W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-21

Broadcasting live from Red Mountain at an elevation of 3,673 feet, this is Sac Valley's original 105 machine, W6GRC, with a PL tone of 110.9.

Broadcasting live from Red Mountain at an elevation of 3,673 feet, this is Sac Valley's original 105 machine, W6GRC, with a PL tone of 110.9.

KN6, SOL, monitor.

Fill your coffee cup and 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.

Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

Okay, very good. You have some signal. Reply necessary.

Speaker A: PU2 SJH, South America, Brazil.
Speaker B: PU2 SJH.
Speaker A: PU2 SJH, this is WA6E. Good. Morning. We're just about to start the net here, so if you'll give me a couple minutes, I'll pitch on this, we'll come back and chat with you. Good morning, everybody else. It's 7:30 AM Pacific time, which means it's time for the coffee break net. This is Jerry, WA6E, and I, along with Theta, WA6EWF, will be your net control stations, or as they as we humoristically call it here, your conversation facilitators this morning. Okay, so what's the deal? I don't sound like Orion AI-6JB. No, I don't. He has a conflict of some sort. I think he's at Disneyland, and you know, they spend the money if he's down there. So we're going to do the net this morning to keep it rolling merrily along. So who's out there other than PU2SJH, who I'll come back to in a second, uh, who wants to check in with this morning and do some quick in and outs to get the Saturday version of the net rolling? 7-9-8, Roy in Freedom, Pennsylvania.
Speaker C: Cherry and Zaden, thank you for handling the net.
Speaker A: N6CKV, good morning. M9REA, Mike Romeo Slash AE, over.
Speaker B: Good morning, station from Brazil, South America. I stay here, say hello. I have a nice Have a nice weekend for everybody. My operator name Sandro. I spell my name like Sierra Alpha November Delta Radio Oscar. My operator name Sandro. I live in São Paulo in South America. Local time here 11 o'clock AM on Saturday morning. The weather's very nice, blue sky, sunny day, sunshine, temperature about 28, 29 degrees Celsius. Celsius. Very hot day at my side. Okay, sir, thank you so much.
Speaker A: We come back.
Speaker B: I very high appreciate connection from station from Alaska, for United States, for, for everybody. Another place, another place, very good for a very, very high interest for connection from North America. 73, PU2SCJA, standby.
Speaker D: Thank you, sir.
Speaker A: Okay guys, hang on. Uh, Sandro, good morning. PU2SJH, I've got you from São Paulo, Brazil. I am not in Alaska. This is a repeater. We run a net every morning here in California near Sacramento, so not Alaska, but thank you for checking checking in. It's good to hear you on from Brazil. You can stay around and talk with us a little bit, or we're here every morning and would love to have you check in with us. So thank you for checking in.
Speaker B: God bless, take care, have a nice weekend. Bye-bye for now, sir. I want to call Lisa now. Thank you, sir.
Speaker A: 73. 73, Sandro. Have a good day. Okay, this is WA6E. Here's who I heard other than Sandro. I got N9MUF, WH7DH, and 6CKV, N9RES, and a station that's, uh, gonna have some kudos here. I tell you, I only got the last letters, Mike Romeo slash Alpha Echo. Congratulations, but give me the rest of the call.
Speaker E: Yeah, Jerry, that's Kilo Oscar 6 Kilo Mike Romeo, and I did get the, uh, uh, slash, uh, AE on Saturday.
Speaker D: Over.
Speaker A: Nicely done, nicely done. Was that at, uh, the Granite Bay, uh, testing Yes, sir, affirmative, over. Yeah, I usually go down to that and I had a conflict, so congratulations. Before I go back up to the top, did I miss anybody?
Speaker D: KA6UAI.
Speaker A: Okay, Ron, I got you. N9MUF, good morning. How are things in Illinois?
Speaker E: Good morning, Jerry.
