GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-04

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.

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.

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.

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.

W fix r h c repeater check 1.

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.

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.

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.

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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W6r h c repeater check 3.

W fix r h c repeater check 1.

The gears. Monthly informal breakfast is held on the second Saturday of the month at 9am at the Farmer's Skillet, located at 690 Rio Lindo Avenue, Chico. All are welcome to attend W6RHC Repeater Check 2.

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.

Here's 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 checked one.

W6 rhc repeater check 2.

The gears. Monthly informal breakfast is held on the second Saturday of the month at 9am at the Farmer's Skillet, located at 690 Rio Lindo Ave. Chico. All are welcome to attend.

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 net W6 RHC repeater check 3.

The Gears Net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pm all amateur radio operators are welcome to join in on the net W6RHC repeater check 1.

The year's 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. W6RHC repeater check 2.

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.

K6m fm, w6rhc repeater check 1.

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.