GEARS E RX (146.250 MHz) recordings for 2025-12-03

Well, hopefully getting the radios warmed up. We're going to start net here in about three minutes. Three minutes. Kilo November 6 might go a kilo.

QST, QST, QST. This is Steve, K6MGK, located in Chico. I'll be your net control station for tonight's Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society Club Net. This net meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30pm from the W6RHC East Repeater for the purpose of fellowship and public service through amateur radio. First off, is there any station with emergency or priority traffic? Please come now. Good. Nothing. Heard a couple things to think of when we check in here in just a bit here to maybe give to the group. Maybe you've got a It is December. Maybe you've got an item that you'd like Ham Santa to deliver to you. Maybe you can express to the group what that might be. The other thing would be, if you don't want.

Want to participate in that? How about ham radio goals, things that you'd like to accomplish in 2026? After all, this is December. We should be thinking about those New Year's resolutions. Okay. Are there any general announcements for the net? If you please have. If you have an announcement, please respond with your call sign right now. W6JS. Well, take them if they came, Tom. W6Js. Go ahead with your announcement. A good year resolution is come and get your license or upgrade. We're doing it this Sunday at 2:00' clock at the Elks Lodge, and Jim will be stepping in for me. I'll be in Reno. That's all I got. I'll be hanging around and until my time comes around. Okay, sounds good. Sunday, 2 o'. Clock. Else.

Folks. Get your upgrade. I'm guessing FCC is all back in order and all the things are back the way they were. You can let us know if that is the case when it's your turn. How about Jamie, I think you were on there kn6pww. Come ahead.

Okay, question on your announcement. What group special buy would that mean for people? Do they get a percentage off or free shipping or what is it? Go ahead.

Okay. And sometimes on those group buys, you think that putting all those together might delay the shipping. QRP Labs isn't the best with, you know, sometimes it's a one month wait for things over there. Anyway, sounds good. Hopefully people partake in that. If people want to know more about QRP Labs, too, there's a great guy, call sign N6. I think it's N6DT. Anyway, he comes on 80 meters on Sunday mornings, about 7:15 on 3.855. Don Cantrell is his name. He's built a lot of those kits. So has Andrew Keene, I think it is. Anyway, emergency traffic, emergency net on 80 meters on Sundays. And he'll be a wealth of knowledge to all those builders out there because he's had to work on a lot of QRP Labs and he's had to help people get them all functioning. So.

Might be a good wealth of information. Thank you for the announcements, but while I'm asking, is there any other announcement? Please come now. Okay. Catch my breath. Long winded Steve here. Kilo, November 6th. Mike, golf. Kilo, neck control, KN6 PWW. I have you as first there, and you're gonna be with us for roundtable. Alrighty. Thank you very kindly. N6 fav? How about k6est? All right, Jim, thank you. And thank you for stepping in with that.

Gears testing on Sunday at 2 o'. Clock. Thank you and have a great evening. KG6 Kuo. Nice. Thank you, Lester. By the way, hopefully everyone had a great Turkey Day Thanksgiving. I did okay. Overstuffed myself a bit, but anyway, I didn't have turkey, though. Anyway, thank you, Lester. Appreciate it. How about KF6NCX? All right. I look forward to hearing about the CQ Worldwide contest, how you did you and Jevin. All right, I think next up is Tom. You're going to be with us, right? Yeah, this is Tom W6JS across the.

A freeway from Denny's and we'll be sticking around. Thank you, W6Js. Appreciate you checking in. And have fun when you do travel across the Sierras there. Hopefully you'll bring back a little bit of some green from over there. Thank you. And we'll talk at you in a few minutes here. How about can6qxl? Thank you, darryl. Thank you so much. Have a great evening. K7 kfs.

