GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-11

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. W Fix 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 w fix rhc 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 WFIC RHC Repeater Check 2.

This is kn6pww, Jamie and Chico. I'd like to remind you all that the Gears Club Net will be starting in four minutes. KN6PWW, W6RHC repeater check three.

Qst. Qst, qst. This is KN6TW, Jamie, located in Chico, California. Your net control station for tonight's Golden Empire Amateur radio Society Club. Net. This net meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30pm at 19:30 local on the W6RHC repeater for the purpose of fellowship and functions service through Amateur Radio. Is there any station with emergency or priority traffic? Please come now. Are there any general announcements for the Net? If you have an announcement for the Net, please respond with your call sign. I didn't hear anyone come back, but Net Control has a couple of announcements. First, I'd like to remind you all that the Wildflower bike ride is coming up on April 26th. Gears has provided communication services for Chico Velo that runs the bike ride. We still have six open facilities positions. If you'd like to participate and you know, get a little field experience on the Wildflower, please contact me. That's at my email address. That's Jamie J A M I e. Charlie Tilo tango2@comcast.net or you can email through the club. That's Gears G E a r s w6rhcmail.com either way, I'll get it and I can get you signed up. Break for a second. Neck control. Continuing. Also, the Gears breakfast is coming up this Saturday at farmer skillet at 9am I believe. I believe we're on Pacific Daylight Time now. I always get those mixed up. But 9am at the Farmer Skillet Saturday here in Chico. I hope to see you all there and I'll break again for a second. One more announcement. Gears. The Gears net is changing to the Gears west repeater starting on our first net in April. And that first net will be. Check my calendar here. The first net will be Tuesday, April 7th at 7:30pm so get all your radios set for Gears west next month. The frequency is 146-nodge offset with a tone of 123.0. That's the gears west repeater. All right, that's it for. Or that's it for my announcements. Are there any other announcements? Okay, I heard a squelch break, but no call sign, so I'll continue. It's time for roll call and 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. Got to give that repeater time to change its mind. All right, first up is is KN6TW. That's me, Jamie and Chico, your net control for this evening. Next K6 EST. Jim. How about KG6KUO? Lester? Good evening. This is KG6KO, Lester Willows. And I don't have anything to add to the net tonight, but I'll be in and out but listening. Thanks for checking in, Lester. Appreciate it. And if you got something to say, just come in with your call sign. So I'll check you in and out about KF6 NCX. Larry. Not a surprise there, because I'm filling in for Larry tonight. W6JS. Tom. About kn6qxl. Daryl. Kn6qxl. Daryl. New valley. In and out. Thanks for checking in, darrell. I've got you in and out tonight. K7 kfs. Kevin. Okay, how about KD6 Lok? Doug. Good evening. Jamie in the net. Kilo Delta 6 Lima, Oscar, Kilo Doug here on Nimshu Ridge. And the gopher had returned out for the campfire. Kind of happy to see that Mother Nature's coming back finally. Thanks for doing the net. I'll be in and out tonight. 73 KD6 Lok. Always good to hear you. Check in, Doug. And you know, I'll tell you about those gophers. It's great to see them, but it's not as much fun to have them. Okay, N60 UK. Clarence, good evening. Jeremy and the net or Jamie and the net. I'm sorry, Clarence in 60 UK and Corning. Just check me in and out, but I'll be lurking in the shadows. 73, everybody. All right, Clarence, I got you in and out, and thank you for checking in. K6 Gab. Greg, foreign. 6Pju. Dennis. Good evening, Jamie. This is Dennis on an HT, checking in and out. KN 6Pju. And I'm packing up my gophers and sending them. Doug's away. Dennis, It's. It's. It's good to hear that you may have found a home for those gophers. By the way, your signal quality is quite good. I'd give you five, nine on that. And maybe if you got some room, you could pack up some of mine as well. How about KC6UFE? Bill? KC6UFE? Bill in Cape. Good evening. Check me in, put me on the list. And gophers are like other people's kids. They're great in someone else's yard. Yeah, I got you checked in, bill. Kn6jht. Chris. This is kn6jht. Chris and chico. Thanks for running the net tonight, jamie. And I'll be in and out. Okay, I got you in and out, chris. Kb6 cyj. Scott. Next up, kj6. We x mark. Okay, how about aj6wv? Ken? Aj6wv? Ken in durham? I'll be in and out. Thanks. Got you in and out, ken. And thank you for checking in. Kn6 kwm dan. Kn6 kwm dan down at biggs. I'll be checking in and out. Thank you for doing the net. Got you in and out, dan. And thanks for checking in. K6jlx? Mel. Okay, how about ko6kkw? Jerry? I heard a squelch break there, but no call sign. You want to come again? Ko6kkw? Thank you for putting me on the list. Yeah, I'm hoping I'm coming through okay. Yeah, you're coming through. There's a little hum in the back background, but. But signal and readability are quite good. Other than that. Shall I? Yeah, I got you on the list here. Next. K6L U M. Matt in Chico. Nothing heard from Matt, but I did hear a squelch break. Come again? K6ylh. Jevin. I wanted. I was hoping to get that wind system from Jevin today. KO6MIV, Heather. This is my first transmission. KM K0K 06MIV. Can you hear me? Yeah, Heather. Got you. And thank you for checking in. And you say your first transmission. This is the first one. Yep. I am honored that I happen to be running the Net tonight. Hey, so I'll check you in and thank you very much and welcome aboard. How about Ki6ujx, Michael? Nothing heard. Okay. That is the rule as I have it. Are there any late members or visitors who would like to check in? Come now with Your call sign. AK6 Ku Wade in Orville. Come again with your call sign. I got wayne in oroville. Ak6 ku wade in oroville. Ak6ku Wade. Affirmative. All right, I got you on the roundtable and thank you for checking in. Good to hear your voice. Are there any other late members or visitors wishing to check in? Hearing none. It's now time for our swap segment. If you have any HAM related items to sell, trade, give away or want, please respond with your call sign.

