W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2026-05-11

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Speaker B: Amateur Radio Newsline report number 2532 with a release date of Friday, May 8, 2026 to follow in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The following is the QSP Get Ready Ham Finch and is coming. The longtime editor of DX News becomes a silent key and a tower's toppling ends an era for one seminary campus. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report number 2532 comes your way right now from around the world. This is Newsline, Amateur Radio's independent on the Air News and Bulletin Service.
Speaker C: Now reporting from Jonesboro, Arkansas, here's Skeeter
Speaker B: Nash, N5ASH we begin this week with the countdown to Hamvention. No doubt the suitcases are already packed and the tickets are in hand for the most eager of travelers to this year's Dayton Hamvention in Xenia, Ohio. Jack Parker, W8ish, has the details.
Speaker C: The dates are May 15th, 16th and 17th. For hamvention and for many amateurs making the trip this year, those days can't come soon enough. This year's Hamvention at the Greene County Fair and Expo center was created with the theme Radio Adventure. As always, it's a reunion among friends that takes place in a mix of forums, dinners, flea markets and workshops. If you haven't already purchased your ticket, admission is $30 at the gates. Sunday admission is free and children under 12 are admitted free if they attend with a ticket holding adult. As always, there will be a chance to upgrade or to simply get your US License. For the first time. FCC volunteer examiners will be on site for all three days, offering examinations at the Technician, General and Amateur Extra level. For more details about Hamvention, visit the website hamvention.org this is Jack Parker, W8ish.
Speaker B: If you're young and you're at Hamvention, you're in luck. Ham psi, the RCA Youth Forum and the ARRL Youth Rally are only part of the action. Youth on the Air has scheduled a full array of activities based at booth 4304 in the Volta Building, including small forums in a meeting area adjacent to the YOTA booth. This is designed to be a gathering spot for Hamvention's youngest guests who are also invited to a social hour from noon to 1pm on Friday and Saturday, where eyeball cusos go hand in hand with a free lunch. A satellite based contest organized by Saudi amateurs is back this year and the teams are ready. Jim Meechan, ZL2BHF tells us what it's all about.
Speaker D: Hoping to help university students, Hams and industry professionals sharpen their skills in receiving, analyzing and decoding signals from satellites for Saudi Amateur Radio society is hosting CESON2. This year's competition, which is running in cooperation with AMSAT Hz, is taking place on the 8th through to the 10th of May. Competitors work in teams in one of two categories, with the top three winners receiving cash prizes as well as certificates. The announcement was made on social media By Samir Coyote, HZ1SK this is the second running of the contest. Its ultimate goal is to nurture innovation and teamwork while helping nurture skilled use of satellite communication technologies. This is Jim Meechan, Flirtill TVHF in Japan.
Speaker B: Researchers are reaching out to the amateur radio community to listen for CW signals from a cubesat built in Tokyo. Ram Kemp, BK4BB has the details.
Speaker E: The Sakamoto Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, is asking for the continued support of the amateur radio community for its Areca2CubeSat. The 2U CubeSat, launched from New Zealand in late April, has been transmitting CW signals to the laboratory and is relying on the amateur community as well to send reports. The CW data is sent at 20 words per minute on 436 decimal 830 MHz. At some point, GMSK transmissions will also commence and will be announced by the satellite team on the social media platform X and through the AMSAT bulletin board. The satellite will use 4800 GMSK in AX25 format. Arica 2 also has a mission unrelated to amateur radio. Its function is to collect images of the Earth and aurora using machine learning and to demonstrate real time alerts of gamma ray bursts and other astronomical events using commercial satellite services. CW reception reports can be submitted using the link that appears in the text version of this Week's newscast@arnewsline.org this is Graham Kemp.
