GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz) recordings for 2026-05-06

Speaker A: 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
Speaker B: all are welcome. 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.

Af, 6 ncx. Testing. Six ncx. Clear.

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 one.

W6 rhc repeater check 2. Music cyj radio check three.

Speaker A: This is kn6tw. I just heard radio check on gears east. That was me, KB6 Cyj Scott here in downtown. Beautiful.
Speaker B: Chico
Speaker C: Scott, the criminal young juvenile. This is KN6TW, Papa Whiskey. Whiskey.
Speaker B: Good evening to you. A couple of days since I turned this radio on. I just thought I'd see if it was still working.
Speaker C: Is indeed working. But right now, unfortunately, the Gears west repeater is not working. So we are going to have the net
Speaker A: on Gears east tonight. Okay, well, I'll be here. I think.
Speaker B: Still around. I'll be here.
Speaker C: Very good. Watch out for that space junk. Falling down. KN6DWW, clear for the moment.
Speaker B: Thanks for the comeback.

Speaker A: Am at the Farmer's Skillet in Chico. I encourage you all to come on down, have breakfast and, and have a good rag chew after you're done chewing your breakfast. Also regarding the repeaters, Gears west is currently down. As I'm sure a lot of you know, I'm gonna break for just a second. Kn6t WW continuing. We've had an issue there at the last second. Previous user of that frequency we switched to said they wanted it back. So we were not able to coordinate that frequency. So when, when Gears west comes up again, it will be on a new frequency. That frequency will be 147.94 negative offset. The PL tone is still 123.0. I'll repeat that and it will also go out in, in email when we get that far. Kn16ww continuing. The new Gears west frequency when the repeater comes back up will be 147. Got 945 MHz negative offset. PL tone 123.0. And yeah, there has been whack a mole with the, with repeaters. Bill's right about that for me. I spent the last few days in Sacramento very nice with the family. We were going to be grandparents before too long. So we're down there for a baby shower and that's it for me. KN6P CWW back to control.
Speaker B: Hey Jamie, great.
Speaker C: Congratulations on about to become a grandparent. That's exciting. And one question on the repeater thing. Do you have any idea when we might be able to use the Gears west repeater again?
Speaker A: I don't have a specific date. It's going to be as soon as our trustee can get up there and have a long talk with the repeater. It's a pretty remote location so it's, it's tough to get up there, but it should be.
Speaker C: I
Speaker A: don't, don't quote me on this because this is not coming from the trustee. But I suspect in the next week or two it will be back up. And I know he's, he's really working hard to get that back online. KM16WW back to control.
Speaker B: Okay, great.
Speaker C: Thanks for the information, Jamie. And we know it's not from the horse's mouth, but gives us some indication here. So good deal. All right, next is K6 EST. Jim, how are you doing, Jim?
Speaker D: Good evening, Larry, and thank you very much.
Speaker C: This is Jim, K6 EST and I'm
Speaker D: gone for a while. Glad to be back in town. Glad to hear everybody on the radio
Speaker C: enjoying the repeater drama that's all I got tonight.
Speaker D: Back to you.
Speaker B: Okay, thanks for the check in, Jim,
Speaker C: and I'm sure we're all glad to have you back in town too. Well, next is me, Larry, KF6NCX. I've been rolling with the repeaters and rolling with the weather, kind of enjoying what may be our last, our last real cool weather for a while. Been doing some, some yard work the last couple of days and over the weekend had a good time in. It was the seventh call area cuso party, a neat contest where all the, all the states where hams have seven in their call sign like Oregon and Washington and Nevada and Idaho and so on kind of are lumped together for one, one big cuso party. And so there was a lot of activity and it was fun. There's not too much on the contest agenda that's exciting this weekend. But there is one I'm interested in kind of a new contest called the Canadian Prairies Cuso party. And the host provinces for that are like Alberta and Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Maybe, maybe there are others, but those are the main ones so far as I know. Okay, that's about it for me. Let's see. Next on the list is Bill KC6UFE. How are you doing, Bill?
Speaker B: KC6UFE Bill in Cape and good evening to the net.
Speaker E: Well, my Internet provider has had multiple power failures and disconnects all week long. So it's been kind of a, it really lets you know how much how dependent we've become on the Internet and being able to connect. So I've basically sent back into the stone age about the last week or so and they finally looks like they finally got it stable. But we'll see how it goes. The thing that I really annoyed me the most was not being able to connect to the spotting networks and being able to log my contacts. Other than that, somehow I managed to survive. So I'm doing all right. So back to net KC6UFE.
Speaker C: Okay, Bill. Yeah, I know what you mean about that. It's can really frustrating when the Internet Internet is not there. I grind my teeth and do what I can to make it come back sooner as soon as I can, but it is really frustrating. Well, I'm glad you're back back online and back in business. Good deal. Well, Next we have K06NCI. Chris, how are you this evening? Chris
Speaker B: I'm doing good.
Speaker D: I just set up a new mobile radio in my truck and that's what I'm talking on right now. Just getting ready to go down to Sacramento early Tomorrow morning and. And I'll probably be talking on it a little bit, but yeah, it's not still super exciting to me just because I'm, you know, new to this and still learning. So this is my first big boy radio. I'm pretty stoked, but other than that. Yeah, not too happy about it getting hotter. No, I love, you know, the nice weather and, you know, the summertime, but not necessarily the heat here in Chico. But as long as you're on the water, it's okay. So we got that going for us, I guess, if you're getting out there. But other than that, doing good. Just another Tuesday night. KO6MCI. Done.
Speaker C: Okay, thanks, Chris. Are you a pretty new ham? It kind of sounds like that, yeah.
Speaker D: I just got my license about a month ago now and I was actually studying for. I just got my tech license. I was studying for the general last week and got kind of sidetracked with building an antenna mount because I have a roof rack on my truck and I wanted like a good ground plan on it. Right now I just have a little magnetic mount on the front of the roof which has a sunroof roof. And so I'm looking for a better ground plane. I have a roof rack on it and I wanted to build up basically welded together like a sheet metal platform, like a, like a three foot round sheet metal platform that I'm gonna run an end of my own mount and, and welded some legs to it so that I can u bolt it down to the, to the roof rack. And so, yeah, I got a little sidetracked on this project and then I had a buddy, you know, hook me with the lightly used radio. And so, yeah, I just put this in and yeah, short story long, yes, I'm new, but should be getting my amateur here pretty soon. As soon as I can get back to studying.
Speaker B: Hey, well, good deal, Chris.
Speaker C: It's great to hear you on the net and congratulations on getting licensed and have a good trip down to Sacramento tomorrow and hope you talk to a bunch of people on the way and that's great. Our last check in for the evening is K06FNY. Steve. How are you, Steve?
Speaker E: KO6FNY. I'm doing well, thank you. Also new to the club and new to the radio. I'm just excited when I can successfully
Speaker C: get on a repeater.
Speaker E: So I'm feeling pretty good about myself.
Speaker C: Great. Congratulations to you too. And I hope both you and Steve and Chris can make it to the gears meeting, which will be coming up a little later this month. It's great to have you guys licensed and, and part of the amateur community and getting on the air for the net. Good deal. Okay, well is there anybody else, any other late members or any visitors, anybody we missed who wants to check in at this point. Down at Big? Just checking in. Okay, great. Dan, good to have you check in and hope you have a good evening. Thanks for the check in. Anyone else wanting to check in before we wind things up here, Any last comments? Anybody have a question or want to say anything before we close the net?
Speaker D: Yeah, Chris Ko6NCI just had a question about that Gears meeting that you're talking about. I know that it's been mentioned before, but I can't remember when and where are those? I think they're at the library, but I can't remember when
Speaker B: they're at the library.
Speaker C: And we start at 6pm for kind of a social hour. And then there's a meeting, actually starts at 7 at the Chico Library. And I believe it's the third Monday of the month. But if I'm not right on that, maybe Jamie or someone else can correct me. Jamie,
Speaker A: you are correct. It is. It is the third Monday of the month and doors officially open at 6:30, but they actually open earlier than that usually. And the meeting meeting itself starts at seven. So you got all that right? K at six pww.
Speaker B: Okay, thanks.
Speaker C: Thanks, Jamie, for seconding what I had to say and affirming that I'm still in my right mind here. Good deal. Well, hope, hope that you can make it, Chris and, and you too, Steve. It's always fun to get together and we have a program of some kind and talk about stuff. So it's, it's a good time, those meetings. Good to see everybody. Anybody else with any last comments before we close? Yes, Jamie,
Speaker A: real quick. Remember there's also that what we just talked about was the, the monthly general membership meeting. But remember breakfast at the Farmer's Skillet in Chico this, this Saturday morning. Don't want to miss that. It's a good chance to meet a bunch of the members. K6TWW.
Speaker B: Okay, yeah.
Speaker C: Thanks for that reminder, Jamie. So one last time, or maybe not, but anybody else with another comment before we say good night?
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker C: Well, this concludes this week's Golden Empire amateur radio society club net. We're closing things down at 7:55pm thank you to everyone who checked in tonight. You were invited back next week. This is Larry KF6NCX returning the W6RHC repeater to its normal monitoring service. And as I said the net is closed at 7:55pm 73 to all KS6 NCX is clear.