I think that was m6mgk mike or steve rather, Kn6MGK. Listening here, Jamie. Sorry, there was another person listening. I'm just listening to the net tonight. There was another person named Steve. I was trying to check in. You might give him a call back. I heard him on the output, so he's probably relatively close to my station, but I don't think he came in through the repeater and I'm just listening in. So Anyway, thank you, KN6MGK. Hey Steve, I'm going to take the liberty of checking you in and out, but it's always good to hear your voice on the net. If there is another station out there trying to check in, give it one more try. All right, that sounds like a setup issue. And if Steve's helping you, then you've got a pretty good chance of getting things right. This is kn6pww, your net control for this evening. Now back to the swap segment. If you have any HAM related items to sell, trade giveaway or want, please respond with your call sign. I heard a squelch break there. Again, I suspect that that's the the other ham who's trying to check in, but I did not hear any, any signal associated with that other than squelch break. So continuing, I didn't hear anyone for the swap segment. So before we go to the roundtable, any last second, check ins. All right, onto the roundtable. First up is KN6TW. That's me, Jamie and J and I actually had something kind of fun the other day. I was in Yuba City last night at my brother's place. And even though I'd asked for an early check in on the SV traffic net, I brought my HT along with me. Like I said, from Yuba City. And I was very surprised to not only hear the the net but also be able to check in. You though, I got an early check in. So anyway, thanks Lester for putting up with me. And it was kind of cool from all the way out in Yuba City on an ht. So next up, boy, we got a lot of in and outs tonight. Must be a football game or something. KC6UFE, Bill, what have you got for us? Good evening to the group. And well, it got a couple of my antennas fixed that suffered a little damage from the winter weather, so that's all good. And I got the Gears west repeater programmed into the 2 meter rig here, so I'm good for that. And I've been chasing that DX expedition on Bouvet island down there. A thousand miles off the tip of South Africa. Little island down there. They got a d expedition down there 3y0k if you hear them. I've been chasing them around and they've always been one step ahead of me. I haven't made contact yet. Seems to be quite difficult for them to find a opening that makes it into California. So I've been working that and. And they do a lot of FT8 for all the FT8 guys. So other than that just sitting here in the easy chair in the shack. Back to you, KC6UFE. Hey Bill, I'm guessing that they're probably. They'd probably be real happy to get a California cuso there. What bands are you operating on there? They have some sort of presence at some time of the day on all the amateur bands. So I use DX Summit to track them down. And they also have a little page on Facebook that they list where they're operating. None of its current but it helps. So back to you. You KC6ub. Well thanks for that Bill and good luck in chasing that particular DX. Let me see. Next up I've got K06, KKW, Jerry and Konkow. What's up in Concow? I'm trying to become a better hand.

