W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-24

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The GARS Monday Night Net will commence in about 2 minutes. KF6OBI.

Home of the original 105, with a PL tone of 110.9, this is the W6GRC repeater. Join us for our weekly net on Monday nights at 8 PM. Good evening, this is Mike, KF6OBI in Willows, your net control station tonight for the GARS Monday Night Net. This net meets every Monday evening at 2000 hours, that's 8 PM local time, using the W6TRC repeater. And the net will start after the announcement since that repeater has an announcement exactly on top of the hour. This is a direct connect. Please make no transmissions unless cleared by net control. When checking in, please give your call name, a signal report, and if you have traffic for the net. Are there any stations with announcements for other Net Tonight, please come now. Net Control has the following early announcement. On April 25th, that's next month of course, GARS is planning an activity, a pota, out at the Colusa Refuge. Not the refuge, the park there in Catalooza. More details to follow in the newsletter, which will be out around the 30th of this month. So if you have any ideas or other suggestions in what you want to do, let me know. We will be— everybody will have to bring their own food. We will not be providing a combined food type event. So it's pota and bring your lunch. Membership and regular roll call is as follows: Alpha Foxtrot 6 Oscar Alpha, Ianaka Pe. Alpha Golf 6 Victor Alpha, Ryan and Willows. Alpha Golf 6 Victor Alpha, Ryan and Willows, you are Q5 through the repeater to me. I don't have any traffic for the net, but, uh, thanks for doing the net, Mike. Roger, Ryan, thank you for your check-in tonight, uh, and you were Q5 to the repeater. Alpha Kilo 6 Juliet November, Joe N. Williams. This is Alpha Kilo 6 Juliet November, Joe N. Williams, Q5 into the repeater, Mike. Sounding good. Uh, nothing else for the net. Thank you for doing the net. Thank you, Joe, for your check-in this evening and signal report. You were Q5 through the repeater. Kilo 6 Golf Alpha Bravo, Greg and Chico. Kilo Charlie 6 Uniform Foxtrot Echo, Bill up in Kapay. KC6UFE, Bill in Kapay, good evening, you're Q5, uh, check me in, put me on the list. Thank you, Bill, for your check-in this evening. I have you on the list and the signal report. You were Q5 to the repeater. Kilo Charlie 6 Uniform India Sierra Bob up in Elk Creek. Kilo Charlie 6 Uniform India Sierra Bob in Elk Creek, you are Q5, uh, sounding great actually. And, uh, put me on the list. Done and done, Bob. Thank you for checking in this evening. The signal report, you were Q5 to the repeater. Kilo Foxtrot 6 Oscar Bravo India Mike in Willows is calling net. Kilo Golf 6 Kilo Uniform Oscar, Lester in Willows. This is Kilo Golf 6 Kilo Uniform Oscar, Lester in Willows, and I have nothing to add for the net tonight, but you got a good Q5 signal, and I'll be in and out and listening. Thank you, Lester, for checking in this evening. The signal report, you were Q5 through the repeater, and I'd like to get an early check-in to the Sacramento traffic Valley net tonight with no traffic. You have it, KG6KUO. Thank you, Lester, and thank you for running that traffic net. That, uh, been doing it a long time. Thank you. Kilo India 6 Sierra Mike November, Phil in Willows. Kilo India 6 Sierra Mike November, Phil here in Willows. Q5 coming in. And, uh, the 857 remote, uh, while I sit in my house and the radio sits at the QTH of KF6OBI. So that's it for me tonight. I'll be monitoring, but nothing further. Um, I got distracted with a text message here from a a net member. Um, would you repeat what you said, Phil? KI6 is receiving, uh, Q5 on the 857 connected remote from my house to the QTH of KF6OBI. Uh, I will be monitoring, but nothing further to add tonight. Thank you, Phil. I appreciate your check-in this evening and the signal report. You were Q5 through the repeater. Yes, the band is, uh, the, you know, the valley is really good tonight. It's treating us well on this repeater. Hopefully other repeaters are experiencing the same, uh, working level. Kilo Kilo 6 Foxtrot November Yankee, Courtney and Willows. Kilo Kilo 6 Foxtrot November Yankee, Courtney and Willows, you're Q5, checking in and out tonight. Thank you, Courtney, for your check-in this evening. You were Q5 through the repeater, and thank you for the text message. With the information that, uh, there's a market that makes custom deli sandwiches with chips and sodas for $9.99. They are a block away from the park. And this, uh, place doesn't look like much, but the sandwiches are great. And I think I know you— what place you're talking about, and I've heard nothing but positive about that place. So thank you, Courtney, for that. Kilo Mike 6 Victor Foxtrot Foxtrot, Hank and Elk Creek. Kilo November 6 Sierra Juliet Juliet, Dennis and Corning. Kilo November 