Transcriptions for 2026-02-11

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.

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Speaker A: N5ea. And five eka and seven dry. M7 dry m5 eaa.
Speaker B: I'm surprised. I got you. Death valley at badwater junction.
Speaker C: Yeah, that high potency system's way up high though. Has a pretty good. You'll have to have a look in repeater book when you, when you get back. See your home base there? Yeah, that's the high potency when it's on that mountain between Vegas and Pahrump I believe. Way up high up there. So it's got a good, good long reach on.
Speaker A: Well, we're going to walk around some
Speaker B: ruins over here called Asheville Mill ruins and the super bloom of flower here is incredible. It's just astounding. It had quite a wet few weeks and it's all popped out.
Speaker C: Roger. Yeah, drop me a picture when you get a chance and I'll be monitoring here. I'm going to sit down and do some computer work for K7ZDQ. So I'm sitting at the radio in 7 dry.
Speaker A: I'm gonna take a break and go watch these ruins. So I'll touch base with you a little later. Got the radio on.
Speaker B: I'll see you. How far up the road we're going to go north up to highway that is goes back to K. I think it's 190 and then grab some dinner out and get ready to pack up so we can head out early in the morning. 73 on your final dry N5E.
Speaker C: Okay. I don't know if you can hear me or not. 1070 ry I'll be monitoring.

Yeah, I think it's going to rain in Magalia. N6 and 10.

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Speaker A: Kk6vzd mobile.
Speaker B: Wow, Paul, you're very, very scratchy. I can tell it's you,
Speaker A: but that's just about all I can.
Speaker B: A little clear, but very, very noisy. So. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not sure we could. Whether we could carry on a conversation. Yeah, not a problem. I just came in. I'm on an HT in the house. We'll leave it at that. Safe travels. Okay, We're gonna have to make you a. Another antenna for your HT and just be able to swap it out when you're in the house. Swap out antennas and use something that's got a bit more gain. All right. Have a good evening, whatever it is you got planned. Enjoy the rain.

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Speaker A: 32 kb6 wsa mobile. Sounds like a plan.

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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.

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Qst, qst, qst. This is Larry, located in Chico, your net control station for tonight's Golden Empire Amateur radio society club. Net. This net meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30pm on the W6RHC repeater for the purpose of fellowship and public service through amateur radio. Is there any station with emergency or priority traffic? Are there any general announcements for the net? If you have an announcement for the net, please respond with your call sign. I have one announcement. KF6NCX, Larry, the net net control station. At 3:30pm on Thursday, as we do every week, we'll have the slow speed Morse code net on the 40 meter band. Frequency is 7005.2. We meet at 3:30pm and if you're learning CW or you want to brush up or you just want to participate, please, please join us at 3:30pm on Thursday. Kn6pww. Check in. When checking in, please give your call sign, name and location. Please key up for a full second before speaking due to the repeater lag time. Okay, first is KN6PWW. This is KN6PWW, Jamie and Chico. I'm gonna be in and out, but I did have an announcement for the map. The gears breakfast is this weekend, Saturday at 9am Daylight Savings Time there at the. At the Farmer's Skillet, Cohasset and Rio Lindo in Chico. That's it for me. Like I said, in and out tonight. KN6PWW, back to Tacoma. Okay, thanks Jamie, and thanks for the announcement. Next is K6EST, KG6KUO. Good evening. This is KG6KUO. I'm going to be in and out tonight, but I'll be listening and you have a good evening. Thanks for running it. Thanks, Lester. You have a good evening too. Next is kf6ncx. That's me, Larry, Net control. Well, let's see. We had a good slow speed VW NET last Thursday. I think there were six participants and I was the only one from Chico. There were a couple of guys from up near Susanville, someone down in Southern California and someone from Idaho and someone else I believe. So that went pretty well. We'll hope for a good turnout this Thursday too. I got on the air a little bit this afternoon for about an hour and middle of the afternoon and 10 meters seemed to be really open, especially to Asia. I had I think four short kusos, two with Japanese stations and one with a guy whose call sign was was N7ET DU7 and I thought that May he was in Germany on his station that starts with a D and being in Germany and I asked him, are you in Germany? And he sent something back. I didn't, couldn't quite copy. So I didn't get that. But I looked him up later and turned out it was the Philippines. I guess to you is the Philippines. I'll remember that for next time. Okay, that's it for me. How about W6Js? W6Js here, Tom. We had a pretty good BEC session. We have five participants. We had, let me see, we had an extra, which was unbelievable. He didn't miss anything. 100. I've never seen a. Well, it happens once in a while, but not very often. We had an upgrade from a tech to a general. Then we had two techs and I, I say it all the time. You've got to fill out your paperwork how you did what with fcc because they'll kick it back. And I had two of them they kicked back on and just messes everything up because it kicks back the whole thing. So I gotta find out what's wrong and then I gotta resubmit everything. But I, I finished it up today and they should be getting their licenses tomorrow or notified that they had a license. One guy's got to pay his fee. But that was a good, a good meeting and I gotta thank my ve's. They're the ones that really do it for me. I, I just do the paperwork. I guess that's it. I'll be sticking around listening. This is Tom, W6JS for clear. Okay, thanks Tom. Thanks for the report. And that sounds like a great testing session. Maybe some new Gears members coming on board. You know, I just realized I'm doing this wrong and this is supposed to be the roll call and somehow I morphed it into the, into the round table. So let's continue just doing the roll call and you can tell me if you're going to be in and out or sticking around. And then we'll go back and do the roundtable the way we're supposed to. So my apologies. So in the check ins, in the, in the roll call. Next is KN6QXL. Gerald, How about K7KIS7KFF? Sorry about that, Kevin. K7KFF. Kevin and Chico and I haven't got anything for the net tonight except that to mention that echo link is down. I'll be in and out. Thank you. Okay, thanks. Kevin, thanks for alerting us about the echo link. And you have a good evening. How about KD6 Lok? Good evening and thanks for making the correction. It shows that hams can learn from their mistakes. Doug's being a jerk. Hey, thanks for doing the net. I'll be in and out tonight. 730-Katie-6 Aloke. Hey, thanks, Doug. You have a good evening. And yeah, I'm always learning. Learning something new every day, it seems. Next is K6DUK. Yes, good evening. This is Clarence and Corning. Just mark me down is in and out, but I always enjoy the nets. I'll be around listening. 73, everybody. Okay, thanks, Clarence. You have a good night. K6 Gab. Hey, good evening. This is Greg, K6JB in Chico. I'm in and out this evening, but thanks for doing the nut. Have a good evening. Hey, you have a good evening too, Greg. Thanks for the check in. KN6PJU. Good evening. This is Dennis checking in. KN6PJU. And I am in and out. All right, thanks for the check in, Dennis. How about KC6UFE? 6UFE? Billing cape? Good evening. Check me in and put me on the roundtable. Hey, Bill, thanks. You're on the round table. How about KN6JHT? Okay, thanks. Chris, are you. Maybe you're on an HT tonight. I can barely hear you. But I did understand what said about the breakfast. And then you'll be in and out. Thanks for checking in and have a good evening. Ab6cyj. Kj6we.x. J6wv. Kwm. Aj n6jlx. November 6th. Julia lima x ray. Mel in palermo with no traffic. And I'll be in and out tonight. Thank you. Okay, thanks for checking in. Mel. How about k06 kkw? And I'm not sure if I called this all this one already, but I'll call it again just to make sure. KN6KWM. L6l u m. Finally, though, I don't think we'll hear from him because if he is around, he depends on Echo Link. K6YLH. Okay, that takes care of the roll call. Is there anybody that I missed? Any late members? For any visitors who want to check in, Late members, anyone else who wants to check in, visitors or late members, Anybody at all. Well, now it's time for the swap segment. If you have a ham related item to sell, trade, give away or that you want, please respond with your call sign. Anyone at all with something to trade or borrow or that you want to buy or that you have to sell, now's your chance. 86 Lok. 86 Lok. I asked this somewhere else. Don't remember. Maybe I asked it here, but I have over the years picked Up a couple of tower pieces. Tripod tower pieces. I am now looking for bases for those. If anyone has any ideas for a base. I do not know the names on the towers, what they are. I have a top for one and it seemed like they're all the same diamond or not that they're all the same dimensions. So I'm wondering if someone can give me some information on finding a basis for these tower pieces that I have. Thanks. Let's see. IV Wheeler@att.net or 530-873-9287 and I'm on Facebook but I prefer email or the phone. Thanks Katie. 6lok comment? Want to have a comment about that? Yes I do. How. How tall is your towers there? You have probably three or four sections. Yes, I have several sections. They didn't all come from the same place so I'm pretty sure they're probably different brands. But I don't know that I haven't been able to find a name on any of the pieces yet. Well, the roans usually don't have their name on it. However, if you've got at least three to four sections, just cement the bottom section ended. Well, that's what I've done. Oh, all right. I hadn't really thought about that. I thought about sticking some pipes in the ground and then setting the towers on top of that or maybe some rebar or something like that and then just setting a tower on top of that, but hadn't really given thought about cementing the whole thing in. Thanks kg6k otter kd6lok I'll be clear too. I got another net I got to get to. Thanks you guys. 73 KD 6 Lok hey anyone else with any anything having to do with swap, buying, selling, needing radio related items if you do come now. Okay, has anyone joined us just now and wants to check in on before we start the roll call if you have anything. If you want to check in, please come with your call sign. Okay. Well now we'll do the rest of the roll call, the rest of the roundtable. I'm sorry, it looks like KC6 UFE Bill and Cape is up. What's new Bill? What's going on? And good evening to the net. And it looks like right around now we're having the school club roundup on the bands which is kind of fun get to chat with the younger crowd. So I put a couple of those in my log and Brazil has always been a little bit difficult for me to do DXing into Brazil but they're having a I guess it's a Brazilian Counties contest, I guess you would call it. So there's a lot of Brazilian guys on the radio and I've made quite a few little contacts into Brazil, which is kind of nice. I've had a real tough time getting a hold of them. So other than that, I'm fooling around with a short vertical for the 160 meter band. It's a commercial setup called the Moonraker and I got it set up. I just gotta get out there with my internalizer and figure out where to set the whip. So I'm looking forward to that. Of course it's not going to be, you know, stellar, but it should do locally anyway. So I'm looking forward to playing around with that. Not much else. Back to you, Larry. KC6UFE. Hey, good deal, Bill. That antenna is called the Moonraker. It sounds interesting. And when are those two things going on? The School Club Roundup and Brazilian Counties contest. They're just going on this week. Can you tell us a little more about that? Yeah, I think they're going on till the end of the month. Both of them are. So plenty of time to get a hold of them and sounds to me like the repeaters having some kind of a problem. It's fading in and out. It might be associated with that hum that's to going, going on so. But something's going on. Anyway, back to you, Larry. Okay, I hear the hum, but not hearing any qsb, but I guess that's possible on the repeater qsb. Well, we'll have to look into that. Thanks, Bill. Anyone else with any, any comments or anybody want to check in at this point? Okay, last, last chance to check in or make a comment before we close the net. Larry, this is Tom W6Js. I didn't think I used up my time, but I have questions for you. I'm always eager to take questions since I know all the answers. Right. Go ahead, Tom. On your slow speed, how slow is it? Oh, maybe ten words a minute, maybe a little less. Some along that line. Okay. Do you know what they're using or just throwing stuff out there? Are they using text from the AWRL or anything like that? And how long does it go on for? You know, it depends on how many people are participating.

W6Js here. Tom. We had a pretty good BEC session. We have five participants. We had, we had an extra, which was unbelievable. He didn't miss anything a hundred percent. I've never seen a. Well, it happens once in a while, but not very often. We had an upgrade from a tech to a general. Then we had two techs and I. I say it all the time. You got to fill out your paperwork how you did with. With fcc, because they'll kick it back. And I had two of them. They kick back on it just messes everything up because it kicks back the whole thing. So I gotta find out what's wrong and then I gotta resubmit everything. But I. I finished it up today and they should be getting their licenses tomorrow or notified that they had their license. One guy's got to pay his fee. But that was a good, good meeting and I got to thank my ve's. They're the ones that really do it for me. I. I just do the paperwork. I guess that's it. I'll be sticking around listening. This is Tom, W6JS. We're clear.

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Hey, good evening. This is Greg K6JB in Chico. I'm in and out this evening, but thanks for doing the net. Have a good evening.

Speaker A: Larry, this is Tom. W6JS I didn't
Speaker B: think I used up my time, but I have questions for you. On your slow speed. How slow is it? Okay.
Speaker A: Do you know what they're using or just throwing stuff out there? Are they using text from ARRL or anything like that? And how long does it go on for?

And it starts at 3:30. Sometimes it, it goes for half an hour. Sometimes it's lasted even for, for an hour. And we don't use any special text or anything. We kind of run it like, like do this net. And it just begins with some, some boilerplate and an introduction about what the net is and who's sponsoring it. And then we take check ins just like we do with this net. And then the net control person calls on everybody to ask them for a little bit of news, if they have anything to say. Often they just give a weather report, say what the weather's like where they are and say hello. And that's. And that's about it. And it closes. So that's the way it goes. And we try to keep the speed pretty slow. Well, it sounds pretty interesting. Maybe try to listen in on it. I know my hand isn't too fast anymore and I passed it way back 30 years ago at five words a minute. And I don't know, I can go 10 words but I'll listen. Well, thank you sir. You've done a good job. Larry, this is Tom W6Js. We're clear. Okay, thanks Tom. Sure. That'd be great if you listened. You don't even have to check in if you don't feel like it. You could just listen and see how the, how you copy it, what you copy. And then if you feel like it, jump in with your call sign with you hear a request for check ins. Or they use this funny Q code that I learned once I started getting involved with nebs qni. Qni means check in. So Q and I question mark anybody want to check in? And we also ask in regular English any check ins. So jump in if you feel like it. That would be great. Okay, any more comments before we close things up? Well, this concludes this week's Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society Club Net. Thank you to everyone who checked in tonight. You're invited back next week. This is Larry. KF6NCX returning the W6RHC repeater to its formal monitoring to its normal monitoring service, the Net. This net is closed at 7:52pm 73 to all. KF6 NCX is clear.

Well, it sounds pretty interesting. Maybe try to listen in on it. I don't. My hand isn't too fast anymore, and I passed it way back 30 years ago at five words a minute. I don't know if I can go 10 words, but I'll listen. Well, thank you, sir. You've done a good job. Larry, this is Tom W. 6Js. We're clear.

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

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This is KD6KUO of the sacrament running traffic net. This net's part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this letter to relay formal truck into and out of Sacramento Valley and the provider sand emergency directed. Please name no transmissions without permission to control. All stations are requested Control. W6 rhc repeater check 2. Kf6 obi mike in willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg6 ko's calling roll. No traffic. Kg6tso. It looks like she's asleep. Kf6dj y, K6rcs, Kilo echo six papa mike tango, rustin gerber. Good evening, lester. In a group and I have no traffic. Good rest. Thank you. Kc6ufe, kc6ufe. Bill in cape. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww. Kn6tww. This is jamie and chico. The traffic and. Good evening, lester and the group. Good evening, jamie. Thank you. All right, that's the rule as I have it. Do we have any lake members or visitors? Mr. Check in. No further traffic. Check in. This is K6KO closing secondary traffic. On 146 E5.

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KG6 Kuo. KF6 DJY. KG6 Kuo. Go ahead. Good evening, Lester. KF6 DJY. Late check in Mobile in Chico, will you? Have a good drive and a good evening. This is kg 60k. Clear. And thanks for checking in. Thank you. Lester, you sound like you feel a little bit better. How's Betty feeling? She's doing a little better, but right now she's asleep. But she. She's a lot better than I am right now. Well, that's good that she's doing better. I hope you're getting better too, so I'll let you go. KS6DJY. All right. Well, you've had a good evening, and again, thank you for calling and checking in. This is KG60K. O clear.

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Speaker A: Kd6 poc mobile and roner park system 26 link up
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System kilo echo 6, november. System 12 link up. System 11 link possible. Pretty good. I'm assuming you're connected to one or three. Pretty clear. So which of your radios are you currently using? This is only the first one. Got it. I'm curious if you try the D 168 right now. Programming should be identical to mine. And my only impression I had is CT or CL on both the up and the down side. So why don't you try your 68? Oh, that is a good point. We did not. Okay. Well, at least you've got it working at this point, which sort of explains why you could hit the repeater and I got you just fine. But you couldn't get it from me coming back. Yeah, I was scratching my head for a little bit. I figured out what was going on. That's a good deal. I'm glad you got working. When are you back to work next? If you're going to go there, you should take your radio. You can see how the performance is from over there. All right, well, I'm going to sign off since I got to get up early in the morning. Absolutely. Welcome to november victor romeo.

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Speaker A: Well, did you wake up this morning, Mr. J?
Speaker B: N6wi q w I p shoot,
Speaker A: I forgot. N6ntm. Got a little under an inch of rain, but when I went to
Speaker B: bed last night, it was pouring. I was expecting a couple inches. Damn it.

Yeah. You're the guy for it, though. Well, what kind of camera did he get?

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So there's a lot of stuff in the news here lately, especially with that lady that got kidnapped. But there's a lot of stuff in the news about the ring camera doorbell setups. Other people being able to look at them and they're keeping an eye on you. Other people being able to look at them and they know when you leave your house and when you come back to your house they thought that lady was going to church. That's what the police said, that somebody called them from the church and said she hadn't come there and she hadn't been going to church for six months or a year and that's because they were looking at her camera. Yes, she left and came back at about the same time as church because she was going over to her church ladies house. Her and several other church members were going over to one of their their friend's house and watching it on TV instead of going to church.

Speaker A: Well, they're putting a dent in the rings sales. I guarantee you when they have that much publicity downgrading, you know, their product like that over the news especially. But anyway, I would like to be able to keep an eye on the neighbor's house. He bought a camera, set it all up. He bought four of them so that I'd be able to keep an eye on his place when he goes to China, which is in another week or so. So if you got any, if you got any suggestions there, I'd like to at least get one over there so I can see if anybody comes. Two would be optimum and so I could watch it from the house here. I'm going to guess and say that we're probably at least 700ft apart, but complete
Speaker B: line of sight. He shut all that off or it's set to be shut off? Yeah. He does not have Internet.

No, I, I, I, I already know. Yeah, you are limited. But they, that's what they do. They put an amplifier line. Remember the guy that, you know, I mean, I have a, I have a 200 foot one running out to the card that runs the, the stepper antenna. So that instead of counting on the WI fi end of it, I just plug in a network cable. Okay? So but if I put something right out, say at the street 300ft away, that boost it up and runs it here, it's easy for me to put the network cable out to the mailbox, for instance.

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Well, something's pushing me to put up that nice camera I got. I could see his house perfectly from, you know, 80ft up the tree. I'll have to get a tree climber to come over to him, mount that, but, you know, I'm long overdue. What. I've had that bad to the bone camera for, you know, couple of years now. And I've been, I've been overly happy since we did the synology thing and he talked me into doing a network because, heck, I got that end of it. I got that end of it. The network part complete, completed there. I'm perfectly happy with that. I got big legs, I'm an octopus. I got a 140 foot cable runs out to the shop for that router and I can, I can still put a TV out there. And I got one running over to the, the other shop here at Lori's mom's. And she doesn't even use it. She's still paying for Comcast and, and she has all the smart TV capabilities. But anyway, nothing stopped me from running, running the same cable up the tree out in the front that get me up about 60, 70ft. I could actually watch his place. But I'd like to have something dedicated, looking at his place in case anybody pulls in the driveway, you know, if they're gonna try to steal anything from him or break in, I just need to see the driveway in the front of the house. We could charge him. If you decide to take on this endeavor, if you come over and look at it and tell me, tell me what you think we need to do, he'll pay for everything. Lori tried to set up the camera that he bought. I don't remember the brand, but he bought four of them. Just little square boxes and it has a hub, but he didn't think that it would. It could make it over here, you know, via WI fi or whatever. He broke. He set it up, programmed it like the picture. Everything was good. Next day he turned it on, it was all gone. So he gave it to us. Lori tried to set it up and couldn't, couldn't get past the. With us. However he set it up, she couldn't get around that. So we never did find the actual range. I could put an extender out there on the power pole. The private one that's on the property here, that would be easy. I think that's within 400ft. I could go measure it off real fast. But I would like to set him up. You could increase your revenue by a little bit. Local Internet, but there ain't over there, but I have Internet. Okay, yeah, I get it.