Speaker F: Theta in the net, uh, very interesting, I think is a good way to put it. I'm not on the way to the train station. My partner's wife is driving him into the studio today, but we'll get a bit of the band back together, have a good practice. And it's amazing how quick the bands open up when there is a contest or a QSO party. I was looking at the band conditions and bemoaning that to a friend, and suddenly the Virginia QSO party kicks in and 40 meters becomes wild and active.
Speaker A: Actually, Daniel, that strikes me as a real good thing. I'm glad to see there's still people out there willing to participate. I know the California QSO party for us is really a kicker because it's the only time during the whole year people actually want to talk to us. So you say the band's getting back together. Is that a musical band or are you talking about the radio band like 40 you were just mentioning?
Speaker F: No, you're right, I've got to remember to keep that clear. The musical band is getting back together. When people have had commitments, we haven't been able to have a full practice, and we'll be able to have that today. And no, it was just— I'm glad that people are doing it. I just find it interesting how the bands can be dead and closed and everybody's complaining about it, and if there's a QSO party or a contest, suddenly it's amazing how the bands suddenly open up.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. It's also interesting how you can turn on, say, 10 meters or 12 meters, 15, and hear nothing, and you call CQ and all of a sudden the bands come alive. Everybody's sitting around listening but nobody's talking. That seems kind of unusual for the hobby, but it does happen.
Speaker F: Oh, it very much happens. Let's see what else. My son and I, we did our first CW-only POTA activation yesterday. Got our 10 in the logs. The WRL logbook is absolutely excellent for this. I set it up, spotted it, and then he took over and logged everything, and a nice simple download when I got home. And then just working CW on the Virginia party this morning. So really enjoying CW and really enjoyed getting that first CW POTA. I know this is a quick in and out, so I should hand it back to you and the net. Jerry, thank you so much for running it. 73 and 9MUF.
Speaker A: Well, congratulations on the POTA. That's nice, and you're going to be a CW expert here before too long. Of course, you You know, the CWers invented a lot of these abbreviations that the kids use today and they think are so unique, like LOL and others. So good luck with your CW, and thanks for checking in. Have a great weekend. This is WA6E. Roy, WH7DH, how are things in Pennsylvania? You still have snow?
Speaker C: Good morning, Jerry and Seda and the net.
Speaker A: Oh, our snow is pretty much melted.
Speaker C: We're back up to— let's see, it shows here 43 degrees right now. But our main concern has been our family in Hawaii. They're in Kahuku and they are safe. They're up on higher ground from the massive floods that they have been having there, which particularly has affected Laie and Haleiwa and Wahiawa and that area there, and they're expecting some problems over on Maui also with this heavy deluge of moisture that's coming in. And also the challenge of these, what, 120-year-old sugar mill, back in those days, dams that were put in. That are earthen dams, and so they're kind of worried about one of them at least breaking and causing more problems there. But our prayers and thoughts go out to all those in Hawaii with these conditions.
Speaker D: Back to you.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've seen pictures on the news of Honolulu now, and they're just swamps there. Last week it was Maui. This has been going on for a while. Dan, K6DLK, said his backyard was, was flooded, but other than that, his house was okay. He's here, so I guess he's looking at some cameras online. But yeah, Hawaii, especially the windward side of that island, just getting nailed. And I also saw something about a potential dam break, and for the life of me, I have no idea where that dam is on that island. I didn't know there was one.
Speaker C: Ah, yes, um, this is WH7DH again. But, uh, yeah, I'm not sure where those dams are either. I've never seen them. They must be up, you know, up, uh, uh, mountainside there and away from common view. But, uh, all those rains that go in the middle of the island where the mountains are and things coming down. So, but yeah, that's a big concern for, for that happening. So Laie, I know, is, has historically been challenged with flooding. When our family did live there, we had to go up because of— well, it was actually a different situation, tsunami warning— and go up near our temple there in Laie, up on higher ground, and and everybody was kind of camped out and everything in their cars. And we had a new little grandbaby at that time there, and a missionary couple in a little housing nearby had us come in, and that was nice. But yeah, these things happen there in Hawaii, and whether it's the floods or whether it's the tsunamis from earthquakes or whatever, lava flows there on the Big Island, they do do have their share of challenges, but it is still a beautiful and marvelous place to live.
