Transcriptions for 2026-03-04
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 W6RHC repeater check three.
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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 to attend. W6RHC 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.
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.
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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 three.
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Speaker A: This is kn6pju on
Speaker B: gears east requesting a radio check. Hi Jamie, this is Dennis. Can you give me a radio check? I appreciate that. Are you doing the net tonight or somebody else? Well,
Speaker A: through the GMRS net and I'm struggling to get a radio working correctly so I'm going to check in if that's okay and I'll let you do the next. Be
Speaker B: there when you go around. Wrma990. I appreciate.
Speaker A: I've actually been getting radio checks over there and I sound horrible apparently. So I decided to antenna and the amateur radio station which you helped me out with. So I don't know if it's an antenna issue, my GMRS radio or a combination of many things. Anyway, I'm struggling a little bit with it. So thanks Jamie. But yeah, you don't need to switch over there telling me how bad I
Speaker B: sound already. So thanks. Kn6PU clear as well.
This is kn6pju on gears east requesting a radio check. Kn6pju.kn6pww. Hi, Jamie, this is Dennis. Can you give me a radio check? Yeah, Dennis, you're sounding pretty good. There's a little bit of a background 60 cycle hum, but I give you a 5, 9. I appreciate that. Are you doing the net tonight or somebody else? Yeah, I've got the net on the first, first Tuesday of the month. Well, I'm supposed to do the GMRS net and I'm struggling to get a radio working correctly. So I'm going to check in if that's okay, and I'll let you do the net, but I won't be there when you go around. Okay, cool. Hey, what's your, what's your GMRS Call sign? WRMA990. Okay, I copied WRMA990. Yeah, I'll turn on a GMRS radio if you're looking for a radio check there too, up until the time the net starts. I can give you a check on Bloomer. I appreciate that. I've actually been getting radio checks over there and I sound horrible, apparently. So I decided to try this antenna and the amateur radio station which you've helped me out with. So I don't know if it's an antenna issue, my GMRS antenna or radio, or a combination of many things. Anyway, I'm struggling a little bit with it, so. Thanks, Jamie, but, yeah, you don't need to switch over. There's plenty of people over there telling me how bad I sound already, so thanks. Please, they can hear you. Okay, I'm gonna let you go then. KN6PWW. Clear. KN6PJU. Clear as well. Thank you.
This is kn6tww. Jamie and chico informing you all that the gears weekly net will start in about five minutes. Kn6pww.
Qst qst qst. This is KN6PWW located in Chico, your net control station for tonight's Golden Empire Amateur radio society club. Net this net meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30pm on the W6RHC repeater for the purpose of fellowship and public service through amateur radio. Is there any station with emergency or priority traffic, please come now. Hearing none. Are there any general announcements for the net? If you have an announcement for the Net, please respond with your call sign. Net Control has a few announcements. First, CW class will be at the Golden Beaver on Wednesday. That's tomorrow night. Every Wednesday the Golden Beaver still house is on Park Avenue at Myers in Chico. Also, the trailer work continues for the Gears trailer. That's at the Golden Beaver Distillery, the production facility across from the chico Airport at 13464 Browns Valley Road or Drive. Check with Chris Koenig on that schedule. A break for a second. Most importantly, I'd like to inform the community here that the net will be moving to the Gears west repeater. The net will be moving to the Gears west repeater. That will be on the first net of April, which will be April 6th, I believe so. We'll continue with announcements, but please mark your calendars for Monday, April 6th. Gears net will be on the Gears west repeater. And with that it is time for roll call and check ins. When checking in, please give your call sign, name and location. Please key up for a full second before speaking due to the repeater lag time. First is KN6PWW. That's me, Jamie and Chico, your net control for this evening. Next, K6 EST. Jim. Good evening, Jamie. This is Jim. K6 EST in South Chico. I will be around. And by the way, the. The first net in April is on Tuesday the 7th. Thank you Jim for that reminder. And a good thing you said that because I will be net control that day. Yeah, I was thinking of the board of directors meeting. Thanks very much, Jim. I've got you checked in. Next up, KG6K U O. Lester. Good evening, Jamie. This is K6KUO. You got a good signal tonight and I don't have anything to add to it tonight. So I'll be in and out. But I'll be listening. Thanks for checking in, Lester. I've got you in and out. Next up, KF6NCX. Larry. This is KF6NCX, Larry and Chico. Good evening, Jamie. I'll be around that you checked in, Larry, and it sounds like you're right down the street. Oh, you're right down the street. That explains it. Next, K and 6 qxl. Daryl, Nothing heard. W6js, tom. And nothing hurt. K7kss, kevin. K7kss kevin and chico. Jamie, I'm in and out tonight. Thank you for doing the net. And thanks for stopping checking in. Kevin, I got you in and out for tonight. Kd6 lok, doug.
Speaker A: For the purpose of fellowship. Is there any state traffic? Please come now. Are there any general announcements for the call signing? Has a few announcements. First CW class will be at the golden beach. Most importantly, I'd like to
Speaker B: inform community here that the net will be moving to the gears left repeater the net moving to the gear west repeater that will be on the 1st of April.
Speaker A: Calendars or your net will be. And with that check in. When checking in, please give location please before speaking. Lag time is kn6 knee they need control for the next. A. Sam.
K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.
Cst. I'm looking for a radio check. I'm not sure I'm getting out. You're back on. That was strange. Not sure what happened there. I'm gonna go back on the. The roll call here. KD6LO. 6d uk clearance. K6 gab, greg. Kn6pju, dennis. How about KC6UFE? Bill C6UFE, Bill Anka. Pay. Good evening. And check me in. Put me on the list. Got you in, Bill. And quick question, Bill. Sometimes it seems like I'm not hitting the repeater. Are you guys hearing me? You had a little spell there where you were silent. But you're doing good now, so I think everything's okay, whatever it was. Okay, that's real odd. Yeah, I did. I didn't hear the repeater clicking there for a minute. Thanks, Bill. Next. KN6JHT, Chris. This is KN6JHT, Chris and Chico. Thanks for running the Net tonight. Jamie. I'll be in and out. Thanks for checking in, Chris. I've got you in and out. KB6 CYJ, Scott. Good evening, everybody. KB6 CYJ, Scott, downtown Chico. Little nice and warm tonight for expected rain tomorrow. But we're all doing okay over here. KB6 CYJ will be in and out. We've got you in and out, Scott, and thanks for checking in. KJ6 we x mark. How about aj6wv? Ken, Kn 6kwm, dan, k and 6kwm. Dan, dan and biggs. I'll be checking in and I have nothing to add, but I'll be listening to. Thanks for doing the Net and thank you, Dan, for checking in. And if you come up with a comment, you just let us know with your call sign. Next. N6JLX. Mel. This is November 6th. Julian Lima, X Ray, Mel in Palermo. I will be in and out tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Mel, for checking in. I've got you in and out. KO6KKW. Jerry. Ko6l u m. Matt. How about case 6 ylh? Jevin? Good evening. This is k6ylh. Jalen. Kevin. Heard you coming in there. Will you be hanging around tonight? I will try. I'm on Echo link and I'm on mobile here. But I will. I will try to stick around and if everything's still working, say a few words. Well, that's pretty impressive. Mobile Echo link. What will they think of next? I got you checked in and a new member. K06 MIV, Heather. Okay, that's the role as I have it. It's time for. For any late members, visitors Want to check in. If you copy me at 60 UK? Clarence, I did not copy it. I do now. Are you gonna stick around? I'll be here for the duration. But I got a request. Can you give me a landmine after you clear the net? Yeah. You want mine? I'll give you mine. You ready to copy? Ready to copy. Okay. JB it. It's 530. Of course. 200. 3659 again. 5302369. Anytime after the net of your convenience. I'll be listing here anyway. But I'll be listing on the net. And I know you'll have a good one as always. So at 60 UK 73, everybody parents real quick. I copied. 3, 6, 5, 9. It says last numbers USL 3659. 3659. Roger, Roger. Very good. There any other late members or visitors who would like to check in? Either. And I looked and found my Pl was wrong on the other radio. KD6, Loki, 86 Lok. Doug, got you checked in. KN6QXL. Daryl B. Valley. KN6QXL. Daryl. Got you checked in. You gonna be around for the roundtable? We'll see. I got family here, so we'll see how it goes. Kfc, QXL out. Thank you, Darrell. Are there any other late members or visitors wishing to check in? A K6 RCS gaffed with a comment from earlier. I got K6RC. Yes, but there was a double there. K6 res. You have a. You have a quick comment? Yeah. I just want to mention that Lok was trying to get in there earlier. But he managed to get in. I just wanted to mention that I may have been tripping up net controls comp. So that may have been why you. You were seemingly not making the repeater. But I was trying to mention that Lok was trying to make it without the right Pl or input. I happen to be listening to one of the reverse. So anyway, back to that control. K6RCS. I just wanted to mention that I'm very rarely on here at this time. So back to that control. Well, thank you very much. Let me see. And there was a double in there. Someone from Linda, maybe kilo, India 6 uniform, Juliet x Ray. Michael and Linda. Yes. Hello. India 6, uniform, Juliet X Ray. I've got you checked in. Thank you very much. I'm going to break for just a moment here. Sorry about that brief break there. I'm not used to running these nets yet. I'm getting better at it though. So. That sounds like all the Late members and visitors. Anybody else? Very good. It's time for the Swap segment. If you have any ham radio related items to sell, trade giveaway or want, please respond with your call sign. Well then hurt. So before we start the roundtable are there any other late check ins? And first on the roundtable is KN60WW Internet Control for this evening and I do not have much to add so other than actually one little thing through Butte County Cert, the Community Emergency Response Team. We have a an emergency notification group. We've actually at times get called by the sheriff's department to make emergency notifications. We actually use the Gears repeaters, both the repeaters as part of our emergency notification system. So I'd like to thank Gears for having those repeaters. Next up is Jim. K6 EST. What you got Jim? Good evening Jamie and thank you for doing the net. I really don't have much to add. I did enjoy the sunshine today. Was nice to to to get warm and take a nice walk in the sun. Back to you. Was nice today but I was stuck inside