W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-18

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.

Kf6OBI, Ki6DWP calling.

Join us for the Coffee Break Net Daily at 7:30 AM here on the W6GRC repeater.

Fill your coffee cup and join us for the Coffee Break Net Daily at 7:30 AM here on the W6GRC repeater.

Get your morning started off on the right foot. Listen in for the Coffee Break Net Daily at 7:30 AM here on the W6GRC repeater.

Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

that's Saturday, March 28th, and we'll look forward to seeing you there. And just as it was pointed out to me, the, the meeting for volunteers for the Hamfest is tomorrow night at 6 PM, so Thursday evening, 6 PM. We do need more volunteers, so if you are a club member and you haven't volunteered yet, what are you waiting for? This is an all hands on deck call. We need you to volunteer. We need probably about 10 more volunteers so we can have time to enjoy the Hamfest ourselves. Good morning, Coffee Break Net. We are well after 10 o'clock in the morning, so I'm going to go ahead and move right into For the Log. Anybody out there who would like to get the call into the log, this is the time that we do it. And please spread it out, and I will get everyone one in the log before I sign clear and die. Kilo Mike 6. Good morning, Brian. W8LDT, Tim, Michigan Mobile. Good morning. This is Kilo Bravo 7 Delta Foxtrot Papa, KB7DFP, Cannon Twin Falls. WB7 UK. W1 ATV, good morning, Brian. Good morning, Brian. Good morning, Brian. AI6 LZ. K06 IMV for the log only. Whiskey Bravo 3 Charlie Sierra Yankee. Thanks, Brian. Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of Sacramento Radio 109.5 WLKC with a PL tone of 110.9. KA3VGM, Florian White. Everybody have a good day. All right, a little bit of kerfuffle in there, but not bad. Thank you. Good morning to Jimmy, KA3VGM, and good morning to Jim, KE6POR. Good morning, Dan, K6DLK. Good morning to Rick, WB3CSY. Good morning, Matt, uh, K06IMP, and a very good morning to Bert, AI6LZ. Good morning, Russ. KI6LOP. And good morning to Dick, WB7UKX. And good morning to Ken, WAB7— excuse me, uh, KB7DFP. Good morning, Ken. What's for lunch? It's going to be something super, and I haven't decided which one yet. Probably from the Campbell's line. KB7DSP. And on behalf of Campbell's, I'm sure they are grateful. You have a super day yourself. That was funny, Ken. Uh, W1ATB, I heard you twice, I'm only going to put you in the log once. Good morning to you, Aaron. And W8LDT, good morning to Tim. And, uh, KM6MM, good morning. Mike, everyone, I have you in the log. Do we have anybody else for the log this morning before we close down the coffee break? Good morning, Brian. KI6TC. K06IMP, just wanted to add that my wife Kathy enjoyed Kathy's information and we are excited about sorghum. This is Matt, K06IMP. Clear. Kilo Delta 6 Hotel Oscar November. Thanks, Brian. Hey, good morning, Joe, uh, KD6HON. Got you in the log. And good morning, Glenn, KI6TC. Got you in the log as well. Glen. And Matt, glad to hear that you are excited about sorghum. We'll have to talk more and see if you need some counseling. Last call for the log, any takers? And I must say, yeah, Kathy gave a lot of great information this morning. That was a fun conversation with, uh, KQ4SDX. Good morning, Coffee Break Net on the W6EK repeater. Well, as you know, this is my Friday, so if you— when you come back tomorrow, Theta WA6EWS and Jerry WA6E will be your net host and conversation facilitators, and I will be taking a break until next Monday morning. Uh, let's see, with that, I'm just going to wish everybody a wonderful Wednesday ahead. Hope that you have a great day, and I really appreciate you stopping by and being part of the conversation. Had a couple of new folks stop by today, and always great to welcome a new person in and, and have them be part of our conversation. So with that, I'm going to go ahead and wish everybody a wonderful day ahead because the Coffee Break Net is where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing, and the fish are jumping. This net is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club. We are here every day of the week, 7:30 AM to 10 AM Pacific Time. That's 14:30 to 17:00 UTC. You're on Node 51018 and connected to All-Star and EchoLink nodes through the W6G 6EK repeater. I'm Brian, AI6US, in beautiful blue skies, sun hitting the ground, and temperature rising. Metavista, California, returning the W6EK repeater and all connected repeaters and nodes back to normal operation. Everyone have a wonderful Hope Day. 73. Brian, don't go anywhere for a second. I gotta run an outro and I have a question question for you. KG6 Nova, yeah. And, uh, let's see, uh, N2DYI, Patrick, are you still monitoring? I am indeed, N2DYI. Go ahead if you want to do that Echolink restart, feel free, and then I'm going to take a quick dash and I'll be back into the room in a few minutes. Is it good for you right now to do the restart? Yeah, not a problem. That'll take about probably 10 whole seconds for me to get to the console and then I can restart the node. Okay, I'm stepping away for a few minutes and I will be back. So thank you for making that correction and doing the restart. Really appreciate your assistance. N2DYI AI6US, I'm going to be QRT for a few. All right, well, this is N2DYI QST. I'll be restarting Node 51018, so that will be unavailable for for less than a minute. It shouldn't take too long. Restarting in about 10 seconds.

