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Ah, just too good. So good. You just have to say it over the air. N6wip. N6ntm. Oh, I didn't mention the five dollar service, fe. You know, here. You're gonna love it. You can go. You can go. Look at it on Deborah Dark and he'll show you the articles. $8 billion in fraud in Minnesota added on onto the 100 and a half. Then they raised it to do 2. 2 billion now. 8 billion today. Look at you can't run from AI j. I. I know. I'm not telling you anything. You know more about it than me, I'm sure. But you know how they circled back that money? All that.

Money that they scammed more than half of them. Names come back as contributions to Omar. How about that? Talk about getting a kickback, huh? $8 billion. That's what we're up to now. They got their names. Same people were collecting twice on food stamps. And autistic children kicking back pain into her. Oh, boy. You'll like that one. I know. Well, we've all known, especially us that have served in the military, that.

We might see something happening with those people in three or six months before they actually are incarcerated or something like that. Look at, look at Comey and Trapper and Lieutenant James and I could go on. They got a judge in this lower court, so they'll go back and do it even righter next time around. They were dismissed on without prejudice. So they'll gather up the information they need to get them. You betcha. It's going to be the same thing with this sort of stuff here, to actually be held accountable. You know, I'm keeping, I'm keeping my prayers going for justice. True transparency has ramifications. I'm counting.

Kk7cpi. Listen, I heard a KK6. You want to try it again? I heard you were listening, but all the copy was KK6. Not your fault. I had stuff in the background here. N6 knees. Yeah, ken. This is ken in tanaka kk7t ei. Oh, okay. Yeah. How's. How's everything going in Tanica? I don't even know where that is. Right. Did I look that up last time you and I talked? I'll look that up right now. Oh, yeah, I did. I did look that up.

On it. I'm counting on it. Anyway, I had the release rant and rave a little bit about that one. I didn't know how we were going to get rid of that. That chick. But Yep, Newsom's next. N6 NTM.

Okay. So there you go. How's everything in Panaca? Everything's fine in Panaka. It's just north of Las Vegas. It's just south of Caliente, Nevada. Have you heard of Caliente? Yeah, we call that Caliente. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I. Like I said, I remember going. I had to go through there once because I couldn't go the other way out of Ely. So I had to go through Panaca and Caliente and back over towards Hiko that way.

We're just north of Calient, I guess. And then there's the Oak. And then you go on up to the junction and then head over to. That's a. It's a good trip. I don't mind that going up. I love going to Ely because I go to the sporting goods store in Kylo Ranch. All right. I just. I just sat down here after a very busy day. I was about ready to start putting up some Christmas lights, but we have a.

This is a baby kit. He's running a little wild at the moment, so I figured I'd try to put up the Christmas decorations. After he fell asleep, I just sat down in here. I was going to start watching some MASH series here. Haven't seen. Haven't seen a lot of these MASH episodes in a long time. So I thought I'd sit down and start watching some of those again. Give me something to do when there's nothing to do, right? Sure. For sure. I. I enjoyed mash. I watched that. I watch, I think every one of them. I don't know, they kind of like gun smoke. You find a new one you didn't watch, but it's good watching.

Yes, sir. You know, and I back when I was younger, I'm talking, you know, 20, well, 20s, I was busy kids, 20s, 30s, and 40s. It wasn't until right about 50 is when I was able to sit down and start watching mash. And I, yeah, I started to enjoy it. Prior to that, I could have cared less. Yeah. No, I love it just a little bit. Yeah. When I was younger, I thought I was a quick draw artist. My dadman gave me a 20 digger to 23. The first ones they come out and a quick draw holster. And I thought I was.

Practicing a fast draw. I got a little bit too quick and it went off. Shot me in the lake. And I had an original old MASH doctor that was over there in that time and that fixed my leg up after that. He was one of my. In mash. Okay. Hopefully he was a Hawkeye and not a clinger. All right. Okay. Well, Ken, I didn't want you to go unanswered, so I thought I'd jump in there and say hello. I didn't recognize who you were at first. Of course. Yeah. It's always good talking to you. All right. I'm going to let you go, and I'm going to get back to what I was doing here at the system. Rest and.

But yeah, good talking to you and I'm sure I'll hear you tomorrow or some other day. Yeah, check in here more often. You may find some more folks on the Las Vegas system over the weekend and posting you closer to Christmas. Talk to you later. N6k here in Fusagasiga, Colombia. Yeah, I came to come back. I just come down in my man cave and just playing around and I just got here so I picked up the radio. It was been on all day. I just picked it up and called out to see if anybody's out there. And I thank you for the comeback. KK7 TDI73.

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Kk6vzv mobile. Kk6syv mobile. Good evening. Good evening. Why, it's chilly tonight. Yep. Yep. It's 45. It didn't get that warm today. Okay. All right. Well, I guess it is getting towards Christmas, so it should feel cold. That could be a lot worse. Yes, it could. So, what do you got going this weekend? I am going to a shooting class in Elk Creek. Or just south of Elk Creek. Okay.

