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Speaker A: N7t and the vegas.
Speaker B: Kn6mgk testing local.

Speaker A: There.
Speaker B: Are you.
Speaker A: Are you able to be off on Monday?
Speaker B: Yeah, probably. I got. I'm. I'm backed up on stuff. I mean I may do some stuff. I don't. I'm not sure. We got off. We got off because that. What the hell Is it that ML? Yeah, MLK did. I think it is. Anyways. Yeah, we got, we got. The majority of people are off. I got some people that are working for various things that are going on.
Speaker A: Okay. I just discovered my car was out of gas, so. Or almost out. It's like less than 8. She just runs on fumes all the time. I just the surpriser and took it down the sand plug fill it up just now it wasn't any kind of line. I just done my car and no, this was no line. So I went home and was shuffling cars, moving cars across the street and noticed the car was out of gas. So I'm almost back home and I'm getting stuff done. Like all it's production projects, bathrooms, all that fun stuff. Right.
Speaker B: You have a different version of fun than me, but I get it. You know there's this. I forgot the name of the gas station. I don't remember when I drive past the damn thing. But there's a one on Nellis.
Speaker A: I found Nellis.
Speaker B: Not Nellis, I'm sorry. Craig Rowe, just east of Rancho, off brand name. But anyways, I filled up my Jeep there the other day. 278 a gallon. A couple people at work were talking about it and anyways that was pretty good. I went down to the People's Republic, Tuesday or Wednesday for a day trip. Drove down there and I went through Baker and there was 580 a gallon there. Good old California taxi.
Speaker A: Like seriously, would anybody ever. Like what poor plane would you have to have to pull up a paper for six bucks? Ridiculous. Yeah, no, I know what you want. You're probably talking about Murphy Oil or something like that. Yeah, so I've got gas there before. I just usually get a stamp or Costco, whatever. Usually pretty cheap. I don't know shoe something today, I can't remember. So I wasn't really but. So got any fun plans for the weekend? You going to go to computer sites or just do some work at home kind of stuff or. What are you doing?
Speaker B: No radio sites, Everything seems to be working well, knock on wood. No, mom's still in the hospital so I got dorking with that right now. They're probably sometime this weekend depending on availability. They're going to move her to rehab or assisted Living or whatever they call it. So that's been kind of occupying some time. Cheryl's been doing the brunt of it, but so do that. That's really going to probably be about it. Other than that, don't really have any plans. Veg out. Got a. Got a few things just to kind of around the house with nothing out of the order. I gotta replace my balance on my off center set wire. Had a problem with it for a while where the balance just gone bad. What happened is if I hit it with anything above 5 or 600 watts on a single sideband on 40 meters or actually any of the bands it knocks off the amplifier because of highly selective power. But it doesn't do it on fmram, just on sideband. Which so of course it makes sense, right? The instantaneous power. So I got a new ballot a while ago from Giga Parts, not Giga Parts, from hro. And I just haven't had a chance to put it in. So I'll probably do that.
Speaker A: Okay. Very good. That sounds fantastic.
Speaker B: Yeah, I mean the bands are so good, you know. Well, you've heard me talk about it. The bands are so good. Even 10 meters now you can talk. You can talk. You know, down to Australia, New Zealand, you know, Even Europe on 10 meters now, a single side band. It's really, really spectacular. Even on the compromised antennas I have because of my restrictions. It's been really good. Yeah. Actually all the bands have been really good. 75 is kind of noisy. I don't have an antenna for 160. But the other ones have been doing really, really well.
Speaker A: I got all kinds of plans for that place.
Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker A: It sounds like
Speaker B: you're certainly going to have the real estate with it, that's for sure. Real estate for it, I should say. That's for sure. That'll be exciting. And one of these days maybe I'll. Maybe I will be able to be able to do talk anyways do something similar. Get the heck out of this place and get some land someplace more out
Speaker A: in a little more of a remote area. Right.
Speaker B: And be able to do that type of stuff. So I would. I would enjoy that.
Speaker A: Yeah. Our friends just relocated. Carson Valley, you know. He's the director of a manufacturing company worldwide international manufacturing company. He's a partner in it like 40 some odd years. He's probably got another year or two till retirement. Just kind of outlast one of the partners that a bigger chair. I don't quite understand how it works. But anyway, so he just couldn't take Anymore. So the whole family qsy from Loi, California over to Carson Valley over right next to Minden, Nevada. And they got a nice home over there and quite a few and all that. They went for a smaller, smaller lot, you know, maybe quarter eight. But they're happy, they're loving it. And there's everything to do, like everything you possibly want around there, you know. Still got this data, just tax safe and all that, so. Tax program. So yeah, we're just super excited about our property. And I should have power in about, hopefully about a week and a half. About a week and a half away. We're taking a trip up there a week from this Monday. Hopefully we're staking it on a Monday. And then they're gonna start putting all the poles and lines and putting in the 400amp panel. I got all these parts in my garage. It's like electrical wholesaler in my garage. Like conduit, all kinds of wire, cool stuff. Seven strand number two, bare copper, Pretty cool stuff.
Speaker B: And once you get your power, sounds like you should put a remote, remote. A remote HF station up to be nice and quiet. Yeah. Guy that I work with really closely bought a house up in Carson City. Matter of fact, he's up there right now. He looks but got an early flight out this morning for the long weekend. He's got Monday off and he really enjoys it. We were to Carson a year or two ago. We went to Tahoe just to get away for a while. We drove down to Carson and hung around town for a while. Went to see a couple of sites and stuff. And a nice town. Really very, very friendly people as such. And looked like not too bad of a place to live, as you probably know. Not too far away from the Reno airport. I think he told me half hour, 45 minute drive to the airport, which is like getting from our side of town to Harry Reid anymore. Not too much of a difference.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's the only drawback about Elko is the airport there is lacking. There's only one, one carrier Delta and there's no direct flight. So if you want to fly from here to there, there's just one carrier and you have to fly by a salt lake and it's tight because zero competition now. There's not a lot of demand, but they do have an airport. But you know, just an emergency supply. But you know, for 600 bucks or something like that, forget it. You know, anything like jumping on a spirit flight for $49 or you know, $79 round trip, something like that. Billy was telling me that ridiculous low prices for flights between Vegas and. And Reno. Cheap.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know me. I'm a Delta guy. I fly Delta everywhere I go. Happy with them.
Speaker A: But.
Speaker B: Yeah, I know. There's a guy was telling you about, he used to take Spirit and I take. I want to say Flint gear. Anyway, he takes one of those and he says, yeah, it's really cheap. Like 30, $45 to get on a plane. And since he's got a house up there, he doesn't pack anything, you know, a shirt on his back, so to speak. He's got everything he needs back upstairs. So he. He does that. So, yeah, the airport I fly in when I go see my buddy at Sault Ste. Marie is the Sault Ste. Marie Airport. Delta is the only flight or the only airline that services that comes out of Detroit. Quick hop.
Speaker A: But it's not.
Speaker B: It's not too dead.
Speaker A: Yeah. So. All right, well, I'm back home. I'm getting the blower out. I'm getting ready to blow some leaves out of the front yard and clean it up. I'll catch you later. Have a great night. Zone 3 from nr. 7G live.
Speaker B: All right, man, take care. I'm gonna put some gas in the car here. I'm coming up on teams myself and seven. Tandy.
Speaker A: Hello, John and Ralph. Ralph, before you go, I'm gonna turn on Parrot for you. Give me just a second, okay?

