W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-11

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

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.

Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of sac Valley's original 105 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.

Well. Case of qv. We're waiting for this coffee shop or coffee break to start. Case of qv. I wonder what kind of coffee they're going to have on the coffee. It'll be interesting, so we'll find out. Case of qv.

Speaker A: And let them know what you have. Be reasonable or fair on your price. Well, with that, we're going to go ahead and close down the Coffee Break Net. The Coffee Break Net where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. This net sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club. Drop in Tomorrow when Theta WA6E and Jerry EWF excuse me, and Jerry WA6E will be your net host and conversation facilitators. And then join us on Friday when Aaron W1ATV will be the net control host and conversation facilitator. So we'll look forward to Aaron being our host for that. With that, I'm going to go ahead and just wish everybody a wonderful, wonderful day ahead. Remember this Friday will be the club meeting at the that's March 13th, 7:30pm at the new location Placer County HHS Conference center that's also known as the Auburn DeWitt Center. Easy access off of I80. Take the bell Road exit. Beautiful new conference facilities, secure parking. Reminder to bring non perishable food items for the food bank. With that everyone have a wonderful, wonderful day ahead and join us again tomorrow here on the Coffee breaknet. I'm Brian AI6us, returning the W6ek repeater and connected repeaters and nodes to normal operation, whatever that may be. 7:3 Everybody.
Speaker B: Ai6us, this is K4BMI.
Speaker A: Yes sir, good morning K4BMI. Gotcha. Yeah, a little earlier I think we were bridged into another net. Just wanted to give you a heads up. Thanks for addressing that.
Speaker B: Hey Brian, Good morning and great net as usual. Well, yeah, actually just try to understand what happened because I have no idea,
Speaker A: to be honest to you.
Speaker B: I was in the background listening to the net and then I heard you saying that. I immediately dropped the note. But at that point I didn't recall seeing anything connected neither to my node or me connected to any other nodes. So I'm just trying to figure out what happened here. I use the M1KE now actually, but to avoid any other issues if you will, K4BMI.
Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know if the other
Speaker B: node, just so you know and you
Speaker A: probably are aware of this throughout the day in the past your node has just keyed up with bursts of just noise and I think we chatted about that sometime in the past. But yeah, I don't know if somebody may be connected in. Do you accept inbound onto your node? Maybe somebody saw activity on your node and connected in with another net. So if you didn't connect outbound to a Node traffic definitely was showing coming from your node and it was just another net. So is it possible that somebody is able to connect inbound to your node?
Speaker B: Yes, yes, my nodes are open to inbound connection. Well usually when it happens I would see on my all scans I believe I would see the inbound connection on my node. Right and that's why I say I didn't see anything. At least was not showing for me any inbound connection especially I mean I would not of course you know let another net would be really messy. And I appreciate the heads up but yeah, I'm gonna keep an eye on it and let's see happens again. I need. I do need to review you know the nodes set up and configuration because I'm still having some grounding noise in the background while transmitting. But yeah, it's really odd. So anyways I just drop it as soon as I heard you I dropped it because you didn't know what's going on. But I keep an eye gonna keep an eye on it. Appreciate the help k4bmi ai6us
Speaker A: now. Really appreciate you jumping right on that right away. Really do. No the you know we have some stations that have connected into our nodes in the past and do not show up on Supermon or All Mon and you know they just either are not listed on the. On the All Star server correctly or they're not registered correctly. But yeah stations can kind of sneak in. But yeah the transmissions or the interference was definitely following the key up and I saw on the. On the choat. Excuse me the bubble chart as well the connection. Anyway, you have a wonderful day. I really appreciate you jumping on that and yeah it kind of gets a little crazy when you have a couple of active active that's tied together. You have a great day. Happy Wednesday. 73 K 4 BMI AI 6 US.
Speaker B: Thank you Brian. Appreciate that. Whenever you see me, if that is this happen again, please let me know right away. I do have like a few All Star nodes. I mean not so usually I keep one or two up to monitor you know this net and different other ones. But yeah I'm going to try to be more careful and actually probably going to be cutting the incoming connection to my nodes so we can avoid that in full. Have a great day again. I appreciate all you guys do and I will be monitoring K4 BMI.
Speaker A: I'll be clear. Take care. Bye bye now. Just appreciate people who. Who care for the care and feeding of their nodes. I know sometimes they can get quite a bit to handle traffic wise. So really appreciate that. Have a great day. K4L K4BMI AI6US All B Q R.

