W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-15

Broadcasting live from Red Mountain at an elevation of 3673ft. This is Sac Valley's original 105 machine W6 GRC, with a PL tone of 110.9.

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Get your morning started off on the right foot. Listen in for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.

Home of the original 105 with a PL tone of 110.9. This is the W6 GRC repeater. Join us for our weekly net on Monday nights at 8:00pm.

Fill your coffee cup and join us for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.

Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

Kk 6am radio check. Yep, make it in just with a little bit of white noise. AI6US. Too many people there. Brian, repeat what you had to say. Yep, you're making it in just fine. A little bit of white noise. I wasn't sure about that because it's kind of funny. It seems like I don't have a path to Rob's place, but obviously I do. Thanks. KK 6am you bet. We'll chat with you later. AI6US. I'll just make one final announcement before the net begins here. The W6EK repeater is operating on backup receivers. So anybody checking in to the repeater directly via rf, you may need to have a little more power. We will be working on the voter controller later on in the day. So, yeah, the voter system, currently the controller for the motor system, has went down last evening again. So we are on backup receiver today. The net will continue and we'll be. The net will start in a few minutes at 7:30pm Pacific Time or a.m. 7:30am Pacific Time. Everybody have a wonderful Sunday. AI6US. Yeah, and by the way, you're not going to find out much about how you're getting into the repeater just by. Sam it. Okay, so here's the deal. If somebody wants to play around and jam the repeater today, we will just go ahead and shut her down again. So, you know, it's kind of your choice, whatever you guys want to do. But yeah, you know, don't jam the repeater, man. AI6US on W6EK.

A kw6u ai6u s. Go ahead, Jeff. Whenever you're ready. Ai6u s.

Speaker A: Is anybody hearing Jeff on the input? I am too far outside the range to hear anything. I'm wondering if he's transmitting without a PL tone.
Speaker B: Cannot hear him.
Speaker A: W1atb. All right, thank you very much. Well, until Jeff gets here, let's go ahead and get the Coffee breaknet underway. I don't know if Jeff maybe is having a problem with his radio this morning or just I texted with him earlier today so he should be around.
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker A: Coffee breaknet on the W60K repeater. It's Sunday morning and I'll just jump in here until Jeff is available. Good morning. Coffee Breaknet is on the W60K repeater located in Auburn, California. And of course this net is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club. We're here every day of the week, 7:30am until 10:00am Pacific Time. And the Coffee breaknet where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. We'll be here from 7:30am until about 10am this morning and just invite folks to check on in and be part of the conversation. So good morning. Let's see who is out there this morning. I'm Brian AI6us standing in temporarily for KW6U. And so let's go ahead and get the coffee break underway with quick in and outs as you start your morning. Who's out there this morning?
Speaker C: K6NTD.
Speaker A: Sam in Lumetri, Cannon, Twin Falls, Pedestrian,
Speaker D: Mobile,
Speaker E: Helo, Charlie 6, Sierra, Lima, Echo,
Speaker D: Jensen, cbd.
Speaker B: Morning, brian.
Speaker F: Kk 5 gulf, whiskey november,
Speaker D: kc8 lock,
Speaker F: queen, victor, mark, ohio.
Speaker A: All right, there was some doubling in there, but this is who I heard. Good morning to mark, kc8fqv. And good morning to will, kj5, golf, whiskey, november and good morning. Let's see. I think I heard ray in there. Kk 6am good morning. Carl in 6 ckv. Good morning to graydon, kc6sole. And good morning to potential pedestrian mobile. Good morning, ken, kb7 efp. And let's see. Good morning. I believe I may have heard patrick in there into dyi and the first station in there. All I heard was the end of your call. Sam in loomis. Your full call sign please. Sam
Speaker C: g6ntd.
Speaker A: Thank you. Phonetics, please. N6 mtv. Mike, tango, victor, November Tango, Delta. Okay, November Tango Victor.
Speaker C: November Tango Delta.
Speaker A: All right. Phonetics are good, aren't they? Thanks, Sam. We'll be right back to you and start out the net with you. There were some other stations in there that you. You didn't make it in. Spread it out let's get you on the list. Who did I miss? All right, sounds like station was trying to get in, but you're not holding the repeater. Did I miss anyone? All right, from the east coast hub fireside, you are not making it into your repeater. We're just hearing white noise from you. So maybe when you get closer to your repeater, give it a try again. Hey, good morning. Up to the top. Kilo 6, November tango delta. Good morning, Sam and welcome to the net. Anything for the net this morning?
Speaker C: No, sir, just happy to get back into him. I've been away from it for 15 plus years. Just got tent up on the house and dusted off the rig. Penn was fortunate enough to attend the meeting Friday night and get to meet a couple of you. So I'm looking forward to further involvement. K6MTD
Speaker A: all right, Sam, well, welcome back into the hobby. Glad you could join us. And yeah, that was quite the food spread. I think I gained about five pounds Friday night. Well, good morning to you and thanks for checking in this morning. You have a great Sunday. Good morning, Patrick into dyi.
Speaker G: Good morning Brian and everyone on the net. Just thought I would get in here while I can. Never did make it to bed. So I'm gonna be dropping out of here probably right about now until sometime today. We're supposed to do some repeater stuff with a local club yesterday, but the guy never did call me or anything. So know if I'll be expecting one today or if that'll get held off until next weekend.
Speaker A: Sorry to hear that. But yeah, definitely. I hope you catch. Catch some sleep there. Good morning to you and. Or good evening and you have a restful day ahead. And any Daytona for you?
Speaker G: No Daytona for me personally. It'll certainly be a thing in the house. Although, you know, my. When I was growing up, my parents were especially. My dad was big into nascar. Their thing now is Formula one. So mostly Formula one. My dad still watches nascar but my mom really likes it. Formula one stuff.
Speaker E: So there you go.
Speaker A: All right. Well, good morning, Patrick. You have a wonderful day ahead. And we'll catch you tomorrow morning, I'm sure. N2DYI back in North Carolina right now. You have a wonderful day. 7373 Brian N2D Yi let's head on up to Twin Falls, Idaho. Good morning, Ken. KB7DFP out on. Sounds like an early morning walk.
Speaker H: Good morning. Yes, that is true. When I'm not working I usually do this and you know, it kind of wakes you up. I haven't had my Coffee yet, but I'm actually going to go get one.
Speaker A: Probably Starbucks, I guess.
Speaker H: And let's see.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, for breakfast it takes. Well, I came in here to make a couple QSTs before the net started that, you know, our repeater was being worked on today. And so this is what I'm like working without coffee. So you are. You and I are on a similar level this morning. Hate to pull you down to that level, Ken. You have a wonderful day and as always, pleasure to have you checked in. Anything else for the Net?
Speaker H: Nope. I'm going to seek out that coffee so I can become normal again. And back over to you, KB7 DSP.
Speaker A: All right, Ken, you have a wonderful day ahead. Great to have you check in this morning and we'll, well, I'm sure hear from you again. Mignana. Let's see. Happy Sunday. Good morning, Graydon KC6SOLE.
Speaker E: Good morning, Brian. Good morning to the NEPT. Real quickly, I was just going to remind people that we got quite a few days of rain and they're talking about snow at lower elevations for this storm.
Speaker A: Got a winter warning last night.
Speaker E: I was looking at it and they're talking about pretty significant snow levels coming down to about 2,000ft. So you and I and many others remember Snowmageddon a few years ago where people got caught by lower elevation snow,
Speaker I: were not prepared for it.
Speaker A: So just a reminder, if you need to fuel your generator, you need to
Speaker E: get your generator operational, you need to fill your propane tanks. Now would be a good time.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna have to look up the stork warning to see if it got updated, but yeah, okay, I see that now. They did update it 21 hours ago up to, let's see, range up to one foot between 2000 and 2500ft. Yeah, that, that could make a Snowmageddon for us.
Speaker E: So just wanted to toss that out there in case anybody is not ready. Be a good time to get ready. You know, the club did a great job. You did a great job organizing people last time to rescue a few people by taking them propane, taking them generators and stuff like that. Hopefully we can avoid a lot of that if people are prepared.
Speaker G: But everyone have a great day.
Speaker A: Key C6 sleigh. All right, great and great to see you at the club meeting Friday evening. And you and Lisa and you have a wonderful Sunday at clearing with Graydon KC6 Sle. And good morning, Carl N6 CKV.
Speaker I: Good morning, Brian and everyone else out there. Well, they have finished up the taxes go to Walmart to do some shopping, getting ready for the rain and maybe watch nascar. So it's going to be a busy day.
Speaker A: Definitely sounds that way. And hopefully you're all prepped for this rain. I was thinking I was going to wake up this morning to clouds and threatening rainstorms but it's blue skies and the sun is out. It's a beautiful morning. Well, you have a great day. Good morning to Ruth and yeah, enjoy the day. And any prediction for the NASCAR race today?
Speaker E: I believe.
Speaker A: What time does that start?
Speaker I: They're starting an hour earlier. It's 1:30 east coast time which makes it around 10:30 our time if I remember right.
Speaker A: Well that is earlier so we better get this coffee break net wrapped up on time. Carl, have a wonderful day. Happy Sunday to you and good morning to Ruth. N6CKV AI6US.
Speaker I: 73 everyone have a good Sunday. That I'm 60kv in hyde land.
Speaker A: I shouted that into the other room. No response yet. Good morning. Clearing within 6 CKV and let's check in with Ray. Good morning Ray. KK 6:00am
Speaker B: Good morning. Did you send me two text messages this morning?
Speaker A: I don't think so, but if I did, maybe the second one contains a photo not suitable for the net. I don't know. I think I only sent you one but I don't have my phone with me.
Speaker B: Kind of interesting because I thought it took two messages from the same person to wake up. Do not disturb and you did wake up. Do not disturb.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, just wanted to. I'm certain that I only sent one but yeah, I just wanted to let you know because I know you monitor the voter receivers. Just wanted to let you know what was going on with the system today. That we're on the backup receiver today. Well, good morning to you. Now that you're up awake and sounds like a little earlier than usual. Any plans for the day?
Speaker B: Probably sit here and listen to the train wreck and then wait for the rain to start and watch that train wreck. But all from the comfort of my place.
Speaker A: Very good. Well, Lynn made up some chili so I think I'm actually probably going to watch the race. I don't watch many races but Daytona, it's always been a favorite of mine for some reason. A lot of history steeped in that one. Have a great day Ray and you'll be on the right side of the door and you have a wonderful day ahead. Thanks for helping us out on monitoring the repeater system.
Speaker B: Well, like I said, maybe I like to watch train wrecks.
Speaker A: I'm not sure.
Speaker B: Anyway, 73kk 6am
Speaker A: thank you for your continued positive support of the repeater system. Good morning. KJ5 Golf Whiskey November Good morning. Will you.
Speaker I: Good morning, Brian.
Speaker F: Yes, I'm here on a Sunday not going to church this morning because I'm trying to face down some Meals on Wheels that I didn't receive and I'm checking with FedEx and they don't have any updated time as to when it's going to be delivered. And so that's got me a little bit concerned there.
Speaker I: Go ahead, Brian.
Speaker F: KJ5 Golf Whiskey November.
Speaker A: Interesting. I always assumed, evidently incorrectly, that wheels and meals were delivered by local volunteers. I did not realize that they relied on on the logistics services for delivery. Is that standard for your area?
Speaker F: Well, it's standard for this particular company because they send me two weeks of meals at a time so it's not delivered on a daily basis.
Speaker A: Very interesting.
Speaker E: Yeah.
Speaker A: I know a couple people in our area here that do delivery and I know they once a week I think they head out and deliver a batch of meals. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. Do you have backup for that or are you okay?
Speaker F: I do have some extra food here, so yes, I'm okay as far as that goes. It's just maddening. They were supposed to be here on Tuesday and here it is Sunday and I have not received them nor have I gotten any notifications as to when or if they will be delivered. So that's kind of where we stand right now.
Speaker A: I don't know what kind of food items they deliver, but hopefully there's no spoilables in there. Well, Will, good luck with that tracking down those missing Meals on Wheels and please keep us updated on that. And sorry that you're having to miss your church service this morning. KJ5 Gulf Whiskey November have a wonderful day. And that's Will checking in from Oklahoma.
Speaker F: 73 is Brian and I'll let you know as soon as I know what's going on. KJ5 Del Fiscal November we're clear.
Speaker A: Well, that's very interesting how you learned today about I had no idea that FedEx or UPS or other services delivered Meals on Wheels. I always thought that was a, you know, somebody who came and visited, knocked on the door and visited for a moment on their way through. Interesting. Good morning Mark. KC8FQV.
Speaker F: Yep.
Speaker D: Morning. KCF QV yeah, that is interesting about the Neil Snow wheels. So maybe he's on an out of area and out of, you know, out where there's not a lot of meal. But it sounds like they might do a little different. Maybe they put a little more food in a package and you prepare it more for yourself where I think some of them other ones are like ready to eat and you might, you know, get two meals out of one or whatever. They give you two meals something. But yeah, that's interesting that FedEx delivers the meal on wheels but well I know there you've seen on TV where they send that cooking ingredients and that so they measure everything out and they send it to you a company. There are probably several companies out there. Yeah, it's amazing what's happening in thing but yeah, we were warmed up yesterday real nice. A lot of the driveway is pretty well all clear. There's a couple places where there's a little ice but we'll send it back your way. So yeah, there was some place where there's ice but I got rid of snow and that. So I went down, got the mail and it was pretty decent walking down. There wasn't no ice really. So hopefully the guys can get the repeater put back together and everything. But sounds like it working real good. But it must be a single site rf and of course you have the All Star and Echo link and all that working still for you guys.
Speaker B: So.

