Transcriptions for 2026-02-28

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

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

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Speaker A: Will. N6jkv, n6grg speaking up for that slacker mvt. Just to let you know, he has been on today. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Hearing it. Be back.
Speaker A: Roger that. N6grt36 link.

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Speaker A: W7lqf,
Speaker B: w7lqf and 7t. Andy.
Speaker C: Hey, Ralph. How's the, how's the event?
Speaker A: Hey, Ken. It's good, it's good. Kenwood hasn't released that radio yet. They're still doing FCC type acceptance on us, so that's kind of a bummer. But anyway, I got, you know, I got some good stuff for mountaintop repeater maintenance, you know, some jumper cables and some PATH cables and SMA connectors and things like that. And that's good. We just got done having an early lunch or, I'm sorry, an early dinner and just getting checked into the hotel room.
Speaker C: All right, you're going to be back over there, what, all day tomorrow?
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, sure am. And spend the day tomorrow and then hit the. Hit the road first thing. First thing Sunday morning. The event goes until like noon or so, but it's not that big. That big, I should say. And they got some good technical impressions tomorrow we want to check out, so that'll be fun.
Speaker C: All right, well, you get yourself checked in and you have fun. I will probably talk to you tomorrow. N6K80 and if you can't find that radio, just, just look for the Chinese, the Chinese knockoff. All right, talk to you later. Have fun.
Speaker A: Yeah, there's an abundance of those. All right, Ken. Yeah, thank you. N17B ELA, Arizona
Speaker C: and six knee genotic Columbia WP6JKV mobile on 101 Burling game.
Speaker A: Hi, mike. Bye, mike. Talk to you later. Hey,
Speaker C: have a good one there, Ralph. You're having way too much fun. Wow, 79 degrees down here in the South Bay today. Probably about the same in Arizona. Have a good one. Peace out, man. Something to do. Back to commuting,
Speaker A: I guess. Dude, it is 96 freaking degrees here. I'm not kidding you. 96. Holy. So, yeah, it's warm. All right, later.
Speaker C: Wow. Holy skimmy pile of that. That stuff, man. And plus you get a nice dose of humidity to go with it. I guess maybe. I don't know. All right, peace out.

And this grg system 25 from an e bike. Back on the phone again. I'll be back doubling. I was doubling with Mike. All right, so Mike and Mike and Ralph and Ken show what's going on there. Mobile mic, via the mobile mic. I'll go real slow so I don't make a bunch of noise on my E bike here. Your noise isn't going to bother me none. I just woke up from a little, little nap. I had a massive headache here a little bit ago. Pretty little woman made me some hot tea and I feel better already. Where are you mobile to there, Mike? Well, there's this little, kind of like a park up the street and I forget the name of the historic town. It was named after a historic gold rush town. I'll probably tell you. I got a picture of the plaque that they put on there. It's quite a story. It was originally a Chinese town. Is that one of those one syllable three letter towns? Iker, ic. You got two of those little funky name towns up there, don't you? Yeah, it's not Igo or. Oh, no, it's a little more comfortable, colorful than either of those simple names, which are obviously Chinese names. Also, I'm looking for that plaque. I got a picture of it on my phone. I'll be there in a little bit though. And quite an amazing. Oh, it's called piety hill. P I, e, p y, h. Oh, I'll have to look that one up. All right, well, make sure your helmet is nice and tight. Let me get back to putting out the fire in my head. Hopefully it'll be completely gone before I, before I decide to lay back down and go to sleep for the night. Talk to you later. I'll be listening. I'm hoping not to get hit by a off road motorcycle that just was doing wheelie for about 300ft. You know, you're standing right out by the road. Road. You're a target if they have a problem. All right, talk to you later. Nx, crt, N6kn6kne, k6lbd. Oh, Leonard, I heard you on there earlier. I was wondering how you were getting in here. And you've got some kind of a digital little blooper bleep. Bleep is a bop. I'll call it a bleep. It a bop there at the end of your signal. How you doing, Leonard? Long time, no talking. How are you getting in? Yeah, Roger, here's All Star. I'm coming in through All Star node, so just got it up and running. I don't know, a couple weeks ago and my buddy's down there in Vegas. I'm on back fifth from down. How you been? Long time. Yeah, very long time. I'll. I'll have to look you up. I'll put the. I'll put your all star code number on the white list here. I don't think Carla folks would have a problem with. With that. Yeah, it's all been good. How's everything there in Fort Jones? I'm sorry? Yreka Monte area. So I haven't been in Fort Jones in a while. That's how long it's been since we talked. But yeah, if you want my note number, I'll give it to you real quick if you're ready to copy. Yeah, I can look you up too. What's the last two. The last two digits? I'm sitting here in a. In a chair in front of my television. I don't have a pen in my pocket. Roger. I'll give it to you and wait. H8T3 61. Okay. I've actually got my laptop open. Give it to me one more time. It.

Speaker A: Kk6vzd Mobile homeward bound for the weekend.
Speaker B: WP6AXM receiver kk6vzd ko6vzy Happy Friday, Chris. I'm coming into Yuba City here in a minute
Speaker A: and a happy Friday to you. Where you been?
Speaker B: Got off work at 4:30 and put some gas in the car and now I'm sitting over here by Dallas Lewis in Yuba City. Gonna go over to T Mobile.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, okay. Yeah, I, I had to go the AT&T store a few weeks ago but that was just because I bought a new phone and I probably won't be next to her again for months.
Speaker B: Yeah, I recall you saying you got a much more reasonably priced phone than other people. I'm actually, I have, right now I have Metro by T Mobile which is AT prepaid. Had that for over a year and now I'm eligible to switch to T Mobile for free and get a free phone from them. I mean I'm not getting a plan for free, I'm gonna have to pay for that. But I'll take a free phone.
Speaker A: There you go, there you go. Probably, you know, other than you know I want a phone, probably the only thing that I said that I want specific to my phone is I wanted wireless charging and not all phones have
Speaker B: that previous phone did. This phone that I have now does not. And you don't realize how nice that is until you have it.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's nice not having to find a cable and plug it in to just lay it down and it charges. That's really nice.
Speaker B: The only issue I've noticed with those depending on the phone and the manufacturer of the wireless charging pad, sometimes you have to like set it down and
Speaker A: make sure it connects.
Speaker B: Sometimes the magnets aren't quite aligned and a couple times I've had one and
Speaker A: like oh, it wasn't charging.
Speaker B: Luckily I caught it in time.
Speaker A: Oh yeah. Well, I guess my charger is old enough that it doesn't have magnets.
Speaker B: You just.
Speaker A: But it, it is, it's a, it's a stand up so when you put the phone down it's, it's in the exact same place every time. So you know, I guess that's as good as a magnet.
Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. That if it's working for you, no point in changing it. I'm just passing one of these new Jeep Wagoneers. Looks more something from a Chevy.
Speaker A: Oh well, yeah, the Wagoneer. The, that's the big one, right?
Speaker B: That thing was big.
Speaker A: I don't know if I'll be able to get through this way.
Speaker B: There's several cop cars, just 499. I'm just passing. What does it say? 76 days.
Speaker A: Oh boy, oh boy. Well, you know, it's really funny. It's like quarter after five and it's amazing how much the traffic changes between five o'. Clock. At five o' clock it's, you know, coming down, it's just really kind of heavy. And at certain spots on my way home but at 5:15 it's cleared up
Speaker B: very nice.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, I. Have we decided to go ahead and take the last two days in March since they're Monday, Tuesday and I was going to have two more days of vacation to burn. I just applied them to the end of March. So I have exactly four more weeks.
Speaker B: Congratulations. I never thought that day would be coming that quick. Huh.
Speaker A: Now I knew it was going to creep up and then, you know, go by really quickly and so I'm, I'm really not surprised because I knew it was going to get here, but now it's here. How many years with the county or
Speaker B: did you, did you go straight from the airport to county service or were you doing something before that?
Speaker A: No, I worked in corporate America for five or six years after I got out of the Air Force. So 24 years in the Air Force, six years. Five years with EDS, about one year with temp companies and then the last 21 years with the county.
Speaker B: There you go. Yeah, I wish I got into the county sooner but I'm sure I'll be able to get my 20 and I still only 38 so I got a little ways to go. But Lord will and all that. Stick with the county as long as possible.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, you know, it was nice to have a nice long career with the Air Force. So I've had two long careers, one with the Air Force, one with the county.
Speaker B: Very nice, very nice. Yeah, it's.
Speaker A: I mean it's okay.
Speaker B: This kind of work isn't for everybody. I mean it's not without its faults and everything. But there's 1, 2, 3, 4 cops over here at that little ET RV place.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, Okay. I wonder what's going on.
Speaker B: They've got somebody sitting in front of their car on the ground. Crisscross Apple bus. So they're definitely gonna be taking him or her in.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you, when you get to some place and you, you see these, the flashing U lights in here, four, five, six cars. Well, apparently, you know, something relatively serious has happened here.
Speaker B: Sure looks like it. Anyway, I am just about destinated now, so I'll go ahead and find. Clear, chris. Safe travels. On your way home. Kk6vzd. Ko6bzy73
Speaker A: all right. And have a great weekend, and we'll talk with you later.
Speaker B: 73 kk6vzd.
Speaker A: Clear.

Leonard, I, I, I didn't hear you, but I, I got it here. 686-8261. I'll go ahead and add you to, to the Carla, you can just connect in there if you wish, but either or doesn't matter. Okay, well, good to hear you. I'll let you go. And, and yeah, very, very good to hear you again. Hope all is well with you. You take care. N6 knee, Chenalta, Columbia. Yeah, that was going to be my next question. I think you had moved, so. Alrighty, well all talk to you later. All right, I'll Leonard, I'll send you an email with some of the Carl infill. Take care. All right. Thank you. Appreciate.

I think I heard somebody in there throw my call sign. I'm not hearing. I'm not copying it. Yeah, okay, I hear you that time, Mike, you're very, very scratchy. Is that scratchy or wind noise with the window? You were scratchy. You were a little bit better that time. Now you're too scratchy, Mike. You're too scratchy. Yeah, I can't even tell who that is. Yeah, it's Mike. He's out running around on his electric bike. Sounds like he's got a mound of dirt between him and somebody. Probably riding into the wind. Sounds like wind noise is blasting him. WP6JKV Mobile Daily City. N6kenny j6lbb. Distracting. What email address gfd you have? I've got lbb3295. That's what I see on your qrz page. Yeah, Roger, perfect. Thank you. That's the 1 and 16 lbb. All right. And do you know what that, what that digital, that digital thing is there on the end of your. Your signal? I have have no idea. I'm not hearing it, but I will look into it. Yeah, some kind of an identifier of some sort. Okay, talk to you later. On the road. You've got a better signal, so. I'm still stretching. You're better. You're just. You just got the path noise, the link static. Now your. Sounds like your signal to the repeater is pretty good. 86lb. Is this any better? 10. I think I fixed it. Oh, yes, much better. Yep, it's gone. Good job, Mike. Did you copy? Your signal is better? Yes, roger, roger, roger. I do copy. Qsl. Qsl. Okay, Mr. Double Double. All right. Hey, Leonard, real quick, tell anybody on the. On the SCARA system that I said hello. Let me talk to somebody. All right, I gotta get back to what I'm doing. I'll talk to you guys later. N6K and E. Yeah, right here. I can. I will. I'll check in next Thursday and I'll let everyone know you say hi. You want me to prostate for you? I'm sorry, do you want me to do what? Do you want me to proxy you in on next week's net? Oh, yeah, there you go. You can do that. You know, I have something that. I'll send you an email. I have something that you may be interested in. I'll send it to you. It'll get the scare repeater back on the air here with Carla like it used to be. Yeah, Roger, send me an email and make do what I can. So I'll talk next Thursday and let everyone know you say hi. All right. Thank you. Talk to you later. N6k80. K6lpd.

Speaker A: Another spot for 25 chips. Scratchy, but readable.
Speaker B: Okay, this is 36. This is 36.
Speaker A: Scratchy, but readable. And tiny bit better.
Speaker B: Okay, this is 36, and I've got a pretty much a straight shot to 36 to the south. But this is. I have a whole range of mountains between me and 25. I'm on the south side of the Whiskeytown National Park. Go ahead.

Speaker A: There you are. I'm still mobile and I know I can hear myself still reading back. Well it's quite a little better a little closer to the repeater now.
Speaker B: K6ert.
Speaker A: K6ert, k6lbb.
Speaker B: Gray.
Speaker A: Tech UIT Mobile here. So that, that radio that you were using, was that, was that a Motorola?
Speaker B: That was my K5. I'm on my 350 now.
Speaker A: Anyways. Very familiar that the motor would. Anyway.
Speaker B: Yeah Roger, it was, yeah it was on the ndc so just cut it off. It was on my bad. But I'm on my 350 now so.
Speaker C: Well, everything's been good here.
Speaker B: Long time no track. How you been?
Speaker A: Everything is good here in Las Vegas. We are now entering a spring. We just hit 70. What is it today? 76 as early? No, it's actually 80s now, as early as early March. So I'm pretty sure it's still cool down down there in where you're about.
Speaker C: Actually not that bad.
Speaker B: We didn't get near as much snow and rain as we should.
Speaker A: This
Speaker C: been kind of foggy but
Speaker B: 40s, 60s and 60s almost. So not too bad.
Speaker A: All right, fine business. And yeah, I haven't been on the radio. I'm just sitting on the side most of the time. But I'm always out working. I just got off my daughter's basketball game so yeah, that's my. Everything was personal chauffeur.
Speaker B: I'll start up and running today. I've been off and on working on it last week and figured I'd try
Speaker C: to tie in down there and get hold of you.
Speaker B: I haven't talked to you in quite a while. It's been a long time so figured I'd get a hold of you.
Speaker C: How you been.
Speaker A: Now Roger, when I saw your text this afternoon I was like okay, either he's here in Vegas or he's on the system. It's only those two things that I can think of. But yeah, I've been doing good from work overnighters and still weekend wires and you know sending with my kids school and sports and all that good stuff. And yeah it's almost just around the corner so I should have some time playing on the radio and beyond here.
Speaker B: Roger, Roger. About to link up sometime, got some big stuff coming hopefully. So
Speaker C: I'll let you mobile on home
Speaker B: safely if you get home and I'll be on the system.
Speaker A: That we connected again here in the system. But anyways, one quick question. Are you on the repeating system or you're directly all star?
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm coming into All Star I haven't got it up and running right I'm on All Star.
Speaker C: I tried to hit you direct on
Speaker B: DMR earlier but apparently we got DMR up and running right now. So I am coming in through All Star right now so finally take that dive. So we'll talk to you later Jeff. Mobile safely, get the girls home and no ladies and we'll talk to you later.
Speaker A: Catch you later. And mobile safely as well. A 6013 I'll be on the side mobile and heading home. 73. Was there station trying to get a hold of a. Little on the downside but. Go ahead.
Speaker D: Your 6 signal is barely making it into your machine so I'm not surprised you're having trouble hearing me but I don't know how my signal is. I'm on a portable trying to get into 25 and hoping to get into
Speaker A: canning at 6 scanning and 16. You came in a little better that time.
Speaker D: Okay, I'm at pyaty hill p I e t y hill california. Pyatti hill california, go ahead.
Speaker A: Okay yeah depending on my location like I said I'm mobile and every single stoplight my signal varies and I hope I'm not dropping out of the repeater but yeah usually I'm not on these I'm on the one particular repeater that I really really good signal where you know but for some reason that repeater is not linked up to the hard at the and that's the one 1.6 but anyways yeah so I hope I'm not dropping off the repeater on this particular repeater but yeah he came in he solid that factor.
Speaker D: Okay I have to look for a good, good spot. I have to look for a good spot. I'm on system 25 which is directly west of the city of Wright California.
Speaker A: Usually I would stop to to be here but unfortunately I can't I got to get the girls home but anyways yeah you come in install it Audio is clear five inch on the, on the, on my, on my two way mobile but yeah he's sounding great and how's the weather in California?

