Transcriptions for 2026-02-12
Broadcasting live from Red Mountain at an elevation of 3673ft. This is Sac Valley's original 105 machine W6 GRC, with a PL tone of 110.9.
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Speaker A: Hello, ralph z. Just get off work. This is kk7 dpr in connecticut.
Speaker B: Hey, good evening, Ken.
Speaker A: Yeah, just.
Speaker B: Just leaving the office.
Speaker A: The best time of the day for you, isn't it?
Speaker B: Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. Got a, got a dentist appointment tomorrow. I got a. I cracked one of my teeth. I think I could do a crown. So I gotta head there at 10 o' clock tomorrow. That'll take about two hours. They do all that stuff in lab in the office now. They don't have to send anything out anymore. They do all the 3D mapping of the area. Then they actually 3D print the crown right there in the office. Takes about half hour.
Speaker A: Well, they got that down to a science. I went in yesterday and had. They were. They want to burn the ends of my fuses in my neck. In my. Not fuses, but burn the nerves in my neck. You got to have this trial and they put three shots on each side of your neck. And I'm telling you, and I wish they had just used a gun, shot me in the head about that thing was so painful. But then they tell me do it twice before. They'll burn to see if it's going to work. I got to go through that twice. Can you believe that?
Speaker B: Oh man. They can't numb it first before they do that, huh?
Speaker A: I don't know. Apparently they didn't. But he told me when, when I got through there. I said that. I says I've had three broken ribs and they're there. And I says I think pretty comparable to that broken rib. And he said, well, if we get to do the ends of the nerve, you get the option of being put out
Speaker B: and give me that option. I'll volunteer. I'm a wish for stuff like that. My dad is pretty good what he does. He'll put some of that numbing agent like on a cotton swab and I'll go ahead and numb the, you know, the gums at the out part outside of it at least whatever the right term is with a cotton swab. He'll let that sit there for about 30 seconds. Then he actually puts the needle in and then he does it to where you can't even feel it. I mean, even when he puts the
Speaker A: needle in to put the rest of
Speaker B: the novocaine or whatever the heck it is, a numbing agent in there, you can't feel a doggone thing. So he's really good at it.
Speaker A: Yeah, Dennis, I go to down there in Vegas is pretty much the same way. They kind of numb it with something first And I don't even hardly feel when they go around there and give me the shots. I just. Sometimes they go a little too far because they numb everything in your mouth. It seems like.
Speaker B: Yeah. He does it look like little stages and to where you really can't feel it. So he's a seasoned guy.
Speaker A: He's really.
Speaker B: Matter of fact, he is the dentist for the Golden Knights hockey team here. He's kind of like their official dentist. So he's got his stuff together.
Speaker A: I think them hockey players need a good dentist because they usually get their teething off.
Speaker B: Now. I am sure he does good business
Speaker A: with them
Speaker B: roads down the one lane. Great.
Speaker A: They have a place there in Vegas where they play hockey all the time, I guess now call a gym or something where they do it quite often.
Speaker B: Yeah, they got the Golden Knights playing something called T Mobile Arena. They built it just for the Golden Knights right by the Manalay Bay on the strip. And then they have a practice hockey thing they do up towards Summerlin. It's another facility they use when they practice. So yeah, they got that. Of course, you got the Raiders stadium. And I think they practice someplace down in Hooterville. And now they're building another. Another. Another stadium for the Oakland A's. I guess that's baseball. I guess. Yeah. Their baseball team. They're supposed to be moving up here. And they've already started construction of that.
Speaker A: So.
Speaker B: Yeah, there's going to be three major. Major venues within probably a couple miles of each other. Because the new stadium for the Raider or the A's is going to. To be where the Tropicana Hotel used to be. Which is pretty much right around that same area where the Golden Knights are and where the Raiders are.
Speaker A: Well, that'll be nice. They'll have a baseball team there and a football team there. And Hoffield known just about. And then they get the ropes. The national finals every year. Somebody ought to find something to go see. Yeah.
Speaker B: I guess the only thing they're really missing is a professional basketball team.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: They got the Rebels through their spiritual college.
Speaker A: I think. I think they may have some kind
Speaker B: of a woman's basketball team here. Woman NBA or whatever the heck they call it. Yeah, I think. I think they might.
Speaker A: I don't.
Speaker B: I'm not. You can tell. I'm not really a sports guy. But I think they might have a women's team.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: It used to be back in the day, Las Vegas didn't have any professional teams at all. Because there was something to where if you couldn't bet on the games if you know they were, if they were playing or something. I don't know. I thought they must have changed the rules.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think they got it. So you can bet on anything now. You can even bet on if that guy throws a pass or runs the ball. I don't know. They get so much going on that and I guess there's guys that good at it that do it. So I don't know. I didn't even watch the football game. I was off goofing around doing football. Something else.
Speaker B: I watched most of it. It was okay. A lot of, lot of field goats. But the, the Raider or the Raiders, the Patriots didn't even show up until the last part of the fourth quarter. Didn't add anything on any scores at all. But anyways, it was, it was decent. Commercials were funny. That was about the end of it. But yeah, as far as gambling, I never really got into that. Man. When I first moved to Vegas, I played blackjack in like dollar blackjack down at a hotel called with showboat not too far from where I lived. And I played that. It was fun, you know. I remember one time I won, I won, you know, four or 500 bucks, which was a lot for a two striper in the air Force right back then. And I probably put that money in my pocket and I said this is exactly the amount of money I need to buy myself a floppy disk drive and a monitor for my computer. I had old Commodore 64 back then and I played with what was left. I lost that and I walked out. And the next, next Monday I called a mail order shop and I ordered my computer stuff.
Speaker A: That was about it.
Speaker B: And I don't really like, I really don't like to gamble. Wife and I go out every now and again. She like, she likes to play the video pork machines every now and again. But I just, I just don't find it to be very fun.
Speaker A: Well, that was me when I got out of high school, went to Vegas and got into an apprenticeship there. I wasn't pretty much money, wasn't even up to $4. But I would like to go out dancing, chasing the women. So I would go down to the Golden Nugget there and say, penny Annie roulette. As long as I played roulette there, they would give me free drinks so I could get my glow on there playing roulette. And then I'd go down to the dance floor and didn't have to pay all that money for drinks to get. Get the nerve up to go Ask them girls out of dance, if I could for a dance.
Speaker B: That's funny. At 17D Vegas.
Speaker A: Yeah. They.
Speaker B: Again, not. Again, not a gambler, right. But I know that a couple times, if you play. They're not. They're not as free with the drinks as they used to be. Especially the ones that, you know, if you're at a machine, they're kind of walking around little wakes just walking around. They're not that. They're not that Johnny, Emma, spot like they used to. And even now, if you're at a bar playing, you know, they watch you. You got. You got to load up the machine. You got to, like. If it's a quarter machine, you got to put them five quarters. You know, if you do, like, onesie twosies, they're not gonna. If they're gonna stick by the rules, they won't give you any drinks. And that's usually the weld drinks. Bunch of cheap stuff. I like my scotch and I like single malt, right? So I end up having to pay like $10 a glass for scotch even when I'm playing. But typical price is like 20 or 25. So I guess they still give you a discount.
Speaker A: Yep. I thought I was a scotch drinker, but I didn't know much about scotch. Just being a fun kid. I drank Cuddy's Ark. I didn't know any better, but I was drinking Cuddy's Ark at them when I was at that table, and they seemed to be pretty good. They'd come by, you know, every once in a while and take your order and give you a drink. They weren't very stingy, but it's pretty regular to be good at there. But it was. It was kind of interesting for a kid that come from a small town in Utah that didn't know nothing, and I learned how to get around there a little bit, but I still didn't know what I was doing.
Speaker B: Yeah, hold on a minute. We were back in 17, All right. Sorry about that. Got a phone call from the office I had to take. I just freaking left, and he called me right away. What the hell?
Speaker A: Report.
Speaker B: Yeah, I had a. This is a while ago. I forgot what the heck it was. I was gone. I had to go out of town on a business trip someplace. Forgot where it was. Better part of a week. And I leave, you know, and I'm. You know, I get these calls all the time from my directors, and I finally. And I was like, God damn. You know, I'm just. Whatever. I answered the questions, blah, blah, blah. And I Came back and my first staff meeting I ripped. I ripped them all a new one. I said I pay you guys well into the six figures a year. You guys can't keep this blippy, blippy, blippity place running without me, you know, here to answer all your questions. I feel like I got the wrong directors working here. They're a little more careful now.
Speaker A: Don't call him. Let's just make it up. Whatever we do wrong, then we can ask for forgiveness. How does he do that?
Speaker B: Ask for forgiveness instead of permission?
Speaker A: Actually, that's the best way. Just ask for forgiveness. Don't ask for permission. Yeah.
Speaker B: So you guys supposed to get some of that storm that's coming through? We're gonna get some rain. A little bit of rain here. I think more like Sunday into Monday. Monday's supposed to be quite a bit of rain, which figures. I was gonna go to one of our mountaintops on Monday and try to get some work done since it's a holiday, but looks like that's gonna be postponed. But I was looking at the weather more than northern part of the state. Like around where you're at. Looks like pretty good chance of snow.
Speaker A: Yeah, weather bug and it'll tell you that they're going to be 50% but when I. When it gets around there, rolls around there, it's 40 and 30%. I kept hoping for some moisture because we need some out there. We haven't had a lot of snow or rain I keep hoping for, but it keeps putting it off and says maybe at 9 o' clock tonight we've 40% chance but that'll change in the next hour.
Speaker B: Yeah, our mountains are pretty shocked in right now. Just look at the weather rate. Hourly it looks like. Matter of fact, the repeater site I'm talking into is getting snow right now, so that's good. It's up there about 9,000ft. But yeah, they're talking about a little bit today or tomorrow and Then I think 70% chance on Monday for fairly heavy, well, fairly steady rain, I should use that term. So that'll probably mean it's going to be a little on the cold side. So I'm probably going to be. We're going to get some snow on the hilltops.
Speaker A: We'll see.
Speaker B: Yeah, we talked before. We're just stupid dry this year.
Speaker A: It's crazy. Yeah, we haven't had hardly any thinking of us. I have a little place up in what they call Hamlin Valley and boy, we haven't had hardly any snow up there or any Moisture, little bit of rain. Not like we usually do. A lot of times they'll get a foot to two foot of snow up there and it stays for quite a while through the winter. But we ain't had nothing this year. I don't. I don't know what's happening.
Speaker B: I was back in our comm lab at work. We have at work a couple hours ago talking to one of the guys and they had Highland Peak up on one of the TVs. And there's like pretty much no snow up there on that hilltop or whatever. Little, little bit of patches here and there around the towers, but nothing to speak of whatsoever.
Speaker A: I don't think they've had a lot up there. Even the ocean, that's pretty high. And they usually get a lot of snow, but they haven't had a lot. They did have some rain, but we ain't even had that much rain down here.
Speaker B: We.
Speaker A: We usually get quite a bit in the winter. The most snow I've seen here in Pinaka is an inch to 2 inches. But they say it can snow more. I've been here five years and I haven't seen any more than an inch or two inches. Yeah,
Speaker B: we've been in a truck station here in Vegas for. Had a part of 25 years. I remember I moved to the part of town I'm in now in 2001. And back then the drought was just starting. Lake Mead was starting to go down in level, so.
Speaker A: All right, man.
Speaker B: Well, you drove me home so I can get out of here. Go change and I'm going to go out to get some meat. And I said, not looking forward to that dentist appointment tomorrow. Two hours in the chair, but whatever.
Speaker A: And get.
Speaker B: Get everything taken care of.
Speaker A: So have a.
Speaker B: A good evening out there. I don't know if you're gonna. We got. Yes, sir, we got the net tonight, don't we? I'm not sure if I'm going to be home by then, but.
Speaker A: So I'll. I'll might hear you on the nether. I'm glad you reminded me. Down here I usually wait for it. Try to. Try to be there when they call. Sometimes I can't make it. Yeah, you're gonna have fun at the dentist tomorrow. But it'll be worth it if you need a big juicy steak after. There you go. There you go. All right.
Speaker B: Take care, Ken. 73 and 7.
Speaker A: You too, ralph. Kk7 ddr72.
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Speaker B: this is K6KBS. Do you copy? Yeah, go ahead, Carla. W6B and H.
Speaker A: Hey, how you doing?
Speaker B: I'm doing well. I figured you must be getting pretty close to town, huh?
Speaker A: Yeah, we just. Actually, we're at Bogue Road right now.
Speaker B: All right, well, I guess I'll get my shoes on.
Speaker A: That sounds good, because we're pretty hungry. All right, well, I'll go ahead and say 73, and I'll be your way shortly. This is K6 KDS, clear on your final.
Speaker B: All right, well, thanks for the heads up. I'll get ready and ready to go. W6BNH, clear.
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Qst. Qst. Qst. This is KG6KO opening Sacramento Valley Traffic Net. This net is part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this net is to relate formal traffic into and out of the Sacramento Valley. And to provide a standing emergency net. This is interesting. Please make no transmissions in this version. Our stations Control K6K Located West W6RHC Repeater Check 3. Station with traffic community distance. Roll call forward. Kf6obi. Kf6obi. Mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. I hope you haven't floated away yet. Say again, said I hope you haven't floated away. No, I haven't floated away, but this whole storm sequence which started last night before midnight. We got 1.61 inches of rain. We got 1.96 out here. Roger that. Kf6 obi back to net control. All right, thank you very much. Ke6kuo's calling. Rolling. No traffic. Ke6tso. Good evening, lester in the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you, bessie. Kf6djy. 6 rcs, K6PMT, Kilo, Echo6, Papa, Mike, Tango, Russ and Gerber. And I have no traffic. Good evening to the net. And I am 665 today. And a rainy day on top of that. All right. A few more years, you might catch up with me. You have a good evening there, Russ. Thank you. KC6UFE, C6UFE, Bill and Cape. No traffic. Good evening. Evening, Lester. And so far the rain's on the outside and the cats are on the inside. That's the way it's supposed to be. You don't want. You don't want to do wave rounds. All right. KN6PWW, KN6CWW from Jamie and Chico. No traffic. Good evening, Lester and the Net. And welcome to Medicare there, Russell. Yeah, I didn't even think about that. All right, Dr. Rollers, I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check in? There ain't no further traffic or check. And this is K6K. Yo closing Sacrament Valley. Traffic this net is daily at 2100 hours local time. Those the W6RC repeater on 146B highway murder. All stations are excused. I'd like to thank everybody who checked in tonight. And the Golden Empire is a ready society net for the use of the rich repeater. This net is closed at 2103 local. Site 73. All this is K60K old clearance. PWW still on frequency? Yes. KN6PWW. Is that rough? SK6PMT. Yeah, I'm, I'm not too up on the Medicare deal yet, but I'm learning and, you know, it's gotten up. I've gotten all this information and I don't know how to decipher it. I'll tell you what, you can, you can definitely get help. Just stay there just a second. I gotta check a name. Hey, Russ. It's called Passages. And you want to get an appointment with them right away. It's a free service. They've got folks there that are experts in this kind of thing, help you get signed up. And I'll tell you what, you want to get signed up for Medicare, you don't want to let that go because if you don't do it and you try to do it later, you have to pay a penalty for the rest of your life. So you make sure you take care of this. Okay? Well, I'm already getting my Medicare. They, they went ahead and signed me up. The part I'm having, having trouble with is, is the part D, the supplement, and that goes into effect March 1. Well, yeah, give, Give Passages a call. Get yourself an appointment as soon as you can. I'm, you know, I'm no expert on this. I just, I, But I know experts and I know that those folks will help you out the decipher stuff for you. Well, I'm gonna probably do that, but. Or either that or just call like, well, care and talk to them because they're the ones that signed me up for the part D and talk to them because the state's paying for my, my Medicare part. They're, they're whatever share of cost or whatever, they're paying for that because of me being on ssi. So I'm just, you know, going from there. That's a good idea. Any experts, you can give them a call, but I really do recommend talking to Passages. Like I said, it's a free service. I think that, I think the state pays for it. And they, you know, I know, I know one of those folks pretty well and they're, they're pretty sharp on these things. They can figure out your financial situation and help you get on the right track. So I don't want to try to give any other advice or, you know, mention any other companies because we're on the air and also because I'm far from an expert. But, man, the Passages folks can help you out. And you know what else is call Medicare folks too, if you have any questions. But Passages around here, I think is the way to go. All Right. Jamie, thank you very much for the information that I'll check into it and also call Medicare too, and make sure everything's going the way it's supposed to. Hey, Russ Wall, I got you on the phone here. I just looked it up and I think I got a phone number for you if you give me just a second. It's called Passages Adult Resource Center. It's actually, I think it's run by Chico State. And I'm going to give you a phone number if you want to write it down. Okay, go ahead. That number is 530-898-5923. And if you, if you look up passages on online, you know, you find a lot of things called passages, but Community Care options or Passages Adult Resources in Chico, that's the folks. Alrighty. Yeah, let me read the number back to you, make sure I got it right. It's 538-98-5923. I'm sorry there. Do that one more time, please. 530-898-5923. Copy. Correct. And yeah, this is their whole job. This is what they do. Heidi. All right, Jamie, thank you very much. And you know, it doesn't feel much like I've gained anything, but like I told my sister, she's two years younger than me and I told her that I turned 11. If you add that together, that's two. So I turned two today. Nice. So I was just thinking, let me see, I'm 67, so I think that's only like, like 43 in hexadecimals. It doesn't sound so bad that way. Well, actually it'd be four because six and seven is 13, so three and one is four. So you're a four year old. Yeah, my wife will tell you I act like that a lot. Well, I do have a 65 year old story to tell you if you got a minute. Go ahead. We got three boys when our kids were little. Our oldest was about 8 years old and he saw a motorcycle and he said, mommy, I want a motorcycle. Well, my wife has dealt with folks with developmental disabilities, some of which from traumatic brain injuries, her whole professional life. So she said, you can't have a motorcycle till you're older. And he said, well, how much older? And she said, you can't have a motorcycle till you're 65. And I was standing right next to her, standing in the kitchen. I started to laugh. And so Clark, our little boy, pointed up at me and said, well, what about daddy? And well, he can't have a motorcycle till he's six. I don't want a motorcycle. I want to be clear about this, but at that point the boys were depending on me. So I don't think anybody thought I'd last this long. But when I turned 65, I took the motorcycle safety foundation course and did pretty well. And I bought a pile of armored clothing and then I got a motorcycle. Yeah, I, I, myself, I, myself, I never thought of ever getting one. And my favorite brother, he passed at 24 of a motorcycle accident. And I said, no, I'm never going to get one. And I've kept that promise ever since. Well, that's a good reason and definitely no pressure. I'm excited. Extremely careful on mine. Although I know it's not, not all up to me. I ride bicycles a lot too. I'm fairly fit and got decent, decent balance. Anyway, anything else? I hope you call Passages up and get yourself an appointment. I'll have to do it over the, probably over the phone because right now my car is in the shop and I don't know when I'm gonna get it back. I told them take their time with it. So, you know, it's just replacing the water pump and a one way valve for the smog and I don't know when I'm gonna get it back. Well, that doesn't sound right. What are you driving? It's a 2008 Buick LaCrosse. It's not, it's not like a real unusual car. Well, I hope you get it back soon and give them a call. They, you know, some of the folks that they work with, you know, have mobility issues or whatever else. So I think, I think phone calls are pretty usual for these folks. But do it soon because you got a limited window here after you turn 65 to get everything straightened out. I'm glad you're on regular Medicare. Yeah, the only thing, like I said, the part D doesn't go into effect until March 1st, so hopefully everything, everything gets going right and I'll give them a call to help me understand all the ins and outs of it because with my learning disability I have poor comprehension, so I don't understand what I'm, what I'm reading. Well, they might be able to help with that. And if there's a, you know, one of those supplement or an advantage plan or any of that other stuff, they can, they can help you decipher that stuff too. That's, that's like I said, this is their job. That's what they do. All right, Jamie, thanks a lot. And you have a good one and I'll be clear on your final K6PMT. All right, Ross. Hey, thanks for reaching out there. Appreciate it. And good luck. And like I said, welcome to 65 and congratulations on making it this far. 73kn6pww.
