Transcriptions for 2026-02-05

Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of sac Valley's original 105 W6 GRC with a PL tone of 110.9.

On battery at 20.

System 2.

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W e6a x m repeater.

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Here's holds a free Morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come learn Morse code W6R, H, C repeater check one.

Los angeles link up. K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Speaker A: Ready. Link up. That should have been the link up on system 25.
Speaker B: There's actually system 20 test in. Thanks. BRG. Going out to beat the critters. N6trg.
Speaker A: And testing on
Speaker B: 36. Just in case my test on 20 didn't go through. And 60 GRG.
Speaker A: N6 mike, victor, tango or
Speaker B: any of the other characters down there. N6grg.
Speaker A: Okay, this is trg going out to feed
Speaker B: critters n60prg. Clear.

Kk6bzb mobile w e6axm repeater.

Kk6syv mobile. Good evening, Lester. How you doing? I'm doing fine. Well, good. Nice sunny afternoon and I've got 39 work days left. Congratulations. I'm stuck here in the light at 99 and 20 and then I gotta turn around and go back to Camp Casalupe. Cuz the wife just called me after I came to a stop and said, hey, why don't you go back and get us Casal for a day? Okay. Well, you know, I think that's worth a detour. Yeah, I just was stuck in where I couldn't turn, so now I got to go all the way up to Queens to get off to go back around and whatever. No hurry. Oh yeah. So. So what are you gonna get? What's one of your favorites from them? Chili Verde super burrito. That one that you have to hand hold with both hands. Yeah. Or eat it with a. With a fork. Does sound good. I think I'm all right though, for having eat for eating out. I went to a Thai restaurant over in Marysville today that satisfied my. For the day. I don't even think I'm gonna need dinner. Yeah, it doesn't really sound like it. Well, gee, I had to get up on my roof last weekend and get cleaned out the gutters. Oh boy. And get rid of. I have had some leaves sitting in my roof since like November. Yeah, it takes a little bit to get all that cleaned up. Yeah, it's been, I guess, probably a month now. I went up on one of the hams in my, you know, near my home. Anyway, I don't know if I already told you about that one, but he had two towers on his. And one of them collapsed on the roof. So I got that one down and then had to go up and safely take the second one down because it's. He's not a silent key, but he's in a dementia state, a home in Kansas, so he's not going to be back. So they wanted to. Wanted them all taken down. Oh yeah. So you. You're going to get one to put up in your yard, right? Yeah, I got them both at my. My other property. Now one of them, like I said, that was collapsed and caved over. So I think I'm gonna have to cut that one down to the straight sections that weren't bent and then maybe turn it into a tower on a trailer like the one that Red Cross or whatever has. Well, there you go. Yeah, that's pretty neat. Yeah, I'm just gonna need some fabrication and then replacing the cables and stuff. But it's a. It was the better of the two, actually. You know, it was all galvanized and a little heavier tower, but you know, one of the guy wires broke during a windstorm and off it went. Well, that's too bad. But. Well, okay. Nice that you get to pick and choose. Yep, yep. Freeze. Better than nothing. Well, gee, I can't tell you how much exciting going on. Yeah, the gutter cleaning and stuff like that. I think in the future I might just hire somebody to do that. Yeah, sometimes that just a little better. We all get older and this not something that's enjoyable. Well, no, and I think I'm getting to the age where I don't need to be up on the roof. Although you remember Dick out in Hallwood? I remember him talking about climbing his towers when he was about 75 or 80. Yeah, yeah. Some people still enjoy it. You can still do it safely, I guess. To a point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, reading the latest Valley Ham news and actually having talked with a couple of people, it looks like they're considering doing the club meetings on Zoom. Not having them in person at all anymore? No, they'd have them in person, but they'd also set it up so that people that couldn't make it there could join in on Zoom. Yeah, yeah, I guess that wouldn't be bad. That's kind of. Weren't you always are already doing that with like the board meeting? Yeah, yeah. Ever since COVID Yeah, I kind of like to get back together in person for board meetings, but you know, I'm no longer on the board. Yeah, understandable, you know, but they can get done the business that needs done online, I guess. Don't need to go to meet at somebody's house or somewhere else. Very true, very true. All right, so well, I'm destinated. So I'm going to let you get off back down to Casa Lupe and pick up dinner and go. Have a good evening and I will talk to you later. Have a great evening. 73 KK6VZD. Clear. All right, Chris. KK6SYV Clear. Have a good evening.

Los Angeles link up.

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Speaker A: Kilo oscar 6, kilo quebec
Speaker B: foxtrot monitoring.

Kn 6 mgk mobile in chico.

Well, I wonder if anyone runs JS8 call in Japan. That might be kind of fun to try to get some contacts in Japan on 40 meters and leave some messages for them. I'm gonna have to give that a try. Good evening, everybody. Sun's coming down, Chico. 65 degrees and a nice day. KN6MG squared. It. Got something really scratchy. Not making the repeater. Unfortunately, it's unintelligible. Yep. Obviously something portable. I heard portable. So I heard.

Speaker A: Okay. N6grt on local. Still around, steve. Kn6mgk. N6grt on a local.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, just pulling up to the destination there, but yep, I hear you now loud and clear.
Speaker A: What a late cup of tea?
Speaker B: No, just pulling in home actually.
Speaker A: Yeah, it wouldn't quite get on. It's supposed to be a 10 watt portable, you know, they never are.
Speaker B: Well, you used to have decent antennas that got in.
Speaker A: Oh, I do. It's just that some of the things I was doing I can't do now, but I'll get it all going again. Anyway. Yeah, I was trying a 10 watt portable direct and it didn't quite make it.
Speaker B: Yeah, nice. Well, anyway, I just pulled in but got myself a little bit wet having to water things and stuff like that today. Everything's all dried out.
Speaker A: Yeah, I was just. That's what I was doing when I was talking to you was filling up a water jug. And right now I'm using rainwater for the sheep and rainwater for the garden. So taking it out of one of those big tanks.
Speaker B: Yeah. Around the house here, I'm doing that, but not up there. So I need to do work on something like that to gather at least some. I do have a couple of drums there, but never, never did anything to get them ready to collect some water. Maybe I can have some time to mess with that on Friday, but no time today. That'd be pretty cool if I could catch some of that rain that's coming.
Speaker A: Yeah. I use this tank regardless of whether it's rain water or not. Because if I'm running it into a system where I don't want high pressure, I fill up the tank and shut the high pressure water off and then I use it out of the big tank, which is low pressure. So it's really a cool way to go. And less leakage and less hassles that way.
Speaker B: Yeah, you should go through less. Less though, these days, huh? You have less animals.
Speaker A: I got 15.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, you had 23 or something like that.
Speaker A: Yeah, and a lot of those were big eaters. I just had some. In fact, I'm gonna have. Well, I have some cooked lamb meat that I could have or I have this chicken that I did. I did a chicken. Like absolutely incredible how it turned out. It was. Basically it was smoked because it's one of those old hippie stoves from the old days called the earth stone stove. And they're more like an oven, like a wood fired oven than a wood stove. They're kind of across, halfway in between.
Speaker B: Yeah, that sounds good. Both do. So any of your ewes showing that they might be having their lambs soon?
Speaker A: I figure it's all going to happen in March and because I got my new RAM and it's five months from when I got got my new ram, so it'll be March. I'll probably, probably have more this time than I've ever had before. But I got my, my Mint running in the laptop.
Speaker B: Okay, how's that going?
Speaker A: Really well. It didn't have any JS8 or anything, but I'm gonna put a version. I was talking to the guy that gave me the Mint USB stick with Mint on it and because he just loves Mint and he wanted, that's what he wanted to do. So it's running great and he says that I should put JS8 version 2.3 on there. Not the new improved one 2.4, but 2.3. So that's what's going on there.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. Anyway, that should be interesting once you get that going and then you're gonna hook that up to the Icon 7300 and have a go.
Speaker A: Yeah, and you know, he said that, that the CAM4HDK system should work on this Mint. Have you heard anything about that?
Speaker B: No, I haven't, but it's possible. I mean, it depends on all the repositories and dependencies all match. So it probably would be a better question for Cam4 Ack, since he wrote the scripts and everything. And I remember it, you know, I remember it being on like Debian Bullseye. So it might have had more Debian based programs, but some of them cross over to Ubuntu anyway. And that's what Mint is based off of is Ubuntu. I think you said 22. So I'm pretty sure that's the long term support version. So yeah, I'm pretty sure it's more based upon the abunta.
Speaker A: Well, it would be a script, a script problem, not a JSA call problem or a WSJX column problem. It's going to be a script problem if there is one.
Speaker B: But I think I still have a
Speaker A: direct connection to him because I've got, I'm a patriot patron, Patreon they call it, so I can ask him questions.
Speaker B: Yeah, no, you won't have any trouble with JSAs or WSJTX because you know they have those for Linux and Mint, so no problem. I gave you that one laptop with Mint on at that time, but it was probably an older version version like maybe 18 or something like that. You know, I don't remember back then, but I haven't been running Mint for quite a while now. But I liked it a lot. It was a full fledged operating system. It did a lot of things and more than any Windows machine ever did for me. I mean, so many things that came with it. And of course there was a software, software resources part of the menu. You just hit it and you could put it in the search window, anything you were looking for. It could be games, it could be like Stellarium. You've probably heard of Stellarium, like for sky watching, you know, it tells you where the stars are and stuff like that. All kinds of programs like that. You just couldn't get with Windows without having to pay.
Speaker A: Well, I'm reading what, what he says at the. Go back and read what he said because it's not coming up. I'm at GitHub. Well, it's reading off of GitHub 73 Linux and it says 73 Linux is the next evolution of Build a Pie. Not only does 73 support Raspberry PI, but also supports 8,664 Debian based systems. But what I'm wondering is if I can get away with downloading. I'll have to talk to them, but if I can get away with downloading everything. But. Whatever this Linux is actually that supposedly supports the Raspberry PI. I don't know what it is.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's why on his directions on Build a PI and stuff, it was like, you know, you install a Debian operating system first and then you go to GitHub and you, you know, put in the scripts from the terminal window and that essentially loads in everything that he has that he's written for Debian. So yeah, I don't think you can put 73 Linux over the top of Mint, because Mint, I believe is a Ubuntu based operating system. So. But yeah, you can do a lot of those programs that he's doing, like PAT and all those that they have versions for for Ubuntu. You just have to go and get those through the repositories. So an extra step because he's already put all those things together, all the dependencies and stuff in one spot on GitHub. So you just hit a button and he's even put in some special interfaces to make things easy and you can see him and all that stuff. But anyway, yeah, it's just one of those Linux things. It's all possible, but yeah, it's a learning curve. Can6MGK.
Speaker A: Well, see, I Had that system for the PI and it's so cool. It just does it all and it uses the menu and everything just works great. I had everything working, including FL dis. I mean and it wasn't a regular fldigi. It had the parts of FL digi that make it so you can send large documents, you know, the larger documents, formatted documents and the formatted mail, emails and winlink and all that had it all. So yeah, if I can get that going again, I'll be a happy camper and it'll probably be happening on this, this particular laptop. In fact, I ran all the SDRs on it this morning in Linux and it worked.
Speaker B: Kn6MGK. Yeah, well you know, if you, if you already have Linux Mint running, then that means that you most likely have a little mini SD card writer and reader in that machine. I'm just guessing then you should be able to easily now you don't have to deal with like on Windows, like what's that called? The Bleacher or whatever they call that. Etcher. Etcher is what it is. But anyway, I mean you can, you know, download Raspbian direct, put it right on that card and put it and you know, everything you need, Debian and everything and just slide that little card right into the Raspberry PI and go to GitHub and get it. You could probably have that done and well, it depends on how fast your Internet is but you know, within a couple hours you could have that install button back on your Raspberry PI 400, whatever it is. It's a lot easier when you already have a Linux system to do that.
Speaker A: Yeah, and that would probably be the way that I would use 73 Linux. I would download the whole system using groups IO km4ack
Speaker B: stuff. And
Speaker A: so yeah, that'll be what I'll do for the PI 400. I do want to make that thing do all this stuff. I mean it was awesome and so I'm gonna make it happen. But the only reason I'm using mint is because KL7R insisted on giving me Mint. So that's why I'm kind of trying to find out what it'll do and if it'll do any of this stuff. I know I can run, you know, Linux and I mean I can run JSA call and FT8 and all the other things with that system. But I was kind of thinking it'd be cool to use km4ack very much menu wise system. But you're right, he is not, he is not saying it will work with. Ubuntu type programs, Linux types of Linux. It won't. It's not saying it'll do that. He's saying it'll run with other things.
Speaker B: Right? Yeah, just kind of forked off, you know, on Linux, you know, did Debian's kind of one and Ubuntu is the other. Of course they all started like with Unix and all that stuff. But anyway they kind of went their separate directions and in a lot of ways Debian is not as used, I would say. So therefore like it becomes harder to hack, you know, not that Ubuntu is easy to hack, but anyway, a lot more people run stuff like Linux Mint because it's such a good operating system anyway. So I think that's part of the reason why some people focus on Debian is because especially they have a little tactical flair and it does require a little bit more computer savviness, I would say, than something like Linux Mint does. But you know, to each his own I would say. But anyway, that's cool. Yeah, you're edging closer to having some workable systems there. So I'll be excited to hear on Linux mips, they should have a spot on the menu for software sources. You just click on that and in the search area put JS8 and it pops up. I already have a version ready to just hit install, just like an app, you know, just like an app on your phone. So but it'll be whatever version that they put in there. So if, if, if it's, if it's not the 2.3 or whatever, then honestly just do something different, right? Like go to JS8 or whatever, however you get that version and then you'll have to install it with any dependencies it requires. So pick up one of the more difficult versus the Mint software sources of the repositories already have a version already set to go. So I like to use those when I can. But it may not have all the features that you're looking for. KN6MGK
Speaker A: well, believe it or not, look up through the different things that came up from Google. Here's one called Linux Mint forum and the question at the forum is hello everyone and blah blah blah. And I used a bunch of OS's for years, blah blah blah. I wanted to point out a resource Jason KM4HTK access tools build and install. Now it's 73 Linux. So I'm expecting these guys to. Somebody's hopefully gonna say well it doesn't work on Mint or it does or blah blah blah.
Speaker B: Sound probably a good source to check out. Yeah because I wouldn't be surprised if someone hasn't tried it. You know like that temporarily online guy Steve, he's pretty smart with Linux stuff so I wouldn't be surprised that you know people, we do all these experiments and things like that so we try things even though we don't know if they're going to work or not. A lot of times they know how to get around things and get back to where they were. But a guy like me knows enough just to get in trouble and end up bricking something. So anyway, I'm gonna head on inside. Nice chatting.
Speaker A: 73kn6MGK yeah, if I've still got my connection to to him to K4HDK direct through the Patreon thing, I'm gonna ask him direct because this is going on with a bunch of BS that has nothing to do with the question. N60RG US.

