W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-04

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.

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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.

Join us for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.

Node 51018 connected 2 node 405480.

Speaker A: Ak6ns alpha kilo 6 november sierra. All right, good morning ray8k6ns got you in the log. Thanks for checking in this morning and good morning to Dan Kato 6 LMZ. Got you in the log. Hope all is well with you. We haven't talked in a while but hopefully we'll run across you at an upcoming event. Good morning to Ken KV7DFP. Before I move up the list, what's for lunch? I hadn't decided which soup it is going to be, but it is definitely soup today. I know you've never heard that before. All right Ken, soup it is. Hey, Good morning Dick. WB7UKX got you in the log. And good morning to Bert AI6LZ. You are in the log and in and out. I copied enough that that was probably Brian KD8HPZ but you are dropping in and out of the system today so don't know what's going on there. Good morning. Who else did I miss? I know there was probably a couple. My gosh, did we get everyone? This is Brian AI6us in the coffee breaknet. This will be last call for the log. Any takers? K6 psy, kilo 6 bravo sierra. Thank you. Good morning Jeff. K6 Psy no wine for you. Good morning. Inside joke. Jeff does not like wine on his Linux, but he probably drinks wine while he uses Linux. Good morning Jeff. You can respond. I can't say that much smack talk about you without giving you that opportunity. You are correct Brian. I would drink some wine while I'm on Lennox, that's for sure. But that's as far as I'll go. But I do like wine. In that context. Jeff only uses wine when it's in a glass with Linux. Have a great day. Thanks for checking in. All right, with that we're going to call it a wrap for this Wednesday morning. Tomorrow morning your net control operators will be Feda WA6EWF and Jerry WA6E. And thank you for riding along today being part of the morning conversation. I really enjoyed the conversations we had and I hope you did as well. Join us again tomorrow morning, 7:30am to 10:00am Pacific Time. That's 15:30 to 1800 UTC. And this net is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club. The coffee break net, of course is where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. Want to thank everyone who checks in in the morning and whether you connect your repeater up to us, whether you come in on your own node or maybe you hear it through one of the networks or listen to us on YouTube. We appreciate you being part of the folks that are part of the Coffee breaknet. With that, I'm going to go ahead and return the W16K repeater back to normal usage, whatever that may be. I'm Brian. AI6US73 to everyone. Happy hump day. And then as the net ends, the repeater becomes very, very quiet. Ai6us qrt. 86cq mob. Oh, come on, guys. We are a friendly repeater. Somebody, Mike, threw his call sign out there. What are we going to do about it? Maybe I should just start introducing people. It's kind of a. Kind of a swipe left and swipe right. Good luck, Mike. Hope somebody is still out there. Ai6us have a great day. Bike
Speaker B: and driving around running errands. I'll be home soon.
Speaker A: Anyway.
Speaker B: I'm gonna play around on some of the fusion stuff.
Speaker A: 86 cub. K60qkb6luv. Didn't want to leave you hanging too long. Mike. Nice to meet you. I am Brett again. Kilo Bravo 6 Lima Uniform Victor. Good morning.
Speaker B: Ah, yes, good morning. I'm down in Citrus Heights finishing some errands. Have some work to do when I get home and well, after I play radio there, I'm gonna mess around with some of the. Some of the fusion stuff. I don't know, just kind of log into random notes, see who's on. That's about it on my end.
Speaker A: Well, if it's possible, do it outside because it's a glorious day out there today. Sun is shining, birds are singing, fish are jumping.
Speaker B: Well, I do have my ST1 and my phone. I can go online and look up the node list. That sounds good. 86 EQ 73.
Speaker A: 86 eq kb6l, u v. Have a great day, mike. Take care. 73 clear.

Wu6x Wu6x Ai6us. Are you monitoring doug?

