Transcriptions for 2026-02-21

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Speaker A: I'm sorry, I'm still here. I just had to go grab something out of the oven. My wife had put some onion tops. I went out this morning and cut off the onion tops a little bit and she went ahead and put them in the oven and was drying them. So she told me to take them out when the timer went off.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've been thinking about getting a temp gauge for one of the things I'm doing with my, my wood fired oven. Because whole chicken and well, turkeys for that matter. But I can only, I could only get a small turkey in that thing come out. Just absolutely incredible. Absolutely the best. And hams are amazing that way. You can get a cheap ham that hasn't been really smoked or anything and cook it that way and oh my God, it's just absolutely incredible.
Speaker C: Well, I like ham fine, but
Speaker A: I think you know what the problem is with hamster. At least a lot of hams you can buy and even the cheap ones because I buy cheap hams. But anyway they do fill them full of like that sodium nitrite stuff for preservatives. So gotta be careful of that stuff. I know my wife really shouldn't be having too much of that naturopathic dock over there near you is. Yeah. Told her to pretty much stay away from like lunch meat and anything like that processed with preservatives like sodium nitrate and nitrite.
Speaker B: Well, the hams. Hey, I'm at the water company and I see the guys coming out to get everything out of the pay boxes. So I better get in there. I'll be right back. N6GRG yeah, no problem.
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Speaker A: Well, you were a bit scratchy, but I heard you anyway. Try to send you a message on signal sitting here. I decided I'd try to put it on the phone. I think I got it done. Adding contacts isn't the easiest thing. Maybe it's not that intuitive, but I think I got you on there. And so I'm guessing you. You have to wait till you get to a device to be able to even see if it's there.
Speaker B: No, it comes through just
Speaker C: like a text message, gives me a ding. And yeah, it's fine. It's there. It's an app, you know.
Speaker A: Right. I would suspect. But I was just thinking, if you were on the road in some fashion, that you're not near a device that you can get on the signal. Right.
Speaker C: Signal goes through cellular. Cellular data. So works on my cell phone.

Speaker A: So did you take care of your business with the water company?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, but they've got everything rigged. You never, you never finish your business whether you use water or not. With them. They're just. It's ridiculous.
Speaker A: Well, it seemed like you were in there paying your bill not too long ago. I would suspect that, you know, maybe you've set it up as automatic payments by now.
Speaker B: Well, I would, but they had a leak and the bill jumped up to $300. So it's been kind of touch and go.
Speaker A: Is that recent? I thought that was a while ago.
Speaker B: That was a while ago, but I told him not not paying $300 in one month, so love to work something out. And I did doubt that. They're claiming the bill went up six months ago. Well, that was about when I set up the program. The bill went up enough that my payment, my higher payment barely made for any increases in what they got against the bill. You know, they went up enough that just making it so that it's just never going to be taken care of. So I don't know what I'm going to do with them.
Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. It's like dealing with a mob. You have to make a choice. You just deal with it in your pants. You done with or what? You know, I mean, you have to have water. And that's the thing, they know it. Right. So they know they got you by the. You know what.
Speaker B: Well, I'm seriously thinking about. I mean, we've had so much water come down, if I had a way to store it as it is, I'm storing. Five times 250, whatever that is, 1250 gallons, but I could be storing 5,000, 10,000 gallons very easily and to be pretty clean water. And if it was a black tank, it wouldn't turn green, so it wouldn't take much chlorine to make it so that it didn't turn green. So with these, these are clear tanks, so you have to put a little more chlorine in them if you don't want the water to turn green. But it's good. It's great for the, for the cooling the house and stuff like that. And right now I'm using a. For the sheep, so, you know, and all the bathroom needs and everything. So anyway, yeah, the signal app is working great.
Speaker A: Yeah. Well, anyway, if it's anything like what they do in paradise, they won't let you cancel or something. So, you know, they're going to make you pay. Ultimately they'll make you pay. Right. And if they won't let you cancel. Then you have to pay for at least a minimum service, whatever that might be called.
Speaker B: That's because you have a bunch of idiots in paradise that are going for anything they want. And they didn't do that here. They did it with some of the people they. But they had to write it into the deed to make it happen. And most of us don't have it written into the deed. So, yeah, it's not. That's not the case here. You can cancel and you can have a well, but what they try to get you with is it's kind of a conspiracy between the county and the water company. So the county says, oh, we'll just make it so that the well cost, you know, twice as much as it would to drill it just for the permits. Any. Just got that jpc 7. Connector. So. Now I. Okay, I responded to you already and now you're asking me to respond again. That signal. So maybe the first one was some sort of automated thing.
Speaker A: Okay, I'm just trying to confirm that it's working. And I haven't seen anything back from you so far or any notifications like on my phone that it went, you know, like I was expecting a text sound or something like you said.
Speaker B: Do you have the app?
Speaker A: Okay, now, now I just got the first thing that I saw something come across. So let me see. Yep, I see something now that even came across my computer screen. Hey, you're there, bozo. Okay, so that confirms that, that it worked.
Speaker B: I wanted to make sure that it definitely didn't look like an automated response.
Speaker A: Well, yeah, true. I, I would expect that you would call me names. So. Yeah, you're right. Anyway, that's the first thing I see on this. I mean, I open it up now and all I see is my first, my first message, then my second one about responding and then now yours that came in. So anything you sent before that didn't go through. So that reminds me a little bit of mesh network stuff because on the mesh it's the same thing. Like if you do a test message, the first one will say undelivered or whatever and then the next one will go through because now they've had a time to like, I'm going to say, like do some sort of a handshake or whatever with their keys and so that now they understand each other. So the second message works, but the first one don't.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's considered to be a message request on the first one. And it said, hello, Steve. KN6MGK was what it said and I said I accepted it. But it didn't actually type anything in. I don't think so that was the first, first response was to your actual name, which is B O Z O. I, I picked up a JPC 7, the V thing, you know, where you have two whips and one goes out at an angle. They're at different angles, but you can, you can actually change with this particular one, you can change the angle to flat or whatever you want. So I got that. The big black one, you know.
Speaker A: Okay, well see if I try to get more tricky. It took some time. Sent you another one anyway. Okay. Yeah. JPC 7 style adapter, I'm guessing some. Is it some sort of a adapter for the whip or is it a coil?
Speaker B: It's for a dipole and inside of the adapter there's also. So and this is what I wish wasn't there. There's a one to one choke in there too. And you can change the angle and all that sort of thing. But the one I would like, they want way too much money for and it doesn't have the choke. And the reason I want that one is because I want to build a loop, make it a trip, turn it into a loop. But as long as it has the one to one thing, you can't do what you need to do, which is match it to 200 ohms.
Speaker A: Okay, well, is it all because there's more loss in it or what? Because it seems to me like if it's a one to one, it wouldn't have any transformation in there and you can still add, you know, whatever you needed. I'm not even thinking you need a four to one. If it's maybe a two and a half to one or something like that. Can you possibly add that if you're using it as a dipole? If you were to put a loop around it, it seems like it would still measure, you know, the 150 ohms or something. That's probably going to be if it's real short to the ground. Or am I, what am I missing or not understanding.
Speaker B: That might work. Although usually you don't put the one to one on anything but 50 ohms as far as I know. But another thing about this gadget
Speaker A: is
Speaker B: how you're supposed to connect coax to it. I don't see any way to do that on this adapter, so I don't know how you could use it. All it's, all it's going to do for you is hold the, hold the whips in the air. So maybe this one doesn't have the one, the one to one in it. Maybe you're supposed to connect to the. Connect to something else. I don't know. Interesting.
Speaker A: Okay, well, having not seen it, I was kind of expecting there to be a. Was it a PL2? 239. So 239. So you can put in a piece of coax to it. So anyway, sounds like it might just be open feed. Right. Where you can just put anything you want at that point. Right. And any sort of transformer you want.
Speaker B: Yeah. This is not what I was expecting. And I don't think I'm thinking it. Either I was way off or it fake after all it says from Ally Express. Yeah, I don't know. Got me wondering here very much wondering what in the head I've got here.
Speaker A: Well, I know I seem like that guy Walt, Salty Walt forget his call sign right now. But the one from Coastal Waves and Wires. I've seen him use stuff like that and turn it into like a delta loop, a vertical delta loop. I don't know that I've seen him do one horizontal, but I've seen them do something like that. And I'm kind of guessing that's what you have in mind. Right.
Speaker B: Yeah. And I always thought that the connection came out the bottom, but there's something very similar. Similar to like 3 quarter inch pipe fitting on the bottom. So I don't know, this isn't like anything I've ever seen. Yeah, I don't know what I'm.
Speaker A: Well, the only thing I've ever seen, you know, on the delta loop that I've seen is a comparison with a dipole. And you know, when I've seen that, I haven't seen any advantage of the vertical delta loop, you know, low to the ground, like let's say for 20 meters versus you know, just putting up, you know, a dipole antenna at say, you know, 20, 20ft or 25ft, you know, so I haven't seen the whole point of it, but maybe I should try one to find out. One thing it could be is maybe it could be easier to be directional. Maybe you could configure it to make it turn pretty easy or something because of how you've got it. Maybe it could be on a tripod or something.
Speaker B: If I'm thinking, oh yeah, you use a tripod and it is directional because of that. So. But then the difference is with this one is that you're supposedly supposed to be able to turn it into an actual flat dipole or you can have the angle on it and it comes with a natural angle angle. They all do, but you're supposed to be able to change, Change the angle somehow by rotating. You're supposed to rotate the whole assembly. Inside. And it's got these little holes on it.
Speaker A: So I don't know.
Speaker B: This particular device doesn't make sense. It could be because it's some sort of copy, like copying the picture and putting it out. And it's definitely not the same device because the picture had things about it. You had to have one in your hand and try it and then you'd know what you have. So, yeah, I'm, I'm skeptical of what I've got here, but we'll see. I. I haven't unscrewed these screws and seeing if it'll do anything. Yeah.
Speaker A: So your, your thoughts on, say, excuse me, Cough. Kind of. So have you had any thoughts on emergency calls? Like if you're using your phone in that fashion that you described or you were using yesterday, at least that you would be able to make an emergency call without having to go run out and take it down from the air and so forth? I mean, even the idea of having an inexpensive, say, burner phone or whatever that you get from Walmart. Okay, I think it was called Straight Talk, something like that.
Speaker B: Well, at one time we had services available where we could do that. The technology has been available forever where we can make calls on our laptops and on our computers. We could make a phone call. And I noticed they shut down a lot of that type of service, but the technology has always been around. So I don't know.
Speaker A: Well, I remember having that program. I think it was called Skype at the time, and maybe it's still around, don't recall. But anyway. And I was talking with my sister and my mom at the same time on that, and that was pretty interesting. For a while that was all on the Internet, like you're saying. So I don't know. We still, we still have a voiceover, you know, if you use a router. Anyway. Yeah, the voiceover Internet protocol stuff. But. But yeah, I don't know how that works for, say, an emergency 911 call.
Speaker B: But the point is they had a way where you could dial an actual phone number and it could be 91 1, if that's what you wanted. Now what you're talking about is just voice over the Internet that's, you know, done a lot of different ways. It's built in with Skype, you know, but it's not an actual phone call and they're not using their, their, you know, landline to get to talk to you. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker A: Well, the, I mean the idea of a landmine has been non existent for most of us anymore for quite a few years now. They won't put one in. They've already cut them, you know, so that's all over. You know, at least here you couldn't get at and t to come out here and put it in a landmark for you. Anyway, a lot of the residential we tried to do, we wanted to keep that one, our old phone number and they wouldn't, they wouldn't let us. And they're doing that up in at the club up the hill too. So my understanding is it might take an act of congress to get some sort of a regular old school landline going all the way to your house.
Speaker B: No, the landlines are still around every whole lot of people that have them. But you're mixing up things again. You were saying 91 1. You were specifying 91 1. 911 is a landline. They answer it with a landline. It is a landline service.

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Speaker A: As far as I know, there's no Internet protocol service for 911. So that's why I said you have to be able to go with something similar to Skype that actually allows you to dial a phone number that we could possibly make it to a landline, for instance. Then you're really dialing a number, and then you can dial 91 1. And that used to be, that used to exist. I don't know how they do it now, but it used to exist.
Speaker B: So are you trying to say that I couldn't call 911 from my house because I didn't have any landlines anymore? Because that wasn't true. I mean, I could, I could call them right here from my house phone, right? Not my cellular phone, but my house phone that's plugged into my house jack. But it does not go to anywhere on the street or anywhere in the, any pole that goes up in the air or anything like that. No, it doesn't. It goes to my router that was the Comcast Xfinity router. And so then it gets put on the Internet lines. And now as far as from where there it goes, I couldn't say. There could be landmines involved or whatever. I don't know.
Speaker A: Well, that's where the systems are important because what you're talking about is a system that's capable of getting to 911 just like a cell phone does. That's a, that's a special system and that goes to a special service that. Is different than a voice over Internet protocol. It is not the same thing. It takes one more, one more leap of service connection. I can't really describe it by giving you a letter, some letters or numbers, but it requires a different type of service, just like a cell phone requires a different type of service to get, to make it possible for you to dial a landline phone like a. Or, you know, another cell phone and have it ring and be a phone call. See, that's the difference. We're not talking VoIP like, like Skype that is on the Internet, never leaves the Internet for the most part, as far as I know.
Speaker B: Kn6MGK. So anyway, a lot, a lot of things like in our house where all the cabling and stuff was done, including the AT&T twisted pairs and all that business, but there were different outlets through the house and so forth. You know, a lot of things these days are funneled through that. So, example, like the 75 ohm coax cable that was for, say, the Comcast cable back the Old school Viacom stuff probably back on this house was built. Anyway, that stuff still runs through all the walls, right? And on the outside, like DirecTV just put up the dish and hooked into that. And then because that runs through all the walls, it funnels it to every, every room. So now we can hook up a TV in any room we wanted. Right. So versus, you know, the old days of the going all the way down the street into the Viacom boxes and all that stuff. And the same with those. The reason I bring that up as a tangent is because the AT and T lines were used in the same fashion. So from the router, it would go to that box, one of the boxes in the room. And then therefore you could put a phone, a you know, regular phone line like we had with the voicemail and all that business on any of the different phones jacks in the house.
Speaker A: Okay. I'm not sure we're still really together on what I'm talking about and the differences between what you're describing and what I'm talking about. I might have to talk about systems and get some help describing what I'm talking about. Maybe,
Speaker B: I don't know. But I can bet you that if somebody still has a regular landmine around here, and I'm sure that's possible, I'm thinking someone like maybe Mark in Orland or something like that. Anyway, I bet you it gets funneled somewhere, then it goes back into some other system or protocol where it goes over fiber optics after that, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't go to the old school landmine anymore.
Speaker A: Yeah, but you're talking about old school landlines as if that's what I'm talking about. And that is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the entire system of phone calls that are considered to be phone calls. And how that happens. And then you want to say, tell me. Well, I have Internet and it's all Internet. Well, it's not all Internet. There is Internet way that your system is connecting you to the system that is considered to be a phone call. And that's what I'm talking about. Phone calls are special. They are phone calls. They are not voiceover Internet protocol only type systems, like, as I said, like the system you were describing. And they're not. They're not, they're different.
Speaker B: Well, okay, so the only concern for me anyway, just going back to the original topic though, with, you know, having the ability to say, call 911 because your dumb neighbors coming over there threatening, threatening you or Something, you know, and you need to someone to come over and deal with that situation. I'm just trying to say as a friend, that would be my only concern. If you got it all figured out, that's fine. I don't know, I was just thinking that burner phone idea or something, but whatever. Maybe there is a computer program and you can easily access it that way. I don't know.
Speaker A: Okay, well my response to that was that at one time there was a way to use Internet to connect to the phone system which would then allow you to dial 91 1. That was my response.
Speaker B: Yeah, like something like that should be available and it should be available nationally, you know, like because it shouldn't matter, you know, if you have a service or not and you need help from an emergency responder. That something like that should exist. That I've never, never heard of it like you know, on a computer being able to make a phone call. But it sounds like it ought to be. I mean all of our laptops and stuff today have cameras and they have microphones and stuff like that. So I would agree something like that should exist.
Speaker A: There is a system out there that is called. That makes it possible to use VoIP smartphones and text to 911 dispatch center is called Next Internet, Next generation, excuse me, Next Generation 911 which operates over a secure IP based system known Emergency Services IP Network ESINet. So they have a way at one time though they had a way where you could make a regular phone call to someone who could be on AT&T landline with a wire coming into your house via the Internet. You could actually tell it on your computer. You wanted to dial such and such number and talk to that person on a landline phone at one time. And you actually probably have the equivalent of that except that it uses the Internet in addition to the wires and so forth. It actually goes into the tele to the major telephone company network. So you have that. You're just doing it a different way.
Speaker B: Okay, well I just looked this one up because I remembered that when I started my business I did this and I think it was at the start of it was called Google Voice and it still looks like it is called Google Voice. Nevertheless, I had phone numbers. I had two or three of them at the time because of having a business. And I wanted those phone calls even from my business phone line from my store to hit my cell phone. But I didn't want people to know my cell phone. So I had a Google Voice phone number and I would have that one redirect into my cell phone. So anyway, that way there, if somebody would call in, I could answer my phone, you know, my business name, and they wouldn't know that I was actually on my cell phone driving to make a delivery or something. But the point is that. Now I'll read this off, that personal use is still free, according to AI here. But it says free calls. Most calls to U.S. and Canada numbers are free with a small charge for specific ones. But anyway, it says you get a free US Phone number for calls, text and voicemail, accessible on computers and smartphones.
Speaker A: So it looks to me like they
Speaker B: still do offer something like that.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've got it on my phone right now. And the first thing they want to do is offer you a number, a phone number and your number. They don't know really where I am because I'm checking in with them on this cell phone Internet. So they're saying, you know, they're giving me a whole lot of places other than where I am, and they think I'm near Thornton, wherever Thornton is. I've never heard of it, but Lake Berryessi, Berryessa is way down, kind of close to Sacramento, so I guess so. I don't know why they would think I'm there.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker A: But
Speaker B: I don't recall that my. I don't remember my phone number, you know, that. That it gave me at the time. I don't remember it being like the same area code and stuff like that. I didn't care. It didn't matter to me what number I had because I was using the phone number that was given to me. Like, let's say your. Your current cell phone number right now. You could, you know, you would just. I would go on to that and I could hit a few buttons, kind of like a DTMS thing, and it would transfer the calls all. It would call forward all those calls to my. To my other. To the. To the Google voice number, if that makes sense.
Speaker A: Oh, sure. I'm sure there's lots of different features, but yeah, this is good to find out that they still do something like this. And it's free, and I don't know how hard it would be to use it, but call forwarding would be a good thing. If I could call forward my current cell phone number to this system, would I be able to do that?
Speaker B: Well, I think that would depend on the service you have on your. On your cell phone. You know, I was able to do that before. I was able to go both ways. But Anyway, I generally use it the opposite way. Like you know, I would have. I didn't want people to know my cell phone number. I didn't want every business, you know, I didn't want every. Not business. I didn't want every customer to know it. Yeah, sure, I would give it out to customers, my cell phone number, but you know, but I did want to take my office lines, you know, and forward them to my cell phone. So you're just going the opposite way. But. And it was allowed back then, but that had to do know the service provider. So I don't know, you'd have to see if that's possible, I guess on your current cell phone before you would try to attempt this anyway. But nevertheless, I mean, couldn't it still work? Like let's say, well, you know, you got your using your, your other phone for Internet stuff. So it's up in the air somewhere. And even if you gave out your say, your Google Voice photo number, someone could call you on that one. Right. And you'd be able to talk to them without having to deal with your phone in the air. And six mgk.
Speaker A: Well, my phone's got to be in the air because that's the only way I can get Internet. That's still going to happen. What this would make possible would be for me to. What I'd like to see if it was possible would be for if you dial my cell phone number, it forwards to this Google Voice number and then I can answer it on my computer. That's where it would be helpful. I have to have, in order to use a hotspot, I have to have this phone up in the air where the cell phone coverage begins to get strong enough to receive enough data to make phone calls and even YouTube for that matter. And it doesn't take much for it to do that. So an APRS is very similar. Yes. If I'm going to use a portable, I have to use beyond my roof for aprs here especially now because I think the site is down at. Chassis. The APRS site I think is down. So I'm having get APRS into readings and it does change things. But anyway, that's a whole another topic.
Speaker B: Yeah, and I would think that's exactly what you'd want to do is forward your, your cell phone numbers to this other Google Voice number that was, that's what I was kind of suggesting if that were possible. And I would think that it might be. But alternatively speaking just having Google Voice phone number, let's just say. And you can make Free phone calls on it. Let's say that you wanted to call the auto parts store to see if they have a part in stock. Right? You don't want to have to go grab your phone off of its location to make that call. So you could use the Google Voice phone number, maybe from a laptop or whatever to make that call. You could call several places around town. Whatever you had to do. Right. And then before you go, you can go grab your phone and take off and go do what you got to do. Because you want to have that phone with you, right?
Speaker A: Yeah. Right. We didn't change frequency. It started scanning. Yeah, there we go. Want to make sure I'm not on link. I see what made it start scanning. Or at least I see what made it stop scanning. I don't know if that starts it. Also, it's such a simple thing on this D710 to make it start scanning that it's kind of scary. It's not a very good thing. It's too easy to make it start scanning anyway. Yeah, Google Voice has some possibilities as far as helping me right now. So I'll have to investigate that. And you know what? I'm gonna get out and let's see what time it is. Come on now. Google Voice. And it won't let me out of it. Oh yeah, it's exactly five o'. Clock. The sheep are looking at me like, you dummy. Don't you know it's five o'? Clock?
Speaker B: All righty, well, I'll get off of here and we'll catch up with you maybe tomorrow or something. Unless something comes up. Yeah. Better go take care of your business there. Yeah, I got something I got to do too. For all, probably I'll say 73kn6mgk real quick.
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Speaker A: Thing I got from Ally Express that I've seen advertised on YouTube in various places is, you know those shelf brackets that you attach to the wall and then you attach the shelf to the shelf bracket. But the difference is that this particular shelf bracket, you just push some buttons on, on the thing or something like that and the whole bracket folds downward or maybe even upward for all I know. Maybe you could make it go upward, I don't know. I got a pair of them from AliExpress for practically nothing and came really quickly. And I'm going to try them out, see if there's some way I can use them and then the next thing I'll do is make it so that my bed folds up against the ceiling or something. I'm just kidding.
Speaker B: Well, I guess I don't, I'm a picture guy. I guess I don't understand completely. It's a fold down shelf bracket, so wonder how far it folds down. Does it go all the way down to like if you attach it to the wall, it would go all the way down to the back to the wall. Go that far. You know where it could be used as some sort of a closing door?
Speaker A: No, they don't, they don't go. You're stuck in 180 degrees there. They don't go 180 degrees. They only change 90 degrees. So the, the table or whatever it was that you're folding up or down folds 90 degrees only. And then. So I don't think you could use that as a door from a practical perspective. But the difference is that it holds it securely at 90 degrees. So you know, it turns it kind of into a table or shelf that you could disappear by folding it down against the wall or up against up or down against the wall and it disappears. See, so they like to use these types of things in places where you don't have a lot of space. That includes vans, boats, RVs, different places like that.
Speaker B: Well, I've seen various. I mean, I think I'm still having a hard time picturing that device, but I've seen various things like that that were used for like cabinets on RVs. You know, there are special angles and things where they came down and they had to hold in place. In fact, sometimes we had to put magnets on them, stuff like that anyway. Just little brackets and devices like that that were almost like a prop but. But the brackets were better than the props because the props would eventually wear out real bad versus these mechanical type things. Well, they couldn't wear out as easily. And you know, obviously when you're traveling down the road in an rv, you know, going over bumps and all that kind of stuff, those other kind of hydraulic props and things like that would lose their energy over time. Wouldn't take very long. Believe it or not,
Speaker A: You're talking about a hydraulic swap. Boy, I think of a prop as is the thing that makes a boat go. So I'm not sure what you're talking about there.
Speaker B: Yeah, so kind of like if you were to put a stick in your hood, when you lift your hood up, that would be propping it up. Right. So that's the type of prop I'm talking about, not like the prop of the boat, but that would be a propeller.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: Really. Anyway, and I think they're really there like a gas. Gas charged, like a shock kind of like that. The device I'm talking about. But the, the brackets and stuff. I've seen some that were. That you're describing kind of like that. And they'd be used sometimes to hold up covered doors. And so like if you go inside of a. And it's on the ceiling, mounted on the ceiling of an RV and you open up the door, they didn't want to open it up all the way. So it would open up a part of the way and hold it there. And like you were saying, I don't know if 90 degrees is enough. But anyway, it would open it up and hold it there. But it was mechanical, so it didn't have any of that gas charged stuff that would eventually disappear relatively quickly on a new expensive rv. So they would use these mechanical brackets and instead.
Speaker A: Okay, yeah, well, this would work. This particular device would flat table. And the thing you're trying to do with it is like, like for instance, if you had it mounted to a seat that was right directly in of you, you could fold that table down and get it out of the way. So like in an airline you could have it mounted to the seat in front of you and fold it down and get it out of the way and things like that. You know, any place where you don't have a lot of space, you need to use every bit of space as creatively as possible.
Speaker B: Yeah. Yes, it's kind of what I'm thinking. And I'll give you an example that like Tad has on his van, you know the sliding door that you open the van with slides it back. Well, he has a sink right there. And so what do you want? Next to a sink is a little bit of working space. And so, you know, he has a piece of wood There, you know, let's call it a 12 inch by 14 inch or something, piece of wood attached to some of those, like, brackets. Right. And so he can pick up, you know, that. That kind of table or whatever, and then lock in the brackets and use it to say, put your cooking pot on or utensils that you're gonna like your spatula when you're cooking or whatever, next to the cooktop or whatever. And then when you're all done, of course, you fold it back down. And now you can, you know, walk into the sliding door and get inside of it. Right. So. But with it out, of course, it blocks the door because, you know, it's out. And, well, you might be able to go under it if you're a kid, but if you're an adult, no. So I'm pretty sure I get the idea what you're talking about, but I'm not 100%.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think you might be close. And to go one step farther beyond this idea, on boats, they have cook stoves with ovens in the bottom. And as you're going through the ocean or whatever, the wind is blowing your boat, especially if it's not a catamaran, it's blowing it so it's at an angle because of the sails. And so what they do is they mount this whole cook stove oven on a set of. Brackets that allow the hole to stove to stay vertical regardless of what angle the boat's at. And they call that a gimbal. That's a whole other idea, though. That's not what I'm talking about with this bracket thing. But they use these brackets on boats. RVs all over the place now. And the idea wasn't known well enough, apparently, that everybody every. They could still market it as a new idea, even though they've been around for a long time.
Speaker B: So
Speaker A: they put these ads on YouTube. Anyway, I gotta get out there. The sheep are like. I say, they're literally looking at me like, you bozo. What are you doing talking on the phone? What are you doing sitting in the truck when you know you're supposed to be feeding us right now? That's exactly what they're doing right now. And now they're starting to get a little vocal about it.
Speaker B: Yeah, the gimbal. That just reminds me of, like, you know, even people have smartphones and you don't want to take video. And they put their phones in a gimbal. That way they can walk around. And even though they're walking, it stays fairly stationary. The phone does, I think they're better today than they were originally. But anyway, yeah, so that would be cool if you want to cook your eggs and you want them to be on a level surface and you're on a sailboat. Yeah, a gimbal would be pretty nice. That way you could have an over easy egg as if it's scrambled egg anyway. But yeah, no, I could see for storage, you know, campers and stuff. That's why I was trying to mention that because, yeah, there's always little spots like at the end, like where I see them in RVs a lot of times at the end of a countertop, you know, by a sink or something like that. You wanted to have a quick place to be able to put your utensils as you're cooking or something like that. But then when you're driving along or on a normal basis, you, you want that stowed away. So yeah, that's what you do. So maybe it stick out an inch from the cupboard, but that would be better than 14 inches. So anyway, all right, go feed your animals. Yeah, it's been 12 minutes since you said that. 5:12 now. 7:3 kn:6 mgk.
Speaker A: Oh, by the way, the most famous of those gimbal phones, I got a term for those phones, they're like action phones or something, is the DJI3 something. If you look, just put. I think if you put DJI in three in the word gimbal, you'll. They'll talk about it. And it's. It's considered to be the best phone on the market for making it possible to show an action situation without all that phone movement and everything. One of the dji, it has a three in the number. I know that and I'm seriously considering getting it, if not even the number. Newest phone. It's just the best one they've ever come up with.
Speaker B: As far as I know.
Speaker A: No one in the federal government has told us we can't have that at this point. All right, talk to you later. N6 GRG. Off to the, off to the sheep zone.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, you can expect Trump to put an executive order that you can't have it and then the Supreme Court a few months later will say that's not legal. 73kn6MGK.
Speaker A: Yeah, they did some of that today. A big no, no. They told him the biggest program he's ever, his most favorite program. And they said, nope, can't do that, sorry, bye bye. Radio is off.
Speaker B: Well, I already said 73kn6mgk. Going back to monitoring.