Speaker A: I'll send it back the net control case fqb.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's how our system is working normally we're on three separate voters for better coverage for lower power and better coverage. And that system we lost the. We're having problems with the controller became intermittent the last day and a half and then last night about 11 o' clock it just gave up the ghost. So we swapped over to a single point backup receiver. So that's what we're on right now. Yes, indeed. With description of his wheels on Meals on Wheels delivery, I was thinking, man, that almost sounds like the MRE packets are being delivered. I'm certain it's better than that, but yes indeed. Well, you have a wonderful day, Mark, and thanks for checking in case and enjoy the meltdown. The self clearing driveway. KC8FQV AEI6US coffee break. Yeah, go ahead Will with your comment.
Speaker A: Yeah, these meals are actual TV dinner like trays that this company sends out. It's made in Idaho but shipped out of Tennessee.
Speaker B: Okay. How interesting. That is quite the logistics. But yeah, if those have been. If those are TV type dinner meals, boy, I'm just, I'm not too certain of what you're going to receive is still going to be properly refrigerated. So definitely be careful and thanks for that additional information on that. All right, let's see. I'm going to put a call out and see if Jeff has his system cleared up and we'll see if we can hand over net control duties. KW6U Good morning Jeff. How copy now? Kw6u are you there? Jeff, this is AI6us. All right, I don't know. Did anybody hear Jeff on the input frequency? I am a little too far out of range to be monitoring Jeff on input. All right, nothing heard. So Jeff, if you're monitoring it almost is like you're maybe not outputting a PL tone or something. But yeah, nothing was heard. Hey, good morning coffee breaknet. We'll go ahead and continue on here and see if Jeff can get things sorted out and we'll just go ahead and take another round of in and outs. Let's do one more round of in and outs before we start taking regular rag chew. Good morning. It is Sunday morning. You, you're probably going, oh my gosh, Brian is on. Did I miss Sunday? Is it Monday already? No, it's not. So yeah, let's take another round of in and outs for the coffee breaknet here on the W6ek repeater. Good morning. Happy Sunday.
Speaker C: Whiskey 2 Victor X Ray
Speaker D: Kilo Kilo 6 Mike, Uniform,
Speaker A: K3 Victor, Golf Mike, K6DCL Morning.
Speaker E: Happy Sunday.
Speaker B: Kilo Oscar 6 See the Hotel Juliet Kilo November 6 Whiskey, Quebec, Uniform, KN6WTU. All right, good morning. This is who I heard. Kn6wqu. Good morning dan, k06ihj. Good morning to larry, k6dcl. Good morning dave and ka3vgm. Good morning jimmy and kk6mu good morning and w2vx. Good morning to you there, doug. Did I miss anyone? Yeah, brian, kilo, oscar six kilo micromeo, over. All right, and we have Robert, Ko6 KMR and then there might have been one other station in there doubling. All right, nothing heard. All right, up to the top. We have a nice list here for quick in and outs. And Good morning to Dud W2VX. I guess your daughter is leaving today and taking that wonderful new young ham radio operator with her.
Speaker C: Good morning Brian and everybody else. You know what, I have both daughters here in town, one from Virginia, one from Texas, and one from Texas has our grandson and she's hanging out for
Speaker D: a couple of weeks.
Speaker C: So it's pandemonium, love and excitement all mixed into one here at the Chandler qth. And I will be spending some time in Never Never Land and it sounds like maybe there's something wrong with the repeater I just clicked on. Do we need to commit in the afternoon or late morning?
Speaker B: Yes indeed. Yeah, if you can review the text messaging last evening and I we there was another failure on the voter system and so the voter is down and he was not able to telnet into RTC mh. So just kind of a heads up read through that thread. But we are on the backup backup receiver up at Rob KM6YKX's QTH.
Speaker D: Yeah. Okay.
Speaker C: So yeah, my morning is free. After I drop I'm gonna just drive right past the Delta passenger drop off. I'm gonna make them jump out of the car and I'll zip back and
Speaker B: take care of that.
Speaker C: Anyway, seven threes to everybody. Hope everybody has a safe, pleasant day. And you know what, I thought it was gonna rain all week, but it looks to me like I might even be able to fit in a bicycle ride later. Seven threes. Brian, thanks for running in that W2BX.
Speaker B: I'm clear. Okay Doug, very good. Thank you for checking in this morning and enjoy that time with your family. And yes, I think we've narrowed it down to some possible hardware failures. Tom was doing some logging last night and we're seeing some drop timing issues occurring when the system is going down. So GPS or just the node itself or the rtcm. So I have the replacement hardware here ready to go and so we'll get together after your venture down to the airport and yeah, slow down to at least, you know, five miles an hour before you. I know you won't do that. I'm sure there'll be some good hugs and goodbyes on the curb. And how lovely to have both daughters home for the weekend. You have a great day, Doug. WTBX Co. AI6Whips Breaknet 73. And up next, kk6mu good morning mike.
Speaker D: Good morning Brian in the net. I just want to thank you guys
Speaker B: for hosting All Star because I'd be
Speaker D: interested allspar and I got all set up yesterday and by the end of the day I was making some DX contacts including a slow scan TVnet from Australia. Back to you.
Speaker B: Certainly very interesting the things you can find. What resource are you using to find active nets? Are you using the active log, excuse me, active node lifting on the site or what tool are you using?
Speaker D: I'm using the DV Switch mobile app and it has a feature where you can look at the active stations that are on All Star. I also tried the actual All Star website this morning just to see if it was more extensive. And I also find out my Trip Droidstar app, I've got that working with the All Star mode too. So now I can do it either way.
Speaker B: How interesting. So let me ask you a question. Did you notice any different activity reports coming through the All Star website vs DV switch?
Speaker D: Insufficient experience to draw a definite conclusion, but all I can say is I'm happy DV Switch mode, it gives me plenty of nodes that are active to check out.
Speaker B: All right, well, very cool. Yeah, and I heard you testing yesterday and yeah, All Star, it's a great thing. A lot of people will go, oh, that's not a real ham radio. Well, no, I think it's the most wonderful enhancement. You know, IRLP was out there and then Echo Link was out there. All Star definitely takes linking and just to a completely different level. Well, good morning to you. Any other plans for today?
Speaker D: Well, I gotta hop along here because I lead a church band at 9am and then after that probably go for a walk with the dogs and my daughter, her dog is having his sixth birthday and then we're going to go up to a charity event afternoon where the school kids make a bunch of ceramic bowls and you buy a ticket and you get a mystery ceramic bowl and Then they feed you soup.
Speaker B: Soup in the bowl. Very cool. I like that idea. Well, I will let you go so you can get get over to the church and not miss your gig there. But great to have you drop by this Sunday morning and we'll look forward to another morning. So good morning Mike and we'll check in with you later on and a great birthday party this afternoon as well.
Speaker D: 7373 KK6MU
Speaker B: and good morning to Jimmy. KA3VGM
Speaker A: Good morning Brian. K3GM. Hope you guys get your repeater fixed. I can't tell any difference on this end obviously, but hopefully you guys get your repeater fixed today and everything technical. And it's actually almost 40 degrees this morning so we are warming up back here in Pennsylvania. I haven't seen it that high in the morning for a long time. So back to you Brian, Asxus Cape Ferry gm. I'll be around if you guys need it. It's angle.
Speaker B: Well, appreciate that offer there Jimmy. And yeah, 43 degrees, that is a heat wave. I somehow in the back of my mind I picture you sitting on that porch in your. In your bermuda shorts and a sweet tea and some flip flops. Yeah, I know Summer's not here yet. Yeah, thank you very much. Yeah, we're going to be working on the repeater again today. Yesterday it resolved itself and so we weren't able to track down the problem. But then again yesterday afternoon the voter controller failed again. So we've kind of narrowed it down. Had Tom doing a little monitoring last night. So we have a little more input to go on today. So thank you very much Ka3VG GM. Happy Sunday to you and enjoy that tropical heat wave. 7 3. Speaking of tropical heat waves, let's head south. K6DCL Good morning Dave.
Speaker E: Morning Brian. I've been listening a while and you're right. I was thinking it was either Monday or you decided to take on an extra day. Well, too bad you guys have problems with the motor system and controller. I know you're going to get it resolved and I said so happy you had backup. I thought initially a couple of my
Speaker B: problems
Speaker E: I had some issues and I couldn't get back into the net and just was driving me crazy. Anyway, I'm not happy in that it to tries the voter problem but I'm happy you guys know and have the wizardry to get it to fix it temporarily and then fix it permanently. So thank you for for that Ryan and I know we all appreciate that and I know we all went through withdrawal even Lucy, she goes what happened? What happened? And she's eating her biscottis and I've devoured mine already. Anyway, happy, hope you get some time of it but thank you for working diligently and my buddy Tom also working monitoring and exactly where it is. So that's cool. You guys are great. K6DCL thank you and happy Sunday.
Speaker B: Yeah, the problem that we're having with is just associated with the local voter receivers. So yeah, it's the controller that samples which you know which receiver has the best signal. It just becomes unresponsive, brain dead, loses synchronization. So yeah, it's all smoke and mirrors and wizardry but thank you for the good wishes on that. But yeah, Doug W2VX is also heavily involved with this and he and Tom were doing some diagnostics yesterday and definitely having computer skills very important in this day and age. It's not just solder and a soldering gun anymore. Dave, good morning to you, good morning to Lucy and yes even I had withdrawal symptoms yesterday with the coffee breaknet being off the air. K6DCL AI6US. Happy Sunday to you. 7 3. Good morning Larry. KO6IHJ
Speaker A: Good morning Brian.
Speaker B: Yes, this is Kilo Oscar 6 radio 6 tell Juliet. So glad to hear everybody back on the radio. We made a pump impromptu last night about 9:30. You heard that? We were getting. We were jonesing man. We need the coffee breakneck. Glad to see everybody up there on the meeting. It was wanted to put faces to names to call signs. It was a good meet, it was a good dig. Great building, great building. Other than that I gotta go to town and do some grocery shopping. Let's see if this starts a trend grocery shopping today. Other than that, let's work day in the shack. All right. And you look lovely in a lab coat, Larry. I saw a quick little snippet of you inside of a Henry amplifier. Keep one hand behind your back dude. Keep one hand behind your back when you're playing around with that thing. Well, great to see you also at the Friday night meeting and I know Smitty and others are behind the scenes working on a audio solution because the in house audio was. Was not working properly. So it, it will be addressed. So it's even going to get better. What a spread of treats. My gosh. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I snagged a couple, went home with it, said they were for somebody else. But we know the real reason on that one. Did the, did those snacks make it out of Auburn? Well of course they did. But maybe in your tummy. I took four cookies, two browns, two cookies, and two of them made it home. So that's a 5050 shot right there. Those are good odds. Better than many opportunities to play in Las Vegas. I'll take your cookie bet. Anytime. Hey, Larry. Yeah? It was great seeing you. And, boy, what a turnout. I think 70. About 72, 75 in person.