Speaker D: Back to you, Jerry.
Speaker A: Yeah, that is true. When we lived there, we lived on Hickam Air Force Base, and they would get one of these storms like this, not as bad as they're having now, but the, the streets would fill up with water because it was so level they couldn't drain off fast enough. You know, our elevation above sea level at our house was maybe a foot, maybe two, I'm not sure. It— if there was a tsunami, we were going swimming. So it was, uh, it was kind of tough. But nevertheless, it, uh, it's tough for the folks who live there, and we wish them well. It's good to hear you on. Give our regards to Mickey, and, uh, have a great day back in Pennsylvania.
Speaker C: Thank you, Jerry and Stata. This is Roy, WH7DH, and Mickey, I think, is down still doing some exercising, uh, WA7QC. And it is going to be a nice day here in Western PA. Take care, everyone.
Speaker A: 73, Roy. This is WA6E Carl in 6 CKV, top of the morning to you.
Speaker D: Good morning, Jerry, Zayden, Rocky.
Speaker G: Well, thank you for, uh, talking to Roy about Hawaii. I was going to ask the two of you how it was going there. I've got a friend who lives in Kona. I've been exchanging emails with him. He just is getting tired of all the rain.
Speaker A: It seemed to be that it was kind of specialized on Imbali Island.
Speaker D: The—
Speaker A: they were all getting some rain, but last week Maui was just getting nailed, and that was the one that was popping up on the news that I saw. And yesterday and the day before, it was Honolulu, uh, meaning the island of Oahu. And, uh, got Ron coming up here, maybe he can give us the outlook on Kauai. But yeah, one at a time. And when it rains there, it really comes down, and it just doesn't go anywhere. It just kind of hangs around the water that's dumped. Yeah, I've been watching some YouTube videos and the news, and it looks really bad.
Speaker G: I'm glad, uh, those folks are okay. I saw the house that went into the river on one of the news stations.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's really bad.
Speaker G: But thanks for the update there, Roy and Jerry.
Speaker A: Always seems to be someplace undergoing a crisis somewhere in the world at every moment, doesn't there? So hopefully all is well with you. You got everything put together so you don't have to do a lot of weed mowing this year?
Speaker G: Well, I've been getting ready for weeding. It's really grown this year. I'm going to be out there on the tractor. Tractor in another week, mowing like mad, like a crazy man. Anyway, I'm going to say 73 since this is short in and out, and thanks for the update on Hawaii. This is N6PKV. Have a good Saturday, everyone, and thanks for running the net, Jerry and Theta.
Speaker A: Yeah, you have a good one too. I went out and mowed my pasture— pastures— last week. Uh, the idea is don't water them. Of course, they're green now, but I don't want to have to mow them during the summer. I want to keep them down about ankle level or lower so that if we have some sort of a fire, it just kind of smolders. Have a good one and, uh, have a great weekend. This is WA6E N9RES. Good morning.
Speaker C: Good morning.
Speaker A: Don't really have a whole lot to add. Uh, just wanted to pop in and say good morning. It's almost 50 degrees here in Northern Illinois, and I think I'm going to be heading out to do some yard work, but I'll be listening. NRES. Well, you know, Bill, you got to be grateful for what you have, having sat here and listened to, uh, the, the problems out in Hawaii. And of course, we're having endless summer here for some reason. Uh, it— you would swear it was June, even, even July, by the weather that we're having. All the trees are blossoming. We have mandarin trees here that are just loaded with blossoms, so we're going to be awash with mandarins this fall. And, uh, yeah, I guess if the sun comes up, you go out, mow the lawn, be grateful for it. Did we, uh, lose you, Bill, or are you still there? Oh, I'm still here. I had a little dog incident I had to take care of, but, uh, Yeah, fortunately I'm on very high ground here, so if my house floods, you guys are probably all going to be underwater. Well, I believe that one of the commandments of being a good ham is to live on top of a hill, so you are doing your job as a ham and I have to respect that. Have a great day.