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Speaker A: Good evening, Chris. KN6GTN Ernie, how you doing? Are you.
Speaker B: Are you battling any snow or is that above your level up there?
Speaker A: That was yesterday.
Speaker B: Okay. All right. So you haven't have any avalanches in your part of the wood then?
Speaker A: No, but in 15 years since I'm here, I've never seen what I saw yesterday here on, you know, here in Oroville, we're. The shop's about 800ft and we. I've seen it up the top by the, on top of the hill there by the old scales, about 1200ft elevation. But this time we had a good coating of snow down there in our parking lot. It made our life miserable yesterday trying to bring vehicles in and, you know, keep the floor dry to where we can work. And I don't miss. We used to deal with that all winter long. I don't miss it a bit.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I imagine. I can just imagine. Yeah. Interesting. When. Yeah, I haven't really seen any, but a long time ago. Everything's a long time ago now. Ernie. When I was at Travis, we actually had a little bit of snow fall and stuck for a little while. And Ernie, people just didn't know how to act. You know, they were. They put on their brakes and they'd go sliding along and they just didn't understand.
Speaker A: Yeah, that happened up here yesterday too. There were a lot of accidents. People took out telephone poles and all kinds of interesting things right up the street from the shop there. But yeah, when we lived in portola Back in 96, I don't remember which, you know, exactly which year it was, but one of those years, Bakersfield got a couple inches of snow and they dismissed all the schools because they said it's a once in a lifetime event and everybody got a vacation.
Speaker B: Well, that's kind of fun. At least they couch it that way instead of saying, we're not sure how we can handle this, so everybody stay home.
Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker B: We.
Speaker A: There was actually a snow plow went by the shop with his blade down there on the 162. I haven't seen that in, like I said, 15 years. Now in northern Missouri, that was a different story.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that was as common as. Well, whatever is common.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Interesting. So I don't know who I was talking to yesterday. I wish I could remember because they were talking about skiing or something and I told them they could have my old ski equipment and I wish I'd remembered who that was because I'm half serious. I would have just given it to them.
Speaker A: Are you sure? I Mean, you know, with retiring, maybe next winter you'll want to break those skis out and get back into the hobby.
Speaker B: I'm not kidding myself in thinking that I'm in any condition to do any serious skiing,
Speaker A: okay? I don't, I mean I, I see these people here, like with all this up there in the mountain, there's a lot of people this weekend going up to play in the snow and I, I get it. I mean if you lived out here all your life and hardly ever ever see snow and you like to do that, that's, that's wonderful. But I am not going out of my way to go play in the snow. I, I played in all the snow I care to.
Speaker B: Well, I never did do an all awful lot of skiing, but the skiing that I did, I had fun. I enjoyed it. I was, you know, I was a rank beginner the whole time, but I, I enjoyed it. But you know, it just doesn't really hold any. Not like if, if I don't go skiing, it's not going to kill me.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, I, I have no interest in it either. I, I never did. Now my boys and my girls both, they like to go at least once or twice a year and spend a couple hours on the ski slope, get their practice in. But they have a lot of fun. But yeah, that's alright.
Speaker B: Of course the skis that I have, I'm not sure anybody'd want nowadays because let me see, they're 40 years old.
Speaker A: You never know, they might be better than anything that anyone has now. Who knows?
Speaker B: Well, for somebody that doesn't have any skis at all, they're better than nothing.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, copy that.
Speaker B: I just wonder where I put my ski ski boots and whether or not, you know, they were plastic and who knows, the glue holding them together might have, might have failed a long time ago. You know, I, I went to go get my, I got a new, new cell phone and I went to go get it changed over at, AT and T and, and I took it out. I took the old one out of its protected case and the back started coming off of it, you know, and it, the back was glued in place. So like whole week. This is, I guess this is getting kind of old.
Speaker A: So it was literally falling apart.
Speaker B: Huh. W E6A X N repeater. Yeah, if it didn't have an external case on it, it would have come right apart.
Speaker A: Very interesting. So what, you run in Apple or are you running Andro? Android systems?
Speaker B: Oh, I went from Android to Android. I'm too used to Operating with Android. And Ernie, for reasons I won't go into, I'm not giving Apple any of my money.
Speaker A: I can relate to that.
Speaker B: My wife was trying to get me to get an Apple because she has an Apple, my daughter has an Apple, my son has an Apple, my son, my daughter in law has an Apple and she ought to get an Apple so we can do things, you know, Apple can do things with other apples. As a kid with an Android and I just was like you know what? No, I'm too used to doing the Android.
Speaker A: Very good. You can always use the excuse. It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
Speaker B: Well she came up with that. Well you know your son and your daughter can show you how to do that stuff. And they, she bought a new phone just recently and Apple it cost her fifteen hundred dollars. I bought a new phone, it's a Motorola, it cost me 300.
Speaker A: Wow, that's a huge difference. I had no idea there would be that big a big a swing, that big a gap between those phones.
Speaker B: That's amazing.
Speaker A: Yeah. One of my customers some time back came in, the older gentleman came in the office and he was crying the blues. They had been going through some phone issues and he said these smartphones, he said it's turned the whole world upside down. He said now your 12 year old granddaughter has to teach you how to use a phone. And he said that's backwards. When I grew up you know the older people always told taught the children how to do things.
Speaker B: Yes, yes, yes. Well my, my wife went for the, for the high feature iPhone and I went for one that was really basic because I don't need any of these high feature stuff. I just, I don't use it. So figure if I'm not going to use it why pay for it?
Speaker A: Exactly. Well I'm destinated here just parked up in front of the house so I'm going to say 73 I've got another appointment here in a few minutes so I've got to run. So you have a good weekend. Be careful out there. We'll chat with you later. Km6gtm
Speaker B: all right Ernie, have a great week on yourself. I'm going to go out to Sutter and see the tractor parade and maybe catch a ride with Bud. But have a great weekend and we'll talk to you later. 73 KK60VZD clear. You're going to buy a tractor when you retire. Kilo across the claimer. Go back to the.

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Kg6k u o, kf6 Obi, w6rhc repeater check two. Thank you, Mike. Qst, qst, qst. This is kg6k u open Sacramento Valley traffic. This pitch part of the master traffic system and the purpose of this net is related to a try to get to another sacrament probably have to provide a standard mercy. This is a direction to enter. Please take no transmission we got prepare state control is K6K O Ler okay west of WS station with mercy of pirate drivers. Please come down. Station with traffic. Great. None. Roll call follows. Kf6oki, kf6obi, mike and willows. No traffic. And again. Once again. Thanks for the hits up there. Kg6ko's calling rolling no crappy kg6kso. Good evening, lester. In the group. This is kz6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you. Busy. Kf60, q1, K6rcs, K6PMT, kilo, echo6 Papa Mike, tango, Rustin Gerber. Good evening. Let's turn a group and I have no traffic. Good evening, ross. Thank you. KC6UFE, KC6UFE, bill and compare. No traffic. Good evening, Lester. Good evening, Bill. Thank you. And K at 6pww asked for an early check in today. So that's the rules I have. Do we have any late members or business ways to check in? No further traffic or kick in? This is K6K closing segment of public traffic at this interview today at 2100 hours of time through the W6RHZ repeater of 146 35. All spacings are excused. Satellite. Thank you, buddy. Who kicked it tonight? And go lay fire. Aperture distance close to 214 local time 73. 73 is all the KD6K. No clear frequency.

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Kg6kuo, kf60jy. Good evening. This is kg6ko go here. Good evening. Lester, bruce and chico's. No traffic, late check in. And how are you feeling? Well, if I can get my voice back. The shrimp is starting to come back fairly slow, but other than that, it's going okay. Well, that's good. I'm glad to hear you're on the mend. Well, you have a good evening and thanks for calling. Katie Six Kilter, KO6DJY. And as long as we're piling in K6RCs with a late check in that you're on the mend last year. Thank you there, Randall. I appreciate that. KV6KU.

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Speaker A: Good morning everybody. It's 7:30am Pacific Time and that means it's happy hour somewhere. And more importantly, it's time for the Coffee breaknet. The Coffee breaknet is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio club in Auburn, California and is hosted this morning by Jerry WA60. That's me and my able bodied assistant Theta WA60WF. We will be. What do they call it? Conversation facilitators. Certainly not net controls. Okay, so what's the deal here? Many of you turn on Saturday morning hoping to hear Orion AI6JB, but he is hosting or conducting one of his field workshops this morning showing young wannabe hams how to cut and make antennas out in a park somewhere in Sacramento. So I'll be filling in for him this morning. If anyone can do so. I'll give it my best shot. So who's out there that wants to be a participant in today's session at the Coffee Break vet? Come now.
Speaker B: N60 KV
Speaker C: Kilo Golf 6 November Limewitzki, Pennsylvania.
Speaker B: Kilo charlo.
Speaker A: Good morning.
Speaker D: Kbc 8fqv, ohio mark,
Speaker E: Kb6ssn,
Speaker A: Ko6mjl, Whiskey1, sierra, charlie, delta, sean, vermont. Okay, good morning everybody. Here's who I got. N6ckv, wh7000kg6nlw, kc8fqv, kc6sle, kv6ssn, ko6mjl and w1scd. Shaun from vermont. Did I miss anybody? Amazing. Well, let's start at the top. Insect, ckv. Good morning Carl. How are you today?
Speaker B: Good morning Jerry, Zada and Rocky. Well, no big plans for today. Might take a drive, enjoy the nice weather for a little bit before the rain comes again. Other than that, not much going on at the old homestead.
Speaker A: Well, very good. Yeah, it's supposed to be a nice day today. According to one weatherman, the high should be about 660 tomorrow, mid 60. So we're going to warm up a little bit. You know what that means, Carl? All that rain we had and the rain that's promised. Plus all that sunshine. Better get your tractor warmed up. It's time to cut those weeds. Yeah, the field's a little too muddy
Speaker B: to be out there right now, but I got to do some little bit of maintenance on it and then get ready to start cutting grass or weeds. More weeds than grass.
Speaker A: And let's clarify for those folks who don't live here locally and are back east and wondering what we Californians are talking about when we talk about weed. What you and I are talking about are green things that come up from the Ground that are unwanted. I guess you could smoke them if you dried it, but it wouldn't be very pleasant.
Speaker B: Yeah, just plain old undesirable stuff that's growing and it's getting fairly high. It's going to be a tough mow this year.
Speaker A: Indeed it is. However, we have to let it get nice and high so we can host those wonderful summer fires.
Speaker B: Yeah, we don't want one on this property. We want to mow them down, get them down below six inches.
Speaker A: Yeah. Now that I don't have horses, I go out and mow the weeds down in the pasture down to about ankle level. Okay, well, have a great day and give our regards to Ruth.
Speaker B: Okay, we'll do. Everyone have a good Friday. This is N60KV. I'm going to say 73. Good Saturday. My mistake.
Speaker A: It's Saturday.
Speaker B: Saturday 73 everyone.
Speaker A: 73. Carl. It's so hard being retired. Every day is just blend into the next, don't they? Let's go Back to Pennsylvania. WH7DB. Good morning, Roy.
Speaker E: Good morning, Jerry and the net wa t e and wace wall. This is W87DH and it is 36 and a half degrees here. The snow is pretty much all gone. But we're supposed to get some more snow tomorrow. Less than an inch though. So I think the really, really cold weather, including the negative weather, may be over. Sure hope so. For the season. We missed California, we missed the islands and nice weather there for sure.
Speaker F: Good morning, Roy.
Speaker A: Sorry I had cough and I didn't want to do that in the mic. Yeah, you. Are you staying put in Pennsylvania for a while? I think of all the moves that you've done since I've known you. You come a long way from living in the tropics and the nice warm breezes to living in the freezer.
Speaker E: That's for sure, Jerry. Yeah, we do miss our four years in Oahu and then 25 years in Hilo after that. So. But California, Colfax, that was very nice, nice area. But we were in a high fire danger area and we're not here for sure. But we'll probably be put be put for quite a while because we have a middle son and his family, wife and five grandchildren that are within a half an hour of us. So we'll probably stay put here for a while anyway.
Speaker A: I understand family is a great draw and I'm glad that you got one close to you there. You know, speaking of halo, have you been watching the eruption of Kilauea? Did it erupt while you were living there? It probably did, but it's going crazy now, putting on quite a show.
Speaker E: Yes, it did erupt while we were there, but nothing like it has been recently. I have a friend there that told us about the ash that was getting on everything, even in the Hilo area, which is pretty unusual to get that far down. I mean, in the past 1980s there was a big one, that lava flow that came within not too many miles of Hilo from the Kaumana side. But this last one, yeah, is quite significant. And then my brother and sister in law are over there now. He's on the board of one of the gardens there over there in the Hamakua coast. But the rains, he says the rains have been unstoppable. They were there from the 22nd until last 22nd of January till last Tuesday and they had lots of rain. It took care of the ash. But then, you know, all the rain that was there.
Speaker A: Unusual winter. I hadn't heard about all the rains in Hilo. Of course, that is the wet side of the island. I read about the heavy unusual snow in Fairbanks this year. So the rain, as you say, gets rid of the ash and the vog v o g which is volcanic smog, huh? Well, we were there back in the early 80s. I had a trial there and we went over to Hilo just for a visit. And I don't remember if the volcano was erupting probably, but I have around here a picture that I took of a subdivision they were building called Hawaiian Gardens or Hawaiian Islands or something like that. It was a big sign, a big billboard announcing the development that they had put in. And there were some roads and whatnot. And the sign was half covered by lava and the rest of the subdivision was covered by lava. So much for that new development.
Speaker E: Yes, when we, we moved over to the Hilo area from Oahuahu in 1990 and when we first got there, one of the beaches, maybe Mickey remembers the name a couple, One of the beaches was overrun with lava. A little beach park. Yeah, right after we got there. And so yes, it has. And that was the way out in the Puna district and things like that. But I think maybe what you're referring to, there's a Hawaiian Acres and there's also a Hawaiian Paradise Park. I don't know if that was one of those that you saw the sign half covered in lava. But yeah, we used to take our young single adults out there to walk in the lava and see the fire from the distance and such there. But got to be careful because those lava shelves can break off pretty easily, but I better let others get in and WA60 and WA60WF, great talking to you, Great net and thank you for handling us this morning. And I, I will say 73s and we'll be monitoring all that everyone else has to say.
Speaker A: Okay, Roy, good to hear you on and glad you're surviving the cold back there. Regards to Mickey. Have a great day and thanks for checking in with us. This is WA6E, KG6NLW. Frank, good morning. Where in California did we find this morning? I think yesterday was Bakersfield or maybe that was Thursday.
Speaker C: And I'm off until tomorrow afternoon. So I'm at home and I'm having fun and coffee. Breaknet is live on YouTube. Not much else going on here. Just getting stuff done around the Shack studio. Got a couple projects, a couple video reviews to do, but otherwise keeping nice and comfy. It is overcast today down here in the Bay Area, Northern Bay area. So I think we're expecting a spot of more rain with that. I'm going to keep it very short. Jerry, good morning to you and Theta and Rocky and good morning. Coffee break now at Kilo Golf the 6th of November Lima Whiskey.
Speaker A: Okay, Frank, very good. Well, I'm glad you're back home. Have a few days off and why don't you clarify for Everybody where on YouTube they can find this net if they want to listen in. And it does not include video.
Speaker C: Oh, it does have a little bit of video. I have both my, my all star connection and the W6EK connection. Dashboards up on the screen and how you can get in. So there, there is a little tiny bit of video to it, but I'm not, I'm not. My face is not there. It's dashboards only. But you just throw my call sign into YouTube, KG6LW and it should pop up with Ham Radio Wilderness with Frank.
Speaker D: That's me.
Speaker C: So if you just Google YouTube, search Bar Kilo Golf 6 November Lima Whiskey. Not phonetically though, you'll get the YouTube.
Speaker A: Okay, very good. Years ago there was a movie, American Graffiti. And. And when I was growing up, I listened in the evening to a DJ came out of Mexico by the name of Wolfman Jack. And as part of that movie, you had a brief glimpse of Wolfman Jack sitting at his microphone at the station putting on these records. I guess theoretically the station was in Modesto or someplace like that, according to the movie. But when you go to your website, you're not going to see one of us sitting here hosting the net. That was My point, saying there's no video. I guess we can look at whatever you post, but it won't be whoever's in the net control for the day.
Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. It's just the dashboard showing who's keyed up. So on the bottom half of the screen right now, it shows that I'm keyed up on the W6ek system. And below that, it shows how you can get in. You know, there's the wire racks, All Star and Echo link. So there you have it, Jerry, Data, you all have a great day. And we'll be here. WA60 and WA6EWF key G6NLW.
Speaker A: Very good. Thanks for checking in, Frank. Always a pleasure. Let's move along to KC8FQV mark in Ohio. How are things there?
Speaker D: All right. Yeah, Just peeling these boiled eggs. Peeling the one. There's another one to go, but we'll take a call here and do it. So KT6NLW, we'll take a look on that, on YouTube. Get that brought up. Yeah, the dashboard. That dashboard helps out so much. Yeah. When you're doing nets, I think. Have you guys did it or is it the one out skywarn Net out in Pennsylvania? As soon as they see you log in, they can call on you. So there is no train wreck there. They can look at a dashboard and see all the people. They could work off the dashboard for a while and say if you're logged in on All Star Echo Link or whatever, you wouldn't have to call in. We will call you. We can avoid train work that way. And of course, you get to a repeater. Of course, the repeater has the call sign come up there. And of course, anyone could come in. And yes, there are some people that come in. And then when the people key up and they're looking at the dashboard. Oh, you're that person. No, no, I'm not that one. Because that's the repeater. This is my call. You know when they call through the repeater, because that was. It's the repeater that's connected to the Echo link or All Star that shows up on the dashboard. That's where it can get a little confusing sometimes if you're looking at the dashboard, but you're not looking at the dashboard. Yeah, just like radio. But yeah, everything else is going good here at 31 degrees, about overcast, gray. We call it Gray Ohio. So I'll send it back to the net. Yep. I did look at KG6NLW up yesterday. Now, I haven't looked on YouTube yet.
Speaker C: I just.
Speaker D: I did look up on QRZ so I'll send it back to Net Case FQV.
Speaker E: Okay Mark.
Speaker A: Well, you know, the way I look at it is if you show up on Supermon, you're fair game and there are some net controls who criticize me for that. But sorry, it's my turn. I get to do it like I want, I guess. And I used to have. I lived in Dayton, Ohio for quite a while when we were in the service and had a friend there, Frank Schwab was his name. His call was W8OK and Frank's motto was when he was out chasing stations and dx, if they say okay, I log them. So that's the first corollary to seeing them on Supermodel and calling on them. Well, I wish you a good day and I hope to see sunshine eventually comes out. And thanks for checking in with us. Check out Frank's YouTube KG6NLW November LeVowisker. We got to come up with a phonetic for that, a better one and see what you think. So thanks Mark.
Speaker E: Have a good one.
Speaker D: Yep, you all have a good one. Case out QB73 and I'll be listening out.
Speaker A: Okay, very good. KC6 Sle. Good. Good morning Graydon. What's new?
Speaker E: Good morning Jerry.
Speaker F: Good morning to Lynette. You know you brought back some memories with the mention of Wolfman Jack. I used to as a oh as a beginning teenager and in the mid-1960s I used to be living in the Central Valley. I used to go out in the evening right around dark, get into the family's 55 Mercury Montclair, fire up the tube radio and I would. Right at dark you could start picking up Wolfman Jack out of Mexico. And I would listen to him for as long as I could. Usually about 10 o' clock he would start fading away.
Speaker A: Way propagation would change.
Speaker F: But in those days the old 55 Mercury was a 6 volt car. It was even more strange than that.
Speaker A: It was a 6 volt positive car. But if I listened for too long,
Speaker F: I would run the battery down. Then the next day when my dad would get in to use the car, the battery, he would not be happy. But I have fond memories of listening to Wolfman Jack from the page Mercury on the ranch when I could get away with it.
Speaker A: Oh, that's so funny. I was probably doing very much the same thing. In 1965 I went to college in San Diego and I thought oh, how neat is this Wolfman Jack. I think is Steel Studios were in la but they transmitted on a radio station with the call signs X Ray, Echo, Romeo, Bravo, X, E, R, B. And the transmitter was 50,000 watts in Tijuana.
Speaker E: And so I.