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Speaker A: Weather straight. The weather straight into grg. Same here. But anyway. Yeah, where? All right. All right, great. Sounds like you're commuting home from work. I'm riding an E bike. Riding an E bike and I'm at this old location. I'm going to let you go and make my way home. All right, fine business and you as well ride some safe home. And I just switched to another repealer. Hopefully I'm coming in video. Okay. It sounded okay on this repeater but anyways get on safely and we'll talk again soon here in the system 73 Nice talking to you and pleasant to be tripping. Kilo Hotel Six Echo Romeo Tango. We'll be on the side mobile diving into you have a good day. Perfect repeater for where you are right now. M6 DRT using system 25. System 25.
Speaker B: Yeah Roger Jeff, case that baby here. I'll talk to you in a little bit. And you are coming in a lot better. So this looks did it.
Speaker A: Yeah, well Roger could do that. One particular repeater that I usually got onto, it's not connected to the Carlos. Yeah, I switched to I don't know if the old policy or the Red Mountain. Yeah, either way I hope I'm not dropping off the system.
Speaker B: You're coming in good now. A little quiet but you're definitely coming in a lot clearer. Two six zero bb.
Speaker A: Yeah Roger, when are we gonna. When are we gonna play 10 meter again? I think for the most part my antenna is already set up but my shack room is occupied at the moment so no plan on my. My radio here but I can put it out in the living room or whatnot in Illinois or whatever and pull out some expensive coax and pay whatever. Let me know.
Speaker B: Whenever you want. I'm always available. I haven't been to work in a couple months in too slow. So whenever you want to do it brother. I mean I'm down like I said. I just got this all Star node up and running and I'm back on dmr. I'm pretty much back on everything so whenever you want K6LP.
Speaker A: Yeah definitely. I'll let you know. I'll text you. The other material that I sent to you. Actually John here have a Wednesday which I'm pretty active on. Yeah, check it out at Wednesday 6:30.
Speaker B: You're kind of low on that one. I'll talk to you when you get to the house mobile safely and give me a holler when you get out.
Speaker A: Roger. I'll switch back together. All right. I'm almost destinated here. And thanks for keeping me company guys. Anyways, I'll be on the side for now.
Speaker B: Just give me a hello on messenger whatever when you get in. Get safe and we'll talk to you after a bit.

Speaker A: 16 y k and 6 wnr. WP6AXM repeater.
Speaker B: I was waiting for that. How you doing Matthew?
Speaker A: N6cny Funny, I recognize it right away. You added a light bar on the top of it too.
Speaker B: Yes sir. Yes sir.
Speaker A: Mine gives it away too. Antenna and light bar. Oh yeah.
Speaker B: I knew it was you as soon as I saw that light bar up there. Let me guess, you're on your way into work.
Speaker A: Yes.
Speaker B: Then I doubled with you. Try that one again.
Speaker A: I'm on my way to work right now.
Speaker B: Gotcha. I'm actually on my way home for once. It's not even midnight yet. It's kind of weird.
Speaker A: So you work till midnight
Speaker B: last couple? Well, actually this last week and a half I've been working from midnight till about 10 o' clock in the morning
Speaker A: and then
Speaker B: anything after that, who knows. I've been working a lot
Speaker A: just this
Speaker B: week I've been starting about 6, 5, 6 o' clock in the morning and going until about 12 o' clock in the morning so.
Speaker A: Oh, that's late. Yeah, I get off at 10, either going at 2 o' clock and then work till 10 or I get in at 6 to 10. I, I either work eight or four hour shifts.
Speaker B: Gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah, they, they've got me running all over the place right now now that they I've been promoted yet again. So I'm no longer a supervisor, I'm now a manager. So I get to have all.
Speaker A: There you go. That's awesome.
Speaker B: Yep. So we're, we actually just took on a big contract so we've been hiring a bunch of people on and I've been working on getting people sorted around. That way I could get people to start pulling more of the regular patrols and standing posts and free me up a little bit to actually, you know, slow down and you know, try to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing in life.
Speaker A: You gonna be able to do the bike around abuse this year?
Speaker B: Yes sir. I want to be out there. I already told the told our scheduler that I am going to be unavailable for the day before. And the day of
Speaker A: the. What day does it start again? I can't remember because I'm going to request it off.
Speaker B: Bike around the buttes is on May 2nd.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna be there.
Speaker B: Sounds good sir. I'll be out there as well. And you won't be able to miss me.
Speaker A: Of course.
Speaker B: Not that you can miss this car.
Speaker A: So coming from a ways, you probably could say the same thing about mine.
Speaker B: Yeah, it was Pretty bad. One day I got a phone call from Chris and he's like, hey, were you just at the hospital? It's like, yeah, look, I thought that was your car sitting there. He goes. It kind of stands out.
Speaker A: Does people say that about mine all the time. Because call sign in the back and the antenna and the white bar on the top very, very identifying
Speaker B: he is or is, sir. But hey, if it stands out, means it's harder for us to lose.
Speaker A: Exactly. I could find this thing in the parking lot instantly. That's what I do.
Speaker B: I come out and I always look for the, the, the field of antennas.
Speaker A: I think I counted four,
Speaker B: four center line. And then I got two mag mounts off to the left side of them.
Speaker A: See that? I saw the four center line.
Speaker B: Yeah. There's two mag mounts set off to the left side. And hopefully here within next, you know, week or two, I'll actually get enough time to be able to get all my toe axles, connectors terminated and get the lines pulled. That way I can get rid of the two mag mounts.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm probably going to add
Speaker B: two
Speaker A: more antennas to the roof at some point. At some point.
Speaker B: Gotcha. Gotcha.
Speaker A: Yeah, I actually had one of the
Speaker B: guys at one of the churches I work at, he's like, you got enough antennas on there? It's like, actually I got three more holes I could fill with antennas if I needed to. Hi, Matthew. Well, I am going to be destinating here in about 30 seconds, but you have yourself a good night of work and good here in the. Out there. So I'll say 73. I'll be clear on your finals. And 6. CNY.
Speaker A: Nice to hear from you again. You take care. You have a great rest of your night. Yep. I'm about to go walk inside target right now and go clock in. KN6WNR. Clear.

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

The Gears Net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pm all amateur radio operators are welcome to join in on the net W6 RHC repeater check 2.

26 link up, Michael.

System 28 link up test unit.

19 link up. And Excel.

W e6 a x m receiver. Kn6t80 testing.

Speaker A: I'm not sure where the microphone is on this portable.
Speaker B: Looking for it. N6GRG. 6 trd. This is kk6tth down here in santa rosa. Remember me? Mike? You're.
Speaker A: You're not talking about that Kilo High
Speaker B: Voltage Kit character are you? No, this is KK6PTH and yeah, I'm the guy that's up in the Yolobullies deer hunting and I'm always up that, that 7 and 8,000 foot zone with a key up there and talk to you quite a few times.
Speaker A: Oh yes, I remember you quite well. Yeah, you really get out there. You're on the, you're west of. I believe you're west of 36 when you're doing that.
Speaker B: Really it's the other side of the Yoloba. These like Black Rock Mountain and south over towards Shell Mountain and up in that country. So you know I'm up there between like 5 and 8,000ft.
Speaker A: So I get into the Shasta Valley
Speaker B: repeater pretty well or the Shasta Valley or is that bowling tube?
Speaker A: I forget. Well if you're talking about 25 you're talking Shasta Volley which is the mountain
Speaker B: that you look at. When you look directly west of Reading you'll see the antennas up there.
Speaker A: If your eyes are really good.
Speaker B: Note there. Michael, I've actually tried to call you a few times but my wife and I have been looking for a second home up there a little closer to where all of our recreation is and some of the places have included out there by Ono and I know.
Speaker A: Well there are homes around. I might even sell mine one of
Speaker B: these days it would go, it would
Speaker A: be sold as a cabin, a two room cabin. But yeah, there are homes around a lot better prices than down south. Of course.
Speaker B: You could be up there look at a couple more. But we've been there was a couple
Speaker A: places we've been looked at up by
Speaker B: Igo that not a thousand feet above sea level and looking for a. A few acres with a modest house. And our last trip we looked at some places on the other side of Highway 5 up off at 299 above Bella Vista in that area. So we'll find something eventually. But you know it's a kind of a seller's market up there right now Mike.
Speaker A: I think it's a seller's market everywhere. One of the politicians is talking about how he's going to build a thousand houses in California. One of his campaign promises and yeah it's definitely a seller's market.
Speaker B: I'd one of it either I'm kind of scratchy into a 26 here in Geyser beach or you're kind of scratchy in the sh valley But I'd like to talk to you about some details about you know demographics and areas and radio and stuff like that of the area there and oh yeah, that politician. No it's not a thousand houses Mike. Tom Steyer wants to build a million houses for the homeless. Go figure where they gonna all come.
Speaker A: That's the ad I heard and I wasn't quite correct on the numbers I just knew it was a ridiculous number but he was. I thought he was trying to do
Speaker B: it for the market get the market
Speaker A: going because like you said sellers market that means there's just nothing out there for sale.
Speaker B: Went up and looked at one place up above Igo there actually a little
Speaker A: closer to ono that up on a
Speaker B: little top of a ridge on the but my way and I kind of liked it but my wife just been feel right with the place for some reason but it looks like a great place. How's the ground up there for HF in the foothill?
Speaker A: Well the HF is remarkable because there's so little so little noise if you're distant from I mean even my place is pretty decent for the noise. I I can hear stations that no one else can hear on the next time on on 20 and 40.
Speaker B: You know my presence uth so we rebuilt a brand new house after our neighborhood burned down here in New York 2017 Brooke to our house along with it and everybody installs solar panels with inverters and everything is LED lighting with poorly filtered LEDs and oh my God the noise level like right now on HF you just watch it climb up on the spectrum scope and the sun goes down and all the photocells start working.
Speaker A: LED lights, LED lights are absolutely horrible and I keep trying to tell people well if they are charging cell phones with ac powered cell phone chargers they're also one of the worst one of the very very worst noise makers I wish to 12 volt
Speaker B: 12 volt based
Speaker A: cell phone chargers and it made a huge difference and got rid of all I went back to these little fluorescent lights because they made 1/10 of the noise not getting that much of the noise but those LED lights are absolutely horrible. 110 volt LED lights.
Speaker B: 100% you know I'm in the of the aircraft radio and electronic world that's what I've done for a living for a while and and ever since everything started going LED I've had so many people that tell me their receivers don't work and do anything to the airplane. Well, my mechanic changed the light bulb newfangled LEDs. So it's really funny. Anyway, I'm going to try and hook up with you when I. A little bit closer if I'm there in the area. So you. You monitor the. The 25 on. On local.
Speaker A: I think I'll sit up a second radio and have 25 running so I can catch those local calls on it. Actually, I got a lot more from 20 than I did 25, but yeah, I'm gonna try. And I'm always listening to 36, so 36 is one of my favorite.
Speaker B: So local. Yeah, I keep thinking about you when I'm up that way because I always see the street that's on QRZ when I'm driving around up that way kind of stands out. It's almost like a little community up there. Cloverdale. So anyway, Michael, I'm gonna get off the radio here and go see what the dinner plan is.
Speaker A: Just found out that it's part of the original path to all the gold country up here. They didn't go up the valley. They came up, up my road, Cloverdale Road. And of course, as you know, every. Every little road in my area starts with the word Clover. A lot of ladies names mixed up with it like Clover Marie and so forth. But yeah, every. Every home starts.
Speaker B: Every.
Speaker A: Every road starts with the name Clover, including a road that is named just Clover. But Cloverdale is the big road. All right, so I'm gonna. I've got a bunch of people, including a few Graham glaring at me, wanting to be fed. So I am outside with that and great talking to you again and looking forward to one of those contacts from the hills around here. N6 GRT.
Speaker B: Good talking to you. Nice talking to you. And I'll try and call you when I get up there here in probably the next few days. Have a good rest of your evening. Is. Yes. Take care of that ram. You don't want to piss that guy off. N60RG KK6. Yeah, could I get the.
Speaker A: The last three of your call?
Speaker B: Kk6k. It's not khv. What is it? Phonetically, it is kilo, kilo, six, Charlie, papa, hotel. Kilo, kilo, six, charlie, papa Hotel.
Speaker A: Kilo, kilo, Six, charlie, papa, hotel. November 6th. Go, rodeo, go. I'll be looking for your call.
Speaker B: N6GRZWA50KSM. Martinez just dropped in on your call there. Are you up near reading? You're on 25 or what? Which one? Go ahead.
Speaker A: Yes, currently I'm on system 25, and as I said, I won't be able to have a really long conversation because I've got a bunch of sheep glaring at me, including a big Ram. So I've got to get. Got to get to work here. I'm really sorry.
Speaker B: No problem. I heard that, and I. You're getting. You're on demand there, so I would not want to get in your way or the way of the Ram.
Speaker A: The Ram was my high school mascot.
Speaker B: Anyway, have a good evening. Wh Prosecco kilos here in Martinez.
Speaker A: Won't take me too long and I'll be back. But he is say all over. They're all glaring at me, especially the Ram.
Speaker B: All right?
Speaker A: And this time, I've got to actually climb inside of their gate area, so got to go insane.
Speaker B: TRD.

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Speaker B: See, I told you it's not working. M6vpi huh? You sound a little foreign to me. No clue why. F60PI. See you later. Can 60 declare?