Speaker F: The K4BB funeral services were held on
Speaker B: Saturday, May 2nd for a noted radio amateur who had belonged to a singing family that once top the pop music chart. We hear more about him from Ralph Squalace. KK6ITV family and friends said their final
Speaker G: goodbyes to Alan Osmond, kn0i z e, who led the singing family, the Osmonds, as both a performer and a songwriter. Allen, who had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987, became a silent key on 20 April. He and his brothers were veterans of the music scene, starting their careers in the 1950s and were later joined by younger brother Donnie, who at one time had also been a ham operator with the call sign KA7EVD. Allen's widow, Suzanne, has the call sign KF7ERB. Alan Osmond, who had been a lifelong ham radio operator, was 76. This is Ralph Squillace, KK6 ITB, a
Speaker B: top contester known worldwide for his many achievements including a notable superstation, has become a silent key. He also served as Editor in Chief of the DX News website. We hear more about him From Jason Daniels, VK2 Law as a top d
Speaker F: expeditioner, contester and well respected rodeo operator, Alexander Tobirozov 4 Lima 5 Alpha had a presence that was felt in many corners of the world with a history as a busy and well respected radio operator. He helped others make those important radio contacts by publishing their activations.
Speaker A: 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.

Speaker A: I don't know. I think sometimes we have a tendency to get on our high horses and it can be a little bit putting off to new folks and people that may have a passing interest, you know, may get squelched. And so, you know, just,
Speaker B: I don't
Speaker A: know, be a little more welcoming, a little less, you know, somebody's into having that tough deep dive. Go for it, you know, but don't put people off with it.
Speaker B: Well, that's why we talk about instant pots, bread making, Twilight Zone. Yeah, I think we do things a little bit different here on the W6EK repeater. You know, like our last VE session, you know, the Elmer sit down with people and just talk about what their interests are, why they are getting in the hobby, what their interests are. And not everybody's there to progress their technical skills, that is for sure. A lot of people around here join because they just want to be able to have the safety of a radio in their four by when they go up in the Sierra Mountains. Other people help out on the different events, the running events and the horse Tavis event. And everybody has their own reason. And some people just, it's a bucket list of something they've wanted to do. Good reminder there, Bob. Thanks for dropping by and sharing the experience. And yeah, 14652 can be a pretty lonely place I've discovered while being on the road. Well, I thought I would plan on
Speaker A: using it and giving it a try since I've got an hour commute. You know, at least throw out the call sign a couple times and see if somebody is listening or whatever. But anyway, good chatting with you, Brian,
Speaker B: and
Speaker A: thanks for letting me blow off some steam and
Speaker B: opinionated steam, I guess,
Speaker A: but all good nature, dude. So appreciate you running the net and I appreciate the W6EK and the Sierra Foils being what it is.
Speaker C: And
Speaker A: yeah, I enjoy being part of that. So everybody have a good day and I will catch up with you guys later in 6cms.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've seen several youtubers pick up on that same thing of promoting 14652. I know a couple of them have said, hey, I'm going to devote X amount of time every day to call out on 5 2. So I think it's a great thing because, like it's often said, you lose, you use it or you lose it. Have A great day, Bob N6EMS AI6US Speaking of Florida, I'm sure they weren't talking about you. John WN4V Good morning, John.
Speaker C: 4v well, we have a repeater up in verna, Florida, about 15 miles from here. And it's 1,000ft up in the air. 333 meters anyway. And for 23 hours a day it's silent. Just crickets. You're a repeater. W60K. It's a refreshing piece of ham radio. I believe I've had the. Not the distinction, but the. How could I say it? The. Well, I've been told in similar ways. No conversations, but this one is quite different, I think. Anyway, interesting topics today that I've heard so far. Twilight Zone, my favorite episode. Timing up for Everything. Starring Burgess Meredith, who was an avid reader. Nagged by his wife, nagged by his boss. Took his lunch in a bank vault, got up and went outside and found the nuclear war had occurred and destroyed everything. Then he sat down, thought for a moment, went to the library, grabbed a stack of books and said, I can read until I drop. Then he dropped his glasses. So that's my favorite episode. And yes, I have the knack. I started out with an erector set when I was nine years old. Parents bought me one of those electronics outfits that you could assemble at one over 100 projects, various types, and then it went from there. I think if I had the choice to do it again, I wouldn't go to. I went to college and got a degree in history. But I think if I had it to do over again, I would. Would have trained as an airframe and power plant mechanic. I would have been happier, I think. Anyway, back to you. And by the way, It's. We had 88 degrees here and in this part of Florida on the west coast mitigated by a slight breeze. Back to you. AI6 as WN4 leap.