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Get your morning started off on the right foot. Listen in for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.
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Speaker A: Good morning. It is time for the Coffee breaknet. The Coffee breaknet is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio club on the W6EK repeater located in Auburn, California. I am Theda WA6EWF, and along with Jerry, WA6E, we will be your net control. Yeah, that's funny. And conversation facilitators. So let's do a round event to see who needs to get their day started off right smartly. Who's out there? That's Whiskey two Mike, Whiskey, Kilo,
Speaker B: Kilo, Charlie, Six, Sierra, Lima, Echo, Mobile,
Speaker C: Kilo,
Speaker B: delta, six, charlie, delta, quebec, rick and mouth islands.
Speaker C: Good morning, ben and jerry.
Speaker A: Lots of people wanting to get their day started this morning. So we have km6wqu and k06, kmr, kd6cdq, kc6sle and w2mwk. Who else do we have out there? There were some doubles.
Speaker D: N60kv.
Speaker A: Okay, Carl, N6EKV. Okay, we got. That's my list up. W2MWK. Good morning, Mark. How is your day going?
Speaker E: Good morning, Beta and Jerry.
Speaker A: Good morning.
Speaker E: A nice and bright sunny morning. The dog's been out and doing her business and I thought I'd jump on the radio before things get too hectic. I wanted to take a moment to just remind folks that we'll be meeting in our new digs for Friday's general
Speaker A: meeting and that the church is.
Speaker E: We're still taking donations for the church. So this year or this month, it will be kids, snacks, things that they can put in their lunch pail or bag to take to school for lunch. So that's what I wanted to cover here this morning.
Speaker D: Jerry here. WA60.
Speaker B: In cleaning out my motorhome, I came across a whole bunch of plates, paper bowls and whatnot that were all wrapped up in the original wrapping. And I'm going to bring those with me. Can you put them in the trailer for supplies for the club?
Speaker A: Oh, absolutely, Jerry.
Speaker E: That's not a problem. We have places to store that stuff in the trailer.
Speaker A: So, yeah, I'll be glad to pick
Speaker E: them up and take them in into our collection.
Speaker C: Okay, great.
Speaker B: And this announcement is really my way of saying, please remind me. They'll be in the back of the car. WA60 back to Theta.
Speaker A: Okay, Jer. Cwf. I will make a note to remind him. Very good, Mark. I was going to ask about the church donations. I'm glad we're continuing to do that. They've been a good help to us and continue to be and a good help for the community. So it's a small thing that we can do. Very good. I will keep making that announcement through the morning.
Speaker E: Thank you very much Theta, I appreciate it.
Speaker A: Otherwise, get on with your day and I'm sure you've got important things to do. Okay. Graydon, KC6SLA. Where are you all to this morning?
Speaker B: Good morning Data. Good morning Jerry. Good morning. You're being on the net. I am actually on a special mission for the club but I've been sworn to secrecy. So I'm in Rockland doing some business and it'll be all good when it's all done. Anyway, just wanted to say good morning QC6SOLE.
Speaker A: That's just mean. That is just mean to throw that out and then say but I'm not going to tell you what it is. Aha.
Speaker B: Yeah, they forced me to sign a non disclosure agreement. So you know how that is. You know what all the legalities, KC6 I certainly.
Speaker A: And if you violate that, your head blows up. Okay. Well, I guess someday all shall be revealed and we'll find out what it is. You have a good morning. Boy, it's early to be doing that. Whatever it is that is you. You drive carefully.
Speaker B: Thank you. That everyone have a great day. 73 KC6,
Speaker A: This is WA60WF KD6CDQ. Good morning Rick. Where are you off to today?
Speaker B: Good morning Theta Internet. This is Katie 6 CDQ Rick in beautiful downtown suburban north islands. And I don't think I'm going anywhere today. I don't usually make plans for early in the morning because most of the time I'm sleeping then. And the previous ham said he couldn't tell you. Well, probably because if he told you, he'd have to kill you. That happens sometimes in these secret worlds.
Speaker A: Well, he could tell me and I wouldn't tell anybody else. I could keep a secret.
Speaker B: A lot of people say that the word has it that if you have a secret and you tell somebody, it's no longer a secret. Yeah, I heard that someplace. Especially when I took my, you know, had to swear an oath that I would never tell anybody. All the national secrets they told me when I was in the military. You tell somebody 20 years instantly, guess what? I kept my mouth shut. Anyways, the only thing I got planned is I gotta get my big screen TV set up in my bedroom. I had one for years and it croaked on me a couple months back. And we got the Daytona 500 coming up Sunday. And I love watching it on the big screen. The small screens just don't hack the program.
Speaker A: And you have to turn the sound way up. Very good. Well, hopefully you've got some help putting that up. It's not that they're so heavy anymore, but they're very awkward.
Speaker B: Yes, they are. I measured the space where I wanted to put it and I got to do a little modifying because I'm about an inch short.
Speaker A: Can't, you know, you can't chop an
Speaker B: inch off that screen. It's got to be the way it was built. So I got to do a little reconfiguring, get it in the space where I want it to be and I'll be all set. But anyways, that's my problem and I'll work it out. I always do. This is Katy Six CDQ everybody out there, have a wonderful day. And 73s.
Speaker A: 73 Rick, good luck on your project. That'll be a worthwhile one. K06KMR Good morning, Robert. Well, good morning.
Speaker D: Good morning. All to the net. I want to do my regular routine which is going to the gym and then coming back and studying for the extra again and then probably get out some coffee with the wife and just basically just enjoy the day.
Speaker B: Over.
Speaker A: That sounds like a very plan.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: What gym do you belong to?
Speaker D: Oh gosh, I wish you hadn't of asked. I've gone blank here. But just right down the road we have a gym. I think it's in step or something like that. But it's pretty nice. I've got me a personal trainer so it keeps me motivated and you know, making some headway over.
Speaker A: You know, I think that's a real important key. Somebody who wants to know why you didn't show up when you were supposed to. So you feel like, yeah, gotta, gotta go. Feel like staying in bed this morning, but I'm expected so I have to be there. That's really important. That makes sense. Things work,
Speaker B: no doubt about it.
Speaker A: It's.
Speaker D: It's something I knew about me so I knew that this would be important. So. So it's working out very well. Over.
Speaker A: Very good. Well, good for you. And so you have a great day and work hard at the gym.
Speaker D: I certainly will. It kind of gets me motivated for the extra class studies. So we're actually down to examples five. So we're getting about halfway there. Over.
Speaker A: Very good. Are you doing the Orion Zoom class or are you studying on your own?
Speaker D: I'm doing the Orient Zoom class. It's really nice. They give a lot of explanation on the reasons and what's going on with the questions themselves. So you get a lot of background information so it's a very good class over.
Speaker A: Very good. Well, I'm glad that you're doing that kitchen helps keep your brain green. You have a great day. Work hard at the gym and then study hard when you get home again.
Speaker D: I appreciate it. I certainly will. And on that note, I'm just going to sign off, turn it back to the net and listen for a while. Kilo Oscar Six Kilo Mike Romeo. And I'm going to say 73 out.
Speaker A: 73. Robert, nice talking to you. KN6WQ. Dan. Yeah, I know you've got your day started. You probably have a very long day planned out. You're gonna have sunshine today.
Speaker C: Good morning, the net. This is K6WQU. Well, yeah, I went, you know, I went and figured out what the true meaning of wet vaccines. So yesterday that was pretty interesting. So I went and got me a poncho. Stayed dry after that. So that was really nice. This morning, taking Dane to school, I had tracked the landmine with me and these shoes I have, it seems like they have like this, like this cushion thing in the back. So you know, when you step on something it just kind of gets all nice and just gooey. Gooey inside your shoe. So, yeah, that was very interesting this morning. Definitely a smell I did not want to endure. Thank you, Mr. Kitty Kitty that lives in my backyard.
Speaker A: Let's see.
Speaker C: Yep, just off to work as normal. It's going to be beautiful. Nice sunny day. So if the cloud is. There's actually no clouds as far as I can see. And the sun is coming up over the back side of the house. Charging the solar panels, which I'm very, very excited to see. And yeah, see, we're going to keep it moving. This is KN6WQ.
Speaker A: Oh, thank you. And thank you for helping our friend Dave get his motorhome going. When Jerry was describing it to me, I said, oh, this is a job for our friend Gumby Dan.
Speaker C: Yeah, you know, very strange that motorhome. So, you know, we're trying to figure out what the heck's all wrong with it and come to find out that basically there's an issue with where the coach batteries do not get charged by the shore power. So it's just a thing that it does not do. So when we tried to use the auxiliary power, the auxiliary switch didn't work either. It clicked and they did all the other fun stuff. It just didn't make a full connection. So we ended up putting the batteries back in it that were in it and I was able to get it to Jump start through the house batteries by doing some clever cable maneuvering. And we got it running and then charged the batteries up, and it's fine now, so. But we are going to implement a trickle charger on the. On the coach batteries because that's just insane. Anyway. Yep, That's. That's what I have to do. So I'm glad we got it back together. Absolutely.
Speaker A: Well, very good. Yeah, we want to keep him on the road for as long as he can. Excellent. We appreciate the help. Just because, you know, he's a good guy. Well. And you're a good guy. So thanks. Thanks for connecting you have a great day. And don't scrape your knuckles.
Speaker C: Thank you very much. Appreciate that. And I was just. I parked in front of the house, which I usually don't. So I'm in the mobile right now because I had to run inside and get this kitty crap off my shoe. And I'm looking over at Heather's car and it's got a flat tire. So. Great. That's what I'm going to go fix this morning. This is KN6W Q73.
Speaker A: It never ends. 7:30, Dan. You have a good day, Carl. N6 CKV. Good morning. Good morning.
Speaker D: Theta Jerry and Rocky. Not much going on today. Had all my doctor's appointments Monday and Tuesday or Tuesday and Wednesday. So we're just going to take it easy today and enjoy the sunshine.
Speaker A: Indeed. Well, enjoy that sunshine. And I guess you're not at the point where you need to get. Go shove dirt around anymore, so. And the grass isn't growing. So what are you. What can you do with yourself?
Speaker D: I work in the garage, clean it up and do a few little chores and not much going on.
Speaker A: Very good. Very good. Well, you tell Ruth hello for us, and I hope you have a great day.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker D: Theta 73 to everyone. Everyone have a good Thursday. This M60 KV.
Speaker A: This is WA60WF for the coffee breaknet. The national day is today. It's Darwin's birthday. Happy birthday, Darwin. And it's also Abraham Lincoln's birthday, so. Happy birthday to Abe. It is Georgia day and Oglethorpe day. Celebrating. Some people may be celebrating, some people may not. Oglethorpe's founding of the Georgia colony in 17 1973. It's plum pudding day. I always thought that was right around Christmas, but you know, a good plum pudding any time of the year, I guess. Lost penny day. Yeah. You know, those pennies are going to start being rare, so you want to hang on to them. Freedom to marry day and hug day. So even if you don't want to get married, you can hug or hug the person you're married to. It is Fat Thursday, so Mardi Gras partay, partay. And on Fat Thursday you eat. I'm gonna mis about this, Takci. Anyway, it's a Polish donut and the picture of them looks really good. May have to go over to Donuts and Cinnamon and see if they make pacziki and if they know how to pronounce it. Anyone know how to pronounce that? Anyway, so those are some of our national days today. Things worth celebrating. So get your Mardi Gras beads out and eat donuts and celebrate. So who's out there? Let's do another round of in and outs and then we'll get on to Ragtu in a minute.
Speaker C: Kilo bravo 6 lima uniform.
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker A: No morning. Kca. Fqv. Oh, nate fox coin. Victoria.
Speaker B: K. A free victor golf hike.
Speaker C: Wb7ukx in and out.
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Speaker A: Okay, we got KC6K6YMM. We got you on the list. KB7UK, X Dick, Ka3Victor, Golf, Mike, Jimmy, KC8FQV, Mark. And starting with KB6LUV. Brett. Good morning, Brett. How, how's your day going this morning?
Speaker B: Good morning, Zeta, Jerry, Rocky, everybody on Coffee breaknet land. I am doing very well left and sitting in the office radio room slash catch all room and staring out at the orange ball in the sky, which is really nice to see. I love seeing that thing in the sky. Although I'm probably, you know, give it about three more months and I'll probably be complaining about it.
Speaker C: Right?
Speaker D: Hi.
Speaker E: Hi.
Speaker A: Yes. Yes you will. Is your mom there yet?
Speaker B: I am so glad that you asked.
Speaker F: Why yes she is.
Speaker B: And hailing from Newton, Kansas, here is Bonnie.
Speaker A: Good morning, coffee group. Yes, it's beautiful here this morning. I beat you all up. I'm up Kansas time. I was up at 4:30 this morning so I've been up a while. So I'm glad to see the sunshine. Well, how lovely to hear your voice, Bonnie and welcome to California for your visit. Yeah, Jerry said he thought you were a myth, but no, you are real and you're here. And I hope you have a great time while you're here visiting. We look forward to hearing about your adventures.