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Speaker A: Well, this would be great. I can listen to Wolfman Jack anytime. It's too stupid to realize he wasn't on all day long. But when I went down there, I pressed the button on my little 1964 Chevy 2 and brought up Xerv. And it was a low power religious station during the day. So that was very disappointing. The mercury 6 volt positive ground, you don't see that very much. By 55 probably had a bench seat up in front as well. Not buckets, right?
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think anybody knew what bucket seats were in those days. That car had so much real estate inside. It was my first car. My dad gave it to me. It was my grandfather's car before he passed away. My dad gave it to me on a condition. If I could get it running, I could have the car. Because somewhere on Highway 99 he burned
Speaker C: up the engine in it.
Speaker B: The old 292 wide locked engine. And I was 14 years old. He said, you can have the car if you can get it running again. Well, by 15 I had it running, was driving it around the ranch. So yeah, I have a lot of fond memories with that car. And I have a lot of ugly memories with that car.
Speaker D: It was a tank, but you could
Speaker B: get a lot of people into that car and a lot of real estate inside.
Speaker A: That's the perfect car for taking to a drive in movie. You drive up and there's people crammed. You probably have 14, 15 kids in there and one please when you buy your ticket, right?
Speaker B: Yeah, I wasn't in in the Mercury, but there was another time when I was one of the three people in the trunk of the cars. He went to the drive in movie theater, Sunrise Drive in movie theater down in Bristol. And they had gotten wise to us and we pulled into the drive in theater. I was in the trunk with two other guys and they had somebody stand out there and watch the car. We kept pounding on the trunk lid saying, hey, let us out. And the people in the car were saying, no, I can't let you out. They're watching us.
Speaker A: Oh, now that's funny. Of course, you know, as a practical matter, they couldn't watch you forever. But yeah, the 15 year olds who were selling the tickets, they knew what was going on and they didn't care.
Speaker B: Eventually we got out, but we missed the first part of the movie. Yeah, yeah, we get to talk a lot about growing up. You know, American Graffiti was so in parallel with the way I grew up in the valley. And it was so right on with what was going on at the time with the car culture? Cruising? Oh, I got. I could tell you stories all day long about cruising the Main and Fresno on Belmont Avenue. But you've got a net to run and I'll turn it back to you. Good to hear it from you, Jerry6sle and for all those out in the park today, it's 35 here. It's going to be cool in the park till it warms up. Hopefully Ori won't be running the lab till a little later this morning when at least it gets up into the 40s.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's 41 here, so yeah, we did exactly the same thing you did. And I grew up at Stanford and we had a Mel's Drive in up in San Mateo we'd go up to and they were on roller skates. The waitresses were at the drive in. So it was great. Hey, before you go, did you get much snow at your house? I see. And this is for Roy. WH70H that Colpac got three and a half inches.
Speaker B: We got about two inches. It snowed all day long and the ground got cold enough that it held the snow. We got some accumulation so it probably snowed more than 2 inches. But only about 2 inches accumulated built up. Some of it stuck around yesterday but by the end of the day it was gone. But it certainly held the temperatures down. Yeah, we didn't have a Mel's driving in Fresno.
Speaker A: We had Bob's Big Boy.
Speaker B: You probably remember Bob's Big Boy. And that's where that was one end of the strip where we cruised. The other end of the strip was out by a park at the end of the. We'll have to talk about that someday. Keith 6 sle have a great day.
Speaker A: When I would drive home from LA up to the Bay Area, I would make it a point to stop in Fresno at that Bob's Big Boy. It was on Black Rock or Blackwell or black Something Street. I remember the exit off 99 because I love their hamburgers and still do. Have a good one and enjoy what's left of the snow. I know that Auburn got a light dusting of it too.
Speaker E: And so here to give us a
Speaker A: report on the snow in Auburn, none other than our own K6SSN. Good morning Tom, this is WA6E.
Speaker D: Well, good morning Jerry and Theta and the group and the net and the whole wide world out there. Yeah, there's no snow. As a matter of fact it's a little overcast but no snow. We had a little dusting yesterday it's still cold, but no snow, so that's a good sign. My timer has stopped. And I have to admit I'm very impressed by Frank's YouTube page here. I'm looking at it now and have been monitoring for a while. He has his node configuration information up here and then below it is Supermon 2, which I'd never seen before. So I'm to trying pretty impressed with that. And that includes a live chat so you can chat with everybody who's listening and it's pretty darned cool. And we came up with a phonetics for his call sign there. Caleb gets six newly listed wives.
Speaker A: What was the W? Was it the word wife or wise with an S or an F?
Speaker D: Well, considering there's six of them, I believe it's plural. So w, I, v, e, s.
Speaker A: Okay, yeah, you're right.
Speaker D: Very good.
Speaker A: Well, Frank can make a note of that. And I love his, his page too. I haven't logged into the chat. Are you there? I am indeed.
Speaker D: I chatted with Frank a little bit and saw another gentleman that was in there. Let me turn this screen here so I can see. Looks like 13 people are listening right now. So his web page is doing better than mine.
Speaker A: Your webpage, Confederate Sun1 has, according to you, quite a few subscriptions. I don't know if they subscribe, but I myself have gone over there and looked at probably everything you posted as of a few days ago and quite enjoyed it. I can't get live chat to come up here for some reason. I'm clicking on it and nothing happened.
Speaker F: So Jerry, what you have to do is you have to actually be logged in to your YouTube account in order to use live chat. Otherwise it's just gonna sit there and do nothing.
Speaker D: YouTube user. Although I watch YouTube a lot, I don't sit there and play with all the little details of it. So I. I don't know. And I don't watch an awful lot of live feeds either, so those tend to bore me because there's vast amounts of doing nothing before something interesting happens. But not the case here because here is the live coffee breaknet and it is. Got all the information down below here on where to connect and listen. It's a world famous net you guys have built something quite interesting here. Speaking of building something interesting, something that's not very interesting you mentioned before is that Confederate sun one is Larry and I have a YouTube channel over there if you're interested in looking at old antique radios, vintage radio, and a couple of clowns playing with them. Low quality Video poor production value. Your home movies look like they were made by Spielberg.
Speaker C: Right?
Speaker D: That kind of thing. If you're into that, go check out our webpage. Larry gave me a teaser yesterday. He's got the whole front end of that Henry amp disassembled. Trying to find out why the multimeter doesn't work. It's appears to be the switch, but in any case, he's got a couple of videos coming our way here in the next day or two that will illustrate that. So if that kind of thing interests you, Confederate son. One's our YouTube page. And give it a look.
Speaker A: Okay. Very good. And Frank came on while you were talking and said that to get the chat to work, I have to be logged into YouTube. Well, I haven't done that yet. I just was looking at it. So, Frank, thanks for the update. And I think the reason why I enjoy your videos is because the kind of videos that I would do just with my little iPhone4 here or whatever I got, and just like what I would do. And I enjoy watching you working on those. On those radios. So, yeah, keep going. And that's for everybody who wants to know what it is. It's on YouTube. Confederate Sun. S O N, not S U N Sun. And then the number one. Not O N E. So what's. Other than the Henry 4K amp, what's. What's the latest?
Speaker D: Well, the next. The next project lined up, Jerry, is a Drake SSR1 receiver. It's an old shortwave receiver that they made. It's a very simple unit, actually.
Speaker C: Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of sac Valley's original 105 W16.
Speaker A: Did we lose your time? Well, Tom, I think the next project you need to work on is replacing the fuse in your radio.
Speaker C: Jerry.
Speaker B: He was transmitting, but you weren't getting any audio.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Thanks, Doug. I wasn't listening on the input, so I guess we'll. We'll. We'll cycle back one more time. Tom, are you back with us? Well, we'll come back to you. Got jamie waiting in the wings here. Ko6mjl. Good morning, jamie.
Speaker C: Good morning, the Net. I don't have much going on here because updating QRZ and I thought I would get on and practice a little bit since I'm very, very rarely new at this, to see what everybody's up to. They say the more you get on, the easier it gets. So that's what I'm trying to do. Back to the net. Ko6 in geo.
Speaker A: Well, Jamie, there's Some truth in that. What happens is you start getting a little, a little over the mic, right. Plus you start making friends, those people, you know, and you enjoy talking to them. And you know, your conversation goes on and on and it's like wandering into town and sitting down at the coffee table in the local restaurant with a
Speaker E: group of guys and gals and pretty
Speaker A: soon it becomes your kind of quasi family. So yeah, keep, keep that radio going and if nothing else, blow the dust out of all the components.
Speaker C: Yeah, that's yesterday. I got on to like five or six nets just chatting with everyone. It's pretty interesting what people have to see out.
Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. And then you get on one like us and you got people checking in
Speaker B: from all over the world.
Speaker A: Are you're down in Salinas, is that right?
Speaker C: Yeah, that's correct. I'm in Salinas, California right now.
Speaker A: Okay, so what you can do is in the middle of the summer when we over here in the Central Valley are just cooking at 100 plus and you're enjoying the nice fog bank, you can come on and crow about it. That's okay.
Speaker C: Yeah, I don't think so. Me and the hot weather don't get along. I think I'll stay right here where the weather is kind of nicer.
Speaker A: Yeah, that was my point. You could tease us about the fact that you're not baking, but we are. Well, thanks for checking in and have a good day.
Speaker C: Yeah, you guys too. Thanks for letting me chime in here. K06MJo73.
Speaker A: 73 Jamie, thanks for checking in. Good to hear you. This is WA6E. Now we have Sean W1SCD in Brattleboro, Vermont. See, it's still morning there, hidden in. Sean,
Speaker E: thanks so much for taking my call. It's a pleasure to hear you guys. Since I lived in the Bay area for about 15 years.
Speaker A: Oh, you're an escapee. Where did you live in the Bay Area?
Speaker E: And when I first moved out it was because I took a job at Apple. And so this week I was struggling to get my all star node set up and I almost threw in the towel but I finally got it going and I'm just really blown away by the audio quality and the guy I was working with in Wisconsin who sort of turned me on to this whole thing recommended this net and it's just a real pleasure to have a laid back conversation like this. You know, the ones that I'm, that
Speaker A: I can connect to locally.
Speaker E: Basically people just talk about what they had for lunch. So this is much more interesting.
Speaker A: Don't take that to the bank just yet. We also do that. There's a lot of just miscellaneous conversations on here and we're glad you found us. We have the Coffee Breaknet every morning and it originated when the COVID thing hit. We always used to talk about the commute when I was working there would be. If you were to plot the usage on the repeater, there'd be two big spikes. One in the morning when everybody was driving to work and one in the evening when we were driving home. Well, that kind of went away as the participants since aged out and retired. So we started this to allow people to talk to each other once the COVID thing hit. And now it just continues. We've got nets on here. Monday night is the all Nodes net where guys discuss the all Star nodes, the clear nodes, the Sherry nodes and so forth. That's at, let's see, 6:00 our time because we have a lot of folks in the the east coast who wanted to participate. We usually would start it at 7 or 7:30 and that was too late for them. So that starts at six and there's an elbows now, all kinds of things. So just keep listening and join in. We're glad you're with us. And if you worked at Apple, you saw a lot of change there.
Speaker E: And although I have to say it was one of the best companies I ever worked at, especially in the original early days, when I got there it was 1989. You know, so many of the things I learned there just in terms of what makes a good product and ease of use and all that good stuff
Speaker A: that they're known for.
Speaker E: I took that with me through all the other jobs I worked at. That's why I didn't throw in the towel this week with this note. I actually lost sleep over it. It was crazy.
Speaker D: Like I don't really need to be
Speaker E: awake in the middle of the night thinking about notes. But nevertheless I persevered.
Speaker A: And it's all good. Indeed it is. And it sounds good. And we have one that we took with us in our motorhome when we
Speaker B: did all our travels.
Speaker A: And it's great fun. We went to Europe a few years ago and I was able to check into this net from Greece and Croatia using the app on my phone. So it's all good. We have a fellow on here. I'm sure he's listening. K06th Greg, who was in the. Who went to school at Palo Alto High School and he was in the computer club with. Not Steve Jobs. Well, wozniak Wozniak. So there's a lot of Apple connections right here on this very net. My guess is you hook up with him, you guys will talk for hours.
Speaker E: Station about listening to Wolfman Jack. There's a radio station down in Watsonville you're probably familiar with called K Pig. And I still stream them because it's another connection back to the Bay Area.
Speaker D: Wonderful stuff.
Speaker A: It's great fun. Okay, well, I'm glad you found us. And congratulations on completing the node. It's working great. Don't fix it anymore. Thanks so much, Jerry.
Speaker E: Pleasure to speak to you this morning.
Speaker A: Likewise, Sean. 7:3, before I move on, take more check ins. I want to go back to KB6SSN. Tom, are you still with us or did you fall off the edge of the earth?
Speaker D: I'm hoping I'm still with you. I tested it on every other repeater, but I couldn't get this one to work for some reason.
Speaker A: That Brian, you know, he's such a jokester. He's probably listening. We have a setting here called kv6ssn, and when you turn it on, it filters you out.
Speaker D: Well, you know, if I were you,
Speaker A: I'd have the same filter. I have a switch on my radio. One side of it says O and the other one says KB6SSN.
Speaker D: Well, I would expect nothing less. I'm glad that I'm possessing such a large piece of real estate in your mind that you felt a switch was necessary. Anyway, 73s, have a great morning. I hope whatever was going on, it
Speaker B: doesn't go on again.
Speaker D: KB6, as I said, 73,
Speaker A: just wanted to make sure that you were okay. I guess you're not driving, so that wasn't an issue. But yeah, you just went away. Seven three, Tom. Have a great day and good luck with all the radios. This is the Coffee breaknet. This is WA6E along with WA60WF, where your host.

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Speaker A: This morning. And for those of you who just tuned in late, why isn't Orion here? And the answer is because he's hosting one of his antenna workshops for all the new hams or those who are studying for his extra class license down in one of the parks in North Highlands, I think. Somewhere like that. Any event, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you'll have to put up with me for a while. So who's out there wants to check in and continue this lively conversation? Come down.
Speaker B: Kilo oscar six in the hotel juliet. Kilo bravo six, lima uniform victor. Good morning.
Speaker C: Good morning.
Speaker A: Kilo.
Speaker B: November 6th, mike, julia, bravo,
Speaker D: whiskey alpha six, yankee, november echo, quicken,
Speaker E: Papa delta 9, november oscar whiskey in the netherlands via echolink.
Speaker F: Over.
Speaker C: Fko60h.
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker A: Okay, I got ko6th. I knew you were out there. Papa delta 9. No, in the netherlands. Be back with you in a second. Kn6yne, kn6ab, k6dtl, kb6luv, and k06ihj. Did I miss anybody? So, let's see. KN6Y and E. Were you the in and out? I didn't. I didn't make a Note.
Speaker D: Whiskey Alpha 6, Yankee, November Echo.
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker D: Yes, it's a quicken out.
Speaker A: Well, good morning to you. What's new on your dance card for the.
Speaker D: It's another day to volunteer with the elder and disabled, helping them with their mobility aids. That's where I got to get out of here and quicken it out.
Speaker A: Oh, how nice that you do that. That can keep you busy all the time. Do I have your call sign right? Kilo Alpha 6, or was it you? Your whiskey Alpha 6, Yankee, November Echo.
Speaker D: Whiskey or wine? Whiskey Alpha 6, Yankee, November Echo.
Speaker A: This is Scott. Yeah, I know Scott. I don't know why I was confused with the Kilo Alpha. I've always maintained that your name should be Wayne.
Speaker D: For some reason. It was my nickname for a long time. When I was in high school, I ended up with a call sign.
Speaker A: I just kept it. That's funny. So what is it you do with the. With the folks that need help?
Speaker D: I'll get you into a little pitch here about our healthcare system. In the US if someone is in need of a mobility aid, like an electric wheelchair, electric scooter to get around. Typically, insurance takes six months to a year to get it approved, we step in with recycled equipment and make it available for dirt cheap or rent it very inexpensively while they're waiting for authorizations. Same thing with repairs. If you're bed or chair confined. You want to get around a little bit. Waiting six months in bed doesn't really cut it. So that's where we come in with our nonprofit fixing the stuff, scrapping parts, making used parts available for dirt cheap or if you can't afford it, we just give it away.
Speaker A: Well Scott, that's a wonderful thing for you guys to be doing and I salute you. One thing I've learned since I retired from the active duty workforce is how many people volunteer to do things in our society. And I am convinced that our world as we know it would come to a screeching halt if people didn't volunteer.
Speaker D: I commit to 20 hours a week doing this while I do consulting the rest of the time consulting and development of software and yep, that AI stuff which I enjoy a lot. I enjoy all of it. Sometimes it gets overwhelming trying to balance the two paying job and volunteer.
Speaker A: And it's a time consumer. So I salute you for doing that. And on behalf of all of those who you benefit, thank you. And I finally figured out why I had the problem with your call sign. I was looking at all the check ins on the list above you that I was writing down. It was kilo, kilo, kilo, kilo and you. So I was on a roll. That's okay.
Speaker D: Anyway, I enjoy listening to the banter going on and giving everybody a hard time back and forth. Good comedy to start off my day. Anyway, I gotta get out of here so I'll be listening and you and theta have a great one and everyone else as well. WA6Y&E listening.
Speaker A: Okay Scott. I don't give anybody a hard time except maybe ssn and he's retired navy so he's asking for it. But everybody else know, all respect, thanks for checking in and have a great day. I'm going to go out of line here and go to the Netherlands. Papa Delta 9 November Oscar Whiskey good. I guess it's good evening to you.
Speaker E: Jerry.
Speaker B: Almost, almost.
Speaker E: It's 15 minutes past 5 o' clock in the afternoon here and thanks for picking me out. Yeah, well it is very cold here. I'm watching some Olympics now and then with the ice skating we are on now with some games. So yeah, that's why I'm watching and I watched just hutong with the net a couple of days earlier. I was introduced by business by Frank via his YouTube channel and his ways to connect. So I tried to connect and yeah, here I am. And then he said oh Nils, we are here every day dead and that time and when I'm Available when I'm able. Then I will just check in via EchoLink because that's the easiest way for me to use. And yeah, I can't connect through the airway so I know high high. But yeah, I'm just enjoying the whole, the whole net stuff, Jerry. Nothing much going on here. Just chilling for the weekend to start one battery net control PD9 now.
Speaker A: Okay, Neil, very good. Well enjoy the Olympics. I see that your country is doing very well so far you've won 19 or so. So not bad. So Neil, tell me. I'm looking at your QRZ webpage and it shows your name as Ne Neil on Wheel. Can you tell me about that?
Speaker E: Yeah, well I can tell you a little bit as qrz.com it's like Facebook for RAM operators and I know that also people that are not having a call sign can log in and watch additional details. So that's why I'm not using my, my last name, my last real name on the online platform. On the online platform and they call and they call me Niels on Wheels because I'm in a wheelchair. So my. So yeah, that's why I'm on wheels and that's why I. That's why I took this call sign PV9 November Australisky officially
Speaker B: and for me
Speaker E: it stands always Papa Delta 9 new own wheel.
Speaker B: You know, so that's the whole story
Speaker E: design and I'm wheelchair dependent so yeah, I use wheelchair every day to move around half electric and that's the whole story behind it. And I just passed my Exim, my novice license last year and I'm using Aquaring, the digital modes. And later this year I think September, October they're going to install the ham radio club here is going to install the antenna and HF on my roof. So that's a little bit of a background story. I Greg.
Speaker A: Okay, Neil, this is WA60 Neil on Wheels. I like it. I understand you're in a wheelchair, but take advantage of that and use it instead of your last name. That makes a lot of sense, especially given the security we don't seem to have on the Internet this year. Well, I look forward to hearing about you getting up on hf. A lot of us here are on HF as well and maybe we can work you. Meanwhile, thank you for checking in. It's a pleasure to have you with us. We'll look for you from now on.
Speaker E: Very good, Jerry. And thanks for picking me out. It's very nice to hear some activity on the notes and on the digital links and you name it there are so much choice. Hi. Hi. But I will manage through it. Thank you again.
Speaker A: Very good. Neil. Yeah. We've known a lot of people from the Netherlands and they all speak English very well, as do you. So it's a pleasure to have you on. Thanks for joining us and I'm glad we could entertain you. Moving right along. Back up to the top. K06 I hate jerks. Good morning Larry.
Speaker E: Good morning.
Speaker A: Chaosixj here.
Speaker B: I'm glad that happens. I had time to get a cup of coffee, take my pillow and drop the kids off at the pool. Today is going to be a day in the shack. I got to do a couple videos for Mr. KD6SSN that has been approved for putting on the YouTube channel. I'm drawing a blank. I got something else to do but it's not coming to me.
Speaker A: You have to figure out why the meter isn't working on the Henry 4K amp.
Speaker E: We are.
Speaker A: Ah yes.
Speaker B: I've gone through it and troubleshooting everything. And that's what the video is going to be is me actually showing everybody the voltages. Open system. Open case. 220 volts. Yeah, this could be fun.
Speaker A: And make sure you have the camera on you when you touch that 220 volt wire so that we can all watch your hair jump straight out.
Speaker B: I'm gonna straighten my beard because I got nothing on top. So other than that I'm gonna let you go. Hey, I'm looking forward to that ham fest. I get my dead presidents all gathered up in my wallet so we can go out there and have some fun. I look forward to heater money. So I'm going to let you go with the Ko6 ISJ73. Thanks for running that. Have a beautiful blessed day.
Speaker A: Thanks Larry. Yeah, we're looking forward to the the ham fest too. And if you're wondering what ham fest we're talking about, they're sponsoring a ham Fest on the 28th of March, I believe at oh, dark 30. So come on, come all, it's here in Loomis at 6 o' clock in the morning for, I don't know, 6 or 7. If you get there by 7, everything is pretty well sold. So come one, come all. It's at the Loomis train station in Loomis, California. KAB6L U V. Good morning Brett.
Speaker B: Good morning Rocky. Everybody out there in coffee breakneck land. Hope everybody's having a wonderful Saturday. It is a lovely day morning here in South Matoma as I sit here with my mom Bonnie from Kansas and my wife Lee, we're also kind of listening in. Looking out at that orange fall in the sky and enjoying the morning. It'll be a nice day. Maybe get out on little red scoops in the hood. We'll see. How about you? What do you got planned for the day, G?
Speaker A: Oh, good morning to you and your mother. And I'm. You're going to get on the little red motor scooter and go zipping around today. Hang on a second.
Speaker B: Not sure who's trying to break in. I don't know where. Somebody's trying to break
Speaker A: KB5VAO. Did you want to take.
Speaker C: I can.
Speaker A: Yeah. I'm not sure what that was, but I see him on Superman. So back to the little red ankle breaker.
Speaker B: Yeah, luckily enough, that little red ankle breaker is not too much of an ankle breaker. I'm low in slow these days. At my age, nothing needs to be fast and quick. So nice and slowing through the neighborhood. No freeways. Anyway, that's about all I got planned for today. Gonna actually go out to lunch with my colleague friends and go out with my wife here. Gonna go out to lunch, head out to some really nice Indian food here. West Sack. And then I don't know what's on tap for the rest of the day or weekend. Maybe a little bit of house stuff. I've got to cut some wires for an antenna. That antenna bill that I got through. Timon. Thanks, sir. Appreciate you.
Speaker D: So, yeah, that's about all I got going.
Speaker B: I'll make it quick. Oh, say hi, mom.
Speaker F: Good morning, Ben and Jerry. Yes, I remember that ankle brick it and I was here for it. And so I'm glad that he's changed equipment. So nice to hear with you all. Have a good day.
Speaker A: Well, good morning, Bonnie. Good to hear you on. And yeah, you keep that young boy in line there. Don't let him go out. It's not the freeways, Brett. It's just driving around casually that's going to get you. And it's not your driving, mind you, but it's the others that seem to have you squarely in their crosshairs. So be careful with that. As for me, I'll probably go out and work a little bit more on the motorhome. We had so much junk in that thing. Cleaning it out. And I have to practice. I'm flying solo tomorrow at church instead of having the usual group of people I play with. So I get the big bucks for that, meaning I don't get paid anything. So we'll all have a good Day supposed to be Sunny, high about 60, so not too bad. Sure beats Kansas, huh, Bonnie?
Speaker F: Well, it depends. I think weather for a few of those days. So it was like 50 back here and it was a lot less than that here. So raining back and forth, but that's the way it is in Kansas. If you don't like the weather, you wait 15 minutes.
Speaker A: So true. So true. Brett, seven threes, have a good day.
Speaker B: Thank you very much, sir. Deeply appreciate it. You and all out there in coffee break nuts. Have a great day. Everybody be blessed. Take care of yourself. Take care of each other. Kev6luv feel blow. 73, clear. And listen.
Speaker A: Okay, you do know the last three letters of your call sign are the stock symbol for Southwest Airlines, right?
Speaker B: Hi. Hi. 73.
Speaker A: Royalty. Okay. Seven three is k6dcl. Good morning, dave. This is wa16.
Speaker C: Okay, 60 sealed.
Speaker B: Good morning this morning.
Speaker C: You sound good and it's interesting to hear you on the radio all the time this morning, so thank you. Hang on a second. I gotta turn down the radio.
Speaker A: Okay, well, hopefully you get that turned down. Give me my latest update on Tank
Speaker B: to get to the radio.
Speaker A: Okay, well, you're back. Give me the latest on Tank.
Speaker C: Say good morning to you and good to hear you. Good morning to everybody on the net. It's been a good, good net this morning with people that are from different countries even. So that's cool. And anyway, other than that, everything's good here. I had a hapidural shot midweek and that seems to have worked better than I thought. So that's good. Acupuncture on Thursday.
Speaker B: That's good.
Speaker C: So anyway, life is good, Jerry. And say hi to theater K6DCL.
Speaker A: Okay, Dave, well, it sounds like you were getting.

