GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz) recordings for 2026-05-04

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 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.

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 WFIC RHC Repeater Check 2.

Speaker A: Amateur Radio Newsline Report number 2530 with the release date of Friday, April 24, 2026 to follow in five 4, 3, 2, 1. The following is a QST the FCC grants the satellite constellation company the ability to provide cell phone service from space, A popular antenna maker returns to the ham radio market and New Zealand amateurs prepare to mark the centennial of their national organization. All this and more is Amateur Radio Newsline Report number 2530 comes your way right now from around the world. This is Newsline, Amateur Radio's first independent on the air news and bulletin service. Now reporting from Charleston, West Virginia, here's Jim Damrick. Natnw we begin this week with breaking news as news lines prepare to go to production. The US Federal Communications Commission announced it had authorized as Space Mobile's full 248 satellite constellation to use requested parts of the radio spectrum, including those that had drawn objections from the amateur radio community. The agency Blue will permit AST to fulfilled its goal of providing services to consumers in so called dead zones, regions without terrestrial networks, especially for emergency services. The successful application on behalf of the Low Earth Orbit Satellite System was granted on 21 April with conditions. The grant for the use of 698-960 MHz includes permission to make use of 430-440 MHz for emergency control and tracking of the satellite, a move that amateur radio operators feared would cause interference with ham's operation. The FCC said that AST emergency telemetry use will be limited to the 430.5 MHz, 432.3 MHz, 434.1 MHz, 435.9 MHz and 439.5 MHz frequency for a duration of less than 24 hours. The FCC said in the past that interference with ham radio was, quote, unlikely. A leading US Antenna manufacturer is coming back to the ham radio marketplace following its departure last summer. Travis Litt, M3ils, picks up the story from here.
Speaker B: Stepper, which announced last summer that it was halting production of a Snake popular antennas in the amateur radio market, is returning to the ham radio business. A recent statement on the website of the Washington State company said that although Stepper had decided last year to focus on commercial sales, recent favorable developments in that sector are permitting the company to resume supplying ham.

Speaker A: I just went to the preamble and I'm on the. Was on the wrong channel. Let me try this again. W6RHC repeater check two QST. QST. QST. This is KG60K. Open Sacramento Valley traffic Net. This net's part of the national traffic System. And the purpose of this net is to relay formal traffic into it on Sacramento Valley. And to provide a standing version. This is a direct event. Police make nav turn special for raffle version and control. All stations are requested stay on frequency until they skew take controls. KG6K. No. Unless you're located west of Williams. There's any station with emergency or prior traffic.
Speaker B: With traffic to enlist. Area. Non roll call follows. Kf6opi is out of the area.
Speaker A: Kg6k.u. S called. Enrolling. No traffic. Kg6tso. Good evening. Lester in the group. This is kg6tso. Bessie with no traffic. Thank you, bessie.
Speaker B: K case. Kf6djy. 6pmt, 6 rcs. Kc6ufe
Speaker A: billing cafe. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Bill. Thank
Speaker B: you. Kn6pww. And KO6NCI.
Speaker A: KO6NCI. Chris and Chico. No traffic to report. Good evening, Lester and Lynette. Good evening, Chris. Thank you for checking in. All right, that's the rollers. I have it. Do we have any late members
Speaker B: or visitors wishing to check in? There ain't no further traffic or check in. This is K6KU.
Speaker A: Closing segment of Valley traffic standing at 2100 hours local time. 6:30 fear on 146315 old megahertz. All stations are excused. I'd like to thank everybody who checked in tonight. And the Golden Empire amateur is decided to repair this net. Close at 213 local time. $73. KG6K.