Speaker B: Tell Jerry it's just a paid actress.
Speaker D: Hi.
Speaker G: Hi.
Speaker A: That's right. You have to teach your hand speak and then convince her to get her license so that you guys can talk.
Speaker B: We had this discussion yesterday and it's
Speaker G: just as I thought.
Speaker E: No ma'.
Speaker F: Am, no ma'.
Speaker A: Am.
Speaker D: Three bags full.
Speaker F: We got.
Speaker B: This one is not going to get on the radio, but she is here and enjoying herself. I'm just really enjoying having her here as well. Also a rare occasion, my wife Dede is here.
Speaker A: Good morning.
Speaker B: Yep, there she is.
Speaker C: That's a very rare one.
Speaker B: I hear her very often but I convince her to be in the room so. Well, awesome. We'll keep this quick in and out as promised. It's a great day out there. I'm excited for the day. Thanks Brian AI6US for spending my money. And also I've got one more piece of gear coming along with an antenna that is going to finally complete. I know or say finally complete my goshack. So I'm excited. So anyway, thanks for running the net.
Speaker F: You guys always do a great job
Speaker B: and it's good to hear your voices. Everybody out there in coffee breaknet, have an amazing day. Take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. KV6LUV Sea of Love 73 clear and listening.
Speaker A: Well how nice to hear all of those rare voices. Glad that everybody is there and hello to all your your family. You have a great day and enjoy the sunshine. This is WAX CWF KC8FQV. Mark, good morning.
Speaker E: All right, well good morning KC8FQV. Well last night I remember that they had the zoom thing on Wednesday night so I stopped there 10:30 at night our time but that worked out so it wasn't good. So everything's going good so can't really complain.
Speaker C: Hello.
Speaker E: But you know we've got about 20 degrees out here so and I don't know what we'll do today but yesterday did all my normal meetings and that's an app so great hearing everyone here and yeah we'll take a look at the meeting tomorrow night. You guys have out got take a little more look at the website w6ek I think but I know what it is so we'll send it back to net control and yeah we're they're turning the tables. We're going to get a little better weather, normal weather for us. And they are talking about you guys are gonna get rain out there on the west coast. Although you guys I know want to get the snow and that up in the cap so you get rain water and that for the summertime. Get your water H2 collection taken up now. So let's send it back to oh yeah, Hamcation starting this weekend there. I've heard people getting there now and setting themselves up for camp for the weekend at Hamcation out there in Florida. So we'll send it back to net now. Casel QV
Speaker A: well thanks for checking in Mark and thanks for that information about Hamcation. We're going to have to check that out. You have a great day and I hope you enjoy listening to us and maybe learn some fun things or just have noise in the background with either one. You have a great day. This is wa6ewf ka3 victor golf mike. Good good morning. How are things in your neck of the woods?
Speaker G: Good morning Nina. Good morning Jerry and good morning Rocky. Things are fine. It's a little cloudy back here today but at least it's a little warmer than it has been. I not going to hold the temperature because I know the thing on my computer is not updating itself. That's been a problem for the last week or so. So I'm not going to quote the temperature run. At least it's warmer than it has been. So everybody back there have a good day And I'm gonna start the rest of my day now that I've checked in. I elbowed fish yesterday and had to check in for the long only on Brian's last round so I barely made it yesterday. So I wanted to make sure I got in here this morning because it would leave me hello back to you. GM and hello to everybody else on the coffee forget.
Speaker A: Well, thanks for checking in, jimmy. Glad to talk to you and hope you have a good day. This is wa60wf wb7ukx. Good morning.
Speaker C: Good morning Theta. Beautiful day here in Nebraska. 39 degrees, headed up for maybe a high of 60 which is pretty unusual for February here. Getting ready to go to see my acupuncture guy and he's been asking lately if I bought my phone with me so he can listen to the ham radionet. Unfortunately I have an Aspen appointment today so I won't get to play the ham Nebraska net for the coffee break net for him, but at least he's asking about it. Maybe you'll get interested and get a ham license. Had a nerve block yesterday that seemed to be fairly successful. Kind of took away some of the pain. So we'll see how the day goes. Anyway, WB7UKX back to net data.
Speaker A: Well, I among many others on this
Speaker E: understand
Speaker A: what it is to have constant unremitting pain and I hope that that nerve block works well for you. I think that's funny that your acupuncturist likes to listen to the coffee break Ned. Yeah, Next thing you know we're going to be getting hearing from a new ham who knows all about acupuncture. So we may be picking as of part brain. That's great. You have a great day Vic and I hope you feel much better.
Speaker C: Thank you Theta. Our neighbor down the street here asked about Henry unifi would help them get a license. They're an older couple so a few days ago I dropped off a technician class book for them. I bought them, we've been donating them to Nebraska so I had an extra technician class book I took down and gave to them.
Speaker A: They're kind of.
Speaker C: We said we'll see how they go. Anyway back to NASA, WB7 UK. I'm saying 73.
Speaker A: Ah, and there you are being an Elmer. That's Great. This is WA6EWF for the coffee breaknet. K6YMM. Good morning Mike. Are you outstanding in your field?
Speaker D: Good morning Saint and Jerry and the rest of the world. I'm actually not outstanding in my field. I hooked up the Darrow Radio and I've got my Magnon antenna just sitting on the shelf and I'm surprised I got into the repeater.
Speaker F: Morning Mike Waxe. What kind of radio is it you got?
Speaker G: Well it's a little barrel.
Speaker D: The guy with the airplane introduced this a couple years back and mentioned it's basically there's no face on the radio. It's all done through the interface on the phone. And I bought one and Dan bought one and we've been working with those with ATRs and stuff but I hadn't used it in a bit and I backed up my ICOM and set this one up to see if I could repeater. I'm just kind of surprised it works okay.
Speaker F: Yeah the Vero radios I remember al n680t have one and if I recall right that things work a microphone with Bluetooth and the like. Well you're not exactly full scale but you're readable. Just a little bit of hiss on you. So what are you using for an antenna? Would that be.
Speaker D: The mag mount that I usually stick on top of the cookie sheet I have on the Jeep as a backup antenna in case I break the other one. And it's just a little short 18 inch thing and seems to be working good on the shelf sitting inside the window.
Speaker F: Well then leave it alone. It's working fine.
Speaker H: You're getting into the mountaintop receiver.
Speaker F: So so and ironically Rockland doesn't hear you at all. And yet where you're haunted I would think you'd be looking right down on it.
Speaker D: Well I think we got a lot of dirt between us and that repeater kind of lost the ability to get in. I had the ICOM hooked up with a DX15 antenna up in the oak tree and that didn't seem right to me. Honest I'm not. This totally surprised me and I have it on medium power. Both Dan and I and I guess others have discovered that you operate the bureau on high power. It little solder joint that burns up and fails inside. They did a replacement for me but understand that the Internet fix everybody does on their own. But anyway I was to going to be a quick in and out so I'll be quick and get the heck out. K6YMM Happy thanks to everybody out there and you know have a blast today. Okay.
Speaker F: Well I didn't realize if you ran on a high power it would melt the solder. That's funny I but. But you're working fine so leave it alone. Did I send you that YouTube article about replacing the engines on the B52.
Speaker G: You did?
Speaker D: I didn't look at it yet. Been kind of busy. But I have that in my cue to take a peek at that. I think that'd be kind of interesting that those things are still up and running and running quite well.
Speaker F: It's amazing. And I know we have a lot of guys on here who are either military or into flying or something but basically they're re engining the B52 and they're also putting in upgraded electronics that completely change the nature of it. No more rotating dishes or all the variable guidance displays. It's amazing. They projected the airframe will still be flying, will still be a mainframe mainline bomber into the 2000 and 50s. Which means that it will be 100 years old at that point. So some kid will be flying that, that his great grandfather flew.
Speaker D: You know, there's a lot to be said for people. Nothing like having cables under your control services and stuff like that. I'm not too, too big of a fan of the flyby wire and the new electronic stuff because it seems to be totally dependent on some dimple faced computer programmer somewhere that just barely got out of high school. I'm a little old fashioned I guess. But anyway, yeah, I look forward to seeing that video.
Speaker G: Anyway, on with the show there.
Speaker D: Keep 6 y m. I'll be quite clear.
Speaker F: It also goes into why they just didn't use four larger engines instead of eight smaller ones off a Gulfstream business jet. And it's an interesting article for those who are interested in airplanes. Everybody else, forget it. Okay, good to hear you on mike and your radio is working good. WA6E back to theta.
Speaker A: And this is WA6EWS. This is the Coffee Breaknet. So who do we have out there who wants to do either a rag chew or in and out? If you want to be in and out, we'll put you at the top of the list. Come talk to me.
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker A: Hey, good morning theta. Wb6bjn.
Speaker F: 2e0 lrb.
Speaker D: That's 2 echo 0 the radio victor. That's from the shire.
Speaker A: Broadcasting live from red mountain at an elevation of 3670. This is sac valley's original 105 machine. Okay, let's see. We got left from the shire 2 echo zero lrv and mark wv6bjn, n9mus and kb6ssn. Did we miss anybody? Good morning. Hey Theta, you got an in and out. Will just checked in.
Speaker E: You doubled with with Will there in Oklahoma.
Speaker A: Oh, thank you Mark. KJ5GWN. Good morning. Good morning.
Speaker G: Sorry I'm coming in so late. I gotta be in and out today. I'm gonna get ready to go get my hair cut in less than a little more than an hour, so I gotta get ready and go do that. And I got some other things I got to do here. So in the interest of being a quick in and out, I'm going to make this one a quick one. This is KJ5 Gulf Whiskey. It's going to be 71 degrees here today. So anyway, back over to you, Fata. This is KJ5 Golf Whiskey, November.
Speaker A: Wow, 75 degrees. Well, don't get so sunburned out there. You have a good day. I'm glad you checked in. Well, you. You take care and we'll talk to you tomorrow. So now up to Tom KB6SSN.
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker H: Well, good morning, Theta and Jerry and the whole crew out here this morning. Sounds like you got a nice group sitting out here chatting. I just tuned in a few minutes ago. I've been busy with a couple of projects here this morning, but boy, it is a gorgeous day. I heard the conversation Jerry had about the. The YouTube article he sent out. I did watch that. He sent it to me yesterday. Extremely informative. I found it very interesting. So if you are into that sort of thing. Yeah, look it up. It's on YouTube.
Speaker D: It's the beef is 52J.
Speaker H: I think was the new designation as the J model that's coming out now. So here we are all these years later and they're producing a new model of B52.
Speaker C: What are you going to do?
Speaker D: Right.
Speaker H: Anyway, so spent yesterday morning out at Larry's place. We cut a couple of videos.
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Speaker A: Out there. And we finally got around to cutting the counterfeit column speaker video. So if you really, really want to watch something that's absolutely terrible, go check that out Confederate Sun 1 on our YouTube channel and you'll have some. I don't know that you'll have fun, but it's a few minutes of your life that you can waste. Right. There you go. So what have you been up to then?
Speaker B: I have been. Let's see, what have I been doing? I've been watching some Olympics. I've been painting watercolors. I've been. Not much else. Jerry says, oh, no. Jerry says, oh, no. He's wearing a white coat, so it looks like a scientific lab. Oh, that's funny.
Speaker A: Yes. I thought that was a humorous touch. I just felt that Larry and I both needed matching lab coats. So, yeah, Amazon was kind enough to provide those for us. Embroidered with our names and everything on them and just a lot of fun. In any case, it makes us look more official. So it's the first video that we have intentionally included ourselves in the video. If we're in any other video, it's ancillary to whatever is going on. But yeah, this is the first one where we kind of hosted something, so I don't know, it's just silliness. No, we are not YouTube Contributors, although we seem to be getting thousands of hits on these things. So I don't know, it's just something fun to do. Pretty soon here, we're going to run out of radio, so I don't know what we're going to do after that.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. Once you have them all up and running. For one thing, that hamishack is not going to be. Jerry says cars or boats next? I don't know. I can't see the two of you climbing around, under or over any. Either of those things. Let's see, what else could there be? We'll have to think about this.
Speaker A: Well, we have white coats and clipboards, so we were thinking possibly we could be judges at a frog jumping contest or. I don't know.
Speaker B: Anyway.
Speaker A: Oh, gosh. It's all in good fun. We're just having a good time with it. And who knew there were counterfeit column speakers out there? I certainly didn't, and neither did the dealer that sold it to me. And that's the way things go. We're continuing to do some minor maintenance on the Henry 2K3. The multimeter is not working on that and I think I know why. There's a cap across that's probably shorted. And once that's replaced, that meter will probably come back to life. So we're looking forward to that. In the meantime, everything's going swimmingly. It is a project which appears to be coming near its end. We're not at the end yet, but we're getting there. And, you know, I dug down deep enough the other day that I found an FT101E in a box I didn't even know I owned. So we pulled that out and no, it didn't work with a darn. Every switch, every knob, it's all dirty. So it's all got to be cleaned out and soaked and all that kind of stuff. And then we'll test it again and see what actually needs repair on it. So that kind of thing. So when you get down to finding the ones you didn't know you had, well, you're getting near the bottom somewhere.
Speaker B: This is true, unless it's some commentary on the state of your memory. But no, I'll believe that you knew what you had or you thought you knew what you had. And surprise, surprise, there was something else. Well, today is Georgia Day and Oglethorpe Day. I thought that you might want to celebrate that.
Speaker A: Georgia Day and Oglethorpe Day. Okay. George Day seems pretty straightforward. Oglethorpe Day.
Speaker B: Well, he was the colonel or the captain or whatever he was who led the intrepid band of settlers who founded this undeveloped and obviously empty land. And in 1773. So he started the colony of Georgia, which is either celebrated or bemoaned. It depends on who you are.
Speaker A: Well, the last time I was in Georgia, which was decades ago, it was a beautiful place. I heard that may have changed. I don't know. I'll have to speak to somebody who's got more current data on the situation. But I've always thought of Georgia as an interesting place. Georgia and South Carolina, my home state. We share an accent known as the Southern lilt and the South Carolina Georgia lilt. It's unique to that region. And my grandmother was a. Her college team was Georgia Tech. So a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech. So there you go. So there you go. So I have a few small connections to Georgia, but not a whole lot.
Speaker B: Okay, I thought your connection was a little bit more immediate there, so very good. Well, so you're going to be doing any more playing with radios today, or are you off doing something else?
Speaker A: Well, I do have one project that I need to work on here in the van now that Dan has everything working perfectly as far as power supply is concerned. I do not have FT8 capabilities set up yet. I have all of the equipment to do it. The last piece came in about a week ago. I just haven't taken the time to set it up. My FT8 rig is in storage right now and so I need to. I've already done the configuration on the radio. It's just a literal physical. Plug everything in and make it work. I got one of those little 12 volt mini laptops that seems to run WSJT just fine. And that way I don't have to worry about running any inverters or noisemakers or anything like that. When I'm running FT8, I can run the little mini laptop off of 12 volt and of course the radio off of 12 volt and everything should work just fine. So I'm probably going to work on that project today. That's the one I have in the front of my mind. Of course that's given that nothing else pops up in the meantime.
Speaker B: Well, you have to be flexible, you know, Simp or Gumby. So that's the. That sounds good. You going to watch any specific Olympic Games today?
Speaker A: Boy, have I been watching some good ones. Who would have thought curling would be a cliffhanger? Yes, the game between the U.S. mixed doubles and the Swedish mixed doubles was fantastic. We got silver, they got gold. But the game was just amazing. Who thought curling would be exciting, right? I found that to be quite intriguing. Was somewhat critical of the ice dance scoring against the Americans. I thought that they were slighting us to a certain degree. I had some opinions on that and enjoyed the heck out of the speed skating. The short track and the long track, both are very entertaining for me. So I've been enjoying that.
Speaker C: Not much of a ski fan.
Speaker A: Did watch the downhill and enjoyed that. I see that Super G is lined up on the the replays to watch that. I'll probably watch a little bit of it just to say that I did that kind of thing. The one that I'm really saving is I'm waiting for hockey to get into the finals so that we can see who, you know. I don't watch the preliminary games anymore. I played way too much hockey to be entertained by watching lord long periods of it. So I wait until it gets down to the, you know, the semifinals or the finals to watch the hockey competition. So yeah, there's Olympics in my future. That's a very long answer to a very short question. Theta.
