Transcriptions for 2026-02-14

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.

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Speaker A: System11 link up.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. Now what? What are you doing? N6 katie.
Speaker A: They're not as elusive as I have, it seems.
Speaker B: How are you?
Speaker A: I mean, I'm doing okay to answer your question. How are you?
Speaker B: Good, good. Just here doing my thing. Getting closer and closer to getting my. Getting my visa here and my citizenship here in Columbia.
Speaker A: Hopefully it's easier than here. Sounds like quite a process over here. Very long one. And nowadays, well, you know, that's a whole other story. But I wanted to ask you a question about what you were doing with the DTMF thing. If I could. Is that possible?
Speaker B: Yeah, that's something I'm still trying to figure out. I know there's a secret to making all that work great. But
Speaker A: I'm still missing something.
Speaker B: But yeah, go ahead. You just passed away.
Speaker A: Okay, well I guess that kind of answers one thing. It sounds like it a as they call a whip. Whip it good. A work in progress. So. Okay, and then yeah, I was going to ask you how you were doing. What you were doing was that like some kind of a macro that you call up that resides on the server or something with predefined sites that it pings or something like that. I didn't quite, you know, follow or understand what, what it was you were trying to do or should we not even waste any time on discussing that because that might be out the door type of thing.
Speaker B: It's pretty simple. What supposed to happen. The way I understand it is you can go to any of the super
Speaker A: supermon
Speaker B: and just type in a, you know, a four digit DTMF tone and it will ping a site, a repeater site, give the, you know, whatever, whatever DTMF you already have set up at the site. This will do it. Through the Altar system. I got a couple of them to respond. I know 25 always responds real good off of the Vaca Superman, but properly it should go through all of the supermons and activate any site that you have.
Speaker A: Okay, but. But then you have to log in to a supermon, right? Is what you have to do. And then from there what you type it in or something or you're not actually doing it through dtms pat or something like that.
Speaker B: Yeah, you could just go into the, into the input box, you enter the command four digit command and then just hit the DTMF button and that will put that DTMF top through the whole system which will activate your already set up DTMF at the site. So you're using a COP command, you're using a different DTMF set of members to activate what you already have set up at the site?
Speaker A: Well, kind of, sort of, not really. So are you. Did you have whatever this COP is? I guess that's a acronym for something. I'm thinking maybe that's a. Well, You're saying whatever DTMs you, you put in on the command line is not necessarily the same DTMS that you would enter over the air. It's something that pulls up something locally and then that resends what you want out over onar. That's how it does it.
Speaker B: Yeah. I wish I had the exact verbiage for you at the moment. Yeah, basically, yes, the Superman won't let DTMF don't pass, but they'll let the COP command. So if you're on a Superman dashboard or cockpit as ASL is known to call it here lately. Yeah, you just put in this particular command and that will go through the All Star system and then that will activate the actual DTMS command that you already set up way back when.
Speaker A: And
Speaker B: it'll give you the control that you want. Do you need it? No, probably. Probably not. Would it be convenient to have as?
Speaker A: Yes, I think it would.
Speaker B: So again, it's just something I was playing with, give myself something to do and I figured it was no, no harm, no foul that it worked or didn't.
Speaker A: Right. No, that's fine. But it just sounds. Sounds kind of messy, a lot of extra stuff in between. Because if I'm understanding it right, we would have to come up with all these. Yeah, I'm not sure I'm referring to this. Right. As these cops, which I'm guessing are pre programmed DTMS strings or whatever. Right. So we need, you know, several for each site. So. And that would need to be programmed at all these super monitors. That's something that resides off the server, but you can go in through any, let's say remote sites. And then that COP reside. Does that reside on the server or those reside on the individual superbonds and are they kind of like a macro or. You know, it's got a pre defined string of DTMs saved in it and that's what you're calling up and then it sends that out type of thing. There was a lot there to absorb.
Speaker B: Yeah, I, I've already done all of that. I've already done all the hard stuff. Now I'm just trying to get it go through the entire, All of the, all of the sites. But my problem is I don't have access to a lot of the sites because we don't have portfolio. So one of the reasons it's not working the way that it should is because I don't. I can't add those comp commands to the other supermodel for each site. But yeah, each. I've already got all the comp commands all created for all of the sites, all the way up to 40 if you ever decide to add more sites. And then the TTMF commands, they're already created for each one of the comp commands. So all of that's already done. I just needed to get it to work properly. Like some sites, they. Some sites like to have a longer, a longer tone, a longer TTMF tone and some seem to work better with short ones. There needs to be spaces, you know, like if you have two threes, there has to be a. There has to be a space in, in between those. It's, you know, it's kind of, kind of strange, but it, like I said, it, it works. I just need to fine tune.
Speaker A: Sounds a little kludgy what you're trying to say, I think. Yeah. So the inter. Inter digit timing type of event. So it actually can tell that you dropped the first one and now you're actually doing a second one as opposed to say there was a little bit of a stutter in between. Let's see, the problem is we got to be able to, we need to be able to send tones from anywhere. You know, like right now if I'm mobile and I got a pink so something or I gotta actually, you know, or Jeff's gotta have a site do something. We gotta query so voltage line or you know, switch modes or all that. Right. So we got multiple things so we can't have a whole bunch of these cops I guess for all these different things that, you know, be insane. And then trying to get him to all the fights as well be another, you know, big thing. So it's just, it really needs to be so that you can send a tone directly from anywhere on a radio and it goes through and it doesn't get muted. So. And that kind of leads me to. My next question is, I mean, do we absolutely know for sure from the top above pass the CMS and like say give it some prefix that it listens to and says okay, I need to unmute any following DTM or something like that maybe or whatever. It just seems like there's got to be a way to do this.
Speaker B: Yeah, you're getting super scratchy. Well, I can say that one will not interfere with the other. Your current dtmf tones that you use on your microphone. Me in, you know, over the air that, that work, that will always work but it just will not pass through some of the all star sites where
Speaker A: the,
Speaker B: the other the COP commands will. They'll pass through. So you know, it depends on what you're doing and where you are sitting. Sitting at your desk, fair at the house. You can go through it using the Supermon and activate any one of them that you want with crystal clear DTMF tones. Or if you're on the road and you grab a microphone and you want to enter your DTMF tones, you can do it that way. Sometimes the tones won't make it to the site.
Speaker A: That sounds like a TE receiver to my ear. It might be coming from Las Vegas. I'm not sure. Yeah, yeah, we gotta figure out something because getting on the, you know, a supermind is not gonna be easy. So. All right, well I guess all I can say is keep up the new fight and I'll see if I can. If I can get a hold of a couple people who are well versed on this. Come know somebody who is. If we can give a, you know, the ultimate answer one way or the other. Because I just, I find it hard to believe that you can't cash tones one way or the other without having to jump through all these hoops that you're doing with the COP commands and stuff like that. So. But. All right, well thank you. I don't mean that I want to beat this horse to death. So I guess we'll just carry on and try to figure this out.
Speaker B: All right. And you know, currently, if you remember, the only access, the only super mine that we have access to is vodka and then of course the powder. Right now we're very limited but you know, once we get. Once we get access to those and get more of them up, this thing will work very well. And it is actually very easy to do from your phone, from a smartphone. Just go to the supermod and put the code in and it'll work just fine. But yeah, that's the only problem. We just, we just don't have Superman access at the moment for me to add those, add those cops to this stanza. All right. Yeah, you're. You keep breaking up real bad.
Speaker A: But
Speaker B: maybe you and I can talk on the phone about this sometime over the weekend if you're not doing anything. 10, 6pM.
Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know why I'm breaking up. Unless. Need to get this. Yes, I do. All right, I'll catch up with you and 6 72.

Speaker A: Kk6vzb mobile. WB6A X M receiver.
Speaker B: Kk6vzd.
Speaker A: Ko6bby. How you doing, Chris?
Speaker B: I'm doing just fine and dandy. It's Friday afternoon and I don't have to be back to work until next Thursday.
Speaker A: Hey, that beats my return on Tuesday by a couple days.
Speaker B: That does. Yeah, it does. Hey, you got a really nice, clear, strong signal. What are you using?
Speaker A: Bubble rig. KT8900R. I don't know. I'm gonna. Like we talked before, I'm gonna have to select the space station and do that. But yeah, I'm using the mobile rig right now.
Speaker B: And those Baofeng minis, they were doing
Speaker A: good for, like, the last. For the month of December. And then tried using them inside the house, and I'm not getting good reports with them, so we'll have to adjust from that.
Speaker B: Did you have to work yesterday? Yes, I had to work yesterday. Is there a reason I shouldn't? Oh, you mean Lincoln's birthday. Yes, I had to work on Lincoln's birthday.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, Calissa took it off. But then we lose Juneteenth. I think it was in lieu of or something. I don't know who decides all that? They don't take any of our input into account.
Speaker B: Well, I know Yuba county doesn't recog. Well, it doesn't. Juneteenth is not one that is. Is a paid holiday for us either, nor Columbus Day.
Speaker A: A lot of people are like, oh, you get extra holidays?
Speaker B: Well, hey, you know, you can go work for the county, too.
Speaker A: They got plenty of job openings.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's very true. Actually. I said Columbus Day. I guess I should have said Indigenous Peoples Day.
Speaker A: I knew what you meant. It is what it is. I mean, if you want us to call it by something, pick a name and we'll stick with it. But don't change it and then change it and change it. I'm okay with what. I mean, call it Green Hippo Day. I don't care, as long as we get paid for it, right?
Speaker B: Actually, with everything else that's going on, maybe they should rename it to Indigenous Peoples Donald Trump Day. He might.
Speaker A: He might swing that way and do it. Never know. I think we're going to get his birthday this year or whatever that is.
Speaker B: Donald Trump Independence Day.
Speaker A: Yeah. And we also got the 250th anniversary of the nation, so that will be some pretty big parties going on for that. That might be a bad thing. I'm content with staying at my house or going out for a meal and coming home and watching a movie and going for a walk and calling it a day.
Speaker B: We used to. I haven't in a long time, but I need to pull out the movie 1776. We used to watch that every 4th of July as a family.
Speaker A: I'm sure I've seen it. I just can't think of it at the moment. Boy, that guy's got a large water tank that you put on the agricultural property. Wonder if he's going to catch rainwater.
Speaker B: Well, if you haven't seen 1776 and you need to rent it and watch
Speaker A: it, I'll make a note of that. Mentally and on paper, all that. I didn't realize that I really need to take some time this weekend and find all the subscriptions that I have and get rid of the ones I'm not using because I just realized I've been paying six months for this Paramount plus and I haven't even used it until recently. I'm using the heck out of it now.
Speaker B: But yeah, yeah. So you have to understand that the music or that 1776 is a musical. I'm okay with some musicals.
Speaker A: Usually more on the dark side like Stephen Sondheim and all that. Like Jimmy Todd, by far my favorite musical ever that's gotten depth. But I'm not opposed to a musical as long as it's not like a full on complete love story. But I'll give it a shot. It's not a long movie, is it? Or is it probably.
Speaker B: No, a couple hours. It is a very good movie, though.
Speaker A: It's.
Speaker B: It's not. It's not totally historically accurate, but you know, it's good enough that who cares?
Speaker A: Not everything has to be historically accurate. I mean, I do. Like when I watch military movies, I'll kind of be like, especially with this time, like 2006, from all through Iraq and Afghanistan, they get the uniforms wrong. They look like. They look like a hot bag of soup. They don't look anything like. It's like you couldn't ask a veteran group to be like, can you at least give us a few points on how to wear this darn stuff? Because it just doesn't do anyone justice. And then other ones, you come back like Saving Private Ryan. I think they did a great job with that one.
Speaker B: I think Saving Private Ryan is probably one of the best movies ever made and something that every high schooler should be required to watch.
Speaker A: That and Schindler's List, that's a classic. I like the way they did it with that film ST style, similar to 1930s, 1940s. Obviously it was done in the 80s and things, but they did a good job on that one as well. The undertones and stuff are just. And the music comes in and it's dark and. Oh, it just gets you.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know, this is a kind of. I want young people to watch those, to understand how things really were and what people had to endure. And in the case of, you know, Private Ryan, the sacrifices that people, you know, the soldiers of this country endured,
Speaker A: Their legacy has to go on. I know Papa Jake, Jake Larson, he passed away at the age of 102, almost 103. He was a D Day World War II veteran. And he's got videos that his daughter and nieces put up or grandkids, whatever, put up on YouTube. Just search papa Jake and he'll answer a lot of questions as far as he was concerned, even, basically until he died. He's like, I was just a farm boy from Iowa. What great did I do? Like, why am I being given all these rewards when the true heroes are the ones that never made it home? Ko6bgy.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, Roger that. Yeah, yeah. Interesting, that. Well, the. The movie 1776 came out in, like, 1972, so a couple years before the bicentennial.
Speaker A: But,
Speaker B: yeah, that's. And I have some other ones that are one of those that I like pulling back out again. There's one called the Best Years of Our Lives, and it was about three servicemen who came back to their hometown. They all came from the same hometown, all different services, you know, and they all served in all different places, but they came, they met one another on their way home, and it was,
Speaker A: you
Speaker B: know, there it was. It was a story basically, of them readjusting to civilian life after having been through what they went through. The guy that had no hands won an Academy Award.
Speaker A: W6 Pam.
Speaker B: Roger that. Harold Russell. And, yeah, an honest to goodness service man that lost his hands in service to this country. And I, you know, he was somebody that I just totally getting there.
Speaker A: Absolutely. Well, Chris and the other gentleman, I didn't catch the call sign because I'm getting ready to get out of the car. But thanks for that clarification on that or that factoid there. I didn't know that. So now I got to listen, really, to go look and see. See about finding. But anyway, gentlemen, Good evening. And 73 kilo Austin, 6 Bravo Paul and Saloon there.
Speaker B: All right, roger that. And I just pulled in my driveway myself, y'.
Speaker A: All.
Speaker B: I'm gonna d plane and. And go start my weekend. Have a. Have a great evening. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to you later.
Speaker A: 7 Eastern. JK6B D W E6A X N receiver.