What's the aim of the class? Long range and ballistics and all that kind of stuff. Supposedly during the class we shoot out to a thousand yards. Oh my. That's not terribly easy to do. That's why I'm going to class, so I can learn how to do it better. How do you even see what's out there at a thousand yards? To shoot at a expensive piece of glass on top of the gun. Okay. And once you shoot it, hiking out the thousand yards. My, I'm sure he's got side by sides and all that kind of stuff that he goes out there to service the targets and stuff with. No, you can see them from.

That far off and, you know, put the glass that you're looking through and other people watching to see if you actually hit, see the target move. Yeah, it's been a while. I remember seeing somebody that put out a YouTube video of some guy taking a really long distance shot like that, had a deer or elk or something and him actually hitting it. I was like, holy cow. Yeah. You get into the, you know, whether it's ethical to shoot that range to try and kill something. You know, your bullet really doesn't have enough energy to do the proper damage to kill it ethically. Well, that thing went down. Yeah, just like that. There was no staggering around any.

It just fell. Yeah. If you had a good enough shot to take it down. But, you know, how many times are you going to get that perfect shot from that distance? Very true. Very true. Well, all right. Well, I hope it's warm enough for you. He's got shot houses that we shoot from that have heaters and stuff in them. So, I mean, if the wind's blowing straight in your face, of course it's not going to do a lot. But if it's covering from the side or from the back, you're not going to be hopefully sitting out there in the wind. But the moisture and everything else is still going to be around temperature. Well, I think I'm going to stay inside where it's warm. That sounds like that be could.

Be a plant, so I might have to go out there and brave it just to get more leaves. It's interesting. It's like, so far, I've raked my yard twice, and it's weird. It's like the. There is so much, you know, so much quantity of dead leaves built up in the lawn. It's like the. And there's just as much up on the tree, and it's sort of like it stops. It's like, I'm not putting any more out until you. Until I need you. You had to go through and clean up what's already there. And then I'll start shedding some more. Yep, yep. That's the way it always is. You get every leaf picked up, and then you turn around and there's 40 more behind you. It's almost like saying, like, yeah.

Yeah, I know you wish you could get it all at once, but I'm not gonna let you. Yep, exactly. Now I'm sitting in my driveway, and you're probably close to yours, too. Enjoy your weekend and talk to you soon. All right, Have a great weekend. Talk to you later. 73 KK6VZD Claire KK6SYV. Clear. So. Hi, Chris. Kilo Echo 6, Lima, Quebec Juliet W E6A X M repeater. Hey, mister. How you doing? Hey. Pretty good. You know, I heard you talking about raking up your leaves. I was seeing something on TV the other day that they're recommending not to rake them up. I don't know who. I can't remember what the parkle was, but they said to mow them and then mow over them a second or two or three times and let it.

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Provide nourishment to your lawn. Yeah, I wish I could do that, but there's something, somebody preventing me from doing that. Ah, the boss is keeping an eye on things, huh? So, I heard you say something about rehearsal. Are you in Messiah? No. The Master Chorale is doing their winter concert. Very good. You know, I think the only time I've seen the Messiah was when I was in high school. And I may have actually participated in it in one aspect or another. I can't remember I played timpani back then, but anyway, I don't quite remember, but. Yeah, that was too many years ago to remember. Well, you know, they always ask the people in the master crowd if we all.

Also want to sing the Messiah. And, you know, I've got enough trouble learning the music that I have to learn for the Master Corral, so, no, I don't do that. There you go. You have to come to open mic and entertain us with your Master Corral performance or something like that. Anyway, I heard you in there. I thought I'd get in there and poke somebody. Poke you a little. Okay. I got a reminder to you a couple of weeks ago when Tim Thompson put a work order in for the. What is it? The movie system that you set up. And I'm looking at this work order, thinking, that's got nothing to do with me. Call Steve. You know, it's so funny. I don't know how many times I said, hey, I'll come, you know, help you guys out, but.

But like I said, for some reason I've fallen out of favor with maintaining that. And they were supposed to, with the new building, get a new one, but I don't know if they ever did. That was when Jerry Reed was heading up everything. He and I talked one day for about an hour, trying to figure out all the things he would need to get that. And I don't know if they ever got that or not, but I don't know. I should reach out again and see if they need any assistance. However, as far as the movie portion of it, they're SOL because you got to have a DVD player that has RCA jacks. Well, when Greg was working over there, I had him order one from Amazon, but it, for whatever reason, would not.

Cooperate, would not match up, would not work. And I've even had HDMI to bnc, not bnc, HDMI to RCA adapters, but they didn't work either. So I don't know, they might have to go through B and H and try to find something, which is probably going to be, since it's near broadcast, going to be a little more expensive. But, hey, it's in my inmate welfare fund. They can afford it. Well, you know, if I had still been working over at the courthouse, I'd have got rid of that ticket saying, you know what? Not our problem. It's their thing. They need to figure it out. But no, they decided to go ahead, and they got Jeff to camp, assigned to it. But I think he kind of told them, it's like, you're going to have to find some new equipment.