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Okay, go ahead, Go ahead. You can key up with me here. Audio level is a little above average. Still pretty good though. Okay, go ahead. You can key up with me here. Yeah, I can. This radio set up a full duplex and a speaker mic, so I'm not sure how that worked out. Audio level, It works just like you guessed it did. System 32 link off. Oh, there's a funny farm. Yeah, I was just going to let you know you were quite hot, but of course you probably sound good out of the repeaters, but directly through All Star you were. John's audio was about half as much as yours was. Just FYI. It sounds like you backed away from the microphone. You did sound much better. Was that Mike, Buddy Farm Mike, it's me, WP6JKV. Just had to throw my nickel's worth. Can't get pennies anymore. So you're saying you can't go to the bank and get pennies? I think all the grandmas and grandpas are hoarding them in their five gallon water jug. Wipers are fake Safeway the other day and they didn't have things for change, so they were just rounding, you know, in the direction that favored them. It was pissing some of the people off. It was pretty funny. Yeah, I know. Casinos will do that. They won't give you pennies, they'll give you a voucher for 27 cents or something. Yeah, well, you know, all that adds up. You know, Walmart and casinos, they can. They can pocket quite a bit of money by not giving the pennies away. Back to Costco and just rake them in too. I forget the name, Take cash, who knows? Yeah, they do. Yeah, my wife beat some hundred dollar bills all the time. All right, well, good to hear you and I'd hate to see it, but can't drive the system up any longer. I'm a little short of breath. I've got. I've got something going on in my. My chest. I've been fighting for the last couple of days. But good to hear all of you. Ralph and John and Mike, you guys take care. I'm gonna go Back to listening. N6P. N E. Hi Ken. Nice here in Crimea and hope to enjoying. I guess it's summertime in your neighborhood, so. Yeah, I'm just hopping off 101 here. Got to go drop a laptop off at First Place here in Milbury, so see you. P6JKV is out of here. All right, Mike or K. Kendra. I'll talk to you guys later. Ralph, just FYI. Yeah. Your audio is probably about 15% hotter than everybody else's, but to me, it sounds great. Okay. Yeah, I'll check it again. I. I set it up and on my service monitor for 5kC deviation. So I'm the master of going on maybe just different levels inside the system. I'm all Sorry. Okay. N17. Yeah. Whatever it is you're on now is fine. What you were on before, it just sounded like my game was a little high, that's all. But I'm a fan of more audio, you know? Got to get the rail clip just a little. That's right, man. It's. How about hitting the noise ratio? Right. Less noise. All right. Later. See you.

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Speaker A: Yeah. But I did go up to Yankee Hill to the store there. The hardware store. Good place for soil amendments and fertilizer. Yep. That guy's a nice guy, too. So in case you ever need any of that. But I just bought
Speaker B: a bag of Nutri pellets.

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Speaker A: Kk6vzd mobile. W e6a x m repeater.
Speaker B: Wf free.
Speaker A: Echo mobile. Let me see if I got that straight. Whiskey Foxtrot 3 Echo. Yes.
Speaker B: Go wreck.
Speaker A: Good evening. My name is Chris and I'm just heading back to Yuba City from Marysville. I got a long commute.
Speaker B: Gotcha. Yeah, we're gonna have a longer commute too. We own a store up in Corning and we were offered this one down here in Colusa, so we're gonna take that one. So we're gonna be doing some back and forth.
Speaker A: Okay. What's the. What are you selling?
Speaker B: We're going to be taking over that Jackpot store.
Speaker A: I spent almost no time in Calusa, so I'm not exactly sure what that is. Is that a set, a convenience store?
Speaker B: Yeah, convenience store. Gas. It's branded Chevron. It's right there on Highway 20 as you go through.
Speaker A: Okay. All right. Well, so why Calusa?
Speaker B: I think it's kind of like Mount Everest because it's there and they called us. They wanted us to take the store and see if we could get it turned around and get it profitable again, which I think we can do. It's pretty much been run into the ground, so we're going to go in there and try and flip it. Good luck.
Speaker A: Ya. Sounds like a challenge. And something to keep you interested for a while, eh?
Speaker B: Keep us in chitlins too, I'm hoping. I'm Steve, by the way. I'm sorry for my rudeness. I didn't introduce myself.
Speaker A: I'm not sure. I think we might have talked before, but I couldn't swear to it.
Speaker B: Yeah, I believe we had. I think we got like three, four, five of us were chatting with Paul and you and myself and a couple other guys.
Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, so the store's already there. It's going to be running. It's just going to be a personnel change.
Speaker B: Yes. An ownership change. Yeah. And we'll see some personnel changes in there as well, I'm sure. But we'll also do our best to get it clean and more and more.
Speaker A: So is there going to be any downtime or is it going to be a. You're going to move in and start making changes while you're still operational.
Speaker B: We're going to hit it on the run. I don't anticipate any downtime. We should be able to get everything turned around while we're operating and just kind of keep it trucking.
Speaker A: Well, that's probably best for you. You don't want to interrupt the Customer expect they, you know, want to go down to the store and they don't want to find it closed.
Speaker B: It is pretty hard to make money that way. I will say that. Comment?
Speaker A: Go ahead. Comment. Hey Steve. Hey Chris. Ko6bgy Paul in Caloosa. Thanks for taking that store over. At last time I went in there to eat I got sick and I hadn't gone back in over a year. So I heard a rumor that it was going to be under new ownership.
Speaker B: So it's good to hear that a
Speaker A: level headed person is going to have it. So with that I'm going to go ahead and back out get something to eat. It's been a long day. You guys take care and I'll probably hear you guys on here sometime soon. Ko6bty7 3 to both.
Speaker B: All right, my friend. Yeah, we'll well take ownership on the 1st of February so give us a little time to get turned around. We should be able to feed you without making you sick.
Speaker A: I was going to say that you probably need to call Paul and let him know that it's okay now he can come down and get something to eat.
Speaker B: Yeah, that was. Been kind of listening around to see if Paul was on the air because I know we've been kind of. It's been just a madhouse trying to get everything set up here. We're buying equipment, we've got stuff, it's going into storage and you know, that first day we're going to be just going in there and just cranking it flat out and changing equipment around and doing all kinds of stuff. But. So that's going to be pretty crazy. But I, I've spoken to Paul for quite some time and I knew he was in Calusa so I was kind of hoping to get in touch with him about what was going on.
Speaker A: Okay, you're going to continue to with the store up in Corning also.
Speaker B: Yeah, we'll hold on to that too. We've got pretty good crew in there and I think, I think, I think we can get them both going and go keep them both going. So. All right.
Speaker A: The start of an empire.
Speaker B: My wife and I were talking the other day. She started laughing. She goes, my God, we're a chain.
Speaker A: I like it. I like it. Sure. Every chain starts with. While every chain starts with one link. But you know, that's pretty good. I like that.
Speaker B: Yeah, maybe, maybe they'll offer us more. You just never know. But they, they've been taking pretty good care of us on this deal so hopefully everything will work out for the best for everybody. And we're looking forward to bringing something back to the city that got everybody ready to. That's all part of it, too. So it's. Yeah, you're going into it, make some cash. You hope. But, you know, I look at that and just a lot of memories in that place for a lot of different people.
Speaker A: Yeah. And, you know, you run it right and the customers are really happy. There'll be more than happy to come back and to tell everybody else about it.
Speaker B: Most of us just kind of making it happen, you know, can't bring them in at gunpoint or anything like that. But, you know, you get it going and you, you talk to your customers, find out what they want, you bring what they're after. And that's what, that's what a business is all about. It's just providing a service that people want. So that's, that's the key. So you just got to find out what that button is.
Speaker A: Comment? Go ahead.
Speaker B: Comment.
Speaker A: Kk66syv I missed the beginning of the conversation. What store are you bringing back?
Speaker B: Well, we're going to be taking possession of the jackpot in Colusa.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Just wasn't sure what it was.
Speaker A: Missed that part of the conversation.
Speaker B: Thanks.
Speaker A: KK6SYB on the side.
Speaker B: Glad to share it. Glad to share it. Hopefully it'll work out for everybody.
Speaker A: So you're gonna bring some of those specialty olives down with you from Corning.
Speaker B: Well, now there's something I hadn't thought of. What are you looking for in a way, especially olives?
Speaker A: Oh, I don't know. All I know is if I want, you know, an olive that's different than your run of the mill tomato stuffed, green or black olive that, you know, I either have to go to Winters or Corning to get it.
Speaker B: Yeah, we have seen an olive or two up that way. My goodness. They've got so many different ways to prepare them. It's. Yeah, that can be pretty fetching. But there's nothing to say. We couldn't. We're in a bootleg service and bring that stuff across the border into Caloosa, you know?
Speaker A: Yes, yes. Yeah, I actually like, I like the garlic stuffed and I actually like the pickled garlic. And when I was in Egypt, it's funny, we had this, what we'd call the 711 because it was kind of a convenience store for them over there. They had carrot stuffed green on them.
Speaker B: That actually sounds pretty interesting. There's a lot of different things you can do with carrots to prepare them and Then them in the olives.
Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, ask me the last time I've gone into a store with, you know, all that different. It's been years since I've been to, you know, either place to investigate the olives. But I, I like variety. I like new things. So, you know, what is it? I think I've same blue cheese stuffed olives. Green olives, I think.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, they're amazing too. If they're done right, they're Being in Corning makes it easy for us. I mean, you can go in and just do olive tasting and just go through the different things that they do. And yeah, we're, we're a big fan of the blue cheese stuffed olives.
Speaker A: W E Z A X N repeater. Yeah. So it's, it might be worth your while to consider bringing something like that in maybe.
Speaker B: Yeah, we might have to take a look and see what we can do with that. We know a couple of the growers down there and the ones that package them and put them together so maybe we can figure something out with them.
Speaker A: Well, and knowing that they're closer than Corning, I might go over to Calusa to get some.
Speaker B: There you go. It's not a bad jog. Actually. We've been driving back to Yuba City. We had to run out and pick some stuff up. We're back in Caloosa now, but we pulled our RV up here. That gives us a place to flop and I'm sure we're probably going to need it from time to time. So we set it up here. We'll see what happens.
Speaker A: That sounds like a good solution to, to a need there. So hey, I'm at my destination, so I'm going to drop off. I'm going to say hey, nice, nice chatting with you. I hope to hear you some more and to hear progress what's going on over there. So take care and we'll talk to you later. Whiskey Foxtrot 3 Echo, this is KK6ZZD. Chris 73.
Speaker B: All right, Chris, great talking to you. Yeah, we were, we're just pulling into our place now, so we kind of got home in different places together. So. That sounds good. We'll look forward to it. And I should be getting a radio set up inside the store once I, once I get in there because I've got one of my Corning locations. So we'll, we'll pop a two meter in, in there so we can chat. So we'll catch you later. Whiskey Pucks, Re Echo. We're cleared.