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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Speaker A: Are you still around, steve? N6grg?
Speaker B: Well, I'm on my house unit, but I'm gonna have to go in just a few minutes. Yeah, but I'm around.
Speaker A: He just came for ack. Just told me it's gonna take three or four hours to install this. But it's been stuffed. The whole package.
Speaker B: Yeah, I believe him. Yep. It can be so. But it's a lot of stuff, believe me. If you had to install each one of those things that he has in there individually, it would take you a couple hours for each one. He made it simplified.
Speaker A: Well, do you have a second? He's got the list on here. I'm supposed to select what I want. So what is rdos?
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. I think some of that has to do with some of the old digital modes. Right. I don't. I'd be remiss in telling you what all those things are if we went through one by one because I don't know what. What they are in a lot of cases either, so. But some of those things like PAT are used for wind length, you know, and maybe even rdop. It might have been an older boat or something. I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker A: Well, I think I'll go ahead and take a lot of these. I know I want a lot of the FL digy suite that I had before, so I want that. That was just so awesome. I don't think I'll use flrig but. Garum. Never heard of it. I don't know, maybe I should get pe6sls on. He was advising everybody at that git but one of the groups who was advising everybody at that that forum I could talk to you about. He was advising a bunch of things there. I was kind of surprised. I could tell it was interesting because he spells his name J A Y E.
Speaker B: Yeah. And some of those things are YAESU specific. Like I think YAK was like a deal that's used like with APRs. And I've never messed with it. I know some of it has to do with like that KISS system.
Speaker A: What's it called?
Speaker B: Keeping Simple Stupid or something. I don't know. That's why I'll be interested when ICOMS comes out with. With their new radio to see how people are using that anyway. But I've never messed with it. But you know how we don't have a enabled. A fully enabled TNC in YAESU stuff. So anyway, some of the stuff that he has on there, like Dire Wolf and all these are things that help Access that using software. So some of it's pretty cool. But I never. So you could spend the rest of your life probably learning all the different modes and stuff that he has and packages in there. Some of them are simple, like a dipole, dipole calculator. Some of them are pretty simple. But other ones are full fledged programs. Yeah.
Speaker A: Okay, start giving me errors. I don't know why it's doing this. It's almost like it's trying to start up Windley. He went to a grid square from me. I don't know. Yeah, sounds like I'm gonna have to be sitting here to make all this work. I can't go away because it's going to keep asking questions.
Speaker B: Well, it's gonna ask you questions for a little time period. Yeah, because it's. That's why he's simplified it. He's making it so that like if, like my grid Square is Charlie Mike, 99 Bravo, Romeo. So if you put that in there, well, it, the spots where it's needed, it already automatically inserts them in there for you. So that stuff comes up just like really probably the really most important thing is any like WI fi, the name and the password thing. If it asks that anywhere, that's going to be really important. So anyway. But yeah, that's why because it'll put your call sign in there and stuff on that little, that thing that populates on the right hand side. I forget that's part of the graphical interface it has. It has your call sign on it and grids and like if you go to Grid Tracker, another one that a lot of people use, they'll already have that information pre filled out for you.
Speaker A: Well, no, he's asking this for the sudo. He's asking for the sudo password. I've never put one into this system. I don't think it has one. So what do you think? Should I put anything there?
Speaker B: Well, have you installed it on the laptop? You would have had to. You would have had to put a password in there at some point, like to get on. So that's what it might ask you.
Speaker A: I'm installing it now and I've never used the password on this machine, so I don't know what it's gonna do. If I just click through this. It says it's required though.
Speaker B: Okay. I don't know what you're. I guess I don't know what you're doing. So if you're on your laptop or whatever. Yeah, you installed, I'm guessing you install on the hard drive of the laptop, Linux Mint. Right. You would have had to put in a password for that.
Speaker A: Nope, it just ran without it. It ran. Everything ran. I never have put a password in and everything I've done is without a password.
Speaker B: Yeah, and it's installed. So you, you know, you know, you, you pull out the drive and it's gone. You don't need to drive for anything else. You know, the little however you, the program. In other words, you're not running it live on the, on the USB drive, Right. You're, you've actually installed it, right?
Speaker A: Well, I haven't installed it because I, if I do that, it makes the entire window system go away. So I thought, well, it's a 32 gigabyte USB, so it's got enough memory to run everything as it is, but it's running Mint without a password. It's never asked for a password. And I don't know what to think about this.
Speaker B: Yeah. So that's why it's not going to work. Yeah, I mean, you have to. I guess I can't say you have to do something because I don't know, maybe there is some work around. I don't know. I'm not smart enough to know. But when you're running a bootable drive like you're running, it's a whole lot different, you know, than, you know, what Cam4 Ack generally had on this stuff was you take that live bootable drive and you install it on the hard drive. Now you could do a dual boot system, whatever, and then, so that, and when you install, install it on your hard drive, it's going to ask you a lot of stuff. The system, not Cam Port HDK's, but it'll ask you stuff like are you in Los Angeles, are you whatever, blah blah, blah, and WI FI information. It'll ask you for how you want to partition your hard drive and what password you want and so on. And that's where the sudo password comes in. Super User do. That's what that stands for anyway. And so you'll have to select that, you know, you'll call it like whatever name you're going to call the machine and everything.
Speaker A: So.
Speaker B: Yeah, and the whole WI FI stuff's got to be put in there and stuff at the same time. So. Yeah, I don't know, I don't want to try to over the radio try to help you with this because I think, I think we're, we just end up screwing something up.
Speaker A: Well, I'm going to install the Thin73 Linux system onto the 32 gigabyte USB and see what happens. And if that works then I'll have a system that runs that system entirely from the usb. This like you used to do but it will be the ham stuff entirely from the usb. So that means I can take any one of these mini computers or anything like that and just instantaneously run the whole KM4HDK system on it. But if you're right, it's not going to work. We'll see. It's continuing, continuing to install everything. So we'll see.
Speaker B: Yeah, well that might work. I don't know. That would be pretty cool. I mean with one exception and you get all that information on there it will, you know, when you go to, you know, you take it out of your Windows machine. Of course your Windows machine just, just goes back to being Windows machine. When you go back to using it again you have to rehaug, you know, get the boot from that again and have it installed. So it takes a lot of time. Right. But not, I mean I say a lot of time for me because a lot of times, I mean like right now if I hit on, on my computer it'll be ready to go in about 30 seconds. Right. Instead of being like, you know, many minutes. Many, many minutes. So I don't know but it would be cool to have something like a bootable drive. That's what I liked about Novix, you know, talked about doing that is I was able to go ahead and like you know, go to any computer. So it would be pretty cool to go to anyone's computer and boot from it and operate your stuff and then pull it out and leave. That would be pretty cool. You could probably sell them. Yeah. If you could figure it out. All right. I was just called away so I need to go. I'll be interested in what you discover. I'll say 73 listen to your final KN6MDK.
Speaker A: Yeah, if it works then that's pretty good information. If it doesn't work then I'm just going to do the install of Mint right onto this machine because I won't miss Windows on this machine. This is one machine I will not miss it on. I have my, I have two or three other much better Windows machines that I can run although one enter. Well, one interesting thing happened. I don't want to talk about to you about that later. Anyway, have a good dinner or whatever is going on. Massage or a, you know, a stargaze session or whatever you're going to do. N6GRG calculator.

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Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of sac Valley's original 105 W6 GRC with a PL tone of 110.9.

The Gears Net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pm all amateur radio operators are welcome to join in on the next W6 RHC repeater check three.

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W6 rhc repeater check 1. Connected to a six link nose. For more information go to sdxlink.sourceforge.net.

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Gears hold the 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.

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W6 rhc repeater check 2.

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System2 link up.

Liske, 62, with Charlie Lewis.

K6 krl calling andrew. K6 krl. K6 k. E f. Hey, you're making it loud and clear. Thanks. All right, so I was just double checking.

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K6 krl. Testing one more time. Yep, you got the channel in there. You're coming in loud and clear. I'm just Hackman PCast.

This is K60V. Gary is KK7LV Kilo Kilo 7 in Las Vegas and his address can be found on QRZ.com and I think his email is in there as well. So you can, in the worst case, hit him in with an email. K6UV. K 7:00am thanks for the info. All right, thank you for that, Mel. Kk6mgk6trt, are you around?

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Home of the original 105 with a PL tone of 110.9. This is the W6 GRC repeater. Join us for our weekly net on Monday nights at 8:00pm.

Speaker A: K6kds,
Speaker B: w6pnh. We6axm repeater. K6kbs, w6p.h. No contact. W6p and h mobile.
Speaker A: Hey, Paul, I. I copied your call and I could recognize your voice right there first, but. Boy, I really didn't catch much of what you just said. It was pretty scratchy. Okay, my apologies. I'm on. Now. Thank you for the contact there, Paulo. Yeah, 73. Paul, I'll talk to you when we've got a better, better signal. W6PNH.

W6 rhc repeater check 3.

Los angeles link up. K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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Kf6obi, ks6tww. Good evening. Hey, how you doing? Just letting you know your radio is working. I don't hear anything either, so I'm. I'm switching off. So 73, no traffic to me. KN16WW clear. Roger, Nattin. Thank you. And you have a blessed evening. KF6OBI is clear.

K9 kad radio check. Anybody copy? K9k a d. Radio check. Anybody copy?

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Los Angeles link up.

Get your morning started off on the right foot. Listen in for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.

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Join us for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.

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Speaker A: I could talk to Jay on this one. Easy enough.
Speaker B: Nice tools. Oh, Jay, I tell you, I don't even like going in Harbor Freight. They always got like three or four new things just about every time I'm down there. But anyway, I'm getting better at bypassing on that stuff. N6 NTM.
Speaker A: Take it down to the
Speaker B: doctor's. Off with doctor's office with you. You might
Speaker A: be able to help them put some screws in. I like my setup. I
Speaker C: can't. I probably showed at least five people every time I got a new piece. And. And I could think of something else. And John just bought $3,000 worth of tires and. And rims off me. So, yeah, I might have to treat myself to a fan tick tool. See what I'm saying? I wouldn't have done me any good even to buy the bigger case because the next tool I buy would have. Wouldn't have fit. But anyway, maybe I won't. No, no. Rack and pinion steering at Summit. I called them yesterday to order it because John's going to Reno and they don't carry bracken pinions anymore. And I asked her if she could call around the other stores just in case somebody else might have one. And she said that's something she did when she got away. Left me on hold. Didn't say, okay, I'm gonna put you on hold. Let me. Let me look around or anything. She just. Right after she got done talking, before I could respond, I was listening to music. Customer service nowadays, Jay.
Speaker A: Oh.
Speaker B: So I
Speaker A: got.
Speaker B: I got my. I'll send you a picture because it's that cool. Give me a minute.

And I never did go look n6mgm. I never did go look at the star and delta thing. I showed it to John and tried to explain it to him yesterday, but, yeah.

Speaker A: Yeah, good for 10 years. That goes up on the wall, no doubt about it. 8 by 10. I'm so happy for that. Remember I was telling you while we were eating breakfast the other day, if they really wanted to screw with me, the three culprits on hf, they. They could have. They could have put a dent in my happiness. Only temporarily, though. Next time we have breakfast, I'll. I'll explain that one to you. If you remind me. I. I did file, But I don't want to talk about that out here. Not right away, anyway. But I'll wait for breakfast. I did. We did just file some paperwork for courts. That's how. When we're eating breakfast. If you tell me that, I'll. I'll remember. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker B: What time are you guys taking off today? All right. I'll be right back. I could see the light on at the end of the hallway calling me.

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All right. There was something else, thought it was court related, I was going to tell you about. I think it's political, so I won't worry about it. Something about old Jack Smith and they can't, they can't give it to us yet because the judge ordered it not to be. But we can see the motion to keep quiet. I forget what they call that when they put a, they put a keep quiet order. But yeah, from old Jack Smith against Trump. We won't hear about what that was, but it's him trying to squirm his way out of the aggregations or the charges he's fighting.

Speaker A: I like to see you busy. No doubt. Not. Not that you haven't been able to occupy yourself. Oh, yeah, well, that sounds like fun. I'm not a bit surprised. You know, you know how it is. Some of these people, they think they learned enough about something that they could go out and do something like what they did. He did. And. And if they know just enough, the buffalo, the person they're trying to sell on something, but not enough education to do a good job. I see it all the time. Not. Not in your line of work, but yeah. Anyway, my agenda, I was gonna jack up the vet and because I got a O2 sensor to put behind the cat on the passenger side. I got all that worked out. But check it out. I drive it all the way back home yesterday, out to John's, down to Durham and back out to John's and then all the way home and I still don't have no check engine light on. Yeah. So I. I could drive back down there today and say no and check engine light. But guess what? None of the auto Dr. Lifts will accept the Corvette. Even though there's no check engine light on. They should be able to do the smog. Yeah, I wish I had one. I wish I had one of those little. I'm gonna brain fart what they call them. You know, I could plug in an analytical deal in your. In your car right there. Tells you
Speaker B: what what's going on with some of that smog stuff. The end of the month.

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Speaker A: Well, that's what it. That's what it was saying that they seen that code in there. But I think. I think back when, eight months ago, I already put an O2 sensor in. I couldn't. I couldn't see. Said you need a long socket, something in order to get over the top of it to tighten up the new one. And then you got the wire coming out of the end of the top of it. So I'm not sure, but the guy that I bought the sensor from said no. I've done a couple vets and lots of other cars. You can get a wrench on that. So I need to jack it up. And I remember now, vaguely in my memory back a year ago, I jacked it up and I looked at it, and you could definitely get a wrench on it. I think I might have already changed it. You know, I ran that racing fuel that I got get up in Oregon. It's like 95 or something like that, Octane and that. I don't think that O2
Speaker B: sensor liked it. Well, it's
Speaker A: got to be better than. I mean, you know, I'll tell you what. I can floor the car without any of that being mixed in with the gas because, you know, I mix it. I don't put that much in there. Maybe. Maybe six ounces of that kind of fuel, Racing fuel in. In a tank of gas. I can make the clutch slip where we're just running Chevron premium. I can put it to the floor, and it don't slip at all. So it adds
Speaker B: that much more power to it.

Wow. I went down there and talked to John Beck yesterday. They didn't. They were full. Their shop was full. Spencer's is two. Two and a half weeks out, but I. I can change it. Anyway, that's what's on my agenda. I'm thinking about going out there and. Good morning, sir. How you doing? I was going to say hi to Mike, but. Waiting on the thread to run. Good morning, Mike.

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Anyway, that's something I could go do. One thing nice about Corvettes. You only need to put the jack in one place. That lifts up the whole side of the car, makes it easy to work on.

I know. Yeah, they look heavy. So yeah, I don't know if I'd like a one position stand. That's a pretty light. So yeah, I use a floor jack. But anyways I'm gonna at least jack it up before I take off. Otherwise if it looks like that's one I changed and it's still plugged in correctly and all that. I'm probably gonna head down to Chico and we. We got enough stuff done yesterday. John's pretty excited about being able to go at the little things. Aunt Jay being able to go in either side of his shop. Either the front of the back door and the light switch is right there for the three overhead lights like I got in this shop. Them bright ass suckers. And he just ordered six to finish off the. To put along the side. Three on each side as if one. Well, his shop isn't high enough so he doesn't get as wide as dispersion as I do off those lights. And he got the smaller one for the side and then I'll be just about done with it. I sure feel it in my fingers, Shay. Talk about getting old, huh? That much electrical work, bending the wires and fitting it and sub panels and all that stuff. I'm not used to doing it.

Speaker A: All right, sorry. I'm going to turn down the HF radio so that I don't get stuck in saying hi and goodbye. It's
Speaker B: almost seven o' clock anyway. What's the last thing you said, Jay? Not
Speaker A: full panels. I got two openings on number two and three and I did fill up the first sub panel and I put a main panel in too. So it's still a sub panel. But you know, coming from the house into the first shop, that was the big one that was in there. Mad thing was rusty. That's how old that was. And I got lucky. The spacing, the width wise spacing was the same. So it was easy to put it, you know, unhooked the big wires and scrap the big one, the old one used most of the accoutrements from the side. Let me see. I think there's six and six. Yeah. On the, on that mains sub panel. Boy, there's an oxymoron for you. And then the other ones are less. I think you can get three doubles. I made, made all of them 220 though, just so you could separate things. That John's a one man band so he's not going to be running a welder and a drill press and all the overhead lights, you know what I mean? So yeah, he gets the divide divided up pretty good with, without worry of overdoing stuff.

Speaker A: I was tempted to up the Geochron to the advanced or whatever their premium premium weather. You see the high pressure set in and pushed all that storm north and it looks like the next storm right behind that one's going to go too. But my little tempest isn't agreeing. They're saying Sunday rain, Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Wednesday. Yeah, they're showing, they're showing. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 days of rain starting Sunday.
Speaker B: Well,
Speaker A: the high pressures heat 3, 4, 3, 4, almost 500 miles out in the ocean pushed that storm north all the way up to Canada.
Speaker B: So
Speaker A: if this keeps up, none of that rain coming at us and there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 4 storms, good sized storms left China. We'll see. I'd like to have four or five days of rain.
Speaker B: No, we don't
Speaker A: actually. We're right there at our average 68 inches. So they lowered our inches average over the last years. But yeah, we're up there. 65 inches, 68 inches somewhere in that little area because some of my stuff wasn't accurate. But yeah, we don't need any more rain. I just like to have it some cold weather and some high altitude snow. That's, that's the stuff that banks
Speaker B: are aquifers. All right, well anyway, heck, you're getting close to getting ready time,
Speaker A: Jay and I've been yakinir. I got a half a cup of coffee right here. I probably shouldn't drink it, but
Speaker B: I'm gonna. Sweet. Well, good luck with all that. I'll definitely put a good word in for the both of you. Check. Good morning. N6mtm.