Yeah. If you ever think about it, drop him a. Let him know that I can provide him with some information on that. And my non work. I don't have a work email address anymore, but my call signmail, but I don't think they'll contact me. I've tried numerous times, actually. I might submit an application for reserve. Oh, boy. Hey, I got some news for you. This has all happened since the last time I talked to you. Vinnie Rivera is gone, Gary Bradley is gone, Lauren Foster is gone, and Joe Oates is gone. Yeah, I heard about Lauren. And I'm in front of my house, so I may lose you here, but yeah, I heard about Lauren, but the other guys, I. I don't actually, I don't even remember. Lauren was the only one that I remember. Gary Bradley was our network guy.

Vinnie was his assistant. Network guy. And you should have known Joe out. Yeah, probably. Probably. I know one of the girls over there used to go to high school with. I have her on Facebook. I think she retired here last year as well. Oh, yeah? You're talking about Lorena. I believe so. I believe so. I'd have to look on Facebook. For some reason, old high school names escape me as I'm getting older. Oh, yeah? Well, she's been gone about four years now, something like that, but. And I'm. My retirement date is the 31st of March. Well, fantastic. That's like I was telling my wife, she is retiring in July.

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And at the time it was nine months. I said, she's pregnant with retirement was the laugh line. But yeah, a lot of people are heading in that direction, that's for sure. That's funny, Steve. Actually, this is kind of fun because CalPERS, your first day of retirement from CalPERS is the day after your last. Your last working day. So my last working day is March 31, which makes my retirement date. April 1st. Oh, that would be. That's perfect. Perfect one. Oh, absolutely poetic. I would just say I was actually going to make it earlier than that. But then I thought, Chris, just work out some.

And then it was just was kind of fun that it ended up that April 1st was my official retirement date. My garage door decided it was closed. It only stays open for one minute. Okay, I'm gonna say seven three I gotta unload some groceries and and then head over to my stepdaughter's house to see if I can fix a sink. A leaky sink or not a sink, a leaky fox faucet. Anyway good Talking with you Chris. 7:3 we'll have to get together or you know, soon or around the time you tire or something along that time frame. I'm going to be down probably at the end of the month. I think Vandy retires at the end of the month so I gotta, I'll probably try to speak down for his retirement. I'm sure they're going to do some sort of gathering even if it's hot dog.

Potato chip. All right, well, maybe we'll see you then. Otherwise, we should try and get together somehow sometime. So looking forward to hearing you on the air again. Have a great weekend. 73 KK6VZD. Clear. All right. 73. Yeah, there's always Thursdays and Saturdays. I usually go to the open mic there on Bogue Road at the But I would call or text or something before because there's days that I sometimes like this past Thursday, I didn't really feel like going. Was feeling a little bit under the weather on top of the fog. Anyway. All right. 7Z KE 6L Q.J. good day.

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Wa6eks. Martinez, do you know if. If they move the 146.85. I guess the system 5. If they move that repeater or just raise the power level or. I don't know, is that System nine or which one? Which one is that? I think it's system five. 14685.

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Thought it was in Orinda, but it. It's really louder. It used to be. It used to be really quite soft and now it seems very strong. The VH60K. Now this is system 35. Interesting. While I'm in Martinez, a lot of dirt between me and it sounds too strong to be over there. Maybe it was when I tried it just once before or something. It was on full power battery or something. I don't know. All right, thanks. Have a great evening. Thanks for coming back. WA60K.

Yeah, it just shows. Still shows the window 1500ft. So I don't see any change. But maybe you got a different path tonight or. I don't know. It could be. It could be an improvement if it's not updated on the website. Yeah, I just went over to 440. It's. I think it's 16 and expect trends. Of course. I can hear myself full quieting on the other turning. I'm turning up the other frequency anyway. Very good. I don't get on the system very often but it sure is impressive and thank you. Where are you located? I'm in northwest.

Las Vegas. I'm coming to you through the Las Vegas Association. We have a number of here located around the Las Vegas Valley, up in Nevada, also in Highland, which is up in Lincoln county, that have covered between Southwest and Utah as well. But our system is mostly permanently moved into Carlin, called lvra. If you want more information on that on our system, you can check it out on www.hxo.radio, the domain. Of course, the car radio website as well you can check out. That shows that we've been linked for about John probably now mostly. Anyway, it's good to hear you and sound fine.

Oh, Roger. Stay warm. It's pretty. Well, I'm sure. I'm sure it's colder there than it is here. It's in the mid-40s, but it's real damp. Really, really goes through you when you get outside. Sure. It's colder there anyway. Yeah, I've never heard of the DOT radio stuff. It's just a new one on me. That's great. All right. Thanks again. Very good. Is it eks or tks? I just said this, and my call is november, romeo, Whiskey, whiskey, alpha 6, echo, kilos. Here. Echo, kilo, deer. And the name is jim, japan, india, mike.

