Transcriptions for 2026-01-28

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Los angeles. Linked up. Wslj653. Radio check. I detected a call sign that sounded like a GMRS call sign. Do you have an amateur radio call sign? No, sir, I do not. I apologize. I thought this was the tmr's channel repeater. Apologies.

David T. Requesting radio check.

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Here pulls a free morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pm at the golden beaver distillery show house at 2420 park avenue. All are welcome to come learn morse code w6 rhc repeater check 2.

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System32, link up. System24, link up.

Kilo November 6th Mike Golf Kilo is mobile, near Lake Oroville.

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Speaker A: Well, if that's you, Mike,
Speaker B: I'm not hearing you.

Pretty quiet repeater. Anyway, hope everyone's having a good evening up here in Northern California. Expecting a little bit of rain this evening, so prepare for that. Maybe sit down and have a nice dinner. This is KN6MGK mobile. Hope everyone has a great day.

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The Gears. Monthly general membership meetings are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue in Chico. Doors open at 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm all are welcome. W6RHC repeater check 2.

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The Gears Net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pm all amateur radio operators are welcome to join in on the net.

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Oscar 6 Kilo Lima Delta monitoring 50, 70.

Gears holds a slow speed Morse code net on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm Frequency of 7.44 plus or minus if the frequency is in use. All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the net WFIC R H C repeater check 1.

719 wp578 copies. A little low volume, but readable. Copy that, Maggie. Thank you much. I again awake from my microphone.

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Says kd6k uo. The gears club net will start in 5 minutes. W6rhc repeater check 2.

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QST. QST, QST. This is KG6 Schedule Lester, located in Bristol Villas, your net control station for the Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society. Now this net we teach. Tuesday evening at 1930 hours, the W6REC will appear for the purpose. The Fellowship of Public Service in Amateur Radio directed them a no transmissions unless invited by your home. Checking in, give your name, your call and uqta. There's any station with emergency or priority driving, please come down. After roll calls complete, we'll have a stop sign, so get your list together. While we're doing the announcements. Are there any announcements for the. 6 Pww? Go ahead, Jimmy. I'd like to remind you all that on Sunday, I believe it's February 1st, we'll have M radio testing for your license exams. So if you're looking to upgrade or if you've got a friend who is getting their license, make sure you let them know. That'll be at the elks Lodge at 2pm in Chico. That is Sunday. The first K and 6 pww back to control. Are there any other announcements? Roll call follows. Kn6pww just checked in. K6est, This is jim. K6est, and I will be in and out tonight. Thank you. All right, jim, I got you kicked in and out. Kg60k. Yo, call it roll. Kf6ncx, this is larry, kf6ncx in chico. And I will be around. Thank you, larry. Kn6mgk, K7, kfs. 86, yellow K. Good evening. This is Kilo Delta 6 Lima. Oscar. Kilo dug up on dry grass growing Nimshu Ridge. Thanks for doing the net. I'll be in and out tonight. Seven three, all. KD6 lok. Hey, Doug. Thank you. I began to think that there was a ball game or something going on. N6D. UK. Good evening. Lantern. Annette Claire's recording just checked me in and out this evening. But I'll be listening SO seven three, all the way around. Have a good night, guys. Thank you. Clearance. KJ6WEX, Kn6pju, this is Dennis, kn6pju, checking in and out. Okay, Dennis, I got you checked in and out. Thank you. JC6 UFC, T6UFE, Bill and Cape. Good evening, and check me in. Put me on a list. Thank you. And you're on the list. W6Js, KB6 CYJ. Yeah, somebody's stepping in on us. This is Tom, W6JS. We'll be hanging around. Thank you very much. KB6 CYJ, AB6 CYJ. Scott. Beautiful downtown Chico. We're checking in and we're not going to be around. Good evening, everybody. Stay warm. Scar got you checked in and out. Thank you. K6 Gabby, good evening. This is great. Casey, Gab and Chico put me down for some comments this evening. Greg, thank you. Kj6wb, Km6k, kwm, Kn6jht. This is KN6JHT, Chris and Chico. Good evening everyone. Check me in and out tonight. Chris, got you checked in and out. Thank you. Ko6kkw, Kn6jl, jlx, Nko6ibu. That's roll as I have it. Do we have any late members? Late members only, please. Ko 6L U M and I'll be checking in now. I'm sorry that you both doubled there. I didn't catch either one of you. This is K7KFS, Kevin and Chico and I'm in and out tonight. Thank you. All right, got you the second one. Ko6l u m, Matt and Chico and I'll be in and out tonight. Okay. They got you kicked in and out too? Yeah. Anyone else? We have any business wish to check in? All right, time for swap segment tip. Anybody have anything they want to sell, trade, want or give away, please come down with your your call sign and your phone number. All right, go ahead. Yeah, this is Greg, K6GAB. I've got a Jew G90 little HF radio with the good tuner. I'm going to sell that with the digital interface box, the DE19 and I'd like to get $350 for that. I've got a couple of other radios for sale there on my website, k6gab.com and if that sounds interest, interesting, my phone is 530-228-9772. Thanks. All right, thank you very much. Anyone else? Okay, well then let's go ahead. Back with the the combo catch back now. KN6PWW, Kg 6 kuos next, I guess. And I don't have anything to say except we're starting to get rain over here and all you guys up in the mountains, I hope you're getting snow. KO6NCX, Larry. Yeah, this is Larry, KF6NCX. Well, it started raining a little while ago. I guess I went into the garage and heard this funny noise, opened the door and it was coming down pretty good. I guess the forecasters did predict something like that. So they were on the money. I had a good radio weekend. Did some Winterfield Day from home which was fun and participated in the CQ Worldwide 160 meter contest for a couple hours and I think I made about 40 cusos which was pretty good for me for 160 and got some, some good distance. Actually worked Hawaii and the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean and got a couple of states on the east coast so, so that was, was pretty good. Also I've been trying my hand at Straight Key Month which is this special event sponsored by the Straight Key Century Club. And it goes has gone all month and I guess it ends on Friday. And I've been trying to get a sweep of all the working someone in each of the 10 call areas had them all except for one and number one area kept eluding me. I checked the Reverse Beacon Network and all. He'd have just gone off the air you know, 10 minutes before or two hours before. But then Monday morning Reverse Beacon Network said he was on 10 meters and I went to where he was supposed to be and there he was good and strong. So I worked him and satisfaction to wrap that up. So that was a fun, fun event. I'll look forward to it next year. Okay, back to you Lester. This is Larry, KF6NCX. All right Larry, you sound like you've been busy. By the way, thank you for mitching. Thank you for mentioning your garage. I need to get up after the net and go close my garage. Bill K of 6kg KC6UFE D6UFE Bill and Cape. Good evening to the group. Had a good weekend too. I did a little winter field day work here at the home qth. Made a few contacts. Listened for Gears out there. Never heard anybody from Gears or Gars. I know they were operating though so. But I did make a quite the Hail Mary into Antarctica that was kind of Fun on the 20 meter band. Got some guys down there, nothing to do but play with radio so I gave him a shout. Not much else, just good evening to everybody. KC6UFE hey Bill, you're always got some interesting context there. Thank you, Jim. Tom W6JS well good evening Lester. This is Tom W6JS Jamie kind of told what what I was going to say but I'm going to add two it the new hamster I call it is coming out in July and it's going to be tougher. So anybody who needs a technician test got to do between now and then because it's going to get tougher. This is Tom W6JS okay Tom, thank you very much. Greg K6 Gabriel hey, just thought I'd have a good time this weekend doing winter Field Day Saturday I had some family stuff in the morning but in the afternoon I Went out to the Gard location at a crizzy flat at Blackfeet Lake, and we had a nice afternoon. And then Sunday morning, I went down and did the Kears Winterfield Day with Chris. We had a nice morning, making some good contacts. Chris was doing pw and I was doing phone. That was a good time. I'm gonna break for a second for. Okay. The other half of my message this evening was I was curious if anybody who's listening has the password for the cures. W6RHC. POTA account. There is an account on the POTA site for W6RHC. And when I was operating, I was operating with the club call sign. So if I want to upload my activity for pota, I need to do it with the club account. So if somebody out there has got the password, if you could let me know and we can coordinate and get my stuff uploaded, that's it for me. All right. This is kg6ko. Does anyone have an answer for you? 6 ncx, go ahead. Hi, Greg. Yeah, I'm the one who set up that account. I'll look around here and see if I can find the password. I hopefully wrote it down somewhere and I'll let you know. Okay, back to you, Lester. All right, thank you. That's the role, and I have it. And that's all. Check back. So do we have anybody wanting to check in or anything they want to talk about before we close? KF6NCX, Go ahead. I'd like to hear a little bit more about Bill's Antarctica Q. So that's. That's pretty interesting. And just as a sidelight, I don't know if what he did has anything to do with this, but I was reading, I was checking the ARRL's list of special events, and they had one coming up. Could have been this week called Antarctic Activity Day or Activity Week, something like that. And I tried to look into it, but couldn't find out anything about it. So, anyway, maybe Bill can elaborate a little bit. That's pretty interesting. Don't hear about people working Antarctica that much. At least I don't. Okay, back to you, Lester. All right, Larry, thank you. Bill, you have anything to add? Sure. KC6UFE. Well, let's see. Their call sign was Lima Zulu 0 Alpha. Bulgarian Antarctica Expedition to a place called South Shetland Islands, which is kind of like the northern tip the of Antarctica, if you can believe that. Anyway, they were just down there shouting CQ and then passing out call signs. So I gave them a response. I think they're still there. I don't know if they're associated with the ARRL project, but, hey, you never know, so. But I think they're still on the air on occasion right now, so you might pick them up. They're on the 20 meter band. So. Back to you, Lester KC6UFE. All right, Bill, thank you. And anyone else with a comment. All right. This concludes the Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society. I'd like to thank everybody who checked in tonight, invite you back next week. This is KD6KUO returning the W6REC to its normal monitoring service. This net's closed at 21-19-46. This is KG6K Yorkler.

