W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-10

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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Hey, k6jn radio check. Kc6uis sounding great, Joe. Cabby. Thank you Bob. Sorry I missed the net yesterday. No problem. We had a good net. Band was up and down and had 15 check ins and two guests. So all in all it was a good, good net for sure. And look forward to hearing you next time around. Yeah, I'm standing. I look forward to being there.

Speaker A: Looking for something to do tonight? Why not? Join us for the Monday night net at 8pm on the W6 GRC repeater with a PL tone of 110.9. Okay, now that was interesting. Casey QAs.
Speaker B: Yeah, what's that?
Speaker A: I was kind of surprised, but I liked it. And with that it is the top of the hour, so. Good Evening, this is AK6JN located in Williams, your net control station tonight for the GAR's Monday Night Net. This net meets every Monday evening at 2000 hours local time using either the AFC or the W6GRC repeater. We will be using the W6GRC machines on the odd months of the year and on the even months of the year we'll be using the AF6OA machine for our nets. This is a directed net. Please make no transmissions unless cleared by Net Control. When checking in, please give your call, your name, a signal report and if you have any traffic for the net or wish to be included in the talkback segment. Net Control has no announcements for tonight, so are there any other stations that have announcements for the net? Please come now.
Speaker B: Okay, I6Smed.
Speaker A: Go ahead, Phil.
Speaker B: Just noticed information for the guards group that this month I'll be paying the ARRL insurance for the club and also the PO box rent and that will hopefully get that done before Wednesdays Zoom meeting for the membership. That will be at what time do we do that? 6:30 with that? Jeanette, this is KI6SMN.
Speaker A: Thank you. Thank you, Phil. Are there any other stations with announcements? Please come now. Hearing them move into the check in portion of the net. Start off with AF608 Yen and Cape.
Speaker B: This is Alpha, Foxtrot 6, Oscar, Alpha Yen and Kabay. Your Q5.
Speaker A: Thanks for doing the net. Copy.urq5 as well. Little bit of the crackle in the background but very very strong. AG6VA, Ryan and Willows,
Speaker B: Alpha Golf 6
Speaker A: Victor, Alpha, Ryan and Willows, you are Q5 to me. Beautiful.
Speaker B: Clear signal.
Speaker A: I don't have any traffic for the net, but thanks for doing that, Jeff. Copy. Thank you Ryan for the check in. Have you checked in? You are a Q5 into the repeater as well. K6 Gab, Greg and Chico, Kc6ufe, bill
Speaker B: in capay, kc6ufe, bill in capray. And good evening to the group q5 for everybody and put me on the roundtable back to nat.
Speaker A: Copy. Thank you bill, have you checked in? You are a q5 as well. I'll have you on the talkback section next. We've got kc6uis bob and elk creek. Kc6uis, bob and elk creek. Urq5 into elk creek tonight. No traffic. Kathy, URQ5 into the repeater as well. Thank you. KS6 Obi gave two ask for a text check in. He won't be with us this evening. KG6K U O Webster and Willows. Good evening, this is KG6KUO, Lester and Willows. And I have nothing to add to the net tonight but I'll be listening and I'll be in and out. And you had a couple good q5 signal. Copy of your Q5 as well. Thank you, Lester. Got you checked in K6SMN, Phil and
Speaker B: Willows, Kilo India 6 Share Mike November, Phil here in Willows Q5 through the 8:57 tonight. And I do have an item for the talk around.
Speaker A: Copy. Thank you. Phil. Have you checked in and have you on the list for the roundtable? KK6FNY, Courtney and Willows. Kk6fny, Courtney and Willows checking in and out your Q5. Gabby. Thank you, courtney. Have you checked in cam6vff, hank in elk creek, Kn6wsn, Logan and Willows, W6LND, Jeremy and Orlando. Are there any late or missed member check ins members only. Please come now. Are there any guest stations wishing to check into the cars Monday night that please check in now?
Speaker B: November 6th, Julian, Oscar, Os, Charlie. Quite a bit south and a little
Speaker A: bit east in state of California. Could you come back with your call one more time please? The call is november 6th juliet, oscar alpha. November 6th Juliet Oscar Alpha. Have you checked in? Thank you. Do we have any other visitors? And N6 Joa, did you want to be added into tonight's talkback section? Did you have anything for us or is it just a quick in and out? No ads.
Speaker B: Thank you very much. No ad.
Speaker A: Copy. Thank you. With that, I'll ask one last time. Do we have any more guest check ins? Please come now. Hearing none. We're moving on to the talk back section or the roundtable portion of our net. Starting off with KC6UFE, Bill and Cape. What have you got for us, Bill?
