W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-20

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Speaker A: The gars Monday night net will commence in about three minutes. Kf6obi.
Speaker B: Okay, 86uis sounding good, mike. Q5.
Speaker A: Thank you, Bob, for that. I really appreciate it.

Speaker A: Good Evening, this is Mike KF6OVI in Willows, your net control station tonight for the GARS Monday Night Net. This net meets every Monday evening at 2000 hours. That's 8pm local time. Using the this month will be the Whiskey 6 Golf Romeo Charlie repeater the 105 machine. This is a directed net. Please make no transmissions unless cleared by Net control. When checking in, please give your call name, a signal report and if you have any traffic for the net or wish to be included in a talkback segment, NetControl has the following announcements. Right now the only one I have is to invite you all to the Winter Field Day, the Gars Winter Field Day Pota in Foxhot this coming Saturday the 24th to be held at the Grizzly Flats recreation area at the Black Butte Recreation or Black Butte Lake. And notice I just sent out an updated flyer to the membership so please take a look. It has the updated coordinates so you can drive right to the site. Are there any other announcements for the Netanyahu tonight? Please come now. Hearing none. Membership and regular check in. Roll call is as follows. Alpha Foxtrot 6 Oscar, Alpha Iana Cape. This is Alpha Foxtrot, six Oscar, Alpha, Ian and Kabay, your Q5. Bit foggy out there tonight. Be listening 73. Thank you, Thank you Ian for checking in with us tonight and the signal report you were Q5 through the repeater and I also appreciate you sending me those texts reminding me to update the flyer. It was supposed to have been updated for everybody's information yesterday. But the person that who is helping me with the website they had an emerge family emergency and left and they're in Washington state right now with family up there. So that's why it didn't get updated yet. Anyway, moving on here. Alpha Golf 6, Victor, Alpha, Ryan and Willis, Alpha, kivo 6, juliet, november, joe and williams. Alpha, Kilo, Six, Juliet, November, Joe, Williams,
Speaker B: York 25 into the repeater. I have nothing for the net.
Speaker A: Thank you Joe for your Q5 check in this evening and the St. Louis Park. I really appreciate you being there tonight. Kilo, Golf, State six, Golf, Alpha, Bravo, Greg and Chico. Kilo, Charlie Six, Uniform, Foxtrot, Echo, Bill and Capay,
Speaker C: C6, Ufe, Bill and Cape. Good evening to the group and check me in. Put me me on the talk back list.
Speaker A: Thank you Bill for checking in this evening with a Q5 signal and the signal report and you are marked down for the roundtable. Kilo, Charlie 6, Uniform, India, Sierra, Bob and Elk Creek.
Speaker B: Kilo, Charlie 6, uniform, Bob and Elk Creek Q5 Mike and I got nothing further. Talk back tonight.
Speaker A: Thank you Bob for checking in this evening with a wonderful clear Q5 signal and thank you. For the signal report, Kilo foxtrot 6, oscar, bravo, india, mike and willows is calling net kilo, golf 6, kilo uniform, oscar, lester and willows. Kilo, golf 6, kilo union, oscar, lester and willows. And I don't have anything for the net tonight. But you got a good q5 signal
Speaker B: and I'll be in and out.
Speaker A: But listen, Thank you Lester for your check in this evening. In the signal report you are Q5 through the repeater and I'd like to get an early check into the Sacramento Valley traffic net, please. You got it. Thank you. Thank you, lester. Kivo, India 6, Sierra, Mike, November, Phil and Willie Willows. Kilo, India 6 here, Mike November, Phil here in Willows. Q5 signal coming in to the radio located at the KF6 OVI QTH. Nothing further than that tonight, but I will be listening. Thank you Phil. For your check in tonight. In the signal report you were Q5 through the repeater. For those listening, that is a separate radio that Phil operates remotely and that radio is all mode, all band radio that is positioned. It's his equipment that's out by my solar plant. So it does rather well. And I hope that Phil is able to do the HF1 work that he's looking to do from the same location. Kilo, kilo6, foxtrot, November, Yankee, Courtney and Willows, Kilo bike 6, victor, foxtrot, foxtrot, hank and elk creek, Kivo, november 6, sierra, juliet, juliet, dennis and corning, Kilo, November 6th, whiskey, Sierra, November, Logan and Willows. Whiskey 6, lima, november, delta, jeremy and orland. That's the membership role as I have it at this time. Are there any late check ins or members only, Please come now. Do we have any guest check ins tonight for the gar's Monday night? Net net control is kf6ob. Okay, that's great so far. So let's start a little bit of roundtable here. I guess Bill has something he'd like to say and then I have a statement what I'm working on lately. So Bill, how's everything going for you and what do you have for us at kce6ufe?
