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M17t md las vegas. 7 Oso. How do you do, sir? Hey, Good afternoon. Doing good. Just leaving the office. Things are starting to slow down a little bit for the holidays. How about yourself? I'm doing the same, but things are picking up, so I'm happy to be leaving. Ah, okay. Kind of interesting that things are picking up, but good to stay busy, I guess. Yeah, we got a lot of folks that take some time off at the holidays, A lot of the government.

Some of the guys that we work with are going to be off starting next week for extended periods of time. I guess they have to have their use or lose vacation or something like that. They're burning up. It's funny you mentioned that. I just checked my LES. Apparently I just gained 20 days of use or lose. I think I'm just going to take all summer off. Oh, how long do you have to use it? I gotta refuse it up by the end of next FY. Was that one October 26th? I've still got a bunch of fraternity leave I gotta cash in I guess. Okay. Yeah, the guy, the guy I work with, the director, I think he's a 15 or something. For some reason he's. He has until like the middle of January do it so I don't know why it's different but whatever.

Taking off starting Monday through the 2nd of January. Good. Good amount of time to get out of here. That sounds like a good time to travel after the holidays. Won't be as busy. Sicknesses aren't as prevalent. Pretty good. Yeah. He's got a house up in Carson City. His wife and he travels up there pretty much every weekend. Kind of his future retirement home. So I think he's going to hang it up near the end of this FY or at the end of the calendar year. So I like working with the guy. So it's his heir apparent's a good guy too, so it'll be a good transition. Other than that, might take a little bit of time for the holidays. Probably not a lot. Get caught up in a few things. It seems like I'm always fine, even with the furlough and everything.

I was working during it, of course. But even then, when things were a little bit slower, I still didn't get completely caught up in everything. So are you traveling at all for the holidays? You staying local? No, I'm staying local. I have some time off taking spending with the baby, and the plan was to hang out with my wife, but she called to come in. She's a reservist here, so I'm really. Okay. So I presume then if she gets called in, she's going to be out of the local area. No, she'll just be up here. Got it. What is, what is her career field and what does she do. More or less on the.

Copy. Okay. All right, Very good. Trying to, we're going to try to make a run to Mount Potasi Friday. I'm going to take a day off. We're going to run up there. There's been a lot of snow melt. We've been up there, Got some cameras up there. Looks like the top of the actually, the comp site doesn't look like has any snow at all. But there's a spot on the promise side going up that doesn't get a lot of sunlight this time of the year. And I'm kind of worried about maybe a drift there or something. Pack a shovel just in case. I didn't have to worry, go up there, shovel snow for you. On a side note, pretty interesting to see if we actually get Toyota Hiluxes coming over here. Pretty fun to have getting. I didn't catch where that was. Hilux what Found the good.

Old Toyota Hilux that sold like these AK47s across the world, except for here in America. Oh, okay. I wasn't familiar with that. Okay, cool. Yeah, well, hopefully, fingers crossed, I'll be able to get through okay. You know, I've had the repeater fixed on my bench for better part of a month, and it just has been a matter of trying to get up there. As in cooperation, Man. The weather definitely got it turned quick there for a while. I remember you were talking about that for the inner thigh. You know anything much about the mesh tastic node? No, I've. I've never gotten into mesh at all, so I couldn't help you out on that. It.

A couple of the military guys I work with were interested in kind of developing a little network, pretty robust one in Vegas, but doesn't really do us much good up here on the other side of the Valley. It should, because there's a mesh note on High Potacy. So they've got a mesh at our radio site up High Potosi and our site at Red Mountain. And I think they may have something on Low Potosi, too, if they're not in our building. So you guys should be able to hit High plot, right? Or not. I think with how low power they are, it just doesn't get up. If I can't see it turn on. Okay. Yeah. You're not going to see High Potency from Indian Springs, but you'd see angel, of course. But I don't think there's a mesh up there. I'm not sure where they're all at Cornell.

I think I'm going to throw one up on my antenna map when I at the house. Little solar nodes. See how that does for the immediate area. Yeah, not even, I'm not even sure what kind of throughput they have to, you know, they're less than a watt. It's, it's commercial. Lora chip. Spectrum there. Very power efficient. What kind of data bandwidth do they have? I don't know the specifics on it. I know it's very small, so probably smaller than ATRs dashes. Okay. Yeah, we use, we use ubiquity bullets, microwave bullets to shoot.

Between the mountaintops for All Star to get the Internet. We got a main note on Angel Peak. We get Internet service from a commercial provider and then we shoot it to shoot it to our building at angel for the faa. Excuse me. That's how this repeater gets Internet. And then from angel we got a five gig bullet that shoots to high bloodices. That's how we tie that in on low potassi. We get Internet from a commercial provider up there too. And we shoot that, we pick it up there in a building on load, then we shoot that to Red Mountain. So that's how we get Internet there. So that's kind of how we're tied together. But they're all It's a hybrid of 2 and 5 gig bullets. Upon Angel. Pika used to be on the HXO's website and it looks like it's changed. I've been trying to reconfigure a radio. A lot of.

Yeah, there's a DMR repeater on Angel. Don't have. I can find out the information at the top of my head, but if you drop me an email, I'll send it to you. I got programmed into my DMR radio here. And of course there's DMR and High Potency and Red Mountain and Low Potency. I appreciate it though. I'll. I'll jump off here. K 704 is going to be on the side. Yeah, very good. Just like I said, drop me an email and I'll send you the info. Have a good evening at 7T ending.

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W7 cmo, are you still there? This is kd3, cbs. Oh, I'm still here. Okay, I don't know what's going on on my end, so I guess we'll have to wrap this conversation up short, so. By the way, can I send you a QSL card? Delta, I can do a qfl card.

Whiskey7 Tangle. Mike Oscar. If you've got my address, go ahead and send a QSL card. I copy you fine. Okay. 73. Sorry about that. I'm gonna say 73. Speed. So 77 tmo. This is kv3, cbs. Thank you.

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Ust QST ust this is KD6KO second no valley traffic is part of the national traffic system and the purpose of this made is to relay what traffic is into and out of the CIRC into an out of Sacramento Valley is to provide emergency assistance direction please make no trace of issue with deposition and control all stations are requested stay on frequency to the two wheels to control the gauge Lester located west towards city station with Bertie traffic please go down.

6 ovi, mike and willows with no traffic. And again, thank you very much, mike, for giving me it. Wow. Cg60. K u was calling. Rolling. I'll try kf60. Good evening, lester. Kf60jy, bruce, tico. No traffic. Good evening, broke, bruce. Thank you. Kf6kc6, k6rcs, 1, 2, 3, k6rcs. Randall and chico. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, randall. Thank you. K6pmt, kia, echo 6, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening, lester. The group and I have no traffic. Good evening, rose. Thank you.