Speaker A: Kilo Oscar 6 Mike Bravo India
Speaker B: requesting a signal report. Sounds Good. This is November 6th, call
Speaker A: Yankee Romeo. Patient requested a radio check. You sound good. Thank you very much. 73, 76 Gyr, system 32,
Speaker B: Both of you sound good. K6zzh,
Speaker A: system 31,
Speaker B: Sound good too. I'm having some problems
Speaker A: on 2 meter, so I wanted to jump on 70 centimeter and see how things are working.
Speaker B: Oh, that's working. Ke6czh.

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Again. K6ijp. Do we have an update on colgate?

Speaker A: Hey, Steve, this is Paul W6P and H. I'm not sure what you're referring to, so maybe I'm just out of the loop, but I could look something up on the Internet if you need that. This would be more of an error thing. It's my understanding that there was a rupture of a dam, but this is all speculation. Let me do just a quick search and see if I find anything. I hadn't heard anything about it so far. Comment? Go ahead. Comment.
Speaker B: This is KO6DVV Leonard in Browns Valley. There has been a major pipe break within the Colgate Power Plant, which has caused considerable flooding, not just in the plant, but downstream from it. I've had many, many emergency vehicles go past my house in the last three hours or so, and apparently there is no injury. Everyone is accounted for. No one is hurt. But the. They're still patching things together back
Speaker C: up there. Yeah, thanks for that, Leonard. Yeah, I hadn't heard
Speaker A: anything about it, and I'll go ahead and step out and let Steve. Let Steve have it back. W6PNH and I'll just be monitoring. Okay, I appreciate the update on that. I just. Wasn't there anything. Easy, jt. Yeah, we have a lot of helicopters passing over Sutter. We're just going to monitor. K6IPV clear. KO6DBV clear.

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: Kn6MGK just got home. Good evening to you.
Speaker B: Out at the Eaton area.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, you're real strong, Real strong. So you got anything planned for Valentine's Day? You gonna pick up something for the sweetie at home?
Speaker B: So I can't tell you about any of that. I was thinking about going out, but John will say everybody will be going out tomorrow night. I'm thinking wait and go out to some crowd.
Speaker A: Yeah, copy that. Whatever works. Yeah, I don't go out on Valentine's Day anymore. In fact, one of the things I like to do is, and this hasn't been done for a couple years now that the price has gotten so expensive, but my wife really likes crab leg. Like, you know, either snow crab or back in the day, king crab. So I'll get some of those and maybe a nice steak, nice vegetable, and make it right at home and have a nice presentation for the sweetie, and, you know, and she would enjoy it and so would I and cost less. And it was much better than what you get at these restaurants on. On Valentine's Day when it's very busy with poor service.
Speaker B: Yeah, there's a night here. Boy, what sky you got? But you probably ain't seen it from your house.
Speaker A: Well, I was going down the hill and you're headed back up. So I was. You know, every time I leave about that time, I see a nice sky on the way back down. I really enjoy that. Oh, yeah, that's some of the beauty that the Lord has made for us to enjoy. Rainbows are nice too. Pretty hard to beat. It did get a little cooler as the sun went down, I'll say that. So definitely feeling that coming.
Speaker B: Thousands of years.
Speaker A: Yep. Yeah, you got that right. Yep, I see the good Lord in lots of things. Even just today planted a little tree that I grew from a cutting. In fact, a friend of mine up in Magalia there let me cut a couple of cuttings from his fig. And yeah, I haven't planted those yet, but I did get a couple of them to take, I think. So we'll see in the spring or maybe have to wait another couple months to see if they really come out strong, but probably have to pot those up, I think, first. But nevertheless, that's pretty fun stuff to see how the Lord works his magic and provides for all of us.
Speaker B: Who was that guy out here last night after.
Speaker A: Well, I didn't hear any net. He was looking for the net and I didn't hear the net, so I guess Jim didn't do it. So anyway, his name was Mark and he was in Manton. And was it like K9, you know Kad? I think that's his call. Last was Kad. Never met him before, but I did talk to him one time before. I think he heard you and Jay talking one morning, maybe a week or so before that. Then he came on Den too. So he sent me an email too, but I have not responded to that yet. Seems like an okay dude, but we'll see.
Speaker B: It.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, yeah. Well, just, you know, it's good to hear somebody. I find that this frequency can be a little bit more busy than some of the repeaters and stuff. I mean, I was sitting down having a cup of coffee with those guys at Starbucks this morning until a little past noon and nothing was ever on that repeater the whole time. So yeah, I mean, you know, we were leaving plenty of breaks and so people that needed to get in if they needed to, couldn't. But anyway, I think it's the more the merrier out here and we can all help one another in case a need arises. And six mgk.

Speaker A: Well, I had it down pretty low. I was in the other room so I come out a couple minutes beforehand. But I pretty much have it on all the time like you do. I mean, been turning it off lately, about 11 o' clock at night and then turning it back on in the morning. And sometimes that's at like five in the morning. But I don't try to say nothing until six or something if I'm ever going to say anything.
Speaker B: But you know, it's the frequency I monitor. Well,
Speaker A: things are growing in the garden. Picked a nice cauliflower and I've got another one ready but I didn't pick it today but got some nice big daikon radishes. Them things are long. The one I picked today was about a foot long I think. Looks like a big huge carrot, like a 2 inch shoulder on it. Man. I got a few of those going around radishes and they're kind of sweet and you know this time of year, which are pretty interesting. The reason I planted them was to help with the compacted soil and here I am picking a few of them out. You're supposed to like let them stay in there and rot and that helps my contact with soil. But I've been picking some of them out of them to try them to eat them and they're pretty good. So I don't know, I might have to pick more. I don't know if you like radishes or not, but most of them are
Speaker B: about the size of a carrot. Yeah, a lot of people
Speaker A: grate them, grate them into their salads and things like that. Imagine you could put a little bit in your smoothies in the morning and you wouldn't even know that they're there. You know, just add to the goodness of your morning smoothies or something. But yeah, so I've got other things growing. The fava beans are starting to, to put on flowers so I think they're going to be putting some beans out pretty soon. The fruit trees are starting to leaf out so that's good. Yeah. Understand we're getting some more weather in here so maybe, maybe that'll put a damper in any fruit production, but that's okay. They're still small trees.

Almost sounds like beetroot. Like, you know, they grind up the beets, red beets. And anyway, maybe that's supposed to help with your blood pressure and blood circulation and stuff, too, but I don't know, Anytime someone guarantees something, I kind of get a little skeptical. I'm into supplements, you know, and vitamins and all that stuff, but generally, you know, no one really wants to guarantee something, you know?

Oh, yeah, well, I've got some of those issues, and you've got a few years on me, so I don't know. I think some of mine has to do with just hereditary, and some of mine has to do with other poor choices that I've made. But anyway, yeah, I'm kind of thinking it. Is that beetroot or whatever. Anyway, the wife's calling me over. I think she's made. She's made something for supper, so I'm gonna head on over there and grab a bite. But nice chat with you, and hopefully we'll hear you in the morning. Kilo, November 6th. Mike, golf. Kilo.

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Kg6k u o.kn6pww. K6ku. Go ahead, Bruce.kn6pww It's Jamie. Hey, Lester. First off, I'm hoping to get an early check in for the net tonight. Yes, sir. I'm sorry, Jamie. My brain just wasn't connected there. Anyway, not a problem. You gotta work early work. Go ahead. I appreciate it. And if I had a dollar for every day my brain weren't connected, I'd be a rich man. So there. Yeah, it sounds like you've. You're getting over a pretty bad cold there. Anyway, well, the other thing is, is I sent out a note that. Yesterday, I guess, or today for Wildflower. Are you interested in Sterling City again this year? I believe I sent you back an email on it. Okay, well, I'll take a closer look at my email. Thanks very much and. Well, there you go. Yeah. I'm helping Kathy favor out this year and I think we're gonna be swapping roles next year. Maybe I'll be. I'll be doing it. We'll see. We'll see if I can. If I can manage it. Anyway, thanks so much, Lester, and I'll let you go. So. And thanks for the early check in KN60ww clear. All right. And just in case his mind didn't come through, I. I'd like to be put back up there at Sterling City again. Will do. I think last time I talked to you about it you said that's your vacation every year to go up there. I'll put you down for Sterling City, which is that kg 60k at 60ww clear.

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QST. QST, QST. This is KG6KUO, opening segment of Valley traffic net. This is part of the National Traffic System. And the purpose of this step is to relay former traffic into and out of Sacramento Valley. I provide a stand emergency W6 RHC repeater check 2. This is a direct event. Please make no transmission without control. All stations are requested to stay on frequency. Intelligence use that controls KG6KO, lesser location located west of Wills. There's any station with emergency apart of target. Please go now. 3 station were traffic to be listed. Kf6 obi, kf6 obi, mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Take your 60k. You will call it long and no traffic. She's asleep. All right, say your 60 jy. Good evening, lester. Kf6djy, bruce and chico. No traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you. K6rcs. Good evening, lester and the gang. K6rcs, randall and chico. No traffic. Good evening, randall. Thank you. Day 6pmt, Kilo, Echo six, Papa Mike, Tango, Russ and Gerber. Good evening. Let's turn the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, Russ. Thank you. KC6 UFC, KC6UFE, Bill and Cafe. No traffic. Good evening, Lester. Good evening, bill. All right, Kansas 6pww requested an early check in. So that's the rule as I have it. Do we have any visitors wish to check in? 2 Nice running. We've had a full check in. Thank you. There ain't no further traffic or check in. This is Katy6ko. Closing segment of Valley Traffic Net Disnep standing at 2100 hours local time to the W6 rec repeater on 146.8 by 4 MHz. All stations are excused. And I like to make everybody checked in the night by Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society for the use of the repeater. This is closed at 2103 local time. 73 null. This is K6KO. Clear frequency.