Dennis kn6pju checking in and out.

Yeah. Somebody's stepping in on us. This is Tom W6Js, who will be hanging around.

Good evening. This is Greg K6 Gab in Chico. Put me down for some comments this evening.

K6gab. Yeah, this is Greg, K6 Gab. I've got a Chegu G90, a little HF radio with the good tuner. I'm trying to sell that with the digital interface box, the DE19. And I'd like to get $350 for that. I've got a couple of other radios for sale. They're on. My website is k6gab.com and if that sounds interesting, my phone is 530-228-9772. Thanks.

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Speaker A: Good
Speaker B: evening, Lester. This is Tom W6Js. Jamie kind of told what what I were going to say, but I'm going to add to it the new hamster I call it is coming out in July and it's going to be tougher. So anybody who needs a technician tests got to do between now and then because it's going to get tougher. This is Tom
Speaker A: W6Js.
Speaker C: Hey, just thought I'd say I had a good time this weekend doing Winterfield Day. Saturday I had some family stuff in the morning, but in the afternoon I went out to the GARS location out at Grizzly Flat at Black Butte Lake and we had a nice afternoon. And then Sunday morning I went down and did the gears winter field day with Chris. We had a nice morning making some good contacts. Chris was doing CW and I was doing phone. That was a good time. I'm gonna break for a second for the repeater. Okay. The other half of my message this evening was I was curious if anybody who's listening listening has the password for the Gears W6RHC poda account. There is a an account on the POTA site for W6RHC and when I was operating, I was operating with the club's call sign. So if I want to upload my activity for pota, I need to do it with the club account. So if somebody out there has got the password, if you could let me know and we can coordinate and get my stuff uploaded, that's it for me.

Speaker A: 3a k u connected.
Speaker B: W3a ku
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Speaker A: I think six uniform
Speaker B: kilo. Go ahead. This is KT6 talking
Speaker A: to hospital out of repula is. It repeats and I'm out of reps and you get to it, you just might have trouble with a rubber in a car that's moving.

Coffee and I'm on the second meter, so. Coming through. That I'm not.

I'm using a 200 XP dual band with mag mount on the roof for. I think this is, what, 45? Yeah. I'm using Intermobile. Go to work. And I heard you put out a radio check, so I thought. I agree.

Yeah. Mobile phase. If you look up 511 system mora, that has some local repeaters on it going all the way from Weaverville up to Lakehead. You might be interested in those if you don't already have those. And if you haven't tried it, if you can get a little external antenna out to that HT adapter, it'll probably be even better received on that. I'm not sure how much better campaign will do, but it'll give you better receipts.

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Kg6 kuo, kg6 kuo, this is k6pmt. W6rhc repeater check three. Thank you. I was reading it wasn't much at the time. K6. Ust, QST, QST. This is K6 Kuo opening Sacramento Valley Traffic Net. This net's part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this net is to relay former traffic into and out of Sacramento Valley. And to provide a standard mercy net. This is Encre. Please make no transmission with observation and control. All stations are requested to stay on frequency until it's cues air controls. K6 Kuo, the last located Western Wall. There's any station with Mercy or prior to traffic. Hurry. Are there any station where traffic to be listed? Kf6 obi, mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. I hope you're feeling better. Kg6 kuo's call it. Rolling. No traffic. Kg16s. Good evening, lester in the group, this is kg6 tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you, bessie. Kf60qy. Good evening, lester. Kf60jy, bruce, chico. No traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you. K6 garcia, K6pm teeth, kilo, echo6, papa, mike, kango, russ and gerber. Good evening. Lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, rush. Thank you and thanks for giving me a heads up. Jt6ufe6ufe, mail incapaya. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww. Kn6pww. This is jamie and chico with no traffic. And good evening, lester and the net. Good evening, jamie. Thank you. All right, Dr. Roll as I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check in. For the traffic? Check in. This is K6KU closing. Check the valley traffic at this deputy. 2100 hours located up to 6 RHA repeater 146. 9. 5 MHz, all space. I like to think they're much detected tonight. And the Golden Empire maturation sites closed at 2104 local time. $73. Kg6ko,ks6djy, Kg 60k. You all. Did you call me? Affirmative. Lester just advised I'll be away from the radio tomorrow night. Yeah, so they should be back on Thursday. All right, not a problem. Thanks for letting me know. Okay, have a Good evening. KF6DJY. All right, you have a good day. KG6K owner.

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86, poc mobile in santa rosa. System 26 link up.

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Los angeles link up. K6lmk system 36, snow mountain range.

Speaker A: K6lnk system 36 snow mountain range.
Speaker B: Sa.
Speaker A: System 29 link check in. This is system 4 link shaft inn. This is system 19 link check in on AC power at 19. This is system 22 link check here.
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Speaker A: This is system 33 lynch champion.
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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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Yeah, it looks like a much warmer day in magalia this morning. 46 degrees and 10% chance of sprinkles. N6NTM Good morning.

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Speaker A: As soon as I said that it went down to 44 n6mtm
Speaker B: magalia good morning.
Speaker C: People get confident overconfident in their ability.
Speaker A: Looks like we took the rain away for today and tomorrow and the next day but another little chance there on Saturday.
Speaker B: I should say Sunday and Monday. Pretty staticky out today. I got that electrical line static 9 inch unit. Now right here. Oh no I'm
Speaker A: thinking about going down there though. I know he's gonna be there no out front of the house. Remember a couple years ago I went up and down the street banging on telephone poles see if I could change. Just goes away by itself in a couple days like static or whatever but still still minus and it I can wind it right away without interfering with anybody. Modulation level stays the same up but the rest since I can spin it right back to one I hardly hear it at all with that VC tune.

Speaker A: I don't know. I run filter 1 next to the blue FM insignia. I don't remember actually it putting it on, but.
Speaker B: I'm seeing four or five S units of noise right here
Speaker A: and nine on the hf.

192 kilters.

Maybe it's moving over a little bit because of the filter.