Kc6ufe. Kc6ufe. Bill in cape. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww is out of the area as I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check in? No further traffic. Virginia, this is K6KUO closing. Sacramento Valley traffic this next week daily at 2100 hours local. Type through the W6RHE computer at 146. 8 micro records. All stations are excused. And I'd like to thank everybody who checked this advice and the Golden Paramituration Society for the use of review. Again, thanks for everybody for sticking by. This net's closed at 2104. 73 halters. K2, 6K. Go.

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6 AES Livermore, checking in on 580, westbound. Buddy, who's out here tonight? Livermore. This is Adam over here in Santa Rosa. I only got adf. We didn't get your prep. Throw it at me one more time. Hey there, Adam. This is Kate. Six A, E, F, Kilo, Six Alpha, Echo, Foxtrot. I'm just on a drive westbound to go help some family, do some moving. Go ahead. Well, buddy, you're either a million years old or that's a Benji call sign. Yeah. Then here's Adam. 86, POC. Point of contact. I remember Livermore when I was a K kid. My dad did his drill weekend in Camp park, which I think is in Dublin.

Livermore and I would go with him to work on a weekend just to get out of the house and get away from my mom. Hang out with my dad for a thrill weekend. I remember going down there. It was a pretty good shuffle from Santa Rosa. Right on toc. I gotcha. Yeah, no, my call is definitely a vanity call. I am not old enough to hold an early K6 call but I do get that a lot, especially from our club members. They all wonder how I got it. I kept an eye on the call sign list for a while to get it because those are my initials. So I was waiting for it. It finally popped up and I earned it there. I've been call sign here for 35 years so I'm not gonna change. And if I see they're going to say who your first name. Additional mustard with a hey, what is it? Andrew Adam, Aaron.

Yeah, you got it. First time name here is Andrew. Andrew at aef. It's good to hear you here on the radio. I actually grew up in Washington so I'm not super familiar with the Bay Area but I moved down to San Mateo area to finish up high school and then moved east. Now I'm living out in Twain Heart. Do you know Twain Heart, Andrew? I can't say that I did. I graduated high school in 1998. I'm from Santa Rosa. I grew up in Santa Rosa. I wasn't born here but I spent all my teenage years here, you know in my when I went to college at Cal which is over there at Berkeley that's generally as far east as I went. I mean I've been to Antioch a couple of times for jobs. I'm the tower guy so I, I maintain and design communication sites. PHP is my biggest client but I got a pretty good sprint.

Of other stuff so I was up to East Bay sometime A lot of work in San Mateo county recently. Oh yeah big time dude there was sometimes going to save you and now it's oh yeah I've been to Seattle exactly twice in my life or Once was an AutoCAD conference once was for a conference at flow water jets. I really stopped at the Space Needle and I said that's a lot shorter than I thought it would be. Yeah the ride up the Space Needle only takes a couple minutes huh. Very cool. I grew up about 30 minutes or so east of Seattle in a little town there in Sammamish up on the plateau and my brother my brother had a boat he lived in a marina on a live aboard boat out in Berkeley for a little while. Very cool. Hey yeah I do little volt message communication stuff. I'm a control systems engineer so I do like automation and control system.

Systems for low voltage stuff. You know, I'm very familiar with it. I had a buddy I went to school with named Crib Gray and he went to work for Automated Logic. It was out in like Alabama, Georgia, some spot like that. I don't really keep in touch with him other than a Christmas card and a Facebook post here or there, and that's what he designed. He and I met in engineering school. He has an undergrad mechanical and a master's in computer science. So they picked him up real quick. And he says it's definitely a culture shock living out there and the weather's not as nice that it's here. But it was something he liked doing. So there he is. He enjoys it. But now I've done, I've dabbled in you guys. My thing with Tom Sites is I do everything. Build the road, put the fence in, set the building, do the.

Industrial analysis on the tower you know point to put the fixes on point them where they need to go everything is turnkey set up I'm sure we have plenty of overlap Right on yeah hey that sounds cool I've always really enjoyed working on larger jobs One of the things I really enjoy with the work I do is getting into bigger sites where I can do like large building deployment you know it's cool to do small one off kind of jobs you know little onesie twosie jobs but I really like when we get a whole building and we get to do all floors we get to do all the different conference rooms and all the different like big installations for those jobs it's really fun especially when we get to involve some kind of audio or RF kind of stuff you know working with microphones or inductive literature loop that kind of thing but I've always really enjoyed being on bigger jobs when I can see it from start to finish we get in with the general contractor and we.

We don't finish until the client gets in the job. You know. Looking fairly cool. I got a buddy from high school that does a similar thing to what you do. Workman Communications. His name is Rick Workman. He's got a contractor's license for that local stuff I think it's G7 and he sets up cameras, access stuff for people coming through doorways, WI fi access points, etc, you know what I'm talking about. You guys probably see the same lady you might even know. But hey Andrew, I got to tell you what buddy, I'm actually going up the front of the house I'm going to shut this truck off. I've been running since 5:45 this morning so I'm going to go inside, feed the dog, feed myself and pass out. Terrific thing to meet you though. Put the hunters have a easy on this time with a nice one. Home and D from 86 dot clear after your final.

It on KD6TOC. K6AEF. Hey, it's good talking to you. Thanks for keeping me company. I'm on about four hours now of my drive to go help family get their move going. So we're heading out to San Mateo, and I'm gonna do a little work with them. I got the dog here in the back as well, so we're gonna get to their place. I'll get the dog inside and down for a nap. And we got a whole weekend ahead of us moving stuff into their new home. So thanks again for keeping company. K6AEF. I'll go back to listening, Buddy. All members of Buried Easily Allied Expeditionary Force were famous in World War II. All right. With that, I'm going to call it a night. See you then, bud.

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All right. And I got this one on. I turned it off last night wondering why it was so quiet. Yeah. Let me see here. Looks like it's 51 degrees up here in Magalia. Yeah. Washington got. And part of Oregon got 11 inches, and they were only predicted for six. And there's still more headed their way. Yeah. And it looks like we got a little rain in the forecast setting for Monday. And the numbers are starting to go up on percentages, so just high pressure is going to go away. N6 NTM and the start of yet another beautiful day. Good morning.

I run I run lock. But this. This radio so far off to the left side, I rarely bump this one, so it doesn't matter anyway. Just like the HF radio I that VFO is so sensitive and even though it has a nice appearance to the 101, That knob is so big that it is easy to touch it trying to get to the much smaller buttons all around it. So I just run the lock. No big deal. I don't find it a bother to unlock it if I want to change the frequency.