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Speaker A: Wp6axm repeater.
Speaker B: Ko6bgy. Ko6pty. Iwh calling. Are you
Speaker A: out there, paul? Just having my first cup of coffee here. So
Speaker B: it's exciting to be weighing chip on a drink. Brewed coffee. Actually, I'd like to ask somebody how they make theirs. I got this thing, you know, pour the hot water in. I don't need to do it all at once. One time or seven times, I don't know. Oh, N6 IWH monitoring.

Speaker A: So send me the link. I'll walk it over to them and let them look at it. He can order it and send it
Speaker B: to my house. I can actually get
Speaker A: across the street and over to that big triangle out front. We got pipes that take the water from here in, into that center section. And so I can actually set up right there, less than 200ft from his place.
Speaker B: I have to put a pole up and all that stuff. Oh, I gave it back to him yesterday. Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker A: I was thinking, well, I always wanted to put that on the twin towers out in front so I could see up and down the road and most of the property,
Speaker B: I could spin that around and look right at his place. But I don't want it looking over there all the time. I think you
Speaker A: could set it up so that it. It didn't turn around and look at whatever you put it up on, which in this case is, you know, three foot across, cedar tree.

Yeah, mine either. What about when it gets wet from the rain?

Speaker A: Yeah, I wouldn't mind putting one inside the shop. There is a network cable there, so that would be easy. Can't believe I
Speaker B: cut open the driveway so many times. And even for water, which I haven't even put a sink out there and. And I still don't have water out there at the tree for the pressure washer. I'm still running a garden hose across the part of
Speaker A: the driveway. It's Ethernet. It's poe. I had to buy
Speaker B: the network box there to increase so it had the voltage to run the camera.

Speaker A: And there's trt 36 link, northern california.
Speaker B: Sounds like the billing department's not taking care of the bills, huh? They didn't pay the electricity for 22. Good morning, Mike. N6 kne.
Speaker A: Yeah, good morning, Ken. I'm not surprised one bit with 22 because that's going to be snow up there, not rain like I have.
Speaker B: Oh, you have a storm coming, don't you?
Speaker A: Been coming down in buckets all night?
Speaker B: Oh, I saw Southern California has got flood warnings, but I didn't see anything anywhere else. That was weird.
Speaker A: Well, I haven't been able to check. In fact, I'm not going to be able to check for a little bit, but I would think we have some warnings.
Speaker B: I was wondering why I was hearing the battery announcement while I was talking. I've got the broadcastify on.
Speaker A: Yeah, I was just thinking when I heard it in the background, that's what it had to be with that delay. It's got,
Speaker B: By the way, just FYI, that hub, that admin hub, that 64689, that is in monitor mode. So it monitors the main hub, 750 hub. So if you're listening on broadcaster vibe, you may hear stuff there that's not coming out over the link. Just if you're ever wondering.
Speaker A: Oh, really? Okay, that's interesting. I haven't tried yet because it's just been crazy up here and I, I am getting a couple. I got one thing I think under control. So now my next adventure this morning will be going out, out in this rain to care for the animals. That's going to be pretty crazy. I'm getting all suited up.
Speaker B: I would imagine you have a lot of wool wool jackets around. Come on. That was funny. Yeah.
Speaker A: At first I thought you were serious because wool does keep you warm and when it's wet, when it gets wet, although synthetics are better for that. But yeah, I have a lot of wool around and a lot of it's running around and I have 15 now. Right now I cut back.
Speaker B: Well, I just thought I'd chime in there and say hello to you. I'm in the middle of eating my breakfast here, sitting down here watching a video in the radio TV room. If I was in there with a wife, of course I wouldn't be talking on the radio. All right, well, I'll be listening here and yeah, give that broadcaster probably a try. I will talk to you later and stick. Okay, Eddie.
Speaker A: Okay, stay cool, stay cool as I am going to try to stay warm and dry. And six GRT talk to you later.

Speaker A: Check. All right, give me a minute. I'll be right back. N6 ntm. Good morning.
Speaker B: 106 mgk
Speaker A: and listening. No, yeah, I put some seed down before I left too, but little concerned about the snow next week. Yeah, I guess it is a four
Speaker B: letter word, huh? Yeah, I don't think I've planted anything that's gonna be too much affected, but the see just put down for clover and stuff. Well, it likes to have more like around 40 degrees at least in the morning to germinate and get going. So I think it might actually start, you know, in the next couple days. But unfortunately when that snow comes in, I'll probably just kill it right off, so. Probably wasted my money on that.
Speaker A: I'll have to go redo it again. Yeah, a lot of times
Speaker B: that's what we do. Yeah, try to keep that. You know, I like that a lot better. Yeah, I have to mow it a couple times, but that's way better than having weeds. I don't like to use Roundup products, but yeah, I have to use Roundup products too. I just don't want to use it everywhere.

Speaker A: Well, I don't know what you're talking about. That she got over Tractor Supply. But I get the stuff at Tractor Supply, too. But it's Roundup. I mean, it's. I mean, just because it says Tractor Supply on it, you look at the ingredients, and it's 41% glycosylate, you know, which is what I use. So anyway, I mix it like, you know, six ounces to the gallon, and then, man, it tears stuff up, man. So Roundup, the new formula. And, you know, Martin out there in Nick Yeol, he bought several jugs of that stuff. It's not cheap, of course, but it has a different chemical in it. It's kind of like it's some sort of a salt, you know, by looking at the wording on it. Very low percentile, though, like two and a half percent or whatever. But, man, it's knocked everything down out there already. So that new formula, Roundup, it works too.
Speaker B: Yeah. Well, you can go
Speaker A: get a gallon of bleach if you want to and put that around. Yep, I've killed lots of things like vines with just regular, standard old bleach.

We6axn receiver.

Well, you guys talk a lot about cameras. Maybe they don't like to be on camera and. Haven't had my coffee too much anyway. Maybe they are afraid of ice going up, too.

Speaker A: They don't have to worry about it. But they do. I mean, especially when you see stuff like that happening and knowing that a lot more ICE agents and stuff have been coming into the area here. There's some that live right next door to Jeremy. So anyway, yeah, no idea what I'm going to do. I did put mesh core on one of my devices, so I'll be trying that out, but I don't expect anything to happen on that. I ordered another little mesh, another heltech. Just an empty board, you know, no, no LED, no OLED, no GPS, no nothing on it. Just the board itself and 22 bucks or something like that. Yeah, I guess they're 25 bucks after tax, so maybe I'll toss mescore
Speaker B: on
Speaker A: that and make
Speaker B: a repeater out of that. Yeah, the
Speaker A: One that was MGK3. It's now a mesh core device. And then I did buy, like I said, one more Texas board for $22.99. You know, I don't need to have a screen on it. Don't use the screens that I've got on these. So I don't need a GPS if I'm using it as a repeater at home. You know, put it up on the roof or something. Right. You don't even have to have a GPS on it if you don't want turning around, I guess, but that's up to you. I don't know. So 23 $25 investment. I guess it's not
Speaker B: a huge hit in the pocket. Yeah, no, I
Speaker A: don't pay anything when I go to Panera. You know, I'm a member of the sip club, so right now it's costing me about $8 a month, I guess. So you get all the drinks you want for free. You know, maybe not those fancy ones, but, you know, you want soda pop or you want coffee or tea or there's various other different kinds of teas like pomegranate hibiscus and a few others that, you know, that you get with the sip club. But yeah, if you wanted something fancier, you know, like some of the stuff that you guys get at Starbucks or whatever. Yeah. Then they might charge you $2 for that.

On battery at 22.

Kn6MGK. Yeah. You know, like, if you're guys that come down here on Thursday, we're going to Panera instead. You know, everyone was a number and paying, you know, $8 a month. You know, a lot of guys are just getting coffee, so they'd probably be okay. Satisfied. I mean, yeah, I think the coffee's probably not quite as good, but whatever. Maybe somebody would like it anyway. I don't know. Most of the time, people are going to Thursday for the socialization aspect.

So if you're talking about great harvest bread again, right, you're not talking about Panera? Panera. It's more of a lunch place. And yeah, they do have some bread. So they have pastries and stuff in there. That's it, right? That's what Panera is. It's not great harvest bread. But besides of that, the food pyramid's been inverted. All the breads and carbs are at the low on the end of where you're not supposed to have very much of them.

Just got me a poda. Ft8 poda. That's nice. Kn6mgk.

Los Angeles link up.

Speaker A: Well, this. Yeah, this morning I turned on the FT8 and got it going and I got like 11 international, most all Asian stuff right away. I mean, bam, bam. One after the other after the other. I mean, really quickly, 11 of those. Then it
Speaker B: just dried up and went away. I just. I have 40 meters, that's all.
Speaker A: Just 40 meters.
Speaker B: That's
Speaker A: all I've been on for a couple months now. I mean, yeah, I can put it on to 20, but
Speaker B: that's it for FT8. That's all I've been doing. Maybe I'll have time today because I'm
Speaker A: 20 meters, but like, yesterday I had my truck cooling system tore apart again, so had to go down to Whitmire and so forth. So, yeah, working on that. Always something. I wanted to get it done before the rain came.

Yeah. The one failure I think of the Ford vehicles when they put in all the factory molded ends on the cooling system for the. For the coolant. Yeah, it's. They have these, like, O rings and flatten out, and, man, they go bad all the time. It doesn't seem like you get, you know, but maybe a year out of one or something out of the. And there's many of them there, so, you know, of course, I have 160,000 miles on the truck, so, you know, you got to expect some of that. But. Yeah, I just repaired one the other day, you know, maybe a month or two ago, and everything was good for about two weeks, and then another one started steeping.

Yeah, I don't know much about the refrigerant stuff, but I know that the devices probably are fairly stable. In other words, they don't move around and go up and down, big bumps and jerk and shimmy around all the time, like in your engine. And so I just think that that might have something to do with it. And like I said, I don't know for sure, but I. Maybe they could improve the seal a bit. But they are just like a rubber O ring and they're rounded, you know, like O rings are, you know, but when you pull them out, they're all flat, so they end up squishing down. And they just start off with a little seep, like a little drip. You know, you might get like a couple of drips per notch on the driveway. And then they start just getting worse and worse. And eventually, you know, I gotta put in like, say a quarter of coolant to, you know, every week or something like that. Okay, this is ridiculous. It's time to. Because I use OEM coolant too. So get the motorcraft coolant, you know, anyway. Yeah, and then it'll drip down on your serpentine belt and start making some noise that way and stuff too. So, yeah, it all plays into it. But it definitely. The old school, just putting a nice hose clamp on it and tightening it down that would, you know, those very rarely have trouble until the hoses were brittle and gone.

Kn6NGK. I bought one of those backpack sprayers that's electric, so it has a lithium ion battery in it. You just charge it up and it holds 5 gallons of whatever you put in the tank. I just used it once so far, but anyway, it's a lot nicer than carrying around a hand one and having to mix up two gallons at a time and walking around with it.

Okay. Yeah, well there's. They sold some of those at Tractor Supply up there in Yankee Hill. They have a 15 gallon one of those. I think it's made by Thimco Fimco, if I remember right. Anyway, changed the pump on that one time anyway, but yeah, it just runs off a 12 volt battery.

Well, see, here you go. I'm looking up the Roundup Pro Max. So for like, what is this, a gallon? How much is this here? Two and a half gallons. They want a hundred bucks for it anyway. That's glyphosate. Yeah, glyphosate. Glyphosate. I guess they call it glyphosate, yeah. 48.7% for the Pro Max. So even the tractor supply version is 41%, because it's probably not the Pro Max anyway. But, yeah, that's the poison man. And I've been using that for a few years in Paradise. Traction supply stuff is 50 bucks for about a. Seems like that might be. I don't think it's a gallon. It says it makes up to 85 gallons. Well, whatever. It depends on how you mix it. You mix it, you know, six ounces per gallon. Well, it don't make 85 gallons.

Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

Speaker A: That's a weird one, Jay. Good
Speaker B: morning, Eric. You never bailed in that. I was. I just keyed up, heard you on uhf. That was funny. I was reached over to turn this radio back up and
Speaker A: you were calling me. You know what? I think? I think I do.

Give me. Oh, yeah, he popped.

I'm looking. I'm looking for the little card. I kept the little. I kept the little car. Okay. I think this is it. You know, that comes on the box in case you got to send it back. All right. Now some glasses. Let me see. It is a model IP2M dash 8, six three E W dash AI V2. I think that's all you need. It's a network PTZ camera.

Speaker A: E
Speaker B: w a I v2. Edward wayward. It says ptz. No paul tango zulu. That's probably that power capability poe that's a guess. Well you know it is because you can run it out 2 or 300ft on an ethernet cable and it powers it. That's why I bought that
Speaker A: other network box so that it had the power to run out and up the twin towers. That's what I call those two cedar trees 200 foot
Speaker B: cedar trees. It does not say
Speaker A: on this little cardboard
Speaker B: piece that I cut off the box. But I believe it's amcrest. Remember I bought the hard drive to match it. No, you. They can't. They don't let
Speaker A: them do that sort of thing. You can't. You. You can't even hardly use your cell to other countries out of China. That's what he was telling me let alone look at
Speaker B: live cameras. You don't think they're not all over that.

Know, in China, they probably have a way to monitor your vpn. I mean, there's got to be some kind of subs energy source there.

Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And they probably go, look what your use is then. Then they have to look even deeper than that because, you know, they hide things in between frames. So, you know, China is. There's. You. You might think you're a skeptic in this country, but over there, they got. They got it.
Speaker B: I can't
Speaker A: believe the deals that Trump made yesterday with Chevron, Exxon, Conoco. Chevron was already two times. They completely set up refineries in Venezuela only to have them criminal people down there take over the whole facility and ruin it because they weren't smart enough to run it. And. But Trump guaranteed them sanctuary. And Chevron said, well, we'll do the framework and look at it. But just going on that you, you've always done exactly what you said you were going to do. We're in. Excuse me. And that one with the Exxon and Chevron both committed right there at
Speaker B: the table yesterday,
Speaker A: Had a bunch of smaller private oil refinery people in there. They wanted in on it. You know, Venezuela has the purest crude. I know that's an oxymoron, but the heaviest crude, you can do more with that than crude from any other part in the world. And Venezuela government down there is more than happy that Trump's going to step in and operate all them oil fields and sell the oil. He'll be controlling a lot of energy with that deal right there. The leverage, baby. It's all about the leverage.