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Speaker A: Hey, Tyler.
Speaker B: N6UTV N6TRG. What's going on?
Speaker C: Wow. What are you doing up so late?
Speaker B: Well, I'm watching Burns. You know, Is it Frank Burns, the, the guy that does all the terrific programs about historical people and so forth? I'm watching one about Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker C: Oh, I never heard of the guy. Something special?
Speaker B: Oh yeah, he does the finest. Programs about just about everything. He did one on Prohibition. He did. He's done everything. And when he does one, it's the best.
Speaker C: What was his name?
Speaker B: I think his last name is Burns, but I. I might be wrong there. I am probably wrong.
Speaker C: Is it the traditional spelling, like B U R N S or is there a B Y R?
Speaker B: I think it's B U R N S. But I mean, like I said, it might be a 50 billion miles off. That's his voice on right now. He does the entire narration.
Speaker C: Well, the reason I'm asking, I have to search and check it out. So it's kind of interesting.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's great. And it's on pbs. It's looking like it's going to be two hours. In fact, it's two hours for the second part and there's a first part. I don't know if there's a third part, but right now he's in the part where Ben Franklin gets help from the French financial help to beat the British.
Speaker A: It's noisy out here.
Speaker C: What's new in the Carla world?
Speaker A: Well, we got a new.
Speaker B: A new gentleman that checked in today. I think it's, let's see, Kilo Oscar, Six Lima, uniform, Mexico. His name is Matt.
Speaker C: How about that noisy guy? Can you chime in?
Speaker A: Well, yeah, the mad guy sounds familiar. Maybe he's a guy that I talked to over here on 52 or something like that and told him about Carla at one point. But that was probably a week ago, I'm thinking anyway. Hey, good. Good evening all. I came all the way in here because I haven't heard noise on this frequency in quite a while. So good evening to both.
Speaker C: Really. This frequency has gotten quiet over the time. That's kind of unusual.
Speaker B: Well, I'm. I talk to.
Speaker C: To Matt
Speaker B: and told him that he'd probably hear from. From Steve and others. I guess you'd be the others if you get on here. But yeah, he's a Kilo Oscar, so he's really new.
Speaker A: Yeah, there's been a couple lately over here that you know that from the Gears Club that you know, tested him and stuff like that. So cute little Oscar stuff and been Checking in on the 52 net on Thursdays once in a while, too. So. Anyway, so I've been trying to get a couple of them to try the Carlos system. So it sounds like he may have.
Speaker C: Well, I have to chime in and say I'm very interested in Meshtastic. And I heard Steve just turned in quite the. Turned out to be quite the aficionado.
Speaker B: Double.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: My super weak
Speaker A: signal. Yeah. Tyler's probably, you know, putting out 100 milliwatts. And he beat you.
Speaker B: Oh, he's probably putting out 200 watts.
Speaker C: No, 10 watts.
Speaker A: Yeah. Well, I wouldn't call me a Ms. Tastic expert, but I bet you between me and a couple other guys in paradise, we're doing pretty good. But it's pretty finicky, I'll tell you that. But way better than it was about two years ago.
Speaker C: Well, I'm impressed because I wanted to get on board a long time ago and haven't. Haven't really invested,
Speaker B: by the way. I've started getting set up for JSAs. He had it set up with Flrig. I don't know if you're familiar with that. I've never had that much success with flrig. So I, I started working with it using the usual method. I. I have to research this preset stuff. I don't know what it does to the radio.
Speaker A: Okay, well, if you wait long enough, I'll. I'll buy one. There's one over here for sale. 7,300. So I don't know, I might have to sell some stuff over here at the Loomis Ham Fest first. But they. Anyway, gentlemen passed away in Paradise. Anyways, I know the guy who receives the equipment owns an ICOM 7300 and I don't know if he's going to sell it or what he's going to do, but it'd be pretty reasonable. So. Considering it anyway. Yeah, flrig, though, was pretty easy to set up for me. That's when I first started. I. I used that because, you know, it was. It's more forgiving. I'll just say it that way. But yeah, you still have to put your 7300 into. Into the FTA preset mode. You have to like, load it in and then you have to take it back out when you want to go back to sideband. So, yeah, I don't know what it does, but it was all part of that, that firmware update. And to Tyler. Meshtastic. Yeah, I just bought today from a guy who. He ordered them from Rack, wireless, a couple of the 1 watt units. And I'm going to be on ham region of crash course. Just put out a video on it. I could send it to you if you're interested. But anyway, I mean it looks like a pretty easy build and that's probably a way to go, you know, like a solar node anyway, you need at least two. You put one up high, like up on the roof line or above the roof line or up on your tower or whatever, and then the other one you use to communicate with it, you know, in your area. I could show you a map, I could text it over to you. You know, there's so much stuff going on around your area, you probably don't even need a 1 watt N600k, N6UTV.
Speaker C: But I have very little understanding of meshtastic. And in essence it's like Internet, right? It's just a way to connect nodes to each other.
Speaker A: Yeah, you almost have to throw away about half your ham knowledge. The ham knowledge helps out, but you know, there's just a different way, a protocol of how they work, like the flood pathing. And actually Mesh Core is more ham style, you know, like where you have, they have Mesh Core has repeaters and then they have companion radios. Then the companion radio doesn't retransmit anything. So on meshtastic, almost every node, unless you specifically market it like client mute, will retransmit everything. And so, and so it uses other nodes to keep hopping from here to here to here versus Mesh Core. You can actually set a path. You can say, I want it to go to Mike and then to Steve. Right. And then that's what it'll do every time. Now if Mike's node is down, you're kind of screwed, except for it'll go, then it'll revert to the flood method and try to find a new path and you'll have to set a new path. So it's kind of interesting that way, but figures. Kind of like texting. It's kind of like texting but without using any, with any Internet or any sort of. Lots of caveat there. Because some people do use the MQTT with the meshtastic, but you know, basically you're not using the cell towers. You know, it's peer to peer, just.
Speaker C: Well, you know, my understanding is though that like it's more like aprs, right? You get into the network and then your digipede according to your path. Whereas you said, you know, you could set your path. So I guess I'm a little Confused on, you know, it seems like it's a little more robust and how do
Speaker A: you say,
Speaker C: You know, low wattage and a bigger network than APRs and you can get your message out, your text message out. Am I wrong in that?
Speaker A: Well, one thing, I probably made a mistake. I brought mesh core into the equation. I only did that because some people are trying to compare one to the other because they're both mesh systems. So mesh core is the one where you can set your path. So now there are some techniques you can use with meshtastic that can kind of emulate that to some extent by setting favorites. But nevertheless, it's a mesh system. And I can't explain the protocol very well, but it works by signal strength. And actually the way it works is when it sends the signal out, it searches for the weakest signal first and tries to hit that one and then it moves on from there from, you know, that's one hop. And depending on how many hops people have their little digipeater set to is whether or not they'll repeat it or not. So some people may, you know, have it at 7 hops or whatever. So take it kind of like aplrs. There's a lot of similarities there. Like, you know, you send it out and it has a 7 on it and then it goes to the next guy and it's a six and a five and a four. Eventually it gets down to zero and then that guy doesn't retransmit it anymore and you're done. Right. So right now the limits on meshtastic is 7 hops. Although I've heard that the, that they're considering moving it to 12. But I could tell you like from here I can get into the South Bay area in maybe five hops so far. This I've gotten so far is possibly.
Speaker C: Well, it sounds like there's a lot more hops involved and you know, the signal strength would be a little bit long. More long lived.
Speaker A: Yeah, can 6 MGK those guys like Josh over there? Where does he live? In Cerritos or something down south. He can get into San Diego. And I don't know if they can get down into Mexico or not. But anyway, it's interesting. Meshtastic. There's some nodes that have some Internet connectivity. They call it the mqt. I don't know what that stands for. I'd have to look it up. But anyway, like over here, the search and rescue group, that's what's happening. These fire departments and search and rescue departments and things are starting to utilize these mesh systems like these meshtastic. They call them Wish mesh tags. It's a tracker unit. You can toss it, you know, in your wallet. You can put it anywhere, like you can hang it from something, a backpack, we put it inside there, whatever. And anyway, say they do that with their fire crew when they're out there working and they have a mesh network going and they can track where their fire crew is, at least where that device is.
Speaker C: So that's kind of similar to APRs. And I think Mike was involved in that SAR stuff. Right.
Speaker A: Well, I've been giving a little bit of a break in case Mike wanted to get in there. N6TRG is getting kind of late, probably for them. But anyway, yeah, the search and rescue groups are using stuff like this. But you know, they can bring in a portable mesh network in with them to a particular location to be able to track their fire crews and things like that. But the search and rescue groups here, they're really gung ho about getting it going, although they're not doing it for the public community. And they're specifying that we've been in talks with them, but we can use their equipment no problem and that's fine. So here they have, in Chico we have, have the view Search and rescue kind of south of the town, they've, you know, repeating node there. They've got another guy that drives around Mobile, they've got a repeating node there and they've got a third one up in Forest Ranch up a little higher. And so all three of those triangulate and communicate with each other and. And all of our nodes hit theirs. Not all of our nodes, some of our nodes hit theirs and just helps the whole system. The more you have, the better you are. And I mean the Paradise Group, literally we only have like maybe about four real active members. And yeah, maybe there's 12 in the club. But I mean we had one group of guys I contributed but you know, I didn't do the hike. But they hiked in four and a half miles to Sawmill Peak and put up a node, it just happened to be my node and then hiked back out four and a half miles. And so when they put one up there, we had one at the Magalia repeater and it wiped out the repeater. It was no longer necessary because this sawmill peak was like at 3,500ft or something. Way better location. And that's real important for these low wattage units. But anyway, it covers. So right now we put about, we were able in about two months to put up about 20 nodes all around paradise and Magalia. Got it pretty well covered and got it going down into the South Bay area and into the Chico area. And really I think even Jeremy can spot that Sawmill Peak node and the Sutter Buttes all kind of connects together with Yuba City and Marysville. So Chico still has some work to do. I think We've got about 20 nodes around here in the Chico area now, but Chico is a bigger area, so it probably needs 20 more.
Speaker C: I think I heard Mike double with you at the start. You there, Mike?
Speaker B: Yeah, and what I was involved with quite a while ago was called Star Trek and nobody locally picked it up, but it's a great individual group search and rescue mode for APRs.
Speaker C: Not much.
Speaker B: Nothing much like Meshtastic or any of these things.
Speaker A: So yeah, there's pros and cons to it. I mean there's all kinds. So you know, the con is like, it's the repeatability. Okay? So you might send it on a, you might send out a message and it goes one path. Well, the next time you send it, it might go a different path, right. So it makes it difficult and you know, one of the other nodes or one of the other local nodes is going to acknowledge your node. So, you know, got out, you know, got out from your kind of station, you know, it might have went your half a mile and went to another half mile node or whatever, but then you don't know where it went from there. And maybe its final destination was, you know, you were intending us to be, you know, 100 miles away to where you've been talking to somebody or whatever. And so you think it might have went because you get the little check mark on the acknowledgement, but you don't know that for a fact unless they respond. Okay, so another thing is what's cool about this that like a store and forward, you know, as long as you're leaving your note on like, you know, I have several of them at this point with this last one I just built for 25 bucks. So anyway, you know, the outside one you put up is usually a kind of a solar node or something that you powered if you have a way of powering it, like power over Ethernet or something like that. You're better off of course with the solar, a backup, you know, but that one is your main, like your main base unit or however you set it up, the router laid or whatever. But then your inside unit is that one stays on all the time, right? So it's always, it's always getting the messages. And, you know, you could have your inside one capturing them, too. So you don't, you don't ever have to bother with you outside when you checking the one on the inside. But you go and do your thing, whatever, you know, and it's taking your messages and you come back and you can look at it anytime you want. It has cache. So, like, I'll have 50 messages in there if I don't look at it all day. Now, they aren't for me. They're for everybody because it's a public channel and I can look at them and see if anyone said anything to me or whatever, and then I can respond or whatever. And then there's private channels. Like if I wanted to talk to just Tyler, I can do a direct message to you. And it's encrypted. It's still using all the same equipment all time. The.

Speaker A: Same nodes. It passes through them, but we're sharing, you know, our own direct messages, encrypted. And then we can, on another note, you know, say we wanted to have a group of, say, Mike and Tyler and myself. We can make a private key and have our private channel, and that's encrypted too. So then we all three see the message. Right. Type of thing. So that part's the cool thing. But there is a public channel, and that public channel is not encrypted. And that's where the telemetry is also transmitted to show you on the map and so forth. So you kind of. Everyone has a public channel.
Speaker B: Wait a minute. I thought encryption was a. No, no. When it comes to ham radio.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's what's neat about this. It's non ham, so you don't set it up as a ham. It's under 1 watt. And so, yeah, it's Internet of things. So what's kind of neat about it is like there's a guy in paradise. He calls himself Honk. Some. Some people are using some of their call signs on there and stuff just because they want to, but you don't have to. You can use an avatar. You can. You know, one guy calls himself like Dog, and then the long name is Snoop. So when it shows up, it's Snoop Dogg, you know, I mean, it's pretty. Some people come up with some pretty creative stuff, but. But this guy calls himself Honk. H O N K. But anyway, he works at Berkeley Labs and he does have a GMRS call because we met him. It's tough sometimes. Some of these people are ambiguous. They don't really give you their complete location, where they live and so forth. But we did meet up with this guy and he works over there at Berkeley Labs during the week and comes home to Magalia on weekends. And anyway, he's working on element 120. A real smart guy. Anyway, but he communicates from his boat where he lives during the week, back over to his family over in Magalia using the mesh network.
Speaker B: Oh, that's way cool.
Speaker A: Yeah. Yes. They talk about encryption. Yeah, encryption is totally legal in this because you don't send the mess to the ham. There is a mode you can use more power and so forth and making a hammer. But then you're supposed to take the encryption off, you know, so anyway. But there's already private channels out there in Paradise. There's one for W6 PAR, and there's one called RN for Richnet. There's a test, a test and there's also a HAM private channel. So anyway, they're pretty easy to set up. Doesn't cost a lot of money. It's not like buying a 7610. I mean, you can literally get a solar node for 110 bucks. I think that's what Jeremy's cost. The one I bought was the seed solar. That was like what, 115 bucks? I think you can buy another node, just, you know, another. Another node for about 50 bucks to talk dead. So that's probably the minimum you'd have to have to do to get going on it. So. Yeah, I mean, under 200 bucks anyway, start improving everything. You want a better Antenna, that's another 50 bucks. You know how it is. You could spend hundreds of dollars if you wanted to. But anyway, if a person like where you live, you could probably just have one Helltech V4 charged by USB C and you'd probably be able to reach things from where you live because there's just lots of stuff going on around Sacramento area.
Speaker B: Well, except my antenna has to come down. I'm sure you've heard.
Speaker A: Well, I haven't heard, but I've definitely heard some stuff. But I don't know about that anyway, but the Helltech node, I know Jeremy has one, I have one. It looks like an hd, your favorite item anyway, so you don't have to put it up on any note or anything like that. In fact, I took mine to winter field day and I just threw a line up in the tree and I hung it up there about 20ft over there by Black Butte Lake. And it was feeding the whole area with coverage from the. That are buttes. And so, you know, like Jeremy had one that he had, I had mine and Chris had his. And we were getting, you know, probably had 20 messages that, you know, six, six, eight hours, whatever, we were there. Anyway, 20 messages come through. Yeah, they weren't my messages. They're just public messages. And sometimes they don't make much sense. People are being crazy and stupid, you know, just like they are on the CBs and stuff. You know, sometimes they say some stupid things or whatever, you know, but so it's. You can't expect it like to be like, hey, my name is Mike and I live in Chico, California. And it's 4 o' clock and you know, and the weather is this. That's ham radio stuff. And the next thing a ham radio guy says is when it's illness, it's hard. I mean, no, these are things more like, you know, well, you can imagine. Sometimes it's political talk, sometimes it's, you know, other stuff, you know, so sometimes it's kind of funny and sometimes it's kind of rude. Like we're all on medium fast, so they'll say, good morning, MFers. You know, I kind of laughed first time I saw that. I go, that was kind of rude. And I thought about it. Oh, that's. That's MFers for medium fasters.
Speaker B: Well, it's definitely good catching up with you guys. Glad you chimed in. N6U TV
Speaker A: yeah, well, I'm happy to hear you. I was gonna text you or something pretty soon because my winter garden's doing. Doing a little bit better, except it did not like the 4 inches of snow that was snuck on top of everything.
Speaker B: Holy cow. We haven't had anything like that down here. I mean, it's been, you know, a couple of big storms, but everything is, you know, pretty much in order.
Speaker A: The wife says hello and she says, like what? Osman says, silence. I give you. You'll never forget that when you said that.
Speaker B: Yeah, I love that. Darn Jeff Dunham and his puppets.
Speaker C: I love that sense of humor. So tell her I said hello.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah. I can't say. We'll have to get together, so I'll have to. Yeah. So anyway. But, yeah, so there's, you know, right now, I think if I count them, I probably have a half a dozen different nodes, but I have a couple of them that are mesh core. We're experimenting with that now too. So something different to try. I still like meshtastic the best, but only because it's got more people going on it. I mean, if you go on meshmap or the Liam Cop map or the Mesh view map, I mean, I think there's like over a thousand nodes in California already. So, you know, if you're traveling up and down the state, I'm sure there's lots of that kind of stuff going on. But it is something you just kind of play with play toy thing. And it's not really your generally not your kind of thing. I mean, if you don't like HGS already, but it's kind of like texting, you know, but peer to peer and not having to use the Internet and stuff like that gives you just an alternative in the case the Internet goes down. Still need the Internet to flash the firmware. You know, you have to have the app on your Android or Apple. I prefer the Android. Everyone that has the Apple stuff, they get kind of. The apps are a little bit different. And they're kind of, they don't seem to be as good. It seems like the meshtastic stuff was built more for the Android app.
Speaker B: Well, but I thought meshtastic was mainly like, you know, these Amazon people trying to get package delivery information over the Internet type thing.
Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know where it stemmed from. I thought it stemmed from, from the miners, like, you know, the crypto miners. Because like Pete down there in El Dorado Hills, you know, he had a helium miner up and stuff. It's the same kind of equipment. So may have had some of that stuff going on, but I don't know, this seems to be more of a techie prepper thing. All right, now the ham radio guys have really, you know, I say that they YouTube guys, like all of them. That Mike K8MRD, Josh Emery 2.0, Michael Martin, I mean they've all got, you know, several videos each on it right now. They've all just been hammering it, so taking off because of them guys. I think, you know, that's good because they needed it because I put all my stuff on the shelf. And anyway, these newer devices are way better. So you don't have to be a brainiac to go into the SSH and put the firmware in. I mean, no, just go to a Web browser, flasher, nistazic.org auto detect, tell what firmware you want and hit Flash. You know, it's literally, you know, you can have one done in about 10 minutes, you know. You know, it's so simple. Yeah, but then it's the programming part of it, you know, once you get it into the, into the node, well then you got to set it up right, to talk. Because if you're on the different frequencies and the other people and stuff, you'll never even know they exist. Why?
Speaker B: And I heard there's like the MFers can't help talk to the high powered people. Right.
Speaker A: Well, there's. I don't know about high power, but like long fast is the default US preset. But all the urban areas and stuff are mostly all on medium fast. And the one they brought up to St. John is on long fast. So it's not being utilized by anyone down here that I know. Anyway, it may be up and running and being used by some, but I can't even see it on the map. So I think the settings are not right. So anyway, but I think there's plans for the guys to go up there and make changes once the weather straightens out in the spring.
Speaker B: All right, good to know, and I appreciate the education.
Speaker A: We should definitely talk more often.
Speaker B: I should put my radio on
Speaker C: monitor
Speaker B: a little more often than I do. So I'm gonna head to bed. Good talking to you, Steve.
Speaker A: N6UTV dad, do you have radio in the new truck?
Speaker B: I do not, and that's a huge problem.
Speaker A: Yeah, I figured that's why I hadn't heard you in a while. So anyway, I was hoping that I would, but anyway, I still monitor this one once in a while. That W6GRC didn't sign up for any memberships or clubs this year except for the Paradise Club. They seem to be the most active on this kind of thing and some other stuff, but it's a real small club and we have coffees on Fridays and stuff like that. That's kind of cool. But anyway, yeah, that'd be cool to keep up with you a little bit more often. And so hopefully you will put one of those radios back in your big truck there. Be cool. All right, we'll catch up with you later. I think you're going to bed. 7 3Kn 6Mgk.
Speaker C: Hey, Steve, before you go and. Great to hear you, Tyler. Yeah, don't be a stranger, Steve. I. I did get JSA call working on the old original micro SD card. It's a strange thing. It's almost like the PI 400 has something weird going on.
Speaker A: Oh, cool. Yeah. Well, that's good. Long as it works. All right, well, I'm not turning nothing on today, but if it's on tomorrow, maybe I'll see you out there.
Speaker C: Yeah. It's not quite completely working, but a lot of things do work. And I thought the whole Micro SD card crashed, so I don't know what to think now. A lot of it was working and I think I just have some setup stuff, you know, like that preset thing that. I don't know. Until I find a listing of everything it does, you. You don't know what it's presetting to. So that's weird.
Speaker A: Well, all the badge, I guess is that you can be heard. Let me. Oh, yeah, I just didn't want to turn their computer and get that fired up. But I could at least have you put out a heartbeat and you were. You were heard.
Speaker C: No, like I say, it's not. It's not quite right yet. There's some setup stuff that the so called preset thing is presetting to something.
Speaker A: What?
Speaker C: You know, I've looked at what I think it's presetting to. I don't. I don't know, just so weird
Speaker A: a
Speaker C: weird concept where they preset the radio to a whole bunch of things and don't tell you what they're presetting to.
Speaker A: Well, I don't know what you need to know. Once you put it in that Mode like the FT8 preset, then, then that should, the device should pick it up with everything. Right. You know, your computer. Right. So I don't know what's difficult about that and I guess I don't need to know about what's going on in the background as long as I put it in that mode and then I can put my settings in like JS8 whatever, you know, pick the rig and all that kind of stuff. So that's why you about how would it work?
Speaker C: Well, for instance, okay say the precept says, okay, we're going to use the 1. A certain, a certain baud rate between the computer and, and the radio. It's going to be a preset number. Okay, well JS8 has some. No idea what the preset's doing FT8 maybe there's something going on there. But JS8 no, it doesn't know.
Speaker A: Well, you set the baud rate in your radio, you still got to do all that. You can still look at all that stuff, right. So I'm sure it's. What is the 115 something, you know that the high speed and that's the one. I'm sure it's on one thing, you know, it just makes. I don't know what it's doing in the radio either. But you still have to make sure your baud rates match.
Speaker C: So the question is what does the preset do?
Speaker A: Yeah, and I don't know. So I don't have the answer for you. I don't even own one. I just know that I've used it with Jay's and Pat's machine and yeah, you gotta put that on before, before the system your computer won't recognize it.
Speaker B: So I don't know what it's doing
Speaker A: but obviously it was something to do that with the firmware updates and the new windows and stuff like that. So that's why they had to do.
Speaker C: Well, I, you know, I just checked the old software with the, I just checked the old software
Speaker A: that used to
Speaker C: work and be set up and everything correctly with the radio and the radio is not jiving. I think I would, I, I think I'll have the same amount of stuff working as I had with the,
Speaker A: the
Speaker C: new micro SD cards I have which includes.
Speaker A: It did include.
Speaker C: Well, this this old chip to push the toxic in even worse.
Speaker A: So, yeah, you know, I think I'm
Speaker C: back to the so called preset stuff. What the heck is it doing to the radio? And I'm not happy with that preset stuff for JSA calls. It just doesn't jive. I am decoding something.
Speaker A: Well, if you're decoding something, then that's good news. That must mean you have some audio, right?
Speaker C: Yeah, I set the parameters manually, so it's just a matter of going through
Speaker A: it and
Speaker C: getting rid of whatever the preset did.
Speaker A: So what are you on, 40 meters?
Speaker C: Yeah, but I'm not transmitting it. I could probably. Receive you, though.