So the other day you text me and said check my mic. Is was Sally sitting on in the truck or was it here? And you don't know if I was in the mobile or not? I don't know how I that one can get keyed up. I don't remember doing any of that that you heard. So. Sometimes if I leave the one on in the garage, if it gets below 11, 10 and a half, 11 volts, it goes into keyed up mode. How do you like that? That's a flaw design, but anyway.

Anyway, that guy bought that radio just so he could use his handy talk and talk out of his mobile while he was in the hospital for a month or six weeks, something like that. So several times he ran his battery down and then that radio would go into key up mode until it got so low that it couldn't hold it keyed up anymore. So of course he gave it to Larry and Larry gave it to me. And my fix, my fix for that is to hook it up to them L6s, no L2. So anyway, them big, them big batteries and now I got the AGMs out there and, and just to make sure they stay up, there's six CAT batteries, so it's almost impossible for it to get below ten and a half.

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Half volts unless I don't go out in the shop for a week. Yeah, they charged up. Yeah, I. I unplugged it yesterday evening when I shut the garage door and I plugged it back in, and there wasn't no big snap or anything, so. Yeah, I'll go out and check the actual voltage. Boy, the new RVs, they got all that stuff. I don't. I don't want to modify this one at all, but, you know, I. I would put in some digital numbers so you can see.

Them instead of having to go back there and push the rocker just to see four LED lights or whatever. That's kind of weird.

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I know where there's one sitting right on the right side of Skyway. When you get down to the bottom, there's an open field before the expensive houses. And you can see that one sitting right there. It's primer red. It's been here for years. And it's got one of the transfer pumps on top of it. And it's a skinny one. It's about 10 inches wide, so you don't lose bed space, you know, to fill that thing up. Yep. I'll look at them sometime this morning.

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Yeah, I see them. $2,237. They got that big plastic one they'll put in there. No, these all look like metal. Yeah. So they're copying the top of the original tank so it'll fit up in there. The one they put in yesterday on TV. That guy's Ford pickup only added 30 gallons, but it only added 27 to start with, so it doubled it. Made it 60. 2,788 bucks. I guess that's them installing it. You. You put that. You put your. You take your pump, the low pressure pump out of your old plug.

Plastic tank and it goes right in the new tank. So, yeah, there is a port. There is a port that you could put a secondary pump so you can have a hose and a nozzle and all that, so you could give somebody else fuel or fill up your tractor and all that stuff. So I'm just gonna go with the construction pump. They're only a 160 bucks or something for a pretty well known brand. The name ain't coming to me, but you know, all the loggers, all the guys that are running equipment on the job, are responsible for bringing us the fuel for the whatever, whatever piece of equipment you're running. And that way, you know, I only need about a six foot hose. You just throw that back in there, it's got a holster for it. They look a little weird, but.

I figure I'll just paint it white. White truck, white tank. Most people probably won't even notice it that way. When I want to put fuel in the tractor, you just pull up alongside it and fill it up. And it only holds four and a half gallons anyway. So I've been siphoning it out of Peterbilt most of the time. That gets old. No, I got air. I got onboard air in the Peterbilt. I just throw a rag around the fill nozzle, put the siphon hose in there and hit the tank with a little air pressure, and out it starts and it finishes. But it's still a hassle.

Yeah, they got them on the discontinued tables down there at True Value. They're, they got like a half inch hole or something and they're slow. It's a little model I don't like sitting around waiting. I've seen it though. It's got a check valve of check ball. And as you shake the hose back and forth, it pushes it down into the tank and. And then when you lift it back up, the ball closes the little deal so it can't go back the other way. Eventually it comes up and over the side and starts siphoning, holds the ball back. But yeah, I, I see how it works. If they sold it in a, in a, you know, three quarter or five, eight inch, you could get a decent flow going. I probably would have had one. I have a little 12 volt one. I can't remember where I got it and.

When I got it in the mail, it was only $22. It's just a little bit scary hooking it up to a battery if something goes wrong and you're there at the gas tank with it. But it worked pretty good. You didn't want to get it. You didn't want to get in the way of the flow. Otherwise you'd get some gas in your eyes while it's squirting. It has pretty good pressure, but anyway, it's a pain in the butt. It works with diesel, too, and I got a pretty nice pump. It's on the bench right now for the death. It'll It'll pump diesel or gasoline, obviously. You know, the pump part is completely separate than the motor part, so there's no fear. It's 110 volts, but excuse me, since it came from China, it had poop bearings in it. They were not sealed bearings.

So if you know how death works, if you know how corrosive death is, that was a. That was a catastrophe just waiting to happen. Planned adolescence, that's what I call it. So I got it all apart. I'm gonna take the amateur and what's left of one bearing down to bearing belt and chain to see if they can give me a pair of sealed bearings so I could just slide them on the shaft. I cleaned everything up and that. That's why that one quit working. I could hear it touching the armature, but it didn't. Didn't hit any windings or anything. So I'm gonna assume that it's gonna be ok. Well, I wouldn't use that in the truck either. I better. Just to buy one of them ones that bolts right in the top of those.

Tanks like transfer flow here. Too much money. I won't be going to them. I do like the 4 fuel level deal there. That shows you the fuel level in that tank. That that might be worth having for 273 bucks.

See what they're using in race cars. They got them flat pads. Looks like a heating pad that you put down in the bottom of the tank, then you put the foam on top so there's no slosh. And it. It sucks fuel wherever across the entire mat. And that is actually a filter as well. Those are pretty neat. Racing pickup. I'm looking at your pump. Deal. So how long does the batteries last?

You'd still be putting that thing on and off, on and off. Unless you got a big. A big tank. That would be the smart way to go. And I do got one. I do got a big tank. I got an 8 gallon metal tank that has a hose on the bottom of it. So as long as you elevate it, you got gravity flow. It's a regular sized nozzle on the end for filling your gas at a station.

Well, I was thinking about pushing that buy it now button. I'm thinking I got to take that thing off every time I. I fill it up. Huh. I guess if it's raining and snowy out there, it's convenient. Yeah, it's still a. Still a pain in the butt. Well, you got to take it off to fill it up. See? So you're still. You're still playing that game. I just want a big diesel tank. Wouldn't it be nice? Just go pull your truck over next to Lori's mom's generator right there. I'm just gonna get the one in the back of the truck. I guess I'll save the 38 bucks. Plus, I don't think I have prime delivery free delivery anymore. I only turn it on when I need it and then shut it off. It just costs you. Or I let Lori, who already has it because.

Got prime on tv, so I just send her the link, she gets it.

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The advertisement says it's powered by two AA batteries, and you can see the guys putting four in there.

You give the old one to Ronnie, he'll tape it up, baling wire, whatever it takes and it'll work. Not here. It's 5:46. I wonder what's the matter. Vehicle's never usually wrong. I better go get my phone. No wonder everybody was out here, huh? Yeah. That didn't make any sense to me. That didn't make any sense to me because Lori went to work before 6:30, so.