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Speaker A: Yeah, Chris, I'm sorry. There's nobody here but us chickens. Ten, six, iwh. Quack, quack. Oh, wait.
Speaker B: Well, good morning. Good morning. Are you going to the Sutter Tractor Fest?
Speaker A: You know, that's the first thing I've heard about it. What do you. What do you think?
Speaker B: I'm headed to the Sutter Tractor Fest. Apparently, they do this every year. They get a bunch of the guys around and they take their tractors out and they parade them down the streets of Sutter and not exactly sure what else they have. They have hayrides, they have tractor rides, they have. I don't know what else. It's a fun little event just, you know, I guess, celebrating the fact that the. The farm life, I guess. And I finally got wind of it ahead of time, so that I'm going to be. I'm going out there to see it. And KK1 bud has got a restored tractor that he's going to be driving.
Speaker A: Wow. Sounds cool. You know, I'm into automotive restoration and stuff like that. I understand some of the things that go on with restoration. You know, it's tough, but it's really.
Speaker B: Artwork. Well, yeah, you know, I. Depending on different circumstances, I might enjoy having a restored tracker just to play around with,
Speaker A: you know, what a good idea for your retirement. Think of it. You can go out there and wrench on your. On your. What would you get? Let's see.
Speaker B: Probably
Speaker A: an old kaboki.
Speaker B: Now, you kind of think that that would be a little bit more affordable than me trying to go out and buy an Austin Healey 3000 and try it up, restore that.
Speaker A: I wonder. I wonder about tractor parts. You know, the big tractor monopoly is getting a lot of flack from the farmers. They're saying, hey, we've got to make a living, you know, food for the United States. And all you do is jack up the prices of tractors and the repair.
Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know. I've got to. I got to believe that there's enough interest in these old tractors that people are making repair parts for them. Or, you know, there's clubs that you could join and you become active enough to find people that also belong to these clubs that have spare parts that they're willing to sell.
Speaker A: Yeah. And, you know, if you like tractors, you might attract one. Somebody somewhere has got something and you say, hey, you know, I love tractors. Oh, really?
Speaker B: Yeah. I've got another friend who comes from a farm family. Well, let me see. Farming is for people east of the Mississippi, right. Or at Least east of the Rockies.
Speaker A: He's.
Speaker B: Yeah, he comes from a ranching family and he's got this old International Harvester tractor. Although you'd never know it because all the markings on it are gone, all the paint is gone and it's just rust colored but it still runs. And he takes it out every once in a while and gives people hayrides and things.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, there's a couple of restoration programs that I watch. There's one guy who's kind of funny. He goes and finds old Rex
Speaker B: engine
Speaker A: hasn't started in 30 years and he's out there cranking it, shooting carb cleaner down the carburetor. It's funny.
Speaker B: Yeah. You know, I'm not sure that I'm very good at it anymore. But you know, I joined the Air Force as a jet engine mechanic for years and I still enjoy wrenching on things. I find that very enjoyable. I just don't have the space or the money or up until now, the time to put into getting something and messing around with it.
Speaker A: Hey, I saw a video about the A10 warthog and the political atmosphere of the army and the Air Force. Who didn't want the A10?
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not sure about the, you know, originally. I know that the Air Force has been trying for years to get rid of the HN and Congress won't let them and it's still got a role to fill but nothing else will as far as I know. So I don't know why in the world they're trying to get rid of it.
Speaker A: You know, I guess the military can get bogged down in and you know, rivalries and stuff like that. Which is human nature, wouldn't you say?
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Yep. I don't know, maybe the A10 isn't glamorous enough for the Air Force, you know.
Speaker A: Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't you buy my second Bronco? It's all clean, one piece, never wrecked or in storage in Orville. I'll give you a deal.
Speaker B: My, my preference would be, although my, my wallet wouldn't support it would be a first generation Bronco. But unless you've got a fair bit of money. But if I. Yeah, don't even try.
Speaker A: It used to be, you know, that the second gen Bronco was the popular way to go. Oh yes, I'd love to have a Gen one. You know, I'd see them when I was in high school. Some of the guys had,
Speaker B: and I'd
Speaker A: look at them and they had a blonde girlfriend. I'M going, oh, man, if I had a Bronco, I'd be king. King.
Speaker B: Well, my high school thing was, and I already mentioned it, I fell in love with the Austin Healing 3000 and would dearly love to have one, but you know, they're pretty pricey nowadays too.
Speaker A: Is that the gtx? Like the square tail, the kind of station wagon rear end?
Speaker B: Oh, no. Oh no. The 3000 was nothing but curves. And you know, Most of your MGs and your Austin Healeys were four cylinders. Well, this was a big, I think it was a three liter, six cylinder. I don't remember whether it was that large. It must be, you know, Austin Healey 3000, 3000 cc's. So yeah, they were absolutely gorgeous. And I saw one a couple of years ago. We were down in Pacifica, stopped off someplace and I saw one parked in a restaurant parking lot. And it was, it was like, it was brand new.
Speaker A: You know, I sense by the way you talk about this car that you really do care.
Speaker B: W e repeater. You were doubled by the repeater, so he didn't catch all of that.
Speaker A: Sounds like you care about that kind of car.
Speaker B: When I was in high school, my, my best friend had an MG and we used to bomb around in that in our free time. So, yes, I got really interested in the British sports cars I even had. Before I had the money, I had bought a 64 Triumph Spitfire that needed restoration. I was a teenager who had the money for that.
Speaker A: I used to restore British bikes. It was a time when I had so many. It was just stupid. I regret selling the BSA Gold Star that I had. 500cc single, but, oh, you know, your ankle, you've heard of that part of the leg, try to start a 500cc single.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, that's, that's what I understand. Oh, you know, that's why years, years, years later, Yamaha built a 500cc single and they were smart enough to put a compression release on it so that you could, you know, get the starter or get the kickstarter in just the right position.
Speaker A: Yeah, I forget. I think later on they put a
Speaker B: little
Speaker A: bubble kind of thing where you looked at it and you could line up the marks and then you wrench on it. But I've heard of guys with the Harley Davidson and they started with their hand, their wrist, and guess what happened? Snaps back and they break their wrist. Oh, hello.
Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah, I haven't heard that, but I did. One of the, one of the guys I worked with at Travis had a Sportster and I Remember him talking to me about, you have to watch out with those because, you know, if you. If you didn't kick down, if you didn't release your knee at every bottom of your straight, that it could kick back and throw you up over the handlebars.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I had them snap back. You know, it was more pain in my ankle. It didn't really, you know, kick me up over the bars, which I know can happen. I used to ride around with motorcycles. Never had a wreck. People would look at me and say, you've never had a wreck? No. They say, you're kidding yourself.
Speaker B: Yeah, I know. But you know what? That's mostly the people that, well, let's say rode. They weren't terribly vigilant. You know, I have a. I have a 500s silver wing. And I've had a lot of close calls, but I avoided them because I can't keep my eyes open.
Speaker A: Yeah. Reason I got rid of my bikes, it's the cars, it's traffic. It's stupidity. I mean, they look right at you and they still pull over.
Speaker B: I know, it's really weird. For some reason, I seem to have developed a sense that if I look at somebody and they're looking at me, I can kind of tell whether they're going to do something stupid or not.
Speaker A: Yeah. I believe in having a bike with enough power, though, to get out of the way, you know, crank that throttle and leave them behind.
Speaker B: Oh, then you want a Yamaha vmac.
Speaker A: I don't know. One of the things that. The reason I don't ride anymore is I've seen some friends that were in the hospital for different things. You know, a few of them passed on, but you don't want to take any chances, especially as you get older.
Speaker B: Yeah, no kidding. No kidding. So we're talking about triumphs, you know, and. Yeah, my memories of triumphs is the fact that they leaked oil everywhere. Of course, that's the same thing that could be said of Harleys up until the new generation. And I remember seeing, you know, thinking the most perfect British upright twin was the Yamaha 650.
Speaker A: Good bike back in the, what, 60s? 64, 65. The thing I didn't like about the British bike is the carburetors would load up. I mean, you get them running good for two blocks, and then it's,
Speaker B: Yes, yes. Yeah. I don't know. I. I tell you what I've had. I've had Japanese bikes. All of mine have been Japanese bikes. I saw one on Facebook. Marketplace. It's a like a 2010 Moto Guzzi. That is really. I looked at it, I looked at the mileage, I looked at the condition and I looked at the price and it's really appealing.
Speaker A: Yeah, I would take a Moto Guzzi. One of the things, those Italian boxes bikes, man, they sound cool also.
Speaker B: So I'm headed right for. I'm right at Sutter High School. I guess that's where they're going to be doing. They're staging all the tractors and I got to figure out where to park. I'm not sure where the best place to park is. Give me a minute. I'm going to try and call Bud and get his opinion. Kk1vud, kk6vzd, Kk1vud, kk6vzd.
Speaker A: And 6IWh. Yeah.
Speaker B: Not knowing exactly where they're going to be parading these things. I'm at Sutter High School and there doesn't seem to be many people parked around here. I'm not sure where they're actually going to be parading these things, but the parking lot for the staff in front of the, in front of the high school is absolutely. There's nobody in it. So I'm sitting here thinking, is this a good place to park or not?
Speaker A: Oh, maybe it was cancelled.
Speaker B: I see tractors heading down to the staging area, so I. Yeah, it's just a little early. I guess they're going to be going at 9. It's 8:30 now, so they're starting to gather. But like I said, I'm not sure where the best place to park would be. I don't want to park here and then find out that I'm parked right by the parade route and if I wanted to leave, I couldn't get by. But the roads aren't closed.
Speaker A: I don't think it'll be that big of a parade really, so that you get blocked in. Maybe five guys are going to show up. We're talking tractors.
Speaker B: I know, but we're also talking a farming community here. So, you know, that's what their interests are, is agricultural equipment. See, I see.
Speaker A: I see quite a few of them. Yeah.
Speaker B: I think I'm just going to go park in the staff parking at the high school. I mean, it's wide open.
Speaker A: Seems like there should be somebody else on here kind of with information.
Speaker B: Well, that's why I was hoping Bud was on the air. I'm going to park in the superintendent's spot.
Speaker A: Oh, you've got an attitude problem, don't you? Why not?
Speaker B: It's the best spot.
Speaker A: Attitude. Attitude.
Speaker B: W. Okay, I'm swapping radios, so give me a minute.

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Speaker A: Poked and prodded all week long with all that acupuncture and epidurals and whatnot. So I'm glad they worked. Do you have any sort of an update on Tank for us? Is he going to be playing this year?
Speaker B: March he goes back to work so I don't know what he's going to do. Even his mother is a little bit elusive about what he's going to do there with the Ravens. For some reason he loves being there and not sure, not sure Jerry, but I'll announce whatever he's going to do anyway when he gets there. It's really weird the K6D seal. I wish I had the good news but good news he's still working.
Speaker A: Okay Dave, well we'll follow along with you Heath. We're kind of the whole net is enjoying his career kind of vicariously through so it's your duty to keep us updated. And right now he's still employed so that's a good report. Thanks for checking in with us and have a good day.
Speaker B: Well, no problem at all. And by the way, his mother says he's making really good money being on the practice team and they really enjoy him being there. So whatever. He's following his dream and wish he would get to play K60ZLC later.
Speaker A: Yeah, advise a young man to put that money away and save it because it could dry up really quick. Don't go out and blow it on parties and fancy airplanes like we see others doing in the newspaper. 73 Dave have a good one. And now back to Tennessee Thomas Good Morning KM60MJBWA6E.
Speaker C: Good morning. Not too much happening here. Actually it's lonely. Christina is now actively in your neck of the woods. She got in about 1 o', clock, 1:30 something like that your time. Long, long trip to get there. Ended up having to go to Arizona as a change planes, that kind of a thing. But don't unfortunately have too much of an update on Ray other than as of last night he is doing okay I guess you could say the nurse lovingly called him a hot mess express but nothing that a good tune up wouldn't fix. But yeah. Where Christina's supposed to be going to the hospital later today or this morning at some point whenever she gets up and moving to go get more.
Speaker A: Did you stop transmitting or did your node cut off?
Speaker C: A little bit of both. I was all done with the transmission and then it before I got a chance to pull my finger off of the ptt it yelled at me.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's why it didn't sound like a normal termination. Well, I don't have an update on Ray. Brian was telling about him yesterday. We're talking about KK 6am, Thomas's father in law. So I don't know what the problem was. Brian, are you listening by any chance, can you give everybody an update of what went on?
Speaker C: This is Thomas. I can still do that. Basically, you know, we hadn't heard from him for a couple of days and he hadn't checked into the net. So Brian volunteered to go down and check in on him, do a wellness check. Found him and he was not in such great shape. So we got him, got him over to the hospital. Brian facilitated getting all that done, which was amazing. And we are super grateful. And he's currently. He was in the ER most of the day yesterday into the early evening. Let me let this break so it doesn't yell at me again. He was in the ER for most of the day yesterday and then at some point last night got admitted up into a room at Sutter Auburn Faith. The biggest concern that they had as of last night was he was severely hypothermic and had a touch of pneumonia. So they're still, as of last night, we haven't gotten an update today. They're still trying to figure exactly what happened. So, yeah, that's. That's kind of where we sit for now.
Speaker A: Well, our thoughts and prayers will be with him. He is the kind of like Statler and Waldorf on the Muppets. Keep us all in line here. And so we'll keep us informed of what's going on. And I'm so happy that Brian went down and looked in on him. Otherwise not sure how long he would have. He would have stayed there in some sense. Thomas, this is a big family. I remember a few years ago when Clyde AB4CC broke his leg up skiing. You know, it was one of those things. I'm still 29, I can do what I want to. And a couple of the guys went up and picked him up and drove his car back and whatnot. So when needed, the help is there and that's a good feeling. So please keep us informed how he's doing. How are you doing?
Speaker C: Yeah, no, we will. We will definitely keep you guys updated. I sent Christina down with a ht, so as soon as she gets a minute or two, she'll be able to check in. She had a long day with the travel yesterday, so I'm sure she'll be checking in and wanting to see people at some point. Once we Start figure out what's going on. Somehow. Even though the club is growing and booming, they still find a way to keep an eye out on everybody. It's pretty awesome, actually. Let me let this break. Sorry. Still trying to get used to this new node and figure out how exactly it works. Everything here is doing fine. I'm doing great. Trying to. It's funny, I talk to the dog and the cat all the time. You being a dog owner, I'm sure you do also. But I'm finding I'm consoling the dog more often because Christina's not around. He's been moping around. Last night, he refused to come upstairs for a couple of hours. Just kind of stayed at the back at the front door, looking at it, waiting for her to come walking in. And she's not going to anytime soon down there. But I had a full blown, probably 20 minute conversation with the dog and I might be next. You guys might need to check in on me soon.
Speaker A: I don't know. We'll need to check in on you. We understand exactly what you're doing. We talk to our dog and. And somehow he's able to answer. You can tell by his expressions and his reactions to things. You know, like when you tell him he's a bad dog, he knows, and he looks downtrodden.
Speaker C: You want to say something?
Speaker A: Oh, hang on a second. Theta Theta has a comment.
Speaker D: This is WA60WF. I was encouraging Jerry to tell about the chicken episode last night. The dog was outside and he was not interested at all in coming in. And, you know, he opened the door and he dances away like, you come out here. I don't want to go in there. And Jerry said, we put chicken in your bowl. And he ran inside and ran upstairs and went straight over to the bowl. And you say chicken. And he. He looks up at you like, oh, okay, chicken.
Speaker E: Yes.
Speaker D: So he knows that word.
Speaker E: We do understand what you're going through.
Speaker C: Oh, 100%.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: I always laugh because people, you know, those statements go out there in the universe. You know, the crazy cat lady, the crazy dog person. Yes, we are all crazy with our pets. The weird thing is you start recognizing the micro expressions of the dog and start correlating what those responses are, and you're never 100% sure if it's accurate or not. But yeah, when you can have a back and forth conversation with your dog for about 20 minutes and you're fairly certain that, you know, it wasn't just one sided. Yeah, that's. That's an interesting evening.
Speaker A: Indeed.
Speaker E: It is.
Speaker A: And there are many discussions I've heard on this subject. Do you talk to your dog? Yes or no? And if you do, are you crazy? Well, you know, there's an advantage and having people think you're crazy because then you no longer have to explain things you do. They just say, well, that's Thomas. He's crazy, you know, and that's the end of it. We had discussions like this with our horses. When we had horses, they were just big dogs. And I'd go out in the pasture and be working on something and the horses would be hovering over my shoulder. What are you doing?
Speaker E: What are you doing?
Speaker A: So, yeah, I think all animals are that way. Any event, I'm glad that you're able to have that conversation with your dog. I'm sure he'll get used to having just you there. Although we can tell who his favorite is.
Speaker C: Yeah, it's funny. Christina always complains that she thinks I'm the dog's favorite because he mopes around a little bit when I'm not home waiting at the door for me, et cetera, et cetera. And she doesn't see that because she works from home and everything. And I keep trying to tell her the rare occasions that you leave because you don't leave very often and you're not gone for very long. He's inconsolable. He won't even cuddle with me right now. He just is sitting at the door staring, waiting for her here. So I'm fairly certain I know who the favorite is. And, you know, same dog, same.
Speaker A: Oh, well, anyway, life goes on. You got yourself a new house. Have you got the landscaping all done and so forth, or has the snow come before you got a chance to do that?
Speaker C: We got a lot. I mean, last year was last summer. We had the sod. We had Bermuda sod that was supposed to be grabbing in and it did pretty well. Over most of the yard there's still a bunch of spots that are kind of barren, but that stuff goes into hibernation as soon as it starts getting cold. So it is. Our front lawn and backyard are completely brown at the moment, but so is everybody else's. I didn't get the pre emergent down in time, so I'm to starting. Starting to get those as it warms up here. Starting to get those little patches of weeds that I've been going out and picking. But no, everything's working out. I just built three 4 foot by 4 foot cedar planters that are about 22 inches tall that I'm digging into the backyard so that we can do vegetables and stuff this summer. I know I'm getting a little bit of a late start, but should be able to do. And then my hope is to start some asparagus, which I know the first year of asparagus doesn't. Doesn't really take. But subsequently after that, I should be able to keep a running crop. I didn't realize that stuff is basically grass. And. Yeah, you just kind of mow it and it grows back.
Speaker A: That's an interesting way of looking at it. And as long as it tastes good, I guess it's okay. When we lived in Ohio, I remember the big deal was dandelions. And trying to keep them out of your lawn was almost impossible. I also remember going golfing and if you didn't stay on the fairway and you were over in the rough, where I seemed to be be quite a bit, there were these dandelions that had the little white round fuzzy head on them. And when your white golf ball got lost in the field of white fuzzy dandelions, it was almost impossible to find. So it made a good argument for golfing with an orange golf ball.
Speaker C: You know what's funny? Is this completely unrelated to golf ball? Well, I guess not compared to what you just said, but I was just having this with my older brother the other day and how, like when I was younger, growing up in the 90s, everything had to be cool. Like, I wanted it to be, you know, clear. When I. In the early 2000s, when I got my first car, I took off all the batches. So it was super stealthy and nobody knew what kind of car it was and wanted to write my name on anything because it just ruined it. It wasn't cool. And now that I've gotten older, I'm like, everything must be the brightest color possible. I write my name on everything. I don't know at what age that shifted, but visible became the cool thing.
Speaker A: I don't know. It reminds me of something my dad used to say, and that is old. We get too soon.
Speaker C: Smart.
Speaker A: We get too late. So maybe you're just changing early. Well, thanks for checking in with us and tell Christina we'd like to hear from her and hoping the best for her dad. And keep your radio on and maybe we'll get some updates one way or another.
Speaker C: Yes, of course. We treat this club like it's an extended family, which has its ups and downs sometimes. But as soon as we know more information, we will be passing it along. This is KM6MJB and I'll be listening in.
Speaker A: Yes, an extended dysfunctional family. Good to hear you on Thomas. Have a great day. This is WA6E Greg Ko6th. Good morning to you.
Speaker E: Good morning, Jerry. Good morning, everyone. Greg Ko6th survived the episode at the medical procedure yesterday. Nothing seems to be wrong. They've taken some samples, you know, just normally kind of stuff while they're in there. But yay. So hopefully we'll get the report back that I don't need to do this for another 10 years and thankful for the. That when it comes. The. Let's see, nothing else going on really just today is mopping up my life from having to go through that and just chilling about a bit and probably do some errands. I got some things to get for the boat. One always has things to get for a boat. Do that this afternoon and yeah, dry out basically for a bit and get ready for the next one. KO16, back to you.
Speaker A: This is waxed. Well, I know you well know that the definition of a boat is a hole in the water to which you throw money. And listening to you, that you bought that thing. And that certainly is true. That's also true. Similarly, with airplanes and RVs and horses
Speaker E: and anything else, you.
Speaker A: You can spend untold sums of money. So it's been a while since I had that medical procedure done and my recollection of it is the worst part was drinking that stuff in advance. It's been a number of years. Please tell me that they've improved the stuff and it goes down easy like a good soft drink.
Speaker E: They have improved things that since. Let's see, last time I had it was nine years. Well, last time other than last December when I had to have it. But last time as a normal diagnostic kind of thing was about 10 years ago. Nine years ago. And it wasn't that. I guess they had just come out with the better way of doing it, the problem. So back in December when I was in the hospital, they put me through the old procedure, which was you drank this stuff, which wasn't half bad, it wasn't tasty, but in itself wasn't a big deal. But then every 15 minutes you had to drink another cup of water and
Speaker B: you're just continually drinking.
Speaker E: And eventually it came back out. We won't go into details, but this time it was not. It wasn't that continual drenching of fluids. It was. There's a. You drink 16 ounces of this stuff, which wasn't that bad. It tastes a little bit like Sprite without the fizzy. And then you drink. You have an hour to do that. And then the next hour you have to drink twice more of that in just water. And I finished it up within an hour. Basically, it wasn't that bad. And then 12 hours later you do it again. And then what? I guess then that was the next morning. Yes, that was Friday morning. And then the procedure was about 1 o' clock in the afternoon. So then you're on the drip. Once you get to the hospital.
Speaker A: Hospital.
Speaker E: So that kind of puts everything. The hunger goes away. It's the nothing solid. The day before is still annoying.