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Kk6vzd mobile w e6a x m repeater. Nothing like a black olive sandwich. Love it. I heard you talking about olives earlier. WA1 nerd black olive sandwich. That's interesting. Sliced or whole, you can get them all cut up in a can or it doesn't make any difference. You can buy them and break them up yourself. Little mayonnaise. Oh, yeah. Okay, that's a new one on me. But you know what? I wouldn't mind trying it. How about ever have a mufalada? What? No espanol. I'm not sure where that is. It's mufa Lara. It's Cajun from New Orleans. They have a. They have these sub sandwiches, hero sandwiches, and they take these. This green olive relish, you know, all smashed up, and they just smear a whole bunch of it on the bread. So a sub sandwich with olive sauce. Yeah. Well, when it comes to all the different garlic olives and all the stuffed olives and the green olives, I don't much care for them. I'm not a big connoisseur that. But black olives. I've even got my grandkids since they were babies. They used to put one on every finger and, and do the whole ten finger trick with the olives. And they love olives. Oh, man. Well, that's classic. You know, my, my youngest sister, she loved black olives so much that when she was younger, for her birthday, we used to give her a gallon can of titted black olives. She absolutely loved it. Well, I'm not the only one then, huh? Well, yeah, I am a black olive nut. I like spaghetti and I like my olives and spaghetti. And I also like a big bowl of olives sitting in front of me whenever I'm eating a sandwich. I do like olives. Anyway, you really struck me up when you was talking about olives over there. But I didn't hear too much about black olives. Heard about the green ones, but not too much about the black. But now I heard about the gallon can of olives or a jar. Yes. Gallon can. Yeah. I'm not sure. I think you'd have to go to the chef store for those. Yeah, you got to do that. I haven't seen the gallon can. I've seen gallon cans of chili and stuff like that in the big stores that got them. But where are you going tonight? You're headed somewhere? I stopped off at Winco. I had to get a couple of things for a casserole that I want to make, and I didn't have some stuff. So I stopped there. On the way home I ran across this recipe for chicken cordon bleu casserole which has chicken, you know, breast meat in it. And let's see, chicken breast meat, chicken or cream of chicken soup, ham, Swiss cheese and broccoli. And get that all together and throw it in an oven for about 40 minutes and you've got a nice cheesy, you know, chicken casserole. You're killing me, Chris. I love chicken cordon bleu. Yeah, that's one of my dinners I like to have too. Chicken cordon bleu. Heck yeah. You're killing me over here. I just talked to my wife just a little bit ago. She's over doing some shopping at Walmart and Winco and doing a little running around and had to go get a few things and we went out to dinner last night and usually on Thursday night we go to Panda. We have Panda Express. And so I was just sitting here watching a little TV and I was thinking, well, I wonder what she's going to do for dinner tonight. I wonder if she would like to go by and pick up some panda tonight. She had already read my mind. She said as soon as she got done going where she's going, she was going to go buy panda. I didn't even get a chance to tell her. Well, that's very fortunate for you. Does she know your mind? She knows what to order without it without asking you. I, I just, I just. Well, we missed our Thursday night panda because we went out to dinner with my, my daughter and my son in law and so we missed our pandas. So I just figured she just. Well, I don't know, I figured I'd do it. She figured she'd do and we'd have panda tonight. Okay, great. That's great. You know, when my wife did that she could get me anything on there. But you know, you want to know what I really want? It's probably mushroom chicken and string bean beef shroom chicken. Yeah, I get that. Then I mix that up with my, with my chow man and my rice and I mix that up all up together. A little teriyaki sauce and soy sauce. You know, Panda is not Chinese. Not good Chinese food. It's just good food. Oh yeah, yeah, that's great. So yeah, so I guess I better get inside and start cooking because I, I won't be able to have it otherwise. So. Hey, it's great talking to you and we'll talk to you later. Have a great evening, David. Enjoy that Panda. 73Jk6BZV clear. We'll do that. Okay. You too. Have a good dinner. See you later. 73 WA1 nerd.

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Speaker A: Yeah. Solar storm, though, you know? Yeah, that'll work on
Speaker B: 80 meters. Not very good. Yeah, I think Dan alluded to that on that little text message from stuff, but, yeah, they work okay for something. I don't know what exactly, but yeah, you'll need to put up a wire antenna.

Yeah, just not. Not for NVIs, which is what he's after. So his takeoff angle is way low. Yeah, I don't know. Yep. So, anyway, I don't think that those JPC 12. I mean, I have one. I have the chevrons, and I take mine out 40 meters. They're not that good either, to be honest. Like, right now, I'm getting into China and Russia and stuff, so I think it just depends on what you're after. So 40 meters. All I can get is from Utah west. That's it. I'm 40. Utah to the west. I've never gotten anything further than pretty much Utah, so I'm 40.