Speaker F: You too, Jerry.
Speaker A: 73, man.
Speaker D: NRS.
Speaker A: Okay, K06KMR, recently Amateur Extra. Congratulations, Robert. That's, uh, that's the way to go. Now you're going to go out and get on those bands. Yes, sir.
Speaker E: I gotta get out, uh, first of all, and get me an HF radio. I still haven't quite determined which one I want at this point, still doing a lot of research and all. And, uh, get me an antenna up and hit the airwaves. But I am excited about completing the extra. The class helped me a lot. I actually didn't finish the whole class yet. I'll go ahead and attend it, but I didn't finish it. I've been preparing so much for it, I felt like I was ready to go and went in and passed it, and just all happy with that. Other than that, I'm going to be working on sprinkler systems today. I sprung a leak in the yard yesterday, it looked like, when I turned it on, so I get to dig up part of the yard.
Speaker A: Over. Well, I do not envy that. I've got irrigation systems out here in the pastures and there's always something with them. Yesterday one of them would shut off. It runs from an application on my iPhone and it would turn on but it would shut off. So I've got the irrigation water shut off to it and I've got to go out and figure out what's causing that. But there's always something. Any event, as far as What is a good HF radio? The candidates are numerous. If you talk to a Chevy guy, he'll tell you that the Chevy is the best one. If you talk to a Ford guy, he'll tell you the Ford is the best one. The Icom guys, the Kenwood guys, I guess they are all good radios. You know, a lot of our members work at HRO, and if you happen to catch one of them, maybe they can give you their opinion.

Speaker A: No, it's off the Atlantic coast of, uh, of, um, I'm sorry, of Canada.
Speaker B: Oh, Newfoundland, out towards Greenland that way, huh?
Speaker A: Even points farther beyond, yes.
Speaker B: I'm looking at the call sign. I wonder who owns it.
Speaker A: Uh, it's the same one they used, uh, you know, I didn't look at myself, but same one they used 3 years ago when they were on the island.
Speaker B: So, uh, you know, it's, uh, it's kind of cool to see.
Speaker A: And I guess very limited access. I think that's, uh, you know, if you don't get them in here, you, you wait 3 years.
Speaker B: AI-6US. Oh, it says it's Nova Scotia, pardon us. So that's a Canadian call. Who'd have guessed? Very good. Thanks for letting us know so that we can, uh, pick that up. Yeah, and I did forget, yeah, I have seen other Charlie Yankees.
Speaker A: I think they're usually, I think, uh, associated with special events. I remember during one of their, uh, government, uh, celebrations, there were a lot of Charlie Yankees on a couple years ago.
Speaker B: I forgot about that. Thanks. Yeah, they reported, uh, December 12th, 2026. I think they mean 2025. The wind at 10 at night is sustained at 35 knots with gusting 44. Sounds like pretty normal for them. Very good, thanks for checking in and having a good day. This is WA6E. See you later, Brian. Apparently it's staffed year-round by the Canadian National Park Agency. And Jim, W6JCZ, you have anything else for the net? That's all I got, Jerry.
Speaker C: Just wanted to check in after hearing Brian talk about the actual native Linux client for the FlexRadio. You hear all these Zetus guys talking about how good their software is for the Apache Anon radios. Maybe this will finally give Flex users a chance to talk about how good their software is.
Speaker B: W6JACZ. That would be fun, wouldn't it? And what's the latest on you versus the Department of State and green cards and all that stuff?
