GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-18

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. 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 W Fix. RHC Repeater Check 3.

The gears net will be starting in five minutes, right here on the W6RHC repeater. This is K6est W6RHC repeater, check one.

Qst, qst, qst. This is Jim K6est, your net control for tonight's Golden Empire Amateur Radio Club Net. This net is each and every Tuesday evening at 7:30pm right here on the W6RHC repeater. We do this for the purpose of fellowship through amateur radio. Are there any stations with emergency or priority traffic? All right, general announcements for the Net. Well, first up is next Saturday. Not this Saturday, but next Saturday, March 28th. We got a couple of things going on. We're going to have a soldering class and session for the QRP kits or anything else you want to solder. It's going to be held out at the at Tecton. That's the place that recycles used electronic equipment. And that is going to be in the morning, 9am and then we're going to have a poda that afternoon and that'll be out at Sacramento River Park. I will email this information to everyone so you will know. Also, we have wildflower coming up if you'd like to help out with the wildflower. It is April, I believe, April 26th and there are a couple spots open so I'm sure we can find something for you to do. It's a lot of fun. You get a free T shirt and meet some nice people. And then starting April, this net will move to the Gears west repeater. So keep that in mind so that it'll be moved to the here's west repeater. If you don't have the frequency, it's 146.895 and PL is minus 123. It's on our website also, if you didn't copy that down. So those are the announcements I have. Are there any other announcements for the net? Please come with your call sign. All right, let's do roll call. I'm jim k6 est calling roll. How about kg6kuo, Kf6ncx? This is kf6ncx. Larry in chico and I will be around. Thank you very much, larry. W6js. Kn6qxl, K7kfs, Kd6lok. Good evening, Jim the net kilo Delta 6 Lima, Oscar kilo here on 2 Hot for duck, Nimsu Ridge and the grass is growing almost fast enough. He can watch it. Thanks for doing the net, Jim. I have nothing else. 73 KD6 Loki. Doug, thank you very much for the check in. And yeah, everybody's mowing their lawns around here. All I hear is lawnmowers these days. So you have a Good Good evening. N60 UK. Good evening. On a weak battery. I don't know if I make it. Kick me in and out. 60 UK. I got you checked in. You had a clear signal. Go charge your battery. K6 Gab, Kn6pju. Good evening. This is dennis, k&6bju and I'm checking in and I think tonight I may stick around. Great. I'll come back to you later. Kc6ufe, kc6ufe, bill and cape. Good evening. And check me in. Put me on the back talk list. Bill. Gotcha. K n6jht. This is can6jht, chris and chico. Thanks for running the net tonight, jim. I'm going to be in and out. Thank you very much. Chris, you have a good evening. Kb6 cyj, Kj6 we x. Aj6wv. Hello. Kn6kwm. And N6JLX. November 6th. Julie Lima, X Ray, Mel in Palermo. I will be in and out tonight. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mel. Have a Good evening. K06KKW6KKW. This is Jerry, just checking in, probably with a. Sorry about that. All right, Jerry, do you want to come back with comments later on the roundtable? I'll be here for a while. Thank you. All right, Jerry, thank you. Ko6l u m. K6y l h. Good evening. This is devin. K6ylh. Thank you very much. Jevin, got you on the list. Ko6miv, Ki6ujx, Kn6mgk. That is the list as I have it. Is there anybody I missed? Come with your call sign. Do we have any visitors for the net? Come with your call sign. All right, seems like Everybody's out celebrating St. Patty's Day tonight. So do we have anything for the swap segment? Come with your call sign. This is Jer. Ko6kkw. I might be interested in a little 2 meter mobile of some kind. Like 50 watts. If there's anybody has an extra. All right, anybody have an extra radio? Give us your phone number so they can get in touch with you. It's a 530-588-61882 meter 50 watts. Okay, so you want, you want a high power radio, full 50 watt radio rather than one of these 10 or 20 watt ones. That would be great. I don't need any digital right now. I've got a. The radio I'm on has digital and I'm not using it. So. Yeah, just a simple one would be good. All right, so anyone have a radio they'd like to sell, get in touch with them 530-588-1888. Anybody else have something for the SWAP segment? All right, let's do the roundtable. The first up is me, Jim, k6est. And I am skipping the normal revelry and celebrations for St Patty's Day. So that's why I'm here tonight. We had a great presentation last night at the GEARS meeting. We learned about the maritime communications and the west coast station that served ship to shore communications for many, many years. I know Chris Koning is trying to that place is a state park now. You can go out and visit there at Point Reyes. And I know Chris is trying to organize a field trip to go out there. So I'll put more information out when I hear about that. Next up is Larry, KF6NCX. Good evening, Jim and the rest of the Net. This is Larry, KF6NCX. Well, we celebrated St. Patty's Day here by having dinner of green pasta. It was a little unusual and very tasty. So far, no beer. This seems to be the time of year when there aren't any big contests on the calendar, but there are these state cuso parties and I tried my hand at a couple last weekend. I think it was Wisconsin and Oklahoma and Idaho. I did okay with Oklahoma and Idaho. Never has too many people and actually didn't hear anybody from Wisconsin. This weekend coming up is the Virginia cuso party. It should be going on all weekend and should be fun. I think it's a pretty good one and we get quite a few people participating in that. So if you have a chance, you might want to get on the air and, and give it a try. There's also