6, Whiskey Sierra November, Logan and Willows. Whiskey 6 Lima November Delta, Jeremy and Orland. Well, that's the membership roll as I have it at this time. Are there any late members or missed members? Please come now. Hearing none, do we have any guest check-ins tonight for the GARS Monday Night Net? Net control is KF6OBI. KF6OBI, November 6, Juliet Oscar Alpha, and Kilo 8 Charlie. A bit east and away far south. A traffic— Good evening, Texans. Thank you, Charlie, for your guest check-in this evening. And your signal was scratchy. Could hear about 80% of it, but that's a long haul from your location, and we appreciate your check-in this evening. Any other guest check-ins, please come now. Hearing none, let's start the, uh, talkback segment, and we'll go up to, uh, Bill up in Capay, KC6UFE. KC6UFE, well, I bet everybody's compasses were spinning wildly over the weekend. Apparently the magnetic field was up, up in an uproar, uh, K5, 6, and 7s and stuff like that. Looks like it's starting to settle down this evening, so things should get better. The bands have been basically depopulated. I think people just stopped operating more than anything else, but, uh That's just the way it is. So back to net, KT6UFD. Thank you, Bill, for that update there. Yes, we had quite a magnetic show going on this weekend. I know I was on a 40-meter net, which I think Bob will talk about next. And, uh, it had some difficulties, but we were able to communicate here in California and just outside of California. So 40 meters was partly working okay. I think people just had other stuff going on. Hopefully that was why the bands were kind of vacant. Um, let's go on to Bob up in Oak Creek, KC6UIS. Okay, 66 UIS. Oh, I got a couple of things. Uh, uh, number one, uh, next time you talk to Gary, uh, I would suggest that he changed his message about our, our, uh, net that we have, because it said if I just listened to that message, I would assume we're going to be here, uh, every Monday. And not every other month every Monday. So if someone was to hear that and we were not be there, that I don't think that would be good. And a little reminder, you were going to comment on any update on HamClock. So just reminding you, I don't know if you have anything or not. And yeah, the 40-meter net on Sunday was very, very interesting. I I knew something was going on. I didn't know what it was. I thought it was maybe a solar storm. I didn't think about the magnetic field acting up. So good to know. Thank you for that information. And back to net control. Okay, Bob, thank you for that. Yes. Ham clock. Check your email. I sent out a message yesterday with an update and where to go and how to choose and everything. There's two websites to use. One's a forum, that's the second one. And if anybody is having issues, if they have the ham clock, let me know. And I will be glad, as I said in that email to the membership, that I will be glad to help you get yours up and running again. Okay, very good. I'll look for that. Yeah, I get over 100 emails a day and I'm running a little bit behind. I think I got about 200 in the rack. So I'll do a search on it and I'll check that out. And thank you for for sending that over. Okay, Bob, and to your other point, thank you for your suggestion for notifying Gary and seeing if we can work out the additional information about the GARS Monday Night Net and his announcements. That would help greatly. I agree. So, uh, I will see what we can do there. Okay, last call for late members or guests wishing to check into the net before we close. Are there any last comments or suggestions for the net before we close? Hearing none, this will conclude the GARS Monday Night Net. Net Control would like to thank everyone who checked in tonight as well as, uh, Garry for the use of the W6GRC repeater. I get two call signs mixed up here, folks. I apologize for any tongue-tying there. And we hope that you'll join us next week, the 5th Monday of the month. And, uh, We hope to, we wish everybody a safe and wonderful week. Please remember to stay hydrated. This weather is a bit strange and I know I'm on the hydrated side, just slightly. I got to keep remembering to drink, drink, drink. So just clear liquids and you should get through it okay for our first major heat of the year. With that, I'd like to say 73s. This is Mike, KF6OBI in Willows, signing clear. KF6OBI, KI6SMN. Yes, Phil. I tuned to return the radio on late. Were there any significant announcements at the beginning of the net? No, there was not. We need to have a face-to-face conversation. You know, Friday would be okay if you want to wait till Friday. It's on that email that we received. Yeah, copy that. Let's put that on the agenda for Friday. Uh, sounds good. I appreciate your willingness to help me, uh, work on that radio, see if we can get it operational. Uh, so 73 from KI6SMN. Be clear on your final. 73s and blessings. KF6OBI is clear.