Speaker A: I just asked John if he
Speaker B: had breakfast or not this morning. Yeah, Well, that's
Speaker A: how the. That's how the VC tune works as well. It moves the sound over to the side. In your case, it looks like it's moving you off frequency a little bit. Yeah, it's a weird way to change the noise level. It's the funny part about it is it's right the center of the noise falls off on both sides of 95. So I can watch the noise move, move off down to about 392, or I should say 992 and you don't hear it, but you're still listening on
Speaker B: 95. Different way to approach it, but anyway.

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I remember seeing it, but I don't recognize the abbreviation.

Speaker A: Hey John, on that 100 delta,
Speaker B: can you. Can you do like FP8 on one side and be listening to a different frequency, even a different band on the other side?
Speaker C: 2 completely different on their own receivers. Yep. You have to pick which one you want to talk on, obviously. So it gives you TX and RX for the sub band and the main band.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's fine. Like let's say obviously FT8 requires that you, if you select on somebody, you need to be, you know, txing at certain points. So let's say you're listening to your guys on, you know, 80 meters on the left. You don't need to be talking to them. If you're just listening like I do sometimes I just listen. Anyway. You could be playing, you could be doing FT8 on the right hand side or something at the same time. That's
Speaker A: all my question. Thank you.
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker A: Yep, good morning. Just lurking, cooking some breakfast
Speaker B: here. K N 6 MGK. Thank you.

Well, I'm guessing. I don't know. I think those other guys would be hearing you. I don't know. I think so. They're a better location than me. Kilo Niner, Kilo Alpha Delta. You're being heard into Chico, California about a five four. Five four. Back to you.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's interesting. So you say Shasta area. Shasta County. What town are you located?

Yeah, I know where Matton is. Yep, used to hunt in the area and do some other things, but. Pretty cool. All right, so just out of curiosity, I know you're hearing me in Chico, and you are kind of positioned where you may not be hearing those guys in Magalia. Were you hearing those Magalia stations who are, by the way, much higher than me?

Yeah. Nice. So I'd be remiss if I'm not asking this, at least what radio are you using and what antenna?

Okay. Well, yeah, those are very good transceivers and a very good combination. I wouldn't be too concerned about the other band 220. Not a whole lot of people are on it. And you know, you'd be giving up something if you get a tri band antenna. However, it's nice to have that in case you wanted to talk to the people a little bit more privately or whatever, because a lot less people, as you know, are probably on the 220 band. Though many hams still have equipment, many of us still don't, so very nice. Well, you've got some good equipment there. It's nice to hear you. You might check into some of the repeaters. Have you heard of the Carla system, like System 36, which is located west of Stonyford, But I'm sure you can get into it at frequency 146115? Have you heard of the Carla system.

Okay, Mark. Yeah. Name here is Steve or Steven. Yeah, using a Yaesu FTM 450 watts. Actually a short antenna. It's only about 6DBi gain antenna, but it's a comet, like a, like a GP6, if you're familiar with Comet. So anyway, so not really much, about 24ft off the ground, so not very high. I don't have the best antenna up right now anyway, but yeah, I would encourage you to keep going with it. It's fun. I don't know if you can do hf, but that's even more fun. The other guys there, they love HF too, so that's something to think about. Also another good group if you want to learn some things too. Sounds like you might be tech savvy there a little bit. The Paradise Amateur Radio Society group. They have a website, but two repeaters, one in paradise and one in Magalia. And anyway, you might check that out, go to the website if you want or whatever to get the frequencies. But anyway, a good group of guys, you get out there talking and ask questions even here on Simplex, like the other two gentlemen, you were hearing very intelligent people. So I'm glad to have you in the hobby and good to hear you. I guess at this point I'll say 7 3. Hope to see you down the log though, and don't be a stranger. Kilo, November 6th Mike Golf. Kilo.

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Well, if you're associated with a group in Chico, that's probably Gears Golden Empire. And I was a member of that for like five years. I'm not a member this year. I've also been affiliated with the Glenn Amateur Radio Society, another good group of guys. But the one I mentioned was paradise, because the other gentlemen there were from that area. Paradise amateur radio society pars repeater system is a whiskey 6 papa alpha romeo w6 par. We also have a little mesh network going on too with meshtastic, though I doubt that would be very significant for you. I don't know for sure, but you might be pretty well out of range on that. But you could check into that at some point in time too, if you're interested. But yeah, the ICOM 7300, a very good little transceiver. And yeah, you should have lots of fun with that. Let me think, what else? Off center fed dipole. I'm running one right now. The only negatives I'll say is it could be a little bit noisier than a loop antenna. If you can ever put up a loop antenna or something, that might be a good choice. But anyway, I'm running a 40 meter version of an off center fed dipole. Mine's not the traditional balance. It's like 20%, 80%. You can research those a little bit, you know, changes it to where you can get a little bit different band structure. But off center fed dipoles are very good, very efficient antennas. And last thing I'll say is on the ICOM 7300 is one of the gentlemen there, Jay. He loves that transceiver. I've been using it for quite a few years, so I'm imagining if you have any questions, if you come back out here and ask for him, he'll probably be able to help you kind of donating his intelligence on that. I don't know much about the 7,300, but he runs it quite often anyway. All right, I'll say 73 and move on. There might be somebody else wanting to use the frequency. Kilo November 6th Mike Golf Kilo.

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Well, looks like john already ate n6 ntm.

Speaker A: He had his phone turned down for you. Didn't hear when I called him at six. Well,
Speaker B: Costco Duracell batteries still in the pack. Only used about five or so out of there. And more than half of them got acid coming out
Speaker A: of the bottom. In the hallway. Pretty nice back there.

I left the cardboard on, but it was peeled open. It should have got air, but all the other types of batteries. I don't have any problem with the 9 v or the. Or the AAA's or the D's.

Speaker A: 120. I'm looking at the 150 now. Well, yeah, that's
Speaker B: what I'm. That's what I'm looking at. 800 bucks drops down from the ceiling, motorized.

Oh, it does got wall switches. It's got wall switches right there. I could put a plug up there, but I'm not going to worry about that. You just plug it in when you want to use it and then unplug it. They. They even have a battery model, so. Battery backup model, so. Yeah, And they got three remotes, and one of them you put right on the wall and it. And so it's just on the wall. Just the remote part. My beams run east to west, and that's east to west is the orientation of the screen. So. I could just tie into a 2x4. But that particular model is almost £75.

Speaker A: Okay. If you go to Amazon and you type in electric 150. H2, you can see the one that I'm looking at looks like fiberglass. Yeah. Let me see. Oh, I switched. But anyway, I'm pretty sure that's what it's called. Elect you type in electric 150 H2 and you'll. And you'll see at 809 bucks, the spectrum series, they actually got one that's a little bit cheaper. But this one has pretty good specs.
Speaker B: Yeah. For, for $250
Speaker A: less, you can get a manual pull down one. I just, I just got a little bit of problem on pulling the screen. The tension on the screen on because you're winding the spring up in the retract part. So the electric. And it'll just let it down easily and, and bring it up easily. It seems like it would put less wear on the screen surface.

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The one I just told you about, the first one I looked at, it won't fit. The 150 won't fit. To store it back in the bedroom like the. The 120 is, it gives me about two feet to shut the door. Any bigger won't fit, so. And that's the one with the aluminum stands that you saw? Yeah. I definitely want to hang it from the ceiling.

What was the name the other guy was talking about of the screen?

Speaker A: Oh yeah he's he's loud and clear here. Yeah I'm looking for a little bigger than 10ft myself but I like the 150 inch size diagonal but it's
Speaker B: well
Speaker A: I have to run way down here to see them specs and I I'm not I'm not too happy about there it's only got 1.1 gain too not too happy about their specs deal the the inches it does have pretty good reviews though 72% 5 stars and I don't see oh there's the measurements deal I don't believe their measurements for the 150 142.6 wide and 84
Speaker B: high. And it says £30. I appreciate it I
Speaker A: I have 120 inch one that which is phenomenal but I have a little bit more room so I was thinking about going with that 150 yeah if I send the one I already bought but back I'd only have to add about 300 bucks to it to get the bigger one so I still got about two weeks left I could decide.