Speaker A: And 26 online. So yeah, we had very nice. Respectable turnout and great presentation on mesh core so. Or on mesh.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker A: Hey, you have a great Sunday. It was. Well, Brian, everybody else out there, I thought it was going to rain, but now I got to go out and work some more.
Speaker B: So let's get at it.
Speaker A: There's more people coming in here, so K06IHT. Thanks for running the coffee break Med. Absolutely. Yeah, I'm just. We'll see if here in a moment if Jeff has a working radio. For some reason he's having a little trouble hitting the system today. So we'll get that resolved. And you might hear another voice joining in on the net here in a few minutes. Clearing with K06IHJ. And good morning, Dan, KN6WQU. Great to see you also at Friday night's meeting. Hope all is well with you. Happy Sunday.
Speaker C: Break now. And Brian and everybody out here. I'm over in south side of Sacramento this morning. Yeah, you're right. I couldn't get into the repeater this morning. That was me trying earlier. So I'm over on the cubic garden out this morning. So thank God I got that and the 950 Pro.
Speaker D: But yeah, it's good to see everybody at the.
Speaker C: At the meetings definitely agree on the audio situation, but I know that we get good hands on it. So that's all I got to say. Just another beautiful day here in the neighborhood.
Speaker D: This is KF6WQ.
Speaker A: Yeah, great turnout. A lot of people I have not seen at a club meeting in a while and boy, what a wonderful welcome, you know, by the kind ladies from the food pantry to put out quite that spread for us. It was very inviting. Well, you have a wonderful day there, Dan. Yeah. And right. Right now we are on a single backup that's located up at KM6YKX's home. Nice overlooking but yeah, it makes getting into the repeater a little more challenging but still a very good overlook location. Dan, anything else for the net before I let you go?
Speaker C: All right, there we go. Now we can program, we can transmit. I got to figure out how to make this thing do that anyway. Let's see.
Speaker D: Nope, you're right.
Speaker C: The spread was pretty amazing. We got definitely got my hands into a couple of peanut butter cookies and
Speaker E: some of those sugar cookies.
Speaker C: I'm a sucker for those.
Speaker D: This is ksticks wq.
Speaker C: Brian, thanks for running the nets and everybody have a great day.
Speaker A: All right. Dan. Yes, indeed. I sampled a few myself.
Speaker E: Yeah.
Speaker A: KN6Wquai6U.S. Happy Sunday there, Dan. And good morning to Robert K06KMR.
Speaker B: Well, good morning, Brian. Good to hear you on a Sunday. Like you were saying, though, I heard your voice.
Speaker A: I said, is this Monday?
Speaker B: I missed a day somewhere. But glad you're on here with us. And I'm going to do my usual routine. Karen and I are going to go to the gym sometime this morning and come back and continue studying up on the extra class.
Speaker C: And
Speaker B: other than that, just enjoy the day. It looks like it's going to be a beautiful day.
Speaker A: We have really been treated to an unexpected additional day of beautiful, beautiful early springtime weather. I woke up expecting to see overcast and threatening rain and we have this. But I'm kind of like a couple other people. It almost makes me think I have to go outside and take advantage of it and do some work around the yard. Well, you have a wonderful day, Jim. And then studying and. Yeah, sounds like you have some great activities for the day ahead. Happy Sunday and sorry for making you skip there and think that maybe you had slept through Sunday.
Speaker B: No problem whatsoever on that. Kilo Oscar, Six Kilo Mike Romeo. I'm just going to turn it back over to you. And good morning to all the group. Take care. 73 out.
Speaker A: All right, Robert, you have a wonderful day ahead. And yeah, Robert's enrolled in the extra class that Orion and Anders and Stephen and several others are teaching. And so, yeah, I think this next weekend, in fact, I believe they're going to have their first lab. So I think there's going to be a mention put out there that there might be a need for a few Elmers to support the extra lab that is going to be happening this next weekend. So we'll look for a little more information on that maybe from Orion during this upcoming week. Good morning. Coffee breaknet on the W6ek repeater. Let's go ahead and see if Jeff is out there. KW6U Jeff, how copy now?
Speaker E: Good morning, Brian. KW6U, how am I coming through?
Speaker A: You are coming through just fine. So are you capable? Are you able to take over the net? I'm at the end of the list right now, so you just let me know it's going to work for you. I don't want you sitting in some parking lot shivering in the cold.
Speaker E: Well, I'm in the truck right now. It's 47 degrees outside, but the sun is up, so I suspect it'll warm up a little bit anyway. No, I'm actually comfortable. I got my laptop here. I can just transmit from the vehicle.
Speaker A: All Right. Well, I know I made some hearts kind of skip. Everybody thought that, my gosh, it's Monday. My calendar is messed up.
Speaker F: So.
Speaker A: Yeah, very good. So I will hand the net control operation over to you there and I'll be monitoring here. You have a wonderful day ahead. And sorry to hear that you had to go through the scramble. But yeah, for some reason I don't think your base station there at home was putting out a PL tone. It was very odd.
Speaker E: I did a full reset on it and was looking at, you know, all the menus, put things from memory. I'm thinking I'm actually having a problem with an antenna. I got some water up on the rooftop. It's just a simple antenna up there, nothing special. So no power coming out to speak of. So we'll see what happens. I'll go check everything out after, later on this afternoon. In either case, I am ready to take over whenever you are. And thank you so much for jumping in there and getting going.
Speaker A: My pleasure. I kind of have this thing for the coffee breaknet and I like, you know, kind of disappointed when we have to skip a day which we had to do yesterday. And then I was thinking, boy, we just can't do that two days in a row, could we? Anyway, so you might want to make a couple announcements throughout the morning. If people are trying to get into the repeater via RF that they may need to use a little extra power. Even though the backup receiver is on a high vantage point, it just doesn't have the same coverage as the voters. So. Yeah, very good. Hey, thanks, Jeff. I will hand net control operation over to you and you have a great Sunday. And I'll be listening out kw6u ai6us over to you, Jeff.
Speaker E: All right, Brian, thank you so much. This is kw6u taking back over the coffee break net from this morning's curve bubble. Clearly had a problem on my end and I'll figure it out after the net just move to the vehicle. So if I am now sounding good to you all, that is great. Let me know if I start to have troubles again and we'll figure it out. In either case, we'll go ahead and take over the net here and take some more check ins this morning. This is kw6u for the coffee break net. Let me know if you are an in and out.
Speaker F: Ko68.
Speaker G: For lgi. In and out.
Speaker E: All right. Good morning, Greg. KO6H and good morning, Sam. K4 Lima, Golf, Idaho. I've got you as an in and out, Sam, so I'll Take you first. Good morning. What are you up to today?
Speaker G: Good morning, Denver. Here it's about 40 something I think. Very sunny, very nice day here. I had a little trouble logging in this morning. I don't know, had to fight with it for a while to get logged in. But other than that, that was about it. I had to go to the broadcastify for a few minutes at first sound okay here, Jeff. I got my volume turned down a little. Turn it up just a little more.
Speaker F: Now.
Speaker E: You sound pretty good to me as well. Although I could hear everything that was going on except what was sounding like going out. But sitting in the, in the car right now, just kind of taking over the net from here so that Brian can get a break so he doesn't have a whole week's worth of coffee breaknet due.
Speaker G: Okay, you sound pretty good. I turned the volume up and it sounds okay. I can understand very clearly 100%. I think he'd be okay for the rest of the net here and okay. Being in a truck at 40 some degrees, that's a little bit cool. I guess about like here. Are you getting any sunshine into the windows?
Speaker E: Not yet, but it looks like I will have some sunshine here in about 10 minutes. And you know what? I'm comfortable at 47 degrees.
Speaker G: It doesn't bother me much.
Speaker E: I might have a different opinion when icicles start forming off my nose.
Speaker G: Yeah, well, I had my sunglasses on. They were frosting over constantly this morning and it doesn't do that very often. Well, I'll let you bounce on down the road here and see what else is happening on the check. INS K4LGI. Thank you very much. See you later.
Speaker E: All right, Sam, thanks for checking in this morning and have a great day. LGI kw6u73. And good morning. Greg Ko 60h. I wonder, just out of curiosity, if you can tell if I'm coming direct to you or if Rob is intercepting me along the way. If you have a way of determining that,
Speaker F: Jeff. Good morning Greg Ko16 I can hear you on the input. A little bit of wine on the background, but I am barely hearing you on the input.
Speaker E: I was just curious since you're in a little hole and I'm sitting in the vehicle with the vehicle Lieutenant how I was coming into about your location. So out of curiosity. So I'm coming in okay through the alternate location and good enough for. For you, at least for now.
Speaker F: Yeah, definitely. You're definitely making it solid into the repeater and from wherever you are. So yeah, put an X on the ground and just kind of stand on
Speaker A: it and you're good.
Speaker F: Today is a day of cleaning, of cleansing, and I can use that word in a medical term. I've got a colonoscopy coming up on Friday, so the. The. Yeah, that's starting. And so I'm gonna stay close to home. But anyway, what is the. We got laundry and chat with the kids and time to do a vacuum of the house and mop up some floors and all that kind of stuff. Haven't dressed it in a while, so it's gonna be a busy day. The batteries are charged. I've got. Let's see, main battery, 91%. Backup is full, 100%. So I am all set for anything that comes this way. K06th back to you.
Speaker E: The joys of an alternate diet for a couple of days. That doesn't sound completely like fun. I guess it might be a healthy thing once in a while to go through this process and find out if you're squeaky clean.
Speaker F: Yeah, this is a follow up to what happened in December with the
Speaker D: blood
Speaker F: vessel that decided to spring a leak in my intestine. No symptoms at all from that anymore. I mean, everything seems to be fine, but they want to go in and check.
Speaker A: They can actually go in at both
Speaker F: ends, run something down my throat as well, check out the stomach. So it's not going to be fun. I'm going to be out of it, of course, but between now and then, I am definitely not out of it. And anyway, so the other thing is my computer is quite ill, or seems to be. It's happened with the software or the hardware that underpins the software. And every so often, a process gets stuck and the memory usage climbs to 99.99% and everything kind of just kind of grinds to a halt until something unsticks itself and. And then things go back to normal and it's really annoying. I've got a draft of last Friday's presentation. I think it's ready to go, but I can't watch it without firing up the file manager to open the file. And when I do that, that thing gets stuck. So I got some debugging to do
Speaker D: on the computer first.
Speaker F: So. Yeah, what is that? What was the only redeeming line in the first Star Trek movie, if I recall, was engineer Scott observing that the more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. And the drain is stopped up on this end. K06th back to you.
Speaker E: Yeah, that sounds like Mr. Scott. No, doubt very wise saying that he used to have throughout the whole that the plumbing is stopped up or in your case later on not so much. So hopefully that all goes well for you on the medical side and the computer side fixing both things in one day with any help.
Speaker F: Yeah, fingers crossed as well as the legs at times. So anyway, without getting all 80 meters on you guys, we'll let you go on with the net. And yeah, it's going to be an interesting week coming up with the storm coming through. Nothing on the boat although I am starting to get plans laid for the electric upgrade. It's a marina down in Berkeley that has done these things and then the
Speaker A: number of them
Speaker F: employing their services on getting this done. Unfortunately they have decided they want to use a certain kind of battery that costs twice to three times as much as the ones that I was going to use. They have a good reason for that. I got to decide if the reason is good enough. So we'll see. $2,000 apiece for the batteries. I wanted six versus where you can get them for under $900 otherwise. And yeah, that could be a bit of a problem anyway. Well, we'll figure it out. KO6H back to that.
Speaker E: Never dull. You get the marina price tag for everything as you find out what kinds of materials are required for corrosion not to set in. Well, good luck with that boat is. Well, it is a hole in the water with which you dump money. But you can have fun with it. Have a great day. Greg.Ko6thkw6u73
Speaker F: yes indeed. And yeah, the issue is exactly that, that of corrosion. These batteries are IP67. All the other ones are IP65 which means that moisture can get into them and that makes a big difference. Epic. Epic batteries is what they want anyway. On with the day. KO6GH73
Speaker C: all right, great.
Speaker E: Thank you. Good morning. Coffee breaknet, this is kw6u. I'll take some more check ins here this morning. Please let me know if you are in and out. Oh, I'm hearing no one just yet. I know we are having some trouble with the voting receiver and we're on an alternate location so. But nobody even broke squelch. Is anybody even there this morning?
Speaker D: Good morning Jeff on the net. Kilo Golf 6 November, Lima Whiskey, in and out.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker E: I've Got Kilo Golf 6, November Lima Whiskey and there might have been a double in there. It's. Come again please. Double.
Speaker G: Kj5hht.
Speaker F: Right.
Speaker E: I've got KJ5HHT. Well, we'll go ahead and start right up there with KG6NLW. Good morning. How is your morning going? And what's going on in your neck of the woods?
Speaker D: Good morning, Jeff and the Coffee breaknet. If I sound a little eh, it's because I am. I decided to wake up and grab a snack real quick. And I'm gonna go back to bed here shortly. But I have a I have a new announcement for everybody listening. And good morning to Chavez there, KJ5HHT. I recognize that. Call Jeff for the Coffee Break net. For those listening. If you can't get in either directly
Speaker A: via RF or through wires X or
Speaker D: All Star or Echo link, or you happen to miss the net, I'm starting a new thing.
Speaker C: I'm.