Speaker B: Well, sounds like you can validate that that high level repeater mentality does exist. But yeah, hopefully, hopefully that's something that we are helping to change and hopefully that it's one of those things. You have this beautiful location, foster communications with it. Don't hold it just for an emergency. Yeah, Erector sets, Lincoln Logs and Of course the 101 kit, the 151 kit from radio Shack. Those were things that fostered my interest, then moved me into actually just buying components and trying to make things build stuff myself. So yeah, great, great tools are out there for those, you know, that fostered us for sure. John, thanks for checking in and time enough at last that I started out this morning by saying that was my favorite of all episodes. And yes indeed, finally has enough time to read and he breaks his glasses. Life sucks sometimes, doesn't it, John WM4V AI6US. You have a great Monday, 7 3.
Speaker C: Brian. And please take care 73.
Speaker B: And last on this list for this round is Dan Ko6lmz. Good morning, Dan.
Speaker D: Good morning, Brian. Hey, I wanted to let you know that yesterday I, I got a new Yazoo FTM310 and I was trying, I programmed it and I was trying to get a radio check and you came back to me saying the digital and a few other things. So I wasn't sure what went on there. And as you know, I'm on SLE Graydon's node now. So I was just curious what happened with my radio.
Speaker B: Yesterday. Somebody came in transmitting some digital signal, the repeater. So if that was you, I just mentioned on the radio that somebody was transmitting digital into the system. So yeah, this repeater here, if you were trying to get in directly, this repeater here is only an analog repeater. So when you're on this repeater it's most easily used if you just have your, your digital compatible radio there set to FM only, not the DN with the line over the top. So best not to operate your radio in AMS mode is what YAESU calls it, and just have it set to fm. But yeah, somebody had transmitted yesterday and we had picked it up in the. All we heard was the digital noise. And so if that was you. Yeah, just make sure that you have the radio in FM mode when you're trying to come into either Grayton's node or directly into the repeater.
Speaker D: Okay, I did hear you say that and I looked on my radio and it did say fm but it also, it had a little line about it, about above it. But it also has that, what you said that the YAESU has. So I'm going to have to figure out how to make sure it only stays in fm. But that's good input that just, that'll help me try and figure out what I'm doing. I always thought I had the nac and now I'm beginning to wonder.
Speaker B: No, YAESU just makes it more difficult on those of us who have the nac, because nature, their engineers aren't completely trained in the nac. They approach things only as engineers, not as operators. That's the kind way of saying YAESU does some weird stuff and I own YAESU radio, so I'm not dogging them too badly. But they have some very unique ways of implementing things. So you have a button on your radio that has a D and an X on A dx, usually a red button on my radio here. When you're on a frequency, if you press that button, it cycles you through fm, dn, vm, very wide vw, and then those modes with a line over the top of it. So the line over the top of anything just indicates you're in a analog and digital mode. So whatever, whatever mode you transmitted in last, your radio is going to key up in that mode or if you hear a station in digital, it will respond in digital. So yeah, anytime you have either FM or DN with the line over the top, that means that the radio is capable of transmitting either in digital or analog. And so when you're on the frequency for Gradens node or you're coming directly into the 2 meter repeater here in Auburn, just make sure that that does not have a line over the top of the mode.
Speaker D: That's great information. Thank you. I was a day late. I didn't get to go to Donuts in the park. But being Mother's Day yesterday, I drove, took the Jeep out and we went to that part just to see what it was. Then we went up Highway 80, dropped off in beautiful Meadow Vista and then went to Colfax and came back the back way to Grass Valley. Just having a good time and trying to enjoy the radio.
