Transcriptions for 2026-01-08

All star link at 31 active. Wow, that was cool.

Speaker A: System19 link up?
Speaker B: Yeah,
Speaker C: it was. Give me one second. I'm helping the wife. Do something. I'll be right back.
Speaker B: That tom in there? Wa 60ks, martinez.

Speaker A: Okay. How you doing, Jeff? Sounds like you're working on some equipment. Yeah, and
Speaker B: I'm trying to figure out. I think I broke something in the process here, but, yeah, what you hear on your end. A couple of overs ago,
Speaker A: What I heard came out over the air was that Poll star link on 31 was up something to that effect. That's on the
Speaker B: desk here. I'm just running it through his pages. But I just tried it and it didn't let me try something again. Hang on just a sec.

Speaker A: All star link at 31 active.
Speaker B: Knot is chem out to you locally, but it can out globally. And yes, it said all star link on 31 active. And that was from the. That was from the Node 753 Santiago Note.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's on the bench here. And I've got it hooked up to a 7330. So you know, it's acting like it's actually at a site going through a 7330 and what have you. And then I have a microphone connected to port one so that I can key up and go through it. But I just reset the programming in and it's not on my end. It's not going through from the microphone through the S Comm. So I think I did like one little thing wrong in the programming and I'm trying, scratching my head at the moment trying to figure out what it is because I had it working yesterday before I linked with the S. Com programming on it. But. But the announcements are coming through so it's still connected. Just. I'm not going from whole port one to port three on the S. Com, but I can see all the LEDs I'm lighting up. So I'm. I'm going into the FCOM but not coming out. So I have it rather precariously connected with alligator clips, etc. So I'll probably pop something off maybe. But let me check that and see what's going on here. Okay.
Speaker B: You know, a lot of that stuff is beyond my capabilities except for the note itself. That's where I can come in and help. But yeah, so keep in mind
Speaker A: the
Speaker B: node, it's not doing anything.
Speaker A: The speed it's sitting at,
Speaker B: it's not on the full duplex settings. So if you're not hearing something that may be why,
Speaker A: Yeah, it's in the 7330 programming. It's on my end here. Like I say, I. I had it all working just the way it's supposed to yesterday and I was adding a couple things to the programming and now the FCOM is not talking from port one. If I see port one support three which goes into the All Star and comes out on the network and to you and stuff. So I definitely close the door there and I just have to find it. What I did, what I did, I put in the programming to switch between rf, which would be on port two to All Star, which is going to, to be on port three. Like we can switch back and forth and everything was working just fine until I did that. So this one's on me. I'll figure it out here. I just, I just discovered it just as you keyed up and said that was interesting. So I have yet to really look into it, but yeah, now that's on my end. But you know, I was going to
Speaker B: give you a full test with how
Speaker A: to go in heavy. Although I'm using a mic, so the audio level, not right now, but the audio level or tonal quality doesn't count because it'll be a radio up at the site, not just microphone. Give me a couple minutes here to see if I can figure it out. But otherwise everything is functioning just right. Except you and I should get together and there's one or two tweaks that we ought to do on it. It's announcing the time the All Star notice. And like I say, I think it's set for central, not specific. I don't know if courtesy tones are on or not. We need to probably revisit that real quick and check on that when you have the opportunity.
Speaker B: Yes, I, I, I am available to help you.
Speaker A: Okay, Just let me know.
Speaker B: Yeah. If you need me to change you in and we need to, we'll probably
Speaker A: need to get rid of that cron cat.
Speaker B: I, I could have, I could have forgotten to take that cron out of there, probably what happened because I don't have that in my notes. So.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, if you need, if you need
Speaker B: me to help it all on the All Star side of it, just let me know.
Speaker A: I'll be listening. Okay. Yeah, I need to get off radio so I can wrap my head around what's going on here. All right, we'll talk to you in a bit or whenever, in 6Q. Okay.

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Speaker A: I am, I am still here. But when initially loading my ESCOM code plug on, it wanted to push it off the Velcro on the trip. I just had to follow that on. I was looking around it. The stuff had to just fit in. Okay, so right now, me on a microphone that's plugged in for one of the FCON controllers on the Venture, and that's going through the FCON and out port three, which is the All Star, and going through the all star to the 750 mode and out onto the network. So that's basically the new antithesis. Now it's being reversed. It's coming out of port one here. So that's like about a 99% full test with using a mic instead of a radio in Port 1. Okay.
Speaker B: Again, what you're doing is all, you know, all stuff out of my, out of my realm. But I do have to say that the audio is about half of what it should be. Is that, is that a concern or is that just because of how you're plugged into it?
Speaker A: That is not the concern at this time. You may want to prove that out of sight on a mic here. It's an amplified mic. It wants 1 volt input. So regular mic, it'll hit you dead. So this has a little bit of a preamp. I probably haven't opened about a third. Could you turn it up? But it's, you know, it's not really
Speaker B: what we're going to be working on up there.
Speaker A: So there's no reason to. This is this full test here. So that's not any shape, but everything otherwise, everything seems to be working just fine here. It's five right now. What time do you have there?
Speaker B: Eight o' clock here, which is no problem for me. Yeah, I really think that maybe you should let me team view in there and make those adjustments, you know, just, you know, that'll just be less we
Speaker A: have to do when you guys are
Speaker B: sitting up there on Santiago.
Speaker A: Oh, definitely, definitely. That's one of the reasons I'm doing all this. See if anything you need to do it. All right, it's five o' clock here. My dinner ground six a little bit after. So I've got an hour. I didn't do it when I did three hours from in the past to like an hour ahead or something. But if you have time right now, you know, I'm open and working on stuff, so it's a good time for me. If you got a few minutes right now.
Speaker B: Yes, definitely. It'll just take me a minute. You said, you said the time announcement
Speaker A: and what else was there? The time zone needs to be changed. LA or San Francisco Monterey were watching and I'm not sure if we turned off the courtesy. Coming up. Lastly, I don't know if we want to tweak the audio once it's up there or if you save the config for backhoe where we tweak the audio and you want to tweak it now to that and then see if there's any fun there. So I'll let you decide if you want to do it with audio right now. Again, don't go by this microphone at all, but time zone and time disabled. Okay.
Speaker B: Yeah. The final simple USB configuration, we may
Speaker A: have to just wait until you get
Speaker B: it to the site and you can listen to it via super or via. Via the repeater and what's coming back through the system.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Yeah, so go ahead and send me the password and I'll just jump in there real quick and take care of those two items and then I'll double check the simple USB stuff just to make sure that they're the same in vodka.
Speaker A: Okay?

