GEARS E RX (146.250 MHz) recordings for 2025-12-31

This is K6GAB. I think there was some discussion that Steve KN6MGK might normally have done it, but he said he was unavailable to do it. I don't know if anybody else stepped up.

K6gab. Okay. A couple of events people might want to know about. Winter Field Day is coming up. The Glenn County Amateur Radio Society has invited us to come participate with them. They are going to be at the Black Butte Lake at the Grizzly Flats area. They're just going for the day, so that'll be January 24th in the daytime only. They're planning to pack up and leave around dark. But if anybody's interested in Winter Field Day there, it's going to be going on. I'm going to break for a second and reset. Okay. And the other thing is that the Paradise Amateur Radio Club is going to be doing a yagi build this Saturday. The goal is to build a tape measure yagi that can be used for direction finding and other things like that. The president is Jay Johnston and he's asked that people RSVP with him if you'd like to go. His call sign is November 6th whiskey Indio papa. November 6th whiskey Indio Papa. His email is good on QRZ and he can send you an equipment list of the parts that you'll need to bring if you want to do that. That's what I have for today. Yeah, that's right. The event runs into Sunday if people are so inclined. But the GARS group is going to stop at dark on Saturday.

Hey, good evening. This is Greg. K6 Gab, North Chico. I do have a couple of comments.

Just thought I'd mention I've been playing with the Meshtastic thing lately, and it seems like it's kind of going crazy here in Butte county. There's probably 15 new nodes added in the last two or three weeks. The Paradise Club has been going kind of crazy with the meshtastic. They've put up quite a few new nodes, and the Sheriff Search and Rescue team has also been putting up notes. They've got one up in Forest Ranch, and I think they've done another one downtown. So if people are interested in that or if they've been playing with that, maybe get it back out and try it again. You may be able to see some things that weren't there a month ago. So that's. That's pretty much it for me today.

So it's sort of a low, low information mode, essentially sending back and forth text and data. It doesn't have enough bandwidth to do voice or pictures. I bought a node a little more than a year ago, and I've been trying to get it to work, but I had a bad antenna and there weren't that many other stations to talk to. So it's been kind of idle for me. But in the last couple weeks I've bought a new antenna and then everybody else is coming online, so. So now I'm able to see other nodes and they're seeing me. So it seems like we're getting some ignition here. The basic idea is to be able to have text conversation back and forth or use it for remote telemetry, that sort of thing.