Speaker A: Dedicating a two and a half hour live stream every morning to the Coffee Breaknet on my Twitch, Twitter and other social medias. So if you miss out on Coffee Breaknet and you don't want to go back and scrub through Broadcastify to find you know what happened in that, it'll be a live stream that's up forever and ever and ever and ever. So to find it Kilo Golf 6 November Lima Whiskey just not phonetic like KG6NLW on YouTube. Sam Radio Wilderness with Frank is the proper channel name but you go there and there'll be a whole playlist for Coffee Breaknet. It is actually currently live right now. So with that Jeff, I wish you a good morning. Hopefully you get some more check ins and catch you another time. KW6H KG6NLW with the coffee Breaknet Good morning.
Speaker B: Well that's kind of interesting to hear that. I think I've heard this before that the Coffee Breaknet has such a fan base that we're being retransmitted or broadcast somewhere else depending on how you look at it.
Speaker C: Very cool.
Speaker B: I hope you're having fun doing that. It could reach other people from time to time and makes it a bit little bit interesting but. All right, well thanks for checking in to the net this morning. I. You know, unless you have anything else, I'll go ahead and move on down the list. This is kw6u
Speaker D: call sign this morning.
Speaker A: I'm not all here. The last thing I have to mention. The next station you're going to pick up here actually comes from the live stream chat. I recognize the call sign. So good morning to Chavez KW6 uniform. Get it right that time KG6 and they'll tell you. Have a great one. Jeff73.
Speaker B: All right Frank, thanks for checking into the net this morning and I got the KJ6 and I think I got Kilo HT. Is that correct? I think I might have typoed your name here.
Speaker E: SKJ5HHT name is Larry. I go by Chavez KG5HHT on the YouTube streams. Subscribe to Frank's channel. Good morning Frank. Eat, go back to bed. Probably know you need to sleep. I'm new to the net. Saw it on Frank's channel, decided to jump on Echo link. I am currently well I am from Houston, Texas area and I am currently in Daytona Beach, Florida. I went to Hamcation yesterday, had a very very good time. My first hamcation due to my work schedule I could only go Saturday but that was just wanted to give you another check in on the net kj5hd.
Speaker B: Oh, you only get to go to Florida for a day. Wow, that would seem like a big trip. But I guess from Houston to Florida, did you drive there or fly in?
Speaker E: I'm sorry, I'm. I'm a trucker. I'm also trucker Larry on another net W3 pie out of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. And I was bouncing back and forth from Orlando to Middlesburg, right below Jacksonville, delivering pellets, plastic pellets to Niagara Water. I'm a pneumatic tanker driver and it just so worked out that I was able to do a 34 hour reset for my 70 hour clock. It's. You know anything about trucking and I had time yesterday to go to it and then get up here north. I wanted to get north out of Orlando before 6:00 clock tomorrow morning. So I decided to come up here and do my little break and then get started. I've got to go to Whitesville, North Carolina to pick up a load and come back down to Orlando. So go ahead.
Speaker B: Well, that makes a little more sense to me. So yeah, you got to get your brakes in every now and again and you might as well take that break and someplace kind of nice.
Speaker E: Yes, it just worked out. It just worked out nice that way. Well, I kind of orchestrated it with the terminal manager in, in Barco, Florida, which is south of Orlando. And he worked it out for me. So that was nice. I'm gonna try to make Dayton and Huntsville this year if I can swing it with the dispatchers. They're pretty lenient and help me out where they can, you know, depending on freight, stuff like that. So. But that's all I got. Finish out my 34, get started at 6 in the morning eastern time, head up to North Carolina. 73
Speaker B: well, all right. Chavez, April, thank you very much for checking into the net. Enjoy your fine day off over there in Florida and have a safe drive when you head out. KJ5HHT KW6U73. All righty. Good morning all. This is the coffee break net.kw6u go ahead and take some more check ins and please let me know if you want an in and out.
Speaker F: Hope you're having a good morning. You and everybody have that Katie Village. I keep going in about 10 minutes, so I'll make you your call.
Speaker D: Kilo bravo lima uniform victor. Good morning.
Speaker B: Well, Good morning, Brett. KB6LUV with an echo, echo, echo in the background as you were checking in. Hey, Good morning, Peter. KD6QZH and Brett, come again please. Let's see if maybe there Was something. You had another microphone going on same time. Brett, KV6LUV, come in here for a second. Let's see what we're hearing. Well, Brett, I don't hear you at the moment. We'll go ahead and get to you here again. Moment. And I'll just go up to Peter. Good morning, Peter. KD6QZH, what are you up to today? And you are coming in, but you're probably a little bit scratchy. And just so you know that we're in an alternate location with the voting receiver, and you might have to turn up the power.
Speaker F: For a while because I didn't need that much power. But hang on for one,
Speaker B: Right. I'll listen in until you're ready here. Oh, it's about the same, maybe a little bit better. So, you know, you're kind of just chopping in and out a bit. A little bit. But I can make you out.
Speaker C: It was a long trip.
Speaker F: I just wanted to say a happy
Speaker B: Valentine's Day to all the ladies out
Speaker F: there and wish everyone in the country
Speaker C: just heading off to church.
Speaker F: And then they got a bunch of. All in all, life is good.
Speaker E: So I.
Speaker C: What's up with the rotary kits? So I know.
Speaker B: Oh, we think it's one of the controllers. And so we have a backup system that we're using right now, and we hope to get that fixed later on today.
Speaker F: Anyway, I'll bid everybody 73, and you all take care. And Katie excused that H vac, taking away my throw.
Speaker B: All right, Peter.
Speaker A: Hey.
Speaker B: Well, thank you very much for checking into the net this morning and have a great day. And I hope your Valentine's Day yesterday
Speaker C: was good for you.
Speaker B: KD6QZH. KW6Q73. And Brett, I'm going to come back to you. KD6 Luv, how are you doing this morning and what are you up to?
Speaker D: Good morning, kb6luv here. Am I making it in?
Speaker B: You are, and without the echo this time. Fantastic.
Speaker D: Well, good morning, Brian and Coffee Breaknet. Or, excuse me, just at Coffee Breaknet. Brian was there this morning. Hey, thanks for all that you guys do running the net, being there.
Speaker E: Deeply appreciated.
Speaker D: Yesterday morning when I got up and turned on the radio and heard absolute silence, I was like, is there something wrong with my equipment? Had to pull out my little baofeng minion check to see what was going on.
Speaker A: And yep, it was working.
Speaker D: So then I kept listening and of course found out what was going on. So, again, thank you all.
Speaker E: Appreciate what you do.
Speaker D: This is actually the first time that I'm checking In via All Star, which is interesting.
Speaker B: Okay, are you at an alternate location checking in via All Star or are you just doing that from home?
Speaker D: Doing it from home via my cell phone. So I've listened in via All Stars sometimes if I'm just kind of walking around the house. Although I've got an alternate way to do that now. But anyway, good to hear that this works. I'm just glad to be here on this sunny Sunday morning staring up at that orange ball in the sky. It's a beautiful sunny Sunday morning and also live from Newton, Kansas, here is my mom, Bonnie. Good morning, mom.
Speaker G: Good morning. Happy Sunday to all of you out there. It's nice to hear you.
Speaker B: Oh, that's very nice. Bobby. Thank you for checking in here this morning. Fantastic. Are you actually in Kansas checking in? I think that's what I heard Brett say.
Speaker G: No, I'm sitting here right beside Brett in California. I wouldn't know what to do in Kansas except just to listen.
Speaker B: Well, that sounds like the right thing to do. Brett's being a good son having you check into the net. It's kind of fun funding that other people listen into the net that are not hams and you know, enjoying the conversation. So thank you for going ahead and checking in with Brett there.
Speaker E: Appreciate it.
Speaker G: Yes, I'm glad to be here. It's wonderful being out here and being with my son and daughter in law and some other family out here too. So I enjoy being able to do this in the morning right from sight and not from my telephone at home in Kansas.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm sure Brett will let you know all the good stuff. Maybe one day you'll want to become a ham yourself. Just so you can keep in touch directly with Brett at all times.
Speaker D: I will say don't take a deep breath and if you do, don't hold it for very long.
Speaker E: Hi. Hi.
Speaker D: Alright, well hey, thanks a lot for being there again, appreciate all you net controller folks and everybody out there doing work on the repeater systems and such. Brian Aissatous thank you sir. Amazing job. We really do.
Speaker E: It is a service to us out
Speaker D: here in the community and deeply appreciate it. You all have an amazing day. Take care of yourselves, take care of each other.
Speaker E: KB6L U V Be of Love 73 clear and listening.
Speaker B: All right Brett, you have a great day. Hi Bonnie, thank you for checking in. And the crew that work on the repeater have their hands full from time to time and they do provide a great service. We want to thank them all for putting in all the time and energy to make sure that things continue to run and that we're able to to provide that our community with that service. So it's kind of, it's something we all enjoy doing. We love having it, but it is a lot of work from time to time. So thanks for acknowledging that. Have a great day, Brett and we'll catch you next time. KB6UV AW6U73. All right, good morning. This is the Coffee Breaknet. This is KW6U. You might have heard we're having a little bit of a repeater problem. So we're at an alternate location which means you'll need to turn up the power a little bit if you're coming in via rf. That said, let's take some more check ins this morning. Just so you know, my QTH happens to be in the vehicle at the moment and the sun is starting to come up and warm up the car so I'm actually feeling better now than I was 10 minutes ago. Kate, this is kw6u taking check ins. Let me know if you are and in and out.
Speaker C: W1atv good morning jeff.
Speaker B: Good morning, Aaron. W1ATV Are you actually at home or are you coming in through All Star?
Speaker C: I am at home today.
Speaker B: So you're coming in via RF and I hear you just fine. So I don't know if I'm hearing you direct but that's great. I'm glad you're able to do that. Thanks for checking in here this morning. What's going on with you? You just got back from Texas not that long ago.
Speaker C: Back from Texas, then I went to Idaho. My mom was sick from that super flu they had out there and so I spent a week out there with her and my sisters and she's all better now. Now I'm just home waiting and prepping for the next trip.
Speaker B: Well, I guess we can all wonder where in on the Earth is Aaron W1ETB. From time to time you check in from all over the place. So I don't always know.
Speaker C: Yeah, I know modern technology makes it pretty easy. You know, with a clear node you can. I did upgrade my clear node. That was kind of troublesome a little bit. But I of kind got that all working now and I'm ready to go again.
Speaker B: Yeah, I do need to get the node thing going and get that handled a little better than what I have. I can use repeaterphone and check in but I find the app or at least the problems that I tend to have is when I want to check in. I don't have stable Internet so it's very clumsy for me using repeaterphone alone. I just need to get a proper node and better Internet, I guess.
Speaker C: Yeah, I agree. It's, you know, it's like kind of last ditch effort if you have to use repeater.
Speaker E: Yeah, repeater phone.
Speaker C: I don't have an apple. I have. So I use DV switch or echo link. I don't like it and it's hard to use if you're driving. Obviously you can't do that. So I like to get the clear node going up running. I now have a Starlink mini mounted in my pickup truck. So I have Internet all the time. So that's kind of cool.
Speaker B: That's pretty neat. So there's not a lot of lag that you notice. It tends to work fairly well. I know when I borrowed your Starlink to go down to Death Valley, that worked fantastic, by the way.
Speaker C: Yeah, it worked pretty well. I mean, obviously when I have it in the truck, it's just pointing straight up. So I suppose there'll be times when it may not have the best angle of incidents to the satellite. So far it's been great. I went all the way to Idaho and back and had full Internet the whole way. So it's pretty cool.
Speaker B: Well, and I guess in the middle of Nevada on your way to Idaho, you probably don't have a lot of local traffic to compute. So you're out there in the middle of nowhere and I'm glad that works for you. I've been considering it myself. I'm not really sure how I'm going to handle things whenever I go places, but it seems the Starlink MIDI might be in order in the future.
Speaker C: It works out pretty well, especially in the Jeep. One of the advantages of the Jeep, it has a fiberglass. So I just mounted in there on top of the Molle panel, straight up. The fiberglass top's invisible to it, so it's nice. You can't even tell it's in there.
Speaker B: Oh, okay. That I didn't even consider that with your fiberglass top. So that wouldn't work quite the same way. I would probably have to mount it outside on the vehicle for me with a steel roof. I have no idea how much, much interference that would cause, but I'm sure your location is much better for it. Keeps it protected and out of the weather.
Speaker C: I've seen guys mount them inside under like a sunroof. They have these mounts that attach to the glass and that would work, obviously.