Kk6vzv mobile. Wp6axm receiver. Kk6FYB mobile. How are you tonight, Chris? I'm fine and dandy, Lester. 82 calendar days till retirement, and I think I counted 59 work days. Said two calendar days, but 59 more work days, 83 calendar days and 59 work days. Okay. Yeah. I misheard you when you first said it. Okay. Yeah. Only got about two months to go, and I got my little countdown calendar up on my wall, so all I got to do is scratch through the days. Yep, yep. Be gone before you know. Yeah. And so now I got to start. I started doing my Social Security application. I got to go down to CalPERS and talk to them and get that going. Got a couple other things that I have to do financially before that time runs out. Yeah. Gotta get all the ducks in a row to. None of them fall down. When you time to go? Yeah. Let me tell you, I. I took. I took all the Christmas week off for vacation, and I. I don't think I thought about work once while I was at home. And when I got back, I thought, I'm not gonna miss this one bit. Now you get to a point where you say, I've paid my penance. I'm ready to be done. Yeah. Now it's like, yeah. My wife is talking about, well, we need to do this and we need to do that. And I'm sitting there thinking, that can wait till retirement. Now you'll be busy enough when he gets to retirement. Time you don't need to stack up other things to do. Yeah. Yeah. So how you been? Oh, just fine. Just cruising along. Are you kind of steadied on a regular work schedule? Are you still kind of doing weird hours here and there? Oh, I still got to go a few different times. Like next Monday, I got to go to second shift for one day just to train some guys on second shift so they don't lose time on both ends. Oh, boy. So you get off late at night and then you got to go back early in the morning? I go back when I need want to and then just got to work sometime during that day, and then I'll be all right. It's been so long. I don't exactly remember, but I used to. I used to work with this, or I used to, the barracks neighbors with this guy that worked in the command post on Travis. And he was telling me they had like three and three shifts, three on, three off. But his three on was like eight to four, and then four to midnight, and Then midnight to eight, morning I was like, what? Yeah, a few of those jobs you had rotating too. Yeah, that would mess up your sleep schedule so much. So I don't think you'd ever have a normal, you know, how could you have a normal day off? Yeah, you don't. That's why you got three off. Cuz you, you spent the first one trying to catch up and then get a day and a half to do something and then you got to go rest to go back to work again. Yeah, I think we had, I think I used to work four and three, but they were, they were regular shifts, but I think I had four and three. It was six o' clock to six o' clock and back then it was like, you know, nobody was open after 9 o' clock at night. So you get to that point where, you know, I'm on my shift but I'm off. So I'm awake from 6 o' clock at night to 6 o' clock in the morning and it's Saturday and Sunday night and there's absolutely nothing to do. And that's when the, that's when the television guys cut off at 2 in the morning. Yep. The American flag comes up on the TV and then it goes to gray and then it goes to static. Yeah, those were some very long nights. I remember one evening having absolutely nothing to do. So, you know, after midnight or something in like January, I got on my little Honda 350 and I went for a ride and it was January so it was cold out. When I got back. I could barely get off the motorcycle. Went upstairs, threw my jeans in a corner and they were, you know, they were just emanating, just waves and waves of cold. I went back to check them like a half an hour, 45 minutes later and they were still emanating waves and waves of cold. Yeah, everything gets frozen through when it's like that. Oh yeah. And you know, I had a full face helmet, but it was cold enough to where whenever I'd breathe out, you know, the face match would fog up. So I was sitting there breathing with my mouth pointing my breast down so it would go out and not into the helmet. That's why I have frostbite on my cheeks from riding in Alaska and snowmobiling in Alaska. Wind chill, same thing. Face mask fogs up. So you crack the face mask and then eyes water and then tears freeze to your cheeks and then you close the face mask and your face mask fogs up. You can't win. Yeah. A couple of years ago I got this one. I got a new helmet. And one of his features is that you could put. You get another. What do I call it? You got your face shield. And then there was another liner that went in the face shield so that it, you know, put a bit of insulating air between the two of them. It's amazing how well that works to keep the fog free. Yeah, yeah. Helped a little bit. Ours had a diverter thing that went over your nose to help divert the. Like you said, divert the steam out the bottom, but. But then your neck gets wet and cold and you can't win. True enough. True enough. All right, so I'm going inside. I just pulled into the driveway. I'm going to grab my nail and get myself inside and see what this evening is going to bring me. So I'll talk to you later. Have a great evening. Hope you get home soon and put your feet up and relax. 73 KK6BZV clear. All right, Chris. Enjoy. KK6SYB mobile.

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Speaker A: Okay, it's on its way. And the one other thing you don't have to bring tight. Between the All Star and. I have the cable. It's not in place, so I just plug the cable there. Somewhere there's a config file that says, you know, I did have the port number. Know if you do research at first or if you have any clues. But at any rate, it just.
Speaker B: Yes, I do. Okay.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: I had to disconnect Las Vegas. That noise was coming from them. Okay, give me a second. I'm coming in. It.

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Okay, daytime is gone and the time zone is fixed, and the simple UFC looks.

Speaker A: Mask again and let's see if I can understand it.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker C: Okay what we have
Speaker A: is there's a cable going from the All Star node one of the USP ports on it to the serial port on the S node and by using one of the port numbers and it just incremented by one for no particular reason so it has its own port number if we use that port number instead the All Star would know to connect instead of the management port to connect to the USB port that goes to material port I don't know where that's at I looked in all the supermod and I I don't see anything eluding material for the filter somewhere else and actually extensively knowledge so give my explanation any idea where to look it up next week
Speaker C: sometime. Well this is just a simple USB
Speaker B: tune can you. I think what you're talking about let me go to it take a look at it and see if it looks like something that you may be referring to give me a second.

