GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-11

W6 rhc repeater check 1.

Qst, qst, qst. This is Larry, 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? Are there any general announcements for the net? If you have an announcement for the net, please respond with your call sign. I have one announcement. KF6NCX, Larry, the net net control station. At 3:30pm on Thursday, as we do every week, we'll have the slow speed Morse code net on the 40 meter band. Frequency is 7005.2. We meet at 3:30pm and if you're learning CW or you want to brush up or you just want to participate, please, please join us at 3:30pm on Thursday. Kn6pww. Check in. 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. Okay, first is KN6PWW. This is KN6PWW, Jamie and Chico. I'm gonna be in and out, but I did have an announcement for the map. The gears breakfast is this weekend, Saturday at 9am Daylight Savings Time there at the. At the Farmer's Skillet, Cohasset and Rio Lindo in Chico. That's it for me. Like I said, in and out tonight. KN6PWW, back to Tacoma. Okay, thanks Jamie, and thanks for the announcement. Next is K6EST, KG6KUO. Good evening. This is KG6KUO. I'm going to be in and out tonight, but I'll be listening and you have a good evening. Thanks for running it. Thanks, Lester. You have a good evening too. Next is kf6ncx. That's me, Larry, Net control. Well, let's see. We had a good slow speed VW NET last Thursday. I think there were six participants and I was the only one from Chico. There were a couple of guys from up near Susanville, someone down in Southern California and someone from Idaho and someone else I believe. So that went pretty well. We'll hope for a good turnout this Thursday too. I got on the air a little bit this afternoon for about an hour and middle of the afternoon and 10 meters seemed to be really open, especially to Asia. I had I think four short kusos, two with Japanese stations and one with a guy whose call sign was was N7ET DU7 and I thought that May he was in Germany on his station that starts with a D and being in Germany and I asked him, are you in Germany? And he sent something back. I didn't, couldn't quite copy. So I didn't get that. But I looked him up later and turned out it was the Philippines. I guess to you is the Philippines. I'll remember that for next time. Okay, that's it for me. How about W6Js? W6Js here, Tom. We had a pretty good BEC session. We have five participants. We had, let me see, we had an extra, which was unbelievable. He didn't miss anything. 100. I've never seen a. Well, it happens once in a while, but not very often. We had an upgrade from a tech to a general. Then we had two techs and I, I say it all the time. You've got to fill out your paperwork how you did what with fcc because they'll kick it back. And I had two of them they kicked back on and just messes everything up because it kicks back the whole thing. So I gotta find out what's wrong and then I gotta resubmit everything. But I, I finished it up today and they should be getting their licenses tomorrow or notified that they had a license. One guy's got to pay his fee. But that was a good, a good meeting and I gotta thank my ve's. They're the ones that really do it for me. I, I just do the paperwork. I guess that's it. I'll be sticking around listening. This is Tom, W6JS for clear. Okay, thanks Tom. Thanks for the report. And that sounds like a great testing session. Maybe some new Gears members coming on board. You know, I just realized I'm doing this wrong and this is supposed to be the roll call and somehow I morphed it into the, into the round table. So let's continue just doing the roll call and you can tell me if you're going to be in and out or sticking around. And then we'll go back and do the roundtable the way we're supposed to. So my apologies. So in the check ins, in the, in the roll call. Next is KN6QXL. Gerald, How about K7KIS7KFF? Sorry about that, Kevin. K7KFF. Kevin and Chico and I haven't got anything for the net tonight except that to mention that echo link is down. I'll be in and out. Thank you. Okay, thanks. Kevin, thanks for alerting us about the echo link. And you have a good evening. How about KD6 Lok? Good evening and thanks for making the correction. It shows that hams can learn from their mistakes. Doug's being a jerk. Hey, thanks for doing the net. I'll be in and out tonight. 730-Katie-6 Aloke. Hey, thanks, Doug. You have a good evening. And yeah, I'm always learning. Learning something new every day, it seems. Next is K6DUK. Yes, good evening. This is Clarence and Corning. Just mark me down is in and out, but I always enjoy the nets. I'll be around listening. 