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Speaker B: Amateur Radio Newsline report number 2525 with a release date of Friday, March 20th, 2026, to follow in 5, 4, 3, 2, One, the following is a QST. The Bouvet Island team declares the trip a success. YL operators around the world conclude their first major event. And coming soon, a documentary about the well-loved founder of MFJ Industries.
Speaker A: All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report #2525 comes your way right now.
Speaker C: From around the world, this is Newsline. Amateur radio's first independent on-the-air news and bulletin service. Now reporting from Wadsworth, Ohio, here's Stephen Kinford, N8WB.
Speaker B: If you were one of the lucky ones to contact 3YO-K on Bouvet Island, our lead story is for you. Ralph Squallacci, KK6ITV, tells us more.
Speaker D: The 3YO-K D expedition to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean is done. And according to the team, was a great success. A report on their Facebook page stated, quote, the whole 3Y0K team is safely back on the vessel after a successful expedition to Bouvet. We made more than 100,000 contacts and achieved our goals. It was an extraordinary undertaking involving years of planning, complex logistics, and determination needed to succeed. The team worked well together under harsh conditions, cold, snow, and severe wind. Bouvet is known for its remoteness and unpredictable weather, and while it is a beautiful island, any attempt going onshore involves a risk. Despite all the challenges we encountered, the team stayed focused on our goals, determined, and the result is due to real teamwork. We had been working with professional expedition guides, pilots, crew, and vessel, along with our off-island support team who all contributed to our success. End quote. According to the team, logs will soon be available in OQRS. If you wish to check you made a valid contact but want to verify, you can search the logs at the link in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org. The group's next target is, according to them, another icy rock in the Antarctic Ocean, Peter I Island, in 2027. This is Ralph Squillaci, KK6-ITB.
Speaker A: The Voice of America broadcast service, which has been shut down amid controversy last year, is headed back into service.
Speaker B: Kent Peterson, KC0-DGY, has more details.
Speaker E: Judge Roy C. Lambert of the United States District Court in the District of Columbia reversed actions taken last year by the Trump administration to shutter The Voice of America and ordered VOA's journalists to return to work and the news service to resume broadcasting. Judge Lambert had earlier ruled that the appointment of Carrie Lake was illegal, hence voiding all layoffs and shutdowns which she made. The VOA, founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda in World War II, had been brought broadcasting in 49 languages to over 360 million people around the world when it was shut down. If Judge Royce's ruling stands, their goal is to return to that level. Newsline would like to make it clear that the Voice of America Museum and Amateur Radio Club in West Chester, Ohio, a popular attraction during Invention, is not connected with or affected by this current situation. This is Kevin Trotman, N5PRE.
Speaker A: As National Weather Service forecast offices begin their spring education campaigns for the United States, The Skywarn Youth Net wants to bring that mission to the airwaves.
Speaker B: Randy Slye, W4XJ, fills us in.
Speaker A: This is N0A, November Zero Alpha, calling CQ, CQ.
Speaker C: Special event station for severe weather awareness calling CQ. N0A, the special event station for the Skywarn Youth Net, is back on the air for their second annual event, operating from March 15th through March 29th. This initiative aims to encourage amateur radio operators across the United States and around the world to prioritize severe weather awareness and emergency preparedness. Skywarn YouthNet Manager Caleb Speare, KE0FOE, told AR Newsline, quote, our goal with this special event station is to educate the amateur radio community about the dangers of severe weather and the importance of being prepared.
Speaker B: End quote.
Speaker C: The station will be operating single sideband and FT8 on all HF bands at various times during the day and night as time permits. In an environment where seconds save lives, the N0A event serves as a critical reminder for the ham radio community to establish situational awareness before severe weather strikes. For more information on the Skywarn Youth Net, you can visit skywarnyouth.net. This is Randy Slye, W4XJ.
Speaker B: Are the HF bands useful for long-distance communications to remote areas? The U.S. military just did their own exercise to prove what hams have known for years. As we hear from Paul Brown, WD9GCO.