I'm going to do a system reset first.

Now. My. Now. Now my remote for the Geochron isn't doing anything. How do you like that? Well, you gotta go. Let's see. I'll try pushing the off button on and off. Don't work. But I can see the little LED lights working. Okay, I know how to do it. You just. It was on and working. And it's not just barely warm, so. Turned it on this morning. Sometimes you have to reset it, turn this other radio down. Sometimes you got to reset it and take out the little dongle out of it and they want you to wait a full five minutes.

Then you put the dongle back in, put the batteries back into the remote, and then you turn it on and they Both start off on 0 or 1. Whatever. Then everything works fine.

When we go hit the road, it'll be. It'll be summertime, I think. But that'd be a nice thing for Lori's mom, that pump, just in case. Well, I bought one gallon. I bought five one gallon containers and I used three of them for use, three of them for mixing the two stroke gas, you know, for the chainsaw. I just need a 1 gallon for that. And the plug. I have 12 stroke. I have 12 stroke water pump, so I don't need more than a gallon. And then I bought five. They're cheap on Amazon. They're the good ones with the push button on them. Only had one of those.

Go bad. Out of the 10 or 12 that I got, I bought 35 gallons, 52 and a half gallons and 51 gallons. And that's what I've been working off of. Oh, yeah. Lori's mom can actually manipulate the two and a half gallon ones. I keep one of those out there in the shed there next to generator. Not right next to it, but. Anyway, what's your new adventure? You got adventure going on for the winter? Hang on, Larry's talking.

See, I have to do my part to be. I can't think of what you call that. But yeah, Anyway, they told me to be. Be like that when I was going down the mill, across the scales with the chick was snitches, snitching me off left and right. And they wanted me to be congenial. No, that's not the word. But anyway, yeah, they wanted me to say good morning to her and all that stuff. And I said, why would I talk to her if she has any questions? Or to the legality of weighing in and weighing out? I got no reason to talk to her. And it got down to a point, after about the third time, they were telling me that because she was complaining that I wasn't being polite. Well, I wasn't talking to her at all. They told me, well, if you can at least be.

Oh, I almost had the word don't bother coming back. Well, I almost went and talked of Red Bearing, and he's the one that runs all the SPI and got his take on it. But anyway, check it out. The two big top bosses and that chick don't work there anymore. And it's been like that for two years. So shortly after they told me not to come back. At least not back down to Lincoln anyway, which is no skin off my butt, I they were gone. They got rid of all three of them people. So my buddy John lives down in Chico. He's got two log trucks now. He's been begging me to come back. Work logging that they won't even know. But anyway, do well.

Take all those jobs, right? I mean, what's the need for someone like that anyway? You know, robot or a machine can. Can do that kind of work. You could just do it yourself. There. There are cases, there are deals out there where there is no Waymaster. You don't know if you're getting screwed or not, because it looks okay on the little stick sub they give you. But if at the end of the month or whatever, and you can see things aren't just right, you. You get the hassle, then. So, yeah, yeah, they'll. They'll. They'll have it. They'll have it dialed pretty soon, just like you're saying. AI's taking. Taking over a lot of jobs. And in a lot of ways, Steven AI, customer services will be better than dealing with these next two.

Generations that don't know the first thing about customer service. Yep. AI is taking over, even building houses. I was seeing on the business report yesterday, they were showing framing robots that are framing, so they have stacks of lumber, and the robot's grabbing one and doing whatever it's got to do and building walls and so forth, stacking them up. So this company was saying they can do 70% of the house with robots. So there you go. Oh, they'll be able to do the whole house. I watched the thing and the Tesla car, and there's 12 of them or 15 of them going across the United States as we speak. And the guy rode in the car. I think they went up to Seattle and back, and it made every maneuver perfectly.

They're getting there, I think. Well, I've seen some quality, the quality of some of the work done by these subdivision builders and stuff, the kind of quality of people they hire and so forth. And in a lot of ways I think I prefer to have a robot built house because you know what you're gonna get. Well, you'd have to be there watching it. But I'd be willing to bet you that if, if you are having AI or robotics build your house, you could probably tap in and watch it happen. They'll probably send you a tape so you can see every nail pound. Yeah.

And this is KN6MGK, by the way. Yeah, something like that. I bet it is good. But, you know, it won't make any mistakes unless the programmer made a mistake. But, you know, it's just gonna do whatever. Whatever it was told to do. Well, Elon's loving it. You can watch two side by side. Two cars are being built as the EX, same time. And the production line's only, what, 180ft long. Pumps out two cars. I. I can't remember how many minutes it takes to build a car, but it ain't that long. 30 minutes, I think. And that thing runs day and night. You still got to have mechanics, but they. They got. They know what the repetition is. And if it goes.

Into a fault mode, then it resets itself. However, if somehow it doesn't go right back to regular programming, then a guy's got to come out. You know, they're. They're on the floor, you could see one or two people and the whole thing. The cars are being pumped out, but. And there's one or two people that are out and walking around. So it's not a hundred percent, but it's 999 anyway. Well, when working on cars, mechanics these days have to have a whole bunch of computers and stuff like that too. So they can't just. I remember a buddy of mine who's passed away now, but he was a mechanic, and he could grab onto a coil wire and tell you exactly what was going on with the electronic distribution in that engine. Well, anyways, that stuff can't happen anymore.

So, yeah, they've got to use computers now to sell them everything.

Well, good morning, Jay. I just kind of bumped in here, was looking at the business channel and I heard you all talking. But anyway, good morning and yeah, we'll see. I might make it over for coffee. Yeah, I only got a half a cup earlier and I told them guys on 95 that I was running to make me a cup and I never got up unless and did it. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna go grab some coffee. I'll let you catch up with Jay while I'm doing that. N6 NTM and good morning to you. Good morning, Kilo. November 6th Mike Golf Kilo for ID and question for Jay was I did text whether he received a message from me direct on Meshtastic when I was at the property. I don't think I got a response to that. I thought you did because it gave me a little tick mark in it.

And 6 grt 36 local.

So I just close it. I don't understand. I would wait for about 30 seconds and I close it and then it reboots. It all works. So I would. I don't bother with those that those they come up and a lot of times they go say zero and then you can just hit close. So once you've made a change, you hit save for save a friend. Anyway, I thought you adjusted all those settings yesterday so no need to change them, right? That's number one and the number two. And I was saying the another way to make the whole thing better is having two, right? So if you've got one up on a pole somewhere or outside where you can't access it, you have to be able to wake it up. So you can wake it up with a second one just by sending a message or something to that effect, right? You have to wake it up. That's how you do it.