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Speaker A: Good morning, everybody. It is time for the coffee. Breaking the coffee. Breaknet is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills amateur radio club on the W6EK repeater located in Auburn, California. I'm Theda WA6EWF and along with Jerry WA6E, we will be your net control hosts and conversation facilitators. Who do we have out there for some quick in and outs to get your day started? Well, good morning. Just the two of you, huh? Got daniel in 9 muf, carl n6 ckv. Carl, your number one. How's your day shaping up today?
Speaker B: Good morning, Theta Jerry and Rocky. It's shaping up pretty good. Gonna do a few things around the house.
Speaker C: Take it easy.
Speaker B: I had a procedure done on my back and Tuesday, so I have to take it easy. Can't do much bending or twisting or anything like that, so I got to go easy on the back.
Speaker D: Other than that, we're doing good.
Speaker B: How you and Jerry doing?
Speaker A: Well, you know, I suspect that that procedure might have done some good for you because you sound really good this morning. We're fine. Rocky is outside. He's been loving these warm days because we can leave the back door open with just the curtain or the screen drawn so that he can come and go at will. And he likes that.
Speaker B: Yeah, the days are much better. It isn't foggy today, which is nice, knock on wood.
Speaker C: And that I don't have much going on here.
Speaker B: Maybe do some radio today. So I'm going to say 73. Everyone have a good Thursday. Thanks for running the net there. Theta and 60 KV.
Speaker A: Well, say hi to Ruth for us. And I'm glad that you're feeling better. And yeah, don't. Don't do anything to exacerbate the problem. So let yourself heal and play radio. That's a good thing to do. This is WA6EWF for the coffee breaknet N9 MUF. Good morning, Daniel.
Speaker C: Good morning, Theta Jerry and the net. We've got a very gray, cloudy dome overhead, but It's a balmy 23 degrees, so summer is just around the corner.
Speaker A: Well, you have to admit, that's an improvement over what you have been having the last few days. It is.
Speaker C: And hopefully, according to Mark, I should be able to get out and do a PODA next Monday. So I've already let my family know and we're starting to prepare for it, so we'll see if that happens. Other than that, plans for the day? I've got Zoom call with a friend in a little bit, so I wanted to get in while I could because I didn't. If the call ran long, I'd miss the rest of the net completely. And radio wise, we're just going to keep working on learning how to use a paddle. I accidentally reversed it and so I'm kind of having to step back and relearn it so it's the quote unquote right way. And that's just more so I'm consistent picking up other paddles.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, that's like stringing your guitar upside down.
Speaker C: I know people who have done that. But then of course they were all left handed.
Speaker A: Very good. Well, I'm glad that you are in enjoying working on the CW and hopefully starting to make some contacts with that.
Speaker C: I've got a string of about 90 contacts, all CW and I've made myself a promise that I'm going to get to 100 straight CW contacts before I switch to another mode.
Speaker A: This is the mode du jour, huh? It's the.
Speaker C: I want to do that because that'll say, okay, I've got myself enough of a footing there. If I drop back on any of the digital modes, I know them very well. So it doesn't have quite the same push to learn something new.
Speaker A: But you have to keep up with it because otherwise you'll forget it. Jerry says no, you don't. Yeah, I, I did. I, I know I can do sos something else anyway. Yeah, keep it up.
Speaker C: It's like any language, whether it's programming language or spoken language, you've got to keep current in it. I mean there are programming languages that I know very well, but it takes me about three days to get current to quote Getty.
Speaker A: I can't remember whether it was Getty
Speaker C: or Neil who said it. He the first day we get back together we sound like a garage band. The second day it's a tribute band. Third day we sound like Rush. And I think it's the same thing with any language. It takes you a few days to get it back under your belt. And once I get up to speed with this, I'm going to make a point of staying up to speed. But with that, this is a quick in and out. So time for me to say sayonara 73 theta to you and Jerry in the net N9 MUF.
Speaker A: Well, I hope you have a lovely chat with your friend on z. This is WA60WF for the coffee Breaknet. Let me tell you what the national days are and then maybe somebody else might want to come in. It is chocolate fondue day. That sounds good. If you don't like chocolate fondue. It's Nutella day. I'm not sure that that's any a whole lot different. I could do fun fondue with Nutella. It's pork rind day. And after you've had all of that, it's fart day. Shower with a friend, but don't fart in the shower. Primrose day, Weather Person day. The Western Monarch Butterfly day, celebrating the return to Carmel and Optimist day. So those are ice few of the days today. Who else is out there? Front, in and out. Got it. Anybody awake yet?
Speaker E: Kilo november 6th, whiskey, quebec, uniform, kn6wq good morning.
Speaker A: Kilo.
Speaker F: November 6, November uniform, foxtrot,
Speaker A: Ai6jb,
Speaker D: Kk5.
Speaker A: Okay, let's see. I got ka3victor, gulf mic and kj5gwn, ai6jb, kn6n u f, kn6wqu and n7msm. I'm going to go to orion first because. Oh, I guess I should ask if I've missed anybody. Did I miss anybody? No. Orion has a very short commute to work so. AI 60 JB. Good morning.
Speaker G: Good morning Beta and Jerry. Actually I have a very long commute this morning. I'm on the road to Shasta Lake. It's past ready.
Speaker A: Ah, well then I needed to get you before you get out of range. Okay. Why are you going to Shasta?
Speaker G: We are preparing to pose on a elementary school up near in Shasta Lake and so I have to drive up there for a pre conference meeting and so I thought I'd just drop in and listen. Turn the radio on at first and the news is kind of depressing so I thought I'd listen to you guys. So you guys have a wonderful day and I'll be listening in AI 60 JB 73 everybody.
Speaker A: Well you have a safe drive there and back and watch out for the crazy people. This is WA Succeed WF. Let's see up to the top of my list. M7 MSM. Good morning Marv.
Speaker F: N7 MSM mobile.
Speaker H: Good morning. I thought I'd check in here real quick.
Speaker C: I'm just coming back to the house
Speaker H: ready to pull the car in the garage. I had a 545 MRI in Roseville, so I'm ready to go and I
Speaker C: think I'm going to go in and take a nap.
Speaker A: Well, at least you got one. It must have been that imaging place on the street near Douglas. Yeah, they do open up very very early but sometimes you can get one quickly there where you might have to wait for a Month to get one in the more standard imaging place.
Speaker D: Yes, indeed.
Speaker H: Well, I had this scheduled in March
Speaker F: and I was visiting with my pain
Speaker H: of spine doctor Yesterday for my 7 day pre procedure meeting and they said. Oh, you did have your MRI schedule, right? No, your nurse told before. You know, it could be in March. Oh no, it has to be. We have to have it by Monday. So luckily they said. I called around and they said we can get you in at 6 o' clock, but plus I want to get in the big boy mri. You know the one that's not so skinny.
Speaker A: Like you're wearing a straight jacket made out of metal. Yep. Well good. I hope that they took good pictures of you and that this will help them figure out how to fix you. Yes, indeed.
Speaker H: So hope you and Jerry have a great day. I'm going to see Tracy. I haven't seen her yet this morning.
Speaker E: You have a Good, good one.
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Speaker A: You have a good one too. This is WA6EWF, KN6WQ. Good morning Dan. Are you off to work? You've been having some nice days for that.
Speaker E: Sorry about that guys. My note had ID there over on my HD this morning. Just getting ready to run back in the house. Yeah, this morning it's nice and foggy, but the sun finally peaked out and it's turned into a nice day. So far the fog has gone away and absolutely, I am indeed off to work. I got lots and lots of things to do today. Again, I don't know why I keep doing that to myself, but I do.
Speaker F: But yeah, let's see. Not really anything much update over here.
Speaker E: I think the AC guy is going to come by and see if we can maybe get this in at the front. Finally function correctly. So this is Kantix wq.
Speaker A: Very good. Well, you know, it's better to have a lot of work to do than nothing at all. Especially if you have to pay bills.
Speaker C: Yes, yes indeed.
Speaker E: I definitely agree with you 100%. Although you know, working until like 6 or 7 at night, it really does suck. So I just got to kind of
Speaker C: break it up a little bit better.
Speaker E: Anyway, I hope you guys have a great day and thanks for running the net today. This is KN6WQ.
Speaker A: Kn6n u f. Good morning. Good morning Joshua. Good morning.
Speaker F: Theta and Jerry and family doing well. It's been an interesting week for me. I discovered the hard way that I have diverticulitis. And so I am speaking to you from the hospital here in Marysville that admitted me here yesterday and has been Giving me antibiotics and things like that. So I'm in repair and working to get back to my normal self.
Speaker A: Ah, there you are. I'm sorry that was hard. Very nasty, uncomfortable thing to happen to you. So I'm glad that they're taking good care of you.
Speaker F: Yeah, it's just one of those things. I had a colonoscopy back in 2021 and they told me everything was great, so I thought I had nothing to worry about. It's been something that's in my family for a long time and my mom and uncle and their parents had all dealt with it. So it was something I was expecting but never thought that I had to deal with it because everything looked good and then out of, out of nowhere it got me. So. But you know, everything's going great here. The staff at this hospital is really, really awesome here at Rideout and they've been really taking good care of me and just doing what I can to get better and looking forward. But thank you for hosting the net and hope Everybody's doing well. KN6nUF.
Speaker A: I'll tell those doctors that we're, we're watching them and that they need to take good care of you. So good luck to you. This is WA60WF for the coffee break net KJ5GWN. Will, good morning.
Speaker D: Good morning, Peter.
Speaker I: Not doing anything here. Just thought I'd get on here and get my name called. Not really doing a whole lot. Got an SDR on in the background unconced, trying to copy that.
Speaker D: So anyway, not really doing a whole lot else other than that. So anyway, back over to you, Fader. This is KJ5 Golf Whiskey November.
Speaker A: Well, I'm glad that you checked in with us and said good morning. We always like to hear your voice in the morning. This is WA60 DWF for the coffee Breaknet Ka3 Victor Golf Mike, Jimmy. Good morning.
Speaker D: Good morning, Beta Jay. Good morning, Rodney and good morning everybody else. Well, it's actually going to warm up to the pointings today in Pennsylvania before it gets cold again. And then as Mark said, we should be back to some decent weather next week. So hopefully he's right. I'm tired of cold weather. So at least it's a little bit warmer than it has been. Maybe 6ft of yes and the dead can back to you.
Speaker A: Well, I'm glad that you have a little bit of a warm up. It's nice to have a break when you got that long stretch of cold, cold weather. So glad that you have some decent weather to look forward to. We actually have the possibility of rain to look forward to, so we're excited about that. And that may make your weather better. Yes, we're easily excited here, jerry says. Well, good. I'm glad that you like, I say. Glad you had decent weather. So what do you have planned for your day?
Speaker D: Oh, not too much. Just going to watch a few sports later and fiddle around on the computer for a while and, of course, listen to the rest of the den. I usually check in early to make sure I don't get busy and forget that I usually listen to all the net in the background as I do my computer tasks. Back to you, Theta.

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Speaker A: Yeah, it's just kind of a nice way to feel like there's somebody in the background behind you there carrying on a conversation and you can listen in and be part of it or you can just have the comfort of hearing the voices. So. I understand that completely. Well, you have a lovely day and enjoy doing whatever you plan on doing. Thanks, Peter. I will clear with you and go
Speaker B: back to listening mode.
Speaker A: Okay, crew VPM will be clear. Thanks. I'm 73. Jamie, this is WA60WF for the coffee breaknet. Let's see, do we have anybody out there who wants to chat with us? If you, if you want to be in and out, let me know. I'll put you at the top of the list. Otherwise we'll, we'll do a little rag chew. Who's out there? Ka 69
Speaker C: bucks, Victor Mark over in Ohio. K, KC8FQV
Speaker D: and Big Morning Theta, WB6BJN,
Speaker E: Kilo, oscar six kilo, micromio.
Speaker A: Wow, you all jumped in there with both feet. What we heard out of the kerfuffle there at the top was KC8sqv. Who else was out there trying to get in there?
Speaker F: K A6UAI, in and out
Speaker D: and WB6BJN, Theta Whiskey Bravo 6 Bravo, Juliet November.
Speaker A: Okay, let's see. So I was was chastised here and told I have to acknowledge all of you. So I got, like I said, kc8fqb, k6dcl, w2vx is an in and out. Ko6kmr, ka6uai and Marc, wb6bjm. So anybody else? Then I will go to my in and outs. Doug W2VX. Good morning. How are you and Teresa this morning?
Speaker B: Good. Jerry and Rocky and four legged dudes. Your QTH doing?
Speaker A: Good.
Speaker B: I'm staring out of the southwest window. The sun is coming through. I'm sipping my coffee watching the hummingbirds contemplating a ride on my bicycle down to the American river from my place. How are things going with you this morning, Theta?
Speaker A: Well, I'm out of bed, but I guess pretty good. Understand you joined the bike riders yesterday and went along with the camaraderie riders.
Speaker B: Yeah, I definitely made it down to the bike ride. That's a beautiful ride around Lake Natomas. So I always enjoy that and the company and I got a picture to prove it. So maybe I'll forward that over to you or Jerry this morning. Don't really have anything big on my list. I'm just.
Speaker C: I don't know.
Speaker B: I think I'm going to go play in Never Never Land. A little bit after I get back from my ride. And that's kind of the, that's kind of all I've got planned for the.
Speaker A: Well, that sounds like a perfectly lovely day and what a nice day for a bike ride. So go right down there and look at the water rushing by and then ride back up the hill with the assist from your able bodied. Let's see, what would that be? Your second peddler, the electric motor.
Speaker F: Yeah.
Speaker B: I am a proud person because I can tell you that I've got over 2000 miles in one year on my electric bike. It's a great thing to have. It's always fun to look forward to a good ride around the neighborhood or down into the canyon. Oh, and you know what? I don't know if you've ever seen it. I'm going to send you a picture. But I have a seven foot tall rooster in my backyard who's been there for a while and the hummingbirds like to land on it occasionally. I think they think of it as the almighty poopa out there and colorful. And Teresa bought it from somebody who thought that they were going to sell their house and then they didn't sell their house and she didn't offer to sell it back to them. So we have Rudy the Rooster hanging out here and I see him every morning now. You know, it's supposed to be a quick in and out, so everybody have a good day. And I hear there's a chance that we might get a drop of rain out of the sky sometime. Looking forward to that. Seven three W two vx I'm clear.
Speaker A: Yeah. You sent me a picture of Rudy the rooster. I think that's delightful. My daughter used to have Norbert, the eight foot tall dinosaur T. Rex and he had a wardrobe he got decorated for every holiday of the year and then some. So I don't know if you dress up Rudy or not or just let the hummingbirds do their thing on it. That's great. So go enjoy the hummingbirds and enjoy your bike ride and ride carefully. This is wa6ewf ron ka6uai good morning.
Speaker F: Okay, a6uaI good morning. I'm in the midst of pill time for Mac this morning, so it's going to take me a little while. Maybe I'll check in in another half hour or so, but I've got to get that done on time and that way the dogs won't be barking and staring at me since the ALEXA device told them it was time.
Speaker A: Well then get on it. If Alexa let's See, I probably shouldn't say that, should I? If your little nag tells you that it's time to do something with the dogs, then go for it. You have a great day and hope to hear from you again later.
Speaker F: Well, they hit a couple of alerts and they, they know when their alerts go off. They get the pill time for max a couple of times a day and they get the cookie time at night. So they listen for it and they seem to know about when it's going to go off. So they've been waiting k6ua I talk to you later.
Speaker A: Never let it. CD said that dogs don't know how to do tell time. You have a great time providing pills. This is WA60WF KC8FQV. Good morning Mark. What do you have going on today? Okay, sexy.
Speaker C: Well, you know, not a lot. I don't know what. Well, there's plenty to do. I just got to figure out which one I want to do. But I did get things that were had me stuck or whatever. The ring, the door, the camera ring is now back working again. I gotta go and add or not add, I gotta get it. Figure out why I got a password on another phone. Check with them to see because there's two. Well, I got, I only have one device but there's two things I gotta make sure we are how you know what it's set up with that I may call them today. I called them and they couldn't get me through. But then I was thinking I want to try. You know, I tried to get the picture of the Q code on the back of the camera and the one
Speaker A: on, on the house.
Speaker C: So I said, oh wait, I wonder if I put a mirror behind it. So I asked Google, hey, can I take a picture of a Q code with the mirror? And it said, oh yeah, take a picture and it will figure it out and flip it around or whatever has to do to utilize it. I did that, put the mirror up against the house and I seen the Q code and I took a picture, went right to town. It went jumped into the app and opened the app up and it was just so I felt, well great, it's back working. Yeah, the, it went down but I don't think it was the problem. I think it was the router that had the problem and I thought it was the ring. So I was trying to reset the ring a week ago and it didn't want to do anything. Well, it was because the router was the problem. So got that done and there's Other things to do here, you know, I have to get checks so I can pay bills and I have to, you know, I don't know what all I gotta do. There's a ton of things I gotta do. Which one to start with, I don't know, but we'll get them done out of the dryer. It also quit drying clothes. It just was drying and then the next load we loaded, it didn't want to start. So there's always something, I guess. And we got above zero now. So above zero it's probably maybe 10. I haven't looked at it, but above zero. So let's send it back to net k CFQV.
Speaker A: Well, how clever of you to do the mirror instead of having to take the whole thing off the wall, but that's a pretty smart idea. Well, you know, it seems that there always are more things to do than you really want to do. So make a list and start checking it off. It feels really good to cross things
Speaker C: off the list when you do those.
Speaker A: So have fun with your list today. Home of the original 105 with a PL tone of 110.9. This is the W6 GRC repeater.
Speaker C: All right.
Speaker A: Yep, I'll let you go on.
Speaker C: Yeah, I heard Mark. I heard an earlier report.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: Things off. Yeah, I got a junk drive for my phone so I can get the pictures off it because too full. So I got the data off. I'm starting harvesting that. Harvesting in the winter, harvest in the summer. Well, we harvest in the winter too. So I think out in California you guys harvest year round some of the crops, fruit and vegetables. So I'll send it back to NET CASE fqv.
Speaker A: Well, you have a great day, Mark, and thanks for checking in. This is WA CWF K6DCL.
Speaker G: Dave, good morning.
Speaker A: Hey, good morning. Theta and Jerry and Rocky. Good morning.
Speaker G: Good morning from Lucy who has a half a biscotti left and me who has nothing left. I'm a fast enough and we're enjoying the morning. The sun is coming out and it's going to be a great day. Yesterday it was 69 degrees here in Jamestown. Just a gorgeous day. Spent some time outside, which is a good thing, and worked on
Speaker A: getting the
Speaker G: VHF UHF radio reinstalled in my car and had fun doing that. I got the antenna there but not working so I have to debug that.
Speaker A: Other than that,
Speaker G: grandson Jared is tank as you know him and we know
Speaker A: him
Speaker G: on vacation until March when he goes back to work and we'll be waiting to see what role he plays this year? Anyway, he's anxious to get back and that boy does breathe football. He absolutely, he absolutely loves it. His mother is beside herself sometimes. I talked to her actually yesterday and anyway, other than that, that's about it. From Jamestown Central again, I'll repeat because we reversed. It's worth repeating. I had that mixed up. Anyway, there's one of my scanners with the ambulance. Anyway, great to hear you and hope
Speaker A: you have a great day.
Speaker G: K6DCL
Speaker A: well, I hope you and Lucy have a great day too. Thanks for checking in. KO6KMR. Robert, good morning. Have we talked before?
Speaker E: Oh yeah, yeah, we've talked a couple of times over.
Speaker C: Okay.
Speaker A: I just didn't remember your call. Well, glad that you checked in this morning. What do you have going on?
Speaker E: Just drinking a cup of coffee, listening to all the conversations. I got up early this morning, started studying the extra manual again and continuing my education for that and gonna go to the gym and probably mow the lawn.
Speaker A: Yeah, what is that? When we have this beautiful weather and all of a sudden the grass starts growing again and the trees, some of the trees are starting to bloom, which is very worrisome, you know, they'll all bloom and then those rains will come and the winds and cold and we'll end up with no oranges again next year. So hopefully we. That doesn't happen happen.
Speaker E: Yeah, that's true, that's true. We didn't have much this year, that's for sure. But always, always the year coming. But other than that, that's all I've got. Going to be a pretty, pretty light day. Nothing exciting going on. So I'm just going to turn it back over to you guys on the net and continue to listen. Kilo Oscar six KMR clear.
Speaker F: Over.
Speaker A: Well, I'm glad that you'll be listening in, Robert. I hope we will be good company for you. This is WA6EWF for the coffee break. Net WV6BJN. Mark, good morning. You still in the freezer back there?
Speaker D: Okay, there we go. I had to figure out. And I had my radio turned off so I had to turn it on and then it was trying to boot up a little bit and took me, it took it a while to, to come up. Yeah, we are. But you know what? It's gonna change. Every weather service office, I read their discussion pages and this is why I believe that there's a major pattern shift that's going to happen because there wasn't
Speaker A: one office that told me any different.
Speaker D: So I'll talk about that in a few minutes. I hope you and Jerry are doing well.
Speaker A: Sarah and I are doing well.
Speaker D: I had my. I had a procedure this week, the little colonoscopy thing, and so far, so good. They told me that everything looked good. They found a couple of polyps,
Speaker C: but
Speaker D: the doctor said it didn't look like they were worried. But he says, I'm going to send these in, and if you get. If you get a letter in the mail saying, come back in five years, you're good. If you get a phone call, that means we found something. So I hope I don't get a phone call. I hope I get up a letter in the mail.
Speaker A: There. Go ahead. Yes, under that kind of circumstance, a letter in the mail is infinitely preferable to a phone call. So we shall consider it good when you go for a long time with no phone calls. So that's good. Glad that you got that done, though. We all need to do that. Got to keep ourselves healthy and ticking along. So, what exciting do you have planned for the day?