Speaker A: If you put something over your top, like a tent or a rack or something, you're going to have to be wary of that because that will block the signal. So I'm not planning on doing that. So I may put something on the back in the bed, but I'm not going to put it over the top. At least I'm not planning on it at the moment.
Speaker B: If you were carrying a car top tent in the truck, it would be down low enough that it wouldn't interfere. In my case in the Sequoia and the GX with the car top tent, I don't have a sunroof in the Sequoia, which is where I would most likely put it. On the gx we do have a sunroof, but there's a rock and of course when we take it with the tent. So I would have to come with some kind of an alternate setup for that to work. Well, that's good to know those little things, hearing how people handle things is good.
Speaker A: Yeah, lots of options. It's nice and small. It'll run anywhere from 12 to 48 volts, I think. I had a little buck converter that bumps it up to 30. That's where it's preferred to run. So turns it on with the vehicle. Turns it off when I turn off the vehicle. So it's pretty handy, pretty out of the way. You don't even know it's there.
Speaker B: You don't notice any issues with your Buck converter? It actually works pretty well. No interferences. I'm getting a little bit of noise.
Speaker A: I haven't determined if it's the buck converter or if it's the satellite itself. I have the. If you look at it physically, the antenna of my 2 meter is within about a foot of where the satellite dish is. So I'm going to move it and see if that's the problem. It's not a lot of noise, but it's enough that it's annoying. So that's. My next thing is to move the antenna and see if the noise goes away because it is pretty close. I've already kind of gotten rid of some of it, so we'll see. If not, I ain't got no problem.
Speaker B: Yeah, I would think there would be some interference coming if I would locate proximity to the Buck converter. There has to be some, I, I don't know, they're pretty simple devices but they would let off a little bit. But it's not enough to be too big of a problem for you though, at least. And maybe finding that alternate location won't work. But then you run more wire and that sort of thing.
Speaker A: Very true. That's always something, isn't it?
Speaker B: Never dull. Never dull. In the world of ham radio and communication devices, we like experimenting with all kinds of things, see what works.
Speaker A: I agree. Well, the benefit, it's better than, you know, not having it in that way. So I'll figure it out. You know, I can always toggle it off if I'm not using it. You know, I don't use the Internet that much most of the time, so I don't have to have it on all the time.
Speaker B: Well, in this fully connected world, it's nice to have it, especially when you're driving between very remote places. But it's also nice to not be connected to something and just be off the grid. So there's always that.
Speaker A: Exactly. So what have you been up to these days? I haven't seen you in a while.
Speaker B: I am getting ready for the Pacific Crest Trail. Been doing a lot of hiking. I have my permits ready to go to start early May and we'll start the main big hike. So I'm spending much of my time doing that and hanging out with the grandkids back and forth. Our daughter's husband is. He's in Hawaii right now doing some work. And so she gets little overwhelmed from time to time with her farm and just needs somebody to herd kids. And so I do that. I herd kids and I plan for my PCT hike.
Speaker A: Very cool.
Speaker B: When do you leave? Sometime in March? Oh, no, I'm going to leave in May. The first week in May is when I take off for that and go from there. I'm a little worried about the desert. That's the part that I think I need to work on my logistics a little bit better to make sure I
Speaker A: can cover the distances.
Speaker B: So that's the training. Lots of hiking in the canyon right now, getting some longer distances in with my pack. So I got to get out there and actually do a couple of camping trips or backpacking trips to break things in, just kind of see how things work.
Speaker A: Do you put up stashes of water and such, or are you just relying on certain landmarks to get that stuff?
Speaker B: There is a water report that the PCT puts out and they tell you the distances to the next water and what quality is. They keep that updated fairly well. They're always checked on. There are trail angels. The. The biggest run is about 30 miles without water. That runs across the desert out by Lancaster towards the Hatchet Beach. In that area so 30 miles without water on that day, I'd probably need to carry six or seven liters of water with me. You can't really depend on the trail angel to leave that water out there for you. That's my biggest logistical concern, is me being fast enough to get through that section in one go, mostly at night.
Speaker A: Quite a challenge, and it's going to be quite an achievement once you finish it. So very cool.
Speaker B: Well, you might find me one of those crazy old guys that you see every now and again that hasn't shaved or bathed in a very long time and probably should. I could look like that by the end of it all and actually be that. Who knows?
Speaker A: Yeah, I'll be looking for that picture. Yeah.
Speaker B: And I'm sure that when I finally hit civilization and need to be scrubbed down, it might take more than one effort.
Speaker A: Yeah, but that shower is going to feel so good.
Speaker B: I don't mind dipping into the cold water in the springs. It could be 30, you know, something degrees, and I'm actually okay getting clean along the way. So, you know, those are the logistical things that I worry about. That and shoes. I have really got to work on my shoes. Yeah, that would not be good to, you know, have a shoe wear out
Speaker A: on you halfway through, through or something, and you're nowhere near civilization. That's something to consider.
Speaker B: The average number of pairs of shoes for the PCT is four and a half pairs. So, yes, I will be going through many pairs of shoes. You know, these days you can't just. You can, you can just do a good pair of hiking boots, but trail running shoes seem to be the way to go. You just replace them on the regular and have them shipped to a P.O. box that you're going to be going to or post office that's on the way. So that logistics, planning ahead to make that happen. Breaking in the shoes in advance is not actually a thing when it comes to trail runners because you start to wear them out. You want to try them to make sure that everything is. Is all good. So once you find what's working for you, and I've been using a pair right now that I can sense some problems. So I'm going to go in and see some of the experts here in Auburn that we have from the ultramarathon community and talk with them and try a different pair here before I even make the attempt.
Speaker A: Yeah, no, that's a good idea. I've bought the same pair of shoes several times now. Sometimes you can get one. It's an identical pair, but it doesn't fit right.
Speaker B: I'm not very good at evaluating the shoes in the place itself. I walk around, they feel great. And then it's not until you put some weight and miles on that you begin to notice. Okay, I'm noticing this a little bit in my foot here, my ankle there, and this current pair that I have. I really like how they feel walking around and doing regular hikes and they grab the terrain really well. But I'm noticing the more miles I put on them, I pronate a little bit too much and I'm feeling it in my foot. So you compound that over the miles of hiking and that will eventually become a problem. So I've got to go find another pair to try out.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's going to be really important.
Speaker B: All right, well, I've been on here a while.
Speaker A: Maybe some somebody else has woken up and wants to get in and chat a bit.
Speaker B: I agree. We've been chatting too long. It's time to move on. Thanks for checking into the net this morning. As always, I appreciate all that you do. You have a big family to take care of all across the country. So I love hearing about your starlink and clear note stuff. I need to get that hooked up. Have a great day, Aaron, thanks for checking into the net and we'll catch you next time. W1ATV kW6073
Speaker A: all right, Jeff, you have a good one. We'll talk to you soon. W1ATV clear.
Speaker C: All right.
Speaker B: Good morning. This is a Coffee breaknet. I'm just going to run through some typical announcements but just a reminder to everybody that's out there, we will be working on the repeater later on today as well. We are having some difficulties with the voting receiver controller and we're at an alternate location. So if you do check in to the net let us. You know, you might want to boost your power for RF to check in that way things seem to be working fine on the on the nodes section and all that is going to be that the repeater might not be available later on today. So at least for now, here we are. This is the Coffee Break net and let me go through just a quick normal announcement that we do with the host with the nets that we typically have Sunday evenings at 7:30 there's some sort of placer county areas exercise. If you are interested in placer county areas you can go to. You can find them with a quick Google search and there's lots of great information at that page. So it's pretty useful. 7:30 There could be on a local repeater or not and you know, check in with them. On Mondays we have the all nodes net Monday 6pm Pacific Time on W60K2 meter repeater in All Starlink 51018. This is an Elmer net for nodes. I need to be listening in if I'm interested in any kind of node setup. Well, there's a few devices out there that seem fantastic, so I'm going to have to see what kinds of problems there are in listening to the net. It's a great net every Monday 6pm Pacific time nationwide net. By the way, the ELMER net is every first and third Wednesday 7:30pm Pacific Time on the W6EK2 meter repeater hosted by Eric W6EMR. A great time to check in and post a problem you might be having. I may be joining the Elmer net my vehicle to find out what's going on with my home radio. I'll do some checking and see if I'm having antenna problems or whatever. But the Elmer nets every first and third Wednesday, 7:30pm on the repeater. There's an alter ego to the eldernet and that is in the Shack every second and fourth Wednesday. That's on the Club Zoom Room. You can go to w60k.org zoom button and join our in the Shack every second and fourth Wednesday, 7:30pm Pacific Time. Every week on Thursdays is the weekly 2 meter net. Thursday 7:30pm you get an officer report, ARRL news, a satellite report and a mystery question. Mystery question is a lot of fun that's worth listening into all by itself. But try and check in from wherever you are. If you're taking the dog for a walk and you've got your radio with you, try it out. See how well you check in. And that's kind of the whole point of the Thursday net. Make sure your equipment's working and Friday Night trivia every first and third Friday. Keeping Friday nights live on the Repeater. It's a lot of fun. It's hosted by don and Simone. K6DXN is Simone's call sign and I'm just drawing a blank on Don. My apologies, but they have a great time. Friday Night Trivia first and third place Monthly breakfast is the last Saturday of every month. February 28th this last Saturday here it'll 7:30am at Mels on Highway 49 in Auburn. And that's always a lot of fun. And that will be followed up by a Fox hunt starting from the Mels parking lot. Information is on w6ck.org the foxtender is going to be Marty Ko6k GXX. It's always fun to get new foxtenders in there. They come up with all kinds of creative ways for making it a challenge and we're looking forward to it. Fox hunts are a lot of fun. You do not need a license to do it. It's a great way to introduce somebody to ham radio or ham radio activities generally. I just remember watching Wild Kingdom with Marlon Perkins and watching them use the fox hunt to track the mountain lion. That was always fun. The next club meeting and the second Friday of every month are our club meetings. We had our first club meeting in a new location over at the Placer County Health and Human Services building. What a great location it was. It's a fantastic spot spot. It was very comfortable and very easy to get in and out going on for that. So that was fantastic. Beautiful. We'll be meeting there every month. There's information on how to get there on w60k.org but the next meeting will be March 13, 7:30pm at the New location Placer County Health and Human Services Conference center at the Auburn DeWitt Center. Very easy access from 80 or from 40 and it's a beautiful facility. Secure parking. We want to make sure we are still contributing to the local food bank, so bring food bank donations. Mark your calendars. This is a big deal. The Loomis Ham Fest. The first and best ham fest in all of California. Maybe one of the best in the country. We have people coming in from all over the place. Saturday, March 28th. You got to get there early, at least before 7am but for all of you members of Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club sign up to volunteer. This will make it easy for you to just work a short period of time and then go out and really enjoy the Amfest itself. Mini hands make light work and it is a lot of fun. There might be donuts and coffee involved for those of you that are working VE exams. If you want to book an exam, go to hamstudy.org, the Sierra Foothill VE teams meet Monday, 3-2-17 at the Confluence Church campus in Auburn. The Granite Bay VE group next? Let's see, they met yesterday Saturday the 14th, so probably the second Saturday of next month in March. That's at 9am Is a rain. Raley's Event center on Douglas and Albert Folsom and the Folsom VE team will meet here February 16th, 6:00pm in Folsom, California there. So go to hamstudy.org to get the session and the location Book your upgrade or take a new ve to it. All right. And just, you know, Sorry about that standby. I just got a quick note that we had a lot of food donations this last month. So that's very helpful. The food closet greatly appreciates it. And they ended up. The ladies who run that food closet gave us a very big spread. They brought all kinds of treats and cookies and goodies all, all around just as a thank you for what we do for them with the food donation. So it goes hand in hand. We get rewarded from time to time for no good reason. Giving food to the hungry is one of our overall good goals, being a good group of people together. I'm glad we're doing it. This is the coffee breaknet. I'll go ahead and take some more check ins. Please let me know if you are and in and out. This is kw6u for the coffee breaknet. All right, my apologies here. I got four Sierra Hotel. Let's get your. The rest of your prefix there. My apologies.
Speaker C: No problem. The full call sign is Alpha Fox 4 Sierra Hotel. AF4 shall copy, over.
Speaker B: All right, I got Alpha Foxtrot, 4 Sierra Hotel. Good morning. How are you today?
Speaker C: Doing pretty good. Making my way around the radio bands, making contacts here and there from from HF to DMR to up on echolink to having a pretty good radio day. Supposed to get some rain today, so a great day for radio. All is doing well on this weekend. Hope everything's going well your way. And let me send some 65 degree weather your way. 80F4SH.
Speaker B: Yeah, it seems to be warming up a little bit, but we've got a storm front coming in and so we're expecting later on this week. Oh, it could be even a little bit of snow in our location. So I'm kind of. I'm kind of looking forward to that. I don't mind that at all.
Speaker C: Well, I hear you. I'm a car person, so snow and I don't get too much. We've actually just started our car season down here in Savannah. Had a Carson toffee yesterday, so got a good start to the season. We're hoping that our weekends will stay clear and it rained during the week.
Speaker B: That sounds nice. So yeah, just.