73, everybody. Okay, thanks, Clarence. You have a good night. K6 Gab. Hey, good evening. This is Greg, K6JB in Chico. I'm in and out this evening, but thanks for doing the nut. Have a good evening. Hey, you have a good evening too, Greg. Thanks for the check in. KN6PJU. Good evening. This is Dennis checking in. KN6PJU. And I am in and out. All right, thanks for the check in, Dennis. How about KC6UFE? 6UFE? Billing cape? Good evening. Check me in and put me on the roundtable. Hey, Bill, thanks. You're on the round table. How about KN6JHT? Okay, thanks. Chris, are you. Maybe you're on an HT tonight. I can barely hear you. But I did understand what said about the breakfast. And then you'll be in and out. Thanks for checking in and have a good evening. Ab6cyj. Kj6we.x. J6wv. Kwm. Aj n6jlx. November 6th. Julia lima x ray. Mel in palermo with no traffic. And I'll be in and out tonight. Thank you. Okay, thanks for checking in. Mel. How about k06 kkw? And I'm not sure if I called this all this one already, but I'll call it again just to make sure. KN6KWM. L6l u m. Finally, though, I don't think we'll hear from him because if he is around, he depends on Echo Link. K6YLH. Okay, that takes care of the roll call. Is there anybody that I missed? Any late members? For any visitors who want to check in, Late members, anyone else who wants to check in, visitors or late members, Anybody at all. Well, now it's time for the swap segment. If you have a ham related item to sell, trade, give away or that you want, please respond with your call sign. Anyone at all with something to trade or borrow or that you want to buy or that you have to sell, now's your chance. 86 Lok. 86 Lok. I asked this somewhere else. Don't remember. Maybe I asked it here, but I have over the years picked Up a couple of tower pieces. Tripod tower pieces. I am now looking for bases for those. If anyone has any ideas for a base. I do not know the names on the towers, what they are. I have a top for one and it seemed like they're all the same diamond or not that they're all the same dimensions. So I'm wondering if someone can give me some information on finding a basis for these tower pieces that I have. Thanks. Let's see. IV Wheeler@att.net or 530-873-9287 and I'm on Facebook but I prefer email or the phone. Thanks Katie. 6lok comment? Want to have a comment about that? Yes I do. How. How tall is your towers there? You have probably three or four sections. Yes, I have several sections. They didn't all come from the same place so I'm pretty sure they're probably different brands. But I don't know that I haven't been able to find a name on any of the pieces yet. Well, the roans usually don't have their name on it. However, if you've got at least three to four sections, just cement the bottom section ended. Well, that's what I've done. Oh, all right. I hadn't really thought about that. I thought about sticking some pipes in the ground and then setting the towers on top of that or maybe some rebar or something like that and then just setting a tower on top of that, but hadn't really given thought about cementing the whole thing in. Thanks kg6k otter kd6lok I'll be clear too. I got another net I got to get to. Thanks you guys. 73 KD 6 Lok hey anyone else with any anything having to do with swap, buying, selling, needing radio related items if you do come now. Okay, has anyone joined us just now and wants to check in on before we start the roll call if you have anything. If you want to check in, please come with your call sign. Okay. Well now we'll do the rest of the roll call, the rest of the roundtable. I'm sorry, it looks like KC6 UFE Bill and Cape is up. What's new Bill? What's going on? And good evening to the net. And it looks like right around now we're having the school club roundup on the bands which is kind of fun get to chat with the younger crowd. So I put a couple of those in my log and Brazil has always been a little bit difficult for me to do DXing into Brazil but they're having a I guess it's a Brazilian Counties contest, I guess you would call it. So there's a lot of Brazilian guys on the radio and I've made quite a few little contacts into Brazil, which is kind of nice. I've had a real tough time getting a hold of them. So other than that, I'm fooling around with a short vertical for the 160 meter band. It's a commercial setup called the Moonraker and I got it set up. I just gotta get out there with my internalizer and figure out where to set the whip. So I'm looking forward to that. Of course it's not going to be, you know, stellar, but it should do locally anyway. So I'm looking forward to playing around with that. Not much else. Back to you, Larry. KC6UFE. Hey, good deal, Bill. That antenna is called the Moonraker. It sounds interesting. And when are those two things going on? The School Club Roundup and Brazilian Counties contest. They're just going on this week. Can you tell us a little more about that? Yeah, I think they're going on till the end of the month. Both of them are. So plenty of time to get a hold of them and sounds to me like the repeaters having some kind of a problem. It's fading in and out. It might be associated with that hum that's to going, going on so. But something's going on. Anyway, back to you, Larry. Okay, I hear the hum, but not hearing any qsb, but I guess that's possible on the repeater qsb. Well, we'll have to look into that. Thanks, Bill. Anyone else with any, any comments or anybody want to check in at this point? Okay, last, last chance to check in or make a comment before we close the net. Larry, this is Tom W6Js. I didn't think I used up my time, but I have questions for you. I'm always eager to take questions since I know all the answers. Right. Go ahead, Tom. On your slow speed, how slow is it? Oh, maybe ten words a minute, maybe a little less. Some along that line. Okay. Do you know what they're using or just throwing stuff out there? Are they using text from the AWRL or anything like that? And how long does it go on for? You know, it depends on how many people are participating.