Oh, yeah. I said good morning, but same to you on the good day.

Speaker A: I see they sell screens. They're pretty darn cheap. Well, I thought I saw one for 28 bucks. Yeah, 150 inch, $28. That's the one where you put nails or screws up and you know it's got about oh 14, 15, 16, 18 holes all the way around the outside edge. Yeah, that, that, that'd be all right. You put some of that stretchy rope they use on big trucks for tying the tarps down. Yeah, for the garage door, you know. You know, or indoor use for the garage door. Inside or outside if you already had it set up pretty cheap for 150 inches. I'd probably, I'd like to see what a 300 inch screen looks like. You know, the full
Speaker B: ability of the projector. Yeah, I would. Not for, not for in the front room, for out there on the garage like in the summertime or something. On the outside of the garage door. That's the biggest they sell that particular company is 150 inch. So 28 bucks though it's worth a try. So I was looking
Speaker A: at these inflatable models. Pretty mind blowing price wise. Under 200 bucks for 100. Oh, 24ft across and I think nine or ten feet high.
Speaker B: Yeah, it seems like I seen.
Speaker A: I looked at the daylight ones there that Paul was talking about. I'd like to try one of those ones but they're measuring the inflatable part at 100. I'll see if I can make something come up here in the hundred.
Speaker B: 200 inch inflatable, 24ft across. That's the one I looked at this morning.
Speaker A: That's including. It didn't say the viewable area. That was including the inflatable part.

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Yeah. Yep. Get up on a little ladder and on the outsides of the door in the frame so you could put some nice smooth bolts. 269 bucks for a 30 foot blow up model. And once again, they don't say. And that's got a hell of an inflatable part. But it's supposed to be 30ft across. Only says 1080 full HD, not ultra high definition. That's why. That's why I stopped looking at those.

I. I was reading a review where the guy said he finally replaced his first big, big screen. And it was Canvas, if you can believe that. White canvas said, what an improvement the newer stuff is.

PVC fiberglass matte white. Yep. Here's a Nebo 200 inch large screen, 16 by 9 thick canvas material projection screen. 96 bucks for 200 inch.

Speaker A: Maybe one of these days I'll try that
Speaker B: inflatable. 184 bucks for 25ft. Let's go. I have to
Speaker A: go. I have to go there and look at it. Hey, they got a 33 foot one. It's almost too big. Let me see. They make you scroll way down to get the peripheral upgraded design. 25, 33ft back to the park. Isn't not giving me the normal. Oh, here it is. Measurement 253 inches by 159. The screen dimensions are 253.2 inches. So. And it only weighs 14 pounds. That inflatable doesn't say what the measurements, features, specs, additional. Let me see. Manual mounting type 160 degrees. Silk is the very front. It's double layered, so the front one that you're looking at is silk.

Speaker A: Yeah, they're giving it four and a half stars. Haven't read any reviews on them, but they're not making a big deal about
Speaker B: the gain either. 10ft high and 25ft wide.
Speaker A: One of these days I'll order it and just mail it back after I see what it is. But who knows? If it folds up small enough, you might as well just throw that in the garage.