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W e6a x n repeater.

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System.

System 19 link up.

Speaker A: System12 link up.
Speaker B: Yeah, I gotcha. I don't think anybody was. Was talking. Did you hear anybody? I think I heard one key up. Didn't think there was any Q. So it was going on.
Speaker A: Yeah, we'll stand by here a second. Just confirming there was no one else on the channel.
Speaker B: Yeah, see what you find on that. I would have some time to do around with it but I don't. Not today anyway. I've been messing around a little bit with Whisper Steve over there and Tracy asked me about using the FTX1 on whisper so I couldn't mess with that get it set up and that's pretty cool. I need to play with it some more. It's somewhat working. I need to get to some more adjusting on the sound card levels of radio but it's pretty
Speaker A: interesting. So do you send out like information like you call Simon, you look on
Speaker B: the webpage or something, see which station?
Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. And then.
Speaker B: Then your station sits there and listens for a certain amount of time and then it uploads to a website every all the stations that you heard as.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's kind of interesting. That'd be fun to play with. So there's certain frequencies?
Speaker B: Yeah, it seems to be all preset of the software. Each band has a certain frequency that they use for it.
Speaker C: Sa. Yeah, if you're trying to get in
Speaker B: Eric, you're not making it there. Just getting a couple of key ups. That's you,
Speaker C: Wsx, rpa.
Speaker B: I'll be listening
Speaker A: here for a few more minutes anyway.
Speaker B: Yeah, there might be something going on with the link or something. Maybe this want to work a little better.
Speaker A: Yeah, I hear you're just fine now so just switch computers. Okay. Yeah, it seems like my receipt coming in from you kind of bouncing in and out but I can make out what you're saying.
Speaker B: Can you hit Pleasanton direct? Are you on your base station?
Speaker A: What's the system number? I believe it's 12. Okay, stand by. Let me check.

Speaker A: Oh, nothing exciting.
Speaker B: I'm gonna do some radio. I'm gonna do HF. I do HF every day. I do the activity group starting on 17 meters at 1730 and that takes up a good part of my day. And then I spend from about three or four o'clock on with Sarah
Speaker A: until
Speaker B: we go to bed. So the second half of the day is with Sarah. So I try to do that. This Sunday is Super Bowl. I will be. My team didn't win so I'm going to eat but I'm going to watch football because I like football whether my team won or not. And that gives me a good excuse to eat. So I don't need an excuse to eat. But you know, you know what it is. So that's, that's what's happening this weekend there, Greg.
Speaker A: Very good. Well, yes, we are mandated to watch the super bowl and root for the Seahawks, which is our daughter and son in law's grandson's favorite team. So we shall do that. But mostly I watch for the ads. The Budweiser ad is really nice. The little colt befriends an eaglet and
Speaker B: helps him learn how to fly.
Speaker A: And then there is this one heart stopping moment when they, the full grown Clydesdale is jumping over a log and
Speaker B: all of a sudden he has wings.
Speaker A: It's like he became what was the winged horse Bucephalus and he, or Pegasus, it's the eagle who's flying off of his back. And they said they didn't do any of that with cgi.
Speaker B: It's all the animals and we're trained
Speaker A: and, and did it, you know, made it happen and it's quite amazing.
Speaker B: Yeah, we won't watch it on TV around here. Sarah doesn't, Sarah doesn't do anything with that with super bowl and I would rather listen to it on Sirius XM because it's easier to follow because they describe what's going on instead of oh, you can see this on tv and I don't have to give you all the particulars
Speaker A: so
Speaker B: I'll miss all of that stuff. I'm not interested in halftime. If they're gonna do this, I don't know who kid or what is it Kid Rock or whatever that all is. I understand they're, they're kind of the halftime thing. So that'll be my time. I can go stretch my legs and I'm gonna have chips and dips, chicken wings and popcorn. All the stuff I shouldn't eat, I'm gonna eat it. So we'll, we'll have fun with that. So that'll be fun. And that'll be it for my sports until football starts again in the fall. So there you go. Let's talk about the weather. Let me take a break. I think everybody will be kind of happy. Especially you know, they've guys have had so much fog in the valley and we've had so much cold weather. I don't mind really the cold weather, but I really. It's been going on for so long. You know, I think the last rain was around the 5th of January for you guys. And then like magic in every El Nino or La Nina year after you get good rains. You got good rains around Christmas and it was warm back here and then it flipped again and it got cold back here. They said it was going to happen. And high pressure built into the west. So high pressure brings fair and foggy weather and dry weather. Low pressure brings cold active. And that's certainly what happened here. They had cold weather. They went all the way to Cuba. That's how far down this last arctic air mass got, was all the way to Cuba. I got 5 inches or excuse me, about 3 to 4 inches of snow here, 2 inches of sleet, freezing rain. We had ice all over the place for a week. And finally by next week things are going to change. You guys are going to get some much needed rain and snow that you need. It's going to get rid of the fog and we're going to warm up. And we could actually have temperatures above. We could actually make a run at 70 degrees next week here in Clarksville. But we've got to go through one more Arctic blast Theta today, tomorrow and Saturday, then Sunday. High pressure starts to build into the eastern and Midwestern United States and South and low pressure starts to develop along the West Coast. It's going to take it a little while to get established, but once it does, I think it's going to open the storm door for you guys, maybe get some snow in the mountains and some rain in the valley and foot foothills. They're back to you there. Go ahead.
Speaker A: Well, that's promising. I have a shawl to finish and I just haven't felt like working on it because it's been too warm. You know, I spread it over my lap and it makes me nice and toasty. Well, I'm glad that things are going to change so. And I'm glad they're going to change for you too. I'm sure you're ready to take take a break from the cold.
Speaker B: Yeah. I told Sarah the other day I Said, I like the idea that it has snowed and that we've had, you know, kind of a pretty looking ground with white snow. And I didn't like the ice though, the freezing rain, you know, that's dangerous. And I bought one of these heaters. It's called a buddy, a big buddy. And in case there's a power outage, I can use that heater. It has a little tiny propane tank back here. You can do that, you can use it as long as you make sure you don't have any carbon monoxide. So I bought a Buddy heater so that when my power goes up, people have died theta back here because of power outages. And a lot of people have electric heat back here. I don't know why that is. Electric heat is a big deal back here. And if you go a long time without power, it can get pretty bad and you can get hypothermia even inside of a house that gets too cold. And so now I bought this and my power never went out. Thank God it never went out. But a lot of people in Tennessee lost power and it was a historic storm two weeks ago. And then they had another historic storm in the Carolinas this last week. And that cold air went all the way to Florida and all the way to the Caribbean, actually. And they say some of the cold air for this last cold front could do that again to a lesser degree. So it won't be as strong because the high pressure is starting to take over. And for Jim, who lives there in Pennsylvania, I think you're going to see temperatures that could have a four as the first number, like 40 something instead of what you got now. I think that's actually going to happen once this high pressure gets built in. The only problem we have is around the 15th, the 18th, they're saying there could be a cyclone, what they call a cyclone, or a big low pressure area that could come into the middle and south part of the nation. And when you have warm air on one side of that storm and cold air on the other, then we could develop severe weather, tornadoes, severe thunderstorms. And that's always a possibility when it warms up big like this and we're getting closer to that time of year when it could happen. So we hope that doesn't happen. We hope we do get some rain though. We need rain. We're below normal also. But they're expecting maybe some good rain out of this for us eventually as it gets established as well. But we'll be warmer and no snow. So I Think people are going to benefit from it? You guys are going to benefit, we're going to benefit. And we won't worry about the severe weather until it happens. It's not even in the forecast period right now so it's way out there in la la land yet. So we just pray it doesn't happen and we get some good stuff. Back to you there SATA. And by the way we've had some interesting sunspot activity to some big solar flares and there's some of these people and I kind of agree that they say that because of what's going on on our sun is the reason that some of this climate is the way it is. And I tend to agree with that. Back to you WB6BJ.
Speaker A: I heard that we were going to have a big solar flare which might mean truly spectacular auroras down way into the, down into the US.
Speaker B: Yeah there have been a couple of people who have said we were very close to what they call a Carrington event and that would not be good. And they were watching this, this, this Sunspot 4336 which was 8 times the size of Earth. Can you imagine a sunspot eight times the size of Earth? That's huge. It's a monster. And this thing was throwing off X class flares. And the problem with this flare and the reason they were concerned about it is our planets are fairly aligned right now and this sunspot was growing and it was taking on plasma. It wasn't releasing the plasma and it still isn't. But the good thing now is it makes may be going around the backside of the sun. So if we were to get something like an X665 flare, something like what they had in 1859 it could do some grid damage and burn up power lines and people don't realize that. And what concerns me is you know our, our government or our people, they need to be working on making spare transformers and stuff preparing for something like this. But people out there don't understand what our son could do because it's a low priority thing as far as money goes. But if, if we were to get a Carrington event of magnitude it could send us back into the stone age because it would take long time to rebuild our grid system if it were severely damaged. Back to you WB6BJ.
Speaker A: Oh yes, I understand about that but we'll see what happens. Anyway, thanks for the update. And we, you know, kind of looking forward, kind of sorta to look, definitely looking forward to rain, not necessarily looking forward to coldness but what's concerning is a lot of our fruit trees are starting to bloom. So, you know, I don't know how people like almonds growers manage to survive. Everything happens to almonds. So I don't know. Anyway, thanks for the good, good word and I'm sure that you will be happy to get a little bit warmer weather back there. No ice.
Speaker B: It can warm up for a while and then hey, if we wants to snow again, get a little cold, it can do it care. I like weather change. It just hasn't. It's been a little long. Yeah, it, it's good. Yeah. And yeah, yeah, your fruit, you guys need snow though. And that's what's hurting right now is, is snow in the Sierra. So you need some cold weather. You don't want a warm storm. You want, you want this polar jet to work and bring good rain to the valley and bring some good snow to the mountains. And because you're below average right now on snow and rain, it hasn't rained and snowed in over a month. And so things have fallen behind. So hopefully things will,
Speaker A: you'll get some
Speaker B: good rain and maybe some good snow in the Sierras. Hey feta, I'll let you go and great to talk to you guys and everything's good back here. Sarah's doing good, I'm doing good. And we'll let you get on to some other, some other folks and great to hear everybody on here today, WB6BJN and God bless and everybody have a super rest of the week and a great weekend coming up. WB6BJ.
Speaker A: Well, you and Sarah have a great week too and thanks for all the good information. This is the coffee breaknet imwa6ewf things coming up on February 13th is going to be our club meeting in our new location. So come to the open house and see where our new club meeting space will be. It's at the Placer County HHS Conference center and the Auburn DeWitt Clinic and the Arbor DeWitt center you can access
Speaker B: from Bell Road or 49.
Speaker A: It's a beautiful facility, a great audio visual system and secure parking. It will be one problem. I understand that because they've got a sound system that picks up sound from everywhere. We can't have our little sidebar conversation. So everybody bring a piece of paper and a pencil so we can pass notes or learn sign language. Yes, yes.
Speaker B: We could tap out cw.
Speaker A: Some of us can. I can't. Anyway, that's coming up. The extra class that Orion is Putting on on Zoom started on the 27th of January. So you've missed a 20 couple of classes but you could catch up pretty quickly if you wanted to jump in and add yourself to that class and get yourself ready for an upgrade. There will be two in person labs got a get on the air digital and an antenna build. So things to look forward to. And speaking of looking forward to The Ham Fest March 28, we want to advertise that pretty heavily. If you want to sell things, you can buy a parking spot for $10 and set up. It starts at 7. So if you want to sell something you need to get there at 6 to get everybody in and all your stuff out on display so that you're ready for the hoard that will descend upon you at 7am and if you don't want to sell anything, I encourage you to look on the website for jobs. There are lots of jobs. There's parking, there's traffic direction, there's elmering, there's coffee and donuts. That's where I will be with the with the coffee crew. So the more people who sign up to help out with these things, the less everybody has to do. There will be VE tests this coming Saturday. This coming Saturday the 14th, not this Saturday, next Saturday at 9am at the Raley's Event center center on Douglas and Auburn Folsom Boulevard. Or there will be one on February 16th at 6pm in Folsom. And you sign up for those on hamstudy.org you can get all the details there. So those are some of the things happening in this club. There is of course always more, always more. So let's see who is out there who wants to to chat. If you want to be an in and out, let me know and I will put you at the top of my list. This is WA6CWF for the Coffee Breaknet.
Speaker B: Good morning. Theta W2A J V Whiskey 2 Alpha, Juliet, Victor.

Speaker A: Yeah, it doesn't appear I can, but it seems to be working pretty good right now. Whereabouts are you?
Speaker B: See, I'm in Dublin, so I don't have much further anyway. But, yeah, if you're around tonight when I. When I head home, I have a DMR radio with me. We can try that tonight.
Speaker C: Yeah, I should be around if I am. Yeah. Got the DMR radio right here, ready to go, so we can play with that. I don't think I have a adapter to
Speaker B: connect it to the outside antenna, so just have to work it off the stock antenna. But usually works pretty good going through the Livermore Valley there.
Speaker C: Yeah, that'll work. So, yeah, when those links are
Speaker A: down, kind of. It was nice having the lab and the site linked
Speaker C: up. Yeah, it goes down every now and then. Another repeater,
Speaker B: that usually works pretty good. I haven't used it in a long time. Is that 3.5 repeaters in Livermore? I think it's up in Morgan Territory or something. And that usually works pretty good on both sides of the hill. Especially if you're on the base antenna.
Speaker C: Yeah, we'll have to play with that one, too. Yeah, portables might be a little rough, but they on the base now. Are you going into work today, or. You'll have. Maybe just a couple hours. I might go in and work on some programming with one of the guys. Do they have some radio
Speaker B: guys over there, too, or are you doing it all on your own?
Speaker C: They've got a couple young guys.
Speaker A: What's up?
Speaker B: Yeah, I gotta remember to let the link come up. They don't have any faulty old guys over there doing it.
Speaker A: The one guy moved to Tennessee, he retired. He's about my age. He retired, moved on out. They had a deputy chief. He wasn't doing any hard programming or anything, managing the system. He retired too, so they kind of ended up with nobody. Kind of one of the reasons I
Speaker C: got hired. Oh, okay. Well, nice if
Speaker B: there's some young guys interested in doing it and carrying it on. Anyway, I was pulling off the freeway here, so I'll get out of here, let the link go and start driving on the surface of the streets here. So I'll talk to you later. I'll let you know when I leave tonight. If you're around, we can mess around again. If not. So I'll catch some other time.
Speaker C: All right, sounds good.