Very good. So what are you up to this evening at the home cp Hanging out or what you got planned this weekend? No, not much. I went to a old timers reunion. I used to work at a science place up close to UC Berkeley campus and about 10 of us got together and rehashed old time. I mean like 50 years ago. Hard to believe. Anyway, that was fun. I just got home from that a few minutes ago and try to get back to the routine amount here. So that's about it. Nothing fancy and nothing much for the rest of the weekend. Yeah, my son and Xyl are up and.

Bellingham, Washington, for the weekend. So I'm sitting here, dog a couple gold noodles and trying to stay out of trouble. Just trying to do cleanup and chores. I'm off on Friday, so I run errands today. Try to get all my errands out of the way. Possible on Fridays, but enjoy a little time off Saturday. Sunday. Very good. Yeah. To answer your question, is cooler over here? Probably. Overnight lows are getting into the mid-30s. Overnight, it's cold. Drier air mostly, but it's been kind of damp a few days ago, but drying out a little bit. Still been cold. So overnight at daytime highs.

Of the week. Dry so far. Little bit of kind of damp in the morning, couple mornings overnight. I think we're returning to our dry air, and I haven't looked really at the forecast. I don't know. Hopefully get some rain at some point, but very good stuff. We don't get very much. Not like. You got a pretty relaxing weekend ahead, except for the dog sitting. I imagine they don't like to go out much when it's when the temperature's cold. I haven't had a dog for a long time, but when it was cold and rainy, he'd go out and do his business and be whining at the door in a minute, it seemed like. Didn't take any time at all to get him back inside. They're not dumb anyway. Very good.

This system. I guess it doesn't supposed to get up into Washington, right? No, not this system. It does from time to time. There was a group up in extreme northern California and had to walk around, probably around Weed or north of Redding I said and they had a up in chat. They used to be hosed in but something happened. They haven't been hosun for a while, but periodically some of those guys will jump in by all stars something like that to have coverage in the spring. Southern Utah and North.

Yeah, Roger. I used to have the wind system in here, but too much general. People being amazed that they could talk to some other city on a handheld from another state or something like that. I overrode it with some other memory or whatever, but there are frequencies. But anyway, this system seems. I don't listen to it very often, but it seems to be very quiet, most part. So I'll get it back that way. I'll sign with you and say have a great evening and weekend there, and thanks for coming back. WA6EKS Martinez, which is near Concord. Yeah. My ex, Exyl used to. Her parents hooked up in Ameon, so I used to go up there all the time. I think her dad thousand I want to say.

When they relocated to Vegas probably 30 years ago. Shortly after we did, she left me. And then, I don't know, I didn't talk to her parents very much after that from time to time. So I, you know, I know that area. Discovery Bay, Concord, Antioch and Pittsburgh State Highway 4 and west and get off of 5 there, stock and go west and make a sharp right turn. I take that road many a time. So I'm familiar with the area, Doc. Has been probably 30 years since I've been around, 35 years maybe since I've been in that neighborhood. So anyway. But yeah, I remember all the greenery and stuff that we don't have here in Vegas. Pretty much them. All right. We'll take care. I won't keep you. I heard you want to sign and welcome. Welcome back. Stop by and say hi.

A great group of people here. And I don't know if you ever use All Star. You're into that or not, but All Star is amazing. If you want to talk to faraway places, just dial up the nose and get yourself a pick up a clear nose device or something like that. There's a guy up there in Jerry Sildy that manufactures this little device called a clear nose. It's a WI fi and it's a small transmitter receiver, 50 milliwatts or whatever. And for them to work around the neighborhood, there's connect to the Internet. You dial up a node on pcms, you'll be talking to anywhere in the world. It's fantastic. It's a really great mode. Anyway, take care, Las Vegas. Good night. Yeah, thanks again. Yeah, I don't have All Star. I've got an old open spot, I think one of the first ones in a DMR.

Mv380 I think it is the model number and All Star I think is much clearer, much, much better audio quality. I should get rid of the open spot. I guess I could probably. I don't know if I could use the MD380 on All Star or not anyway. But yeah, it does sound really good. It's very impressive, but I don't have it yet. I do have D Star on a Kenwood handheld, but that's not the same either. Anyway, we can chat more about that later and have a good one there. Thank you. Very good. All right. Well take care and good night. Yeah, check it out, All Star if you bug wants a bike and go look at various websites, a company called Node Ventures just look up Node Ventures and the device is called A clear Nose and got a couple different models but few hundred bucks will put you it's a fantastic.