Speaker B: Well, the Olympics is a very long series of things to watch. I agree with you about the Curling. The first year that we saw curling on there, I was really scratching my head on who would do that, much less watch that. And it's grown on me. It's amazing. I have not watched that game. I will have to go back, pick it up. They're all up there. They're still saved. So I will have to go back and watch that. But. But yes, and. And I agree. The. The Russian judge. It was the Russian judge on the figure. On the figure skating. So that must be the question. That must be the problem.
Speaker A: It's always the Russian judge, isn't it? And, yes. Now, I'm going off the top of my head here, so I don't have the data right here in of front, front of me, but I seem to recall that the Russians were banned from Olympic competition, and that's why we're not seeing any Russians in this Olympics. But, you know, they're showing up as independent in some other sports or whatnot. But I'm finding it interesting that we're not seeing any Russian competitors, but one angry Russian judge. Oh, and the other one that I don't watch, but I can't because it just makes my knees and everything hurt is to watch them do the moguls. You know, that just looks like it's painful.
Speaker B: Oh, I agree with you. I watched about 30 seconds of that and went, oh, oh, no. Oh, no. They're going to have full knee replacements by next year.
Speaker A: Oh, it's terrible. And some of the. Okay, you know, I. Everybody comes in all different shapes and sizes, and if you learn a skill to an Olympic level, more power to you. You've got skill beyond anything that the rest of us will ever have. But there are some mismatches in these dance, ice dance, pairs, skate dancing, whatever they call it, that kind of take you, you know, aback a little bit. You'll see a man, and he's muscular, and here's, you know, a girl about two thirds his size, and, you know, she's petite, and they do the lifts and the whole bit, and he's tossing her around like she's nothing. And then you see this brother or sister team come out, and, you know, the guy's the same size, muscular, the whole bit. But sis, yeah, sis is a little on the thicker side. Sis just looks like she could bench press me. So, yeah, you know, when it came to the list, there was a little struggle there. You know, there wasn't the effortlessness that you're looking for, so yet they scored them very high. So, yeah, I'm not going to be a judge ever, obviously. But anyway, we've taken enough time here this morning. Beta, you have a great day. Give my best to Jerry and tell him thanks for the article on the B52 and I'll talk to you soon. KB6SSN.
Speaker B: You have a good day too, Tom, and enjoy working on radios. This is WA6EWF for the coffee breaknet N9MUS. Good morning, Daniel.
Speaker C: Good morning, Theta, Jerry and the net. The correct pronunciation for that Polish pastry is ponczki, and that is the plural. It is paunchki's if it's singular.
Speaker B: Okay, ponchki. I would never have gotten there with that, but that doesn't surprise me. And so it's panchke if it's singular and ponchki if it's plural. Have I got that right?
Speaker C: You've actually got it the other way around. It's ponchky for the plural and ponchki's for for the singular. Being a Polish pastry, it is in very high demand around this time of year here in Chicagoland. Every donut knows how to make them if they want to survive for a couple or every donut shop knows how to make them if they want to. I've had them a long time ago, and they are absolutely wonderful.
Speaker B: Well, the picture of them looks delightful. So I don't know if there's anybody out here in California land who knows how to do that. I would not be surprised that there are people who know how to do it very well where you live.
Speaker C: Given the Polish population of Chicagoland, it would be a shame if they didn't. Also, I've got to very amused by the conversation with you and Tom, hearing you all discover curling, which is something I grew up with. So, you know, I remember working on the farm on a Sunday afternoon and the family was gone and just watching curling for the afternoon. So to me, it's something I grew up with both curling and hockey. And I had the pleasure of introducing my wife when she's fallen in love. Love with it. But it always amazes me how every four years more Americans discover a support that I very much grew up with.
Speaker B: That is funny. Yes. Good. We can call on you to give us the experts pointers on things to look for. Like I say, first time I saw it, I kind of scratched my head, but it has grown on me.
Speaker C: There was a sheet about 20 miles north to us that we'd play on. It was a lot of fun. And, you know, you grew up in Canada when sweeping is legal in. In eight Ball.
Speaker B: That's funny. Very good. Well and thanks for for correcting my pronunciation of the that delicious looking donut y thing. So yeah may have to get my get get up and get dressed and go out on a mission to see find at least something that closely resembles that
Speaker C: in fact out here you need to pre order them because try and do a walk in day of Nope, they're just not available.
Speaker B: Oh and I bet families get multiple dozens. Oh they absolutely do.
Speaker C: They absolutely do. On the radio front, let's see. Definitely enjoying more CW got the portalogs up cleaned up yesterday and uploaded wrote my monitoring script, probably doubled the length of it but now it's can better check for dupes and distinguish between FT8 and FT4 so that's always a handy thing to have when running a quota because that way you've got that indication that you have absolutely activated it and no accidental dupes or you know, no missing it because you've got some dupes you hadn't kept track of. And going through all my gear I'll be doing a presentation two classes on Saturday morning. One for the extra class and a little add on for the tech. Just going over hotspots and digital voice and various things that you can do with your cell phone and radios and everything but making sure that they understand. Look, if you want to talk to the world, here's how you're going to have to do that buying that back thing and just hook up on Simplex, you're not going to work that far. So making sure that there are proper expectations set and letting them know that the cell phone is very much a useful amateur radio tool these days,
Speaker A: Well
Speaker B: that's a good thing to do. You're given some good information so people don't get too frustrated with the process.
Speaker C: And helping them with the possibilities. They don't feel like they've been thrown out into the wild without possibilities. So getting, getting my slides moved over, running some last minute checks, checking all the radio and hotspot configs. I had to fix it on the open spot but I'll be taking an open spot and and DMR radio, taking my cell phone and taking the mic and I'll be hooking all that up to my XLX reflector and you know, I'll be the control operator for all the people as they play with the toys for a few minutes. We'll see how long they play with them.
Speaker B: Very good, very good. We try and do something similar to that when every time we do ve testing we have a pool of people who serve as Elmers and who, you know, kind of give the pep talk before they go into the test and then celebrate with them or commiserate, depending on their success. And the successful ones, thanks to Tom, we've been handing out little bath bangs so at least they can get on the air and know talking about, what do you want to do with this? These are some of the things you can do. And come to the meetings, come listen to the Elmer Net. And yeah, we try and get them enthusiastic about more than like you say, okay, I took the test and I passed. Now what?
Speaker C: Well, and I think lowering the cost of entry for people, especially if you're in college or your parents are paying for the rig, and trying to make it something that is more easily accessible because, I mean, think about it, if you've got a cell phone, you can get onto Echo Link, you can get onto All Star, and all these people can start getting on the radio with a very minor investment. It's not saying that you can't invest more. I know nobody listening to our conversation has ever, ever spent too much money on radio, so they don't have to.
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Well, well, well. Looks like the. Looks like the sun finally made it to touching the ground. N6 NT. All right. I'm glad you made that decision.
Speaker A: To worry about that.
Speaker B: I know, I know it. It's, you know, I can, I can resist that. I'm not addicted to this. I don't have to spend that much money. No, nobody's ever, ever spent too much money.
Speaker C: Radios and guitars, the correct number is always n +1. Very much understand that. So yeah, right now just getting the USB stick ready, moving, moving my slides over and then also W5 Yi CW CDs over. Since I think in my opinion, if you've got to do it, I really like their CDs or their tapes, which is what I had starting out better than the arrl. I think, I think Gordon does a better job of it. And I also think that it's just a little more clear than the ARRL presentation. So I'm just getting that USB stick ready for my son. He's expressed an interest in learning Morse again. So giving him what he needs to, to help out, he'll get into the hobby yet. He definitely enjoys the poda. So, you know, it's like I'm doing with the people in the tech class, giving them just enough to giving them that taste and getting them started.
Speaker B: You know, it's kind of like we used to, we're having something new for dinner. When we had. Our kids were young and they would look at it and I would go, I'm sorry, you can't have any of that. I'm not going to put any of that on your plate. That's only for grown ups. You can't have it. And it's amazing how often they ate it. And you know, our kids have pretty good expanded tastes and so do their kids because they used exactly that same carrot stick kind of approach with them.
Speaker C: Well, what we used with our son was just, you've got to try a bite of it. You can't declare you don't like something without trying it. And we gave him the freedom to say, I absolutely don't like one meal and I absolutely don't like one ingredient. And he always knew how to make his own peanut butter and jelly sandwich. If he decided he wasn't going to eat it, it wasn't. Whereas my aunt, she had six kids and she would prepare a separate meal for each one of them instead of saying to them, you either need to learn how to fix your own food or you need to learn how to eat what's been served.
Speaker B: Oh, no, no, no, no. That would not go over well at all. Yeah, peanut butter and jelly is. Or cheese, you can have cheese and carrots and some tomatoes and you can make your own little platter of munchies and good, healthy ones, and that can be your dinner. But I'm not fixing another meal.
Speaker C: And my mom never offered to fix another meal for us. We always knew where the bread was. We always knew where the peanut butter and jelly was. And as she said, y' all can. You all can make your own food, because, you know, what I served is what you're eating. And like I said, she was always good about saying, hey, there's one ingredient that you're allowed to just not like. But we had to try everything before we could. Before we said we didn't like it. And that's the other thing. I see so many people pronouncing that they absolutely don't like food, and you ask them if they've ever had it, and they go, but I know I won't like it.
Speaker B: Yes, I know I've had my moments of that. But I usually will try. And as I have told other people before, I really will eat anything that doesn't run fast enough to get away from me.
Speaker C: That's definitely some of the good food, too. The food that's still moving. But I should. Oh, the other comment about ski hockey and stuff, we haven't watched the Olympics. I know. I'm jumping back and forth today. We should be watching them. My biggest problem when it comes to hockey is I still cannot watch American coverage. It's me absolutely nuts.
Speaker B: Oh, you know, I have to say, hockey is not one of the ones that I've really gotten into either. And I should. Jerry. And our first date, we went to a hockey game, so I should like hockey, but I can pass on that. And there are some things that are just too tedious. So, I don't know. Like, I say, I like curling. I like the figure skating, some of the downhill races. It's nice now that the downhill races, you can actually see the whole race, just the skier flashing by you. Wherever it was that they happened to station the cameraman. Oh.
Speaker C: My issue with hockey isn't that I don't like it. I love it. I grew up with more hockey night in Canada than I did Monday Night Football. But American coverage just doesn't know how to follow the punt properly. And it just absolutely drives me bonkers watching it, because growing up with hockey night in Canada, you get some very, very good hockey coverage.
Speaker B: Yeah, I imagine you do.
Speaker D: Well,
Speaker B: a failure of experience, I think, is what that is. Experience on the part of the camera people and on the part of the commentators. So Jerry says, we are Getting better at soccer though, are we? I don't watch that either.
Speaker C: I would admit to not being a soccer fan. You know, I mean, if I were to go to a soccer match, I'd be hoping that a good fight broke out just like it would back in England. But I should say 7:3 and let you move on. Definitely. Of course. Want to hear Mark's weather and thank him for the Tuesday weather. So I will say 73 to you, Jerry. And the net and 9 MUF
Speaker B: 73 Daniel, you have a great day. WA60WF2E0LRV LES Good morning. Les in Worcestershire.
Speaker A: 2E0MRV Good morning to everybody. Good afternoon over here. Well, we're about 4, 4:30 in the afternoon here, so luckily a good few bits of ragchew which meant I could finish, finish my. Oh dear, my, what do you call it, brunch now. Forgot all about breakfast, Skip's dinner because I was busy talking to people on the radio and then suddenly thought it's about time I did something to eat. So we've done a bit of what we call the rib sticking food. Corned beef hash with some sausage patties and a couple of eggs in the middle of the corned beef hash. Absolutely delicious and very, very filling. So that's gone down singing hymns. Luckily while eating it was listening to all the other reports. Oh, interesting stuff on here today. Yes, I'm also a proponent of. I was a single dad of four, so I brought up four on my own from a very early age. And yeah, I was very frequently not put food on their plates and say, no, this is only for adults. Children can't have this. Things like Brussels sprouts or sweet corn, all little bottles on the side. They don't like that. So you never tried it. How could you not like it? Rather get into that sort of discussion. I'll just say that you can't have it. It's not for children. So I've done that so many times it's untrue. We also used to have a lie detecting paper, part of my job thing. I used to have this litmus indicator paper on a roll and I brought one home from work one day and I put it on the mantelpiece and went in the kitchen and then chewed a few pickled onions and lots of vinegar and then went into the lounge at the kids. This is lie detector paper and it looks you can tell me if you're lying or not. And the author looked at me and said, yeah, so look, ask me to tell a lie and Then I'll test the paper out on my tongue. So we did and dad told a lie and put the paper on his tongue and it turned bright pink. So they lived in awe of this, this roll of lie detecting paper for years and years, you know, probably a decade or more, none of them realized what it was. They thought it was lie detecting paper. God, what a terrible parent am I. I won't go into the story of the web. Longer on one side and shorter on the other so they could stand on the hillsides. But yes, and interestingly, I'll just take a quick bit. I was interested in listening to the B52J thing. I did watch a video on it quite recently explaining why they. Eight new engines rather than having four more powerful engines. And I think it was basically something to do with the wing droop. That the wings droop that much on it that they can't put any bigger engines on it than they've got already, you know. But yeah, it's fascinating, absolutely fascinating. I think it was a few weeks ago Winter Olympics. No, I don't watch sports, but my TV hasn't even been turned on this year. I get most of my entertainment from either YouTube or Amazon Prime Video or Netflix because I get it free with my Internet provider I get free Netflix. So yeah, so I don't, I don't tend to bother with the tv. But on the radio front, we've been working on a mesh core companion here and I was just waiting for a lead to put a big commercial antenna on it. But unfortunately it's on the slow boat from China and it won't be here till 28th February. I ordered it about three weeks ago and it's taking its time, but I don't know if somebody's walking it over. But yeah, it's taken a long time for it to come. But I'm just using a tiny little antenna at the moment and it's working. Meshkore. Oh, technique. But hey, what good fun, you know, and apologies about the Winter Olympics. I just, just haven't got there back to their control.
Speaker E: Good morning, Les, this is Jerry WA6E. I wanted to comment on the B52J Theta and I are both retired Air Force officers and we were involved in acquisition. We bought airplanes. That was our game. We didn't have anything to do with the B52, but she was involved with the KC135RE engine. And you're right, the slope of the wings prevents a larger diameter engine from being put underneath the wings. But in addition the thrust would pull the wings off the plane, the article says, so that would be an issue. I think it's interesting to me how the state of the art in airplane jet engines has changed. In about 1964, the C5 was introduced to the Air Force inventory and I believe at that time each of the four engines had thrust of £30,000. And then later they upgraded the C5 to a C5 with a glass cockpit called the C5M or Mary. And they put new engines on it and they had 40,000 pounds of thrust. And that's what's on there today. Interested me. The triple seven, the engines on the 777 and there's only two of them produce 125,000 pounds of thrust. So we come in 50 years or more from 30,000 to 125,000 pounds of thrust. Unbelievable changes in this state of the art.
Speaker C: I'll give the mic back to Theda
Speaker E: so she can discuss the Olympics with you. Although you said you didn't watch. Hang on.
Speaker B: And this is WA6EWF. And you know, we are not watching the Olympics nearly as much as we did years and years ago, just because I think we get kind of overloaded about it. So I understand why you aren't necessarily paying attention to it, but yeah, maybe you'll tune in and watch us something. Who knows?
Speaker A: That's too easy. Returning. Yeah, all copy, Jerry.
Speaker C: Yes.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's amazing the way things go, but I mean, it's unbelievable to think, you know, that the B52 will still be flying year old aeroplane. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Yeah, but, yeah, they won't be the original 1950s airframes. These will be newer airframes. Was it 60s? I can't remember when they were introduced, but yeah, but the last, last of the batch of the, of the production run will be getting the new engines. But yeah, it still, it still works, it still has its purpose, it still has its rationale. So. Yeah, well, there's so many things like that where. How can I put it? They're not broke, so they don't get fixed, they just carry on. I mean we used to have a lot of things in the UK. I mean we had electric vehicles in the UK in the 30s and 40s. I mean there were milk floats. It's a huge sort of lead acid batteries underneath. But they were, they were staggering, staggering things. They top speed of about probably 10 miles an hour, 15 miles an hour. They used to come around with crates and crates of milk on the back and drop it off on your doorstep at about 5 o' clock in the morning. But yeah, they were great fronts. So yeah, so we had electric vehicles long before it was fashionable. Long, long, long time before it was fashionable. But yeah, how the world has changed. And say that for the Olympics. I tend not to watch sport. It just. I enjoy participating in sport but I have no inclination to watch it at all. It just doesn't. I mean, last thing I used to watch was Formula one car racing. That was decades ago and it was only because my son was interested in it. So used to watch it with him and it was tour. There's one guy, what was it? Michael Schumacher. And he just won every race and he thought boring, you know, who the winner is before the race starts. But there we go. It's, it's the life we live in. But yes, now, I mean, hopefully we'll keep, we'll keep upgrading things and, and reusing things that we've had for donkey's years. You know, I used my mother and I think they were, they were her mother's scissors and I still use them. Nothing wrong with them. The design's not changed. Occasionally I'll give them a quick sharpen with a little, little diamond flat blade. But yeah, good fun. Anyway, Back to you, FADER2D0LRV lawyers from the Shire.