Well, thank you very much for checking in. Hopefully we'll see at coffee one of these times. By the way, that is a function I'd rather enjoy. I get to it, like, once a month. Maybe it's the Barnes and Nobles. Thursdays at, I think, 10am Thursdays, 10am Barnes and Nobles. Only half a dozen people are there usually, but be fun to see some others. How about Doug? KD6 Lok?

Yes, it's been kind of horrible. Been great the last two days. A little cold, but anyway. Yeah, the fog just felt like it was at the coast and it was kind of one of those things where, you know, get the moisture in the air and everything, it'd just be really cold and felt wet. So anyways, yeah, I'd drive up to paradise and enjoy the property up there with a nice sunshine out of the fog. I was really enjoying that. So anyway, maybe someday have a house up there. But it's not looking like it. So. Hey, thanks, Doug. And thanks for going up in the high country there and telling us what's happening up there. I'll be talking at you later. How about my good old friend there n60uk this evening.

Well, darn, I was hoping to hear some, some goals. I haven't heard anything yet, but we'll see the good old ham radio goals from you or something from the ham Santa, you know, although I kind of a feeling if you want it, you won't have to wait for Santa to bring it to you. Anyway, I know one thing I'm looking for is a little auto tuner I think for my yaesu. So anyway, cool clearance. Well, hopefully we'll get to get to breakfast with you one of these days and have a great evening. Thanks for checking in. Long spring of check ins here. So thank you very much being a good member and. Yeah, oh good old, kind of like good old friend or you know, maybe you are a little bit of an OG but that's okay. Very wise. Thank you for all. K6GAB, K6GAB, how are you doing this evening? You out there? Hey, good Evening, this is K6GAB Greg in North Chico. I will make a couple of comments when it's my turn.

Sounds good. We'll be. We'll be carefully listening for that. How about kn6pju? Ah. Surprised. I hadn't heard him. A neighbor of mine, kc6ufe. I bet he's out there. Gotcha. Sounds good there. Sounded good. I heard him earlier. How about kn6jht? Okay. Well, we'll see. I'll bet you hamburger on that one. How about.

Thank you, Scott, for being out there. Yeah, interesting one. A relative of mine makes turkey cinnamon rolls. I couldn't believe it. Turkey cinnamon rolls. Never heard of such a thing. So she sent me a picture of it, and it looks like a regular cinnamon roll with the. With the icing on it, but a couple little goofy eyeballs. And bacon, believe it or not, bacon in the back for tails. So anyway, hey, it's up my alley. I like bacon, I like cinnamon rolls, so how can you go wrong? A turkey doesn't mean there's turkey in it. That's what I thought and sounded y. It was just it looks like a turkey, but it's all done. How about KJ6WEX? Oh, how to key up? Is that kj6wx? Mark, are you out there? Okay, nothing heard. Ha6wv.

Okay. Still running through the list here. And roll call. This is kilo. November 6th, Mike, golf, kilo call and roll for the gears. Tuesday night net. How about KN6 KWM? In and out. All right. Well, if you ever come across a friend of mine, Larry Button Button, Pest control over there, they're trying to conv him to become a ham forever, but I just can't seem to get him. Anyway, I've had that luck on it. So, anyway, thank you for being out there and being in migs. Appreciate it. Thank you for checking in. I've got you. Got you down. How about N6JLX, Kn6udc?

How about Ko6kkw. And kj6ujx? Okay, I think this one checked in one time on Echo Link. How about November 6th? Zed Oscar, that's Ted or anyone on EchoLink wanting to check in, please come out. Not that hurt there for a roll call. That's the list as I have it. Looking for later missed members later missed members first. Please come now. There he is. Hopefully your Thanksgiving went well. Lots of leaves falling down in our neighborhood late.

So anyway, got you down. Are you going to be sticking around? Yeah, you as well. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas to all, by the way. Alrighty. Any other? How about we'll just open it up for members, late members, missed members, and how about visitors? Anyone want to check in before we move to the next step, please come now. Okay, nothing heard, nothing heard. Remember the two questions there? M Santa, what's he bringing to you? Maybe any goals you have for 26. But right now it's time for the swap segment. How about that? We'll check that out. Anyone out there have something that they want to sell, trade, give away or want, please come now at your call sign.