a monthly Morse code event called Random Grams that's kind of fun, where people exchange five character groups of numbers and letters. And it's kind of like a contest but very low key. Okay, that's about it for me. Jim, back to you. This is Larry, KF6NCX. Thank you very much, Larry, Dennis, KN6PJU. Hi, Jim and the rest of the Net. This is Dennis, KN6PJU. And I did some antenna work the other day, put a different mast up, a new connection. And I'm really just primarily curious as to how I sound tonight. You sound excellent. Crystal clear and a strong signal. Well, perfect. I guess I'll leave the antenna alone and try and figure out a way to keep cool and keep the grass shorter. So thank you very much, Jim. Thank you for doing the Net. This is Dennis, KN6PJ. Over. Thank you very much, Dennis. You have a good evening. And enjoy the lawn. Bill KC6UFE, KC6UFE Bell in Cape. And good evening to the group. And I'll just add a little to what Larry was saying. There's some activity going on on a place called Austral Islands, some DX work, and coincidentally it's off the coast of Australia, so they're available for a little while anyway. And also we have a new mode available to us. Most people are familiar with FT8, and then we have FT4, which is twice as fast as FT. Now we have FT2, which is four times as fast as FTA. And it's not quite as good for weak signal, but it's plenty good anyway. And people are responding favorably to the faster speed rate. And if you check the spotting pages, you will find that they are quite populated with FT2 spots. So everybody enjoy. And back to you, Jim KC6UFE. All right, thank you very much, Bill. And how about Jerry Ko6KKW there? This is Jerry Ko6KKW up at Concow. I live pretty close to Spring Valley School and see the spring bicycle ride every year. I wouldn't mind helping out on that. What was the date? It was April something. It's April 26th. You can either sign me up or I'll get on the webpage and sign up or something, but that would be available that day. All right, Jerry, I will tell you what. I'll just send an email to Jamie and he's coordinating it and he'll get back to you. All right, very good. Thank you very much. K06KKW. Thank you, jury. Jevin. K6Y L H. Well, good evening, Jim and Lynette. This is Devin K6YLH down in Santa Cruz county, coming in through Echo Link. So hope that y' all are hearing me okay. Well, let's see. As Bill mentioned these hands down, activating the Austral island has been real interesting. It's Tango X Ray 5. Echo uniform is the call sign. And I've also been trying to work them on different bands and different modes. And I've been pleasantly surprised at actually how strong they've been coming through here in California. So highly recommend getting on and trying to work them. Other than that, haven't been doing too much else with the radio, but enjoying the warm weather and looking forward to more of that to come. So I'll say 73 and wishing everyone a good week. This is K6Y LH. Thank you, Jevin. You were coming through very clearly. That is the roundtable, as I have it. Do we have any late check ins? Please come now with your call sign K7KSS. Kevin, go ahead. Do you have any comments? Don't have comments for the net. I did try to check in earlier with Echo link and I was unsuccessful getting through but yep, thanks for doing the net Jim. I guess I'm in and out so we're done. All right, thank you Kevin. Any more check ins come with your call sign. There you are Steve. How you doing tonight? Doing good. Been taking a little bit of break from Rotterdam radio stuff. Just checked in kind of late. Came inside from gardening and stuff and I was stopped 15 minutes later. So on the net here, just listening in. Thank you for doing the Net out there and hello everybody on the net. One thing I'd like to mention is the 28th, March 28th to the Elks Lodge in Paradise. In case anyone's interested there's going to be a homesteading fair and a lot of stuff having to do with being more self reliant. But the PARS Group, Paradise Imagery Radio Society Group is going to have a little, probably a little booth or a little location there inside where they might talk about like emergency communications, GMRs and one of the latest things meshtastic let me reset and that is a good subject out here. In case anyone's interested. I know a few others, Greg K6 Gap and Chris JHT I know they have nodes for Meshtastic and it's becoming more and more popular in the Chico area. Paradise Group put up over about 20 nodes up there. It's covered that area pretty good, pretty saturated, pretty good coverage. The search and rescue group down in the forest ranch and excuse me and over by the search and rescue building have some really good strong nodes and and many of us around here in Chico have these solar nodes up on our roofs. There's over 20, I'd probably say closer to 25 or so nodes now located in and amongst Chico, but probably could use some more. So maybe there'd be interesting people out there that would like to have some sort of mesh system going of nodes where they can talk. You don't have to be ham by any stretch. The one area of town where I think it needs better coverage actually over by where Tom lives and stuff over there, the middle of town, downtown area could use some more nodes in that area but that would just help extend the coverage. Today I was sitting over there in Chico Panera with a friend of mine from Idaho come down and showing him Meshtastic and I was getting from that building into Antioch in Fremont over that that way this morning with a half a dozen messages and conversations back and forth. So it's pretty neat little system. It is like texting. You don't. It doesn't use the Internet in as such as you know you personally. But like the search and rescue building does have a tie in. There's a few tie ins. The center buttes has probably have some sort of a tie in but I've been pretty regular to get into my friend Jeremy W6LND in Orland. So we do have an active.