waiting for a contractor. Let me see KF6NCX Larry, what's, what's shaking out there? This is KF6NCX Larry and Chico. Well, I thought I'd mention some opportunities to work dx. Good opportunities in the first case. Coming up this weekend is the ARRL International DX contest. This is the single sideband or phone version of the contest contest. So you get to hear lots of interesting accents as people all over the world try to work stations in the US and Canada and those are the only stations that they can work. So it's happy days for us being the target of all these guys. The Contest starts at 4pm on Friday and runs all weekend till I think 3pm on Saturday, Sunday. And so just you're just listening for guys calling CQ Contest or CQ Test, maybe cqdx. If you hear someone with an unusual call sign to reach them, just say your call phonetically and they'll tell you 599 and a number which is their power could be 5 watts, not too likely, but possible or 100 watts or a kilowatt and then you just tell them back 599 Charlie Alpha for California and you've got a DX contact. So that's going on this weekend. It should be fun. And there's something else. I'll drop this for just a second. And that's a DE expedition going on from Bouvet island, which is this tiny rocky icy island to get to it, you just get in a boat or ship, more likely from Cape Town, South Africa and, and head southwest towards Antarctica for about, I think, a thousand miles or something like that, maybe more, and you get to this island. Sounds easy, but it's not because the weather is terrible down there and the sea is treacherous. There have been some good de expeditions from there in the past, but not real recently. Some guys tried it in 2018 and the weather was so bad that they weren't able to make a good landing or do any operating. Some guys tried again in 2019 and they got within 63 miles of the island and the weather was so bad the captain said they had to turn back. And this takes a lot of expense and planning. Anyway, these guys are, I think there now. They may be operating. Dill may have some more information on this, but this time they took a helicopter on their ship, I understand, so they could land on the island no matter how rough it was. The call sign is 3Y0K3YANKEE0KILO. So if you get lucky, you might hear them and make a contact. Okay, that's it for me. Jamie, back to you. This is Larry, KF6NCX. Thanks for that, Larry. You know, I just looked at that on my, my map here up on the wall and that is pretty much the middle of nowhere and it's in looks like zone 38 down there, south of Africa. That's amazing. Yeah. And I wanted to ask you about exactly where that place was since, since you mentioned it in the email. Well, next up, KN6QXL. Darrell at 6QXL. About the only thing I've got is I've been on the phone several times today talking to people about our change. Coming up on going to Gears west, everybody seemed very positive toward it. Well, that's good. We should get some. We should get some pretty good coverage from Gears West. And I know there's some, there's some members now that can not hit Gears east, so we should get a little bit better attendance. Lok, let me see. KD6lok. Doug, thank you. First, I'd like to thank Larry for letting you know that I was in there even though I was transmitting on 100 PL instead of 110. Do not know how that happened. I've been using this radio for a couple of years now and don't have any idea how that happened. The other thing is when is the change going to be to the west? I was busy doing other stuff and not paying attention to the net when you mentioned that that change will be the first. The first net in April, that is Tuesday, April 7th. So we'll make announcements between now and then and we'll see if we can get a. An automated announcement on the. On the east repeater as well. Okay, thank you. I think I've got a pretty good view of that one over there as well, so It'll be interesting. Seven, three all. Katie six lok. Thanks. Doug. About the N60 UK. Clarence, got anything? Oh, no, I. I did the same thing Doug did. It was my HD and I. I had the wrong feeling there. I got egg on my face. So. Doug, you're not alone. We're two pieces. Two peas in a pot there, buddy. Anyway, that's why. I wonder why I wasn't getting in. So anyway, I'm on the mobile radio right now. So anyway, I'll. I'll be standing by for your landline after that there. 73. Everybody have a good night. All right, thanks. Sometimes those buttons seem to push themselves. KC6UFE, Bill D6UFE Bell and Capay pushing everybody's buttons tonight. So, yeah, I had a. Interesting weekend. Enjoyed the 160 meter band contesting. That was kind of fun. I like that band. And as far as that group is down there in the middle of nowhere, I think they call it the Boonies or something. Bouve Island. The best way to follow them is to use DX Summit and load up a couple of web pages with the different bands on. They can just flip from page to page and see where they're transmitting from. And they also have something going on on Facebook. They're active now and I think so far this Evening they're doing FTA on the 40 meter, your band. So I haven't contacted them yet, but I'm sure giving it a try. So back to you, Jamie. KC6UFE. All right, thanks for that, Bill. Let me see, how about. Can.
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K6ylh Jevin, you still there? Yeah. Good evening Jamie and the Net. This is Devin K6YLH mobile via EchoLink and I, I too am excited about the Bouvet expedition. I've never worked Bouvet so it will be an all time new one for me if I, if I'm able to work them. I have been able to hear them on SP8 40 meters and very faintly on 40 meters PW, 30 meter CW and I think 15 PW the other day but it's not strong enough that I could reasonably work them on that mode. I think I should probably get through on FT8 if there weren't so many other. Obviously the pile ups are pretty big right now and there is some of that QRM that's intentional. Unfortunately the reality of the expeditions now sadly, but hopefully not too much of that, you know, such that people won't be able to still make some good contact with the expedition. There's also a expedition on right now in West Africa. Juliet51 Alpha I think is the call site and Desacheo island is also on the air with a GX edition. I have been able to work those guys on a couple of dams so I recommend checking those GX systems out as well. All right, back to net. Hope everyone has a good week. All right, thanks Jevin. And just so you get a signal report, you're just about readable but really glad we got you in and heard about that other D expedition. That sounds pretty cool. How about KI6UJX? Michael? Nothing. This too busy with work to do anything amateur radio wise. Well, it's good to get you checked in anyway. And that is the role as I have it. Are there any other, any other additional comments or questions for the net tonight? KC6UFE. KC6UFE. Bill, go ahead. Thanks Jamie. I just, I wanted to make a suggestion that maybe we send an email around with the frequency pair and PL for the Gears west repeater. Make sure everybody's on board. That's it, back to net. Good suggestions. I copy that down and we'll make sure that happens. I really appreciate that. Yeah, we'll be saturating as much as we can. Email is a good way to do it. Any other last minute comments or questions for the Net tonight? Well, hearing none. This concludes this week's Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society Club Net. Thank you to everyone who checked in tonight and you are all invited back next week. This is KN6PWW Jamie returning the W6RHC repeater to its normal monitoring service. This net is closed at 19:59pm 73 to all. KN6TWW is clear.
Broadcasting live from Red Mountain at an elevation of 3673ft. This is Sac Valley's original 105 machine W6 GRC, with a PL tone of 110.9.
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Qst, qst, qst. This is K6 Kuo opening second metabolic traffic. Now, this net's part of the national traffic System. And the purpose of this net is to relay woman traffic. Into and outside the Middle Valley. And to provide a standard emergency direction. Please make no transmissions without permission and control. All stations are west. They are frequency till you 6k. Lester located Western station for the emergency of prior traffic. W6RHC Repeater Check 2. Station with traffic to be listed. Kf6 obi, mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg60k. You was called enrollment on traffic. Kg16. Good evening, lester in the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you. Good evening, Lester and the group. Okay, six rcs, Randall. No Chico, no traffic. Thank you very much for checking in. I appreciate it. K6PMT, kilo, echo 6, papa, mike, tango, rustin Gerber. And I have no traffic. Good evening, Lester in a group. And. And could I speak with Jamie after net, please, if he's around? Sure. KC6UFE, KC6UFE. Bill in cape. No traffic. Good evening, Lester. And that kid's cute as a button. Thank you, Bill. K6PWW. KN6DWW. This is Jamie and Chico with no traffic. And I'll stick around after the nap. Back to control. All right, thank you very Jamie. All right. This is KG6K. Um, here I got. Are there any late members or visitors wish to check in? Foreign. This is the K6K.U closing segment of Valley traffic test daily at 2100 hours local time to the W6 star receiver Piero. 146.85 MHz, all stationary. Steel is not letting everybody return. 10 ninth in the Golden Empire. Parameter repeater. Close that 2103 load type. 73 dollars. Okay, 6pmt calling. Oh, shoot. I don't know your name, your call sign. Jamie. Okay, this is KN6PWW or the kilo. November 6th. Papa. Whiskey. Whiskey. That means I get a double whiskey. Okay. Hey, do you mind giving me your phone number? I need to see if you can do some. Do something for me. Sure. It's 916-716-4120. That was 916-716-4120. Usl. You got it. Give me a few seconds and I'll give you a call. K6pmt. All right. Kn6pww. Clear.
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Speaker A: India. India uniform. How copy, mike? Okay, Mike, I got you loud and clear. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Yeah, I had turned it off for some reason I was surprised when I. After I talked to you, I looked at it and what was off and yeah, I had a crazy wind just blow through. I had clouds and it blew every cloud right on out of here. Or maybe it was like a low fog thing, but it was not on the ground at all. So more like clouds but blew everything out. And so now I have clear skies,
Speaker A: but still 100% overcast here. One other thing, Mike. You know, every year I do my taxes like everybody. And my accountant happens to be in Reading. I was wondering if you want to do a face to face during that time. I don't know when it's going to be. It'll probably be this month, sometime over.
Speaker B: Yeah, there's a chance of that. I've got some medical stuff coming up. I don't know what the schedule is gonna be. I haven't looked into it at all yet. But I know that I need to do two different small operations. So. Well, one's a little larger than the other one. I need to do them and so I'll be in and out around and so I don't know what you're about. About how far ahead are you looking at?
Speaker A: They'll be in March sometime. I know I got a doctor's appointment on March 13, but you know, it'll be between now and then. I'm still working on my taxes. I haven't finished yet. But when I'm finished I'll give you a call and maybe we can set up a date. Over.