Speaker A: K6lnk system 36 snow mountain range. N6grg36 local.
Speaker B: Kilo Nov 6 Mike Golf kilo Mobile Chico. Hey, Steve.
Speaker A: Yeah, Cal. Fire is doing one of those long talks and I've got that radio on that I have to key it extra times. But you're in there and. Yeah, it's kind of cold. I think the humidity came up.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. And cold here. But we've got some misty light fog, I don't know what you want to call it, because of the rain, you know. So it's visibility half a mile. Somewhere in the 40s, probably mid-40s, I'm going to say. So I've seen colder mornings, but the wetness sure makes you feel that way.
Speaker A: Yeah. Humidity came up enough to be a problem with temperature, but I don't know, I'm thinking maybe it might be gone outside. I don't know if it's going to lift before it lifts other places. It does do that here.
Speaker B: Yeah. It's a day that I wouldn't choose to work outside. Right now. That wife was saying, you're going to go to paradise. I'm sitting here going, now it's all going to be mud there, you know, can't get nothing done. It needs to dry out for a day probably now.
Speaker A: Well, here it wasn't. I don't think it was enough to muddy things up. It was just. It said it was going to be a third of an inch over a little. A little over a third of an inch. But I don't know. I mean, it didn't seem like it was that much. It was coming down kind of steady for a while, but it wasn't real heavy.
Speaker B: Well, you just gotten accustomed to getting an inch.
Speaker A: Yeah. And I did clear out a lot of area, so it makes it seem like it's not as bad.
Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah. Things aren't saturated like they are when it's like a week straight. So, yeah, we're just kind of not used to regular kind of a storm like this. But it's enough to make it so that I don't like to walk around in garden areas and stuff all that. My little boots get full of the dirt and stuff like that. You end up walking around with dirt all over your feet. So no fun. I'd rather just wait a day.
Speaker A: Well, the main thing I have to watch out for is if there's enough mud to muddy up Rudy's feet, that's a problem. I mean, they're hard to. A lot harder to get cleaned up. And it didn't seem that bad this morning,
Speaker B: so.
Speaker A: But yeah, you're right, we are. Both of us are used to a lot more rain. This is pretty short, little wimpy little storm.
Speaker B: Yeah. Now the one thing I would categorize this winter so far has been fog, you know, and that gets pretty tiring. I think you had complained about it one week there. You were tired of it too. So we've had some good days though. So this is like one day right now. Fog is not that big a deal, but yeah, it was one of those things this year I was categorized by the most fog I've seen in a long time.
Speaker A: Well, not to change the subject, but I'm tempted to load up, try to load up KM4ARCK stuff onto a SD card and then get it on to my PI 400. That really worked good. I was really enjoying having that.
Speaker B: Yeah, he calls it like 73 Linux now, right?
Speaker A: Well, he is, he did put out that thing where he wasn't going to do Linux anymore, but I think that's a mistake because it has its places and I think he's pretty much into JS8 and FT8 and nothing runs those programs more, more reliably than, than Linux on a PI or could be on any other computer too.
Speaker B: Yeah, KN6MGK. I think you probably think his videos and the clickbaity kind of titles of all youtubers is a little bit of a grain of salt because I, you know, he's, he's a Linux man. I mean, it's just that maybe when it comes to a field. Field system, you know, where, you know, there's some things that window you may want to do on Windows, like say a firmware's update or maybe you want to run, you know, what's that? Wires X. Wires X, you know, in like one of your transceivers in PDN mode. Well, that requires Windows. So anyway, yeah, there's some things that do. And so then it becomes like, well, I only want to bring one, one mini computer with me, so which one will it be, you know?
Speaker A: Well, I mean you can carry a pie in your back pocket. So I don't know if that's something that he would be worried about. He brings a lot of equipment. Probably more, I would say more than the prepper because the prepper is hiking in with a backpack. But yeah, PIs are really pretty tiny computers. And even that PI 400, you have the whole keyboard but you don't have a screen. So yeah, it does make it. Some would feel it's a little less not just being able to open up a laptop. But laptops aren't generally. Well, he's Prepper's running one of those little tiny laptops. Did you watch that anti. Anti winter field day one? He has
Speaker B: no like 50 minutes long. Yeah, that's like his like third in succession anti field day things. I bet you this is the best one yet. So I'll have to watch it, but it's going to take me a little bit of time to get back to it. I like what the tech prepper does, but some of these things are like the, those little computers. He's still kind of young. He can, you know, you got great eyes so you can see all that little tiny stuff. But heck, anymore I gotta use my phone camera to take pictures of some things so I can explode them and read them. Like the other day taking a light bulb out of my Honda. I had to go to the auto parts store to get one. And I'm sitting here, you know, taking my camera to increase the size of the print on the light bulb so I can buy the right one. Finally I just, you know a nice cute girl there, I hand it to her, I go, hey, I think you probably got better eyes than me. Can you tell me what this says? So anyway, the point is, is that some of those small computers, number one, they're not mobile anymore and they're just not practical for some of us.
Speaker A: Anyway, that's your excuse for not carrying reading glasses is you get to talk to the cute girls and say, well, I forgot my reading glasses. Can you read this for me? Yeah.
Speaker B: Hey, well, there's nothing more sexy than a girl half your age saying, oh, this guy needs reading glasses, I'll be interested in him. I don't think so. Anyway, my glasses have reading glasses built in. They're progressives. Doesn't mean they do worth a dang for the most part. Actually. Probably need a new prescription soon. Probably needed one last year. Anyway. Point being that I doubt she cares much about me just doing her job, you know what I'm saying? So anyway, but I got that job done. I just try to make the point that a lot of times these things using like these little small computers that you can't hardly read, it's pretty tough. I already have a tough enough time. I think mine's a 14 inch laptop. I can't go any smaller than that.
Speaker A: When you're as good looking as I am, you really gotta be careful with stuff like that because they want to move in with you. But Anyway, just kidding of course. And I, I do feel that, well, oh, I wanted to mention one thing that I actually had that place, Riverside, that as far as I'm concerned they do the worst optum. Optometric work of any place I've ever seen. I mean they were not giving me the correct and I often wondered, well, are they doing this intentionally? But they weren't giving me the correct numbers and they refused to give me a prescription without me paying an extra $50. So I thought, well, you know, this is awfully strange that I'm getting the wrong numbers from these guys. But they actually said that they would
Speaker B: give me a
Speaker A: cataract operation and not change my, my prescription and I'd still be near sighted in that eye because I told him, you know, I really like see, they, they call what I'm doing mono vision and I'm doing it intentionally. I have mono vision where I have one that's a far sighted eye and one's a near sighted eye because I got the far sides of the lens and the right eye.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't understand what you said. So I thought for a moment there you were unhappy with them and then next thing you know you were talking about something that sounded more positive. So I don't know, I mean, but Costco has an optometrist. Walmart has an optometrist. Anyway, I go to Chico Eye center and it's a pretty big place. And yeah, they give me my prescription when I walk out the door and I don't buy any glasses from them. I did back in the day, but they wanted three to four hundred dollars every time I went in there, there for a set of glasses. So stopped doing that and started going to Costco where you can buy one, get the next one for 70 bucks or something like that. I mean it was always that way. Good deal at Costco for glasses.
Speaker A: Well, the reason I just get numbers from Riverside rather than paying two or three hundred dollars is Zenny has the best glasses you can buy for the least money. Z E N N I. And I've ordered them for years from them. And I'm still wearing a pair of zeni glasses right now because I looked through my old glasses and I found the right prescription, something really close. I do need to go to an optometrist like you're saying. Now here's the deal. When you have Medicare, you're older like I am and you have Medicare, then you're given a free prescription once every two years. Well, I found that when I went to see Them. It's a mixed. A mixed attitude towards Riverside. They did a lot of good things for me. But they have that one court. One court where you have to pay the extra 50 to get a prescription. And that's always, you know, kind of bugging. And a lot the stuff they were doing, I didn't think I really needed all that stuff. Maybe it would catch something that I didn't know was going on. But no, I didn't. They never told me I had any problems. And they do 50 billion tests and charge the government for all those tests. So, yeah, it's a mixed. A mixed thing with them. But I. I like. If I don't have any other problems, I like a good prescription so I can order my lenses and be done. And I used to get that from the one that would take care of the problem I developed. After they did the. That was called Shasta Eye, I developed a problem that was at a different name and you had to use laser surgery. And they refused to do the laser surgery where. Where Riverside went ahead and did the river Surg. The laser surgery right off. They did it quickly because they knew I needed it.
Speaker B: Yeah, Well, I long for the day where they tell me that'd be good for some sort of surgery to fix my eyes, but they haven't done so yet. So I don't know. But it sounds good that you're getting that done and getting your eyes taken care of anyway. That's a good thing. Yep. I think you said something about having a problem with your foot. Does that get any better?
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. No, it's not getting. Going to get better without a sur. Without surgery. Have you ever asked them directly if you have cataracts?
Speaker B: Oh, I don't need to ask that question. Yeah, I got cataracts. That's not a problem. Yeah, that's not the issue with my eyes. So that's one issue. I mean, my eyes are about. He usually says that they're about 10 years older than I am, you know, in terms of how they. How he sees other patients. So definitely have cataracts building in, but that's not the problem. They can fix cataracts, but still going to be wearing glasses anyway. It's mostly just that my prescription changes so frequently too. Anyway. Other issues like central service retinopathy that I had before that put a big blister on the back of my eye essentially and cut off the vision on part of it, so. And never fully recovered.
Speaker A: Well, I have what they call a hole in the back of my eye and I don't know how it got
Speaker B: there,
Speaker A: but it's not, it's in the eye that I believe it's in the eye that has the lens put on and cataracts removed and the lens put on. So combination of things that I had that other weird problem that has a strange name. I can't remember what it is. It's like these globs of stuff in cornea that they had to burn out with a laser. But now my right eye is just pretty nice. I walk around without glasses a lot because of that. And yet I can read close with my left eye so I can, you know, have a little tiny cell phone screen and read it. But the thing, the reason I ask you that question, have you ever asked and how bad are they? Maybe or something that, yeah, obviously they told you you've got cataracts is that night vision thing. That is the symptoms that you're describing is cataract. Cataracts will affect night vision more than any other eye problem.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. No, I'm not surprised. Yep. Also because it's my left eye that does all the work. You know, I get tired, you know, she's 10, 11 o' clock at night a lot of times. You know, by then my eyes are all fuzzy, you know, because my eyes are tired, I need some sleep, you know, stuff like that. It had to work all day long to do the work of two eyes.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, I worry a little with that night vision thing. You know, if you're trying to drive at night and you have bad enough cataracts, you won't see crap.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't quite think they're there yet, but I purposely get off the road. Like last night I left about a half hour early. I was expecting some rain. I didn't hit no rain. Had to get some gas. So anyway, I was home by like 5:30. So try to get off the road before it gets dark if I can. When I get home, like, you know, I actually have something. My wife says, hey, do you want to go over here, there? And I'm like, nope, I'm done. I'm in. So. And when I pull up to the driveway and park the vehicle and everything, I unload and I'm done for the night and no reason to go anywhere else.
Speaker A: Yeah. And Riverside claims that my eye that had the lens from shaft to eye, one thing that shaft I did do right was they, they did the job well. And, and I have a 0.5 and I think it's 0.5 to the far sided end maybe. But I'm not sure. Could be the near side. I don't know. Point five.

Speaker A: Fun to Fun to browse anyway. You can only imagine. Nobody complained
Speaker B: about the inflatable. The fan. This fan is pretty quiet. It it's going to only be five feet away from the screen out the back. I watched a video of them inflating
Speaker A: it. Yeah, that was Steve. But I already turned the linear and everything off, so I won't bother. But the other way the
Speaker B: other day I did do that with a hundred watts back when I was before I put the ALS 600 in there and almost nobody was believing that I was talking to him. When I turned it down to 10 watts and they could still hear me, I don't think anybody was. I didn't get anybody saying that's pretty good for 5 watts or 10 watts. Whatever it was, no comment is as good as not believing.

I don't know who those people are. There was the other net there where you checked in. And people all over the world. Whoever could hear you, was giving you signal. Check. That was a great way to test an antenna.

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All these next storms are headed north of us. Too bad. We might be done with winter rain, but we've had snow in March, so guess we'll just have to find out.

You know, I guess I better get dressed. Oh, yeah. Looks like we're gonna have some sun poking out here in a minute.

Speaker A: Yeah. I didn't particularly want to go down there and do electrical but I know he went and bought a bunch of stuff for the overhead do. The backbone of the two of the shops are in line. I could put one long wire and three boxes in there to put the twist wire lugs inside of. I told them if you're gonna go that far I would just go ahead and put a couple plugs in three different spots along. So you could just plug in lights in case you
Speaker B: got to replace any. It'd be interesting to see what
Speaker A: he bought. So. Yep. Otherwise might as well just. Well you'd have to put up six boxes if you ran the plugs right out to where the light is. Still got to get up on a big ass ladder to get up to the top of the ceiling. But if he put plugs in he'd be able to put any kind of light he wanted to up there later.