It. And 6 grg 36 local.

Yeah. I mean, I have a hard time establishing Bluetooth connections sometimes to one of my nodes. And the way I have to. First thing I have to do is wake it up, and then all of a sudden, it'll establish Bluetooth. So I end up waking it up by, like I said, you know, with the other node, I send something out, and that wakes it up. I mean, they go to sleep. That's what they do. They're waiting for. Waiting for the signal to come across or something like that. So they're trying to be in power save mode anyway. So that's what happens when they go. A long time, at least. Okay, well, I'm not sure what that means, but okay. I think they only come up, like, every 15 minutes or something like that. Say hello to the world.

Yeah, you need to get John to get one. If John gets one, you see, then that's going to be a game changer, telling you, especially if you have line of sight to him, he's going to want one anyway. So he gets one up there and, you know, you guys can communicate back and forth and that keeps your. Keeps it awake in step two. Yeah, I think everyone needs two. Probably. Probably one of those little flat card looking things and. And then a node you can put up on a pole somewhere. That's one of the mistakes I made, by the way, when I first started. I think it works a lot better when I have two here at the.

House. So one inside the house that can communicate with the one outside. KN6MK. Going back to listening.

Yeah. Let's see. Blake, Paul, John, you. If you all have that, I think that would create a little bit of a mesh right in between you guys.

Kilo November 6th. Mike, golf kilo on Carla 36, 7:21 in the morning from Chico, California.

Well, I thought I heard Michael out here. November 6th. Golf, Romeo, golf. November 6th. Golf, romeo, golf from kilo. November 6th. Mike, golf, kilo. Yeah, I'm here. I was talking to. November 6th, Hotel Oscar Yankee on sideband. And he's in the campground. It's strange. They get this intermittent noise. Almost all these campgrounds get this intermittent digital noise. And it wipes out all of us. And they. They only hear. Even hear us come back. And then. And then you transmit. And when they're hearing everybody. So it's on and off. It's not always there. It's on and off, and it's digital noise in a campground. Go figure. Okay. Well, I mean, the only idea.

Idea. I've got on some of those campgrounds, they have WI fi and they have several of those antennas around and stuff that extend the WI fi and so forth. Wonder if that has anything to do with it. Well, not unless WI fi goes on and off. And as far as I know, it doesn't go on and off. It's just on all the time. And this is intermittent. It's on and it's off. And that's what's weird about it. Yeah, I was just trying to figure out what it would be at a campground, because lots of campgrounds have them things around. They offer Internet service of some sort, which is kind of neat when they.

But. Yeah, they generally are pretty inferior, but it's something it's good enough to like, text and things with a lot of times. But I don't think my WI fi calling works too well with it. But I wouldn't know for sure. But these days, with the advent of, like, the Starlink minis, I bet you a lot of folks are using that these days. Yeah, I suppose there could be something about Darling because that makes them intermittent, you know, they'll be. The noise will be there and it'll be gone. Apparently it's pretty solid right now because Hoi is not coming back, so. I don't know. Anyway, I've got 31 degrees here. How about you? Well, I haven't been outside. I can see it looks like it has been last few mornings where. Where it looks all cloud and stuff like that.

Looks like my laptop. I got the right time now. 7:24 came on a little while ago, but try this one more time. Hey, it worked that time, all right. Looked like it was getting turning into one of them mornings.

And I'm getting quite tired of it, to be honest. In fact, I'm starting to. My tinfoil hat starting to grow. Well, I've got absolutely clear skies now, but last night it was. I don't know if you've looked outside, but last night what happened here was fog in the early evening. And then I woke up or something and went out about midnight or something like that, just guessing, and all the fog was gone. And one of my neighbors that I help out, a lady that I help out, I say she's two or three miles away, at least four, maybe four miles, maybe kind of southeast.

Well, it's too early for me. Otherwise I'd join you. I might be able to pull it off by then. I'll let you know. There you go. Don't count on me. But, yeah, I might be ready to. I'm gonna go turn the TV on and. And. And see if there's anything interesting there. Otherwise, I'm still sitting here in my underwear. There's a picture for you.

And she had. Has fog when I don't down there. So. And I can look down towards Lassen and I'll see it down my street where I normally see Lassen, I'll see fog. A fog bank. Okay. Well, without going outside, I did tell you. I opened my drapes and I could see fog. Well, it says the weather conditions say 40 degrees fog. So I bet you that your fog lifting over there is what's cooled you down. The fog here has allowed the insulated layer to kind of help keep that warmth in. I should put quotation marks on the warmth because it says it's not going to warm up over 44 degrees again today. And I kind of thought that we were going to get a reprieve from this towards the.

Hear the water bobbling. I get coffee this time.

End of the week and that sure isn't working out. So like I say, my tinfoil hat starting to grow. There's a guy up there has a website called Geoengineering Watch. He's. I think he's out of readings anyway, that guy, and he talks about the climate change farce and you know, the chem trailing of our clouds and stuff. Possibly they're doing that up north and radiation fog blanketing the north state down here to the valley. So that's the tinfoil hat stuff. Anyway, I will say this, that I certainly remember days of having a couple of fog here and there, but not weeks of it straight. So this is kind of an anomaly for me in Chico. Any well, all due respect, I would have to characterize that tinfoil hat.

A societal virus that's going around. You got to look at the facts to that's the way you eliminate that virus is you look at the facts. And that's what the NOAA is all about. We look at the facts and that's how they can predict. By the way, speaking of predictions, there is a storm coming Tuesday. But it and it's point it was light rain and now it's 38 inches. So it's increased and I have to be out in it. That's not going to be any fun. Yeah. You've been getting you've been suffering with.

That a couple times now. One time you got. You got hit pretty bad, so hopefully you'll dress for success this time. Yeah, OFG's on there now, so I'm saying hello to him. All right. Yeah, go ahead, ask him about your. About his logging software. All right, I'll let you get back after it. I'm listening to the other 2 meter channel here too, so. Yep. And I don't know, maybe I'll flip on the Chabasco as well. Kilo November 6th, Mike, golf kilo.

All right. Yeah, I talked to ofg and they opened up the net. I was going to tell him, well, you could get over there and that talk, Pola, but he just opened up the net. He's net control, so. Oh, well, Yeah, you know, he's about maybe S5 here, kind of like. Let me bring I'll bring up the preamp a little bit. Well, I guess that brings him up to about five, about nine, eight to nine, somewhere in there. So I'm not going to try to measure it because he's just totally clear. And we've got Greg on there, India in the uniform. Okay. So let me start marking stuff down. All right. Talk to you later. Kilo November 6th, Mike Golf. Kilo. 71, 92.