Speaker A: I think there might have been a person in there. Really, really, really low audio.
Speaker B: N2DYI. Okay, I'll bump my microphone up. How soft is it now, Brown Cow? K2 6N, hello, yes.
Speaker A: That's still way, way quiet.
Speaker B: Oh no, I overcorrected the microphone issue. Hi Patrick, KG6LW. Uh, let me find the stupid button here. Let's go -20. I'm on Balfang right now. How copy?
Speaker A: It sounds like a Baofeng. Level is good though.
Speaker B: Alright, now I'm back on the dreaded Icom, the IC-9700. How tough is it?
Speaker A: Crank it up by about 12 dB and it'll be great. Yeah, it's really quiet.
Speaker B: Well, you see, the only problem with that is I can only crank it up in multiples of 20. So I'm at 0 dB now.
Speaker A: And now you're way too hot.
Speaker B: All right, so now I'll bring the, uh, the mixer down. How about now?
Speaker A: Down a little more. You're still distorting a bit.
Speaker B: All right, now I'm down to -10 dB, which means the VU meter is nowhere near zero.
Speaker A: And that's about perfect.
Speaker B: Oh geez, I'm gonna have to adjust the All-Star Node even further then, because I can't have it at this level for the stream audio. Oh boy. Oh boy, okay. I presume the Echolink reboot was due to the mismatched number that I brought to Brian's attention?
Speaker A: That is correct. And by the way, that's why the other day I suggested using a send instead of the main out. Gives you a lot more flexibility. I don't think your node audio needs to be adjusted.
Speaker B: Oh, that's the funny thing is I switched it to the auxiliary send port, so I'm no longer going through the main mix output.
Speaker A: Okay, well, if you're using, um, are you using a pre-fade FX send?
Speaker B: Uh, negative. The, uh, the Mon— the The auxiliary monitor pre is set to zero and the auxiliary FX post is set to zero. I'm using nothing.
Speaker A: Okay, what I was suggesting was actually using one of the FX sends, and that way you can do whatever you want with the monitor mix or the main mix, and that won't affect what gets sent to the radio. And that would then be controlled by the FX sends per channel, and you can make that either pre or post fade.
Speaker B: Okay, I'll have to dig into it on the Behringer a little more. I switched the ports on the back and figured I'd be a hunky-dory, a-okay, but there you have it. Because the microphone— so the microphone I'm using and all that for when I'm live streaming, it has to be up about here in order for me to hit 0 dB, but that's too loud for All-Star. This is just right for All-Star, but now it's too soft for live streaming.
Speaker A: Yeah, so get that off of that bus, get it on its own bus, and then, uh, you can do whatever you want with either of them and they won't affect each other.
Speaker B: Oh, that requires installing a second microphone then, because this is my main microphone that goes to Everything, all of it, goes to the VHF, UHF, HF, and studio streaming.
Speaker A: No, it just requires a pre-fade send, and you can turn that up and down on the channel. Same microphone, two different paths with two different sets of levels. That's the whole point of sends that you can change like that. Normally they're used for things like backstage monitors and effects processors. But they're just generic line outputs. You can make them pre or post fade the channel strip, and then you can set the individual gain per channel to that bus without affecting what comes out of the main out.
