GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-09

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 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 W6 RHC repeater check three.

Gears holds a slow speed Morse code NAT 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 one.

Amateur Radio News line report number 2523 with a release date of Friday, March 6, 2026 to follow in 5 4, 3, 2 1. The following is a QST Hams in Cuba assist a critically ill child Canada is silencing its National Weather Radio and students in Germany plan for a hu so with Antarctica. All this and more and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report number 2523 comes your way right now from around the world. This is Newsline, Amateur Radio's independent on the Air News and Bulletin Service. Now reporting from Jonesboro, Arkansas, here's Skeeter Nash N5ASH Quick Thinking by Hampton Midst of a power outage in Cuba are being credited with connecting a critically healed child with Virginia medical care. We have the details of that story from the newest member of the Newsline team, Dave Lee M70LB as an outage swept through several communities in the municipality of Rio Cauto in eastern Cuba, disabling electric power and the telephone service, a six year old girl lay feverish and in pain, her twelfth hour of suffering. The doctor treating her at the family home in Grandma Province suspected appendicitis requiring emergency transport. An outage resulting from a power grid failure prevented him from directly contacting an ambulance. The physician turned to a father son team of amateur radio operators, Jorge Bonilla Minegra and his son Edgar Bonilla Manegra. The hams, however, found that their own radios were also without backup power because of the fuel shortage. That is until a neighbor let them make use of the battery from his motorcycle. The general call was received by Santiago de Cuba by station CL8YTY, who was able to connect with the emergency system. The station is listed on qrz.com as being in Santiago de Cuba. The call sign holder is Yonendris Garcia Rodriguez. According to various media reports, surgery was performed on the hospital and was a success. This is Dave Lee and 7TLD wrapping up another year of action taken against unlicensed radio broadcasters in the United States. The FCC recently submitted a report to federal lawmakers summing up its enforcement activities in the fiscal year 2025. We have those details from Ken Peterson, KZ0DGY. Since Congress enacted the Pirate act, an acronym for Preventing Illegal radio Abuse through Enforcement, the Federal Communications Commission has been responsible for reporting its annual activities with the enhanced power that was given through the January 2020 legislation. Its most recent report covers the government's fiscal year for 2025, which ran from 1 October 2024 through 30 September 2025. According to the report, the FCC issued 28 notices to property owners or managers for permitting illegal W6 RHC Repeater Check 2.

Qst, qst, qst. This is qt6ko OK, but not traffic net. This net's part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this net is to relay homo traffic into and out Sacramento Valley. And the provider said emergency that this is a direct event. Please make no transmissions without control. All patients are requested as take on frequency controls. K6K year old Lester located West Station with part traffic W6RHC repeater check 3. Station for traffic to be listed. Done. Roll call follows. Kf6lbi, kf6lbi, mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg6k, your host caller. No traffic. Kg6t. Good evening, lester in the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you. Busy. Kf6djy, K6rcs, Kilo, Echo six Papa, Mike, Tango, Rustin Gerber. Good evening, Lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, Royce. Thank you. KC6UFE, KC6UFE, Bill. In comparison, no traffic. Good evening, Lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww, kn6pww, Jamie and Chico with no traffic. And good evening, Lester in the group. Good evening, Jamie. Thank you. All right, doctor, roll as I have it. Do we have any members or visitors wish to tune in? Good evening, Lester. KS6DJY, Bruce and Chico. No traffic. Good evening, Bruce. Thank you. Anyone else? There is no further traffic. Check in. This is KG6KUO closing 2nd Manor Valley Traffic Net. This net meets daily at 2100 hours local time through the W6RC repeater on 146985. All stations are excused. I like to thank everybody who tuned in tonight. And to go to the Empire aperture measure society with use and repeater. This net's closed at 2103 local time. 73 Daw, this is K6K, your third frequency.

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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 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 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 W6R, H, C repeater check three.

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 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 net W6 RHC 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 W6 RHC repeater check three.

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 to attend. W6RHC repeater check 1.

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 W6R, H, C 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 net wfix 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 W6R, H, C repeater check one.