Speaker C: Well, based on internal messages.
Speaker B: Seems like—
Speaker C: [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] all those I-129F visas were processed at the California center, but there have been confirmed instances of people getting notices from the Texas processing center. So there's a chance that there may be some internal reorganization among U.S. Customs and Immigration Services and might cause a slight delay in how it's processed.
Speaker B: Process.
Speaker C: A lot of people noticed that processing had stopped and then when it resumed they were getting letters out of the Texas processing center which traditionally has never done I-129Fs. So chances are maybe it might take a little bit longer but we're hoping for sometime by third or fourth quarter this year when the YL will be able to come over.
Speaker B: W6JACZ. Oh, the wheels turn very slowly. That's amazing. Well, never give up. Uh, what's, what's the old Latin phrase? Uh, non illegitim carborundum, which means don't let them wear you down. Okay, have a good one. This is WA6E. This is the Coffee Break Net. Anybody want to check in just to get on the log before we, uh, call it a day?
Speaker A: Kilo Charlie 6 here, Lima Echo.
Speaker B: Number 6 Foxtrot Mike Delta in 6FMD, Jimmy. Kilo 6, Kilo 6 Mike Uniform, Michael.
Speaker D: Alpha India 6 Juliet Bravo.
Speaker B: There he is, AI6JB. I know you're on your phone down there, so how's Disneyland? W6GRC with a PLB.
Speaker D: We don't know yet because we just left Lathrop and heading south on I-5.
Speaker B: Oh my, you got a ways to go then, so I assume you're going to plan to go tomorrow? Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker D: Oh, the kids are already wondering how long it's going to be before we get there.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, in kid time it's forever.
Speaker D: Yeah, you know that.
Speaker B: You know that for sure.
Speaker D: Anyway, I thought I'd just drop in and say hi. You guys have a wonderful day. AI6JB73.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. And this is for log only. I got KC6XLE, KM6MM, N6FMD Jimmy, K6GBZ, and Michael, I got your last letter, uniform, but you doubled. I didn't get the rest of your call. Can you help me out? Uh, it's like TN6USH. Yeah, I know you, Mike. I thought it was somebody ended in uniform. Did I mess that up? Hang on, Mike. Okay, so I got KN6USH. Who else am I missing? This is WH7QC, Vicki in sunny Pennsylvania. Aloha, and I'm for the log only. Thanks, everybody.
Speaker D: Okay, I think— Hello, Mickey and Log.
Speaker B: We don't get to hear you very often. We had Roy Jek in quite a while ago, and we were talking about all the floods in Hawaii. It's kind of sad. And since then, Theta's been over here looking at the news. It seems to be getting worse there. This is W878. Yes, sadly, it is getting worse. Mickey's not available right now. But she's able to log in only. But Jerry and Zeta, 73s, and thank you for everything in handling the net today. Okay, Roy, very good. Appreciate, uh, you checking in, and give Mickey our best. This is WA6E. Who am I missing, or who wants to check in that I haven't got yet? KI6LOP. Whiskey Bravo 6 Golf Uniform Yankee. Kilo Delta 6 Hotel Oscar November. N5TIN to the log. Okay, I got KI6LOP. There you are, I see your call come up on the Super Mod from time to time. WB6GUI, KD6HON, and N5TIN. Anybody else for the log? Okay, with that I'm gonna call it done and return the repeater back to normal use and chat. Everybody, thanks for checking in and have a good one. The coffee break will continue tomorrow, uh, when Jeff W6— I don't remember Jeff's call now, he's got a new one that I almost said W6X-ray, that's not him. Oh well, anyway, whatever it is, Jeff will be the net control and we'll continue. Thanks everybody for checking in. Have a great day. This is WA6E Audios.