Speaker A: Kb6ssn. Is there someone around can give me a signal report please? Nice.
Speaker B: Jeff, back in the shack, you're on a different radio.
Speaker A: You're.
Speaker B: I'll give you a signal report here in a moment, but sounded strong. Come on back.
Speaker C: Hi Brian.
Speaker A: Yes, I'm on Larry's. Oh gosh. What model radio is this?
Speaker B: It's the, it's a new yaesu.
Speaker A: It's his, the one he got a few weeks ago running about 5 watts. Drive on that into a Mirage B310G amplifier. Watt meter says we're putting about 100 watts out right now. So just wanted to see if it sounded distorted or overdriven or any of that kind of thing,
Speaker B: you know. For 100 watts I would expect it to be doing more. You are hitting mountaintop almost full scale. Just shy of full scale believe it or not. And Rockland you are hitting about maybe 80%. My only comment would be the audio is definitely favoring the higher end and just not super clean. That might be the rf.
Speaker A: Okay, we'll stand by just a second and let me change things around just a sec here.
Speaker B: Yeah, could you use that same radio and put the amp into bypass? I would love to see it. See in here.
Speaker A: That is precisely what I just did. And well let's see. I put it on 85 watts but it says it putting out 45 watts so I don't know but KB6SSN, does this make a difference?
Speaker B: Almost exactly the same signal strength into both repeaters and the audio? Yeah, kind of. The, the, the noise that I was hearing went away. So that was RF induced and what I'm hearing now is just a kind of a little hum way deep in the background that wasn't there when you were going through the amp. So just a little change in the, in the ambience.
Speaker A: Okay, very good. And now here's back on the amplifier again. And one of the things I'm noticing is that this antenna he's using, it's 146, 520 is almost a flat match on it but it's about 1.6 to 1 right where we're at here.
Speaker C: So.
Speaker B: Interesting.
Speaker A: In any case it works, it's functional. I don't know what I'm going to do with it. It was an impulse buy. It was just too darn cute sitting on the table. And it, it has SSB settings on it so I can use it for. I have a little 510 watt
Speaker B: 2
Speaker A: meter SSB unit and I can bump it up to 100 watts for 2 meter SSB, which this, so this will be fun.
Speaker B: I picked up probably a similar amp. I'm not going to pull it out of the box to tell you exactly what it is, but yeah, similar. I'm trying to remember what class it is, but it does sideband as well. And I kind of thought the same thing might come in handy when you need a little more punch. The interesting thing is though, coming into both of both motors, there is not a noticeable difference in signal strength.
Speaker A: Well, I don't know that there's a big difference between 100 watts and 85 watts. So that's probably the signal strength difference there. I just wanted to confirm that the amplifier was working without distorting. You know, when you buy a used piece of equipment, you never know.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker B: For interest, if you can just drop that radio all the way down to low power, I'll give you some feedback on that. But yeah, no, no, no real difference on the, on the power. Definitely a little difference in, in the audio characteristic, but either way it's, it's, it sounds good.
Speaker A: Okay, and here is 5 watts. 5 watts. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And yeah, I don't know how if I'm even making the repeater on this, but yeah, Larry's location here is not the best for this system. It's just he's stuck out in these rolling hills out here. And I've noticed that when I came out here that there's troubles with this repeater. He can get to other systems much better than this one, but. So I'm not surprised that it's compromised. If I tried this experiment from my place, you know, I'd be full quieting and probably all three of them. But in any case, thanks for the help. How does five watts sound?
Speaker B: Five watts is 98% to 100% into Mountaintop and about, oh, maybe 45% into Rockland. So it makes a difference on the Rockland repeater, but nothing hardly on mountaintop. What's interesting is it's a great location for the, for the receive from that from his antenna. So it might just be one of those things where that antenna needs to be moved 6 inches left, right up or down because it's, it's basically only what he's hearing at his location from our repeater. Definitely not a transmission thing.
Speaker A: Well, I've told him it needs to go straight up about 40ft, but he won't listen to me. But maybe he'll listen to me when it's time to build the loop.
Speaker B: Who knows.
Speaker A: Thanks for all your help, Brian.
Speaker B: Appreciate it.
Speaker A: KB6SSN have a great day. Oh gosh, I am so looking forward to swap meet coming up or ham fest or whatever we're calling it. That's, that's going to be a lot of fun. 7:3, talk to you soon.
Speaker B: Yeah, I saw 4kw sitting there just looking for a home. Have a good one. Yeah, no, no, I happy to do it. I was just finishing up the log before I had to get breakfast. So you have a wonderful day. Ai6us. I'll be clear.
Speaker C: This is KN6WTU with QST south on i5 is completely gridlocked. 100% stop. It seems like they are over downtown walking the freeway. There's seven deputies walking, walking the lane to look for something. I'm not sure what it is but if you're coming north on i5, I would definitely get off the freeway as soon as you can. This is KN6WQ.

Speaker A: And looking on Google Maps, it says road closed until 4:30 this afternoon. Yikes. KO6th.
Speaker B: Thanks, Frank. I'm not sure what they were doing. They just closed. I didn't copy anyway. I'm sorry I stepped on you. I was. I didn't step on you. I show. I was on the other VFO over Simplex calling frequency to notify somebody if they can hear me. But do you know why it's closed?
Speaker A: Doesn't say. There's a crash right in front of that going southbound, I think. And then the road's closed after that. But. So maybe related to that or maybe the sudden closure caused the crash. They don't say. Let me check on the CHP page. Hang on. KO 68, you're back.
Speaker B: Yeah. I've never seen it before. There's three or four cars driving behind like seven deputies walking the freeway like. And looking for things like debris, I'm happy to assume. I think what they're doing is looking for evidence that they were tossing out of the car when they did that high speed pursuit at 100 miles an hour, from what I understand.
Speaker C: Node 51018 disconnected.

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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.

Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of sac Valley's original 105W6 GRC with a PL tone of 110.9.