Speaker A: Good morning.
Speaker B: Well, good morning, everybody. I got Greg, KO6th, and W2alpha, Juliet, Victor. Anybody else?
Speaker C: I'll be in and out.
Speaker B: I'm sorry. I covered up some folks.
Speaker A: Do that again.
Speaker C: Good morning, fatah. This is whiskey, whiskey 6, delta, echo, foxtrot, ww6 def.
Speaker D: Darren, in and out.
Speaker E: Good morning, SATA. This is kilo golf, 6 gulf, india, alpha, dave, socal.
Speaker B: Okay. We're adding kilo, golf, six Gulf, India, Alpha, Dave in SoCal and WW6 def. And you were in and out, so I will go first to you. WW6DEF. Darren. Good morning.
Speaker C: Hey, good morning, PETA. This is WW6DEF here. Just sucking down my coffee and trying to get the day going. And I just wanted to be in and out because I got to start working on this kitchen. So thanks for running the net, and I'm pretty easy tonight today, so have a good one. WW6D EF.
Speaker A: Have a good day.
Speaker B: Oh, working on the kitchen. Good man. Your. Your wife will appreciate that. So good for you. Don't. Don't hammer your. Your thumb or anything like that. This is The W. It's EWF, W2Alpha, Juliet Victor. Good morning.
Speaker D: Good morning, Zeta. I'm Anthony. My call is Whiskey2Alpha, Juliet Victor. Whiskey2Alpha, Juliet Victor, Anthony. I'm in southern New Jersey in a town called Atco, Alfitango, Charlie, Oscar, and I am situated between Philly and Atlantic City. And I believe this is the second time checking into this net. Last time I checked in, I think Brian was net control. So good morning to you and Jerry. It's nice talking to you both
Speaker B: and
Speaker D: everything else is good. I'm going to have lunch today with a friend of mine. I'm looking forward to that. And you're doing a great job with Annette Zeta. Back to you, W2A JV.
Speaker B: Well, thank you. Glad that you checked in and that you've started listening to us. I hope that we keep you company here at CO8. You said 8 TCO New Jersey. So I've got to have Jerry look that up for me so he can see exactly where you are. It's always nice to have people from around the country, around the world check in.
Speaker D: Yeah, and it's nice to check in. My zip code is 08004, and I
Speaker A: think if you look up my call
Speaker D: sign on qrz, it should show where I am. Yeah, I heard about this,
Speaker A: this net
Speaker D: through discussions on the. On the Blind Hams Network and other networks. And while I'm at it, let me say a little Mark WB6BJN and there may be other people who check in W3Ls and other people. So I won't hold it up long because you have a lot of check ins. So as I said,
Speaker B: You are doing
Speaker D: a heck of a job with the net. W2H A V73 back to neck control.
Speaker B: 73 Anthony, it's a pleasure to have you check in. This is WA60WF Greg. Good morning. K06TH. What do you have planned for the day you had visitors this weekend last weekend.
Speaker A: Good morning Theta. Good morning everyone. Greg Ko6th Lovely day so far.
Speaker B: So far?
Speaker A: Yes. We had the, the kids came up last weekend and we had a great time. Good, good food and all that kind of stuff. Today however is. Today is dentist at 11 o' clock down in Roseville. So gotta get, gotta get to that and yeah. And then this coming weekend is the Super Bowl. I think I'm like you, I definitely watch the football. But keeping tabs on the pulse of civilization by looking at the ads is always fun as well. So it should be a good weekend. I need to get down to the boat though and do some work on that and work with the prior owner. He's got the slip next to mine. We're actually in the wrong slips. We need to swap the boats around and, and coordinate with him on when he's around to do that. So got a lot of stuff to do. I don't know when would be the best time to go down to the Bay Area given where the super bowl is. We have a collision of sorts and. Yeah, is Friday a better time or Monday? There's a storm coming on Tuesday so Monday might be the better time. I don't know. What do you think? What's the least impactful on the day to go down to the Bay Area? Ko68
Speaker B: well, let's see. Jerry suggests 1:00am on whichever day you pick. Definitely not, I don't know, definitely not Sunday. Okay, cross that one off. Are people going down there and spending the weekend? I don't know. I think it's going to be kind of flip a coin, take your chances and see what happens.
Speaker A: I mean it's not the end of the earth one way or the other.
Speaker B: Just really.
Speaker A: It's already annoying enough. It's marginally too annoying. But you know, just having a three or four so on Monday going down there shouldn't be a problem home. I mean if people, I don't know, I'm thinking Monday might be the better day to go down because Friday people will be Heading into the Bay Area, and that could be a problem.
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker A: Anyway, that's the first we have to do. The debtors KO6H, back to you.
Speaker B: First things first. I hope this is just a normal checkup. Do they put that fluoride stuff on your teeth that it's like having glue in your mouth.
Speaker A: Fluoride. When I was a kid, they did that. I haven't had that done in years. Decades, I mean. No, no, definitely not. And you can have too much fluoride too. There's fluoride in the water. Our kids, we had, especially our older one, the thing to do was to get them little fluoride tablet things for their teeth as they were growing up. Just as the teeth were coming in and she got a little too much of it and so her teeth a little bit mottled, you know, Nothing, Nothing. It's just minorly cosmetic. Definitely nothing structural. Teeth are otherwise fine. But don't overdo the fluoride. That can cause damage too.
Speaker B: So I don't know.
Speaker A: No, it's just a normal cleaning. I think they're gonna do X rays. I don't know, get my head examined, basically. KO6th back to you.
Speaker B: Well, the level of technology over the course of my many, many years of going to the dentist has certainly changed things a lot, hasn't it? They use the new digital X ray and you see it immediately. It just pops right up there on the screen all at once. And it's all very clear and easy to see. But no, our dentist has this goo that they want to put on at the end of the visit, and you're supposed to leave it on and don't drink or eat for a couple of hours. And I just hate it because it's nasty. Like I say, it's like having glue in my mouth. So I tell them between the. The veneers and the crowns, I don't have any real teeth in there that need to be fluoride. So I usually turn it down.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'd probably do the same. I do remember the fluoride treatments were things where you're sitting back in the chair and they put this kind of a, I don't know, cherry or some kind of fruit flavor flavored. It was kind of a gel around your teeth. Let it sit there for five minutes. And while it's doing that, it's kind of draining into the back of your throat and it's almost impossible not to gag off this stuff. So that's my recollection of the treatment. But Basically, it sounds like, oh, what's that process that happens to trees when they fall down? They turn into petrified wood where the minerals get swapped out for other things. That's kind of what we're doing to our teeth, I think, is we're petrifying them or something. What that process is to turn them into rock. Yeah. I don't know. Anyway, that's, I guess, modern medical miracles that they do to our bodies. Other than that, doing fine here. Hope everything's going well with you. KF 60 gauge.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, everything's going great. I do want to go over to Green Acres and look for a lemon tree. So I think we're going to plant a lemon tree. We've tried this before and they've always died. I'm. I'm hoping that the third time or fourth time or fifth time is a charm. So we had to take out an apple tree. It was just completely hollow inside and ready to fall over. So we took that out. So now we've got some sunny space right there. Maybe this is the place and the time that a lemon tree will actually grow.
Speaker A: Oh, excellent. Yeah. Highly recommend. The Meyer lemon. That's what I've got. Ours is a. I want to say it's a semi dwarf or something. Somehow that rings a bell. Anyway, it's a fairly compact tree. It's got loads of lemons on it, and they are really good. And then we planted that. We had this kind of a rock garden area when they built the house. They just piled all the rocks up in a corner of the yard. And off to one side, there's kind of an area where there actually was some dirt. And so we planted the tree there among the rocks. Yeah, the idea was the rocks will keep the tree a little bit warmer in the winter and a little cooler in the summer. And I guess that kind of worked because the tree seems quite happy there. I do cover it in the wintertime just in case. The tree is hardy down to 17 degrees, I think the fruit is not. So while the cold might not kill the tree, it definitely kills the lemons. We learned that one year. So, yeah, anyway, that sounds like a good idea. I forgot to take. We got ours and Isley's when it was Isley's, so whatever that's good for. But yeah, sounds like a good idea. Oh, yeah, that's something that happened today.
Speaker B: Is the.
Speaker A: The tree guys coming by. The big, huge oak tree in our front yard, the front corner of the house that provides all the shade during the summer. It's looking really bad. It's thinned out like crazy. Dropped a bunch of leaves and it's not looking good. I think they over pruned it last year and it's just not happy. So he's going to come by and take a look at it this afternoon. KL6TH back to you.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's hard when a tree like that goes because you love the shade. So hopefully they can save it or oriented say it's lost. There was a huge old oak down at the bottom of our property actually on the neighbor's property fortunately. And there was a big windstorm and when we kind of looked at that tree, it had twisted so it looked like, you know, just a paper tube that you twisted and all these little creases in it and it was completely hollow. There was just basically the bark of the Cambrian that were holding the tree up. So they had to take that out. Actually didn't get a whole lot of wood out of it because it was so dead. Well, I hope that they can save yours. You will miss that shade if it goes. But your solar panels might be happier.
Speaker A: Yeah, it has a mixed bag. It definitely would help the solar panels. There are two things besides the look. I like the shade and it kind of makes that side of the house the way it's positioned. I also don't want to give that neighbor this is the tree and I don't want to give that neighbor any kind of satisfaction of taking that tree out. So I just do hope it hangs in there. He didn't sound like super worried but when I talked to him, but I sent him some pictures and stuff on the cell phone, he said, yeah, don't water it. Which I haven't been anyway. And there's nothing, no mushrooms around it or anything like that. So it's probably just stressed because they really, it needed a huge thinning and they may have overdone it a little bit last year. So hopefully they'll recover. And yeah, then maybe, I mean that might help my homeowners insurance because they're still annoyed with trees that to deal with come May. So I don't know, things are going to change for sure. Ko6th back to you.
Speaker B: Well, let us know the fate of the tree and you have a good day. Hope you decide when the proper time is to go see your boat and
Speaker A: have a good dentist Visit.
Speaker B: This is WA60EWF for the coffee Breaknet KG6GIA Dave Good morning.
Speaker E: Good morning. Theta KG6 Gia Dave returning down here, SoCal, we got a bit of a wants to do a storm heading south over the desert down here. But it just can't quite figure out what to do. I can see the blue edges all around it. So it can't be more than about 200 miles wider, maybe three. But it's kind of heading out, heading out toward the desert, toward the river. Anyway, today I got about 100 24th graders going to teach them geology and some 1800s style prospecting with the with the gold pants. So they're gonna have fun. And then I gotta get back to the wife and family, get them off to their doctor appointments or the afternoon and play with a border collie. Sounds like you're gonna have a to do fun ham meet up there up north. I wish I was straight to come to that sounds absolutely fantastic. I just wanted to check in with you. I think the second time I usually talk to Brian in the morning and all that. What have I got up there, Timmy? Oh, I got one of my baby ravens. Athabascan ravens. Follow me for a happy meal. You were talking about almonds earlier. Almonds are hunted desperately. Somehow the word got out. They know Dave's got a bag of ravens or a raven suit in his pocket there. It's like oh God. Anyway, just want to see a big howdy and I got to get a scooting so 73 is to all. Good to hear you out there. Thanks for doing the net kg6gia Dave SoCal.
Speaker B: I'm so glad you checked in. It sounds like you've got a.

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Speaker A: Lots of interesting things going on. And you have ravens that have decided you're a friend. How lucky you are. Some people might not say that, but I think that that's good luck. So you have a lovely day. And yes, give an almond to that raisin. Get an almond to that Raven. This is WA6EWF for the coffee breaknet. Who else do we have out there who wants to. To join in, get on the list, chat with us briefly or longly. Tell. Tell me your preference.
Speaker B: Kilo 6 Delta X Ray, November and N6 FMD Portable 7 out here in the badlands in Nevada. In and out.
Speaker C: K4lgi. In and out.
Speaker A: All right, let's see. I got. Got sam as an in and out, and then I've got kn6n6fmd and sweet dxn out. Out in the. In the badlands. Huh. Well, that sounds like fun. Let's see. Did we miss anybody?
Speaker B: I don't know how long I'm gonna have cell phone service, but I just want to give a shout out. It's Jimmy and I. Yes. We're gonna go do a whole day of park activations. Should be at our first stop here within about a half hour, 45 minutes. So anybody interested in working some rare parks? Some of these parks haven't even been activated yet that we know of. We'll be out here all day. We're hitting four parks today, so anybody
Speaker D: wants to try to work us, look
Speaker B: for us spotted on the PODA page. Thanks for taking my check in Theta K6DXN and then 6Up and Peace.
Speaker A: Okay, we will check the PODA page and see what band you're on. You're gonna have a great time. How nice that you. You have PODA buddies that you can go out and do this kind of thing and enjoy the great outdoors while you're talking to podcast people. Glad that. Glad that you're doing that.
Speaker D: All right.
Speaker B: We have a great time, man. Well, thank you for taking my check in everybody out there. Have a great day. Oh, by the way, trivia tomorrow night. I'm out of town till Saturday and Dawn is out of town as well. So if you can pass that on, I appreciate it. I'll try to get out here tomorrow to announce it again. No trivia tomorrow night. Not from us anyway. K6DXN portable 7.
Speaker A: Okay. No organized, rational. Well, well, set up trivia tomorrow night. Just this wild, radical flinging of questions. We got it. Okay. We can handle that. You have a great time and enjoy your setting up and all of Your adventures there. This is WAX EWF K4LGI. Sam, good morning.
Speaker C: Good morning Theta Everybody here from Denver. I got up early and got back and decided to go a few places here and there and whatnot. I don't have anything to do today. I just taking it easy. Probably go outside, do some walking around and stuff. So I did hear Brian on this morning ai6us on 160. He was knocking them down. I got a couple of Japanese states and Chinese and he went over to aaf. So I'm over there and he got just doing pretty good on FTA. That's about it from here. Denver Beta K4 LGI.
Speaker A: Very good. Well, did you pick up any good contacts listening there?
Speaker C: No, I was just listening and I'll have to put up an antenna, one of those type of deals. Anyway, first time I picked him up I was so surprised. I've been trying for six months maybe and the band was really good on 80 and 160 this morning. So anyway, no, I didn't hear. I didn't talk to him. Thank you.
Speaker A: Ah yes, the perpetual antenna problem. It is a whole lot easier to talk to these people if you have an antenna. So sad. Well, glad that you heard him and I don't know if he's listening but otherwise we might pass that along if we hear him later.
Speaker C: He had really good signal strength and the Chinese guy called him back. He was calling CQ and he heard him over in China pretty good and they called him back. He got the guy in China. So he's got a pretty good signal I guess.
Speaker A: Yeah, he has antennas up in the big tall trees and he likes doing that. He has the. The ultimate antenna shooter so he can get the lines up there high enough to cover a lot of the world. Very good. Well, I'll mention that to him if I hear him on later and I hope you have a good day. You said you were going to go walking around so it must be pleasant in Denver today.
Speaker C: Yes, warming up. Little place I go out there and watch the Canada geese and all that. And with a coat on of course. So I would check the weather yet. Do that later. Thank you very much for letting me jump in here and we hope you have a nice day there Cape for lgi.
Speaker A: You too Sam. And don't let the Canada geese take you on the knee there. They can do damage. This is WA60WF for the coffee Breaknet. Let's see some other things going on on the Coffee Breaknet area. Not on Coffee Break but On our repeater W6EK tonight is the weekly 2 meter net at 7:30 where you will learn about the ARRL news, the satellite report and the mystery question. And they may talk about solar flares tonight. You never can tell. Tomorrow night should be trivia night. Well it will be trivia night. It should be a well organized and orderly trivia night. When dawn runs it. When they're out of town we just kind of go crazy. So if you want crazy trivia, check in tomorrow and scratch your head on some of these questions. We learn things, you never know. Monday is the AllnodesNet at 6 o' clock and they'll talk about obviously all things node. It's on the repeater and on All Starlink 51018 if you are so inclined to that. The old brunette is the first and third Wednesday of the month. So let's see, that was last night. It'll be the third Wednesday again. Next Wednesday is the in the shack on the Club zoom room at 7:30. And that, that's a little bit more show us your projects kinds of event. Great fun for everybody. So those are some of the nets going on. Let's see who is out there. Who wants to do either quick in and outs or rag chew. We've got some time. Let's. Let's waste some of this morning.
Speaker D: 86ed,
Speaker E: Kilo oscar 6 lima, golf papa glenn and out. Good morning.
Speaker F: Kilo oscar six echo, bravo, quebec in
Speaker A: and out
Speaker D: and 60 Ms. In and out.
Speaker G: Kb3ajn in and out.
Speaker A: Very good. Okay, we got kd3 ajn isn't in and out. I'll get right back to you. N6ems also in and out. Ko6ebq. Steven, you're an in and out. Ko6lgp. Glenn, you're an in and out. And kb6ed, you're my. You're my chat. So I don't think we missed anybody that seemed to be very orderly. Anyone else on that list? So ko6lgp Glenn, good morning. What's up for you today?
Speaker E: Good morning. Watching the fog recede a little bit here in the Thomas this morning. Getting ready for the walk as it warms up a little bit. And of course piano practice and general study are on the list today as we prepare to enjoy life for another great day. Thank you very much. This is Glenn, in and out.
Speaker A: Oh, I do admire your dedication to improving your brain by taking up the piano. Good for you. Someday you'll have to do a recital for us. We'll all have to. Oh, I'm not allowed to do that, are we? Well, we'll do it on Zoom and you can play the piano for us. You have a great day and I hope you enjoy all of your little projects. K06 Good morning. What are you up to?
Speaker F: Good morning, Theta. Jerry in the coffee breaknet. Steven. K06ebq. What am I up to? Well, I'm waiting for the last piece to assemble my mesh core router. I've been working with Jeff in trying to get the mesh core up inactive, but I'm waiting for the filter to come in so that I can get that and help fill in the east side of Roseville here with the mesh core. Of course, that's what we're all going to learn about on the 13th of this month, right?
Speaker A: Yeah. You have a deadline, so you need to track that filter down.
Speaker C: Oh, it's on order.
Speaker F: It'll get here probably first part of next week. So. Been fun to play with that. I can't say I made it correct the first time, but I guess that's
Speaker A: the hobby you get.
Speaker F: You get to learn by doing and find out what you did right and what you didn't do right. But heck, that's why we're all doing this, right?
Speaker A: I, you know, I almost suspect that there's an element of ADHD amongst hams, amongst many hams. Where. Okay, I've got this HS stuff down. This is great. Now I'm going to do 2 meter. Now I've got 2 meter down. I'm going to do digital. Now I've got digital down. I'm going to do mesh core. So. Yeah, it's never ending, is it?
Speaker F: No, it's not. And you know, the one thing that someone, no one told me when I got into this a year and a half ago, almost two years, is, you know, you're going to have to open up your wallet more than you think.
Speaker A: And the guys down at HRO are so good at helping you find efficient ways to empty that wallet. Yes, but it is a hobby, so
Speaker F: what do you expect? You gotta pay something to have fun and entertain yourself. So anyhow, that's it. The mash corps is going to be up first part of next week. Looking forward to it. And more to come at the club meeting on the 13th with that theta and Jerry and the rest of the coffee break, I turn it back to net control. K06Ebq.
Speaker D: Clear.
Speaker A: Well, you have a great day, Steven. This is WA60WF N6EMS. Got Bob. Good morning.
Speaker D: Morning, theta. Morning, Terry. November 6th echo, Mike, Sierra.
Speaker E: Hey, Nothing special, but I did want to jump in.
Speaker A: I heard you say that
Speaker E: trivia this Friday was going to be a.
Speaker C: A hodgepodge,
Speaker E: duck and catch type question type situation.
Speaker A: And you know me, I'm all down with that. And for just sake, I will vary
Speaker E: the questions up a little bit this time and not stick all in health care.
Speaker D: All right? Just in and out.
Speaker C: Say hey and appreciate you guys and
Speaker E: what you do for the club and
Speaker C: the net and everything.
Speaker A: Catch you later.
Speaker E: N60MS.
Speaker A: Hey, we learned a lot last week. Not last week. Yeah, I guess it was last week, wasn't it? The last time we did that? We learned a lot from you. So yeah, I didn't have any problem. I didn't know any of the. But Jerry says he's ready to take his MCATs. You're a good study guide. You have a great day and we'll be talking tomorrow. This is WA60WF KD3AJN. Good morning, Anna.
Speaker G: Good morning, SATA and everyone else on the net. Not too much going on here today. We're at home, it's 18 degrees and you know, obviously I don't like to go out when it's cold, but I did run to the bank and came right back. But that was about it today. Not too much else going on. It's supposed to have some snow tomorrow and be cold again. So that's what we're looking at for the weekend. Everybody have a good week. KB3.
Speaker A: Well, yes. You stay in and stay warm and don't be trying to slide around on the ice. We don't want to hear that you've fallen. We see too much of that when it's icy. You take care. And you have a good weekend too. Thanks for checking in. This is WA60WF, the coffee breakneck. KB6ED. Good morning. Are you here or back at home?
Speaker D: Yeah, I'm here. Good morning, Data. Good morning, Jerry and Vanette. TB60DD. I'm really craving some coffee. My dad's still in bed and waiting for him to get up. I want to take us out to Hungry Hollow for breakfast. And I forgot to tell him last night before. Before he decided up too late and then sleep in, so. My bad.
Speaker A: Indeed. You can't blame anybody else but yourself. That's sad. Do you bring your pup down with you when you come to visit him?
Speaker D: I do and she's gotten really big. She? I've got a crate here. Or not. Well, in addition to a crate, a pen over a tarp in the living room. And that's where she hangs out at night. She's pretty spoiled. And then backyard access for most of the day, except when the weather was really bad. Turned into kind of a mud pit back there. But, yeah, I bring her with me. And in fact, today we've got a point dog training session. Excuse me, frog in my throat. Later on in the day, and it's our third one, so looking forward to that. Gonna learn some new tricks. We've been working on heel and she's coming right along.
Speaker A: Well, she's a smart breed, so I. And eager to please. That's really important. That helps with the training. Well, that'll be fun. Always fun to do new tricks. I'm teaching Rocky find it. And I've got a bunch of little containers, so I'll put a treat in. I started with all of them and
Speaker F: now
Speaker A: they'll be missing one. So she can find it, but there's nothing there. So now eventually, the goal is to get it to the treat in one of those containers. So she has to go all over the house checking all of them before she finds her goody. She seems to really enjoy that game a lot. So we're doing that. And I have a friend who teaches who trains her dog, so.