Speaker A: Yeah. In fact, I just tried to pre Q transmit again and it kind of creeped it up a little bit, so I have to. Okay, now I should be able to receive things from you on 40.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was just kind of checking PSK recording real quick. Yeah, but say I can probably toss it on real quick. Give me just a second. Kn6MGK. I
Speaker A: haven't
Speaker B: id'd in a while.
Speaker A: Yeah. N6GRG. I have one transmission made in fast mode from a guy in Texas, so I know I'm. I was decoding. I don't see anything on the screen now coming out, so at least I got that far.

Speaker A: Okay, well, it's booting. Give me a minute. I had to hook up my power, my cord to the computer and stuff like that. I haven't had it running for probably a month, I think. So, yeah, just in a minute.
Speaker B: Signals
Speaker C: are kind of weak. I'm not sure why, but trying to find this simultaneous thing. Although I think it's already on because I'm receiving multiple modes. So I think I'm okay.
Speaker B: Yeah, see, I have to start square one
Speaker A: two every time I've got. Not even doing any of my call sign in here. That'll be another minute.
Speaker C: So you're saying what did you lose? You lose your setup?
Speaker B: Because if you don't have the call sign, then that system's not set up. Yeah, it almost never is for me because
Speaker A: I use too many different radios. So like last time I was using it was for Winter Field Day. And I used the KG K6, whatever it is. KG6AR, I think it is. That's the GAR's call sign. So I was using a different radio too. So, yeah,
Speaker B: that's
Speaker A: how it is.
Speaker B: Well,
Speaker C: okay. I think it's supposed to save the configuration. Yeah, it's almost like if you're going to use that on a different radio and reconfigure it, to do that you need more than one micro SD card.
Speaker B: Yeah, I haven't used any
Speaker A: Raspberry PIs for a couple years, so there's no SD cards. But yeah, you have to just reset. You might be able to reset a configuration in here, but yeah, you can't change cards out and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker C: So you're setting this up on a laptop with Linux.

Speaker A: Was that you? Well, yeah, you're right. I'm setting it up right now. I just got the cat
Speaker B: control, so I've got to put. Get the audio down just right here one more minute,
Speaker C: okay? Because somebody sent something out that I did think it was decoded. And I haven't timed this thing yet because it doesn't have the Internet, so it can't time. But it did receive a whole transmission from one guy and. Wasn't too bad of timing. Well, no, it's 1900 milliseconds off, so I. I could do that real quick.

Speaker A: Okay, well, it seems like I put out a heartbeat. I didn't see it or hear it.
Speaker B: Yeah, I can see why right now my timing's off.

Speaker A: Yeah, but we're definitely putting the power out now, so let's see if I get hurt this time.
Speaker B: By the way, the war against Iran has started.
Speaker A: Oh, interesting. I'll have to check that out. Yeah, so I'm getting response. Let's see what decodes come in.
Speaker B: Well, there's a bunch of people sending
Speaker A: out
Speaker B: heartbeats and replying the heartbeat and I see somebody reply to you. I just received what you sent out, but I did see a bunch of replies to you.
Speaker A: Yep, I didn't see him, so I gotta fix something. Still on the receive side now. But I know that I was. I know I was getting responses because I had my volume slightly up and I was hearing stuff come in. So I was expecting. Okay, well some people responding, so yeah, I gotta. Yep, every time. Yeah, that's what happens. Okay. In 6mtk one more second.
Speaker B: Everything seems kind of weak to me, but. Well, I guess not.
Speaker A: I guess it's okay.
Speaker B: Everything's negative though. I don't have any positive CD numbers, which is very strange. I think. Maybe the band has a problem.
Speaker A: Well, there were some odd sounds earlier on kind of a channel I follow, you know, a conspiracy type channel. Oh, we're hearing these over the horizon radars going off like crazy from Europe to America right now, you know, so. But based on what you just said, well, that would make some sense. At least it wasn't too outside and outside the norm. But I will say this, that on my screen I may have to do some fixing still. But maybe that's part of the issue. No, it's not. Okay. I was gonna say is like I don't have a completely blue screen. There's some blacks in there and stuff.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker A: So anyway, I'm not getting a very good signal on 40 meters right now. It's seems like it's about 25% down from what I usually get. That's why I'm kind of trying to fool with here. But yeah, I'm on the right frequency, I think.
Speaker B: Well, that first conversation I was getting in fast mode, it's going on and
Speaker A: on
Speaker B: and that's where the. What it says is Israel says it launched pre emptive attack against Iran. So I'm not saying the USA is in to it, but Iran and Israel are going to be shooting missiles at each other. USA is ready to jump in there. So I guess. North Korea and South Korea are fighting. North Vietnam and South Vietnam are fighting and the USA is ready to jump into both of those as well as Iran. I'm just kidding.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, Some of the stuff's not worth kidding about because, you know, I don't like any of these wars. I'm against them all. I'm for America's first. That's what I voted for. You know that. So I got to stick with that. And I'm saying that I don't want to start anything. So negotiating things and deliberations and all that's fine. But, yeah, I'm not for the. What always happens is the citizens, you know, we're all humans. Citizens get involved in, you know, collateral damage, and that's terrible. Anyway, I think something went out. Let's see,
Speaker B: Israel really did start a preemptive attack. So much for Trump's thoughts of negotiating out of this.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, that's kind of what they did before, you know, that's why I believe that that's possible. You know, they did that before they wrecked the negotiations and then. Then we had to, like, back them up. Right. So, yeah, that's not my way of doing things. I might just let them suffer.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I. As I've said, and I have. I didn't. The only person I didn't tell is utv is that I don't have any Internet at this moment other than my cell phone data, which is almost it. So, yeah, I'll have to plug in the. Set up the hotspot and get on the computer tomorrow morning.
Speaker A: Well, I can see I'm being heard on GS8 on PSK Reporter at this point. Can't really tell what the signal reports are at the moment, but I haven't really seen anything come across my screen. But PS Game Reporter is definitely showing some connections. I'll tell you this, nothing's on the west coast for me. Everything is. Gosh, well, I'm not. Some things are down into Utah or something. Where is that? I don't know. Texas? I don't know. But most everything's towards the middle of the country. Nothing on the West Coast.
Speaker B: Well, I'm showing a reply to you from a seven, a one and A
Speaker A: two,
Speaker B: When you did a heartbeat. So, yeah, mine's partially working. Yours is complete, pretty much completely working, if you got any of those.
Speaker A: Well, yeah, it's partially working. I mean, my timing still isn't the best yet. Maybe that's part of the problem here. Can change my timing. But I'm not reading everything, so let me redo the timing.
Speaker B: Well, I want you to do some things. It only take a second. Go to. View first, the view on the top. Top of the screen there. Go to. It's a drop, it's a drop down menu and it says turn on timing control. So turn those on. Tell me when you have those turned on. You'll see it in the bottom right, bottom right of the screen. You'll see something will pop up down there to the right hand side of the, of the waterfall.
Speaker A: Yeah, no, I already have that set up. I think you know, I'm just. No, it's nothing to set up. My timing's on and I can see my timing so as a minus 400 right now. So I'm gonna try to Change that to minus 100.
Speaker B: Well, what I'm going to tell you to do next is something you might not have done before. I have it set up so it's darn near autumn automatic. Although I see that I have lost one of the frequencies. But anyway what you need to do is go to your, your frequency control. Let's see, how would you do this? Yeah, I had to add these frequencies. You can just manual manually go to try 10 megahertz because I'm not getting a lot from. 5 MHz. So let's try 10 to see if it's any louder.
Speaker A: Okay. So yeah, now see I've got Some, I got W6OEM KN6O E H heartbeats that are coming back to me now for sure.
Speaker B: Well on your, on what you're reading there, does it give you the, your milliseconds difference between from those? Because if you said 400 milliseconds I just believe it.
Speaker A: No, now they say 100 milliseconds. I'm off by 100 milliseconds and my time drift is negative 100. So I don't know I'm going to leave it alone now. But yeah, I was way off. I was like at 1160 or something. You know, I think that was because when I was out there at Field Bay I had it set for by decodes because I wasn't having a consistent, what do you call it? A consistent. I was going off of decodes because I didn't have a good Internet out there.
Speaker B: Yeah, well that's why I don't do it that way. I have it on 5 MHz right now and it just gave the minute and just below the automated automatic stuff it says set time trip to now minute. Start right when, right when it beeps. You click on that at exactly the same moment and you'll be within 400 or less. 400 is really close. That's fine. It may be closer.
Speaker A: So do you try to do it like this before they do the beep, you know, like if you listen to 5,000, right when they say when the time will be blah, blah, blah, at blah blah, blah, and at the tone. Right. Or whatever. So then do you hit the. Now just right as the beep starts?
Speaker B: Well, like right now the guy's saying seven hours, five minutes. And then you wait like a second later and it beeps. And right when it does that, you click the minute start.
Speaker A: I'll have to try that sometimes. But anyway. Yeah, so a couple minutes ago I got a few more people responding. Yeah, just on PSK reporter seeing. But still, I mean, very little is being heard on the West Coast. So by this, by this time, you know, sending out a few heartbeats. I'm gonna say the 40 meter band is kind of long right now.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Things aren't normal, that's for sure. I should hear all kinds of stuff, especially like when you send out a heartbeat. Back when I was on last time, I'd go to. On a typical day I'd go to 1%. 1% was like 0.6 watts and I'd get like 15 stations.
Speaker A: I should just drive my thought up there.
Speaker B: Let's see.
Speaker A: Well, the next time. Let's see. I know we're going in March. I'll have to look up the day my wife's going to Reading. So if you don't have it resolved by then, I think it will be several weeks from now. I think I'll have to look, but I know she's going to Reading for her appointment. So I'll plan on maybe seeing you or something if you haven't resolved it by then and bring in my computer and playing with it and see if I can get it going. I don't know, I'll have to do a refresher with Pat's unit or something like that to see how his works and look at his settings and stuff. But a lot of the same settings are the same. Should be like 8 and 1 and stuff like that. And I think, I think you icon people use fake it, you know, I don't, but I think you do. But it still took me, like, man, it probably took me. That's why I didn't really want to get involved in it because now it's 1107. But still took me like 15 minutes to get it working on my computer because I haven't had it working for, I don't know, a month or more. Right?
Speaker B: Yeah. And I'm really close with my old Micro SD card. I'm super Close. The only thing that's changed is the so called preset stuff because it's the same radio and it should have all the same settings. So I just have to go through a radio setup which I may have to run my hotspot to C1 a video of setting up the 7300 and
Speaker A: do it that way.
Speaker B: That's how this version of JSA College sets to work with that, that setup, not the preset. I don't know what the new presets feeling. That's what scary about things like automatic presets. You know, there's nothing automatic about it. It's garbage in and garbage out. And the only thing, the only thing I can see is that when you install a FP8 program on your computer, which is what that preset is made for is preset, that software is preset. So if they, if you run the preset on the radio then, then they're both systems doing the same thing. Except like you said, maybe the BAUD rate or something. You have to set that manually. But anyway, one of the shockers is that that chip that I thought was dead wasn't dead. And it, but it only works if I shut like if I, if I had it running like I did just now. The way it works on this PI 400 is you, you have the chip in there and you plug the, you turn the power on and just simply by turning the power on, the PI 400 is booting up. Now if you try to do it any other way, it doesn't work. So that's really weird. I don't know what to think about that. But yeah, I'm not sure what to think about what's going on there. But the chip works if you already have it in there and 5400 is not plugged in the power. And then you plug the power in and all of a sudden everything takes off.
Speaker A: That's weird.
Speaker B: PI 400 is different than the PI 4B in a couple of respects. And that's I guess one of them.
Speaker A: Okay, well now I'm gonna have some fun. I already made my computer get wacky, but I did a hundred watt transmission just to see what I would get coming back for a heartbeat. I got W2JC negative 25 and I got a KS1 DMD. So now I'm going to try to hit them with a couple hundred watts and see what I get. What do you think?
Speaker B: That's not exactly good for your transmitter.
Speaker A: I thought you knew everything about radio. My transmitter is working less by using
Speaker B: an amplifier very different from sideband numbers they're much lower.
Speaker A: My transmitter is only putting out 25 watts it doesn't hurt nothing
Speaker B: why are you saying 100 watts then?
Speaker A: Well I didn't. I said 300 watts yeah 100 watts was the last one yeah I did that it's only like 5 second burst or something like that and I did the 100 watt one yeah I got a new station that came in now HC5PH or something like that I'll have to check out where that one's from.
Speaker B: Okay you're talking about an hp Is that what you're talking about?
Speaker A: Yeah he must be from Hawaii no, Hawaii got me though NH6v Alaska got me now too let me see last KL3rr just got me in Alaska so a few minutes ago yeah so yeah no an HC5PH I mean it's a 5 call but I don't ever see very many HCs
Speaker B: and this is all.