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Speaker A: And 6grg36 link.
Speaker B: Well, good morning, Mike. How are you doing? I must have my notes in here backwards. I thought this one was somewhere else and the other one was opposite of somewhere else. Anyways, good morning. How you doing?
Speaker A: Well, not too bad. Yeah, it's a good thing I said something then. Be the wrong microphone syndrome. Only the all star version, but yeah, we've got, we got sunny heat yesterday, clouds gonna be clouds all day today and half inch of rain tomorrow, inch and a half the next.
Speaker B: Hang on my, the one's connecting now. Okay, now I'm in here on radioet. Yeah, we've been having our typical, our typical tropical warmth, almost monsoon like thunderstorms that blow through here every couple of days. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Sometimes when they're coming in they sound like explosions because all you hear is one loud boom. You don't hear like a full blown thunder. Thunder going across the sky. Yeah, pretty, pretty cool. I love the Columbian weather. Or maybe I didn't hold the button hard enough.
Speaker A: Well, I didn't hear anything down here. No interference on your signal at all. So I don't know, maybe a different all star signal. But yeah, I think you're pretty much in a tropical rainforest area. There might be a lot of something close to a jungle not far from you.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know, the whole, the whole west coast of Columbia, the Pacific side, that's where all the rainforest is. And then separating that from the rest of Columbia is the western Andes Mountains. It's kind of three different layers of the Andes Mountains here that run through Columbia. There's the western end, the middle section, which is where I live, and then the eastern section which is not as big. And that's over between me and Venezuela.
Speaker A: Well, have you ever looked at the maximum elevations for those mountains? The highest Andes in Colombia?
Speaker B: Oh yeah, yeah, we've got some, we've got some pretty, pretty good sized. Volcanic ridges between us and the ocean over on the western edge of
Speaker A: the
Speaker B: western edge of the Andes Mountains. And it's not that far. You know, these three ridges of the Indian Mountains are not real far from each other. But the two prominent ones are the western edge and the center where I live.
Speaker A: Yeah. What do you think about 15?
Speaker B: What do you mean 15? What about 15? 15 what? Site or the freeway?
Speaker A: 15K. 15,000. Of course, Jasto was 14 right around 14.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. Okay. The Pisco Mountain is 5,5000 meters, but it's 5000 meters in feet. You know, we also got some super long tunnels, man made tunnels there's some tunnels here that make. That make some of the tunnels there in the States seem like there's nothing.
Speaker A: Yeah, I would think that the mining operations. Everybody got pretty good with tunnels because of the mining in Colombia and Peru and all around the South American countries. There's a lot of mining going on.
Speaker B: A lot of gold. A lot of gold has come out of Columbia. Yeah. They the Pico crystal ball calling mountain. I'm probably not saying that. Right. Is 5,775 meters which is 18,947ft above sea level. That's significant.
Speaker A: Yeah. I was going to say above 5,000 is above 15,000 you basically could just you multiply by three on meters come up with feet. Pretty close. A little bit more than that anyway. Yeah. Great. Anything any new news regarding hf?
Speaker B: No. I've got a buddy visiting. He's gonna come visit. I don't know. I thought it was gonna be February, but now it may not be till March. But he's gonna bring a bunch of stuff with him. Okay.
Speaker A: Well I have. I've lost all of my HF Digi capability. When my, my computer upgrade, it uploaded the next version of Windows 11 and that Windows 11 doesn't recognize any of the audio codecs that were in that were being used. So it lost FE8 and that whole suite JS8 and FT Digi lost everything. So I've been struggling to get something back and I put my PI 4B into my S Bitix. It's called another radio. That's called the S Bitx from. It's from India and it has. It has almost every digital mode in it except for jsa. So I haven't been able to get JSA quite back. I don't have anything going for my 7,300 yet. It's all coming back soon but man, I miss it. You know.
Speaker B: I found a long time ago. I haven't tried it here in Columbia but I found a long time ago if you just go to your local computer repair guy, I'll bet he has an old. An old desktop machine laying around with Windows 7 probably already on it. I paid a guy $100. He gave me a real super nice old, you know, used that he refurbished desktop with a monitor and a keyboard and a mouse and a spare drive with Windows 7 for 100 bucks. That was a couple years ago. In fact I distinctly remember offering you that machine when you came to my house and visited before I moved. I'm pretty sure I asked you if you wanted that whole thing and you kind of didn't. I ended up giving away to some friend of my niece's.
Speaker A: Well, speaking of switching computers, I've got a bunch of different. Windows machines. Mini, they're called mini mini computers. The one of them has updated to that new version of Windows 8 that doesn't recognize any of the audio stuff but I believe that two of them may not have updated and so they would be the next version back of Windows and they would recognize all I O codecs. So that was one of my possible ways of getting the 7300 back on was switching to the Mini completely over to the mini computer and going that direction. I've got a talk with with the guys in India about how to put JSA call on the 40 watt aesthetics machine that is it's especially designed. You plug a raspberry 54B into that board. That's how it has all the, all the digital modes. But like I say, you know, it's a little bit tricky making them work because they have to work in the asphythics mode. And I haven't quite figured that out yet. So yeah, I'm really close to an idea that I think will work getting that 7,300 going. I think what I'll do is I'll run a 12 volt mini computer that has. Oh, I just saw this Olinko do some funny stuff today. How much did you get of that?
Speaker B: You started talking about your mini computer. Well, don't overthink it. Don't. Super easy just to go visit your local computer repair guy and get yourself an old Windows 7. I found that Windows 7 probably even still today works great with most every ham radio stuff that we play with. But yeah, you dropped out there at exactly 10 minutes.
Speaker A: You know one thing I have a brand new version of that has never been registered on. The Internet is a version of Windows 8. It's brand new. I bought it right directly from Microsoft.
Speaker B: Refresh my memory because it just popped in my head. 25. Is it 25 or 20?
Speaker A: That's going to get
Speaker B: an all star node. Bernie, Bernie, is 20 correct?
Speaker A: Yeah, 20 would be the one. It 20 has been completely stabilized. It's had numerous problems, didn't pass. The link has always worked great into 13 and 13 makes it into 25 just fine. It, yeah, it's got a lot going for it but it's got terrible Internet. It's got very, it's got, you know,
Speaker B: we use these
Speaker A: hot spots up there and, and all the, all the sites, you know the Internet sites are distant. There's nothing up there on the mountain at all. So. But it has worked in the past. And it worked right up until when the Internet site just all of a sudden one day it just disappeared. And then one thing led to another and. And that. That entered that hot spot. That pipe PI that was running. That hot spot crashed.
Speaker B: Oh mama. I know. There's already an SD card made and duplicated. 20 for Bernie. In fact, I've got the supermon here all ready to go for it when it does come online. I'll send that to you as soon as it does get online. Are you even opening up these supermods and taking a look at them or am I just sending them to you for nothing?
Speaker A: No, I look at them every time. I don't look at them every day, but I look at them every time an update and they're pretty cool. I've seen more on these supermodels than. Than the old ones. There's a lot of labels and stuff.
Speaker B: Well, yeah, that's because we are special. Paul Km2r, you know, he is Mr. Superman and he is the one that pretty much did all the fine tuning and set some things up for us. Us as in Carla. So yeah, a lot of those, some of that. Some of the buttons I added. But he went in there, showed me how to make them better. And recently he added to the 6, 4, 6, 8, 9 and the, and the 750 is a Volta cloud of. There's a Listen Live button there. If you go down there and you look at the node number and then the key, the K6LNK Carla Main Hub Volter. You know that you look to the, to the right of that where it says bubble chart LS nodes. There's also a button there that says Listen Live. And then of course the website button. So yeah, if you haven't taken a look at it here in the last couple of days, take a look. There's some new stuff there.
Speaker A: What did that Listen Live at Broadcastify?
Speaker B: Yeah, it's just, it's just a separate button for Broadcastify. Takes you right to the, to the Listen Live feed. The other broadcast, if I button up on top, that just gives you you the California, Nevada stuff. But the Listen Live. Yeah, it takes you straight to the Carla. The Carla Broadcastify feed.
Speaker A: Well, I don't know if you've checked, but sometimes the broadcastifies are receivers in people's houses connected to the Internet. I don't know how this one's been happening.
Speaker B: Yeah, most of them are. Most of them are just people that have. Some of them have very, very expensive scanners and they scan their area. Yeah, that's where a lot of the broadcast comes from. In this case it comes directly off of the All Star cloud hub, sorts of super clean signal.
Speaker A: Yeah, I would think that would be better than the receivers at one time. I wish there was 1 for 31 before it got All Star and of course now it's.

Speaker A: Awesome. The way it works now, I told one guy that traveled from Arizona to San Diego quite often, he is working really good now. The only problem he's got is he doesn't. He hasn't really looked into ultimate, into Carla much. And he doesn't understand how it has to be the first time he really messed up and was on link. And then he got kind of angry when I tried to explain, you know, you don't. Well, somebody told him not to. Not to do that. He got angry about that. And then. And then I tried to explain. Well, you know, bringing up the whole system when you're on link with a local conversation, that's not good. And that's why we have local field. Now I'll probably have to explain the whole thing over again.
Speaker B: Well, I think you're talking about the Arizona guy. If he comes in on All Stars, he doesn't have to worry about it. He doesn't even have access to any field
Speaker A: or rf.
Speaker B: All right. Anyways, I gotta go. We've tied up the system quite a bit already, and somebody on the Las Vegas system looks like they may be trying to get in there. Okay, I'll let you go, Mike. I'm gonna go take care of some things in the kitchen. With the help the wife. We already did our breakfast. We're gonna continue and get on with our day. Gotta do some shopping. Talk to you later. N6 kne.
Speaker A: Well, real quick, there's two Arizona guys. There's the All Star guy that you communicated with. And then there's K7 ofG, which who is not an All Star guy, but he's a vhf, UHF guy who drives to San Diego. He was driving to San Diego quite often. I don't know if he'll continue that because he used to have a boat in San Diego, but he sold the boat. So I don't know what's up for San Diego for him now. All right, have a great day with your lovely lady and enjoy Columbia. N6GRG36 link.

Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

Fresno link up.

Ai6us.ai6jb. Go ahead, orion. Ai6us. How we coming along? Okay, I may be sounding a little weird because I'm taking a different path in. It looks like things are coming back. I need. Doug is working on something right now. So what time are we at? We're at 7:27. Oh, and I can hear you on the RF. Okay, very good. We will have an answer for you in the next minute or two here. Thank you. I'll be right back to you. AI 6km6ykX Ai6uskm6ykX hey, the remote. The voter here is good to go so you can turn it on anytime you want. Okay? Yeah. When I didn't hear back from you. I have come down to the ball so we may not need it. I have it powered off right now, I believe. Did you copy? Rob.

System7 link up. 60 days, 60.

Speaker A: Well, it has to be. Showtime. Coming. Quick case of qd.
Speaker B: Please stand by, folks. Thank you. Orion, would you make an announcement? There's going to be delay on the start.
Speaker A: I certainly will. Good morning, everyone. This is the coffee breaknet orion ai6jb here in northwest Roseville. Unfortunately, we have some technical issues. We think we are close to solving them. So if everybody could stand by and let the good folks who are diagnosing the problem get their. Get it done. So Coffee breaknet is temporarily on hold. We'll see how things work out here in the next few minutes. Thank you, everybody. Ai6jb, You know, Oran,
Speaker B: that's totally unacceptable. That's going to be reflected in your performance review this year. Just getting KC6 sle. If I could have radio silence for a bit, guys. Ai6us, please, everyone stand by.

Speaker A: Everyone please stand by. Do not Ker chunk the repeater. Please stand by. The coffee breaknet may start in a few minutes. We will. We're working on the repeater right now. Thank you. AI6US. Please stand by. No ker chunking. And please stand by. Okay guys, I'm just going to turn the repeater off if you guys don't chill and stand by. No ker chunking please. Otherwise the repeater is going to get shut off until we get this resolved. Thank you. Ai6us. Okay Orion, I'm just going to shut the repeater off. Go ahead and call the net and then I'm going to shut the repeater off. People can't have common respect to let us get this resolved. I'm not going to put up with it.
Speaker B: All right folks, unfortunately we're going to be canceling the coffee breaknet this morning. We'll be shutting down the repeaters for repairs. Look forward to seeing you all Tomorrow morning at 7:30-10am for the Coffee Breaknet. This is Orion AI6JB signing off.
Speaker A: All right, thank you, Oren. I hope you're feeling better soon. AI 62 US repeater is going down.

Speaker A: Kb6luv Good morning. Did I miss the announcement that the Coffee Breaknet wasn't on this morning?
Speaker B: Hey Brett, I don't think
Speaker A: you missed any announcement or anything like that. Maybe a conflict or something like that. But you. Yeah, no, I don't think you missed an announcement.
Speaker B: Actually, there was an announcement right at about 7:30. They're having trouble with the repeater, trying to get it back online and they need the quiet to work on it. So stand by. And I think that's been called for today, but we're back tomorrow. Chaos th.
Speaker A: Ah, thanks, Greg. Sorry I joined a little late. Didn't hear that, but
Speaker B: okay, cool.
Speaker A: Thanks guys. WB1G.

Speaker A: A coffee break nip this morning. Wb60j.
Speaker B: W0NQ. Apparently they were having some difficulty with the repeater and they decided to cancel it out for today. It sounded like to me over.
Speaker A: Because I came from another desk. This is Mark, WB6BJ. I'm your weather guy. Okay, well, I guess, I guess we won't have one All Stars working, so I guess they're having a little problem with the repeater. Well, hopefully they'll get it figured out and we'll be back on Monday. Thank you, sir, for that, that information. WB6DJ
Speaker B: Roger. Roger. You have a good weekend. W0NQ73S.

Speaker A: Okay, this is
Speaker B: ai6us on all star. I need a local rf station in the greater auburn area. Just a local rf station please, for a test. Quite a few people offering to help. I didn't catch anyone. Sorry.
Speaker C: AB6LUV Good morning, Brian.
Speaker B: Hey, good morning. Just want to confirm you're coming in on rf.
Speaker C: Roger, Roger. Rf.
Speaker B: Okay, thank you very much. Okay, so here's the dealio. We had a failure on a one of our voter nodules, the master controller in the vault. So we are on backup backup receiver right now. So the you'll need to use a little bit more power for local stations probably to get into the backup receiver. So we really want to thank KM6YKX for hosting the receiver at its place. And we're going to be working on getting the voter system back up after people kind of celebrate Valentine's Day. So anyway, there will be no Coffee breaknet this morning. Do apologize for that. But the RF system and the All Star NECO link are back up and operational. So thank you everyone and have a wonderful Valentine's Day, A wonderful Saturday. Ai6us
Speaker C: thanks for what you do, Brian. You and all the net control hosting the folks, they're doing the maintenance. Appreciate it. You all have a blessed day. KV6 luv clear.
Speaker B: All right, thank you coming back for coming back for my request there. And yeah, the repeater is open for use regular usage. So feel free to use it guys. But there will be no Coffee breaknet today. We will be working on the the repeater later on in the morning. Ai6us Happy Saturday everyone.
Speaker D: Good. Happy valentine's day. Thank you, brian.
Speaker B: Thank you. I was just trying to figure everything out.
Speaker A: Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of sac Valley's original 105W6 GRC with a PL tone of 110.9.