Speaker B: Yes, it would be great to meet you. I'm gonna do one of the things really soon here. Initial thing to see, try to get the ball rolling. And the initial thing will lead to fairly quick and easy operation. At least it was last time. I didn't even have to take any medicine. So that'll be number one. And then the second one, there's a week long recovery where I'm down. That'll be interesting.
Speaker A: Well, I hope that all goes well. It's a bit getting old. I know that. This is Kilo. India Six. India. India. Uniform for id. Back to you. Golf Romeo.
Speaker B: Golf. Yeah, I wonder if Mike Golf. Kilo's up this morning for sln. Those are a couple of the guys that you're liable to run into on this frequency. Steve and Chico and King. Successful N normally normally up on up in Mineral. He's not quite there yet. I don't think he's hanging out down in the valley in his RV right now with his wife and maybe trying to make money over at the cafino because he can count cards. No, I'm just kidding. He doesn't count anything. But anyway, yeah, he's hanging out down here.
Speaker A: Okay, well, you know, what casino is that? Rolling Hills or what is that? Wind something? Or rather Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, he likes to go to Rolling Hills and he has family in Red Bluff.
Speaker A: Yeah, I live real close to. In fact, I'm across the street from Rolling Hills, so, you know, I always go there for, you know, lunch and dinner and stuff like that. Over.
Speaker B: Oh, wow, I didn't know you were that close to it.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's less. It's probably about a mile away. You know, it's on the other side of the freeway from me, but, you know, I'm on the east side of the freeway and Rolling Hills is on the west side of the freeway. But it's pretty close. Over.
Speaker B: Once, I think maybe twice, but I definitely remember once. One time.
Speaker A: Well, if you. If you're ever down the Rolling Hills again, you gotta look me up. I'm real close. Over. I can meet you down there or, you know, you can come over here, whatever you want. Back to you, Mike.
Speaker B: Well, now that I know you're really close, I'm gonna look on Google Maps. Right now. I don't have Internet, but I have phone calls, text. I get text through signal. And if I go outside, I get everything. Indoors, I get nothing.
Speaker A: Well, you know, all you got to do, though, do a map quest or, you know, one of those maps things on your phone and it'll take you right to my house. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was thinking from your description, I could probably just look around and I see it.
Speaker A: Yeah, I live on Chase Avenue. I'm right on the corner of 99W and Chase. You know, that's my property there.
Speaker B: Over. Okay. Well, it's pretty hard to miss a bunch of olive trees and typical groves. They're pretty well lined up.
Speaker A: Well, yeah, a lot of guys have ripped up their orchards and planted almonds. Over. And, you know, but trees for trees. I guess they figured there's no money in olives. I know some of my trees are 150 years old, so I can't let them. I can't rip them up. I feel bad doing that. Over.
Speaker B: Well, the only one. Only stuff that's going on up here, olive wise, I'm. I'm just outside of a whole ton of olive groves, historic olive groves. And there was a guy named Alexander. And there was a mansion. Well, there was a fire that nearly took out the mansion and blew into a bunch of olives. And I think that might be why a bunch of them were cut. A whole bunch of them were cut right up against Palm street and Olive Road.
Speaker A: Well, you know, olive groves will burn green because there's oil in them. So, you know, fires are bad for olive groves. Over.
Speaker B: This blew through. It blew. I think I could possibly say it blew east to west. It was either south to north or east to west. I don't know my directions over there. I think it was south to north. Yeah, south to north. And it blew through a property owned by some people I know by the name of Black. When the parrots were alive, I. I had met him, and I was just curious about what they were doing. And they. They had a bunch of nut trees. And, you know, they. When they were really into it, he had a heart attack maybe 10 years ago, at least. And when they were really into it, they would put a. Graft a male. A piece of male tree onto all these female nut trees, and that's how they would propagate their nuts.
Speaker A: Well, the only nut tree that I know of that needs a male and a female is the pistachio. Were there pistachio trees over?
Speaker B: Yes, that's correct. They were pistachios.
Speaker A: Yeah. Because, you know, I had a male and female pistachio tree, and I ripped up the male and I stopped getting pistachios over.
Speaker B: Yeah. And the way, like I say, the way they did it, they never ripped up any of the trees. I don't know that they even had a male anywhere. They probably had 500 female pistachios. And somehow, I don't know where they got the male males that they all grafted. That was quite a while ago. Grafted to the females. And so you'd have one. One tree out of every, maybe 10 that had a male on it.
Speaker A: Well, that's a good idea, But I don't really care to eat at pistachio, so I don't really care about it. But I do have walnut and almonds and pecans over.
Speaker B: I love pistachios when they're all, you know, canned up and from the store. I love them that way. I don't know that I. They didn't successfully have any pistachios after I met him because he was having heart trouble and he couldn't get the boys to do anything. And they had the water to the trees, and the water went up here. Everything went up with the water company. So there was no more egg water here. They just. They fake it now. When they first started out, they had egg water was actually a penny more expensive than the regular water, drinking water, and residential water or whatever you call it. And then they realized, well, it needs to be cheaper to meet the demands of the Bureau of Land Reclamation if they made it one penny less.
Speaker A: Well, I could tell you some stories about water here. I guess it was about 10 years ago everybody's well went dry around here. There was a big deal. Everybody was drilling new ag wells and stuff. But we also have federal water, which comes straight from the Sacramento river, and that's pretty cheap water. And it plumbed right into my property. Well, every now and then, if there's a drought, they shut that off and, okay, you guys have to use your ag water now and turn on your pumps. Well, in that transition period between everybody's well going dry and, you know, getting water from somewhere, because it was a backup, you know, some of the well drillers were six months out drilling wells. They said, well, you have to. You can buy water from the rice growers. So we went and we found rice growers. The rice growers were paid not to grow, but they had the allotment of water because they're a commodity and they got water every year, regardless of what happened. Normally we got water at that time for $40 an acre foot. The rice growers sold it to us for $600 an acre foot. Over.
Speaker B: Over. Well, we had something similar here going on, and there's this outfit called McConnell, and we bought there some of some of their water rights for our area out here to the west of South Reading. It's a kind of a big area to the west of South Reading. A water company out here?
Speaker A: Yes. And at that time, also, the wheel drillers, they doubled their price. So, you know, they said, well, this is a good time to take it to everybody. So, you know, if you did get a well driller, it cost you twice as much. Over.
Speaker B: Well, there's one guy now, I don't know if it's a private owner or something to do with our water company, but there's a well that was drilled. It looks like it's on what might be a horse ranch, because there was at least at one time a horse ranch, Because I see a big stall building over there and it to the west of Cloverdale Road, pretty close to the intersection of Clear Creek Road and Cloverdale Road. And it's kind of over by the land refuge place farther in to the east from the what, what you just call a dump. There's a dump out there and it's farther east of that. And the reason you know it's there is they have water shooting up in the air. I don't know what that's all about, but they have water shooting up in the air sometimes quite high.
Speaker A: Well, usually that's for aerating the pond or the lake that that's been over.
Speaker B: Yeah. And I don't think there's a pond there, so I don't get it.
Speaker A: Well, normally that's the way it works. They shoot water up in the air and you know, to aerate the lake or the pond. But if there's nothing there, then I don't know what that's all about.
Speaker B: Over. Well, there's another thing going on that has to do with the dump. And there is a big stack and it's a methane stack for methane. And they might have put in that big composting facility that the state's mandating that they put in and raised everybody's bills from the. This is Waste Management Company.
Speaker A: Well, I don't know this Kilo India Six India India uniform for ID. Back to Golf Romeo Golf.
Speaker B: Yeah. N6 GRG. And, and you know the waste management and that landfill is a complex situation. I was told by one outfit that it was owned by the city of Readingsville. I don't know what, how it's all worked out, but it's basically being as far as I know, operated by the Waste Management Company, which is a huge, huge company. So yeah, they pretty much do whatever they feel like doing.
Speaker A: Okay, well, I got a few things I gotta get done here today, Mike, but yeah, I'll keep in touch, let you know, you know, when I make that trip down there and maybe we can get together. This is Kilowindia 6 India India uniform. Back to you, Mike.
Speaker B: Yeah, the only thing olive wise that I wanted to mention was that the only pickers I ever see around here any longer are picking Sevillano queens. And I was shocked to see them in this one on Ollie street on Ollie Olive Road on what you call probably call East Ollie or North Ollie. You call it North Ollie because it's on the north side of Palm street. And I saw a bunch of figures there and I'm talking to they. None of them spoke English but the, the main head guy did and he was reading papers and stuff and didn't really want to talk to me too much. He did tell me they were queens and it was a big, a big bunch of Queens. I was shocked to find them there.
Speaker A: Are they still Milanos over?
Speaker B: Yeah. Big bunch of Seviano. There's only. As far as I know, the only. The only two Seviano orchards that I found are that one on Olive, and there's one right at the corner of Oak and Palm that was owned by this fellow that I made acquaintance with. He finally died. And her son was a kind of a jerk, but he paid all his pickers well. And they were a bunch of people that were probably all picked up by heights, for all I know.
Speaker A: When was this. When did this happen? It must have been in, oh, probably the late summer over.
Speaker B: Well, the pickers, he called them family. And they were. This was maybe five or six years ago. And I had met him and I was just asking him, well, how does all this work? And what he told me, well, he has the Sevillanos, not the missions, and they were grafted. And the whole. Gave me the whole story. And it was grafted maybe 30, 40, 50 years ago. And then he always had what he called family picked him up. And I. He said, why don't you come and help out? So I thought, well, okay. I thought, we're just going to meet a bunch of his family and stuff. And it. It was every. Every Mexican in the area, whether they were, you know, multiple families. And some of the. The ladies, you know, could barely scratch the surface and make any money, but they were there to help their husbands. I made more than anybody there. I pushed real hard and made some pretty good money. But even working as hard as you could, the most you could make was like 50, $60 a day.