Speaker A: 40 meters?
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, 40 meters. Yeah, yeah. But the last transition was, you know, was 300 watts. So. Yeah, that's not fair. But I wanted to have a little fun.
Speaker A: Well, see, one of the interesting things that I have to retype every time I turn, I just got through turning it completely down, shutting it down all the way. So since it doesn't have Internet, I have to go down here. It's really pretty easy timing. The timing controls are always there. So here it comes. I'm going down. I got it. I just found Minutesart. I wait for the mail voice. Click. Now I'm timed. That's how quick it is. And I just clicked back to 40 to see if I could hear. Hear somebody and see how far off I am or how far off they may be off too. But I, you know, got something going.
Speaker B: Okay, so HC5PH. So that's the Hotel Charlie 5 Papa Hotel. He is Rock Creek apartment Douglas Hoggett from Ecuador. That's pretty cool. Anyway, I wish it was a real contact anyway, you know, like where he was talking back to me instead of just a response to a heartbeat. But yeah. So Ecuador, pretty cool.
Speaker A: Yeah. And that's JS8, right?
Speaker B: Yeah, JS8. Yeah, yeah. But no, I mean just heartbeat response. That ain't happen. But yeah. So they're hearing me there and I see right now down in South America, I see where he's located. So it's. This is on PSK reporter and that says as why Ecuador? Negative 6 decibels. That's not too bad. Yep. 6,459 kilometers on 40 meters. I'll take it. Yeah.
Speaker A: How much power did you put out there?
Speaker B: Yeah, 300 watts.
Speaker A: Now, where are you coming up with this 300 watt thing?
Speaker B: On my watt meter, I have one of these with an MFJ and I'll go up to like 2000 watts with the two needles that go across. That kind of a watt meter kind of big, maybe it's 5 inches tall by 7 inches long, you know, so forth a watt meter.
Speaker A: So you're running your amplifier.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. RAM on that on that one transmission. I did, yeah. Yeah. I fed the amplifier with 25 watts from the transceiver.
Speaker A: See, I just got a whole bunch of. Oh, yes. Yeah. There's a VY that might be in Canada though. That might not be a big deal. But Anyway, I'm within 100 milliseconds with what I just. That timing I just did. Super quick.
Speaker B: Anyway, I mean, I turned my amplifier off, but I just play with that on FT8, I have a lot of fun with that. Like when I do it in the mornings, if I get up early, 3, 4 in the morning, sometimes up to about 6. All the Asian countries on FT8, they're just like crazy. Japan is like nothing. Japan's like talking to Texas, but you know, you get into China and Australia and Zealand and Asiatic Russia, stuff like that, that's kind of fun. But generally I'm, I'm putting out like say 250 watts, something like that. Erp, that's the way I usually work that one, so. But yeah, my transceiver only puts out 25 watts. The thing that's probably taken to beating but is Palomore is the off center fit dipole that I have up. It's the one that takes, it has to take the power. So I've never really run it more than 300 watts, but that's, you know, I think it'll probably take more, but that's what I've done anyway. Yeah, if I came on the Chabasco net and used the same system with 300 watts, you tell the difference. It wouldn't be as good as golf football by any stretch, but it sounds pretty good.
Speaker A: Well, he's constantly having trouble and he's, he's got a weird thing going. He's blaming it. Sometimes he tries to blame it on me, but reality is he's got this girlfriend and he's pretty much doing what she wants 24 7, pretty much. So, you know, waiting on her
Speaker B: and
Speaker A: letting ham most of ham radio go.
Speaker B: Well, that doesn't sound like anything out of the ordinary. Isn't that what most men do? I mean, the only reason my wife let me play late right now and she's being nice to me, it's because it's not my birthday. Well, it will be in about what, 40 minutes. So she's gotta be nice to me, to me for like 24 hours.
Speaker A: Okay, well, from what I saw, your wife, she was pretty nice lady. So I think you're giving her a bad, a bad, what do they call it? A bad rap.
Speaker B: Oh, not really. Yeah, I mean, but yeah, if I said that I, I want to go and do product tomorrow, she wouldn't like give me a hard time, you know, especially if I was gone for like six hours or something. But on other days it'd be like, well, you didn't do this, you didn't do that, right? So anyway, that. Cause there's lots of things I should be doing around here. Like this one window here. I've been Working on. I'm not done with that. I gotta clean up. Keep cleaning up around the window. Take the draperies off of it and stuff. And then paint back around it stuff. It's an inside job, but it needs to get done.
Speaker A: Yeah, but you got to remember, I saw how your wife operates. And I've been married twice. And that is a nice lady, the way she didn't. She let you sit in your trailer for hours and hours while she was just out talking to people. That's a nice lady.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Well, a lot of Filipinas are. That's what you ought to find. But only one caveat is you got to let them. Not my wife so much because they're all gone out of the Philippines. But when they're a little bit younger, you know, you got to send a little bit of money home. That's how that goes. Yeah.
Speaker A: Well, it'll be interesting to see if I might be able to find out on tv. By the way, how did you deal with that TV stuff? Did you. Did you get like. I've got like 60. 60 channels.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've counted them. I have 40. I pointed it towards the north. That's where my Cohasset is, kinda in Orland. In the mind. There is some stuff, if you point it towards Sacramento, like Cassette Buttes has some. I'm sorry, the Cal 3, whatever that is. KCRA, whatever it is, the Sacramento stuff. But a lot of us want the north state stuff. And that comes off of the Cohasset Ridge over here, so put it that way. And honestly, it's cool. I watched the State of the Union with that. There's a Newsmax 2, PBS, so I have some nature stuff for my wife. She likes. Watched Bob Ross the other day do a painting. That was cool. Yeah, I know he's passed away, but I like that guy. I've always have watched him for years, but now. I haven't watched him now for probably, I don't know, five, six years or so last time I saw him. But anyway, yeah, I know he's passed away anyway. That was fun. But yeah, honestly, there's some religious channels and I don't really tune into that too much QVC kind of a thing. I don't really care about that, you know, But I was watching the Western on one and you know. Yeah. The thing that I miss though about that is having a dvr. I mean, that's for me. I'd like to just be able to say, oh, Gunsmoke's gonna be on record. Every gun smoke, you Know, then I can come back in a few days later and watch him whenever I want at my time. Stop them. No commercials, whatever, you know, So I do miss that right now.
Speaker A: Well, I think right now I'm closer than I've been to having a working GSA call, Closer than I have been in a long time. Because, like I said, the primary problem's always been that audio. If I had left everything the same. On the radio and switched over to this 5,400 with the original chip I had, which I had no idea, I could make it work. I chew now. No, I can make it work. Anyway, so I just have to figure out what they're doing with that preset or just, you know, get. If I. If I get the. If I get the, like, set up that I. I can only watch YouTube inside the house with that hotspot working where I turn the phone into a hot spot. So I might have to do.
Speaker B: Frequencies. That was interesting. Even if you got that going, that'd be okay, you know, because you could at least go on there, check things, maybe make a message or two, and then you could turn it off. Right.
Speaker A: Well, Ken and you both send me everything through signal. So, you know, like, Tyler switched over to signal. You know, I mean, signal does everything that the text signal. See, see, that's the one thing I've always been able to make phone calls inside here and receive text messages without having the hotspot working. Well, I now know that I can receive signal messages. I just can't download photos because, like, today. Today, Ken. Get this now from Columbia, Ken sent me a QRZ page of a ham radio connection I made on. On link on Carla, where the guy says, oh, you remember me?
Speaker B: You know, and he.
Speaker A: I. I did. I remember within the Yoli Boley wilderness and so forth and so on. So been in remote place and actually sent me. That guy's kind of Jacques, and he's in it as a. So I had to go to. Somebody's taking up on link. I had to go to. I had to go to outdoors to download that photo from signal.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I was able to catch most of that. Not sure why that was happening. It was wacky. Keying up on link or whatever. But anyway, let me just check. Yeah, it seems to be okay. Anyway, I just set my GSA to kind of run through the night. I put the heartbeat acknowledgments on and stuff, too. So we'll see. We'll see how that goes for the. Since I had it all on. But anyway. Yeah, so I sent you a YouTube video from the Smoking Ape. I thought it was a good one. On checking these, he had these ferrite beads that someone sent him from Etsy. He wanted him to review them and he did. Well, they won't be happy with his review because you know how Smoking Ape can be. He uses his test equipment and stuff. So anyway, so I was thinking, well, there's probably a good chance you won't be to. Able, able to see that or you won't get it or whatever. And I thought it'd be a cool video for you to see. But it's nothing really pressing or important. But yeah, so yeah, not having the Internet, it's going to be kind of costly. You know, you need to. I think, I think that's probably in this day and age a pretty important thing to have. Maybe not the most important, but it's pretty important. Especially when some people are pretty dependent on, on banking and stuff like that on their online stuff. Can 6mgk getting ready to go to bed.
Speaker A: Well, I found out that Starlink has a program for the elderly and I might be able to get it for $50 a month with no upfront equipment costs. Now theoretically it's called residential and I know why there's. Well no, it's called, it's called, it's not residential. It's actually called rv which I was kind of surprised because RV at one time was more expensive. But yeah, I'm looking at it, I'm looking at these. I'm thinking Starlink would be a smart way to go. Even if it was, even if there, maybe there were some dirt keep, mountain to mountain type like I had before, I might be better off with Starlink. Alrighty, I'm gonna get out here and fix trg.
Speaker B: Yeah. Well I can tell you that Jeremy did a speed test I think with his Starlink mini. A thousand 115 megabits per second. And then that was download upload was 168 megabits per second. That sounds pretty cool. So I don't know. Yeah, pretty nice.
Speaker A: Well see I could have fiber for 69amonth with no setup charges. But I'm thinking, well wait a minute, you know that doesn't work into my future plans. And even, and if, if I could get that plant for 50. I mean everybody else paying 100. So if I could get that plan for 50 from Starlink, I don't think I could beat that.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know much about it but I know that they do have some plants or Be they definitely are getting more aggressive. So I think for you it would be a. Well, I think it could be a good thing. Yeah. I mean, I don't know a lot of things. Hard to predict what the future is going to bring, but. Yeah. Anyway, I know every time I've used Starlink, I've been pretty impressed with how it works. Negative thing I've ever heard so far has been, well, you can't really talk to people, you know, tech, tech people and stuff like that. It's kind of tougher, you know, so you being kind of rural and having cell phone stuff and so forth, can see that being a bit of an issue, but you probably resolve it anyway, so. But yeah, fiber stays in the ground and it's attached to your, to your, your, your QTH there. So that does prove to be a little bit less and mobile, doesn't it? All right, well, I'll listen to your final and good night. 73 KN 6 MGK.
Speaker A: Oh, by the way, Tony in the Golf Zulu, we, we still communicate even though he dropped out of Chabasco. In fact, he switched to a different he switched to the Baja HF net on 40 meters and I checked in on that one. And then Tony did the weather and he says, oh, and I want to say hi to. After the weather. He says, I want to say hi to Mike. N6GRT so, you know, well, the reason I'm mentioning Tony is he is more up on Starlink than anybody I know. He is really up on it, but he didn't have any stuff on the most recent stuff going on. Some of these new deals they're putting out. So we'll see. All right, there are new deals, but I'm gonna go find out what's going on in the world. All right, thank you. Later.
Speaker B: N6GRT okay, I'm turning off everything except probably VHF on 73kn. 600m UK is clear on VHF.
Speaker A: Yeah, I believe in turning off HF and 6GRG and this.

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

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Speaker A: Hey, ralph, what's cooking? 1060 knee here. Hey, Ken. Just getting ready to go down to the
Speaker B: restaurant, get some breakfast. How you doing out there? I'm doing good. Just gonna catch you and let you know that you're push to talk activated. All right, well, yeah, give us a. Give us a shout when you get back into the. Into the activities there. Let us know what you're seeing. All right. You enjoy your breakfast. I'm actually frying up some bacon as we speak and I'll talk to you later. Take care and fix candy. Yeah, I get you. Definitely knew it was coming. All right, take care, Kenzie. Thanks.
Speaker A: Good morning, Leonard.
Speaker B: I thought that was you in there. I figured I'd just say hi real quick and let you get back to making breakfast. Yeah, I'm just doing a real slow. A slow cook or a slow fry of really good bacon. The wife, she's still upstairs preparing for her day, so I'm not even sure when I'm gonna start digging into that bacon and making breakfast. Alright, good to hear this morning. And I will be listening probably from the other. Yeah, Roger. Yeah, my old lady just took off for work and I just finished up first cup of coffee, so I'm gonna make another one and do a little research here. So we'll talk to you later in 16K6LBB.

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

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There. She goes. Well, why don't you want to go home? It's like because I'm trying to relax after a 15 hour shift. Finally, after I look at her, It.

Speaker A: W e6a x n repeater. There's Irish pocket. I'm out there.
Speaker B: I was on the side of the road, had my amber.

Speaker A: What other concerts? So we've got Auburn School, which is. Five different properties up in GR Valley and Auburn area. No, those are neck activity. So you're driving.
Speaker B: It. W e6a x n repeater. It.

K6lmk system 36 snow mountain range.

Speaker A: Did I hear a k7 gnd?
Speaker B: Good morning, tim.
Speaker A: Good morning, Larry. Sorry I couldn't get back to you Thursday or whatever day it was. I just got. Got busy dealing with some stuff here, including a big old shopping deal that we had to knock out before the weekend.
Speaker B: Oh, no big deal. No big deal at all. So our grocery stores down there, kind of similar to Always Good.
Speaker A: They have a place called Exodo, that's, that's kind of like a. Kind of like a fancy Walmart. That's better stuff, I think. Way better stuff. And then they have another one called Olympico that's like a. That's like a Vons or Albertsons type of store. Oh, okay. All right.
Speaker B: It's probably interesting to go. I don't know how long it's been, but different cultures.
Speaker A: Yeah. What's nice is you don't. You don't have to go into any of those big ones. If you need something small, you just, you stay away from those and you go to the small little Ma and PA places which are everywhere and super convenient. Yeah. If you've got a whole big old shopping list to take care of, sometimes you get 50% off of stuff, you know, like alcohols and, and desserts and things like that. Then you would go to the bigger stores. Yeah, it's. It's. I don't know. To me, everything about it is just. To me, it's better. I like it.
Speaker B: The town is a figure near now the other one gets closer or bigger or smaller.
Speaker A: Chinalta is just a municipality. It's not big. It's like that. And I got. Fort Jones. Would be similar to like a, like a Medford if they don't have an airport.
Speaker B: How far is cruiser kazukata?
Speaker A: Oh, it's not far. Just right up the, right up the highway here from us, right up the. The top of the hill there before you climb the big hill into. Into Bogota.
Speaker B: Okay. All right. So what's going on with you today?
Speaker A: I have to reassemble my water pump. We have a big tank, about a thousand gallon water tank underneath our front porch. So anytime we lose water pressure here in the area, we always lose. We have good, clean, fresh water. And that, that pump, I don't know what happened to it. It started sucking air. So I bought a bunch of PVC stuff yesterday and had the pump double checked, making sure it was okay.
Speaker B: And it is.
Speaker A: So, yeah, I'm just going to get that plumbed in today and
Speaker B: I cooked
Speaker A: a big old breakfast. So the wife, she'll take care of Lunch and dinner. We don't normally have lunch just so we try to have an early dinner. Oh wow. That's a lot of information, huh. But yeah and I'm going to read over that email that you sent me. Let me. Let me let this drop.
Speaker B: I know I got long winded there.
Speaker A: I'm going to read over that email regarding your. Regarding your clear node and see what. What it all unveils. So we may. I'll probably have time to do that here pretty quick.
Speaker B: I think you said you need to
Speaker A: pull the SD card out, put it in your computer, right?
Speaker B: All I need help on the current out is just to show the memory from a link put on micro SD card. That's all I need help with. Just swap it on the turnout fired up. It's going to reboot several times and all those wire.
Speaker A: It's going to be good to go.
Speaker B: But you won't have to thing. I just. I'm so ignorant or spring so far.
Speaker A: I just need to learn how to
Speaker B: get to my Presby card and then
Speaker A: go out get the image.
Speaker B: I've been trying for last year or three days to put my email, my email on that little laptop in Windows and I'm not even getting any place on that. I've been trying navigate to around the screen. I'm just not finding what I need to do to log in the email. I'm finding service to my user ID and then I find the password, I enter the correct password and it's just not happening. You got to be able to get to that link that's in my email.
Speaker A: Oh okay. So does that. But that SD card needs to be completely reformatted correct. Have to start from scratch or is it somehow write over the top of whatever you already have or. Or add to what you already.
Speaker B: Now this image will go on our new quarters to have. Now when I say get the image on there all I gotta do turn off the clear node, pull out the old one for safe PPE if things don't go well and then put in the new image and fire it up and it should diagnostically do everything you need to do.
Speaker A: Oh okay.
Speaker B: Well that.
Speaker A: That sounds good. Why don't you give me. Why don't you give me about 20 minutes and I'll give you a El on your E4 and give me a password to tune you in there and see what we can do. In the meantime I'll look at that email you sent me and see what. See what I see. Roger. Roger. Knock.