Speaker A: I think it's a great antenna. Just gives my opinion, you know. And when I've used mine out with 100 kronas I don't get very much on 40. So that's just my opinion I guess. And yeah, I'm mostly in the valley so I'm not up there, I don't know, 20, 500ft or more either, so that might make a difference. But I think if you compare it to on 40 and 80 and you compare it to a wire antenna and you know on 40 I get a lot more with this off center fed way more than I get with that little vertical. And on the 80 meters NVIs you don't have to be very high. It can be literally 20ft off the ground. Mine is. And I can be heard within a few hundred miles on 80 meters.
Speaker B: Maybe it's not great, but I could be heard. Oh yeah, I gave him my report. Yeah, he was,
Speaker A: you know, about 5, 5 or I think it was 10 over here in Chico on that. And my, I had, I had an S9 Noise 4 so it was like a solar storm going on.

Yeah, I think both you guys sound great this morning. And Blake doesn't usually come in as good as he is, so I'm not hearing any pulsing, but, you know, I don't know what my squelch level is or anything either, so can't say.

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Speaker A: Well I just got 8 report FT8 and then that's bad than yesterday morning.
Speaker B: Yesterday morning 40 meters was garbage. Yeah Next Saturday so if
Speaker A: the weather holds out it's looking like it might the GARS group will be down there at the Blackfoot Lake kind of that same place we were except not all the way that in just by the restroom area probably like around 7 o' clock to. I doubt I'll be. I won't be there till 8 probably and think you can start doing field Day until 11. So anyway yeah Winterfield and then the gears group later on in the afternoon is going to be over there in Oroville probably at the FOOTHILL no the Thermalito 4 may whatever over there. Yeah that's what they're going to be in the afternoon now they're starting too late if you ask but they're both podocytes right So a person could you know ex me on the winter field day and just do poda one or they can do both. So anyway which is probably what I'll do somehow or another. You know operate. Operate for GARS for a while and then do maybe my own thing for a little bit too. We'll see.
Speaker B: We'll see. I don't know. You guys don't want to have any fun.
Speaker A: I'm thinking about going out this morning. I haven't decided yet. It's still turn if you need to decide anything like that and the problem too cold right now so maybe
Speaker B: I'll wait until this afternoon later. Yeah that's cool.
Speaker A: Yeah I've got lots of work to do around the house here this weekend really so I just haven't decided but I mean it is really hard to not do something with the kind of weather we've been having. You know last week or so gotta get out yesterday I mean I was in my T shirt I mean working it was 65 degrees KN6MGK.

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Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2516 with the release date of Friday, January 16, 2026 to follow in 54321. The following is a QST US Financial Traders Review their call to use the HF band RF noise grounds flights in Greece and California Hams have extra large plans for Winter Field Day. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report number 2516 comes your way right now from around the world. This is Newsline, Amateur Radio's first Independent all the Air News and Bulletin Service. Now reporting from Charleston, West Virginia, here's Jim Dameron, NATMW in our top story, a group representing seven financial trading firms is pressing the U.S. federal Communications Commission to respond to their petition submitted almost three years ago asking for permanent allocation of HF frequencies for data transmission. Kent Peterson, KC0ZTY, has those details. The Shortwave Modernization Coalition is pressing the FCC for an answer to its petition, which was filed in the spring of 2023. The group is seeking the authorization to transmit all the bands between 2 MHz and 25 MHz under Part 90 of the FCC rules. A number of the bands being sought either include or are adjacent to amateur radio bands. The coalition's original filing drew substantial opposition from amateur radio operators and Varl, citing the potential for interference, the ARRL said. In 2024, the IARU's monitoring system detected what was believed to be HF trading interference on the amateur portion of 20 meters. The US Coast Guard also objected to the petition, saying additional traffic would raise noise floors for everyone. Last year, three of the firms were given FCC approval as experimental licensees. They were prohibited from charging fees or receiving payments for anything related to their on the air operations. The coalition believes that granting permanency will solidify their status in business and will not create interference as feared because the technology exists to locate open channels. This is Kent Petersen, KC0DGY. Noise on the frequency is one bothersome enough when you're attempting to contact a much wanted DX, but noise on frequencies used by commercial aircraft can shut commercial airspace down, as it did earlier this month in Greece. Graham Kemp, VK4BB, has that report. Flights into Greece were temporarily grounded, delayed or diverted this month after.