Speaker A: Well, my pickers making $400 a day over.
Speaker B: They have power equipment.
Speaker A: Oh, they pick by hand. And you know what they do is they'll start, you know, they put on these little headlights and they go and they start picking at three in the morning. They'll pick until about three and you know, in the afternoon and, you know, the.
Speaker A: They're making three or four hundred dollars a day, no problem. And you know, they get paid by the box. In Spanish, it's caja. And they making like four or five dollars a box. Over.
Speaker B: Well, we were making six or seven a box and that's the most I could make. And I was making more than almost all of those guys. So they're, I guess, just not froze.
Speaker A: The guys I get are from Mexico. And you know, I don't do it anymore. Donna used to do it, but I don't do it anymore. We have a contractor and he has a big crew. He has a big labor camp, you know, with 300 guys in it. And you know, they. He goes straight to Mexico, brings a bus load of Mexicans back and they're pickers. Over.
Speaker B: So you're not actually paying them. He's paying them. So you're kind of going by what he tells you, huh?
Speaker A: Yeah, he does everything. The only thing, you know, I just get a percentage of the harvest and that is it. And he does everything. He does all the paperwork, the checks, all. Whatever you got to do. He does everything over.
Speaker B: Well, you might be interested if you actually on the chest to see what's going on.
Speaker A: I know what's going on. I know how much he picks every year and I know how much he makes every year and I know how much I get every year, so. But it's still worth it to me not to have to do any work and get a little bit of money at the end of the year over.
Speaker B: Yeah, I saw, you know, they'd load up this big pickup truck with these bins and they were very heavy. And it was a five acre, five acre spot
Speaker A: that's kind of small. Yeah, I guess, you know, a little family operation could handle like five acres. And know, I know that this guy that my contractor handles thousands of bakers, he has semi trucks come in and forklifts and stuff, loading up the semis to run the olives over.
Speaker B: Well, see, the difference is they're doing missions.
Speaker A: Oh. All the olives I have are civil autos. Over.
Speaker B: Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, that's it. Kind of a unique thing, that Seviano.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, you know, my wife, she's had this plate for over 50 years and you know, I inherited it about 20 years ago. So, you know, I'm just learning it. You know, she's done the whole thing by herself. I don't know how the hell she did it, but she did it over.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, it's an interesting business. I don't think It's a real money maker from what I've seen. But, you know, it's better than just having a bunch of brush.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, at one time when she was doing it all herself, she was making good money, but she also had other jobs because you never know before it's crop insurance. If you. You spend money on water and fertilizer and pickers and pruners and all that. And at the end, you know, you have a big hail storm or something like that wipes out your orchard, you don't get any income. And this was before crop insurance, so she had to have another job. She was a. The brine master of Bell Carter for a while. And then she was. She opened up her business. She was a natural fruits broker and she made good money at that. And then, you know, she kind of went in to have somebody do all the work for her over.
Speaker B: The water thing is a big deal here. They used to have a canal coming through and have places that got water rights and everything out of the canals and real egg water. Then they switched it over to having to take the water right out of the drinking water pipes. And that's when the water company started putting the kibosh on the whole thing because that made it so they had to run a whole lot more water through the drinking water pipes. And so they just basically shut it down.
Speaker A: Yeah, that water is a big problem. And you know, I have ag wells and they want to put a meter on it. I paid for the well, I paid for the well drillers and all the expenses that go along with it. And now they say, well, we're going to. We want to put a meter on there so we can charge you for your water over.
Speaker B: Yeah, they got a lot of games with that. You know, they'll tell you that. But then if you check with the other people that have the meters, you can actually put water back in and negate the charge.
Speaker A: I don't know about that. So far I haven't put a meter on my well. But right now I don't even use ag water. I use federal water, which is the Sacramento river over.
Speaker B: Well, those well people may force you force the situation and the time they would push it would be during a drought. And I've read about a lot of. They have a lot of this going down in the San Joaquin Valley and it's the same rules and rags and California. And so that's what they do is they. They would get water, they'd take a bunch out and then they. The drought would Be over. And they take a bunch of water and put it back in. It's quite an interesting ball game. You can read about it. San Joaquin Valley has a lot of stuff going on with it.
Speaker A: Well, I know we're a lot different than San Joaquin Valley because, you know, we're so. I'm still only six miles away from the Sacramento river, so, you know, it's easily accessible for me. Over.
Speaker B: Well, a lot of this water is not coming out of the Sacramento. Actually. It's coming just going into the canal system, the acid canal and all that stuff. Do you know anything about that?
Speaker A: All I know is I'm getting water from Sacramento.
Speaker B: It's called federal water.
Speaker A: There's a water district, and I'm all plumbed into it. And I most. Well, normally I run Fiona Driver straight from the federal water. I don't even turn on my well, but I, you know, I got two pumps in my well. I got a domestic pump and then I have an ag pump in the same well hole. And, you know, I use domestic pump every day. But the ag pump, I only use it when drought conditions. Over.
Speaker B: You're plumbed into Sacramento. Do you actually see. Where are you plugged into their pipe?
Speaker A: If I'm plugged into their pipe and I have a meter on it, they know exactly how much I use, and that's what I'm charged for. Over.
Speaker B: Okay. Well, their water probably comes out of a canal that comes right out of Sacramento pipe. Sacramento dam is part of the acid. Acid system. And it goes way down by you. And, you know, at times. Certain times of the year, there's nothing in it, and other times it's overfilling. And the interesting thing is that canal. There's a couple interesting things about that canal. It goes. When it goes past Clear Creek, it actually goes under clear creek and comes back up out of it. Up, out and keeps going. And then when it goes down by Anderson, it goes on a trough that it's way above the. It's like you drive under it. You actually drive under it. So it's quite a canal. It goes way down by you.
Speaker A: Well, you know, Anderson is 60 miles
Speaker B: away from Mayover well, and Dam is another 50 miles north of Sanderson. So, you know, it's a huge system.
Speaker A: I don't know all the details. You know, I'm only six miles away from the Sacramento River.
Speaker B: You think they.
Speaker A: Why would they get water 60 miles away if they can get it six miles away? Over.
Speaker B: Well, there. I think there are more places where they take it out of the River. River. Besides the Sacramento Dam, it's probably. I believe it's all. Do you remember an agency name?
Speaker A: Only name I got is Federal Water. Over.
Speaker B: I see there's an agency that you're dealing with.
Speaker A: Well, it's some kind of waterworks company or something. I'm not sure the exact name. I never paid that much attention to it. I know that the guys come over and check the water all the time and read the meter and stuff like that, but it's California Water District or something like that. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, see, what do they call that anyway? Yeah, it's a big California agency. And it's the same agency up north as it is down south. They push the water all the way to Los Angeles, believe it or not.
Speaker A: Well, I'm well aware of the California Aqueduct and the Delta Mendota Canal because, you know, I am a past director of the California Striped Bass association. And there was a big stink when they put those back in the Reagan era, you know, when he was the governor of California, he pushed for the California Aqueduct and the Delta Delta Mendota Canal to run the water to LA over
Speaker B: a huge amount of politics involved. And it's a complex system and it's still all there. Still. I'm pretty sure you're tied into it as to who you're actually paying.
Speaker A: Well, I got to pay every month, actually. I have to pay for the dam. I know that we have to, you know, we have pay every month out of our taxes. Every year out of our taxes or the dam. And, you know, it seems like we should be getting free water for that. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'd be looking it up if I. But my Internet went away. But at one time I was studying it quite a bit. It's all part of the same system. And the water for various places comes from different parts of that system. And my water comes from the part of the system that comes out of Trinity County. And it actually goes through a tunnel right through a mountain from one river system into a different river system. In other words, it goes from the Trinity River System, which goes into the Klamath. It takes it out of that water system. River system and runs it through a mountain in a big tunnel and goes into the Clear Creek River. And Clear Creek river feeds everybody over here and feeds Whiskeytown National Park, Whiskey Town Lake, that whole thing. There's some power generation also. And then it goes into the Sacramento River. What they. And they. They feed it into the Clear Creek to keep it a little higher for the salmon population.
Speaker A: Over. Well, as you know, there's no more salmon fishing in California. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, they're having a problem right now, but what they're trying to do is get the chinook. Bring the chinook back. They have the regular. I forget the other species of salmon. I think they're doing fine. But there's one that was close to disappearing, and they're trying to bring it back.
Speaker A: Well, you know what the problem is, and it's pretty well documented. The sea lion problem. The sea lions are eating all the salmon and the stripers. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, the fishermen complained about that. You know, the commercial fishermen.
Speaker A: Well, there's no commercial fishing either. And you can't do anything about it because the sea lions are protected and they're overpopulated. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah. And, you know, what you're hearing is coming from one side of the controversy, and I'm sure there's another side. And I don't know. I've been out of it. I used to live over there where the salmon fishermen were, and I'd go on the boats and the crab, do the crab fishing, too. But. And, you know, there's always two sides to every. Every controversy. And. Yeah, the salmon. The salmon fishermen would always complain about the sea lions.
Speaker A: Well, you know, I guess about 20 years ago, I used to live in Discovery Bay, and I lived in Discovery bay for about 20 years. And
Speaker B: the,
Speaker A: you know, Discovery Bay is in the West Delta, and it's the fresh water. And now there's sea lions at Discovery Bay. Over freshwater. Over.
Speaker B: One of the controversies, if you want to look at the others, the whole picture had to do with Shasta Dam and any other dam that they decide they want to put in, because, as, you know, salmon. The salmon population populations come from the headwaters of all these rivers. And they wiped out the majority of the salmon in the Sacramento when they put the Sacramento Dam in, because all the salmon were coming up the river and going all the way above Sacramento Dam was where all the natural salmon were breads or, you know, were coming from. So then they started the fish. The fish place over there. Have you heard of that Fish. Whatever they call it, breeding fish. They started that, and they've tried all sorts of different ways to make it so the fish know where they were bred from. Because for a while, quite a while, they were. They were taking the fish, the fish that came from that place, and they were taking them right down to the San Francisco Bay or in the delta area way out there, just dumping them right there.