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System7 link up.

And for anybody who was on earlier, when I shut down the system, I just want to make an apology. I kind of was up at about 5:30 starting to deal on with this. And just to have some disrespect happening when, you know, we're out here working on it, I reacted incorrectly. So I apologize to anyone who I offended, but, but I was a little ticked off at the time that we couldn't get some common respect. So sorry about that. And apologies to everyone who might have been offended by that. I, I truly do mean that. AI6US. I'm going to be clear and clearing the vault.

Ah, yes. It looks like the start of yet another beautiful day. 45 degrees up here in Magalia. Feels a little colder, but yeah. Good morning and 6 npm.

This is NN6H. We are doing a radio test. Could somebody on RF come back and give us a test count, please? NN6H. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 seconds. Okay, very good. Yeah, there was a collision there of people. But thank you for the test. I appreciate everybody coming back and yeah, we are doing the test here. Thank you. NN6H.

K5NER with the blind Ms. DigitalNet. We'll see you next week. And we're returning control back to our normal repeater.

Looking for potus local 36.

Speaker A: Yeah, this is NN6H. Just wanted to let you know about the status of the W60K repeater. All the voters are back up again and everything is up and looks like everything is working. We have an intermittent problem which we have not tracked down yet which caused us to go off this morning. So the repeater is available for everybody's use. There will be no coffee breaknet this morning, but you're welcome to use the repeater, Peter, both on all star and on RF. This is Tom, NN6H. Happy Valentine's Day. Thanks, Tom.
Speaker B: Brian and everyone who was working on this behind the scenes early this morning really appreciate the effort. Kilo golf saying Mike.
Speaker A: Yep. Brian was up there bright and early at the vault, so definitely kudos to him anyway.
Speaker C: Thanks, Frank.
Speaker B: I believe I heard Frank, but it was pretty low in volume. Was that for Kilo Golf 9 Mike?
Speaker C: Yeah, dude. Just asking if you want to be my valentine.
Speaker B: Oh, I heard Larry say that you were already taken. Happy Valentine's day to you and everyone out there. I am heading to McClellan for a meeting this morning. Culigl sign, Mike.
Speaker C: Oh, McClellan. Yeah. Which is actually has a little bit more traffic going in and out of there than just 130 virtually fire drops. Huh. You know, there was of course appropriate air force base. I can start. Avenue. The road aren't lined up.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: So my apologies, Ryan. Not sure if you're able to hear me. That was a pretty tough copy for me being mobile.
Speaker A: Where are you at right now?
Speaker B: Roger. Good chatting with you. Yeah, it's a tough copy. Not sure if it's the issues we're having or just. Just your signal or maybe it's me. I don't know. But appreciate it. Anyway, have a great day today and hope to catch up with you soon. W6H. Kilo Golf 9 Mike 73. Happy Valentine's Day.
Speaker C: Hey, Frank. You were booming in, but Ryan was way, way quiet.
Speaker A: Thanks, Russ.
Speaker B: Good to hear that. You never know it's tied to songs, but appreciate it. And also good seeing you last night and thanks again for all your help. Okay. Six lop Killer golf nine Mike. Have a great day. Happy Valentine's day to you too. 7 3.
Speaker C: Russ, was it an amplitude thing or a signal thing? I'd say amplitude. You're a little bit more readable now, but it just sounded like you weren't near the mic to me. You were just real quiet and I could hear him just fine. Copy. Yep. Behavior hasn't changed, though. There's something going on here. We'll Figure it out. 73 KSX LOP
Speaker A: and Russ, while you're there, if you would.
Speaker B: I was on high power. I just went to mid power. I am over by
Speaker C: Douglas.
Speaker B: How is, how's the reception now?
Speaker C: Full quieting. I mean, to me, the repeater, there's a little more noise than normal, but you're. You're totally readable. Sound great. Where Ryan, while he did come up a little bit, he was just real quiet. So anyway, you're sounding good,
Speaker B: Roger.
Speaker A: Thanks again.
Speaker B: All right, I'm almost to my destination. I can't say that word destinated, but I will say seven 3s for now. Everyone have a great day.
Speaker A: Kilo Golf 973 Ki6 Lop KC6 sle.
Speaker C: Good morning, Graydon.
Speaker A: Good morning. I was hoping to catch Frank, but it sounds like he bails quickly.
Speaker B: Still here, Graydon, but I'm getting ready
Speaker A: to go through the gate, so I
Speaker B: was going to put everything away.
Speaker A: Good morning. How are you?
Speaker B: Kiddle Golf sign Mike.
Speaker A: Oh, I'm doing good. I just wanted to tell you nice meeting, nice presentation to handle that really well. And a big compliment from Lisa. She said she really liked your style, how cool and calm you are and just wanted to pass that along. She was impressed as well. Good job. KC6 says holy. I do appreciate that.
Speaker B: Just kind of had to do the tap dance, right? Not as polished as you. Appreciate your presentation. I think it did what it needed to do and I appreciate those comments. Thank you very much. Happy Valentine's Day to you and as well. And we'll talk to you again soon. Grady. Take care. Casey six sle kilo bell sign Mike.
Speaker C: 73.
Speaker A: Enjoy. And was that Russ?
Speaker C: Yep. Graydon, I'm here. How are you?
Speaker A: I'm fine. I didn't get to talk to you last night. Gosh, there were a lot of people there and I didn't get around everybody I wanted to talk to, socialize a little bit with. How are you doing?
Speaker C: I'm doing great. I planned on being there a little earlier to try and touch base with people, but I just didn't make it as early as I'd like to have. But yeah, I saw you there and great. That was a really good presentation you did. Kind of reminding everybody of all the things that we had done there at the church. I'd forgotten about the builds built there, so. Yeah, that was awesome last night.
Speaker A: Well, thank you. Yeah, I just, you know, it's a wonderful transition that we're making at the same time. I think we. I just wanted to see a Little bit of closure with that stage of what the club has been enjoying, you know, that stage before we transition over. And a thank you to the church. They've been really good to us. And yeah, it was fun going through the photos yesterday, picking out a couple photos of the builds.
Speaker C: You know, we haven't done a build
Speaker A: in a long time. We need to get back into that.
Speaker C: Yeah, that would be great. Definitely. I'd like to get more involved in building stuff also. I got a question for you. Do you have a date for Hot RF Nights yet this year?
Speaker A: I do not. Smitty and I need to sit down and we need to work on. We are going to reinvent Hot RF Nights. It may not be called Hot RF Nights anymore. We're thinking about changing it up, making it a little bit different in the future, so stay tuned. I don't want to say too much about it right now because again, we've been focused on the hamfest, and then I know we're going to be focused on field day last year, you know, putting hotter at nights in between the ham fest and field day. It was the right thing to do from, you know, a climate standpoint because the year before was just so hot. You were there. You know, we were trying to find a time of the year to where it really made sense, you know, environmentally, for people to be outside and in the sun and so forth. But it really put a strain on the club doing three events of that magnitude in a row.
Speaker C: Yeah, definitely. I missed the one last year because we were on vacation. That's why I was trying to get an idea of when we might be doing something this year, because, well, we have a vacation planned in May, but we try to take the travel trailer out at least once a month. So just trying to plan, plan ahead and see if I could be involved again this year. So, anyway, looking forward to whatever you guys come up with.
Speaker B: It ought to be.
Speaker A: It'll be a blast.
Speaker C: I know it will. And remember, fall. You can't go wrong in fall. It's always pretty nice around here in the autumn.
Speaker A: Well, I would keep that in mind, and I will. You know, I appreciate you volunteering already, and maybe Smitty and I will add you to the team reinventing this. We'd like your input.
Speaker C: Okay, that sounds good. And like I say, you know, I'll do my best to try and whatever date you guys come up with to try and accommodate that, but we kind of plan our RV in out pretty far in advance. So I was just trying to get on the on the calendar there. But yeah, I'm looking forward to whatever you guys come up with. I know it'll be great.
Speaker A: That sounds good. So I don't recall you having an RV before, but you may have had an RV before. But what type of travel trailer do you have?
Speaker C: Well, in fact I picked it up during field Day of 2024. We went up to Reno and picked it up when I or Genoa out there when I right after I bought that truck that I have now in June of 2024. We just went crazy and went out and bought a used 1985. It's called a 1985. It's a 2019, 1985 Lance travel trailer. So it's just a nice little couple trailer. It's easy to get in places and tows well and everything. So we really like it. And she wants to get as much use out of it as possible. So we, like I said, we shoot for every month at least once during the month. One weekend of the month and getting out and then a couple nice long trips in the year as well.
Speaker A: Well, that is cool. You know, I have not seen the truck and the truck conversion since you started that project. It was probably the last hotter night you were at, but it was really looking good. So it's got to be looking a. I mean you got to have that perfected now.
Speaker C: No, I didn't even have it during the last hot RF nights. But it has one of those four wheel camper pop up toppers called the project M. And while I have antennas mounted on it and some solar and battery and stuff like that, I haven't gotten around to like doing my little radio cabinet in there yet. So I got to get that designed and built. But some other honeydews and stuff the way right at the moment.
Speaker A: Wonder where it was. I saw it. Maybe it was at Stampede.
Speaker C: I don't know.
Speaker A: I know I saw it shortly after you got it and you'd already done some great things to it and it was a nice. A nice place to start.
Speaker B: It was.
Speaker A: I think you got a pretty good deal on that whole rig. But you were already making improvements on it either with Stampede or I don't remember. But I remember seeing it right after you first got it.
Speaker C: No, I haven't made either Stampede trip. You probably saw it in Field Day 2024. I haven't made either Stampede trip too because we get camping trips in planned ahead of that one and it just didn't. Didn't work out. There's just conflicts. So maybe I can make that Again. Or make that for the first time this year. You guys sound like you have a lot of fun up there. But anyway, how are you doing?
Speaker A: Doing good. We're going to take a big RV trip this year. Come the beginning of June, maybe the end of May, we were invited to a wedding of a good friend's daughter back in Nashville, just outside of Nashville. So Lisa and I talked about it, and I said, you know, why don't we make an RV trip out of going there and coming back? So we're going to probably be gone the better part of June. So, like I said, we're going to set out the beginning of June, and we're going to take the southern route, probably mainly Highway 40. I don't think I'll go all the way down to 10, but 40, and we'll. There's a lot of those. You know, Lisa's never been to New Mexico. She's never been to Arkansas and some of those states. And Texas, I don't think she's ever been to Texas. We'll go through the panhandle of Texas, so we'll make a road trip out of it. We got to be in Nashville by the 13th, so we got to leave in enough time not to kill ourselves getting back there, but at the same time, get back there and enjoy everything in between. And then on the way back, we'll go to the north, probably take. Go up through Kansas and take Highway 70 across.
Speaker C: Very nice. When I was a kid, we used to travel out to Texas to see family. Texas, Oklahoma, and all that. Every. Not every, but about every three years. And that's what we do. Or at least I remember doing that. I was pretty young, but taking the southern route and seeing New Mexico and all those places and coming back and coming back through Yellowstone and all that, it was really great. Are you going to make it back for. I mean, for Field Day?
Speaker A: No, I am not. We won't be back until probably early July. So I will not make Field Day this year. But, you know, Lisa is. You know, I've been putting off doing a lot of RV traveling with some of the things I've been doing around here. So I owe her a long trip, a big trip. And I don't think we're ever going to get all 50 states for her. But when I was a kid, my dad would save up. He worked for the government, and he would save up his vacation, and every two years, because all his relatives were on the east coast and in Michigan, we would set out and travel across the United States for weeks. Weeks at a time. And I got fond memories of that. Pretty much went to every state except Alaska. And a few years ago, Lisa took me on a cruise to Alaska so I could put the last date down.
Speaker C: Very nice. Boy, that was some rough travel for a kid back in the day. I mean, at least compared to now. AM radio station. And then you have it for maybe 20 minutes or half an hour or something, then it fades out and you got to go find another one. There's nothing to look at as far as, I mean, other than a book or the Etch A Sketch, but yeah, it was. Those were good trips and a lot of memories. I haven't hit near every state, but I've been in a lot of states, but not all. Not close to all 50 yet. So anyway. But man, I'd be looking forward to a big RV trip like that. And we'll do that someday where just head off and do a month or two. But I'm not there yet.
Speaker A: Casey six sleeper id. You know, when I was. Oh, shoot, probably six or seven years old is when I first remember taking those big trips. My dad had a 1961 Volkswagen. That was the original Volkswagen, I think. It had all 36 horsepower. Three kids, two adults, all our luggage traveling across the United States and a Volkswagen Bug.
Speaker C: Well, I can't even imagine that.
Speaker A: Holy smokes.
Speaker C: Yeah. No, we were at least always in a full size den. That's crazy, man. I don't know how you guys did it.
Speaker A: Well, I couldn't get away from my two sisters. That was the problem. But if you remember the old Volkswagen, it had that little cubby, little storage area right underneath the rear window, right behind the rear seat. And I was small enough I could climb into that and have my own space. The only problem was I was under a magnifying glass with the rear window. So I'd get cooked back there as well.
Speaker C: That's what I was going to say. That had to be warm back there. That's. That's crazy. You're a better man than me.
Speaker A: My dad made sure that we saw most of the national parks, most of every state. He was good about that. And then later on when my. I finally used to go down there and spend a summers with him and my mom, they would take RV trips and take my son, so he got to see a large part of the United States with my grandpa, so. Or my dad, his grandpa, so. That was really good. Well, good talking to you. Good catching up. I've got some things I got to jump on here, but I heard you out there talking to Frank, and I wanted to thank Frank for handling Loomis ham fest. He's doing a great job. And I want to say hi to you as well, so. 73
Speaker C: all right. I appreciate that, Braden. And you have a great day. And while I'm on here, we need volunteers for especially parking. I'm the parking guy. I need volunteers. So anybody listening, please consider it anyway. 73 Grayton have a great day. KC6SLE Ki6LOP 73
Speaker A: have a great day. KC6SLA.
Speaker C: And great.
Speaker A: And I want to apologize to you, and I know you were monitoring and trying to help earlier this morning.
Speaker B: Just wanted to apologize. I.