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Oh, yeah. He put a bunch of them overhead lights inside his house around ones he just push up into the sheetrock. I seen the little pin setups. That's okay. LED don't have no current, so.

Speaker A: He's got six 10 foot fluorescents in there. He was thinking about leaving those and he put three LEDs down the middle of the number two bay. And that's like I have in the garage, but I put one at the front door and two at the back just to make sure when the hood was open, I and the toolbox and all that stuff's along the back wall. Two of them work good. He isn't quite as high as me, so he's thinking about putting three smaller ones on the left and right side and the three big ones like mine down the middle. Yeah. Now that's going to increase the boxes to nine, probably duplex setups, you know, plugs per.
Speaker B: Get on it. Otherwise I'll go to fall asleep.
Speaker A: N6 ntm.

Speaker A: And on that, that eye. So it's so close to being perfect that you know, I don't have to worry about it. But the cataracts so far on my left eye aren't bad enough I don't think. Although like I said, chef die, they want the money. So they said oh yeah, we'll do that operation and give you near sighted vision just like you want. That was kind of cool. But anyway. So I suppose where are you heading today? Are you, are you doing Paradise?
Speaker B: Well, I've already stopped in the parking lot of Panera where I'm gonna go inside and get me some tea there in just a minute. But hang around here for an hour or so so we'll decide from there. I'm not going to Paradise. It's probably going to be all dirty, muddy and I'm not going to Yankee Hill or nothing. Maybe tomorrow we'll go there. But anyway, yeah, Friday, probably be working up in paradise then maybe Friday, Saturday, we'll see. Got a lot of gardening stuff to do so yeah, I'll just go back home and do some stuff around the house. Got seeds, oil on the truck here. It keeps telling me change the oil soon so better get, get to doing that. Got the stuff at home so. But we'll see if the sun comes do that today.
Speaker A: Well, I did find my infrared measurement temperature measurement goody and it works. So I am going to check out my engine. I. It's such a strange deal though with that. I don't know what to think with that. I suppose it could be all clogged up that radiator but so strange. But you know, I'm gonna do an analyzing situation with the temperature measurement goody and see what I, what I think after I see what I have there.
Speaker B: No, I thought you got all that cleared up. I thought you drained it all out, put new in and all that stuff already.
Speaker A: Well I, I did get the job done. You know, I did everything you're supposed to do but I don't feel that, that it actually was able to unplug it. And that's after doing the cleaning solution which is, you know, it's not a, not a very cleaning solution in my opinion. That flesh stuff, I don't think it's very acidic. I think even vinegar might have done a better job but I'm not going to do it over again because I did it two or three times so. And I'm just not happy with the result. And I do think my heater is flowing, you know my, my car heater though.
Speaker B: Yep. But, I mean, what's the indicator? You think that the radiator is clogged because when you drained it, you didn't get very much out, or what was it that makes you think that?
Speaker A: Well, it goes back to temperature. I have a temperature number right on my, you know, my dash, and it is not going up like it used to.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, but that could be something wrong with the gauge or something too. Right. So, yeah, yeah, he's got the right plan, I think, with your infrared temperature thing to check it. But they do have other thermometers you can put right in the radiator, too, so. But yeah, yeah, I just. I just don't trust gauges, especially older vehicles, you know, not that the gauge was bad, it's just that it's an older vehicle, you know, so. Temperature sensor or the gauge itself? You know,
Speaker A: I was just going to tell you I think the electrical is the first to go, but then I remembered what happened with my neighbor when we had that big flood down on the 273. And he's the guy that just. He just loves going to town. I mean, that's. That's what. I don't think he would do it if he didn't love it. And he just loved going to town. That's the only thing I can say. I mean, he goes to town more than almost Way, way more than I do. That's for sure. Pretty much every day. And on that day, well, the next morning,
Speaker B: he couldn't start it.
Speaker A: He had his son and a couple other guys that live there go out, out. And one of them. I heard one of them saying that this vehicle is dead. It is dead. So he. Obviously it was. It was a small Chevy, like a small suv, kind of a looking thing. And. And he had to have. He had to have the tow truck company come out and they came out with his big, huge vehicle right after that big storm and got stuck in his driveway. I mean, it was all they could do to get unstuck so they could load up his little Chevy.
Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, it's just like that temperature sensor that probably in the box somewhere, you know, you could probably find it and pull that out and clean it and put it back into it, thinking. But yeah, obviously it would drain the coolant. So that's a problem there. But I've seen that happen before, too, where the temperature sensor itself is messed up. Yeah.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. There's a chance. You know, in fact, one of the sensors I wanted to eliminate. Well, not eliminate. I want to double up on It. I wanted to have the original. Original temperature. Oil sensor. Temperature sensor in the vehicle. And I wanted to have a. Well, now actually is the pressure is what I'm worried about. So I want to put a pressure. And I'm not sure if I have a dash pressure sensor or not. I'm not sure. I think I do, but I wanted to. I don't believe that pressure sensor at all. So I wanted to put completely different pressure sensor system. And I have it. I just need to do it.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I've seen people put, especially on diesels, all kinds of different gauges in addition to whatever the factory installed on them. The anyway they have that truck long enough, you're going to buy some vehicle that's electric or something like that. Right. So you can drive up and down the freeway and not have to buy gas.
Speaker A: I do that with my E bike. Did you know that they might have made a change where they start trying to tell people you can't go over 20? I'm not positive about that, but I do know that I rode my bike over to the water department, my E bike over the water department, pay the bill, and building was closed, locked up tight as a drum. Everybody was out to lunch. And the guy that takes the money ran outside, unlocked everything and ran outside and said, well, come on in. And I was surprised. And then come to find out the reason he did that, I think was that he has an E bike. But we were talking about E bikes and he says, well, mine won't go over 20 years ago, 28. What did you modify? And I didn't modify anything that was at the time. That was what was legal. So I don't know. They're telling him 20 is legal.
Speaker B: Yeah, I would have no idea. I think you told me about that the other day. So I don't know. I made a comment this night, commenting that if I was on any of those E bikes, there'd only go 10.
Speaker A: Well, I didn't catch that. Are you afraid of. Well, do you ride regular bicycles?
Speaker B: I have, but, you know, it's because I'm twice your weight.
Speaker A: I mean, you didn't like I lived on a bike. Maybe you didn't actually live on a bike as you were being raised. See, I had four younger brothers and a mom that was extremely busy and she didn't want to take us to town at all. And so she says, you know, you guys want to go fishing down at the docks? You got her ride your bikes there. And that was 15 miles round trip just to go fishing.
Speaker B: Yeah, No, I wouldn't say I lived on a bike, but definitely rode lots of bikes as I was growing up. In middle school it was pretty far away, up some hills in Napa there to the, to the, to the middle school. I rode my bike every day except for maybe a rain day. So that was like a 10 speed at the time. I'd go over to his house, we lived maybe a quarter mile away and we'd watch some cartoons. Then we'd leave, I don't know, maybe seven in the morning or something like that from his place and ride our bikes to school. That was probably like a, I don't know, 20, 30 minute ride or something like that. And then back home too. So did that quite a bit growing up. But yeah, in college too because I didn't want to park at campus, didn't want to pay for the bills. So I'd ride, you know, a couple miles into campus, maybe three, four miles into campus every day and then ride home. But yeah, at some point in time that got kind of old. And so yeah, I've been enjoying the four wheels instead of the two.
Speaker A: Well see we, after riding bicycles and pushing bicycles through the woods, through the redwoods and making you know, 20 mile round trips through the woods, my dad got a Honda 55 and so we started. All of his brothers started working on way into motorcycles. And my first one was a Suzuki 125 that had a thing called a quick Change. I rode that, that motorcycle all over the 299, way out to the river and all over the place and up into the Cherney Alps. And you name it, I was everywhere on that thing. From Eureka all the way past Cherni Lake and into the Trinity Alps.
Speaker B: It was crazy.
Speaker A: But my last motorcycle was, and I still own it, a Suzuki 350. The problem with that bike is it's so tall. I've kind of, I've read a few things where they say you can lower it, but it's so tall and for somebody that's five, nine, you can't touch the ground. If you stop, you cannot put your feet out and touch the ground. It might be about right for you though. And other than that, that was. Man, that bike would go anywhere. And I rode it up on Chef's Folly.
Speaker B: Alrighty, well, I'm gonna head on inside. Been sitting in my truck. Getting cold now, so we'll chat with you later. Guessing that net must been have been pretty fast this morning. Ladder just didn't join them. But I'm gonna go ahead and get inside and grab me a hot drink and kick back by the fake fire for half hour, 45 minutes at least. I'll say 7, 3kn, 6mgk.
Speaker A: Well, get yourself a really sexy pair of expensive sunglasses. And then you'll have to. You'll have to tell that gal you're married when she starts flirting with you. All right, Talk to you later. Nvs trg.