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Okay, so there in the rpt, we're only asking it to use one usb. Normally it states USD. Second USD. There is one usb connected from the raspberry PI up to the uri. Okay, so when that's connected to the. In the past, or whatever you guys did in Vodka, when that's plugged in and that's going over to the serial port, what information are you trying to get from the PI using that one? Well, the Raspberry PI connects to the material port of the F comp. So. Yeah, okay, yeah, I don't know anything about that. So let's. Let me do some research and. Okay, so okay, so again, what exactly is that doing? That connection between the Raspberry PI and the serial port, which I'm assuming goes into the back of the. In the back of the. The controller, the repeater controller. What? Exactly. What. What information is being transferred? I'm not sure what you mean by what information. We all saw using one of the USB ports as a USB material converter. Somehow what I just showed you on the screen is what I get if I connect through the All Star, you know, that port number that goes to the server. So then I have to set under 235 and I can do whatever I want. Yeah, okay, let me do some research then. I have never. I've never done any of that stuff, so let me do some research and I may shoot you some information via email and see if that's. If that's making sense to you. Because what you just showed me, I don't even know what that is. I. I've never seen any of that. And I don't even know what the 7330 is. Rock. Yeah, I understand. But again, you don't really need to know anything about that except how to get to All Stars to connect to a serial source. You know, that's what you want to research to a serial port? Some other device. Okay, I'm doing some research now. Okay. Yeah, so go ahead and go. Take care. Your dinner. Can I stay connected to yours on the. Via the tvr? I'll just leave it. I think if you get so far you'll know when you stop the serial foot kind of working. But until I put the cable in, it won't get the 70 30. It'll connect like the Terence in, you know. Yeah, go ahead. Okay. And I've already found some good information here, so I'm going to read through this, see if I understand what, what that's all about. Again, that's all brand new to me. Okay, I'll be listening. And I'll be researching in 6K.

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Rank. Hello, Mike. I was just reading something here. And, Jeff, if somehow you can still hear me when you come back, take a look at the text document on your desktop. See if that's what we're talking about here.

Speaker A: And six Knee and six grg.
Speaker B: Must have found another connection to
Speaker A: jeff. So n6q or n6grg back to local. King. N6 mike golf kilo. N6 grg. Are you around, steve?

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K6rcs, k6kg. Howdy, K6RTS. Excuse me. Howdy, K6KG. This is K6RTS. Oh, Reese and I are back. I got to. I walked into the gym just in time to catch him, get the ball and make a. Make a shot and make a basket. So it was radio. So we'll come get cardi cans, unload some groceries, take some more groceries and head on over to Tracy's. Cool. I'll be rolling with you. It's kind of chilly. Like, icy out. Yeah, I'm just plain tired. Sounds good, sweets. We'll be home soon. K6KG. Clear. K6RCS clear.

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Qst. Qst. Qst. This is KG6 Kuo opening Sacramento Valley traffic net. This net's part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this net is to relay formal traffic into an isle of Sacramento Valley. And to provide the standard emergency net. This is encrypted net. Please make no transmission without Internet control. All station or requested steel for frequency till it's controls. K6K, Lester, located west of Wills. If there's any station with emergency or part of Traffic, we shall WFIC. RHC Repeater Check 2. Kf6obi, kf6obi, mike and willows. No traffic. Thank you, mike. Kg6kuo caller, enroll in all traffic. Kg60. Good evening, lester in the group. This is kg6tso. Messy with no traffic. Thank you, kf60. Good evening, lester. Kf6djy, bruce, chico. No traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you. K6rcs. K6rcs. Randall and chico. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, randall. Thank you. K6pmt. Kilo, echo 6, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening, lester in the group. And I have no traffic. Good evening, ross. Thank you, kc6ufe. Kc6ufe. Bill in cabana traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. All right, that's the rose. I have it. And that's all of our members. Do we have any visitors wishing to check in? No further traffic or kick in. This is K6K U clothing, Sacramento Valley traffic miss. Daily at 2100 hours local type to the W6. Sorry. St. Peter, 14685 volt M. All stations are excused. I like to think everybody who checked in tonight has gone Empire. Amateur bases. How do you. This closed at 2103 local time 73 in August. K6K frequency.

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And 6 NTM looks like 34 degrees. And they're saying 33 by tomorrow. The start of yet another beautiful day as we head into sunny days. Oh, yeah. Let it dry out. Good morning. And 6 NTM.

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Speaker A: Pretty quiet out here this morning. And six mtm.
Speaker B: Yeah, we do, too. And I don't have my tablet, so I can't. I can't see what my temperature is
Speaker A: out here. That's what the Weather Channel said, too,
Speaker B: but you don't get white stuff on the deck at 34.

Speaker A: Well when it goes crunch that's enough to make you fall on your butt. Well Steve
Speaker B: MBV was back in Seattle somewhere up there anyway this morning not that place he's got in the top of Oregon or Seattle whatever it is and and I called him last night at 10 o' clock at night thinking it was about almost his bedtime and when he's over there in Yugoslavia or Bangladesh wherever the heck he went vacation and I forget but anyway and I didn't get no call back last night and Terry was telling me the other day or maybe it was it was John that's right down in Arizona was telling me that he thought he was coming back today but that would have been yesterday when he told me that so anyway I left a voice message last night and one this morning if he'd call me and I haven't gotten nothing back so something's askew there when it comes to the who invited
Speaker A: meet in 97. Same thing 9597 that's them moving.