Boy, 40 meters was one way this morning. Good morning. I noticed that too, I only got 12. Hey, I did find that, uh, fox and hound mode. It's a little box, it's a pull-down menu. You're right, I found it. I'm working with it and play with it, learn it. Okay, some facts about it. Very cool. Um, it only is used with a key, and so if you see a DXpedition operating in that mode, they have been validated, uh, and so you don't have any pirates. So that's kind of— you probably run across that a couple of times where a a station, a pirate station. You never know until you just don't show up in their DX log. That's what that is. Okay, because yeah, I've got a few of those. It's like you get the little message on the, on the, uh, saying, hey, you got 3 incomings here. It's like, okay, who the heck? I don't even see these people. Yeah, so, uh, with, uh the SuperHound mode, those stations, the mode doesn't work for them unless they are a verified station in advance. And so when you make a contact with somebody in SuperHound mode, you know that they are a legitimate station. But other than that, one other neat thing about SuperHound mode is that you probably notice when you are working some of the stations that are replying to more than one station at a time, their signal gets weaker and weaker the more stations they are replying to in the Hound mode. I have noticed that. I have watched the tick-tack, as I call it, on the left-hand side. And that was one thing that the SuperHound addresses. Because it uses a spread spectrum and it just throws the data out there across a broader spectrum. There is no reduction in power, so the effective radiated power for the signal is going to be much superior. I'm thinking I read somewhere they can work up to 16 stations in a cycle. Very effective. Oh boy, that would look like good logs books, wouldn't it? Oh my gosh. Okay, yep. I said this is a, this is a learning process. I like to learn stuff and get here. It's like, okay, this, this isn't just, hey, how you doing? Hey, how you doing? 73. 73. Well, it still is that, but, uh, see, it's little moments like this, like last night when you learned about Super Hound You know, it just makes me laugh when you look at QRZ and other sites in there. Oh yeah, digital mode, it's this computer talking to computer. Well, hey, let's go work the SuperHound station, see how you do without some knowledge of how the software works and how to use it. Roger that. All right, I just need to check— I need to check back in with you, tell you I figured it out. Monkey didn't pull the right menu down. Yeah, I saw them again this morning. I'm trying to remember if they were on— I think they were on 80 meters earlier this morning. So, you know, once the sun goes down this evening, head on over to 80. And they were on 160 last night, but they showed up there after I went to bed. I think around midnight, 12 o'clock in the morning, they finally popped up on 160, so I missed them. So I'm going to try catching them on 160 tonight. But, uh, anyway, you have a great day, and, uh, glad you— glad you got it, uh, somewhat figured out. Let me know when you make your first contact using it. It's pretty cool. And expect, like I said, expect to see your, uh, when you're using Hound mode, your transmit frequency will shift when they call you back. But with Super Hound mode You notice you can toggle when you hit the TX mode, it doesn't completely go away, it goes to yellow. Well, that keeps it in an active mode, so if they reply to you and you are not in TX mode, it kicks your machine into TX mode to reply to them. So it is very effective. Oh wow, so it is almost like a backup system. Oh wow, yeah, I did not know that. Yeah, very effective. So if they're managing a list of, you know, 30, 40, 50 stations coming back at them, they can't work them all in one cycle. But maybe you give up on trying to contact them, but you're still on frequency. When they respond to you, it brings you back in and pulls you down, which doesn't happen with any other mode, you know. You have to acknowledge. So that's pretty cool. So there is a mode to go, you know, no TX, and then that yellow will be auto TX, and then red is the manual, you know, the automatic cycle transmission. So that's the difference on that button. And right-click, I think, right-click on Hound or and SuperHound to go between those two modes. Will do. Hey, change the subject. I don't know if you caught the ISS going over yesterday and hear that big old, as you call it, a kerfuffle. I feel— I felt pretty, pretty bad for that guy, that Tin Can up there floating in space, trying to call back to the 15 people that I heard calling in. Node 5. 1-0-1-8. Disconnected.

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