Speaker A: Just keep an eye on all of that. The way things have been going across the country this year, they've been all over the map. Don't really know what to make of it all, but that said so af4sh. You know what? I didn't get your handle. My apologies. I should have known that right off the top, but I didn't have my QRZ page up.
Speaker B: Yeah, okay, we'll let you get along with the netfare. We'll sit here at the side or
Speaker A: trying to turn down some other radios here so we can focus in on this one here.
Speaker B: Af4sh here in southeast Georgia in the net with you.
Speaker A: All right. AF4SH from Arizona. I mean not Arizona, sorry, Georgia. Southeast Georgia specifically. Hey, thanks for checking into the net this morning. My apologies. Have a great day and we'll catch you next time. Aforesh.kw6u6. All right, good morning. This is the coffee breaknet kw6u taking some more check ins. Let me know if you are in, in and out.
Speaker C: Quebec juliet romeo, frank.
Speaker A: All right guys, I'm going to try and separate the two of you. PD9 November Oscar Whiskey first of all. Is that correct?
Speaker D: Yes sir, that's 100% correct. PD9 now. Papadelta9 November Oscar Whiskey checking in via the Aquilink Gateway from the Netherlands. Good evening from my side to your side.
Speaker B: Go ahead.
Speaker A: Oh, good evening. BD9 now. Fantastic coming in from the Netherlands. Will you stand by just for a moment? I'll confirm my next check in and I'll come right back to you. There was a momentarily there.
Speaker C: W a9qjr, wa9 Quebec Juliet Gnomeo.
Speaker A: All right, I have Whiskey Alpha 9, Quebec Juliet Romeo. I'll be right back to you. I'm going to go ahead and check in back with the Netherlands now. He's been very patient. PD9 now. Good morning from California. It's probably evening in Netherlands and I wonder if you're enjoying the. Well, you're not quite there. You're probably enjoying the Olympics going on right now.
Speaker E: Well,
Speaker D: that's absolutely delight. Good evening everybody on the net. Yeah, we are quite good at ice skating. Ay ay. So yeah, I'm following that kind of sparks on the Delhi on the television. Indeed. And yeah, I was just browsing around on YouTube and then I saw somebody putting up a live stream about this, this net with the audio and all that kind of stuff. And it said, yeah, like an echoing number. And I, I, I've got my license of course. And I said to myself, oh, let's try to connect and now I'm here so I'm very happy you picked me up. My vaccinate control, this is PD9 now.
Speaker A: Well, glad you found us. We are here every morning in the Pacific time 7:30 to around 10:00am and it sounds like that would be every evening for you. Seven or eight hours later. Fantastic. I'm glad you found us and you're able to check in. We're here every day and it's always fun to have check ins from over the pond.
Speaker B: That's all right.
Speaker D: Great. I'm now connected to a repeater called
Speaker B: W6 echo kilo it says on Echo link.
Speaker D: So yeah, I would just put it in my favorites. Mike, back to you. This is PD9NOW.
Speaker A: Very nice. We hope to hear you again. Have a beautiful evening over in the Netherlands. Thank you for checking in. I'm glad you found us and I'm sure we'll hear more from you.
Speaker B: Sure.
Speaker D: Thanks for having. Thanks for having me in the net. My operator name is November India Echo Lima Serra. By the way you can find me on The QSF page 73 for now and bye bye. I will be standby to the net.
Speaker A: Well enjoy your evening and thank you for checking in. BD9N O W this is KW6U for the coffee breaknet on the W6EK repeater
Speaker F: KG6 in Alba.
Speaker B: Yeah,
Speaker A: what was that call sign? And I'll go back. I'll come back to you after I get my next person. But KG6NLW is that was who was calling.
Speaker B: Roger that Jeff.
Speaker F: I just have a quick comment for Neil.
Speaker A: Go ahead Frank.
Speaker F: Neil, good evening to you. This net starts at 15:30 UTC so
Speaker A: just to give you a good idea
Speaker F: when it is for you over on that side of the pond. And thanks for finding us via YouTube kg6 and I'll tell you back to you Jeff, good morning.
Speaker A: All right Frank, thank you so much for that and yes, that makes it a little bit easier for them to find things. All right, well good morning. I'm going to move on down to. Let's see WA9QJR. Good morning. This is KW6U. How are you this morning?
Speaker B: I am doing great.
Speaker C: I really enjoy the new facility that we're going to be having our meetings at and it was very nice of the ladies to provide us with some excellent snacks. And also the topic was interesting. I've already started researching Mesh networks so thanks for running the net this morning.
Speaker A: We do have some interesting topics. That was just an overview and quite, quite in depth actually enough to really kind of get a better understanding of how mesh core and just GMESH networks in general work. I am looking forward to kind of the series of this. It seems rather interesting to me to have that going on in our local areas. Absolutely agree.
Speaker C: It looks like an interesting topic. I'm just starting getting involved in dmr but I guess the next step will be mesh Networks. We have a great club.
Speaker A: I think so as well. I think our club is pretty fantastic. We have a great outreach, a large membership base and a broad depth. I like to call it the brain trust of people that really know what's going on with ham radio and along the rest of us just sort of casual users and enjoying it. Enjoying the work of many people.
Speaker C: Yeah, I fully agree and listening in on the net, which I do a lot is pretty interesting too as well as listening in on the repeater. It is a wonderful club. I moved here from Chicago and and being a large studio has a lot of great clubs but I think this beats them all. So I'll let you get on with the net. Thanks for letting me check in.
Speaker A: Hi Frank. Well thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed the meeting location and the snacks that were there. Have a great day and thanks for the very nice comments. Wa9qjrpw6 Houston. Good morning Coffee breaknet. This is KW Sex to View. I'll go ahead and take some more check ins here this morning. I'm sitting in the by the way if I sound a little discombobulated, I'm sitting in my vehicle now and it's warming up finally and I'm actually working on slow Internet which is connected to my my phone here and getting all my Internet that way. It's too far from the house. So anyway I'm enjoying my morning out in the vehicle Just to make sure that I could keep the Coffee breaknet going. I'll go ahead and take some check ins. Please let me know if you are in and out. Well, I heard somebody key up the mic but didn't actually hear anything. Anyone out there that would like to check into the Coffee Break net this morning? We'll go ahead and take check in. That station that was trying to check in your audio was very very low and I didn't make it out. Did anyone else happen to hear.
Speaker G: They were coming in through the Fireside coast hub and I think it was started with a prefix kilo bravo1. But yeah, audio was too low for me to copy.
Speaker B: Let's try this again. It's kilo charlie 1 victor kilo and it's kevin. Name's kevin. Kalo, echo, victor, indy, november.
Speaker A: My apologies. I was stepping on you. Would you come again, please?
Speaker B: Kilo, charlie, 1, victor, limo, calo. Name is kilo, echo, victor, india, november, kevin, maine.
Speaker A: All right, Kevin, Casey, 1. Vlk. Well, you know what, you're sounding great now. Your audio is full quieting at this point, so. Fantastic. And thank you for checking in here. Is this your first time with us?
Speaker B: No, it's my second time. I checked in yesterday, you guys, by accident. I was just surfing around and trying to find some activity and you guys had come right up on my frequency where I was at. And so I decided to jump in and introduce myself and I put you in my favorite. Back to you.
Speaker A: Very cool. I'm so glad that you were able to find us and check in. Yeah, it was funny how your audio was very low this first time that I heard you, but now you're coming in loud and clear. Did you actually change the setting?
Speaker B: Yes, I did. Yes, I. Yep. I just had to turn it up a little bit. It was a little off, but just give it a little bit of tweak.
Speaker A: Well, that makes more sense to me. Then all of a sudden you were there and loud and clear. Coming in from Maine, so. Well, I hope things are going well for you up in Maine. It must be rather chilly at the moment. I've never been. I would like to go, but I think I'll come in the summertime.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm so ready for summer up here for sure. It's 27 degrees right now, but plenty of sun. Still have the snow on the ground. She hasn't been melted quickly because it's been cold. Been down, you know, zeros and sub zeros at night here. It's been a cold, cold winter up for sure and snow comes with it. But I'm so ready for it. Back to you.
Speaker A: I will bet you are. We're a little bit spoiled. 47 degrees sounds about what the temperature is here. Except it does not drop down to zero. We stay considerably warmer again. I've heard many good things about Maine to go and visit. I just haven't made it back there yet to be able to do that. And I look forward to it sometime in the future. I hope you're having a safe and wonderful winter and it sounds like you are ready for spring.
Speaker B: Yes, I am ready for spring, that's for sure. Yeah. If anyone wants up to Maine, best time to come up is during the summertime. It is beautiful up here during the summertime. I have no Complaints whatsoever. This is really beautiful. That's the best time to come up and get into some of the main loft lobster. Yes, sir. You gotta hook yourself up with some of those too.
Speaker D: Alrighty.
Speaker B: Thanks for coming back and I'm just gonna take a standby and just listen KC1VLK. Back to the net.
Speaker A: All right, Kevin. Good morning, KC1VLK. This is KW6U K7 3 and enjoy the net. And this is the coffee breaknet. I am kw6u. I'll go ahead and take some more check ins here. This morning we've been talking about very much nothing. So if you have a subject you want to bring up, by all means, bring it up. Let's take some more check ins. Let me know if you are and in and out,
Speaker E: N9 muf. In and out.
Speaker G: And quick break AI6US.
Speaker A: All right, Brian, I have N9 MUF. Daniel, I'll get you going here in a second. And Brian, go ahead with your brake. Yeah.
Speaker G: Just wanted to let the folks know on the W6 GRC repeater up in Northern California, Orland, we are once again getting carriers from your system, but we are getting no audio.
Speaker A: So I don't know, you might want
Speaker G: to don't know if somebody's trying to get in, but we are seeing someone attempting to check in from W6GRC repeater system up in Orland, California. Thanks, Jeff. Back to you.
Speaker A: Right. I was even unaware of that. So excellent. Thank you for that. Good morning, Daniel, N9 MUF. Happy Sunday for you. And what are you up to today?
Speaker E: Just a good decently warm morning. We've got 45 degrees here. Church was wonderful and hoping I can get out on the motorcycle this afternoon. So, so far so good.
Speaker A: Well, motorcycle weather for you this time of the year might mean extra hot, dry summers. I hope that's not the case.
Speaker E: It's a bit of a break if I remember what Mark said correctly, so I'm not too worried about it. I expect it to be cold again in a few days and so I plan on getting out on the bike while I get a chance. So plan is today. Today motorcycle and radio. Tomorrow radio and then back to the job search on Tuesday. But taking a bit of a breather when I can.
Speaker A: Well, enjoy the breather. Yeah, you want to go ahead and have some fun in life rather than just what is it they said? All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. So, Daniel, enjoy your fun time.
Speaker E: Definitely. I'm learning to do the mental health, self care and give myself the breaks when I've got it. Growing up as a farm kid, I had a bad habit of just saying, well if you're done with work, that means it's time for more work. And I'm trying to shift my attitude with that. I'll say 73 N 9 MUF
Speaker C: well
Speaker A: good luck with that. As a farm kid, I know that you're born with and raised with nothing but work. So yes, enjoy yourself. Take a Sunday off and relax. N9mufkw6u73. Right. This is a coffee break then. I'll go ahead and take some more check ins this morning. Who's out there this morning and would like to say hi to me and we'll chit chat a little more bit.
Speaker H: AWB1G.
Speaker A: Well Good morning Smitty. WB1G thanks for running the Zoom Room last I guess last Thursday evening. How did that work out for you on your end? That was a little different. Well, you know, it's funny because I was actually only supposed to be the
Speaker H: greeter, so it was kind of a team sport, if you will, between myself and Steven who was at the controls. You know, it was interesting. It was fun first and foremost. I'm sorry I didn't get the chance to visit and chat with you. It's funny after my minor slip up. So you know, it's interesting. We've never had a situation where and
Speaker A: we'll just call it.

Speaker A: Out in front of the group.
Speaker B: And that's okay. Where Zoom attendees could be heard over
Speaker C: the local PA system so that folks
Speaker B: could hear somebody unmuted. And so we unmuted the room so that anybody that was physically sitting there could hear people on Zoom. But my mic would. And I know better. You know, as any broadcaster should know, you, every microphone in front of you is a live microphone. And the reason I'm bringing it back up is right, right after my slip up, I looked up and your big smile was staring at me. And I know you felt.
Speaker A: I felt all of it. And of course, it's a little bit humorous to watch somebody wriggle a little bit. Yeah, that's the way it's going to go. The new system is a little bit different than what we're used to. It sounds like it's got a great deal of capability, and it's a matter of just coordinating the dance.
Speaker B: I mean, I think that's a fantastic way to look at it. And I think too, you know, we did a big consolidation, which I think is really good, kind of taking all that gear that we were. I mean, a lot of folks don't know, but it would take a good hour, hour and a half to set up all the AV stuff to do the Zoom. In this case, it takes about five, 10 minutes. Now, that's a vast improvement. So whether it's me or Stephen or shoot, even you, it makes it easier to hand that role around because really, all you have to trav with to the meeting is a laptop and a few little odds and ends to plug into the laptop. That's huge. So we learned a ton. And I'll tell you what, I've been noodling on it all weekend. And I even drew up a workflow diagram of version 2.0. Yes, that's right. I jumped from version 1, which was Friday night, and now we're looking at a version 2.0. And I think we have. I don't want to say so, but I think we have found a way to embrace both the PA system that's in the room, which was not used on Friday, and potentially enhance the listening experience in room, physically in room and also online. So kind of some new stuff going into that. We got a whole, what, 29 days or 28 days until the next meeting? Actually, maybe a little less than that, but you get what I'm saying. So kind of fun. It was a lot of fun. And I was telling Brian and Mark there, in my professional life, not personal, but my professional life, there's nothing more than I enjoy than to solutionize audio and video issues.
Speaker A: That's what you do. By all means, yeah. This is just a little different than what we were used to. And by. And I'm sure we'll get this thing ironed out before long and make the experience feel for both sides and both ends. For me at least. It's always better to be in person. I love the in person meeting, but I, you know, the alternative to not being able to come in is to miss the meeting. Unless we have something like the Zoom. And I'm so glad we have it as an option. We have a large membership all over the country. Really? And folks from all over can check in. There's no way they can easily come in person when you live so far away. So by all means, check out our meetings on Zoom when you live elsewhere.
Speaker B: Absolutely. Nice, nice plug there, by the way. In the radio biz, we would have called that a nice little squeeze. That plug right in there. In between. Outside of amateur radio, it's kind of fun. My daughter was in Vegas this past week. I don't know how I. Well, I could tell you straight up, you have, you have youngsters. Well, you had youngsters. They're adults now. And my youngsters are adults too. But I digress. They're never, they're never adults. They're young humans and they're young adults. But they're never going to be at my level of adulthood.
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker B: I mean, yeah, you know, I know you're shaking your head with me here. At any rate, my daughter was in Vegas this past week with her boyfriend and her boyfriend's family. Now that was a tough one to swallow. She's nearly 19, so I have to kind of accept the fact that she's kind of young adulting. So she was in Vegas with her boyfriend and her boyfriend's family and his brother. And her boyfriend's brother was celebrating his 21st birthday. Okay. All that build up. So she flew there directly from school, from Reno. She goes to the University of Nevada. She flew from Reno, but she flew back here on Friday. And after the meeting, I was supposed to go to the airport to go pick her up. She was landing, I think at like 10:50 into Sacramento. And so I was all excited. I was going to leave the meeting after all that excitement we had there. And I was going to head to the airport. And when we were debriefing after the meeting, when Mark and me and others were talking about, you know, the audio video situation, I got a phone call from My wife and she said she showed up an hour ago. She actually took an earlier flight and she wanted to surprise us. So she showed up at the house. Surprised the heck out of my wife. And then of course the point the debrief was done. I was getting in the truck and I was hightailing it back home. WB1G
Speaker A: Yep, I know how surprising that can be. It's always nice when your child that has moved out comes back to visit. If they come, they tend to circle the nest a little bit too by the way. They don't just automatically leave. And for me it's exciting when they figure out how to make the whole wood world work for them. And I know it's exciting for them as well. So it just means they're growing up and she's got a good on her shoulders. She had a good dad. So I'm sure she's fine.
Speaker B: Oh she, she absolute absolutely is. So it was kind of a nice little very short visit. She came in last on Friday night and we had breakfast on Saturday and then I brought her back to school because today and tomorrow going over the summit not advised. So there you go. So I got, I got an evening where and it was cute, you know. And I don't remember, I know you have boys. I don't remember if you have a girl. I think you just have boys. But it was cute because I could tell she was a little bit homesick. It was the long span that she's been away from the house and when I came to her room and I'm like oh my gosh, you're home. You know, and she wanted cuddles and I for an almost 19 year old female to tell dad, hey dad, do you want it? You want to cuddle? You know, come on, stay, stay in here. I loved that. I melted. She knew how to, she, she definitely knows how to, how to make sure dad is wrapped around her finger at every stage. So at any rate I won't take any more time. I'm sure there's some others stacked up to say good morning to you, but heard you out there and wanted to give you a wave and say good morning. It was again good seeing you and others on Friday. Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to talk to anybody on Friday. I was kind of a little bit too consumed by the technical things that were going on. So I didn't get to even really say hi to you. And I only had a few cookies which was surprising. I was surprised. That spread was amazing. So at any rate I'll give it back to you. I know there's probably others. Hopefully I've stimulated some conversation and gotten the ball rolling to get some others to check in. Don't be shy folks. It's the microphone. Just press that little pickle and say hi to Jeff here because It's Sunday morning. WBYG73 my friend,
Speaker A: completely understand all of it. Your mind is headed in different directions
Speaker B: when you're thinking about your daughter.
Speaker A: I get it. We'll have to share another story. I'll tell you about the first meltdown my daughter had when she moved out of the house and hopefully you won't run into that one.
Speaker B: WP1G KW6U73A73 there Jeff.
Speaker A: All right, all this is KW6U for the coffee break net this morning. I'll go ahead and take some more check ins here. We'll wrap it up on time at 10 o' clock so we might as well just start going towards out and we can say hi for a minute and we'll go from there. So I'll take some in and outs this morning and let's get you checked into the log here.
Speaker D: Kilo Niner uniform, echo tango Jen
Speaker C: K6DLK Good morning Jeff.
Speaker A: Good morning Dan K6Dok and good morning. I think it's Jen K9U E T Did I get that correctly?
Speaker D: Yes QSL
Speaker A: well, fantastic. Jen, where are you checking in from? I've got you I think coming in through Echo link here. So how are you this morning and where are you checking in from?
Speaker D: Yes, good morning. We've been listening to you for the last hour. I am at my boyfriend's qth. We are coming in on allstar in Wisconsin and I've enjoyed listening to you and I'm like I'm gonna check in tonight.
Speaker A: Fantastic. So you were just sort of spinning the dial so to speak and been listening to us for a little bit. Well thank you for checking the coffee breaknet Wisconsin. We get a few people from, you know, checking in from Wisconsin once in a while and of course I've got in laws and family that are from there that live here in California. They've left the cold weather.
Speaker D: I actually have family in California in Long beach and Temecula. I've spent many summers in Long Beach. I do miss California quite a bit. But yeah it is cold. But actually today is night, it's 50. We're debating whether we want to go and do some PODA and activate a park. But he listens to you guys every morning. I think he turns you on and listens to you. And I was like, have you ever checked in? And he said no. So I was like, I'm going to.
Speaker A: Yeah, by all means, check in whenever it sounds about right. And I want to thank you for doing that. You were brave enough to actually key up the mic. So we enjoy people coming in from all over the country and all over the world. I don't know if you heard earlier, but we had someone find us from the Netherlands and the miracles of modern Internet and gateways to get to California. It's fantastic.
Speaker D: Listening to you since you first started the net. So yes, I did hear the Netherlands gentleman. We run a net. It's every day during the week. It's international on net. Our nets are very chaotic. They're not like a traditional net and it's a lot of fun. So I run that every other Friday. My boyfriend does so Thursday. He's very, very popular. He's very well loved and it is a funnet and all you have to do is give your happy thoughts. So. But I love playing on radio and I do have the courage to jump in. I just was enjoying you. And I liked listening to the gentleman's conversation about his daughter wanting a cuddle. And I have girls too. It made me happy and I wanted to check in.
Speaker A: Well, I'm sure Smitty's listening. I'm sure he appreciated that comment. He would. Yeah. And nice that you enjoyed that. Well, thanks for checking into the net. What is the daily net that you run?
Speaker D: Okay, that's a lot, my love. Okay, he's starting to tell me at all right now. I wish I could have him do it. It is on the Lakeshore repeater out of racing and it can connect your via All Star DMR and it's every day at 5pm Central Time. And you just give a happy thought. The node number to connect to it is 511861.
Speaker B: Hope that helps. Okay, quick comment.
Speaker A: Go ahead, Smitty.
Speaker B: Well, I'm listening and I apologize. I didn't catch the name or the call, but. Good morning, Racine, Wisconsin. I also have a connection. I'm the guy that was talking about the daughter that. The daughter that's cuddling with my great aunt who unfortunately is no longer with us. Lived in Kenosha. Oh yeah, Kenosha. You know where Kenosha is, don't ya? And as a kid when I used to go visit her, I used to go to the Mars Cheese Castle there. Right there. You know where I'm talking about. We go to The Mars Cheese Castle. I don't know, as a kid Cheese Castle sounded very cool. And then you go there. I went there as an adult maybe 10 years ago and I was like, oh, I remember it differently. But Good morning Racine, Wisconsin or good early afternoon I guess. WB1G.
Speaker A: Yeah, Jen, I think you have a fan. Thanks for checking in. I wrote down the note here in the notes and I'm willing to go check it out here one of these days. But thank you for checking into the net this morning. Being brave enough to do. Doesn't sound like you're all that scary. K9uet kw6u73.
Speaker D: All right, good. We are actually in Kenosha sitting here right now. So racing is where our repeater is. It was a pleasure speaking with you this morning and to your other friends from the Las Vegas guy refers to Las Vegas daughter. Anyways, have a great morning.
Speaker A: Yeah, we, we tell a lot of stories here. So yep, happy thoughts are a big part of ours as well. Have a great day, Jen. We'll catch you next time. And good morning Dan. K6D okay.
Speaker B: Aloha.
Speaker A: Are you back home or you local?
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker C: Yes, aloha to all. Gonna just scooch on in there. Watch out. DLK's coming in. Jeff, Smitty, bring it on in. Let's cuddle. Great talk. And for some reason I'm craving a little cheese in my omelet this morning. Don't know why, but no, I am back and I am working this weekend. I hear the vacuum going upstairs and I am being pushed out as soon as I grab a bite to eat. It looks like all this time that I enjoyed doing other things have left the important things stacking up that I've gotten back to. There was a hard line in the sand to be back by Valentine's Day and I was, I knew what was good for me.
Speaker A: Oh well. Who drew the hard line in the in the sand that could be a little mushy. And wouldn't Valentine's Day be nicer in Hawaii?
Speaker C: It would but my Valentine was back in California. I shared the story that my mother in law hurt her hip and went through surgery and replaced a hip and is going through recovery therapy. And although I tried to convince that a little time might be good away especially in light of the fact that mom is receiving 24 hour care in the facility that she's in to recover. And when she gets out then it'll be all hands on deck. But my wife very, very concerned about it. She was very gracious in allowing myself and my son to sneak off for just a little bit. So it wasn't a long family one. And because of that, I am back. We are always stronger together.
Speaker A: Well, it's hard to argue with that. And that sounds like a halfway decent line in the sand. And when it comes to being apart, Valentine's Day, you have to correct that. You're back, welcome back. And hopefully you had a, you know, obviously you had fun and safe travels back. So here you are. And what else is going on in your day today then, Den?
Speaker C: You know, the same pile that I left when I departed. I always try to clean things up. You know, whether it's a desk, a garage, a project, or anything else, you usually try to get on top of things so that you don't come back to the rubble. And I didn't do that. So I'm doing the same now. I'm getting things going. I'm wrapping up some other projects. It just seems to be a forever thing. And I know there are others out there who do the same thing, regardless of the differences in what we do. It just seems to be like a Golden Gate Bridge painting project where you
Speaker A: get all the way through, and once
Speaker C: you get to the other side, it's time to start all over again somewhere else. And that's it. So happy to do it. And as long as we have our health and we're above ground and we have something to do, and I think, you know, we always wish we could retire and get to other things. And it's very important to build that picture correctly, because when you. When you don't and you forget the details, you don't realize that you'll be probably busier in your retirement. How are you enjoying your retirement, Jeff? I understand you just. You just got to hang it up and enjoy. Heading out to the. Is it Pacific Crest Trail?
Speaker A: Well, thanks for asking. Yes, I am enjoying my retirement. I think the big thing for me was having control over my time. You know, being on a. In healthcare, you're on more or less on Monday to five, you know, six or eight to five treadmill. That doesn't really end when you get off work because of the emotional baggage that's there for the end of the day, plus raising kids, plus doing all the stuff. So retiring. I thought I would have all the control over my time, but of course, my lovely wife finds things for me to do just to make sure. And the grandkids, we keep busy. They've started jiu jitsu when they're going to school, and I'M part of all that pickup but now I'm getting ready to hike the Pacific Crush Trail and that takes quite a bit of training and I'm actually mostly prepared. I could probably leave a little early if they let me and be just fine.
Speaker C: Yeah it does take some preparation and I had to chuckle when you said you now have control of your time as a retiree.
Speaker B: I was going to ask are you married?
Speaker C: Do you have kids?
Speaker A: And you answered all of that.
Speaker C: The nice thing is you don't look at it as a loss of control of your time. You look at it as a gift to others and we constantly wonder how we can be as productive, how we can be useful. I get that assignment. Hopefully you meet some wonderful people on the trail too. I don't know if you're going alone or if you're taking company with you. If you do go along usually you can meet some interesting types on the trail. You cross paths with some.