Speaker A: Morning.
Speaker B: Welcome to the Coffee break net on the W6E K repeater located in Auburn, California. The coffee break Net, where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. This net is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club in Northern California. And we're here every day of the week for from 7:30am to 10:00am Pacific Time. Please welcome your net control host and conversation facilitator Brian AI6US, checking in from beautiful Meadow Vista, California. Let's get the coffee breaknet underway. Because some days it's just a downright dirty job, but someone's gotta do it. Climb down in this here pit and let's start getting her done.
Speaker A: Well, good morning. Let's get the coffee breaknet underway. Boy, I am hearing a bunch of static this morning on the feed.
Speaker C: I'm.
Speaker A: I hope that isn't going to be too distracting. Good morning. I'm Brian Ai6us in Beautiful Meadow Vista, California, where it's high over. Well, no, it's raining. It was raining all night. Well, let's see. Let's go ahead and find out what the national days are and then we'll get our check ins underway. Today is National Inventors Day. Maybe you are an inventor, have an inventor in the family. National Inventors Day. Peppermint Patty Day. Do you like your peppermint patty served at room temperature or do you like putting them in the freezer and pull them out nice and cold from the freezer and enjoy them that way? Today is National Guitar Day. I know we have a lot of guitar players out there. How about don't cry over Spilled Milk day? Living without any regrets. Don't dwell on pacifist dates. Some people say just get over it. But there are different ways to get over it. Don't cry over Spilled Milk Day. And maybe we should call today's Coffee Breaknet the latte day. Breaknet. Today is national Latte Day. And here we go, Make a friend day. There are no strangers in the world. Just friends that you've never met. Let's go ahead and start out the Coffee break net this morning with quick in and outs as we start our morning news out there this morning. Quick in and outs, please. M60KV.
Speaker D: November 6th, Delta Tango,
Speaker E: Kilo Oscar 6Amy, Hotel Juliet,
Speaker A: Kilo Delta 6 Charlie, Delta Quebec. Mike romeo, over. All right, this is who I heard. K06KMR. Good morning. And KJ5 Golf, Whiskey November. And good morning to KD6CDQ and K06IHJ. Good morning, N6, Delta Tango and N6CKV. You know, because today is make a friend day and like I said, there's no strangers in the world, just friends we've never met. I'm gonna start check ins as soon as we hear a check in from somebody who we've never heard from before. Maybe, maybe you're a longtime listener but have never keyed up the microphone to say hello. So we're just looking for one person out there this morning that's never checked into the Coffee breaknet. Anybody out there this morning drop by, say good morning, I'm Brian AI6us. This is the Coffee Breaknet. Looking for one new friend today.
Speaker B: Well, that went over like a lead balloon.
Speaker A: I guess everybody out there listening has checked in before. I find that hard to believe, but I get it, you're mike shy. That's why you're ham radio operator. Good morning Carl. N6 CKV. I won't try that again.
Speaker F: Good morning Brian and everyone else out there. All of our friends. Yeah, so I'm an inventor. I have six patents to my name. Although they probably all expired by now. Other than that, not much going on. Got a doctor's appointment and didn't watch it rain.
Speaker A: Yeah, it looks like rain is in the forecast. Any care to share anything about what your patents are related to.
Speaker F: Wireless network management?
Speaker A: And is this something related to your previous job or is this something that you hold personally?
Speaker F: Oh no, it's employer held from my previous job.
Speaker A: Yep, we pay. We pay you and we get to keep the patent. Well, very interesting. I learned something new today, Carl. Thanks for sharing that. Well, good morning to you, Good morning to Ruth and you. Have a wonderful Wednesday ahead.
Speaker F: Thanks for that Brian. Everyone have a good Wednesday.
Speaker A: This is N60KV.
Speaker F: I'm going to say 73 and hi
Speaker C: to Lynn
Speaker A: and hello to Ruth. Absolutely. Good morning to you. Hey, good morning Rick N6DT.
Speaker D: Oh hi Brian. Good morning. This is Rick N6DT. Got on DMR this morning for the first time in a long time and struggling with qrz.com but I'm going to get it figured out. But actually had a couple nice conversations with a gentleman up in Calgary and also a gentleman over in Spain who I explained to him about his vision impaired and struggling. Both of them immediately went to qrz.com and confirmed our conversations and so I have to just update everything. Anyway, so I guess I made some friends this morning and it was good
Speaker G: to be back on the radio a little bit.
Speaker D: Anyway, this is it for me. This is Rick N60T back to the group. Thanks Brian. Take care. 73.
Speaker A: Well, we're talking about a mode here that I have never even tried, so very good, Rick. DMR this morning. First time in a long time and new friends. Have a Wonderful Wednesday there. Rick. N6 Delta Tango AI6 US Coffee Breakdown and good morning, Larry. KO6IHJ Good morning, Brian. Good morning. Coffee Breaknet.
Speaker E: Peppermint Patty day. Now, that could be the peanuts one, right?
Speaker A: Well, you know, it certainly could be, but I think in looking at the calendar, they're referring to the little mints themselves. But yeah, run with it. Do you prefer peppermint patty at room temperature or cold from the freezer? That takes on a completely different meaning with Peanuts character.
Speaker E: Like, I like my women ground up,
Speaker C: put in the freezer.
Speaker E: Just like coffee. Anyway, Tom and I are sitting here in our brand new lab coat that he got us and looking all spiffy. We're gonna do a video on a couple of. Well, we're gonna do a counterfeit video on one and then maybe something else. But there's a counterfeit speaker we're gonna have to show everybody. Other than that, that's our highlight for the day. It has just barely started getting sprinkly down here. I don't, I don't force you too much. Rain Dog isn't scared. Other than that, we're gonna play ham. So everybody have a blessed day. KO6ICEJ.
Speaker A: All right, Larry, we'll ignore part of that conversation.
Speaker H: KO6IHJ, you have an enjoyable day.
Speaker G: KD6CDQ.
Speaker A: Good morning, Rick.
Speaker H: Good morning, Brian.
Speaker A: Into the net and let's see.
Speaker H: This is Katy six cdq. Rick in beautiful, wet downtown suburban North Island.
Speaker G: Yeah, you know, I took a patent
Speaker H: to the patent office one time. I had invented a wingless airplane. They refused a patent. They said it wouldn't fly.
Speaker C: Darn it.
Speaker H: Anyways, I hope everybody has a nice day today. And that's my $0.02. This is KD6CEQ and 73S.
Speaker A: Rick will be appearing at comedy club all week.
Speaker E: Good one, rick.
Speaker A: That was funny. Kd6cdq ai6us copy breaknet good morning, will. Kj5gwn.
Speaker G: Good morning, Brian. Not doing anything here. Just listening to a little bit of sports talk radio and trying to get the pulse of the sports scene here in Oklahoma. Weather. We're going to get some rain Friday on into Saturday and then be a little bit warmer on Sunday and Monday. So hopefully we get some relief for our drought. We need it. So anyway, back over there to you, Brian. This is KJ5 Gulf Whiskey November.
Speaker A: Well, good luck accumulating some moisture there. Yes, last evening the chains required went up out on the freeway not far from our house here for people over the summit the Sierra Mountains and they have a chain check here probably about two miles from our house here. So yep they're out there checking chains and making sure we're going to be getting a dumping of snow out this way. So that's great. Wish the same for you. Have a wonderful day there will kj5gwn and good morning Robert.k06kmr. Good morning Brian and the group.
Speaker I: Karen's birthday is today so we're going to go out for a nice supper this afternoon. I will go to the gym this morning though to get rid of some excess energy I suppose and oh I did go to RHO yesterday and played with some of the some of the equipment and it's quite impressive stuff over
Speaker A: radio ham outlet? No, I think that's going to be ham radio outlet HRO but okay, got to. You know they do have quite a selection of radios there and I think they have a couple different antennas on the wall on the roof. I know they have a ton of antennas on the wall. So did the trip help narrow down or even broaden out your your things to research for purchase? Well, I'm still in a quandary about
Speaker I: but you know, I think I'm getting close but it's still like I said the other day, it's going to be a while before I actually get it. I'm going to get my extra license first which will be probably in April and then go for one of the two over.
Speaker A: All right, very good. Well you're starting the research early and it will either become more clear or more confusing. Well, you have a lot of Elmer's out there that are willing to give their advice and remember that's all we give is in our opinion.
Speaker I: Yeah, I'm looking forward to the meeting on on Friday to discuss some of these questions with quite a few of the people and just get just get some ideas over.
Speaker A: Yes indeed. I know they're going to be having a presentation and then probably a 15 or 20 minute social time so definitely good to time to be asking questions and absorbing as much info as you can.
Speaker B: Just beware though in a crowded room
Speaker A: it's not a good idea to ask a group of hams what the best antenna or radio is. Six hams will give 20 different answers.
Speaker I: I will take that advice to heart over.
Speaker A: All right, Good morning to you. You have a wonderful Wednesday. Happy birthday To Karen and hopefully you guys have a wonderful day ahead.
Speaker C: We will.
Speaker I: Thank you very much. Back to the net, over.
Speaker A: All right, clearing with K06 KMR. Let's go ahead and check in and see who else is out there this morning. This is the coffee breaknet on the W6E repeater where the sun is always shining and the fish are jumping. Just a reminder, today's national days are national Inventors day. Do you hold a patent or somebody you know? Today is Peppermint Patty day. Do you like your peppermint patty room temperature or cold from the freezer? Today is National Guitar day. Do you play guitar? Build guitars, repair guitars? Restore National Guitar Day. Don't cry over Spilled Milk day. Good reminder to live life without regret. And National Latte Day and make a friend day. Let's focus on that one this morning here on the Coffee breaknet. Welcome to all of our new friends. Good morning coffee breaknet. Let's take another round of quick in and outs as we get our morning underway.
Speaker H: Well, morning
Speaker G: kc8 fox, queen victor. But you may be using dashboards. Kilo, bravo 6 lima, uniform victor, kb6 luv, rhett.
Speaker C: Good morning.
Speaker G: Kd3ajn.
Speaker A: Good morning anna, kd38gn. And good morning to brett, kb6 luv. Good morning to mark, kc8fqv. And good morning to thomas, km6mjb. Did I miss anyone for a quick in and out? All right, to the top of the Good morning Thomas, TM6MJB. I know it's going to be hard. Quick in and out. What do you have for us this morning? Not much.
Speaker C: Just wanted to jump in and say hi. I got you guys playing on in the background while I'm finishing up these bucket beds stands. I don't even know what to call them. I should probably figure that out before I start marketing them too much. But yep, just like hearing it all in the background. I love the that fact that it is national. I guess you said guitar day. I'm gonna have to go break some of them out and tune them all up and play a little bit. That way I can live up to the hype.
Speaker A: You know, since I've met you, Thomas, I really never knew what Christina saw in you. Yeah, you're a good looking guy, but there's a lot of good looking guys guys out there. But now, now I find out you are a guitar player. You swooned her.
Speaker C: I am not just a guitar player.
Speaker B: I am a musician.
Speaker C: No, I, I can actually play almost every instrument like standard, you know, orchestra Instruments, stuff like that. Piano is the only one that I have a hard time with which she plays piano, so that covers that base to teach me a handful of times, and I just. I can't wrap my brain around it. Every time I get frustrated with trying to learn piano, I just go and grab another instrument and start picking up and playing it.
Speaker A: Fun fact.
Speaker C: Our first date, like, actual deed was ticket guitar center.
Speaker A: That's where you first played stairway to heaven for her.
Speaker E: I'm sure.
Speaker C: I was always more of a hotel California on a 12 string, but, yeah, I don't.
Speaker B: I don't even remember why we went
Speaker C: there, but, yeah, that was our.
Speaker G: Hey, what are you grabbing for now?
Speaker B: Well, let's just listen in on Mark
Speaker A: for a moment as he talks to his cat. I hope that's who he's talking to. Well, that was 30 seconds of mark
Speaker H: private life that we can tease them about.
Speaker A: Oh, very good. Thomas. I had no idea that you and Christina were so musically inclined. And that's very cool.
Speaker H: That's neat.
Speaker A: A first date at the guitar center, and I imagine that was at a period of life where I think you probably were working at Disneyland. Money.

Speaker A: Trump will deal with all that. Yeah, I'm. I'm feeling pretty confident that things are about to change for California and
Speaker B: world energy. Do you hear me telling Steve about our Bianco visit? That was pretty much the end of
Speaker A: Terry, Steve and me going back and forth and back and forth. But anyway, I'm pretty sure they're listening out here. If Bill wanted to, he could set something up right there so that he could listen. They. They don't have any. They don't have any of those. Well, what the heck they calling those big antennas the digital relay stations? The main actual name's not SDRs for UHF
Speaker B: VHF in the area, do they? Yeah, well, he. When
Speaker A: he lived in Truckee, he. He probably could have heard us. And he does have friends in Truckee. He could achieve it if he really wanted to. But it'd be Mr. The other guy north of us that would want to listen more than anybody else. Bill probably wouldn't waste his time, but, yeah, they'd like to be privy to what we talk about here. But anyway, when it comes to talking about other people, that's something we probably should do in person, even though we don't even do that as it is for the most part, you know. Yeah.

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Speaker A: Yeah, I sent it back. By the time I bought a hard drive and everything for it. Yep, I sent them both back. They couldn't, they couldn't make it work. And they accessed it remote and they said it should be working. And I said, okay, no big deal. I'm at the end of my rope with it. I'm just going to send it back to you. I got full refund on the hard drive. And when they sell you one of them units for almost 300 bucks, you. They don't give you a hard drive in it. Is that ridiculous? Right then and there, I
Speaker B: almost threw in the towel and I should have. Yeah, well, I already had
Speaker A: the synology, but when I went and looked at what you had to do to set it up, but. And I didn't want to keep bothering you about it. And I don't like leaving
Speaker B: the, the NAS on anyway. I could invest again
Speaker A: if you thought it was worth doing that, if you think it's easy enough. I. And on the, on the same token, I don't have any problem leaving the synology on, especially since, you know, when we go
Speaker B: away for two weeks or three weeks at a time, I wouldn't mind taking
Speaker A: it with me so I could just wire it directly to the, you know, HDMI cables or whatever, right to the theater, the nebula. So that, I mean, do you know how. So. Twice. Twice Trevor's been here, brought his recording device, which he always gets the most updated one to back up all his CDs and all that stuff. He. He downloads VO Wire. It usually runs for more than a day. Jay. While he puts all the latest movies that, that he's paid for from his. See that. That really paid off. Me buying three of those things and, and giving him one for Christmas. That's really paid off. I don't know. I
Speaker B: got thousands of movies. Yes. Yep. It's right here
Speaker A: under the table. I can run that. I can run that camera out and, and I have 150 or a 200 foot piece of the network cable. The good stuff with the, you know, twisted pairs and, and I'm
Speaker B: sure it's Cat 6. Yeah, I sure can. Give me a minute. And six nps.

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Speaker A: How do you take a picture with your phone?
Speaker B: I just. I just did that so the folks out in listening land could get a laugh. They'll be telling their friends. Yeah, I heard. Ntm he was asking Jay how to work his phone own.
Speaker A: You just took all the fun out of it.

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Speaker A: Pretty impressed with the old memories. This morning.
Speaker B: I knew right where to go to find that little box. Check.

Speaker A: Might have been a little tighter and had to get a little creative on your dates. Possibly. Or you're spending all your money on guitars.
Speaker B: No, I think at that point I had purchased all of all the guitars I was going to own at that point. But yeah, money was tight. We were at Disney too many late night Scott going to Denny's after work. Took all the extra money. But no, it was fun. We still play a lot. I know. I think it's kind of funny.
Speaker A: Every year that we did, Ray kept
Speaker B: trying to convince me to bring the band to play there because he knows how much you love it.
Speaker A: Yes, we try to attract people to come to field day, not chase them away with banjos and accordions. That's funny. Well Thomas, you have a wonderful day. Thanks for checking in and yeah, thanks for sending over the picture of your. Of your five gallon bucket guard. Let's call it a buck. I don't know. Gonna have to come up with a creative name but a five gallon bucket. Garden stand. Garden stand. Thomas, have a wonderful day. Thanks for checking in.
Speaker B: Thanks for being there. 73kn6mjb
Speaker A: and Mark, if you're done entertaining your cat. Good morning. KC8FK UV.
Speaker C: Well morning. Yeah well, wondering where the cat was at, I went, looked at temperature, temperature about 28 normally. Sometimes she's up there by the window. I said geez, wonder where the cat, I haven't seen it, went upstairs. She goes upstairs and lays on the day bed up there and lays up on the end. She don't lay down by the window or she can look out. She goes to the other end and lays there at the end. So yeah, yeah, she cleans herself all the time. She's always cleaning. Oh she's back down now, stairs. But yeah, the doctor went good yesterday and yeah, my Wendy's app even worked while I was there. I couldn't get to work for a long time. Yesterday it finally worked, paid and everything. So that worked out and I stopped at a store and walked through the one store. Like a flea market. Not a flea market, Ollie's, but it sort of seemed like a flea market. It's like they must bring 10 or 20 truckloads of stuff in and fill the store up. But yeah, I walked through there, just see what there was because that is up where the doctor's at. Well on the way back from where the doctor's at. So I did that and then dropped another thing off, returned an item at another store and then came home. I was a good day yesterday. Today I don't know what we're gonna do. But I know one thing. It's not as nice as yesterday. Yesterday was a beautiful day. Sun was out all day long. So. And it was nice last night. It went up to 46 degrees yesterday. So we'll send it back your way. K stuff. Qv
Speaker A: I always like going to those stores that buy over overrun overstock and they just have. You never know what's going to be in there. I used to have a store up in up in Oregon that I would. It was too close to home. So I would go there quite often and it was always fun. You never knew what you're going to find in one of those Gaylord bins.
Speaker D: Mark.
Speaker A: Have a wonderful day and thanks for checking in. KC8FQV. At least we know you don't yell at your cats when you're not on the air. Ai6us7 3 Good morning, Brett. Kb6 luv. Watch out for vox and push the talk button that are maybe in the wrong place.
Speaker E: Good morning. KB6L U V. Brett here.
Speaker A: Yep.
Speaker E: I. I will make sure that my two left fingers do not press that push the talk button all at one time. So that's good to hear. Thanks for the reminder. Hey, let's cover some ground here today because we're going to do that on quick in and out. So National Guitar Day. Yes, I play guitars. I've been accused by family members of having a guitar problem. I have ensured them that I have friends that actually have guitar problems. Let me take them to their closets and show them what a real guitar problem looks like. Hi.
Speaker C: Hi.
Speaker E: You know who you are out there and keep going. Don't cry over spilt milk today. That is definitely part of my life. I don't try to dwell too much on the past. It doesn't do any good for myself. Let me take a quick break. And I have two very special guests here who are also going to make a very quick appearance. Live from Newton, Kansas, we have my mother, Bonnie. Say good morning, Mom.
Speaker F: Good morning, everybody. Nice to be with you all.
Speaker E: And also a first timer, my wife, cd Say hello.
Speaker C: Hello.
Speaker A: And that's what we're going to do.
Speaker E: A quick out here in South Macomus where the sun is not shining. This fish are not jumping. At least they shouldn't be in my pool. I should be concerned if they are. And the birds may be singing. But I'm inside talking to you lovely people. I will send it back to you for a quick one. How are you by the way?
Speaker A: Brian? Good morning, Brett. Today is Wednesday. So that means it's my variety for the coffee Breaknet. Yeah, it's my Friday. Well, good morning. Great to hear Bonnie and Fifi there. And nice to have you guys check in this morning. And I would like you now, Brett, to hand the microphone over to your mother, and she will tell us the truth about your guitar addiction.
Speaker E: Be prepared for untruth.
Speaker D: But here's.
Speaker F: I'm not sure because the guitar is only one of the instruments that Brett has, but he is very musical and has always. When he decided to play a saxophone, one time he got a saxophone and he taught himself to play the saxophone quite well. So he is a musician and a very talented. So guitars.
Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
Speaker F: But among other instruments too.
Speaker C: And he's good at all of them.
Speaker A: Will, since this is radio, we can't see him slipping the five and $10 and $20 bills. All right, we have found out that Brett has his musical. That's good to hear. Well, Bonnie, I hope that you're having a wonderful time out here and I hope that you had a great family wedding. I know you went down. You went down south for a little bit for a family wedding, and I hope that went well. And welcome back. How much longer will you be in the Sacramento area?
Speaker F: I will be here until the first week in March, so I've got some good time to enjoy everything.
Speaker A: Well, excellent. Well, welcome, and we hope to hear you checking in when you have that opportunity while you're visiting. Great to hear you. Now hand the mic over to Fifi, please, because Brett, you probably didn't know this, but while you guys were out of the room, Brett blamed his recent illness on one of.
Speaker E: Okay, so you have both the ladies here laughing. That's awesome. I will get the public vlogging will be scheduled later. Okay, we have definitely flipped this egg timer more than once, so thank you very much for allowing us to do so. Oh, by the way, quick shout out to Simone K60X10 connected with him yesterday. Gonna get that antenna that we talked about. Looking forward to it. Thank you, sir. Really nice. Amazing guy. So anyway, thanks, Brian, for being there. Really appreciate. Appreciate you everybody out there in coffee. Have an amazing day. Take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. KV6 luv, you have love 73. Clear and listening.
Speaker A: Well, yeah, I figured. Means we have three folks checking in this morning. That meant three flips of the soft egg timer. So there we go. Hey, thanks for checking in and we'll. We'll look forward to another morning and thanks for sharing the information about the Qatar addiction. KB6luvai6US Coffee break and good morning to Anna KD3AJN.
Speaker D: Good morning, Brian, and everyone else on the net this morning. Well, you was talking about pushing the prestis talk button and my one friend is on another net. They call him the fun button because he says push the fun button to talk.
Speaker A: You know, a couple years ago, one of the coffee break listeners did me a that was easy button and you know, the big red button from I think Office Depot or whoever originated that. I always thought it would be kind of fun to turn that big red button into my push to talk button, the fun button. That is very appropriate.
Speaker D: I thought that was appropriate because it is fun to talk. I think the more you get on here, the more you want to enjoy everybody's company and talk to people.
Speaker A: No, absolutely. Especially on these nets where we have conversations and we learn about each other and get to meet each other's family. I mean, you know, think about this. If we hadn't met Brett, we wouldn't have met Bonnie. We. Yeah, we just get to know each other pretty well. Well, Anna, I know you had a brief moment of nice weather. It sounds like that's not going to stick around long for you.
Speaker D: Yesterday was a beautiful day and Today it's only 33 degrees and it's going to drop all day down into the 20s. And I think we're supposed to have some snow later on. I really didn't expect the warm weather to stick around. It's still winter.
Speaker A: But it is nice to have the little respites here and there during the big expected weather. Well, very good. Hopefully you got everything taken care of yesterday. Took advantage of that great weather.
Speaker C: Any.
Speaker A: Anything coming up with family or friends or you. I know quite often you'll have, I think your grandkids drop by.
Speaker D: Well, we're hoping to go visit my sister tomorrow. I'm waiting for her to give me a call back. And then on Friday I'm going to visit the grandchildren for the weekend.
Speaker A: Well, excellent. I wish you a wonderful weekend ahead and, and a good time with your friends there. Well, you have a great day, Anna. Thank you for checking in this morning. And any of the national days relate to you? Oh, I gotta ask you, do you like peppermint patties and do they belong at room temperature or cold out of the freezer?
Speaker D: I do not like peppermint patties. So I don't care if they're room temperature or if they're in the freezer, I don't want them. You have a great day, Brian. And everyone else on the net and talk to you guys later. KD3AJN
Speaker A: and I know a few people out there would say, why would you ruin good chocolate with something like that? All right. Hey, have a wonderful day. Anna, thanks for checking in this morning. KD3AJN AI6US coffee break. Good morning, Coffee breaknet. Let's go ahead and take, let's see one more round of quick in and outs as you start your day. I know this will be our third one, but I'm missing some familiar voices that usually come in during a quick in and out. Any more quick in and out? Check ins.
Speaker C: Yeah, wb6bjn today,
Speaker A: brian, for a quick in and out.
Speaker C: I'll talk about the weather briefly there. Go ahead.
Speaker A: Ki6rt mobile. All right. Good morning, John, KI6RT and good morning to.
Speaker E: To
Speaker A: me, WB6BJN. Good morning, Mark. And good morning to KN6WQU. Dan and let's see, I'm gonna just kind of slip the order here very quickly. Beings these are quick in and outs because I have a feeling Mark will take longer than two minutes. So let's quickly visit with Dan and John and then we'll get to you, Mark for a quick interview. And out. Good morning, Dan. KN6WQ. What do you have for the net this morning?
Speaker G: Well, Brian, it's raining. It is raining. This is KN6WQ. I have.
Speaker C: Wow.
Speaker G: I didn't know what the meaning went back really meant. I thought it was a very bad word. But in this case it, it's my case. So I've been out working in a vehicle this morning trying to check out some things and my back is nice and wet now. So back in the vehicle, trying to get warm. I'm not sure if I'm even going to be out in this too terribly longer.
Speaker C: I can see that the clouds are
Speaker G: breaking off more in the east, but I'm not sure if it's coming this way or not. So I'm excited to hear what Mark's got to say. So I'm going to get on out of here.
Speaker A: This is scan 6 WTU. All right. Up early and working in the rain. I would look forward to other things later in the day as well. Have a great day, Dan.
Speaker E: Clearance.
Speaker A: KN6WQU. Good morning, John. KI6RT hey, good morning, Brian and the Net. Yeah, just enjoying a drive in the rain.
Speaker B: Michelle has to drop off the car for service. So
Speaker A: unlike Dan, it's the Porsche dealer, which means you can't get out of
Speaker B: the Porsche dealer for more than a couple thousand
Speaker A: yes, indeed. Well, hopefully they get you in and out of there with only what needs to be done. And did you remember to take those ham radio antennas off the top of her car? Yes, those are magnetically mounted. I've got to one day drill NMO mounts on her car, but, yeah, that'll have to happen later. All right, John, drive safely. Good morning to you and good morning to Michelle. Great to see you, by the way, at the dinner at Brewster's Burger. So we'll catch up with you another time. Well, this rain probably is going to affect. I think you guys normally do a bike ride, so I would think that maybe that one got postponed. But thanks for checking in this morning. Yes, sir. Thanks for writing the net. And good morning to everyone.
Speaker G: Enjoy the rain while we have it.
Speaker A: Ki6rt. Clear and monitoring rain down here and snow in the mountains. This is what we need to have, John. Hey, Good morning, Mark. WB6BJN for a quick in and out. I know you can do it. You've proved it before. Good morning. Well, that was quick in and out. Wb6bjn. All right, everyone, get your journals out and make note. That was the quickest in and out that Mark has ever given anytime, anywhere. Good morning. Coffee breaknet on the W60K repeater. Let's go ahead and take regular check ins. Who's out there this morning? N9muf,
Speaker E: Kilo, alpha 1, juliet, x ray, yankee, ka1jx, fly,
Speaker A: Kb6ssn,
Speaker E: Wb7ukm.
Speaker A: Good morning, dick. Wb7ukx. And good morning to tom. Kb6ssn and good morning, ke1jxy. New call sign for me. We'll find out who you are in a moment. And good morning to daniel. N9 muf. Did I miss anyone? All right, to the top. Good morning, Daniel. N9 MUF. Did you get your poda in yesterday and what's due today? Good morning, Brian and the Net. Yes, we actually did manage to get the boat in. I was a little worried about it at one point. Well, I was worried about it for about an hour. We.
Speaker C: We got down there. It was my son and I.
Speaker A: My son and me. My son and son.