I didn't want to ask him on the radio because Joe's the one that started that controversy. I said it, he talked to Steve. Steve denied it, Denied that he invited me, that I ought to come to 97 and listen to a great bunch of guys, blah, blah, this and that. I remember the conversation distinctly. It wasn't the first time, it was the second time that I was talking to them on 3900 and Steve came there and I said something about, hey, I get up at 4:00 in the morning, so I'm on there. And Steve said, well, if you're up at 4 o', clock, you ought to come listen on 97. A great bunch of guys. So I went and listened over six months and probably closer to a year, maybe eight months, I don't know. And, and it took a while before I started keying up there because I was trying to recognize some of the people. So, you know, you can act like you're paying attention at. You don't need an invite. But what I was trying to cut short was Joe and Bill both thought that I wasn't 97 qualified. Not that you need any qualification, but you know what I'm talking about, that I, that I didn't fit in. When in Rome, do as the Roman do, Romans do. Yeah. So after those two had said something I, you know, about their dislike toward my end, I, I said, well, I guess we'll just see. I guess if more than half of the people out here really would rather not hear me, then I won't bother them. And that's when I said something about I wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for Steve's invite. So I thought to myself, well, I'm not going to put everybody on the spot about whether they want to hear me or not. And that's when I said something about, well, Steve invited me, so I'll just get with Steve, we'll see what his take is on it all. That way you guys don't have to be fronted off with casting a vote on that topic. And I haven't got no comeback from Steve. Called him over a week ago, but, you know, he's on vacation in another country, so I could understand it. Too busy, whatever. But he should have called me by now this morning because I've made two. Sent one text message and one phone call saying, well, when you get a chance, now I know you're back here stateside. I guess there's like six hours difference the day before, so you can't if you Call them during our daylight hours for the most part. That's when they're in bed. So. But anyway, yeah, I'm a little. I'm a little. No response is really all I need to know. But I'll give it a little more time. He's a busy guy. Yeah, yeah, Joe's let it be known as. Well, let me, let me think about that one for a second. Somebody told Bill this morning that he was a downer. Anyway, negative, negative. So, yeah, but I've always noticed that about him. Anything that you bring up in the news or anything, he's always takes the negative side about it. So yeah, he's just like that. That's his personalities. He also has a whole bunch of good attributes to add to the frequency. So. And he is my elder. So not only that, but he's been out here a whole lot longer. 40 years. 35. 40 years. So you know, based on all those things, he commands a certain level of respect without asking for it in my book. Yeah, I talked to him way early this morning about 4:30. I had bumped my dial and I was. And I was off frequency by 300 cases and I heard him and I looked down, it was off frequency and I twisted back on the frequency and said my call sign and he repeated my call sign back to me and that was the end of the conversation. So anyway, hey, I had a pop noise this morning like the back of my chair hit the radio table and then I smelled electronics. The amp continued to put out a thousand watts. But when I stood up and went in the other room and smelled that electronics now I thought, well, I better shut that off since it was still putting out power. I really didn't know. It could have been my 12 volt power supply that made the noise. But it's doing pretty good right now at 14.2 volts. So I don't think it was that. So I shut that down. Everybody was hearing me loud and clear with 100 watts. So my impressive antenna.

Check. Well, if you want some show and tell, I got this soldering iron iron over here. I don't know how much them guys solder, but for people that have the shakes from time to time, this one here is easy to stop it because you can rest your hand. It's like more like a pencil. Electric with the temperature control. Sorry about that, I left the dog out, but I heard you. Yep, temperature control. And you push the button when you want it to heat up and it's damn near instantaneous. It is an isolated chip but it's DC so you wouldn't have to worry about that anyway. So you could, you can solder chips without fear of blowing them up due to the soldering gun. Electricity. And here's the positive side. Even though it comes with a sponge kit built onto the standard, when you take your finger off the button when you're done soldering, it just goes, drops temperature. No juice being applied to it. So you know your tip stays nice much longer. There they have a three point contact and you, you slip the tip in, you loosen up this little knob on the top. Like a Dremel tool. Exactly like a Dremel tool. And you slide this thing in and it drops down and then it drops down again. So there's two contacts inside there. That whole screw in tip thing. Anything that threads in with something that heats up and cools off. And heats up and cools off. Always degradate. It's the same as a Weller pistol style. It's got two of those. You put the two pieces of the tip in there and then you tighten those up. Pretty soon those don't screw in and out very good. I've had mine almost 30 years. Still works, but it's getting pretty gouged so I don't care for that. This other deal, like a Dremel, it's some type of a non melting, non burning Bakelite maybe. I'm not sure what it is, but it, it's not Bakelite, but it's something like that. It cinches down on it. Like when you're tightening up a drill bit chuck it squeezes it all the way around up, oh maybe a half an inch above those. The contacts that I was describing to you.

Yeah, well, it was great way back in the 20s and 30s for isolation, but it wouldn't work on a Dremel style, which is the best description for how this grabs the tip. Yeah. Yeah. So I haven't seen anybody using Bakelite for a long time that I noticed that that's what it was.

Steve just texted me right now, said that he would give me a call today. See it sometimes it's better just to wait instead of push it. Yeah, I don't feel like going down there to eat Jay. But like I said about the show and tell thing. Yeah, if you want to do that you'll have to stop by on the way over. I. I gotta go to Chico sometime today and I'm. I'm. I'm trying to come up with excuses not to. I just like to have my tablet back and then I got a whole fistful supplements down there that I should pick up too. I'm going to try to put it off until Monday but I mean Saturday, Friday maybe. Yep. I've been already made about five trips in the last three days with them. Not the propane still at 315 but yeah I did see it. I can still get it cheaper at Maverick in Orville and if I go to the casino just a little bit cheaper than that. So I filled up my truck yesterday off that pony tank or whatever you want to call that other tank and there's still a half a tank in that tank. So I'll wait until I need to fill up both tanks but then I'll go down there and hit the casino or Maverick one. One or one or the other. That's pretty darn good. I think it was 260 at Maverick up there in Winnemucca. That's why I filled up last. That's both. Both my tanks were full of that price of fuel. You don't worry about burning fuel at them price. I got a picture on my phone 4 days ago or 5 days ago Lori sent me a picture of a gas station at 7:24 I think or 28 in LA days ago and I saw, I asked him when I was in Northgate Petroleum couple of days ago and he said get it now because we're about ready to undergo the big high price there that not it won't never be as high as la but that's where we're headed. And even better news Jay Trump just sent I can't remember and I just seen it this morning but a huge they, they are investigating him from top to bottom Newscomb for fraud. So not only the, not only the homeless situation but his mismanagement of money but our entire California money situation is getting a fine tooth comb. So we'll see something they already speculated from what they already know that it's higher than Minnesota. The other. Well that's kind of obvious ain't it. But, but the other thing is 22 states refused to give their welfare, EBT and, and health care documentation. What, what how many people they're supporting and if they don't, if they don't though, then they're going to get subpoenaed just like they already have been telling Waltz to set a date. They have to do that first. They have to give them a chance to come in willingly to prove but their allegations are wrong and he hasn't even got back to him. So I think they have another eight days, seven days then they can subpoena if he doesn't come on that he's getting picked up. So I know government moose, snail pace but you could understand it. And right now the courts are pretty backed up with stuff. So there's, that's why they, that's why they have those time. So that they can have enough room to let people off the freeways, so to speak.