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Speaker A: Do you like canned food? You guys are going to have to hold it down around here. The Waltons are on. And 6mtm
Speaker B: called shotgun a Western. It was okay.
Speaker C: Jay was just out here. He's probably getting him a cup of coffee. He'll be right with you.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I heard him. Yep, I heard him. So good morning to you guys. K N6MGK's lurking.
Speaker C: Lurking. All right. Good morning. Yeah, we really did. We're about five minutes into a Walton and drinking a cup of coffee. We're adjusting the world. All right, see you guys.
Speaker B: Well, I canceled my direct tv, so now I can't watch anything like that probably anymore. Right now. I don't know that I'm going to put anything else on other than the normal stuff. So I don't know if you have a TV service these days or not. I know you say you watch news, so I figured you might Fox News or something somehow.

Speaker A: I kind of lost my cool a little bit when we were in the vault. So yeah, my apologies to you and any tender ears around you.
Speaker B: Brian. No apology necessary. That was a smart ass comment I made just coming out into the kitchen, turning the radio on, not realizing what you were dealing with.
Speaker C: My apologies to you.
Speaker B: I'm not going to blame my son, but my son was kind of egging me on. He said, he said, let Orion know that's totally unacceptable. So I picked up the mic and said that and now I regret it. So yeah, sorry you had to deal with that. It sounds like everything squared away. If you need anything, I sent you a note a little while ago. If you need any testing later on today from a distant RF station, let me know.
Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. No, it was not directed at you. But you know, when I specifically asked for, you know, repeater silence and ochre chunks and then you know, we had five back to back ker chunks. I mean that, that tested my patience and there are bigger people out there than me evidently, so. No, it wasn't definitely was not aimed at you. I kind of actually chuckled when I heard your comment. But anyway, you have a wonderful day. Yeah, we're. The voters are back online. It's an intermittent problem and Doug and you know it's a bad day for this to happen, so we'll get back to it this afternoon. And you know, intermittent problems are the worst to track.
Speaker B: Well, I fully understand and as always, I don't think people fully appreciate the amount of hours that you put in. Tom puts in, Doug puts in probably others. But you do. You put a tremendous amount of hours in there keeping the operating and a lot of us tend to take that for granted. I really appreciate everything you do. I'm sure others do as well. Anyway, have a great day. I. I'm going to sit down at
Speaker C: the computer and try to pull up
Speaker B: the picture you sent to me. I'm curious what it is. I thought you might be sending me a message.
Speaker C: KC6 that's something.
Speaker A: I don't know if I sent you a picture intentionally. You better let me know what I sent you anyway. All right, chat with you later. No, it was something. You know, when you start at this at 5:00 in the morning on Valentine's Day, you know it's not going to end. I kissed Chin on the. Kissed Lynn on the cheek and I said I'm headed to the vault. She said, have a nice day. So you know anybody who sells roses in Meadow Vista? Talk to you later. Ai6us.
Speaker B: Well, you Saw how I got out of trouble last night. I bagged some of the flowers at the meeting, and they were on the counter, and Lisa loves them. You talk about saving your butt because I forgot all about Valentine's Day until just before we left for the meeting yesterday. Have a great day, Brian.
Speaker C: KC6SOLE.
Speaker A: I don't. You know, let's clear it up.
Speaker D: I don't think you stole them.
Speaker A: I remember distinctly hearing they were offered to you. So there we go. I don't want anybody getting a bad impression of you. Have a great day. Good morning to Grady. Good morning to Lisa, and we'll chat with you later. Great seeing everybody last night.
Speaker E: And just.
Speaker A: Anybody on the repeater? The repeater is back on normal operation. We're just trying to see if the problem will reoccur. So there will be no coffee breaknet today. So if you're wondering what's going on. Yeah, we had to make the call earlier because of technical difficulties, but feel free to use the repeater and you
Speaker C: know, what would we be doing on
Speaker A: the repeater if we didn't have the coffee breaknet? Don't say silence. Have a Good day, everybody. AI6US.
Speaker B: Ai6us.
Speaker D: Good morning, Brian.
Speaker C: Thank you for hopping up there. You are definitely undervalued. And,
Speaker A: Yeah, Ryan, we could barely hear. Your audio is way, way down there. But thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah, I'm going to hop out here. So you have a wonderful day and feel free to entertain each other. Put the repeater under some stress. Happy Valentine's Day, everybody. AI6US.
Speaker F: Ai6us.kk6mu.
Speaker A: Yeah, for a quick one.
Speaker C: Hey, this is Mike.
Speaker F: Just testing out All Star via the DV switch app on the phone for the first time. I saw you guys have the All Star feature. Is it. Am I getting in?
Speaker A: Okay, you're making it in. Okay, but find the volume setting.
Speaker E: Which.
Speaker A: Which app are you on on the phone?
Speaker C: DV switch, you said?
Speaker A: Roger.
Speaker C: Roger.
Speaker A: Okay, on DV switch, let me tell you which button to press and hold down on. Just be a second here. See, I think it's.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Press the more button and then you'll see audio settings and bring your transmit level down. You're probably somewhere 50% plus.
Speaker F: All right, just did that.
Speaker C: How's that?
Speaker A: Much better.
Speaker C: Much better.
Speaker F: All right, thank you very much, and thanks for hosting All Star on your repeater KK6 Muclear.
Speaker D: All right.
Speaker A: And a great resource if you're new to this is node 55553 quad 5 with a 355553, and that's a parrot mode, a node that will give you audio back and playback your audio. So it's something you can compare your voice to, the reback voice. So hope that helps you. Thanks for dropping by and enjoy.
Speaker C: AI 673 KK6MU.
Speaker E: Hey, KK6MU. WB1G. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, hey there. You're sounding much better. You could probably take your level. I agree with Brian, by the way. Try quad four and then three. And what that node does is it measures your input attenuation into All Star. And then it gives you a nice little response as to, you know, as to where you're landing and gives you kind of a grade like, hey, you're good. I have a VU that's measuring U against Brian, for example, and you could probably come up just a tiny bit, but overall, a vast improvement. To give you an idea, it's a negative scale. When you first transmitted, you are all the way to the red, and you are in the positive numbers. You actually want to be in negative numbers. You want to be around negative 8, negative 6. So take your audio. Just bring it up a tiny bit, and I think you're going to. Then when you try the parrot, I bet you it's going to tell you
Speaker C: you sound
Speaker F: all right. Well, I just did. Is this working any better on your end?
Speaker E: I think that was. That was definitely a really good change right there. Again, just brought it up a tiny bit. I only saw, like, one or two extra bars on the vu. So, yeah, go to the parrot, test it. If anything, it's going to say, you're just about right, or it'll say, your audio is normal.
Speaker D: But, yeah, it's good.
Speaker C: Good luck.
Speaker F: Thank you very much. I had been using Droidstar for some of the DMR modes, and so I was a little bit familiar with the parrot and so forth, or from the old, what, Echolink or something like that. But this is the first time I've used All Star. I said that you could get it working on with the Droidstar app, but I was not successful. And this app, it was very kind of difficult to figure out how to configure it because there's multiple different screens you have to go to. But I found a YouTube tutorial, and I must have finally figured it out. Anyway, thank you very much. Have a wonderful day.
Speaker C: KK6MU.
Speaker E: You got it. You're now a certified YouTube technician, as we call it. So congratulations. Your certificate will be in the mail.
Speaker D: Good luck.
Speaker E: Check it with a parrot. I think you'll find that you're spot on or very, very close. But yeah, the audio sounds really good too. I'm listening direct into All Stars, so you're coming out of a high end set of speakers and the audio sounds just great.
Speaker F: Thank you very much. And you said the parrot node was 44443.
Speaker D: Close, close, close, close.
Speaker E: It's 55553. So quad five or four fives and a three.
Speaker C: See, that doesn't sound all right.
Speaker F: That's where I got the four from. All right, well, thank you very much. Have a wonderful day. KK6MU clear.
Speaker E: WB1G clear as well.
Speaker A: Hey, Smitty, good to see you last evening. And yeah, give me a. Give me a call when you have a chance. And I wanted a little better understanding of an audio path there, but have a great weekend. Call me when you can. And that, folks, was an example of a smitty spam filter. Ai6us.
Speaker B: So we have a.
Speaker C: Are you guys doing the coffee break net this morning?
Speaker A: Negative.
Speaker E: We had some repeater issues earlier.
Speaker A: But feel free to use the repeater and start up your own conversation. We had to make the call early.
Speaker C: Okay. My wife's laughing. I go, yeah, I talk to myself a lot anyway. All right, well, you guys have a great Valentine's out there for those of you who haven't.
Speaker B: And my wife was kind enough to
Speaker C: let me go do apota.
Speaker B: And now we're on our way back
Speaker C: to start our Valentine's venture. AP 73.
Speaker A: All right, good morning to your wife there. And you guys, have a wonderful Saturday. 73.
Speaker C: Kk 6:00am ko6 I see out there.
Speaker D: Ready? Yeah, I'm out here listening in the background.
Speaker C: I just want to say I missed you last night to meet you. Oh, my God, you should smell the diabetic disease on the tables there. They had cookies for days. Oh, they had snacks. They had stuff. Mr. Ma'. Am.
Speaker D: Hey, I was having fun on the comments section on Zoom.
Speaker C: How'd that come across? That was inside, so I couldn't see. How'd that come across? Could you hear anybody talking in the group, in the, in the meeting?
Speaker D: It kind of came and went. And also they were having problems getting the right things on screen or they needed another screen or something like that. Which led to a lively discussion offline.
Speaker B: Oh, I bet.
Speaker C: But we know, we all know this is a trial run out to chute. First time going. Stuff's gonna happen. Nobody's ever been that good on the first try. But yeah, it's. It looked good from my end in There. It sounded good. I mean, beautiful building, dude. It's a beautiful building set up. And it doesn't look like you're sitting in a chicken coop anymore.
Speaker D: No. I got kind of a kick out of it, though, because when they did their run through earlier, I assume you're listening, and had a couple little tips, but the one that struck me the most was, you know, when you put 50 or 70 people in a room, you're gonna have a whole lot different results than when you don't have any.
Speaker C: Yeah. I believe the head count there was, I want to say, 71 or 78 sitting in there and then whoever else was on Zoom, so they. Close to 100. It was a good turnout. It was good turnout. Yep.
Speaker D: And there's pretty good turnout on Zoom, too. Like I said, it was kind of a fun. It's kind of an advantage. They say they're going to be able to hear all of our back comments, so. Yeah, maybe it'll stay on Zoom, because I don't have that problem. But anyway, I went through this when I was doing live sounds for the schools was that, yeah, you go in and set everything up and get all your levels right and then put people in the room.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker D: Everything goes to crap. So what I usually did was do my setup so that I could, you know, end up around recess or lunch and have all the kids come into the auditorium. And now we'll set levels.
Speaker C: Absolutely. All right. I like to go, I just had
Speaker E: to check on you.
Speaker C: I just said you. You missed a good turnout. I'm just saying it's pretty good. Oh, they had. No. They didn't have, though. And now that I know that they won't be, I'm gonna bring my own coffee.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker C: All these tables full of snacks. Coffee. And I'm like, oh, somebody sitting next to me had to mention coffee at the meeting. And I went, huh? Yeah, that was nice. All right, sir, I hope you have a good day. I gotta climb up on the roof today and make sure things tied down, strapped down, because we got a storm coming in, brother.
Speaker D: Well, you do know the thing that if you don't lose an antenna in the storm, it wasn't high enough.
Speaker C: Is that the general rule of thumb there, Rush? It wasn't high enough. Didn't lose it. It's not high enough.
Speaker D: That's one of the rules I was taught way back when. I mean, at the same time, I was learning that. You know what intermittent means, don't you?
Speaker C: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker D: No, no, no. It means it works on the bench.
Speaker A: That is true.
Speaker C: You ever know when you walk out the door or something like that to you build, you go, wait, this worked in size. All right, I got, I'm looking at an empty bottom of a coffee cup and that's just not going to do. I'm not talking empty empty. I've already, I've already sucked the stuff off the porcelain.
Speaker D: Yeah, I probably had to go fill up a fresh cup too. Although I fill up a fresh cup by grinding the beans, putting them in the drip thing, letting the water boil. Yeah, but that's the way I like it. 73 Cakey 6am
Speaker C: well they're in this house today we have a snafu. Somebody say it's me went and got coffee but then I said, oh, got home, it's whole bean and guess what? I don't have a grinder. So I'm gonna have to go and get creative here.
Speaker A: Probably about 3 o' clock in the
Speaker C: afternoon with a hammer.
Speaker D: Oh well, yeah, I don't buy anything but whole beans. Basically I go down and buy a big bag at Costco. I then split it up into about, about 2 cups of beans, 3 cups of beans, something like that into seal the meal bags, vacuum seal them and then I, it stays fresh real well anyway. 73 KK 6:00am 73 Ray, good hearing
Speaker C: you KO6ISJ I'll be monitoring.
Speaker E: Hey Ray, before, before you go, quick, quick drive by. I just want to thank you, your daughter and your son in law for a lot of laughs and entertainment while reading the chat last night. You know, for stress of a first time. Like you said, as a live sound guy you can test things but until you get real world with real people in the room and everybody looking at a screen and you know, basically the real scenario, that's when you learn. So thank you for the comical commentary from your, from your family on Zoom. After I got the chance and things were rolling through all that and it did make me smile quite a bit.
Speaker D: Well, you can jump right in there. You know we had a private conversation too besides the one with everybody.
Speaker E: It was a good time and we, and we learned a bunch. You know, it's, there's a different level of sophistication in there and not bad, not good, just different tools. It's going to take a while to get used to them and then of course you know, kind of optimizing what's in there versus what's our own and kind of a blend of both, but we'll get there. It might take a couple meetings, but we'll get there.
Speaker D: Yeah, it always does. It's kind of funny because I got thrown into a steep learning curve. As far as the live sound stuff went is I was helping with the drama program at local middle school that my daughter was attending, and that was one way for me to spend more time with her because her mother was a.