Speaker B: KC6UFE. Good evening, everybody. Well, I've been spending my time chasing that D expedition down by Antarctica on Bouvet Island. So far, no luck. They're up and down the bends and about one step ahead of me. So I must say though, I am quite appalled at the behavior of the ham radio community. It's just there's no excuse for what's going on. So I hope things get better and
Speaker A: back to net KC6UFE. I have to admit I haven't been on the airwaves over the past week or so, so I'm not quite sure what you're referring to, but I'm not going to go into it, so we'll move on. Next we've got KS6SMN Phil in Willows. What do you have for us, Phil?
Speaker B: Yeah, Kilo India 6 Sierra Mike November. My thanks to AF60A. Went up to his place last week and he helped me do some testing of a some ancient RCA radio. It would be the equivalent of having a small portable receiver. It's a tube type unit and he had a bariac that we could slowly bring the current up and did some testing and lo and behold it still works. Did a couple tested a couple of tubes, found one, one that was good, two that were bad but those were auxiliary tubes in the auxiliary tube rack. That's a part of the radio and go drop and come back. And then yesterday I was able to do some work testing out and working through the short wave bands on it. It is intended to be a listener short SWL receiver, shortwave listener receiver and it even the handbag or not the hand bands but the broadcast. Yeah, I guess it'd be broadcast bands in HF those also were working. It's stoppable but it is operational. So with that back to net. This is KI successive ENSO. Thanks again. AF6OA.
Speaker A: That sounds pretty interesting. I'm always fascinated about some of the older radios and how all of this technology came into being in the first place.
Speaker B: Copy that. I guess this is a vintage. It was probably on the market. I would guess late 50s. During the 50s, maybe early and into early 60s. Once again it was a tube type unit.
Speaker A: What year did you think that was from?
Speaker B: I guess it came from either the 1950s or into the early 60s because it was not. There were no solid state components, it was all tubes. So I'm guessing on it. I didn't actually research.
Speaker A: It's also amazing that some of those older radios are just like tanks. They just keep going and going and going.
Speaker B: That's the truth. This thing, when you put the battery in, it weighs about 20, I think it said the documentation said weighed about 2025 pounds. We were not using the battery, we were plugging it into the wall.
Speaker A: Kathy again, that just sounds amazing. So was there anything else that you had or is that it?
Speaker B: That's it. Unless there's any questions.
Speaker A: Did anybody have any questions for Phil? I'm Sorry, I stepped on somebody. Go ahead.
Speaker B: AF6OA here. Phil, did you ever get the long wire going as far as an antenna? Yes, I did. That's what I was doing yesterday. Sorry I didn't get back to your text about that. Yeah, and only thing I could get during the daytime very faintly at 15 megahertz could hear WWV. But then when the. I can't think what it's called when the sun is starting to go down and you're in that shadow thingy. A lot of stations didn't recognize where they were from but could pick up more stations, particularly on. I think it was 40 meters. Roger.
Speaker A: Great. Yeah, Gray line is what it's called. Yeah. Cool. Well maybe we get.
Speaker B: Well, if it's still around and I can get an RF signal generator to do a full alignment we could do it. Appreciate the effort. And yeah, Gray line. I think I misspoke. I think it was 80 meters, not 40 meters. Had the. The most activity.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Good show. Af608 clear. 73.
Speaker A: Okay, are there any last or comments or suggestions renting foreclose the net Last calls for late members, guests wishing to check in announcements, anything like that?
Speaker B: KI6 asked amend. Just a reminder we do Wednesday evening at 6:30 via Zoom there will be the monthly business sort of meeting if anybody wants to log in. You're more than welcome to be a part of the conversation.
Speaker A: Cappy. Phil. And you will be sending out an email on that, correct?
Speaker B: Hopefully the President will be doing that. If I don't see one coming from him, I'll make sure that it happens. Copy.
Speaker A: Appreciate that. I always forget when I don't get an email
Speaker B: comment.
Speaker A: Good comment. Yeah.
Speaker B: Phil, I just looked up the service
Speaker A: data on that radio.
Speaker B: It's 1953.
Speaker A: Okay. There's nothing else. I'm going to go ahead and close the net. Hearing. Nothing. This concludes the guards Monday night Net Net control thanks everyone who checked in tonight and invites everybody back next week. This is Alpha Kilo 6 Juliet November returning the AF 608 or the W6 GRC in this case repeater to normal service. The car's Monday night Net is now closed at 2018 hours. 73 to all this is AK6 Shan signing clear.

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Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

Speaker A: Sierra Delta. And good morning to Dan K6VP. And good morning to Chris KJ6 Zulu Hotel. Good morning to Ken KB7 DFP. Steamed eggs. I don't know, it's just doesn't sound good to me. Hope you enjoy your lunch.