Speaker B: Well, excellent. Yes. Hopefully you had a chance to. You didn't blink too long. Otherwise you do miss Meadow Vista. And yeah, we have a beautiful park here. I live right across the street from the park and it's a wonderful park with a pond and fishing and baseball diamond, soccer field. It's just a lovely park. Well, it sounds like you had a lovely day and yeah, it's quite nice quite often to drive up Placer Hills Road, all the way up to Colfax and then come back across. Did you cross over that new Bear River Bridge?
Speaker D: I went over a Bear river bridge. I don't know that it's new. I didn't notice it as new, but I definitely went over a bridge over Bear River.
Speaker B: Maybe the. Did you go across Dog Bar? It's on Dog Bar Road. Brand new bridge, still has accessibility problems. You'll never want to pull a trailer through there or anything, anything longer than a pickup truck or a bobtail. But yeah, it's a new bridge they built over the Bear river on Dog Bar Road, which is a wonderful shortcut between this area here and over to Lake of the Pines area. Well, good morning to you there, Daniel. Congratulations on the new radio. It sounds great. Awesome.
Speaker D: Thank you and I appreciate you run running the net. 7 3.
Speaker B: You betcha. You have a wonderful day. All right, I know we've run long today and I'm going to need to go down and pick up a bunch of radios that were donated to the club. Working. They may not, but we're going to give it a try anyway. Now. Six us. I'll get everybody. Elo 6 Victor Papa for the log. November 2nd Delta Yankee, India for the locked. K6ED for the log. Katie six shouting out to the naftum. Brian, Good morning.
Speaker A: Kn6ush for the log.
Speaker C: Ai6ls.
Speaker B: All right. That was sure ugly up front. So I definitely missed a couple people trying to check in, but this is who I heard. Good morning AI6LZ. You have a wonderful day there, Bert. Thanks for checking in. Happy Monday. KN6USH Mike, you have a wonderful holiday week staycation I think you're having. You have A wonderful Monday. KB7 DFP. Good morning Ken. What's for lunch? We got the chicken noodle soup going today. Will you enjoy your chicken noodle soup? You have a wonderful day there, Ken. KV7DFP. K6DLK. Good morning Dan. Got you in the log. Have a wonderful Monday. K6GBZ. Good morning there Tom, you are in the log. Thanks for checking in this morning. Into DYI. Good morning. Good after morning. Good afternoon Patrick. Into DYI. Got you in the log. And Dan K6VP. Good morning Dan, you are in the log. There were about five or six people dog piling at the beginning of this. Didn't get a single one of you. That was a mess. Spread it out, let's see who I missed. Kj6 zulu hotel, chris at granite bay kilo mike6 mike, mike. K06idv. Dan in orangeville. Kd6h un. Sorry Brian. Just picked up the phone and it happened. No problem. Good morning Joe. KD6 Hon. Got you in the log. Good morning to Dan. K06IDV, you are in the log. Happy Monday. Good morning Mike. KM6MM Mike, you're in the log. Thanks for checking in this morning and good morning to Chris at KJ6 Zulu Hotel. All right, anybody else for the log as we shut down the coffee breaknet on this Monday morning. Whiskey bravo 3 charlie sierra yankee for the log. Thanks brian. All right, and we will close out the morning with the check in from Rick WB3CSY. Have a wonderful day. Well, all you folks who are who have the knack. It was a fun conversation this morning and as we talked about the Twilight Zone and let's see trying to think what else we talked about. So many great conversations were had this morning. So anyway, you have a wonderful day and just remember today is national eat whatever you want day. This is a day that's not defined by a single genre of food. You make your choice of how you celebrate today. What food are you going to choose? Maybe it's chicken noodle soup. Good morning Everybody. I'm Brian AI6US. I'll be back again tomorrow. Hopefully you will as well. This has been the coffee breaknet on the W6ek repeater and connected nodes and repeaters around the country. We appreciate everybody stopping by by being part of the conversation. This is where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. Net is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club. We're here every day of the week, 7:30am to 10:00am Pacific Time. That is 14:30 to 1700 UTC. Node 51018 disconnected.

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