Speaker A: Yeah, they were doing that during the drought season, you know, and I think I Know what? You ever heard of the Coleman fish hatchery up there? I guess it's over there near your area. Over.
Speaker B: That's between you and me on the east side of five there in this area, we call it Cern Creek Road and all that area kind of right near the borderline between Tehama and Shasta on the Shasta side.
Speaker A: Yeah, I used to go down there every year and watch that operation during the peak of the season and it was pretty impressive. The hit fish hatchery there. You know, there's a lot of, I don't know, mechanisms and stuff like that to get the fish and you can watch them get the eggs out and get the sperm out. You know, watch their operation. They got breeding tanks and stuff and that's. They breed the fish and stuff. And then they used to dump them near that area, but then they, you know, during the drought season, they were dumping them in the, in the San Francisco Bay area. Over.
Speaker B: Well, they're still moving. They're still experimenting with where they are going to dump them. It changes. And they changed it again just recently. And. You know, we're. We're way past the drought and they're still playing around with it because they just can't quite get it worked out.
Speaker A: Well, you know, like I said before, man, the sea lions are the problem, I think. And all the documentation I've seen on it points to the sea lions and they're protected. And until they do something, you know, unless they can bring back the great white sharks or something like that, it's going to get worse and worse. Over.
Speaker B: Yeah, these great whites, I don't know if, you know, but the great whites, there's a bunch of them that are turkey.
Speaker A: And they follow them. There's quite a few of them. But, yeah, it's a huge controversial subject with different sides saying different things. And I will have a tendency to go by what the scientists say. I. But I. I've been out of it. I, you know, it. If I were in Humboldt, living right next to Humboldt Bay like I did all my life, most of my life, I would have a lot more I could say about it. But that's, you know, behind the Redwood curtain. So I would. Unless we got on hf, I would not know who you were.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know, I've been in West Delta most of my life. You know, Bethel Island, Discovery Bay, and I've lived in San Francisco Bay for a while, live aboard my sailboat and, you know, I've seen a lot of things, and the sea lions are a big problem. I don't know. Have you ever been to Pier 39 in San Francisco Bay? Over.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. You know, my daughter lives there. I go every so often down there.
Speaker B: I
Speaker A: also have followed some of the controversies in the bay, like the kind of. Like there's this one group of people that live on these boats that probably don't even have engines, just stay anchored for, you know, for 20 years, and there's a lot of controversy with that.
Speaker B: That sounds like Sausalito to me. Over.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's in North Bay.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know, I've been to Sausalito, and I know all about those boats that are, you know, they just get a slip and get a boat, and it's cheaper than buying property in Sacramento or San Francis.
Speaker A: Over.
Speaker B: But, yeah, I'm well aware of that. And, you know, I used to live on a boat in Richmond Point, Richmond, California, and I'm all about that. I know all about that. And then living in the Delta for many years, I know all about that. But I like living in Mexico, to be honest with you. Over.
Speaker A: Well, do you know what they call the marine marina area that's in the San Francisco Bay area? It's called the marina area. I don't know if it's a specific marina or what the deal is, but I heard some.
Speaker B: Is that marine Marin County?
Speaker A: Over.
Speaker B: Well, yeah, I got to get going. Mike. Good talking to you. We finish this conversation later. But the sea lions are the problem as far as I'm concerned. You know, I'm sure different sides of the blame, something else. But, you know, there's just too many people and, you know, you're just having to deal with the repercussions of that. Over.
Speaker A: Well, one of the groups that they blame for sure. Is the huge fishing fleets that are just offshore of our 20 mile limit quite often and taking everything they can get with huge nets. And they're doing it all over the Pacific and sometimes you come pretty close to the US So I'm sure they're affecting the salmon population.
Speaker B: Well, there's a lot of tuna guys out there too. I've gone tuna fishing a lot out in the ocean and you know, you get out 20 miles, I don't know what the limit is, but you get out so far there's no, no bag limits. I mean, you can get as many fish as you want. I mean, so that's what they're doing out there. And you know, there's a big problem in Mexico too with the,
Speaker A: I guess
Speaker B: the Chinese or Japanese are coming in with their big giant fishing boats or processing boats with a lot of smaller boats that go out. Netfish bring them back, they process them right in the Sea of Cortez. And the only constraint they have, they have to have 51% of the workers there have to be Mexican. They let them in and they just rape. The Sea of Cortez. A Sea of Cortez is not what it used to be. Over.
Speaker A: Yeah, and that's the very same group that's affecting the salmon population big time.
Speaker B: Well, I don't know about that, but I'm sure that they're taking salmon. Whatever they can take, they take over.
Speaker A: Yep, primarily salmon and tuna.
Speaker B: This is Kilo India 6 India, India. Uniform 73 there, Mike GRG and we'll talk to you later. I got to get some work done today, Over.
Speaker A: Yep, same here. I got to make plans too, so make some calls. All right, talk to you later. N6GRG.
The Gears Net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pm all amateur radio operators are welcome to join in on the net W Fix RHC Repeater Check 3.
Speaker A: M7t md las vegas.
Speaker B: Las vegas station. Mr. Ak7skw, kilo kilo 7 cherokee. Level 3 number system 21l is. Yeah.
Speaker A: Good morning from las vegas. Same here as ralph. How, how are things up in reno?
Speaker B: Big link pop. Things are quite nice in Reno right now. 53 degrees, kind of a beautiful day. So it appears that spring has sprung. Keep in mind that a week ago we were, you know, got a significant amount of snow, but that is all gone now.
Speaker A: Back to you.
Speaker B: Yeah, very good.
Speaker A: A couple, three weeks ago we got quite a bit of snow here. I'm looking at the western ranges of the snow. Bunch of ski resorts still host snow capped. But yeah, we've been a little bit warm here too. I was in Yuma, Arizona last weekend for the convention, the ARRL convention, and it was 98, 99 degrees down there. Absolutely crazy. But anyways, yeah, looking forward to a little bit of a thaw. Got a couple of our radio sites here, our mountaintop sites that have issues with antenna from an ice storm and not able to get up there. So anxious for some of the files so we can get those three repeaters back online.
Speaker B: Yeah, roger that, Ralph. Hey, sounds like you're the one doing the repairs on a lot of those repeaters out there. Is that the. Yeah.
Speaker A: For the, for the Las Vegas Repeater Association.
Speaker B: I am.
Speaker A: We're tied into CARLA for their network using all stars. So I maintain the ones in southern Nevada and a couple of them in Utah.
Speaker B: And. Very cool, very cool. And yeah, you're coming in, you know, good signals coming in here on system 21. And yeah, I'm a big fan of the Carlin network. I've got some friends down in California that I am able to stay in communicado with through the Lynx system. So very cool. Thank you, man.
Speaker A: Yeah, Tom, Jeff and the guys do a phenomenal job keeping that whole network up. Like I said, we've probably got maybe, I don't know, maybe eight repeaters on the network between our high band, our UHF radios, but Tom's probably got 30. He's definitely a busy dude. But yeah, it's a good capability to have and remarkably quiet for the amount of systems that are all tied together. I know a lot of the guys on Carla sometimes talk on local folks in blink mode, but it's still quiet. Not like it was, geez, back 20 years ago or whatever. All the repeaters are really, really busy. Not so much anymore, but it's still nice to have the capability,
Speaker B: I think, you know, communication has gotten so we Got so used to using our phones for virtually everything that it's almost like you have to pry yourself away from your phone just to use any other form of communication. I just, I'm new, relatively new hand. I'm going on two years this month. And yeah, it's been a fun ride. So gotten into asap, you know, over the course of these years, learning more codes and all that stuff. So it's kind of more of a throwback for me. You know, I actually work in the telecom industry, so, you know, kind of taking it back to the roots a little bit.
Speaker A: Give a little pause there for all the links to Dropout and seven PND Las Vegas. Yeah, I was going to ask you if you're into hf. That's good. I probably do more HF now than anything else. With bands being the way they are. It's really. It's fun and challenging. So I enjoy that. But yeah, I know what you mean about cell phones. I mean, you just go to any restaurant, people are sitting across from each
Speaker B: other with their heads in the cell
Speaker A: phones instead of talking and we're, you know, like I said, we're linked together with Tom and the guys over at All Star, which is the OIP protocol *, telecom industry, you probably know all about that. But we still have our 420, 430 radios on the mountaintop that we use as fallbacks in case we lose the Internet connection, which happens every now and again or there's something else happens. We still have the RF path, so whenever we go up to the mountaintop, we always fire those links up, make sure the radios are still tuned up and everything sounds good.
Speaker B: Roger that. Hey, just curious, are you into any of the, like, MET tactic or MET Core, any of that kind of. What do we want? Oh, it's kind of like texting, right? Except it's a, you know, stand alone system, you know. Are you doing any of that? No, no, I'm not.
Speaker A: Matter of fact, there's a mesh. One of the Mesh guys have.
Speaker B: They're.
Speaker A: They're on one of our radio repeater sites and we give them power. And the guy called Pup Pup, couple attenders are doing their mesh things. But no, I never got into that. Don't quite honestly see the point.
Speaker B: But.
Speaker A: And the mesh tastic thing, I didn't even know what that was until Yuma, one of the guys that was kind of talking about what that was all about, being able to have a little seminar on it. But no, I'm not, I'm not into that.
Speaker B: Though. Yeah I kind of got into that too. It's like you know to the you know ham thing it all kind of opens up you know it's like ham okay. Cmrs you know you know it's a similar. Platform that is all over the air versus no Internet. In that regard and it's another little thing to dabble in but yeah it's. It's all all fun and games. So anyway hey Ralph 687 SJW Mike here. Good rapping with you this morning I got to the office so I am going to bug out so I will be clear on your final man.