Mesh system for at least meshtastic tilt till about Chico. Not not a whole lot going north right now, so just something to think about. If you're interested, you know, check into meshtastic.org or perhaps talk to me at some point or email. I'm good on qrz. Anyway, thank you for doing the net gym and I appreciate you out there. It's been a pretty busy season so far for me. KN6MGK. Thank you very much Steve and any more check ins come with your call sign. Before I close out the net. Any additional comments? You all right? Thanks everyone for checking in. This concludes the Gears Weekly Club Net. This net is closed at 7:51pM73 to all. K6 est is court.

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QST. QST, QST. This is KG6 Cable. Opening segment traffic. That's part of the National Traffic System. And the purpose of this is to relay formal traffic into and out of the Sacramento Valley provider. This is a direct. Please make no transmissions without control. All stations are requested to stay on breakage until secure. X code 6 Ko lesser located located west of Wilson Station. With emergency of prior traffic. Please go down W6 RHC Repeater Check 2. On the ring station where traffic to be lifted. Kf6 obi, mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg6ku call. Enroll in. No traffic. Kg6k. Good evening, lester in the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you. Busy. Kf60j1, K6rcs. Good evening, lester in the gang. K6rcs, randall, chico. No traffic. Good evening, randall. Thank you, kc6ufe, kc6ufe, bill incapay and all traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you, Echo six, papa mike, django, russ and gerber. Good evening. Lester in the group. And I have no traffic. Good evening, russ. Thank you, kn6pww. All right, that's the Rose. I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check in? No further traffic or check in. This SAM's K6KUO closing segment of Valley traffic this daily at 2100 hours local time. Doing the W6 rec repeater on 1468-5030. All stations are excused. And I'd like to thank everybody who ticked in tonight. And to go to the Empire Amateur Radio Society for the use of computer this close to 2103 local time. $73. Clearing frequency.

Kg6kdo, kf6djy, f6dky, kg6kuo. Go ahead. Good evening, Lester. Late check in. Clock went faster than I was going. Not a problem. I come close to not being here tonight. I just got home from Sacramento. Anyway, you have a Good evening. KG6KO. Thank you, Lester. Have a good evening. Also. KF6TJY.

W6r h c repeater check 3.

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. W6R H C Repeater checked 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.

Beers, 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 next W6 RHC repeater check two.

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.

W6r h c repeater check 1.

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. W6RHC repeater check 2.

Hear told the 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.

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 1.

Here 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 two.