Speaker A: 60, 69, 58. Oh, well, while you're. While you're doing that, I'll tell you something. I talked to a guy that I know, a ham. And he said his wife listened, you know, to you and me or whoever, I don't know, on the way to work in the morning. And he says he procedures things you can. Guys are so great, so funny, you know, always interesting. I said, are you sure? You talking about IWA? Yeah, yeah. You know, 8, 5 in the morning. She just listens. So, you know, hey, well, at least somebody. There's somebody out there. Sometimes I think everybody in the world is dead. All the ham. I'm out here by myself. You're. You're there. Thank God. Anyway, somebody thinks you're funny. Hi. Hi. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker B: Sounds to me like she needs to get her ham license.
Speaker A: Oh, she's got it. This is a ham oil. But she didn't want to get on. I said, you know, I don't blame. That's fine.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: I was gonna say
Speaker B: I'd love to talk to more Cam. So if anybody's out there listening, come on back, we'll chat. Anybody who might know about the parade,
Speaker A: you know, the guys on a gmrs, this is kind of stuff they like, you know, get on the talk about flooding and, you know, fires and parades.
Speaker B: Yeah. Yep. Well, I'm going down the line of tractors to see if I can find my friend. Well, I'm gonna roll here.
Speaker A: Talk to you later. Have a good day. I'll be listening out.
Speaker B: Okay,
Speaker A: we'll talk to you later then. 73 kk6vzb. Clear.

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Speaker A: And other stuff you have to do because of all 80 meters on you guys. But there's more stuff I had to do. So it took the week before but it wasn't that bad. So yeah, it has improved but it's still, you know, every 10 years is about it. Ko 68.
Speaker B: Well, I don't know if there's good news or bad news but I now seem to be at a point where I don't have to do those. I'm right on the cusp. The, the theory is that at my age I'm if they find cancer it won't grow to a point before I
Speaker C: die of old age.
Speaker B: So I guess that's the advantage. And what I recall about drinking that stuff, stuff was. It was like drinking seawater just absolutely foul tasting stuff. And then they tried to cheer it up by making some lemon taste to it or something like that. That did not help. So anyway, hopefully the results will come back. This is AI6US.
Speaker C: Can we.
Speaker B: Next time he comes up let's go ahead and contact him.
Speaker C: I trying to block his node.
Speaker B: Okay. And I just disconnected him. I had done it one but once before and I did call him and it was quiet. So I will do if I see him come back up.
Speaker A: Thank you very much.
Speaker B: Yeah I just put a blacklist on it so hopefully that won't happen again. And I'm sending an email to him now. Very good. There was a station kept coming up causing interference so took care of that. So Greg, back to you. Are you heading down to the boat this weekend?
Speaker A: I was going to head the plan before all this medical stuff was to head down today because of the, the weather.
Speaker D: Weather window.
Speaker A: I may go tomorrow. I may go. I'm hoping Monday, Monday will probably be better just for travel. All the everybody, all the crazy folks are coming up and down for the mountain. But one of these two days I'll head out there.
Speaker D: I need the stuff I need to
Speaker A: get for the boat isn't a big deal. I need a better nozzle for the hose and I was going to get like a Y splitter so I can put my hose in the neighbor's hose on the little spigot thing at the same time without interfering with each other. So no big deal on the boat parts. It's not those kind of parts yet. But next big step though is to. I'm going to try to get a hold of the. Get the folks down in Berkeley who do the electric conversions to get one of them up to Richmond and do a walkthrough with me. Of what I want to do. It's not exactly what they usually do, but. So I want to walk through the details with them and if all goes well, give them some money to start ordering parts and get on with it. But in the meantime, the big thing that I wanted to go down now was between storms is that one of the things I repaired or think I repaired was a leaky hatch or one of the window things. And it seemed to survive the hose, but I don't know if it'll survive the storm. And I wanted to see if any water came in. Bilge works, but I don't want to use that. Kos50h. Back to you.
Speaker B: Well, I hope that your boat survived. Okay, but now you've raised another issue and this really concerns me. Here you are a seasoned sailor and you refer to the windows on your boat as those little seat.
Speaker A: A technical term, isn't it? The see through y things. Yeah, we'll figure that out. Anyway, on with Annette, you guys have a good one. And everybody stay dry. Wring the stuff out if it got wet. And yeah, on with the week. Hopefully things will go well or things have gone well down in Richmond. And when I get down there next couple of days, it'll all be dry inside. I have. I did. If anybody. So Rob, Rob, Rob. A couple people are recommending putting a heater inside. I have that on. So hopefully it'll stay dry enough. And yeah, we'll see about season sailor, part of it. I'm not there yet. Not even close. Ko 68.
Speaker B: Seasoned maybe sailor yet to be seen.
Speaker C: Very good, Greg.
Speaker B: Have a good one. Thanks for checking in with us. This is WA60 and this is the Coffee Breaknet. And as is tradition, we need to know what the days of the week are for the National Day. So I'll give that over to Theda. She's got all that research done.
Speaker D: And this is WA60WF. The National Day is today. It is International Language day. There are 7,000 spoken languages and 4,000 of them have written components and 3,000 don't. So there you go. It is real Bread Week. We can celebrate real bread. And it's also Sticky Bun Day. Yes, Sticky buns. It's Grain Free Day. No, that doesn't fit. We're going to ignore Grain Free Day. It is the celebrations of the King of Nepal and the King of Norway. They not necessarily celebrate together, but they celebrate happens to be days honoring them. It's Card Reading Day. And I looked at that. And what is Card Reading Day? It's the day that you read all the greeting cards that you have been saving, that you have been given. Obviously this is another holiday, right? If you don't have cards to read, go out and buy more greeting cards. Cards, right? And it is World Pangolin Day. Poor pangolins. Some fools have decided that their scales
Speaker C: are
Speaker D: natural Viagra and so they are seriously endangered. So celebrate the eagle and don't go hunting them for their scales. Anyway, those are the national days. The one so far that strikes best with me is the sticky bun day. So I have to have sticky buns. I don't know where I'm going to find one of those. Anyway, those are the national days. If anybody has a preference on those, let us know. Otherwise I'm going to give you back to Jerry and we'll call the next batch of people. And remember, if you want to be in and out, we will put you at the top of the list if you tell us that.
Speaker B: Okay, this is WA60. I'm going to go out and celebrate the King of Norway, the birthday that. I'm all over that. Okay, so who wants to participate in the net?
Speaker D: This.
Speaker B: Give me a call.
Speaker C: M6 RFB in and out.
Speaker E: In out.
Speaker C: November 2nd Delta Yankee India.
Speaker F: Comment KG6 and Elda, you'll comment.
Speaker C: Kv6ed in and out.k3.
Speaker B: Okay, here's who I have so far. I know I missed a couple. Km6 rfb, scott for in and out into dyi kg6nlw with a comment. Kv6ed in and out and n3gms, who did I miss?
Speaker E: Ai6jb, in and out.
Speaker D: K83akn in and out.
Speaker B: Kc1vlk in and out. Okay, I got orion, Anna and KC1BLJ. So let's do this quickly. AI6JV, Orion, I know you're out there getting ready for your class, so go ahead.
Speaker E: Well, first of all, thank you Jerry and Theta for taking my coffee break.
Speaker A: Net.
Speaker E: Yes, as a matter of fact, we're starting setting up at 9 o'. Clock.
Speaker C: Your timing is heckable.
Speaker E: And we'll be on the air probably close to about noon. And we'll be doing digital, so Anders is going to do FT8 and I'm going to do PSK31.
Speaker B: Oh, and I want to know about FT2, so maybe I should attend your class to learn about that.
Speaker E: You must be on the bleeding edge
Speaker A: of technology because I've Never heard of FT2 Comment Ko6th.
Speaker B: Was there a comment I doubled to somebody?
Speaker E: Yeah, Jerry, it's Greg Ko 68.
Speaker A: I've invited Brian who's played a little bit with FT2 to come to this coming weeks in the shack, give a quick demo. Hopefully schedules will line up and he can do that. But yeah, FT2 hopefully in the shack on Wednesday. KO6th.
Speaker B: So there you go, Ryan. That wet your appetite a little bit.
Speaker E: All right, will do. I'll show up. I'll show up for. If I'm not in the middle of my feed, I'll show up for Wednesdays in the shack. And so anyway, thanks. Thanks for dropping me in there real quick. And you guys have a wonderful day.
Speaker A: AI6KV73.73.
Speaker B: Good luck with a call with the. With the class. And before I go up to Scott, KG6NLW.
Speaker C: Frank, you have a quick comment
Speaker D: two
Speaker F: here, Greg and Jerry. I thought they were looky loos. The windows on boats. I thought they were looky loose and theta. Raley's has the best sweet buns out there. So you know, if Raley's is right
Speaker A: down the street for you, go get some.
Speaker F: And then my last thing. Brian, email received. Hopefully the audio was adjusted properly and that one station is back up on the Superman page. Just an FYI. KG6 nilwa.
Speaker A: Back to you, Jerry.
Speaker B: Okay, thanks, Frank. Yeah, and I did see that. And Scott, good morning. KM6 RFP. It's a WA16.
Speaker C: Good morning, Jerry.
Speaker E: And fate. Yep, just quick in and out.
Speaker C: I'm out running errands right now. I had to go to Lowe's and pick up some spacers to finish up the terminated folded dipole resistor component. And then I'll start working on the each leg of the terminated folded dipole this afternoon or tomorrow, hopefully. And then I had to run over to Michael's to get some model paint for the train layout.
Speaker A: That's all I've got.
Speaker B: It sounds like a busy day. What scale train layout do you have?
Speaker C: I have HO scale. Converting a lot of it from old DC to dcc and it takes up an entire room in my house.
Speaker B: I almost hate to ask this, but from DC to dcc, what does that mean? I know what DC is.
Speaker C: So with dc, you can run one locomotive at one time on the track. With dcc, it has an encoder inside the locomotive that allows you to run multiple locomotives at the same time on the same track.
Speaker B: So can you run them different directions?
Speaker C: You can do anything you want with them. It also allows you to add sound and everything. So I'm taking 1970s technology locomotives that weren't designed for it. And the motors draw too much amperage.
Speaker B: For the circuit board.
Speaker C: So I'm having to. I sourced new motors for the locomotives and then I add the circuit board to the locomotive and so now I. It's a convert. It's a simple conversion. It just takes some time.
Speaker B: WB1G with a question. Go ahead. Fetty.
Speaker C: Related. I used to be into model trains and dc. Model trains.
Speaker E: Dcc.
Speaker C: I'm not familiar with it either.
Speaker B: Does.
Speaker C: Is there some kind of pulse code modulation that travels on the D.C. rail and does the second locomotive decode that and identify its signal? I'm just.
Speaker D: You're a ham.
Speaker F: How does it work?
Speaker C: So you're pretty close.
Speaker A: So each, each locomotive has a circuit
Speaker C: board, an encoder in it and you assign it a number. So like on typical locomotives it's a four digit number. So you assign that locomotive say 3201. You can then you have another locomotive which is 3202. You can type in on the keypad of the controller 3201 and then it sends the signal to that locomotive to run independently of the other locomotive.
Speaker B: Like a Mac address?
Speaker C: Yeah, pretty much like a Mac address. Exactly. So what it allows you to do, it allows you to run multiple things on the same track at the same time without doing one locomotive at a time.
Speaker B: So you got hot DC on the rails.
Speaker D: Absolutely.
Speaker A: Fat.
Speaker B: Try again. Smitty. You're dropping out for some reason. Yeah. So what I'm hearing Scott, is you got looks like DC on the rails all the time. You use the Mac addressers addressing to tell the locomotive what to do. And it doesn't depend upon the polarity of the DC and the track, right?
Speaker C: That is correct, yes. And so it allows for multiple operations at the same time, which.
Speaker B: Which is real.
Speaker A: Which is kind of nice.
Speaker C: So I can be running something on the main line and do something in the yard and then if I want something sitting on a spur or an exterior track, I can do that all at the same time.
Speaker B: Go ahead, comment.
Speaker F: 6nl yeah, to add on to that, you can also. It's basically like real life as well. You can run stuff in MU configuration. So you can have like three or four or five locomotives and you can control all of them just with the one, you know, like 3201s engine number.
Speaker D: And you just.
Speaker F: You tell 32020304 to MU to 3201 and they all get the same command at once. And Scott, tell me you're an SP guy without telling me 3201.
Speaker C: Yeah, SP, the W the Black Widow, the SP Daylight. Absolutely. And the old SF Santa Fe with the warp on it.
Speaker B: Hang on, Frank, we had another comment. And you doubled with Frank, what was the other comment?
Speaker F: Look up kilo 7 Sierra, Papa Romeo, K7SPR. It's the plus that I found it.
Speaker A: I think you'll like it.
Speaker G: Specific messages. Two different devices on one cable.
Speaker B: Okay, Frank, standby. And the other comment was. I'm not sure who it was. Try it one more time. I know the last I heard from you was the word cable. DV6 luv.
Speaker G: Brett here, we'll try this one last time.
Speaker B: I was gonna say I don't know
Speaker G: if Smitty's still listening, but you can liken the transmission to midi. Like with the various devices you might use for either DJing or if you're familiar with music, midi, music stuff. You can send multiple messages to different devices on one cable. KB6iuv73.
Speaker B: Okay, thanks, Brett and Scott. Too bad you're going to be running around. Obviously the model train subject has quite a few adherents and we got some quick edit outs to do.
Speaker C: Yeah, if anybody wants more information, they can get a hold of me. I'm good in the club roster. They can get a hold of me. I'll send them pictures of what I'm doing. And I'm also 3D printing a lot of the field stuff for the scenery. And so I'm looking at getting a new printer. Right now I'm looking at getting Elgo, a resin printer which does finer detail. But yeah, it's been a challenge converting 70s technology to 2025 technology and making it all work. But it's fun.
Speaker B: A few years ago I went down to Cal Expo with a friend who was a UP dispatcher and they had the model railroad show there, along with guns or something like that, and they had all these plastic molded.

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Speaker A: Sitting on a rail on a display at one of the vendors and they had their lights on and every now. And it sounded like they were idling and every now and then the pop off valve for the air compressor would go off and it was so neat.
Speaker B: Alrighty.
Speaker A: Well, let's move along here, Scott, thanks for checking in with us and have a great day. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker C: That's all part of the encoder. You can add realistic sounds to the locomotive and everything. You can even do the same thing with steam locomotives. You can hear the chugging of the wheels. All right, thanks, Jerry. And thanks, Theta, for running the net. This is Kilo Mike 6 Romeo, Foxtrot Bravo, clear back to Ned.
Speaker A: Okay, 73 and KB6ed. Good morning.
Speaker D: Good morning, Jerry. Good morning, Theta in the Net. And yeah, earlier I sent you an email and I didn't actually make reference into it as to why, but you were talking about Kilauea going off and then there was also talk about YouTube videos and I. Anyway, I was just decided I wanted to send you a video. This idiot out playing with the lava, the molten lava. And so you can look for that in your inbox. And that's all I really have. I just say good morning and let you carry on with the net. KB6CD.
Speaker A: Well, I wasn't checking my email, but I see yours there. And I have seen some YouTube videos of people out sticking sticks into the hot lava. Faith and I went out and walked on the lava after an eruption and we were quite a ways from the active part and it was still hot enough to make me turn around and leave. I was coming up through my. Through my running shoes. So, yeah, you know what, what did that wise philosopher Forrest Gump say? Stupid is as stupid does also. That's a Darwin candidate.
Speaker D: Yeah, I was out there definitely at a time where the wind was blowing the right direction to carry the fumes away, but could have easily shifted. And there were also some big bubbled up areas that had kind of the sides blown out where every once in a while it was outgassed just like a torch. So walking around that kind of stuff was pretty silly, but. And the lava broke, tore up tennis shoes and melted the bottoms. And I was actually running across it trying to keep up with some friends. I had a water bottle in my hand and I tripped and I didn't want my hands to hit that fresh broken up lava because it can really just instantly. It just brought this like broken glass or like. Yeah, broken glass. Anyway, I tried to catch myself with that water bottle and ended up, jamming through my fingers and knocking my center finger out of joint out of the socket. But like I said, quick in and out. So, enough of that KB600.
Speaker A: Before you go. Ed, did you ever get to see Kilauea actually fountaining like it is now up to 1500ft, or did when you were there? When we were there, it was just oozing.
Speaker D: Yeah, when I was there, it was oozing and just little. Kind of like little rivers running down the slope. Something you could walk up next to as we did. And I grabbed up a piece of lava and just poked at it. A piece of hardened lava. I actually ended up bringing it home. I liked the idea of owning a rock that had not been a rock the day before.
Speaker A: That's an interesting way to look at it, but you don't want to annoy Madame Pele. Yes, indeed.
Speaker D: My sister carried some of that stuff home and she got home and decided since I was still living there, that she would mail it to me and ask me to take it right back to the same place that she picked it up. She said she'd never had such a set of experiences, and she decided that's why. So, anyway, I honored her request.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've read the stories in the visitor center there at the national park, so.
Speaker B: Very good.
Speaker A: Well, have a good day and thanks for checking in with us.
Speaker D: Enjoying the net as always. 7.3.
Speaker A: 73 n 3 gms. Golf mike sierra, good morning.
Speaker C: Comment. That was actually Ka3VGM using N3GMS's node.
Speaker A: Okay. I wondered. I didn't pick it up when the avalanche of calls was coming, but I saw it on Supermod. Yeah, very good. Good morning.
Speaker B: Yeah, good morning, Terry. I was just about to tell you that. That I had to bring the IAX RPT client back in focus. It wouldn't key itself up, so I had to re.
Speaker D: Reconcile.
Speaker B: Good morning to Beta. Good morning to Marky and everybody else on the net. I'm checking in late this morning because I checked into the Blind Dance net earlier, but I wanted to come down here and say good morning to you people as well. So everybody back there, have a good day and we'll bark to you later. Okay?
Speaker A: Clear.
Speaker B: Thanks.
Speaker A: Okay. Jimmy, always a pleasure to have you on. I'm glad you went in with us and. Yeah, what you really meant to say was you wanted to come down here where all the action was, Right?
Speaker B: Yeah. This net is more active. They do say more on this net. Didn't need you on the other with. So you're definitely more Active than they are.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's right. Over here, you get to talk about volcanoes erupting and model trains. So all kinds of subjects here. Thanks for checking in and have a great day. Okay. Jimmy, I'm sorry for the mix up in the call. I just. I'm not as quick as I used to be. And are you still with us? Kd3han, this is wa6e.
Speaker E: Hello, Jerry and Beta and everyone else on the net today. Well, this morning we had a social in our community room in our building and went down there, spent some time with visiting with people and had a nice time. Later, we're going to be going out to dinner with my niece for my birthday, which was last Tuesday. And it's very sunny out today and only in the. But the sun's out and we're expecting some snow. Not much. They keep changing it. Everyone have a great day and a great weekend. KD3AJN.
Speaker A: Okay, Anna? Well, the social aspect, that's always fun. Sit around what we're doing now. Except we're not face to face, Faith. We're drinking our coffee and chatting with everybody. I know you're in Pennsylvania. Which part of the state are you? East, west or in the middle?
Speaker E: Western Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
Speaker A: Oh, very good. You're over there. By Roy W87. Dharma. He's in Freedom, Pennsylvania. So very nice. I have a cousin lives in Pittsburgh. I saw on the news the other day that Pittsburgh's one of the fastest growing cities in the country. I scratched my head, but that's what it said.
Speaker E: I did not hear that, but I'm not surprised. And also, Roy is in our radio club. Roy and Mickey. And they were just at the meeting the other night. We had.
Speaker A: Oh, how funny. I didn't realize you were that close together. How nice. It is a real small kind of family, isn't it? They were in our radio club here for a long time, and when they moved, we missed them. But thanks to radio, we can still chat with them.
Speaker E: That's really nice. I really enjoy getting on nets and talking to people and learning different things. Everybody talks about different activities and it's really interesting.
Speaker A: Yeah, it is. And the stories and the experiences, everybody's a little bit different and it makes for some really interesting conversations. So enjoy.
Speaker E: Sorry, I had to change radios. My battery was dying. But, yeah, it's very interesting that, you know, people are still connected even though they're so far away from each other. And I love it. Well, my phone's ringing, so I will talk to you later. Everybody have a good day. KD3AJN.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's the danger of having fun with the radio. You run out of battery. Seven threes to you. Let's see next time. My list is. I think I have the call correct. Kilo Charlie 1, Victor, Lima, Juliet. Is that right? Kc1blj. Are you there? Okay, well, apparently not since we have ones going here. WV1G. Smitty, are you back with us? Okay, well, apparently Smitty's doing something more important. This is WA6E and this is Coffee Break Net. Who wants to join us? Come. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, my goodness. Okay, I'm getting chewed out by my co producer here. Patrick, I'm sorry I specifically jumped over you because you were not in and out. My apologies. I will do 10 push ups.
Speaker C: Oh, that's okay. I really don't really have all that much anyway. Good morning, everybody. Hope everyone's doing well. N2DYI, we had a nice day here yesterday. It was ridiculously warm. It got up to 77 degrees here. And in Charlotte, apparently it got up to 83 and broke all the records. And at home they have blizzard conditions happening.
Speaker D: So.
Speaker C: Yeah, a bit of a missed thingy there.
Speaker A: Yeah, I guess. So how long are you going to be down in North Carolina?
Speaker C: Well, the plan is to be here until I'm not.
Speaker A: I have to think about that. That's. That's pretty deep, I think all of us could say. Yeah.
Speaker C: Don't have any immediate plans to go anywhere anytime in the coming days. Maybe I'll reevaluate things in the spring. I don't know. Not really in a rush.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Your comment reminds me of other great phrases like wherever you go, there you are and where you don't know where you. When you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.
Speaker C: Yeah. My dad, when I was little, I would.
Speaker A: I would.
Speaker C: He would go, well, what are you doing? And I would say, oh, I don't know.
Speaker A: And he was like, well, how do
Speaker C: you know when you do it? Like, I don't know. And yeah, we just kind of got this loop forever.
Speaker A: Yeah. Well, what are you doing? I'm repairing this radio. Well, how do you know when you're done? It no longer works, you know, I can't find the parts. Okay, great fun. Well, stay warm down there and try to avoid all the heavy snow. This has been an unusual year for weather. I saw on the news that Fairbanks has had record amounts of snow this year. And they always get snow, of course, but not the quantities that they've had. So strange, huh? Apparently, same may be true for North Carolina, based on recent activity.
Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, we got a fair bit more than we usually do. I mean, some places got two feet of snow in that one storm.
Speaker A: What was it, two weeks ago or
Speaker C: three weeks ago now, I forget. And we got a foot. And the week before that, the weekend before that, we had several inches again and ice on top of that. So we have definitely flown. Far exceeded our snow quota for this year. And, you know, we went probably three or four years with basically no measurable snow at all. And it's like, here, have it all at once.
Speaker A: Well, yeah, get it over with all at once. That's one way to do it. And I also read in the news that people were down in Florida complaining about every now and then it gets cold down there and the orange growers claim doom and gloom. And I know that it snows in the panhandle of Florida there along Destin and Eglin Air Force Base. I had friends stationed down there, and they would talk about the snow. So it does happen on occasion. And when it does, I guess you just sit and endure. What else can you do? Well, you got to watch out for
Speaker C: the iguanas on the trees. You know, once it gets down below, what is it, like, 45 degrees or something, they start falling, falling off the trees.
Speaker A: I saw that there are YouTube videos about it. I also didn't realize that they are an invasive species, and the state was encouraging people to pick them up when they fall out of the trees and put them in a bag and bring them into them so that they can dispatch them.
Speaker C: Oh, yeah, they're. They're pretty pervasive, invasive. I don't know. Spent a little bit of time in the Keys a few years ago, and they were all over the place. There were also actual chickens crossing the road there, too. So we were trying to get down to, I think, downtown Key west, and there were roosters walking across the road. And, you know, all the jokes wrote themselves.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, that's another subject. Consume several hours here on the net. Why did that chicken cross the road? Theta says because it could. There's one of your answers. Well, thanks for checking in with us. Have a great weekend.
Speaker C: All right.
Speaker A: U2 73N2DYI okay, Theta, since as I miss KN6WQU. Dan, if you're out there, I'm sorry. I didn't even hear you. That silence indicates she may have heard wrong. Okay, let's take a fresh list. Who wants to join us. W1ELJ, are you there? Okay, we're going to start making up mythical calls here. Who would like to join us? This is WA6E in the coffee breaknet. W2vx, in and out. N6 ctc, in and out. Okay, I got chris and doug both in and out. So w2vx, good morning.
Speaker C: Good morning, Jerry.
Speaker A: Good morning, Theta. Good morning, planet. Seems like we have people coming in from all over the planet these days. It's one of those success stories. It's fun, isn't it? I guess guys get their ham radios and they want to actually use them. So to do that, you come over to this net. We had a fellow on from the Netherlands is falling. We've had regular check in from the shire, as he calls it in England, and juicy tomato from Australia. So, yeah, you're right. We got a worldwide net. It's one of those success stories where all the people that are working in the boiler room are wondering when this
Speaker C: ship is ever going to slow down
Speaker A: so they can get off and, you know, enjoy one of the ports.