W6Js. W6Js. Tom, go ahead. I have a balsam wood model airplane kit. I think it's like 42 inch wingspan. I think it's all there except for the motor. And I'm willing to give it to anybody who wants it. I don't want to throw it in trash. It's got to be worth something. But my days are gone for doing that stuff. I shake too much. But if anybody wants it, they can have it. Yeah, go ahead there, Dennis. Let me go on the other side of my hamshack, and when my turn comes around, I'll give you the information.

Yeah, that sounds very interesting. I can think of one other member who has something like that hanging up in his kitchen, of all things. He likes planes. All this puts you that way. All right, any other things, ham radio related items to sell, trade, giveaway or want. If you do, please come now. It's your call. All right, this is kilo, november 6th. Mike golf, kilo here in chico neck. And time for check backs there. Let's see what jamie's up to. Kn6pww.

Okay. Yes. Kind of dog days of winter. I'll call them for this last puff. Right after Thanksgiving. A lot of fog and stuff around kind of later. People like myself don't like driving in the fog at night, so. Makes it a little tough. So I could see that being a problem. Maybe. Maybe think of doing parks on the hill earlier in the day. You know, for the next time you do one in the winter there. Maybe we'll. Just a thought. Okay. Thank you, Jimmy. Up to KF6NCX.

Okay, couple comments there. But first off, how many, how much power were you guys running? Okay, yeah, 500 watts. That definitely makes a difference. Okay, yeah, well, hey, I was, I was just happy with trying to get anything. In fact, I wasn't going to do it because it was kind of discouraging listening to how fast everything was. But sounds like a lot of people were using some TX macros, maybe some memories. I know you used to have a device that you can remotely operate your transceiver. So anyway, it was like 40 words a minute and stuff like that. But I still listened in on Sunday some and I ended up with 19 contacts. I was pretty happy with that, especially with them going so fast. And so I take me, oh, two or three runs of them giving their call sign for me to get it, and I was like, well, that.

Is that a B or D? Is that a B or a D? You know, kind of thing. So then I might have to look them up on QRZ a little bit, just to make sure. And stuff like this. So anyway, I did have some fun with it. A lot of learning, but I did as well. But nowhere near 440, of course. So congrats on that. Anyway, let me reset. Well, maybe it'll come to me. The other thing I was thinking. But I guess that's it for now. How about we go to Tom, a W6JS. Tom here at W6JS. The model I'm looking at is called a Sturdy Bird. It's got a 53 inch wingspan, it weighs 4 pounds. It's a remote control. It has three servos and a battery pack for it.

But I don't have the transmitter of Futaba. Looks like it's all here as far as I can tell. I don't know what else it's missing, but welcome to it. Free. This is Tom W. 6Js. We're clear. Okay, sounds good. Yeah, Dennis has further questions. I'm sure he'll. They'll come back here. Okay, let's see who's next on the list here. How about. How about we hear from Bill real quick? Bill? KC6UFE.

Okay, well, yeah, I've been just kind of talking close to the mic because of the neck control and having people tell me before that they can't hear me. So anyway, so I'll back off here a little bit. There's. I'm not doing anything different. I'm only running 25 watts, so it's nothing but the power. It's all about me and being too close to the mic, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, I get it. KN6MGK. And honestly, that becomes a bit discouraging when people tell you they don't want you on the air. So, anyway, thank you, Bill, and any solar updates, because I've seen some weird things this morning. 40 meters was pretty good, I think. Last night I was operating FT8 and getting the morning before I was off.

Operating FT8 early morning and getting China, Russia and Taiwan. So I mean the 40 meter band has been really in good in the mornings. But what have you thought about solar stuff?