Bill, KC6UFE, can you hear me? Go ahead, Jamie. So I couldn't hear the transmission just now, but I think it's the same issue we had last week. It may be somebody operating with either the wrong PL sound or. Or got the. They're running on the reverse setup. I just called you back because I knew that you. You were online here. So, Jerry, KO6KKW can't hear you. Give it one more shot. This is K06KKW. Hoping my antennas pointed the right direction. If there's a loud hum, it's my power supply. Sorry, I'm working on that. All right, Jerry. Yeah, I heard you that time. There is a hum. I'm sure you'll get that power supply sorted out, but otherwise your signal is good. So you're on the right track. Let me see. Next up is K06MIV. Heather, tell us what's up. Heather. Am K06MIV. Nervously perched on my porch with my antenna pointed at the right repeater. I hope. I cannot communicate for this little handheld dolphin from inside my house. So I'm proud of myself for finding the right place on the property that I can actually communicate. How well can you hear me? Signal's a little low. There's a little bit of qrn, just natural static in the background. But you're quite readable. So anything else? Yeah, I was just really appreciating the tutorials that Chris was available for at the Parks on the Air just a couple of weeks ago and feel like I know a lot more. And also there's a lot more to learn that I'm playing around. Well, one of our members told me when I got my first license that it is a license to learn. And I think that that is really true of ham radio. There's always something new going on. If you, you know, if you've got any questions about anything, I'd send a note to the the Gears website or to the Gears email address. It's Gears G E A R S W6rhcmail.com somebody will get it and we'll get back to you. We can find someone that can answer your questions. K06MIV. Thank you so much. Over and out. Is that what we say? You can just saying clear is plenty. But that works. That works. And good for you to check in. Good for us to have you check in. Let's try that. That is the role as I have it. Are there any other additional comments or questions before we close tonight's net 86 Lok with a question 86 Lok. Go ahead. Is there a way and Tom's not on so is there a way that I can find out how a lady or worry lady got got licensed? She contacted me via Facebook messenger the other day, has not responded to my response to her, but she was licensed with a KN call. So it's been a while since we're now in the K0 or KOs and I'm just trying to figure out where she was licensed. She asked me for some help and I don't know how she got it. Got a hold of me even so looking for some information. Without a full call sign, it sounds like a pretty thin lead. The only guess I have is to try again on Facebook and if you don't get an answer, just wait it out. Some folks just don't check their Facebook that often. Anybody else got any advice here? Jc6ufe? Yeah, go ahead Bill. You can use qrz.com they have a search function. Partial call signs, full name, full call sign and they'll track down the rest of the information for you. Doug, does that sound maybe helpful? Well, it sounds like it better go back to qrz. I did look her up, got her address. She is here in Magalia or at least according qrz she is. But yeah, the, the go back to Facebook is. Is certainly another option. I'm, I, I need to do that and, but again maybe there is more information on QRZ other than just putting in her call sign. Her full call was kn6z w no zxz. So I don't know whether that makes a difference. But the, the K6 the KN is what caught my eye that, you know, it's been a while since, since we've been in kn so I've just been trying to figure out where she got licensed. Okay, well, it sounds like you got a couple leads there. Yeah, I'm KN6PWW and I was licensed in 2020 in late 2020. So yeah, I, I've noticed we switched the Kos a while ago. Any other comments for the Net tonight? Kn6MGK.kn6MGK. Steve, go ahead. Thank you Jamie for doing the Net out there. Good. Good evening everyone out there on Gears Land. Anyway, wanted to make a comment for. I think it was. Let's see here. Yeah, Ko6kkw. Yeah, about this power supply. You know, again, I'm in that area quite often around Yankee Hill and so forth and lights come by sometime. Anyway, I'm available on qrz. I've heard him on other stuff as well, like possibly the PARS group anyway. But yeah, maybe operating his transceiver off of just a 12 volt battery or you know something like that would definitely quiet that hum down for sure. Or maybe he's got some LEDs or or something running fluorescent fluorescent lights or something that's affecting it. But yeah, it's pretty bad. So yeah, hopefully he gets that all squared away. The other comment was the ko6miv if she's listening. Sometimes there's other meetups around too where people talk ham radio like a couple of nice guys go on Thursdays to Barnes and nobles at about 10am and they're not all Gears members of course but you know probably there's hundreds of years years of him experience sitting at that table. Any questions that she might have? A couple guys go over to Panera quite often like myself in the mornings and anyway it just can be fun to get help someone new in the hobby. So we want to try to be as encouraging as we can. Though I will say she has a setting on her Bowfeng radio with the Roger beep and I'm sure you heard that too you Jamie. But I don't know it's customarily we don't use them but it's nothing, you know, nothing too big deal. But maybe she might want to turn the Roger beep off. That's all. Anyway that's all I got. HAM related with exception of mesh networking, I think we've got over 20 nodes up in in the Chico area now for Meshtastic. I would encourage people to check that out. The pars group has over 20 up there in Paradise Magalia and it's been a pretty fun challenge and getting a lot of good communications over into the South Bay area on that medium fast. So that's all I got. Thank you for doing the net can six mgk is clear. Hey Steve, appreciate that that advice. Yeah there's a lot of different meetups around here. I didn't know there was a great group going over to Barnes and Noble at 10am on Thursdays. I might have to show up over there sometime. I will be out on a bike ride though this Thursday so. Not this Thursday. Well yeah, I gotta get my meshtastic unit going again too. I think the battery died on that. I gotta solder a new one in. Well I think that is it. Are there any other comments, questions for the net? This is K06 KKW. Thank you Steve for the offer. I'd like to have you come over sometime. I hope the hum is better. I've turned off all my LEDs in the area but I don't have my shop set up yet. I'm kind of just working out of the bedroom right now. K06KKW thank you for the advice. Ak06kkw the hum is still there but you came through. Came through clearly. Yeah. If you can. As Steve was saying, hooking up just to a 12 volt battery absolutely does the trick if it's a power supply issue. I have had LEDs, especially the dimmable can lights. I've had those cause all kinds of problems including breaking squelch on my radio when I put it put an HT right under them. So that can be an issue. Any other questions or comments? This is pretty good. C6UFE comment. Go ahead Bill yeah, the I have never seen anybody actually list the location of where a person got their license or who the licensee was coordinator but if and if that information does exist it might be listed on the actual FCC database and you can access the FCC database if you can remember all your passwords and stuff put in somebody else's call sign and get their information as well and they have a log there all the actions that person has taken and that might give you an idea of where they got their license from. So other than that I'm clueless. Back to you KC6UFE. Well Bill, I think you're probably one of the last people I think of as clueless, but okay. Any other questions or comments for the net? A good round of comments and and good check ins this week. I appreciate everyone who checked in. This concludes this week's Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society Club Net. I'd like to thank everyone who checked in tonight and you are all invited back next week and anyone else you can get to get to sign in. This is KN6PWW Jamie returning the W6RHC repeater to its normal monitoring service. This net is closed at. Let me see it looks like 200173 to all. Can 6 PWW is clear.

