gravy dressing, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie. I mean, need I say more? It all sounds good to me. I had a little bit of it. I didn't want to eat too much because I wanted them to make sure they had money. Yeah. There's no leftovers, really, so that's always a plus. And everything was done in boil oil pans, and there was minimal dishes to do as well. Well, what, you were helping out? Yeah, I helped cook up the turkey and the ham. Basically just cooking everything up there and.

Everyone else did other things. So somehow I got stuck doing the dishes. But I didn't really mind. I was left alone to my own mind. But it was kind of nice to get away from the whole hustle and bustle of things. So now I'm on my lunch break, parked in a parking lot at the grocery store, as far away from work as possible without getting home. Lunch break at 2:30. Somewhere around there. Yeah. Well, it sounds like you're busy and, you know, it's good to help people, even if you can't physically be there. It's nice to have good thoughts and, you know, remember them in your prayers, as I do. Ko6bgy Freddie yeah, no, absolutely. It's not for everybody. Some people are like, ah, I'm not helping them. Hey, you know.

You don't have to. You don't have to. You decide what you want to do. But it's nice to see that there's still some good hearted people out there that still want to see their fellow man and woman do well even if it's just a short afternoon together eating a meal and hanging out. I mean I saw some people that I hadn't seen in a while it's good to see that they're still doing good. What about Veterans Day? Did you do anything, go anywhere? Nope. I stayed my happy rear at the house. I didn't want to go out and about. Everyone's like you should have went and got your free meal. I'm like no, I mean if I go out with a group of veterans yeah we'll go head somewhere up but I'm over the chicken tenders Coca Cola that they give out. It's great, it's greatly appreciated but I just don't want it.

Are there a lot of veterans around in your area? I don't see too many activities here for vets. I did see a group that was women, women veterans getting together, and I thought, okay, that's great. Oh, Yeah, absolutely. It's one of the underserved demographics in the veteran community, for sure. I mean, I know a couple years ago, we were doing the color guard for the Willows home football games, and we would always make an announcement prior that, hey, if you're a veteran, come down and march with us, or come down, stand up here or stand up where you're at. We had one lady secur down. She's like, I was in the reserve. Does that count? I'm like, did he get yelled at? Yeah. Okay, you're one of us.

You know, there used to be a guy on here years back. I don't know. I haven't heard him lately. He was an honor guard. And, you know, he'd get on and we'd talk about us. He'd put on his dress uniform and go around to funerals and stuff like that, but parades. But he had a good heart. He wanted to help out, you know, the vet. He said that nobody else is really stepping up to be in, you know, honor guard. Yeah, I actually did that for about two years. I can't do it now because most, as unfortunate as it is, most of the funerals that they do have are during work hours, and I just can't get away for that. But when I was unemployed or had better hours, I would go. I probably did help with probably close to 100. There was a couple.

Times where we were able to bring back some like Vietnam vets or World War II POWs that were brought back. And it's, it's a, it's a very somber moment, but it's also really good. It's funny. I'll break real quick. I did the firing party, which 21 guns, whatever, and then also the bugle bugle at the funeral. And one little lady came up to me one day. She's like, you sounded so good. You sounded just like a recording. I'm like, dang, it is a recording. There's a little Horton little disc that you put in the bugle and it plays for you. So I was like, yeah, no, I did great. That's why we usually stood up at the side, so you couldn't see me doing it because I'm not the most coordinated person. Hey, I was just going to say, man, playing the cornet.

Playing Taps for real. That's a tough tune. Really. You know, the range is pretty high for a trumpet player. Absolutely. Much respect to the ones that can do it for real. I mean, what we do is effective and it's efficient. But one of the local schools, I think he Maxwell over there here in Calusa county, over there on the west side of the county, they actually, every once in a while, they'll have, like, a high school kid that is really good in band, and he'll actually he or she will come over and they'll actually play as well. And they do it. I mean, you can tell. Okay, they're a little rusty, but, man, they are giving it their go. And the fun thing about that is nobody questions the quality, the integrity of the thought that counts. They call your.

Lip. Your amateur. How is your amateur? Oh, fine, thank you. How's yours? Well, it's kind of slouching today. You know, trumpet players have it kind of rough. They. They have to keep at it even if they're not playing gigs and stuff. They have to work out early, you know, scales and, you know, like the weekends they have, they put themselves through in order to keep in shape, because that's tough work. You know who else is tough is whenever I would see the we never had the drums, but not the pipes and drums, but just the bagpipes. When they would come out for different events. Oh, man. Be you'd have me blue in the face trying to get one of them old squeeze walkers working. But hats off to the ones that can make that shake.

Slider or whatever it is. Make an audible tune. That's actually pretty nice. W E6A X N repeater. Yeah. Excitable. Well, you know, really does add a quality, though, to say a military funeral. Taps, bagpipes, 21 gun salutes, military parade. You know, everybody looking good, right? Fellow. You know, fellow military types. It's a great time. Yeah, I will. Maybe when I get more time, maybe I'll put in a. Put in a call to the guy that's in charge and be like, hey, if you have any weekend, you know, maybe I can do that. Now I got to get a new. We don't have. Well, we do have a uniform, but it's nothing outrageous. It's just black pads, black shoes, and depending on the weather, law.

Short sleeves, white shirt. Some of the organizations like up in Chico, they got the chrome helmets and the pinstripe pants. I'm like, you guys are going, I mean it looks good but y' all are adding too much pompous to it and whatnot. Hey, well what about you? Do you have any desire to be an honor guard? To dress up. Anytime that I can, I'll do it. Did it many times before and I'm sure I'll do it again. Like I said, it's just usually there during the work week at 9am I'm like, well I work at 8:30 so that's not going to work out too well. But anyway, I as much as I don't want to, it's only got about an hour and a half left so pretty mellow. The boss is gone for the rest of the day so I'll just close. But anyway, great talking to you again.

And6iwh from ko6vgy73 I'll be comparing the final okay 73 good luck in the contest. Ko6bby m6item we.

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