Thank you very much. Yeah, I put up a new off center fed antenna and was experimenting with that and it's kind of east west oriented orientated so I think I'm getting some north south stuff pretty good. But tonight, tonight was kind of horrible. So anyway, thank you for the report. I appreciate it. Okay, we'll swing back around to Greg six gab. Good evening. What's happening? Hey, good evening. This is Greg K. Six Gab. I gotta go fast because I got another net at 8 and they call me first. I am hoping that Ham Santa will hook me up with a one of the Yaesu 710s and my goal for the next year is to get better antennas up in the air. I gotta go. Thanks to everybody. 73. 73. I'll probably start doing that Bloomer Net maybe next week. So. Yeah, we'll chat with you later. Hopefully we will meet for coffee and good evening to you.

Let's see. Yo, chris. Kn6j h t.

Okay. Yeah. A couple of comments. Winterfield Day. I know the GARS group at least is planning to go out to Black Butte Lake. That's my understanding. Jeremy and I are probably gonna travel out that way and check it out to find a decent spot for that. We've gone there before, both of us have separately. But find someplace maybe that more people can join in together. Might be pretty interesting. Cool. So dress for success anyway. I don't know that too many other people run want to do Winterfield Day. Most of them want to stay home I guess anyway. And let's see. Comments. Oh yeah, hose clamps. I know DX Commander McCallum. He experimented with those and ended up putting surgical tubing around the clamp so that it would have lessen the effect of any interference and damaging the pole going up as well. I think that was the main reason. Then he came up with these pipes.

Plastic clips. Plastic like clamps. I think you can buy those separately from them. Just a thought. So anyway, out there, all I got. Anyone out there? Maybe Jamie can clarify the event. I think 15th sounds about right. Can you clarify that? Monthly meeting slash pollock. No, Chris was. Maybe you're on the other net too, but Chris was questioning that the calendar said like the 22nd and you stated the 15th for the membership meeting slash potluck present giveaway stuff. So can you clarify that date and time?

Jim, please come ahead. Okay. And time. Thank you, Jim. Appreciate it. So 6 o', clock, December 15 should answer Chris's question on that. Thank you very much. Ague, Jamie.

Okay. Rolled through the list pretty good there I think. Let's see anything else I can come up with. Well I did do a parks on the air. Looks like I'm next year so kn6mgk. I did do a poda on Saturday but over here just locally at the Bidwill Sack river area there I actually ended up by the boat ramp because they keep locking that gate over there by Scotty. So backed up there and kind of next to the restroom. But that was kind of disparaging a little bit but it wasn't so bad. Set up inverted? No set up a little. A little vertical. Pat came around with his van which was nice. He's got a heater in his van so we put up an infant half wave and we made I think we that CQ Worldwide was going and it was rough to find a spot on CW at all. So I was hoping but I think I made one CW contact and I.

I was trying to change bands, anything I could do to get away from that but no ended up going on FT8 so doing data and got like I don't know 30, 30 contacts I think on FT8 and then we did. Pat did one too and he got his. I don't remember if it was 10 or 15 or something, I can't remember. No, maybe it was. I think his was 24, something like that contact and all FT8. So it's not my favorite mode but it's good in the jam. It's good to know that you can do three things sideband, FT8 and so on. Well it was unfortunate I didn't hear people's goals out there too much because one of mine for 2026 definitely is wanting to learn like Vera FM, Vara, HF and Winlink put some skills like that together and some targeted communications. I've got a few goals like that also continue with CW and stuff like that.

That a few other modes I wouldn't mind doing some FL digi, some digital modes. So maybe into next year maybe some group maybe have to be the Paradise Group will put together a digital workshop or something like that. There's a couple guys, Dennis Riggs and Jay up there that no FT8 like the back of their hand and no FL Digi in case anyone's interested in like pfk31. There's also one guy up there, Dan Smith who does Earth Moon Earth. I'd love for him to show us how that all goes. But anyway those are a few things for me. So let me Ricky so let me let me yeah, just long winded Steve here kn6MGK watch the list as I have it. Let's check for any members that need to check in before we close the net. Any members visitors wanting to check in and make comments, please come down.