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Speaker A: Somebody the brain is not working. Not enough coffee and too much molasses. But we got down there and we could not get the sound to show up.
Speaker B: Oh no, a menu setting, a bad cable.
Speaker C: What happened?
Speaker A: Well, we went through a ton of work and worked and started going through things and I started to think of what got updated during, during the break. My first thought was the kernel. My second thought was, well, I'm like, no, no, no, no, we're not going to be working on that during something during, you know, turn into a kernel recompile out here on battery. And then I downgraded wsjtx improved. And then I was like, wait a minute, they upped the. They changed the underlying sound framework.
Speaker B: And
Speaker A: sound on Linux can be a bit interesting. So had to investigate the new framework, figure out how to start it on my system. And once that was started, we were all good. We managed to activate the park with 15 contacts and by then it was getting a little chilly. So we decided to call it
Speaker B: How Interesting. You know, this is a reoccurring theme. Everyone, everyone that I know that runs Linux has had some sort of an audio issue. So what is the bones. What's the bones of Linux and audio? Why does. I mean, you know, whether the wrong codec is chosen and Greg sounds like a chipmunk or, or audio paths are just corrupted. What's up with it?
Speaker A: Well, I do Gen 2, so it's a little more of a we're going to let you choose how to do things rather than an OS like an Ubuntu which tries to handhold the user a bit more.
Speaker C: And
Speaker A: sound on Gen 2 can be very interesting. So I remember the first time that I even got sound to work on a laptop under gen 2 and it's improved quite a bit. But this was just a matter of the underlying framework is also. And it was a switch from Pulse Audio to pipe wire. And I remember noting it and I just went okay, fine and filed it away in the back of my head and didn't even think about it until the situation. So it's a question of, hey, you know, can we see the sound card? Are we seeing what's going on the program? Oh no, wait, it can't see the sound card because it doesn't believe sound exists at the moment. And that's just the nature of it, is that it is a little more fragile. Both audio and video are both more fragile, but they can be more powerful because. Because you've got more control.
Speaker B: Just find it very interesting in a platform known for its stability that something as simple as an analog to digital conversion can be so effed up.
Speaker A: Well, all it took was one simple little command and we were up and running. But it was a matter of figuring out which command that was. Now I remember the days when I had to sit there and configure also by hand and dig a lot into the hardware and the individual sound card. But that was what 2005 and sound that point for Linux was not what it is today. Both sound and video installations have very much improved and I've done more than my share of manual configuration of both X and hold.
Speaker B: Also. Yeah, it's quite interesting how integrated audio and videos come become on our machines. And yeah, it wasn't that long ago that we were just amazed at playing back music on our computer outside of a CD or a cassette tape hooked up to our speakers. Well, very interesting. Okay, glad you got it resolved. Glad you got your contacts in and hopefully you and your son had a great outing.
Speaker A: We had an absolutely wonderful outing. I'll be posting to Facebook in a little bit this afternoon. Right now back up to shape with the updates and some pipewire documentation. And this afternoon I hope to pull the logs off the box and get them cleaned up and uploaded so get another activation in the books.
Speaker B: Excellent. No, it's been a while since you guys have been out there activating, so very cool. Glad to hear it was a good day, you had good weather and you got your problems resolved without much, much pain there. Well, what do you have going on today?
Speaker A: Well, besides the work on the PODO box and getting that updated, I want to play around a little bit more with CW on the KX3 just to get ready for it to go out into the field again as a CW box. I've got to rewrite my little monitor program that I use to keep track of things that I can separate out FT8 and FT4 to keep track of when an activation does take place. And then after that I think the job search and per today, maybe it's time that I audit the guitar collection.
Speaker B: Well, you know you're being called on National Guitar Day. I know it's not International Guitar Day, but close enough. Well, very good. Yeah, the Guitar Day. I. A couple people have emerged from the woodwork that I had no idea that they were guitarists or musicians.
Speaker A: Yeah, I have to call out Brett there at KB6LUV. I felt personally called out by him on the guitar collect. Well,
Speaker B: at least there's some distance between you guys, so. Yes indeed, like calling the Kettle black. But okay.
Speaker A: There are two things that I'm very fortunate that my wife has never raised her eyebrows out. One is the radios and the second one are the guitars. I've never bought a guitar that she said, I don't really think that's a good idea. I actually had to tell her I was going to stop taking her to music stores because she was supposed to be the bad cop to help get the price down. Instead, she's sitting there squealing, going, buy it, buy it, buy it.
Speaker B: I'm glad you support each other so well. I believe you do the same thing when she goes to the shoe store. Comment. Go ahead, Daniel. You can direct traffic.
Speaker A: I think that was probably KB6LUV with A. I'm not going to say a comment, a rebuttal.
Speaker C: Yes, sir.
Speaker B: You heard the voice. But I'll tell you what, it is definitely black. Calling the kettle black. Yeah, I. I've. I've got a. Definitely a guitar problem.
Speaker C: It's not that big of a problem, but it's. Would you say nine guitars is too many? Hi. Hi.
Speaker B: 86iuv 73 clear. Thanks, Daniel.
Speaker C: One love.
Speaker A: I hate to admit I'm looking at that many guitars just on my wall in this one room. Back to you, Brian.
Speaker B: Well, you know, guitars are one thing. Now if we start throwing other stringed instruments in there, like banjos and ukuleles and everything, this will be a different conversation. But very cool. No, I. I know. You know, you and your son, that's another thing that you bond over is. I think there's a guitar build project probably wrapping up, I would assume. But definitely, it's. It's amazing, you know, that the hobbies that. That everyone has that are checking into the net here, but guitars are. I see a lot of musical interest and much overlap with musical interest in amateur radio.
Speaker A: Well, you know, they've also found that musical aptitude and programming go well together, so it makes perfect sense. It does.
Speaker B: Now, if we could only get paid for being in HAM radio,
Speaker C: That would
Speaker A: be wonderful, but I keep having to explain to people that the whole part of amateur means we can't collect a paycheck. Oh.
Speaker B: And I just thought it was our behavior. Well, excellent. Well, happy guitar day to you, Peppermint Patty. Room temperature or out of the freezer or just directly to the garbage can like Ana suggested?
Speaker A: I will take it either way, but I do prefer it out of the freezer. There's just something to that chill and peppermint that goes very well together.
Speaker B: I agree. A 9 out of 10 dentists also recommend that hey Daniel, Happy Wednesday to you. And I hope today goes as well as yesterday. Not crying over any spilled milk because I don't think there was any yesterday.
Speaker A: There was milk at all. And my son just kept on saying to me, dad, I'm just happy to be out here with you and I'm having a wonderful day and I'm glad we're doing this together. So just a good son appreciation good time with him today. We'll get the stitches out of my wife's finger so she'll be able to drive effectively in Chicago. Again with that, I'll say 73 to you in the net. N9 MUF
Speaker B: Watch out for that right hook. Once you can tuck the fingers properly, it can become deadly again. N9 MUF AI6US Happy Wednesday. 7 3. And a new check in for me looks like the first time on our log. Ka1jxy Good morning, my name here is Brian and welcome to the Coffee Breaknet.
Speaker C: Hey Brian and Annette, Joe here from Goodall Good cold Massachusetts. We're sitting up here, it's about 20 degrees which is about 20 degrees warmer than it had been over the weekend. So we're quite happy about that.
Speaker B: All right Joe, yeah, I just looked up your QRZ page here and yes indeed you are maybe going to get some winter after all there. Well, welcome and welcome. We're just a conversation based net and we just kind of been going on for about seven years here and you never know what the conversation is going to be and it may shift 90 degrees or 180 degrees in the middle of a net depending on what people talk about. How did you happen to run across this Joe?
Speaker C: I was on the TGIF dashboard just kind of browsing around and I happened to come across Fireside and thought I'd poke my head in and see what was going on and been monitoring for a couple of days and you guys sound like a cool friendly group so I thought I'd join in on the Conversation.
Speaker B: K A1J X yeah, Fireside is a great resource and how they introduce people to other net activities. Just popping around from net to net and brings up things that weren't even aware of. Well, very good Joe. Are you to the retirement age or what keeps you busy hobby wise or business?
Speaker C: I am not at the retirement age. I wish I was but I am currently in the process of trying to find a new job as a web developer. This year has been this past year has been kind of hard looking for a job. I kind of go all over the board. My wife and I are avid hikers and various health reasons have kept us from doing that the past couple of years. But looking forward to getting back to that and also looking forward to trying some powder and soda while we're doing that otherwise I'm also an avid photographer. I've recently started baking sourdough bread and reading that particular bible. I hi Kyjxy, Back to you Brian.
Speaker B: Well one of our regular check ins here to the net he his wife had given us a sourdough starter and I managed to kill it. I had it at the front of the fridge where I would remember to feed it and I neglected to use it over the summer and somehow it got pushed back to the fridge, back recesses of the fridge and it was not a beautiful sight when I opened it back up this fall and I feel very bad about that but very good. We have quite a few people who do their bread baking here on the net and we have been known to share different bread recipes and insta pot and all sorts of stuff. I'm from a photography background. I for many years I was director of photography and steadicam operator and also dabbled in still photography as well and absolutely love it. My true love is landscape photography but it seemed like I was always doing smiling faces and event photography. I sell at that catching the moment but my true joy is going out there and just picking that perfect golden time to take that perfect photograph. But that's you know that's something I did as a hobby for many, many years. So what type of photography do you enjoy Joe?
Speaker C: Much like you, you know I would for many years I was the family event photographer and with the advent of you know, digital cameras and phone cameras that kind of went to the wayside. But my true love is absolutely landscape photography of all landscape and just outdoor photography. I love you know, taking pictures in the mountains. I love taking pictures alongside of flowers that I just happen to see or just various things around. So but overall I would say it's landscape.
Speaker B: So interesting you know used to be so purpose driven carrying a camera with me and a selection of lenses and you know, very rarely do I do that anymore. You know just pull out the, pull out the Android and snap a photo and it really has kind of changed my approach to photography. My dream was to put out a coffee book table and I have thousands of gargoyle photos. I used to travel around the country doing photography and whenever I would go into a city I'd always be looking up looking for a gargoyle and so something that probably not many people on this net know about me. I have a collection of gargoyle photos
Speaker C: that
Speaker B: I always dreamt of making a coffee book, coffee table booklet. But probably one of those things where somebody will be going through my estate someday and go, man, there's some weird gargoyle photos here. Anyway, Joe, well, very good, good, good to meet you. Definitely wishing you well. On that search for that perfect that perfect employment or employment period. It can be a tough time certain in certain areas, you know, people find it's very easy to just stay with the current design for websites. It's one of those things where I think it's a true reflection on the health of a company when they do invest in things like that, though quite often they should because that probably would bring more attention to their company. But good luck on that. Ka1jxy ai6us back over to you there, Joe, and appreciate you stopping by. Please stop by again.
Speaker C: Thank you, Brian. I absolutely will. I'm hoping to make it a somewhat regular thing. Ka1 j x y saint degrees to the net
Speaker B: all right, Joe. Yeah, we're here every day of the week with very few exceptions throughout the year when our repeater is used for a special event. We will release it for that. But yeah, we're typically here seven days a week and 7:30am to 10:00am Pacific time, so.

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Speaker A: Oh yeah, small business loans. California just got all that frozen. Suspected fraud. They have found enough fraud to freeze it, but yep, 111 billion. Oh, poor Newscomb. But anyway, it's mostly small business loans and some. And a secondary type of loan for payroll, ppp. But anyway, I love him shutting Newscomb down, down, down. He's going to be running in the opposite direction. We're not enough to worry about seeing where he's
Speaker B: hiding. Well,
Speaker A: you got the same feelings as most of the people on 97 so. Or 95. I see accountability happening. A bunch of people already just went to jail. None of the really top big shots. That's going to take longer to get them. So the GS305 should be the one link blink act. That's. That is the. That is the powered
Speaker B: network box. That's called onlink. Actually. Not one link. I remember Lori
Speaker A: getting a million dollars. A million dollars for the company and then it was within a year. Wasn't even. You didn't even have to repay it.
Speaker B: It's not only her worth
Speaker A: act, her work ethics, but the things that she came up with and pulled off that made things possible during COVID Oh yeah. And dramatically made up, well, huge revenue. So anyway. Yes, indeed.

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Speaker A: Looks like we're going to be losing a lot of Mexico's people out of the state because this is going to allow him to shut off the welfare to the illegals, which he already did for the most part. He let the, he let the EBT cards go a little bit longer so that nobody starved. But that's going to save us a lot of money, too. Not that we're saving any money. It already went out the window. But it's going to be much
Speaker B: less next year. And you
Speaker A: know what? That deal J. Newscombe running Chevron, Exxon and Conoco and a couple other small refineries that were jumping ship here shortly, we ain't going to have to worry about our gas prices going up to 10 bucks gallon because you know darn good and well Trump put that little safety buffer in there saying, no, you're not screwing with those refineries and you're not getting no extra money from them either. Indubitably.
Speaker B: Oh, I gotta go
Speaker A: listen to Rubio. This whole deal was shutting down parts of the government and ice. He didn't actually come out and say that Trump will pay for it out of his pocket. But it's going to continue to happen. They're not going to be able to shut down the government like they did last time. Not complete like that anyway.
Speaker B: Cool.