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Speaker A: Hey, Mel, good morning. How are you doing out there?
Speaker B: Just proved this morning that we've got at least a 77. 0 variation between the onsite temperatures and the outdoors. 9 degrees this morning with a moderate window.
Speaker A: Oh my. Yeah, that's cold. Yeah, we've been. That's about 56 now. We've been pushing in the upper 60s here lately. It's another little bit of a warm streak and pretty, pretty pleasant. No clouds in the sky, light breeze.
Speaker B: So it looks like it's going to
Speaker A: be a good day. I checked the cameras up on Angel Peak yesterday and pretty much the snow that we got a week or two ago is all gone. So it's definitely an unusual winter for us.
Speaker C: It doesn't sound like it's the kind
Speaker B: that you want to complain about, that's for sure.
Speaker C: A little bursting the snow this morning,
Speaker B: just enough to accumulate in the cracks in the sidewalk and stuff like that.
Speaker C: And it's been that way for about the last week.
Speaker B: We had two to three flurries of snow, but nothing seemed. But the temperatures dropped. We held them in early 1950s last week and just overnight they crashed.
Speaker A: Okay, very good, very good. Hey, do you remember back in the day we had forgot his call sign? Larry Dorn and some and Mrn. You remember him back in the. Probably the 90s or something?
Speaker C: You know, I don't remember the call
Speaker B: sign, but I remember the name. That was about the same period in the night that you were president. Is that accurate?
Speaker A: May have been. Anyways, the point of it is he's up on the system again via All Star, linked up through him, through Ken Kne and some of the other guys back in Oregon. I think it was back when we were linked to them temporarily. And I think it's call sign. He's 84 lD now or something. He lives in Alabama, just south of Huntsville. Anyways, I had been talking to him off and on and he was connected to our node direct yesterday. We had a nice discussion. So, yeah, he's still with us. Like I said, he got married again and remarried and his wife has family in Alabama. So he moved out there. He's all connected up. So it's just, it's wonderful. We have these IP connections we can use. I know a lot of folks say it's not real radio, but whatever, it's still, it's still nice to have that to get folks that kind of move out of the RF footprint, so to speak. So can call back and stay in touch. But anyways, you might hear him on, on the system off and on.
Speaker B: Okay. If you're still active in radio, he's probably running with Gene by now. Gene Simmons or Sparks moved into Warner Robins, which is south of where you described.
Speaker C: When I was a kid, my father
Speaker B: was stationed over and Montgomery for a while and then down at Warner Robins Air Force Base, which is what Gene takes advantage of with his retirement.
Speaker C: That one. Ham radio is
Speaker B: pretty highly active in ham radio, especially for the skywarn and the hurricanes and such.
Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, I would imagine it would be nice to talk about it. Yeah. I forgot the name of the city. It's a smaller city just south of Huntsville. It says it's about maybe a 20 to 30 minute drive from the airport. And you know, I go to Huntsville several times a year, so next time I head down there, I'll make a point of meeting up with them. Anyway, like I said, it's cool to be able to make those, Reconnect those old friends.
Speaker C: I think we were just taking a
Speaker B: driving tour down the east coast of Florida and stopped off and saw one
Speaker C: of our former members there.
Speaker B: I think he's passed away. In fact, I don't remember the name off him. We stopped him for hour or so to visit with him and his wife in central Florida. It's good to stay in touch if you're still around that street. I'm on echolenc right now on the, on the phone.
Speaker C: Your quality coming through here, just pray.
Speaker B: Perfect. Of course you're on All Star.
Speaker C: How's mine going the other way?
Speaker B: On echoing.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm on. I'm on angel right now and I'm heading over to the other side of town. Your, your audio's. Yeah, it's not that good. So it's very compressed, which is typical for Echo link, but it's got some raspiness to it. Hard, almost like the mic games too high or something. But your deviation's fine. It's kind of raspy, kind of like you would. Like you would sound if you're a little bit off frequency, which of course isn't the case, but that kind of artifact.
Speaker C: Okay. I tried this so much before I
Speaker B: was on a computer. In fact, that's what I used at last week's check in for Wednesday and it's to my ear that's worse than what I'm on right now. I checked this with the test server this morning and it doesn't sound all that bad. I'll take a closer look at it and see if I can tweak the audio back down. I do recall Having set this one pretty high so I'm not surprised.
Speaker A: Yeah, I mean maybe that's maybe, just maybe it's just compressed. I thought you said you were. Did you ever get that open spot working on All Star?
Speaker B: That was going to take some work and I just now got around to playing with radios again like you've always said. He's doing a whole lot better but looks like I'm going to have to re register. I probably mentioned that before I had All Star in California and when I tried it here after logging into the house network, the WI fi, it just wasn't connecting. It was giving me connection errors. Yeah, I did mention that to you because I was talking about having two re register because they might have had a purge somewhere along the line
Speaker C: or
Speaker B: California was, let's see, three, four, four or five years ago. I guess we were still living down there maybe five to six years.
Speaker C: But I still find the bullet once
Speaker B: I get there fixed up and put
Speaker C: it on the
Speaker B: Nike M1K E. That
Speaker C: way I stick out the audio tweaking.
Speaker B: It's. It has a lot of breath noise. Breathing noise and I think there's a way to roll that off. I'll look into that here shortly.
Speaker C: So what else is new here? I guess I was just getting there
Speaker B: count the climbs for the week in my permanent and certainly I don't have
Speaker C: any reason to go out in the
Speaker B: 90 day weather with the windshield too. So I think that's going to be about it for the day here.
Speaker C: Let's see I'm on I so I'll
Speaker B: say M17MB this is K6 River.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, very good. Yeah I was looking at my stuff a few weeks ago. It's amazing how well everything is performing in the markets but you know, good times, bad times, definitely, definitely amazing on some of the returns but we'll see a lot of unrest obviously and I fear a lot more coming globally so I'm not sure what that's going to do. I saw that a lot of the foreign markets are really, really outpacing the US So I've been watching that pretty closely. I'm sure you've been doing the same.
Speaker B: Get on and everything up
Speaker C: well, 2025
Speaker B: and really good year. But
Speaker C: if I was to go into
Speaker B: that field I wouldn't touch it with a pearl. Fortunately I didn't do anything and it went way up in 2025.
Speaker C: But with the gut feeling that I
Speaker B: got about the situations in general both here in the States and other countries, it's just not a comfort period.
Speaker A: Yeah, no, I'm rolling way back. I talked to my guy a week or so ago. We're going to start to divest some of that. With things getting ready to do what I think they're going to do. It's going to be a bad time to be over there. So anyways. All right, Mel, well, I'll let you go. I gotta stop here, get some gas and then gotta work on my mom and stuff when I go see her. So I will be around. Good to chat. But yeah, it'll be great when you get that open spot working. I think that'll really improve your experience immensely. I use echo link a little bit when I travel, but actually not even anymore since I got TV switched on my device that seems to work fairly well. Anyways, hi to Lori and have a good day out there. Stay warm.
Speaker D: And seven C and D Vegas.
Speaker C: Okay. One other thought.
Speaker B: If you get some time in front of a computer, take a look at
Speaker C: the Crew 11
Speaker B: re entry from the space station.
Speaker C: I'm sure one of the four crew
Speaker B: members that came some kind of illness and they decided to cut that trip short by two weeks.
Speaker C: So anyhow, they came down Wednesday morning
Speaker B: probably what time it was probably 12:30am in the night, your time in the Pacific.
Speaker C: And I reentry those in an arc
Speaker B: over Kensucka, the Ocean Islands and Anzani and west coast and my off of San Diego. Well, the channel I was watching had on actually came in on all of the NASA feeds. But when I was watching the drug shoots popped out, which was a nice thing to have. And just maybe 30 seconds after they popped out, initially on the infrared camera that was on a WD57 like it
Speaker C: usually do, they were tracking it all
Speaker B: the way down, just a heat signature.
Speaker C: And suddenly in the back of the
Speaker B: capsule in the drag chute was a cruise ship.
Speaker C: It was part of the Princess, a
Speaker B: Royal Princess cruise ship that would have
Speaker C: been the only one in the area.
Speaker B: On the way back to San Pedro,
Speaker C: I had a bunch of reactions to that.
Speaker B: The first one was why is my
Speaker C: cruise ship and the night flying off
Speaker B: when there's no cruise on? It gave the impression that the ship and the both ships cruise ship and the spaceship seemed like they were too close.
Speaker C: It's probably just an illusion. But soon I think I went back and checked the retailers and the different
Speaker B: feeds like from NASA and Space.com and they all showed it and it generated essentially zero activity on the web.
Speaker C: Composure started building up and a lot
Speaker B: of people asking the same question.
Speaker C: Well, was the coastal or where was
Speaker B: the crew, cat or ship cap, who should have known about that. It's worth looking at. It's really interesting the first time is
Speaker C: it came on and said, oh, don't worry about it.
Speaker B: That's just the recovery ship for the. For.
Speaker C: It was very poorly.
Speaker B: Not the recovery ship, it was a cruise ship. And I moved it off on Princess website and there it was. And it looked identical to a heat signature.
Speaker A: Yeah, no, I, I haven't been tracking that. A sick astronaut, so I didn't know about that. But that's interesting. Yeah, that's. That's funny. I'll have to. I'll have to get on YouTube or whatever, check that out later. So, yeah, thanks. Thanks for the tip. That's going to be. That's going to be cool to watch. All right, 73 mil N17,
Speaker D: N7tmd. Just a quick one.kn12.
Speaker A: Kn2r, I think it was. Go ahead.
Speaker D: Yeah, just a quick one. You know that X SpaceX, they showed that whole landing. Never saw that ship in the X recording anyway. Yeah, you mentioned something about those.
Speaker A: You had a comment about the weather,
Speaker D: something about the weather there. Something not normal. I missed part of that too. What was the issue you're going
Speaker B: to.
Speaker A: I kind of mentioned that we were unusually warm. We love all the snow at our repeater site. We got the storm moved in a couple weeks ago, a week or two ago, whatever.
Speaker D: It was
Speaker A: quite a bit of snow up there. And now it's been Fairly in the upper 60s, 70. And I was checking our cameras, one of our radio sites, as a matter of fact, the site I'm talking to right now, and pretty much no snow up there. Is that what you were talking about? Yeah.
Speaker D: I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I noticed recently there's news come out that the administration is cracking down and trying to eliminate all this weather seeding, you know, cloud seeding and weather manipulation of all kinds through office.
Speaker A: They want to get rid of it.
Speaker D: And all 50 states. I'm in Florida and as you know,
Speaker A: we get a lot of crazy weather
Speaker D: here that we haven't seen in 50 or 100 years.
Speaker A: You know, the past.
Speaker D: And all of it, really, mostly
Speaker A: the
Speaker D: past five years, it was really bad. I'm just wondering, you know, I've seen those chemtrails over my area here in southwest Florida. They look like giant Tic Tac gold boards.
Speaker A: Gigantic.
Speaker D: And we got farms just to the east of me. Why are they messing with the weather if that's what they're doing with these chemtrails in Florida. I mean it's flat here, you know, we got so much water. It's, you know, Florida, especially south Florida, there's water everywhere.
Speaker A: Yeah, I don't, I can't really speak that I'm having tracking that kind of stuff. We don't see that here in southern Nevada, but we could certainly use some of that.
Speaker D: We have been in a drought situation
Speaker A: here for I would at least 25 years. I moved to the part of town I've been now in 2001 and we were starting to drought then with lake heat starting to go down in water
Speaker D: and it's been continuously downwards since then.
Speaker A: Maybe every now and then a little bit of a spike, but it goes right back down. So it's been terrible here. Of course they're still building houses like crazy, which is obviously money driven. But we've got nothing this year. Very dry winter. I know the Rockies are dry, which where we get our water from the Colorado. So we can use some of that seeding stuff, I guess. Yeah.
Speaker D: Well part of the stuff that I've been reading that they're finding is they're doing it more out west, causing the rain to dump which if they didn't do it would have reached you. Do you see that rain would have reached you if they didn't have a dump west of you.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Get it. Yeah. But I mean Caleb, you know, are you implying that's the reason that they've had all those atmospheric rivers and stuff nailing California lately? Well, I don't know, I.
Speaker D: You know, are they seething out there in the ocean?
Speaker A: I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker D: They're probably were doing it in the Gulf, you know, brewing it on the west coast here which they did a
Speaker A: good job of and then it going
Speaker D: up as you know, into the Carolinas period or did apple melton or something. Yeah, I think it's a good thing if they get rid of that stuff and just let us go back to a natural ecosystem, planet weather, just let it go natural. I think natural's the way to go. Don't mess with it. Anyway, it's all crazy stuff, isn't it?
Speaker A: Yeah. I can't disagree. Let Mother Nature take its course. Right. Okay, well I got to get out of here.