Okay. Well, it's been a good good night. Wish there was some more folks that had some thoughts about ham radio items they might want for Christmas and maybe some goals that people would have. I found that to be the case over the last few years. People are doing the same things over and over again, it seems like. But anyway, any comments for the Net? Any comments for the betterment of our group, please come now. Well, I heard out There it is December 2nd, so we've got us a few weeks here before Christmas. But I want everyone to have a very blessed.

Holiday season and Merry Christmas to all. So we'll just do one final check here for comments for the betterment of the group. Kilo, November 6, Mike Golf Kilo here. Net Control. Please come down with your call sign if you have any comments. All right, let me go ahead.

Okay, that sounds real interesting. And I did think of another comment from earlier, but here, not so long ago, I was over at parks on the air spot, and a guy comes up to me, asks him what we're doing. I told amateur. Oh, yeah, I'm an amateur radio operator. He gave us a call sign, and we looked him up, and he goes, yeah, I studied with Bill Pope, you know, and this gentleman's a little older, so. Oh, interesting. Yeah. So that name comes up quite a bit around here. So well known individual, and thank you for doing that. So the other comment I have is stable remote. Well, it seems to me like you guys should already have one because that Kenwood990, I'm pretty. Pretty hard to beat that even have an amplifier for it. So maybe you guys ought to consider just keeping that for the club for that remote station. I don't think you'll ever get much better than that. So that was my comment there. All right, thank you, Larry. Thank you. Group, let's just do one final check before we close.

Close. Any comments? This is kilo, November 6th. Mike, golf. Kilo. Okay. There was a heterodyne in there, so there's two. Let's go with Chris, because I heard him clear, probably because he's, like, right across the street from me. KN6JHC. Go ahead.

Okay, well great. Well yeah, a couple of us over here friends of mine are all putting up 2 meter side band Yagis. By the way, we live so close we can always practice CW back and forth on 2 meters so we're not bothering too many people. The people around the world have to listen to our bad CW so let me know on that. Another thing I didn't mention that I've been doing lately has been setting up meshtastic. Got a couple of nodes up. Noticed that around here medium fast seems to be the mode. Got a couple guys up in paradise working on it. A couple guys in Glenn county working on it. Be sure nice if we could get some more folks in the Gears Club or even around here. You don't have to be a ham to get involved and put a few nodes out there because the more the better. That's what I got. Let's see, there was another person out there after dining with Chris so more comments please. Come now. It's your call.

All right, Jamie, go ahead.

Alrighty. Yep, I set up my Shelagon's vertical there. No problem. I think Larry has one of those. He ought to get that out and put it in the ground. It worked fine when I was there. But I do prefer the spillway boat. If you ever get out that way. Jamie, over by the spillway by the dam. Very good location. So I prefer that for Lake Oroville anyway. Good evening to you. 7:3, by the way. All righty. Any final comments before we close? Run a little bit late here. Just kilo. November 6th, Mike Golf Kilo. Yeah, well, one of my goals for this year, I still got about maybe a dozen more to do, but is 100 POTA activations. I'm getting close. I think I'm at 88 or 89, something like that. So about a dozen more in the next month. I can do it, I think, but it's going to be a push. I might try to go for five in one day one of these times anyway. Alrighty.

I guess that's about it. It's been a pleasure to be in net control. I think I'm going to take a break for a while from that task anyway. Y' all take care out there and we'll be talking you down the coax line at some point, I'm sure. That's not all I got. So this concludes this week's Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society Club Net. Thank you to everyone who checked in. You're invited back next week. This is Steve KN6MGK returning the W6RAC repeater to its normal monitoring service. Net is closed at 8:19pm 73. All KN6MGK is clear.