Speaker A: Sam, Kd3 Chu, I don't think you're going to get a clean decode. Your DTMFs are over modulated. Do you want me to drop you? Kd3chu? This is ai6us on w6ek. Your dt meftones are over driven over modulated and I don't think it will control your node. Would you like me to drop you
Speaker B: from the system,
Speaker A: Kd3chu?
Speaker B: I would appreciate that. And I'm brand new with the node. Actually brand new at the HAM radio.
Speaker A: Okay, well maybe we can help you there. What type of node are you running? It's a.
Speaker B: Sorry PI hat attached to a raspberry three.
Speaker A: Alrighty. And are you running all star or ham voip? All star three or ham voip?
Speaker B: All Star is what I'm running on it.
Speaker A: Okay. If you log into All Star Home. Excuse me, into the. I'm sorry about that. You know how to sign into the GUI and get into your. Into the terminal mode?
Speaker B: Yes, that's affirmative.
Speaker A: Okay, and are you using a simple simple USB or USB radio, which, which one of your audio drivers are using? Okay.
Speaker B: It's actually radio and the audio is all in one unit that's plugged directly into the Raspberry.
Speaker A: Oh, is this a. I'm sorry, a radio less. No, no, it's a radio. Okay. Yeah. So the. You need to get into the audio settings and you should be able to view the audio settings level. And I use simple USB so I don't use either USB radio. Maybe somebody else out there could that uses USB radio. Is anybody on frequency that could, could help here?
Speaker B: Okay, yes, I do remember. I do have a setting for simple usp.
Speaker A: Yeah. So you'd make your choice if you want to run your node using either simple USB or USB radio. And I'm more familiar with the USB radio, but in either one of those modes you have a way that you can set your audio levels and it shows you a little signal, a little audio strength meter. Are you. Do you remember that?
Speaker B: Yes, I remember doing that and I
Speaker A: think I
Speaker B: 800 of a possible 999.
Speaker A: Yeah, so go ahead and go back into that menu and when you're looking at. So what you would want to do, go ahead and disconnect from us to do that setting. But when you're just in local mode, not hooked up to any other node, go into that setting and go ahead first and just adjust that level. For example, on mine, I have mine set to about 300. Now of course, from radio to radio, it's going to be different. But if you make that adjustment and then speak into the microphone and see that you're not exceeding, I think it's three on the level, make sure that you're not exceeding that. And then also maybe press one of your DTMF buttons and make sure that your level is down in that acceptable range. I think you're going to find that your levels are actually very quite hot. I'm hearing it on your spoken audio as well. But your DTMF will never decode if they are too strong a signal.
Speaker B: Okay, Brian, I copy that and I understand exactly what you're saying. I'm actually got the terminal up and I'm into that section. So when we do disconnect, I will
Speaker A: go in and make the adjustment.
Speaker B: And I appreciate that help very much.
Speaker A: Yeah. And since we're talking right now, if you want to make that adjustment right now as we talk, I'm, I'm just finishing up the log and so I have a second here. So if you want to make that adjustment, maybe draw down your audio level gain and try speaking again and then try your DTMF and just observe that audio indicator meter. Okay.
Speaker B: I currently have readjusted it down to 400 and I'm watching the display now as it's moving up and down.
Speaker A: And what is the peak? I mean, that sounds much better. I don't have another voice to compare it to right now, but definitely your voice is not over driving now. So what is the peak level reading right now.
Speaker B: Showing that the peak right here would be about 3 kilohertz.
Speaker A: Perfect. Perfect. And go ahead and just hit a DTMF button on your HTML. And I have a joke. Friends don't let friends dtmf. It's a joke, but I have a T shirt with that printed on it. Don't be a DTMFer. But anyway, it's kind of a joke. But anyway, press one of your DTMF buttons and just make sure that that is not exceeding the 3 kilohertz. It should be right in that area. Okay.
Speaker B: I did notice that it jumped past the 5 kilohertz.
Speaker A: I think it's still an acceptable range because now you're not sending your DTMF tones out all outside of your node. So all we're hearing is a click. So your node has it under control now and I think if you save those settings, I think you're going to be pretty solid. Just to confirm your audio settings, are you familiar with Patrick's node node number 55553? That's four fives and. Negative. Okay, so after we clear here, go ahead and drop our node and head on over. Just put in node 55553 and Patrick into. Dyi has a great parrot node that gives you some feedback on your audio. It plays his voice back, tells you whether your audio is high, low, or good. And it plays his voice and it plays your voice. And so it gives you a good comparison of what you know, your, your level is compared to what normal is.
Speaker B: Okay, copy that. Yeah, I will definitely give that a try.
Speaker A: For sure.
Speaker B: Like I said, I yesterday, I spent several hours assembling this and got it up and running, but I had a feeling there was going to be some fine tuning that needed to be done.
Speaker A: Well, congratulations. No, I stumbled around the first couple of times that I've set them up myself, and yeah, they're an awesome tool, but you're right, it takes a little bit of, little bit of adjustment. I think you're in the ballpark now though, so, yeah, enjoy. And I, by the way, I'm not on it right now, but I have Ashari in the other room as well on a PI 4, and it has served me very well. And so definitely enjoy and welcome. It's a, you know, the All Star is an awesome mode. It certainly gives you access to many, many interesting people and repeaters and nodes. So any other questions? And if not, I'll let you go. And I've been sitting in this chair for. Waiting too many hours.
Speaker B: No, I'm definitely going to. I'll check out that, that node. And I've been listening to the net for most of the morning right along with you. And it was like one of my first things I jumped into with All Star. And I'm glad I did now, but
Speaker A: I appreciate all your help and if
Speaker B: I can get back in here one of these mornings, you'll hear from me again for sure.
Speaker A: Well, glad you stopped in this morning and thanks for introducing yourself there. We actually have quite a, I would say five or six people that check in regularly from Pennsylvania. So you're in good company there, Chuck. All right, well, enjoy the, the new node. And yeah, I, oh, by the way, one other thing. Do you run Almond 3? Did you install all or activate. I should say all Mon 3 when you're activating your node. Node 51018 disconnected.

Attention all ham radio operators. You have reached the world famous W6GRC repeater on 147.105 MHz, broadcasting at least 3 watts more than necessary at all times. Please pause between overs, identify properly, and remember, kerchunking is not a hobby.

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.

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.

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.