Speaker A: Good morning, Yuba Sutter. We are going
Speaker B: to have a fox
Speaker A: hunt here pretty soon. As soon
Speaker B: as I get
Speaker A: set up. It should be a fairly easy one this morning. I've suppressed my evil tendencies to make it difficult,
Speaker B: so
Speaker A: come on down. If you haven't tried it before, it'll be somewhere on the Marysville side of town. And the fox will be transmitting at 146.565 and I should be set up here in about 15, 20 minutes or so. I'm just getting the coffee now. Hope to see you there in 0dve
Speaker B: w e6axm receiver.

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Speaker A: All righty. This is devin m0dde and our fox hunt is now active on 146565
Speaker B: w e6a x n repeater.
Speaker C: All right, well, thanks
Speaker D: for that, Devin. I am on my way looking for you. Not quite to marysville yet, though. W6P and H.

Speaker A: Yeah, it starts with a
Speaker B: B.
Speaker A: Maybe that's insulting dogs so, you know, something like that. But the first day we're setting up for a show
Speaker B: and
Speaker A: they tell me, oh, they've got their own sound system, everything. They pay the local music store $350 to come in, plug in their equipment and walk away. Took them all 10 minutes. I'm like, oh, we don't need this. I can do that. And as it continued on, I did more and more to the point that I was one of the few people contractors with Tracy School district that hadn't even had a background check. It wasn't a formal contract either. It was a good amount of money though.
Speaker B: Did we lose it again? No, I think you just lost Smitty.
Speaker A: Okay, well, I was watching anyway thank you.
Speaker B: I think he's waiting for the drive by B1G. I thought that would bring him out of the Woodward
Speaker A: N6EMF listening.

We do have coffee and snacks. I made apple pie bites if anyone wants to come join us. And some other little snacks coming down and see us. M0vbe.

Speaker A: Wb1g.wb1g.wu6h.
Speaker B: Hey, bud, I'm in the shack right now.
Speaker C: What's up, brother?
Speaker A: I had two separate complaints of low audio. And I'm looking at this anytone, whatever radio, and I think I made a microphone adjustment every single time, right? I, you know, I talk across the mic. It's pressed up against my right, right side of my mouth, you know, radio operator style. Is this any better?
Speaker B: So I don't have a frame of reference. You're coming in rf, right? I mean, looking at the levels, pure levels, you look like every other station coming in through the repeater. So I would say that's positive. But I'm also, I'm listening direct on. Let me do this. Let me turn on the radio and I'm just going to hear what I sound like going into the repeater. Might echo here for a second and then I'll. Because I've got a little meter on my 9700 as well here. Why don't you come back and I'll compare how I sound on their feeder versus you.
Speaker A: Sounds good.
Speaker B: I'll jaw for a couple minutes.
Speaker A: It's really hard for me to do that. By the way, I'm sorry I missed you guys last night. I was stuck in Motown slow death toe until about 10:30, and, man, I really wanted to kind of do the coronation of the new digs, but I guess it'll have to wait for next month. Anyway, how are we sounding, wu6h.
Speaker D: One g?
Speaker B: Well, I think there are a few folks that want to chime in and tell you how you sound, but based on my equipment at hand, would say you're there. I don't know that I'd make any adjustments if I were you. Real quick here. Wu6h. Let me pause for just a second. Ems, was there somebody else in there, too? I think there was another station struggling to jump in there as well.
Speaker C: KB6 luv. Good morning.
Speaker B: Hey, Mr. Love.
Speaker E: Good morning, gentlemen. Sorry to have missed you all on the foregone coffee break nuts this morning.
Speaker D: Sorry.
Speaker E: But again, everybody out there that's doing the work on these repeaters. So much love, so much appreciation.
Speaker B: Anyway, Ryan, back to your audio.
Speaker E: You're sounding much better than you were this morning when you had originally checked in. If you were looking for a comparison between earlier and just now.
Speaker A: KB6L, U V. Appreciate it. I also, like, blew out that little, little teeny tiny hole in the microphone, so maybe I had some lint in there or something. But I also cranked up the gain by one Notch. I only have three notches to choose from, so thank you for the comparison. And just got some coffee at the local gas station. It's like they have these coffee makers where they drop the beans and they grind it and then they pour the hot water over beans. I mean, it's awesome. So. And it's only $2.19 a cup. I say that in celebration, I guess, because it's six bucks at Starbucks. Question mark. What's the patent? WU6H.
Speaker C: Well.
Speaker D: Right, right. All I've got is a. As amazing as the meeting was last night, there was a hole there. Definitely needed some lint cleaning out. And you were missed.
Speaker A: You know, it's nice to have two ears because I heard both of you. I only have one brain, but. Or less if. If you listen to my wife. Anyway, I gotcha. And yeah, sorry, sorry, miss meeting stuck. Every intention. But there's phraseology about intentions and things. I'm out of here. Thank you for giving ME A. An update. 73WU6H.
Speaker C: W 68 kill 6 size J.
Speaker A: Still got your package? You're giving me your package or something? Is this a Valentine's Day thing? It's only nine in the morning, dude.
Speaker C: Whoa. Oh, yeah, I was gonna give it to you last. I was giving you my package last night, but you weren't there, so I had to go home with it and go to bed.
Speaker B: Hey, can you guys please get a room? Maybe a YSF room, a DMR room,
Speaker A: Some kind of room? Yeah. This dude scares me.
Speaker C: It wasn't a big package. You could have held it in both hands.
Speaker A: Oh my God, Larry, it's 9 in the morning. This isn't EK after dark.
Speaker B: No, it's coffee break. Off the reels. It's coffee break. Cold brew.
Speaker A: Hilarious. Anyway, so just to sterilize it. Larry, I'm sorry I missed the meeting last night. Did you have something. Did you have something for me?
Speaker C: Well, actually, I did, yes, Jerry. I think it was sitting there. There was a cardboard box sitting between my feet the whole night with my phone on it after I typed in why or where are you? Smiley face to ya.
Speaker A: I know, I know, it sucks. I mean, logistically, I couldn't have made it to get home till 10 something. And then my stupid boss blowing me up about exception reports. How come this didn't happen? So listen to this. So she goes, you're on an exception report for not. Not doing, you know, xyz. Why is this happening? And I looked at it and said, excel, sort of clip it. You know, I'm all well, when is this scheduled? She goes, February 20. Why hasn't the report been submitted yet? And I said, because I don't have a time machine. And then she comes back going, oh, okay. I mean this ch is.
Speaker B: She's a moron.
Speaker C: Wait, isn't February the date you said coming up? So why do you need a time machine?
Speaker A: He goes, how come it hasn't been submitted yet and it's not even scheduled to be done until February 20th?
Speaker C: Ah, gotcha. Oh man. And this is your bus, huh? Oh, that's gotta be fun to like micromanaged all day long.
Speaker A: Oh my God, she's such an idiot. And I hope she's listening.
Speaker C: Hey, speaking of lifting, you missed out. There was a 15 year old kid there that had a license. I was, I was very impressed. I really was. I met him, talked a little bit. Yeah. So if anybody can get licensed now. You don't want her to get a license if you don't know what you're doing on website doing reports.
Speaker A: Yep, yep. Ham radio is open to all. Just know that his parents checkbook or his allowance is going to be going toward radios that much sooner.
Speaker C: Oh, you know, you know it is.
Speaker A: You can, you can see, see the
Speaker C: spark in the young one's eyes. I know I had that same spark when I got my tech license, but you can see that sparkle just opens up the world. Look.
Speaker A: And I love it.
Speaker C: I love it. But your boss, let's just keep her out of that loop. She doesn't sound too friendly. Over the radio maybe.
Speaker A: Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker B: Lair bear.
Speaker A: Go ahead, comment.
Speaker D: Hey, so Ry Rai N6cms and the Lair bear.
Speaker E: Yeah.
Speaker D: I was talking with Jeremy and his son Maxson who's been at a couple of the fox hunts and stuff with him. He looked at me and he's like, yeah, he says he's ready to take the test next month. So Trump that 15 year old, he's, he's about 11, 12.
Speaker C: Was that the, was that the kid that was that won the. The drawing?
Speaker D: Last. One and the same.
Speaker C: Yep. Man, this is so cool. The youngins getting involved in the old man's hobby.
Speaker B: I like that.
Speaker C: And we're all old men, so don't even argue with that. Hi.
Speaker A: Hi.
Speaker B: Young brains are sponges.
Speaker C: Thanks, Minnie. I noticed last night that you kept playing with the control panel on the wall over there. Like ooh, something with a display screen
Speaker B: that was camera. The camera controls are on there. So that's how you steer them, zoom them in and change cameras. Camera zoom. You kind of Preset all of your shots, you know, as far as a tight podium, a wide shot. And so unfortunately, you got to walk over there. Not that I'm being lazy, but you've got to physically get up, walk over there, and hit the button.
Speaker A: Kind of a little funky, but it
Speaker B: was fun helping to produce last night's meeting. As many lessons and as challenging as it was at times, it was fun.
Speaker C: I didn't realize that was the control for that. I thought it was like the environmental, the thermostat controllers over there going, too cold, too hot, too cold, too hot. That's kind of cool, though. And I bet you with the technology, there's probably some kind of little remote that goes with that too.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: It's also the panel where you can. So, you know, when the zoom people would come off mute and they would talk and you'd hear them in the room. So when we started, when you all arrived, that was muted because we're talking to everybody, welcoming folks to the room, and everybody in the physical room would have heard us talking to the zoom room. So you had to kind of go over there, first of all, unmute that so the room could hear zoom. And then you have to go over there every once in a while for the cameras and even the in room microphones. Everything kind of runs through that panel. So, you know, it's a. It's a sophisticated system. It's unfortunate that you can't remote control that. I was talking to their IT guy,
Speaker C: like, hey, is there any way that,
Speaker B: like, I can connect to it and not have to? Not that I don't want to, like, walk over there, but it's kind of inconvenient to be running the zoom and sitting down over by, you know, at a table and then walk halfway across the room to, you know, zoom into a camera angle or, I don't know, change the projector or mute the room or something like that. So setup, not entirely for an organization like us and how we operate, but it is a cool setup for like a, you know, a conference where you got a bunch of people together and not a lot of fun stuff that we do.
Speaker C: Yeah, that room was set up nice. How it's laid out and everything, it fits. And if, if we can't figure out to do something and make it better and be a whole bunch of electronic gurus that we are, we should get this hobby.
Speaker A: Oh, absolutely.
Speaker B: And I heard you there, Ems. So, yeah, you come in here right after me here. But yeah, we discovered that in consolidation, we might have consolidated a little Bit too much, you know, for example, what we learned is anybody who's ever plugged into an overhead projector knows that you can mirror your screen. So what you're seeing in front of you is also up there on the screen. Or you can do a second monitor. You can extend and make that monitor and then kind of put project things onto that monitor, which then end up on the wall. And unfortunately, this. Their system's not set up that way. When you plug it in, it forces a mirror. So everything that you see as the controller folks see up on the screen, that's fine, except we learned very fast that you can't control Zoom Room, you can't control any audio, because anytime you bring any of that up, you've got to minimize the deck beam. So you can't do anything without the entire room seeing you make tweaks and adjustments. So that was kind of one of those things that no matter how you test, it's not until you're in real world and you're going through it where you're like, oh, crap. And yes, I did say the S word out loud over the PA in there. That was quite exciting for anybody that caught my S bomb.
Speaker C: Well, roger that. It's a work in progress. Beautiful place. You did great. You did great on the fly because that, like I said, that's pretty much the first trial run. So I'm gonna get out of here. I got to refill this coffee cup. It's a.
Speaker A: It's a.
Speaker C: It's a horrible thing. I go to a bathroom for the coffee cup. Talk, go to the bathroom, go to the coffee cup. Thanks, Minnie, for doing all you do. We'll talk about the. The car thing, the hot rf nights thing. I got some ideas on that, too. So later on we can chitchat about that. EMS, now you're out there, what's a comment? KL6 is gonna drop a little bit.
Speaker A: All right, lar bear.
Speaker D: Hey, B1G. I'm hoping that I get to mentor maximum, because there's two things I'm going to teach him. The first is once he gets. Gets his license and gets up, he has to continue B1G. And then the second is, you know what? He's got young legs. He could sit up there by you and run back and forth.
Speaker B: Well, I don't think he's carrying as much weight around the midsection, so that's definitely going to give them an advantage right there. But, yeah, we're always looking for people to help and all that good stuff. So there you go. Yeah, it was fun. You know overall kind of one of those things where I forgot how much I don't running live sound. I mean I like it. I love it actually. But there's a certain part where you, you know, like if it was all my gear, for example, my DJ gear or my PA gear, no problem. I know it like the back of my hand. I'm comfortable and last night not so comfortable but you know, again you live, you learn and I think next month will go a lot better given just the lessons we learned this month. So it's tough and it was good seeing you Em.
Speaker A: Yes,
Speaker D: Absolutely. Right back at you. Hey, just a general question for those that are listening. I know the club has an aed. Do you know who has it?
Speaker B: Excellent question. I know I've seen it float around. I want to bet that it's in one of the trailers. Now where that is, I don't know. Who I would start with is probably
Speaker A: either Jim WA8 MPA.
Speaker B: He may at least know where it is or have an idea. But yes we do have one. I've seen it at things like field day and the camp out places like.
Speaker C: Like that.
Speaker B: As far as who holds onto it, I think that stuff end up all
Speaker A: being and I don't know if you
Speaker B: can store an AED in a trailer.
Speaker A: I can't.
Speaker B: I don't know if it needs to be charged up or what but at any rate that's where I would start. Is GMW8aMP80?
Speaker A: Or what about RFB?
Speaker B: You know thanks, that's a good one as well. Maybe RFB as well.
Speaker D: So RFB procured it and gave it to the club. But I had a discussion with him this morning and we were talking about just the fact that there should be a responsibility between he and I that whoever is going to be there will have the med kit and the AED physically present in the room at every meeting. So that's what I'm trying to track it down. I'm willing to take custody of that and make sure that it and the med kit shows up to every meeting.
Speaker B: That to me sounds like a very responsible and good idea right there.

