W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-01

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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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.

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.

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.

Speaker A: K7nq mobile,
Speaker B: K 70 GA on my handheld.
Speaker A: Well, good morning sir. Are you out podaing?
Speaker B: No, I'm sitting in my shack on my HT doing some FDA. Just got South Africa on the 25 block.
Speaker A: Oh, good arn. Very good. You're having fun with that. That's cool. Last week or so I've gotten re engaged and done quite a bit of hfcw so I gotta get back into shape for the Kiso party coming up in a couple of weeks.
Speaker B: Yeah, I still want to learn cw. And now that my schedule's a little bit more stable, I'm planning on getting signed up probably for the Long Island CW Club. But I'm actually talking to you on a 70 centimeter loop antenna I built last night, so. Yeah, seems like it's doing okay.
Speaker A: Yep, you seem to be coming in just fine. Well, very good. Kind of overcast and gloomy today, but still 50 degrees, so I guess spring is just about to spring.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think so. My uncle was posting pictures of all of his flowers coming up over in the Boise area, so. Yeah, I think it's just around.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think so too. I'm just headed into church here, so. Thought I'd give a shout. Apparently the net is over. They must have ended it right at 11 o' clock today.
Speaker B: Yeah, the guy doing the net was having some throat issues. He was getting sick, so they ended a little early today.
Speaker A: I see. All right, well, usually Ken is hanging around, but
Speaker B: he.
Speaker A: When did I. I talked to him a day or two. Maybe it was yesterday. Was it yesterday? I talked to him? I guess, yeah, so. So he has. Probably has a day off from having to talk to me again.
Speaker B: Maybe, yeah.
Speaker A: I don't know. So have you ordered your DX10 yet?
Speaker B: Are you gonna do anything fun for the QSO day or are you just gonna go to Bob's?
Speaker A: Oh, I'm probably just. I might go to Bob's when it first starts, but I'm going to spend most of my time at home. I'll sign up for K7s and then work K7SU. I think it's more important to get our personal calls out there than it is the special event. We might even just do away with the special events next year.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm trying to decide what I'm going to do. I gotta go to Losing Indiana this week, so I'll come back, but trying to decide if I want to go do a rove or what I want to do. I'm not sure yet.
Speaker A: Well, we changed the hours you know, to help out the rover stations. So you don't. Because, you know, I mean during the night there's just nobody on. The bands are shut down. So hopefully that'll, that'll give them more time to rack up some points and the rovers can travel during the off hours.
Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's definitely appreciated. I'm definitely going to do QRP again this year. I had an absolute blast with that last year. It was amazing what we could hit with just 5 watts. We ended up getting Hawaii, which was pretty cool.
Speaker A: No, if nobody used amplifiers. Well, you know, when amateur radio first started off, you know, people only used 8, 8, 10 watts, something like that. But you know, now we've got this mentality that, oh, life is too short for qrp. And it's like everything else, you know, the next guy, you use 10 watts, the next guy uses 20 watts to get a little advantage, then the Next guy uses 40 watts and then pretty soon it's. Everybody's got to have an amplifier.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, no, and it's. I'll even, even in the PODA stuff now seems like everybody's using. The hunters are using amplifiers and blowing some people out of the water and just, just bad ham radio etiquette, to be quite honest, with some of these, you know, Hunters. But I don't know, I, It's a lot of fun. I have that KX3. I'm hoping to do some more soda this year. I think that's going to be my goal to get my butt out and start hiking and getting into some more soda spots.
Speaker A: Yeah, that'd be a lot of fun. Yeah. We're forgetting the number one rule for good operating is only use as much power as you need to carry out the conversation. But then I guess they'll argue, well, if everybody's using a kilowatt then you got to have a kilowatt to get through. So I don't know, I use an amp. I, but I use it to, I drive it with about 15 watts, you know, and then I let the amplifier do the work and I run it at about 200 watts, so gives me good output and it's not perfect hurting the radio any. You know, I always hesitate to run, run these radios that hammer down all the time and I think if we can back them off and let the tube amps do the, do the heavy lifting and I think it's better on the radio.
Speaker B: Yeah, I keep saying that one of these days I'm going to get an amp. But I don't know. I, I was looking at this Flex Aurora or it's like a package like the size of a, like a computer tower, honestly. And it has a 500 watt amp. It's pretty cool that they.
Speaker A: You're fuzzing out on me there a little bit. But yeah, I know the, they're pretty proud of that stuff. Flex and Ella Craft, any of the American made stuff, the high end American made stuff, man. It's pretty high priced, so I'll just keep my DX10 and call it good. Well, I'm getting pretty close here, Scott, so I'll let you go and have fun today and we'll talk to you later. Have a good time. Safe trip to Louisiana. K7EGA K7SU mobile. We'll clear out of here.
Speaker B: Sound three Kelly have a great day. 73 God bless K7EGA monitoring.

Node 51018 disconnected.

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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.

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.