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Speaker A: So she's given me tips on fun games to play in small spaces.
Speaker B: That does sound fun. Are these containers something that you spread out through the area or I've seen where you can put, like, bits of their food or something in kind of a puzzle format that's all on one grid that they can flip over and find the pieces, figure out ways to work through the puzzle. But is there something that you spread the containers out and they end up in random spots that she has to sniff out?
Speaker A: Yeah, she has one of those puzzle boxes, and at first it was a challenge for her, and now she just goes. There's a lid that comes off, a lid that slides, and then there's one that has a little drawer she has to pull out, and there's a fourth one. Anyway, she just goes through that in 30 seconds. Bang, bang, bang. She's got that one down. But, yes, what I'm doing is putting treats in just little Tupperware bowls. Not Tupperware, but, you know, food storage bowl kind of things, the little ones, and hide them around the house and tell her to find it. And she. She knows there are four of them because if she's only found three, she really looks for number four. So she can count and he can count, and. Yeah, that. That's a lot of fun for him. He looks forward to that.
Speaker B: Well, that's. Yeah. I'm always looking for new ideas, and that sounds like a fun one. We play a game in the backyard of, you know, I name off the toys, and then she brings them and puts them in a bucket and gets. It gets a treat for doing that. And, yeah, the fun stuff. I. On a different topic, I kind of got sidetracked from my book for a little bit. I'm always late to the party with some of these shows that come out, and I decided to watch an episode of the Diplomat, and I've just been stuck binging it here for a bit.
Speaker A: Which season are you on?
Speaker B: I'm on season three, and I hate knowing that I'm headed towards the end of the. You know, that I'm gonna have to wait. And I don't know when this season came out. Probably. Tell me how long I'm going to have to wait for season four or if it's indeed coming along. But I'm at episode five, season three.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. The writers on that show are so good. It's just a good story. They. They can leave you hanging just right at the end of each episode and keep you wanting more. And I love the characters. They're all relatable characters that I really enjoy. Except maybe the new president. I'm not too wild about her, but even she has her plus side. So, yeah, good writing, good storytelling.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm really enjoying, indeed, not only the writing, but the characters, the actual actors, they do a great job of swinging me between liking a character or, you know, disliking a character. I mean, that prime minister, I want to poke him in the eyes, but then, you know, he turns around and does something that makes me think, well, maybe he's not so bad. And then they swing me right back the other way.
Speaker A: Yeah, he starts off being the villain and turns out he wasn't the villain. And then he gets relatable and then he, like you say, does something evil again. And it does keep you guessing. Yeah.
Speaker B: So tell me, is there a season 4? I'm sure I could Google it up, but are we looking forward to a season four and is it coming soon?
Speaker A: There will be a season four, but I'm not sure when that's going to happen, so we will just have to for it.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'll be eager for that to happen. And I'm looking forward to the super bowl. And I'm looking forward to the commercials. I love that commercial. And you did a great job of describing it earlier. I think my sister shot it along to me in a text, and I. I was just blown away. I. I did not know that it wasn't cgi. That's fascinating to hear that, and thanks for sharing that. That's. I'll probably have to go track down some more information on how they put that together, because it's. It's really incredible and stunning. Captivating. So, yeah, looking forward to the Super Bowl.
Speaker A: Yes, we. We are looking forward.
Speaker C: Also,
Speaker A: we're not particularly football fans, but we do like some good games. We watch the 49ers, typically. I like to watch the Dallas Cowboys. I'm the only Cowboy fan. The super bowl, of course, is all about the ads. Hopefully there's a good football game interspersed with the ads.
Speaker B: Yes, indeed. And I like to root for the underdog. I like a game that's got the potential for a big turnaround and then start rooting for the underdog, like, halfway through for a good comeback. And when there are turnovers and stuff, that's when I get excited and really rooting for that team to turn it around and make things happen. So I'm looking forward to something like that. Also the food. I mean, I'm going to get into all the stuff that I shouldn't eat and. And not even feel bad about it.
Speaker A: Yep. That's. That's the plan for the. For the event. So that, that will be fun and we'll all. We'll all talk about it when the game's over with who did what and what they should have done. Yeah.
Speaker B: Well, I hope you have a great week the rest of your week and a great weekend. And I don't really have anything else for the net today but enjoying your net. Thank you for running it and
Speaker C: getting
Speaker B: a phone call there as you do with. Anyway, I'll turn it back to you and let you carry on with the net here.
Speaker A: KV6ED73.73ED go answer the phone. This is WA60WF for the coffee breaknet. Who else do we have out there who wants to join in and talk about such important things as, let's see, chocolate fondue, Nutella, pork rinds or the best Jerry says the best vacation spot you ever went to. We have all sorts of topics we can talk about. So who's out there? This is. Wait.
Speaker C: Good Morning Theta WV6H.
Speaker D: Ki6rt. Good morning Theta Jerry. Comment k4lgi.
Speaker A: Okay, let's see. I got john at ki6rt and ryan w6h and sam. K4lgi has a comment come back. Sam.
Speaker E: Yeah, I've seen most of those ads.
Speaker D: They're very clever.
Speaker E: This year you can they end on NTD evening news in the sports section. They were playing a one per day and there may be a couple more left. Usually Download that after 6pm here Local Denver time.
Speaker D: It's.
Speaker E: But they may have a few left. They're in playing them and they're pretty clever. Anyway, that's my comment K4LGI.
Speaker D: See you later.
Speaker A: The only one I've seen is the Budweiser ad and it's a real pulls your heartstrings. That's a good one. Very good. Well, I'll have to go check that out. Wu Successful Ryan, good morning.
Speaker C: Good morning Theta Jerry, Rocky and Nanette. WU6H here. Subscription services. Man, that's. That's like the new leak on your checking account, right? So you know, going through the checking account on my app and I'm scrolling through and my gosh, getting all kinds of just auto withdrawals on stuff I don't even use anymore. Like there was some I had to sign up. I had a free trial. Forgot to cancel that. That was my bad on some like scanner program. But then just the stuff on tv, right? We've got Apple tv, Disney plus Paramount plus Peacock, you know, all of that stuff. And I said, honey, do we really need anything on Apple tv? Oh, yeah, sure. Season three is gonna come out of this break. I said, well, what about Paramount? Well, I like to watch Star Trek. I said, well, what about Peacock? I gotta get all my SVU stuff in there. So it looks like were trapped in this modern day leech.
Speaker A: Oh, we go through the same thing. I don't think we have Apple TV anymore. There are some programs on there that look like they might be good, but I'm going to just ignore that, turn my head and look the other way. But yeah, Paramount plus and Disney. Oh, Disney. The Muppet show came on last night and we enjoyed it so much.
Speaker C: Oh, boy. Yeah, that brings back memories. I forgot that was he. You know, I knew it was coming out, but I. I forgot that it was coming out. So yeah, good call. Anyway, when you add up all of our subscription services just for video. 20, 30, 40, 50. Oh, and of course I forgot Netflix. Right. So it must be at least 80 bucks a month, maybe more.
Speaker A: Well, if you use them. The way I feel about it is if we use them, if we look at things on them, then it's worth it. If it's something that. Like Apple. We watched the soccer coach. Yeah, I can't think of his name. You know it. But we watched that. And then at the end of that last season, we just discontinued Apple. Haven't started that again. But. But Ted Lasso. We will watch one or two shows on each of those, but we really enjoy them, so it's worth it.
Speaker C: Yeah, but that was my grumble for the day. Got it off my chest. So I'll check out with the receptionist. Thank you for the session.
Speaker A: Make an appointment for the next one. Yes, we absolve you of your. Of your grief over subscription services. And Ryan, you and your wife are worth it. So that's what you just have to keep telling yourself. I am worth this subscription. It's like my Kindle Unlimited. I say, oh, these are free books. It points out immediately that it costs something like 14.99amonth. But I read that many books, so I'm worth it. You're worth it, Ryan.
Speaker C: You.
Speaker A: You can have that and not feel bad about it.
Speaker C: I feel so much better than later.
Speaker A: WU6873 73. Ryan, you have a great day. KI6RT John, how do you feel about subscription services?
Speaker D: Good morning, Theta Jerry.
Speaker B: Subscription services.
Speaker D: It's sort of a love hate thing.
Speaker B: It.
Speaker D: The love is. Once you sign up, there's some Good shows, as you said. But there's a lot of services I don't know that I signed for and I still have and I pay for. And I don't see it until I look at, you know, some consolidated bill.
Speaker A: Yes, I. We. We understand that. We do try and be pretty proactive about cleaning that stuff up, but, you know, there's some of them that sneak through, so, you know, are bad. Did you get on jury duty or did you manage to escape?
Speaker D: I managed to escape. I. I had enough stuff on the profile that they said, well, we don't want you. Number one, you're an engineer. Number two, there's too many people in your extended family that are in law enforcement. And number three, you're on a jury doing a similar case. And I guess I didn't give them the right answers, or I must have given them the right answers to get off jury dating.
Speaker A: Well, that's not necessarily true. I got called and actually got seated, and I was the very first one that the defendant or the defending lawyer challenged and kicked off the panel. So, you know, you. Sometimes you still do have to go through the process, even though, you know. And they know they don't want you.
Speaker D: That's very true. I thought I was gonna not be seated at all, but I ended up getting called into the second group of alternates, but neither here nor there. The judge was hilarious. He was really good in providing sort of education about the court system, the Constitution. Why this is important is actually quite motivating and funny. So I actually enjoyed listening to the guy.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. It's a fascinating process. I really did enjoy that. And I would have enjoyed being on the. On the jury and actually hammering that guilty person. Did I. Did I let that sneak out? Anyway, yeah. Jerry wants to know who the judge was, or do you remember?
Speaker D: I think it was. I think the first name was Mike. I can't remember. Mike Michael. Michael.
Speaker B: Jones
Speaker D: County Superior Court, District 3.
Speaker A: New. New guys since Jerry's been off the. Off the bench for a few years now, so maybe 10 years. So, yeah, there are new judges coming in that he just never had a opportunity to work with. Well, so you're free. And so Jerry says you missed a good bike ride yesterday. It was a beautiful day for it.
Speaker D: Yes, indeed. I was trying to move a meeting, but I had a meeting with a customer down in Florida that I just could not move. Otherwise I would have been there. And you're right. The day was absolutely beautiful.
Speaker A: Work sucks. It just gets in the way of fun stuff, doesn't it?
Speaker D: Yes and no. Actually, I still enjoy my work other than some days the administravia and.