Speaker B: Kin
Speaker A: what's important that you like them, right? Good morning. Coffee Break Net. Last call for check ins. All right. This has been the Coffee Break Net where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. This net of course is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club in Northern California. We're here every day of the week, 7:30am to 10:00am Pacific time. That's 15:30 to 18:00 clock UTC and just invite you back again tomorrow. I will be your net host and conversation facilitator once again and invite you back for some more great conversations. It's been a fun morning but with
Speaker B: that I'm going to go ahead and
Speaker A: wish everybody a wonderful, wonderful Tuesday ahead. Thanks for being here and being part of this morning's conversation and I guess we'll be clear. This is AI6US. Beautiful metavist California. Returning the W6EK repeater and connected nodes and other repeaters back to your normal operation, whatever that may be. Have a wonderful day everybody. 7 3.
Speaker B: I6us.
Speaker A: Go ahead, Grayton.
Speaker B: Before you take a much needed bio break and refuel, there was another game that I had before that console system. It was called Air Traffic Control. It was a very simple device in some ways. It was self contained. Oh, outside of a little 9 inch TV. And it had a series of landing patterns on it with LEDs on it. And the objective of the game is you were an air traffic controller and you'd have to control a plane as it came in. You had to control its elevation, its speed and had successfully landed. And as you went up in sophistication, as you became better at it, it would throw more planes at you to the point to where you were overwhelmed and you couldn't control them all. I don't know if you remember that game or not, but I actually still have it. It's sitting on a shelf at home with the instructions underneath it. But it was called Air Traffic Controller and it would try your patience and it would definitely stress you out.
Speaker A: No, the only handheld device I ever owned might have even been from Radio Shack.
Speaker B: It was a football lineup game that
Speaker A: you were represented by little dashes on traveling across this LED screen. That's the only handheld gaming device. And looking back on it, a dot represent. Yeah, not very engaging graphically.
Speaker B: Yeah, this was simply a screen. You know, not even a computer screen, just a plastic screen with LEDs. And you know, if I remember on Thursday, if you're going to be at the board meeting, I'll get it off the shelf, dust it off and, and I'll show it to everybody if you're interested in seeing what it looks like. You know, they used to warn you that this game causes extreme stress. It was right around that time when air traffic controllers were getting a lot of attention. With that, I'll let you go have some breakfast. KC6SLA.
Speaker A: Yeah, I remember that air traffic control time. I lived in Auburn, Washington at the time and a bunch of my friends, their, their parents worked for the FAA control center there in Auburn. And yeah, good old Reagan. I remember a couple kids who were very stressed out about not having. For getting to school.
Speaker B: Yeah, the good old days.
Speaker A: Kind of. Claire, have a good one.
Speaker B: Thanks, Graydon.
Speaker A: And yeah, maybe in the shack might be a great opportunity to show off that gem. KC6LEAI6US.

Speaker A: Kc6sle, k3bgm, you still are out. Great.
Speaker B: This is kc6sole. Go ahead.
Speaker A: When you were talking about childhood games, do you remember that Firebird console where you used to drive the Firebird with it and it made the digital motor noise K through vgm?
Speaker B: I do not remember that. What was the platform for that? Was that Atari, Nintendo or something else?
Speaker A: Actually, that was before Video Consult. It was a self contained device. I had one of those as a kid and I played that thing for
Speaker B: hours
Speaker A: to the point where my alcohol had to take it apart and re solutter it because I played it so much, the wires broke inside. K30 VGL.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's good. That one I don't recall. I do remember the one that I saved. I actually have on the shelf, the air traffic controller one. But it was the same thing. It was not very sophisticated. It was sophisticated for the time. You think about the microprocessor that ran, it was probably very sophisticated for the year that it came out and it was available. But display wise and all that, you know, it doesn't have anywhere near the graphics that video screen would have. But yeah, I agree with you. I had hours and hours of enjoyment on this.
Speaker A: Whoever that is. Do not banging the system. Yeah, the first Atari I had, Grayton was an Atari 2600. I also played that for hours. The problem is the new video games are so sophisticated that they're beyond my hands capability. Having several faulting. But now I can't play any of the new video games because they're too complicated for my hands to work.
Speaker B: Yeah, they do take a lot of dexterity. They take better eyesight than I have these days. Although you can get closer to the screen, wear your reading glasses. But yeah, I used to watch my son play Mario Brothers. Just it was entertaining to sit there and watch him play it. I never got into it because frankly, they're time eaters. They eat up a lot of your time. So watching him play Mario Brothers, it was fascinating because Mario would be bouncing along. All of a sudden he'd get Mario bouncing and bouncing higher and higher and he'd reach up into the cloud and pull down some type of advantage, some type of hidden thing that he could use to progress on in the game. And I would ask my son, I said, how do you know that's there? And he said, oh, you know, dad, you just know these things if you play games all the time.