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Speaker A: You know, gotta be careful what you wish for.
Speaker B: Yeah, that reminds me of the three Chinese curses that sound like blessings that were really intended as curses. So what were they? May you get what you wish for. May you come to the attention of the authorities. And what was the third one? Theta? I don't know. It'll come to me in the middle of the night.
Speaker A: May you live in interesting times.
Speaker B: Yes, that was it.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's definitely interesting times. You know, I was watching YouTube about the. About the. Not the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and how that all transpired and, you know, the north versus the south, abolitionists, blah, blah, blah. And you know what, I remember studying that when I was in high school, but really haven't examined it. And I think the story that I was told when I was in high school is completely different from what I saw on YouTube. Maybe the YouTube one wasn't trying to be so politically correct.
Speaker B: I think what you'll find is it depends upon who's telling the story, which version of it you get. But all of them are interesting. And I'm quite with you. I got the macro level in high school, and now that you're older and have more time, you can get. Dig into it. And the facts are really interesting.
Speaker A: Yeah. The question becomes, how are the facts? How are the facts affected by the outlook and the motivation of the person who is recounting it? You know, you go and you look for the history and you go to certain places in the history to find your information. You weave it all together and generally you either watch CNBC or you watch Fox News.
Speaker B: I wasn't all that much interested in history until I joined the Air Force and they assigned me to Boston. And I lived in Bedford, which is kind of about 17 miles northwest of Boston and right next to Concord, Lexington and Lincoln. Those are the other towns. And the old North Bridge in Concord where the first shots were fired was about four miles from where I lived. So I would go over there on occasion and just kind of take it in and walk the pathways and then history. And you know, all of a sudden it became alive. This is where it happened. This is what the people had to walk down and trudge along. And you know, I was thinking, so Paul Revere ran along the. Crossed the river and ran up to. Rode his horse up to Lex. He said, big deal. Well, you know, it was a big deal. I was thinking in terms of hills with weeds and an oak tree here and there. But no, it was entirely different. And since then, I really enjoy reading the history and looking at the various, various viewpoints that come with respect to it.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's fascinating and it's something, you know, it's brain food. Taking a look at, you know, what the issues were or at least what the reported issues were. And I really like that stuff. Anyway, was trying to do a quick in and out and I'm watching the
Speaker B: monitors,
Speaker A: you know, down here in the boiler room for the coffee break net and it's always interesting to see what's going on behind the scenes. Anyway, Jerry, Theta and everybody else. Seven threes.
Speaker B: This is W2VX.
Speaker A: I'm gonna be clear. And you know what, if the sun comes out, I'm going on a bike ride.
Speaker B: Very good. I wondered if you might. I see you were getting into Mountaintop and Rockland. Not quite as much. And Georgetown even less. I seem to be getting all three pretty good. So the system is up and working. Thanks to you and appreciate it. Have a great day. Enjoy your bike ride. If you go. This is WA16. So chris, good morning n6 ctc. Wa60.
Speaker C: Good morning Jerry and Theta and the
Speaker B: rest of the net.
Speaker C: This is Chris, N6CTC. I just wanted to get in here and say hey, good morning. I am getting Jax out of bed. He decided that he wanted to come play radio with me at Folsom Lake. So we're going to go down, set up the 710 field and my Ultimax N fed antenna and we're going to see what we can hear and who can hear us.
Speaker B: What great fun. And you'll be in the sun so you won't be absolutely frozen. And it's supposed to be up into the 50s to. So life will be good. Did I hear the other day that you graduated, completed your education requirements?
Speaker C: That is affirmative. I have earned my associates of Arts in the cybersecurity field. Yep. Finished year of college. And this is my graduation present to myself. Or was my graduation present to myself. My first HF radio.
Speaker B: Well, congratulations on graduating. That's a nice degree to have in cyber security. My guess is you will be fully employed for the rest of your life. And what radio did you get?
Speaker C: So I went over to the candy store and I got the Yaesu FT710 field and I picked up an Ultimax N fed antenna when I was there. And then I got one of these Life PO Life PO four batteries and charged it up. I'm ready to go. Got my hammer's logging software all ready.
Speaker B: I don't know the ST710 but I know yaesu that'll be a nice radio. The battery, how many amp hours does it have capacity?
Speaker C: It's a 20amp hour battery and it is going to eventually be in a battery box. But I figured I didn't need everything first, just the battery. So got all the cords I need to hook it up to the radio and it's going to be a good time. And yes, the YAESU had the most important factor that I was looking for in a radio and that was a sail.
Speaker B: Oh, very good. That's important to some degree, but also portability. Did you see anybody you knew at the candy store?
Speaker C: I did. K6ABJ was there, Aaron, and he helped me out. And then I met some new friends too. I just was, you know, walking around, picking some stuff out, put it on the counter and then they'd get into conversation and go play radio on the wall of radios. And yeah, I made a friend. Someone came up and said, what you doing? I'm listening to people talk, trying to find some podas and then I'm gonna buy a radio. So it was fun. I've actually never been there before because I didn't have any purchase. My wife even had to call me. They're not used to the wealth of a single man. Tax return at 60 TC.
Speaker B: Oh, I think they've seen that before. I was going to say that. What I expected your answer to be was every salesman there you knew. And that's typically the reason, you know, if they were to set up a little corner of the store and offer coffee, they probably have people sitting in there yakking all day long.
Speaker C: Yeah, it seems like the kind of place where you would have to do a reverse feng shui in order to keep people from staying there too long. It seems like, oh, I don't know, kind of like how the Circle K was when I was about my youngest son's age, 15 years old. They had all of the Mountain Dew and Doritos and. And Street Fighter II Champions edition for quarters and they couldn't get us to leave either.
Speaker B: Theta likes to go to a fabric store up in Portland. It's a huge one. It's closed now, but at the time it was open and we would drive across Portland to go to this thing and so she'd get lost in among all the bolt of fabric and I would. But they had a little section with a couch and some chairs and a TV and coffee. That was all. The husbands would sit over there and chat while the ladies, mostly ladies. I guess that's a sexist Comment were out shopping through the store and it worked out very well.
Speaker C: So does Data know that there's a new quilting store in Roseville near the Walmart on Pleasant Grove?
Speaker B: Hush your mouth. What are you talking.
Speaker C: It's right next to. Aptly named the tutoring Center. Yep, it's right there with the Chick Fil a. It used to be a big baseball store, but then I swear in about three days it was no longer a baseball store. And now it's a big old quilting store. So lots of fabrics to look at.
Speaker B: Well, I suspect that now is going to appear on our dance card. It's on Pleasant Grove someplace. You say near a Walmart?
Speaker C: That's right. Highway 65 and Pleasant Grove. That Walmart right there, it's right off of Pleasant Grove. When you turn into the center, there's like a little small shopping center before you get to like the Sam's Club and the Walmart. It's got like a Hawaiian food store. It's got the Tutoring center. The Chick Fil a is probably the biggest thing that you would see from the road. But yep, it's tucked in the back there and it's pretty big.
Speaker B: Do they also have a Panera Bread store?
Speaker C: You know, I'm pretty sure there is, but it's kind of one of those drip malls where everything rotates and then new stores kind of pop up. Just like the quilting store.
Speaker B: Yeah, I know where it is. You have to go past it to get into where the Walmart or the Sam's Club is. Well, I would say thanks for telling me, but Theta is making notes over here.
Speaker C: Well, Jerry, I do like to be an agent of chaos, so there you go. Well, I'm going to finish wrestling Jackson out of bed. So he. He was up a little late last night. He discovered a plumbing. Plumbing issue with the house. And I told. And you know, one of those things. Welcome to manhood. You're going to clog this thing once a year, so get used to fixing it. All right, guys, have a great day. 73 at 6 CTC.
Speaker B: Okay, Chris, well, have fun today doing your park on the air and hope the bands cooperate with you. This is WA60. Just as an aside. KB5 BAO, are you. Are you with us?
Speaker D: Indeed I am, Jerry.
Speaker B: Data in the net.
Speaker D: And I'll. I'll wait for my check in to come around.
Speaker B: Okay. Well, I was just about to take check in, so let's go now.
Speaker A: Good morning.
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker D: Good morning. Well, at least there's a Chick Fil a near that that quilting store. So don't go on the Sunday.
Speaker B: Yeah, So I can take Theta over there and she can go shopping and I can. I can eat Chick Fil a. Huh?
Speaker D: Well, since nobody likes to go through the ninth dimension of Hades known as Walmart.
Speaker B: Yes. Yeah. Great fun. Do you have chick fil a's there in lubbock?
Speaker D: Let's see.
Speaker A: We've got. We've got.
Speaker D: We have at least two that I know of the two that I use. There's probably more than that here. But, yes, we have Chick Fil A's here in. You're gonna Lubbock.
Speaker B: You can find those just about everywhere. Like Costco. My daughter went to Iceland, and the first thing they did was went to the Costco by the airport because the food there was so expensive. So they got some supplies. Let's see. Brian, you want to talk to David?
Speaker E: Yeah, I do. Good morning, Dave. Brian here.
Speaker B: Yes.
Speaker E: Your node is announcing your connections through the connected nodes, and I sent you an email. If you could respond to that email, please.
Speaker D: Okay, Brian, I'm a bit behind on my emails, but I will have a go at that.
Speaker E: Okay, appreciate that. Yeah, we've had to drop you about five, four or five times today. Had to drop you a couple times in the past week as well, so appreciate that. Back to you, Jerry. AI6US.
Speaker B: Oh, the fun with all these automatic things. Well, David, what's on your agenda for today? David, did we lose you? Wa16.
Speaker D: Okay. I'm about to throw this iPhone out the window. That's part of my problem with the node stuff. You were in the. But, yeah, not a lot going on. Just relaxing and enjoying the good weather out here. It's got to be at least in the 60s or 70s by now.
Speaker B: Oh, how nice. Quite a change from the numbers we've been hearing from other folks checking in. Brian, you have more.
Speaker E: No, not at all. Not at all. If Dave can check out things on his side and work out why, you know, the local announcements are going out over the Net or over the connections. No, that's it for me. Thank you, Jerry, back to you.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. Well, great fun with radio, David. That's why it's a hobby. Now.
Speaker D: What was going on, Brian, was my screen reader was rattling off stuff, and I didn't at the time know that the push to talk was engaged. So that's why you were hearing all manner of nonsense over the. Over the network.
Speaker E: Okay. Yeah, we appreciate you looking into it. It had been a regular. So I just wanted to make sure you were aware. Thank you very much and we are glad you're here.
Speaker D: I think I've got it wrangled. Brian thanks. Thanks for letting me know.
Speaker B: Okay David, thanks for checking in with us. Enjoy your 70 degree weather while we're not that far behind you. And Brian, I don't know if you were listening earlier but Thomas came on and gave us what he knew. Do you have any Update on Ray? KK 06:00am
Speaker E: no, I do not. Only with I had reached out to Thomas earlier today and asked him to, you know, let us know how Ray was doing and very fortunate that he is being treated and we look forward to him being back on the air. Welcome to Christina who is now in the area and definitely takes a village and we're glad to hear that
Speaker A: he
Speaker E: is in a Reyes in a place where he can be cared for. And yeah it was quite an event yesterday. Ai6.
Speaker B: I know that a lot of that is due to you. You went down and did a wellness check. What was the genesis of that of that check?
Speaker E: Now the last time we had heard from Ray was was Wednesday morning during the coffee breaknet check in and he wasn't sounding well that morning. Sounded like he had, you know, a cold or something and we did not hear from him in that afternoon. And then when I didn't hear from him checking in on Thursday I started going huh.

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Speaker A: And6 the NY mobile we6 a x n receiver. Good morning. Good morning. KK6VZD.
Speaker B: Well, good morning to you, Chris. How's this Saturday treating you this morning?
Speaker A: All pretty good. I came out to Sutter. There's a Sutter tractor event. Guess I'm not sure if, you know, Bud talked about, I guess once a year they had all these tractors that gather out in Sutter and then they go take a ride around the Sutter Buttes and come back and then they have like hay rides and raffles and a couple other things. So I came out early to watch them head off.
Speaker B: Oh, there you go. Yeah, I was actually going to be doing Tail End Charlie for them just this year, but I ended up having to get called into work. So I'm actually headed up to Engelbreak Dam to do a vehicle rescue.
Speaker A: Out of the reservoir.
Speaker B: Luckily, no. One of our new guys decided he was going to pull a bonehead and move and took one of the March patrol cars with quarter tank of fuel up there. So now he's out of gas. So I gotta run up there, throw gas in the vehicle, run the gas down, or run the vehicle down to a gas station here in Marysville to fuel it up. That way I can take it back to him.
Speaker A: I think you. I think you got it right, bonehead. That's a bonehead move. Yes, sir.
Speaker B: And then after I'm done with that, I gotta finish packing all my stuff up.
Speaker A: That way I could head out to
Speaker B: the Bay Area for my actual job tonight.
Speaker A: Boy, you're a busy boy.
Speaker B: Never a dull moment, sir. Never a dull moment.
Speaker A: Yeah, I guess I gotta come back here around noonish or so Bud said. It takes him about three hours to go around the vehicle. And then maybe I can get a hayride, some other stuff like that.
Speaker B: Well, there you go on over to the French place and get some food. Or actually at a South Butte Market, they got some hot food and stuff there as well.
Speaker A: I actually stopped by. I was heading back out and went by the restaurant at South. Is it South Butte Road and Acacia? And there's a restaurant in there called French Whisk. And I thought, let me try that. I've never been in there before. So that's some good breakfast foods. Yeah, French Whisk has got some pretty good food out there, so can't complain. It's kind of weird with some of
Speaker B: the stuff seeing a French twist on Americanized food, but still really good.
Speaker A: Yeah, I guess they're open for lunch too. Sitting here looking at they've Got a nice French dip sandwich and a Reuben and chicken blt. Yeah, yeah, sounds good to me. I think I'll have to go out. I'll take, take my wife out there. I think there's actually some food that she might actually be able to eat.
Speaker B: There you go.
Speaker A: Yeah, I haven't had their French dip
Speaker B: yet, but let me tell you, their Reuben sandwich. Oh man, that is good.
Speaker A: Yeah, I got a latte this morning and it's the smoothest latte I've ever had. Good deal. Hey, as long as it was nice
Speaker B: and smooth and did the job all right.
Speaker A: Yeah. Now it's gotten me thinking that we have a latte machine or an espresso machine at home. And you know, I was never trained in how to, how to make a latte, but you know, I mean, it can't be that hard. But still, unless you have somebody show you, this is exactly what you need to do. I think I've been putting too much too many shots in mine. Gotcha. Gotcha.
Speaker B: Yeah, usually lattes. I think they only usually have like one or two shots in them. How long you been putting in?
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not exactly sure, but. Oh well. So I got a play today at at submitting my paperwork to get my pension started.
Speaker B: Good deal. Have fun with that. I hope they huh, got everything in the line for you. I know my mother in law's been fighting with them about my father in law's stuff and some of her stuff
Speaker A: too, so it can be a headache. Make sure you got everything.
Speaker B: I almost said I's crossed and T's dotted, but I guess it's vice versa.
Speaker A: Oh yes. Oh yes.
Speaker C: So.
Speaker A: That's quite a way, that's quite a drive here up to Angle Brighton. Back and then back and then back.
Speaker B: Yeah, it becomes a pain having to drive back and forth at our office,
Speaker A: but good deal, man.
Speaker B: But so let's see, you're down to what, 29 days.
Speaker A: 29 work days. That is correct.
Speaker B: Well, and then you got your vacation days. So let's say 27 days.
Speaker A: Yes, I have a couple of what we got floating holidays coming too, but I found out about that. Doesn't matter. If I'm topped out on my vacation day day, they will still pay out my floating holidays. So I guess I'll just let them do that.
Speaker B: There you go. So just out of curiosity, what do you guys max out for? Because I know when I was at the out there at the power plant for vacation, they maxed us out at 20 days.
Speaker A: I think it's too much.
Speaker B: 384 hours.
Speaker A: Now divide that by eight. Yeah.
Speaker B: Oh man, you're asking me to do math? I don't have my paper and cranes with me, bro.
Speaker A: Well let's see. 320, that's 40 days and then another 64, that's eight. So 48 days, that's just a little over two months workday.
Speaker B: Good deal. Yeah, you definitely had more than we had so. Yeah, cuz we maxed out a 200 hours so.
Speaker A: Which was 20 days because I was
Speaker B: doing 10 hour shifts so.
Speaker A: Good deal. Yeah, I could actually go in I guess now and say well you know what, I've changed my mind. I want to, I want to just go on vacation for the rest of my time and I could.
Speaker B: Yeah, but then you want to be able to cash out your, your remainder, would you?
Speaker A: That's very true. And I want the money. I, I figured it out and yeah, I couldn't buy a new car with the check that I'd get for my vacation. But I could, I think I could get a pretty decent used car. Yeah, you could get a decent used
Speaker B: car or put down a pretty good down payment for a new one.
Speaker A: Not ever buying a new car ever again. I did buy a new car when I was in Germany but that made sense. I'm sorry, excuse me. I had to put on the brakes
Speaker B: real quickly
Speaker A: because when I was in Germany the exchange rate from dollars to marks was, it was phenomenal. So I ended up buying a new car for a third less than I could have bought it in the States.
Speaker B: Oh nice. Yeah, I don't think, honestly, I think the newest car I ever bought it was still three years old and had thousand miles on them. So I'm right there with you. I don't buy new cars, you know, much due to the fact that first of all interest rates on, well no interest rates on newer cars have dropped. So it's actually not that bad. However, you depreciate 30 when your front tires hit the, hit the roadway and it's like it's not worth it.
Speaker A: No, it is definitely not worth it. What I'll probably end up doing is, and we probably discussed this before, probably end up going to Enterprise Rent a car sale and get something from them. They have decent prices and decent vehicles. W E6A X N repeater.
Speaker B: There you go. Yeah, I've never got anything for them. What I usually do is I go on to a website called Car Use because you can put in what kind of car you want, what price range you want, how far away from Your local area you're willing to go and it'll, it'll drop everything that the dealerships have, you know, and it's, that's actually how I found my, my utility was on car gurus
Speaker A: not quite hearing, I hear cars, I'm not quite getting what the last part of that is.
Speaker B: Gurus. G U R U S Gurus.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, I know My, my daughter bought her last car through enterprise and my in laws always used to buy their cars from a rental rental car. Used. And they were always good ours. And they're, they're not the, they're not the best price in the world, but they're, they're a good price, you know, and they've been maintained. The only thing is, you know, when they, when they buy their, their fleets, you know, they're all options of the same. So, you know, you're going to get a car with a, a smaller engine, electric windows, electric door locks, air conditioning. I don't remember whether my daughter's has got a navigation system on it. I think so. And you know, you never get. Oopsie talking too much. You never get, you know, premium, A premium car, but, you know, I don't want a premium car.
Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah. Well, actually all of the, the rentals, I think from 2015 and newer, I believe all of them come with navigation now.
Speaker A: But yeah, they're, they're, they're, they're fleet
Speaker B: cars, you know, so like you said, you know, they're not premium, but they got the, the bare necessities for comfort and which isn't bad and you get a decent price on them. So my first, first vehicle I bought after I got married, which was my 2000 Blazer, that one was, you know, that was a previous fleet. You know, we're not fleet, but it was a previous rental and that thing was in really good condition when we bought it.
Speaker A: Yeah, the Impala that we got was a, I think it was a leased vehicle originally. It started out life as a leased vehicle and the woman to which, you know, the woman that had was assigned the leased vehicle by her company, then got an opportunity to buy it and then we bought it from her.
Speaker B: Oh, there you go. But so yeah, I'm fully with you. I'll never buy a brand new vehicle. First of all, we got too many quirks. At least after somebody owns it for three, four years, they get all the recalls done and fix all the stuff that, you know, shouldn't be breaking but, you know, does. So but if it's a new vehicle, Then you're the one that has to be out of a car when it goes to the shop and all that.
Speaker A: Yes, yes. So let's see. I'm on Star Drive. I'm looking since I'm on my way home. Anyway, I just got reminded that Sutter, there's a Sutter Olive Oil Company and it's here in apparently Yuba City. There's a. There's a storefront for them and I thought on my way home I might as well see if I could find them. Oh, there you go.
Speaker B: That's on the game plan. But, but yeah, I'm currently. I don't know what I think I'm westbound on 70 headed towards Bright Dam. 60 NYPer ID coming into Hallwood.
Speaker A: So I tell. I saw in the paper that they're going to be putting up another traffic light there somewhere for, for all the trucks, for the gravel trucks there. What's the name of that street? City, I think. Yes sir.
Speaker B: Yeah, they got a light at Kitty now and it is now operational. So I've been watching, you know, driving through there for the last couple months. They were putting it up but it's. They got it up and running now.
Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, so interesting. The. The address for the olive oil store is not. I've just pulled up on it and it says something about solar has nothing to do with olive oil. I guess I'll have to call them and ask them.
Speaker B: Where are you guys?
Speaker A: Actually, Yeah, if their address is taking
Speaker B: you to a solar company, there's a problem I think. Don't quote me on this, but I think they may have moved it actually back out.
Speaker A: The stutter.
Speaker B: I'm not sure.
Speaker A: Well then Google is inaccurate.
Speaker B: Oh, I've been finding a lot of inaccuracies with Google lately. It's actually kind of scary.
Speaker A: And it's like you had a double
Speaker B: there on you, Chris. N60NY
Speaker A: I was gonna say it's all that AI. Yes sir.
Speaker B: Yes sir. And if there was a double out there with Chris, go ahead.
Speaker A: Are you looking for a better Beef
Speaker B: Olive Oil company
Speaker A: looking for this door? Yeah, That would be a yes. If you're responding, you're extremely faint. Oh, thanks for the signal report there.
Speaker B: I'll look into that.
Speaker A: So do you know where this store is? It's on Pool in between Stabler and Sarp. Well, I was just on Pool and did not see.
Speaker C: It's closed until Tuesday at 8:30.
Speaker A: Oh, that's okay. But I still haven't found it.
Speaker C: Good luck.
Speaker A: Thank you and good morning. You should have come out for the tractor drive
Speaker C: and now that you've been. I heard you mention that the other day. And anyway, there was. When I worked at the bowling alley about eight years ago, there was a guy that was a regular that drove a tractor from, I don't know, they. Throughout multiple counties on this run. I don't think that has anything to do with it. Does it?
Speaker A: Kind of makes me wish that I had a tractor to play with.
Speaker C: As you can have it. I. When I worked at Beaver Tractor here in Calusa years ago, they had me take vehicle and apparatus down to the fairground, which isn't too far, just those jogs down highway pointing for the farm show. And I don't think they liked the way I was doing it or whatever because as the day went on, the tractors got progressively smaller. And here I am driving one of those old Honeyson lawn mowers, John Deere's down the highway. You can have all the tractors you want.
Speaker A: Okay. All right, what else? Okay, I. Maybe I was on the wrong road. Silly me.