Big device, well made, super robust, and the operating system that he has with it is an app for iOS or for Android. And super robust menu, not buggy anything is worth every 10 years. What I'm using right now actually. So I'm going into our Vulture server through All Star in the back door and coming out on all these shooters all over the place. But I could also use RF and connect to any one of a number of mountaintops around here. We got 8,500 foot mountain, so work that great. I got all kinds of choices, but also I can take my little handheld, walk around the neighborhood, walk the dog and use that hit that clear nose. Been on my office theft, talk to the world. Anyway, if you want to know more about it, hit me up on Look It Up.

About it. But great, great deal. Anyway, good night. Good time for sure take care of 73. NR 70 Las Vegas. Well, stay warm and taking those dogs out for a walk. And yeah, thanks for the. The information about that. I'll have to check it out. Yeah, I've heard of the three notes before. Like I said, the audio is quite impressive. All right. Good evening. NR7G. I think you said WA60K.

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Kilo oscar 6 bravo, gulf yankees headset. Kilo Oscar 6 Bravo, Gulf Yankee testing. Could somebody be kind enough to give me a signal report, please? K06BGY testing out a new radio. K06bgy, this is ko6dvv. You're coming in good and strong. Absolutely no noise. Thank you for that. I thought I was.

I bought a two pack of these radios and I accidentally ordered two. Two packs of radios. It's just the new baofeng mini or B5R mini or whatever, but they came with the stock antennas which I'm using now, which I'm glad to hear it's got good signal. And they also came with free Nagoya771. Probably like a 13 inch whip or something like that, but that's pretty good. It was two. Two radios for 40. Yeah, my son and I have a pair of those too. And they do seem to work as well as the full size ones. Yeah, I've never had an issue with these Chinese radios. I'm sure some people have, but they got me into the hobby and they keep taking my money. But it is what it is. But thank you for the comeback there. Now that I got four of these guys, I'm not sure what I'll do. Maybe I'll pay it forward to a couple hams or something because I certainly don't need fours.

You. I understand. And yes, if you've got more than you can use, there's probably somebody out there that needs one. I'll let you go then. It's good talking to you. This is Leonard, K6DVV clear 73. Leonard Kilo Oscar Six Bravo, Gulf Yankee. I'll be clear 73.

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Qst. Qst, qst. This is KT6K. Open secondary traffic w fix RHC repeater check 3. This net, part of the National Traffic System and the purpose of this net is to relay formal traffic into the Sacramento Valley and to provide a stand emergency at. Please make transmissions with that permission. Control all stations. Requests tail trip deck controls. KVship K, Wester, Willow Station with Mercier. Ferry traffic. To be listed. Kf6 obi, kf6 obi, mike and willows. No traction.

Traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Good evening. Lester in the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. All right. Thank you, bessie, kf6, dj warren, K6rcs. Good evening. Lester in the gang, k6rcs, randall and chico. No traffic. Good evening, randall. Thank you. K6, k6, pmt, kilo, echo6, papa mike tango, rustin gerber. Good evening. Lester in the group, and I have no traffic. Good evening, russ. Thank you.

Kc6ufe. Kc6ufe. Billing campaign. No traffic. Good evening, master. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww, kn6tww. Jamie and chico with no traffic. And good evening, lester in the net. Good evening, jamie. Thank you. All right, that's the rules. I have it. Do we have any late neighbors or visitors wish to check in? There ain't no further traffic or check in. This is K6KUO closing segment. Valley traffic. This stand is daily at 2100 hours local time through the W65 tier Pier 1, 4695 volt megahertz. All stations are excused. I'd like to thank everybody who objected tonight and the golden empire of terrain society.

This is closed at 2103 local time. $73 k6ku. Clear creek machine.

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Kn6gtn mobile, we6AXN repeater, Kn6dtn, ko6bty. Good Saturday to you. Yeah, good morning to you as well, Paul. Got your day all lined up and ready to roll. Yeah, you know what? I'm going to give myself credit. I'm up and I'm having coffee, so that's a good start. That is a good start. I imagine it's just as foggy down there as it is up.

A little bit. I can still see the cell tower that's on the probably about a quarter mile away from me, so I can still see the structure of it. So it's not too bad over here in Calusa, but once you get out of the city proper, then it was pretty bad the other day. Yeah. I was over in Caloosa last evening and the fog was up above you. I mean, it wasn't down on the ground like it was here at Bangor, but it just seemed like most of the valley, you know, I had the fog was. Was up off the ground. You could see pretty decent, but it was, you know, it looks like it's real cloudy. It's just all fogged over. But up here, it up here about 800ft elevation, it. We've been living in the fog the last couple days. Yeah. I'll be honest, I never been to Bangor.

Bangor and I just need to get out and go to different places. But that's good. You guys have that elevation advantage usually. Except for when you're more than knee deep in the sauce there, but you out mobiling? I'm just staying here at the house. It's cold. I'm not doing anything. I been watching. I fell asleep watching Hogan Heroes last night so that was no complaints on my behalf. I slept like a baby. Yeah, I had to run to town and get the batteries. Seemed like on the farm always batteries dead on something or. These are pretty old batteries. It's finally time for them to go so I had to go in and get some of those. So I'll be back at the house here in a few minutes and. And back in putting them, you know, back to work again. Sounds good. This one might die but I got three other ones. But I picked.

