W6PAR-P Rx (146.070 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-20

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Kn6mgk stephen in chica. Thanks for doing the net. I'm pleasant.

I'm great. Thanks for asking. And I was just looking at the calendar. Does the group.

Okay. Kind of like spot time. I think it would be a good day for, like, young people come up with their.

Okay. Thinking about how we.

Robin and the rest of the. I'm doing well, thank you. And yeah, you know, springtime push, it seems like with some things up in paradise, the tree, one of my trees is already putting buds out the peach tree. But down here in Chico, it is cold and foggy. So winter weather wise, looks like it's returned here kind of sort of. But yeah, hopefully for winter field day we'll be a little better down here because I intend on going over to Black Butte Lake, which is also a PODA site. And the Glen Amateur Radio Society is doing their winter field day event there. And they do one typically every year, but not every club does. So this is a winter field day versus summer field day. Most every club does a summer field day. And you know, the one thing that I see most clubs not doing and they should be doing, Ann was mentioning advertising is getting it on the ARRL website. You put an announcement on there. And so some people who might be interested in coming to your event will attend just based on the fact that they can look it up on the arrl. One year we had this gentleman by the name of Sven come up from the Bay Area with his like sprinter van and he parked it over in our winter field day location and it was a blast. He was doing PSK31 and using the screwdriver antenna, he rotated the seats around and the weather was kind of cold and stuff. It was kind of nice to be able to go in that little cubby and enjoy them for a little bit and see what he was doing. So that's part of the fun for me on winter field days. You know, it is way of practicing your field like a field exercise. So not really meant to be using fancy antennas and all this. It's meant to try put up, you know, whatever you can. In fact, if you read the rules, you have a certain amount of time where you're supposed to set up and the event will last a certain length of time and a certain way that you put out your. Put up your logs after you're all done so that everyone gets credit for it. So it's kind of a contest and kind of a field exercise. So I enjoy that a lot. And we generally network together computers and do software and so forth that we try to combine. So kind of fun and try to run through three or four transmitters. So really important on the field day event to use bandpass filters. So one thing the club might consider is owning a few of those to hand out so you can run more than one transmitter on a field day exercise anyway. Thanks to the guys who made that trek. Wished I could have gone, sort of. But now that I heard it was nine miles up the grade. Probably not really my favorite thing to do right now. But I would have enjoyed the chocolate, that's for sure. And I guess that's all I got. Hopefully we'll see some people either at Field Day or Winter Field Day or maybe Friday if I can make it up. We'll see. Thank you for doing net. And I'll possibly talk to Jay about maybe helping for next week or the coming weeks as well. This is KN6MGK. Back to net control. Thank you. Oh, goody. Yes. Finally timed it out. That's nice. Yeah. You know, gears to change the. Change the repeater so that I could talk. I think they moved it up to 10 minutes. That's what they did. I think they moved it to 10 minutes. I didn't seem to time it out after that, but I think I still could. Anyway. Anyway. Funny thing is my radio doesn't ever time out anyway, but maybe I'll try to be just a little bit better at that. Good luck. KN600K. Thank you.

Is it K06? Not K06. And I mean, it came in real strong. So, thinking you're. Are you on the paradise repeater? I know there's another one. I get interference from Mount Shasta. Just checking if you're on the paradise repeater. Okay. It's a ko6, right? K06 lwe. Is that correct? Yeah, I figured I'm having a little fun with you, and I. But I love you, though. Anyway, figured. So I'm glad to have met your acquaintance on the air named here, Steve, anyway, and, yeah, more than welcome. Thank you for being on the Net today. That's awesome. Anyway, yeah, yeah, I'm guessing you're also running a bow thing, huh? Bofang type radio. Is that correct? Yeah. Okay, Radtail. All right, well, it's got good audio, and you've got good. A good. What do you call it? Like a good deviation, I think is the right word to use where I can hear your sound. Very good. Maybe a little white noise in there. So, thinking, are you located in paradise or thereabouts? Nice. Okay, well, that's great. Yeah, there's also. Well, of course, I don't know if you're using the Magaly repeater or the paradise repeater, by the way it sounds. So what frequency are you on? Are you on 670. Oh, okay. Well, that might explain. How about when you're listening right now? What does the frequency say right now? Because if you're on 770, it explains why I'm hearing a little bit of noise in the background. But anyway, because we have two repeaters. We have the one in McGill and we have the one in Paradise. Back to you. Okay. Yeah. Well, you might want to try listening on 146670 and see if that's any better. 146670. Yes, that is correct. Yeah, that is the paradise repeater. And are you hearing it really clear, a nice audio, or are you hearing quite a bit of, like, scratch or something noise with it? Okay, well, anyway. Anyway, the only other thing I could say, if it's your first time, is you do have a roger beef, if you know what that is. Like when you. When you unkey, you hear, like, another tone. And I don't know. I mean, you can do whatever you like, but most people don't run that roger beep tone. Okay, well, on that transmission, it didn't go through, so maybe you moved a little bit or whatever. When you're operating a handheld, a lot of times that antenna makes a big difference when you're moving around and so forth. So I wasn't able to understand that last transmission. Transmission very well. Yeah, well, that's up to you, but I don't know if you have any time on Fridays, but there's a good little group of guys that start showing up about 9:45 in the morning, but really about 10 at the Starbucks in Paradise. And I'm sure they'd love to see you, you and even help you with anything or answer any questions you might have as well.

Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And some of us. I don't usually do it maybe once a month to try to hit breakfast to across the street at Cozy Diner beforehand. But that tends to only be one or two people on a Friday. But they do have. I know the Pars group does have a monthly breakfast get together at Coach Diner. But they just had it though. So anyway, the other thing is I would encourage you, since you're up in Magalia, I'm thinking you must live there. Is that Magalia Community Church be a great place to go on Saturday and see Jay maybe and maybe another person or two, maybe his brother or something. They'll probably be operating there most. I would say probably not early, early morning, but I bet you mid morning or so and for definitely a few hours if it's not like freezing cold or really windy or something like that. Winter field day. It'd be great to see them operate. Really. They operate some good HF equipment and stuff like that. If you like radio. I
Speaker B: enjoy hanging out with those guys. Yeah, 100%,
Speaker A: you got that right. That is correct. And there's a big white tent outside. But I don't know if they'll be operating in that or not. I think they probably would want to if the weather is good. But I have seen them open the little doors to the fellowship hall which is off to the north. And I've seen them operate inside there because it's got some shelter and then they run their coax outside the doors. So anyway, I had fun one year doing that with. And it was snowing outside and we had a blast. I got my little antenna, little quarter wave antennas. I was sitting there talking to Africa on it. I got one contact from Africa on that and it was just so much fun. I enjoy. But I enjoy radio, you know. It's kind of one of them things for me that I can play around on the radio and talk too much, as these guys say. I timed out the repeater so
Speaker B: sometimes I don't know when to stop. Alrighty. Well, Anyway,
Speaker A: this is KN6MGK. I'm located in Chico. I think I'll bid you a farewell for now, 7:3. And it's nice to meet your acquaintance on the air. I hope to hear you again. And so I'll sign off and listen to your final kn6mgk.

Yeah. One thing that you and I all. Yeah, 370. That's cool. Yeah. You're making out that repeater from where you are. How are things going?

Yeah, yeah, I get it. Things are taking me a lot longer than I think too, you know, not getting as much sleep as I probably ought to have. But anyway, hoping the weather holds out and is way better for winter Field day this year. Black Butte Lake is where some of the folks I know are going, but I think it's going to be missing quite a few people from previous years. And of course, you know how last year's Winterfield Day went for it. Not so well.

Yeah, well, actually you kind of broke up pretty good. I didn't hear most of that. Something about Winterfield Day. I don't recall them doing a winter field day before. It's been a while though. Maybe a few people do things from their homes and such, but I don't know. Yeah, if there's a new leadership, maybe they'll do something. Seems like it's going to be better weather than last year, so surely, surely the people will have more fun if it is. So anyway, yeah, that's all I got. It's nice to hear your voice out there. We're having lots of fun with meshtastic and putting all around and the community around paradise and Magalia. Over the last few months we've been banging our heads against the wall, but ultimately we are in progress.

I think we're working on different things. There's a lot to it in that regard. But yeah, you know, I think you should go who view to study a little bit about meshtastic core and the differences and so on. You know, you can't just say that something is more robust than something else. That doesn't describe anything. So it's different. And surely there's advantages. I'm sure advantages as well. I don't know. But there may just be a little bit of a different animal. I could. If you are a operator, there's definitely some ideals of mesh core that seem like you would want to have that over meshtastic. But the ability to direct it down a certain path would be a very good thing potentially. But what happens when you lose? That's what I've read on mesh core. You know, that node drops out and believe me, that can happen easily. I think they would serve different things. And I can't really describe it much. I'm still learning it myself. But you being on a digital packet and everything, you think it'd be right up your alley. I mean, we are getting some pretty good transmissions out there, megahertz, you know, some of these, like I got one from Highway 70 to El Dorado direct, so that's probably 6 MGK.

Well, Mike, you kind of lost your it was pretty unintelligible that time. Couldn't really understand you, unfortunately, because I'd like to talk to you some more, but. And after you leave, my wife's kind of calling me over here to grab a So I better let you go and maybe I'll catch it down the log, maybe even on another repeater. I'll jump over to the 0851 of these times and see if you're around. So. Pleasure. Hope to hear you again soon, but I'll have to say three kilo November 6th mike golf kilo.

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