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Speaker A: We'll check in with you again sometime, Joe. And we have different operators who won't always be subjected to hanging out with me. K81GXY AI6US Coffee Break 73.
Speaker B: And recheck WB60J
Speaker C: and 2DYI.
Speaker B: Let's see.
Speaker A: Be right back with you there Mark and appreciate it. Let's see, let's check in quickly with Tom. KB6SSN Good morning Tom. You are on a different radio today, a much different audio signature there.
Speaker D: Yes, good morning Brian. I'm on Larry's radio here this morning. His, his newer YAESU here and it's pretty good looking little radio. It works quite well and anyway just
Speaker A: wanted to check in and touch base
Speaker D: with you this morning and say everything's going well out here. We're having a lot of fun. We just did our video on the counterfeit Collins speaker and posted that up to YouTube so if anybody's interested you can take a look there. And you know, I don't know why we're getting thousands of people that are watching the worst videos you've ever seen in your entire life but hey, you know, some people have no taste.
Speaker A: You said it, I didn't. No, I mean let's look at K6DXN Simone. You know he, he shoots these videos and puts them up and he doesn't even know what the video is he's putting up. I sure enjoy.
Speaker D: Now that's hilarious. Well, the sad thing is that we know what we're putting up and Simones are still better in any case you have a wonderful day. Brian, I just wanted to say hello. We're going to spend the rest of the morning out here. We broke out the FTDX101MP so we're getting it all set up and was just looking at Indonesia on 40 meters a little bit ago. So we'll see if we can't play some DX with the, with the YAESU flagship radio here and have some fun. So that's what we're doing this morning and just kind of a relaxing, kind of drizzly morning and you know, it's nice to be inside. We got our nice new white lab coats and they're, they're, they're nice and white for the first day so I can't say how long they'll stay that way but you know how life goes. 73 Brian KB6SSN
Speaker A: all right, do me a favor, look in the menu on that radio and see if you're on narrow band. But the audio is pumped up. Something tells Me that that radio is not on wideband. It sounds like it's on narrow band but the audio is pumped up to compensate for that. So let me know later on if you would.
Speaker D: I will do so. Yeah, Larry's checking on it right now as you were speaking. He had to take his finger off the button so that I could talk back to you. But that sounds like a pretty good piece of advice. I'll make sure he looks at it.
Speaker A: Yeah, Just knowing the resonance on your voice on your regular microphone, that's what my ear hears and it has been wrong. Have a great day. KB6SSN, AI6US and then a quick check in there from Dick. Good morning, WB7UKX.
Speaker E: Good morning Brian. Just checking in and had a few minutes. My wife, I'm getting ready to go in for a nerve block here in about three hours so thought I'd take a minute and just stop in and say hello.
Speaker A: Oh yes, yeah, definitely must have some chronic pain to be going in to have that taken care of. Wish her well on that. And all I can say I'm glad it's her and not you or me.
Speaker E: Actually she was the one giving me the haircut. I'm the one going in for the nerve block and yeah, I do have a lot of chronic pain problems after the last several years it's been challenging but we work with Worcester and we still keep on with life and go do what we want to do.
Speaker A: Well, very good. Yeah, I was talking, in fact a good, good friend, I won't mention who it is today but a good friend from the repeater here is going in today for one of these electronic stimulus for pain control, kind of like what Carl had the other day. So yeah, definitely pain is real and it certainly can be very limiting on what you permit your body to do. Well, I wish you well on that today and I would pick the haircut over that anytime, any day there Dick.
Speaker E: Good point. I would too. I've had nerve blocks before, they're okay, not a big deal but it does take a little bit of time. But we go to the doctor frequently. We have multiple trips sometimes per week to doctors for various special days. But like you and the others have said, I also like to do photography. I'm a people photographer. I do landscape stuff but I also did a lot of people stuff. I've cut back on that due to just being able to get out and around and of course hand radio and walking. Good thing to do. I like getting out to walk and we have a good time with it.
Speaker A: Yeah, I used to be in film and video commercial production. And then one of my side gigs was I got hooked up with a company that did a lot of event documentation and promotion and awards trips with like ADT and Intel and Doc Martin and other companies like that. So I traveled the world with them and I got quite embedded with some of the companies doing smiling faces for them and just go out and, you know, capturing and you know, one thing that I really enjoyed about that was learning how to properly use a flash fill and something that scared the death out of me. And I would always try going natural, but then over time, you start getting comfortable with being able to go on the fly. Flash fill. One of the biggest game changers for me was the introduction to digital photography. It used to be that you would go out, take your shots and you would find out a day or two later if you were ever going to work again. And the advent of digital photography certainly changed the approach to taking risky shots or quickly. Every five shots or so, just kind of review to make sure you've captured something. I don't know about you, but I found that to be a tremendous game changer in the smiling faces world.
Speaker E: Yeah, Roger, digital photography has been a big improvement for us. Of course, you did a lot of film work and you hoped everything was going to turn out okay. We only had one issue. My brother and I were doing a wedding and his girlfriend was standing there and he handed her the film, took it out of his camera. It was a 120 by 120 file format or film format. And he handed her the roll of film and we turned around and she had unwrapped the roll of film. She wanted to see the pictures. Oops, there went another dozen pictures that were no good. But anyway, that sure changed what we got to be able to do the digital stuff.
Speaker B: And I like taking the picture. I almost like doing the imaging editing
Speaker E: afterwards as much as I do taking the picture anymore.
Speaker A: Somebody asked me once what the difference was between a professional photographer and an amateur and I said, boy, if you looked at my pictures that I took, it probably wouldn't look much different than the pictures that your uncle took. But I knew what to throw away.
Speaker B: Good point.
Speaker E: All right, I better let you get back on with the net there, Brian. WB7UKX have a great day.
Speaker A: Well, good, good to learn about your background there and I wish you well on your procedure today. And I hope your wife looks extra beautiful and gorgeous after her hair appointment. You have a wonderful day clearing with WB7UKX. I'm Brian AI6US and good morning Mark. WB7BJN for your recheck.
Speaker B: Hey Brian, sorry about that. Just as you turned it over to me the power went off. It did. It was just like clockwork. I heard you turning it to me and all of a sudden everything dropped right here in the room and there was nothing I could do. I guess I could have gotten on a repeater phone but by the time that happened you would already moved on because I could have done that on my phone. But I'm back real quickly. If I could slip in here, let you guys know that it's. I like peppermint patties by the way and I like them in the out of the freezer like I do most other chocolate crunchies like that. But I do like them. And the other thing is there's going to be lots of rain. We get a break tomorrow and Friday and then another system and just a whole week of pretty much rain all the way to about next California. Back east here, it's going to warm back up. Anna, your snow won't be around for long. It's going to warm back up and it's going to get warmer back here. We're going to be 20 degrees cooler today. We had a little cold front go through but it's going to warm right back up and basically be above normal. Brian, that's it for me and
Speaker C: I'll
Speaker B: let you carry on there and back tomorrow. WB6BJ.
Speaker A: All right, well, this unexpected power outage, I'm just kind of curious if Sarah was standing over by the breaker box when this occurred. Well, I'm glad you could get back in here this morning and you thank, thank you for the update on the weather and yes, it was wonderful to see the snow chain check go up over on the freeway near the house here. So yeah, that means they are anticipating the big snow dump up in the Sierra. So you have a wonderful day. Thanks. And hopefully everything came back up after that outage. WB6P BJN AI6US have a great day. 7 3.
Speaker B: Thank you, Brian. Thank you, Brian. And yeah, you may even go down to your house at some point during this. This, it's gonna, these are gonna be cold storms, cold storms and there's a big one coming for the weekend and more next week and we're gonna be benefiting from some of that too but on the warmer side of that of the situation. So there you go. So it's nice to go from cold weather to shorts and flip flops in about that quick and all the Ice is melted later. And from Sarah and I, everybody, have a blessed day. WB6BJ
Speaker A: well, we just had a gust of wind come through. I can always tell when it gets windy. We get a little dip in the, in the repeater and I looked up and yep, the top of the trees are swaying. Yeah, I looked at them the 10 day for our location here and of course I think this gives actual prediction for Auburn which is, you know, only four or five miles away. But yeah, don't see, don't see anything at our elevation that's looking like snow. Even, even at the nighttime. We're still in the mid to high 60s for the 10 day forecast. So yeah, not far up the hill though. Probably Colfax, which is, you know, less than 10 miles away. They'll probably, probably be getting it. Thanks for checking in there, Mark. WB6BJN AI6US and Patrick, I heard through the grapevine that you had tried checking in and you dabbled with me. And sure enough, I looked up on Supermon and there you were. I'm not used to seeing you on Supermon. Good morning.
Speaker C: Good morning, Brian. Well, I should have been showing up on Superman the last few weeks coming in the way, one of the prescribed ways anyway. This is prescribed as it gets. Yeah, to get in and out real quickly. This morning just got noticed that Melanie fell on the ice. There's not really been any melting in New York and she was out, pretty much out cold for an hour before medics could get her into the building. And she didn't want to go to the hospital but she's in all kinds of pain so kind of just talking her through that and dealing with that. So didn't really have the time to hang around but I thought I would get in here while I could.
Speaker A: So evidently no one was around or she was at a location that she wasn't observed to go down for an hour before medics could arrive. Or was that they were just afraid to move her?
Speaker C: They didn't want to move her first because of some other history that she's had with falls. And so she was in the work parking lot, observed getting out of the car, going, going across the parking lot into the building is where it happened.
Speaker A: Oh my.
Speaker D: Well, sorry to hear about that.
Speaker A: And definitely pass our thoughts for rapid recovery to her. Man, that's not good.
Speaker D: Well, I'm glad you got in this morning.
Speaker A: Yeah, I was just kind of commenting that I typically am not used to looking for you on Superman because usually your method of getting in doesn't show up There, so I was just gonna. I really hadn't been paying much of attention to showing up there, but there you were. Well, Patrick, hopefully all is well. Did you get another good night's sleep or did the Sandman escape you?
Speaker C: I think the Sandman went off to Florida somewhere. I didn't get to sleep until about 9 o' clock this morning, so that's the end of that, I guess. And then I got. Got a text about an hour ago. She goes into work about 9 o', clock, gets there about 9 o' clock, and that happened right around then. So she texted me as soon as she was able to, which was about 10 o'.
Speaker B: Clock.
Speaker C: So just kind of been awake and dealing with that as much as I can. Not a whole lot I can do from here, which really sucks. But, you know, I try what I can. Yep.
Speaker D: No understandable.
Speaker A: You are a distance away and you know, the family is nearby, so hopefully she's getting support from them as well. Well, sorry to hear the Sandman went back to taking meth, but we're headed to Florida. One of the two. Well, definitely. It was definitely great to have you drop this morning. Let's hope that everything kind of gets back under control and invite the Sandman back this evening.
Speaker C: I will certainly do what I can. I mean, to be fair, I didn't really try too hard yesterday. It's been so dry here. All of us here in the house got really, really bad headaches. And the thing that works for me for headaches is extra strength Excedrin, which
Speaker A: has caffeine in it.
Speaker C: And when you already have sleeping issues and you take things with caffeine, extra strength caffeine, it doesn't really. It doesn't really do too well for sleep. So I kind of figured that would happen and it absolutely did.
Speaker E: Yep.
Speaker A: Got to read those ingredients, that's for sure. Well, I'm going to leave you with this thought. They say the machines of the future will be as smart as people, but my question is. Okay, but which people? Because it kind of matters a lot.
Speaker C: Well, I would say the machines of today are already as smart as some machines.
Speaker A: Leadership. Anyway, I just ran across that one the other day and I just thought it was pretty funny. Good morning to you. Hopefully all is better for you throughout the day. And thanks for checking in, Patrick, as always.
Speaker C: Thanks for having me, Brian, and certainly good to be able to check in with you guys as always. 73ai6us into DYI on a radio for a change. How weird.
Speaker A: Yep, how weird. And I was expecting my UCI 200 from all scan to arrive yesterday but it is arriving today and then I ordered my cable from HRO to the DIN10 mini DIN10 to mini DIN6. I'm going to do this right. Hopefully my audio is going to be stellar here in the next week. Thanks Patrick for all your help on that into DYI AI 6 US 73
Speaker C: I am looking forward to seeing what does. I have a feeling it might
Speaker A: I'm
Speaker C: just going to go ahead and say this. I have a feeling it might make other issues show up with your microphone when it broadens it out. But I am here for that here to play. Give me a call whenever and certainly we'll be around to help you with that. Ai6us n2dyi73
Speaker A: well what's going to be interesting is the reliance on on Starlink. I'm, I'm very you know, I'm a two year Starlink customer very darn happy with it. But I'm just wondering about the reliance on.

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Speaker A: It for the stability over the course of an hour and a half, you know, as it switches between satellites and it's going to be interesting. I've heard other people running Starlink but it's usually more on brief check ins or occasionally. So for it to become a regular thing on a radio less node, it's going to be interesting to see into DYI AI6US Good Morning Coffee Breaknet on the W6EK repeater. Let's go ahead and take a round of quick in and outs. Maybe you are short on time and only can say a quick hello. This time is for you Coffee Breaknet taking quick in and out check ins
Speaker B: whiskey 2 Victor x Ray
Speaker C: KK 6:00am.
Speaker D: Ko6th Good morning.
Speaker A: All right, I think there were four or five of you in there, but I heard three. Good morning greg ko6th good morning to ray kk6am and good morning to doug w2vx. Who did I miss? N1ycn mike. All right, Mike N1YCN. Got you on the list here. Quick in and outs. Good morning Doug W2VX
Speaker B: Good morning. Good morning Brian and everybody else. Doug W.T. i'm calling out from Never Never Land, the place where I truly belong. And you know what Brian? I have put together a battery bank with an inverter and a solar charger and I think it's going to run all of my radio equipment in Never Never Land. I'm back to being on batteries.
Speaker A: Okay, how many watts solar panel do you have and what mppt and how much amperage on the batteries?
Speaker B: Okay, well let's see if I can pull the deets out of my brain. I have a tracer 4215bn solar charger that'll put out well a bunch, but I've got a 250 watt panel hooked up to it. For right now I could probably put on four. I got a 3 kilowatt inverter, a Junpa 3080 which will put out 3003 kilowatts and with surges of 6 kilowatts. And I have 200amp hours of life
Speaker A: batteries hooked up to it. Well, I would say during daylight hours you could run the full legal limit. Nighttime you better cut back on your power a little bit. Well, that's quite impressive. So very good. And how are you for RFI.
Speaker B: Measurements so far are there's hardly anything coming out of this Junpa 3080 and it's a really good brand. They make a lot of commercial equipment and so this is sort of their mid tier, you know, home hobbyist inverter and seems really quiet. Not only is it quiet electrically, but it is quiet audibly as well. It's got a couple of really good fans in it so I don't have to sit here and listen to it rev up its engines, so to speak.
Speaker A: Well, if many more trees fall down around the vault, maybe solar panels are in order for the W6EK vault. The way the trees and the limbs are coming down, I think we're going to have plenty of sun in the near future. Well, excellent, Doug. Well, I was going to ask you what you've been up to lately, but now I know.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've been keeping myself busy in Never never land. It's always a fun place to be. I have lots of test equipment to keep me busy, so there's always got to be some project going on and I love doing it. Plus I enjoy spreading the wealth and helping other people figure some of that stuff out too. That's one of the benefits of being part of a ham radio club is learning and sharing what we know. Anyway, Brian 7:3, thanks for running the net and everybody else out there. Have a safe, pleasant day and try to stay dry or go out and get wet. Maybe I'll even take the bike out and ride in the rain. 7:3.
Speaker A: How dare. Remember I lived in Portland for many, many years. Oh my gosh, how daring. You're gonna ride a bike in the rain. W2VX always a pleasure, Doug. You have a wonderful day ahead. Clearing with Doug and good morning, Ray. KK 6:00am
Speaker C: Good morning. Well, the first thought when you said riding a bike in the rain, I thought, how many volts do those batteries in that bike have?
Speaker A: Boy, I don't know. Let's ask Doug. I would guess that it's probably a 48 or 50 some volt system. Doug, what's the battery on your bike?
Speaker B: They're 48 volt batteries. Yes, I know. Don't lick it, don't touch it with your tongue. And hang onto the frame. I get it.
Speaker A: Very good. I think in your case it's the amperage. That could kill. All right, back over to you there, Ray. We have all the info now.
Speaker C: Okay, but remember, the higher the voltage, the higher the amperage will be too. Anyway, I keep saying all of this, you know, 48 volt power tools and I think there's now some 96 and 140 volt field replaceable batteries. And I kind of think, wow, how come haven't we heard more idiots Electrocuting themselves. It's about time.
Speaker A: Oh, I'm sure you're from the same era that I was working on equipment and I just remember carrying spectrum analyzers and other things onto roofs and towers. And not only were you carrying that 50 pound device, but then you were bringing along probably another 25, 35 pounds of batteries. And you would keep the caps on them so your tools wouldn't short out on them. You know, we were like the kids who rode in the back of pickup trucks and station wagons without helmets.
Speaker C: Yeah, and why not? Never had a problem with that. Keeping in mind that we had six people in the family. Pickup truck is the only transportation. And no, it wasn't one of those pregnant ones with two rows of seeds.
Speaker A: Yeah, but then I remember some real stupid kids in my class that didn't make it to adult life. You know, there used to be a way of weeding them out before they became adults. We've kind of lost that.
Speaker C: Exactly. That's kind of what I. What I was seeing in them one way or another.
Speaker A: I know. I just spoke out loud. Well, good morning to you. What do you have planned for today, Ray? It looks like we're going to be dodging raindrops. It. It's gotten quite windy up here in Meadow Vista. Don't know what it's like down your way.
Speaker C: Actually, it's not. It's. You know, it rained last night from about 9:30 to about 11 and then I don't think there's been much else since then.
Speaker A: Yeah, we had rain pretty much all night and didn't hear the tower clanking around. So I think the wind is something new, but definitely indicates a change in weather pattern. Well, good morning to you. Anything else for the net this morning?
Speaker C: Nope, that's about it for now. So 73kk6am in the background.
Speaker B: All right.
Speaker A: You have a great day, Ray. Thanks for checking in. KK 6:00am AI 6:US Good morning, Greg. Yes, indeed. With those battery banks on the sailboat, it's easily just easy to start welding accidentally.
Speaker D: It's harder than you think, Greg. K06th the lithium battery is when you. If you short the terminals to be at the battery manager and thing disconnects them. So it's actually safer than the lead acid ones. But yeah, I mean if you have an inverter that can produce the. How would that work? You still have a whole lot of current going through. But yeah. I was just looking for the inverter that Doug mentioned. I haven't found it yet, but I'm Trying to find the ideal, ultimate correct inverter for the boat. People are telling me, yeah, you got to go Victron. And then I read some of the reviews on it. It's like, you know, it's noisy acoustically and the whole idea of the sailboat is to get away from noise and the electric sailboat get away from all that noise, the diesel and all that kind of junk that's kind of counter, counter use there. Anyway, quick in and out to the comments of the day. See, the first one was inventors.
Speaker C: Who was it?
Speaker D: First one up, he's got six. I've only got three pats so he's ahead of me. But I also, I don't play the guitar. I play with the guitar. And because I picked it up and sort of learning on my own and of course I did it upside down because I'm left handed and I was a right handed guitar, I never bothered to try to correct that. So that's always fun. And the weather, it is not raining here. It is. It's just kind of just sitting here gloomy. No wind. Zero wind. Absolutely zero and hasn't rained since. Rain gauge says since just before night was the last bit of rain. So you might want to go outside and check the sprinklers. Ko6th.
Speaker B: Yeah, just looking to see.
Speaker A: I just pulled up my weather charts here to see when precipitation stopped here. I woke up several times through the night that definitely had. You could hear the gutters dropping.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker A: Looks like.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Live just a quarter inch since midnight. So it was kind of a drizzly state until this morning. But yeah, railings are dry right now. All right. Patent holders. Boy, I didn't realize that you held three as well. May I ask in what area?
Speaker D: Computer communications. One is a protocol thing. Yeah. Another one, there's a couple of them. The one that I'm really upset about. The employer is the one that drives everything. And we had one idea that, I mean you could build an entire economy on it. But there's prior arc that they didn't want to fight and it would be easy to do. And so one of the patents actually is the. Not workaround but the answer to that prior art thing. One of them, the first one was one of those things that you just kind of blurt out the answer. Oh wow, that's kind of cute. On we did a communication link between a computer and a disk drive and over optical cable. And this is back in the. Oh with the early mid-1980s and the entire protocol including all the air recovery and stuff had to fit on what was then a VLSI chip. So not that big and we managed to get that to work. That actually went into production. And the third one, what was the third one? I forget now, now what that was. Anyway, they're all fun. All related to communication. Ko6h
Speaker B: info info.
Speaker A: Go ahead.
Speaker B: Hey Brian, sounds like there was a little difficult finding this inverter. Greg, you have your pencil?
Speaker A: Sure, what is it?
Speaker B: The brand name is Juliet Uniform November Bravo Papa Alpha, Whiskey June Paul. It's a LGE Lima Juliet. No Lima GE 3080 there. How's that? LGE 3080.
Speaker D: Okay, thanks, I appreciate that. Got a copy down. I'll take a look for it up. What I want to use, I think what I want to use on the boat is the. There's a couple of them that they all look exactly the same except they spray painted them differently. Lead Time's got one, ecoflow's got one, or Eco Eco Worthy has one. Renogy I think started the whole thing a lot smaller. Same capacity, 48 volts, 3 kilowatts. And the problem is the neutral to ground bond and how that gets handled. I think I've got a workaround for that now too. So we're still working on it. Thanks, appreciate it. Ko60h Brian, back to you.
Speaker A: Yeah, the neutral to ground has always been an issue in RV and Marine World. Looks like the one that Doug is referencing here. I see it on Amazon. $319. Looks like it is set up though for 12 volt input. Maybe Doug can quickly make a comment on that. Maybe it's a variable input but they have it listed as a DC 12 volt to AC110,120.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's exactly it. I prefer putting 12 volts in parallel and I don't really need to exceed 3 kilowatts.
Speaker A: Oh, you're evidently using the wrong power amplifier with your amateur radio gear. There we go. Back over to you Greg.
Speaker D: Yeah, the 48 volts is because that's what, that's what the motor runs on and so I've already got 40. I will already have 48 volts in the boat and that's kind of the high power bus so it makes sense to run the inverter off of that. And yeah, a lot of the batteries they come with chargers because they're intended for retrofitting golf carts. And so you have a proper lithium capable charger. So they just throw one in the box along with the battery. And so that's the easy part. The hard part is that inverter and when you're on shore power you cannot have that thing bonded because that's back on shore. And if you're on the boat you unplug the shore power you got to have it bonded. And the Victrons do that automatically. The other ones do not. And so finding that piece of logic I know I can build one but getting it. The issue then is that the insurance guys get all squinty eyed about it and they say eh, no, you want to have a boat especially one that would raise eyebrows anyway because it's electric you got to have it cleaned and everything done to grade inspects and that's the objective here. So I may have to bite the bullet. They're twice the Zetrons are traced upon price, twice the weight and twice the size of what you can do otherwise. And I know you're getting something for it besides a hernia.
Speaker A: It's just.
Speaker D: Yeah. Anyway, on with the day. Brian. Quick in and out. Ko6th
Speaker A: I like that. Up to Graydon quality. We haven't seen his house burned down yet. Alright Greg, you have a wonderful day. And yeah there's something to be said about Victron that is for sure but we certainly have learned our lesson about battleborn. I remember there are several very vocal folks that have been around our community that it was battleborn as the best. And my goodness Will Prowse is has put out some very interesting videos on battleborn. If you own any stock in their company anymore, probably would dump it quick. Don't think it's going to be around much longer. Ko6thai6us and good morning.