Picked up the Baofeng UV5 or UV5R mini decent little radio, and you can program it all from the front panel, and it's probably about as small as one of those little FRS radios, but last night I got a pretty good signal report with the stock rubber duck inside the house. How am I sounding today? So are those 5 watt, 8 watt? What are they? They are 5 watt, and I've watched, I'd say, about three or four different videos from the YouTuber ham community, and they're all saying, most of them are saying that it's. Radio that supposedly has pretty good cleanliness as far as, for instance, stuff goes. And for me.

Yeah, it's amazing what they can do. And for the they're very reasonable. Like, hard to Hard for me to imagine how they can make something that cheap. I guess it has to do with the, you know, their labor prices and stuff. But. Yeah, very good. Well, I'm glad they worked. And you have a good day, and we'll chat with you later. KS6G10. All right. Artie out there. Good luck with those batteries. Hopefully they're not the heavy ones for the cars. Hopefully you're not dealing with those because I didn't buy those heavy batteries. But anyway, enjoy the rest of your Saturday. Stay warm, stay dry. Kilo Oscar Six, Bravo, Golf, Yankee. All the clear monitoring in the background. 73.

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Kk7. See you mine. Are you the one that checked in on system 16 here? Just a little bit ago, I was out of the room and I heard somebody. I didn't catch a call sign. How you doing? Ken here. N6 key N. Yeah, Ken. Jack, KK7CMI. Yeah, I was just surfing around the channels to see if anybody's out there. Yeah, there's usually somebody listening that has time to pick up microphone and respond to you. You got driving around somewhere or.

Are. What do you. Where, where, where are you? No, I'm a base unit. Okay. That sounds like las vegas. Yeah, roger that. What's your point? Yeah, I'm sorry. I thought you were the one that checked in on system 16 there on the Carnival system. I'm down here in Fusa, Colombia. Pusa Gasiga, Colombia. Here we just call it Pusa.

Columbia. Yes, sir. Home of juan valdez. Yeah, we just get a lot of coke out of there. Back. Yeah, 70s. Yeah, probably. So. When you're coming in live and clear, you sound like you're right next door. What are you. What are you talking on? I'm coming to you via All Star through the Carvis system. Just a little Raspberry PI with a radio less adapter plugged into it and.

And goes into my, my wi fi here at the house. Voila. Here I am. Wow. Well, it really works for you. Yeah. All Star is definitely a, a great tool in the world of ham radio. Efficiently just linking things together nowadays, linking repeaters together and systems together and mass connections during a, you know, during a bad weather event or the case in California, maybe in a big earthquake or something, it.

Yeah. California has a big one. It's gonna affect us, too. Yeah. Well, in the immediate areas of a big earthquake, you probably lose a lot of the Internet. But at least some of the other stuff will stay connected. And using RF and Internet, that does work. And then anybody on the outside can connect in to any of the sites that have allstar. Anyways, I do have to get back to what I was doing. I think you said your name was Rich or Richard. I believe that's what you said. But good talking to you there in Las Vegas. I will be listening. But I do have to get back to what I was doing. Take care, Ken.

Here. N6kn e. Roger, I think you said. Ken, this is jack, kk7gmi. Good talking to you. Yeah, let's talk to you again, man. Oh, and while I have my laptop open. K7gnd. Are you. Are you listening? K7gnd? N6kn. Nothing.

306 Kennedy. I missed. Missed the call sign. Yeah, go ahead. Ken's here. Yeah, this is ross. November zulu 6 juliet nz xj mobile in sacramento. It'd possibly be qh keying up on system 16. Yeah, well, all of the Carlo repeaters are keying up. I'm sure. How are things in Sacramento?

Well, I'm just trying to drive back to the Bay Area just to do a quick visit to my Tahoe house to replace all the light bulbs after the neutral blew out. Almost 220 on most of my life. So, unfortunately, the rest of the electronics have supplies. That quick trip to the hardware store for another dozen light bulbs. Oh, boy, that's terrible. If you lost a bunch of your light bulbs, you probably lost a bunch of other stuff too. Okay. Yeah. And I understand now what you said about 16. You were the one that checked in on 16. Yeah. Here we have get a lot of tropical storms, a lot of lightning.

So I've got pretty much, pretty much everything that's expensive is on surge projectors, even some of my remote controlled plugs. They have built in surge protectors. So yeah, we get a little hiccup in electricity. All of my stuff, all of my stuff here stays turned off for, I don't know, whatever it is, 10, 10 or 15 minutes before it all comes back on again. You're right again. That sounds good. Well, I've been to Colombia a couple of times, mountaineering and climbed in the Rio Nevada del Santa Marta, if you know where that is it.