Speaker B: Well, thanks for checking in. Always a pleasure to chat with you and hope you have a lovely afternoon evening now that you've had your middle of the afternoon meal and have a lovely rest of the day. This is WA6EWF for the Coffee Breaknet. WB6BJN. Good morning, Mark.
Speaker D: Hey, good morning, Theta. I hope you can copy me. Okay, I screwed up my other radio and I can't get back to the right channel. So if I sound a little different, I'm on a different radio. I grabbed another handheld so I hope it's working okay. It seems to be, ah, WB6BJN. And good morning to you, Theta. Good morning to everyone. And it is going to be a wet week coming up for you guys. So today, tomorrow and most of Saturday, Most of Saturday. And then by Saturday night and Sunday it's going to get wet and it's going to be wet through almost the entire week next week with lots of snow in the mountains and rain for you guys there. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Well, we see that on our phone, but you know how they lie. But we're hoping that that's true. We need to get rain, actually, even more importantly, we need to get a good deep snowpack up in the mountains and it needs to stay up there until spring actually really comes. All the trees are blooming. I don't like that. But hopefully the mandarin trees aren't blooming yet, so those blossoms haven't been killed. But I don't know about some of the others. Like almonds anyway. Yeah. We hope that the weather is right, that we are going to get rain and snow.
Speaker D: Well, first off, they don't always lie. They didn't lie about the last storm that came in the other day. And secondly, they didn't lie about the war.
Speaker A: Huh? Not too bad. Not too bad. After
Speaker B: we messed with that HiQ antenna. I'm kind of not looking forward to messing with antennas. No, but we work quite pretty diligently, trying at least 10 different things that we're less and less successful at.
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Six, 20.
Speaker A: I just got up this little age. I slept in in a month. Let me see. You're. You're
Speaker B: getting close to the fellas, huh? Well, Lori didn't go to work today, and she's going tomorrow and flipping the days. Okay.
Speaker A: That would really change things because it ain't long before we're flying, so. Man, I wish I knew a couple of different people I could go to to see what they would. What they charged. Put that gooseneck set up in the back. That'd be the nicest way to mount that thing. I wouldn't need any, any type of second.
Speaker B: Well, you
Speaker A: never, never, never know. We. I, I would rather have a gooseneck car trailer as well, but I like the one I got, so I, I wouldn't. I wouldn't get all extravagant. I was just looking for a dual purpose to have that. Those are so nice, Jay, because you can just flip the damn thing over and you got your full truck bed again.
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Speaker A: I don't have to
Speaker B: take the trailer off anyway. It's. It deals with the ball on the back of the truck so I can do whatever I want with the bed. I'm already. I'm already thinking of a couple other things besides the generator there. I like to have one of those. Oh, they're two foot by four. Four foot maybe they're two foot by three foot. Plug in refrigerator, freezer unit. Just in case anything ever happened to the one while we were far away. I wouldn't have to mess with looking for a refrigerator and all that stuff. We have that as a backup and I could deal with a refrigerator problem later. Do you remember what the brand is on that one?
And 6grg36 local. Good morning.
I seen one the other day. A girl had in a tent style camper, overland or something like that. And it had its own padded coat.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not. I'm not going to worry about that a whole lot. Now. This other one's got you by. I watched a good comparison between a Brinkley and an Airstream, which are almost 200,000. Now, some of them are over 200,000. But the Brinkleys, the best one you can get is only 70. We're not. We're not changing. This one's paid for you. You can't beat that. And for the. For the investment price. Holy mackerel. But what would it. What would it matter if I. If I just had to go. I. I know what refrigerator to go with and what air conditioner to go with. The Airstream uses a GE air conditioner, and they're not all that reliable. And the inferion is almost trouble free. It has a soft start, J. So when you're running it off 12 volts if you ever had to, which is a plus in case you just wanted to do the battery thing, it starts off slow and ramps up.
Speaker B: I like that. But anyway.
Speaker A: All right, you're getting close. I got warm coffee. It's just finished. Yeah. Say hi to the fellas. Make sure you say hi to the fellas. Hey, do you look at the polls? Laurie just told me that. That Chad Bianco's leading.
Speaker A: Oh, I know. Believe me, when I'm reading reviews like I did on the, on the projectors, you could tell them what people that own other companies or whatever, you could, you can just tell, you can tell when they're saying something about it that everybody else has the opposite view on it. So
Speaker B: you're always going to get that. So, Lori, seen a
Speaker A: news thing the other, the other day of here, of Chad being up in the thunder, Patty's morning thunder there, Of him sitting in the corner or something. So
Speaker B: she didn't see me, though, or you. All right, I'm letting you go. N6 ntm.
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Speaker A: Weather that you got that brought all the blossoms out that you had in January while we had cold weather.
Speaker B: So
Speaker A: they do do some educating guessing, but they were pretty right on with that long term warm forecast. And they were also right with the Christmas one where it rained for you guys. And boy, they didn't lie back here when they said it was going to be cold and it was cold. But yeah, you got to hope that this, this pattern that's coming in. And I think it's a truthful pattern because the flip has happened. It's warm back here and they did predict that, that that would happen. And it has happened. We had a. We were in the teens and twenties last week and this week all the snow is melted. And the other day we had a high of 72 back here. It's crazy. I thought they were gonna lie. I thought it was a lie too, but it wasn't. It was. It was truthful. And it's a lot warmer back here now, so. But I think you guys are gonna get some good snow and some good rain starting this weekend. I really think there's a system that's developing that's going to bring you guys some maybe, hopefully some good rain and snow. They're talking snow in feet by next week. And they're also saying that we could take a run at some of the Midwest, could actually get into the 50s, 60s, and where Daniel lives there in Illinois, it could actually make a run at 70 degrees at the peak of the warmth next week, which I think is incredible. That might be a lie, but it sure does sound good there. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Indeed, it does sound good. So we'll put up with that and you'll put up with that. I'm sure that there are people back there in Tennessee who were wishing that they had this upcoming weather on field day. Poor Thomas and Christina had to cancel field day. I bet a lot of field days were canceled back there, but this would be an ideal time to have it now. Yeah,
Speaker A: I think they probably did. They probably canceled a lot of field day winter field. It was just dangerous cold. It was the kind of cold that you didn't really want to mess with. You wouldn't have caught me out there, that's for sure. It was some brutal cold, but I don't think we're done with winter and I don't think. I think we're going to get some cold air again probably sometime in March, but enjoy it while it lasts. You guys are going to have a beautiful day out there today. And tomorrow a little ridge comes in and then once it moves away, it's going to get wet. And you need the good snow in the Sierras. So I'm. I'm really hoping for you guys. You guys are actually below average now because went almost better than a month without. Without good rain and snow. And so really, guys really need the rain and snow out there. So open for that. We got to be careful with this kind of weather pattern back here. I don't like to see the fact that it's getting into the. In the 70s and, you know, close to 80 degrees this early, because that could mean the severity weather outbreak back here, and that's usually an indicator. The nice warm weather comes with a price tag there. Theta, go ahead.
Speaker B: Yeah, I understand that. And it's interesting how we've learned that whatever we have here affects what you have there, and it's interesting to look at it now. I look at things a little differently. Yeah.
Speaker A: People used to ask me, why do you care about what happens in the rest of the nation? What does that have to do with your weather? And it actually has a lot to do with it because if you still had the high pressure, we'd still have the cold. And we.
Speaker C: It's.
Speaker A: It's changed. Well, I hope you guys are doing good. We're doing. I messed up my radio and I can't get it back on the right channel. Something I'm doing. I got all these other things, like, I don't think I. This redivis radio that I have. So I grabbed my GD77. Thank God I got extra handhelds. So I got to stand now and figure out what. What the wrong button was I pushed and how to get it fixed. That's next project.
Speaker B: Hey, Theta, good to hear from you.
Speaker A: We'll be back on between. We'll be back on next week. I had my doctor appointment last week. I had to go for one of those wonderful little colonoscopy things, and I think everything came out fine. So we're good. And I don't think they found anything too bad there. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Well, you said you were going to get a letter if everything was good, but my experience with our labs here, if there was some problem, you would have heard about it by now. So. Yeah, we'll take that as a win and you can go on to bigger and better things.
Speaker A: Yeah, I haven't gotten my letter yet, but I also haven't gotten a phone call. So I think the longer we go without a phone call and it takes a few days for a letter to get here. They said they'd send me a letter in the mail. So. I'm thinking the longer we go they probably have to find some time to type the letter. So. So that'll work out. Good. Hey, I'll let you go and get on to somebody else. And good to hear you. And you take care and have a great you and Jerry, have a great day and a great week weekend coming up. Back over there to you, WB6BJN.
Speaker B: Well, same to you and Sarah, always nice talking to you. You have a great weekend too. This is WA60WF. This is the Coffee Breaknet upcoming. We have the club meeting on see tomorrow night. Tomorrow night the anticipated club meeting in our new location at the Placer County HHS Conference center at the Auburn DeWitt Center. So we're looking forward to going to that and seeing the new conference, seeing the new center. And they have told us that we can't have little whispers conversations in the background. So bring your notepad and your pencil so we can pass notes like fifth graders. And also we are still collecting for the Confluence Church Food Kitchen. So what they're asking for are kids snacks for things that they can put in kids lunch boxes. Apparently they make lunches for a bunch of kids and give them to them so that they can have a little something to eat midday. So if you've got peanut butter cracker packets and things like that, kind of keep a lookout for those. So that will help them out. That's what they need. The monthly breakfast is on the 28th at 7:30 at Mel's Diner on Highway 49 in Auburn. And that will be followed by a fox hunt leaving from the Mel's Parking lot at 9 o' clock and KO6GXX Marty looking to be the fox tender for that one. So if you are so inclined and it's not raining, we don't know that far out yet. Go plan on going to the fox hunt, the Loomis Ham Fest. Loomis Ham Fest. Loomis Ham Fest. Mark your calendar. It's March 28th which as the way things, you know, the days are flying by, that's really not all that far away. That's the first ham fest of the year for Northern California and we always have a lot of people, we have a lot of vendors and it's a good time. And if you are so inclined, and we certainly encourage you to be so inclined, volunteer for something. Go check out the website on our go check out the information on our website, the w6ek.org and see who you can help out. The more people who volunteer to help out, the less everybody has to do. And anybody who's out of range from here, you're welcome to come visit and and hang out and go to go to Ham Fest. We have coming up this Saturday is VE testing the Granite Bay VE group at the Raleys Event center on Douglas and Auburn, Folsom. So if you need to take a test, there's your chance to do it. Otherwise, Folsom has it on Thursday, February 16th. And somewhere in Folsom, the information is on HempSteady.org and our VE group will be testing on March 2nd. So there's some things you can put in your calendar. This is the Coffee Breaknet and I am theta wa 60 wf and along with Jerry Wack, we are here to continue chatting with people this morning and having just a lovely time. Who is out there and if you need to be in and out, let me know. I'll put you at the top of the list. Yeah, come talk to me.
Speaker C: Kilo Oscar 6 in the Hotel Juliet.
Speaker D: KK 6am,
Speaker E: Kd3k. N in and out
Speaker D: and ko6th.
Speaker A: Good morning.
Speaker B: Okay, let's see. I've got greg, ko6th and anna. Kd6ajn and I'm sorry, kd3ajn. Is it in and out? I'll get right back to you, ray. Kk 6:00am and ko6ihj. Did we miss anybody? Okay, anna. Good morning, kd3ajn. How's your day going?
Speaker E: Good morning, Beta and everyone else on the net this morning. Our day has changed. We had planned to go visit my sister today, but she's not feeling well.
Speaker B: So that.
Speaker E: Scrap that, that program. So we're, we're at home,
Speaker B: don't know
Speaker E: what we're going to do and what we're going to get into.
Speaker B: Well, let's see. As long as it's not trouble. Or if it is trouble, I hope you have a friend with bail money.
Speaker E: I don't see any trouble coming this way yet. No, I don't have a friend with Bailey, so I guess I better not get into trouble.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, you got to plan ahead for things like that, so that's probably wise. Don't get into trouble.
Speaker E: We're just going to hang out here and I don't know what I'm going to get into, but sure, I'll get into something. Maybe play some more radio. Everybody have a great day. KD3HAN
Speaker B: you too, Anna. And playing radio is always an acceptable thing to do if you can't think of anything else. So you have a good day doing that. KO6IH J Confederate Son 2 Good morning, Larry.
Speaker C: Oh, I've been adopted as Confederate Son 2. Right. Good morning, Davis. KO6IHJ. Yeah, we've been going through all the radios and stuff and having fun and you'll never guess what he left me on the bench here that didn't need repair, but it's all hooked up. An FTDX101MP to play with.
Speaker B: I'm not familiar with that. I'm assuming it's an HF radio of some sort.
Speaker C: It's j flagship, the newest one on the market right now.
Speaker B: Oh, a new radio? No, I, I didn't think that that was authorized for you guys.
Speaker A: You're into the old stuff.
Speaker C: Yeah, I think this is his own little personal he's got going on here. And he's got the monitor with it and the speaker and all the Konda. He's got a quadramp over there. This thing's going to hook up to beautiful. But other than that, I'm just going to stay around the house and probably do some yard work before the next set of rain comes. I got, I have few patches of grass I didn't go out there and cut and I gotta do the lawnmower thing and mulch up some more stuff. So yay me. It's a good day. Hopefully everybody's gonna be at that meeting at the new digs up there in Auburn. We gotta, we gotta get a big party going on there. Gotta remind everybody. Hey, let's do this.
Speaker B: Indeed, indeed. Yes. That's tomorrow night, so we will see. You
Speaker C: get that?
Speaker A: You see that Jerry?
Speaker C: Rocking Long, long. Shout out to me, Zo. Out there somewhere in the world alive and chicken. Everybody have a blessed day. It's a great day today. Come on, do something. KO6 I take 7301.
Speaker B: Apparently she is in. In need of amusement because she's cleaned out all the rats and mice from the barn.
Speaker A: So.
Speaker B: Good dog.
Speaker C: Good dog indeed. Have a beautiful day.
Speaker B: You too, Larry. Thanks for checking in. This is wax. Ew. Have kk6am Good morning, ray.
Speaker D: Good morning. I had a good question for Larry. When he showed up last night on Zoom for In the Shack, why wasn't he wearing that white lab coat?
Speaker C: May I go directly to.
Speaker B: Absolutely.
Speaker C: I did have it on for a little bit of rain, but it got hot. But yeah. Have you seen the lab coats yet? They're embroidered with our name and our status. Mine's the chief technician. His sets businesses. They're beautiful.
Speaker D: No, I haven't. I was kind of hoping I'd see him last night, but I didn't.
Speaker C: Oh, well, I went to the. To the meeting up there. How about that? KO6 Ice Jay, back to you there. Thank you.
Speaker B: So there you go, Ray. You're gonna see it at the meeting. We will all be so impressed.
Speaker D: Yeah, well, it just. I'm glad to see Larry actually showing up some of these things, like in the shack. And considering he hasn't even been licensed for a year. Look at all these things he's doing.
Speaker B: Yeah. Talking about somebody who dives into the hobby feet first. Of course, he's had a good Elmer, too. Let's see, how is that working? He's being trained and supported by Tom. And on the other hand, he's doing a lot of the stuff that Tom doesn't have the space to work. That's a good symbiotic relationship.
Speaker D: Well, it makes it interesting anyway. And it's kind of funny because most of these radios are talking about. Oh, yeah, I remember those.
Speaker B: Yeah, Jerry says the same thing.
Speaker D: Oh, and by the way, Tom is listening. What he needs to find. I haven't heard mention of a Tempo one.
Speaker B: Tempo one. Which is. Which radio is that?
Speaker D: It's a Henry radio. Branded, I think.
On battery at 22.
On ac power at 22.