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Revere's net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pm. W6 rhc repeater check 3.

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The gears. Monthly informal breakfast is held on the second Saturday of the month at 9am at the Farmer's Skillet, located at 690 Rio Lindo Avenue, Chico. All are welcome to attend.

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The Gears. Monthly general membership meetings are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue in Chico. Doors open at 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm all are welcome. W6RHC repeater check 3.

N60rg mobile in anderson. I'm on local if you're trying to reach me, N60RZ.

Was there somebody out there? N6grg local. Heading westerly on a country road near Anderson. N6GRG.

Speaker A: And 6kne and 6kne and 6grg 36 link.
Speaker B: Hey, Mike, what's going on? N6 kne here. Oh, not much.
Speaker A: How are you doing?
Speaker B: I'm just funny you ask. I was just going through Tom's allstarlink.org account, rearranging things so it looks better on the Supermod. The, the All Starlink page is changed. It did some kind of a massive update and they changed a lot of things.
Speaker A: The only thing they allow you to
Speaker B: put in the call sign box is your call sign. And I was trying to use system numbers. They won't let me do that anymore. Now I gotta go call sign. And then down on the, down at the frequency box I use the system number. So it's easy to. It's easy to see when you're looking at supermodel.
Speaker A: Well, that's too bad. It was nice to have all the extra information and hopefully they don't just figure that's an interim rewrite and then they're going to do it again and then you'll have to do your job again.
Speaker B: Well, it's just nice looking at Supermon and seeing exactly what everything is, you know, so if there is something missing, you'll. You'll catch it right away. I'm just trying to make it more user friendly. When you're looking at it, you know, what's going on with you? How's the temperature up there?
Speaker A: I've called it false spring. You know, it's a little warmer than normal. Some of the trees are blossoming that are probably going to get killed by frost. Which we had one the other day that was 28. So it's going to happen.
Speaker B: Okay, I don't remember. Do you have any fruit trees?
Speaker A: Do I have any what with me?
Speaker B: Fruit trees? Do you have any fruit trees? Fruit?
Speaker A: Well, I'm down to one pear tree and one lemon tree. Not a lot.
Speaker B: Oh, all right. My gardener is here right now. We got, we got a big mess with, With, Yeah, that mangoes. We got a big mess with mangoes. We got mangoes there up in the yard, all over the place. I need to go out there every morning and pick them up and I don't. If I don't, they rot out quick and the bugs get in them, the birds get in them, the insects get in, the animals get in them. They just make a big mess out there. I need to go out there every morning and pick them up. There's so many of them.
Speaker A: Well, you should be juicing them. The mango juice is awesome.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, no doubt. So how's the, how's the search going for new property?
Speaker A: I'm not even close to starting that. All my plans are, you know, I'll be surprised if everything works out if I do everything. You know, I'm getting up there in age, so I do think about that. But right now what I'm trying to do is at least make it possible or just possible to sell it because this one building that's on it was why it was so hard to sell in the beginning and why I got it so inexpensively.
Speaker B: Well, in about 10 minutes or so, if you're in the house, pull up, pull up one of the supermodel Carter super mines and it should look a little better. I think I'll be done here in a couple minutes. Yeah. So let's see. 54, 7. Oak Hill. Oak Hill is 67, right?
Speaker A: Did you say Oak Hill? I guess that's what they call that little thing.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's system seven, I think, isn't it? Yep.
Speaker A: System.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah.
Speaker A: So anyways,
Speaker B: in a few minutes take a look at the supermon and you'll see what I. You'll see what. I'm in the middle of changing.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think I left my computer on at home. I shouldn't have to boot it.
Speaker B: You probably have to hit the refresh button just to refresh it because things have changed since the last time you looked at it.
Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know that I have that tab still up and operational. I'll be refreshing it when I just click on it. Yeah, you wouldn't believe all the little roads around here. And I'm on another back road now called Olive. It's so narrow. You really have to. I have to get off the, off the road there. Live a car by.
Speaker B: Well, we've got plenty of sunshine here now, but there are some monsoon looking clouds off to our south and I do hear thunder every once in a while. So that's. It's always fun.
Speaker A: Well, one interesting, that thing that happened. We have TDS here, but you called Happy Valley phone company and the, The people, what is. That? Regulate everything for the state. I called them because I thought their rates were a little high when I first got here. And they said, well, we don't regulate small phone companies like that. Well, you know, they were purchased by tds. So TDS is one of the top, top four big ones. So. But anyway, they put fiber in. They put fiber in down my street and my neighbor went to get it and they ran into some kind of a Problem the day they were supposed to install it. And I have a suspicion that it's a level problem at that particular box or something like that because nobody else was on that bus. Before it was over, they had five TDS trucks there. They were all over the place.
Speaker B: Oh, all right, well, I'm happy to see that they finally fix my, my fiber optics. They changed some DHS stuff somewhere. They changed some equipment somewhere. Now my Internet is much, much better.
Speaker A: My IP address
Speaker B: stays static.
Speaker A: Well, I didn't actually talk to these guys. I don't know enough about fiber optics to know. I figured, well, I probably wouldn't understand what they're telling me anyway because language, you know, they use language that doesn't make sense. So I didn't ask them. But if I were to guess it would be a level problem. Like wherever they sample off of that line, they take a sample of the light and they run a single fiber optic line all the way into the house. I guess you know that.
Speaker B: Yep, that's what I have. Just a single, a single fiber optic line and I can have. I don't remember what the guy told me. I can have several, several modems on that one fiber optic line. Yeah, of course, we only need one now. When they, when I was having problems, they came with a tester and they plugged the fiber optic line right into the tester. And this tester was able to read the code, you know, to verify the account number and to verify, you know, a good, a good clean signal and pretty cool. Just, you know, it was just reading the reading the little laser light coming to the. Coming through the cable or coming through the fiber optic.
Speaker A: Well, the guy got so flustered, he took off and went to talk to some of the other guys and was just walking Rudy and I walked down because I noticed that the box was still off, off, you know, right next to the pole. But it was still. Hadn't been put back on its cover to cover everything. And
Speaker B: I was shocked.
Speaker A: There were two fiber optic missions meters there. They're probably like 500 bucks a piece. You know, knowing the commercial stuff, they were just laying on the ground there. Nobody around,
Speaker B: Huh? Yeah, that was dumb, huh? I bet they're worth a lot more than $500. That's that fiber optic testing stuff as we're. I bet that's very costly. All right, well, I'm checking updates here on the supermom, but it's not coming over yet. So it's all starlink.org they may have to do some kind of a. Okie dokie before they. Before they let that stuff pass or some. Some update may have to occur every hour on the hour or something, I don't know. Anyway, so, yeah, when you take a look at it, hopefully it'll be there. Okay, I gotta run to the next room real quick. I'll be right back. N6 Katie.
Speaker A: All right. Good to talk to you. Yeah, the. The meters, you know, I mean, somebody who was stealing wouldn't have any use for them. He wouldn't know what to do with them. But they're just stop these people from taking stuff like that. They just steal because they can. That's their only criteria. All right, talk to you later. Interest drg.