Yes. Yeah, lots of. Right now there's a lot of bicycle training going on. A lot of people come from all over to do some serious bicycle training. And yeah, they really get up there in the elevation. I used to do a lot of bike riding. I'll tell you what, it's good exercise. The way they ride up and down these steep hills we have over here, it's just amazing. Well, I'm an avid follower of the Tour de France and there's Colombian and Ecuadorian riders who have been doing very well recently me because of the availability of all the high altitude training. So you fill me in where you are in Colombia.

Yeah. About an hour and a half southwest drive out of Bogota is a town called Busa Gasaga. And I live in just a little outside of Chinata, which is just a little outside of Pusa. I usually say Fusa, Fusa Gatmagat, because it's a little easier for people to look up, I think, sometimes, than trying to look up Chinatra. But yeah, we live here on a plateau here between a couple of canyons and above a couple of rivers. Just a little south of Chinata, Chenauta, Columbia. Very scarce.

Wonderful country. And I also spent some time on the Caribbean coast as well, hanging out at the beach and generally being a gringo. All right, well, we're not supposed to chat on this system, are we? So nice to talk to you again. And yeah, there is my electronic survive and I think because it's fuel volvis anyway, so having. So all my electronic devices work but light bulbs its own. Thank God light bulbs is cheap. Yeah, that LED stuff is coming down in price. Just about everything here is led. Okay, you take care and nice to meet you. N6 Cammy. Nz 60 mobile on the Bright Bend Bridge. Thanks. Car.

Welcome Aviation system in bed 60. Two. That reading station. You are super scratchy. I'm on the handheld, so I'm probably. All right. Copied OQQ and on a handheld. And that's why you're probably scratch.

That's correct. I just reached out to see if I could contact. Are you another Mike? Is that Mike that lives next to Mike? Yeah. Are you mike?

Hey, columbia, kk7cmi. Okay, I don't know if you can hear me or not, but this is KM 700QQ. I'm gonna back off on some people. A little more power, Okay? Cover that OQTT I'm still missing your call sign, so I apologize. And there. There was somebody else in there. Go ahead. You sound american. I am dual. Dual citizen. All right. What are you doing?

I'm retired. I retired a year ago. Moved down here with my wife. My wife is Colombian. So we decided to spend our retirement years here. And loving every minute of it. Yeah, Roger that. Yeah. I imagine retirement go a long way down there. That sure does. Yeah. A lot of. A lot of things go a long ways down here. No doubt. Okay. We really need to let the system go and take a rest, so. Yeah. So there you go. That's why I'm here. Spent the first 22 years together in there in the States, and now, hopefully, we'll spend the next 20.

Me two years here in colombia or more. All right. You take care. N6 knee. Yeah, roger that. Good for you. Kv6zxg.kv6zx.nr7t. Las Vegas.

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Kk6vzb mobile. Check, please. And a. Good afternoon, Paul. So, I don't know how I'm coming through to you up there. I'm down in Lincoln right now. You're coming in good. Right at the beginning, there was a little bit of. Sorry, there was a little bit of fluttering on the signal, but then it came through just loud and clear. But I'm testing out the new. Supposed to be a two pack. Two pack.

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I have four of these little guys here and this is a stock rubber duck antenna. And how's it sounding over there? That sounds. That's great. So you got some new antennas. What are they? Oh, no, I do apologize. I actually got the radio this the Baofeng UV5 mini. So it's a replacement for the UV5 and it's mini. It's about the size of like one of those little two pack bubble wrap old two way JMRS radios that you can get at like tracking supply or something. But no, these things, I mean I dropped one already and it survived. Really easy to program. You can program an actual name for the frequency on there from the face of the radio, which was new to me. You can use Bluetooth.

This is the same radio signal that I got or signal report I got from someone last night from inside the house with the stock Rubber Duck. And they also sent with two Nagoya 771s for each radio, or one for each radio. That's great. Yes. I have a 5R Mini, actually. When they first. When I first took notice of them, I thought, I'm gonna. I have to try this just to see what it's like. I like it. It's a nice little radio. Yeah. And I cannot speak for how yours or how your radios were shipped, but they were shipped really well, real fast. Good quality packaging. No scuffs, dings or nothing. But it's a rather small box, and I got two of them, and in each end, on the inside of each box, was two Negor.

A 771 like 13 inch width. I did not know they were going to be in. It's like open one of those little cranks of thing and it's going to snap out like a coiled snake at you. And that's exactly. I had antennas flying around the living room. I thought it was hilarious. Yeah. You know when I got, I got mine, I got a two pack and I pulled the box out and I'm thinking, are there two radios in here? Well, yeah, I pulled it out. There was two of everything in there. It's like, well, holy cow, this is a mini. Okay, now I do have a question. I'm not sure. Same seller or purchase from the same seller, I should say. But did you get two antennas for each radio? Because I got four. Four of these, but they came with a stock rubber duck, which is what I'm using right now. Outside side of my house, I can see the two masts on the Sutter butte.