And it starts at 3:30. Sometimes it, it goes for half an hour. Sometimes it's lasted even for, for an hour. And we don't use any special text or anything. We kind of run it like, like do this net. And it just begins with some, some boilerplate and an introduction about what the net is and who's sponsoring it. And then we take check ins just like we do with this net. And then the net control person calls on everybody to ask them for a little bit of news, if they have anything to say. Often they just give a weather report, say what the weather's like where they are and say hello. And that's. And that's about it. And it closes. So that's the way it goes. And we try to keep the speed pretty slow. Well, it sounds pretty interesting. Maybe try to listen in on it. I know my hand isn't too fast anymore and I passed it way back 30 years ago at five words a minute. And I don't know, I can go 10 words but I'll listen. Well, thank you sir. You've done a good job. Larry, this is Tom W6Js. We're clear. Okay, thanks Tom. Sure. That'd be great if you listened. You don't even have to check in if you don't feel like it. You could just listen and see how the, how you copy it, what you copy. And then if you feel like it, jump in with your call sign with you hear a request for check ins. Or they use this funny Q code that I learned once I started getting involved with nebs qni. Qni means check in. So Q and I question mark anybody want to check in? And we also ask in regular English any check ins. So jump in if you feel like it. That would be great. Okay, any more comments before we close things up? Well, this concludes this week's Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society Club Net. Thank you to everyone who checked in tonight. You're invited back next week. This is Larry. KF6NCX returning the W6RHC repeater to its formal monitoring to its normal monitoring service, the Net. This net is closed at 7:52pm 73 to all. KF6 NCX is clear.

This is KD6KUO of the sacrament running traffic net. This net's part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this letter to relay formal truck into and out of Sacramento Valley and the provider sand emergency directed. Please name no transmissions without permission to control. All stations are requested Control. W6 rhc repeater check 2. Kf6 obi mike in willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg6 ko's calling roll. No traffic. Kg6tso. It looks like she's asleep. Kf6dj y, K6rcs, Kilo echo six papa mike tango, rustin gerber. Good evening, lester. In a group and I have no traffic. Good rest. Thank you. Kc6ufe, kc6ufe. Bill in cape. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww. Kn6tww. This is jamie and chico. The traffic and. Good evening, lester and the group. Good evening, jamie. Thank you. All right, that's the rule as I have it. Do we have any lake members or visitors? Mr. Check in. No further traffic. Check in. This is K6KO closing secondary traffic. On 146 E5.

KG6 Kuo. KF6 DJY. KG6 Kuo. Go ahead. Good evening, Lester. KF6 DJY. Late check in Mobile in Chico, will you? Have a good drive and a good evening. This is kg 60k. Clear. And thanks for checking in. Thank you. Lester, you sound like you feel a little bit better. How's Betty feeling? She's doing a little better, but right now she's asleep. But she. She's a lot better than I am right now. Well, that's good that she's doing better. I hope you're getting better too, so I'll let you go. KS6DJY. All right. Well, you've had a good evening, and again, thank you for calling and checking in. This is KG60K. O clear.

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