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K6m fm, w6r h c repeater check 3.

Speaker A: You know, unusual not to have Ray checking in Friday morning when, you know, didn't hear him check in on Friday morning. I just had that feeling that, you know, we need to check up on him. Nobody had, you know, checked into the repeater, nobody had heard from him. So just hopped in the truck after talking to Thomas and Christina, just decided to head on down and do a wellness check and rang the doorbell, pounded on the door. I could hear a voice in the background. I could hear our repeater, you know, voices from the repeater. But I'm going to let it break. But, yeah, the voice that I heard back, seemingly responding to me, was
Speaker B: kind
Speaker A: of incoherent and very weak. And I couldn't really tell what was being said. So then I announced who I was and that, do you need help? And I heard, I heard something, couldn't really tell what it was. So then I again, you know, said, do you need help? And there was another sentence that I couldn't understand. So we made a call to 911, Placer County Sheriff, came out to police, excuse me, the fire department, the ambulance. Nothing was unlocked, so we had to. The fire department popped the door, went in and yeah, it looked like he had possibly fallen two days earlier. So, yeah, it was not a good situation.
Speaker B: No, no, it wasn't. But how fortunate that you made the effort to go down and find him because otherwise, who knows how long he could have been there. Needs one of those help I fallen and can't get up buttons. Well, thanks for doing that, Brian. That was very nice of you to do. And I know I would have missed him on the. On the trivia net last night had had I not heard this story. So all is well. I remember not too many years ago you doing something very similar for AB4CC when he was up thinking he was still 29 years old and skiing down that Black diamond run.
Speaker A: No, this is just something we do as a club. Yeah, dawn and I went up there and helped dawn out. Excuse me, helped Clyde out. And then a couple years ago during Snowmageddon, we. We went out and delivered generators and dug a couple people out, tracked up and, you know, it takes a village. There's been many of us who have gone out and helped out. So certainly this is something that I think we, as a club and as a group of good humans are really good at around here.
Speaker B: Indeed we are. And I'm proud to be associated with a group like that. And thank you for all you do. Appreciate it very much. Similar to your idea for starting up this Net. It's kind of caught fire. Great idea.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: And it did not start up. We're going to squash that. It did not start up because of COVID It just happened to coincide with it and people had time on their hands and who would have thought, you know we're coming up on seven now and I don't even know what we are for check ins now but what? 77, almost 72,000 check ins. Crazy. Hey, thanks for running the net. I'm going to hop out of here ai6us and sending good thoughts and give well wishes to KK 6am Ray.
Speaker D: Comment.
Speaker B: Go ahead, comment.
Speaker C: Brian, I wanted to. I just turned the radio on. This is KN6WQ. I am definitely going to spread my vote wishes. I have one more thing I wanted to add to the situation is that this is why it's really important to, you know, as much as Ray didn't want to be involved in the things and I'm glad that he was because if he wasn't, you know, like checking on a repeater and keeping the peace around here, you know, and things wouldn't awry and nobody, you know, happen, we know something would happen to Ray. And checking into the cops breakdown, it's not so much just like hey, you know, I'm here, I'm doing this, I'm okay. And I'm looking out for my other friends and people and like Ryan said, it takes a village to make this thing roll down. And I'm very thankful and very proud to be a part of this group as well. Can you put me on list, sir?
Speaker D: Jerry, this is KM60.
Speaker B: Okay, Danny, you make a good point. I'm very proud to be a part of it too. For some people this is their only social outlet so it's important that we take care of them. And Brian, I'm sorry, I will always associate this net with the beginning of COVID because I remember such important discussions as is there toilet paper available at Costco today? Or how long is the line to get in? Things like that. When this first started up and the story of the guy who had to order the beer in order to make him the order and then all he got was the beer. So great stories. Thank you for doing that Brian. And Dan kn6wqu what are you up to today?
Speaker C: Dang, that was pretty awesome. Just right here on the list already. Okay, well, I didn't mean to butt in there. I'm glad.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker C: I mean, you know, I created a special bond with him when I was up working on his vehicle. So that Was pretty cool. Let's see. In addition to that, today is a nice sunny day, so I get to get some things done.
Speaker D: I was supposed to go to Plumas
Speaker C: Lake this morning, but I'm not good. The city, by the way, not the actual lake supposed to go up there, But I decided to change it because I'd rather work out here during the summertime or when the sun is out. And then I can. In Plymouth Lake, there's a garage I can go work in, so that kind of helps out. So I told my client, I'm like, look, it's going to be raining. I'd rather go to your place and work in the rain than be out here and sitting at home when it's raining. And here we are. So hopefully this works out a lot better. I got Zane with me today, so that's pretty cool.
Speaker B: Heather is.
Speaker C: Heather was playing bowling and she hurt her knee. She might have sprained it or something.
Speaker B: So we got a little cast on
Speaker C: her, little brace or whatever you want to call it. And yeah, we're still having issues with this stupid air conditioning system. It shuts down every once in a while. I have to restart it. I got a message in to the people again. So I don't. I hope they just can send out a new unit. We can be done with it. But anyway, thanks for running that. Jerry. This is KN6WT.
Speaker B: Well, I don't know what that was. This is WA6C. Dan, what was the name of the lake you were going to? Was it.
Speaker C: Yeah, Roger. I'm back on the mobile now. So Plumas Lake. So it's outside of. It's on 70.
Speaker B: God.
Speaker C: There's another city that everybody knows more about it that it's there. But it's like it's. It's a little bit before Yuba City, Marysville, kind of in that area.
Speaker B: It's a little bit.
Speaker C: I believe it's a town before Yuba City from what I understand. So, yeah, it's just like it used to be, this field and they turned it into a, you know, like they did with, you know, the Thomas area, you know, just a marshland. They turn into a home. So that's pretty much what it is out there.
Speaker B: I was asking because I hadn't heard of it. And I'm sorry to hear about Heather, that. That bowling. She must be doing the combat version of it. Poor girl. So enjoy having your son along with you today. And yeah, enjoy the sunshine. It's supposed to be a little bit warmer tomorrow. And the weatherman saying, we're getting more rain next week, so, you know, we definitely need it.
Speaker C: All right, this is Daniel Ku. Thanks for running that, Gary, and hope everybody has a great day.
Speaker B: Okay. And seven three. See you there, Dan. And good morning, Zane. Good to hear you on. This is WA6E and this is the Coffee breaknet. We are approaching the magic hour when we'll let the net the repeater get back to whatever you want to talk about, which apparently was ho model train. Who would like to check in here before we pull the thing closed? K6DLT.
Speaker C: Good morning, Jerry.
Speaker D: N6ADL.
Speaker B: 86 years in Ag W6AGT. Check in only. Jam 6 are you K? Check in only
Speaker E: KQ4SDS log only.
Speaker D: Yankee Delta Kilo November 6th Victor Yankee Delta. Log only Kilo.
Speaker A: Mike 6 Mike Mike for the log, please.
Speaker E: Wow.
Speaker B: Okay, here's who I got. I got k6dlk. Dan. I'll be back to you n9muf and whether you were in and out or log. Only times I was able to get it. Sometimes I wasn't. So I apologize. N6adl, k86q zha, w6adt. Somebody who ended in iut. I didn't get the prefix kq4sdx, kn6.
Speaker C: Let's see.
Speaker B: Km6mm, k4lgi, w8ldp and wb3csy. Who did I miss?
Speaker D: Twin falls pedestrian mobile. An6gaa.
Speaker A: Kilo.
Speaker D: Delta kilo nov 6 victor yankee delta. Kilo nov 6 victor yankee delta. Log only.
Speaker B: Okay, KN6D log only. I got you KV7 DFP and KN6GA. Go back up to the top. N9 MUF. Do you have anything for us?
Speaker E: Good morning, Jerry and the Net just wanted to check in and the class went really well and introduce them to the coffee breaknet. We were listening in for a bit and I think I might have one, hopefully two people about either getting DB switcher installed or getting a Shark RF mic and checking into the net. So hopefully, you know, broaden the horizons. 73 to y'.
Speaker D: All.
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Speaker B: Okay, Dan. Well, how nice that is that you were able to get a couple interested in it. Keep the hobby growing and thanks for participating. Good morning to all your folks there. N 680L. Good morning.
Speaker D: Good morning. Jerry and Theta, thank you for handling the net this morning. This is Amir in sly park and N6ADL. Oh, boy. I'm running on alternative power and the whole house had for about six days. Now I'm using solar panels to recharge our batteries we had in the beginning of the winter storm. We had a bunch of trees fall, property damage, house damage. My power lines are ripped out. We're very well snowed in. Sly Parks had over, I think, 30, maybe 35 inches of snow. And so I just wanted to come on. I've been monitoring when I could and didn't want to transmit unless I had to because of power situations. But there was a resounding message I heard, and it was echoed a couple times, and I wanted to repeat it again. How important it is to make a community where you live, albeit that on the radio or elsewhere, community is a lifeline in bad situations. And I'll take a break, Jerry. So when we moved to Sly Park a year ago, we had a neighbor that recognized my vehicle antennas. And he came out and introduced himself to me again, and we had actually worked in the Caldor Fire together. And so we made immediate friends because we knew each other through radio already. And that one gentleman has definitely been a lifeline for my family, providing us means to get fuel and food. Because he is located in a position down the.
Speaker B: Mirror, we may have lost you. Yeah, I can hear you because I'm listening to you on the input. But something must have happened to your radio because you were in solid and then you just went away. So come to think of it, I'm looking at the inputs and our mountaintop receiver seems to have gone away. So I don't think it's something you did.
Speaker D: Operating.
Speaker B: Okay, Amir. What he said was they're using chainsaws and having to do the old west type type living in one room to keep it warm and so forth. So we wish you well. We're back up now. I see. So. Oh, and a generator. Amir, you'll probably be able to get in now. I see our remote receivers come back up and I wish you well. And you're right, it is important. And 30 inches of snow. So before you go. And apparently you're able to get back in now, what is your elevation there? 30 inches of snow.
Speaker E: 3.8K.
Speaker D: So 3,800ft elevation. And yeah, we got hit hard. Man, these trees. I don't think these trees have ever seen this much snow, at least not in a decade. They're falling left and right. About every 10 minutes. We hear a tree fall. I've had four hit my house. Probably 10 on my property. And I could count more power lines down than there are up. Give you a little picture when I. When I finally made it out and we were driving, I seen snow, flowers, and they had about 200ft of power lines wrapped around their rear axle, just whipping around behind them. It's a pretty dangerous scene up here, and it's hard to go outside. The snow's covered a lot of power lines and things, so you just got to be really careful and cognizant of what you're doing. And if you need to be doing that at all, otherwise, stay inside.
Speaker B: Yeah, I agree with you that that is dangerous. Although I'm not sure how I would know that there was a power line a foot below me in the snow if I didn't hear it crackling and popping. Well, stay. Stay healthy and stay well, and hopefully you'll get your power restored before too long. There is another storm on the way, but it's a warm storm, so maybe given you're at 3,800ft, maybe you'll get some rain out of it instead and it'll wash this stuff away.
Speaker D: Yeah, I appreciate the good wishes there, Jerry. And we're trying to stay optimistic ourselves. You know, we're making it as fun as we can for our daughter. She's four years old, so we're, you know, making gains out of things that aren't really. But, you know, you have to also juggle what, trying to keep things normal, but also, you know, identifying what really is happening and planning for evacuation in case you need to get out. So we're ready to go if we need to. I got some windows that are very threatened. And I mean, trees pressing up against them and snow building up on them. So if we lose a single window, you know, we gotta go. I'm able to keep one room warm right now, but. Yeah. So, yeah, man, appreciate you checking me in. I'm glad that the High Mountain repeater picked back up, but I'll let you carry on with the list. It is witching hour. Thanks, Jerry. N680 all 73. Everyone
Speaker B: 73, Amir. And keep your radio warm in case you need something. Give us a call. And your daughter's four. Wasn't that last week she was born? My goodness. It seems like it. Seven threes moving along here. Peter, Katie, four qzh. You have anything for us? Good morning,
Speaker A: Jerry.
Speaker C: Zeta and Annette Special. Good morning to Rocky as well. Well, first, really glad that Ray's okay. He's such a nice guy, and I always enjoy him on the net.
Speaker B: So hats off to Brian.
Speaker C: And I believe somebody else went with him, but they didn't catch it. That was for having the.

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Speaker B: WE six a X N repeater.
Speaker A: All right, well, have a fun day. Yeah. All right. Have a great day. Talk to you later. 73kk6vzd. I'm gonna drop off. Good hearing you guys out there. Kilo wat.

Speaker A: 42 to 1 inch Internet for a couple of days to go over there and great. That leaves to say in public safety you have a save under your belt. He probably saved his life. So hats off to you too and hats off to the club for caring about people and my own love you let it drop. So I'm just having an easy Saturday. I've been thinking about a lot of the conversation on this morning. I will say, even though I am pretty active and go to work, I don't really go out much at night, especially in the winter or on the weekend if it's legal. I have a homebody these days, so nets like this one are comforting. Especially when you don't necessarily get out as much as you used to or find that you have limitations and you're not getting how much you don't fucking let it drop. I remember I was in the hospital for 30 days roughly back last May and I couldn't stop. I was on a ventilator and I really didn't wake up for the last week or so. My friend parked our HP on the Prince. I couldn't relate afterwards, but I relate to a business event. So with that I probably stopped long enough. Today I want to wish you and everyone the very best and important you Dan and Zane and everybody else. And if you're the raise back and
Speaker B: you guys are going to get on
Speaker A: the radio if you're still listening. Okay, Matthew?
Speaker B: Okay, Peter. Well, thanks for checking in with us. It's good to have you on in the middle of all of that. Our main receivers will went down and it seems to be down now, so I was able to hear you on the input so I was able to finish it up but strange things going on apparently. Amir, you're not alone. Even our receiver up in the snow is having troubles. So let's see. W6ADT. Are you still with us?
Speaker C: Briggs?
Speaker B: Go ahead, Briggs.
Speaker C: Hey, Jerry, this is W2BX. I'm monitoring the incoming RF signals. I just wanted to tell Peter his radio is transmitting about 500 hertz below whatever he thinks is 144 8:30. So he's coming in at 144 829.5 and thought he might want to address that.
Speaker B: Yeah, go. Go ahead, Peter.
Speaker A: Make it quick.
Speaker B: I'm trying to wrap this up.
Speaker A: Okay. Actually I'm translating on 14483 and I'm not sure how to adjust anything on my concert or nothing. Can we stop happening if I don't hold?
Speaker C: I guess what you could do is you could try transmitting at 1448305.
Speaker B: You know the mountaintop receiver is down.
Speaker C: Yeah, I think somebody's probably looking at that. But my comment is more about he's transmitting and his radio is 500Hz low and that can cause some issues for him. Might want to address that.
Speaker B: Okay, well you and Peter can take this up later.
Speaker A: It's.
Speaker B: I don't know what I would do if I was 500kC off KQ4SDX. Are you. Did you want in and out or log or do you have something to tell us?
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: She might have gone away. K4lgi sam, good morning.
Speaker A: Just hi and by k4lgi.
Speaker B: Okay. Are you just log only?
Speaker A: Sam? Yeah, I guess that part didn't get through the first time. See you later. Okay.
Speaker B: And W8LDT. Are you log only or you have something to add? Good morning Jerry. I'm just log only. Wishing the best to
Speaker A: Ray.
Speaker B: That's all I got.
Speaker D: Seven three.
Speaker B: Okay, very good and thanks for the wishes. CSY. You were log only. KB7 DFP. Pedestrian mobile. Good morning.
Speaker A: Good morning. Yeah, I was pedestrian mobile. Now I'm chowing down on my beef stew and it's going to be great. But I'll help to keep. I'll help to get you out of here a little quicker. So I'll turn it back over to you. KB7 DSP.
Speaker B: Okay. Enjoy your beef stew and Frank. KN6 GAA. Good morning.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker B: How you doing?
Speaker E: Good morning to you.
Speaker B: And the Netta just logged.
Speaker E: Came right in right as they were talking about. You guys were talking about rape.
Speaker A: That's.
Speaker E: That's a horrible thing to hear. Horrible news.
Speaker F: I hope he's doing good.
Speaker E: Where our thoughts are with, with him and, and the family and boy, I haven't heard of Amir for a long time. His little girl is four years old already. But anyways, just a quick in and out here Gary. Have a great weekend and thanks for doing the net. Good to hear from you again and we'll get back to you.
Speaker B: Okay Frank. Well, Christina flew out here last night and hopefully she'll check in sometime today and let us know how Ray's doing. Have a good one and thanks for checking in with us. K6DLK Good morning. Morning Dan. Good morning Jerry.
Speaker F: Wow, a lot happening.
Speaker B: I just turned on a little bit
Speaker F: here towards the end and was amazed to hear of all the happenations but I'm having traumatic flashbacks. You know Jerry's got the best Manapua and here I am shuffling up to the Manapua truck with cash in hand.
Speaker B: And right when I get up, I'm
Speaker F: worried that the sign will get turned
Speaker B: over and say, sorry, sold out.
Speaker F: As you were mentioning that there was some problems with the repeater and all kinds of things going on and you needing naturally to get the heck out of here. First of all, Ray and family prayers go out for strength and quick. Just all good on Brian. The heroic shenanigans are not surprising, and I am expecting that when I'm out on the railroad tracks, he will jump into my place and push me out of the way. And to Amir, I'm wondering how you
Speaker G: make a game out of it.
Speaker F: You know, trees falling down on the house. It's like, hey, that one missed the house.
Speaker B: Let's all sing and dance.
Speaker F: Too darn funny.
Speaker B: Well, you know, you got to make lemonade when you got lemons. And I tip my hat to them. Are you. You sound like you're out of breath. Are you out on your morning hike? Yes, I am.
Speaker F: I've hit the main street here. There were some hawks up top just making a racket a little while ago doing their morning hunting, and it looks like there are a lot of people leaving the community. I just exited the road off from the quarry area here. You know, it's a beautiful day. I was going to get on and say, oh, it's blustery and windy and cool, but after hearing Abir's channel, I decided to redirect on that one. It is beautiful out.
Speaker G: Blue skies.
Speaker F: It looks like somebody just blew on a bunch of puffs of dandelions. And the clouds are just like these little gentle cotton candy strewn throughout the sky. It's just an indicator that spring is on its way. So hopefully all that snow dropping on you guys up north there will result in great water, great water table. And I realize it's a big sacrifice and a lot of stuff going through, the seasonal stuff, but it sounds like we're okay as far as the water goes, right?
Speaker B: I believe last night on the news they said that a week ago we were at 54% of normal water or snowpack, and now we're at 104% and
Speaker A: we got more on the way.
Speaker B: So, yeah, we're looking good on water, which is important for you because you probably get your water from over here. So, yeah, and we did get snow. I didn't where I live, but we've got trees that are blossoming and looking good. So spring is coming and we're saying that. And the poor guys back east are okay, Dan. Well, Have a safe hike and enjoy. Yep, thanks, Terry.
Speaker F: I'll look forward to catching up with you in the future and finding out how you're doing. We just took another one back and you know, just like our conservation of energy that we're all familiar with equals MC squared.
Speaker B: I'm looking at a commercial sewer setup
Speaker F: where trees equal sewer pipe snared. That's my Saturday after the hike here
Speaker B: as I get to go out and
Speaker F: figure out what's going on there. So whatever you're doing today, all have a great one and hello to all K60.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Okay. And you have a great one too. Enjoy your sewer work. This is WA6E and this has been the coffee break net. At this point, if there's anybody just wants to get in on the log, give me a call. I'll try to write it down fast. Otherwise we're going to pull the plug and let this revert back to the casual use.
Speaker A: WB7 UKX, Ki6TC for the log.
Speaker B: I'll bookend it for you.
Speaker G: Mike zero uniform uniform bravo. Gm0uub graham central scotland.
Speaker B: Okay, I got wb7 ukx, ki6tc and gulf. Mike zero uniform uniform bravo in central scotland. Good evening to you.
Speaker G: Well, good evening, good morning, good afternoon wherever you might be. This is GM0UUB Graham here. Central Scotland is just about 23 minutes past 6 o' clock in the evening and watching some of the rugby. Just now Wales was beating Scotland, but Scotland's now beaten Wales. That's quite good. Only about four minutes to go. Anyway, I've been listening to this net and I think it's Jerry. Fantastic net, great comments and just loved all the, all the comments there and everything else. So I don't think I've checked into this net before. So we must of us listen more often, that's for sure. Heard you talking about model railways and everything. Let me just take a wee pip. I won't hold you long. I'll just give you a quick YouTube thing to go look up. I'll just take a wee pip. Gm0uub Continuing. Well, you know, I was speaking to a chap called Ron Papayanki 4 Victor Tango PY4VT and he's. I think he's 71, but his dad built this model railway and you can see it on YouTube and I would encourage anyone that likes to have a wee bit of a surprise and all the rest have a wee look at this. Look up Ron Vaz, that's R O N V A Z. Ron Vaz Z scale train layout or Z Scale train layout and take a look at that. It's a five minute long video and what a surprise you get at the end because it's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful setup of the model railway. But honestly it can fit on half of the top of that coffee table. Amazing. So go and check it out on YouTube, folks. Anyway, back to you. I think It's Jerry from GM0UEBM. Thanks for taking my check in and doing some overtime as well. Sorry to hold you back. Back to you.
Speaker A: S.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. GM0UUBWA6E well, thanks for telling us about Ron Vez Papayankee for Victor Tango and his model railroad. If you've been listening for a while, you know that's apparently something quite popular amongst the hams. Here is the model railroading. And also thanks on the update on the football. I'm glad to know that Scotland is handing it to Wales. Although my ancestry comes back from Wales. So I guess I should be offended, but that's too many years ago for me to worry about. Thanks for checking in. Have a good evening. I'm going to call this and go have my breakfast. Seven threes.
Speaker A: And thanks again.
Speaker G: Thanks so much and take care. I'll be checking in again. GM0UUB
Speaker B: okay with that we're going to pull the plug on it. It's been great everybody. Have a great Saturday. And well, let's see. KW4W. KW4U. KW6U will be net control. So we'll see you guys then. This is WA6E returning the repeater and the net back to whatever you want to talk about. Audio. Thanks, Jerry.
Speaker F: I'm writing it on the wall for the best Manapua. Check in with Jerry,
Speaker D: Jerry and theta. You all have a great day. Kilo golf six november lima whiskey.
Speaker B: Okay, Frank, now I gotta go check out your web, but you know when I can actually just look and see what the chat was about? You work for Union Pacific. What do you do? Apparently something that moves you around.
Speaker D: Sorry, Jerry, was that for me? I was running the outro on the live stream there and it blasts over everything else here in the studio. Was that for me?
Speaker B: Yeah, it was. I was going to go look at your website now that I have a moment to breathe. I said I think you work for Union Pacific Railroad. Just curious what you do. Apparently it moves you around.
Speaker D: Actually I work for Burlington Northern, but I'm a conductor. I'm the grunt guy, if you will. And I have fun with it. You know, I'm over a decade in now.
Speaker F: Almost.
Speaker D: Almost decade and a Half. But I have fun with it. Lots of fun, you know, yes, it's stressful, but it's my dream job, so, you know, I'm not too upset about it. Yeah, lots and lots of fun. I was gonna also mention maybe if
Speaker A: he was still listening.
Speaker D: Scott. Scott, I sent you an email.km6rfb.
Speaker A: I sent you an email. So.
Speaker D: So feel free to check it out
Speaker G: if you see it.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think he was going shopping. You have the dream job of every young boy. Even now I still enjoy watching the trains and there's a lot of YouTube videos and whatnot. Virtual rail fan. I check in with them every now and then. What great fun. Did you start off doing that or did you have to start off doing some other tricks job when you first joined Burlington Northern?
Speaker D: I went right into being conductor. Granted I had a little bit of training ahead of time, but no, I.
Speaker A: Might help if I didn't hit the
Speaker D: off switch on the microphone. Here I was trying to move it around a little bit. Yeah, no, I joined right up as a conductor.
Speaker B: I wasn't sure how that worked if you had to lay track and do MOW work first or something else. Well, great fun. You know, as a club, we do a trip every couple years it seems we all get on the Amtrak and go from here up over Donner Pass to Reno and then we have a big party over there and come back the next day day and we call it Amtrak. You know, Amtrak with a letter Hotel H at the beginning. And you know what great fun that is. There has been typically 40 to 50 of us on the trip and what a wild time.
Speaker F: Oh, absolutely.
Speaker D: No, I've seen and I've helped promote over on the NorCal swap on Thursdays. Whenever I've seen that pop up on social media from the Sierra Foothills group, I promote it. So no, I definitely am aware of Hamtrack. Lots of fun. Especially when it's all in the snow.
Speaker A: That.
Speaker D: That's even better, you know, versus a very dry year. Yeah, no, I'm qualified. Klamath falls down to Bakersfield, so I and I work out of Stockton. So I can either go north to Klamath or south to Bakersfield, depending upon where the trip which train I'm lined up for.
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Speaker B: Hey, Paul. How you doing? I'm doing well. Yeah, I was just curious if you're out on the tractor run or still celebrating the event.
Speaker C: Yeah, actually, we're still on the run. We've got about a half an hour left, probably about three or four miles, something like that.
Speaker B: Just calling Chris. He was here earlier today and
Speaker C: I told him I'd give a phone when we were getting close to the finish, but he must not have his radio on.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, hopefully he'll. Maybe he'll get on in time to hear you out there and get the word, but. Yeah. Well, looks like a pretty nice day for it. A lot of blossoms still out out there.
Speaker C: Yep, yep, it's beautiful out here. Yeah. A little bit chilly on the back side of the buttes on the west butte side, but not bad. It's been pretty warm most of the rides and. Say we're kind of on the home stretch now, but. Yeah, Chris is supposed to meet us up about noon up at the park.
Speaker B: Oh, that sounds nice. Yeah. Okay, well, have a good run and for the day, I'll talk to you later. W6P and H.
Speaker C: All right, cool. Paul, thanks for
Speaker B: the call. KK1V, E D clear.