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Speaker A: Good morning Mike. N1YCN
Speaker B: Good morning Brian. This is Mike N1YCN and I'm in Laguna West. But anyway very quick one for me. I have to get out of here and have places to go and people to meet. So as they say, my plans for today are basically just working in my garage. I've been repairing my 3500 watt inverter generator. It had a small oil leak so had to take it apart and there's nothing with that. They should get it back together today and I just like to have it for standby. We don't really need it in this area. But I bought that when we had our travel trailer which I don't have anymore. So anyway that's part of it and the other thing is working in the house here hooking up sound bars for the, for the TVs. But so, but nothing ham related. So. And that's all right.
Speaker C: We'll be back to it.
Speaker B: And I'm still pull the trigger on a new antenna for so I can get on hf.
Speaker A: But that's.
Speaker B: That's another story. Anyway I have to get out of here. I'll let you go and thanks for doing the coffee net as usual and I'm glad you got to. I'm glad you got to talk to me. All right Brian, you take care. Have a great day. This is Mike N1YCN and Claire.
Speaker A: And Mike, I am glad that you got to talk to me as well.
Speaker B: Well, very good.
Speaker A: You have a wonderful day. Sounds like you have some good projects and you're going to be on the right side of the door for the weather today. And thanks for checking in. N1yCNAI6US Coffee Breaknet hey, good morning. Let's see a quick couple of things we're gonna go over. Just wanted to remind everybody this Friday night we are going to have a club meeting in Auburn, California. This is for the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club. We are in a new location so we are going to be celebrating with an open house inviting the entire community to check out our new digs. They're going to be at the Placer County HHS Conference center up in Auburn. If you're familiar with Auburn, that's at the DeWitt center area and easy access. Take I80 up to Bell Road exit. Beautiful facility. Great audio, video system, secure parking and just a reminder, bring a food donation. Bring a donation for the food bank. Yes, we are still going to be supporting our community with non perishable food items. So give generously. Presentation this month is going to be on Mesh Systems by N5JEF Jeff is one of the main people pushing mesh corps for the east side of the valley here, so Sierra foothills. He has installed a system, the W6ek vault has another one up on mountaintop, another one down in front of. I know, let's see, Craig has put one up out in Cool. And we're just trying to put together a good resilient mesh core system. So drop on by this Friday evening presentation on mesh and then probably a discussion on the mesh core system that is now part of our repeater vault system. Let's see, this evening of course is going to be in the shack. In the shack is on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm in the club Zoom Room. So yeah, if you want to just drop on in on a great meeting where we projects we're working on things in and about the shack. Drop by this evening to the Zoom Room. And how do you find that? Well, head on over to whiskey6echokilo.org w6ek.org website click on join Zoom meeting and that will be this evening, 7:30pm Pacific Time. Usually goes about an hour, hour and a half. Drop on in, be part of the conversation, turn on the camera, see what you're up to, share your projects. It's a lot of fun. Ham fest. Yes, the first ham fest of the year will be coming up Saturday, March 28th. We have some great prizes. A shark RF MK1E, a cage that will fit a 7300 or 9700 radio, brand new from POV. Thank you very much Scott. For that we're going to be giving away a couple radios, some lithium ion battery with kits, a couple of different sizes of that I think a couple radio systems. So any. Yeah, and some gift certificates from hro. Quite a few things. We're going to have drawing for that at the Loomis Ham Fest. That is first ham fest of the year. First ham fest of the year for Northern California and we're just inviting everybody to March 28th. Sellers, set up your booth starting at 6am buyers, you're welcome to drop on by 7am and sometimes by 7am the good deals are gone. That's at the historic Loomis train station in Loomis, California. So mark your calendars, come on out. Plenty of hot coffee, donuts and we're going to have a social tent set up with chairs, covered area that you can just drop in and visit with your ham radio friends. So that's March 28, 7am at the Loomis train station in Loomis, California. Good morning, Coffee breaknet. Let's go ahead and take check ins. If you are short on time, let me know that you're short on time that you'd like to be a quick in and out. I will put you at the top of the list. And welcome to the Coffee breaknet. I'm Brian AI6 us taking check ins.
Speaker D: Kn6 us in and out.
Speaker C: Oh,
Speaker B: How do I recheck whenever you grab that. I'm trying to think what I was going to say. But a recheck from KC at fqv,
Speaker E: Kf8fcr and in and out.
Speaker A: All right, got a partial call. You were a little truncated at the beginning there. I got a 8 Foxtrot Charlie Romeo for a quick in and out. I'll be back to you in a moment and get your full call sign and get you checked in. And good morning, mark for recheck KC8FQV. And good morning, Sam. K4LGI. And good morning to Mike KN6H for in and out. There was one or two other stations coming in through side or east coast hub network. Unfortunately, all we got was a carrier. We did not get any audio. Do you want to try that again?
Speaker E: Kf8fcr in and out.
Speaker C: Yg3avn in and out.
Speaker A: All right. Yankee Golf 3, I believe. Alpha Golf November for in and out and a KF8 FCR for in and out. Okay, let's visit with our in n out folks. Get them on their way and then we'll check in, do a recheck and check in with. Good morning, Mike. KN6USH for in and out. What do you have going on today, Mike?
Speaker D: Morning, Brian. Good morning, everyone. Flight TM6USH going on. Just negotiating my way through friendly downtown Sacramento in the rain, but it seems to be clearing out on the south side, so that's going good. The other thing is been hanging out. Started to hang out last night on DMV.gov taking some practice tests. Seems that when you get to a certain point in life they want you to retake all your written tests. So maybe I'm not too familiar with what the questions are. So I thought I'd do a lot of review before and I can also take it online. So I'm going to try that.
Speaker A: Well, very good. I haven't observed your driving lately, so I can't comment on whether you need to have a driving test or not. But you know, I fully endorse because I watched my mother get Older. She hung onto her license until a point where kind of start to get uncomfortable, you know. So I imagine that happens in all of our skill sets. Raining in Sacramento, Drive safely,
Speaker D: lots of room. Of course, the advantage being in this vehicle is I get to see way up ahead. But anyway, I forgot what the other questions were, so. But I was thinking about something that they were talking about earlier, but I forgot what I was going to say.
Speaker A: And that, my friend, is why they're having you take the DMV exam.
Speaker D: Well, I just thought I'd provide an example of that. And it happens. I think those are famous words from Forrest Gump.
Speaker A: It happens. Yes, indeed, it happens. You have a wonderful day there, mike. Kn6 usaji6us73 7300 ks us it happens. Kf8fcr good morning. What do you have for the net today and your name and location? I'm brian and welcome to the coffee breaknet.
Speaker E: Yes, good morning. This is Ed in Centerline Michigan. And thank you. I'm looking forward to talking with you this morning. Just listen to all the things that are going on out there and haven't been on too many of these because I'm sort of a new ham. So I'm just enjoying listening to the conversations going back and forth on the Net. And I just really appreciate the way you guys handle all these nets throughout. It's a great thing. Especially I don't have an HF rig, so I'm working. Eventually I might get one. Right now it's on HT's and Echo Link. So anyway though, yeah, that's pretty much it. Back to you.
Speaker A: Well, welcome, Ed. Yeah, I just looked up your profile on QRZ and Yes, let's see. Looks like a license in November. November 28th of this. Excuse me. No, there's something wrong. Oh, I'm sorry. December. Let me double check that. I think I have it all completely wrong here. Anyway, a new ham radio operator and are you using a smartphone device or are you using a node to get into the Fireside east coast hub?
Speaker E: Yeah, right now I'm using Echo Link to talk to you up there and it's really an amazing thing, but normally I use dmr. I enjoy DMR radio and it's interesting. It's sort of a complicated setup, but it really spurs my interest. I retired a few years ago and this has become sort of hobby that
Speaker C: I get involved in.
Speaker E: So. Yeah, back to you.
Speaker A: Yeah, the digital radio. Quite interesting. DMR just really didn't really catch on too strongly in our area. Seems like most of the digital communications there is some D R, some DSTAR, but primarily in this area it is the C4FM. So you have one on me. I've never used a DMR myself and nothing against it other than I just my location isn't, you know, I would have to definitely get a node to be able to work dmr. Well, excellent. Well, welcome to a wonderful hobby and retired and picking up some things you enjoy. So do you have an active amateur radio community in your. In your area?
Speaker E: Oh, absolutely.
Speaker D: We have.
Speaker E: We probably have dozens of repeaters, dozens of amateur radio clubs in my area. It's great. There's a tremendous amount of support out there for people like me getting started. Get to talk to the Elmers every
Speaker A: once in a while. A while.
Speaker E: And I get some good information from them on some of the issues I run into occasionally. But I'll tell you, I'm very blessed that way and I appreciate all these people and how wonderful they've been. Just open arms and talk to me and it's great. But yeah, back to you.
Speaker A: Yeah, that is awesome that you have a great active community to rely on and hopefully, you know, drop in on some club meetings and see which group you want to hang out with. That's very important and nice to have a variety and a supportive group.
Speaker E: Excellent.
Speaker A: That is great. Yeah, we come from a very active community here in the Sierra foothills just east of Sacramento. A growing club and just a wonderful community. We find that amateur radio is something we have in common among many, many other things. Well, thanks for dropping by today and we hope we invite you back anytime. And we are on node 51018. We are also direct on EchoLink so the All Star 51018 or EchoLinkW 60K R and also through the Fireside and East coast hub usually pretty much every morning for the coffee breaknet Ed, you have a wonderful day. Drop by again if you would and been a pleasure chatting with you.
Speaker E: Yeah, KF8FCR will be clear and 73 to everyone and have a good day everyone.
Speaker A: All right, seven three yet. And then I believe I count copied a Yankee Golf 3 Alpha Golf November. Did I copy the call sign correctly?
Speaker C: This is Yankee Golf 3 Alpha Charlie November. I repeat, Yankee Golf 3 Alpha Charlie November. The name here is Johan Juliet Oster Hotel Alpha November Sierra. And my QTH is Jakarta. It's a capital city of Indonesia and down here the local time now is 12:20am now it's after midnight. I just want, I believe this is also the first time for me to jump in and check in and I just want hello to you and to all everyone here.
Speaker A: Well very welcome Johan and thank you for dropping by the net so late in your evening and really appreciate you dropping in. I just went to your QRZ page and I do apologize for getting your call incorrect on the first go around check in there but welcome and let's see I see your activity here and very cool. Looks like you're active on primarily VHF and UHF and yeah I don't see you in our log so welcome great to have you stop in. I've had the opportunity to just be a little bit north of you up on Negros up near Dumaguete and it's quite an active community community I know in Indonesia among all the islands and the different clubs. Well welcome and thanks for dropping by this morning and we'll welcome you back anytime you decide to stay up this late in the evening.
Speaker C: November returning yes thank you very much. I appreciate for for you letting me join the check in this morning in your site and evening in my.

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Speaker A: Oh, sorry. Morning as well in my time.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: And for your information as well, the temperature here in Jakarta is quite nice. 80 fah here. And we also have a nice weather this morning despite we are on a rainy season from April. From September to April, it's a rainy season here. But at the moment we don't have any rain at all.
Speaker C: Yeah. Okay. Thank you very much.
Speaker A: I appreciate again for letting me in. I just want to say hello to you and stay safe, Stay warm there. This is Yang, Eagle C Alpha Charlie 11-73.
Speaker C: All right, John, very nice to meet you and we wish you to drop by again. Anytime you wish. And we'll look forward to maybe getting to know you a little bit better. So thanks for dropping in. Yankee Golf 3 Alpha Charlie November. We, we are in the rain as well, but the temperature here is probably right around. Probably right around 3, 3 or 4 degrees centigrade. So slightly cooler here. YG3ACN AI6US clear.
Speaker D: No Johan.
Speaker C: And let's check in now with Sam. K4LGI. Good morning, Sa.
Speaker E: Good morning, Brian. Everybody in the net station from Chicago. This is very clear, very easy to copy here. I was in McDonald's having breakfast and a couple of people came down and sat next to me. I just had to get out of there as fast as I could. It never seemed to fail, if you know what I mean. Yeah, I know some people. I would lose this person, Seattle, his wife used to met up with a girl, a friend, a lady friend. They were the best of friends, are always going here and there, he told me and. But her friend would always. So I forgot this, I forgot that. And his wife started doing the same thing and he said, don't ever be very careful when you're around people that forget like that and say things like that. It could be contagious. And anyway, I've told that story before. It's about 41 degrees here in Denver and sunny and hopefully things will continue to look up.
Speaker C: You left a noisy McDonald's only to hear a very active fire event going by in the background there. I had to chuckle about that. Yes. When you start forgetting the things that you. I ran across an ad for a senior citizen GPS system. It said not only will it map your path, but it will remind you when you arrive why you were going there.
Speaker E: Well, it sounds like a pretty deep amount of forgetting there. Yeah, well, it. It never fails. No matter where I go sometimes it just always follows me around. I prefer staying close to home sometimes. Well, I heard a video this morning, the Seattle Quarterback video. Sam Darnold. Someone there. It's quite nice to watch and enjoy. I think it's someone we both know. I'm not sure. Just came out. Yeah, I've been following this kidnapping thing around, the whodunit thing and it continues to twist and turn, you know what I mean?
Speaker C: Yes indeed. Went to bed last night thinking that they what they had picked someone up and they were going to be doing a search and then this morning
Speaker B: it
Speaker C: seemed like the person had been released and yeah, it's very interesting. I have not watched the news for four or five hours now so anything new is certainly twists and turns, isn't it?
Speaker E: Yeah, it's. Well when it's no evidence it slows everything down. Well, I think we got them, you know. But it's just a matter of more time between pieces of information coming out. When it's that type in nature. It was a scary looking photo and I don't know if anything new came out. I hate getting more trying to get the latest and apparently they check one person out and they get a lot of tips to be able to check them all out. You know, I think the band conditions are exactly as you said when it's a big solar kick up flare, whatever. A few days later the seem to come to life. So I think it's pretty good assessment which helps a little bit as well in terms of not being totally wiped out here for a couple of years or whatever it takes to get back to the solar cycle peak. Anyway, let's see, not too many things going on here this morning so I won't drag it out too much here I guess. Brian K4 LGI
Speaker C: all right, Sam. Yes, we've certainly been treated to a couple of nice openings. Great to see all of the D expeditions out there right now. Haven't been on the radio as much as I wanted to for the last couple of days but you know, tomorrow morning I won't be running the net so I think I'm going to hop on, start out tomorrow morning at maybe 3 or 4 o' clock local time in the morning and start on 160 and 80 and see if I absolutely love working DX on 160 and 80. I think they're probably one of the Most other than 6 meters, one of the most rewarding bands to work dx on in my opinion. Well yeah, we'll be following the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping and the photos that they posted up there. You know there's enough identifiable information on there, you know from the. Looked like a lined jacket to you. Know, backpacks to the type of holster. So many, so many things, you know, the eye distance, the eyebrows. They definitely have some things, things to go on there. So it's going to be interesting to see how technology enters into this or how just, you know, the human factor, somebody remembering something or seeing something that just resonates. K4LGI AI6US have a wonderful day. Sam, always a pleasure to talk with you.
Speaker E: Yes indeed there, Brian. I saw a video with a located the jacket from China. I've seen that type of jacket before and hopefully there'll be a trail there with that piece of evidence.
Speaker C: See you later. K4LGI. Well, it was probably purchased on Amazon because if it had been on temu, it would too small. I imagine it's just a matter of time before those Amazon records are, are analyzed and they see who in that area purchased that. You know, most likely it's a registered handgun. I would, you know, you would think just based on the representation and the way that it was carried, that holster definitely was something that was purchased and probably not a ton of those type of holsters are out there. It's going to be interesting to see the sleuths get on this one. Good morning, Great to chat with you, Sam. K4LGI AI6US and we had a recheck. Mark KC8FQV. Go ahead, Mark.
Speaker B: All right, Case fqv a few comments. Yeah, the one phone I have, it's easier, the S8, Samsung S8 I think it is, has the curved edges. I never used the curved edges. They say you can put tabs on them, but that one's an easy one to get stripped or whatever. I never trade them in really. I just keep them on. A new one comes up like the Pixel 7. I got the Pixel 7 a couple years now. One day I was walking into the store and they had that where they have a machine you can sell your phone to and it had scanner code and it checked the phone, it checked different things and you did a zigzag on it to see if the screen worked and it said we could give you $157. Sort of laugh, you know. Although the Pixel 7 is a few years old, I don't know how old it now. But yeah, I just keep them until I hold on and I get my WI FI phone and that way I can check in to do multiple things. I can be in a net and be looking at the web and other stuff with the other one. A lot of nets use the net logger so I, I can Use rankchew app and I look at the net. You know many nets do use the net logger. But there was something else I was gonna make a comment about that you guys are talking about and I can't recall. Oh yeah, snow chains and that. Yeah, I remember we had studded tires back here. Put studded tires on. I think it was like November 15th and had to be off by April 15th. But other than that, just a great group. I have to remember to go to the website w6ek I think. Well, I, I don't know what is. I, I know what it is. I can't go to get to your meeting on Friday night. I guess it's Friday night you're going to do the meeting on oh, Friday the 13th. Oh, you must back it comes KSIF QV.
Speaker C: Yep, studded tires are allowed in California November 1st through April 30th and provided they do not exceed 3% of the total tire contact area. And man, those things rip up the roads. Man, they rip up the roads. Ask me, I have an F350 that gets a new windshield every two years. Good morning. You have a wonderful day there, Mark. And thanks for that additional information. Good morning. Coffee Breaknet man. We have about 18 minutes to the top of the hour. So let's just wrap up this 18 minutes with quick check ins. Anybody out there want to check in and say good morning and, and let us know what's on your mind. Let's see. Coffee Breaknet. I'm Brian AI6ek repeater and more importantly the Coffee Breaknet. Who's out there?
Speaker B: Kilo.
Speaker D: November 6th November Uniform Coffee.
Speaker C: Break.
Speaker F: Whiskey. Uniform six Hotel. Quick in and out.
Speaker E: W6jmp.
Speaker F: All right.
Speaker C: Good morning gene. W6gmp and good morning to ryan wu6h. Good morning dave. K6dcl and good morning. Did I miss anyone? All right, all of these are quick in and outs. Good morning, KN16UF. Good morning, Joshua.
Speaker D: Good morning, Brian. And good morning to the net. It's a beautiful rainy day here in Wheatland. First day getting back home from the hospital and things. So got two days here. I'm gonna be on the clock for work and then I'm taking Friday off and the kids and I are gonna go down to Muir woods and be out in the, out in the forest. KN6NUS.
Speaker C: You know, I didn't realize it, but there are many areas called mirror and one of those happens to be up right up near lake. Let's remember the lake, the reservoir, Lake Valley Reservoir. There's Muir Meadows. There's the Muir Trail, but I assume you're headed down towards Yosemite,
Speaker D: down towards the North Bay to what's down there.
Speaker C: And there's another one that I don't think I was aware of. Well, very good. I am glad to hear that you are back to work. I guess that can be celebrated in a way, but that you are well enough to be returning to work and glad to hear that you are on the way to recovery there. Will what do you have for us today there, Joshua, other than the celebration of returning to work? It's kind of like an office thing, isn't it?
Speaker D: Yeah, I wouldn't really call it a celebration. Although all my co workers miss me. They sent me messages this morning when I got online, so that was really sweet of them. But yeah, I'm not really missing work these days. That's why I'm really looking forward to Friday and getting out into the woods and just being outdoors and spending time with the kids. So today is a February break, so I got two days here with mom and then we're back together for the weekend. So looking forward to just having fun with them. I think that's what matters most to me these days. KN6NUS
Speaker C: Absolutely.
Speaker F: Absolutely.
Speaker C: Family is first. Well, Joshua, I'm glad to hear you are feeling much better. That's the important thing. You're home, you're on the road to recovery and we'll catch up with you later on Muir Woods. I'm going to have to look that up and see if it's place that I've that I need to put on the bucket list. KN6NUF AI6US 7373 Brian, we'll try to
Speaker D: make it to the meeting afterwards and we'll probably have some pictures to show everyone. Have a great day.
Speaker C: Yes indeed. Going to be an open house at the new location up in Auburn and the company kind ladies from the food bank are going to be baking cookies for us and it's going to be a fun Evening learning about mesh from N5JEF clearing with Joshua. Great to hear him back. Coming to health K6D Good morning, Dave.
Speaker G: Hey, good morning, Brian. Well, I wasn't sure here the past two days because I issues with my mic M1KE and it kept erroring out. I became really worried. So last night I decided to put on for a full charge which I did and powered it down a couple times and then back up and I felt, I thought maybe somebody at SARKRF or something. I wasn't sure but I got up this morning and had my left hand fingers crossed and turned on the mic, the M1KE and voila, here I am. So maybe I was right. Anyway, so I'm back and amongst the living and Lucy has her appointment that I have to get her to this morning and so luckily I'm doing a in and out. See you later. Great to hear you. Great to be back on, of course, K60. See you.
Speaker C: With the plethora of radios that you have around, I'm sure you could have
Speaker E: come up with something.
Speaker C: We've missed you, my friend. And yes, interesting that you had an issue with your M1KE. Heard a couple other people who have run into things lately on those. These are just growing pains. They don't seem to have much in common with each other. But good to hear that your issue was resolved by a good long rest and a good recharge. Does wonders for me. Good good morning Dave and you have a wonderful, wonderful day ahead. And Good morning, Lucy. K6DCLAI6US73
Speaker G: my friend. Take care. Have a good day yourself and a good week. A6us6dc I'll see you later.
Speaker C: See you later, Dave. And Good morning, Ryan. WU6H
Speaker F: Good morning Brian and the group WU6H here. You know, listening to Dave there, I kind of wonder what the iteration of said device is going to be. Will it be the M2KE or the M1KE V2?
Speaker C: Oh, and what would they add to such device?
Speaker F: My other VFO stepped on me. I'm sorry, could you repeat?
Speaker C: Oh, okay.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker C: And what would you know? If you're gonna be coming up with a new model, it's either because you ran out of parts or you're adding a feature. So I'm going to go with. What new feature would they add?
Speaker F: Oh, maybe like a touch screen or something. Something fun, a little easier to navigate menus. I don't know because I've never used one.
Speaker C: I think they should come. My main complaint, you know, I'm getting old when I start complaining about kids walking across my lawn and walking.