Speaker A: Okay Mike. Yeah no it sounds like it's kind of a modern day version of packet weird okay anyways yeah have a great day I'm not too far away from where I need to be too heading to meetings between officers have a good day up in Rio N7P and Del Las Vegas good to chat with you.
Kn6ngk. Testing.kn6ngk.
Kilo november 6th mike golf, jesse.
Kn6 slm monitoring.
Speaker A: Ak6ns alpha kilo 6 november sierra. All right, good morning ray8k6ns got you in the log. Thanks for checking in this morning and good morning to Dan Kato 6 LMZ. Got you in the log. Hope all is well with you. We haven't talked in a while but hopefully we'll run across you at an upcoming event. Good morning to Ken KV7DFP. Before I move up the list, what's for lunch? I hadn't decided which soup it is going to be, but it is definitely soup today. I know you've never heard that before. All right Ken, soup it is. Hey, Good morning Dick. WB7UKX got you in the log. And good morning to Bert AI6LZ. You are in the log and in and out. I copied enough that that was probably Brian KD8HPZ but you are dropping in and out of the system today so don't know what's going on there. Good morning. Who else did I miss? I know there was probably a couple. My gosh, did we get everyone? This is Brian AI6us in the coffee breaknet. This will be last call for the log. Any takers? K6 psy, kilo 6 bravo sierra. Thank you. Good morning Jeff. K6 Psy no wine for you. Good morning. Inside joke. Jeff does not like wine on his Linux, but he probably drinks wine while he uses Linux. Good morning Jeff. You can respond. I can't say that much smack talk about you without giving you that opportunity. You are correct Brian. I would drink some wine while I'm on Lennox, that's for sure. But that's as far as I'll go. But I do like wine. In that context. Jeff only uses wine when it's in a glass with Linux. Have a great day. Thanks for checking in. All right, with that we're going to call it a wrap for this Wednesday morning. Tomorrow morning your net control operators will be Feda WA6EWF and Jerry WA6E. And thank you for riding along today being part of the morning conversation. I really enjoyed the conversations we had and I hope you did as well. Join us again tomorrow morning, 7:30am to 10:00am Pacific Time. That's 15:30 to 1800 UTC. And this net is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club. The coffee break net, of course is where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. Want to thank everyone who checks in in the morning and whether you connect your repeater up to us, whether you come in on your own node or maybe you hear it through one of the networks or listen to us on YouTube. We appreciate you being part of the folks that are part of the Coffee breaknet. With that, I'm going to go ahead and return the W16K repeater back to normal usage, whatever that may be. I'm Brian. AI6US73 to everyone. Happy hump day. And then as the net ends, the repeater becomes very, very quiet. Ai6us qrt. 86cq mob. Oh, come on, guys. We are a friendly repeater. Somebody, Mike, threw his call sign out there. What are we going to do about it? Maybe I should just start introducing people. It's kind of a. Kind of a swipe left and swipe right. Good luck, Mike. Hope somebody is still out there. Ai6us have a great day. Bike
Speaker B: and driving around running errands. I'll be home soon.
Speaker A: Anyway.
Speaker B: I'm gonna play around on some of the fusion stuff.
Speaker A: 86 cub. K60qkb6luv. Didn't want to leave you hanging too long. Mike. Nice to meet you. I am Brett again. Kilo Bravo 6 Lima Uniform Victor. Good morning.
Speaker B: Ah, yes, good morning. I'm down in Citrus Heights finishing some errands. Have some work to do when I get home and well, after I play radio there, I'm gonna mess around with some of the. Some of the fusion stuff. I don't know, just kind of log into random notes, see who's on. That's about it on my end.
Speaker A: Well, if it's possible, do it outside because it's a glorious day out there today. Sun is shining, birds are singing, fish are jumping.
Speaker B: Well, I do have my ST1 and my phone. I can go online and look up the node list. That sounds good. 86 EQ 73.
Speaker A: 86 eq kb6l, u v. Have a great day, mike. Take care. 73 clear.
Wu6x Wu6x Ai6us. Are you monitoring doug?
Speaker A: Kb6ssn. Is there someone around can give me a signal report please? Nice.
Speaker B: Jeff, back in the shack, you're on a different radio.
Speaker A: You're.
Speaker B: I'll give you a signal report here in a moment, but sounded strong. Come on back.
Speaker C: Hi Brian.
Speaker A: Yes, I'm on Larry's. Oh gosh. What model radio is this?
Speaker B: It's the, it's a new yaesu.
Speaker A: It's his, the one he got a few weeks ago running about 5 watts. Drive on that into a Mirage B310G amplifier. Watt meter says we're putting about 100 watts out right now. So just wanted to see if it sounded distorted or overdriven or any of that kind of thing,
Speaker B: you know. For 100 watts I would expect it to be doing more. You are hitting mountaintop almost full scale. Just shy of full scale believe it or not. And Rockland you are hitting about maybe 80%. My only comment would be the audio is definitely favoring the higher end and just not super clean. That might be the rf.
Speaker A: Okay, we'll stand by just a second and let me change things around just a sec here.
Speaker B: Yeah, could you use that same radio and put the amp into bypass? I would love to see it. See in here.
Speaker A: That is precisely what I just did. And well let's see. I put it on 85 watts but it says it putting out 45 watts so I don't know but KB6SSN, does this make a difference?
Speaker B: Almost exactly the same signal strength into both repeaters and the audio? Yeah, kind of. The, the, the noise that I was hearing went away. So that was RF induced and what I'm hearing now is just a kind of a little hum way deep in the background that wasn't there when you were going through the amp. So just a little change in the, in the ambience.
Speaker A: Okay, very good. And now here's back on the amplifier again. And one of the things I'm noticing is that this antenna he's using, it's 146, 520 is almost a flat match on it but it's about 1.6 to 1 right where we're at here.
Speaker C: So.
Speaker B: Interesting.
Speaker A: In any case it works, it's functional. I don't know what I'm going to do with it. It was an impulse buy. It was just too darn cute sitting on the table. And it, it has SSB settings on it so I can use it for. I have a little 510 watt
Speaker B: 2
Speaker A: meter SSB unit and I can bump it up to 100 watts for 2 meter SSB, which this, so this will be fun.
Speaker B: I picked up probably a similar amp. I'm not going to pull it out of the box to tell you exactly what it is, but yeah, similar. I'm trying to remember what class it is, but it does sideband as well. And I kind of thought the same thing might come in handy when you need a little more punch. The interesting thing is though, coming into both of both motors, there is not a noticeable difference in signal strength.
Speaker A: Well, I don't know that there's a big difference between 100 watts and 85 watts. So that's probably the signal strength difference there. I just wanted to confirm that the amplifier was working without distorting. You know, when you buy a used piece of equipment, you never know.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker B: For interest, if you can just drop that radio all the way down to low power, I'll give you some feedback on that. But yeah, no, no, no real difference on the, on the power. Definitely a little difference in, in the audio characteristic, but either way it's, it's, it sounds good.
Speaker A: Okay, and here is 5 watts. 5 watts. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And yeah, I don't know how if I'm even making the repeater on this, but yeah, Larry's location here is not the best for this system. It's just he's stuck out in these rolling hills out here. And I've noticed that when I came out here that there's troubles with this repeater. He can get to other systems much better than this one, but. So I'm not surprised that it's compromised. If I tried this experiment from my place, you know, I'd be full quieting and probably all three of them. But in any case, thanks for the help. How does five watts sound?
Speaker B: Five watts is 98% to 100% into Mountaintop and about, oh, maybe 45% into Rockland. So it makes a difference on the Rockland repeater, but nothing hardly on mountaintop. What's interesting is it's a great location for the, for the receive from that from his antenna. So it might just be one of those things where that antenna needs to be moved 6 inches left, right up or down because it's, it's basically only what he's hearing at his location from our repeater. Definitely not a transmission thing.
Speaker A: Well, I've told him it needs to go straight up about 40ft, but he won't listen to me. But maybe he'll listen to me when it's time to build the loop.
Speaker B: Who knows.
Speaker A: Thanks for all your help, Brian.
Speaker B: Appreciate it.
Speaker A: KB6SSN have a great day. Oh gosh, I am so looking forward to swap meet coming up or ham fest or whatever we're calling it. That's, that's going to be a lot of fun. 7:3, talk to you soon.
Speaker B: Yeah, I saw 4kw sitting there just looking for a home. Have a good one. Yeah, no, no, I happy to do it. I was just finishing up the log before I had to get breakfast. So you have a wonderful day. Ai6us. I'll be clear.
Speaker C: This is KN6WTU with QST south on i5 is completely gridlocked. 100% stop. It seems like they are over downtown walking the freeway. There's seven deputies walking, walking the lane to look for something. I'm not sure what it is but if you're coming north on i5, I would definitely get off the freeway as soon as you can. This is KN6WQ.
Speaker A: And looking on Google Maps, it says road closed until 4:30 this afternoon. Yikes. KO6th.
Speaker B: Thanks, Frank. I'm not sure what they were doing. They just closed. I didn't copy anyway. I'm sorry I stepped on you. I was. I didn't step on you. I show. I was on the other VFO over Simplex calling frequency to notify somebody if they can hear me. But do you know why it's closed?
Speaker A: Doesn't say. There's a crash right in front of that going southbound, I think. And then the road's closed after that. But. So maybe related to that or maybe the sudden closure caused the crash. They don't say. Let me check on the CHP page. Hang on. KO 68, you're back.
Speaker B: Yeah. I've never seen it before. There's three or four cars driving behind like seven deputies walking the freeway like. And looking for things like debris, I'm happy to assume. I think what they're doing is looking for evidence that they were tossing out of the car when they did that high speed pursuit at 100 miles an hour, from what I understand.
Speaker C: Node 51018 disconnected.
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W6 rhc repeater check 2.