Speaker A: They were built by Yaesu it was a little more tubes than an FT101 but yeah, it was cost less than the FT101 at the time too.
Speaker B: Well then there should be millions of them out there
Speaker A: well they weren't as popular with the CP ers so that's probably why there aren't as many of them around.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's true well that should be an interesting one maybe that's the next one for Tom to go hunt down.
Speaker A: I just was thinking about that the other day I think it had more tubes than the FT101 basically it's a little older design and I think think and I was never sure but I kind of got the feeling it was built for Henry by the by Jesu.
Speaker B: Ah, well maybe that's why what explains why there aren't a lot of them
Speaker A: Well I, I suppose but did you say like I say I don't think it was as popular with the C beers maybe why we don't see as many of them around anymore Same though with you know, Drake's. Excuse me, all the other ones that era if they weren't popular with the CBers there weren't near as many of them sold.
Speaker B: Ah, okay so I understand that the, the CB Earth kind of outnumbered and drove the marketplace
Speaker A: well mid 70s that was definitely, surely no question about it.
Speaker B: I had a co worker when I was stationed down at McClellan in the 70s and she and her husband got CB radios because they had a boat over in, over Bodega Bay and so they would, sometimes they would end up driving separately and this way they talk and they could talk to the boat and so forth and so I was riding with her and she was, she was driving and she was trying to talk on this radio and I finally took the radio away from her and told her she's not allowed to talk on that radio while she's driving because she could not do both things at the same time
Speaker A: well, you know, back in the days and like when I was like 21 or so I could drive a four speed car, smoke a cigarette, drink a cup of coffee and talk on the radio the only bad part is if I screwed up for some reason and dropped the mic and it was Motorola metal bikes and I swear they must weigh 10 pounds they're probably heavy enough to break a kneecap I'm sure Jerry remembers that too.
Speaker C: Are you talking about the old ones that were metal or the newer plastic ones?
Speaker A: No, the old ones that were metal and the real old ones had a carbon element in them. Like the telephone T1 element.
Speaker C: Yeah, they had to have that because there was so much power consumed starting up the dynamotor.
Speaker A: Well, they even had some of that. The T power ones and stuff like that. Of course, when I started working on them, they were just making that transition. And that's why I kind of advanced really quick at the first radio shop I worked at, because they had quite a few older guys that didn't know anything about transistors. And I'd just gone through a correspondence course and I knew about transistors, and so they taught me about tubes. I taught them about transistors, and I came out with the best of both worlds.
Speaker C: Yeah, I guess you did. I just had Elmer's, who taught me how to modify the old Motorola commercial radios. My first was a T41, I think, or 43 GGV. It had a vibrated power supply and it was all tubes. And I had the upgraded model of which was the envy of some of my friends. Mine had a little switch on the control head that gave me a second channel.
Speaker A: Well, as far as what I had was I was going to get my novice license when I started working in the radio shop. And I think the owner and three or four other people in that shop were all hams. And one of them says, now get a technician class license. And I'm like, why? He says, oh, well, we'll give you this radio. And it was a RCA T power, you know, like 25 watt or whatever. And they said, and here's the parts to put the second channel in. So you have talk around, which is a term that seems to have gone totally away nowadays.
Speaker C: Gone away. I don't even know what it is.
Speaker A: Okay, talk around basically is flicks on the repeater output. So, yeah, one receive channel, two transmit channels.
Speaker C: Okay, I got it. Talk around means talk around. Get by your local repeater. I thought it meant talk to everybody in the world or something, you know, all around the place. Yeah, I never did rca. I just did GE and Motorola. And that's only because I had people like you near me who told me what to do. But these radios that we've been discussing and that Tom and the others are all working on. Larry, you know, these are the things that really hurt if you drop them on your foot. The new ones today, they bounce off.
Speaker A: You, stick your hands inside at the wrong time.
Speaker C: Yeah, there was a double with you, right? Who said something?
Speaker D: I had a comment. Kilo, Golf, six, November, Lima, Whiskey.
Speaker C: Go ahead.
Speaker A: Let's.
Speaker C: Let's hear it.
Speaker D: Talk around was Particularly popular still is to a degree with CHP where they will talk on the repeater output unit to unit so that it doesn't go through the repeater. And that's the way the system is set up. The dispatcher can still usually hear what's going on on the repeater output channel but that's where it's most commonly used these days. Most everyone else has all but abandoned it. You know, as was mentioned, we use it, you know I use it quite a bit myself when I want to talk to someone local, you know, within a half mile or so mile, whatever. And I don't want to go through the repeater and tie up the repeater.
Speaker C: Well that makes sense. I just hadn't heard the phrase before. And on the other hand, if you two are sitting there talking on the repeater output, somebody wants to talk in the repeater, what happens?
Speaker A: They win.
Speaker D: Person going through the repeater wins also you guys talk with the old year of Motorola is really, really bringing back some memories. I'm a little bit younger but yeah, I started with Meritrax and Then Spectras and GM 300 kilo Golf 6 November Limewiski.
Speaker E: Thank you guys.
Speaker C: Actually at one time I was taking the GM three hundreds or six hundreds and modifying them here and trying to get them gone. But so much effort and so very little return compared to what you yet the radio is like a bowman for. So it's interesting but they do serve a purpose. So Ray, what's up with you today
Speaker A: to a UHF system with seven well six repeaters and an additional base station that they could contact on. In other words almost making something like a. Just a different system. And so they, you know in a month they were changing out radios in 250 police cars or something like that. So they hired a bunch of us kids. I'm the only one that kept on because us continued learning things.
Speaker C: Yeah. And I'm thinking today of the effort required to put all of the systems into a Chevy or a Ford that comes from the manufacturer and then they go out and some protester catches it on fire. That must be awful lot of work going down the drain.
Speaker A: I think so even you know, back then. Well keep in mind step number one, take your three quarter inch hole saw and drill a hole through the floorboards so you can get the cable from the battery to the passenger compartment. Then run the cable from the control head back to the radio. Sometimes having to drill another hole, sometimes not Learning the hard way when General Motors at one point built cars that didn't Have a trunk or the trunk floor was actually the top of the gas tank. And luckily somebody else did this, not me. On the county sheriff's lac drilled four holes to mount a motrac right into the gas tank.
Speaker C: Oh man, that must have been fun. And that got me thinking about the. The antennas that Motorola had before the NMO series. Little three HN holes and a big gust of wind to come along and knock them over. Bottom line is I'm not convinced they were any better than what we have today. They were certainly a lot more difficult.
Speaker A: I don't know, I definitely enjoyed it at the time. And yeah, the oldest Motorola mount was a 3,8 inch hole expanded into, into the metal. And if it's installed correctly, they'll take a pretty good hit. But in the new Motorola mount was what was coming out probably 69, 68, 69 somewhere there. And that's the three quarter inch one that we all know and love, right?
Speaker C: Yeah, those three, eight inches you put them in and then they had a little ferrule you would shove down inside. They would expand the foot out to grab it. Now, the new INMOs are wonderful and because everybody's kind of used them as the de facto standard, you can get an antenna anywhere and screw it on and you're ready to go. So I have antennas I use when
Speaker A: I'm on the road.
Speaker C: Otherwise I use a quarter wave and just screw it on, screw it off. Even when I go through the car wash, I unscrew the antenna.
Speaker A: Well, then you probably have one of those nice little covers that screws onto the NMO mount when you take the antenna off, right?
Speaker C: Yeah, little plastic covers. You can get a dozen of them for eight bucks.
Speaker A: Actually, somebody makes chrome ones too, but I figured you'd have that if you actually took it off Motorola. Most of their antennas came from antenna specialists other than their quarter waves. But we could talk about this all day. Like I say, a long time ago I spent a lot of time at this.
Speaker C: Indeed you did. And there were good radios and it was fun to be on FM early when it was still kind of a novelty. And now it's just become standard. We all just take it for granted. And then of course, if you go on to the NARC website, for those of you who wonder what NARC is, it has nothing to do with drugs. It's a Northern California Amateur Radio Repeater Council or something like that. These are the guys who coordinate the repeaters. Good luck finding a pair on two meters. And I'm not sure you can find anything on you anymore. And then you scan the channels and they're all quiet.
Speaker D: Northern Amateur Relay Council California NARQC yeah,
Speaker A: I think it has everything to do with drugs. If they're not taking, you want them after you've been there. Yeah.
Speaker C: And I heard the comment about no Northern California Coordinating Council any event. It's a fun hobby. You have anything else of importance to share with us on today?
Speaker A: Normally better than that. I never have anything of importance except at least I convinced Christina that they don't have to turn their note off so I can look and say hey, why aren't you guys talking? But you know, that's one of those things.
Speaker C: Well, I listen a lot and I don't say anything. I see AK6 du Spring Hill is it doesn't mean they're listening, but they are connected.
Speaker A: I think Christina it depends on how much she's involved on a teleconference or what when she's working. I think she turns the handheld on and sometimes she'll talk and sometimes not. But the reason it has there's about three reasons. It has her call sign on it rather than Thomas' number one, she says that's her note. Somebody sent her the raspberry PI around Christmas time. I don't know who.
Speaker C: Well you said three reasons. That's one why the other two poor
Speaker A: configuration and learned I can't believe the amount she already knows about All Star. And the third one is she's got the highest class license so she can set the rules.
Speaker C: Theda says and besides she's Christina no doubt who's in charge. It is fun to have a tight end. I. I really enjoy having them on. Of course it was sad to see them go but I understand. And Les from the Shire what a delight to have him check in with us and give a little bit of different perspective on everything. So it.
Speaker A: It adds to the hobbit. I definitely agree. That's why I kind of Christina didn't want to buy a clear note. She wanted something that she had to work on. Well turns out they had a lot of bad problems trying to use the AIOC and finally broke down and bought a sherry hat. But I think we need something with a real radio attached instead. Did this whole nother so I think I'll let you go in case there's somebody else that really wants onto the net. 73 KK 6am
Speaker C: well before you wander away, how is it they're connected that they don't have a clear note or what are they using
Speaker A: now? They brought a sherry Pie hat and They've got a pi4B and Christina put it all together and that's what they do.
Speaker C: Ah, a hat for the raspberry PI. Very good. Well, thanks for checking in with us and have a good day,
Speaker A: both of you. Have a Good day. And Rocky 27 KK 6:00am.
Speaker C: 7:3 this is WA6E and K06TH. Good morning, Greg. What's today's installment of the great boat saga?
Speaker E: Good morning, Jerry. Good morning, Theta and good morning everyone.
Speaker A: Greg.
Speaker E: KO6 Lovely day today.
Speaker B: This morning a little bit I gotta
Speaker E: go out do shopping, but other than that, it is research on the electrical, the motor swap, the conversion from diesel to electric. Talked to a marina down in Berkeley where they do that kind of thing and had an hour, over an hour conversation with the guy talking about logistics and what they do and why they do things and what, what my thoughts were and comparing notes and all that kind of stuff. So that was really productive. I just clicked on a link for folks that do that. Found out there's a place even closer
Speaker C: to where the boat is that probably should research as well.
Speaker E: There's a lot of activity going on down in the Bay area and it's worth looking around to see what.
Speaker A: So it's what?
Speaker E: Anyway, other than that, what else is going on? I don't know. Haven't thought about it yet. Haven't finished my coffee. Ko 68, back to you.
Speaker C: Well, let's back up for just a second. This, I hadn't heard about this replacing the motor, which I assume is gasoline, with a diesel motor. Why would you want to do that?
Speaker E: Well, to clarify, it's replacing a diesel motor with an electric motor. And the reason is all the maintenance
Speaker B: and the noise of the diesel is just a grain on my soul.
Speaker A: And.
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Speaker A: And I want something quiet. I want something that just turns on and works. I want something fire oil changes and filter changes and biocide in the fuel tank and all that stuff. And rust, you know, the exhaust pipes rusting. And it's just a continual drain on one's soul to maintain a diesel engine in the water. And I mean it's bad enough in a car, gas or diesel, but I stopped working on my cars years ago. I was just done with it. I don't need to pick it up again when I have a boat. K06T H, back to you.
Speaker B: This is WA6C. Okay, I didn't know about that. And once you explained diesel with electric, yep, all of a sudden that makes sense. And Our friend Greg Ko60h is back in his element dealing with the electric and the batteries and the conversions and so forth and so on. You'll have great fun with that. Now Greg, you got the issue of batteries and also you got the issue. There's going to be 12 volt, 24 volt, 48 volts. What are you thinking?
Speaker A: Well, doing it in reverse order, the motors are 48, so 48 volts is the main, the main power bus basically. And everything kind of derives from that. So there'd be a 48. There still needs to be 12 volt stuff on the boat. The radio, I mean the windlass is 12. The radios and the lights and everything else are all 12 volts. So it'd be a 12 volt, 12 volt battery. Their existing 12 volt batteries. I'll probably replace those with lithium just because. And you know, no panic on that. But the lithium will go in where the 12, where the AGMs are for the house stuff. Yeah. And then the 48 then drives, besides the motor drives a big inverter which will run electric galley. So I can get rid of the rusty stove that's in there, get rid of the propane or the lpg, whatever the stuff is, it just piping flammable gas into a sailboat and then lighting on fire just does not seem like the right idea. It's not a, not conducive to longevity. So yes, all that stuff's going to come out. Induction cooktop and microwave. Of course that would serve most of my, my cooking needs forever. I don't even use the oven here at home, so why would I have one on the boat? And what else was there? Yeah. Oh, batteries. Then the lithium. 48 volts. The place that I'm looking at that I've talked to, they use some really expensive batteries. They're two grand a piece. 100amp hour 48 volts. You can get them for nine, for under 900, 800 or something from a number of places. And I kind of figure out what am I paying for for that extra, what, four times the cost or three times. So, yeah, see what I can figure out there too. K60H. What did I miss?
Speaker B: Well, I'm not sure you missed anything you're mentioning you don't cook at home, so why have an oven in your boat? It somehow reminded me of a story that my cousin told me once upon a time. He was flying for an airline called Transamerica. Yeah, like the insurance company. I'm not so sure it wasn't owned by them. Eventually he ended up flying for US Air, but at that time he was flying charter flights and they flew what he called the Hajj when the Arab pilgrims wanted to make to Mecca. He said on one of these flights, I don't know where he's flying from, but he said he got a call from the staff back in the back and some of these people had brought out their little charcoal hibachis and had started them up in the aisle way to cook their dinner. Is that how you cook with an oven? Any event, funny story. So I guess the only thing remaining in all of this is with the batteries. The issue is how far offshore can you get and be able to make it back electrically?
Speaker A: Well, it's physics. The cute story about Bablache. Yeah, that's. Wow. No, that's not how I would not be cooking like that. Although I have seen pictures of people using. I mean, there is a barbecue on the back of the boat which needs to get either cleaned or replaced. It's rather. Rather it's been used, put it that way. Range wise. Depends a lot on how fast you want to go. When you double your speed through the water, I think you cube the power, something like that, it goes up really fast and I can go for like. There's a boat that did the same thing. They're up in British Columbia. And with the amount of power that I'm hoping to put in, they can go for six or seven hours at five knots. So do the math from there, that's running quite a bit of power into the motor and if you crank it down to about 3 knots of speed, you can go for probably about 30 hours. So again, do the math on how far that is. The main thing is it's sailboat and you want to be planning your travel to use the sails as Primary and then electric in and out of the harbor and that kind of stuff. And if there are surprises. But if I ever go, you know when, someday whenever I go out the Golden Gate, there will be a backup generator on board just in case. Ko68,
Speaker B: This is WA6E. Yeah, no, I understand that the faster you go, the more power. It sucks. I'm just thinking how far did you plan and if you can get 30, 35 miles out of it, that's great because I assume that most of the time you use it for maneuvering and then once you get out of the harbor, you put your sail up and that will be that. But there's always the law of unintended consequences and unexpected events. So it sounds like you got it well underway. And your inaugural sail out to Golden Gate is June.
Speaker A: Oh, probably June, but maybe next year or the year after. I don't know, it'll be a little while. I need to get a whole lot more confidence and skill in piloting the boat. I'm still quite new at that. San Francisco Bay is one of the best places to learn because it will throw everything at you and in a fairly confined area. So, yeah, that's kind of the plan. The bay, the Delta Carquine Straits in and around there. Get some experience on it, get the systems taken out, eventually get that generator for the backup. That'll be. Yeah, that's not the first thing to put in the boat. I mean, the, the generator can, can charge the battery and run the motor, but it's. You're limited to how much power you can get through the system. So you're looking at, you know, you're not going to be going hull speed for the generator. You're more like about 3 or 4 knots is all you can do with it. Anyway, that's kind of the plan there. Oh, and there'll be, of course, a HAM radio going on board. And I have promised Jim MPA that at some point during the year when that radio is on there, we'll have a presentation on the adventure that is unfolding here. So look forward to that at some point. For now, just basically it's outfitting both the boat and myself in terms of skill and we'll see how it goes. KS TH BATTIO.