In my house right now, and I'm probably 20 miles west of that, but perfect line of sight on a stock rubber duck. And then they also sent two Nagoya 771 dual band 13 or probably 14 inch whips as well. And if you break it down, it was $40 2. So if you think about it, it was 20 bucks and I got a free Nagoya 771. I don't remember who I got mine from. I do not believe I got the 771 in mine, but I think I paid like $54 for two of them, which to me still was was a pretty good deal. So you know, would not hesitate whatsoever to recommend them to anybody. Yeah, no, I recommend them according to several reputable courses on.

YouTube, they actually put out higher than the pre or the claimed 5 watts. Some of the harmonics and stuff are showing almost six. Like, wow, that's pretty cool. But anyway, yeah, for the price, you can't beat it. I mean, definitely. Probably a different seller on that with the antenna on there. But what I mean, I'm using the stock rubber duck antenna right now, and I really don't want to go walking around with that big whip on this little radio because I think it's too top heavy. And I mean, sure, the gain will be better, but I mean, if I'm getting good signal reports now with this little tiny neon green and black radio. Stop. Probably gonna not use those for these radios. Yeah, I think I might. You know, I haven't yet, but I think I might replace them with a 701, which is the 7 inch.

Nagoya. Just, you know, I don't know what the quality of the one that came with it is. That seems to be pretty good. But, yeah, I kind of prefer those 701s myself. If I'm gonna replace. And I generally do replace my. The stock antennas, they come with. Oh, yeah, no, I was going through last night after the wipe. Yeah. Went through the little antenna. I got a little pistol cup that I have that'll fit in the darn thing. And most of them are the stock. A little rubber duck. It's like, okay. Hey, it'll transmit on a frequency. Here, have it. Oh, yeah. Well, that and I. I have a tendency to put SMA to a.

BNC adapter on mine so that I can do a quick change on the antenna when I want to. No, I keep. I keep kicking myself because I have that issue quite a bit. I need to go ahead and switch over. It's not that expensive from what I've heard. Just running whatever I get from the manufacturer. A couple odds and ends here and there, but. Are you heading back from the kid's house? I'm actually going down to Roseville. She's got some Christmas stuff down in a storage locker down there, so we're gonna go down there and get it. W E6A X N receiver okay. I assume your daughter has stuff down there and you guys are gonna go decorate together.

Or different plants. We're just gonna go get her Christmas stuff and bring it back to our apartment. She's gonna decorate herself. My wife and I are going to a concert this evening. It's at 7 o' clock in Yuba City, so we're not gonna stay all day down there. It's. That's cool. I mean, she's gonna decorate it. It's funny, it just reminded me that there's a bit of a positive personal story that I could share shortly, if you don't mind. You have the time? Well, I got more time because we just hit Rockland right at about Blue. I think we passed Blue Oaks and of course the traffic has slowed to a crawl.

Okay. Yeah. And for anyone listening, yeah, it is a little sad. Good friend I was. I went to this apartment complex a couple years ago, got an apartment, started to get to know people there. But there was this one lady that was just really shut down, and she finally, about a month before she passed away, she included me in her life. Almost every day I'd go in there. It's a small studio, probably no bigger than a foxhole compared to that. But anyway, she's like, do you want something to drink? You want water? No. But anyway, she passed away. I found her. And in this small shoebox department, 99% of that stuff was Christmas. You would not have ever known that. This sweet lady love Christmas.

And the only reason why she didn't put it up is one, she didn't have the space. But the real reason was because her daughter was never there. I was like, good God, we gotta live for what we want right now. So I don't know if that's too heavy for some people. I do apologize. KO6B, wife riding. Yeah, that's. That's kind of sad. Yeah. Gotta tell ya, we haven't got our Christmas tree up yet at home either. And I guess that's something we probably would have done if we hadn't been down to my daughter's house today. Yeah, it's just good, good vibes. We just gotta, gotta roll with it. Go with whatever flows and take the good winds when we can and whatnot. But anyway, Chris, I am in the go ahead.

Ahead and go inside. I'm came out here to do a radio check. I'm great that we had a good conversation and we appreciate travels on your trip and maybe I'll. I'll keep an ear out for you on your return trip. So maybe we'll chat again tonight. Kilo, Oster, Six, Bravo, Golf, Yankee. I'll be clearing your final trip. Seven three. All right. Well, whatever you're doing this afternoon, I hope it goes smoothly and is enjoyable. So thanks for the QSO and we'll talk to you later. KK6, VZV clear.

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You're a little harder to understand this time. Probably low power. All right, that's probably it.

Kk6vzv, ko6vgy. That's a little better. Okay, one second. I'm taking the phone call. Safe travels. I'll catch you on the return trip. Unless that's what this is. But I'll catch you here again in a little bit. Roger, roger. KK6VCV. Clear. Ko 6A2Y, level 3, all the cliffs.

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