Speaker C: Kce6ufe? Good evening to the group and first of all, I'm going to attempt Winter Field Day from the home QTH this year again. So nothing new there. And today the HF bands got hit by a coronal Mass ejection from the X class flare of a day or so ago that was pointed right at us and pretty much shut the bands down. Muted everything pretty good. And the one big thing that I noticed, other than the fact there was a lot less traffic, was that you could really hear the warble and chatter on the signals coming over the poles. That was sounded like, I described it as somebody trying to grind rocks in their blender. So it was interesting. But it's starting to fade out and quiet down right about now and should go away by tomorrow. So back to net. KC6UFE.
Speaker A: Thank you Bill for reporting your observations on the HF bands today. Hopefully yes, that things will come back to normal, well, fairly normal. So I really appreciate that. Are there any others that have anything that they'd like to impart upon us tonight? Please come now.
Speaker B: KC6UIS Bill Electric, thank you for that report. I wasn't aware that that happened. I wasn't on the air to experience the problem. But it's nice to know about what was going on. So thank you again. KC6UIS baconet.
Speaker A: Thank you Bob. So latest goings on here at the QTH is I've been working on the off center fit dipole rebuild. I've got one more mass to put up and then I strung out today the in fit half width wave antenna element that I destroyed here a couple of years ago, maybe it was back last April and I rebuilt that, repaired it, stretched it out. I also stretched out alongside it or just underneath it a brand new element and there's quite a length difference between the two. So supposedly it's the replacement element for the one I destroyed. The new one is much shorter so I've got a lot of testing to do. Anyway, that's what's going on here. So we have anybody that has any comments or suggestions before we close the net, please come now. AK6JN. Yes Joe.
Speaker B: Yeah, I just wanted to mention that I put together a new radial system for a JPT.
Speaker A: Excuse me.
Speaker B: JPC 12 vertical. The radios that came with it were kind of flimsy. I got some 18 gauge tin copper stranded tin copper wire, vinyl coating, 20 foot long lengths. 12 of them put it on the pole or the JPC 12 and managed to make some contacts in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas. So not bad for just a little vertical antenna.
Speaker A: That's really awesome Joe. That's great. So is this a portable antenna that you might bring to Winter Field Day? That's affirmative.
Speaker B: That's what I was testing it for. Now Unfortunately, I don't know if you remember or not, but I will be doing Winterfield Day with the BART Club
Speaker A: this year, so I'll be going down to Woodland. Fine business, Joe. Fine business. Well, you enjoy yourself down there this coming weekend and give us a report back on the 26th.
Speaker B: I was actually wondering if maybe I'll run across some of you guys, make
Speaker A: contact with you while I'm out there.
Speaker B: Keep an ear out.
Speaker A: Well, we will certainly be listening and I know you'll be listening for us. Okay. Last call for any late members or guests wishing to check into the GAR's Monday night net. Please come now. Kilo six golf alpha bravo. Kilo six golf alpha bravo.
Speaker C: Hey, good evening. This is Greg and Chico looking for a late check in. No traffic for the nap this evening. Just wanted to jump in and say hello.
Speaker A: Thank you, Greg, for checking in this evening. And you are Q5 to the repeater. Any other late members or guests, please come now. Hearing none, this concludes the gar's Monday night net. Net control would like to thank everyone who checked in tonight as well as gary for the use of of the w6 grc repeater. We hope you'll join us next week. This is mike, kf6obi and willows returning the w6grc repeater to normal service 73s to all. This is kf6obi in willows signing clear.