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Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

22 link up K6LNK system 36, no mountain range.

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Amateur radio newsline report number 2522 with a release date of Friday, February 27, 2026 to follow in five 4, 3, 2, 1. The following is a QST repairs delay the Artemis 2 launch. Mclock gets a back end server and a future and are you ready for the Bouvet Island 3 y 0 kd expedition? All this and more as Amateur radio newsline report number 2522 comes your way right now from around the world. This is Newsline, Amateur Radio's Independent on the Air News and Bulletin service. Now reporting from Union, Kentucky, here's Neil Rath, WB9VPG. As Newsline went to production, the 3Y 0Kd expedition was approaching Move island and keeping an eye on the weather it if you're hoping to get into log, familiarize yourself with the team's operating procedures which appear on their website3y0k.com some of them depart from customary procedures so as to avoid interference from dqrm. Keep up to date by following the link that appears in the text version of this newscast@arnewsline.org and good luck. Meanwhile, if you were looking forward to the launch of NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket in March, you're going to have to wait a bit longer. Kent Petersen, KC0DGY brings us an update the Artemis II moon rocket is leaving the launch pad at Florida's Kennedy Space center, but not for its trip in the direction of the moon, at least not yet. As was expected, the rocket is headed towards the Vehicle Assembly Building on site, where NASA can address a helium blockage affecting the rocket's upper stage. The space agency, which had announced the original launch window beginning March 6 for the test flight liftoff, has said the repair could delay things for a month or more. This is to be the first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years. Four amateur radio operators are among 34 volunteer observers around the world chosen recently to passively track radio waves transmitted during the mission. This is Kent Peterson, KC0DTY Good news for Ham Clock users and fans. A free community back end server has become available. The website ham clock.com make Ham Clock's continued functions available for Following a successful reconfiguration of the clock to the new server. The functions include, among other things, weather pressure maps, Aurora map generation, HAM news headlines, real time PSK reporter spot data, voicap propagation reports, and KP index from the national oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The functions are made possible through the work of Bruce Edrich, W4BAE, who built the project upon the open ham clock back end updating can be done via two simple.

Speaker A: But
Speaker B: what a day for a daydream. That's right. Looks like the start of yet another beautiful day. Yeah. Yeah. Let me see. We can always look and see how beautiful it's going to be. But it looks pretty nice out. I'm looking at semi Blue skies indeed. N6 NTM says it's 58 degrees already. I'll take it. Good morning, everybody. N6 NTM.

Please. Id. Thank you.

Speaker A: Take your helicopter with you. You bought that cool little helicopter and it just sits in the closet. I don't even think you
Speaker B: wrecked it once yet. So I've been out with her.

Damn it. I guess. I guess you won't be buying me breakfast for a long time. Yeah, Lori asked me what kind it was. I told. I told her about it. I. It surprised you. And me and Sally got a fist, a fist full of meat. She was a pretty happy camper, though she did not say thank you, I might add, that she didn't have to. And it's never good just to give her the whole clump because she just swallows it. She used to chew it when she was younger. Chew it up a little bit and swallow it and then grab another hunk. It didn't. Meet Pete. That was my last dog. He was every bit as smart as Sally. Didn't catch on as fast, but he could do everything she does. And he never chewed anything ever since he was a puppy. It just went in his mouth. If you opened up his mouth, his throat was twice the size of the chew chewing area. Just crazy. I was telling Lori this morning one time that this girl that was living with us thought it would be cool to give him a half a corn cob. It might have been a third, but anyway, he did chew on it for a little while. She thought he'd just chew it up like a bone. And then she. Then she saw him swallow it. Took her about 45 minutes to call me because she was pretty scared. I told her, you don't got to worry about dogs. Dogs digestive systems can digest bones. So. Yeah, we never found no corn cob out in the backyard. I'm pretty sure it dissolved, but anyway, 70 bucks. You only need one battery to practice a little bit, Jay, because you get braver and braver pretty fast. I got great big ones. I ain't kidding you. I got helicopters here with three foot blade spans. No cameras, never flew it. I got brand new one in the box. The whole complete thing. I probably got 10 bodies. I went on a nut spree. Yeah, I had helicopters and. Yeah, I used to be able to fly helicopters. Probably still can. And I had a whole handful of little dinky ones. In fact, we used to race them around in the front room making circles and stuff. Yeah, I can operate the controls. I would just lift them off the ground just enough to get rid of the wash so it could be somewhat steady. And then put it back down, raise it up, put it back down, raise it up, put it back down. But pretty soon you start getting confidence. That's when you start wrecking them a little bit. You know, you don't see the cheap tree, bent branch. This is not a good area to learn how to fly a helicopter. We got too many trees. But I got big, open areas. Yep. Hey, Lori's officially retired. We got sleep in.

I don't know nothing about any of that. We used to get three months off every year so I was always looking forward to them vacations. It was just like getting another vacation for me. Yeah. And then of course. When Sierra Pacific started being weird, I had to. I was forced to think about doing something else. But of course there's other logging companies. Sierra Pacific's only the biggest one. There's all kinds of little companies I could have worked for. I was actually liking the idea. And of course, you know, me and Lori were already together so there was that the construction end of it. That was fun, that weaned me and then I just like that padding around here. Didn't take me long to indoctrinate. But I do still have dreams from time to time. For 25 years. 30 years. I haven't had one in a long time. Now though, I'd be looking for my motorcycle all night. One of my. One of my real fine chops. Yep. I remember waking up in the morning, it's all night long. I was looking here and looking there and pretty sure I was going to find it and never did. Oh, I. I got the tire minder piece yesterday. Today I get the leveling one.

Yeah, them lipo fours can go underneath the bed. They don't gas, so looks like we're gonna, we're gonna end up beating up. I hope they totally obliterate it. They're already moving people out of Israel and I don't think there's any people in Iran, but they are getting ready to. They're getting ready to go to war with Iran. Shouldn't take too long. Israel surrounds it, so for the most part. And Israel's tired of putting up with all those terrorists. There's probably five different groups there. So it'd be nice to go in there for our military to get some real. Get some real practice. You know, there's already three aircraft carriers there. Anyway, at least it's over there, not over here. Another chance for Trump and the military to show that we are the king of the hill. But anyway, if Russia had their way, you know what they, what they said when China, when China tried to say something about if they, if they got in bed together, that they could probably take the United States and the word back, at least on our end anyway, was they. They thought they needed to start five wars that the United States had to be. Had to be involved with five different places for them to have a chance. That was reassuring. But anyway, so if you look on ebay, not that you care any, but I, I looked on ebay just to see if there was any of those. Maddox, changing gears here, Mr. 16s Harbor Freight OBD. And I found. I found a guy who had several of them for 199 bucks. That's the price of the 14 at Harbor Freight. And I'm thinking this guy's got to be. This guy's got to be a scam. He's only got three sales or something. So. But I went and looked and he had a thousand nine hundred, something like that of sales and 99.6% positive. So, you know, I couldn't resist. $200 for a 16. Come on, Jay. You know, I'm a skeptic. It could be a sure deal and I'm, and I'm scratching the dir like I'm looking for a place to poop. I don't. It doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe they. Maybe there's a flaw to it, but it says it and it shows it in a plastic package, sealed, new, never been opened. Yep. Okay, lynn, I'll send you the thing that I.

Torrance, California. That's where my big screen's at. Torrance. Torrance, California. That's down by la, I'm pretty sure.

Speaker A: Okay, here it is. This is bullshit. I. I hate it after a deal. What's new in photos then? They don't give you any way to get rid of that screen except for continue
Speaker B: or learn more. It's. Okay. I know I took a picture of it when I ordered it, but I'm not seeing it.

Put it in Google. That's what they. They directed me to. Ebay.

Speaker A: Yeah, I found. I found one with a 7 or 8 inch screen. It was a different company. It was a hundred dollars more but I did all the graphs. I don't know enough about them to be for sure about what I'm. I can't find it. Not even the one I ordered. How do you like that? It's not my
Speaker B: pictures or any. I found
Speaker A: a brand new Factory seal. Maddox Mr. 16 advanced 4.3 $199. Buy it again.
Speaker B: It's on E. Give you a big long item number but I'm pretty sure all you got to do is type it in. Came out to $230
Speaker A: which is almost $50 less than Harbor Freight. And then I would have had to drive to Yuba City. That would
Speaker B: have been another $15. It just says paid
Speaker A: March 4th. Tracking decals, economy shipping. It doesn't say what service they're going to use. But this is the picture I took right after
Speaker B: I paid for it. Doesn't matter. I have
Speaker A: concierge. If I don't see it on the 4th or see tracking starting to work, I'll call ebay. I'll get that money back right away. Sold by the People's Exchange. And I went and looked at that guy's other sites, Jay, and you ought to see all the nice stuff he has for sale. 190 something different items on his sale, ebay sale.

Speaker A: You still didn't find it, huh? Go look at his other stuff.
Speaker B: It's worth it. And I'll be back. N6 NTM I smell breakfast cooking. I offered to take her out for a steak. Do they. Do they offer that steak fake deal every day,
Speaker A: Jay. All right, here comes breakfast. I'm gonna go eat.

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Fresno link up.

Speaker A: So you don't sound like you're talking to yourself. I'll do it on the link. WP60KV Mobile headed to Turlock. Looks like I'll be there at about 1:40. Sorry. 11:48. Not bad. Oops, that was a bumpy
Speaker B: spot.
Speaker A: It's a little better. I guess. I'll go at 5. On that one. Also there. Unit.
Speaker B: Grunge city.

Crap. I forgot my phone. I gotta turn around and go back. I'm only in Valley Mars. There's no biggie. Sorry, dude. Just catching a syllable here and there, that's about it.

Century. Street. The only word I could make out of that was mobile and street.

Speaker A: Sa.
Speaker B: Getting there. Of course. When you go to tell me, all you get is a and another.
Speaker A: Oh, is that where you are? Okay, Now you're solid.
Speaker B: All right. Back at the house. I shall return. Oh, yeah? Remember what I came back here for?

Speaker A: 0 complete mobile again. My app's telling me to head over and keep going.
Speaker B: Well, that's not a good thing. It. And hearing
Speaker A: this flat back from the link, I wonder if the link is giving us grief.

Broadcasting live from Red Mountain at an elevation of 3673ft. This is Sac Valley's original 105 machine W6 GRC, with a PL tone of 110.9.

Speaker A: Ko 6GX Sierra Foothills FoxTender Our first successful hunter has located the fox. So apparently it's not as impossible as I might imagine. We'll see you all in about an hour down at Burgers and Cream there in Auburn. K06GX.
Speaker B: Congratulations to whoever found that fox.n6ctc.

System 7 mint.

Speaker A: I don't know if you all heard it, but I guess I bumped my radio and may have been on the wrong channel. There have been one successful Fox Hunter so far, so continue to look, folks, and we'll meet you down at Burgers and Creams in about an hour. K06GXX.
Speaker B: Ko6gx hey buddy, you're coming through loud and clear. Coming through. So I heard you announce the first time and congratulations to whoever. The first person was to find the fox wasn't able to participate today, but I do love the hunt. N60TC
Speaker A: I heard both of you guys. Thank you very much for the confirmation. I just looked up and realized that I bumped the knob and I thought, oh, I don't know if everyone heard that part, but there is one successful, so we're hoping for more. K06GXX standing by.

Speaker A: Sa. Finally
Speaker B: over the hill, and let's see if I can find another port. I think I'll try five. All right, Here we are on fire.
Speaker A: Again. I'm not hearing the Lynx flap back here, but I just jumped over on five, and I am, in fact, making the link.
Speaker C: Yeah, it's working.

Speaker A: Once my absence I will be there exactly near and we shall see.
Speaker B: Yep. Three screws. Unplug the connector, slide it out, slide it back in, plug in the connector. Three screws. It should be one minute.
Speaker A: No surprises. Hopefully.
Speaker B: Oops, didn't do a thing. I'm guessing you're probably on back.
Speaker A: I'm clueless.
Speaker B: 443050 on the same one that I might. I bet you we could go local. Interesting.

I'm sorry. Whoever's keying up, we just got a dead carrier out of you, so we might check your modulation. There. Yeah, the same. I don't hear anything. Just. Just carrier ko6gxx standard.

Los angeles link up. N6 mpt n6 mvt wa6 yre carla 31.

Speaker A: Ai6us.ko6gxx.
Speaker B: Ai6us
Speaker A: Brian, are you listening on this one now? K06GXX. No context so far. K062x6 Fox Hunters I feel sorry for you. If you guys want to, I'll give you a hint. K06 fox tender standing by. GXX.