Ust QST, QST. This is K2.6K opening Sacramento Valley traffic in this part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this is to relate more traffic to. And now Sacramento, Dallas and provided standard. This is addressed in this. Please go. Transmission and control. All stations are requested to dog frequency W fix R H C R. City station with emergency and party traffic. Please come down. Station. We're traffic to. Non roll call, folks. Kf6 so behind kf6, obi, mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg6ku calling rolling. No traffic. Kg6tso. Good evening, lester. In the group this is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you, bessie. Kf60. Good evening, lester. Kf6djy, bruce and chico. No traffic. And I'm back from my trip again. Welcome back. Thank you. K6rcs, K6pmt, kilo, echo6, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening. Unless they're in a group and I have no traffic. Good evening, russ. Thank you. Kc6ufe, kc6ufe. Bill in cape. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww. Kn6pww. This is jamie and chico with no traffic and good evening lester and the net. Good evening, jamie. Thank you. Ko6nci, chris. Ko6nci, this is chris and chico. No traffic to report. Good evening lester and the net. Good evening, chris. Thank you. All right, doctor, roll us. I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors? Restor check in. There is no further traffic or check in. This is K6K closing. Check minerving this net east daily at 2100 hours local time through the W6RC repeater of 146.95Golden MHz. All stations are excused to like take care about it. Checked in tonight and the golden remix. And repeat this. Meds closed at 21. 3 local time. $73. Kg 6K year old clearing frequency.