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I ordered the pump. Yeah, for Lori's mom, if nothing else. Thanks for that, Jay. Yeah. If I knew you were gonna order one, we could have got two. For what? 18? It was an 8. 8%. I forget. But you know how they always offer you that? 300 of them bought in the last month. Boy, there's some lazy people out there.

Now I'm not even seeing it. Huh? That has nothing to do. Yeah, Now I don't even see the buy 2 price or the buy 3 price.

A different way. I put down buy two of them. $76. 38, 8, 16. No, you don't get no break if you buy two.

Well, for $42, you can get the automatic fuel transfer 3.2 gallons per minute.

I got my Starlink mini yesterday or day before. Couldn't bring myself to open the box, though. But when we go rving, It's only $5 a month to put it on standby, so I figured we could, we could handle that. That way I can get the. The plug and all that put in. Yeah, I seen on this program, we watched this couple turn around RV and. And their new.

Their new trailer. Airstream already has a Starlink button and the connection on the outside. So all you do is pull into a place, unwrap the cord, set it out wherever you want to put it, and. And put go push the one button inside and you're hooked.

All right, I'll look for that. I am going to. That is my first priority. When I go outside to go play with that put the. Put. Check both batteries for voltage, see if they're both still the same. And if they're. Everything's okay. Well, I got to have it wound up. Yeah. Too lazy to get close to it. But I do see a whole bunch of. I do see a whole bunch of different style pumps. Man, I wish I would have went and looked at them and checked them out. But I. I like the one that you, you ordered. The same exact one that I just bought. Okay. Yeah. So we got the same one. Right on.

Well, I still got three quarters of a cup of coffee. Jay, if you want to go eat and you're ready to go, go ahead and take off. I. I think I'm on a path. Yeah, it sounds good to me. I'm just still sitting here in my underwear. Yeah, I don't have the unction to get up and get moving yet, so otherwise, I am too lazy to cook a couple eggs. Even though everything's right there. It'll only take me a minute. Right down to fresh made bread and everything. Just too lazy to do it. And I don't go down there and eat by myself. I mean, I have before, but I next to rarely ever do. It's always a lot more fun when you got company, so. But anyway, do, do, do.

I know you don't watch Buddy. Buddy Brown on YouTube. He is fun to watch, though. I like the shorts on YouTube, too, but Buddy Brown on YouTube, I like his, I like his take. He does, he, he does one a day or something like that. And he's, and he's got like five years of him to. But anyway, I was, I was, I was watching one the other day. I like, I like that Baby Trump. You ever watched one of them? Oh, yeah. Those are smoking this. And he uses rednecks because he's, because he's a white boy. So he can say, say neck without any retaliation. These.

Two redneck hunters were walking through the forest, and. And they come across this big hole in the ground, and they. They both look down in there, and. And Baby Trump is narrating this joke, and it's a cartoon to look at. Video. So. The one, the one hunter looks over at the other redneck hunter and says, and that's a deep hole. I can't see the bottom. And the other one says, well, we could. We could throw something down in there and see how long it takes to hit the bottom. And the other one said, well, I seen a gearbox sitting right there over there, and on the trail. Let's go get that and throw that down in there. So they. They went over and picked it up and dragged it into both the 1, 2, 3, and threw it in the hole. And they hurt.

This rustling in the bushes behind him. And pretty soon this goat comes along and jumps right down, head first into the hole. And they both looking at each other and. And they were scratching their heads. And the farmer comes along and says, oh, good morning. Have you guys seen a goat? And the one guy goes, yeah, Dwight just came running over here and jumped down in this here hole. And the farmer scratching his head now and he says, well, I don't know how he could have got over here. I had him chained to a gearbox right over there.

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Hey, steve. N60rg. Actually, I'm getting ready to turn off hf. I've got some things going on here. I'm gonna leave in about 25 minutes, but thought I'd help out with the net today. What's going on? Yeah, they're kind of sensitive on topics there and kind of funny about it. It depends on who you are as to what you could talk about. But that's kind of why I brushed off the mesh stuff over there. But over here, I'm trying to think about what. I guess what you're saying is that the higher elevations have mesh now, and that might be a possibility. I mean,

I don't know how far those low powered ones can go. Are they low powered guys? Yeah there's been a there's some of them are making their own little antennas and stuff sometimes little dipoles but little co linears also and putting them on the nodes. They're also using these little amplifiers I think you may have one I don't know but that might boost it up to close to a watt you know and stuff like that. So putting together little solar nodes and things like that so there are a few guys working on it at a little higher elevation so you may find others if you did have a node up you may find others around that have them that may even be further up and then you hop off of them. But also another mesh called mesh core that people are experimenting with which gives your number of hops and some directionality with the nodes you can use. You could actually create a path like you can.

And with APRs, you can send it from one node to another to another by design, and you can do up to 64 hops. So that's an interesting one. They might try in a couple of months. But I was just trying to give the update to that. Not sure how it doesn't fit into the QST portion of that net, because that's what general traffic means. But whatever, you know, it's up to them. And by the way, meshtastic, you know, has a ham spot. You know, you can tick the toggle and it puts it in ham radio mode. So it is actually ham radio. It can be anyway, ham radio mode. So, yeah, there's no reason why it shouldn't be at least a part of the topic on a QST section of the net over. Are you saying it should be part of the topic on the QSP portion of the.

Tobacco net. Well, I'm just saying, just Steve's comment in regards to being off the net or whatever, I don't understand his reasoning for that. So. Because like I say, it's it's a ham radio mode, so it can be anyway, it can be either. Or when you put it in ham mode, it becomes part of the ham radio mesh network, too. So anyway, yeah, that's all I said, just a comment. But whatever. You know, it's a marine net, so if they want to stick to marine topics, then maybe people should talk about just marine topics, like the cartels. Yeah, that's what I was trying to say was that it's a marine net. But then they want to say, however, if you're a sailor, you have extra privileges, and it's.

You're not a sailor, you have fewer privileges. Which. That's the part that kind of upsets me. With the net, they do that, and they can be really nasty about it, especially golf. Pa. Golf. Papa, in fact, said the word when he heard my call. He actually said the word crap after he heard it. So, you know, and he he has had problems with the actual net, with some of the remarks that he's made in the past. He actually said the F word to someone regarding a situation that he was angry about and got ostracized from the net for a while. So, you know, that net definitely has its problem, but they've always had. They've all.