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Well, he was actually indicted and started to prosecute him here. And he ran back to Mexico, Maduro, and he was in Guantanamo for a very short period of time. And it's a typical democratic move for them to say that we don't have any right, that that guy is guilty of murder on down on down. He controls most of the drug cartels there and, you know, Venezuela. And of course he's involved with the oil as well, which he shouldn't be. I watched a good part of news today that we. We used to get oil from them. In fact, it was us down there putting oil wells in way back in the 60s. Otherwise they wouldn't even have surveyed or did oil prior to that. So, yeah, do, do do. We. We had the first big oil contract with them in. In return we got excellent prices doing the survey and providing the. What do you want to call it, what we know about setting up oil wells, right down to delivering them oil wells themselves because they don't have no place down there where they can build steel oil mills. Pumps. Mills. Oh, brother. I've been in Logan too long. But anyways, yeah, we're gonna see that. The money from the ships that we've acquired. You know, they found a Russian tanker. It was actually a Venezuelan tanker painted to look like a Russian tanker that they got sanction takeaways. So that's pretty funny. Just to show you how tied they are to Russia.

When we were down there, I can't remember if it was Cabo San Lucas or the other Mexican place that we vacationed in the last two years. We seen a Russian ship in the port right there at the, it was, it, it was docked along the land. I don't, I couldn't see if there was, that was a marina. Obviously you wouldn't take a ship into a mar. But we did walk along the beach till we hit the marina down there and that was a big ship. And guess what they were building a five star hotel. Russia building on Mexico. Five star motel. That's what that ship was doing there. When you got cartels that could snuff her anytime they wanted to you, you could see why she might go along the president. But Rodriguez is controlling it right now and they'll make, they'll do their own, they'll do their own voting there on to see who's going to run the country. Maduro actually lost the last election. Okay. And he refused to step down. That was only a few months ago, if that so he, he isn't even, and isn't supposed to be controlling anything. They were trying to say, the Democrats are trying to say, hey, he has the right to bail. You really think they're going to let him out of jail? Oh, no. Trump will step right in there, believe me. First they have to gather intelligence so they can see what group's doing it. They'll put a stop to that. Trump's announced. If you're killing people for reasons like that, religious, if your little cult of people's killing people for their own gain, we'll, we'll step in and stop it doesn't matter where it's at in the world. Of course that obviously you're not going to screw around with Russia too much on that. But if they started killing Christians, they would get sanctioned and, and tariffed beyond belief. Trump's not going to be led into another war no matter what they do. He's not going to start a war unless they, they're actually shooting at us. Then we'll, then we'll f a f. Oh, you know, that's just the way love is. We can hurt him in other ways without putting American boots on the ground and losing American lives. He's pretty against that. Not to say, Jay, that they don't have boots on the ground in El Salvador, Venezuela and any of that because that's how we get, seek information. But we have satellites that we can keep an eye on any place on the planet. So we gather our best Intelligence, just like that. So they. They know when a boat, one of them speedboats leaves Venezuela, Salvador or whatever. They. They can actually watch them being loaded. So they know when there's drugs on there. They'd have to go way out of the way to put things on a boat that weren't drugs, but make it look like drugs so they can say, no, this is all perfectly innocent. And they blew us and killed us up, our people, you know, that's the setup. So they got people right there, right at the docks keeping an eye on stuff. We have boots on the ground, but. But not. Not like troops or anything like that. If you watch the President's Daily Brief TDB I watch it daily. He'll keep you up to date on exactly what's going on anytime anything comes down. He was a CIA guy for over 20 years. And a lot of his friends, close contacts, are still doing that job job. So he gets inside information and he clears it all with the state. You know, the president's people there to make sure that that isn't something that they don't want. It might jeopardize something that's about ready to go down. So believe me, he is getting okayed. If you've never watched Mike Baker on the President's Dad Daily Brief PDP B. You might watch that once a week or whatever. I'm subscribed to it, so I watch one every day. All right. I know you're getting anxious, and it's getting close for you too. So anyway, N6 NTM standing by. Gonna go turn the news back on and waiting to hear from Steve. All right, enjoy. Say hi to the fellas. Yeah, I might. Yes. I gotta go to the bank. All I gotta do is call them. I'm gonna try to stay up here on the Hill today. Good morning, N6NGM.