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Speaker A: Why did they come out with a clear see through case? Give me a good black. Just a black case, see through. I don't know. It feels like a toy. But if that's the worst I can say about the M1KE, so be it. Maybe. So the Mark 2 version will be a black case. Oh well, you heard it here first. Mark 2 Whatever iteration. Anyway, just kind of wondering things that make you go Putting a little little mileage on the car today. Driving up to beautiful Sonora and then ending the day in Motown. Maybe I'll even have a We shall see. Anyway, that's all I got. Nick Hummers calling 73 Brian Wu 6H all right, have a wonderful day, Ryan. Thanks for checking in. WU6H AI6USR Resonant fast food expert W6JMP Good morning Gene.
Speaker B: Good morning Brian and annette. This is Jane W6JMP and I'm not at home in Alvarada Hills right now. We're at our place in Fort Bradley. It's cloudy and the sun is puking it out with the clouds coming in and out. Ocean looks really nice today. The plan we're right next our house here is right next to McKerker State Park. So I'll just have to go a few feet over and do some PODA today. And that's one of the luxuries you have when you're retired. So that's how my day is and enjoy listening to the net. Back to you Brun.
Speaker A: How awesome. You could probably just move the lawn chair and the card table over four feet and move it from your backyard into the park. I like it. I like it. So what is your portable setup? What kind of gear do you have for your pod activations?
Speaker B: I have a van rv, a class D van and in that I have the FTX one and then I have
Speaker A: the
Speaker B: one of those gear type antennas. I can't think of the name right now. That works real well. It's a permanent, semi permanent type of a setup. So all I need to do is just walk out, get in the van and and drive actually 20 or 30ft to make it legal.
Speaker A: Well that sounds comfortable. Is this van set up for RV camping as well or is it just the high head clearance?
Speaker B: Oh no, it's a Travato by Winnebago. So it's totally self contained, everything in it. And I had this re up that went got six major batteries so it can, I can 100amp batteries or whatever they call those. I had it retrofitted for that so obviously I can operate for as long as I want. But I can also dry camp for a number of days, including air conditioning. So it's, you know, it's a luxurious way to poda. They call it galamping. I guess
Speaker A: maybe we have to come up with a new term for poda in a class B, maybe glota, Glamping off the air or something. Gota. Well, very good. That sounds very comfortable. And that is the way, you know, so many people start aging out of different parts of our hobby because of can't climb the tower anymore or, you know, and I'm getting that point where, you know, going out and running portable operations and setting up for a weekend portable exercise just is losing some of the glamour. So I think you're onto something. I think maybe you were referring to a screwdriver type antenna.
Speaker B: Yes, Screwdriver. I can't think of the. I can't think of the name right now. I'm 80 years old, and I forget stuff like. That's the big one. Oh, what is it? It's a critter that's out in the desert that has pincers. That's the name of the antenna. Can't think of it. I'm sure you may think of it, but I don't apologize anymore. You know, I did. So did dragging 50 pounds of amateur equipment up on the top of a hill. So I don't apologize for sitting in the coach when I'm doing podia anymore. I think I earned that.
Speaker A: Yeah, Scorpion makes a great screwdriver antenna. I've often looked at that one. And also the Texas Bug Catcher. Both of those. Definitely Tar Heel as well. Nice configurations. Well, and I was just talking to somebody the other day about another thing that we've heard people with screwdriver antennas do. Just throw a long wire a little farther up in the tree with an alligator clip on and just use your screwdriver as a tuning mechanism for different. Longer, more efficient antenna. But very cool. Yeah. No, I just am getting to the point where I absolutely love doing the VHF contest in June. But I told my wife, I said, you know, I might just ask if there's somebody out there younger than me who would like to go up and co op the station with me. We take turns with antennas, but we work as a team to get the antennas up and then work side by side running an event. I'm starting to get creative on my portable setups. Well, Gene, thanks for checking in. And Fort Bragg, it sounds like you are having better weather than we are inland.
Speaker B: We did have some rain yesterday but and it was kind enough to rain through the night. That's, that's very nice of it and thank you for coming up with the name Scorpion. And it is anybody that's thinking about a screwdriver type antenna it is absolutely incredible and once in a while I will if I'm in a potent situation for any length of time I do clip a long line and to the bumper or right close to the base
Speaker A: for
Speaker B: for ground and that seems to work pretty good too. So anyway, thanks for letting me in and chatting. It was nice to keep track and I think I'll get my day going here. So seven three to the to you Brian and the net and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker A: All right, Gene, you have a wonderful vacation up there or maybe maybe you split time equally between the two properties but you have a wonderful time out there at Fort Bragg and sounds like a lovely you know and in my opinion there is nothing quite like watching a winter or springtime storm over at the beach. One of my favorite times to be out there. W6JMP AI6US Coffee Breaknet and good morning. Let's go ahead. We are almost to the top of the hour, one minute away from the top of the hour. So let's just open it up for anybody who would like to check in and get into the log. And welcome to the Coffee breaknet where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. Let's go ahead and take four of the log check ins. Jimmy and fair oaks. November 7. Mike
Speaker B: w6 actually good morning, brian.
Speaker A: Good morning, brian. W8lgt kevin, michigan. Kn6ssp. Morning, Brian. Further along with India. Whiskey bravo 3 charlie sierra. Thanks brian. Ai6lz. Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of Sac Valley. All right. Good morning. Let's see. I'm going to have to probably get some fills here but work with me if you if you have the patience to do so. Good morning, Chris. N6 CTC. Got you in the log. And good morning to Art KN6 SSP. Got you in the log as well. Thanks for checking in. I have a station N7 Foxtrot Golf Papa out of New York. Your name and location, sir.
Speaker B: N7 FGP. This is Scott in Jamestown, New York. Formerly from Oregon and spent a lot of time down in southern Oregon anyhow. Or the log, I guess.
Speaker A: All right, Scott, got you in the log and welcome to come back anytime when we're doing regular check ins and yeah, we're very active. Active net and Invite you back anytime. That's N7 FGP. First time check in out of New York. And let's see, going up the list here. Ai6l said good morning, Bert and KB6ed. Good morning to ed.wb3csy. Good morning to you there, Rick. Got you in the log. And let's see, I got a partial call here. I got a key. Kwi, maybe a Victor Alpha. Yes, correct. Victor, Alpha 6. Kilowiski, India. Okay, when I hear a six, I'm not sure if it's a kilo, a whiskey, or a victor. Hey, lane, nice to hear you in this morning. Got you in the log. And art kn6 ssp. And tim and company. Sounds like you're at a party there, tim. W8lgt. Let's see. W b3csy. I don't know if I got you there, rick. I might have written you down twice. And good morning to dennis wu6x. Good morning, jimmy. Ka3 victor, golf mike. And good morning to jimmy dose. November 6th. Whiskey mike delta. Foxtrot mike delta. And good morning to ron. K a6u AI. All right. Boy, you guys threw them at me fast and furious getting out my catcher's mitt. Who did I miss? Ki6. Kilo. Delta 6 hotel. Asc november. Ki6 lopez. All right, we'll add Russ to the list. Ki6lop. Good morning to you. Got you in the log. KD6H O N. Good morning, Joe. Got you in the log. And good morning to Mike. Km 6 mm. Got you in the log as well. And good morning to Glenn. Ki6tc. And just a reminder, I hope to see a lot of you at the upcoming club meeting this Friday evening, 7:30pm, at a brand new location that's at the Placer County Health and Human Services Conference Center. If you're familiar with Auburn, that's at the Dewitt center campus and easy access off of Bell road off of I80. Beautiful new facility. Come join us for an open house celebration for our new club meeting center with a great presentation on mesh by N5JEF. If you can't be there in person, join us on zoom. But we would love to see you in person. Good morning. Coffee breaknet on the W6ek repeater. Boy, that was one heck of a long list of for the log. But before I go, one more for the log. Any takers? K6bsy. All right, Jeff, Got you in the log as well, K6BSY. Well, I'm gonna get out of here. And if anybody hears, if anybody hears Ken KB7 DFP. Checking in from Twin Falls, Idaho. Find out what he's having for lunch. But I need to get out of here. Hey, it's been awesome hanging out with you guys on this hump Wednesday, hump day. And we'll catch up with you again tomorrow. Tomorrow, Theta WA6E, WF and Jerry WA6E will be your net control operators in conversations, facilitators. So, hey, thanks for hanging around with the coffee breaknet. Hope you have a wonderful day ahead. And I know I will as well. The Coffee breaknet where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. This net is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club and we're here every day of the week, 7:30am to 10:00am Pacific Time. I'm Brian AI6us. This is my Friday, so I will catch you guys as net control operator again next week. Returning the W6ek repeater and connected nodes back to regular operation. Thanks everybody for being part of the conversation. 73. 73 Brian KD9HPZ Sorry I caught this late. Just checking in quick for the log. I hope you're doing well. And hey, I always rock that guitar. All right, Ryan is on our. Brian's on the log. As today is National Guitar Day. Rock on. There was somebody else in there. I'll put you in the log. All right, Ken. I was going to let somebody else find out from you, but. Good morning. I wish we had time for a deeper conversation, but enjoy your lunch. I will enjoy my lentil soup. Have a great day. Kb70fp73ai6 us qrt nature calls. Brian.

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Speaker A: Did I hear a steve hand? Six mike golf kilo n6 grt. Was that you?
Speaker B: No, but I'm out here. Okay.
Speaker A: I heard somebody, I thought. Yeah, I was just looking at that video from. Oh, what's his face. The most careless, careless HAM I've ever seen. But he does some good, good videos. So the one with the let you know how I should set up Linux, which I know, I mean I've already had a, a microcomputer that was set up with Linux and HAM radio stuff. It's awesome.
Speaker B: I don't know how careless he is. Probably, probably the highest rated youtuber anyway if it's Josh. In fact he was just, he just hit my HAM alert today. He was using a crystal radio so he wanted people to find him 15 meters earlier on HAM alert. So he does a lot of things. He also has that HAM nation and stuff like that. Plus he has a regular career at one of those labs over there by LA somewhere. You know, one of those. He's like a rocket scientist, whatever you
Speaker A: want to call it. I don't know.
Speaker B: Anyway, he's over that way. But yeah, he doesn't do everything the way you would want him to do. I know.
Speaker A: Well, I watched him destroy a SBITX that already had Linux on it and everything else. He just extremely careless the way he hooked it up without a, a dummy load or an antenna that was tuned or nothing. It just let it, let it blow itself out. I couldn't believe.
Speaker B: Oh well, I never saw that one. But anyway, it wouldn't surprise me. He likes to blow stuff up like Christmas lights. He likes to blow Christmas lights.
Speaker A: Yeah, but blowing up a Linux that already has all the HAM software is running Linux and It's got a 40 watt transmitter in it. I mean that's, that's nuts. And he was extremely careless with that radio. He was like, oh, I just woke up from a bender and I'm gonna plug this radio and do a video. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker B: Well, I guess that's how you get the views sometimes. I don't know. I don't like some of the stuff he does either. Like I don't like watching over an hour live stream where the first 20 minutes is which beer should I choose? That's how it was in the beginning for him.
Speaker A: His are still, I think, a lot like that. They just go on and on and you have to. I won't watch the live stream, so I'll only watch a recorded live stream so I could skip through and get to where it actually Starts. And then once it's starts, he. He doesn't talk about what it says he's going to talk about in the live stream. So you know the title of the live stream. So, I mean, it turns out to be a waste of time. And I, I absolutely do not feel he's one of the best. He's just got a lot of stuff out there that doesn't make him one of the best. I'm. I'm going for the Texas guy. I don't know his name either, but he's. He's good.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Well, I don't know. I think it depends on how we evaluate that word best or whatever. Like, because I put Smoking Ape above. Above both them guys.
Speaker A: Well, that's the. He's from Texas. Smoking Ape. That's who I'm talking about.
Speaker B: Okay. Well, yeah, because that guy's good. But I didn't know if he's from Texas or not. But Anyway, ham radio 2.0, Jason's from Texas.
Speaker A: You know, you're right. I'm not sure Smoking Ape is from Texas. Smoking Ape is okay. He's pretty good. But ham radio 2.0, that guy is right on. And also, you know, the long lost truck driver that we haven't heard from in ages also thought he was one of the top guys. Whatever happened to him anyway?
Speaker B: Oh, I don't know. Maybe a month or so ago I had a call or a text or something from him. Steve. Kk6gjr, I think it is. Yeah. But anyway, haven't heard from him otherwise.
Speaker A: I'm talking about Tyler.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I don't know. Yeah, he's out trucking around, I think. I know Jeremy's going to a Tulare show, you know, for AG stuff. I think this week I'm right. I could be wrong by a week. I don't know. But I know that Mr. Tyler's pretty busy with moving stuff around the Central Valley.
Speaker A: Well, he hasn't been on 36 in quite a long time, I don't think.
Speaker B: Yeah, pretty much everyone's moved off and done other things like go on to the GRC repeater or do some all star or something like that. So, yeah, I think the analog stuff's probably a lot of favor.
Speaker A: Well, up here the analog stuff is busier than ever with the 14511 repeater. It's just not happening on Carla quite as much.
Speaker B: Well, down here in the Chico area, all the repeaters seem to be fairly slow. Some have decided to put some stuff on the wind System. That's one thing that the one group over here is doing playing the wind system. The other one is playing the W6EK repeater system in the mornings. So they're trying some different things that keep traffic on the repeaters. Well, okay.
Speaker A: I'm amazed by the weather but I have lost my Internet so I can't check and see what was coming.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. Don't you have at least a data plan on your phone, Mike, you Verizon or AT&T or something like that? They can see some stuff that way. Right.
Speaker A: Well, the phone is working. I, I think it's working from the same place I normally get my Internet. So I don't know what's going on with the computer I'm trying to use for that. In fact, even the HAM radio laptop works better than the one that I would really like to have working. So I don't know, it's a puzzling situation. But every time I think the rain is falling down, it starts up again. So it started up again. That's why I kind of like to see what the weather, what the radar says is on its way. Part way, part way through that video. I think it's Jason. I'm part way through that and you know, I'm not sure what his point's going to be. He's looking for that at this point. He's looking for a three hundred dollar laptop.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, well his point is to. Yeah, I think, you know, at the end of the day he does speed tests on, you know, a couple ones and he comes out with, you know how, you know you can buy basically a used computer a couple hundred bucks, one of those ThinkPad, he likes those and like with the Ryzen 5 or whatever and get it for a couple hundred bucks and put the Linux stuff on it with the Kim4 Ack73 Linux build on it too and have yourself a heck of a ham radio computer laptop.
Speaker A: Well, I haven't looked that much at 73 Linux, quite understand it, but it is a Linux program of course. So what's the deal with it? Why is he calling it 73 Linux?
Speaker B: Well, it's a script, right? So, so you put on a Linux operating system and then you go to GitHub and you grab that, you know, to the terminal window, you put it. And what it does is it puts all, lots of HAM software on all at one time. Instead of I gotta go get jsa then I gotta go get Pad, then I gotta go get, you know, you gotta install all these along with all the dependencies in the repositories. It's a big task, takes a long time, hours and hours. If you're trying to do like 20 of them versus he's already, you know, he's already done it for you on the script where yeah, you got to put in your information in the front. Like if you have a winlink, you have to have a winlink account, you have to put your username and password in there. You put in your email, your wireless network information, your call sign, all that stuff right in the very beginning of the JSON script. And then you just hit one button enter and then bam, it goes and starts and installing all that stuff, an hour later you've got a big plethora of ham radio related software already installed on your operating system.
Speaker A: Okay, and you're thinking, I didn't know that and you know I knew that and you know that I know what Build a PI is. So my basic question is, why did he change from Build a pie to 73 Linux?
Speaker B: Well, I couldn't answer that for you. You're one of his patreons, or were. But my thought is just a thought that, you know, when he did build a PI, it was for Raspberry PI's, right? And different PI based equipment, I suppose. And now of course you people are putting them on all kinds of different devices. And what I mean by that is like laptops, desktops, so more than just a Raspberry PI.
Speaker A: Okay, yeah, I did let that slip. He did make that announcement that he wasn't gonna go with Raspberry PI stuff much. And go. I think he might have said, I know others have said they're gonna go with minicomputers. So in fact, one thing I wanted to try before I go too much farther, I'm ready to install Linux on this Lenovo, but I, what I wanted to try is and a minicomputer that might not have been upgraded to the version of PI of Windows 11 that screwed everything up for the, for the case they call it, for all the other, all the audio related programs, anything that needs audio from a computer like Fldigi or FT8. So I thought, well, I'll just turn this thing on and turn off the update upgrade. You know the update part. Windows tell it not to update, see if, see if JSA works on it.
Speaker B: Okay, so I've pulled up the radar. Did you say you're in a break right now of rain or you just have the light rain?
Speaker A: Oh, it's light rain. It starts, it stops. It's probably not really completely stopping. I've noticed that the radar is pretty sensitive right now and, and it would show some pretty heavy clouds over me with what I'm. What I'm seeing of the amount of rain I'm.
Speaker B: Well, what's interesting is I don't see this too often. Usually I see like a say a west to east flow and this looks more like a. Almost a kind of almost a south to north flow of rain. And looking over Anderson right now, there's some yellow, so at least it's headed that direction. But I know that you're actually a little bit bit west of there and that looks like it's just light green to greens. But anyway. But there is, there does seem to be more coming.
Speaker A: Well, what I saw when I did have Internet still working was southwest to northeast angle, which is, you know, one of the more rare directions.
Speaker B: Okay, I think that's a great description. Yeah, I mean kind of what I'm seeing, I'm not used to seeing it that way. Like right now it's like Red Bluff's totally in the clear and look like they will be for a bit, but your direction is still going to have some for a while from what I can see by that flow because it's coming from like the Red Bluff way towards, you know, towards towards Anderson and Redding. But it also has that northwest flow like you're saying.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's definitely a big change. And there were out in the Pacific there were south winds that would blow people north, which is extremely rare. You just never see it. The winds out in the Pacific are always coming from the north, but this was coming from the south. So yeah, it's a very unusual pattern. And it's raining all the way down into. I don't know if it's quite the San Diego, definitely Los Angeles.
Speaker B: Or.
Speaker A: It was.
Speaker B: Anyway, so actually I look up the city of Igoe. To the west of it is a big yellow spot. Right. And I see that for a while. Let me look at the hourly to see what it says for igo. This is Weather Underground and it looks like it's using the reading station or whatever that means.
Speaker A: Are you using Wonder Map
Speaker B: for the radar? It was, but I'm switching right now to this is what it says hourly. So that just give you an idea. 3pm Rain, 4pm Light rain, 5pm Cloudy, 6pm A few showers, 7 rain, 8 rain, 9 showers, 10 showers. It looks like all fairly light, but anyway, it doesn't sound. It sounds like it's going to be like he was having tiny breaks.
Speaker A: Yeah, all of my water tanks are full. If I had a big, you know, a nice big water tank I could fill up, I could probably have 2 or 3,000 gallons from this storm.
Speaker B: Yeah, looks like it goes for you. I mean it's really, it's. It goes through about midnight, you know, midnight to 1am and then after that cloudy to mostly cloudy. And then by the time you wake up tomorrow, partly cloudy and then mostly sunny the rest of the day. So you're going to get a good break after about say 9 o' clock in the morning for hopefully recharge.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, one thing that's happened without JS8 running and without all that, you know, the radio and the tuner running, is that there is a surplus of amp hours in my batteries. I, I just never go down to the voltage is that I never. And so that's making it so that where, where when I was running JSA call and everything, 24, seven, it would run for at least a week before it got down to like 12.2. Well, now it's never even going below 30. I mean it's, you know, 13 3, 13 4, all as low as it goes. So. Yeah, you know, I'm not hurting for power at all right now.
Speaker B: Well, good. Yeah, well, you'll get a nice recharge tomorrow according to this. But anyway, that's the latest I have. I don't know if that helps you at all based on.