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Speaker A: Hello there.
Speaker B: Hey john. How you.
Speaker A: In the flesh? NR7G. Good morning. What are you up to today? Headed home from the gym?
Speaker B: No, I hit the gym around 6 o' clock this morning.
Speaker A: Good day.
Speaker B: Got out of the way, ran by my mom's place to check her mail and fill up a pool and now I'm going to nurse her in the hospital.
Speaker A: Oh no, I didn't know she's in the hospital.
Speaker B: Yeah, she's been there for several days. Try to find out when they're going to move her over to rehab. Not sure yet. So it's a whole thing with that medical bureaucracy.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: So doing that. A beautiful day out, man. Not a cloud in the sky. It's already 60 degrees. I think we're heading towards 70.
Speaker A: Yeah. I don't understand standard. I usually wait till the end of January to trim my road bushes. But I think I'm going to have to do it pretty soon. I don't want to start out thinking spring or something. So, you know, I usually cut them back for the kings, you know, in January. Just encourages, you know, March, end of February, beginning of March, start leaving out like that. So anyway, all right, well, good job taking care of the pool and all that. We're having a 50th birthday party for a friend of ours at church tomorrow. Surprise party, so trying to get the house all kind of touches for that. Had a church party here last night, so the house. House is already pretty. Pretty squared away. There a couple more things we got to do before this party tomorrow. And I got to spend a couple hours write a lesson for a church thing I'm doing on Tuesday night. I just want to get it done now because I know it's going to be a crazy weekend, so why not just get it taken care of now, right?
Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Got a busy few days ahead of you. Yeah, good deal.
Speaker A: Good deal.
Speaker B: Yeah, like I said, got Monday off, so not sure what I'm gonna do yet.
Speaker A: Probably end up having to be self
Speaker B: with my mom again. And I've had a trip scheduled for next week or week after next. I guess that got canceled. So they're going to be around for a while.
Speaker A: I was supposed to go to 10
Speaker B: walking for some design reviews and things got pushed to the right, which that's fine. I wasn't looking forward to it anyway. So the only, really only real direct way to get down there is through South Forest Airlines and I hate those guys.
Speaker A: So I was just gonna take a
Speaker B: car and drive down. But anyways, yeah, other than that I talked to Mel a little bit before he was back. They're really, really cold. Just barely above zero. He was telling me something about, I guess they recovered some astronauts from the space station that was sick or something or whatever. They, they had some video online of the, of the landing and I guess the way the camera angles was the, the spacecraft came right over the top of a cruise ship. They were trying to figure out what a cruise ship was doing that in the ascension path of an air of a spacecraft. So I guess that's kind of a thing on the Internet. I'll get on YouTube later, take a look at it.
Speaker A: That's funny. Did the thing land in a splash down and was that the capsule or did it land and On a Runway somewhere? How does it, how's that go? And that's crazy. A cruise ship and everything. Wow, go figure.
Speaker B: I guess it was like a Princess Cruise Line or something. I'll have to watch the video later, you know. Well, the space shuttle's out of service, has been for a while. Of course. I would imagine the only way they have recovered is some kind of a splash landing. But pretty cool. The way he described it was kind of funny. Like I wonder if, I wonder if the cruise ship knew it was coming, right? Maybe they told everybody, hey, get on deck.
Speaker A: You gotta see if you see a
Speaker B: re entry burn or something like that. Pretty cool.
Speaker A: Yeah, hopefully. I mean was. Wasn't in danger of like striking the cruise ship, was it?
Speaker B: No, from the way Mel described it, no. It was just matter of I guess whatever, whatever sensors they had or whatever cameras they had recording it just looked like it was. They were right overhead. Maybe it was. Maybe it was like just a perspective. The angle and the ratio or the angle you're looking at for the video or whatever. You know, I can play, play tricks. But anyway, he described it kind of in passing as we finished up our conversation. So I was going to make a point of checking it out later.
Speaker A: Nice. Nice. Well, yeah, I think hopefully a week from tomorrow I'm going to be headed up to Spring Creek to take some electrical supplies up there, see if we can get some work done. So we'll hopefully that's going to materialize and start on that project starting Monday after the next one. And I'm pretty excited about that. So we'll see to find out if it's going to happen or not. I'm going to try and I only got three weeks at work, I mean three days at work this coming up week. So I try not to blast through as much stuff as Possible just to, you know, get everything in a place where I can leave for a couple days. I got a RFP out on the street this past Thursday, a couple days ago, so timing evaluation meetings and everything so that they won't occur. Well, that thing can be still on the street even by the time I get back. So anyways, just juggling to make sure, you know, that there's no deadline gone. That's the hardest part about the job. You know how it is.
Speaker B: Yeah. You mentioned you're gonna head up there and do a bunch of electrical work, so that's exciting, getting close. I'm sure excited. And, you know, you talked about a couple, three years away that'll be here before you know it. You know, time flies as well as I do, so. Still trying to figure out what I
Speaker A: learned over the next couple of years,
Speaker B: but, yeah, sounds cool. And I think you said you were going to hold on to your place here in Vegas, right?
Speaker A: Yeah, I think so. I mean, but I don't know, eventually maybe we may dump that five acres up in Mojave County, Arizona. I sold the land. Did pretty good on the sale of the land in Wyoming. So using that to proceeds and the king fix up the Elko county property. So, you know, it'll all come together. We'll figure it out. I don't know. Maybe I'll hold on to Arizona land. Somebody ever puts water out there, the water district has water about a mile down the mile or a mile and a half down the road. If they ever bring a pipe up for fire hydrants or municipal water out in my area, that'll be a game changer because it's. Right now the water cost me six figures to drill a well. It's not going to spend that kind of money if water was unsaturated, you know, future or whatever. So forget it. So, you know, we'll see.
Speaker B: We'll see what happens. Give it time for all the links to drop.
Speaker A: Send them.
Speaker B: Sandy? Yeah. I've got some land in Naples, Florida that I keep getting. There's something going on big there because I'm getting like text messages and crap from real estate agents, like a couple times a week saying, hey, you know, we're interested in buying your property, blah, blah, blah. So something big is coming, getting ready to go there.
Speaker A: I'll never live there, so it'll just
Speaker B: be a matter of trying to time the sale.
Speaker A: Okay. How big of property is it?
Speaker B: A couple acres.
Speaker A: Yeah, Naples is. Naples is on the Gulf Coast. Right. I've actually never been.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A: It's right on the Gulf Coast.
Speaker B: Pretty. Pretty interesting area. They were going to do some kind of a major something there a while ago. I forgot what it was. I know there's a university and some other things going in. There's some major, major overpasses going in. So something big is happening. Instead of getting all the. All these texts and stuff about selling, so, like talking to Cheryl, it's just a matter of, you know, timing it because definitely not a part of the country I want to live in. You know, Hurricane Cheese and everything else and all the. Whatever, we'll leave it at that. But. So, yeah, it's just a matter of
Speaker A: time to figure out what we want to do and go from there. Well, there you go. All right, man. Well, you have a good rest of your day. I'm going to go get my book. A few hours, two and a half, three hours solid time, no interruption. And Julia and James are out riding mountain bikes of Blue diamond area with this group. So it's a good time for me to get some stuff done without interruption. Get off the ham radio. Distraction wavelength here. 10.7TND from NR7G located.
Speaker B: All right, man. Yeah, take care. Thanks for the shout you got. On the interstate here, head towards the Pooderville N7TMD. Have a good day.