Speaker B: When I was in my first year of college down in San Diego, my roommate's father owned Shaffer Penn Co. And they had a big yacht down at the San Diego Yacht Club. I don't. It was, it was a sailing type and I don't remember how big it was I'd guess 50, 60ft. And he took us out sailing on it one day and we went off Point Loma there and just sailed around and amongst all the kelp and came back in and it was, it was nice. But their big deal was they participated in the someplace I think it may have been San Diego or Los Angeles to Hawaii sailing competition and they would do that every year and he had a crew that went with them and
Speaker A: this was serious stuff.
Speaker B: Are you going to do any of that
Speaker A: Hawaii? No. Although it's kind of tempting. This boat in theory can do it. It's class A rated or whatever. The ocean going thing is only 30ft though. So it's a coastal kind of a cruising boat, Catalina 30. And so I think the most I would do is head up and down the coast. I know that's been done quite a bit, especially down south. It's a Southern California boat basically. And so heading down, I have family in Monterey, so heading down there and saying hi, that would be kind of good. Going up north it's a bit more annoying in terms of the travel, just the sea conditions and the lack of port. The California coast has very few places you can duck in to park the boat. You get out of San Francisco, head south, your next port of call is Half Moon Bay and next one after that is probably Santa Cruz or something. It's not much, it's almost a day between them. So you have to plan your trips and be careful. This isn't, this isn't 60 foot yacht. I mean it can weather quite a bit but it wouldn't be pleasant. And so it's timing of the year, timing of the weather, everything else that you got to work out. So I got a lot to learn before I even think about that. My first thing ducking out of the Golden Gate will probably be hanging a right and going up to Bodega Bay or somewhere just around the corner, corner there just to say that I did it and then ducked back into the bay. So anyway that's long term plans. First is to be able to use the boat on my own. I was down there a couple was it last week and got the boat in and out of the this week Monday managed to get the boat in and out of the slip on my own without bumping at anything. So big accomplishment there. Ko6th back to you.
Speaker B: So many places to go. You can go down to Santa Cruz and dock up with John Ki6rt and you too can have races with your boats or go north, go up to the inland Passage In Alaska, in that area. That would be great fun for a summer. A little boat like yours in that area would probably be perfect. I had a friend in high school who I kind of lost track of, but people would tell me about him. He built some sort of a company there in the Bay Area and got bought out by some other company, Made a buttload of money, sold his house and bought a yacht over in Sausalita, where I kept it. Then he joined up with a bunch of people and they. They formed a raft of some sort and they would sail around the South Pacific together. And the story that I heard coming back was that he lost his boat. There was a shoal of some sort that wasn't on the mats. And according to the secondhand story I got, he saw the white water ahead and wasn't sure what it was. By the time he tried to figure it out, he was on it. And tide went out and left him stranded up on this coral. So the other people around him came and helped him get his stuff off the boat. And then as the tide came back in, it beat his boat into splinters. So, you know, that could be kind of intimidating. Be sure wear one of those emergency locator things that they sell now so that we know where to come pick up the body.
Speaker A: Yeah, there's service from. Or one of those things, that little beacon that tracks you across the water. Yeah. So going north. So if you want to graze some YouTube, there's a husband and wife, Allison and James is their channel. Allison and James sailing or something like that. Same boat, Catalina 30. They just got back from a trip to Alaska. So going in all the little inlets and all that stuff. So the boat is definitely capable, at least when the couple has done it. This is, of course, on my own, just me. So unless I take on some crew, there's that challenge, too. So anyway, yeah, it's. Rafting up is a very Caribbean thing to do. Also south to. A lot of people do that. A lot of videos, people doing that kind of stuff. So, I don't know. We'll see. It's a new hobby. A lot of things to explore with it, both in terms of technology and skills. And that's kind of the idea. Keep the mine moving, keep the body moving, stay vertical and stay above water. KO60H.
Speaker B: Yeah, I understand you're going to have great fun with it. That's what we did with the motorhome. There was always something to do and improve, and it's kind of hard to let it go well.
Speaker A: And I Know that you follow the
Speaker B: winds, frankly, since they left the South Pacific and they went through the HH3, I think that's the number that Chinese sailboat they had for a short period of time and they're going into this cold weather diesel boat. The series isn't quite as attractive to me as it used to be. I'm not quite enjoying it as much.
Speaker A: Yeah, but it's also, besides the sailing, it's the travel log. Basically the places that they go and where they're planning on going. You can't do as easily with the sailboat. Although. Another channel. What is the channel? Oh, good Lord. Can't think of them right now. English couple Amy and Matt. What is their channel? Anyway? They just, they're just doing a round trip around Norway up to Svalbard and. And places up there and back down to. To the uk. So they got a bigger boat but all sailing and it can be done. The winds have a different way of doing it. I'm all for the ride, just to watch and see how they do things. The gas mileage is as you saw the comparison of gas mileage versus alternatives. It's amazing how much fuel that gets used and how much. How much sales cost and do a comparison and stuff. It's kind of eye opening anyway. Ko6th, back to you.
Speaker B: As soon as I let go of the mic button on our last transmission, you and Theta made the same point at about the same time. And Theta said, yeah, they haven't gone anywhere yet. And I suppose that's true. Maybe it'll get a little more interesting as they head out and start going up towards Scandinavia or wherever it is they're going to go. So there was something, there was a little phrase that you used a number of weeks ago that I thought was funny. It was something to the effect of the most expensive way to get from point A to point B is a sailboat.
Speaker A: It's the most expensive way to go from point A to point B for free. It was the quote that I had. I forget where I heard that, but yeah, that's about the size of it. Anyway, on with the day. We're getting kind of close to the witching hour here and I'm sure the other folks want to join in, so I'll let you go. Good talking to you and we'll see you. I guess. Tonight is the board meeting and then tomorrow night the club meeting. So. Looking forward to that. Kayla6th
Speaker B: I'm looking to forward to it as well for a couple reasons. Number one, I always enjoy getting together with the guys and gals in this club. It's a social event par excellence. And number two, the new location. I'm really looking forward to seeing how that works out. Seven three is Greg. Always a pleasure to talk to you. Thank you for my daily boat update and we'll keep informed. I'm going to give the bike back to Feda. It is approaching to be the witching hour, so I'll let her have the control. This is WA6E.
Speaker A: And this is WA6EWF. And let's do. Let's see. We're far enough down on there that we can do in and outs or I will take log only. Who's out there?
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker A: Theta and the net. Kilo Golf 6 November Lima Whiskey. In and out.
Speaker B: Into dyi oscar, six echo bravo.
Speaker A: Back for the log, please. Thank you. Kelogol six papa in the x ray, quick in and out. 306 Echo, Lima Zulu for the love. Good morning, everyone. Okay, let's see. We had a little bit of doubles in there, but what we got is KO6 echo, Lima Zulu for the log. I got you on the log. Glad that you checked in with us. You have a nice day. N6 CTC as an in and out. Get right back to you. KG6 Pix for the log. You have a nice day. Sorry, had Foggy throw.
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Speaker A: Kg6 pix, I got you in the log. Kn6ush in and out. Ko6ebq log. I think into. Dyi, you're an in and out. K4lgi, in and out and kg6. Okay, we haven't. We'll have to clear that up. Kg6nlw for the log. Sam. K4lgi, were you a log or in and out?
Speaker B: Just log.
Speaker C: And KG6N. Alpha is in and out, not log.
Speaker A: So who did we miss in that. That line?
Speaker C: Correction. KG6NLW is in and out. In and out, not log.
Speaker A: Ki6lop for the log, please.
Speaker D: KG6 Pix was also kick in and out, depending on my situation.
Speaker A: K6D. Okay, so we added Ki6. I'm sorry, I doubled somebody. K6DLK.
Speaker B: Good morning, Peter.
Speaker A: Got it. Okay, we'll get right back to you. So let's see. KN6N LW for in and out. What do you have for us this morning?
Speaker C: Good morning, Theta Jerry and the Coffee Breakneck Kilo Golf six November Lima Whiskey. A couple fun things happening today and tomorrow.
Speaker A: Today?
Speaker C: Well, tonight, same time as the W6ek club meeting. But we have the NorCal Swapnet every Thursday. And it can be replayed on YouTube at your own leisure at 8pm local on YouTube. KG6NLW Tamradio Wilderness with Frank. But if it's just YouTube.comG6NLW you'll get there easily. And tomorrow is Fridays with Frank at 5pm local, 5pm Pacific. So come on by, say hi and see what fun segment topics I have for Fridays with Frank. And it's a Q&AMA session every Friday. So with that, I'll turn it back to you Theta and let you get down the list.
Speaker B: Good morning. Coffee break.
Speaker C: KG6NLW
Speaker A: Very good. And where do we find Fridays with Frank?
Speaker C: The same place you can find the NorCal swap on YouTube. YouTube.com 6nld Phonetically, that's Kilo Germany 6 November Lima whiskey.
Speaker A: Okay, is it an AT sign or. No, It's Fridays with Frank. It's not at all.
Speaker C: The URL is YouTube.com 6mlw but the live stream name will be Fridays with Frank. If you just search my call sign on YouTube, I should be one of the first results, if not the only result, I would hope.
Speaker A: Okay, well, Jerry's off to find out. We will make a note of that. And so if anybody is interested, Fridays with Frank tomorrow you have a great day. You have anything else for the net? That's it, Theta.
Speaker C: Just NorCal swap tonight and Fridays with Frank tomorrow. I was trying to make it quick and easy. In under a minute.
Speaker A: He finds norcal swamp. Okay, Ham radio Wilderness with Frank. Okay, we'll figure it out eventually. You have a great day and thanks for checking in with us. This is WA6EWF for the coffee. Breaknet into DYI. Good afternoon, Patrick.
Speaker E: Good morning, Feda. Everyone on the net. Well, let's see a couple of things. Melanie yesterday you may have heard on the net took a big old fall on the ice.
Speaker B: Haven't heard from her today.
Speaker E: That's kind of concerning. Sent her a couple of text messages. She may be just sleeping. I hope that's all that's going on. Lost access to the laptop that I've been using remotely for the last almost two months. For some reason I think it blue screened or something. Got to get somebody to restart it. But right now Melanie's is not really in too much position to do that. So got to figure out something there because it's still got some projects that I was working on. I was at in the shack yesterday. That was Fun with Bruce, KC1FSZ and KG9M and Brian and Greg and several others. We ended up talking about repeater stuff after that. So hopefully some things will start going there. And yeah, today is definitely Thursday. The headache has shown up in full force.
Speaker A: You know, I take this kind of thing personally.
Speaker B: I, you know, it was Tom last
Speaker E: week, so I don't feel too bad. Or was it two weeks ago? Yeah. Anyway, it's not always you,
Speaker A: and maybe not always Thursday, but mostly Thursday.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker E: Anyway, it's, it's. I didn't get to sleep until about 3 o' clock this morning and I was up before that since about 6 in the morning on Tuesday. I wasn't sure if I was going to make the Zoom meeting. Frank invited me because Bruce was there for the stuff that we were talking about. And at some point I just kind of went, oh well, I got my like fourth wind. I might as well just stay up. And I just kept staying up. So I crashed pretty hard. Woke up not too long before noon. So here we are, I guess.
Speaker A: Well, that explains it. When I have to stay up long hours like that, I get a headache too.
Speaker B: Yeah, I mean I didn't, I didn't
Speaker E: have it when I went to bed. It showed up after I woke up. It's like, yeah, okay, now you're complaining at me. I don't really blame it though, to be honest.
Speaker A: No, no, it's understandable given those circumstances. Well, hopefully. Hopefully Melanie is okay. That is concerning. And I hope you hear from us soon and hope you feel better. Go take a nap.
Speaker E: Oh, well, I. I probably will, but not now. I gotta sort some stuff out. Theta, Jerry, everyone on the net. Have a great day and a great rest of the week. We'll catch you tomorrow. WA6CWF. N2DYI 73 73.
Speaker A: Patrick, feel better. Let's see. KG6 Pix. I have you as an in and out. Good morning.
Speaker D: Hey, good morning. Theta. Into the Net. This is max.kg6pix. I guess I always lose the track and I forget there's a net because I've been off and on. I just wanted to let you guys know that I had my Kidney transplant. The 13th of this month will be a monthiversary for it. Everything is looking up and up. Should be going back to work. March 11th. They gave me eight weeks.
Speaker B: Whether I wondered or not that work
Speaker D: said, hey, you can take your time, you're good to go.
Speaker B: So they took care of me.
Speaker D: But physically doing well, mentally doing well.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker D: So everything's good.
Speaker E: Appreciate all your thoughts there.
Speaker D: This is KG6Pix. Just a quick in and out.
Speaker B: About to pick up my wife who dropped off her rental car there.
Speaker A: Well, thank you for checking in and giving us that update. So glad that you're doing well on this and I hope that continues to be the case. So take care of yourself. This is WA6EWS
Speaker D: and this is KEG6Pix73WA6EWF. KAG6Pix73 back to the net.
Speaker A: K6dlk. Are you still in Hawaii? Dan?
Speaker B: Good morning, Theta. No, my son had an event so we flew back late last evening. We got in very late and he was out at I think 5:30, 6:00 clock this morning. I don't know how the younger guys do it with no sleep at all. And Patrick just talking about going a while without sleep. I have to get sleep sometimes. I do have difficulty. And I do notice that in the islands, being in the water and just being more active without even feeling like you're exercising. I've never noticed it younger. It was just a spent feeling, you know, that all over body ache. That's a good ache. Now it's not so good.
Speaker A: Yeah, I get that. I'm with you on that one, so. Well, you come back and take a walk. It's different though. You use different muscles when you're out on the water, don't you?
Speaker B: Absolutely. And yes, it was a great time. I know you have others to get to, but I Will share this story. We had a wonderful super bowl get together. And I think I brought up friends that were from Washington. They are on the Washington side of the Columbian gorge. I think it's Skamania. You're probably familiar with that. Anyway, I told everybody, you know, just bring yourselves. They said, no, no, we're bringing over food. It'll be potluck type of situation. We're gonna bring stuff. I said, we'll just bring stuff here and we can prepare it here. If you bring things unprepared, I can prepare it and help prepare. So a friend, as a joke, brought over a bunch of coconuts thinking he'd get the best of me. And I'll tell you, I went native on those and got them opened. It was pretty interesting, just using my hands, my feet, and a simple rock. And it just took me back to my ethnic days.
Speaker A: And I just. I bet you the hell out of
Speaker C: him
Speaker B: or embarrassed the hell out of me. It was fun, though, you know, it just comes back to you. I won't say it's like riding a bike because it was pretty sloppy at first, but I just pounded the snout down on the ground, got it loose, grabbed it between my toes while sitting on my butt and ripped the husk off and found a rock nearby in the. In the garden in the backyard. And tap the top gently until I can get the juice out. And got the rest of it. They said they were impressed. I hope they were. I was a little embarrassed by again how sloppy it was at first, but I got into the groove.
Speaker A: Oh, that's funny. That's funny. Jerry's making the comment that you don't sound the same without the birds behind you. You needed to record that and just play that every time you come on.
Speaker B: Yeah, the birds, the ocean, even the ocean waves. At night, we had winter storms. There were a couple of days when it's really funny because when it rains here, it can rain a lot. People still go to work. There are no snow days in Hawaii, but when there's a lot of wind and a lot of rain, they allow people to stay home. They recommend that people kind of stay hunkered down. But it was funny because we went over to the other side of the island. We checked out the Lahaina area. There are signs of life. It's not coming along as quickly as I think others and myself feel it should. But I don't know all of the details behind the challenges. But it was interesting to see some things going on there. And we went over to the other side and and one of the restaurants that we like to go to, the line was all the way around the parking lot. It was promising. It was good to see that things were still happening. They're saying visitor numbers are down, but average spend is up. And I told my son, I don't think that's because people are voluntarily opening up their wallet. I think things are just more expensive now.