Speaker A: Pretty awesome people who are willing to share their story. Are you going alone?
Speaker B: Yes, I will be hiking. Well you never really hiked alone on the pct, but I'll be not going with anyone else. I'll be on my own schedule. And you do cross paths with. There are 50 people a day that have applied for the PCT so at least for the first part of it there'll be quite a few thru hikers that I'll be meeting up with, hiking with, visiting with, whatever, sharing experiences and I find when I go hiking that I never have trouble meeting with, chatting with people. So we have a good time.
Speaker A: Sounds like it's going to be a blast. Plus you cross on the path through some of the day hike areas that people are out on some of the shorter trips that just drop into the trail and out. So that will be kind of neat. Hopefully the weather holds up. Have you done your research on the weather that you're going to have along the way?
Speaker B: I am not too worried about the weather until April 1st. You'll kind of get a look at the snowpack to get an idea of what's going on through the Sierra. I'm actually more concerned about the heat through Southern California. Again, not too concerned about the weather. I'm not leaving until May so that's where I'm more concerned about the heat than anything else I have to figure out, you know, get my body used to hiking when hot.
Speaker A: Yeah, that'll be toasty. Pack your dress bikini. I'm sure you'll have a blast. I better get out of the way. I know you're trying to close up shop and get to your day and there are a lot of others probably trying to get in for the log or to say hi to you. So I will head on out and give you a quick aloha. K6DLK.
Speaker B: All right, Jen, as always, thank you for checking in and It's a pleasure. K60LK KW62 73.
Speaker C: 73 Jeff.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, it is 9:53 and I need to close up shop at 10 o'. Clock. I'll bet, I'll bet we can get a whole bunch of people in the log between now and then. So let's, let's take some in and outs and log onlys. In and outs and log onlys and I'll close up at 10. This is the coffee breakneck. KW6U.
Speaker D: Kilo november 6th victor yankee, delta kilo november 6th victor yankee delta log only.
Speaker E: Whiskey Bravo 3 Charlie, Sierra, Yankee for
Speaker A: the log,
Speaker D: Whiskey six gulf lima, whiskey for the log.
Speaker B: All right, let me run through who I have here for the log here. It's W6GLW. I've got you in the log.
Speaker E: Morning, Rick.
Speaker B: WB3CSY. I've got you in the log. Good morning. I think it's Ryan Wu6H. You know, I wasn't able to hear you, but in the background the name popped up. Let's see, I've got you and I'm putting you in the log. But were you an in n out or a log only?
Speaker C: Oh, go ahead and throw me in the log.
Speaker D: Thanks. Have a great morning.
Speaker B: All right, got you in the log. And Vincent K6DYD, I've got you in the log. Is there anyone else that would like to try check in to the net? Log only is here.
Speaker A: Let's go.
Speaker B: Log only.
Speaker D: Alpha India 6 whiskey.
Speaker C: Log only.
Speaker B: Good morning, John. Got you in the log. Anyone else that would like to get in the log this morning?
Speaker D: Kilo Golf 9 Mike. Good morning, Jeff.
Speaker B: Frank, I have you in the log. Thanks for checking Anyone out for the log. One more time. I'll go ahead and take some log onlys. Anyone else out there that would like to get in the log this morning for the coffee break net? This is KW6.
Speaker E: Um,
Speaker B: All right, well, hearing none. This is kw6u for the coffee break.
Speaker E: Ned.
Speaker B: We'll go ahead and turn the repeater back to normal operation here momentarily. But just want to let everyone know that the repeater will be worked on later on today. So it might be down for a little bit as they solve the voter receiver issue and hopefully they'll have good luck with that. So you might hear some activity with that going on. But the coffee breaknet is every morning 7:30 to 10:00am we love having you check in. It's very nice to hear people from all over the country and around the world. And we'll have Brian AI6us as the formal host for tomorrow morning. Thank you, Brian, for your help this morning and thank you all for being patient with us as we work through
Speaker D: our voting receiver issues.
Speaker B: This is PW6U returning the repeater back to normal operation. 73 all good morning.
Speaker C: Hey, kilo golf 9 mike, wb1g quick drive by.
Speaker E: Let me get in quickly if I could with six us. Go ahead, Brian, check your audio. I believe you've been running on narrow bandwidth. That's what it sounds like. The audio's kind of just a bit on the high side. So double check that. You have a great day. Thank you for running the net. Sorry to put you through so much necessary. But thank you so much for all the effort this morning to get on the air.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker B: Hey, I have to go through and diagnose what's going on on my end, so I have a feeling I have an antenna issue. I don't really know what the problem was. It's probably something else. Have a great day. Thanks. Thanks, Brian, for your help. I appreciate the background help for sure. This is kw6uc clear.
Speaker E: Thank you, Smitty, for the quick break there. Ai6us back over to Europe.
Speaker D: Smith.
Speaker C: Oh yeah, I'll give breaks anytime I kilo Golf 9 Mike WB1G real quick.
Speaker D: Morning, Smitty. Kilo Golf 9 Mike. Loved your story by the way.
Speaker C: As a dad, you get it. Any dad would get it.
Speaker A: And.
Speaker C: And I kind of forgot Jeff has a daughter, so he. Not that it makes a difference.
Speaker D: Kids are kids.
Speaker B: Right.
Speaker C: And I don't think they ever grow up beyond them always. Well, they're always your kid. Right. Just want to give you a heads up. I, I saw your email with all of those planning meetings and I just added them to the club calendar and so you'll see them on the website probably in the next few hours. Usually within an hour they'll show up on the website, but they are added and in there and I did set a reminder for the first one that's coming up on the 19th just because there's been a kind of a gap between the last round and this round. So there'll be a day before there'll be a groups message that goes out automatically to remind folks about the one on the 19th. WB1G
Speaker D: thanks for doing that, Smitty. I do appreciate it and looking forward to having you there in the role that you're going to be in doing the MC stuff. So thanks for all you're doing behind the scenes in preparation, public publicity and everything you'll do on the day of the event. We're do appreciate it.
Speaker C: Kilogram. Oh man, you. You got it. You got it. WB1G73.
Speaker E: Made on March 26. I'm seeing standard meeting.
Speaker C: Oh, is it already. Is it already out there? I just added it a few minutes ago. So typically it takes a little while for groups and the website, typically about an hour before it refreshes. But are you saying it's out there already? That's pretty cool.
Speaker E: Yes, it's out there and I believe there might be a change for 26 because that's showing as a. Well, it doesn't indicate that it's a
Speaker D: zoom meeting, but anyway it Might be
Speaker E: occurring a little earlier.
Speaker C: Frank. Well real quick, it should be starting at 6pm from a time start standpoint and by the way I did make a mistake when I first added it. I left out the meeting link for Zoom. So you're probably seeing the first version of that. But I'm willing to bet it will sync up and in short time you'll see that Zoom link in there as far as the location. But good catch Brian.
Speaker D: Good set eyes. Yeah. That last meeting will be on site and we'll refine that calendar as we get closer to it. But I think traditionally we have that last meeting a couple days before the event just to do a quick walkthrough and to ensure you know everything is understood. I know there's a follow on meeting I think on that Friday where some smaller groups helps to load gear, unload gear I mean and we'll definitely continue to refine that calendar and make sure that the dates work for everyone and it's understood. Kilo Golf 9 Mike and check the time is
Speaker E: so we typically I think did 5 or 5:30.
Speaker C: Yeah I'd schedule it for six at 7pm But Frank let me know if that needs to change, my friend.
Speaker D: This is sac Valley's original 105 machine. It'll go a little bit.
Speaker C: So thank you.
Speaker D: Smitty. Work in progress.
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker D: But I appreciate you getting the word out there so people at least know the dates and then we'll refine the times for all the Zoom meetings. We know when those are going to happen. Those, those aren't going to change. But the showtime on the day of we'll work with everyone's calendar to find the time that that works best. We'll set that weeks in advance so everyone knows and it'll be clear. So might be some revisions in the calendar but that's easy to fix between now and then. Thank you very much. Appreciate it Brian and Smitty and again Brian, thank you. I know you didn't probably plan to spend your morning doing what you did this morning but appreciate it and all you do for the club, both of you. Kilo Golf 9 Mike73
Speaker E: just brought it up because I usually will populate my calendar off of this and really don't pay much attention. I have it on my calendar so that's why if we know that we're typically doing it earlier we probably should get in there.
Speaker B: Right.
Speaker E: Because I bet you there's a bunch of other people out there like me. Yeah no Tom. Well doing logging so Tom NN6H thank you AI6US.
Speaker D: Yeah. So as we're making sausage right here on the theater in real time. Smitty, if you want to make that last meeting at 5pm we'll set that now and then if we have to adjust, we'll adjust. But you know, I know that sometimes things change as we get closer to the end of the planning cycle. So but for now if you would just make that last meeting before the last planning meeting, that is before the event. 5 o' clock and we'll just start there. Okay, that's all I got. Thank you very much again. Kilo Golf 9 Mike 73.
Speaker C: Sounds good brother. And just to confirm that last meeting, that is March 26th, 5:30 start time to 6:30 hour.
Speaker D: I think that one lingers a bit. Not everyone needs to be there for the entire duration. You know, some of the team leads just walk their areas and talk to their volunteer cadre. So if you would make it two hours, but. But not everyone will need to be there I think for the entire time.
Speaker C: Okay, I will make it two hours. My question. And that is on site. Just to confirm with you on. Forgive me, I'm sorry, the 26th, that is not on site. Correct. That's a Zoom. And the 27th is the Friday before. Keep me honest here. The 26th virtual or in person?
Speaker D: Yeah, the 26th is for everyone. That's a planning meeting on site. There's another group, smaller group on that Friday and I don't think this needs to be calendared just yet because the people haven't been picked that will be there to load and unload gear. So don't calendar that one just yet. That will be, I think some select folks. But the Thursday before the event, that one will be all hands, two hours starting at five on site at the train station. That's my understanding. And Brian, please correct me if I'm wrong because you've done this many more years than I have.
Speaker E: Yeah. So Thursday the 26th is typically on location and everyone is invited to that meeting that is participating for Saturday so they can do a walk through and meet their committee, their chair leads and talk about specifics and. Yeah, and then I double checked. Yeah, sunset is 7:30. So just kind of for reference.
Speaker D: Anyway, that's it.
Speaker E: AI6us. Thanks Frank.
Speaker D: Yep, appreciate it. Thank you. All right, off to breakfast. Late breakfast. Kilo Golf 9 Mike 73.
Speaker C: Before we go, one more thing for you and this will get you kind of excited. I reached out to Bruce by email because obviously shiny new object ampersand and I am making an attempt at writing a Visual Studio Windows application companion app. Companion app. Not a replacement. A companion app that will bring that web interface into a nice application form with a refresh and a quit button, and rather than having to run that in a browser, lets you run it into a real app so it doesn't get, you know, closed as a tab and things like that. So standby or stay tuned. You may beta test a Windows app for me here. WP1G73
Speaker D: Very cool, Smitty. Very cool. Yeah, you know, he is definitely into open source. It's all on GitHub. Source code is out there and he encourages revisions and improvements and augmentation and all that other stuff. So I'm sure he was glad to hear you want to bring your skills into improving it. So good. I look forward to assisting with that too. And thanks for doing that. Sounding great, by the way. Kilo Golf 9 Mike 73
Speaker B: oh yeah.
Speaker C: Thank you. Thank you for complimenting me on my rack. My audio rack, My audio rack.
Speaker E: Wow.
Speaker C: Second time in the last 24 hours I've, I've stumbled over things WB1G73.