Had this rule that they don't apply to everybody about what you can talk about and, and the fact that it's a marine net. So but they do have that thing where you know, you can bring up a topic and say but I like to talk about after net and they'll say oh okay, we'll reserve the frequency for you after net. And that's how they handle it when they're doing things correctly and fairly. Yeah. Well you notice that parks on the air, literally parks are on the land and that shouldn't be part of the net also. Yet that topic was even brought up by Net control today. So he's the one who brought it up originally. Anyway, I don't need to beat down the drums of your thoughts because I agree with you on that. It's dumb and the net's down to let me see here. I think I counted 10 that was including me, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

11 included me. And then you have the one guy Jim talking about in the QST about, I guess, cartels I've never heard of. So anyway, but I know they're out there nevertheless. Yeah, I mean, there's oh, and then we had another death of one of the club members out of paradise on Sunday. So, you know, the ham radio and nets and everything are all evolving and they need to be more inclusive and more into some of these newer modes that are coming about and the things that are actually driving amateur radio today. If they aren't, then it's going to just keep continuing to slide and maybe some new things will come about. But it's unfortunate. Amateur radio, it can be a real fun hobby, and some of them are taking the fun out of it. But anyway, his comment doesn't bother me. And however the net wants to run, it's.

Fine with me. But I'll listen to your final here. But I'm gonna have to go. I've got a place. I need to leave by nine anyway. Kilo, November 6th, my golf. Kilo, back to you for your final seven three. Yeah. You know, people get cranky and people do things that are unfair, and that's not helping ham radio. I agree, but. And that's always been the. And this thing where, you know, if you're not a sailor, then you have fewer privileges on this, that particular net. I think that is very, very unfair. But that's the way they're handling it, because, like you said, they're talking about cartels, and yet they're not talking. That's not a ham radio subject at all. You know, and so.

Yeah, it's crazy world. What can I say? They've got these old timers like 2foxtrot who doesn't even keep a list. I mean he, he's probably the worst person on the net because, because you've got to keep a list and yet he doesn't do it. So he always has to hand it back to net control. He never has a list. And you know, what can I say? That's just, that's the Shabbat. If you're going to be part of it, you have to go with the flow. Otherwise there's conflict. And I don't want con. I don't want to be a part of a net that has conflict. That's one thing that gets me about Golf Papa is that he will bring, he will cause conflict over nothing. Just a simple check in and he'll cause conflict. So that guy is off the charts on the bad side of ham radio as far as I'm concerned.

Anyways. Yeah, I can't find my mesh. My mesh piece. Haven't found it yet, but it'll show up. That's the way these things go. Just like my cell phone. I thought, oh, my God. Well, you broke up there at the end. All right, well, I was saying 73 earlier, but I was listening. Kilo November 6th. Mike off. Kilo. Yeah, I was talking about myself losing my cell phone, and this felt really stupid because it was in my. In my coverall doculator. N6GRG. Well, it's not stupid. So I've done plenty of.

Of stuff like that myself. Yep. Lose my. Lose my scissors, and they're in my back pocket. Yeah. Crazy. All right, K6MGK is clear. For good? Well, not for good, but for now. 73. Yeah. Bundle up. It's about 5 degrees colder here than has been all year. And 60 RT.

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And 6mbt mobile. Hey, you sure that John? Yeah, I ain't up that high up the ladder yet. Yeah, no kidding. She. I don't know if you heard. I'm even if you. If you know her, she. If she covers you guys or not, because I really can't keep track of this crap. But, you know, Jerry with a G apparently got the can after she's been in her new home for, you know, a few months. Yeah. And just closed on a house, so. Yeah, I heard that she's supposed to come to our party tomorrow, so I don't even know who she is, but she.

Like Brian's boss. That level? Yeah, Director level. Hello, Luis. I guess. And I've met her. She's real nice, you know, her lean forte was in development for a while, running that. And, you know, she's just. She's been trying to clean things up and fix the stupidity and, you know, and takes care of operations. When we say, hey, you know, development is being stupid and not including us with stuff or not paying attention or whatever, you know, she just. She actually tries to fix things and look out for us. And my manager, you know, really liked her because, you know, she really helped us and helped him to help us. And now he's, like, super pissed at this place, if that's possible.

Yeah, I know. Just listening. I'm not hearing any courtesy sounds at all when you drop off. I don't know why I hear when I am key, but I don't hear the normal length courtesy towels. That's interesting, but not that you need anything more to worry about. Yeah, really. Which system are you listening to? Or go through. Whichever that is. What is that, 16? Yeah, I wonder if something was done to that or not. Whether it went out to reinstall the all star stuff and I think that's one kind of zone.

That. I can't remember if That's a damp 404 POS's or an ASCOM controller. We've gone through several controllers up there. All right, I'll try and pay attention to that. Yeah, I just got the link radio reinstalled on 11 site, which has been down for months, and I'm going to try and go down to 40 site down in Greenfield Saturday and replace that yet again. See if that leaves it connects us back down to slow so, you know, never ends right? Yep, absolutely. I got a I don't know if I told you, but I got a going into Knocko's side up on Saka. Jason got a.

Sight up there. And he said, hey, include me. Knock said, okay, so I'm gonna move my hub over there and see if it does better into Slide. I was up at Slide right before all the snows broke loose up there. I could hear this hub quite well up there. Could barely even tell mine was there, where it's at, out there on south out there at Robert Site. You've been to it, the one on Crystal Boulevard out there. Barely even hear it, which might be partially from the antenna, I don't know, but. So I'm going to probably go up there, throw the antenna up, test it, make a couple tests on it, and throw the hub out there, and then I'll.

Probably in the long run move my stacking machine over there since it's in a you know who site right now and after a couple months probably should get it out of the generator cabinet. But I got to get somebody up there to get my antenna because that's a good antenna. I put it up there years ago, many years ago, but since been deemed a non climbable pole and it needs a lift. So next time somebody does any work there, I'll say, hey, can you grab that for me? I'm trying to picture where on daca, but that's okay. And yeah, what are you waiting for, man?

Get up there and get this thing going, get things connected and sounded better. I mean, is Jason in been established, or is it okay to move in now or what? You know, he's got the keys. Let me know. So he said, anytime you're ready to go up. I'm like, well, I need to, you know, I need to see what kind of availability or tower leg it's on. And if it's too far up there, the higher up the better because I ran a path to my carting site and I can hear here very well from my corning site, but there's just a little hill like maybe a mile away that just takes it out of line of sight. So I might have to go up there, hook around and see. That's still going to work. Okay. It should be. Not like you got 1000 foot higher mountain.

You know, right in the middle of the path. It's literally very close, and I could probably go higher up the tower to get away from it, but I got to get an eyeball on what's up there. As you come up that road from below, you kind of go left or right. When you get to the top, you go to the right. Right there. But I haven't been up there in so many years, I don't even have to see what's up there, you know? Yeah. Okay. A number of years ago, we were looking at the possibility of buying a small building over there off to the right somewhere.

But the parties involved that were trying to make that happen passed away. And you know, so did the opportunity. But it probably just as well because don't need that kind of headache. What else was I going to tell you? I almost gave what's his name? Oh, starts with a seat. Your cohort. Who after sending those calendar things out the other day, I know it was by mistake, but I almost said something to him, but I decided I don't have enough time to go deal with that. I'll scare him. Yeah, I understand. I'm a king.