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Speaker A: Km6zol. Can I get a signal tech, please?
Speaker B: You are doing just fine. Good audio and good signal. N6 kne.
Speaker A: Thank you. N6 kne.
Speaker B: What's your Qch? I'm down here in Colombia, South America. Chenalta.
Speaker C: Chenalta, Colombia?
Speaker A: Are you serious? South America?
Speaker B: Wow. I'm in Lafayette, California.
Speaker A: That's incredible. I've never gotten anybody in South America ever.
Speaker B: Wow. Yeah, I'm a transplant from Northern California. I've been down here a little over a year now. Retired.
Speaker A: Oh, you retired in South America.
Speaker B: Must be a good deal there.
Speaker A: How do you.
Speaker B: Where are you exactly again? I'm in a small little town called Chinata.
Speaker C: Chinata, Colombia.
Speaker B: It's in the East Andes of Colombia and about an hour and a half drive south of Bogota.
Speaker A: Yeah, my aunt used to live in Bogota. She died, but very young. She was like the first Alzheimer's case in history. She was like 32 and she died, but her husband was in textiles in Bogota, so. Yeah. So they really liked it there.
Speaker B: Yeah, I like it. What I like the most, of course, is the weather. And everything's green. It's currently 82 degrees. We got some thunderstorms blowing in, which is a daily occurrence this time of year.
Speaker A: It's like 52 degrees here. California's been cold this winter. It's been like every day in the 40s and 50s.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've been watching this cold front moving around. California is not getting it too terrible.
Speaker C: But
Speaker B: I know Texas, Louisiana, Florida and of course the whole west coast there. They're going to get hit again here very soon. Super cold weather, You know.
Speaker A: Like I believe 80 million people are affected by this cold front going through. No one's talking about global warming anymore. He said it's global freezing.
Speaker C: People are all out to lunch.
Speaker A: Anyway. That's really interesting. Okay, really good talking to you.
Speaker B: You're first.
Speaker A: Km6.0 be on the side.
Speaker B: Okay, good talking to you. You stay warm. Ken here. N6 knee.
Speaker C: We're freezing our butt top here.
Speaker A: I think you said mlv. Where were you located?
Speaker B: Sorry, I started double with you. Go ahead, try it again.
Speaker A: An MLP station is something where you're located.
Speaker B: He's so cold. He froze. He can't talk now.
Speaker C: N6 mpt system 12 link up. Are you still there? Ab4lb?
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm still here. How you doing there, lb?
Speaker A: Kind of doing good.
Speaker B: It's cold here.
Speaker C: Today wasn't that bad. It was in the 20s when we got up and it was 43. Just a little bit ago was like 30, 38, 37. But the other day, man, we woke up to ice and did not go anywhere. We stayed put. A lot of crazy people out there. There was like 15 accidents on overpasses and bridges and all that stuff, so it was pretty crazy. But it's getting cold at night, and this coming weekend, it's gonna get down in the teens again, maybe single digits. So it's been pretty cold.
Speaker B: Copy that. Well, I don't ever want anybody to think that I'm bragging, but, yeah, you know where I am. All right. Yeah. Over to. Over to you, sir. Tom, what time do you.
Speaker A: Or when.
Speaker B: When did you finally get back home from SoCal? Well, hello, Ken.
Speaker C: I don't know.
Speaker B: I think it was Saturday afternoon or
Speaker C: late afternoon or something and pretty much
Speaker B: crashed and went to the sleep and
Speaker C: the rest is kind of blurry.
Speaker B: Back to work Monday, so, you know, lots of fun, but seems like things
Speaker C: are working so far.
Speaker B: Yeah. Yep. So far, so good. Well, don't give up on getting that port opened up. You know, it's always nice to be able to go in there and look for errors or issues and make adjustments
Speaker C: and updates and all that good stuff.
Speaker B: All right, I'll say hello to lb. I gotta get back to what I'm doing and. Good to hear you guys. Ken here. Nice warm. Now I'm bragging.
Speaker A: Sorry.
Speaker B: Now I'm bragging. Nice warm.
Speaker C: Genota, Columbia.
Speaker B: And yeah, you guys, you guys stay warm.
Speaker C: That's okay.
Speaker B: When we're warm, you may be cold.
Speaker C: So we'll take that into advisement.
Speaker B: And yeah, the one thing that would be nice to get through figured out
Speaker C: is that DTMS muting, where that's happening,
Speaker B: maybe it's happening at multiple points along
Speaker C: the way or something, you know, but if we can control things via DTMs, that will help as well. So I don't know if we need to talk to experts or something like that that know what's going on or you already have, or we're in a stalemate or whatever.
Speaker B: Well, there is definitely some learning that I need to do. This type of stuff is kind of new to me. Sometime we need to. Maybe you and I can have a phone conversation that'll help me. Help me know where to look and how to look for the solution. Ralph. RALPH is also looking for the solution.
Speaker C: Well, there's got to be an answer out there somewhere because, like, you know, people got to do this all the
Speaker B: time, but it seems like it's inherently set to huge somewhere along the line,
Speaker C: you know, so that there's only control
Speaker B: of all Star type devices, but nothing past them.
Speaker C: Or maybe nothing past the last one or something, I'm not quite sure. But the answer has to be out there somewhere, because it's not, you know, rocket science or anything.
Speaker B: But anyhow, that'll give us some basic
Speaker C: telemetry and control over the controller, which we'll need to do.
Speaker B: And yeah, I'll have to give a
Speaker C: little bit more time before I start
Speaker B: poking about the other thing, because I
Speaker C: know the person down there was super busy with extra stuff, so. But we'll work on it.
Speaker B: And Jeff supposedly is feeling sick and
Speaker C: kind of out of commission, so if he hasn't got back to you a little soon here.
Speaker B: All right, I'll let you go.
Speaker C: We'll stay in touch. Talk to you later. I am 6 MPC.
Speaker B: Okay, relisting. You guys take care. And 6K, any.

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Speaker A: So
Speaker B: I can grab you up, show you that little piece. I want to show
Speaker A: you
Speaker B: that little.
Speaker A: I found. I took a picture of me actually. But I'm pretty sure
Speaker C: I. What they use that for? Sure.
Speaker B: It's got this real heavy duty plastic thing you can see through. It's real thick. And it's got a spring trap door on it that you put over.
Speaker A: And it picks up the shoes. It turns on some blue
Speaker B: lights inside the dome. And I don't know if it transmits a signal, but it driving along,
Speaker A: Gotta look for the pole. And then I think that thing, You know.
Speaker B: Yeah. Does all those things, it just hangs up there. Yeah.
Speaker A: Really heavy duty.
Speaker C: They just leave it up there.

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Speaker A: K 0qg test 02k 0qg.
Speaker B: Wow. That's some kind of call. That's exciting. Reach
Speaker C: P.
Speaker B: Thank you for the roses.
Speaker A: I'm coming down the hill, through the canyons in the Mesquite, so it's kind of choppy and noisy. I'm surprised I'm this close, but yet so far away. King0QG.
Speaker C: Oh, man. Good call. And, yeah, you know what? You have a really good signal. And I'm not gonna stand this the way guys do. Right. His signal is perfect. Loud, good, good audio. Just the way I.
Speaker A: Well, thank you so much. Yeah. I'm on a handheld in a portable headed down here to Mesquite, and we'll be in the area over the next day or two. Well, at least until tomorrow. 873Thank you for the comeback. K0QG kilowatt 0 Quebec Golf standing by.
Speaker C: Get your name. Pete here. Papa. Echo, Tango Echo. And you're on a handheld. Oh, my gosh, man, you must be some kind of super ham or something. You sound good. Anyway, talk at you later. K0QG N6I T in Chico.
Speaker A: It's bill. We talk again. K0q3,
Speaker C: Roger.

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