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Speaker B: Foggy Calusa. It's really nice and clear over here in Yuba City. KK6VZD
Speaker A: Morning Chris. Yeah, it's about 44, 45 and foggy is all all good out over here in Calusa. Glad it's cleared up over that way. I might head over that way this weekend. I am stay at home.
Speaker B: Well, I'm going down to Lincoln to My daughter needs help putting away her Christmas decorations or she probably doesn't need help. She wants assistance and company.
Speaker A: Well, the company will be great. So that'll be, that'll be awesome for you to see her and what's going on over there? She all moved in I assume.
Speaker B: Oh for a month and months. Gee, I don't remember when we moved or April I think.
Speaker A: One second. I forgot how to breathe. Take time. Yeah, I vaguely remember that. I just wasn't sure if she had found the permanent spot. I know she has been trying to find one so that's good to hear as well. Yeah, not much going on here. I'm gonna find some movies to watch and do as little as possible for the three day weekend. I assume you guys got that one as well. I assume
Speaker B: that's true.
Speaker A: That's interesting.
Speaker B: Why is there a. There's a countdown timer at one of the intersections in Marysville and it starts at 31, it goes down to zero and then it's just restarting again. Oh, it's not a countdown timer, it's speed. But nobody's going as fast as it
Speaker A: says that we are. Maybe some really, really, really slow radio waves that are going by. Ha ha. Not very funny. But yeah, that's a bit odd and I think implemented. I think that's where just five red light cameras in Chico and Calusa is adding at all points of entry into the county or at least into the city of Calusa and putting in those license plate readers so that way they can check your license plate when you're coming in and out and help track people. If they're trying to find people.
Speaker B: Well, I know they've got. I, I'm pretty sure they have some around here over in the Marysville area. I have no idea about Yuba City
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Speaker B: I don't know how much the law enforcement agencies are using them but I know that I had to put a shortcut on their. They're just off so they get to the website to check them, I think.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sure somebody will misplace that. I can't find it. It's not that you're too worried about it. You're on the way out and they're not utilizing you for your intent purpose and all that. So I wouldn't be too worried about it. But that's kind of funny though that they care even figure out the correct place and portal to go through to review the items, let alone me put them out there and wanting to charge people money for running and stuff, so. But how's the traffic heading out of town over that way? Pretty, pretty south, or is it for the most part?
Speaker B: Oh, it's pretty open. Not bad. Yeah, Very, very light. Going to be interesting to see what it is when I get to Wheatland.
Speaker A: Yeah, it usually gets pretty busy down there, but yeah, I'm using this Quan Shang, blah, blah, blah, whatever model and I don't like it. Just getting a lot of static on my end. Not, not horrendously bad. But if I move in one direction, it kind of cuts out. So this radio is going to go back up on the shelf as a one to possibly get rid of.
Speaker B: Did you just get it recently?
Speaker A: No, I've had it for about a year now and it's really annoying when the battery goes low. It's the only radio I've ever seen where it's low battery and it's really annoying. And it. I swear it goes on. I've left it to see, even though it's kind of hard to do that because it's annoying. But it goes on for like an hour. Low battery, Low battery. I'm like, can you just conserve that battery and let me transmit for another minute or two and we'll call it even. But there's no way to turn that annoying thing off.
Speaker B: Ah, I know I've had one or two radios that have had that on it. I think the Volfungs at one point had that. I don't recall.
Speaker A: But.
Speaker B: But I don't remember. I don't think there was an option to turn it off. But yeah, I haven't had to deal with that recently. Yeah, you know, I kind of like. I've gotten. Of course I buy all sorts of radios and I found that I like. There's a TID radio H3, that's a really nice little compact radio and I like the way feels I like the way it functions. Yeah. So a lot of the times when I'm heading out the door When I'm looking for an AC to grab, I grab that.
Speaker A: Oh man, I forget what's going on. This moisture isn't helping either. But yeah, no, I'll have to look into that. I've heard some pretty good things about kid radios. I've been pleasantly surprised. More over with this Baofeng UV5R mini. I got them in a little neon and they're about as small as like a GMRs little walkie talkie that you get at Walmart. The bubble packs and even with the soft rubber duck antenna from the inside of the house I can almost get full quieting into the repeater. There's only one that has that rubber duck. The rest of them have the large Miguel. But those little radios are nice and it actually has a little grab for the swell. Lets you know it's breaking the squats. Will, I wish it also showed the signal like S reading or whatever. But I digress.
Speaker B: Yes, actually I got a 5R mini also and I like that too for what it is. And it's just a little smaller than the H3. The tit H3. I think the only thing that the MINI has over the H3 is I think the H3 has 200 memory slots and the 5R mini has like 999 memory slots. And I'm not sure that that's such a big deal. They both cost about the same and I've got To look, there's a plus version of the H3 and yeah, it has just a little bit more functionality and it's not that more expensive than just a regular H3. As a matter of fact, they might be the same price. I actually just oopsie timed out so I actually just bought another HD plus and the package contained a 771 antenna and an extra battery and it cost me $40.
Speaker A: WPAXM repeater. Hey, that's a steal. And if it's a great decent radio that works when you want it to and does what you want to do, that just add to the package.
Speaker B: But I was.
Speaker A: I had a jump scare when I opened up these UV5R minis. I don't know, you might have bought yours in a single. Mine came in pack of two and anyway they all as tiny as the smallest box possible and they still crammed a Nagoya 771 for each radio in that box along with the stock rubber duck. So you didn't have to buy. I don't know if it was part of the bundle, but it came with it. And as soon as I opened the lid. It's like one of those little spring snakes that you have in the springle scan and you open it up and it shoots out. Yeah, I had antennas shooting across the kitchen. That was rather pleasant unboxing. We should have filmed that one.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's funny. That's funny. Yeah. You know, the only thing about that is, you know, they all come in with a screw in SMA mounts for the antennas. And I actually prefer I get a SMA to a BNC adapter and I always. I always put one of those on and use BNC mount antennas. So getting an extra antenna along with the radio, you know, if I buy it is kinda. Well, it's kind of unnecessary because I'm not going to use that antenna anyway. I should just bring them to the club meeting and just kind of like, hey, who needs one of these? Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker A: It's kind of funny you mentioned that because I just had a random idea. If you get enough, if people bring enough of those, you can actually have someone on the chunky plastic bit somehow write on there in a professional manner or create a label and put the club's logo or club's logo or club's name or whatever. Instead of having a business pen, you could hand out Nagoya771.
Speaker B: Yeah, that'd be interesting. I wonder, you know, I could see somehow getting that on to some heat shift shrink tubing, you know, that's the right size to put onto those and heat shrink it onto the antennas. That'd be kind of cool.
Speaker A: Yeah, I definitely think so as well. The random things you think of on a Saturday morning. Well, most any days really. Anyway, yeah, it's. Man, this fog is something else. Something else. I can't even see the cemetery that I can usually see right down the street. So. Yeah, it's pretty bad.
Speaker B: Well, I would. This is. Well, I was gonna say maybe it's because you're so close to the river, but you know, I just came over the feather and there was no sign of fog anywhere.
Speaker A: Yeah, I just went to grab my coffee cup out of the car and I turned around real quick and I could actually see the moisture in the air. We do definitely have the river. But yeah, like you said, you went just right over that one. But could also just be a cell that's over this way. I'm gonna go back in the house real quick before I transmit again. I don't want the signal to get dropped.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not sure whether you hear me. So anyway, I was looking at the TID radio website the other day they, they sent out a. They sent out a marketing email and I was like, well, I just bought one, but let me take a look. And they sell a branded, you know, a TID radio branded 771 antenna for $2. I'm looking at that, thinking $2 771s are normally 15 to 20 bucks and they're selling it for two. So let me think about that. So I ordered 15 so I could take them to the club meeting and just kind of like give them up, you know, give them out. Maybe I'll give them to the club president and let her do that.
Speaker A: I switched radios at the Quan Cheng, whatever the name it is was. I caught the last bit of that. Said you got 15. The branded Sequoia. $771 a piece.
Speaker B: $2 a piece. Yes. Now, of course, ordering them from Kid Radio, you have to pay shipping. So that actually ends up costing about $5 a piece. But still, you know, that's a redemption. Ridiculously low price for a 771.
Speaker A: Are these kind of something you have in your possession or have you already ordered them? What's the quality of them? Like, are they unnoticeable from any other 771s that you would get for Waypoint?
Speaker B: Well, now, that's a good question, isn't it? No, I already ordered them. You know, I'm pretty happy with TID Radio products, so I'm kind of trusting that they're selling a quality product.
Speaker A: I would assume. So when you get them, I'm sure you'll be quite pleased with. Yeah, Things come and go, but. Oh, hey, by the way, I had a really good shape with a. The blade that I picked up on Amazon is supposedly amazing.
Speaker B: Wow. You're extremely staticky. And I can. I really can't catch most of what you're saying. I heard something about Amazon. You're still staticky, but not as bad as before.
Speaker A: Okay. I think I switched radios.
Speaker B: You're kind of still kind of on the edge of legibility, but, you know, well. So, hey, you ought to build one of my little key ring antennas and be able to connect that up to your HT while you're in the house. I'll bet that'd help you a lot.
Speaker A: Y' all have to do something different.
Speaker B: Yeah, actually, sometimes I do that. Sometimes I'll take one of my HT's and I'll hook it up to a, you know, a better antenna than just the rubber ducks and it makes a big difference.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's funny. Because it's. I switched radios and it's a. Well, it's got a better antenna on it and I usually get good signal on either one of these. I don't know if it's the fog or whatever, but I'm going to break for one second. I actually have a small mobile little mag mount antenna with coils on it that hooks up to the ht. So I'm going to try that and maybe put that on top of the fridge and see if that helps.
Speaker B: Well, actually now you're quite clear with just a little bit of background static. But yeah, that one. That was much better. That was about, oh, I don't know, 400% better than before.
Speaker A: Okay, well, that's good to know. Hopefully.
Speaker B: I'm not even sure. Oh, I was. You were saying something about. About getting something from Amazon.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I picked up some new safety razor blades. It was a pack of a hundred for 6.99. How's that for those 10 blades? Lawn mower freaking things you get at Sam's club that are $49.99 for 13 like that. Anyway, those blades, I tried one last night and they are amazing. If it's let flatten W E Z A X M receiver.
Speaker B: So you picked up a hundred for 6.99. That's astounding.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Not that I needed any more blades because I probably already have close to a thousand of them little buggers just throughout the years. I just. You can't buy them. You could buy just like a pack of five or 10 and you're gonna pay a lot more because people are parceling them out and throwing them individually. I mean, the most I paid, I think was like 11.99 for 100. It's still not bad.
Speaker B: No, it's not bad. And as long as you can keep them from rusting until you need them, that's pretty good.