Speaker F: Communicating under simulated emergency conditions on HF, members of the military in Alaska demonstrated something that hams have known all along: radio carries the message. The recent activity known as Exercise Arctic Connect might well be called field day or an ARES drill for the military. According to the U.S. Army's website, over 30 operators in 28 different locations across Alaska recently took part in the exercise, a radio test to show that HF communications are vital in areas that are separated by extreme terrain, weather, and distances. The test was conducted by Alaska Organized Militia, which includes the Alaska Army and Air National Guard, the Alaska State Defense Force, members of the Civil Air Patrol, the State of Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and representatives from the National Guard Bureau. Colonel Christie Brewer, Alaska National Guard Director of Joint Operations, said that, quote, our responsibility is to the people of Alaska. That means ensuring we can maintain command and control across a state where terrain, weather, and distance test every system. This exercise validates the partnerships and redundant pathways that allow us to respond decisively when communities need us.
Speaker E: End quote.
Speaker F: You can read the full story at the link in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org.
Speaker B: The YL Worldwide Award, the first international amateur radio event dedicated exclusively to female operators, just concluded on March 16th. Neal Rapp, WB9VPG, has the details.
Speaker G: YLs, which is short for young ladies, actually describes female amateur radio operators of all ages. Across the world, YLs joined together for a single operating event called YL Worldwide Award from March 9th through 16th. Using the ham award platform, YLWWA saw 300 activators from 51 countries generate over 300,000 Cusos in one week, chased by approximately 50,000 hunters from 203 countries. Veronica Wygant, DL4VER, one of the event organizers, told Newsline, "It was awesome to see the outstanding cooperation and enthusiasm of the YLs as well as the OMs." Complete beginners who had only obtained their licenses a few months ago worked hand in hand 'with experienced female radio operators. The pileup was overwhelming.' End quote. At the close of the event at midnight UTC March 16th, even though conditions were very difficult, there were more YLs on the air than at any time during the week. The project was coordinated by the YL unit of the German Amateur Radio Club under the leadership of Heike, DL3HD, and Veronica, DL4VER, in collaboration with the international WWA team, Max, IW1FRU, and Carlo, IK1HJS. For more information about the YLWWA, visit hamaward.cloud. This is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.
Speaker A: Time for you to identify your station.
Speaker B: We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the N9IAA repeater in Valparaiso, Indiana, on 146.7 MHz. 685 Thursdays at 8:30 PM local time.
Speaker A: A story that we have been following about aircraft avionics now includes a federal mandate.
Speaker B: Skeeter Nash, N5AFH, tells us more.
Speaker H: The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered airlines flying Boeing 787 Dreamliners to inspect and repair faulty faulty onboard transponders. According to a report at AviationAtoZ.com, the move is expected to cost US airlines nearly $8 million. United Airlines, American Airlines, and Alaska Airlines, who operate from hubs including Chicago O'Hare and Los Angeles International Airports, are among those affected by the FAA airworthiness directive. It states that certain Boeing 787 transponders can fail when they are exposed to continuous wave signals including those generated by Morse code from military transmitters and amateur radio transmissions. Such signals, when encountered by the aircraft's Mode S transponder, may cause a failure to respond to radar interrogation. Air traffic control systems rely on those responses to track aircraft positions accurately. Without a correct reply from the transponder, controllers, quote, may temporarily lose visibility on their radar displays, end quote. Additionally, the onboard traffic collision avoidance systems, quote, may not generate alerts correctly, reducing a critical safety safeguard designed to prevent mid-air collisions, end quote. Tests conducted by the FAA showed a near 90% failure rate of interrogation attempts in environments with CW interference, which prompted the corrective solution order. The directive applies globally to Boeing 787 aircraft equipped with the affected transponder model. However, the FAA's financial assessment only covers aircraft registered in the U.S. Airlines have up to 4 years to complete the required inspections and modifications. The directive has the support of Boeing and the Airline Pilots Association. However, operational concerns were expressed by several airlines who have requested a delay. This is Peter Nash, N5ASH.
Speaker B: There is a new challenge to give more hams the chance to work Sardinia Island, as Dave Lee, M7TLB, tells us.
Speaker I: For 10 years, the Sardinia regional radio group Team DX Koros has focused on growing the community of amateur radio DXers. As its members mark the group's 10th anniversary, they have teamed up with the Porto Torres section of ARI, the national nonprofit organization representing hams in Italy, to help land Sardinia in as many logbooks as possible. The Sardinia Island DXCC 225 Challenge began earlier this month, offering gold, silver, and bronze certificates and a chance for some operators to record a new log entry. Their focus until the 1st of May is to call CQ as IR0SAR. Sardinia Island is recognized as an independent DX entity and a much sought-after one, long known and appreciated for its ancient ruins and other links to history, Sardinia can now be pursued with extra intensity for its standing amongst DXers. See the qrz.com page of IR0SAR for more details. This is Dave Lee, M7TLB.