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Speaker A: Weather Underground and Wonder Map stuff. Anyway, I'm sure you had your Internet going, you could get things better. But I think you can just be prepared for this evening to have continually like you've been seeing it. And I can get the type of
Speaker B: stuff you're talking about on my phone. What I really like is what I see on Wondermap where you push play and watch where those yellow superstorms are hidden. I have a feeling that one out near Igoe is gonna be heading right directly into the park and then right over the top to into Shasta Lake. Jumping in Shasta Lake. But I just kind of. I like being able to look at the radar. I can, I can get a really good idea of what, what's on the agenda.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, well, anyway, yeah, that's what I saw on it was that same kind of flow that you said you saw when you did have it. So that doesn't seem to have changed, but didn't seem like there was any yellow that would be headed your direction. It was already up, up towards Igoe and up that way. So like you say, I don't know much about dumping in the shaft. So I would think that that's all part of the watershed. So it would make sense.
Speaker B: Well, I wouldn't be surprised that when I get Linux running on this Lenovo that it's going to handle even Wondermap. Now what I'm trying to say is that Wondermap and Weather Underground are data gobblers. They, they gobble a lot of data and they cause machines that have used up a lot of their resources to kind of stumble, you know, or if it's a computer without a lot of resources, like this Lenovo that I got maybe three years ago at a Black Friday sale and the guy says, kind of like I'm. He didn't try to say it was a very powerful computer. And it's not. And anyway, yeah, my, my, my mini computers run better, but for some reason the WI FI into the one I depend on, it is just not, not working very well right today where the Lenovo WI FI is working great. So it's very strange.
Speaker A: Well, since I've been running, yeah, since I've been running like Linux Lite on this main desktop, maybe I'll have some fun and I'll download a copy of that Dragon OS and I'll stick it on there. It'll only take me about an hour probably and I'll start playing with that a little bit and see what I think. Just because Josh seems to like it and a few others I've seen. So I don't know. I like Linux Lite fine, but I like many Linux programs and this one happens to be more, I think more Debian based and I tend to like Ubuntu based systems a little bit more, which I think the bad Dragon OS is.
Speaker B: Yeah, I just had gotten to the point where I was about ready to get into the. That was see Josh get into that. So just watching it on my phone.
Speaker A: So you can't like restart routers or something for your Internet service there?
Speaker B: Nope, I can't do that. But I was thinking I might run a hotspot and find out if the computer that's having trouble works perfectly through a hotspot. Because if that's the case, then I have some ideas on what might be going on.
Speaker A: Okay, cool. All righty. Well, I'll let you get back after it. I was operating FP8 and I wasn't seeing nothing out there. I got a couple contacts but nothing new. So I wasn't too excited. Maybe a poda or two out there, but 10 meters, 20 meters. Anyway, I was going for this one contact I'm trying to get, but she's a new YouTuber and trying to get her on every mode. But so far all I've gotten is one sideband contact. So I need to get. She's been doing some FT8 lately and I've been trying to. I see it pop up on HAM alert and I try to hop on over here and see if I can get her, but she runs like 5 watts on an ICOM705 in Texas and it's been tough to. Been tough to get her. So I'm working on it though. At one time just for fun, I was operating FT8 on 5 watts just to see what I could get and it was hard. Anyone operates cross QRP, man, I feel for him.
Speaker B: Well, you know, with KS8 what I would do is turn my radio down to 0.6 watts, my 7,300 down to 0.6 watts. Now that's what my. I mean I'm measuring with a digital meter in my mfj. It has both digital and analog and that's what I said. It's got 0.6 watts. When I go down to 1% on the 7300 and I could get virtually every California station and a few Oregons and Arizona and Nevadas, virtually all the closer stations with 0.6 watts. Now the reason I do that is, is so that if it. More if I do it with more power then only the more distant stations reply in. It's a really great way to see who's out there but if you run full power right off the bat with a hb, you're going to just have so many stations all crammed on top of each other that you don't know what's going on.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, I don't even think I could turn my yaesu down past 5 watts. I think that's the lowest it goes.
Speaker B: Does it use the percentage thing?
Speaker A: No, that's like an icon thing.
Speaker B: Well, the percentage thing is great for the 7300 because you've got so much control.
Speaker A: I'll try it right now. Let's see how low I can go. Five watts. Five watts? Yep, that's what it goes down to. Nothing less. Now I don't know what it puts out of 5 watts. I can look at needle meters and stuff like that that I've got maybe if I'm lucky. But that's all I could do to figure out if it's putting out 5 watts or 3 watts or 2 watts or whatever it's putting out. But I don't have any other way of looking at how much it's putting out on a sense five.
Speaker B: Well, I don't know that what I'm recommending is so useful with FT8, but I don't know, I mean it's just not. Doesn't work the same way, I don't think.
Speaker A: No, not really, no. You can get hundreds of decodes out there, but it doesn't make any difference because I mean they're not calling for you anyway. But yeah, you can get. I probably had 10 people call back at one time off of a cq before on FP8, you know, and then, and I've had that happen once or twice. I mean four or five is pretty regular, but 10, no, not so much when you put out a CQ. But yeah, I'll just, I'll put out like 250 watts and then I see what I, you know, when I comes back in the morning, this morning I think I had 11 or 12 Asian contacts. FT8 In a matter of about, oh, I don't know, I'm gonna say about 15 minutes, just one right after the other
Speaker B: will, with JSA, the beauty of using super low power on your first, you know, hp, which for anyone that's listening, that's a beacon, is that once a station puts replies to your beacon transmission, then the next time you put out a beacon they don't reply so basically what you're doing is you're getting rid of all those close ones and then the next time you put it out with you know, 50 watts or something like that and is a very noticeable difference. I mean the stations that are replying are, you know, at the limit of my receive capability. They're way out there and sometimes Australian stations are part of it.
Speaker A: Yeah, Australia's been fairly easy to get in the mornings. They were just out there now too. There's some Australians out there, but China was sometimes a void to me. But I was getting China pretty good this morning. Got the Philippines one time this morning. That's nice. Got Taiwan also, like I said this morning, lots of Asia going on. That was good. Then all of a sudden I think what time is it? About maybe 6:45 in the morning, bam, it was gone.
Speaker B: I used to get a lot of Caribbean stations, but they went away. I don't know what they're doing now. And I had a Filipino station that I made really good friends with him but I had to run slow to get him with 50 watts. The only way I could get to him and I think what he did was Charis day call is so useful for emergencies that they started an off frequency net and all their, all their JSA call is off frequency. So. And they talked, they. I could see they were going that direction because they started Philippine JSA clubs and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker A: Yes, here's how it went. Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, China, China, Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Japan, China, United States, United States. And then last one was China. That was all this morning. So it gives you an idea. Anyway, since then I've done a couple of 1cW and a couple of FT8 parks on the air stuff was all local, so anyway. But yeah, I knew it was like here's one. 14:30 Zulu, 14:32 Zulu, 14:34 Zulu. So gave me two minutes, I was getting another one.
Speaker B: You're talking about CW?
Speaker A: No, FP8.
Speaker B: Okay, yeah, FT. I can see it being sprinkled all over the world pretty easily. I might be surprised if I started messing with it to see what would happen.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, I think you'd have a little fun on some of it. But yeah, I mean it's not talking to nobody or nothing. So you're not saying anything but you. But yeah, I like to mess with it for about a half hour to 45 minutes. That's about it. And it's really fun to do that, like if you're going to eat lunch or something like that. That way you can just watch the screen and click on them if you want to talk to them or not. I mean, a lot of times that's what I was just doing. I wasn't doing any CQs when you first put your call out here. But now it's just watching the screen go by. And if something looked interesting, I clicked on it. You know, like a person was from Puerto Rico. I tried to get him. I couldn't get him. I tried. And then I tried another one I saw. I tried from Guadalupe and said, Guadalupe? Yeah. I must have put out like four, you know, four responses to him to try to get him to come to me. And no, didn't happen. So that's what happens sometimes. You're trying for. For me, I'm trying for DX. I want to get my hundred countries. I'm at 85. I need 15 more countries.
Speaker B: Well, one. One of the Caribbean Caribbean countries I got islands I got was the farthest out there of all the Caribbean Caribbean countries. I've gotten a number of different Caribbean countries, but this one was the farthest out there. And I'm trying to. I can't remember the name of it now. I'm just going to look here real quick. I think it started with the beans. Yeah.
Speaker A: I don't know. Yeah, I have Canary Islands. Does that count? Terrific. Probably not, I guess.
Speaker B: Oh, definitely.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Canary island is definitely Caribbean. But this, this country is one of the ones you hear about some pretty much the least, you know, amount of talk about it. And it's. It's also the farthest island. Pretty much the farthest populated island out there in the Caribbean.
Speaker A: Well, I just guess that all depends on how you. How you log thing these things. I don't know. I'm only using QRZ to log. So that's where they are Dupotas and stuff like you said. We've talked about that. I use smart logger or something. But I still transfer all those contacts into qrz. So the completest database that I have of my Contacts are on qrz.com.
Speaker B: Well, this island is way past Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. And I might be looking at it right now. No, it's way past. Okay. Past Puerto Rico. Okay. Past British and US Virgin Islands. Okay. It decided to be nice and name every island that's nice. Okay,
Speaker A: I'm getting close. It is.
Speaker B: Where the heck out there? Barbados. Barbados.
Speaker A: Actually, you got some good ones on here on Sideman and JSA too. Of course, your Antarctica one stands out really good, but Australia and Canada after that. So. Yeah, you're getting close to about 10,000 lookups, 9,586 lookups. So that's getting pretty good.
Speaker B: Yeah, I need to get more people to put me in their logs and I need to put more people in my logs. But yeah, I've had Guadalupe in Montserrat and Virgin Islands and a lot of countries in the Caribbean. But then Vera came and I think a lot of the people went to Vera and little by little they're coming back. So now they're realizing, oh, I miss being able to put messages in them in a bulletin board type message system that every radio, every GSA radio has and I miss being able to relay and I miss being able to do this and that.
Speaker A: So.
Speaker B: Because there is pretty much straight either WinLink or QSOs and that's it.
Speaker A: So on another subject, I guess hamcation is coming up. What is that? Florida or something? I don't know. Orlando, I think. Anyway, I just don't really see me anything coming out too much. I mean, yeah, these guys are doing a lot of videos on meshtastic and Mesh Core now and then. I know that camp for atk they're talking, he's talking about that APRS thing that they do out of handcation every year. But anyway, I just don't really see. I mean, I don't think there's any new rigs coming out. Are there anything else going on in the next couple of months? I'm not quite sure. I think that's when all the other ham related like the swaps and stuff usually march. One of the swaps out here in Lulus.
Speaker B: Well, they might have some of the 7,300 Mark 2s there and there was one other radio that was kind of new that might show up. By the way, I have one contact. I was just looking. I don't think I put a star. If it's really unusual, I'll put a star on Google maps. But what it is is a part of Mongolia that is north of North Korea. But to me, to, to have something that's north of North Korea, you have to have. Well, you're basically, you're in.

Speaker A: And 6wip and 6mtm.
Speaker B: So you know
Speaker A: the little cover on the back of your phone that covers the cameras?
Speaker B: I got a little bump on the back of mine and the corner of it's got a couple cracks in it. I was just wondering maybe there was a chance you might know how hard that is to change. That little plastic
Speaker A: piece, the covers. I think it's just a protective cover. I don't notice any magnification or anything happening in them. Yeah, I could have done that. I will do that. I guess I'll find out. How do you think they're describing that?
Speaker B: It's
Speaker A: not the small one. It's a
Speaker B: 22 plus.

Speaker A: In a very unheard of part of Russia. And that's what this was. And technically I think it might actually be considered to be Mongolia. That was the jsa contest. I don't think I put it in my qrz, which was stupid.
Speaker B: Well, I don't think it's stupid necessarily. That goes a bit far. But what's cool about QRZ is like I plugged in you and I can see some of your contacts, you know, just like the latest ones. It doesn't give you all of them, it just keeps you like the latest dozen or something like that. That's pretty neat. So like, you know, you say that you saw, you heard something and you logged it and you know, you can check it and become jealous. Yeah.
Speaker A: You know that Antarctica thing, what that was was actually a very long QSO on jsa. So that was. Yeah, that was one of the most incredible QSOs I've ever had. And I don't know where that guy is now. I don't think he's back in Fairbanks yet. He's a Fairbanks ham. He's kind of like a professor. He was working for the University of Alaska at the big. There's a big base south of Australia. And I actually, I actually told him I'm logging you on QRZ right now so that he would log me at the same time. And that way we be within that 1/2 hour zone.
Speaker B: Yeah, nice. Alrighty. I'm a step away for a bit anyway. Maybe we'll chat with you a little bit later on. Taking a break from the radio though. Yeah, I'm actually thinking about not being on the nets for a couple weeks too. I haven't decided that yet, but take a break from that too. And they've been calling out for you every Thursday. I keep telling them that you don't have a way to get on 2 meters, but on Thursday he keeps calling for you. Does anyone hear N6GRG? So I finally quit responding to him. I was telling them that, hey, you know, you're not going to be here for a while anyway. But I know that he definitely misses hearing out of reading there. So. So it's too bad, but maybe you'll put something up in the springtime.
Speaker A: Well, with this setup I could reach Even with this 5 watt setup I could reach a station on 5 2. That could get me into. Get me into Jim.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, I bet there is one or two people out there that could hear you. So. So anyway. But yeah, haven't wanted to. Maybe. I wonder if you can hear that would be the key thing is, can you hear them? So anyway. All righty. I'll say 73 for now. Listen to your final kn6mgk.
Speaker A: Oh, I'll bet. I hear even hear, Jim. I hear net control on this radio. It receive isn't the problem. It's only 5 watts. It's the problem.
Speaker B: All right.
Speaker A: Talk to you later. Yeah, I'll give it a try tomorrow and see if I can get into him. Especially if he's calling out to see if anybody's hearing me. If that happens, then I'm sure Elk Creek will put me in there. Bob, I think his name is. All right. Talk to you later. N6TRG.

Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that came right up. Just a lens
Speaker B: protector replacement. Yeah, they want you to heat it up slightly with, well, you know, some type of heat deal. They don't give you temperature, but just to soften the adhesive. And then it carefully just pries off the old. It is glass and cleaning debris to prevent sensor damage. That's what it says. Three, five minutes. Don't even. Don't overheat the device. Be nice if they had a. Oh, I did. I found a video. I'll go look at that.

W e6a x n repeater.

Speaker A: No, I didn't see it, but. Zoom. Metra z o o m e t r a check those
Speaker B: glasses. Yeah, not gonna happen.
Speaker A: That'd pump up the economy because, you know, they'd go out and blow that money and, you know, the. It wouldn't be long before they rewrite back where they're at. But they dump a lot of money into the economy that they're never gonna do ever anyway. And the hopes is that they would be forced into investing at least half of it. That would really be big.

Speaker A: It's a Galaxy S22 Plus. Now I know what to put in. I'm looking at something different here.
Speaker B: Galaxy
Speaker A: S22 Ultra.
Speaker B: Looks pretty easy, though.

Yeah, it doesn't look too hard. Looks like just about anybody could do it. Yeah, it was all there. Back camera lens, glass replacement, fixed repair change.

I'll take it to somebody, though, see what they charge. Yeah, those guys are super expensive for the dumbest little thing. I should order it and get it here, though.

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