And 6 and TM. Good morning. Or whatever it is.
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Speaker A: And 6 wip and 6 ntm. Oh, it's afternoon,
Speaker B: huh? Well, it looks like they sent me the same screen again, but after I unpacked that, I found a cord. Yeah, and a bunch of little boxes taped to the underside. So I think I got the remotes and all that stuff. See, they said wasn't going to be here until the end of the month, the 20 something of March. Then they updated it to the 9th, but it showed up today.
Yeah, yeah, it's got an electrical cord and everything came in the same size box. So immediately I got out the order for the old one and the. And the packing slip for the. For the new one. And the numbers were different. I was relieved. Oh, yeah, And Trevor will be here later this afternoon. Worked all night last night. And driver from Idaho to here today. Well, you know, the company throws a huge party for Lori for retiring. And I mean huge. Probably cost them 5,6000 bucks, but they do that when somebody's been there as long as she has. So anyways, that's what him and his girlfriend wife are coming down to go to that shindig on the fifth.
Oh yeah. Well, she saved a millions of dollars. Literally got a million dollar loan excuse because they validated it. Of course they backtracked. And all the fraudulent ones, those people aren't too happy. But anyway, yeah, she's worth her weight in gold. Not to. Not to collect the. Not to mention collecting debts from people that hadn't paid over the years. You know. Mind blowing. Yep. And all the mistakes she caught. The lady who she took her job was extorting. Just like Wheeler. John Wheeler up there with the logging company. The secretary had been defrauding the company of hundreds and thousands. She caught that paperwork and of course they got rid of her. And I could go on and on. She's worth her weight in gold. But. But on top of that, the multitude of people that'll be there. And I'm sure it'll be well over a hundred. Some that don't work there now but loved her to death. But the employees right now that are there that had. You know. You know how many times they've done payroll and stuff down there. Never, never were late or. Or missed. Missed any. Or any of that stuff. That's a. That's not even possible. But they do things ahead of time so. And they have a backup plan now. So. Yeah, pretty mind blowing. Anyway, that's what's going on. Ronnie's sick as a dog, so he ain't gonna come help. But he did turn me on to some of them rods that you guys use. I forget what they call them, but they're C channels. It's got logistics all the way down. Then you can put something in there that twists it sideways and it slides up and down the rod. That's what it is. I knew if I gave you a break it. So if Ron brought me over some, I just need to go down and get the little things that you put in there to slide it slide up and down so you have something to. Yeah. And that'll work out good. That'll cross two of the beams easily. You brought me a 32 inch piece. Maybe it's 34, but anyway, I'll just have to put two of those up on the ceiling crossing. Two rafters there. And. And then I'll be able to slide those things in there and adjust it for the width I'm looking for. And it looks relatively simp. Looks like I could. Could have it up in a matter of an hour. Oh yeah. Motor. Burned out the tip or dropped it.
You gotta hold the button down for 20 or so seconds, so till it can get up to heat. And you can plug that in to the cord on the back if you think the batteries just aren't. Aren't delivering it to the tip. But there's no reason why it shouldn't be able to do it. I. I haven't soldered anything. I tinned it and that's all I did, but it got hot right now.
I'd still send it back to them. There isn't no too late date. Fantix deals better than that. If you bought it from Amazon, I don't think that's been 30 days. But yeah, you should still be able to send that. Send that back to Fantix.
Speaker A: I don't know about all night, but yeah. I need to go get those things. I wonder if they have them down here. Unistrut. I'll just take that piece down to True Value down here in a little bit, see if they got them.
Speaker B: He brought one of each. It's shallow.
Speaker A: Yeah, the channel. I knew what you were talking about. I'll take that bar down there with me. If I have to go down to Chico to get it, I will. Because that's. That's gonna be the only thing hanging me up.
Speaker B: I
Speaker A: got the lags and all the other stuff to put it up to hold the channel up. The rest of it's
Speaker B: going to be pretty simple.
Speaker A: Anyway, I got to clean up my whole shack today because. Yeah, and it looks. Everything looks good because, you know, you make the house look good when you got
Speaker B: stay for a couple of day company. Yeah, we had a lot of stuff
Speaker A: in the hallways and their bedroom. I was just taking this other screen out of their. The room they're going to stay in and to put it out in the garage. And I'm walking out with the other one all packaged up and ready to get picked up. And. The truck come back and in the driveway now I got two of them big long boxes. Yeah, I know. Better to get rid of the other box in case this one has to go back. I. It'd be nice if I could try it before I mount
Speaker B: it.
Speaker A: Not really. I can. I just need to see it go down to the floor. Lori could hold it over her head on one end and me on the other end and I could operate the remote control just to see it go down and back up. That. That'd be good enough for me.
Speaker B: I know exactly. I looked at the ins. That weighs 37 pounds.
Speaker A: No, no, I don't need to roll it down all the way. We'll just hold up each end, me and Lori, and I'll operate the remote control. Sitting on the speaker next to me. Standing there? Yeah. I just let it unroll and then roll it right back up. If it'll do that, I'll be happy enough because this company screws with me again. It was Amazon on the other mistake in this case. He. Eric, that guy that I talked to when you were here, He. He's going to deal
Speaker B: with me directly on the next one. If. If there is a next one, I'm pretty sure this one will be all right. Looks like they just made it.
I've seen the Badlands series. We watched one. I didn't care for it, but. Yeah, it could be something totally different. This sounded like I heard Blake talking in your background. You want to be careful about that. People may turn the radio off.
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Yeah. Yeah, I liked all those. Some of those were actually a little bit scary. Hey, Blake. Wouldn't expect anything less from me. I'll be right back. N6 NTN.
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Cod mobile freedom system 21, link up. K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.
Speaker A: Jk6vzd mobile and out to lunch. Wp6axm receiver,
Speaker B: Kk 6 bcd and 6. I wa.
Speaker A: I was waiting for the comment about out to lunch.
Speaker B: You know, it's right on the tip of my tongue. I was going to say, back in my day, that meant something else.
Speaker A: I just decided to put it out there just for fun.
Speaker B: Well, how about from that song from what's his name? On the road again?
Speaker A: How does that work?
Speaker B: On the road again?
Speaker A: Talk about Willie.
Speaker B: Oh, Willie. God, you know, there's so many women
Speaker A: that love the guy.
Speaker B: You look at him and you go,
Speaker A: wait, what's wrong with this picture?
Speaker B: They just go home. Oh, he's so wonderful.
Speaker A: Now, don't ask me. Oh, well. So, yeah, I actually, I'm not going to be airing on the air long because I only had to drive like four blocks to get to my destination for lunch, and I'm almost there.
Speaker B: That's cool. Well, I'm sitting here working on my financial situation, and I find out that I need some crying towels. I'm looking at the money going in, the money going out. I think I need ice cream.
Speaker A: The ice stopped off it. We went up to Brownsville today. I had to take somebody up there to show them the layout up there. And of course, on the way back, we stopped off at Collins Lake and got some ice cream. Yeah, and well worth the stop, too. Oh, man, I can't find a parking spot. How am I going to eat lunch if I can't find a parking spot?
Speaker B: Life is just tough sometimes. And ice cream.
Speaker A: Nice. I don't think it was Mount I forget what they called it. Wasn't mountain anything but raspberry ice cream. Yum.
Speaker B: I used to live up that way. That commute is a killer. You know, Brownsville, of course, there's nothing in challenge, but they have a little store, but you always have to drive to town.
Speaker A: Oh, my God. Yeah, well, they do have that little market in. In Brownsville, and they've got another market down in Loma Rica, so. But yeah, you know, if you want to. You want to get anything else? Yes. You have to drive quite a ways. And I'm not finding an open parking spot. How am I supposed to. Yeah, so about a year ago, I started eating at the hospital cafeteria, so. And I found out they having portobello mushroom stroganoff today. So that's what we're here for. But unless I can find a parking spot, I won't be able to eat.
Speaker B: Well, you know what they say on the fast plane Ha ha ha ha.
Speaker A: Well, darn it. Anyway. Why would the. Oh, here's a guy pulling out. I'll grab his. Yeah, I can always eat for less than $10 over here at the cafeteria and get a decent meal. Not the world's best food. It's cafeteria food, but it's alright.
Speaker B: Do they use the kind of meat that's intended for prisons and dormitories?
Speaker A: No, no, they actually have some this. This Friday. I looked at the menu. They actually have. On the menu they have flank steak that they're gonna be serving. Wow.
Speaker B: Sounds like a plan.
Speaker A: Does, doesn't it? This guy must have gotten his car and gotten on the phone because he's just now moving.
Speaker B: Oh, the road rage starts now. Hey buddy, get out of there.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, I think he moved just in time, so. Okay, so I'm gonna go in and get something to eat. So I will talk to you later. Have a great afternoon. 73 KK6VZD. Clear.
Speaker B: KK6VZD on six out of. Anyway, chocolate clear.
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Los Angeles link up.
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Speaker A: W e6a x n repeater.
Speaker B: Kn6 peb mobile.
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Speaker A: Looking for a radio check. Anybody on turnover?
Speaker B: Anybody out there for radio check? Over.
Ready, link. How about richard?
Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of sac Valley's original 105W6 GRC with a PL tone of 110.9.
Kh6ert6ert.k6lb.
Speaker A: K6ert, k6ert, k6obv.
Speaker B: Kh60rt. Copy.
Speaker A: Well, how's it going buddy?
Speaker B: Long time no stock. Yeah, roger that. I thought I already. I lost this radio for a day or two. I was having trouble with the received and the transcript part where every time I. It's the same dual band aid that I have in my. My rig. But yeah, I thought I. I was about to dump this already and move on to the next mobile radio but. Nope, still working like a champ. Doing good. Good afternoon. How about you? How's that weather in your end?
Speaker A: Oh you know, overcast, shattered clouds, possible showers here and there but typical day.