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Speaker A: K6lmk system 36, snow mountain range.
Speaker B: N6 kne testing.
Speaker A: No reply needed. What's going on?
Speaker B: Hey, Mike. I was just listening to my audio
Speaker A: using
Speaker B: Ralph's Clark County, Nevada scanner. Web Web scanner. How you doing?
Speaker A: Yeah, not too bad. It's weather time on the HF Net, Marine net that I have something to do with in the morning and on 40 meters. And so I'm kind of half listening to that while I'm talking to you. So, yeah, my. My digital system went berserk. Something happened, and I no longer have JSA call because it gives me an error. So I'm working on that. And other than that, I'm going to get tons and tons of solar today. That's what I'm looking forward to, is lots of solar today. N6PRG.
Speaker B: Solar as in sunlight to recharge batteries? Or are you going to look at the sun in a telescope? Or are you going to look for some ETF activity?
Speaker A: Well, you could do just about any one of those things with it. I power my ham radio with it. I power my refrigerator with it. And I could go outside, get a tan. Even that.
Speaker B: A tan? At your age, you better be careful. You may. You may have some appendages fall off.
Speaker A: Well, the main thing I'm worried about is I've already got enough problems with too many ladies chasing me around. So if I get a can, that'll make that worse.
Speaker B: Yeah. Ladies, as in sheep. Right. Those sheep, they really like those older canvas men.
Speaker A: Oh, my God. What's going on down in Columbia anyway? Gee whiz.
Speaker B: Hey, you're the sheepherder. I thought that was a very appropriate response to
Speaker A: the.
Speaker B: The ladies, as you say, chasing you around.
Speaker A: Well, the only reason they want to have anything to do with me is I feed. And if I don't have food in my hand, they run.
Speaker B: Oh, okay. Yep. You know, Marco, he was no lady, but he knew how to chase you around if you had something that he liked.
Speaker A: Yeah. And that particular breed, I don't know.
Speaker B: I have.
Speaker A: I have a new ram now. All the old rams are gone, and I have a new ram and things have. Oh, there's a. There's a marine station, all right, down from down in Baja. There's a sailboat. Anyway. Yeah, we have. We have a new ram here, and he's. His mother was capable of putting out a whole ton of sheep milk. So that's a new thing here.
Speaker B: All right. And this new new year, this new property you're looking for, are you going to continue Raising sheep or are you going to give that up entirely?
Speaker A: No, probably no sheep and maybe not even property. Hard to see. It's hard to know what's going to happen. I may be visiting you because of what's going to happen. Yeah,
Speaker B: well, I tell you, we got the life down here. That's no doubt. I like it. I think it's a good end. Good place to end our, you know, our story here on the planet. In fact, we've been here over a little over one year now, and I'm hoping the family will get down here and visit now that a little bit of the drama has gone away. Between a couple of those presidents who like to. Both of them who like to run their mouth a little bit much. But, yeah, it's all good. All right, well, I am going to go back to listening and I'll let you close it out. You know how the system is. We don't want to tie it up too much, And that's pretty much it. We're going to have a beautiful day down here today. Nice and warm. We did a bunch of shopping yesterday, including some plants. So we're going to work on some plants, get the new stuff hanging up. I like the hanging plants. The wife likes the stuff on the. In the pot, so it doesn't sit on the floor of the. Of the deck there. So. All right, you take care. Good to hear you. And I will be listening back to you for the final. N6 Kenny.
Speaker A: Okay, Ken and I would think that you would have more tropical fruits down there, so I hope that you're able to take advantage of that sort of thing. I don't know if you have coconuts, but coconuts are pretty popular among the sailing community because you can go to a dry island and get water out of the coconut.
Speaker B: So,
Speaker A: anyway, yeah, glad to hear that you're experiencing springtime and the beginning of getting a Summer Garden together. N6TRT talk to you later. Ken in Columbia. This is November 6th. Golf Romeo Golf in Redding.
Speaker B: Okay, so I will respond back to you just real quick here. So currently on our prom, on our property here within our tract, we have lemons and limes. And they don't. They call them yellow limes and green limes, but we have lemons and limes, oranges, kumquach, most definitely coconut. And we also have lots of mangoes. Like, I don't like this time of year because the mangoes, I gotta go out there in the morning and pick mangoes up and throw them in the pile for the gardener to put them out Thursday mornings.
Speaker A: Yeah. Listening. Listening to the weather pretty closely because they're now they're calling for relays to see if anybody has any questions. It's a relay net. Everybody puts out a relay. Call everybody for every part of it. So lots of action and yeah, great tropical fruits. I would love to be in a place where I could chow down on them. So. Excellent. And I'll be listening today. And fish grt.
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Speaker A: North tahoe. Limp up.
Speaker B: Your audio is a little bit low there. It sounds like it needs to come up about to 25% or so. You have any way of doing that?
Speaker A: N60? Yeah. Are you talking to me, Ken? Ken, were you talking to me? NC trg?
Speaker B: No, wasn't talking to you. Somebody came in on one of the Tahoe links asking for a radio check or audio check.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm kind of multitasking here. Got a headphone in my ear doing HF. So anyway, that Tahoe station, November 6th, Golf Romeo Golf with N6NKE also here. Did you need an audio reporter?
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: What I've
Speaker B: got to do,
Speaker A: Candice, is put one of the other systems on some sort of PI and see if I can get a test of JS8 with that because there's a chance it's not the radio. Alrighty. N6TRT, I'm gonna go back to HF, talk to you.

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Speaker A: System11 link up.
Speaker B: Good morning. Good morning, sir. It's a nippy cold one over here. Anyhow, I can either call you on the phone or continue call you right here, depending on what will be for you. So let me know. Well, at your convenience, most definitely. No hurry. I just have a technical question for you that would probably be best over a phone call. Okay, well, I'm off to an appointment on the road, so I can do it right now if you're clear for it. Yes, if you're driving, it's probably easier if I call you, so I'll just go ahead and just that right now if you're available for it.

Well, good morning. Been pretty quiet out here. Put my call out again. Kilo, November 6th. Mike, golf. Kilo. Any mobile stations? Anybody out there at all? Anyone listening? Kn6, mgk.

Kn6mgk on the repeater. Kilo, november 6th, mike, golf, kilo fm. Anybody listening this morning? Kilo, November 6th, Mike, Golf, Kilo. Nothing hurts. Kn6mgk is clear.