Speaker B: Okay, I'll have to fiddle around some more then for it. Thank you, Patrick. Yeah, I was sort of killing time waiting waiting to see if Brian would come back because last night him, uh, the other Frank, and Larry— I happened to jump in here and we're trying to figure out why, uh, well, I was trying to figure out why the Icom was sounding so bad versus the Baofeng UV32, which sounded, uh, 10 times better apparently.
Speaker A: [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] Yeah, it's just, uh, it's just how you drive it. You're right below where the threshold is for the ICOM's processing, uh, which is right where it starts to kick in and get squished. So, uh, that's probably about the same level as your Baofeng was a few minutes ago. I'm not sure, I haven't heard it in a minute, but I'd say it's probably about equal at this point.
Speaker B: All right, well, I'll get— I'll give you a nice A/B comparison. This is the IC9700 with nice long audio transmission with the studio mic, and the main— and the fader for the mic is at -10 drop. And this is the Baofeng UV32. I'm only a fist away from the mouth with the radio.
Speaker A: Okay, yeah, levels pretty comparable. The microphone that connects to the Icom sounds slightly better, only slightly though. And yeah, levels pretty close on both. Comment, Patrick?
Speaker B: Yep. KC6FLA, I use an IC-9700, and my experience is, uh, it's a very hot radio as far as, uh, the driven elements.
Speaker A: So I have to back the gain way off. I run about 25% gain on the IC-9700. So don't be afraid to turn it down.
Speaker B: KC6SLE.
Speaker A: Yeah, and I imagine because Frank is running a line level, I assume this is— is this an attenuated line level device? Do you have a 20 dB pad going between your board and the radio, Frank?
Speaker B: I have a, uh, DI box between the board and the radio. Yes, I can do 0 dB, -20 dB, or -40. And -40 is when I first came on.
Speaker A: Okay, so you have it at -20, right?
Speaker B: Uh, negative. It's at zero right now. When you told me to go at least 12 dB higher, I was at -20.
Speaker A: Okay, so what you probably are going to want to do is set your pad to -20 and then stick that thing on a pre-fades end. That will give you enough radio on the— I'm sorry, that will give you enough headroom on the hardware input to play with, and you should have plenty of range. Once you get it on an FX send instead of one of the main outs or the auxiliary out, which is, I think, just control room, then you can actually fine adjust that per channel, should give you a lot more control over that without affecting whatever comes out of your main out.
Speaker B: All right, so I put it back to -20 and I have the studio microphone back to zero. I'm going to get to Mike. That should be him.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's too quiet as it is, but the nice thing is once you get it moved over to the FX end, you can probably— like Graydon was saying, he said he runs his gain at 25%. Where do you have the gain on the radio set compared to how it's coming in from the board?
Speaker B: You know, just so I can see, play around with the 9700 without, uh, destroying anything here. Great. And where is the gain control on this radio? It's still newer radio to me, and I haven't gotten all the bits and bobs worked out.
Speaker A: [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] Hey, go ahead, Brian. Yeah, it really depends how you're feeding your 9700. So hopefully you're not coming in through the mic jack. Hopefully you're coming in through the aux in.
Speaker B: Is that correct? Node 51018 disconnected.

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