Speaker B: Sunny. But some portion of the value is pretty much overcast as well. I don't think it's going to rain anytime soon. Hopefully it doesn't Cool weather again. It's only early February of March and man we're already hitting 80 or something.
Speaker A: Yeah, tell me about it. We usually still have snow on the ground that I think we got an inch and a half. And that was it all winter.
Speaker B: I know you don't like heat so. Desert heat is not. Not a thing for you. I thought you're into cold weather and icy cold. Rick, the ice cold weather.
Speaker A: No cooler weather is okay, but not ice.
Speaker B: Have is Dean. Dean would have been in the area or he's somewhere in their side of the neck.
Speaker A: No, he's actually at home in Maine right now. Took him a while to get back home but he got back home
Speaker B: house
Speaker A: up there in Maine right now.
Speaker B: Pretty good. Can't complain. I miss the weather back home though. But we'll be there I think this summer or we're gonna push. Maybe spring breaks but if not we'll be there. Grandparents and probably spend two weeks, maybe three pushing. Yes sir. Hey, how do I sound on my transmission? Any noise? Any background humming? Any weird alien sound going on like a transmission?
Speaker A: No, no, I just hear the hum for finding the scene over here after it.
Speaker B: Yeah, because I'm starting to doubt this radio. It's. You know, it's an agent. It's my old trusty Amazon. I forgot the model. Ut UV something. 5888 new Xander. Yeah, starting to show some aging to it. So I don't know. I'm now looking into upgrading another Google standard mobile radio. I've learned my lesson. Moving gear. We have a lot of gear fun.
Speaker A: My repeater up and going. I got minks going everywhere. Yeah, so anyway 2006 LPB Fred get back to you.
Speaker B: Jeff. Did you settle then with the repeater site already up in your site?
Speaker A: Well, it's just here at the house for now.
Speaker B: It's going to get moved here shortly
Speaker A: on the camera side. Or if I'm going to move it over and use it for my All Star node when I move it. Or if I'm just gonna get another one and do it that way.
Speaker B: I heard some break there. Go ahead. Break.
Speaker A: AQN looking for a radio check.
Speaker B: Over. Roger. Sound sounds better than the person I'm talking to. I'm just kidding, that is. No, you sound good. Five by nine. Roger.
Speaker A: Thank you very much. Where are you looking?
Speaker B: Over. Central during the My kids school. Central, what is it? Washington, Las Vegas Valley. Roger that. I'm in Las Vegas. Also. Elevated part of Centennial. Okay, yeah, getting the repeater. Are you on portable HP or are you on the home base?
Speaker A: I'm in northern california
Speaker B: and kilo one bravo whiskey oscar in the state of maine. All right, more party. Bring on all the good, good old ham radio ragtubes. Anyway, the Centennial guy coming in. Even if you use the H, you'll probably get the repeater pretty often. No problem there. There was another station. Another station. Go ahead.
Speaker C: Well, I know I haven't talked to you in a while, but I figured
Speaker B: you would have recognized my voice.
Speaker C: I'm on a video call with Leonard on Discord. So I was like, who are you talking to? He's like, oh, I'm talking to Jeff. I'm like, oh, all right, I'll be right over.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker B: Good times. Yeah, I haven't been on that Discord. You know, I just had a little orgy, but kind of busy leaving, taking care of the kids. And I got sick. Man, I got sick so bad over the weekend. And, yeah, it wasn't. Wasn't fun. And I'm still, you know, doing my inhaler and oh, man, I got hit so bad. But anyways, you're home. You know, you're not heavy today.
Speaker C: Yeah, I'm home. I haven't been home in six months, but I'm home and cleaning out the truck and gonna have them come get it. And I'm moving to Tennessee.
Speaker B: That's a big move. What made you want to move to Tennessee? I mean, there's nothing wrong. I mean, I think you're good.
Speaker C: No, I just, you know, I got the opportunity to go down there and not have to pay rent for a little while and get under my feet and not have to drive truck anymore would be nice unless it's local. So other than that, now just opportunity and means so, yep, I got up here with the truck.
Speaker B: I'm gonna clean it out and pack
Speaker C: all my stuff that I'm gonna take with me in the Subaru and drive the 1400 miles from here to Jimmy's doorstep down there in Tennessee. And then we're gonna hook up meshtastic and GMRS all star and 2 meter and 70 centimeter and 10 meter and 11 meter all up in his tower. So we're going to get him situated down there, too. That's awesome.
Speaker B: Hey, talk to the guys here. Maybe you can link up with them or have once you get situated, you know, talk to the guys and maybe you can link up your system once you get established and. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. I can get a hold of you guys, you know, in an event of, you know, some rag cheering back to you.
Speaker C: Well, Leonard's got USRC and all kinds of stuff tied into a bunch of other stuff and stuff like that and. You know what I mean? Stuff and. Yeah, stuff.
Speaker B: Yeah, we know Leonard. Leonard never stops when working on his equipment and always got room for improvement. Yeah, we'll see. I'll send you guys some information maybe, you know, like I said, once they get established, because I don't think I won't be moving for the next maybe until my. My kids graduate high school. I think we're gonna be stuck here for a while. We'll see. But yeah, I'm trying to establish my community, trying to get away from all this HOA situations. I can put up a tower and give it 20, 20ft power. But yeah, I'm kind of limited with this housing situation. I'm getting tired of going up down in my attic, work whatever I can work on, you know, that kind of situation. But it is what it is. It's working. But I pick me better, right? System 26, link up for improvement.
Speaker A: You ain't got ears. Better get up a little, buddy.
Speaker B: Just take a picture of my attic. I made it so cozy. It's actually a man cave with a bunch of antenna.
Speaker C: I'll be out your way at some point in time.
Speaker B: Jeff.
Speaker C: My buddy Jeremy and his wife Tammy have retired from trucking as well, and they're.
Speaker B: They just moved out there to Vegas.
Speaker C: We're supposed to do a Vegas reunion at some point because that's where they got married. So probably October.
Speaker B: All right, well, you know where to find me and you know how to get a hold of me and you got my number, right? I know Leonard does, but. Yeah, take Leonard with you. We'll hit some one of the local casinos.
Speaker A: You never answer anything. You don't answer the radio, you don't answer your dmr, Facebook, nothing.
Speaker C: Oh, man.
Speaker B: Yeah, boy. Do you? Yeah, I work night and on my days off I got duty, daddy duty. And then I got sick over the weekend. Just lazy bum and. Yeah, enjoying what I call enjoying the mortgage. Stay home and enjoy the day and the evening and whatnot.
Speaker A: Yeah, Jeff, I've got so much stuff going, you can always get a hold
Speaker B: of me all the time. Pick up my girls and I'll be back in the mobile. I'll be back shortly.
Speaker C: Yeah, roger that. I'll probably be over Brandon Brandmeister Kilo.
Speaker B: One bubble with gastric.
Los Angeles linked up.
K6m fm, w6rhc repeater check 1.
Speaker A: W E6A X N repeater. November 6th. Bravo, Oscar. Bravo Mobile. Bob, you visit anybody around? Yeah, just chickens. That's excitable. Hey, I got your card in the mail the other day. You doing
Speaker B: okay? Well, I thought it was a brilliant idea. I take my picture and don't be scared, but. And cut out the bottom. Hello. Hey, Bob. How's it going? You know, I used to do animation and puppetry. I had a couple of puppets, Oscar and Will, and they would talk to
Speaker A: each other and I'd put it on video.
Speaker B: You know, it's for kids.
Speaker A: Sounds like you had a sense of humor. Some fun going on there. That's cool. Cool. Yeah, it took me a while to kind of figure out the mouth parts anyway. Yeah, I'm just on my way over to see Jeannie, my wife. It's been a beautiful day so far. How about for you?
Speaker B: It's been nice up here. I've just been busy working on problems and, you know, I'm soldering guitars and got a Mexican Strat for some reason goofing around doesn't sound that good. But I've heard how bad solder fumes are. Inhale they will be.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've certainly inhaled my share of them. Maybe you have two More than my share. When I went to my classroom for teaching at the high school, teaching electronics, I like the smell, the flux anyway. But I had a high ceiling, like a 20 foot ceiling, so it kind of diffused the fumes. And when I do it at home, I can always just turn the fan on. But I still like the smell.
Speaker B: Well, I don't know if I like. I like the smell of bread.
Speaker A: How about that? Yeah, I like the smell of fresh bread. My wife was a wonderful baker and she just couldn't find bake enough bread to give it away to the neighbors or the mailman. You know, we had a milkman in those days to give, you know, just everybody. He was very generous.
Speaker B: Did you have a machine or is this all by hand and, you know, punching it out and all like that? Well, we started off, we had the
Speaker A: little KitchenAid machines, which is, you know, which are a big help. But she didn't like it. So I ended up giving it away as a present to somebody else. And she wanted a machine called a Bosch that's made in Germany. And she took a class on bread making and she used that Bosch machine. I think we'd make about four loaves of bread at a time. She had the recipe down. She just knew what to do by the feel of the bread, the dough. Anyway, I was good at eating it,
Speaker B: You know, bread is always important, I think, in the meal and, you know, I just. I can't make it without bread, you know. Hey, let's eat a sandwich, okay?
Speaker A: With bread.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Well, I can make four or five loaves at a time and give away some of it. She could freeze it. We just have fresh bread. Anyway. Well, I'm almost at the place where she's staying down here, so I'm going to sign. And I appreciate your sense of humor. You take care. Maybe we can talk about it somewhere another time.
Speaker B: N6 POV okay, well, I was waiting for our appointment at the park and we're going to get together, throw toilet
Speaker A: paper at the pigeons. That's the show. Sorry.
Speaker B: N6VOB N6 5
Speaker A: I try to go to the park every day as well. Seeing Dreaming. But I had some appointments today, so maybe tomorrow I'll make it to the park. Anyway, take care. Insect. POV Ubcity is clear.
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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.