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Speaker A: N6 pov monitoring. Anybody around this morning? Wp6axm receiver.
Speaker B: How about N6IWH? I'm somebody.
Speaker A: Okay, you got the OWH? N6POV here. That's my new call. Yeah, it used to be owh. Who is this? I didn't catch the name or the call. I'm Bob. Yeah, Roger, Bob.
Speaker B: It's November 6th. India, whiskey, hotel, Pete or Peter, if you prefer that anti. Go. And it's Sunshine, Little Cool. And I copy you five by five. Okay.
Speaker A: Hi, Pete. You're loud. Then you drop out. It's like your battery's giving up on you here, here and there. Or your fingers slipping off the microphone. You have me. Okay. Am I solid? How you doing? Yeah. Oh, lord. I haven't driven this car in a couple weeks. It's like it rained on the inside of the car. There's water all over the inside of the window. I think I caught you. Okay, now. Anyway, it sounds like your finger was flipping off a microphone. Microphone. How you been, Pete?
Speaker B: How have I been? Okay. You know, I always say, do you want to know the truth or a lie? The lie is a lot shorter. I'm doing that. I'm doing okay.
Speaker A: Okay. You're on the right side of the grass. Yeah. I don't know why. I don't know if it's at this end. You're kind of in and out. I copied that last transmission. I'm headed over the park to get a little exercise, and I'm gonna go see my wife. She's still hanging in there over at the home with the Alzheimer's. Anyway, she's 82. I'm 80. How old are you, Pete? I forgot.
Speaker B: 79. I'll be Haiti. And people say, oh, you look good.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Hey, well, I don't feel like, like. Like 60, you know, it's more like I feel like 80. But, you know the funny thing about these surgeons up here? Like, I need some work. If you're over 80, they don't want to work on you. I'm going, hey, what? And I said, yeah. You didn't get too old? Recovery's a little rough. Sometimes you don't make it. Thank you, Doctor. I love you, too.
Speaker A: Well, I would think they'd have the opposite attitude. That. Ka ching, ka ching. You know, the money. A good chance of making some money on you. I know you have a good hospital up there. So I've heard inlay or something like that. Does that sound right? Doesn't sound right to me. That float.
Speaker B: I'm sorry, Bob. You don't win the rubber Ducky.
Speaker A: Henlo.
Speaker B: He N L O e. Henlo. Yeah, and they've been around, you know, And I know the, the hip replacement surgeon on a personal basis, you know, hey, Doc, how you doing? Actually, I call him Dapper Dan. This guy, well known surgeon,
Speaker A: North Valley here.
Speaker B: He wears like purple blazers and, you know, a tie that's, you know, neon, stuff like that. It's weird.
Speaker A: That's good. Kind of dresses it up a little bit, keeps it interesting. Well, did you get a new hip?
Speaker B: I got the one on the right. They're talking about the one on the left. The right hip. I think it was repetitive stress back in the days of taekwondo. I thought I was tough. I mean, the teacher never said, go over to the bag and bang on it as hard as you can. Kick it like you're stupid.
Speaker A: Okay. Well, it's probably good exercise. Are you going for walks like me? I go to the park. I'm driving there right now to walk half a mile to a mile in the park. Then I'll go see my wife.
Speaker B: I exercise in the backyard and I do walk, but the Mexican guys are yelling at me. Now I'm walking and the guys just slow down in the pickup trucks and they go, hey, hurry up, viejo. What? Viejo means old man. So now I got an audience.
Speaker A: Oh, you must be entertaining them. Okay, Pete, well, it's too bad. You. You could try and find someone to walk with. You know, if you were down here, we could probably walk together in the park here. But you go for a walk, then go out to breakfast somewhere.
Speaker B: Yeah, if you can afford it. By the way, I worked with Sam Betty there at Cal State Hayward. We called him sensei, but Professor Zambetti in the PE department. And you know, he looked. He looked pretty tough. But I know somebody that won actually in the tournament. You know, my, my opinion of it went down just one click.
Speaker A: Okay. Back in the day, when I went there, they. They didn't have a gym at first. They finally put one up. We had no pool. They put that in too. I think it's probably a pretty nice campus up in the hill. Have you been down to visit it lately at all?
Speaker B: Not too much. My son lives in Oakland. I should get down there. But, you know, that happened. Hey, the one thing about Cal State Hayward is going up the hill. I mean, you can go around the sideway. It's not that bad, but I had a Volkswagen bus.
Speaker A: Yeah, it was, I forget Hillary or something like that. Was that the name of the street? Yeah, I used to ride my bike up to the campus there. I think they put in a dormitory eventually, and I think now they've torn it down. But it was there Carlos B, I think, was the name of the dorm.
Speaker B: Yeah, I remember Carlos B. And you rode a bike. Well, coming down must have been a thrill.
Speaker A: Yeah, it was. I had to use my brakes anyway. But there's nothing too bad. I mean, I had to how many gears I had. But I go into low gear and just take my time. Chug, chug up. And I guess there are probably houses all over those hills. Go back and take a look.
Speaker B: Yeah, it used to be, you know, quite the place to hang out around that area. Cal State Hayward. You know, it's well known and, you know, now they call themselves Cal State East Bay.
Speaker A: W E6A X N receiver. Okay. N6V O, V. You're right. They changed the name. Doesn't bother me. I'm trying to think what the motto. Astronaut or something like that. The pioneers. Does that sound right? Where were the pioneers when you were there?
Speaker B: You know, you've got at least a couple of brains health here, right? The Cal State Pioneers. I had a jacket with pioneers and a little kind of a little figure of a guy with a hat and a bucket or something. I don't know. Looking for gold maybe.
Speaker A: When you think about pioneer, people tend to think that rather than the space pioneer. I'm trying to think 63, 65. We're just putting guys into space before we had even orbited the Earth.
Speaker B: I remember that. You know, the big deal, though, in my growing up era was the assassination of Kennedy. That kind of, you know, wait a minute. And then, you know, all these other political figures being shot at the same time.
Speaker A: You know, that was very upsetting to me. I heard him speak at the UC Berkeley campus. And, you know, it was an outdoor event. And Kennedy was really quite different from what we hear today from Donald Trump and the people today. Kennedy really, really was inspiring.
Speaker B: Well, you know, it looks like all the good ones get shot, so, you know, okay, I think I'll become a plumber.
Speaker A: Yeah, safer. Oh, man. That was right. Right before Christmas. And I remember I made some Christmas cards up and I sprinkled red dye on them, like symbolizing blood. Anyway, for my cards, don't send them out anymore. But while I'm at the park, fun to reminisce with you, Pete. Take care. Catch you in the future. N6BOV mogul, Cal State graduate of 67, first graduating class.
Speaker B: Wow, you're famous. Okay. Be sure to breathe deeply. Inhale. Pull your shoulders up when you're inhale. What that does is open the up the top part of your lungs. Get some movement there. Boy, I feel good already. N6PO B&6IWA AP.
Speaker A: I'll remember that. N6B will be clear.