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Speaker A: Nonsense minutiae, you know, elevates almost the threshold of saying this is not worth it.
Speaker B: I think I would feel that way after the 12 hour flight to Singapore the third time.
Speaker A: Well, it does get boring, but once you figure out how to survive, then it's easier. It actually made the flight to Hawaii seem like a commuter flight.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, you hardly got settled in and there you were. Yeah, that sounded like a great vacation for you.
Speaker A: Yeah, we had a good time. It was a great time to go to Hawaii. You know, a lot of the kids are in school and brain was empty.
Speaker C: The islands were empty.
Speaker A: It was a good time. We had a great time. Weather was perfect.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's the nice thing about Hawaii. It's pretty perfect. On Oahu, the rain in the mornings and sunny afternoons and temperature in the mid-70s. I mean there was standard weather forecast number one and very seldom deviated from that. So it was just delightful. But after a while it gets boring if you're there too long. But you were on the Big island, right? And you got to see, see the volcano.
Speaker A: Well, as we were landing, the volcano was going crazy. We were trying to get out and go see it, but we didn't make it over there. We did get there the next day and some of the people that were there during the eruption really gave me pause about whether I want to see there live in person. They were talking about all the ash and particulates in the air. And although they had a mask on the next morning when they blew their nose, they came out the second day and were showing in some of the videos they took. Even coming out the second day they had nosebleeds. I mean that must be a lot of volcanic ashes. Very, very sharp, cutting into their breathing pathways. I can only imagine what it did to their lungs.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, and that eruption threw a lot of rocks. So there were the large sized ones, but then there's Pele's hair, which are these just fine like spider web, thin strands of glass basically. And that breaks up and yeah, you need to have not like swim goggles on to protect your eyes and a gas mask or rebreather so that, you know, a standard little piece of paper mask is not going to save you from all of that stuff.
Speaker A: Yes, indeed. You know, I seen some, you know, movies about Yellowstone blowing up and people trying to survive the fallout. And this is just a tiny little eruption on one little volcano. And the amount of mayhem and whatnot it threw out was amazing. It was all over the ground. You can pick it up and crush it in your hand and if you looked at it really carefully, it definitely looks like cotton candy made out of glass.
Speaker B: Yep, we're familiar with that. We never saw a spouting eruption. The Pu' U o vent was erupting while we lived there and Margaret and I flew over to the big island the day that the lava hit the ocean. So we were kind of standing back and watching the sulfuric acid blowing up not too far from us. Probably not the smartest thing long term but for a one time event I thought it was worth doing. So we, we got to see that. But it nothing like is going on in Kilauea. And honestly I'm just happy to watch it on my computer. So I, I can imagine it's quite an event to see close up. But yeah, all that stuff in the air, not, not, not.
Speaker A: Yes indeed. I was more interested in finding a good Mai Tai and you know, some umbrella drinks. I also spent a little bit of time chasing a round white ball around a park. After playing 10 or so holes I decided this is vacation. Why am I hurting myself? Did a bit of snorkeling. Yeah, it's just a very relaxing time. But I did find a lot of people that specifically came out on the weekend. We were there because they were monitoring USGS seismic activity and they knew it was going to erupt so they came out. I said where did you guys come from? People came from New York City. They were that much of volcanic activity enthusiasts to fly across the nation and out to Hawaii. I'm not that kind of a die hard. I think volcanoes are interesting and great and I like you would rather watch it on my tv.
Speaker B: Well it is kind of a once in a lifetime thing to see Mother Nature. Someone said it looked like arterial bleeding stuff fountaining up so amazingly and usually the prevailing winds blows it away from what they've set up as the viewing area. But that last eruption, there were no winds apparently. So it just went straight up and then straight down. So nobody had any clear airspace. But yeah, I could see doing that. If you've never seen a volcano erupt or lava flowing, I can see somebody wanting to do that badly enough to fly from New York. So you can see that once and cross that off your bucket list?
Speaker A: Yes, absolutely. I remember sailing in the Caribbean one year when Montserrat or whatever had blown. I wasn't there when it blew up, but it was still smoldering when we were sailing past it. I thought that was pretty interesting, but that's about as close as I want to get to those kinds of events. Anyhow, it was a great day yesterday. I'm hoping today is equally equally a good day as we start making some more rain next week. So should be a good weekend. Thank you for running the net, Jerry. I'll try to make it out. Actually next week I'm going to be in Morristown so we'll not make the bike ride that next week as well. Oh well, I'll catch up with you guys one of these weeks with that I'll turn it back over to you. 73 Ki6rt back to you Peter.
Speaker B: Well, thanks for checking in. Say hi to Michelle for us and we will talk to you another day. This is WA6 CWM. This is the Coffee Break net. We're approaching the end of our morning together. So who else is out there who wants to either do quick in and outs or shortish chats or anything? This is WCWF. Come talk to me.
Speaker A: Ka6uai recheck
Speaker D: n2dyi mobile in and out.
Speaker C: Kk 6am in and out.
Speaker B: Okay, let's see. I got Brian ai6us and as an in and out kk6am got you into DYI mobile in and out and a recheck with ka6uai. Go ahead ka6uai.
Speaker E: Oh, I just thought I would check back in briefly and now my phone's ringing.
Speaker B: Oh, go answer your phone and check back in later. Into dyi. You're mobile off to the dentist.
Speaker E: That was Max and Makai got a couple of bites of the hot dog that we hide the pills in. Max apparently ate the hot dog and the pill came out on one of
Speaker C: them and he just chewed the pill
Speaker E: up and ate that too. So I guess he will just eat anything. Plus he has some chewable ones so he's taking six every morning they go and some food but it's a routine now. And the devices as I mentioned, tell them when that's supposed to happen and when it gets to be about 8:15 or no, 8 o'.
Speaker A: Clock.
Speaker E: Now for the cookie time, Max will
Speaker A: get up and stretch and start looking
Speaker E: at the device waiting for it to go off. As you mentioned, they do know how to tell time. But anyway, I'm at my desk now and gonna get some work done. There's the phone again, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna pass it back to the net.
Speaker A: K6Uai73.
Speaker B: 73 Ron into DYI. Patrick, where are you off to?
Speaker D: Hey, good morning SATA, Jerry and everyone on the net. Well, I'm actually coming back from the dentist Office finally got an appointment that
Speaker A: I've been waiting for for a while.
Speaker D: Got a root canal, got a cleaning. And it was an adventure getting into
Speaker A: the car this morning. The doors were all frozen shut except for the trunk.
Speaker D: Got the trunk open, so I had
Speaker A: to crawl from the back all the
Speaker D: way to the front of the car to get the doors open from the inside.
Speaker A: And that was all very exciting.
Speaker D: But anyway, I'm done with that for the next two weeks.
Speaker A: I have to go back on the 19th for two fillings.
Speaker D: But things were not as bad as
Speaker C: they could have been.
Speaker B: And they didn't even knock you out so badly that you're incoherent, so hopefully not in pain.
Speaker D: Yeah, a general anesthetic. They didn't knock me out or anything. But the cleaning I thought was worse
Speaker A: than the root canal.
Speaker B: Some of those dental hygienists get a little over enthusiastic. I've gotten to the point where I just say stop and know, back off. So actually, it's not the dental hygienist anymore for our place. Our dentist does it himself.
Speaker D: Yeah, that's understandable. Well, we got a little bit of
Speaker A: snow here just now.
Speaker D: I don't think it's going to do anything, but it's. Let's see, after we got a foot
Speaker A: of snow over the weekend and then
Speaker D: we got ice and snow the weekend before. Yeah, we don't really need any more.
Speaker B: No, because you probably don't have whole fleets of snow plows to deal with it.
Speaker D: Believe it or not, yes, we do. And I'm kind of surprised about that. What were you saying, Mom?
Speaker B: About the snow? It's coming down more than it was a while ago. Ah,
Speaker D: the official Kathleen report. The snow is coming down a little more than it was a minute ago.
Speaker A: There you go.
Speaker B: Well, nice to hear your mom's voice. Glad to hear you on Talk to Us again. High Defata. Hi, y'. All.
Speaker D: There you go. Some third party traffic from Mom.
Speaker E: I just.
Speaker D: I told her I check into this net every day. I haven't missed one in over a year, but I don't think I've ever actually heard her. No, you have. Anyway, I'll let you get on to the.
Speaker B: Oh, go ahead. I was just gonna say, how fortunate is she, right, to hear my voice?
Speaker D: All right, I'll let you get onto the rest of the net.
Speaker C: Everyone have a great day.
Speaker D: And Tootie.
Speaker A: Bye.
Speaker B: Well, drive carefully, Mom. In the snow. And then stay in and stay warm. This is WA6EWF KI6AI6US. Good morning, Brian.
Speaker C: Hey, good Morning. And good morning to Kathleen. Good to hear that Patrick's mom actually does exist. We've heard about her so many years, but has never heard her voice. So very, very good. Hey, good morning. Just wanted to say good morning to everybody. And as I kind of just a lazy day for me, a couple things shipped today, but other than that, just kind of hanging around the house and probably play some radio.
Speaker B: Well, we hear a report that you were on 160, making good contacts.
Speaker C: Yeah, I had heard Sam on earlier. I just caught the end of what he was saying, and I wasn't sure if he had caught me on 160 or 80 meters. But, yeah, it's really interesting to me that you can work stations halfway across around the world on 160 meters because it's right below AM broadcast radio. And, you know, we get really excited if we hear a station on AM broadcast radio from 1500 miles away and then be able to work another ham radio operator on a nearby frequency halfway around the world.
Speaker A: I just, you know, it's.
Speaker C: For me, I think that's one of the more amazing things of our hobby.
Speaker B: Yes, the signals bounce around all over the place, don't they? Very good. Well, it sounds like you had a lot of fun this morning playing radio.
Speaker C: Yeah. Lynn went to work and it was about 4am and I just went, well, I'm not going back to sleep. You know, we chatted before she went.
Speaker E: I just wasn't. Wasn't going to come back to bed.
Speaker C: So I thought, you know, make the most of the morning, get up and play radio.
Speaker E: So that's what I sometimes will do.
Speaker C: But, yeah, 160, 80 meters. We're in just excellent condition this morning. But other than that, you have a wonderful day. Thank you for running the net this morning and thank you for you and Jerry coming out to support the VE program. I don't know if you heard, all three of the technicians received their call signs Wednesday morning, and we've heard Sam on the air already. He dropped by a couple times yesterday, so. And a big shout out to, of course, Garrett, club member, who is now a general, and what we got two generals and two extras as well. So a really great session and really appreciate you and Jerry being part of it.
Speaker B: It's always fun to see these guys and gals go in and come back out with smiling faces and how nice that the. The calls are coming so nice and quickly so they can just dive right in and get going.
Speaker A: Yep.
Speaker C: You know, even my experience, you know, it's been, what, about eight years almost nine years ago that I got back into amateur radio and, you know, waiting for, I think was five weeks or so after the exam to get my mail notification of my license. And boy, you know, everybody. You sell that, that's really fast. Back in our day, you know, we had to wait two or three months and now, you know, here, new license is granted within what, less than 48 hours? Pretty. Very amazing. Anyway, you have a wonderful day and thanks for running the net. WA60WF AI6US.
Speaker B: Well, you have a great day too, Brian. Don't work too hard. This is WA60WF KK6am Good morning, Ray.
Speaker F: Good morning. I don't know about you, but when Patrick first signed on, I just can't get the image out of my head of his driving.
Speaker B: Yeah, in 3Dyi Mobile. You're right. Well, he says he. I think somebody did let him drive once, but. Yeah, I'm having a fun time image picturing him crawling through the. The trunk, through the car, to open the door. That's when you need a little blowtorch.
Speaker F: Yeah, but that screws up the paint you need. Actually, what works better is a heat
Speaker A: gun
Speaker B: or a hairdryer.
Speaker F: But hair dryers don't have enough power. Get a good heat gun and yeah, it works much better.
Speaker B: Very good. Very good. Yes. Well, we don't have to worry about that here. And I like that.
Speaker F: Well, I definitely do too.
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Speaker A: One other alternative that Thomas keeps threatening. Flamethrower.
Speaker B: Well, you talk about messing up the paint.
Speaker A: This is clear off the driveway and sidewalks and stuff like that. Hopefully they're concrete instead of asphalt.
Speaker B: I saw a clip on Facebook of one guy doing the clearing his driveway with the flamethrower. Yes. There are people who do that.
Speaker A: Well, apparently you can get away with that in Tennessee. In California, do you try to get arrested?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. There has to be some kind of law against that. Well, as I say, I'm glad we don't have to worry about it.
Speaker A: I agree. Whoever came up with that thing about strapping a snow shovel to the front of your car and drive south until somebody says, what's that? Yeah, I agree.
Speaker B: Yeah. That was a guy who worked with us in Boston when he retired. That's what he said he was going to do. I'm not sure where he ever ended up, but I can guarantee you it was someplace warm.
Speaker A: Good for him. Yeah. The other thing is talking about dogs and stuff and stupid tricks. Oakley likes to chase balls. And as a matter of fact, if you don't throw the ball, Christina says he just goes find another ball and drops it at your feet. And she was working on a Zoom presentation the other day, and she said by the time she was done, there were 11 balls at her foot.
Speaker B: And then the poor dog has the problem of which ball, which hole. How many can he fit in his mouth?
Speaker A: Probably too many.
Speaker B: I think I saw something with the world record golf tennis ball in the mouth was like six or something like that. The dog looked like it had the mumps. Ah.
Speaker A: But the real trick is use ping pong balls and find out which dogs don't break the ping pong balls. They're the ones to use for retrieving game.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Because you want to encourage, encourage that gentle mouth. Rocky would be a good retriever. He has a very gentle mouth. But yeah, he's. He retrieves Lambie. He'll bring me lambie or duck. So he is a good retriever. But we didn't do his ping pong balls.
Speaker A: You know, it's just one of those kind of fun things like do they crash the ping pong ball. And a Labrador almost never will. Some of the smaller dogs, everybody thinks, oh, they're so cute. Yeah, they'll trace it and eat it.
Speaker B: Rocky is the first dog we've had that would not. That doesn't disembowel his dog dust animals. This Lambie, this is his second Lambie since we got him. And only because the first one was trashed by Mizo so we had to replace that lambie. But he does, he is very gentle mouthed with his, with his stuffies. He likes his toys but he doesn't rip them up.
Speaker A: That's good. Yeah, Oakley. At least before they moved he had no problem with tearing everything up.
Speaker B: I gave our cleaning ladies dogs a Christmas present. I just gave them a bag full of toys and I said I'm so sorry, I'm just created the shoes mitts for you. And they said oh that's fine, that's fine. But they had two little dogs and she said that that whole bag full of toys lasted about a day and a half.
Speaker A: Yeah, I can imagine that. Anyway, you're getting close to time so I think I'll let you go. Good talking to you always. KK 06:00am
Speaker B: Good talking to you too, Ray. Always a pleasure. This is WACCWF for the coffee breaknet. Jerry just showed me a picture of the Aurora Borealis over North Pole Alaska. Pretty spectacular. Lots of color in there. The purple is the greens. Wow, that's, that's beautiful. So the good, good sunspot weather. Anyway, this is getting close to the end. I will take log onlys or in and outs. So tell me your do you want to be on the log or you want to chat with me? This is WA60WF for the coffee breaknet.
Speaker C: Okay, I think DC in and out.
Speaker A: Kilo Mike 6 Mike Mike for the log please.
Speaker D: Kilo Golf 9 Mike in and out for the log.
Speaker E: Wp6uvk for the log.
Speaker B: Okay, let's see. Did we hear thomas kmc6mjb? Apparently not. Okay, we'll try and figure that one out in a minute. KN6GAA. We've got you long or in and out? Okay. Are you log or in and out? Kn6 gaa. Okay, I'm going to call you for the log then. WB6U B J got you in the log. Good morning. KG9M. You're in the log. Oh, I'm sorry. That's an in and out. I'll get back to you. KM6 mm, you're in the log. And Ki6TC isn't in and out. So I'll hear it right back to you. Let me figure out KN6 GAA. Are you still with
Speaker E: Morning Fatah? Sorry about that.
Speaker F: We got the lawnmower outside and we got somebody trying to tear the stairs down as they apparently try to repair them, so I couldn't hear the first call. My apologies.
Speaker B: Do you want to be log or in and out?
Speaker E: Go ahead and put me in for the log.
Speaker F: And good morning to everybody.
Speaker B: Very good. We got you in the log. And there was somebody else that we missed. Who did we miss in that list?
Speaker A: Stay down the net.
Speaker C: Kilo
Speaker A: for the log only.
Speaker B: And you guys doubled beautifully. But I think one of them was KG6 November Lima Whiskey.
Speaker F: Roger. Roger.
Speaker A: You got it.
Speaker B: And you doubled with somebody. Who's that? W6JMP for the log. W6JMV for the log. Okay, got you in the lot. Have a great day. Let's see. Ki 60 tc. Glenn, I understand you're going to breakfast at some place that you and Ed Hungry Hollow for breakfast. What are you going to have for breakfast?
Speaker C: Good morning Theta. And good morning to the net. Well, I always like scrambled egg on top of my waffle or pancake and then alongside and I down it with coffee.
Speaker B: That sounds like a really good breakfast. Well, I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker C: Sometimes I take my own syrup because I only use pure maple syrup. Hey, were your ears burning yesterday?
Speaker B: What were you talking about?
Speaker C: Well, the national topic was carrot cake. And naturally we had to talk about you.
Speaker B: Oh, I am honored. Yes, I did hear some. A few comments about my carrot cake.
Speaker A: And.
Speaker B: And it is good. But we didn't have carrot cake yesterday.
Speaker E: So,
Speaker B: so sad.
Speaker C: I had an interesting dream this morning about. I slept in. But it was about food, desserts. And it was one of these desserts. There were many desserts on the table, but one was all by itself and it was corn flakes wrapped around apples and cinnamon. And it was crunchy.
Speaker B: You know, that would be crunchy. I wonder how you can make that work. Because the apples, if you cook them, the apples lose liquid. So that would make the corn flakes not crunchy. Maybe you have to do that as a topping. I have to think about that one.
Speaker C: Well, we may have to leave that as a dream. So Edward's waiting for me and I am pleasured to be able to talk to you on the net and offstage. 73 Ki 6 TC.
Speaker B: Thank you. Well, you have a great day and go enjoy breakfast. Let's see. KG9M Frank, good morning.
Speaker D: Morning, Fata.
Speaker F: Good morning, Jerry.
Speaker D: Good morning everyone on the net. I know we're at the end here, so I'll be quick. I know you mentioned Hamfest is coming up March 28th. We do need volunteers. I know you mentioned that too, but just wanted to put another plug out for that. You can either contact the team lead that you assisted with last time or as you mentioned, go to the website hamfest.w6ek.org and sign up, but we want to start filling out the roster of volunteers. I know you will be out there, Theta. Thank you so much as always for all the support that you provide to the event. But we need more folks to raise their hands and to commit so that we know that we've got all that we need for another excellent event. So other than that, Theta, that's all I have. Thanks again for running the net and again for all that you do for the club. Kilo Golf, 9 Mike, back to net.
Speaker B: Maybe you should put up a table or a station at the next ham meeting when we're going to have lots of people show up because they want to see the new space and trap them before they can go out the door. They have to sign up for something.
Speaker D: That's an excellent suggestion.
Speaker C: Thank you. All right, take care and have a great day.
Speaker F: Kilobell 9 Mike 73.
Speaker B: This is Sac Valley's original 105 machine. W6 GRC with a PL tone of 110.9. Copy Breaknet. And we are. We've have passed the magic official hour. I will take logs or very quick in and outs. Who's out there?
Speaker F: Kilo Charlie 6, Sierra, Lima, Echo,
Speaker B: Kilo
Speaker A: 6 Delta,
Speaker B: Ai6lz for the log.
Speaker E: W8ldt for the log only.
Speaker C: Good morning.
Speaker E: Say that Jerry.
Speaker A: Q@delta six hotel oscar november for the log.
Speaker E: Thank you.
Speaker F: Wb7 ukx log only.
Speaker A: Alpha Keyless 6 November Sierra, log only.
Speaker E: Okay, here's who we got. AK6 November, Sierra, Whiskey Bravo 7, Uniform, Kilo, X Ray, KD6, Hotel Oscar November, W8 Lima, Del Tango and AI6, Lima Zulu all for the log and K6DLK.
Speaker C: Good morning Dan.
Speaker E: We'll be back to you and KC6SLE.
Speaker C: Good morning, Graydon.
Speaker E: You're over in Reno, right? Or are you at Tahoe?
Speaker B: Good morning, Peter.
Speaker F: Good morning, Nanette. No, we're in Reno. I'm looking in downtown Reno right now from the Pepper Mill.
Speaker A: Cool morning.
Speaker F: About 40 degrees outside. I mentioned yesterday that I would go ahead and get a board after our journey over the summit. I got to tell you, there's not much snow up there. I mean there is a dusting of snow on all the high peak snows down to about probably the 7,000 foot level. But it's thin.
Speaker A: It's really thin.
Speaker F: You can see the rocks, you can see the dirt through the snow. So we need a couple good storms to come through and build this reservoir up.
Speaker E: Indeed we do. And it's not just us. My Daughter took her family to Bend, Oregon a week ago or so. And she said there was a lot of sledding on very thin snow, or skiing or snowboarding. And they were hitting mud and rocks. So it can be kind of rough. And I know why you go to Reno. The coffers start getting a little low. So you go up there and let Lisa do her magic and bring that money in.
Speaker F: Well, you always tease me about having a knack for mechanical and engineering things. Lisa seems to have the knack for or slot machines, and she enjoys it. We're actually up here though, to see my grandson and his family tonight. We will do that. We're meeting them at 5 o' clock for dinner. But as long as we're coming up here, I treated her to another day yesterday so she could play. And in fact, she's out playing this morning. Let's put it this way, Lisa's very prudent and she does not lose money. She may not make any money, but she doesn't lose any money and sometimes make money.
Speaker E: Well, you know, if you go and you come out having broken even, you know, based upon the mathematical odds, that's a win in Reno,
Speaker F: you know, for me, a win is not playing at all. I'm happy with not incurring any gambling losses. I learned a long time ago that I'm never going to get rich gambling. I mean, I know it's pure luck, but that's not the kind of luck I have.
Speaker E: If it wasn't for bad luck, you'd have no luck at all. It does remind me of a case I read when I was going through law school all these many years ago, and there was a rule in the revenue code, I think it's still there, that you can deduct gambling losses to the extent of winnings, but you can't deduct the excess losses. So apparently this guy went to the horse racing track and had a big win. And so he was offsetting the big win by all of these losses he incurred on other bets. And in reading the opinion, the judge notes that many of the subs that were submitted as evidence had footprints on them and were for the same race, multiple horses. In other words, after the race, he just went and picked stuff up off the ground. I'd love that story.
Speaker F: Well, I guess we got to give him credit. We gotta say that was clever on his part. But no, just like I'm sure the government will figure out a way to tax us on any earnings we make on indefinite. They aren't going to allow us to take any deductions, any losses we make on investment, it's going to be a one way street. Same thing with gambling. Anyway, the best thing for me to do is do something else. Lisa enjoys it, so it's an opportunity to come up here, see the grandson, and also give her a little away time from the house and the project down there. I know these are short in and out. Good hearing from you, Jerry. Thanks for your help on the Starlink system. I'll jump back on that when I, when I get home. I think the first thing I've got to do, just like you and I have talked, I've got to get the Starlink system itself mounted on the house so I have unobstructed sky.
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Speaker A: Had a good plan. It was just poorly executed. Yeah, it must see the sky. Doesn't need to see a lot of it, but it has to be towards the north and pretty well unobstructed. Like I said, we went up to stampede up through those lodgepole pines and you know, the little windows we had. It did. Okay, so get it up where it sees the skies and you will be very happy. Have a great time up there and tell Lisa hello and good luck. Thank you, Jerry.
Speaker B: And again, thanks for all your help, everyone.
Speaker A: Have a great day.
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Speaker A: And you too. And good morning, Dan. You've been out on the waves already this morning.
Speaker B: WA6E inquires. Good morning, Jerry. No, it is a recovery day. I, I got in a little over my head on this one. I'm aging out and acting like I'm still in my teens and the water spanked me yesterday. The hut is very near a surf spot named Stouffer's. I usually take the paddle board out in that area and it's usually very calm, but with the winds from the south, everybody's out there. You've got paddlers mixed in with kiters with. Mixed in with surfers. It's a pretty, pretty funny scene. It's just a great, great blend, I guess. Wasn't anticipating quite so much wind and stuff, but I can hear everything coming alive. I can hear the water, the jet skis out there, and everybody heading down to the boat launch and the birds are finally settling down. So I'm still at the hut and I'm probably going to venture out shortly.
Speaker A: Very good. Well, I can just imagine all the surfers out there. I've seen the photos you send. It looked really nice. The kite boarders, okay, we can put up with them, the outrigger canoes, you know, all of that stuff. But you mentioned one thing. Jet skis. The guys go out on jet skis. What for? Just to harass all the surfers? Yeah.
Speaker B: No. Some people launch on the other side up north towards Maalaia, and you can see them come into the Kihei boat launch area. But there's a lot of good folks out there and they usually adhere to some rules, I guess to keep everyone safe. Nobody gets in anybody else's hair. I did have a bunch of friends get together. We got together down and got caught up on the beach. And friend, I think you were right, from Oregon. I said Washington, but they're up in that area. I think he did mention kiting in the same area that you did as well, that you Said you saw some great things going on. He was trying to convince me to learn. I said, I'm a little late to get into that.
Speaker A: Oh, Dan, you're never too late. Go for it. Just keep going until it breaks every bone in your body and then get up just like Monty Python, you know, it's just a fresh wound. Keep going for it.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: That was up on the Columbia Gorge, up the river from Portland, about the Dalles or so. And you go out there and it looks like flies at a picnic. Guys with these kite boards everywhere, and they're jumping 20ft in the air and flipping around. It's incredible to watch. I have never done it.
Speaker B: Yeah, it is incredible, not only to watch, but to hear about the commitment Damian came from. I said Washington, but I believe you were right, Oregon to get into this event. When he found out things were, I guess, happening at the same time, that he could get some time off and make the trip. And then I ran into somebody else that was heading out with him from Canada, actually. I thought that was a real big commitment. But I guess these guys fly wherever they can to take advantage of the weather and the conditions and bring their sport with them. They actually fly with their kites.
Speaker A: Yeah. Almost looks dangerous, doesn't it? And you mentioned southerly winds. I would have thought that would be the norm there. When we lived in Honolulu, the trade winds were every day, and they primarily came from the southeast. When we got the north wind is when all hell broke loose. The Kona winds.
Speaker B: I'm getting my directions messed up. These are konas.
Speaker A: You're right.
Speaker B: They're coming in from the south east. So you're right. All I know is it's not the norm for us here. And because of that, we're getting a little bit of the vlog that comes in and sets up and makes for some nice, nice sunsets. And I didn't even realize that Stouffer's even came this far north until all the kids showed up. And it's something to see. Boy, they certainly get the memo quickly as far as where the decent surf is. And I say decent because nice, rhythmic water at 6ft or so with a lot of water behind it. It's just nice. It's perfect waves for those who are enjoying and not hitting the more extreme stuff.
Speaker A: Yeah, the pictures you sent, they did look predictable. Nice, even waves, and that makes for great surfing. So with all these people out there, does it look like a Los Angeles freeway or rush hour?
Speaker B: No. In fact, it's really neat to see. I watched from on the water for a bit. And they got a little and kind of weird, you know, when coming in, when the waves actually generate a backwash of wave, that's. It just gets kind of weird for me and I like to be out of the water. So I stopped and I started watching this. And culturally right there, there are rules on the wave. Whoever's in it first, it has the right of way. And everybody. It's interesting to see those who catch the same wave just jump out and pull back. Everyone seemed to be very supportive of each other. There's a lot of conversation going on between. Between the sets that were coming in. I just never realized it got so densely packed though. I mean they were all out there. A lot of smiles though. So it was obvious that everybody was just enjoying themselves and nobody had a problem.
Speaker A: Well, that's the way it should be. And there's a lot of smiles because it sure beats going to work or school. So you know what surprised me was the North Shore on Oahu in the wintertime, like right now, they have these humongous waves coming in. Of course they have these big contests out there with, gee, I don't know, 25, 30 foot waves. And we used to go scuba diving on the North Shore in the summertime and it was just flat, hardly any waves at all. Amazing difference in the time of year.
Speaker B: Absolutely. Ho' Okipa on the Pa' IA side has the same type of setup where you can get in the water and enjoy splashing around, swimming with the turtles and just enjoy a nice day out there. But when the surf is up, you don't want to get too close. On the North Shore on Oahu was where I had my humbling experience. I thought I was pretty good in the water until I wasn't on a day at KA in a point. And it took my dad pushing me out of the water and getting the water out of me for me to realize that things can go bad.
Speaker A: Oh, this is WA6E. Yes, one of those little aha moments. Fortunately you managed to survive it. There are those who don't. NN6H is in the background there making snarky comments. Tom, you want to make them direct to Dan instead of sub rosa? Good morning.
Speaker C: No, I was just. I just had text Dan. It says when flying with your kites, it would be easier to fly with a plane, wouldn't it?
Speaker B: Yeah, I think Jerry beat you to that. He was making all kinds of comments about my saying that the friend flew from. I mistakenly said Washington with his kite and he said that it was a long way to fly, but, boy, seeing what these guys can do, I'm pretty sure they can do it if the wind conditions were right.
Speaker C: Anyway, we're envious of you out there and enjoy your time there and be safe. Seems like. Yeah, it's really crazy out there, so be safe. Anyway, thanks for letting me butt in there, Jerry.
Speaker B: NN6H. Thanks, Tom.
Speaker A: So, Dan, on a different subject, last night, Theta and I watched the reprieve of the Muppet show, and it was excellent. They did a real nice job. For those of you who grew up watching that or whose kids grew up watching the Muppet show, they've started it up again, and it was very well done. It's on the Disney Channel. They didn't change much. I mean, they had a winner, so don't fix it. And Statler and Waldorf were on there, and I just couldn't help but laugh and think of you and Mike, Dan.
Speaker B: Well, I'm glad to hear they brought it back. And, you know, we don't have the exclusive on that. I think that there are a number of relationships out there that qualify as Statler and Waldorf contenders. I don't know. We were having this discussion on our last visit, my last visit with Mike Wave at a neighbor. Here I'm on the front porch, and I guess the subject came up while we were. While we were. He was driving, I was riding, and the subject came up how this came about. And I remember Orient sharing the idea of Statler and Waldorf and saying that someone had referred to us as that. I don't know how that came about. That's the first reference I remember, if it goes back further. But, yeah, I think we fell into that pretty easily because we do have fun cracking up about everything around us and calling things as we see it.
Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know who started it, but as the masters of the snarky comments, you guys can at least wear the crown. Others may attempt to. To dethrone you, but no, that's simply not going to work. And you know the old saying, it's a shoe. F.
Speaker B: We seem to throw a good bit of it at each other, too. With Mike's relocation, I'm certainly going to have to step up my game to make sure that I can throw it farther to get to him.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, we'll see how he does when he finally relocates. Where is the young lad? I haven't heard him on for several days.
Speaker B: Oh, he's busy. We always end up with the wake up Texts flying back and forth and usually find out what the tone is of the day with each other, whether we're going to be chatting by phone and coming up with something to laugh at or whether things have already started. And now that he's on east coast time and he's clearing out, I think he's busy meeting with people and clearing the way. He's clearing the path to head out, as you know. So he makes contacts with people and I guess makes appointments throughout the day, and that's what he's doing. And if I do well throughout the day, I find time to take him away from that, usually while he complains about it.
Speaker A: Thus the origin of the snarky comments. Well, very good. Enjoy your day over there on Maui. Have a good one. And before you leave, I just want to remind you, when you go back inside, don't forget to turn off that tape recording you have playing in the background of all the birds.
Speaker B: Yeah. You know, and here's the funny thing. I come out to the front porch to sit down out here because it's shady, but it's actually quieter than the racket out of the back. This is the light version of the recording. I was asked the other day how things are out here as far as the traffic goes and as far as how many people are coming to visit. And I do think now that Lahaina is impacted, their backup and running. Kaanapali area, Napili as John Ki6rt, I think went up there prior to his Big island trip. All that area is up, but a lot of traffic down here in the south side from people who are frequenting this area now.
Speaker A: I may have been asking you that, and I was really wondering how the rebuilding was coming because, you know, it takes a while to recover from a big fire like that. And so it sounds like they've come back to Maui, but they're all descending upon your part of the island. Yeah.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's great to see. I mean, it is really crowded and surprised. I mean, really crowded. I am so surprised to see this many people at this time, but they're all out here. We did a heavy day yesterday in the ocean, so today's going to be just kind of a kickback day. So I'll be able to report back to you on that because we are heading over to the Lahaina side. We usually do our traditional trip of stopping off at Leota's, which is a place, if anybody else is familiar with it, it's a pie shop. They make great sandwiches and burgers and Things like that. But it's on your way into Lahaina, and we stop and we do our pie first. We order these little mini pies, and you can enjoy your dessert first while they're creating your meal. And then we usually half a sandwich or a burger because they're pretty huge. So that's our trip today. I'll be going through the Lahainas area, maybe around the top, all the way back around through Kahului area. And we usually stop off at the various areas and bays on that side, too. So I'll give you the word later on next time I talk to you about what's happening on that side.
Speaker A: Okay. Well, let's get right down to one of the most important questions that the locals and the visitors both want to know. Is the Costco open?
Speaker B: I'm not sure. Is there a new Costco on the west side? Because the Costco in Kahului is always open. They haven't shut down. That's my go to. Is there a second Costco that you heard was being opened up?
Speaker A: No, I was not sure of the status of the one. That's really what I was asking about. So apparently it wasn't affected by the fire other than an increase in business.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, Costco. It's so funny to see, right? We're always at Costco, and inevitably you see somebody throwing up their arms and saying, hey, so and so, and just hugging and like, they haven't seen each other for a lifetime. And it just turns out that they haven't seen each other for, like, a few weeks or so. And one is from up country and one is from Lahaina. And Costco is. Is the spot that you run into those, you know, the friends, family, who are living in various parts of the island, but shop at the one Central Costco.
Speaker A: I see. So it's the social center of what's happening in Maui. I believe that the word Oahu means or has something to do with the gathering place. And it sounds like that Costco there has taken on that responsibility. Well, go out and get your feet wet. Have a good time, and watch out for all the traffic on the waves.
Speaker B: Will do. I've learned to watch out even more now, now that we've experienced this weird. Just crazy, crazy undertow and a weird shore break, a short break. The brake comes in, brakes quickly, and then you have this reverse wave that smacks you in the back. And as I mentioned to you, we're taught to never turn our backs to the ocean, but when you have something coming back from the shore? We're not sure. Maybe we should turn sideways now.
Speaker A: Oh, a reflected wave just as dangerous. Yeah. Never turn your back on fill in the blank with every thing right here. Well, have a good time. Just be careful and we'll look forward to your report tomorrow.
Speaker B: Terry, WA6E always a pleasure. Theta thanks for running the net and bringing us all together. WA6EWF I look forward to catching up with you on the next time. K6DL casing 73 and Aloha
Speaker A: 73 Dan, this is WA6E. Tom NN6H. Do you have anything else to add before we pull the plug here? No, just interested.
Speaker C: Just listening to the great conversation and yeah, I'm glad that Dan has changed his tape there with the birds.
Speaker B: It kind of reminds me of the Tiki Tiki Room.
Speaker C: Remember down in Disneyland where you go in there and you have all the. All the sound of the birds going on? It kind of sounds like that.
Speaker A: It does sound like that. The only difference is the birds aren't singing. So if the next time Dan comes on, we hear the birds singing in the background, we'll know it's all a big put on,
Speaker B: that's for sure. Anyway,
Speaker C: I really enjoy the Kihei area. The area, nothing south of that is where Dan is and definitely.