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Speaker A: You know, I use the Harry's razor with a five blade cartridge I guess you'd call it. And of course they're quite a bit more expensive per unit than the safety razors. But then again I generally I use them for at least a month. There's sometimes I've used them for like two months before I replaced them. And they're still shaving. Well yeah, I mean I'll be honest,
Speaker B: I did that exact same thing when I had the cartridge. I tried the Harry whatever and yeah, usually you pull that change mouth. Oh there's marketing and that way maybe Buy More. But yeah, you can. I think I've gone as far as almost three months when I was in the army. But anyway, these things turn speed works amazing. And actually they're almost always stainless steel with the coating on it and they're individually wrapped in like wax paper and then inside a cardboard little sleeve. So they don't, I don't get anywhere near moisture but they don't rust. But I do have one set of 100. That's Russia. They're carbon steel. Those that I've actually seen that rust. Right. They use that one once and I throw it away. I'm not even taking any chance on getting rust.
Speaker A: Yeah, carbon steel, you look at them sideways, they start to rust.
Speaker B: Absolutely. But they, they shave good. They shave good. And I've got more than a lifetime just with that pack of 100. Probably because you can use these things resibly multiple times. Some people will be like I used mine 15 times. I'm like no dude, that's too much. I might go two days or if I'm using regularly, two days, three days at most.
Speaker A: Well at 7 cents per blade you can afford to change them out every other day.
Speaker B: Agreed. But yes, ever since I switched over to the safety razors, I haven't gone back to the charger. They use their own whatever works, works. I just like the fact, I mean I got, got the bowl and the brush. I have artisan soap around the world. It's actually a luxury free to be able to do that. To me it's like a little bit of self care.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think I told you. I use a bowl and a brush to get my lather and you know, it takes longer than getting it out of a can. But I actually kind of enjoy the ritual.
Speaker B: Yep, you hit it right on the head. That's where I'm at on works. I actually got this really cool taco bowl. It's got a nice machine on it. Maybe I won't it's a hand poured a little bit bigger in Babylon. Then I also have one that keeps the brush. This is more. It's actually another hobby. So went down the red hole in that because they have a handmade thing from Arizona that you put your hot water in and then it has inner feet and all it does is just a brush warm. I'm like, okay, it's definitely a hobby when you can get one of those.
Speaker A: Yeah. Hey listen, you're getting really, really staticky again and I'm having trouble picking you up. So I'm getting close to Lincoln anyway, so I think I'm gonna just drop to the side and maybe I'll pick you back up on my way back whenever. That will be today. So I hope you have a great day. Hope the fog burns off, but enjoy your three day weekend and we'll talk to you later. 73 KK6VZD.
Speaker B: Clear. All right, Chris, great talking to you as always. Safe travels out there. Yeah, I hope the fog lifts too bgy. I'll be clear 7:30.

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