Speaker A: Well, yeah, that's probably the case. I have seen pictures of that banyan tree which has come back miraculously.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Extra effort being put in there as it symbolizes the resilience. Right. Of not only the tree but the community as well. So there are a lot of professionals, just gifted people and community working on her. But it's great to come in and say hi to you guys. Good to be back. I'm supposed to be hitting the ground running like my son was already out, but I'm having a hard time just getting back into the groove here. Lots of other funny stories to tell. Maybe I'll share with you offline. There were two halftime shows, one upstairs and one downstairs. And it was funny to see the people who were engaged in the upstairs. The misbehaving bunny ended up joining some people downstairs to watch what was going on there. I'll leave it at that. Data. Always great saying hi to you. WA60WF. K60. OK.
Speaker A: Well, you have a great day and say hi to Chris porras. This is WA6EWF. KN6USH. Good morning, Mike.
Speaker F: Good morning, Teda. Good morning, Jerry. Good morning everyone. It's Mike. KN6USH. I'll just say that I want everybody to be safe out there and my prayers go out to Melanie and Patrick. I hope Bob, things get much better, improve and just remember that there's another tomorrow. So that's what I look forward to. Another day. One day at a time. But I look forward to the next one. And next one is Friday, a day
Speaker B: off, my favorite day.
Speaker F: And. And I'll just keep it short. And I know it's after 10, but everybody will catch you later tomorrow night, whoever shows up.
Speaker A: Yes, we are looking forward to that. You have a great day. This is wa6cwf, n6ctc. Chris, good morning. Home of the original 105 with a PL tone of 110.9. This is the W6 GRC. Oh, Chris may have been log only and moved along to other things. So let's see. One last chance at it. M6CTC. Chris, you out there? No. Okay, so let's do logs and now I want to remind everybody for coming to the meeting tomorrow. Bring kids lunch snack things. So that's the request from the food pantry. So do that. And we look forward to seeing seen people tomorrow. Let's do a round vlog only or very quick in and out.
Speaker B: This is kilo bravo seven, delta, foxtrot, pup, keb 70 FP cannon. Twin Falls, Mobile, Wu 6x mobile.
Speaker F: Log only.
Speaker E: Alpha, india 6, uniform, sierra, brian.
Speaker B: Log only. Whiskey, uniform 6, hotel log. Good morning. With kilo, oscar 6, lima, golf, papa, glenn.
Speaker F: Good morning. Log only.
Speaker E: Whiskey, bravo, three, charlie, sierra, yankee.
Speaker C: Log only.
Speaker D: Thank you, theta,
Speaker A: Kilo, Delta 6, Charlie, whiskey, uniform. Log only.
Speaker D: Thank you.
Speaker B: Ak 6 ns alpha, kilo 6, november, sierra.
Speaker G: Log only.
Speaker B: Ki6tc for the log. Kv6cd for the log.
Speaker A: Okay, here's who we got.
Speaker G: Kb6ed for the log. Ki6tc for the log. Ak6 November, circumstances for the log. Kd6cwu for the log. Wb3csy for the log. K06lgp for the log. Wu6h for the log. Ai6us for the log. Wu6x for the log. And before we get to Ken, who was the only one who wasn't for the log. Did I miss anybody or somebody want to add on?
Speaker C: Whiskey 6, Juliet, Charlie, Zulu for the log. Good morning.
Speaker D: Thanks for the net, Jerry and Beta.
Speaker G: Okay, jim, w6, jcc. Gotcha.
Speaker E: Anybody else?
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker G: With fanfare and flourish, then we'll bring it to our official last station, the one who always ties it up. Ken, KV7, DFP. How are things in Idaho this morning?
Speaker E: Good morning.
Speaker B: It is overcast and.
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Speaker A: Cloudy and occasional rain here and there.
Speaker B: 39 degrees.
Speaker A: And we're going with Campbell's chunky soup today. Not sure which one.
Speaker B: I've got a little variety.
Speaker C: Well, enjoy your Campbell's chunky suit, no matter what flavors it may be. And you can keep your 39 degrees and overcast. It's severe sunny here. It's coming all the way down to the ground. Temperature is 56. We're headed towards the mid-60s. And a while ago we had KJ5 check in from Oklahoma City where he said it was going to be in the 70s. So things were going up down here.
Speaker A: Last week was kind of warm. So maybe you'll be sending some of your weather down my way and I'll look forward to it if so.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker C: Then by that time we'll start complaining about the heat. Good to hear you on. Enjoy your lunch.
Speaker A: All right, thank you.
Speaker B: Have a great day.
Speaker A: KB70FP mobile.
Speaker B: Clear.
Speaker D: So this is wa6ewf. Is there anybody else who wants to be in on the log? Log only
Speaker E: k06imp.
Speaker D: K06IMP. And it sounds like you are the one who's tying up the last little bit here. So I am going to call it. This is WA6EWF. This has been the Coffee Breaknet. The Coffee Breaknet is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio club on the W6ek repeater, which is located in Auburn, California, where the sun is indeed shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. Mafia bill. This is WA60WF returning the repeater to normal operation, whatever that may be. Everyone have a lovely day. Bye bye.
Speaker F: Wu 6X mobile listening.
Speaker B: Morning, Dennis. What are you up to? What kind of screwdriver antenna that is
Speaker F: on the back of your rig?
Speaker B: KC6SLA.
Speaker F: Hey, good morning, Graydon. Yeah, I took the whip off. I store the whip up underneath the headliner here and usually I leave it off because otherwise it's banging on everything.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was just curious how you tuned that. Do you tune that with some type of automatic tuner or do you just know from experience where you need to have it?
Speaker F: Well, I had a button in here, you know, where you could just run it and watch your SWR meter on the radio. But Burton gave me an automatic tuner to try and it's still under the seat and it's working great. So on the TS480, I just push the tune button and it automatically tunes whatever to whatever frequency I'm on. Lowest swr. It works really, really well.
Speaker B: Yeah, I like that feature on a Lot of the YAESU radios, they interface with that. So is that a YAESU antenna?
Speaker F: No, this is the high Sierra, like W6LG made for a long time. This is one of the High Sierras.
Speaker C: I think.
Speaker F: I think Jerry has one for sale too. If he hasn't sold it yet. They're a great antenna. They're not as robust as some of the, you know, the high expensive ones, but they work well. When they're working.
Speaker B: Do they have a micro switch or contact or some way of actually telling a radio what position they're in? They must if they do it automatically. Well, not if they do it by swr. I guess I'm just curious. A lot of them do not have any type of indicator contacts inside.
Speaker F: Yeah, there it's pretty much SWR just. It just hunts for the lowest SWR and it's 80 through 6, so it's good band coverage. I've never tried it on 6 meters, but I know 80. It works well on 83 10, so made a lot of contacts on it. I'm 17 meters, works really well. I've made contacts all the way to Japan on 17 meters. Going down the highway.
Speaker B: Yeah. You've got it mounted? Well, I don't see any movement in it at all. It's rock solid. I'm just curious. I've been watching it for a few miles now.
Speaker F: It doesn't move. It's got this one big half inch nut that secures it to the spare tire bracket that my. One of my cousins made for me. A custom bracket for it, which is nice because it clears the, you know, the glass on the back of the hatch and all of that. And if I need to get to the spare tire, I just take that one big nut off and the whole antenna just comes right off, which I haven't had to do. Nobody likes messing with spare tires.
Speaker B: I moved the license plate on my Jeep up into the spare tire. Much less vulnerable position. And when I mounted it, I had to think about, you know, putting it on connectors, making it as easy, easy to take off as possible because you can't get the spare tire off the jam to very often. But you want to be able to
Speaker F: get the spare tire off of the
Speaker B: Jeep without cutting any wires or removing too much stuff. So I know where you're at trying to mount that to make it simple. Anyway, I heard you call out and I'm following you and I thought I would just give you a holler. KC6 slink.
Speaker F: Very good. Used to be a lot of hams that had HF in their car and they had ham plates and going down the highway you could always find somebody. I've been really kind of finding people on 521-4652 simplex traveling down the highway. A lot of people have antennas that, that are remote, you know, on mountaintops and they're listening and that's been fun. Met a lot of nice people that way all the way up into Oregon and Washington. So anyway, was I going to make a comment about this antenna? Yeah, you got to remember that the whip is on there when it's on there because it's really tall. It just barely clears gas station fluorescent tubes. Sometimes you got to be really careful.
Speaker B: Well, I think Jerry could tell you a story about wiping out fluorescent bulbs in a gas station.
Speaker F: I'm sure it's happened very embarrassing. So I usually leave it off unless I know I'm going to be on HF I leave it off. I've got an ICOM IC 706 Mark 2G in here. It works great for UHF, VHF and HF. So been in here forever. But yeah, the tuner works great on it and I know there's a couple others out. In fact, I think you can still buy one from somebody. I see DX Engineering I think sells one that works with any screwdriver that just looks for low SWR. And this one, 80 meters, is the only one it's a little flaky on because The SWR isn't 1 to 1 and it's like 1.4 or 1.45, something like that. And so there's a switch inside the box that you can set to look for the lowest wr. But there's a limit to that swr, so sometimes it won't quite stop on, you know, on the lowest SWR. So on that one, when I'm going 80 me, I'll watch the SWR meter and stop it myself.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've got the UHF VHF antenna mounted on a adapter. A nice adapter is able to get for the third brake light on the truck. But I try to keep the shortest base loaded antenna on there. It works well, but for the same reason. I don't need the height. We got a little fire up ahead.
Speaker F: Yeah, it looks like. What's that? Vegetation, I think. What black smoke is structure and gray smoke or white smoke is usually vegetation.
Speaker B: That's right off of Bell Road. It doesn't. It could be a control burn, I guess, but it doesn't look like it.
Speaker F: Yeah, I think that's up in Christian Valley. Or kind of up that way. Oh, no, we're not up to Christian villa yet, so. Yeah, it's pretty close to bell road.
Speaker B: Yeah. I have a screwdriver antenna fairly well. I shouldn't say inexpensive, because none of them are inexpensive, But I have one that I used on the rv for a while. I'd like to mount it on this truck, and I'd like to. I've actually had the 705 mounted in the console to this truck.
Speaker F: Fits really well.
Speaker B: I'd like to set that up. The problem is I can't be in the way of the fifth wheel.
Speaker F: Oh, yeah. That probably hangs way over, too. Too bad you couldn't get it up, like, right on the edge of the bed, up against the cab. You know, somewhere in there, if there's
Speaker A: room,
Speaker F: put it on the front bumper.
Speaker B: That is one possibility, Jerry. I could put it on the front bumper, but then somebody riding in the passenger seat would say, I don't like looking at that.
Speaker F: Where we're going down the road.
Speaker A: Mounted on the rv. RV and the truck.
Speaker B: Yeah. Brian had the idea of mounting it on the rv and running it to the.
Speaker F: Cabling it over to the truck.
Speaker B: Oh, that's a project I got to get to one of these days. It would be nice to have HF in the truck.
Speaker G: K 9k a d. Listening with a question.
Speaker B: Go ahead, question.
Speaker G: Hey, I heard somebody talking about an HF antenna in their vehicle. If that's correct, could you guys slowly tell me the model and the name? That sounds interesting.
Speaker A: Dennis.
Speaker B: You got more experience. In fact, you have one on your vehicle right now.
Speaker F: You want to talk about it? How are you looking for? What is hf antenna and hf radio? Is that what you were looking at, or. We're asking the question about.
Speaker G: Well, I caught some traffic that somebody said they had an HF antenna. I thought they said it was mobile,
Speaker A: which was news to me.
Speaker G: I'm kind of new. In any event, they said they reached out and got Japan with it, so that piqued my interest. I could always find a radio, but it's the antenna, as we all know. So if somebody listening to my voice did say something about having an antenna that they got out to Japan with, please advise K9KAD.
Speaker B: Yeah, that would be me.
Speaker F: K9 Khwu 6x whiskey uniform, 6x ray. Yeah. And on this particular vehicle, I have a high sierra screwdriver, which is multiband 80 through 10. Actually, 6. And it tunes for low SSWR. So I have it mounted on the rear of this vehicle. But I have actually mounted them what I want to call Australian style off the front bumper and that works quite well. So you can got a couple of options there. But yeah, if you're going to do HF mobile I would highly recommend looking for something called a screwdriver antenna. And basically they got named that because they use a, they used to use screwdriver motors in them. And then the radio I have and there's plenty of mobile radios that'll do HF but I've got an ICOM IC that's India Charlie 706 IC 706 they're a great mobile radio because they're multi band UHF, VHF and HF. Did you get that all?
Speaker G: Yeah, affirmative. Looking back now I kind of wish I got the IC706. I got the 7300 for my base station fixed location. So yeah, screwdriver I think I remember studying about those for one of my tests. Right. And High Sierra is the brand although I'm sure I can google whatever Is High Sierra what you have and are
Speaker A: you pleased with it and the i6us follow up?
Speaker F: Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker A: Yeah, well High Sierra is out of business but the more popular ones that are available now are Scorpion, Tar Heel and let's see what there's another one out there right now. I think Texas Bug Catcher is no longer being manufactured. If you want something specific branded, the ATAS unit is available as well.
Speaker C: Comment.
Speaker G: Okay, roger that. I wrote it all down. Can any of these be adapted for home use? Maybe put on the roof or. I'm just thinking outside the box a little bit here.
Speaker A: I would just say it's not a very efficient antenna. I, you probably have much better choices for at home usage. But yeah, I've seen people mount like a, a screwdriver antenna on a modular home or on the gutters to their home. But yeah, it's, it's probably quite inefficient compared to standard base antennas. AI6US
Speaker E: comment.
Speaker G: Last union. Go ahead with your comment if you have one
Speaker E: copy. Yeah, sorry, I didn't hear the go ahead. I was being, I was attempted to be polite. Yeah, this is matt ko6imp. Yeah I'm running an ATOS in what you guys refer to as Australian style. Now I'm actually, it's a little bit Frankenstein. I'm actually running my FT 710 on a battery, spare battery in here but it works very well. But I agree for home use I would definitely go with something else. You can get some really nice multiband antennas, either long wire or dipoles. That would work out exceedingly well. But yeah, this thing works very well. I've worked both FT8 and single sideband. In fact, I've done. I've done FT8QRP, if you will, on 5 watts with this thing and worked all the way to Japan. No worries. In all over. All over the us. That's just my comment. You guys have a great one. I gotta walk in, walk into the hardware store. I'll be back on in a few.
Speaker G: Alrighty then. This is K9KAD thanking everybody. You never know what you're going to learn just by monitoring the radio. And I learned something today.
Speaker B: Thanks again.
Speaker G: I'll clear the frequency, K9KAD.
Speaker B: I'll go ahead and sign off because I'm almost at my destination.
Los Angeles link up.
We6axm receiver.
Node 51018 disconnected.
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Speaker A: Kilo oscar 6 probable jq monitoring
Speaker B: we6axm receiver.
K6bgy monitoring.
Winky, foxtrot3, echo, kilo, Oscar6, bravo, gold, Yankees. The other Steve, whiskey, fox3, echo, kilo, oscar6, bravo, gold, yankees standing by.
Whiskey, foxtrot, 3, echo, kilo, oscar 6, bravo, gulf yankee. Go. Contact. KO6BTY returning to monitor. Good morning. Beautiful skies from calusa. Blue skies.
W e6a x n repeater.
Kilo oscar 6, bravo, golf, j.p. i'll be clear.
W e6a x n repeater.
Beep, beep, beep.
Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of sac Valley's original 105 W6 GRC with a PL tone of 110.9.
Los Angeles link up.
32 link off.
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Speaker A: Kn6wnr.ko6bgy.kn6wnr.k06bgy. Stay out there,
Speaker B: Matthew.wb6a XM repeater.
Speaker C: Kn6wnr.ko6bby.
Speaker D: No contact. Ko6bby. Monitoring.
Kilo oscar 6, bravo, golf, yankee. Monitoring. Wa1ner, ko6vg white.
We6axm receiver.
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Reading link office.
Los Angeles link up.
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W6 rhc repeater check. Two. Q6ak Testing, testing. Clear.
Broadcasting live from Red Mountain at an elevation of 3673ft. This is Sac Valley's original 105 machine W6 GRC, with a PL tone of 110.9.
Please. Id. Thank you.
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Speaker A: Wp6axm receiver. Wd6axm will be testing
Speaker B: for a few seconds here. Wd6axm is testing.
Speaker A: And wd6axm is testing. Clear.
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System 19 link up.
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There's somebody in there. Very, very scratchy. You may have asked for a radio check, so I'll give you what I can. You are definitely very scratchy. I could hear some audio, but it was very difficult to understand what you were saying. N6, K and E.
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Fresno link.
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System27 link up.