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Speaker A: Yeah, so, yeah, that's kind of what I was seeing if somebody knew where it is. But I'll. I'll reach out to Jim. I think we were gonna get together Monday anyway on the phone and I'll just bounce it off of him.
Speaker B: Are you on the mic right now, by chance? I am.
Speaker A: I am in Williams.
Speaker B: Very, very nice. All right. I was asking because I'm. I'm directly connected right now with Ampersand and your audio's putting out a set of high end near field monitors. And I was thinking to myself, you know, the mic in that M1KE isn't as bad as I was giving it credit for. You actually sound pretty balanced coming out of near field monitors here in kind of a studio environment. So, yeah, not bad at all.
Speaker A: Well, I am sure that residing in the club there are several audio files. Who would like to dissect that and. And carve it up into little pieces? A break.
Speaker C: A break.
Speaker A: Go ahead, sir.
Speaker B: Yeah, this is an N6H.
Speaker C: Smitty, can you switch over to RF for a bit?
Speaker B: But I'm just trying to do some
Speaker C: debugging here on the voter stuff and
Speaker B: need to have some.
Speaker C: You guys are both on All Star, Is that possible?
Speaker B: Absolutely. Tom, any power level you'd like me to transmit at in particular?
Speaker C: No, just something to get the voters going. Just want to check out some things here in the log anyway.
Speaker B: Thanks. NN6H. You got it. Switching over here to RFW B1G. Okay. I had to turn down the ALL stuff. Gonna end up with a wicked echo.
Speaker D: I guess we're having voter problems.
Speaker B: No, it's like anything in life, you know, you work through things. No, I don't think we're having. Just making some optimizations and tweaks and all of that. I think there was a little gremlin that was floating around a bit, but overall, working through it. Kind of like the meeting, you know, you live, you learn, and you make small moves.
Speaker D: Makes perfect sense. All right, let's guys get back to it. Me and Heather are going to go play bowling and enjoy.
Speaker A: Yeah,
Speaker D: I can't even think of what today is. Valentine's Day, everybody have a good one. This is K and 6WQ. I'll be clear. Love it.
Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely, man. Well, have a good time. Yeah. Happy Valentine's Day. I. I was a bad husband. I completely forgot it was Valentine's Day. Completely forgot.
Speaker A: Did not
Speaker B: do anything. And that's bad.
Speaker D: But oh, well.
Speaker B: I mean, not oh, well, that's kind of mean to say. WB1G.
Speaker D: Not too late. So bad spinny. I forgot to. So I had to scramble at the last minute and cancel and change a whole bunch of jobs numbers.
Speaker B: So I know how to do this.
Speaker D: K&6W glue.
Speaker A: Now, as you.
Speaker B: As you have no doubt probably learned because you've been married long enough and you have kids. Don't make that mistake on Mother's Day. I have not. But I would go as far to say Mother's Day is far more important than Valentine's Day.
Speaker D: That's a big agreed one for sure. Absolutely. Are you guys. Hopefully we can get the gremlins worked out, and I will be listening as long as I can. So everybody have a good day.
Speaker B: You got it, sir. All right, we'll continue to give the voter a little activity there for Tom. Looking at it as well. Looking at my signal. Going into all of the different locations right now. Yeah. So, ems, back to you, sir. Yeah, good. Good seeing you. Agree with you about the aed. I think in the past, if my memory serves me, I think we were bringing it to the quonset hut when we were up there at Confluence. So I don't know if we just stopped doing that or maybe my memory's a little foggy. That could be a tip.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've seen it there. But I just had a discussion with Scott this morning, and we just kind of nailed down a plan of like, you know, the days that I'm gonna be there are meetings that I'm gonna be there that, you know, I would take charge and make sure that that was there along with the med bag. And then, you know, the days that I'm not there, he has one in his truck as well, and so he was. He was going to cover that, and then that way we would definitely nail down that.
Speaker B: Yeah. WB1G can't. Definitely can't hurt. If anything, it helps. And kind of. Kind of nice to know that we've got a, you know, medics and emergency response folks there, you know, just in case. It's not if but when or not. Yeah, let's put that backwards. You know what I meant. WB1G.
Speaker A: All right. Getting the call. Gotta go. Talk to you later. N6EMA.
Speaker B: I love it, man. Life of a professional right there. WB1G. And Tom, let me know here. I'm gonna go out to the truck and clean it up because I got to take the kiddo back to school today. She flew in last night. Surprised the wife and I from a little trip she was on, so we got to bring her back to school. But I'll be by my mobile and can continue to give you RF if you need it. WB1G. All right, very good there.
Speaker A: Thanks, Smitty.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm just kind of doing some testing here, so.
Speaker C: Very good.
Speaker D: Thank you.
Speaker A: And yeah, enjoy your time with your.
Speaker B: Your daughter. 6 size K. I'll be here for about three more cups of coffee if you need help.

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Speaker A: Yeah, it's a little past 9:30, so Ryan's probably getting lunch for the. Well. Number one, lunch. Number two, lunch. Number three, lunch. K06ISK monitoring.
Speaker B: It's good to see you last night there, lair bear. I didn't realize how tall you was there, buddy.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm one
Speaker B: of those big scary dudes at the Teddy bear. I understand why Ryan named you that now. That makes a lot of sense.
Speaker A: It was good seeing everybody there and looking around the Ruby thinking, wow, this is our group of people. We're all the same age, all the same interest, and all the same bald spots.
Speaker B: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Absolutely. I'm in the mobile now because I realized that I don't have. So I buy usually like a case of my favorite industry drinks on Amazon. So Amazon usually likes to send them to me when they have them. And if they don't, they send me what they can. And then so I ordered like four cases and they sent me one. And that was about a week ago. So that's about a month ago. So 12 change or so. So now I gotta go hunt down some more quick before Heather comes pick me up. We're gonna go play bowling, so. Hey.
Speaker A: Awesome, awesome. I'm sure glad you like those energy drinks. I tried drinking one of those and my heart feels like it's about ready to pound out of my chest. But in all retrospect, I will say I put together a muscle car using five hour energy drinks because I was working full time.
Speaker B: Yeah, they don't do it for me. I don't know why. I mean, I used to drink coffee and stuff, but it's. I don't know. I guess it's time for coffee again. But I don't want to get all connected to that. I'm pretty happy with the way that I got it going right now. So junk food, junk food and more junk food. Yep, that's how it works.
Speaker A: Roger that. That sounds good. I'm gonna let you go. You made. You said coffee. I looked over and I went, damn. I never refilled that the last trip out. So good hearing you. Good seeing you. Yeah, I'm the tall, ugly guy that looks like some kind of thug out of the 1970s.
Speaker B: You're all right, Barrett. All right, you guys have a good day. This is game six, wq. Just 170.