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Speaker A: I want to schedule a trip back to Maui. Maui is my favorite island there and love that. The Kamali Sands, Number one beach, number one vet area. It's always, always a great time there. So. Looking forward to that and. But it sound like to be a lot of people there. Anyway.
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Kn6mgk mobile. Well, I heard something, but maybe not all there. I didn't hear the normal all Star sound, so I'll just make sure I do it again. This KN6MTK is mobile. Yeah, sounds like the link is not there, so that's interesting. Wonder if anyone's hearing me. Kn6mgk sa.

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 W6RHC Repeater Check 3.

Beautiful day out here in Chico. Heading southbound on 99. It's a 60s already. Yeah, it's gonna be a nice one. KN6 MGK mobile.

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Well, not used to this repeater being this quiet anyway. Good morning, Everybody. Butte College area, 61 degrees. Another beautiful day. Seems like springtime. KN6MGK.

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Gears holds a slow speed Morse code mat on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm Frequency of 744 plus or minus if the frequency is in use. All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the net.

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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 next W6 RHC repeater check two.

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The year's monthly general membership meetings are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1118 Sherman Ave. In Chico. Doors open at 6pM and the meeting starts at 7pM all are welcome.

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Gears holds a free Morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come learn Morse Code W6R H C Repeater Check 1.

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One more time for n6kne from n6mvt. And 6m. All right, I went to high power here because I think I'm in a bad spot. And who is that? I didn't quite copy him. Yes, and who is it that I am speaking to? Over. This is Clarence up north here. I'm on system 25. My name is Clarence. November 6th Delta Uniform Kilo Twin. Hello, Clarence. Delta Uniform Kilo. I think it was maybe. Okay, yeah, there's some. I got noise on my signal here and there's some buzzing that's coming from up there, which I think is from the broadcast stuff. So, you know, the aggregate of it all doesn't. Isn't making for the clearest of communications. Unfortunately. Mike gave me a heads up on that. But where, where are you mobile? Oh, currently I am on Interstate 580 going through Castro Valley or up and over the grade. I'm going to drop down into Pleasanton and let you know where any of that is back to you. But the place you mentioned doesn't ring a bell. All right, well, I don't know how the traffic is, but sometimes you get hectic during 580. Let you go. Anyway, you're making it now. You're just, you know, with the noise. So. Anyway, have a good day, Tom. Good here you. It's been a while. Okay, you do the same. It's a nice day out there today. All right, talk to you later. N6MZT. What was the shade? It's probably 75 and there's no wind and anyway. All right, have a good one. Thomas 60, UK 73. I think that power supply pose was on his end. Either unit. System, please link up. I think you were asking about the buzz. Yeah, I think it's. It's something new that we've inherited up there on the receive. And you know, the antennas may be full of snow or there may be snow down on the ground and high reflection or something and you know, doing weird stuff is what I'm thinking. Yeah, that's always something. Yeah, it's like painting the Golden Gate Bridge, right? Get me finished or you got to go back and start over again. Yeah, no kidding, man. Well, talk about job security. I guess until they come up with something new that you know will last forever or start having drones do it or robots or some combination. I don't think it's too far off. Yeah. Remember when they told the toll takers don't worry about. Oh yeah, like my mom told me they said when it was open, you Know, it was only going to be. I don't know what it was back then, 25 cents or something like that. I forget. And you know. No, we'll never raise the rate. Yeah, I remember my dad throwing a quarter in the chute, but Golden Gate, I think was 75 cents or something like that. Yeah. All right, I'm going down the other side. I'm gonna have to switch over and kind of be in a little limbo state here. So I think, you know. And 6 MBT. Yep. By then I'll be back at the. Back at the office. So I'm gonna go finish up my HAZMAT training and download my certificate and I'm good. Hey, I'll be working on Bruno tomorrow, so I'll be making noise from up there. So I think, you know. All right, see ya. W JKV not so mobile. Wait. Well, I still got your attention here. You notice that every now and then when you unkey on 19, that sometimes you hear. Which sounds like intermod. It's not intermod, it's CO channel. I remember this same channel. I was up on San Benito when Len Fringle had it. I was running around in carrier squawks here the other day and heard a conversation coming out of Fresno. So occasionally some of their moles tickle the input to this one, which is kind of surprising. But. Yeah. Bonito. 5,280ft in the air, man. You ever been up there? It's due west of Frederick. I used to work out from Santa Cruz and a couple spots up on 2e. Yeah, great site. Lynn Pringle had his supercise remote up there. Yeah, I know the site, but I don't think I've ever been there. And I want to see what kind of. Maybe there's something gnarly about getting up there or something about it. It was gnarly. I forget. That thing sticks out for sure when you. When you it and you hear something there. That's actually, I believe the coming from the full duplex link. Because there's a full duplex link there northbound and southbound and you know, and that could be in the next hub and that's a full duplex link. So I think that's what you're hearing. We're talking about the same thing. System 12 link up. Yeah, but if that were the case, it would do it all the time, right? Or at least 50% of the time. No, this is not very often. Maybe once, twice an hour. It depends. And then when it does that and put it in Charge of squalls on my mobile here and loosen it up and listen. And sure enough, there's another machine out there, out there in the valley that's making a noise. I talked to the guy that was at one time he took it over from Lynn after he had passed. Okay, I can't. What the hell frequency you were using up there? Something like 325 ending in 325. Or my smoking thing, not the one that's still stuck on Volmer. When, when he did the magic switch, he took my 750 box and moved it to back out and took his three two five off of back. I put it in my spot on Volmer and it was co load with Bill Hudson who was running like, you know, 200 watts there already at the same, you know, in the building next door. That's when. That's when things were real ugly. But you know, you know some of the story. Yep. All the kind of stories you tell your grandkids and you're sitting around the fire, you know. Right. Sonny's having a nice cold 807 or something, huh? Jesus. All right, I'm here. See ya. WB6JTB is definitely, finally totally cleared until I go inside and grab the hd. Oh, God. All right, that's a threat. Don't forget it. All right. Stuck in the traffic going towards, you know, eastbound or. Yeah, eastbound and all that stuff. And 6 MVT, He's not on this one anymore. He had to switch over to 12. So he won't hear you, you're unknow.

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