Speaker A: Yeah, Roger. I used to be, as a teenager and early adulthood, I used to be quite addicted to the Atari 2600 game called Defender. Do you remember that one? Over.
Speaker B: I do not, but it sounds like it's probably a very similar game to the submarine one I was describing earlier. That subject Submarine 1 was very unsophisticated, but at the same time probably more realistic than some of the later, more sophisticated games because it kind of emulated what you as a submarine commander In World War II, what you actually could see, what you could actually control. I remember one of the techniques that I learned because eventually you would get within range of their sonar and they'd start tracking you down. They would. They would depth charge you until you were destroyed. And it was very hard, which I'm sure it was, for a real submarine to get away once you were located. But one of the techniques I learned, it was only one destroyer chasing me, is to rise up to torpedo depth and do a bow shot with my rear. I would get lined up, same trajectory they were, and I would do a bow shot with my aft torpedoes. I'd say that was probably about 25% effective, but it was about the only thing you could do at that point because they had you.
Speaker A: Yeah, Roger. Well, I never saw that game you're talking about, but as far as battles, as far as Battleship games, I'm sure you remember the old Electronic Battleship game that was its own console, debate noises and all that. I had one of those as a kid. I enjoyed that thing a lot as well.
Speaker B: Yeah, we would play Battleship, my sisters and I, we'd play Battleship for hours. And the thing about, you know, they had no strategy for how they placed their ships. They learned it after playing with me for a while because, you know, I would sit there and think, well, you know, what are the parts of the arena here that are going to be that they're going to pick probably last. So that worked for a while. I had the advantage because I was very strategic about what, where I would put my ship. But once they picked up on that, once they learned that, my advantage was gone.
Speaker A: Well, my sister, who was my oldest sibling, was there very interested in that stuff. So I never had anybody to play with. So I used to play against the computer. The Electronic Battleship had a mode where you could play against the computer. That's all I used to do. Just out of curiosity, Craven, what age did you finally get your hand licensed? I've been licensed since I was 13 years old. And I just turned. I just turned 50 on February the ninth. So I bet it is a Walapoo K3 VGM
Speaker B: KC6 sleep roti. Well, I'll Preface it by saying that I started playing with electronics at a very, very early age. In fact, my parents gave me a kit. I couldn't have been more than 8 years old. Gave me a kit to build a crystal controlled radio for Christmas. And I was so thrilled and so fascinated. Simple little thing, but so thrilled and so fascinated with it. And then I started doing some reading and figuring out ways to make it more than just a crystal radio. You know, how to actually integrate it to feed the signal into, you know, another amplifier so they could actually listen to it without headphones. So it sparked an interest and it caused me to learn a lot more than I would otherwise learn about electronics. And I fell in love with electronics to the point where as a teenager, as a young adult and a teenager, I was running around scarfing up all the black and white TVs that people were tossing away to get color TVs. And I was cannibalizing them for the tube sockets, the tubes, the capacitors, resistors. And then I was getting plans out of magazines and I was building my own equipment. If I didn't have the right components, if I was figuring out a way to make the components, I did have work. Taught me a lot about electronics, but I didn't get in. And then I got into shortwave radio listening. That's the first thing I did, is I just listened around the world to all the frequencies that I could find and played around with antennas. But then later on I went ahead and in my 30s, I decided to become an ham radio operator. So it had to be right around the mid-1980s.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Well, I had my lip, I think, when I was 13, but I had. I had a slight advantage. I had a great alcohol that used to be a ham. Unfortunately, it's a silent cane owl. But I did as a.
Speaker B: I'll give my parents a lot of thanks, a lot of kudos for recognizing I had an interest in electronics and cultivating that interest. I remember the first vom, you know, multi volt meter that they gave me. That was a kit I put together within an hour of receiving it. I was always getting something related to my interest, you know, mainly at Christmas time. And yeah, they didn't have a lot of money, so I appreciate the fact they're out and doing that. And my dad always challenged me to fix things. Not only electronic things, but mechanical things. He taught me how to work on car. Cars and tractors and all that. I think I have a lot more patience working on those than my dad because I spent a lot of time helping him, looking for the tools that he threw out into the field or into the corn or into the soy grass that we were raising. That he had quite the temper. And he taught me my he taught my a really interesting vocabulary of sweet, which most people will never hear, but I got them.
Speaker A: Yeah. Roger well, I try to consider myself patient with that stuff because I quickly learned that feeding on things and throwing things without going to husband for things to break and then not work anymore. So I like to consider myself patient. I started with computers when I was 12. Also used Cocoon Vic 20 that I wanted on a friend date. Used to listen to other skater. So that started my computer for fade as well. And for VGM. Node 51018 disconnected.

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