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Speaker A: Negative contact with kd6ssn. This is kilohasker 6 envy hotel juliet monitoring with fresh coffee.
Speaker B: Hey, Larry, you still trying to get a hold of Ryan there?
Speaker A: Yeah, I do this once in a while just to get out there and right now I'm just trying to burn the repeater time up till 10 o' clock like normal we would on the coffee break tonight, see if it holds. How you doing?
Speaker B: Still trying to find my drink. I can't find it anywhere, so I had to settle with something I don't usually go with. So I just maybe try something new because I can't ever find it anymore. So on the way back to the house right now, I think Heather should be there and then we're going to go play bowling, I think.
Speaker A: All right. If you're like me, and I hope you're not, something comes new in the market. You're like, oh my God, this is the cat's meow right here. I love this stuff. And they discontinue it like a month later.
Speaker B: Yep, that's pretty much what it's like. The company is called Bing and then flavor is called Black Cherry Vanilla. I don't know, I just like it. Ever since I tried it, I just like it and. And I've been drinking it for almost,
Speaker A: I don't know, six years or so. It's been a while.
Speaker B: And all of a sudden it's really hard to get a hold of. Seems like they make like a little batch of it and then they go off to this other crap that they got.
Speaker A: I don't know why. I just can't believe well enough.
Speaker B: Roger that. Yep.
Speaker A: That sounds too much familiar.
Speaker C: Like I said, everything, all the.
Speaker A: All the different, you know, the mountain view thing. Mountain view thing. There was one that they were all voting on to get the. The one that I like the best. Didn't make the cut.
Speaker B: Yep, yep. You know, kind of like the. Like that burger from Carlos Jr. That, that with the. With the barbecue sauce or whatever. It was so good. And it's good on too, that thing. I was eating those almost every day and they lost the customer because of that
Speaker A: cowboy whiskey. Charbroil.
Speaker B: Yeah, they were using that bourbon sauce. Right. That Bourbon
Speaker C: burger. It's called the Bourbon Burger.
Speaker A: It's what it was called.
Speaker B: Man, that thing was so sweet and tangy and.
Speaker A: Oh, man, it was. Oh, I get you. I get you. All right, good look on that. Good look on that search out there.
Speaker C: That sucks.
Speaker A: I'm just sitting here monitoring and like I said, trying to keep the repeater going, see if it goes down until 10 o' clock and we'll say we call it a good. We try to get the coffee breakneck going on a semi low profile here. I don't hear anybody else.
Speaker B: Yeah, roger that. I just got back to the house.
Speaker C: I settled.
Speaker A: So we'll see how it goes. This is Fantic from eq. Good luck. Let me know later how that turned out. Ko6ih73. Ko6ihj kb6luv.
Speaker C: What's going on, Beaker?
Speaker A: Ah, Mr. Love. How you doing, Brett?
Speaker D: Yeah, you like that?
Speaker A: I sent that one. I sent what you sent to Tom. He had a good chuckle out of that. It was like, oh, that matches well.
Speaker C: Yeah, I saw that. Made me giggle.
Speaker B: Giggle out loud.
Speaker C: And I'm not normally a giggle out loud kind of guy, but that one definitely made me giggle.
Speaker A: So what's all the game plan, Sam? Is your mom still around?
Speaker C: Yes, sir.
Speaker A: Yes, sir.
Speaker C: Thanks for asking. Yeah, she's actually in town for another three weeks, thankfully and blessedly so. So low pro game plan today. Wife and I celebrated our anniversary wedding anniversary yesterday, which we did on purpose to deflate the Hallmark holiday that I think today is.
Speaker A: Roger that, that's pretty smart. Unlike myself. I got married. Okay, now here's the kicker part. Oh God, I still can't remember it. She. Her birthday was July and I got married in June and it was like almost the same day as her birthday and our anniversary, but different months and I always messed it up.
Speaker C: Yeah, that's not necessarily a good thing per se. But you know, hey, life is. And for my wife and I, we celebrate love every day.
Speaker A: Right?
Speaker C: So that's how that goes. Today is just another normal day for us.
Speaker A: It's a bonus day.
Speaker B: Love,
Speaker A: Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of staff. Yeah, buddy.
Speaker C: So nothing on tap today.
Speaker A: Maybe some Netflix.
Speaker C: Sun is shining. Might get outside and get a little ride on a little red scoot goot through the neighborhood and
Speaker A: yeah, so I'm
Speaker C: in the final stages of getting my go shack completely together. So I'm excited about that. I've got two more pieces of the puzzle that are coming in the next two weeks.
Speaker A: Yeah, I don't have nothing except for
Speaker C: a go pack yet.
Speaker A: I wait to get my car back and then I'll get something and throw it in there. So that's going to be the thing I'm going to be throwing on today. Excuse me? Today I'm going to tear apart that Henry we 50 saw. I don't. Did you See that, Henry, at the house here, A good big stand up box of death?
Speaker B: I did.
Speaker C: And I think you know, that.
Speaker A: Isn't.
Speaker C: Isn't that the box where, you know, death lives on the inside?
Speaker A: That's what I was told. Then my daughter comes out after I got out here, she comes out later, she goes, ooh, what's that? I go, I've been told death lies within that box. And she stepped back and she goes, oh, my God. Guys, you guys work on some cool stuff. Yeah, just don't touch the wrong thing.
Speaker C: Make sure no power is connected and
Speaker A: all resistors have powered down. I was power generation equipment repairer for the government for seven years. I've been. I understand and respect electricity wholeheartedly, trust me.
Speaker C: Oh, I know you do. I know you do, for sure. Yeah, I know your background and yeah, buddy, you gotta respect electricity for sure. You know, even 110, you know, under the right circumstances can cause problems. Especially if you have electricity issues inside your own body.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker C: Pacemakers or even, you know, an offbeat heart rhythm. Electricity can cause problems.
Speaker A: Yes, sir. If it goes right to right out one side, you're okay. If it goes from right to left or left to right across, that's when things go bad. Yep.
Speaker C: Buyer beware, right? So. Cool beans, my man. Well, thanks for entertaining the repeater a
Speaker A: little bit this morning.
Speaker C: Morning I woke up and heard silence and was like, oh my gosh, what was going on? I had to even do a quick radio check inside on super low wattage.
Speaker A: Like, is my radio broken? I did the same thing. I was like, wait, what's going on here? So I grabbed the, grab the, the bow thing over here and I have a roof you found. So it was in a box. I'm like, okay, this one's broke, that one's broke. Two thumbs up.
Speaker C: Yeah, I'm sure we all went through a quick equipment check this morning. So again, I know net control folk are out there working on it, still checking things. So thank you for what you do. We all really, really appreciate it. You know, you sent us all into
Speaker A: a quick equipment check because we were
Speaker C: all in the remission or not remission.
Speaker B: What is it?
Speaker C: Just missing. Missing out on the coffee break then. So anyway, I'm gonna get back to life. Nice cuso with you, sir. Have yourself a wonderful day. Take care of yourself. Take care of each other. KB6L U V Be of love 73 clear.
Speaker A: Be good. Good hearing you out here. You have to catch up with your mom. You gotta be here bringing away these meetings or something. Would be nice to put a face to a name. K06ISJ73 have a blessed day. You guys are all full love this morning.
Speaker C: I love it.
Speaker A: WB1G WD1G. Hold on, let me get my notes here. I'll give them to give you a country name that I picked up yesterday that I've never heard. Oh yeah, I even had to text Tom to go, okay, N A M I B I A. And he types back, nam B U Namibia. Yes, sir. And you know what's really fun about this Olympics thing going on? All the little flags on the Olympics that they're showing that this is from here, this is from there, this one's from there. And you realize I got that flag. I got that flag.
Speaker D: Yeah, it's pretty cool, right? Good to know I'm not alone this morning. Last night after the meeting had played a lot with ampersand, which is if you were in the shack is in new ASL client that you can use for a number of different functions. And so last night, because I was bored and you know, whatever, I built a standalone ampersand machine that was open to the public Internet in my environment that I could use to relay through, like connect my mic up to my shark device up to and kind of loop loop through and steer it that way. And so I woke up and turned it on and I'm like, oh, God, it broke overnight. No, it didn't break overnight. There just was still coffee break. So I was right there with you guys.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think there was a whole bunch of withdrawals going on this morning and people grabbing all sorts of different radios and trying it. You can almost, you can almost hear the panic in the voices when they did come through.
Speaker D: Yeah, what did I do?
Speaker A: What did I break?
Speaker D: Hold on, let's check this wire. Yeah, that, that, that moment of, of amateur radio engineer kicks in and your
Speaker C: brain starts going, okay, well let's see.
Speaker A: Is it a routing issue? Is it this? Is it that.
Speaker D: Oh, oh, maybe we're just not doing it.
Speaker A: I grabbed two of my battle things over here that I got hooked up for scanners and putting that so I can monitor both of them. Didn't work. I was like, okay, three out of three can't be wrong here. So it must be a repeater,
Speaker D: You know. Happy to know I'm not the only one. That is really a good purpose for a Baofeng. I actually have two Baofengs that do that full time that act as scanners for, for VHF public service. And I actually use them to get audio Into Broadcastify, if you believe that. So great minds think alike. They actually make pretty decent scanners.
Speaker A: Really. They do. I have one set up for all the trunkings for Plaster County, Auburn, Lincoln, you know, the police, ambulance and everything. I got one dedicated just for that. And then I got one that's dedicated to repeaters that I use all the time here. And I don't have that one on scan because I can just go bump up and put it over to where we're repeater I want to listen to. And then use this. And use this K2 3185 over here to go ahead and talk on. But yeah, I gave you one more pro tip if you want to hear it.
Speaker C: I was just taking a sip of
Speaker D: coffee right when you. Right when you gave it back to me.
Speaker A: But sure, yeah. What's the pro tip? I also got one of these little 20, if not less digital recorders that sits in the box next to the BAO things. So if I leave the room, there's something going on that I need to, you know, maybe pay attention to or something like that. Or I leave it on during the day and it records and stops and records and stops and something comes on. But I can rewind that back and find out what I missed during the day from a voicemail radio. That's my pro tip. I'm in. Nice. Well, look at you, man. Mr. Resourceful.
Speaker D: All right, well, I'm gonna step out. I'm in the vehicle and I'm at my destination. So I'm gonna hop out, head inside. But good talking to you, brother.
Speaker A: WB1G73. WB1G KS6IHJ73.
Speaker C: And there was a comment out there.
Speaker A: Come on in. Comment. Water. Fine and no.
Speaker C: And it's clothing. Ab6l, u v. I'm definitely wearing shorts, thank you very little. So anywho, pro tip number? You know, one was yours. Here's one B. I do the same thing with my scanner. Are you ready for this one? I don't even have to go back and listen to the files. I feed those files into AI and search that way and gives it back. I look for specific, you know, skill, scanner codes, etc. And then I can go back and then listen to that specifically.
Speaker A: Oh, look at you, Mr. High Techie Techie. Oh, you've been over my place. You saw my box. I'm not no high techie techie.
Speaker C: Well, if your recorder has the ability to. If it saves those into a file, then you can take that file, pop it into your computer, and Then run it through AI Gemini Quad. Lots of free stuff out there.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: As it sits now as I put it on the auto record and nobody's hearing the noise. I get a lot of repeater ID through the day. That's about it.
Speaker C: So you don't even have to go back and listen to all that computer ID stuff, right? You just go, you know, go in, pop it into AI, query what you want to find, and then have it tell you where on the recording that it is. And then you can just go back and listen to it from that point.
Speaker A: I figure what you're putting down now. Okay, that's actually a pretty good idea. Now, all this pro tips back and forth, me and you. It kind of almost sounds like we're a stalker. Something. I'm just saying. Asking for a friend.
Speaker C: So here's the thing. I am a professional stalker. That is what I do, you know, professionally. What makes my bread and butter. But I have sworn to use my powers for good only.
Speaker A: That's right. Your recruiter. Myself, I'm just even. Even at the military level. I was. I was the one that sit back in the corner. Nobody noticed, and I just took notes and. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker C: The quiet ones you got to be afraid of.
Speaker A: Hi. Hi.
Speaker C: Yes, sir.
Speaker A: All right. I'm let you go again.
Speaker C: I got a.
Speaker A: It's a busy day. I'm doing the back and forth thing from the. From the desk here and clean up the shack. I might be doing a couple of videos here. One of the Henry in one of the Stairway to Heaven boxes that we have here for us. Tom. Sweet. Well, go kidder.
Speaker C: Done, my man. Have an amazing day. You Happen to see KB6SSN Alamo said hey catch up with you in the near. Have a Blessed day, sir.
Speaker A: KB6 luv be of love.
Speaker C: 73 clearly listening or at least clear.
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Speaker A: Nr 7g las vegas. Nr7g.n7dWg. You're coming in loud and clear.
Speaker B: Hey, how are you today?
Speaker A: Good job on the nap the other day. Yeah, I try. Thanks for giving me a compliment though. How you doing, John? Sounds like you're stepping away from the radio as volume got real low. Hey, did you get detect the I guess it was an email that I sent you. What it was was I. I. It might have been the 11th. It was Gary stepping down from organizing the roster. So I'll be organizing it. But it's the roster you have is the one to go by. It'll be the new one coming up I think in April. Anyway, I'll probably be getting in touch with you to find out what's going on. We're trying to rost up some more people to help call the net so you're not calling it so often. Anyway, back to you.
Speaker B: Yeah, that would be fantastic. So the. The person I have I have a list from February maybe roster. I don't seem to have the schedule that you would schedule.
Speaker A: Well, I can send it to you again. I think you're calling it February 25, March 25 and April 22.
Speaker B: Find it here. I'm sure I'm sure I have it.
Speaker A: That's no problem. I can email it to you again and I. You should got a thing saying about that Gary was stepping aside. You still got a call in that but I'll be organized and trying to get you know find out when people want to call it so on like that. I'll email it again to you and look for that message. It went to the PM account. Anyway, I'll talk to you later. Any problems, you give me a phone call. You got my phone number anyway. You take care, John. 73s.
Speaker B: I have it. Probably the one that Gary sent out on February 10th. I have the one that Gary sent on February 10th which shows I got it on the 25th of February, March 25th and the 22nd of April.
Speaker A: N7DWG. Yeah, that's the one to go by and then the one starting. I guess I said April. It'll be in May. We'll come up with a new one and hopefully we'll have some extra guys on it. All right. See what you come up with. Feel free to call me anytime if you've got any ideas or you've got somebody you want to add on there as a person to call the net. We're hunting anyway. I'll be 73. John, nice talking to you.
Speaker B: All right.
Speaker A: For sure.
Speaker B: Great talking. You have a wonderful day. And thanks for taking over that. I know I used to do it before Gary did. I did it for probably a couple of years, coordinating scheduling. I. I think I might have been the one that came up with scheduling. Orderly week. Things will work out. Good. Sounds good. Have a great rest of your day. And take care. And R17 key located.

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