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Speaker C: Good afternoon, Paul. How you doing? Oh, I'm doing well. Yeah, I heard Bud calling for you about a half an hour ago, a little bit. He said they would probably be back up at the. I assume they're gathering at the park there, but he thought that'd be about noon, so. I don't know if you ever got that message.
Speaker A: I did not, but as a matter of fact, I'm heading out. I'm on my way out to Sutter now.
Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, I expect he'll be there. He. He thought they were about a half hour away. When I talked to him, they were still on the drive, so. Yeah, it's probably a good time in.
Speaker A: I'm assuming that's Bud. Go ahead. Yeah. Hey, Chris. Yeah, we just. Just got here just a few minutes ago. So we're here now. All right. I'm actually almost. Well, let me see. Yeah, I'm probably a couple of miles out, but, yeah, I'll see you there. Okay. We got a table reserved out here. We're out close to the road, next to the almond orchard towards the high school area. You'll see us out here if you want to have lunch.
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Speaker A: And6tny mobile 113 towards woodland.
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Speaker A: Good afternoon, bud. How was the tractor drive today? Good. It went really good. In fact, Chris and I just. I let Chris drive the tractor home. We got it back at my house now, so we got them all back home. Good deal. Good deal. That's what I like to hear. Yeah, I was hoping to be out there this morning. That way I could, you know, either play, you know, tail gunner or whatnot. But I ended up having to go up to inglebrates and do a fuel rescue on one of our guards that decided to take a car that didn't have enough gas in them. Yeah, that didn't work out too good, did it? Yeah, I thought maybe I'd see you out there easier. Well, I tried. Unfortunately, it was a new guy, his first day on shift and didn't realize that, you know, hey, pound on the door until we wake up. However, we need to wake up for the gas car, so.
Speaker B: But yeah,
Speaker A: so I had to go up, give him some gas and. Yeah, that was a fun endeavor. Did I hear you say you're headed to Woodland? Yeah, actually, I'm headed out to Walnut Creek. I'm just headed towards Woodland. Oh, I'm going out to the Bay Area for To work tonight and tomorrow. Oh, that sounds like fun. You're gonna stay over, sir? Yeah, I'm gonna stay. Stay in Walnut Creek in a hotel out there. Is there an adventure? What? And now we actually, we've got a contract with a church out there. And then we've got two synagogues all in the nap area that we work. So I drew the. Drew the straw to get the church in Walnut
Speaker B: Creek. That should be extra duty pay there.
Speaker A: That's what I'm saying. I wish I'd pay us for the travel out there. Okay, that's an hour and 54 minutes on the clock that I would love to be paid for. Yeah, that's
Speaker B: too bad. Yeah, she'd pay you for that.
Speaker A: Yeah. Well, I'm also making them put gas in my truck and get me hotel rooms, so. Guess I can't complain too much.
Speaker B: All right, well, we're gonna put these
Speaker A: tractors away here and
Speaker B: I
Speaker A: gotta take Chris back down to get his car, so I'll talk with you later. Just heard you on there, so that shout out. So see you have a good winner. 73t and I'll be clear. 73 and I'm glad you guys had a good run. So stay Safe out there. And 60 NY mobile.

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Speaker B: N60NY. Same traffic, cell phone 505 Sparto.
Speaker A: Oh, boy, oh, boy. I got to drive a tractor. What?
Speaker B: Good to go. You have a lot of.
Speaker A: Which one did you drive? I want to say it was a Massey Ferguson.
Speaker B: Good deal.
Speaker A: That's a good tractor to drive. Yeah. Interesting. I didn't realize. Well, I guess it was a diesel, so was. It was fuel injection, so that makes sense. Diesel fuel injection.
Speaker C: Yeah. There he is, sir.
Speaker A: So good deal.
Speaker B: Well, did you at least have fun with it?
Speaker A: I did, actually. I was looking around it and somebody was selling a really nice, nicely restored. It was a track drive tractor. Not a really big one, but very nicely restored. Selling it for $7,000, and I'm sitting there thinking, oh, that would make a nice toy. And $7,000. I think it was worth that. Definitely
Speaker B: easy. I've been thinking about eventually getting myself one of those Ford 9N a little gasoline tractor. So that's when I first started working out on the farm at Kelly's farm back in New York. At 9 years old, that's what I drove around Everywhere was that Ford 9at thing was a.
Speaker A: It was a workhorse.
Speaker B: Not the most powerful, but it got the job done.
Speaker A: Yeah, I can. I can see me doing, you know, playing around with a tractor, you know, on my spare time. Now that I'll have spare time.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Don't know where I'd put it.
Speaker C: We would find a place for them.
Speaker B: I just had a Going northbound. I just had a 1971 Barracuda and a 1969 Dodge Charger, both olive green. That was an awesome sight because they were running nose to tail.
Speaker A: Oh, nice. You said a Charger and a Challenger, right?
Speaker B: Charger and 71 Tudor.
Speaker A: Okay. Challenger by another name,
Speaker C: A sir.
Speaker A: You know, when here, when Dodge came out with the retro Challenger, what was it? What is that 10 years or so ago? I looked at that and I thought, you know, all these other car companies that have done retro of their muscle cars. I looked at the Challenger and said, that is spot on.
Speaker C: Yeah, Ford. Ford didn't do too bad with their.
Speaker B: Neither did Chevy with the Camaro and the Mustang. But Dodge nailed it. You know, going back to the recessed grille and the way they did it was just phenomenal.
Speaker A: Yeah, I like the Mustang and I think the Challenger, they got just right. Kind of disagree on the Camaro.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Did not look like the original Camaro. You know, it looked like kind of like the original Camaro, but they now I, I say butched it up and some people understand what I mean by that. I don't know. Made it look too manly, I guess. It's probably a way to put it.
Speaker C: Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker B: What's your, what's your opinion on the. The newer Ford Bronco? Not the Bronco Sport, but the, the other one. The one that's actually off road rated.
Speaker A: What is it? I. I don't know. That I know. Yeah.
Speaker C: So I think it was three years ago now. Three or four years. Released the Sport Bronco and they made it, they retroed it just like they did with the Mustang to make it
Speaker B: look more like the 67 and 65 model. So I think it's 65, but it's got kind of the old school look to it.
Speaker A: I like that. I think they did something weird with the headlights where they put the light bar right through the middle of the, the headlight circle. I thought that was kind of strange and I, I definitely do not appreciate the four door models because the original Bronco was not a four door.
Speaker C: Thank you. Somebody else just like the four door Jeep.
Speaker B: Why do we have a Jeep Wrangler
Speaker A: that's a four door?
Speaker C: It's the first time in history it should not happen. Yeah.
Speaker A: Yeah. Well, if they wanted to do that then they should have made it look like a four door Jeep wagon. Exactly.
Speaker C: Make it look more like the old Wagoneer.
Speaker A: Yeah. Well, you know, so that's purist.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: I'd like to see somebody do a retro AMC Javelin. That'd be cool.
Speaker B: That would be awesome. A retro Javelin amx.
Speaker C: Oh yeah.
Speaker B: I'm on board with that.
Speaker C: Oh yeah.
Speaker A: You know, I was. What was it? It was Mark Donahue that raced those. Right. It was quite a thing that AMC was entering AMXs with Mark Donahue driving and they were winning races.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, they're dominating.
Speaker C: I mean that too. You know, you get a small car like that, you wedge a big block V8 in it the way they did.
Speaker B: You know, it's got to tear itself up.
Speaker C: Oh yeah.
Speaker A: You know, this, this tractor event wasn't exactly what I expected, but I'm glad that I went and I'm glad that I went back. I went out when they, you know, when they, when they started out in their ride around the buttes and after they left high school to high school, I went home, but Bud had told me they were going to be back at noon and have raffles and lunch and games and things like that. I was sitting at home and I, and I was like should you, you know, are you gonna go back or not? And I finally said, you know what? You're going. So I had a good time,
Speaker B: Good deal.
Speaker C: Yeah, I. I got back to the house shortly after we got done talking on the radio and went in, got ready for, you know, headed out for
Speaker B: the Bay Area, and then I left the house.
Speaker C: I actually got back in the truck
Speaker B: just as bug was calling you, letting you know that they were about three miles out.
Speaker A: Well, now, yeah, I gotta figure out what I'm gonna do with my time when I don't have to go to work.
Speaker C: You gotta find a hobby. You gotta keep yourself busy. You know that.
Speaker A: I just drove by a Honda Pilot, an all white Honda Pilot. And there's a, you know, a badge on the back that says black edition.
Speaker B: But it's all white.
Speaker A: Except for the trim. Like, what is that supposed to mean? You got an all white honor that says black edition?
Speaker C: Maybe it's just heavy and identical.
Speaker B: Wow.
Speaker C: English in identity crisis. That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. Oh, well. So, yeah, sounds like you're going to be busy the next couple of days.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't have a day off until Thursday.
Speaker A: Where are they putting you up?
Speaker C: I'm not sure where.
Speaker A: I think they're putting me in a
Speaker C: Best Western in Congress.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, one of my temp jobs. I ended up spending a couple of weeks in San Francisco. So they put us up in San Francisco. That was kind of neat. Drove down there on like Sunday afternoon, got to the hotel, the. Who is it called? Took my car and they found a, you know, parked it in a parking garage somewhere nearby because the hotel didn't have parking itself and I didn't have my car until I was going to leave. We just walked there everywhere. W6AXM receiver.
Speaker C: The answer is, sir. Yeah, I. Well, I worked out in San Francisco twice. So far it was pretty much the same thing.
Speaker B: You know, put my car in the
Speaker C: garage and then I. I took public transportation everywhere in uniform.
Speaker B: I was like, you know, why, why bother pulling my car out wasting gas? Cuz this goes right where I need to go.
Speaker A: Yes, very true, very true. Looks like somebody's got a futon stuck out front with a free sign on it. But it doesn't look like they have a mattress.
Speaker C: Just a fr. Oh, good deal. All right, well, I'm about ready to jump on, on the 80, so I
Speaker B: want to be running into some traffic
Speaker C: here in a minute. So I'm gonna say seven, three, for now, and I'm gonna go to monitoring, so that's 69.
Speaker A: Okay. I'm pretty much almost all the way home anyway, so. Well, I have. Enjoy your time in the Bay Area there, and we'll talk to you later. 73 KK6VZD, clear.

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Speaker A: Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2521 with a release date of Friday, February 20, 2026 to follow in five 4, 3, 2, 1. The following is a QST Chilean Hams Respond to an Andes Mountain Tragedy, Races hams show a robust response to a weather emergency, and Bunkers on the Air makes its debut in the US all this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report number-2521 comes your way right now from around the world. This is Newsline, Amateur Radio's Independent on the Air News and Bulletin Service. And now, reporting from Valparaiso, Indiana, here's Paul Brown, WD9 GCO. An annual occasion that celebrates strength, courage and pride in a free homeland ended in tragedy in the Andes Mountains even as amateur radio operators mobilized to help with their best efforts. Graham Kemp VK4BB brings us that story.
Speaker B: Riding horseback across the mountains each year recalls a defining moment of independence for South American nations, and this year's 209th anniversary ride at the Crossing of the Andes under Jose de San Martin and the army of the Andes led to an emergency evacuation of one rider in early February as the mounted expedition began its return trip home through Chile in early evening, a woman suffered a serious
Speaker C: fall from her horse.
Speaker B: Writing in the forum section of qrz.com, carlos Almiron LU7DSY said that the San Felipe Provincial Radio Club CE2REU sent out a call for emergency assistance through the Chilean Ham Radio Network. The Los Milanos Radio Club of Villa Al Mar provided GPS coordinates for the mountain's La Viga Fiction as ground resources and the helicopter were dispatched, the Los Milanos hams continued their coordination with the expeditioners through a link with the San Felipe Provincial Radio Club. The rescue teams arrived, performed CPR followed by an evacuation. Sadly, it was reported the rider had died from her injuries while being treated at the hospital. This is Graham Kemp, BK4BB In December
Speaker A: of 2025, AR Newsline reported on the dismantling of the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services or races in Vermont in preference to a different operations model, a movement that has been taking place in other states as well. Hawaii, however, is going in a different direction. They're recruiting new members and as we hear from Randy Sly, W4XJ recently responded well to sudden severe weather.
Speaker D: Hawaii's recent statewide call for hams to get more involved in races could not have been better timed. Races hams were activated on February 8th 9th as severe weather brought high winds, heavy rainfall, flash flooding, power outages and hazardous surf conditions across Honolulu and the state of Hawaii, both Governor Josh Green and Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi issued emergency proclamations to mobilize resources and protect human safety. According to Michael Miller, KH6ML Deputy Director of Races and Assistant Section Manager, Pacific Section for the ARRL races, amateur radio operators were activated inside the Emergency Operations center in support of the Department of Emergency Management, City and County of Honolulu. Additional amateur radioactivity also took place through ARES and CERT activations in the field. As trained licensed amateur radio volunteers, racy's hams are involved in a government activated amateur radio service used during official emergencies. Operating under local, state or federal emergency management authorities In Hawaii, races operators are a part of the state's Emergency Management Reserve Corps, helping to keep information moving between the Emergency Operations center and field sites. This is Randy Sly, W4XJ presenters and
Speaker A: papers are needed for a VHF Society conference in Georgia. CEL MB KB3TZD gives those details.
Speaker E: Hams with a strong interest and some expertise in weak signal operating on vhf, UHF and microwave are being invited to submit papers and proposed presentations for the Southeastern VHF Society's next conference. Any subjects are welcome relative to RF power amplifiers, beacons, SDR satellites, transverters, transmitters and construction projects. And that's just for starters. In general, the conference is not interested in presentations related to non weak signal topics unless there is also some relevance to amateurs using weak signals. Presentations can be submitted in Microsoft Word format to the email address listed in the text version of this Week's newscast@arnewsline.org the conference is taking place from the 17th through to the 19th of April in Macon, Georgia. Deadline for presenter submissions is the 2nd of March. Presentations and papers are being handled by Don Woodward, KD4 app this is cell MB KV3TZD.
Speaker A: Crew 12 has arrived aboard the International Space Station and amateur radio operators, as usual, are part of the group. Travis Lisk, M3ILS brings us up to date the ISS is back to its customary occupancy of seven people following the arrival on Saturday, February 14th of Crew 12. They are NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway, KJ5NIV, and Jessica Mayer, as well as European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adeno, KJ5LTN and Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fedyayev.
Speaker C: In addition to the expected schedule of
Speaker A: Eris contacts, Crew 12 will be kept
Speaker F: busy with a variety of studies, including
Speaker A: how physical characteristics have an impact on blood flow during spaceflight, as well as
Speaker F: a look at on demand and intravenous
Speaker A: fluid generation for space missions to follow. This is Travis Lisk, N3ils. Get ready to talk tech at TechCon 2026 in Florida. The focus naturally is innovation in amateur radio. As we hear From Jack Parker, W8ish.
Speaker G: TechCon 2026 is a one day conference sponsored by the ARRL West Central Florida section on February 28th. The forums will cover a variety of amateur radio technologies on hf, including NXDN or Next Generation Digital Narrowband. This is the newest digital mode for amateur radio and its use is gaining momentum within Skywarn. Paul Tope, NB9X one of the keynote speakers told Newsline that NXDN, created jointly by ICOM and Kenwood, is used for short text, GPS and amateur digital communication.
Speaker A: Its primary purpose was to create a technology for ultra narrow banding for part 90 lan mobile radio.
Speaker G: Tuff says this use of bandwidth is a perfect fit for digital amateur radio technology using 6.24k per channel, a 4800 baud data rate and FDMA modulation. He said it provides audio that is clearer and more distortion free.
Speaker F: You don't have any of the snap,
Speaker A: crackle, pop because you're decoding a stream
Speaker H: of zeros and ones.
Speaker G: Most Florida west coast counties are using NXDN for skywarn activities. They have a weekly net and skywarn reports go directly to the National Weather Service as needed during severe weather. Other areas developing NXDN are Connecticut, Massachusetts and parts of Canada. The conference is being held at the Hillsborough County Public Service Operations Center. For details, follow the link in the text version of this Week's newscast@arnewsline.org this is Jack Parker, W8ish.
Speaker A: Developers of Open source projects for Amateur Radio have a chance to be recognized for their efforts again this year with the Amateur Radio Software Award. Stephen Kinford, NHWB tells us how to nominate a project before the deadline this month.
Speaker I: The Amateur Radio Software Award is a global award encouraging innovative problem solving that leads to sharing within the HAM radio community. To qualify for the award, the software must be available for free download and use. It must also be free of malicious hidden codes and capable of being improved in collaboration with others. Last year, the award committee chose Sebastian Delmont Ki2d, author of the popular Ham2k portable logger that is widely used by PODA activators. A monetary award accompanies the honor. Nominations are being accepted through to the 28th of February. You can find an online nomination form by following the link in the text version of this Week's newscast@arnewsline.org this is Stephen Kinford, N8WB it's time for you
Speaker A: to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio newsline heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the ZS0 MOT repeater in Middleburg, South Africa on Wednesdays at 19:00 o' clock local time. Visitors with little or no awareness of amateur radio got to watch some QSOs as they happened at a recent science festival in India. Jason Daniels of Ek2Law explains the importance of this exhibit.
Speaker H: Amateur Rodeo's emerging popularity in the Indian state of Assam was evident recently at the Northeast Science Fair and Innovation Festival where visitors watched as two operators from the Assam Amateur Radio foundation made contacts on HF and 2 metres Sukhwib Victor Uniform 3, Hotel Zulu Whisky and Prodyumna Victor Uniform 33 Sierra FT had QSOs with hams in Bangladesh on HF and contacted hams on two metres throughout the Assamese city of Guwahati where VHF is slowly becoming increasing increasingly popular. The event was held at the National Science Centre in Guwahati from the 11th through to the 14th of February. Many of the visitors who stopped to watch the hams operate from the exhibition floor had been unaware of ham radio's potential for vital communications in emergencies and as a resource for experimentation and learning. Amateur radio took a prominent place among the other exhibits and demonstrations including AI and robotics, rocketry, sky watching with a telescope and Meet the Scientist sessions. This is Jason Daniels VK2 Law the
Speaker A: first satellite connectivity service goes into effect at the end of this month in the UK as we hear from Jeremy
Speaker C: Boot, G4NJH customers of Virgin Media's O2 mobile phone service gaining access to direct to device satellite communication on 25 February. While some direct to device has already been approved in other countries including the us, this is the first such license variation approved by Ofcom for UK mobile customers in hard to reach regions where there's no cellular service, Direct to device will allow customers to stay connected via text, phone calls and Internet with signals directly to and from smartphones. Virgin Media 02 is making use of Starlink satellites in low earth orbit. This is Jeremy Bucci for NJH in
Speaker A: the world of DX Hams in the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. IOTA number NA108 are commemorating the 47 seventh year of independence with special event call signs that are in Effect through to 23 February. Listen for call signs that begin with the J647 and the one to three letter suffix from each ham's personal call sign. You can continue celebrating World Radio Day by contacting The Special Events Station 4 UNR operated by the Vic Amateur Radio Contest DX Club at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The station is on the air through to 28 February using CW single sideband and digital modes. Contacts count for Austria AS DX and the Vienna International center for the CQDX Marathon. Mike VX2QB will be on the air holiday style as XP9QB from Barbados, IOTA number NA021 from the 21st through to the 28th of February, Mike will be using CW and single sideband on 80 through 10 meters. Lubo OM5ZW and Leico OM4WM will be in the Maldives IOTA number as 013 operating is 8Q7ZW from the 28th of February to the 12th of March be listening on 160 through 10 meters where they will be using CW single sideband and FT8 with a focus on the low bands. Chris WA7RAR will be operating with the call sign V4WA7RAR from St. Kitts Iota number NA104 from 21st February to 7th March. Chris will be using CW installation single sideband on 20 through 10 meters. He will also be activating POTA from a number of sites. For QSL and other details about these stations, visit their call signs pages on qrz.com the links between amateur radio and history grow stronger every day, as hams have discovered from all of our special event stations and award schemes in the uk. Police bunkers on the air began with the Royal Observer Corps Bunker sites in 2005 with radio and history education in mind, and now activators in the US are able to call CQ at local bunkers too, as we hear from Ralph Squillace, KK6 ITB in this week's final story.
Speaker F: The chase is on us BOTA. That's bunkers on the Air is now a part of worldwide BOTA. The popular awards scheme that began in the UK is now active in 23 countries. The US recently became one of those active nations. Rem O', Donnelly, K6BBQ, the US national coordinator, told Newsline that his POTA activations inspired him to establish a U.S. presence on the BOTA map. He said that many bunkers are inside parks in his part of California, so activating those bunkers seemed to be the next logical move. Worldwide BOTA's Jason Dale 2e0jiv told Newsline that as with other nations, US BOTA is closely modeled after the one in the UK, with some bunker sites still considering sensitive areas BOTA established an activation zone, giving plenty of room for permitted activations without having to infringe on the bunker itself. In the UK and the US and several other countries that's 1000 meters from the center of the bunker itself. The worldwide platform hosts each country's available awards and bunker databases, as well as lists of new countries and newly added bunkers. Specific rules and local maps are available on each country's individual site. Best of all, said Jason, some portable loggers such as Ham2K have also gotten into the act and have already added BOTA into their software. To visit both the new US BOTA website and the site for worldwide vota, see the links in the text version of this Week's newscast at arnewsline.org this is Ralph Squillace, KK6ITB with thanks to
Speaker A: amateur radio Daily AM Radio Software Award Britannica David Behar K7DB425DX Bulletin Jason Dale 2E0JIV NASA.gov, nBC News Ofcom qrz.com forums Rem O' Donnelly K6BBQ shortwaveradio.de Saqib Vu3HZW Southeastern VHF Society TechCon 2026 the Wireless Institute of Australia Worldwide, BOTA and you our listeners. That's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. We remind our listeners that Amateur Radio Newsline is an all volunteer nonprofit organization that incurs expenses for its continued operation. If you wish to support us, please visit our website@arnewsline.org and know that we appreciate you all. We also remind our listeners that if you like our newscast, please leave us a five star rating wherever you subscribe to us. For now with Karen, Eve, Murray Kennedy, Katie to gut at the News Desk in New York and our news team worldwide. I'm Paul Brown, WD9 GCO in Valparaiso, Indiana saying 73 and as always, we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline is copyright 2026. Amateur Radio Newsline retains ownership of its material even when retransmitted elsewhere. All rights reserved.
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