Speaker A: Kf6, cwo mobile, wp6, axm, receiver.
Speaker B: Tk6isq, mobile,
Speaker A: Ak6isq.
Speaker B: I hope I got that right.
Speaker A: This kf6ewo gary, just heading down highway 70, heading towards. Well, going to auburn today. Roger, roger.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm on 70, heading back to yuba city.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah, I live in Oroville, so just just outside of Oroville a little bit.
Speaker B: There you go. Yeah, I had to go out to Hard Rock and get some fuel.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that stuff's getting expensive nowadays. I filled up yesterday, but I've been going to. In Oroville, the casinos are the cheapest place to go get fuel. Actually, Feather Falls is the cheapest.
Speaker B: Feather Falls is cheaper than Gold Country.
Speaker A: Yeah, Feather Falls always runs about 10 cents less than Gold country, but Gold country, still less than what's in town.
Speaker B: Okay, I'll start paying attention to that. I know you guys are cheaper than we are down here, but the drive.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I mean, if it wasn't for the fact that I lived there and they're right there, I would. I wouldn't be driving all the way to another city for. For just to get fuel. Yep.
Speaker B: Yeah, Hard Rock is, gosh, probably five, maybe 10 miles away from Yuba City. So it's not that bad.
Speaker A: How long you been a ham? Oh, probably about 12 years. Okay, what do you like doing?
Speaker B: I usually. I'm doing unless I'm driving. I'm usually doing HF and
Speaker A: digital. Okay, so you're what, a general or an extra?
Speaker B: I'm a general.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I do a lot of HF FT8. I play around a little bit with the slow scan, MMSs, TV pictures and stuff. I try to do a little bit of everything. I like to build antennas. So lately I've gotten on a vertical kick from. Oh, I watch YouTube videos with Salty Walt, K6ogo or K4ogo.
Speaker B: I get it right here.
Speaker A: He put out a book. He does a lot of antenna builds, demonstrates them and uses them, you know. So when he built it, he's sitting there making contacts with it in his videos. So, you know, it works. But yeah, I like building all kinds of antennas.
Speaker B: Yeah, I. I watched a lot of his videos when I first started out. And then, yeah, I made my fair share of antennas. Matter of fact, I'm making one now. It's up and I used the wrong un. So I had to order a new one, a different on a 49 to 1. And I'm waiting for it to get here.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, that's one. I don't have I have four to one unknowns. I don't have a four to one ballon but it seems like a lot of the stuff that I've done hasn't required it. I made a one of his verticals that for 20 meters but I can also use it on 17 and 15 and it uses a 9 to 1 and you have a 17 foot vertical wire going straight up and then you have about a three foot short wire on the bottom end. So it's almost like an off center fed dipole but it's not as precise as far as the distance in the overall length. So. And it's worked really well for me.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, no, I made a 160 meter sky loop out at my mother in law's where I have one station at and then I've made several off center feds. The skyloop I have a 9 to 1 balance on and then off center feds are 4 to 1.
Speaker A: Last time I was down at HRO I picked up those bunch of those. One of each of those balance they had for all that only 200 watts. But I mean if you're only using 100 watt radio it doesn't really matter. You're well under the limitations from it. I do have a 1500 watt amplifier but I'm currently not using it because I, I haven't put up an antenna that'll handle that much power.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's my problem is there is I gotta watch for what which unans or balance I use because I, I like to use my, my amp.
Speaker A: KF6EWO for ID. Yeah, I've got a 4 to 1 ballon that's good for 3,000 watts. I think is what it says on it that I got from DX Engineering. I've had it for a while. I just haven't figured out what antenna
Speaker B: to use it on
Speaker A: and put it up. I'm pretty limited. I live in an area where there's a lot of power lines around me so there's no power going up at my house. I even have those big highest voltage towers running on two sides of me through our area in Oroville. So I get a little noise but I get more noise from everybody's solar panels.
Speaker B: Yeah, I cannot believe how much noise I get in town out of my mother in law's. She lives out in the county and it's much, much quieter. But I'm usually you know, at my place at night. I was operating remotely from, from her place. But you know, operating remotely. I can't use the amp.
Speaker A: Yeah, they don't have control for those, just the radios, but. Well, you know, I mean, I've. I've worked all over the world with FT8, you know, on 100 watts, so. Or, well, not even 100 watts. Usually I'm right around 35. Between 35 and 50 watts. So, you know, you don't have to have a lot of power. And of course, there's always the QRP guys out there that are saying, you know, best power is better, but a lot more work. Yeah, I like to.
Speaker B: The whole reason why I got into radio, honestly, is the dx and a lot of times I need the power for that. But FT8, I really like doing that, but it gets kind of boring and tedious to me after a while.
Speaker A: Yeah. Well, the benefit to FT8 is when nothing's happening, you know, in the voice realms and stuff, then you can always do something with that. Otherwise, you know, when bands are open, you know, just sideband or FM or whatever, And Because I know here lately a lot of stuff's been going on on 10, 17 and a little bit on 12.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm gonna. I think I'm gonna check out this F. F.J. i don't know, something like that 8 where you can actually type out a message and send it.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah, I was using PSK31 was one like that, keyboard to keyboard. It just doesn't seem to be much going on on it. I did. I. That was the first digital mode I started out on. I made a lot of contacts with it, but that was, you know, I. I got my first license in 96 and then I upgraded and I'm an extra. Although, you know, being an extra for the extra frequencies you get, I don't spend much time on them at all. So, you know, general. General is good enough. I had an opportunity to take a class. It was available, so I did it. But yeah, I spend more time in a general area. KF6EWO, KK6ISQ for ID.
Speaker B: Yeah. I keep on telling myself I'm gonna study up and get my extra. And then I end up playing on the radio and. And not doing it. I mean, that little bit of frequency, like, I don't think matters too much.
Speaker A: The only time it makes a difference is sometimes some of these. The expeditions are running up in that area, you know, in those frequencies, and then it's nice to be able to do it. But in general, most of the people. Most people. People you make contact with are in the general privileges.
Speaker B: Yeah, my whole. I think the other thing with me is, you know, I want to get my extra eventually just to be able to have it.
Speaker A: Yeah, you know, I'm not trying to talk you out of it, don't worry. It's nice to say you got it. I like to play around with satellites a little bit too. That's another one that you can do anytime. It's just a little more work and a little more skill and a different method.
Speaker B: Yeah, I can't say I've tried to do that yet. Don't quite understand it. I haven't done it yet. But no, I didn't take it as. Take you as deteriorating, you know, not want me to get that. It's it that's more on my side.
Speaker A: Well, if you get involved in it, you don't have to have a big old station with big rotors and you know, I mean that makes it nice, but it's expensive and you can have fun with just a handheld antenna and a handheld radio that does the duplex. Or you can use two, two hand handheld radios to get your up and down link. There's ways to do it cheaper just like now on hf, you know, you don't have a tower and you don't have big up big beams like some people have and string up some wire and you can still have fun.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, definitely.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker C: Good morning, guys. Good morning, Mike. Hi, Gary.
Speaker A: From my area up here, this is Ernie, KN6GTN, KF6GTM. Is that what your call was?
Speaker C: Yeah, KN6Kilo November 6th, Golf Tango, November. Ernie up here in Bangor. Yeah, I hear you up here, Gary.
Speaker A: Okay, Ernie, have you, have you checked in during our or Sunday night nets? You Sound familiar now, KN6GTM.
Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I do occasionally. I haven't the last while
Speaker A: haven't been
Speaker C: home or around the radio when it happens sometimes, but yeah, I know, I
Speaker A: know most of your people. Now back when I got started in this radio, I used to be on this repeater a lot. There's a few of the people I used to talk to that are all silent keys now. I spend more time on HF than I do today. I just happened to be driving to my mom's and I thought I'd see what was going on. KF6EWO and the group, go ahead. I'm sorry, I didn't get your name. KF60 wo, that's Mike.
Speaker B: How you doing there, Ernie?
Speaker A: Doing good.
Speaker C: Good to hear you out there. How's life treating you down there?
Speaker A: Oh, pretty good, pretty good.
Speaker B: Can't, can't complain. And definitely not dull down here. I got plenty of things going on.
Speaker C: I can only imagine say the same thing up here. So yeah, I'll let you guys get back at it. I was just mobile here. I had to take a load to the dump. We did a remodel on our house
Speaker A: and had some leftover trash so it
Speaker C: had to go somewhere.
Speaker A: So I just got rid of it.
Speaker C: Heading back to the house.
Speaker B: Actually I'm gonna have to back out of here. I just got home myself.
Speaker C: Okay, well you have a good day, have a good weekend and we'll catch up with you later.
Speaker A: Mike. So.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker C: Gary, you got a few miles go yet, don't you?
Speaker A: Yeah, my. My mom lives outside of Auburn. I don't know if you're familiar with that area up there or if you ever been to like Paloma and Sutter's Mill and all that gold rush stuff. She's up in that area and kind of lives in the country. So. She's 88. My brother's gonna buy my dad's truck from her for his son and he's in Indiana. So I gotta go check on it and make sure it's ready so that when he has somebody come and pick it up to take it down to la, it's ready to go.
Speaker C: Okay. Sounds like you have your work cut out for you.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: You can take your metal detector along
Speaker B: and
Speaker C: prospect on her property while you're down there.
Speaker A: I haven't done none of that. I just haven't really got into. I got a son in law that's all into that kind of stuff searching for gold and has a metal detector and a little small swoosh box and all those things to do all that. I like to play radio. I got interested when I was a little kid and I've been in it ever since.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's more my thing. But I have to work on check my dad's truck out. I know there's a few things that I need to do to it before it leaves. So I got my tools packed in my truck and I'm ready to go at it. Yeah, that'll be busy for a while.
Speaker C: You couldn't ask for a nicer day to do it either. Very, very pleasant outside. Yeah. And as far as the sluice box and the metal detector, that's sounds like my boys, they like to play on the radio, but they also like to see if they can find anything yellow.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's, you know, that's still popular and young kids, they're exploring all kinds of things. They want to do. So you know with them they're all over the spectrum sometimes with what they want to try and do.
Speaker C: Yeah, that's right. So I hear I guess you're the ORS group is going to be doing a testing session. Is that just coming up here in in March or it is that what I heard?
Speaker A: Yeah, it's going to be on the evening of Friday the 13th, March 13th in Oroville. It's an evening session. I'm not exactly sure on the details but yeah, I know it's going on. I'll probably be there. I'm a ve so I hadn't done much. I used to come down here a number of years ago quite a bit to Yuba City and then we go and help the Chico group but they got so many people locally for you guys that they didn't really need us so we kind of stopped coming and I hadn't done any testing and then.

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Speaker A: Joe Biselli mentioned it to me and I talked to Paul and so anyway, we're exploring this new testing method.
Speaker B: Yeah, Paul has done a good job getting that up and running and making it functional for everybody. He took over from, from, oh, what was his name that had done it for many years. Leroy had done it many years down here. And when Paul took it over and got that electronic stuff up and running, that's the new way of doing things, I guess.
Speaker A: Yeah, it makes it nice. We've got a guy in our club and he has issues with leaving town. So it makes it nice that you can do things on computer. And Covid was the thing that really, you know, they were exploring it, but Covid really pushed it to where, you know, they really started working on coming up with a viable method that was secure enough and, and to make sure that it was, you know, valid testing without any cheating or any of that kind of stuff. So. Yeah, and I did a test session once with Paul in Yuba City with the computers the one time, but I haven't been back since.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. So I heard you talking about making antennas. Are you into anything special right now? Have anyone halfway down or have a project going?
Speaker A: I've been experimenting but my latest antenna that I built is vertical for 20 meters. It has, it's just wire and I've got a pole that I. Fiberglass or PVC pipe pole that I stuck it to. And it uses a nine to one ballon. The main element is 17, a little over 17ft long. And then this shorter element, which is kind of like a counterpoise or almost a tuning stub type thing is like three feet long. And there's no radials on the ground. This is, that's it for the antenna and I've been using that for a few days and that's working pretty well. There's others I want to do. I just need to get some of those DX Commander replacement poles, fiberglass poles, to do some more experimenting.
Speaker B: Okay, the boys have a. We have a 70 foot crank up tower and with a beam on the top that we got from, I don't know, a place up in paradise. We had taken a tower down, a freestanding tower. We took it down and it had a beam on top. And that's what the boys have put up on top of there. They can, and they also have an amplifier so they, they then they have a bunch of wires they have and 160 wires too with a switch up there so they can, you know, select which band they want.
Speaker A: Kf6cwo Friday. Yeah, I. I don't have the ability to put a tower up. I do have. Two meter beams that I can put up fairly easy, and it just uses a regular TV antenna rotor, but nothing big for hf. It's all wire stuff. I also use. I have an NFET that I got from Chameleon that I've had up for a while that I use quite a bit. That works pretty good, too.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's amazing what you can do with those wires. It just fascinated me when we got into it 99 and 2000. When we first got into HAM radio. It just fascinated me what you could do with a wire antenna. But anyhow. Well, I just rolled into the house here, Gary, you have a nice afternoon. Be careful out there. I'll say 73 is good chatting with you and we'll talk to you later. KN6GTN.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, you have a good day. I'm in the middle of traffic in Marysville right at the moment, working my way through. So, anyway, you have a good day and we'll catch you another time. KN6GT x KF6EW.

Speaker A: See if I make it. Hello, david, you're loud and clear. Wb68kv mobile. Kind of in castro valley, I guess across the bay.
Speaker B: Do I get a good sound on you?
Speaker A: Great. Yeah, I'm headed into a canyon, so I'm about to get bumpy. But yeah, you're perfect.
Speaker C: Roger, Roger. Just wanted to make sure wasn't there something with my radio and someone could hear me? Thanks for the check. K9V A D. David. D73, see you. We're clear.
Speaker A: Sounds good. Where are you checking in from, David? Just out of curiosity, you're hitting the suicide box there in Pacifica
Speaker C: Mesquite, just on the Arizona line. Very good.
Speaker A: Yep, down. Great. And I'm probably due east of the San Francisco airport on Highway 580 and I'm headed out to the Central Valley. And I'm going to be dropping into a hole here directly. So 73. Yep, now we can change anything. It sounds perfect. KKB is QSY back to local.
Speaker C: K 9K clear and monitoring.
Speaker D: This is kb6btu in reno.
Speaker C: And how are you doing today, sir? Well, I was just turning around, I heard you guys
Speaker D: talking. The one gentleman was here. San Francisco Airport. And I used to live in the Bay Area so that I caught my attention.
Speaker C: In Mesquite at the end Arizona line. Now that I do not know the answer to. If you're familiar with the 15 going through Mesquite into Arizona, that is where I'm located. K9v a z. David, rka david, jean
Speaker D: can hear you today. You sound good from a long way away. This is dodge kilo bravo uniform in reno. Have a good day.
Speaker C: Scott, do the same. You got a good, clear, solid signal also 72. See you. And you have a great day. K9 Pag, we are clear. And Monopoly.
Speaker E: Well, we'll try one more. Josh, this is
Speaker C: k6nvr. Dave. Connected. I don't think I'm making it in. I will continue to monitor momentarily out of santa bay. Ke6ngr.

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Speaker A: Well, I've noticed that too. A lot of times I got to take it for fear of breaking it, a jar especially, and put it on the floor. I still got enough hand strength to twist it off, but every now and then I can't get that off. I put my knee up on it and then grab it with both hands at the lid and twist it slowly. The hardest ones are the. Are the Costco Kirkland peaches in a jar. Yeah. Probably because of the stickiness of the sugar inside, but anyway. Yeah, most of the things I can. If you just
Speaker B: keep holding the pressure on and
Speaker C: hold
Speaker B: it and on and hold it on,
Speaker A: eventually it starts to move, but. All right. So to save me from looking in the binder of where to jack that thing up. So they want me to put this booster for the tire pressure management system in the middle. And it's got a metal bottom all the way across the bottom. So I can't just put it inside. Not going to put it all the way back by the axles, but I'm going to probably put some small screws inside to hold it on the bottom. Four screws. But it looks like I'm going to have to jack it up. Where is there. Is there some mark someplace
Speaker C: that it's okay to jack it up by? Yeah, booster. That's what I was thinking. I didn't know it had a rear view camera. Check. No big deal. That's.
Speaker A: I never needed. I never needed a backup camera. But who knows? National parks, other things that it might be nice. That and a pretty good light back there somewhere to light it up back there. But I, I see on keep your daydream videos that their camera actually lights it up back there, so you don't really need to have a backup light, so to speak. If you're used to using mirrors to back trailers up, you know how to do it.

Speaker A: Of12link. We'll give it one more shot. KD6NPR in San Jose, mobile and monitoring.
Speaker B: I am getting you. I'm just not sure I'm making in myself case and yard. I copy you. Thank you. I will go back to my original inquiry. So I've got a friend in Sparks. I'm not sure in terms of the the geography and the coverage out there, do you think Sparks would get reasonable coverage on the system? I'm not sure. I the self evident there are at least two if not more repeaters that cover this area, the renal area, but I'm not super familiar. I'm visiting today. I normally
Speaker A: I live closer to Tahoe in the trucking area, so not 100% sure about park, but I think it's likely. Sam.
Speaker B: Monitoring. Okay, have a good rest of your day there, gentlemen. At 6:00am The.

Speaker A: Yeah, we used it. We used it. It
Speaker B: probably needs a new cover. It's pretty yellow, but. Yep, that'll get you by. Oh, cool. Something I haven't
Speaker A: found. All right, well, I'm going to back it into the garage. So in order to lift it up enough to put that thing on it. Yeah, I want to do that on the garage floor. There is no place other than the trailing arms to lift it up with a jack.

Ykn6wnr. You out there?

Speaker A: Yeah, they don't give you feat. They just say for best results. And I did watch a video. It wasn't a applin light, you know, it was just a regular trailer which you could scoot underneath those pretty damn easy. I might get by with just being able to drive it up on some blocks if I have to go all the way back there. No, they. They only give you an eight foot cord and I prefer not to have things out on the bottom unless they're above the axles, which there isn't one. There isn't axles. So you could still knock the thing off. I. I would prefer to put it on the inside and try it just like you're saying. I'll do that first and then I'll program all the wheel sensors. They just screw onto the valve stems which I don't particularly care for, but I'm pretty sure we're putting some. I found a place that sells rims, you know, quality used tires down there in Chico for 40 to 75 bucks is their average price. That's cheap. And. And I'll have them put metal valve stems in the wheel so that I have to worry about it. Centrifugal force and the weight of the valve stem with that transmitters on each one. You know what I mean? Bending a rubber one back while it's centrifugal force. Forcing.
Speaker B: Yeah,
Speaker A: I don't want to trip on that. So when I get rims, I'll have them
Speaker B: put metal whilst in.
Speaker A: Oh, precisely. Because you know that thing's a little. I got the aluminum one. They used to sell them in brass. I got the aluminum ones so the. They're not really that heavy. But you know me, you do it the best you can. Of course you want to balance them with the transmitters on them.
Speaker B: All right, I think I got it down.

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Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Actually, they tell you in the instructions that it wants full time power, but I know what you're getting at. Of course you don't want to just. I. I think after there's no motion or anything, it shuts
Speaker A: itself off. It has
Speaker B: never sat anywhere without being plugged into 110 so far. But, yeah, you know, Yeah, I. I like to be able to go out there 247 and go in there and have lights and everything all the time. And then you don't have to worry about the batteries being charged or any of that stuff. I ran power out to Lori's potting shed out there, and it's parked 10ft from that, so I got four outlets right there to plug into. That's how it is right now.
Speaker A: Yeah.

Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they're much cheaper now. I think I paid 120 for the tire minder. The other and pressure and temperature. So you can see before something goes wrong the other things coming today. That's why I thought I'd just back it into the garage so I could work in the comfort and close to the tools. The other thing that's coming today is the balance thing. That all. Is there a light in the. In the closet?
Speaker B: You know, like, for hanging shirts and suits? Yeah. Well, I got to get
Speaker A: power to that balancing unit. That's. That. That is the nicest thing right there. You just push an app button on your phone, and it shows you how many inches the front or the back and left and right needs to come up to be level.