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Speaker A: M6vob Monitoring anybody around this afternoon?m6vob.
Speaker B: Hello, Bob. N6BOV WD6AXM
Speaker A: well, hi, Dave. Long time no chat. Good to hear you.
Speaker B: Yeah, same to you as well. It's been a while, but yeah, sitting here at the house changing eye doctors. So I was getting some of my files, some pictures and things from the previous doctor and giving him to. Sending him over to the new one. Hold on a sec. Turn down the background stuff there. That's so otherwise just, you know, taking it easy today. And of course, now the RF on the HT is affecting the.
Speaker A: The computer. You have an eye problem like me. I think I've had six surgeries on my eyes so far.
Speaker B: Not really nothing like that. I've, you know, got a little bit of the old age stuff starting to develop a bit, but had a little some kind of a separation of something inside there, not the retina, but it's been like that for quite a while now. But otherwise, no, just the usual old age edge. What do they call it? Dinosaur aging.
Speaker A: W E6A X N repeater. Okay. N6POV. Yeah. I think what happens when we get older. The fluid, I forget what it's called, the scientific name. The gel comes away from the back of the retina and that was a problem for me, one of a number of them.
Speaker B: That's kind of what it was. It had to do with the gel. The jelly stuff in there comes loose there. But apparently mine cleared completely away and it hasn't really affected my vision. I just came back yesterday from a test and I'd had a pair of prescription from six, eight months ago, I guess it was the other doctor. And so, you know, he read the new doctor, read them and then did the test on my eyes. And he said, well, it's exactly what your prescription calls for, or you currently have. So it hadn't changed as much as I thought it had.
Speaker A: That's good news. Do you remember the name of your doctorate?
Speaker B: The new one? Yes. Is Texera over at Three Rivers.
Speaker A: Yeah, he's a. I'm trying to think of the name of it. Anyway, I know him, but I. Del Perro, I think Robert Del Piro is one of the ones. I see. I've done the retinal consultants. Have you been there?
Speaker B: No, I haven't had the need nor the recommendation to go see anybody else. Everything looked okay. They took the pictures of the inside of all the retinas and so that's why I was getting copies of the ones from my previous eye doctor. So they got ophthalmologists and optometrist. I think what the optometrist is put glasses and the ophthalmologist is the actual eye doctor or something like that.
Speaker A: You've got a. And the people that specialize in the retina. Anyway, I'm right here waiting for traffic to clear up so I can get across. I'm on Walton. There we go. Got a clear shot there. Anyway, back here. I haven't been on the radio much at all the last couple months. How about yourself?
Speaker B: Well, not as much as I should have probably, but I'm getting there. I do a lot of listening but not necessarily talking because I'm usually doing something in the background. But so far so good. Things are still up and up and running as far as I can tell. Had a little bit of power line arcing it sounded like up there on the site Monday night it was kind of. Kind of ripping and buzzing quite a bit there, sort of sliding up and down a little bit.
Speaker A: Is there much trouble with lightning? I had some issues with lightning the other night in my home. Qth. Oh really?
Speaker B: You had a strike that got into the house or what?
Speaker A: I think it actually hit the house next door. So everything went off and then a few seconds later things came back on again and it maybe three times. I was afraid I was going to lose everything but things seemed to survive. But worryful. Oh boy.
Speaker B: No, I have actually seen a lightning strike on the upper site we had quite a number of years ago. We did a lot of grounding work and lightning protection work on the lower site where the repeater is. And there's a big telephone cable that runs between the two sites to tie intertying systems and things like that. The lightning actually hit the upper sight, ran down the cable to the lightning protection stuff in the lower sight. And then there was also another time when the television folks had their camera looking over that way. They actually caught a strike on the lower sight at one the top of one of the towers. There is a Channel three I think it is.
Speaker A: Has the camera up there periodically. You see them show the fog over the valley?
Speaker B: Yeah, Channel three is one of them. And then there's also alert. Let's see, Alert Wildfire or Alert California has one up there as well. And there's a. At least one other one that's of a private nature. WD6AXM.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I'm just sitting in stopped traffic over here on Walton right in front of the Moose Lodge across the street. In fact, I just joined the Moose Lodge about two weeks ago. Have you ever been moose over here?
Speaker B: No, I haven't got that kind of time anymore. I was doing, you know, I did the volunteer firework for 20, what, five years here? 25 years or so here in California and so that was enough.
Speaker A: Okay. Did you ever get sent out of state on a fire?
Speaker B: No, I didn't do any of the out of state. I've done a couple of the other mutual aids here in state, the strike teams they call them. But no, I stayed. I had to stay mostly in local area because of my, my primary job.
Speaker A: You haven't retired yet?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, 2017.
Speaker A: Okay. Well, it's nice that our feeder is still up and running. Everything seems to be working okay.
Speaker B: Yep, so far so good. I don't know if you were aware, but they, you know, the. We had an antenna failure up there last, last year, had those super high winds and it sheared the. That big antenna off at the base caused it. The winds were so gusty and hard that they got. It started it whipping and I guess the mount came loose or something. But anyway it snapped it off and we had to replace it. But so far so good.
Speaker A: Well, did you, were you the one who climbed the tower and do the nuts and bolts of it or do you find you have someone else that could do that?
Speaker B: A couple of years ago we had to come down off of the tower. We had to give up our space there because it was needed for the site owner and commercial and public safety needs. So. And our agreement was such that, you know, we were flexible to be. Have to move if needed if the space was needed for something up there. So. So it's now, it's right there basically on the, at the roof of the site there. But yeah, Ted helped, helped me out and so the other couple of the guys down there at the shop, they got it up there for me because it's about a 23 foot antenna. And then Ted actually helped get it up there and you know, get it mounted and tied down.
Speaker A: So it did a little bit of
Speaker B: work on it, but it seems to be functioning pretty well for, you know, especially for where it's at.
Speaker A: Have we lost coverage to the southwest in that area? I know down around Fairfield? Has that been degraded?
Speaker B: No, that's one of the air REITs. That's one of the areas that should be working probably the best of any of them up there. Going to the north, northwest up there to the. What's that? There's a thing over there. We called it the Triangle. But going up northwest. Yeah, there's a. There's a notch there because of the upper site, you know, notching out the lower site, but otherwise still hear people check in from over in Williams and Maxwell and on up there and of course, you know, anywhere else doing pretty good.
Speaker A: That's wonderful. We're really blessed with a great team. Nice that we can use the site. All right, well, I'm just about to pull in the driveway. Good to talk to you. My car parked here, and we'll catch you another time. W6M 6 POV. Clear.
Speaker B: All right, Bob. Yeah, you take care, and good to hear from you. Yeah, we've been really fortunate over the years here, but unfortunately, there's a lot of commercial, broadcast TV and FM and digital stuff that's up there, and it's. It's starting to chew away at the noise floor as time goes on. So, fortunately, I've still got a hand in it. So, you know, we've got things we can do. All right, take care, Bob, and talk to you later. WD6AXM
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