Down at the Coronado site. Got my overpeater out of there, got my link antenna down, which I think it's an actual 420 link antenna. I got one of those old antenna six elements. And of course I've been up there so long that damn stainless steel got bound up and, you know, couldn't get this stupid thing off. That was fun. Something was supposed to take five minutes, ended up taking a half hour. But yep, got it running in my garage. Now the TA was shot and it's running in my garage and doing pretty good, so I think it's still in all right shape. That might be the one. I stick it back. I don't know, but I guess, he said. Except John asked him.

Who is that? You know, and the John never remembers who I am. And he says, is that that guy that screwed me out of that building on Vaca? And I said, oh, hell no, that wasn't me. Don't get me on that list. That's funny. I meant to tell you and I didn't want to tell you over the air, but it doesn't matter at this point. Yeah, he conferenced me in with, on a call with Keith, mentioned your name and couldn't remember is he a good one or is he that, you know. And I couldn't think of, you know, Roborovo's name at the moment. You know, starts with a K. And I said, oh, no, no, no, he's definitely a good one. He's a good one. He's in it at a couple sites. You know, he works at the same company as I do, but over in Sacramento. And stand up, guy, no problem.

Blah blah blah. Okay. Okay. And you know, he's asked me that before but he's just never really had a lot of, you know, interfacing with you to burn into his, into his memory, which is probably good because there was a bad incident. He'd never forget it, trust me. So anyway, I got to talk to Keys for a little bit too. It's been a while since I talked to him as well. Yeah, I haven't talked to him in a long time. We'd be asked for quite a while after that. Yeah. Kind of interesting. Yeah. If he wants to. The only time I really interfaced with him was he took me on a. I went up there to get a key I think when I was going into Cedar Ridge to his house. I met him there and he took me on a guided tour of his whole museum up there before it went up. That was.

Awesome. I love that. That was one of the most interesting things. And we spent quite a bit of time together there. But he might remember that. I don't know. I'm kind of forgettable, you know? All right, I'm gonna get back to it here and make myself look important today. So what's going on? What I can fix anyway? I just heard you on. I haven't heard you in a while, but I say what's up? All right. And I'm driving out a rank of this one, so I'm going to do the same thing. I go pick up parts. We look like I'm doing something I'm sure that'll never last around here, but might as well do it while you can. Oh, I heard other changes are coming. Shoot. Hold on a second. Let me see if I can change repeater. Standby. System12, link up.

All right. Hopefully this is okay. I'm kind of in between both of them. So it sounds like they're coming up with all kinds of new stupid ideas for us for next year, and one of which is back to responding to sector outages and, you know, all kinds of little stuff. So, you know, I just holding my breath. Yeah, I heard that, too. And as long as they don't start it till after March, I'm all for it. Yeah, thanks. You know, the peace and quiet's been nice, but, you know, boy, the overtime, it's dried up. It's funny, you know, people are like, okay, yeah, I'll volunteer to go do that. Or, you know, if you need some help with something. Whereas I try to get somebody to cover me like crickets. And.

And then that damn thing is supposed to start next year, too. The Big Brother scope Worker version 2.0 and, you know, who knows what else. Man, just like, didn't we go through this already and try and consolidate regions and, you know, what have you? But I give it six months and then we'll revert right back. But anyhow. Yeah, well, look, they tried to consolidate California. That didn't work. Yeah, they're coming up with a bunch of new stuff. It's all about saving. And now our group over here said he's not authorizing any more DC requests until we've visited the site and actually troubleshot it. I'm like, well, on a lot of stuff I do. Some stuff I don't. If you've got a VSWR issue on a tower mounted radio.

Not a whole lot you can do, you know? I mean, go down and look at it and go, yeah, there's an alarm, power cycle, everything. But, yeah, more truck rolls and. And whatnot. Like, it's not really saving. I know. It's just, you know, one stupid thing after another, and it's like. It's like back and forth, just ping pong. But as long as they keep sending the paycheck, then whatever. That's what I'm waiting for is when that stops. And. And they decided, hey, we. We are still not efficient, and we can get rid of more people and make people buy more busy, and so on and so forth. So. More char. All right, well, I don't know how many times I told you you suck, but.

But you know I stand by it. Uh huh. I'm getting used to it anyway. All right, I want to run here. Got a couple things popping up, so catch you later. Have a good one. KJ, 6 KO. All right, talk to you later. And 6M ZT in San Ramona, it.

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Flow. Mobile seat? A little bit. I tried to give you one in paradise, remember? No, it also wasn't gobs and money. It was free. No, you would have to do a lot of work to it though. I get it.

Transfer foam makes nice stuff, but they're usually pretty proud of it, too. I got a couple aluminum ones at home. Otherwise, I was tempted. I was tempted, Steven, when you offered. I think I put one of them aluminum ones on somewhere at the house so I could just put the tractor. But now that I got this, Jay referred, and they're. And you get a pretty good discount because that's where Franklin gets all their stuff. So I couldn't say no for 1600 bucks.

At the meeting. I was there until 11:30. I'm home now. Yeah. So nobody ever wants to go out to eat or nothing like that. So I just get at them. I got things to do. Yep. The ones that we use up there in Yankee Hill, like, the ones, I forget what they cost, but they're about half that price, if I remember right. But they're not Transfer Flow. Like, they're like the same company, Delta, that makes. That makes them. Construction users use them a lot, but, yeah, they're not Transfer Flow. I tried to work for Transfer Flow, but they wouldn't accept me.

Yeah. Now I've already come home. Yep. I've got to get going here in a minute and collect up some leaves and stuff like that, so. No, no go. Yep. Gotta be a little earlier on a day like this. I guess so. I guess I'll miss again.

Chat. I don't know. Martine was saying, I think it's a little over $3 a gallon. That probably feta falls for diesel right now. He went and filled up everything, so that's pretty reasonable.

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Yep. That's what the construction guys do. You know, I guess it keeps. It lets. It gives you a choice to be able to fill other things. And he buys a lot of diesel stuff, like even a diesel Volkswagen, so he could fill up his other cars, his tractors, Bobcats, all that stuff. That's why he goes and fills it up and gets, you know, the truck full plus 100 gallons. And he goes around and fills up stuff and he has to go back and get bored. See, there'll be a difference. In your truck. It's just for the line fuel line. And it pumps the fuel to the high pressure pump. When your tank gets down to a. Your stock tank gets down to a break. I didn't like. But if only uses it purpose just, you know.

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Well, when you're going to get one of these meshtastic devices, John, you need two of them. Kn6mgk.

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