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Speaker A: Perfect. Thanks.
Speaker B: Well, if I wait any longer,
Speaker A: the day will be gone. Now I'll have it in the garage. So do, do, do. Just everything will be good. All right? You're getting stuff done, and I'm about to go outside and get it done, too. See
Speaker B: ya. Thank you.
Speaker A: And
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Ready? Link up. Wp68.tv on. What am I on? Number nine. Number nine. 19. Number 19. No, I'm on 25. 25. I'm on nine. I'm on nine. Already cleared the Altamont and headed down the backside into the big valley. About to leave for a walk with the vicious puppy dogs. But I remember a song. Wasn't there a song? Number nine? What was that? What group was that? Mr. Dioso. But now it's on the other side of the valley, up on Fowler, I think. I'm trying to remember. There was a some music where they repeated the term number nine. Number nine over and over. There's a little CO channel stuff going on. I'm still in the hills. Okay, Roger, roger. Just on portable on 25. With all the racket that the repeater sometimes produces. This might makes it hard. You're sounding pretty good in this neck of the woods. All right, back to contemplating here. Let's see, I have two choices here. I think I'll pay attention to the app. WB6JKV mobile. You're heading. You're heading towards that one that used to go to. On the what, on the east side of the valley, south of you, Correct? Yeah, at Turlock. It's off of 99. I remember that site. All right, I'll be listening in 6 GRT.

Speaker A: Kilo oscar6 bravo, golf yankee monitoring mobile. Kn6 wnr. You out there, matthew?
Speaker B: W e6a, x n receiver. 62 yk and 6 wnr.
Speaker A: Hey, Matthew. How are things going with you
Speaker C: doing good. I'm just helping my dad move stuff out of the back of my truck right now. We got some soil and stuff in the back of the truck. We're helping a friend of his out.
Speaker A: Okay, not too bad. Yeah, gonna head over to Marysville, run my errand and then go to Yuba City, do a couple other things and then head. Okay. So you're here in town. I'm still on the colossal county side of both
Speaker B: bridges, so I've just barely started this trip. Okay. Yeah, that's why I can't hear you on the input.
Speaker A: Yeah, no, I'm nowhere near close enough to that. And I don't have the 2 meter calling frequency channel selected. I need to put that back on there. But I mean, it's on the radio. I just don't have it selected. Maybe I'll do that when I get closer to Yuba City and we'll trust in someplace.
Speaker C: Well, I'm gonna go back to what I was doing and we'll try again in a few minutes. Okay. Nice talking to you again, Paul. It's been a long time on the radio. 73 for now. KN6WNR.
Speaker A: 73. Matthew. Yeah. It's been a while. Good hearing you out there. K06BGY. I'll be monitoring in the background.

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Speaker A: W e6 a x n receiver.
Speaker B: I heard somebody bring up the repeater. November 6 Bravo Oscar Bravo. Bob in Yuba City. N6vob ko6bgy Wasn't me, but it's good hearing you out there, Bob. I'm getting back on the road, so I'm gonna be a bit distracted. But good hearing you out there. Did you just get back from seeing your wife? Good question. I'm on my way to see her right now. I've been walking in the park and thanks for asking. I'll probably be there for a couple hours visiting with her. So where are you headed today? You got a second to share? That's awesome. I'm glad you're still able to go get your walks in and go see her. I know how much you appreciate that. I'm just over here in Marysville. I live in Calusa. Came over here to Marysville and now I'm heading back into Yuba City to get a haircut, do a little bit of shopping and head home for the rest of the weekend. Sounds good. You have a good place to go for a haircut? I could use the haircut myself. I just go to Great Clips there in Yuba City over by the Walmart. I've been going there for as long as I can remember, even when I was in the service and haven't got a bad haircut yet. And if you do, the only difference is you have to wait about two weeks and then it clears out. Was that Great Cut the name of it? Sorry, I had the window open.
Speaker A: Great Clips. Okay.
Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't catch it. What do they charge? 20 bucks or so. I think it's up to 23 now, which is still a lot cheaper than most places, so. And you, you can get in and out pretty quickly. They usually have four or five, maybe even six sometimes. Stylists operating? Not always. They do like to keep their manpower down sometimes. But yeah, I mean, I would recommend it. Like I said, it's over there in the Walmart shopping center. You have sport clips. I would not recommend them at all. Great Clips is the way to go in my opinion. I had to almost do it myself. That was one of the things when I was dating my wife, unfortunately, we were married. I told her if she would learn to cut my hair then I'd have more money to spend on her. We could go out, go on more dates. So she learned to cut my hair and she did a good job for over 50 years. She can't do it now. Boy, the thought of that just gave Me chills. That's freaking amazing. That's awesome that you were able to do that. Well, I tried to save a little money. You know, we had a lot of great trips together and we did a lot of things together. All right, I won't keep you. I know you want to run along but nice and set space. I haven't been on the repeater. Haven't been on the air at all for probably a couple months. But take care and get a good haircut. N6 POV. 73 Bob 73K06BGY. I'll be clear
Speaker A: 6 Kov KN6WNR okay.
Speaker B: Hi. I'm just signing it off, but hi. We haven't talked for quite a while. I haven't been on to talk to anybody.
Speaker A: Nice hearing you, Bob. It's been a while. I've been really enjoying that kittenwood that you gave me. I made a lot of contacts. I just reached Chile. I've heard all over the world with that. I'm really thankful for that rig by the way. I just want to say thank you again for that and I hope everything's going well. I just walked over the radio again and heard you talking to Paul and I thought I'd say hi real quick. You for you when.
Speaker B: Thank you. And I appreciate you telling me that you like it. I always thought it was a nice radio and you know, it's small, you can take it places. Portable. If you went camping, if you had electricity, you know you could use it. So what, what are you using for an antenna?
Speaker A: 20 meter off center fed dipole and I got a little push up monopole coming in the mail for a PODA that has a little ground stake and radial. It gets up to a quarter wave height for 20 meters, you know, as a vertical. And I'm going to be doing that for PODA and for field day. I'm going to be taking that Kenwood out for field day. I'm going to really enjoy doing that. And there's nothing wrong with that radio at all. It's slightly, ever so slightly out of alignment. But I'm going to take care of that one of these days. It's barely out of alignment. I'm really surprised too for how old it is. It's in such good shape. The audio is great. It really pulls in weak signals. I'm really impressed by that radio and I've gotten some really amazing contacts with it. And it paired with that 20 meter off center set dipole strung up pretty high. It's got good gain. Got some nice low off coax to it. I got the RGB and it's been. It's been really great. I have no complaints. It's been great. Well, I won't keep you too long so you can go visit your wife and you know, you have a great rest of your day. I'll be clear on your final. KN6WNR73.73, yeah, I'm here just past the park.
Speaker B: And I'm glad you see you're going to be using it for a few days. It's a good little thing. All right, take care outside. I'm controller behind house on 837 Allen Way. Okay, N6 pod clear for now. KN6WNR K06BBY.
Speaker A: Paul,
Speaker B: I'm on 20 at Live Oak Boulevard. Head back to the Walmart. Walmart shopping center. Gonna get a haircut.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I go to that one sometimes.
Speaker B: It's done me well, price is competitive. Lower than most places. I won't pay over 25 for a haircut. It's not worth it. For that price you can buy your. I mean, not that you have. Not everyone has the same skills, but when I was in the service, I mean, obviously you're just shaving your head, so. I had one pair of clippers. It lasted my whole service, my whole term of contract, so still have it running around. Occasionally use it to touch up things, but I let the professionals do it.
Speaker A: You are quite literally close enough to be snip watch with me. Right.
Speaker B: I can't change channel until I stop. Radio is out of position to where I can see the display. That's the joy of having this little tiny sports car, as they call it. I have it mounted on the center console. If I put my elbow out too far, I'll chip it on the corner of it. But luckily I haven't done that yet, so. But yeah, you know what? We just stopped, so I'll go ahead and try to get that over there on one the other channels. I'll try you here in a second.
Speaker A: Qsy over to 146535.
Speaker B: I won't be able to do that until I completely stop. So anyway, we'll see what that looks like here in a few minutes. I'm just now passing through Gray Avenue, hitting every red light in town, at least on this route.
Speaker A: Okay, then I'll stay here for now.
Speaker B: Yeah. I have to say, at work, your dad's pretty popular with the people that I work with or work for, I should say. They always look forward. He's always got something that's and they're like, we haven't seen Eric yet. He'll be here. I don't think he ever takes a day off. Rarely.
Speaker A: W, E, 6A, X, N repeater, 6W and R. Friday. Yeah, he works Saturdays sometimes along with his Monday through Friday. He gets a lot of hours, and so he gets a lot of overtime. Even still,
Speaker B: I could see that happening. And I've already said it many times before to him and you, but that town's gonna be really hurting when he retires eventually. He does the work of three to four people at least. He's got the longest walking route, plus all the driving and all that. So. You doing anything special for today or are you just laying low?
Speaker A: I haven't sure what I'm going to do the rest of the day besides eating some pie. I'm helping my dad out. We're just taking a break with what we were doing earlier.
Speaker B: So for the special day, you're more of a pie person, not a cake person,
Speaker A: and definitely not a pie to the face person actually eating the pie.
Speaker B: Hi. Hi. Yeah, definitely. What kind of pie? Lime. You broke. Did you say pecan?
Speaker A: Key lime.
Speaker B: Hey, at least you got good taste that. You know what? I might. Might have to track me down to key lime pie. A friend of mine, she passed away, but she usually makes the best key lime pie. She'd do it from trad and. Yeah, I don't know. I just don't have the patience. I can cook. I've worked as a chef, but baking was not my forte. I'll break. One second. People don't know how to drive into this home depot parking lot. They all stop in the intersection and. Yeah, that was interesting.
Speaker A: Telling me it's really irritating.
Speaker B: Doesn't help that it definitely looks busier than normal.
Speaker A: It's Saturday. Yeah, it's gonna always be that way. Probably the worst day to actually be in that parking lot.
Speaker B: Yeah, I ran over to the century over there by the railroad tracks. I think it was the wild teams or whatever. And that usually takes like an hour to get in and out because there's only, like four parking spots. And I got in and out of there really quick. So I guess I. I was doomed or set to experience some kind of traffic. But I'm not in any hurry, so.
Speaker A: Yeah, Other than that. How you been?
Speaker B: Oh, work's been starting to smooth out now, but my arthritis, the gout had been acting up with all these storms going hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold. So the pain was real bad. So I've had to miss some time from work and whatnot. The doctor gave the note to me and I gave it to the doctor, to the HR department. And the HRs like, nah, it's not good enough. We're gonna ask you the questions. I'm like, no, I'm not. So I had to get the union attorney involved, but it's all worked out now, so. So we're doing good
Speaker A: at least. Everything's kind of straightened out. Yeah. I'm not sure what I'm going to be doing in the next little bit, but I'm going to be helping my dad out here shortly, though. But I'm not sure what I'm going to do after all this.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, I've just decimated over here. Gonna check in online and see what the wait time is. Maybe go to the Dollar tree and get a snack. But anyway, I don't have an HT on me, but I'll be back in and out on this.
Speaker A: Well, I'll be listening for your call. I'm keeping this radio on. It's on full blast. I can hear it way outside the truck. Truck. So just throw your call out and I'll try to pick it up when I can. Well, you have a great one and talk to you later. K06BGY, this is KN6WNR73.
Speaker B: KN6WNR. KO6BGY73. Matthews. I'll catch up later.

The Gears. Monthly general membership meetings are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue in Chico. Doors open at 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm all are welcome. W6RHC repeater check 2.

It. Fresno lake.

Speaker A: Yeah, Lou, I think that would be pretty trapped in your assistance. I assume same over at that end.
Speaker B: Okay. That was much
Speaker A: cleaner, that last transmission.
Speaker B: So are you using your
Speaker A: handheld HD up there?
Speaker B: Okay, I'm using my F991 here, hooked up to my little LG, pointing it
Speaker A: up the direction of tab therapy here. Anyway, seems like I'm able to hit it no problem.
Speaker B: Thanks for the report. I
Speaker A: think if we tried boarding in the morning, like somewhere before 9 o' clock or late in the day when the sun's setting, I think we would have a better way of connecting. Usually when I connect on 40 to the digital bulletin board, I usually do it in the morning or late in the day and I find the connections really good during the middle of the day. It's kind of up and down. K6s 18.
Speaker B: Station. Your audio is really, really low. You might want to try talking a little closer to the mic. Feel out my desk though.
Speaker A: Hey, Luke, maybe you want to talk a little closer to the mic. Give that a try.
Speaker B: Okay, I got that. I'm gonna
Speaker A: take off here, go back, get some work done in the office. I will talk to you later. Maybe try 40 met tomorrow morning early. Have a good one. Day six at day two.
Speaker C: Yeah. Another thing you might try is make sure that the bandwidth is not set to narrow. Make sure it's set to wide. It sounds like audio is really, really low, but your signal is full quieting. Got a good, good strong carrier. But the audio is really, really tough to hear, especially in the mobile out here on Highway 99. So take a, take a look, see, you might find it. It's on narrow 73. WB6, JTV Mobile, huh? Thank you for the report. Yep, I caught that. Very good. Good luck. I sent you a whole cup of coffee. That's probably what it is. 7:3.

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

Speaker A: System2 link up. Hey. No, sir. I got here sometime around 9ish this morning and had no traffic.
Speaker B: I left Mammoth Lakes at. What time was it? 7:30, hoping to not get in traffic. Almost pulled it off, but Sacramento slapped me a bit and now it's a pitch.
Speaker A: What have you been up to?
Speaker B: Been out roaming the desert over the last month. Getting back today.
Speaker A: Oh, wow. You probably had had your share of stuff and probably gonna be happy to get back into a real bed, I'm guessing. I'm not sure.
Speaker B: I was totally ready to leave, but the weather was getting awfully beautiful out there. It was like in the 80s. It was really nice.
Speaker A: Oh, wow. Well, did you get any rain and you know, inclement weather and what have you?
Speaker B: Yeah, that big, that big storm, that was the worst contributor. We managed to secure one of the nice little cabins that are first coming, first serve. So we stayed out of the weather that night. Otherwise it was, it was cold, but I don't remember getting really hit with anything except for one day I went on the hike and there was a little bit of snow flurries, but that was about it.
Speaker A: Okay, I'm guessing you're probably a little beat from this. Or am I wrong? Keying up too quick.
Speaker B: I broke the trip home over two days, so that always helps driving this truck for, you know, 10 hours straight. I can do it going somewhere, but coming home, it's much harder.
Speaker A: Yeah, I know that feeling. I hang, I pull into the 5th and Mission garage here and get scratchy. So have a good one and we'll catch up with you later at 6m60.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: On my way back home myself, WP60KV on the back side of the Altamont just kind of slowly creep along with the traffic westbound.
Speaker B: Oh, that's good news because that would have been my other route. I'm glad. I'm glad it's that too.
Speaker A: Well, the only good news is that we're rolling along at about 25, so it's better than it was. I noticed when I was on my way out. The direction this way was pretty much stopped, but at least we're rolling. All right, dropping the microphone. We're watching out for the knuckleheads that are trying to gain a spot. Right. Cut in front of you and gain nothing. WB68KV Mobile at Mountain House.
Speaker B: All right, have a good one.

W6 rhc repeater check 1.

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

Speaker A: Try one a little closer
Speaker B: once again. WB6JKV mobile. Livermore on 12. System 12 link up.
Speaker A: Waiting for christmas are you lurking out there? WP68JV
Speaker B: mobile.

Hello, mike. Kb6wfc, wb6jkv, with a traffic advisory if you're so inclined. System 32 link office.

K60z testing.

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System21 link up.

Gears holds a slow speed Morse code net on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm Frequency of 7.44 plus or minus if the frequency is in use. All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the next W6 RHC repeater check two.

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Speaker A: System21 link up.
Speaker B: How do you copy?
Speaker A: Hey, ken. Kind of noisy.
Speaker B: I'm down here by our community pool, so I'm a little ways from the house.
Speaker A: Okay. No, I mean, it's totally useful, man. Don't get me wrong. I'm used to hearing you with absolutely no. No hiss at all, but.
Speaker B: Little
Speaker A: bit of hiss in the background. But 100 copy believes on. Good. All right, he's got back to the. To the hotel from the swap thing, so. All right, enjoy. M7P, Andy.

Speaker A: Error. Let's try this way. Kb6 waiting for christmas from wb6jk nv system 32, late. Works. Kb6, wfc mobile. Dude, I'm home. So, yeah, my app routed the. Over the Samisdale Bridge. Yeah, it says, oh, gnarly crash on the Bay Bridge. You don't want to go that way. Here, save 30 minutes and go this way. So. I did so, Gramp. You're in the scratchy zone there, dude. But anyways, I was just gonna pass that traffic alert on you, but by the time you get down here, it'll probably be,
Speaker B: Sorry, dude. Scratchy. Scratchy. All right, back to
Speaker A: listening to you hanging out on the handheld here.

Los Angeles link up.