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QST. QST, QST. This is KQ6 KVO. Op Sacramento Valley traffic. The purpose of this net is to relay forward traffic into and out of Sacramento Valley. And to provide a stand emergency direction in case manual transmissions without provision to control. All stations are requested to stay on frequency 2. That controls K6K Leicester located western Girls. If there's any station with emergency or prairie traffic W fix RHC repeater check. One. Station where traffic can be distanced. Right. Roll call follows. Kf6 obi, kf6 obi, mike and willows with no traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you, kg60k.u call en rolling on traffic. K6tso. Good evening, lester. In the group. This is kg6tso. Bessie with no traffic. Thank you, bessie. Kf60jy. Good evening, lester. Kf, djy, bruce and chico. No traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you. K6rcs, K6pmt, kilo, echo6, papa, mike, kango, russ and gerber. Good evening, lester and the group. And I have no traffic. Good evening, russ. Thank you. Kc6ufe. Kc6ufe. Bill in cafe. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you, kn6pww. All right, Dutch roll. As I have it, we have elay members or visitors wish that J. No further traffic. Objection. This is K6KUO closing Sacramento Valley traffic at DIS daily at 2100 local time through the W6 rec repeater on 14635, Old Megar. All stations are referring excuse, but now I like to thank everybody who kicked in tonight in the Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society for the use of repair. This NET closed at 2102 local time. $73 K6K.

Kg6k uo, km6pww, w6rhc repeater check two. Yes, Jamie, this is kg6ko. Go ahead. Hey, Lester. After. After the net and the GMRS net, I forgot to turn the HAM radio back on. I get a late check in. Definitely get a late check in. Thank you very much. You have a good evening now. K2.6K uo, Lester, you have a good evening too. KN60 WWE.

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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 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.

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Pierce holds a free Morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pm at the Golden Beaver Distillery, still housed at 2420 Park Ave. To come learn Morse code.

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This is kilo oscar six mike unicorn hotel. This is kilo oscar six mike unicorn hotel calling.

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 W6RHC 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.

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.

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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. W Fix RHC Repeater Check 2.

Gears holds a free morph code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come learn morph code W6R, H, C repeater check three.

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 W6RHC repeater check 1.

Here's holds a free Morph Code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come learn Morph Code W6R, H, C. Repeater check 2.