Speaker A: Six hai six west.
Speaker B: Brian? Yeah.
Speaker A: Was that you? Tomorrow?
Speaker B: So I thought that was me you're calling in. Sorry,
Speaker A: I heard something. Station breaking up. Sounded like you, ryan. Yeah.
Speaker B: No.
Speaker A: NN6H Sorry, I think you thought I was calling you. Yeah. NN6H Tom, are you monitoring AI6?
Speaker C: Yeah, Brian, I'm here at N6H
Speaker A: okay. Do you want me to leave the system as is or take it back over for live testing for the voters?
Speaker C: I don't think it matters. I mean for the timing issue there. I mean it should show up either way. So I don't. It can be done either way. So I've just been monitoring it, but it's been. Yeah, it's been cleaned this morning for some reason.
Speaker B: Yep.
Speaker A: Intermittent darn thing. Okay, I'm going to bring them back on live and down the backup. That way, you know, it will probably be easier for us to communicate.
Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, should be no problem there. Yeah, but the way it was last night, I thought for sure it would be having all sorts of bits this morning.
Speaker A: But for some reason you change a
Speaker C: few things and things start working.
Speaker A: Yes, indeed. What did overnight? Nothing. All right, I'm going to activate and then I'll do a quick test here in about probably three to five minutes.
Speaker B: Ai6us WB1G Quick drive by, by the way.
Speaker A: Let's make some sausage.
Speaker C: I like that.
Speaker A: That was funny.
Speaker B: Yeah, how the sausage is made. Right. Hey, real quick. I caught up on those emails this morning. Great feedback from both you and Mark. Not to be exclusive here, but I love it and I think we're on a great path together. So look forward to exploring that a little bit more with you, but good stuff for sure. WB1G have fun fixing the repeater. Okay. Make it shine. Spit shine it, please.
Speaker A: Yeah, let's see if I'm getting in this way. Ai6us yeah, I caught that. 100%. No good conversations and look forward to
Speaker C: seeing what we can do.
Speaker B: Yeah, and as far as I try to get away from live sound, it just sucks me back in. I knew you could appreciate a couple comments that thread by the way, regarding taking the mic and putting it in front of the speaker kind of thing. Ways to. Ways to go to a press conference and jack in without being able to jack into the PA. There you go. WP1G Sentry.
Speaker A: Yep, did that a couple of times over at the old facility. Yeah, it's especially if you arrive to the. To the event late and you don't want to be seen walking up on stage and placing a mic. On the podium. But of course, then you have you always. Whenever you're in a rush like that, you have a PA system with a lifted ground.
Speaker B: Oh, yes, the dreadful hum. All right, go back to what you're doing. Have a good one. Take care. WB1G.
Speaker A: You helped me do what I'm doing. So the voter is back online for. But we will be doing some further testing today. Thanks AI6US.

Kg9m. Are you still monitoring frank ai6 us. Kilo Golf 9 Mike AI sixuous.

Speaker A: Ai6us if you're still around. I have an idea. Sometimes I dream and I have ideas when I dream. You got one sec.
Speaker B: Now I'm scared if it involves me,
Speaker A: Right? So I might have to do this in a crawl, walk, run, approach, but I think it should be pretty easy if I am. This is going to be dangerous. If I reach out to the guys at Ham Club Online and find a way that I can call their and look based on call sign, do a lookup assuming that they have an API or assuming that it can be done without an act of Congress. It would be really cool if we had a tablet, a laptop, an iPad, a phone. And whoever is checking in can type in call signs at the door. And I know you're going to be
Speaker B: like, this is exactly what I'm talking
Speaker A: about, at least for a first step. And people are signing in. Oh, hey, how you doing Mike or Smitty, WB1G oh, hey, by the way, you need to renew or you're coming up for renewal and give their status, their membership status back to whoever's checking them in. It's a thought. I don't want to try to boil the ocean too fast, but that would be pretty easy to do.
Speaker B: Did you talk to Mark? I had proposed pretty much word for word.
Speaker A: Well, I did and that's where this is coming from. I'm not taking the idea away from you.
Speaker B: You're absolutely right.
Speaker A: I would need to be able to call in Ham Club Online, but I can build a very simple web page or web view or webpage that would, you know, somebody, whoever's checking in could go to w6ck.org check ins or I don't know, meeting, whatever, and then enter call signs in. Might even be able to do a digital sign in where folks, you know, type in their call check arrl, blah blah blah. I don't know if that might be over complicating it, but the lookup to their database and identifying whether somebody has a current membership, that shouldn't be too hard.
Speaker B: Yeah, the only thing that I was thinking about is guest. Guest would not be on the, on that roster. It worked great if it was directly connected up to Ham Club Online. And so that's why he was kind of talking to Mark about kind of, you know, utilizing the database and interacting with it. So the things that I see
Speaker C: that
Speaker B: take time during check in, number one is manually writing on a piece of paper and if you didn't bring a badge then you know, moving over and you have four, three, four, five people at A table at a time during check in.
Speaker A: Little chaotic.
Speaker B: And so, you know, if, if whatever we build has a print button and I volunteer, I offered to donate my. I have a spare label printer. Just donate that to the club to print out name badges that when somebody signs in, if they don't have a badge, you hit print and that printer is sitting right there.
Speaker A: Interesting, interesting. And I think you're volunteering to be the one to do that at every meeting. Hi. Hi.
Speaker B: I'm kidding.
Speaker A: I'm totally kidding. Brian, there's a comment. Come on in. Coming.
Speaker C: Hey kn6nus, I just want to say if you guys need developer support, I'm happy to help. I could definitely connect HAM Club online if they have an API to whatever system you want to build or build a full fledged app where you could export monthly and be able to use it within the application, that kind of stuff. But you know, let me know if you need any help. Can6nus,
Speaker A: we should talk. So I'm a web developer. Python, Java, JavaScript and a few other flavors. But I'm application developer so we should put our heads together because I'm willing to bet together we could make some magic happen. WBwing
Speaker C: sounds good. Yeah, Feel free to contact me. I do all kinds of development. So, yeah, web or embedded or otherwise. So hit me up kn6nua.
Speaker B: That's awesome. Yeah, see if I have it. That's awesome, Joshua, thank you very much. You know, so kind of a 10,000, 100,000 foot view there, Smitty. We know the roadblock, Michael. And so, you know, we have to kind of think about do we want to see if we can work within their framework to enhance HAM Club or do we just, you know, try to secure the API and have a way to export and import, you know, so you know what we're up against there.
Speaker A: Yeah, unfortunately I do more so than Mr. Nuf and you and I have some history with the support team there. So that is probably the biggest obstacle. But yeah, when I've tried to, when I've tried to help them in the past, they were unwilling to accept help. So we'll see. You know how some hams are, you know it, Brian. But so we may, that may be a limiting factor there, but who knows? We'll see, we'll explore wby.
Speaker B: So maybe an approach we might think about is kind of put together just a quick little template of an interface and something that we can submit to them and say, hey, you know, we would love to either work with you to develop this as a You know, as a function for your website. Because I'm sure a lot of other clubs out there would love to use a, you know, you know, because how else do people keep track of attendance on ham club and so interaction with the resource that they want us to use and really bring it into the real world. You know, I was just thinking if we kind of presented to them a template of, you know, of what we wanted to accomplish and you know, we would like to, you know, maybe support you. These are the resources we have and if that's, you know, not available, then the next step would be, okay, can we have the appropriate API for in and out so we can, you know, do our own front end to, you know, do what we need but still not make it. So my biggest thing with BARC was I don't want to gather all this information and then have to have somebody re enter it manually. That's crazy. In this day and age,
Speaker A: I'm tracking 100% on that. And I agree with you wholeheartedly. And unfortunately right now that is kind of how they were, which is, well, plug it in. Well, that's fine. But when you got 50, 60 or on Friday, 72 different people, that's, that's a lot of data entry and it's in 2025. That's silly. 2026,
Speaker B: well, actually it would have been 98 entries would have needed to be made and then you just need to notate, you know, guest or member and then you do a lookup. Exactly ties in because for voting and that sort of thing, it lets you know, you know, who the active members are, who membership needs to contact. And you know, I was doing face to face with the check in. And by the way, Smitty, I mentioned that I really enjoyed doing the job and I wouldn't mind helping out whenever possible because that's the exact kind of interaction I usually have at meetings. And so as a greeter, it was quite a bit of fun. But I was, you know, I would say 50% of the people I was able to ask, you know, hey, is your membership current? And it queried, oh, probably four or five people said, no, I need to get that done. Yeah.
Speaker A: So how awesome is it to do it right there? Shoot. Even, you know, I'm overthinking this. I know, or maybe over engineering, but you know, have a laptop or a tablet, like, hey, here you go right here, grab your credit card,
Speaker B: here's the
Speaker A: tablet, go ahead and do it.
Speaker B: I think a secondary, a secondary position. Yeah, but I was just trying to figure out how to, you know, because at times we had 10 or more people waiting in line just to sign a piece of paper and make sure they had a name tag. And for me, you know,
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