Speaker B: Like Rip Van Winkle waking up from a very long nap, an elderly satellite just came back online. Bram Kemp, DK4BB, brings us the story.
Speaker J: March 9 brought a sunlit awakening for the satellite known as Fuji Oscar 29A, veteran of the skies that was launched in August of 1996. Its batteries failed during the satellite's 30-year space journey, making it completely dependent on solar panels. AMSAT News called its recent arrival into a sunlit orbit, and I quote, "A welcome revival for one of the oldest active analog linear responders in the amateur fleet." End quote. The sunlit awakening has permitted continuous operation instead of the periodic eclipses experienced before. According to AMSAT News, satnogs reported CW beacon and telemetry receptions around the 12th and 13th of March, and data was logged by stations EA5WA and DL7NDR. Next came the successful QSOs on SSB and CW reported from Japan and China with some hams making several contacts during a particularly busy pass. The AMSAT report said there was still no activity on the digital modes. There is also a DigiTalker on 435.910 MHz that is almost never used. AMSAT has been encouraging hams to monitor activity and to log contacts via the AMSAT OSCARS Status page. This is Graham Kemp, VK4BB.
Speaker B: In the world of DX operators, with the CY0SD expedition will be on the air from Sable Island, IOTA number NA063, from the 19th through the 31st of March. There are 8 operators and as many as 6 stations on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, FT8, and RTTY.
Speaker A: There will also be a 6-meter operation on FT8 and EME on 23 centimeters.
Speaker B: Listen for Brian 88FD using the call sign C6AFD from Eleuthera Island, IOTA number NA001, in the Bahamas. He will be on the air from the 24th through the 31st of March, operating SSB and FT8 on 40 to 10 meters. You can also find him in the CXWWWPX SSB contest on the 28th and the 29th of March. Miguel EA1BP will be active holiday style on FM/EA1BP from Martinique. IOTA number NA107 from the 25th of March through the 2nd of April. Listen for him as well during the CQWWPSSB contest where he will be using the call sign TO70.
Speaker A: Listen for the call sign DA0HEL as a group of about 20 operators call QRZ from Helgoland Island, IOTA number EU127, from the 23rd of March through to the 3rd of April. There will also be occasional activity from the nearby Helgoland Island as DL0IH. The operators will be using CW, SSB, and digital modes on 160 to 10 meters.
Speaker B: For QSL details and updates on any of these activities, visit qrz.com. A routine job for one Mississippi documentarian turned into a 2-year passion project. Jim Davis, W2JKD, wraps up this week's newscast with that story.
Speaker K: Filmmaker Preston Booth from Starkville, Mississippi, was hired to shoot a small portrait documentary about a local businessman to celebrate his 82nd birthday. And that's when he met Martin F. Jew. And learned about the company he had built, MFJ Enterprises. According to a post on Reddit, Booth said, and I quote, "Once I got to meet Martin and the team, I realized that their story really deserved a feature-length production to best tell their story, and I've been moonlighting this project in my free time ever since," unquote. Booth said he spent a significant amount of time with Jew and his family, friends, and staff. Booth learned about his background, how he grew up, what drew him into amateur radio and why he started MFJ. He learned that Martin grew up in a family that owned a small grocery store, developed a love of radio at a very young age, and had to build his own equipment from spare parts supplied by a local electronics repairman because his family was poor. After earning his master's degree from Georgia Tech, he moved back home to run the family store so his brother could take time off to travel. It was there that he learned the fundamentals of running a business, marketing, and client relations. These would go on to help him when he started MFJ. According to Booth, Jew viewed MFJ not only as a way to provide affordable products for the average ham, but also as a way to offer locals the opportunity to work. He mentioned that MFJ's first production line was actually staffed by students from Jew's classes at Mississippi State University. Where he taught. They built the products in exchange for extra credit and some spending money. You can learn more about the documentary and see the trailer at Booth's website in the link in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewslines.org.
Speaker D: I'm Jim Davis, W2JKD.
Speaker B: With thanks to Amateur Radio Daily, AMSAT News Service, army.mil, AviationAtoZ.com, David Bihard, K7DB, dx-world.net, RANIK, 425DX Bulletin, qrz.com forums, shortwaveradio.de, skywarnyouth.net, Wireless Institute of Australia, and you, our listeners.
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Speaker B: For now, with Paul Brown, WD9GCO, at the news desk in Indiana, and our news team worldwide, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB in Wadsworth, Ohio, saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening.
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